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  • Leaning traffic post and twisting double-yellow lines in Soho, central London. We look down to street level to see the wonky character of lines and geometry: The badly-painted parallel parking restrictioin lines that bend with the angle of the kerb as well as the damaged, scraped and leaning bollard, there to deter drivers from parking on the pavement but which has been pushed over by a driver. The picture is about the irony of geometry, of the madness of urban details.
    leaning_post01-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Passers-by look down on a young campaigner resting with his head on an Oxford Circus kerb on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-68-18-04-2019.jpg
  • A handshake among youths as one young campaigner rests with his head on an Oxford Circus kerb on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-79-18-04-2019.jpg
  • A young woman walking along a London street is about to be splashed by a passing London double-decker bus at a flooded bus stop. After heavy rain that fell over the capital, puddles or filthy water lies in gullies and gutters of the urban streets - including this bus stop in Aldwych. The young woman is aware of the camera and walks in smart office shoes on the wet pavement (sidewalk) as the bus draws to a halt ahead. But she is more self-conscious than taking precaution not to get wet. The moment before her soaking is caught as the water laps across the kerb and into her path. In the background are the West End theatres whose productions attract drama fans from across the world.
    bus_stop01-06-10-2010 12-43-43_1.jpg
  • A womans legs in striped leggings walk across the kerb of a central London street, on 28th March, 2017, in London, England.
    striped_legs-01-28-03-2017.jpg
  • Passers-by look down on a young campaigner resting with his head on an Oxford Circus kerb on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-70-18-04-2019.jpg
  • Two small children sleep in their respective buggies as unseen parents prepare to cross a street in the City of London. We see the repetition of yellow bars and parallel lines from the childrens' boots and parking restriction lines on the kerb and road. The street is in the City of London, the capital's financial heart and the kids' parents have been walking along Cannon Street, stopping to wait for a green pedestrian light to cross the road.
    yellow_boots01-18-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Two GO and Wait traffic road signs lie by the kerb on the ground in East Dulwich, on 26th April 2018, in London, England.
    go_go-07-26-04-2018_1.jpg
  • Passers-by look down on a young campaigner resting with his head on an Oxford Circus kerb on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-77-18-04-2019.jpg
  • The tangled lines of parking bay markings in the rural central Slovenian town of Kamnik, on 25th June 2018, in Kamnik, Slovenia.
    slovenia-319-25-06-2018.jpg
  • Discarded or forgotten wet pink slipper after rain in a south London street. The once-fluffy shoe is seen from above, a detail of this item of footwear that was left at a local bus stop. In a landscape of otherwise grey industrial concrete and paving stones, the shocking pink is a bright splash of colour.
    pink_slipper01-17-12-2014_1.jpg
  • A visiting vintage car leaves a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of Frances most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-117-26-05-2017.jpg
  • Two GO traffic road signs lie by the road near a queue of traffic in East Dulwich, on 26th April 2018, in London, England.
    go_go-18-26-04-2018_1.jpg
  • A detail of stains from left from a fuel spillage on the road surface in Aldwych, central London, UK on 7th June 2016. Looking down from higher perspective, we see the rainbow spectrum of colours from petrol which flows into a small drain cover at the intersection of Waterloo Bridge and the Strand. The parallel curves of double-yellow no parking lines are in the foreground.
    fuel_spill-01-07-06-2016.jpg
  • Pieces of shattered glass, the aftermath of a victim of crime from a vehicle left in the gutter of a street in south London, on 15th February 2017, in the borough of Lambeth, United Kingdom.
    ferndene_glass-02-15-02-2017.jpg
  • Stacks of Evening Standard newspapers are piled in a side street near Holborn station as a commuter makes mobile phone call. Awaiting collection by a team of vendors who will take them to various local locations and hand them out for free to passing commuters, the stacks have been placed against a wall in the side-street. The woman who has paused in her journey home stands with her coat hanging from her shoulder and her bag hooked at her elbow, as she speaks into her mobile (cell) phone.
    Evening_standards01-08-10-2010 12-43...jpg
  • A power cable plugs into the place of a petrol cap while recharging an electronic Daimler-Chrysler-made Smart car. The car is parked at the kefrbside of Southampton Street near London's Covent Garden and is hooked up to a recharging point. A charging station, also called electric recharging point, charging point and EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment) supplies electricity for the recharging of electric vehicles (including plug-in hybrids). Although most electric cars can be recharged from a domestic wall socket, many support faster charging at higher voltages and currents that require dedicated equipment with a specialized connector.
    electricity_car02-10-11-2010_1.jpg
  • A bent young tree leans at 45 degrees in a south London side street, on 11th September, 2017, in London, England.
    bent_tree-01-11-09-2017.jpg
  • Van Gogh as a Banksi-like criminal by artist Mr Brainwash, an adaptation on Norman Rockwell at the old sorting office in new Oxford Street, London. The reference is from a 1943 Norman Rockwell poster promoting the purchase of war bonds to "save freedom of speech" during World War II; image depicts several town's people seated in a school class room for a meeting as a male stands in audience attempting to speak set against a large black board located in the background. Mr. Brainwash is the moniker of Los Angeles-based filmmaker and Pop artist Thierry Guetta.
    street_mural02-23-10-2012_1.jpg
  • Shoppers carry their purchases in yellow Selfridges bags in London's West End. The bags are one of the capital's most striking symbols of British retail and are seen across the city as splashes of vibrant colour on the otherwise drab pavements and streets. The economic recovers appears to have begun in earnest and retail therapy has attracted these Londoners to the West End, away from the larger, warmer shopping Malls on the outskirts of town. Selfridges was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The flagship store in London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and was opened on 15 March 1909.
    selfridges_shoppers1-06-September-20...jpg
  • A wide detail of a street landscape at a road junction with construction markings, on 29th September 2016, in Soho, central London. Various coded lines and references are covering the pavement and road surface in readiness for street engineers to begin yet another stage in the redevelopment of Soho.
    road_markings-01-29-09-2016.jpg
  • Urban pigeons gather near a pile of rubbish that awaits collection, on 17th January 2018 in Westminster, London, England.
    pigeons_rubbish-01-17-01-2018.jpg
  • A fallen Ofo dockless hired bike lies on the pavement as a young child scoots past with its mother in Herne Hill, on 26th February 2018, in south London, England.
    ofo_bike-01-26-02-2018.jpg
  • A woman hails a taxi in a London street that has been visited by the cartoon graffiti street artist Nathan Bowen of fireman created outside Shaftesbury Ave fire station. Striking a similar pose as the cartoon character, she also raises her arm to make a humourous street moment. But there is also another visual pun of the double-yellow parking lines endemic in the capitals that are echoed in the cartoon's high-visibility clothing.
    lines_graffiti1-30-09-2011.jpg
  • A green tent for oriental street food and circles of Seven Dials tea cafe. The words Bubble Tea are seen in the window of this central London business. Yao Yao Cha, which means ‘shake, shake tea’ in Chinese, and we opened our first bubble tea shop at 24 Earlham Street, close to Covent Garden. Yao Yao Cha is a fusion of authentic Taiwanese drinks and methods, adapted for the London palate. For example, the Taiwanese owned Yao Yao Cha’s tapioca pearls are made deliberately smaller and less chewy, to better suit local tastes.
    green_tent02-17-10-2014_1.jpg
  • Pieces of shattered glass, the aftermath of a victim of crime from a vehicle left in the gutter of a street in south London, on 15th February 2017, in the borough of Lambeth, United Kingdom.
    ferndene_glass-03-15-02-2017.jpg
  • An urban north European fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle. With a fatal injury to its head, the animal has died the previous night in the gutter of a quiet road in the London borough of Lambeth. Its reddish fur and especially its tail - known as the brush - are otherwise unaffected and so may have succumbed to shock rather than major trauma. It is an adult, rather than a cub and will have been missed by its local den. 'Vulpes vulpes' has a long history of association with humans, having been extensively hunted as a pest and furbearer for many centuries, as well as being represented in human folklore and mythology. Because of its widespread distribution and large population, the red fox is one of the most important furbearing animals harvested for the fur trade.
    dead_fox02-01-04-2015_1.jpg
  • On the day that UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson announced in parliament of a major easing of Coronavirus pandemic restrictions on July 4th next week - including the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers in England - a London bus is seen stopped in front of double Red Route no parking lines and a rainbow, a symbol of support for NHS and key workers during the pandemic, on 24th June 2020, in London, England. The three month two metre social distance will be also reduced to one metre plus but in the last 24hrs, a further 154 UK covid deaths are reported, bringing the total to 43,081 victims during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    coronavirus_westend-01-24-06-2020.jpg
  • A businessman walks down a quiet financial district back street carrying an umbrella whose stripes echo those of double-yellow lines. This coincidental theme of yellows and lines make for a slightly comical landscape. Rainfall is making the capital's pavements glisten with narrow puddles in the gutter. The man strides down the street in London's financial district, more specifically where insurance brokers operate near Lloyds of London.
    umbrella_stripes01-27-04-2012_1_1.jpg
  • A white liquid spillage outside an audio retailer, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
    shop_oval-03-27-02-2017.jpg
  • A discarded orange balloon and its string at the kerbside, on 20th January 2019, in London England.
    orange_balloon-02-20-01-2019.jpg
  • Wearing shorts, long socks, slippers and a t-shirt on an otherwise cold autumn afternoon, a male cyclist looks over shoulder before re-joining traffic flow on busy Charing Cross Road in central London. His bike is of a foldaway Brompton-style design, such that can collapse into a small carry-on bundle that can be accommodated on public transport like trains. A London taxi drives past at speed near Leicester Square underground station in the heart of Theatreland.
    london_cyclist01-16-11-2010.jpg
  • Leaping models advertise clothing retailer H&M above street drain covers in central London. The two men a pictured in mid-air - jumping up while holding Christmas gifts and looking happy to have spent their money during the Xmas retail frenzy. The hoarding that screens off construction work on Oxford Street, is next to the drains that the men appear to be dancing over. In 1947 Hennes women’s clothing store opened in Västerås, Sweden. Today the H&M Group offers fashion for everyone under the brands of H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday and & Other Stories, as well as fashion for the home at H&M Home.
    h&m_hoarding05-12-12-2014_1.jpg
  • A local woman uses her mobile phone while sitting on steps near her bicycle of a public building in Florence's Piazza Di Annunziata. There is little colour in this image of history and urban decay but there is a peace and stillness amid an otherwise busy metropolis. Many citizens of this once-grand renaissance cultural capital use the moped and scooter and of course, the bike as urban transport though this form of transportation is particularly uncomfortable as the old stones in roads and pavements are rutted and very rough.
    florence_italy37-22-10-2010_1.jpg
  • An urban north European fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle. With a fatal injury to its head, the animal has died the previous night in the gutter of a quiet road in the London borough of Lambeth. Its reddish fur and especially its tail - known as the brush - are otherwise unaffected and so may have succumbed to shock rather than major trauma. It is an adult, rather than a cub and will have been missed by its local den. 'Vulpes vulpes' has a long history of association with humans, having been extensively hunted as a pest and furbearer for many centuries, as well as being represented in human folklore and mythology. Because of its widespread distribution and large population, the red fox is one of the most important furbearing animals harvested for the fur trade.
    dead_fox08-01-04-2015_1.jpg
  • An urban north European fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle. With a fatal injury to its head, the animal has died the previous night in the gutter of a quiet road in the London borough of Lambeth. Its reddish fur and especially its tail - known as the brush - are otherwise unaffected and so may have succumbed to shock rather than major trauma. It is an adult, rather than a cub and will have been missed by its local den. 'Vulpes vulpes' has a long history of association with humans, having been extensively hunted as a pest and furbearer for many centuries, as well as being represented in human folklore and mythology. Because of its widespread distribution and large population, the red fox is one of the most important furbearing animals harvested for the fur trade.
    dead_fox05-01-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Detail of a rusty Wartburg 312 car standing at the kerbside in an eastern Berlin district. A sticker with the letters DDR as the German Democratic Republic (DDR in German and GDR in English) as East Germany was called during the Cold War. Any car was a highly-prized possession when ownership of luxury goods like vehicles aroused suspicion for other than Communist Party officials. This car may have been someone of rank or influence. The GDR was a self-declared socialist state, referred to in the West as a "communist state" in the Soviet Sector of occupied Germany created after the second world war and partitioned when DDR leaders built the Berlin Wall that eventually segregated Germany and Europe. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
    DDR_travel01-06_1990_1.jpg
  • Man in wheelchar caught on the curb in front of the swimming pool, Butlins Holiday camp, Skegness. Butlins Skegness is a holiday camp located in Ingoldmells near Skegness in Lincolnshire. Sir William Butlin conceived of its creation based on his experiences at a Canadian summer camp in his youth and by observation of the actions of other holiday accommodation providers, both in seaside resort lodging houses and in earlier smaller holiday campsThe camp began opened in 1936, when it quickly proved to be a success with a need for expansion. The camp included dining and recreation facilities, such as dance halls and sports fields. Over the past 75 years the camp has seen continuous use and development, in the mid-1980s and again in the late 1990s being subject to substantial investment and redevelopment. In the late 1990s the site was re-branded as a holiday resort, and remains open today as one of three remaining Butlins resorts.
    109Butlins Holiday Camp 1982.jpg
  • Pedestrians wait to cross a busy road in Covent Garden whilst a rickshaw is pushed in front of them in London, UK
    SFE_110819_060.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of road diversion sign and road triangle markings. This is a detail of street and road markings, the geometry of shapes and linear design with the triangular points meeting at a diagonal post, the parallel lines in the road and the arrow of a diversion sign. The street is in Waterloo, called The Cut in the borough of Lambeth.
    road_geometry03-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A dropped bag with a Merry Christmas message in a south London gutter. Xmas is over, the decorations are down and the city returns to the grim grind on a January winter day. The discarded bag symbolises the end of merriment and joy, an unhappy reminder of the good times and optimism. Diagonal lines from double-yellow (no) parking lines cross the picture that suggests a memory of better times.
    merry_christmas02-15-01-2015_1.jpg
  • A striding businessman turns the corner of Lothbury and Tokenhouse Yard, two narrow and historic streets with the high walls of the Bank of England in the background - in the City of London, the capital's financial district. The area was populated with coppersmiths in the Middle Ages before later becoming home to a number of merchants and bankers. Lothbury borders the Bank of England on the building's northern side. Tokenhouse St dates from Charles I and was where farthing tokens were coined. The City of London is the capital's historic centre first occupied by the Romans then expanded during following centuries until today, it has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    lothbury_corner12-12-03-2013.jpg
  • A leaning Royal Mail pillar box stands near a leaning tree in Sunray Gardens, on 26th February 2018, in south London, England.
    leaning_post_box-02-26-02-2018.jpg
  • Leaping models advertise clothing retailer H&M above street drain covers in central London. The two men a pictured in mid-air - jumping up while holding Christmas gifts and looking happy to have spent their money during the Xmas retail frenzy. The hoarding that screens off construction work on Oxford Street, is next to the drains that the men appear to be dancing over. In 1947 Hennes women’s clothing store opened in Västerås, Sweden. Today the H&M Group offers fashion for everyone under the brands of H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday and & Other Stories, as well as fashion for the home at H&M Home.
    h&m_hoarding01-12-12-2014_1.jpg
  • Leaping models advertise clothing retailer H&M above street drain covers in central London. The two men a pictured in mid-air - jumping up while holding Christmas gifts and looking happy to have spent their money during the Xmas retail frenzy. The hoarding that screens off construction work on Oxford Street, is next to the drains that the men appear to be dancing over. In 1947 Hennes women’s clothing store opened in Västerås, Sweden. Today the H&M Group offers fashion for everyone under the brands of H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday and & Other Stories, as well as fashion for the home at H&M Home.
    h&m_hoarding02-12-12-2014_1.jpg
  • Two GO traffic road signs lie by the road in East Dulwich, on 26th April 2018, in London, England.
    go_go-11-26-04-2018_1.jpg
  • Freshly-Painted Double-Yellow Lines on a cobbled Street in Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    edinburgh-52-26-06-2019.jpg
  • An urban north European fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle. With a fatal injury to its head, the animal has died the previous night in the gutter of a quiet road in the London borough of Lambeth. Its reddish fur and especially its tail - known as the brush - are otherwise unaffected and so may have succumbed to shock rather than major trauma. It is an adult, rather than a cub and will have been missed by its local den. 'Vulpes vulpes' has a long history of association with humans, having been extensively hunted as a pest and furbearer for many centuries, as well as being represented in human folklore and mythology. Because of its widespread distribution and large population, the red fox is one of the most important furbearing animals harvested for the fur trade.
    dead_fox06-01-04-2015_1.jpg
  • An urban north European fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle. With a fatal injury to its head, the animal has died the previous night in the gutter of a quiet road in the London borough of Lambeth. Its reddish fur and especially its tail - known as the brush - are otherwise unaffected and so may have succumbed to shock rather than major trauma. It is an adult, rather than a cub and will have been missed by its local den. 'Vulpes vulpes' has a long history of association with humans, having been extensively hunted as a pest and furbearer for many centuries, as well as being represented in human folklore and mythology. Because of its widespread distribution and large population, the red fox is one of the most important furbearing animals harvested for the fur trade.
    dead_fox01-01-04-2015_1.jpg
  • An urban cyclist tows pedals down a City of London street alongside his running pet dog on lead in London Street. Sandwiched between traffic which are queuing on this red route on Bishopsgate, an ancient highway now in the capital's financial centre, the young man is on a ladies' bike and holds on to his animal using a red lead.
    cyclist_dog01-16-04-2012_1.jpg
  • Man walks along narrow City of London lane, with reflection of office heater over his chest. Timed as he passes-by, the glowing heat radiates from the heater as if across his chest. He makes his way along a narrow medieval lane in the heart of the capital's financial district, known as the Square Mile, founded by the Romans in AD43.
    city_heater03-15-04-2014.jpg
  • Illegally dumped rubbish beneath a sign warning of prosecution for fly-tipping violators, in a side-street off Oxford Street in the West End, on 16th January 2019, in London, England.
    street_dumping-02-16-01-2019.jpg
  • A pedestrian is about to step out across a central London street, crossing the words Look Right as a taxi cab turns left. Seen in black and white, we see snowflakes frozen by flash on this urban street corner in the City of London, the heart of the capital's financial district. The stencil words tell walkers to watch oncoming cars, easy to miss when not concentrating and the cause of many injuries (mainly to tourists) to those not used to traffic on the opposite side of the road to the rest of Europe.
    snow_junction-13-11-2004_1_1_1.jpg
  • A cyclist wearing a stylish suit and red socks pedals over road junction construction markings, on 29th September 2016, in Soho, central London. Various coded lines and references are covering the pavement and road surface in readiness for street engineers to begin yet another stage in the redevelopment of Soho.
    road_markings-02-29-09-2016.jpg
  • A detail of a section of pavement where a post has been damaged and is being marked for removal by a circle drawn around its base, on 6th November 2020, in London, England.
    remove_post01-06-11-2020.jpg
  • A woman jumps over a puddle after rainfall in Oxford Street, central London. The day is dark and grey in autumnal weather and it feels like a dystopian landscapoe of dirty pavements (sidewalks) and road surfaces. Reflected in the puddle we see spherical lighting features ready for a forthcoming Christmas, echoed on the raised kerbside buttons that help pedestrians cross safely. We see the woman holding her umbrella while half-way across the width, before landing still dry the other side.
    puddle_jumping08-21-10-2015_1.jpg
  • A man steps over a puddle after rainfall in Oxford Street, central London. The day is dark and grey in autumnal weather and it feels like a dystopian landscapoe of dirty pavements (sidewalks) and road surfaces. Reflected in the puddle we see spherical lighting features ready for a forthcoming Christmas, echoed on the raised kerbside buttons that help pedestrians cross safely. We see the person half-way across the width, before landing still dry the other side.
    puddle_jumping05-21-10-2015_1.jpg
  • Commuters and upside down GO construction traffic sign in a busy London rush-hour street. Walking past a stack of worksite equipment, two women with red umbrella and raincoat maketheir way on a typical spring day on a central London street. The green sign stands upright near red lines denoting a Red Route, a main route in and out of the City, the capital's financial heart and oldest district founded by the Romans in AD43.
    go_sign02-01-05-2014.jpg
  • Two GO traffic road signs lie by the road in East Dulwich, on 26th April 2018, in London, England.
    go_go-03-26-04-2018_1.jpg
  • While parked in a designated space, a motorbike has been blown over in high winds in a central London side street. Lying on its side, the yellow bike looks broken and abandoned though its owner may not be aware of its  horizontal state. The two narrow spaces specifically for bikes are in a sidestreet in central London where a diversion sign leans against the wall, coincidentally the matching colour of the motorbike.
    fallen_motorbike01-01-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Freshly-Painted Double-Yellow Lines on a cobbled Street in Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    edinburgh-51-26-06-2019.jpg
  • Ice cubes melt alongside ripples in a roadside puddle in Soho in the West End, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-39-02-07-2020.jpg
  • Ice cubes melt in the gutter on a side street of Soho in the West End, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-38-02-07-2020.jpg
  • An ungainly young man walks past the construction hoarding belonging to Claridges in Mayfair, Westminster. He walks and looks in the viewer's direction with a confused and awkward expression. We see the street sign for Davies Street, W1 in the borough of Westminster. The sign is genuine but the railings, flowers and red brickwork are all fake - printed on to the temporary hoarding.
    claridges_hoarding08-01-04-2014.jpg
  • Courier bike is locked up on post near yellow and red stripes on office building side street. Propped up against a lamp post which as a cigarette butt and gum receptacle and near a parking payment unit, the bicycle has bright orange wheels and handlebars. On the wall in the background are yellow-sprayed stripes that go off into the distance. A discarded bottle of water lies in the gutter and a coffee cup has been wedged into the air conditioning grill.
    city_bike01-13-02-2014.jpg
  • A classic Aston Martin DB5 is parked outside number 46, Chester Square SW1 in London's Belgravia. Such an example of great British design sits well outside this fine house on the western end of this Square laid out in 1840 by Thomas Cubitt and attracting the personalities of the day such as Mary Shelley, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Margaret Thatcher. Along with its sister squares Belgrave Square and Eaton Square, Chester Square is one of the most desirable addresses in London. The 1963 Aston Martin DB5 has a top speed of 141 mph (227 km/h) and was made famous by Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger.
    belgravia112-26-04-2008_1.jpg
  • A detail of Health and Safety cones, taping off a broken City of London bollard. Three plastic cones, taller than the traffic versions, stand on the kerbside near double-yellow no parking lines. The tape joins them together as a pointless gesture, adhering to exaggerated H&S safety laws. Passing pedestrians are urged to exercise caution in case they trip and sue the borough.
    walbrook_pilgrimage06-05-10-2013_1_1.jpg
  • A landscape in a London street of street rubbish (garbage) left below a Stella Artois alcohol billboard. A chic man and woman from the sixties (1960s) stand with all the confidence of the style of a previous era with a landscape of the Mediterranean with its azure blue waters. But the reality of 2011 south London is a far removed from the utopia on the ad. Fly tipping has added to the already untidy pavement (sidewalk) also blocking pedestrian access. Wheelie bins and plastic bags of rubbish attract vermin and poor hygiene and the council workmen will soon appear to once again clear away the mess - before another pile appears.
    street_rubbish1-10-10-2011_1_1.jpg
  • In advance of a re-opening of businesses and before a change to a Tier 2 for London during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic,  on 30th November 2020, in London, England. While retailers have remained closed, construction and street repairs have continued throughout this phase of the pandemic.
    street_landscaping01-30-11-2020.jpg
  • Illegally dumped New Tear rubbish in a side-street off Oxford Street in the West End, on 16th January 2019, in London, England.
    street_dumping-06-16-01-2019.jpg
  • A street theme of road marking and another yellow arrow on a central London wall. The urban landscape is seen on a wet day in the capital where arrows are the repeating theme on the road surface and pavement. Yellow lines disappear down a narrow lane, turning around the corner and out of sight. On the otherwise wet and dark day, the colours are vibrant and highly visible.
    street_arrow02-21-10-2015_1.jpg
  • A man jumps over a puddle after rainfall in Oxford Street, central London. The day is dark and grey in autumnal weather and it feels like a dystopian landscapoe of dirty pavements (sidewalks) and road surfaces. Reflected in the puddle we see spherical lighting features ready for a forthcoming Christmas, echoed on the raised kerbside buttons that help pedestrians cross safely. We see just the person's legs and feet in mid-air, half-way across the width, before landing still dry the other side.
    puddle_jumping02-21-10-2015_1.jpg
  • A discarded or forgotten pink slipper in a south London street. The fluffy shoe is seen from above, a detail of this item of footwear that was left at a local bus stop. In a landscape of otherwise grey industrial concrete and paving stones, the shocking pink is a bright splash of colour.
    pink_slipper01-16-12-2014_1.jpg
  • A leaning Royal Mail pillar box stands near a leaning tree in Sunray Gardens, on 26th February 2018, in south London, England.
    leaning_post_box-01-26-02-2018.jpg
  • Broken green glass lying in a pile on double-yellow lines in a south London gutter, on 2nd October September 2016, at the National Gallery, London, England.
    gutter_glass-01-02-10-2016.jpg
  • As a Dior employee oversees her company's PR event, an outdoor set is constructed for the Christian Dior fashion house in London's Bond Street during Vogue's Fashion's Night Out festival in the streets of the West End. A contracted workman wearing high-vis tabard vests put the finishing touches to a raised ramp that a Dior-sponsored taxi cab will be placed upon, complete with fake double-yellow lines. The fake road surface has been laid out after other workmen prepared a Dior street sign and staple parts of the ramp together.
    dior_show10-08-September-2011_1.jpg
  • Two decorators walk past the construction hoarding belonging to Claridges in Mayfair, Westminster. Carrying work tools and paint pots from a nearby corner, they turn the corner with the image of railings, flowers and red brickwork - all fake - printed on to the temporary hoarding. One man has a cigarette in his mouth and his colleague turns to speak after they've finished work.
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  • A father and daughter wait for the man’s wife to return with their car after the family have returned from a booze-cruise from Dover to Calais. Back in England, the dad sits on crates of Fosters, John Smiths and Stella Artois lagers purchased in a French supermarket, considerably cheaper in Euros, than in Pounds. Waiting patiently with their merchandise, the two sit and stand beneath a road traffic sign telling adult pedestrians to hold on to their children as Dover is a busy sea port, where heavy trucks and fast-moving vehicles make it dangerous for the young. Booze cruises are popular ways of stocking parties inexpensively though with exchange rates fluctuating to make the Euro’s value against the British Pound, the booze cruise market slowed.
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  • A man is pushed along the pavement on a windy day, walking past a bent young tree leaning at 45 degrees in a south London side street, on 11th September, 2017, in London, England.
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  • Seen from a high walkway above, we see an aerial landscape of city road markings and roundabout junction. As pedestrians walk-by, a licensed black taxi cab has parked on the edge of a mini roundabout, awaiting a named passenger to emerge from a nearby office - the person's name is written on a board hanging from the vehicle's window. The curves and linear landscape of this cityscape, arc into the distance and Corporation of London bollards are freshly painted.
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  • A wheel clamped car on a street in London, UK
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  • A young boy poses proudly at the rear of the family Anglia car on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties. Standing at the back of the Ford car, the young lad wears sandals and shorts in the street that interestingly is otherwise empty of other cars. This is the new age of car ownership when newfound wealth meant families could afford to buy a vehicle and travel elsewhere after the war years of 1950s austerity. The Ford Anglia is a British car designed and manufactured by Ford in the United Kingdom. The Ford Anglia name was applied to four models of car between 1939 and 1967. 1,594,486 Anglias were produced. The picture was recorded on Kodachrome (Kodak) film in about 1961.
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  • Huge yellow and black security street barrier blocking the entrance to a modern building in Southwark, London, UK. These barriers are known as road blockers or rising kerbs and are designed to keep vehicles out an also to prevent vehicles leaving.
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  • Lunchtime City workers cross reflected lights across Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district and oldest quarter. In strong sunlight, pedestrians in the financial City of London's Threadneedle Street cross the road. Mens' shadows stretch across to the foreground kerb shining in light reflected from nearby plate-glass windows. The men figures are walking towards the kerb towards the centre of a traffic island in the heart of the financial City of London, known as the Square Mile after its ancient Roman walled past.
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  • In strong sunlight, pedestrians in the financial City of London's Threadneedle Street cross the road in front of traffic still wet after recent showers. The words Look Right are seen stencilled in the road surface that glistens in recent rain and shining in light reflected from nearby plate-glass windows. Two male figures are walking away from the kerb towards the centre of a traffic island, surrounded by roadworks barriers. Their long shadows stretch across to the foreground kerb in the heart of the financial City of London, known as the Square Mile after its ancient Roman walled past.
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  • Car Wrecked on top of motorbike, Islington, London. A driver has lost control of their vehicle, mounted the kerb and come to rest on a parked motorcycle in front of a pub. Police are investigating the cause.
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  • Roadside kerb landscape in front of an incongruous panoramic scene of a luxury apartment with a view over central London. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, will be a mixed-use development approved for construction at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development make make up a 52-storey tower of a maximum height of 170m and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail. In addition a new public space will be created.
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  • One shovel-full of road grit has been left in a small pile at the kerb of a side road in East Dulwich, South London. Left by workers from the borough of Southwark, this modest supply is symbolic of the controversial problem of local government running low on street grits and salts that help prevent thousands of traffic collisions and pedestrian falls every winter. In January of 2010 (following the equally snow fall of February 2009) councils were caught unprepared for adverse weather which virtually brought towns and cities and rural communities to a standstill. We look down at the fallen snow, trodden by countless pairs of boots which compress the snow and make it an often treacherous surface on which to tread.
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  • A P4 bus service destination Lewisham Station climbs Herne Hill early after fresh overnight snowfall in the south London area. During a mid-winter morning, when commuters are struggling to reach their work places, the capital also finds it hard for transport and infrastructure to keep running as normal. With its headlights on half-beam, the snow is still making this hill treacherous to climb as this heavy vehicle again starts from the bus stop, having lost its traction on the slippery road surface. A passenger alights, carefully stepping down from the bus onto the snowy kerb as other people walk uphill, preferring to make their own way. The snow rests on surrounding Victorian house roofs and in the distance; it is a bleak day in the misty urban light where high-rise flats (apartments) can be seen.
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  • The repetition of twin construction hoarding lights and parallel yellow lines on the kerb and in the gutter of a Soho street, on 6th February 2018, in London, England.
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  • Young people eating McDonalds fast food on the street. Sitting on a kerb outside the restaurant this group of students all sit in a row having their lunch. London, UK.
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  • An unfinished and abandoned construction project in the town of Gogollos Vega, near Granada, Andalucia. All over Spain are building projects like this, left empty and unused, a sig of bad financial investment and land management where empty lots and landscapes have swallowed nature to be replaced by abandoned pavements, roads and superstructures. Here, we see a lone lamppost on the street's kerb, a green waste bin and an overgrown lot where weeds are thriving in this wilderness. In the background is a generic two-storey building left unfinished. As of 2010, it has a population of 2,068 inhabitants.
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  • In a field at the town of Boofzheim in the eastern French Alsace region, an elderly Frenchman harvests some of his self-grown carrots crop. Having left his old bicycle standing at the kerb of a narrow access road and in front of a field full of maturing maize, he bends down with much effort to dig in his fork or spade into the rich Alsace earth and lift out his vegetables to take home. This landscape is typically French or German (Alsace borders the western side of Germany and saw much tragic action in WW2) where maize is a nutritious foodstuff for cattle and also for ducks and geese who are force-fed it locally in the making of fois gras and pate.
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  • Car Wrecked on top of motorbike, Islington, London. A driver has lost control of their vehicle, mounted the kerb and come to rest on a parked motorcycle in front of a pub. Police are investigating the cause.
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  • Making their way across a snow-swept road in Norwood, south London, an elderly couple tread warily as the snow turns to slush. It's a bleak, raw morning as the new snowfall has settled on this suburban street where cars are parked on icy kerbs. Wearing sensible hats and coats and non-slip boots the pensioners are vulnerable to icy black spots which may endanger their stability because old people are susceptible to falls and injury at these hazardous times. A very monochrome landscape, we see little colour. Instead it is a scene of jeopardy and of an uncaring society for its older generations.
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  • Four barriers positioned to help disabled public negotiate kerbs in Bond Street. Positioned strangely into the road, pedestrians walk by, one man in the centre carries as red bag, similar to the barriers. A Chanel shop can be seen in the background although the brand name is cropped out to make it more generic. Bond Street in central London is know for its jewellry and couture retailers and recent construction work has interrupted everyday life so ramps have been introduced to help wheelchair users.
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  • With hands in their pockets and walking in step, three friends pass along a street off the Shankhill Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, have just passed beneath a Loyalist mural drawn by a paramilitary artist, whose handiwork is based on a well-known representation of a kneeling gunman shouldering a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) and aiming past the crest of the protestant Ulster Defence Association (UDA), the organisation behind many a sectarian action against neighbouring catholic supporters of the Irish republican Army (IRA). In loyalist areas, the red, white and blue of the British Union Jack is painted on kerbs, houses and railings to signify peoples’ allegiance to the crown, having historically followed the 17th century activities of King William of Orange against Catholics.
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  • With the words 'We will never accept a united Ireland' and another quote 'For God and Ulster' we see a detail of a political painting in a street off the Shankhill Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This Loyalist mural may have been drawn by a paramilitary artist, whose handiwork is the crest of the protestant Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) the organisations behind many a sectarian action against neighbouring catholic supporters of the Irish republican Army (IRA). In loyalist areas, the red, white and blue of the British Union Jack is painted on kerbs, houses and railings to signify peoples’ allegiance to the crown, having historically followed the 17th century activities of King William of Orange against Catholics.
    belfast_murals004-26-09-1996_1.jpg
  • Using the Latin motto 'Quis Separabit' meaning 'Who shall separate us?' we see a detail of a political painting in a street off the Shankhill Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This Loyalist mural may have been drawn by a paramilitary artist, whose handiwork is the crest of the protestant Ulster Defence Association (UDA), the organisation behind many a sectarian action against neighbouring catholic supporters of the Irish republican Army (IRA). In loyalist areas, the red, white and blue of the British Union Jack is painted on kerbs, houses and railings to signify peoples’ allegiance to the crown, having historically followed the 17th century activities of King William of Orange against Catholics.
    belfast_murals003-26-09-1996_1.jpg
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