Show Navigation

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
{ 347 images found }

Loading ()...

  • Joggers keeping fit while practicing social distancing during the lockdown by City Hall at 6pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    Unknown.jpg
  • View of the City of London skyscrapers and building sites seen from Fenchurch Street, on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. The green glow comes from sunlight reflected from green tinted windows of one of the overlooking modern buildings.
    _F3A8974.jpg
  • Victorian buildings and closed shops and resturants on The Minories, Whitechapel on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people, London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. The Minories area was a papal peculiar outside the jurisdiction of the English bishops. The abbey was dissolved in 1539 when the property passed to the Crown. The chapel of the former abbey became the Church of Holy Trinity, Minories, and other buildings were used as an armoury and later as a workhouse. In 1686, the area became part of the Liberties of the Tower of London. The Minories area historically hosted a large Jewish community. Minories Holy Trinity was abolished as a civil parish in 1895 and absorbed into the parish of Whitechapel.
    _F3A8954.jpg
  • Jogger running past the closed Vinegar Yard, an urban garden normally open seven days a week, with food stalls and bars on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. The train carriage installation is by Joe Rush, famous for his scrap-metal sculptures at  the Glastonbury Festival.
    _F3A8930.jpg
  • Duke of York pub, dwarfed by a railway bridge crossing Southwark Bridge Road on 16th April 2020 in Southwark, London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8917.jpg
  • A crow is the only visitor as the tulip gardens bloom in front of Buckingham Palace on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8799.jpg
  • Lone walker crossing Horse Guards Parade from St Jamess Park on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. Horse Guards Parade was formerly the site of the Palace of Whitehalls tiltyard, where tournaments including jousting were held in the time of Henry VIII. It was also the scene of annual celebrations of the birthday of Queen Elizabeth I. The area has been used for a variety of reviews, parades and other ceremonies since the 17th century. The building is still used by the Horse Guards and the London commanding officer still uses the same desk as Wellington, the Iron Duke.
    _F3A8818.jpg
  • Wellington Arch, a 19th-century memorial arch topped by a bronze sculpture, Hyde Park Corner on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. During the second half of the 1820s, the Commissioners of Woods and Forests and the King resolved that Hyde Park, and the area around it, must be renovated to the extent of the splendour of rival European capital cities, and that the essence of the new arrangement would be a triumphal approach to Buckingham Palace. Changes to the road layout in the 1990s reinstated a route between Hyde Park and the Green Park for pedestrians, cyclists and horseriders using surface-level crossings.
    _F3A8717.jpg
  • Marble Arch during 8am rush hour, on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people, London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure, based on that of the Arch of Constantine in Rome, was designed by John Nash in 1827 to be the state entrance to the cour dhonneur of Buckingham Palace. In 1851, on the initiative of architect and urban planner Decimus Burton, a one-time pupil of John Nash, it was relocated and following the widening of Park Lane in the early 1960s to where it is now sited, incongruently isolated, on a large traffic island at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane and Edgware Road.
    _F3A8692.jpg
  • Early morning in Oxford Street by Marble Arch, on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8691.jpg
  • Two pigeons in the cherry blossom during the lockdown by Tower Bridge at 5pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8627.jpg
  • Skater keeping fit while practicing social distancing during the lockdown on Tower Bridge at 5pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8553.jpg
  • The entrance to the London Dungeon closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, 5pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Its slogan LIVE AND BREATHE LONDONS DARKEST HISTORY IF YOU DARE has a dark resonance of the present time. Normally crowded with people the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the lockdown.
    _F3A8467.jpg
  • A jogger stretches at More London Place in front of the Shard building at 6pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8439.jpg
  • Geese and people relaxing on a warm evening during the lockdown by Tower Bridge at 6pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8395.jpg
  • Deserted Leadenhall Market at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic and shops are closed in a government lockdown.
    _E6A8418.jpg
  • The area around the Lloyds building at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _E6A8373.jpg
  • The area around the Lloyds building at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _E6A8353.jpg
  • The area around the Lloyds building at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _E6A8349.jpg
  • A masked figure walking along a deserted Chancery Lane  5pm on 23rd April  2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic. retains many Georgian buildings, which form part of the Chancery Lane conservation area. Since the 18th century Chancery lane has seen the steady rise of the legal profession, solicitors took premises here, as did suppliers such as wig makers, strongbox makers, law stationers and booksellers.
    0E6A9536.jpg
  • Lone cyclist passing the City of London skyline and building work seen from Fenchurch Street, on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. The green glow comes from sunlight reflected from green tinted windows of one of the overlooking modern buildings.
    _F3A8977.jpg
  • An anonymous billboard with the words of hope Please believe these days will pass pasted on a deserted St Thomas Street wall in Southwark, on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people, London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8947.jpg
  • Old Victorian railway bridge, the Shard, and new housing in the borough of Southwark on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8903.jpg
  • Broken InLink street electronic advertising on Blackfriars Road, Southwark on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people, London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. When working InLink provides ultrafast, free public Wi-Fi, phone calls, device charging and a tablet for access to city services, maps and directions.
    _F3A8900.jpg
  • The Security Service offices also known as MI5, the United Kingdoms domestic counter-intelligence and security agency on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. M15 Security Service: MI5 safeguards the United Kingdom against threats to national security including terrorism, espionage, sabotage and the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
    _F3A8893.jpg
  • Lone driver vaping in King Charles Street HM Treasury on the right,  Foreign & Commonwealth Office on the left on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8866.jpg
  • Clive Steps facing St James Park on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. Major-General Robert Clive was one of the most controversial figures in all British military history. His achievements included establishing control over much of India, and laying the foundation of the entire British Raj, though he worked only as an agent of the East India Company, not the British government. For his methods and his self-aggrandisement he was vilified by his contemporaries in Britain, and put on trial before Parliament. Of special concern was that he amassed a personal fortune in India. Modern historians have criticised him for atrocities, for high taxes, and for the forced cultivation of crops which exacerbated famines. There was no inquest on his death and it was variously alleged he had stabbed himself or cut his throat with a penknife or had taken an overdose of opium, while a few newspapers reported his death as due to an apoplectic fit or stroke. Tucked on the right hand side is the entrance to the Cabinet War Rooms, a historic underground complex that housed a British government command centre throughout the Second World War. It is now a museum.
    _F3A8857.jpg
  • Lone walker crossing Horse Guards Parade from St Jamess Park on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. Horse Guards Parade was formerly the site of the Palace of Whitehalls tiltyard, where tournaments including jousting were held in the time of Henry VIII. It was also the scene of annual celebrations of the birthday of Queen Elizabeth I. The area has been used for a variety of reviews, parades and other ceremonies since the 17th century. The building is still used by the Horse Guards and the London commanding officer still uses the same desk as Wellington, the Iron Duke.
    _F3A8827.jpg
  • Lone walker crossing Horse Guards Parade from St Jamess Park on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. Horse Guards Parade was formerly the site of the Palace of Whitehalls tiltyard, where tournaments including jousting were held in the time of Henry VIII. It was also the scene of annual celebrations of the birthday of Queen Elizabeth I. The area has been used for a variety of reviews, parades and other ceremonies since the 17th century. The building is still used by the Horse Guards and the London commanding officer still uses the same desk as Wellington, the Iron Duke.
    _F3A8832.jpg
  • Lone morning jogger keeping fit despite the lockdown in an empty Green Park on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8765.jpg
  • Tulip gardens bloom in front of Buckingham Palace on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8792.jpg
  • Tulip gardens bloom in front of Buckingham Palace on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8797.jpg
  • Early morning in Oxford Street by Marble Arch, on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8704.jpg
  • Hyde Park Screen on Hyde Park Corner on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. Hyde Park Screen was designed by Decimus Burton and completed in 1828. There used to be a toll gate here, but after Buckingham Palace was built, the screen with its ionic columns and three arches was erected as an part of the grand approach to it, and as a corner entry to Hyde Park.
    _F3A8708.jpg
  • Hyde Park Screen and the Duke of Wellingtons Georgian house on a deserted Hyde Park Corner during the morning rush hour on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people, London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. Hyde Park Screen on the left is the entrance to Hyde park and the building on the right is now a museum in the Iron Dukes Georgian house with a fine art collection and a Canova statue of Napoleon.
    _F3A8711.jpg
  • Early morning looking East along Oxford Street from Marble Arch, on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people, London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure, based on that of the Arch of Constantine in Rome, was designed by John Nash in 1827 to be the state entrance to the cour dhonneur of Buckingham Palace. In 1851, on the initiative of architect and urban planner Decimus Burton, a one-time pupil of John Nash, it was relocated and following the widening of Park Lane in the early 1960s to where it is now sited, incongruently isolated, on a large traffic island at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane and Edgware Road.
    _F3A8687.jpg
  • Abbey Road zebra crossing on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. The image shot here in 1969 next to the studios where their classic album was recorded of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road, became one of the most famous album covers in history. Shortly after the albums release, the cover became part of the Paul is dead theory that was spreading across college campuses in the US. According to followers of the rumour, the cover depicted the Beatles walking out of a cemetery in a funeral procession. The escalation of the Paul is dead rumour became the subject of intense analysis on mainstream radio and contributed to Abbey Roads commercial success in the US.. The crossing has since become a popular destination for Beatles fans and the crossing was given grade II listed status for its cultural and historical importance.
    _F3A8683.jpg
  • Abbey Road zebra crossing on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. The image shot here in 1969 next to the studios where their classic album was recorded of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road, became one of the most famous album covers in history. Shortly after the albums release, the cover became part of the Paul is dead theory that was spreading across college campuses in the US. According to followers of the rumour, the cover depicted the Beatles walking out of a cemetery in a funeral procession. The escalation of the Paul is dead rumour became the subject of intense analysis on mainstream radio and contributed to Abbey Roads commercial success in the US.. The crossing has since become a popular destination for Beatles fans and the crossing was given grade II listed status for its cultural and historical importance.
    _F3A8678.jpg
  • Walker crossing the Thames Millenium Bridge in front of Tate Modern during the lockdown at 7pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8657.jpg
  • Jogger keeping fit  during the lockdown by the Thames Millenium Bridge at 5pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8645.jpg
  • Keeping fit during the lockdown by Tower Bridge at 6pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8631.jpg
  • Joggers keeping fit while practicing social distancing during the lockdown by City Hall at 6pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8620.jpg
  • Joggers keeping fit while practicing social distancing during the lockdown by City Hall at 6pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8576.jpg
  • Silhouette of a Figure by Stephan Balkenhol looking up at the Shard and a plane flying by 6pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic. As Covid-19 continues to spread and countries respond with travel bans and advisories, global demand for flights has plummeted.⁠<br />
As a result, airlines have been forced to slash routes, with some operating near-empty aircraft.⁠
    _F3A8461.jpg
  • Skateboarder keeping fit during the lockdown by City Hall at 5pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8428.jpg
  • Keeping fit during the lockdown by Tower Bridge at 5pm on 9th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _F3A8414.jpg
  • Deserted Leadenhall Market at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic and shops are closed in a government lockdown.
    _E6A8407.jpg
  • The area around the Lloyds building at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _E6A8397.jpg
  • The area around the Lloyds building at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _E6A8392.jpg
  • The area around the Lloyds building at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _E6A8382.jpg
  • The area around the Lloyds building at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _E6A8366.jpg
  • The area around the Lloyds building at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _E6A8365.jpg
  • The area around the Lloyds building at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _E6A8363.jpg
  • The area around the Lloyds building at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _E6A8355.jpg
  • The area around the Lloyds building at 5pm on 26th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people leaving work the City of London is like a ghost town as workers stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    _E6A8321.jpg
  • Empty bike racks on the London Wall during the coronavirus pandemic on the 2nd May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The London Wall was the defensive wall first built by the Romans around Londinium, their strategically important port town on the River Thames in what is now London, England, and subsequently maintained until the 18th century.
    _E6A0382.jpg
  • The evening light on the City of London skyline by the river Thames, which was nearly deserted at 7pm during the Coronavirus pandemic on 4th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The government clampdown includes the closure of most shops, bars and theatres throughout the country. One of the unforseen effects was a huge improvement in air quality, which gave a clarity to London views rarely seen before.
    _H5A8744.jpg
  • The statue to engineer James Henry Greathead, inventor of the Greathead Shield, on Cornhill in the City of London at 7.30am during the coronavirus pandemic on the 24th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The Greathead Shield allowed the construction of the deep level tube lines.
    _E6A9955.jpg
  • Woman in mask in front of the Tate Modern Gallery taken on the Millenium Bridge during the coronavirus pandemic on the 24th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A9914.jpg
  • Skyline of the city of London and Tower Bridge taken from the Millenium Bridge at dawn during the coronavirus pandemic on the 24th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A9859.jpg
  • Skyline of the city of London and Tower Bridge taken from the Millenium Bridge at dawn during the coronavirus pandemic on the 24th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A9788.jpg
  • The Royal Fusiliers Memorial in Londons Holborn, depicting a soldier with a bayonet, taken in the early morning rush hour during the coronavirus pandemic on the 24th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A9629.jpg
  • God Bless The NHS chalked up on a fence in Stoke Newington during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A1424.jpg
  • The Suleymaniye Mosque on the deserted Kingsland Road during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. It is empty under a categorical instruction of the Sunnah and Shariah, from Hadeeth, to quarantine in order to halt the spread of infectious diseases. In these times, it is a fardh!
    _E6A1421.jpg
  • The modern development of the mediaeval Paternoster Square, deserted during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Designed by Whitfield Partners in 1995 they chose to restore the medieval street plan of the area and commissioned Elizabeth Frink to create the sculpture Paternoster.
    _E6A1382.jpg
  • The modern development of the mediaeval Paternoster Square, deserted during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Designed by Whitfield Partners in 1995 they chose to restore the medieval street plan of the area and commissioned Elizabeth Frink to create the sculpture Paternoster.
    _E6A1368.jpg
  • The modern development of the mediaeval Paternoster Square, deserted during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Designed by Whitfield Partners in 1995 they chose to restore the medieval street plan of the area and commissioned Elizabeth Frink to create the sculpture Paternoster.
    _E6A1359.jpg
  • Homeless man sleeping on the Strand during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Despite the Government insisting all homeless people should be provided with shelter during the Covid-19 crisis, whatever their circumstances councils struggle to find accomodation.
    _E6A1331.jpg
  • Chinatown, with the new year lanterns still hanging, is deserted during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Restaurant owners in fear anti Chinese stigma and racism due to the coronavirus crisis will hamper the areas recovery.
    _E6A1326.jpg
  • Messages thanking everyone on the NHS frontline, care workers and those carrying out essential roles are displayed in Piccadilly Circus, deserted at 7.30am rush hour during the Coronavirus pandemic on 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The government clampdown includes the closure of most shops, bars and theatres throughout the country.
    _E6A1301.jpg
  • The Invisible Man poster in front of a boarded up cinema in Leicester Square in the centre of Londons cinema land, empty during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The main headline What you cant see can hurt you has a savage irony during the COVID lockdown.
    _E6A1257.jpg
  • A shopping and entertainment hub in Londons West End, Covent Garden centres on the elegant, car-free Piazza, home to fashion stores, craft stalls and the Royal Opera House, empty during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Covent Garden has experienced various stages of life. From humble beginnings as a Convent garden, it has moved through many guises over the centuries.  From a home to the aristocracy and the main centre of theatrical life in London it developed into the largest produce market in the world. The commercial vegetable market moved across the river to Nine Elms in 1974.
    _E6A1244.jpg
  • A shopping and entertainment hub in Londons West End, Covent Garden centres on the elegant, car-free Piazza, home to fashion stores, craft stalls and the Royal Opera House, empty during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Covent Garden has experienced various stages of life. From humble beginnings as a Convent garden, it has moved through many guises over the centuries.  From a home to the aristocracy and the main centre of theatrical life in London it developed into the largest produce market in the world. The commercial vegetable market moved across the river to Nine Elms in 1974.
    _E6A1233.jpg
  • Homeless men sleeping in the portico of St Pauls Church, Covent Garden during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. It was designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission for the 4th Earl of Bedford in 1631 to create houses and buildings fit for the habitations of Gentlemen and men of ability.
    _E6A1224.jpg
  • Homeless men sleeping in the portico of St Pauls Church, Covent Garden during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. It was designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission for the 4th Earl of Bedford in 1631 to create houses and buildings fit for the habitations of Gentlemen and men of ability.
    _E6A1204.jpg
  • Homeless men sleeping in the portico of St Pauls Church, Covent Garden during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. It was designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission for the 4th Earl of Bedford in 1631 to create houses and buildings fit for the habitations of Gentlemen and men of ability.
    _E6A1215.jpg
  • Bronze Sphynx guarding Cleopatra’s Needle, made in Egypt for the Pharaoh Thotmes III in 1460 BC and brought to London from Alexandria the royal city of Cleopatra in 1878 photographed on the empty Embankment during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Britain wanted something big and noticeable to commemorate the British victory in Egypt over Napoleon, sixty-three years earlier. At low tide you can step to the platform on the River side and place flower heads on the platform as an offering to the Thames Isis Goddess and wait. The rising water will splash up the steps then gradually over the platform from each side. When the two washes meet in the middle they slap together and form dual ripples which carry the flowers away. This huge granite structure was engineered precisely to do this and hidden in plain sight for those that can see.
    _E6A1194.jpg
  • The Earl Haig Memorial is a bronze equestrian statue of the British Western Front commander Douglas Haig photographed on a deserted Whiehall during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The shocking casualties and repeated battlefield failures of the First World War led to widespread criticism of its senior commanders. Of all the Allied generals, Haig was the most censured due to his unrelenting faith in the offensive and the huge losses incurred by imperial forces as a result.
    _E6A1168.jpg
  • The Cenotaph on Whitehall, the central focus for the remembrance and commemoration events in Britain photographed during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Cenotaph means empty tomb. It symbolises the unprecedented losses suffered during the First World War and is dedicated to The Glorious Dead. There are no names inscribed on the Cenotaph, which allowed individuals to assign their own meaning to the memorial. It also provided a tangible place of mourning for those whose husbands, sons, brothers, friends and relations died during the war without a known grave. This symbolism also resonates through the introduction of the two minutes silence on Armistice Day and the interment of the Unknown Warrior.
    _E6A1161.jpg
  • London School Of Hygiene And Medicine during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The school is a key player in the understanding of COVID-19 and Professor Peter Piot was appointed as special advisor to President of European Commission. In this role, he will advise the Commission in supporting and steering research and innovation in the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
    _E6A1134.jpg
  • A flower rainbow at dawn showing support for the NHS staff outside UCL hospital during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Researchers at University College London warn the risk of death if you have an underlying health conditions is five times higher so the team created the coronavirus calculator to let individuals see how at risk they are. Rainbows are used as a symbol of peace and hope as they often appear when the sun follows a heavy rainfall. They serve to remind us that there is hope and light to follow even after dark times. The current trend appears to have started in Italy but has also been adopted by the US, Canada and Spain, where people have adorned their windows and balconies with colourful pictures.
    _E6A1131.jpg
  • West Ham United soccer stadium in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park during the coronavirus pandemic on the 7th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The Olympic sports venues nearby include the London Stadium, and Lee Valley Velopark. The ironic slogan they Fade And Die is from the song Im Forever Blowing Bubbles which has become the chant of the West Ham Fans.
    _E6A1107.jpg
  • West Ham United soccer stadium in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park during the coronavirus pandemic on the 7th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The Olympic sports venues nearby include the London Stadium, and Lee Valley Velopark.
    _E6A1103.jpg
  • Stratford City, a mixed-use development project including Westfields shopping city during the coronavirus pandemic on the 7th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With a total retail floor area of 1,910,000 square feet 177,000 m2, it is one of the largest urban shopping centres in Europe.
    _E6A1073.jpg
  • Stratford City, a mixed-use development project including Westfields shopping city during the coronavirus pandemic on the 7th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With a total retail floor area of 1,910,000 square feet 177,000 m2, it is one of the largest urban shopping centres in Europe.
    _E6A1047.jpg
  • Artist studios in graffiti covered street in Hackney Wick during the coronavirus pandemic on the 7th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A1010.jpg
  • Masked figure passing billboard in Clapton, These Days Will Pass during the coronavirus pandemic on the 7th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A0946.jpg
  • Van covered in graffiti, Corbet Place, during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A0906.jpg
  • Daily yoga exercise, in front of wall paintings, Corbet Place, during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The whole street behind the Old Trumans Brewery is covered by murals.
    _E6A0894 1.jpg
  • Daily yoga exercise, in front of wall paintings, Corbet Place, during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The whole street behind the Old Trumans Brewery is covered by murals.
    _E6A0891.jpg
  • Wall mural on the Duke of Wellington Pub on Toynbee Street during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A0837.jpg
  • Wall paintings, Corbet Place, during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The whole street behind the Old Trumans Brewery is covered by murals.
    _E6A0863.jpg
  • Folgate Street off Commercial Street during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A0856.jpg
  • Shoreditch Church, closed during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Dedicated to St Leonard, the patron saint of prisoners and those who are mentally ill, there has been a church here for many centuries.
    _E6A0840.jpg
  • Now converted into flats, the Jewish Soup Kitchen in Brune Street during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. It opened in 1902 and closed in 1992
    _E6A0819.jpg
  • Street cleaner on closed Petticoat Lane market overlooked by City of London skyline during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A0749.jpg
  • A closed Petticoat Lane market overlooked by City of London skyline during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A0732.jpg
  • A closed Petticoat Lane market overlooked by City of London skyline during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A0739.jpg
  • Closed shop sign during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A0711.jpg
  • Closed shop sign during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
    _E6A0687.jpg
Next
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
x

In Pictures

  • About
  • Contact
  • Join In Pictures
  • Archive
    • All Galleries
    • Search
    • Cart
    • Lightbox
    • Client Area