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  • Alongside other union officials, GMB union leader, Ian Lowes speaks to redundant refuse workers in Liverpool during the 1991 local authority strike of 1991, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, England. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool over that summer when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin such as rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
    liverpool_strike01-14-06-1991.jpg
  • With fresh flowers and fruit on the table, a local authority worker tucks in to breakfast at his depot canteen, on 11th January 1999, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
    quebec_canada-11-01-1999_3.jpg
  • A portrait of a tough-looking local authority worker whose winter job is snow removal, on 11th January 1999, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
    quebec_canada-11-01-1999_2.jpg
  • A woodland landscape where a protest is ongoing in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 18th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest11-24-11-2020.jpg
  • Activists' banners in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest09-24-11-2020.jpg
  • Activists' banners in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest05-24-11-2020.jpg
  • The notification of a tree removal notice and injunction against obstruction is attached to the trunk of an oak tree in Sydenham Hill Woods, the scene of a protest against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest02-24-11-2020.jpg
  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • Standing on the back of his utility vehicle, a man empties the contents of his dustbin onto a growing pile of rubbish in a recreation park in the otherwise  affluent Allerton area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. Adding to this mountain of refuse, the 'Scouse' man (someone from Liverpool) is seen surrounded by black binliners and items from domestic homes which have been allocated this public space to become a temporary landfill. The industrial action aginst the local authority - over pay and working conditions  - was a health problem for Liverpool's population during the summer of 1991 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks such as this were filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
    RB_066-13-06-1991.jpg
  • Surrounded by black bin-bags during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991, two young "Scouse' girls lean against a brick wall in a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England. There is an older, taller white teenage girl with blonde hair dressed in a blue shell-suit and a shorter and younger friend of Asian-descent. Looking suspicious and amused at something across the cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses in a poor area, South of the city centre, home to deprived families. The industrial action aginst the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    RB_017-14-06-1991.jpg
  • A local authority cleaner works as a priest pays the bill in afternoon sunshine in the arched passageway of the Renaissance Cloth Hall on Rynek Glowny market square, on 22nd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-273-22-09-2019.jpg
  • A resident of Liverpool takes his refuse to Allerton Park during the Liverpool binmens strike of 1991, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool over that summer when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs existed in the 1990s after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    liverpool_strike02-14-06-1991.jpg
  • During the Liverpool binmens strike of 1991, litter and refuse bags collect in the back alleyway of back-to-back terraced houses, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, England. Surrounded by black bin-bags during the Merseyside dustmans strike of 1991, two young Scouse girls lean against a brick wall in a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool over that summer when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs existed in the 1990s after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    liverpool_strike01-14-06-1991 1.jpg
  • The Socialist Militant newspaper is held by a man alongside other workers, listen to speeches in central Liverpool during the bin men strike of 1991, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, England. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool over that summer when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin such as rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
    liverpool_strike02-14-06-1991 1.jpg
  • A stained white mattress leans against a wall next to a sign warning of £2,500 fines by the local authority for dumping or fly-tipping, on 6th February 2018, in the borough of Camden, London, England.
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  • A stained white mattress leans against a wall next to a sign warning of £2,500 fines by the local authority for dumping or fly-tipping, on 6th February 2018, in the borough of Camden, London, England.
    dumped_mattress-04-06-02-2018.jpg
  • In a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England, we see many black bin-bags are left against industrial brick walls awaiting collection during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. The cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses are in a poor area, south of the city centre and home to deprived families. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs now exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    toxteth_alley-14-06-1991_1_1.jpg
  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Three police officers wearing helmets and riot shields brace themselves for further violence as angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    RB-0090.jpg
  • Poor terraced housing and alleyway in Liverpool with black refuse bags left against poor housing brick walls. Surrounded by black bin-bags during the Merseyside dustmen’s' strike of 1991, we see a cobbled alley of 'back to back' houses in a poor area, South of the city centre, and home to deprived families. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    liverpool_refuse01-14-06-1991.jpg
  • A stained white mattress leans against a wall next to a sign warning of £2,500 fines by the local authority for dumping or fly-tipping, on 6th February 2018, in the borough of Camden, London, England.
    dumped_mattress-02-06-02-2018.jpg
  • A wheelie bin empties trash into a city authority Mercedes Sprinter waste collection vehicle opposite the Renaissance Cloth Hall during morning rubbish duties on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-308-23-09-2019.jpg
  • A city authority Mercedes Sprinter waste collection vehicle is parked opposite the Renaissance Cloth Hall during morning rubbish duties on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-306-23-09-2019.jpg
  • A young family walk gloomily past property Sold signs in a street at Grays, Essex England. Passing the prominent signs that bear the name of Quirk Deakin, a local estate agent in the industrial towns of south Essex and the Thames Gateway, is the location for dramatic increases of new housing developments. Both the parents and their daughter look depressed in this time of economic recession, when families are having their homes repossessed after defaulting on mortgage repayments. It is a bright summer day in Grays, east of the capital, just outside of the M25 orbital motorway and on the Thames river.
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  • David Reynolds (aka Eco) is a long-term activist, campaigner in the peace movement and resident of the Faslane Peace Camp, Scotland. His home of three years is called the Earth Shack and is largely re-cycled from scrap and garbage found locally on rubbish tips. Eco leans against his garden fence holding a mug of coffee this chilly Sunday morning. Signs of his political beliefs adorn the place: CND logos and Peace on Earth statements. His mother was a ‘Carnie’ (after the word Carnival, someone working on the fairgrounds) so perhaps it’s from her that he more enjoys an alternative outdoor camping lifestyle after a few years in the army. Faslane Peace Camp is a makeshift site alongside Faslane Naval base where Trident nuclear deterrent missiles and submarines dock. The camp has been occupied continuously, in a few different locations, since 1982.
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  • Students stand chatting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1605_1.jpg
  • A young mum reading to her child  inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1596_1.jpg
  • A child stands at one of book shelves with integrated lighting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1455_1.jpg
  • A man stands at one of book shelves with integrated lighting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1410_1.jpg
  • Book shelves with integrated lighting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1415_1.jpg
  • Book shelves with integrated lighting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1404_1.jpg
  • A man walks down the stairs of the Central atrium inside The Hive, Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It also houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and local authority hub.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1373_1.jpg
  • The Central atrium inside The Hive, Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It also houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1354_1.jpg
  • The sign outside the main entrance to  The Hive in Worcester. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It also houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and local authority hub. The building is low energy. Worcester, UK.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1049_1.jpg
  • The main entrance to  The Hive in Worcester. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It also houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and local authority hub. The building is low energy. Worcester, UK.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1048_1.jpg
  • Book shelves with integrated lighting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1459_1.jpg
  • Book shelves with integrated lighting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1414_1.jpg
  • Members of the public inside The Hive, Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It also houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1341_1.jpg
  • Activists protest in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 17th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist  Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    oaks_protest05-17-11-2020.jpg
  • The notification of a tree removal notice is attached to the trunk of an oak tree in Sydenham Hill Woods, the scene of a protest against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 11th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist  Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    sydenham_woods13-11-11-2020.jpg
  • Activists' banners in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 11th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist  Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    sydenham_woods10-11-11-2020.jpg
  • Activists' banners in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 11th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist  Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    sydenham_woods11-11-11-2020.jpg
  • A large road pot hole on the edge of a drainage grate in Hackney, London, United Kingdom.  The responsibility for maintaining safe road surfaces lies with the local authorities, such as Hackney Council.
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  • Roadworks that have closed Maistrove Ulica street in the rural central Slovenian town of Kamnik, on 25th June 2018, in Kamnik, Slovenia.
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  • An activist against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, occupies the site under  'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the Southwark Council , on 17th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    oaks_protest07-17-11-2020.jpg
  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues around the capital, and the UK death toll rising by 563 to 2,325, with 800,000 reported cases of Covid-19 worldwide, a billboard spells out that members of the community must be kind to others during the pandemic lockdown, on 1st April 2020, in London, England.
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  • Across the calm waters of a Scottish bay, isolated houses and crofts sit before the dramatic Cuillin Mountains that rise up in the distance on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Sunlight from unusually fine weather spreads across this beautiful landscape seen from the road to Dunvegan, near the hamlet of Harlosh. Farming practices have changed irreversably in a generation and many southerners have English accents rather than that of native Scots islanders as city dwellers from the far south seek an alternative to urban lifestyles. The weather can have adverse effects on those unprepared for such wild conditions, especially during harsh winters when violent storms batter these Atlantic coasts. But old crofts have been converted to bed and breakfast homes, catering for tourist visitors who adore this form of idyllic escapism.
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  • A customized caravan sits in the damp woods at the Faslane Peace Camp, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Matt Bury, 52, is one of the camp's 10 full time residents and has been living in this trailer for a year. Painted harlequin-styled diamonds adorn the walls of the van in a personal artistic statement. Calor gas bottles lie on the ground and weeds grow around this semi-permanent site. Faslane Peace Camp is a makeshift political activists' site alongside HM Naval Base Clyde where Trident nuclear deterrent missiles and Vanhuard Class submarines dock. The camp has been occupied continuously, in a few different locations since 12 June 1982. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • The last light of day fades on the still waters of Sgeir Nam Biast, a bay overlooking Waternish Headland, near Dunvegan, north-west Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. A solitary light bulb glows from an upstairs room in this isolated cottage across the calm lake. The weather is perfect but unusual for one of the wildest parts of Britain. Farming practices have changed irreversably in a generation and many residents have English accents rather than that of native Scots islanders as city dwellers from the far south seek an alternative to urban lifestyles. The weather can have adverse effects on those unprepared for such wild conditions, especially during harsh winters when violent storms batter these Atlantic coasts. But old crofts have been converted to bed and breakfast homes, catering for tourist visitors who adore this form of idyllic escapism.<br />
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  • Barbara Christie, 58, sits alone in her conservatory at Swordale House overlooking Beinn Na Caillich (The Hill of the Old Woman) mountain. It is nearly dark at this northern latitude and it looks cosy inside this house with its warm and inviting lights. Barbara's father built this family home and she has lived in this house all her life apart from when studying in Edinburgh many years ago. It sits on a tiny road near Broadford on the Isle of Skye, beneath the magnificent hill whose myth goes back to a Norse Princess saga. Barbara sits in the more recent addition to the house, a conservatory that she enjoys sitting and reading away from her Summer Bed and Breakfast guests. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • Decorator and part-time chimney sweep Alan Squires prepares to apply another coat of emulsion paint to the exterior walls of a cottage called Burnside in the tiny hamlet of Hallin, Waternish, on the Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. With his shadow looming large on the newly-painted off-white pebbledash that is rendered a warm orange in the low sunlight, Alan walks with his long roller after a day's decorating in this beautiful place near Dunvegan. Alan is an Englishman who came to Skye in 1987 for the community spirit. "everybody knows everybody' he says though admits that southerners come from the south in search of an idyllic lifestyle but harsh winters often send them back to warmer climates. Alain's fresh paint therefore needs to dry before winter weather blows in from the Atlantic. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • A detail of a rusting recycling bin showing the logo for Bromley Borough Council, on 3rd February 2020, in St. Mary Cray, London, England. Bromleys population in the 2011 census was 309,392. All major religions are represented, but of those stating a choice, 60.07% described themselves as Christian. Its 2019/20 Portfolio Budget Education, Health, Environment & Community,  Recreation & Housing, Public Protection & Enforcement etc. totalled £200m.
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  • 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 pile of old 1990s-era drinks cans are piled up in a receptacle basket, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
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  • Striped hazard and Do Not Use tape is stretched across a smashed illuminated advertising panel at a bus stop shelter in Camberwell, on 11th January 2019, in Southwark, south London, England.
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  • Striped hazard and Do Not Use tape is stretched across a smashed illuminated advertising panel at a bus stop shelter in Camberwell, on 11th January 2019, in Southwark, south London, England.
    danger_tape-04-11-01-2019.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
  • The message in graffiti lettering "Don't come here they attack you" has been written on a wall outside a house in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, Merseyside England. Flat 1A has a bright red-painted door and red bricks in an otherwise poverty-stricken district of this poor inner-city where crime and social deprivation has become the normal way of life for Scouses (someone from Liverpool). We see the red theme carried throughout this image of threat and ill-discipline where survival is clearly hard. These 'back to back' terraced houses have largely been demolished during Liverpool's regeneration during the 60s and 70s though some remain, accommodating unfortunate families on low-income.
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  • The Mile End Road leading up to the City of London with the Natwest tower on the horizon. The evening exodus is underway, the rush-hour for commuters and car drivers who head east and west along this old road to and from the City of London, through the poorer east end to the wealth and prosperity of the financial district. Light trails from the vehicles's headlights and tail lights register during a time exposure and the pink city skies to the west glow above the tall office complexes on the skyline.
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  • Two young ‘Scouse' girls sit on a telephone junction box and against a brick wall on which there is graffiti and childish scribbles. They are near a back alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England. The older, taller girl is of Asian-descent and the younger is White British who hides her face with her top. Both are facing other activity in this inner-city street where there are 'back to back' houses in a poor area, South of the city centre and home to deprived families. Few of these back-to-backs exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
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  • Looking up towards majestically tall Ash trees and blue skies, the sun glints off a window pane in an Edwardian age semi-detached house on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) South London England. It is a beauitiful winter afternoon in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. A couple are walking their dogs past an elegant line of period homes that were completed in 1908, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
    vesuvius190-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, shows lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, shows lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, on the crater edge of the Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, on the crater edge of the Vesuvius volcano, Italy. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • From the darkened room of Coventry council's CCTV control room, we see six screens that show various locations around the city centre. Some car parks, a stair well, and some views of a shopping precinct. In some the landscapes are empty of people and in others, there are citizens and passers-by all going about their business and all unaware that their movements are being watched by the authority's camera operators and security personnel. The middle camera dates the camera pictures as 24th May 1999 when Coventry was the most-watched city in Britain. The council controversially maintains it deters petty crime but the population disagrees, saying it is obtrusive and symptomatic of an Orwellian police state.
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  • We look upwards to wooden panels on exterior walls of modern apartments overlooking the Thames on the Greenwich Peninsular, Bermondsey. The modern frames in aluminium material are angular, their right-angles cornered perfectly and set in the strips of clean and smooth timber. Sets of screws or rivets hold the outer facade in place to make this fine building situated on the river Thames in the UK capital. Greenwich Peninsula is one of the UK’s largest regeneration projects covering 190 acres. In partnership with the Greater London Authority and The Royal Borough of Greenwich, we are creating a new district for London including homes, offices, schools, shops and community facilities.
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  • A young, vulnerable-looking youth stands close to two members of a local Evangelical church who are using a carpet warehouse as a temporary Ministry. Rolls of carpets and rugs are behind these Christians as the two officials practice the 'laying on of hands' to cleanse the soul of their young convert during a religious meeting in Newport, Wales. As the ceremony takes place when this boy is persuaded to accept Jesus into his life, two retail signs proclaim the prices and credit terms of the household items. The laying on of hands is a religious practice found throughout the world in varying forms. In Christian churches, this practice is used as both a symbolic and formal method of invoking the Holy Spirit during baptisms, healing services, blessings, and ordination of priests, ministers, elders, deacons, and other holy church ceremonies.
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  • A woman police officer (WPC) stands with white paint plashed over her uniform during a public protest over the Poll Tax policies of Margaret Thatcher's government in 1990. It is dark and the trouble has been growing throughout the evening when the paint was thrown by unknown protesters. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Thatcher's local authority tax, eventually stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • From the darkened room of Coventry council's CCTV control room, we see over the shoulder of a council camera operator spying on innocent pedestrians and a view of a shopping precinct. Citizens and passers-by go about their own business unaware that their movements are being watched by camera lenses and their human eyes and security personnel. Other monitor screens date the pictures as 24th May 1999 when Coventry was the most-watched city in Britain. The council controversially maintains it deters petty crime but the population disagrees, saying it is obtrusive and symptomatic of a Big Brother-type Orwellian police state.
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  • A dumped armchair and other domestic rubbish, fly-tipped on a street corner in south London. Abandoned on the pavement, the items have made a mess in this urban location. Furniture and household possessions have been added, perhaps by others, making this area look and feel intimidating. increase in amount of rubbish illegally dumped on roadsides and back alleys cost local authorities £45m in 2014. The figures also reveal the rising cost to the public purse of cleaning up and prosecuting people who dump rubbish, with the clearance bill for local authorities rising 24% to £45.2m.
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  • A portrait of English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London and Britain. Sinclair (1943) is a British writer and filmmaker and much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography. His books deal with the evials of development and their fracturing of social communities – in particular, of his own home borough of Hackney and the effects from the 2012 Olympics project. His books include ‘London Orbital’ about the M25 motorway, ‘Hackney: That Rose-red Empire’ and ‘Ghost Milk’. Behind him is the algae-green waters of the Regents Canal, fed by the effluent - he says - of the Olympic site.
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  • A Segway-free zone sign on Karmelitska street, Smichov district, Prague 5, on 19th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. In 2016, a ban was introduced on Segway motor scooters in Pragues historic center and some other parts of the Czech capital. Authorities placed 610 traffic warning signs in the Segway-free areas. Using the two-wheeled scooters in those zones will be punishable by a fine of up to 2,000 koruna. Protests from locals over the number of tourists riding Segways on sidewalks and Pragues narrow cobbled streets prompted city officials to approve the ban to include Pragues 1st, 2nd 3rd, 4th, 7th and 8th districts, including streets and walkways.
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  • Two police officers patrol past a group of Chinese state news consumers in a Shenzhen street. Locals stop to scan headlines and the stories of the day from the sheets of newsprint posted up on street corners. The policemen in uniform patrol the area with a presence to deter petty crime in a new and prosperous China. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and until the 1980s, almost all media outlets in Mainland China were state-run. Independent media outlets only began to emerge at the onset of economic reforms, although state-run media outlets such as Xinhua, CCTV, and People's Daily continue to hold significant market share.
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  • On the eve of transfer of law in Hong Kong from the UK to China, construction workers in Central Hong Kong carry on their tasks during a monsoonal rain shower on the last day of British rule. Some are dressed in yellow waterproof coats and hard hats, we see a British-style sign warning drivers of Men at Work resembling a man holding an umbrella. Lastly, on the right another man on a wall, also holding an brolley. In the foreground a car park sign states that the space is full in red letters and a local authority sign saying "Working for a better environment" is written in Chinese and English lettering. The transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China, referred to as "The Handover" occurred at midnight on June 30, 1997, signifying the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China.
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  • After a weekend of large numbers of Britons leaving London for holiday resorts and coastal beauty spots, and crowding into the capitals parks, the UK government is considering further restrictions of movement in public places to help social distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic. Some public green spaces have been closed by their own local authority but most, such as Ruskin Park in south London, are still open. Kerry is a local musician and broadcaster and sits meditating under a tree listening to music ideas for her podcast, on 23rd March 2020, in London, England.
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  • After a weekend of large numbers of Britons leaving London for holiday resorts and coastal beauty spots, and crowding into the capitals parks, the UK government is considering further restrictions of movement in public places to help social distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic. Some public green spaces have been closed by their own local authority but most, such as Ruskin Park in south London, are still open. Kerry is a local musician and broadcaster and sits meditating under a tree listening to music ideas for her podcast, on 23rd March 2020, in London, England.
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  • After a weekend of large numbers of Britons leaving London for holiday resorts and coastal beauty spots, and crowding into the capitals parks, the UK government is considering further restrictions of movement in public places to help social distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic. Some public green spaces have been closed by their own local authority but most, such as Ruskin Park in south London, are still open. Kerry is a local musician and broadcaster and sits meditating under a tree listening to music ideas for her podcast, on 23rd March 2020, in London, England.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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  • Solar panels being installed as part of a renewable green energy policy run by the local authority in conjunction with solar panel companies. Reading, UK.
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