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  • The pretty frontage of a terraced house featuring perfect flowers, in the south London borough of Southwark, on 1st June 2017, in London, England.
    pretty_house-01-01-06-2017.jpg
  • The words 'Love Christmas at Boots' are spread across the frontage window of the Boots branch in London's Oxford Street. The Boots brand name appears twice on the window along with red and yellow stars. Boots UK Limited (commonly known as Boots, previously The Boots Company), is a leading pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, with outlets in most high streets throughout the country. Boots was established in 1849, by John Boot. After his father's death in 1860, Jesse Boot, aged 10 helped his mother run the family's herbal medicine shop in Nottingham, England.
    love_christmas1-09-12-2011.jpg
  • The words 'Love Christmas at Boots' are spread across the frontage window of the Boots branch in London's Oxford Street. The Boots brand name appears twice on the window along with red and yellow stars. Boots UK Limited (commonly known as Boots, previously The Boots Company), is a leading pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, with outlets in most high streets throughout the country. Boots was established in 1849, by John Boot. After his father's death in 1860, Jesse Boot, aged 10 helped his mother run the family's herbal medicine shop in Nottingham, England.
    love_christmas2-09-12-2011.jpg
  • Adult entertainment shop called Private with a subtle frontage in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom.
    20190102_sex shop private_001.jpg
  • Contractors install Christmas decorations to the frontage of Bond Street retailer Smythsons as the second lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic comes to a end, and a day before London enters the Tier 2 restriction when retailers will be allowed to once again re-open for the run-up to Christmas, on 1st December 2020, in London, England.
    smythson_decorations02-01-12-2020.jpg
  • Contractors install Christmas decorations to the frontage of Bond Street retailer Smythsons as the second lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic comes to a end, and a day before London enters the Tier 2 restriction when retailers will be allowed to once again re-open for the run-up to Christmas, on 1st December 2020, in London, England.
    smythson_decorations01-01-12-2020.jpg
  • A placard is held up to the frontage of the Ritzy Cinema, part of the Picturehouse chain, in dispute with Bectu union employees for a living London wage, on 3rd July 2017, in Brixton, London, England. The Picturehouse chain is owned by Cineworld which has 2,000 cinema screens in nine countries. The London Living Wage is set at £9.75 per hour the national rate is £8.45.
    ritzy_protest-02-03-07-2017.jpg
  • Broken Hair & Beauty shop frontage sign. We look up from a low angle to see the missing and dropped letters on the shop name reading 'Hair & Beauty' located in a side street in central London. The shutters are down and Christmas crystal decorations indicate that this business may be closed for the holiday period - although its owner needs to attend to this maintenance when open again.
    hair_beauty01-04-01-2016.jpg
  • Frontage poster and shelves with stock of a corner shop in Weston-super-Mare. In a scene of confusing scale and perspective, we see both the real produce of sweets and confectionary inside the shop, under a Tobacco sign - and the oversized illustration of crisps and chocolate bars on the exterior of the business.
    corner_shop02-04-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Attending to a floral memorial of Lillies in a 5th Avenue store front in mid-town Manhattan. In the days following the September 11th attacks, a store window dresser is seen through the glass with Fifth Avenue reflected behind. The words "In Memory and Gratitude" are written in block capitals on the window and a passer-by walks briskly past the large floral display and the large US flag that hangs vertically in mourning for those killed and those heroes helping to uncover their remains in the debris. America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity by installing these shrines in the frontages of businesses and in homes as New Yorkers try to pick up the pieces of their lives.
    september11th001-17-09_2001_1_1.jpg
  • As England finishes its second Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and London enters a Tier 2 restriction, cleaning staff at 'Galerie Richard Orlinski' in Bond Street, hoovers the carpet before the first customers return to the West End to start their Christmas shopping, on 2nd December 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shopping20-02-12-2020.jpg
  • An exterior view of the Premier Inn hotel with the famous arch of Wembley Stadium, on 6th November 2019, in Wembley, London, England.
    wembley_development-06-06-11-2019.jpg
  • The words Eternal Life in the window of a community church on the Old Kent Road, on 16th November 2017, in London, England.
    eternal_life-08-16-11-2017.jpg
  • High in the Nepali Himalayan foothills, travellers may be greeted by the welcoming relief of a group of mountain inns and hotels offering lodging to weary legs after many hours walking uphill in this gruelling landscape. Communities here partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing but also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers from all over the world walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. To be greeted by so much choice is the most rewarding experience and the offer of hot showers is about the best reward for so much exertion.
    nepal_travel2612-12_1997.jpg
  • As England finishes its second Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and London enters a Tier 2 restriction, cleaning staff at 'Galerie Richard Orlinski' in Bond Street, wipe window surfaces and floors before the first customers return to the West End to start their Christmas shopping, on 2nd December 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shopping11-02-12-2020.jpg
  • An architectural detail of a closed butcher business in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. In March 2015, the Museum of London revealed plans to vacate its Barbican site and move into the General Market Building. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-30-20-11-2019.jpg
  • An architectural detail of a closed butcher business in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. In March 2015, the Museum of London revealed plans to vacate its Barbican site and move into the General Market Building. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-50-20-11-2019.jpg
  • An architectural detail of a closed butcher business in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. In March 2015, the Museum of London revealed plans to vacate its Barbican site and move into the General Market Building. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-30-20-11-2019.jpg
  • Decorators paint the pillars on the exterior of a pub in Southwark, on 26th March 2019, in London, England.
    bus_views-03-26-03-2019.jpg
  • Workmen begin erecting scaffolding to the front of the Grade II listed public Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, closed by Lambeth council in 2016 to partially-convert it into a gym - something locals and library users say they dont want or need, on 15th November 2017, in London, England.
    carnegie_library-06-15-11-2017.jpg
  • Closed shutters on a butchers business in Smithfield Market, on 9th February 2017, in City of London, England. Smithfield Market has been at this location since medieval times but is about to undergo redevelopment and gentrification, disliked by traditionalists.
    smithfield_butcher-01-09-02-2017.jpg
  • Tired sikh gentlemen rest outside an ice cream parlour on 17th September 2016, on the Eastern Esplanade, at Southend, Essex, England. One sleeps and the other is in distant thought on the pavement outside. Southend-on-Sea is a seaside town on the north side of the Thames estuary 40 miles 64 km east of central London. In its heyday, the working class visited from the capital when train transport allowed them to enjoy its beaches and the worlds longest pier. Its splendour faded on the advent of package holidays to Spain etc.
    southend_seafront-23-17-09-2016.jpg
  • College Lodge at the main entrance (College Gate) of Dulwich Park in south London. Dulwich Park is a 30.85-hectare park in the London Borough of Southwark, south London, England, opened in 1890 by Lord Rosebery, initially designed by Charles Barry (junior), later refined by Lt Col J. J. Sexby (who also designed Battersea, Ruskin and parts of Southwark Parks). In 2004–6, the park was restored to its original Victorian layout, following a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
    dulwich_park07-21-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A music shop has moved from Denmark Street in London's famous Tin Pan Alley, a result of lease issues and rent hikes. A sign stretches across the width of the shutters telling customers that business has moved away from this iconic street known in the music industry as the centre of music publishing and musical instruments, primarily guitars, percussion, keyboards and sheet music. Pop music stars and rock bands like Elton John and the Rolling Stones have had their careers launched from Denmark Street where those who controlled the music business had their offices. With the disappearance of these businesses, come cafes and a gentrification that will soon see Tin Pan Alley as quirky in name only.
    denmark_street02-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A music shop has moved from Denmark Street in London's famous Tin Pan Alley, a result of lease issues and rent hikes. A sign stretches across the width of the shutters telling customers that business has moved away from this iconic street known in the music industry as the centre of music publishing and musical instruments, primarily guitars, percussion, keyboards and sheet music. Pop music stars and rock bands like Elton John and the Rolling Stones have had their careers launched from Denmark Street where those who controlled the music business had their offices. With the disappearance of these businesses, come cafes and a gentrification that will soon see Tin Pan Alley as quirky in name only.
    denmark_street01-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Two mothers and neighbours gossip with arms folded outside their houses on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties. Wearing aprons popular for working mums in this era of early 1960s, and one seemingly pregnant, the two women talk about families and children and their lives at the beginning of a new decade. This row of houses is in the Essex suburb of Westcliff, Southend and a proud gardener has grown a colourful bed of dahlias in the front. The picture was recorded on Kodachrome (Kodak) film in about 1961.
    sixties_archive02-15-03-1961_1_1.jpg
  • A CCTV security warning and damp stains on a card business window in an East Grinstead street in Sussex, a victim of the UK recession. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_window04-26-03-2013.jpg
  • Londoners pass-by a large outline of Queen Elizabeth's head in the clothing store Guess in Regent Street, central London ahead of a weekend of nationwide celebrations for the monarch's Diamond Jubilee. A few months before the Olympics come to London, a multi-cultural UK is gearing up for a weekend and summer of pomp and patriotic fervour as their monarch celebrates 60 years on the throne and across Britain, flags and Union Jack bunting adorn towns and villages.
    queens_jubilee07-01-06-2012.jpg
  • High in the Himalayan foothills, dawn arrives on a bitterly cold morning. A traveller has emerged from his rudimentary room on the left of this lodge in Nepal to stand outside staring at the spectacular landscape of snow-capped peaks in the distance. The wind is whipping snow and ice from the peaks of the Annapurna range and trekkers come from all over the world to sample the inner-peace to be discovered here in one of the most dramatic locations on the planet. Villages such as these partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak.
    nepal_travel2412-12_1997.jpg
  • Lit by early sun that filters through mountain peaks to this remote village near Ulleri, in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal, we see the veranda of a tea shop that serves weary travellers trekking the Annapurna Circuit and traditional doko basket. Villages such as these partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary, a sometimes gruelling walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak - and beyond. Tea houses are dotted along the trail offering lodging, refreshments and basic, but delicious food to the weary traveller and the landscapes are often shared with local livestock.
    nepal_travel2312-12_1997.jpg
  • Closed Down is written on a paint-covered window of a generic business in Central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_down01-15-01-2013_1.jpg
  • 'Store Closing, All Stock Reduced' posters stuck to the window of a closing Woolworths shop in the town of Nailsea, Nth Somerset. In its 100th year, the iconic high street chain of affordable goods has welcomed generations of shoppers since its first outlet opened in 1909 In a period of financial turmoil when recession followed the credit crunch, Woolworths went into administration in November 2008 with debts of £385m Pounds. Its 815 nationwide outlets were forced to close and its 27,000 workers laid off. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt.
    closed_businesses01-24-12_2008_1.jpg
  • Three woman in the warm sunshine in a window of Caffe Nero in central London. Seated in comfortable chairs bathed in afternoon sunshine, the 3 strangers enjoy the warmth through the window in this central London street near Covent Garden. We see the shadows of the words Panini and Pasta which Nero offer in their UK cafes. One lady checks her phone, another reads a book and the third leans against the glass, fast asleep. Gerry Ford founded Caffè Nero in 1997, now one of the leading UK coffee house operators in the world now with over 600 stores worldwide. They operate in the United Kingdom, Turkey, the Middle East, Poland and Cyprus.
    caffe_nero07-24-09-2013_1_1.jpg
  • A woman sleeps in the warm sunshine in a window of Caffe Nero in central London. The lady leans against the glass, fast asleep with various reflections from the city landscape outside. Gerry Ford founded Caffè Nero in 1997, now one of the leading UK coffee house operators in the world now with over 600 stores worldwide. They operate in the United Kingdom, Turkey, the Middle East, Poland and Cyprus.
    caffe_nero06-24-09-2013_1_1.jpg
  • As England finishes its second Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and London enters a Tier 2 restriction, cleaning staff at 'Galerie Richard Orlinski' in Bond Street, wipe window surfaces and floors before the first customers return to the West End to start their Christmas shopping, on 2nd December 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shopping18-02-12-2020.jpg
  • An exterior view of the Premier Inn hotel with the famous arch of Wembley Stadium, on 6th November 2019, in Wembley, London, England.
    wembley_development-02-06-11-2019.jpg
  • The words Eternal Life in the window of a community church on the Old Kent Road, on 16th November 2017, in London, England.
    eternal_life-01-16-11-2017.jpg
  • The exterior of the Queens Head pub with Union Jack bunting and the colours of the county of Northumberland, on 25th September 2017, in Rothbury, Northumberland, England.
    rothbury-02-25-09-2017.jpg
  • Closed for the Saturday afternoon is the local shop and post office in the Northumbrian village of Blanchland, on 29th September 2017, in Blanchland, Northumberland, England. Blanchland is a village in Northumberland, England, on the County Durham boundary. The population of the Civil Parish at the 2011 census was 135. Blanchland was formed out of the medieval Blanchland Abbey property by Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew, the Bishop of Durham, 1674-1722. It is a conservation village, largely built of stone from the remains of the 12th-century Abbey. It features picturesque houses, set against a backdrop of deep woods and open moors. Set beside the river in a wooded section of the Derwent valley, Blanchland is an attractive small village in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
    blanchland-04-29-09-2017.jpg
  • Fading garage lettering including French car manufacturer Renault, on 21st May 2017, in Fabrezan, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France.
    lagrasse_france-07-21-05-2017.jpg
  • A lady sits outside in morning sunshine on the terrace of her B+B guesthouse in the Devon seaside town of Paignton. It is late morning and a lady has emerged from her bead and breakfast. Sunlight is quite high in the sky and the shadows of a vine that is growing across the roof of the building's terrace, is seen on the wall behind the woman. She is seated reading a magazine in a garden chair and is surrounded by colourful flowers in their prime. Well-painted original victorian railings that act as a sort of ballustrade are in front of the female. In the window is a scene of typical seaside Englishness. Serviettes are splayed out on a table along with breakfast or dinner items awaiting guests at the next meal.
    b+b_woman-21-07-1992_1.jpg
  • A closed cafe that once offered all day breakfast with empty seating in central London, a victim of the UK recession. With peeling paint and unused street furniture, se see that the corner business has closed, its windows covered in white emulsion paint to render it opaque. The shop's former menu is still displayed on this window: "Beverages and filled sandwiches & baguettes" once sold to regular customers.
    recession_cafe01-16-05-2013.jpg
  • Five customers are seated in the window of the Manhattan Coffee Company on Shaftesbury Avenue, in London's Chinatown. 3 of the 5 are of Chinese ethnicity, one is talking on a mobile phone and the other two seem to be girlfriends. To their left is a man in deep thought but in front of every person there are red beakers. It is a successful shop with plenty of customers. The interior lighting is orange and red, making a cosy and welcoming atmosphere and two large signs in English indicate there are 30 more seats downstairs allowing more to spend their money and for more business to be made.
    misc-london11-30-08-2007.jpg
  • The tall wrought iron gates of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Magdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene. Magdalene College has some of the grandest benefactors including Britain's premier noble the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Chief Justice Sir Christopher Wray. However the refoundation was largely the work of Sir Thomas Audley, Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII. The College's most famous alumnus is Samuel Pepys, whose papers and books were donated to the College upon his death, and are now housed in the Pepys Building.
    magdalene_cambridge1-28-August-2011.jpg
  • Sprayed writing on a closed recession business window. The words 'Last Day Closing .. any reasonable offers'. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    last_day01-31-05-2012.jpg
  • A portrait of three brothers of the same family have their picture taken outside their parents' home in Westcliff, England. The eldest is a teenager of approximately 17 and  is holding his youngest brother who is still only 12 months-old. The third boy is biting his lip while looking to the viewer, more anxiously than the other two. He is possibly 14 but both the elder lads wear identically-designed jumpers that cut across the throat to allow their clean white shirts and ties to remain visible. Apart from the young child, the elders share the same dark hair colour but genetically, they share one chromosome that has given them heavy eyebrows, a family trait. This was taken on Kodachrome film stock in the spring of 1961 so the look and feel of the image is dated with wonderfully muted colours that this Kodak film offered to consumers in the early 60s.
    family_archive2515-03_1961_1.jpg
  • An announcement banner of a business' imminent closure is in the window of a Rio Beach clothing outlet on a fashion mannequin in their Earlham Street shop. Their web site says: "Rio Beach sells men's clothing for the beach and beyond. As one of the only places that stocks fashionable swimming trunks year round, this is a useful place if you're planning an unseasonable holiday."
    closing_down1-30-09-2011_1.jpg
  • A closing down sale window is written with emulsion paint on glass in a London furniture shop. The reflection of the street behind can be seen with armchairs and cots. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    closed_business01-23-11-2009_1.jpg
  • Window display figure of a traditional Chinese herbalist's shop in London's West End. The shadows of known cures such as anxiety, depression and hay fever are reflected on the body of this male miniature. One of Chinese herbology’s four natures is the degree of yin and yang, namely cold (extreme yin), cool, warm and hot (extreme yang). The patient's internal balance of yin and yang is taken into account when the herbs are selected. Medicinal herbs of "hot", yang nature are used when the person is thought to be suffering from internal cold that requires to be purged, or when the patient is believed to have a general cold constituency. Sometimes an ingredient is added to offset the extreme effect of one herb.
    chinese_medicine03-16-10-2012_1.jpg
  • As England finishes its second Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and London enters a Tier 2 restriction, cleaning staff at 'Galerie Richard Orlinski' in Bond Street, wipe window surfaces and floors before the first customers return to the West End to start their Christmas shopping, on 2nd December 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shopping15-02-12-2020.jpg
  • An architectural detail of a closed butcher business in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. In March 2015, the Museum of London revealed plans to vacate its Barbican site and move into the General Market Building. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-50-20-11-2019.jpg
  • An exterior view of the Premier Inn hotel with the famous arch of Wembley Stadium, on 6th November 2019, in Wembley, London, England.
    wembley_development-03-06-11-2019.jpg
  • Sailing yacht window on Ramsgates Addington Street, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a Brexit Port by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UKs exit from the EU. Britains Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-191-08-01-2019.jpg
  • Workmen begin erecting scaffolding to the front of the Grade II listed public Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, closed by Lambeth council in 2016 to partially-convert it into a gym - something locals and library users say they dont want or need, on 15th November 2017, in London, England.
    carnegie_library-11-15-11-2017.jpg
  • Christ’s Chapel of God’s Gift at Dulwich, located in the heart of Dulwich Village, the first of Edward Alleyn’s foundation buildings to be completed, being consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury on 1 September 1616. The Old College and Almshouses (Edward Alleyn House) situated at the junction of Gallery Road and College Road, Dulwich Village SE21, were completed by 1618. The central section houses Christ's Chapel which was consecrated in 1616. The west wing originally housed the Almshouses, then became the home of the College. The buildings have been known as the Old College since the New College was opened in 1870. The west wing now houses the offices of the Estate Governors.
    dulwich02-21-04-2015_1.jpg
  • College Lodge at the main entrance (College Gate) of Dulwich Park in south London. Dulwich Park is a 30.85-hectare park in the London Borough of Southwark, south London, England, opened in 1890 by Lord Rosebery, initially designed by Charles Barry (junior), later refined by Lt Col J. J. Sexby (who also designed Battersea, Ruskin and parts of Southwark Parks). In 2004–6, the park was restored to its original Victorian layout, following a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
    dulwich_park04-21-04-2015_1.jpg
  • The words 'Last Day' are painted in white emulsion on a window Camden North London, England. A Jesus figure, dolls  and various bric a brac are seen in the window behind the large lettering. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    window_lastday_03002-17-04-2007_1_1.jpg
  • The Victorian Fieldgate Street Synagogue next door to the construction site of the new East London Mosque in east London. In a scene of friendship and a spirit of multi-faiths in this area of east London which was once a mainly Jewish neighbourhood but nowadays, since the rise in immigration from south Asia and the middle-east, is now predominantly Muslim and home to many local mosques and Islamic centres. It is a symbol of inter-denominational integration that such religions can live side by side.
    synagogue_mosque01-07-02-2012_1_1.jpg
  • High in the Himalayan foothills, dawn arrives on a bitterly cold morning at Poon Hill. Trekkers have gathered at this spot to take in the wonder of this spectacular landscape of snow-capped peaks in the distance. A sherpa has written his name in ice on a rail and western travellers continue their journey higher into the Annapurna range to sample the inner-peace to be discovered here in one of the most dramatic locations on the planet. Villages partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak.
    nepal_travel2512-12_1997.jpg
  • Last Day notice for a now closed business in central London, a victim of the UK recession. The words have been written on the pane of glass in white emulsion paint that has dripped and run before drying properly on the window of this anonymous office building in Holborn, London. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. The current one was caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages. Picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    last_day01-27-02-2012.jpg
  • An assistant with a doctor on TV screen in a traditional Chinese herbalist's shop window. The exhausted women hangs her neck at the end of a long day serving customers and a model of the male body illustrating the meridians for acupuncture stands in the window alongside the TV and the word Massage Herbs is in red neon lights above the shop window. One of Chinese herbology’s four natures is the degree of yin and yang, namely cold (extreme yin), cool, warm and hot (extreme yang). The patient's internal balance of yin and yang is taken into account when the herbs are selected. Medicinal herbs of "hot", yang nature are used when the person is thought to be suffering from internal cold that requires to be purged, or when the patient is believed to have a general cold constituency. Sometimes an ingredient is added to offset the extreme effect of one herb.
    chinese_herbalist02-18-01-2011_1.jpg
  • Young women on a shop hoarding with pedestrians and an elderly couple about to cross Brutoin Street in central London. An image of young and older generations is seen at this busy crossing where young women stand to one side, out for a shopping trip along the fashionable and expensive Bond Street. To their left is an elderly couple who stand separated by a wide distance from the girls - a metaphor for the wide generation gap in Britain today. The young girls live in an age of materialism and wealth while the people from their grandparents' era have survived unanticipated hardship, war and technological changes. In the background are the faces and poses of fashion models whose androgynous looks are as different to the elderly as the females along the street.
    bond_street01-21-09-2010 12-43-43_1.jpg
  • It is late morning and a lady has emerged from her bead and breakfast (B+B)  in Paignton, Devon. Sunlight is quite high in the sky and the shadows of a vine that is growing across the roof of the building's terrace, is seen on the wall behind the woman. She is seated reading a magazine in a garden chair and is surrounded by colourful flowers in their prime. Well-painted original victorian railings that act as a sort of ballustrade are in front of the female. In the window is a scene of typical seaside Englishness. Serviettes are splayed out on a table along with breakfast or dinner items awaiting guests at the next meal.
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  • We see one of a pair of lion guards outside the Bank of China's building in Macau (Macao), in China's Special Economic region (SER). Stone lions, also called Shishi in Chinese, are often found in pairs in front of the gates of Chinese traditional buildings. Chinese guardian lions, known also as stone lions in Chinese art, are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China. They are believed to have powerful mythic protective powers that has traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Pairs of guardian lions are still common decorative and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and other structures.
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  • The words Eternal Life in the window of a community church on the Old Kent Road, on 16th November 2017, in London, England.
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  • Christ’s Chapel of God’s Gift at Dulwich, located in the heart of Dulwich Village, the first of Edward Alleyn’s foundation buildings to be completed, being consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury on 1 September 1616. The Old College and Almshouses (Edward Alleyn House) situated at the junction of Gallery Road and College Road, Dulwich Village SE21, were completed by 1618. The central section houses Christ's Chapel which was consecrated in 1616. The west wing originally housed the Almshouses, then became the home of the College. The buildings have been known as the Old College since the New College was opened in 1870. The west wing now houses the offices of the Estate Governors.
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  • The words 'Closing Party' are almost obscured by fly-posters on a closed shop window, the victim of the economic recession. Only the remnants of the poster glue have left the traces of sheets of paper on the window, making for an almost abstract landscape of urban decay. Few clues remain of the shop's former business model though it might be assumed it was once a cafe as we see many chairs at a table. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
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  • The locked and security grilled doorway of a Pakistani takeaway shop on Lumb Lane near Bradford City centre, Yorkshire. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
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  • A Books Etc bookseller now closed, a victim of the UK recession, a former branch in the financial City of London. 28 BOOKS etc. shops, with over one million square feet of retail space taking around 8% of the retail bookselling market. In 2008 and 2009 the store numbers were reduced before the collapse of the chain. They also operated one single branch in Ireland, but closed this early in 2009. On 26 November 2009 it was announced that Borders (UK) had gone into administration. All stores closed on 24 December 2009. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War.
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  • Workmen begin erecting scaffolding to the front of the Grade II listed public Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, closed by Lambeth council in 2016 to partially-convert it into a gym - something locals and library users say they dont want or need, on 15th November 2017, in London, England.
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  • Electric and acoustic guitars on display in Martin & Co, one of the last music shops to stay in Denmark Street in London's famous Tin Pan Alley, a result of lease issues and rent hikes. In the window we see beautifully-designed instruments with the electric versions in the front row and the acoustics at the back. The American Martin Guitar Company has been continuously producing acoustic instruments that are acknowledged to be the finest in the world since 1833. Tin Pan Alley has been at the heart of the music publishing and musical instruments, primarily guitars, percussion, keyboards and sheet music. Pop music stars and rock bands like Elton John and the Rolling Stones have had their careers launched from Denmark Street where those who controlled the music business had their offices.
    denmark_street04-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A closed DVD rental shop in south London has gone bust, a victim of the UK's economic climate. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    recession_window06-30-10-2010.jpg
  • Last Day Friday notice for now closed Card Warehouse business in Bromley High Street, a victim of the UK recession. Poinsettias sit in a plastic bucket, each selling for £1.25. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    closed_business64-15-02_2009_1.jpg
  • A Doctor appears on a TV screen at a traditional Chinese herbalist's shop window in London's West End. There is also a real practitioner inside the shop. A model of the male body illustrating the meridians for acupuncture stands in the window alongside the TV and the word Massage is in red neon lights above the shop window. One of Chinese herbology’s four natures is the degree of yin and yang, namely cold (extreme yin), cool, warm and hot (extreme yang). The patient's internal balance of yin and yang is taken into account when the herbs are selected. Medicinal herbs of "hot", yang nature are used when the person is thought to be suffering from internal cold that requires to be purged, or when the patient is believed to have a general cold constituency. Sometimes an ingredient is added to offset the extreme effect of one herb.
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  • An elderly shopper walks past typical Edwardian seaside shop fronts, on 14th July 2017, at Filey, North Yorkshire, England.
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  • A giant eye from a construction site hoarding watches street next to a workman up a ladder on Neal Street, London. The workman stands on top of the hoarding structure and attends to a detail in the shop's frontage, equipped with tools that hang from his belt. Below him is the large-scale face being covered by the model's hand and whose fingers are open wide across his right eye. His left is seen gazing across the city - almost an Orwellian scenario of the writer's 'Big Brother' story from 1984.
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  • A mother leads her kids past the exterior frontage of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill. Faced with the closure of its local library, Lambeth council plan to close the facility used by the community as part of austerity cuts, saying they will convert the building into a gym and privately-owned gentrified businesses - rather than a much-loved reading and learning resource. £12,600 was donated by the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to help build the library which opened in 1906. It is a fine example of Edwardian civic architecture, built with red Flettan bricks and terracotta, listed as Grade II in 1981.
    carnegie_library08-25-02-2016_1.jpg
  • In the late afternoon on a warm summer's day, drinkers enjoy a pint or two outside The Phoenix pub at Denmark Hill station, Camberwell, South London. Seated at tables and on benches, the friends and colleagues relax in the warm sunshine outside this Victorian station, built in 1865. Its design is in the Italianate style, with an extremely decorative frontage. After a fire in 1980 the building was renovated and restored. The project included the addition of the public house, initially called the Phoenix and Firkin to commemorate the fire, then called O'Neills and now known as the Phoenix. A Civic Trust award was given to the building in 1986.
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  • A detail red lettering, the frontage of a new restaurant business to be called Big Town and offering West African food, is still covered in Bubble-Wrap during the propertys conversion on the Walworth Road in south London, on 23rd August 2019, in London, England.
    big_town-01-23-08-2019.jpg
  • The exterior frontage of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill. Faced with the closure of its local library, Lambeth council plan to close the facility used by the community as part of austerity cuts, saying they will convert the building into a gym and privately-owned gentrified businesses - rather than a much-loved reading and learning resource. £12,600 was donated by the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to help build the library which opened in 1906. It is a fine example of Edwardian civic architecture, built with red Flettan bricks and terracotta, listed as Grade II in 1981.
    carnegie_library04-23-02-2016_1.jpg
  • A mother leads her child past the exterior frontage of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill. Faced with the closure of its local library, Lambeth council plan to close the facility used by the community as part of austerity cuts, saying they will convert the building into a gym and privately-owned gentrified businesses - rather than a much-loved reading and learning resource. £12,600 was donated by the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to help build the library which opened in 1906. It is a fine example of Edwardian civic architecture, built with red Flettan bricks and terracotta, listed as Grade II in 1981.
    carnegie_library01-23-02-2016_1.jpg
  • Seen from the rear, an anonymous red-haired woman walks towards a business using red as its theme of frontage in north London. Dyed as bright as a prime colour to make her own personal fashion and style statement, she has made a choice to show her individuality and uniqueness.
    red_hair01-01-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Young people whose shadows are on the wall of the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Sq, London. The two young men have been busking in this famous London landmark, their act having just finished requiring them to change back into their own clothes on a winter's day. One of them squints into the sun, making a definite shape alongside his sidekick and an incidental woman, texting on her smartphone on the right. A couple hug each other above as someone else takes their picture with Westminster in the background. The wall belongs to the southern frontage of the National Portrait Gallery in Westminster.
    people_shadows10-19-12-2013_1_1.jpg
  • As a sleeping homeless man lies curled up in his sleeping bag on a central London pavement, two window cleaners have carefully placed their ladders at his feet to clean a Boots the chemist sign. Each wearing identical blue working overalls and each wiping the frontage with their left hands, the men are symbolic of the working man versus that of a homeless person without a job, prospects or perhaps a future. The wide gap between hopelessness and the pride of one's achievement is shown here on the sidewalk of modern-day Britain. London is home to some 50,000 homeless people whose place of rest can often be recesses and shop doorways where they seek sanctuary from the cold and street violence. On the opposite end of the wealth and social divides are those who seek work with a positive outlook on life.
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  • Two women walk past the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters in Eldon Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district and a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat. A leggy girl strides past the shop frontage, seemingly curious of this bygone gentlemanly tradition.
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  • Legs and lower limbs from retail mannequins are piled up in a closed shop window, central London. A pigeons struts along the pavement, beneath the pink-coloured frontage of this business awaiting re-opening after a refurbishment. Lying in the window is the pile of legs, like a pile of disjointed bodies.
    legs_window-01-17-05-2016.jpg
  • The frontage of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill. Faced with the closure of its local library, Lambeth council plan to close the facility used by the community as part of austerity cuts, saying they will convert the building into a gym and privately-owned gentrified businesses - rather than a much-loved reading and learning resource. £12,600 was donated by the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to help build the library which opened in 1906. It is a fine example of Edwardian civic architecture, built with red Flettan bricks and terracotta, listed as Grade II in 1981.
    carnegie_library04-07-02-2016_1.jpg
  • The frontage of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill. Faced with the closure of its local library, Lambeth council plan to close the facility used by the community as part of austerity cuts, saying they will convert the building into a gym and privately-owned gentrified businesses - rather than a much-loved reading and learning resource. £12,600 was donated by the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to help build the library which opened in 1906. It is a fine example of Edwardian civic architecture, built with red Flettan bricks and terracotta, listed as Grade II in 1981.
    carnegie_library03-07-02-2016_1.jpg
  • Reflections in a modern glass building. This architecture example is of a building on Tower Bridge Approach, London. The frontage is made of steel and tension cables in an ordered grid.
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  • Exterior of an Odeon cinema in central London. The Saville Theatre is a former West End theatre at 135 Shaftesbury Avenue in the London Borough of Camden. The exterior of the theatre retains many of the 1930s details, although the wrought iron window on the frontage has been replaced by glass blocks. A sculptured frieze by British sculptor Gilbert Bayes around the building for nearly 130 feet (40 m), remains and represents 'Drama Through The Ages'. The theatre opened in 1931, and became a music venue during the 1960s. In 1970 it became the two cinemas ABC1 Shaftesbury Avenue and ABC2 Shaftesbury Avenue, which in 2001 were converted to the four-screen cinema Odeon Covent Garden. Odeon Cinemas is a British chain of cinemas operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company is one of the largest cinema chains in Europe.
    odeon_cinema01-10-12-2014_1.jpg
  • Young people whose shadows are on the wall of the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Sq, London. Passers-by walk past and squint into a low sun on this winter's day as tourists above take pictures on the cityscape below them, a famous landmark in the UK's capital. The wall belongs to the southern frontage of the National Portrait Gallery in Westminster.
    people_shadows12-19-12-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Young people whose shadows are on the wall of the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Sq, London. The two young men have been busking in this famous London landmark, their act having just finished requiring them to change back into their own clothes on a winter's day. One of them pulls his top over his head and his shadow against the wall behind makes a peculiar shape alongside his sidekick and an incidental woman, texting on her smartphone on the right. The wall belongs to the southern frontage of the National Portrait Gallery in Westminster.
    people_shadows04-19-12-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, an optometrist's business remains open (like the eye illustration at the frontage) but it is boarded up with plywood with the words Open as Usual painted by hand. Debris has been swept up on the pavement awaiting collection but the scene is otherwise as it should. But one person was killed when the one-ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church on 24th April 1993. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office and retail space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million. It was possibly the (IRA's) most successful military tactic since the start of the Troubles.
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  • Victorian bakery/cafe on the corner of Roupell Street, Waterloo, south London. A women in red looks into the window of this small business selling cakes and tarts whose frontage is largely unchanged. The shop is a property located on one of the capital's better-preserved streets after many were destroyed during the Blitz in WW2. Roupell Street is a preservation area whose are from the Georgian period in a backstreet a short distance from Waterloo station and rail and foot bridges can be seen in the background.
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  • Melted properties and devastated frontages after an inner-city estate fire in south London. A satellite dish has all but been incinerated after being exposed to very high temperatures facing the scene of this davastating incident. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.
    peckham_fire07-26-11-2009.jpg
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