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  • Cyclists rest at the Olympic rings, a legacy of the London 2012 Olympics, on 16th August 2017, in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, East London, England.
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  • Street landscape near the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. On a new stretch of highway recently finished for those circumnavigating the perimeter of the Olympic park and its nearby shopping centre. The outer barrier of the Olympic Park is 2.5 sq km and circles a huge area of the borough of Stratford in the borough of Newham. The new landscape often looks incongruous to those living on many poor estates, excluded from the events. But this regeneration is the legacy by the government who promise a brighter future for this part of east London.
    olympic_stratford14-06-08-2012.jpg
  • The Royal Portuguese Library, Rio de Janeiro, brazil.
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  • From the famous speech by US civil rights politician Martin Luther King is his inspirational quote I Have a Dream written in neon at the entrance of a youth centre on the Ayeslbury Estate, on 7th December 2017, in Southwark, south London England.
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  • A construction hoarding featuring the London Stadium, once known as the Olympic stadium during the 2012 Olympiad, on 16th August 2017, in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, East London, England.
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  • Londoners crowd inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford62-13-09-2011_1.jpg
  • Architecture and design of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford10-08-03-2012_1.jpg
  • The face of ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher printed on a newspaper souvenir issue is rain streaked the day after her ceremonial funeral was held in central London. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
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  • London transport logos on a pillar at Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home and main arrival point for rail travellers to the 2012 Olympics. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium
    stratford25-14-10-2011_1.jpg
  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ads are for Visa and for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take the Stage' campaign including diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre providing the main access to the Olympic park with a central 'street' giving 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space.
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  • A map and exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
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  • Exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park37-10-08-2012.jpg
  • The words Inspire a Generation for the main Olympic slogan on a sign in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Stretched across a bridge near the Riverbank Arena where the Hockey games are played, the British Olympic organisation (LOCOG) hope that as the tally for gold medals climbed, British youth will be inspired enough to take up sport when declining spending and interest has been a national issue. In times of austerity, schools and sports clubs had their budgets for sport reduced and Team GB's success raised more concerns for the future of British youth as potential medal winners.
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  • In the shadow of 1 Canada Square, the iconic Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands stands as an icon for Thatcherite Britain when the good times, prosperity and economic upturns seemed unshakeable. Four work colleagues stand under a hot lunchtime sun during a summer heatwave. In their shirtsleeves the men each hold pints of refreshing lager, all having removed their dark jackets to enjoy the company of a flirtatious female who appears to be flirting with an older male companion. The sky is blue and the five are care-free to any future economic uncertainty.
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  • The statue of Sir Thomas Guy stands outside the historical entrance of Guys hospital, on 9th June 2020, in London, England. Thomas Guy 1644 – 1724 was British bookseller, speculator and founder of Guys Hospital, London whose links to the global slave trade is now a controversial aspect of this businessman by anti-slavery activists and more recently, Black Lives Matter protesters. His wealth came through shares in the South Sea Company whose main business was in the selling of slaves from Africa to the Spanish colonies. In 1720 he successfully sold his stock of the company for approx £400 million at todays prices and amassed a large fortune, opening the Guys Hospital  in 1725 which today serves as one of  the capitals major NHS healthcare centres. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Guys and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-28-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-24-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-27-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-20-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-18-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-19-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-15-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-14-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-06-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-08-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-09-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-11-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-01-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of Londons Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, United Kingdom. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan 1746 - 1809 grew up on his familys sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligans and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-05-09-06-2...jpg
  • Young men watch a ball fly over their heads into the distance during a spontaneous game of cricket routinely held in the 1990s among the tombs and mausolea of dead British Raj officials and family members, buried in Victorian-era Park Street cemetery, on 18th November 1996, in Kolkata, India. The Park Street cemetery was amed “Park Street” after the private deer park built by Sir Elijah Impey around Vansittart’s garden house. The cemetery opened in 1767 served as a burial ground for the European expatriates who were settled in Calcutta during the colonial period. The cemetery was closed in 1840 due to lack of burial space and is now a heritage site, preserved by the Archaeological Survey of India ASI.
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  • The runners and riders for the 5th and 6th races during a horseracing meeting at the British-built Kolkata racecourse, on 18th November 1996, in Kolkata, India. The race course was built in 1820 and is maintained by the Royal Calcutta Turf Club RCTC, founded in 1847 in Calcutta, British India now Kolkata, India and became the premier horse racing organisation in India during the British Raj. At one time it was the governing body for almost all courses in the sub-continent, defining and applying the rules that governed the sport. During its heyday the races it organised were among the most important social events of the calendar, opened by the Viceroy of India. During the 1930s the Calcutta Derby Sweeps, organised by the club, was the largest sweepstake in the world. It is still an exclusive private club and still operates the Kolkata Race Course.
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  • Among a pile of market carts, a mother bends over to attend to her young child at a street market, on 18th November 1996, in Kolkata, India.
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  • A construction hoarding featuring the Aquatics Centre used for water sports events during the 2012 Olympiad, on 16th August 2017, in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, East London, England.
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  • A construction hoarding featuring the Aquatics Centre used for water sports events during the 2012 Olympiad, on 16th August 2017, in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, East London, England.
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  • A fallen Information Point sign lying on the ground, on 16th August 2017, in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, East London, England.
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  • Londoners crowd inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford57-13-09-2011_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford53-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford50-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford48-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Londoners crowd inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford45-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Veiled Londoner inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford43-13-09-2011_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford42-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford41-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford40-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford39-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • New Met police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe and Londoners inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford37-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Londoners outside the Speedo shop soon to open, on the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    westfield_stratford20-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Londoners outside the Bosco shop soon to open, on the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Londoners flock to the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Londoners flock to see the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • The face of ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher printed on a newspaper souvenir issue is rain streaked the day after her ceremonial funeral was held in central London. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
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  • An aerial landscape of Westfield City shopping centre (right) and Stratford rail station hub (L), home and arrival point of the 2012 Olympics. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. The station is served by the National Rail services National Express East Anglia, London Overground and c2c, by London Underground's Central and Jubilee lines, and by the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). Stratford is in London Travelcard Zone 3, and Network Rail owns the station.
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  • Architecture and design of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • A local passer-by and a property development ad on wall in east London borough of Stratford, Newham, home of 2012 Olympics. The 2012 Olympics has sparked a house price boom in east London but there are fears for this old East End neighbourhood as young professionals and penthouses push up Stratford house prices. Since London won the bid in 2005, talk of east London's Olympic property boom has proved both myth and reality. Even amid the worst recession since the 1930s, it was assumed that at least one corner of the country would be impregnable to house price doom. For some, this is true: parts of Hackney have recorded average rises of up to 56% between July 2005 and May 2011. But for other, less gentrified areas, it has been a different story; in Stratford the increase was 13%.
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  • An aspirational poster landscape adorning a wall hoarding at Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. A chic couple show us their success and affluence with a table full of food and drink. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Architecture and design of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. In the windows we see mannequins and models wearing the latest styles of this high-street retailer. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Aerial view of consumer shoppers at Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. Local shoppers and consumers walk below a giant sign to the high-street retailer Marks & Spencer with the names of other brands on a pillar. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Aerial view of commuters Stratford station in east London, the rail transport hub for the 2012 Olympics. The low-level station was substantially rebuilt in the late 1990s as part of the Jubilee Line Extension works, with a large new steel and glass building designed by Wilkinson Eyre that encloses much of the low-level station, and a new ticket hall. Stratford station is a large multilevel railway station in Stratford, east London. The station is served by the National Rail services National Express East Anglia, London Overground and c2c, by London Underground's Central and Jubilee lines, and by the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). Stratford is in London Travelcard Zone 3, and Network Rail owns the station.
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  • Architecture and design of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. In the windows we see mannequins and models wearing the latest styles of this high-street retailer. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Architecture of Stratford station in east London, the rail transport hub and main arrival point for the 2012 Olympics. The low-level station was substantially rebuilt in the late 1990s as part of the Jubilee Line Extension works, with a large new steel and glass building designed by Wilkinson Eyre that encloses much of the low-level station, and a new ticket hall. Stratford station is a large multilevel railway station in Stratford, east London. The station is served by the National Rail services National Express East Anglia, London Overground and c2c, by London Underground's Central and Jubilee lines, and by the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). Stratford is in London Travelcard Zone 3, and Network Rail owns the station.
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  • Architecture of Stratford station in east London, the rail transport hub and main arrival point for the 2012 Olympics. The low-level station was substantially rebuilt in the late 1990s as part of the Jubilee Line Extension works, with a large new steel and glass building designed by Wilkinson Eyre that encloses much of the low-level station, and a new ticket hall. Stratford station is a large multilevel railway station in Stratford, east London. The station is served by the National Rail services National Express East Anglia, London Overground and c2c, by London Underground's Central and Jubilee lines, and by the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). Stratford is in London Travelcard Zone 3, and Network Rail owns the station.
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  • 2012 Olympic landscape showing Aquatics centre by Pritzker prize winner Zaha Hadid and main stadium at Stratford. The London Aquatics Centre has 2 50m swimming pools and a 25m diving pool. Built by Balfour Beatty for £242, three times the original cost. The aluminium roof is provided by Kalzip with cooperation from Rowecord Engineering and is 1,040 sq metre, weighing 3,200 tonnes. The London Olympic Stadium will be the centrepiece of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
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  • Landscape of 2012 Olympic Park site showing The Orbit art tower and the main stadium at Stratford. The London Olympic Stadium will be the centrepiece of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The stadium has capacity for the Games of approximately 80,000 making it temporarily the third largest stadium in Britain. The ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower is the newest addition to the Olympic Park and provides an attraction to rival those visited the world over. The Orbit tower gives views over the Park and the rest of London, it also caters for events and conferences offering delegates and organisers alike a unique setting and location for their event.
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  • Reflected in the surrounding pond, we see the glorious Victoria Memorial, the beautiful marble structure built by the British still during the days of the colonial Indian Raj. Couples and families gather in the Memorial's grounds to experience the cool air of late-afternoon near the white, domed building. Built between 1906 and 1921, it is a majestic white marble building at the southern end of the Maidan (literally meaning open field, the largest urban park, a large expansive plain in central Calcutta city. Nowadays it is a museum and group activities are being discouraged due to the fears that pollution will damage this fine structure that honours Queen Victoria, then Empress of India.
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  • On a hot afternoon on Calcutta's Maidan, an Indian lady catches a frisbee disc in both hands in front of the glorious Victoria Memorial, the beautiful marble structure built by the British still during the days of the colonial Indian Raj. The lady is lit with golden light and her bottle green sari stands out from a background tree. She grimaces as she stretches to hold on to the frisbee and there are many hundreds of families and groups in the background, nearer to the white, domed building. Built between 1906 and 1921, it is a majestic white marble building at the southern end of the Maidan, a large expansive park in central Calcutta city. Nowadays it is a museum and group activities are being discouraged due to the fears that pollution will damage this fine structure that honours Queen Victoria, then Empress of India.
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  • The Paralympic agito logo hangs between the pillars of the National (Art) Gallery on the north side of Trafalgar Square during the London games which took place between 29 Aug - 9 Sept 2012. The tall pillars act as a backdrop of this famous gallery in central London. The Paralympic symbol consists of three agitos, coloured red, blue and green, the three colours that are most widely represented in national flags around the world. These agitos, coloured red, blue, and green, encircle a single point, on a white field. The agito ("I move" in Latin) is a symbol of movement in the shape of an asymmetrical crescent. The Paralympic symbol was created by the Scholz & Friends agency and approved in April 2003.
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  • The Paralympic agito logo hangs between the pillars of the National (Art) Gallery on the north side of Trafalgar Square during the London games which took place between 29 Aug - 9 Sept 2012. The tall pillars act as a backdrop of this famous gallery in central London. The Paralympic symbol consists of three agitos, coloured red, blue and green, the three colours that are most widely represented in national flags around the world. These agitos, coloured red, blue, and green, encircle a single point, on a white field. The agito ("I move" in Latin) is a symbol of movement in the shape of an asymmetrical crescent. The Paralympic symbol was created by the Scholz & Friends agency and approved in April 2003.
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  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign. The faces include diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis
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  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ads are for Visa and for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take the Stage' campaign including diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre providing the main access to the Olympic park with a central 'street' giving 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space.
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  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign. The faces include diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis
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  • A utopian view of a London street sweeper brushing the street in front of a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • With giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes behind them, spectator crowds descend steps at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take the Stage' campaign including diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre providing the main access to the Olympic park with a central 'street' giving 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space.
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  • A utopian view of a London street sweeper brushing the street in front of a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • With giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes behind them, spectator crowds descend steps at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take the Stage' campaign including diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre providing the main access to the Olympic park with a central 'street' giving 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space.
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  • Structures of 2012 Olympic Park site showing The Orbit art tower and the main stadium at Stratford. The London Olympic Stadium will be the centrepiece of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The stadium has capacity for the Games of approximately 80,000 making it temporarily the third largest stadium in Britain. The ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower is the newest addition to the Olympic Park and Orbit, the observation tower and Britain's largest piece of public art providing an attraction to rival those visited the world over. Orbit tower gives views over the Park and the rest of London, it also caters for events and conferences offering delegates and organisers alike a unique setting and location for their event.
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  • An aerial landscape of Westfield City shopping centre (right), Stratford rail station hub (c) and the Olympic Park venues to the left. Home and arrival point during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The foreground artwork called 'The Shoal' is made up of around 100 titanium clad 'leaves' mounted between 15 and 19 metres high on metal posts. Worth £13.5m, the Shoal is part of The Stratford Town Centre Public Realm Project, designed and manufacturered using 3D technology. Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The station is served by the National Rail services National Express East Anglia, London Overground and c2c, by London Underground's Central and Jubilee lines, and by the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). Stratford is in London Travelcard Zone 3, and Network Rail owns the station.
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  • Apartment balconies of new Housing Association accomodation in the 2012 Olympic development zone built by contractor Armore. This is in east London, a kilometre south of the 2012 London Olympic Park and stadium site. Purple colour themed balconies look both modern and attractive to poorer residents in this otherwise downtrodden borough of Newham and designed and built by contractor, Ardmore for Genesis Housing Association, 150 High Street, Stratford, 704 homes, in five new residential blocks, one of which, at over 132 metres, will be one of the highest residential towers in London.
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  • Traffic road direction sign below new housing in the 2012 Olympic development zone. With directions showing for the international rail hub to the left and ahead, for Stratford Leytonstone and Leyton - all in east London, the tall tower block rises above a kilometre south of the Olympic Park and stadium site. In the background is a new housing tower block by design and build contractor, Ardmore for Genesis Housing Association, 150 High Street, Stratford, 704 homes, in five new residential blocks, one of which, at over 132 metres, will be one of the highest residential towers in London.
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  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign. The faces include diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis
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  • A mural of a tiled artwork and boundary sign of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. Situated on the perimeter fringe of the Olympic Park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Brit spectators enjoy a hot summer on their union jack towels in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, sitting on green grass located on a hilltop across from the iconic Velodrome venue. London’s Olympic Park, at just under a square mile, is the largest new park in the city for more than 100 years. The planting of 4,000 trees, 300,000 wetland plants and more than 150,000 perennial plants plus  nectar-rich wildflower make for a colourful setting for the Games. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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  • Spectators from many countries pose for family photos beneath giant Olympic rings located on a hill in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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  • A landscape of facilities and equipment outside the curved wooden roof of the iconic Velodrome during the London 2012 Olympics. The final bill for the 2012 Olympics could be ten times higher than the original estimate, according to an investigation. The predicted cost of the games when London won the bid in 2005 was £2.37billion. That figure has now spiralled to more than £12billion and could reach as much as £24billion, the Sky Sports investigation claims. The Olympics public sector funding package, which covers the building of the venues, security and policing, was upped to around £9.3bn in 2007. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
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  • Exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
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  • Exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
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  • A tall son in the middle accompanies his mother (l) and sister (R) in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Wearing Union Jack designs dresses and shorts plus a tie and flag to wave, the trio stand in front of the main Olympic stadium before the large crowds arrive later in the day. They have tickets to watch the Hockey and stand smiling as eccentric Brits wearing their national colours.
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  • Police officers from Humberside in the North east of England stand in front of the main entrance to the Olympic Park as a visible presence during the London 2012 Olympics. More than 230 officers from across the Humber region travelled to London to help police the Olympic Games. Holidays were restricted, training reduced and special constables  drafted in to provide cover in Hull and the East Riding as officers were sent to London to police the city while the Games are on. Senior officers say they have been working hard to ensure "core policing" across Hull and the East Riding is not weakened.
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  • Police officers from Humberside in the North east of England stand in front of the main entrance to the Olympic Park as a visible presence during the London 2012 Olympics. More than 230 officers from across the Humber region travelled to London to help police the Olympic Games. Holidays were restricted, training reduced and special constables  drafted in to provide cover in Hull and the East Riding as officers were sent to London to police the city while the Games are on. Senior officers say they have been working hard to ensure "core policing" across Hull and the East Riding is not weakened.
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  • Towering over a Stagecoach bus passenger is the statue (by sculptor Hamo Thornycroft) of Saxon King Alfred that overlooks a modern Winchester, Hampshire, England. Alfred the Great (849 – 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". The Thornycroft statue was unveiled during the millenary celebrations of Alfred's death.
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  • As a young office worker sleeps incongruously on a marble pavement, a street sweeper nearby brushes away litter with a small dustpan. The manual labourer wears blue overalls, yellow gloves and keys in his back pocket while the man in a wastecoat and smart trousers and polished slip-on shoes appears to be fast asleep, his fingers across his chest. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-demanding job of a man whose life has been spent cleaning and sweeping. English social differences is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus a lazy youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
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  • Wearing braces, striped shirt and sitting on a block, a young lawyer studies a legal book during a mid-morning break in the Inner Temple in the historic City of London. The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice which may call members to the Bar and so entitle them to practise as barristers. The Temple was occupied in the twelfth century by the Knights Templar, who gave the area its name but was heavily bombed during the Blitz of 1940-1 and the reclining marble memorial to predecessor, John Hiccocks who held the office of Master in Chancery between 1702 and 1723 (d 1726) behind the young law student is marked by the partially-demolished Goldsmiths Chambers on the north side of Temple Church where Hiccocks is buried. An assortment of potted red plants add to an otherwise dark courtyard
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  • Two young men dressed in office suits casually stuff their lunches during a hot lunchtime break in the Broadgate Estate in the City of London. Both with legs across knees, the lads in their 20s sit on a bench beneath a tree alongside the statue of a traditional gardener, slightly bent and equipped with hoe and wearing a wastecoat, hobnailed boots and flat cap, an iconic salt-of-the-earth workman. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-exhausted man whose life has been spent working the honest land.  The English social divide is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus the youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
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  • A young trader in currencies leans back in his chair on the currency trading floor of Barclays Bank in the City of London, England, UK. Easing back during the stress of a day when the money markets have been volatile, this young man has the responsibilities of millions of Pounds Sterling to trade and value. He has old technology at his disposal, in the decade when technology made a big impression on the workplace but before the arrival of the internet and e-mail. Communication was therefore slow and unreliable although banks like Barclays who traded money across the world were skilled in migrating information across time-zones.
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  • Families rest before the start of the canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The slogan 'Inspire a Generation' is written on a London 2012 banner asking Britons to help encourage and influence the next generation of young people into sport, to promote health and confidence in times of economic austerity plus poor health and diet.
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  • An incongruous landscape of an imperial-style statue from the days of the Weimar Republic, with modern bikes and a tourist information dispenser at Humboldt Box in Berlin Mitte. The Humboldt-Box exhibition centre is a beloved tourist attraction in Berlin, glowing blue at the Museumsinsel, across from the Lustgarten and Berlin Cathedral. Visitors are drawn to the model of Berlin circa 1900.
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  • 2012 Olympic wasteland and PR fantasy on a hoarding near the sports arenas in Stratford, East London. A landscape of utopian harmony and nature is viewed on the construction site board that surrounds a vacant plot a kilometre south of the Olympic Park and stadium site. In the background is a new housing tower block by design and build contractor, Ardmore for Genesis Housing Association, 150 High Street, Stratford, 704 homes, in five new residential blocks, one of which, at over 132 metres, will be one of the highest residential towers in London. This landscape is more dystopian however as the reality of the empty lot is not what is promised by the imagery on the hoarding.
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  • New apartment balconies in recently completed housing in Stratford, a short distance from the 2012 Olympic Park. Developers are building 4m sq ft of offices and 350 homes. Inter Ikea, proposed 1,200 homes and up to 500,000 sq ft of commercial space at a 26-acre site just 500 metres south of the Olympic Park. Houses close to the Olympic Park in Stratford have increased in value by £800 a month meaning average house prices have increased by £60,000, or 30pc. Also, short-term rentals in London in July 2012 is £2,858 per week, an increase of 444pc one year before the Games.
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  • New apartment balconies in recently completed housing in Stratford, a short distance from the 2012 Olympic Park. Developers are building 4m sq ft of offices and 350 homes. Inter Ikea, proposed 1,200 homes and up to 500,000 sq ft of commercial space at a 26-acre site just 500 metres south of the Olympic Park. Houses close to the Olympic Park in Stratford have increased in value by £800 a month meaning average house prices have increased by £60,000, or 30pc. Also, short-term rentals in London in July 2012 is £2,858 per week, an increase of 444pc one year before the Games.
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  • Two young women pass a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • A dystopian view of a Londoner passing a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • A dawn bather covers himself with soap as he crouches on the banks of the Hooghly River, KolIkata, on 18th November 1996, in Kolkata, India. It is dawn in Calcutta, West Bengal, India and on the West bank of the Hooghly River the sun is rising from across the Howrah Bridge. The bridge is one of three on the Hooghly River and is a famous symbol of Kolkata and West Bengal. Bearing the daily weight of approximately 150,000 vehicles and 4,000,000 pedestrians. It is one of the longest bridges of its type in the world. The Hooghly River is an approximately 260 km long distributary of the Ganges River.
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