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  • A Mums Day message in the window of a trinket and card shop on the Strand, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
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  • "The week of Dunblane."  Mindful of the Dunblane massacre that week, a baby massage class takes place at a health clinic in south London. Spread across a matt are six babies of varying ages and sizes whose mums are tenderly stroking their infants' bodies and senses with soft, gentle touches over the head, face, shoulders, arms, chest, stomach and legs which is a recommended way of tactile communication between mother and child. Some children are looking up into their mothers' faces, others are looking elsewhere and one is upset but comforted. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella16-20-04-1995_1.jpg
  • Two mothers and neighbours gossip with arms folded outside their houses on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties. Wearing aprons popular for working mums in this era of early 1960s, and one seemingly pregnant, the two women talk about families and children and their lives at the beginning of a new decade. This row of houses is in the Essex suburb of Westcliff, Southend and a proud gardener has grown a colourful bed of dahlias in the front. The picture was recorded on Kodachrome (Kodak) film in about 1961.
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  • In afternoon sunshine, a local mother and her child on scooter pause to talk during a walk in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, South London. Bending down to the child's face, the mum makes her point known to the youngster who stands astride her toy before continuing their journeys around the upper paths of this Victorian public space. Brockwell Park is a 50.8 hectare (125.53 acres) park located between Brixton, Herne Hill and Tulse Hill. Brockwell Hall house and its grounds were acquired by the London County Council (LCC) in March 1891 and opened to the public the following summer. In 1901 the LCC acquired a further 43 acres (17 ha) of land north of the original park.
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  • Young mothers push their babies in prams on Brixton Road, a multicultural area in South London. This is on the corner of Atlantic Road underneath the railway bridge. Brixton is a district in south London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Brixton is predominantly residential with a prominent street market and substantial retail sector. It is a multiethnic community, with around 24 percent of Brixton's population being of African and Caribbean descent, giving rise to Brixton as the unofficial capital of the British African-Caribbean community.
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  • Young mothers push their babies in prams on Brixton Road, a multicultural area in South London. This is on the corner of Atlantic Road underneath the railway bridge. Brixton is a district in south London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Brixton is predominantly residential with a prominent street market and substantial retail sector. It is a multiethnic community, with around 24 percent of Brixton's population being of African and Caribbean descent, giving rise to Brixton as the unofficial capital of the British African-Caribbean community.
    20110819brixton teenage mothersC.jpg
  • Young mothers push their babies in prams on Brixton Road, a multicultural area in South London. This is on the corner of Atlantic Road underneath the railway bridge. Brixton is a district in south London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Brixton is predominantly residential with a prominent street market and substantial retail sector. It is a multiethnic community, with around 24 percent of Brixton's population being of African and Caribbean descent, giving rise to Brixton as the unofficial capital of the British African-Caribbean community.
    20110819brixton teenage mothersA.jpg
  • Real-life mother and child with Marge and Maggie Simpson characters in Manhattan, New York City. Sitting next to the fictional mother, the real-life mom poses for a family photo in a scene of maternity and motherhood. Marjorie Jacqueline "Marge" Simpson (née Bouvier), is the beautiful happy homemaker and full-time mom of the Simpson family. With her husband Homer, she has three (later four) children: Bart, Hugo, Lisa, and Maggie.
    tim_lynch1060-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Young mothers push their babies in prams on Brixton Road, a multicultural area in South London. This is on the corner of Atlantic Road underneath the railway bridge. Brixton is a district in south London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Brixton is predominantly residential with a prominent street market and substantial retail sector. It is a multiethnic community, with around 24 percent of Brixton's population being of African and Caribbean descent, giving rise to Brixton as the unofficial capital of the British African-Caribbean community.
    20110819brixton teenage mothersB.jpg
  • London Eastender babies and mothers pause to admire the community memorial to notorious 60s gangster twin Ronnie Kray during East End funeral at Chingford cemetery in Essex. The floral tributes are in honour of the recently deceased Ronald, commonly referred to as Ron or Ronnie who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Ronnie and his twin brother Reggie were involved in armed robberies, arson, protection rackets and violent assaults including torture. During the 1950s and 60s. They terrorised their organised crime competitors but were loved by the communities of East London. The Kray gangster twins were eventually jailed separately in 1969 and Ronnie remained in Broadmoor (psychiatric) Hospital until his death on 17 March 1995.
    ronnie_kray_funeral02-29-03-1995.jpg
  • Two women gaze at the names of war dead at the Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
    WW1_thiepval04-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • Two mothers push their classic design prams on Hastings Pier, on 29th April 2017, at Hastings, East Sussex, England.
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  • Environmental activist mothers protest about Climate Change during an occupation of Trafalgar Square in central London, the third day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 9th October 2019, in London, England.
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  • Mothers push cilds buggies past a career bus ad and a graffiti-covered bus stop in Brixton, on 30th january 2019, in Lambeth, south London, England.
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  • Two 1960s housewives and mothers stand in sunshine on the front porch of their council house. The two women stand smiling for a portrait by an amateur photographer in 1963. Alongside them is a hanging basket of flowers that is suspended in the porch. This post-war image whows a confidence and prosperity among the working class and the ladies wear bright, white clothing that is well-washed and laundered at a time when a growing disposable income was an asset to families being offered domestic products to help improve their everyday lives. The picture was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family03-20-04-1963_1.jpg
  • Two mothers pushing their baby's buggies, walk past a large poster for the iPhone 5 on the wall of a 'Carphone Warehouse' retailer. With the large image of its screen of this popular smartphone over their shoulders, the ladies make their way uphill in Wimbledon, London, passing this store selling Apple and other brands for consumers.
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  • Britons go to the polls today in a general election predicted to be the closest for decades as no single party is expected to secure a majority. Londoners vote at their local polling station, a Methodist church in the south London borough of Dulwich, Southwark.
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  • Schoolchildren and mothers walk in the rain past the medieval Little Hall  in Lavenham, on 9th July 2020, in wool town Lavenham, Suffolk, England. Little Hall is a late 14th Century hall house on the main square, its story mirrors the history of Lavenham over the centuries. First built in the 1390s as a family house and workplace, it was enlarged, improved and modernised in the mid 1550s, and greatly extended later. By the 1700s it was giving homes to six families and was restored in the 1920s/30s. The wool trade was already present by the 13th century, steadily expanding as demand grew. By the 1470s Suffolk produced more cloth than any other county.
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  • Mothers and their children exit Herne Hill Baptist Church, Herne Hill SE24 that serves as a temporary Polling station for voters on Britain's general election day.
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  • A young African mother allows her sleeping baby some well-earned rest at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. In the departures concourse the mum and her child await their check-in zone to open in this international aviation hub in West London. The infant sleeps soundly, wrapped to its mother's back in the traditional manner for carrying children in the developing world. It is a simple scene of everyday care for one's child and airport operator spent £4.3 billion on Terminal 5 which has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1068-11-08-2009_1.jpg
  • A mother and her children pass a delivery man and bottles of office drinking water in City street. As the mum hurries up the street, only her own agenda and destination is of concern. Her little girl concentrates on scooting along but a little boy tucked up under blankets in his buggy, looks over to the man who is about wheel his trolley to a nearby corporate building. There is a visual theme of wheels and circles in this scene: From the scooter to the buggy and bottles stacked on the trolley.
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  • Young reader and his mum in the re-opened Carnegie Library on Herne Hill in south London which has opened its doors for the first time in almost 2 years, on 15th February 2018, in London, England. Closed by Lambeth council and occupied by protesters for 10 days in 2016, the library bequeathed by US philanthropist Andrew Carnegie has been locked ever since because, say Lambeth austerity cuts are necessary. A gym that locals say they dont want or need has been installed in the listed basement and actual library space a fraction as before and its believed no qualified librarians will be present to administer it. Protesters also believe this community building will ultimately sold off by Lambeth council for luxury homes.
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  • Mother and active child with aerial view of bus stop shadows and reflections. As we look down on the urban scene, the mum grabs the child by the hand to stop him running off in a strange city. They have just alighted from the double-decker bus that has dropped them off at Waterloo on the southbank of the Thames in central London. Sunlight has created a pattern of shadows from the glass shelter screen and reflections from the top deck seating is seen in the foreground.
    bus_stop02-17-10-2014_1.jpg
  • A portrait of a mother and teenage son in a public park during summer time in the early 1960s. The portrait has been recorded on a film camera by an amateur photographer in 1961. The young man stands with his arm on his mum's shoulder in this public park in Essex. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family15-15-03-1961_1.jpg
  • A mother holds her young son high into the air while waste deep in the warm waters of Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill, south London, SE24. It is a fine summer's day and the pool is quiet before a rush of other families return for another day at their local pool. The mum throws the lad up and he squeels with delight at being thrust so high above the water's surface. This lido was opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 and after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994. Brockwell Lido was designed by HA Rowbotham and TL Smithson of the London County Council's Parks Department to replace Brockwell Park bathing pond
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  • A 4 year-old boy holds an umbrella outdoors with his parents in family woods. He and his parents take a stroll through local woods that has early bluebells flowering on the ground. The path is in the middle of this small woodland of beech trees in the south-west county of North Somerset. His mum and dad walk on the short journey away from home and their son wears waterproof boots and a warm coat and a hood over his head on this wet, rainy spring day. About to trudge through a puddle, enjoying his walk in the great outdoors.
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  • We look down behind an airline passenger who is alone on seating in the departures concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Mourning the death of a mother, the lady sits with a floral tribute to the recently-deceased relative whose name 'Mum' is laid out next to her in pink flowers. On her lap is the organic Soil Association's magazine Living Earth. Perhaps the woman is on her way to a family funeral and is flying from T5 on this sad flight. Amid the otherwise bustling international airport, the woman seeks solace and tries to sleep before her check-in zone opens. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • We look down behind an airline passenger who is alone on seating in the departures concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Mourning the death of a mother, the lady sits with a floral tribute to the recently-deceased relative whose name 'Mum' is laid out next to her in pink flowers. On her lap is the organic Soil Association's magazine Living Earth. Perhaps the woman is on her way to a family funeral and is flying from T5 on this sad flight. Amid the otherwise bustling international airport, the woman seeks solace and tries to sleep before her check-in zone opens. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1122-12-08-2009_1 1.jpg
  • A young African mother allows her sleeping baby some well-earned rest at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. In the departures concourse the mum and her child await their check-in zone to open in this international aviation hub in West London. The infant sleeps soundly, wrapped to its mother's back in the traditional manner for carrying children in the developing world. It is a simple scene of everyday care for one's child and airport operator spent £4.3 billion on Terminal 5 which has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1068-11-08-2009_1 1.jpg
  • A portrait of a mother in her 41st year has been gathering heather in handfuls and holds up her young child who grins towards his father who is taking the picture at a park near the Essex seaside town of Southend. It is the summer of 1960 and the mum's dress is styled from the previous decade: blue with white spots and pearl necklace. She too is smiling as she grasps the flowers and her child on a warm day. Oddly, the boy looks as though he is wearing a girl's dress which may have been a hand-me-down from an older sibling or just the trend then.
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  • A young three year-old boy has his hair cut by his mother in the family South London home. Lifting his hair with her fingers, the mum snips with a pair of scissors. While lifting her left elbow to gain the right angle of her cutting, we see her holding a comb in her mouth. The boy's elder sister looks on offering unhelpful comments which will eventually lead to an exchange of unkind words between the siblings while their mother concentrates hard on not making a mess of the kid's haircut. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • A two and half year-old girl watches her mother bath her baby brother in the bathroom of her South London home. She looks down at the correct technique that her mum uses by supporting his head with a hand, ensuring the child does not slip further into the warm bath water, the way that many babies drown in even shallow water. Such maternal instincts is how even young children learn to mother and care for their own children in later life, From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam04-30-04_1998_1.jpg
  • A newborn baby boy is carried away from his mother immediately after she has given birth to the child in the delivery ward at Kings College Hospital, Camberwell, London. Handling the crying and twisting infant with only one hand, the lady health professional takes it to a warm towel and then to some weighing scales where the baby is checked and cleaned then returned to the mum who is still on the birthing bed. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes.
    ella+sam01-31-03_1998_1.jpg
  • A mother and her children pass a delivery man and bottles of office drinking water in City street. As the mum hurries up the street, only her own agenda and destination is of concern. Her little girl concentrates on scooting along but a little boy tucked up under blankets in his buggy, looks over to the man who is about wheel his trolley to a nearby corporate building. There is a visual theme of wheels and circles in this scene: From the scooter to the buggy and bottles stacked on the trolley.
    delivery_man01-19-02-2014.jpg
  • "More than you can chew." A ten month-old infant uses new teeth to bite her mother's nose in the back garden of their Victorian south London terrace home. The mum winces in pain as the child sinks her new milk teeth into her skin but they enjoy a warm summer afternoon, playfully interacting with each other in a moment of parental love and harmony. The girl wears a short-sleeved t-shirt and has plump arms of baby fat, a healthy sign of a contented infant. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella17-20-04-1995_1.jpg
  • "Then raindrops fell on my head." Looking over the shoulder as a mother pours bath water from a toy seive on to the head of her five month-old baby daughter. The infant looks unsure but otherwise spellbound as the droplets fall, watching them leaving the pot to feel them trickling down. We see the child's trust for her mother and imagine her fascination with tumbling liquid, the feel of it touching her skin. This water is shallow, a child can drown in an inch of water so the mum is supporting the baby's head around the neck in the correct manner. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella11-20-04-1995_1.jpg
  • "Eye Contact." A mother peers over the bath to keep watch over her five month-old baby daughter who is lying on a matt, holding a towel to her face. The infant has had her own time in the water and the mum has taken the opportunity to bathe too. They both look into each other's eyes in a picture of love, trust and joy. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella12-20-04-1995_1.jpg
  • On a labour ward at Kings College Hospital, London, a young mother sits back and rests before being transferred to a bed on the maternity ward. Wearing a hospital gown and an identity wrist tag, leans back exhausted on a wall with eyes closed, reflecting on the last 24 hours of labour, contractions and the birth of her first child, a baby girl who    sleeps in a cot next to her mother. Tissues and a drink cups are on the table in front but the new mum is too tired to reach out for a sip. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella03-20-04-1995_1.jpg
  • "Brave New World." On a maternity ward at Kings College Hospital, London, a tiny new-born baby girl sleeps in her cot at the foot of her mother's bed. We see the mum's legs and feet pointing towards some curtains against which her infant is wrapped in an NHS shawl to keep her snug and warm. But it's Summer and the bedding is ruffled at the bottom to keep the heat down for an exhausted mother comfortable in an otherwise airless room. It is a scene of serenity and safety, at a time when mother and baby are bonding. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella04-20-04-1995_1.jpg
  • "A Day Away from Choosing a Name." A baby girl of only two weeks old cranes her neck around to see where her mother's soothing voice is coming from. Wrapped up in a checked blanket to keep her snug and warm, she is learning to recognise familiar sounds, focus on close objects and learn about her own small world. She has a round face with a squashed, button nose and has opened her mouth to bend round in her mum's direction. Her name has yet to be recorded with the local register office, a legal requirement that needs completeting within six weeks after a birth. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella06-20-04-1995_1.jpg
  • A mother controls pulling away child with reins on Southbank steps. While walking along the riverfront pavement, the child has chosen to explore the steps and pulls on his walking reins so that the mum needs to tug too, controlling the child and preventing him from escaping. it is a scene of responsible parenting - of childhood exploration and the breaking away for freedom
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  • A mother of 42 years of age holds her 1 year-old son among heather in country field during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing in naturally-growing heather in afternoon sunshine, the mum and the young child are looking at plants, her polka dot dress seems to be the fashion in this picture recorded on a film camera by the child's father, an amateur photographer in 1960. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • Heart with the words MUM XXX, kisses, carved into the bark of a tree, 17th April 2014, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom.
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  • Mother and child ride throug the wet street in a cycle rickshaw. Rangoon, Burma 1997
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  • Mrs Emily Mackay, 88 eating pie and mash as a birthday treat with her son in F Cooke's Pie and Mash shop in Broadway Market, Hackney, London..Eel, pie and mash shops are a traditional but dying business. Changing tastes and the scarcity of the eel has meant that the number of shops selling this traditional working class food has declined to just a handful mostly in east London. The shops were originally owned by one or two families with the earliest recorded, Manze's on Tower Bridge Road being the oldest surviving dating from 1908. Generally eels are sold cold and jellied and the meat pie and mash potato covered in a green sauce called liquor.
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  • As crowds of supporters and protesters line the Mall in central London, Chinese leader Xi Jinping starts off his state visit to Britain. There is much attached to Anglo-Sino relations and this series of trade and diplomatic events is of great importance to the UK government in terms of new business and investment. Protesters however, voiced their distaste at human rights issues for dissenters and of the occupation of Tibet.
    xi_jinping_visit09-20-10-2015_1.jpg
  • Women protesters march through central London as part of an international campaign on the first full day of Donald Trumps presidency, on 21st January 2017, in London, England. They marched from the US embassy in Mayfair, to Trafalgar Square for a rally, held in solidarity with a march in Washington and other cities around the world. Organisers say it highlighted womens rights, which they perceive to be under threat from the new US administration. London organisers announced on stage that between 80,000 and 100,000 people - which included both men and women - had taken part in the rally.
    womens_trump_march-08-21-01-2017.jpg
  • A mother rushes past piled waste in plastic bags awaiting collection by Westminster collection staff in front of a homeless tent on St. Martins Lane, on 15th June 2019, in London, England.
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  • A detail of an old family photo taken on 35mm transparency slide from the 1960s. We see the photo from another era, backlit against the bight light of a photography lightbox used to view this type of photographic material. So as not to add confusion, Kodak has printed the words 'View from this Side' so that it may be viewed the right way round. In the picture is a mother leading her young son away from wild animals in London zoo, England.
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  • Ageing, elderly parents sunbathe with a teenage daughter as the father oddly faces a brick wall while sat in his wheelchair. Looking bored with the family holiday, the young lady of about 18 years of age, sits on a concrete block, the highlight of a vacation at home in Britain, rather than a package trip in mainland Europe. The father has a tanned back but sits facing the brick wall in an eccentric, odd way of sunbathing. He is obviously disabled and can’t reach a beach via steps and perhaps this is why they have opted for this rather desolate corner of the seaside town resort.
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  • Inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg and organised by Youth Strike 4 Climate, British eco-aware school and college-age pupils protest about Climate Change inaction in Whitehall during their walkout from classes, on 15th March 2019, in Westminster, London England.
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  • A masseuse pushes the sore back of a street patient during the demonstration of an Anma acupressure treatment in a central London street. Anma is Japanese for 'press and rub'. Matching the stance of the practitioner wearing a blue tunic who puts his weight forward into the pressure point of the lumbar area, a young mother holds on to the pushchair of her young child. There are many different methods in Anma, including massage, acupressure, stretching But it is important to note that there are many different versions of anma. Many massage therapists in the west have adapted this old technique to work with their more modern methods. Most common is the stretching, pulling, and pulling of affected areas. This is done to try and achieve the release of muscle tension that in return will help to encourage the proper blood flow and lymph flow.
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  • A young family stand next to a seaside cut-out board on Southwold Pier, on 14th August 2020, in Southwold, Norfolk, England.
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  • Mothers and families engage with the artwork called Arcadia on London's Southbank. The PolyLester studio have created this artwork consisting of strips of synthetic, industrial curtain called Arcadia on London's Southbank. PolyLester present a majestic pavilion in front of Royal Festival Hall. They connect three levels of the pedestrian walkway in an elegant, rudimentary structure clad with colourful transparent curtains. The many strips of synthetic, industrial curtain create a shape like a lantern or beacon at night and a graceful clear volume in daytime. The relaxed nature of the strip-curtains invites visitors to enter the pavilion from every direction, making it a truely egalitarian structure.
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  • Mothers and families engage with the artwork called Arcadia on London's Southbank. The PolyLester studio have created this artwork consisting of strips of synthetic, industrial curtain called Arcadia on London's Southbank. PolyLester present a majestic pavilion in front of Royal Festival Hall. They connect three levels of the pedestrian walkway in an elegant, rudimentary structure clad with colourful transparent curtains. The many strips of synthetic, industrial curtain create a shape like a lantern or beacon at night and a graceful clear volume in daytime. The relaxed nature of the strip-curtains invites visitors to enter the pavilion from every direction, making it a truely egalitarian structure.
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  • A child is picked up by its mother after falling from a twin buggy in Soho, days before the August Bank Holiday when the streets of this lively district of the capital are expected to be busy during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 26th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • A mother struggles to pull her young child over freshly fallen snow in a London street. With the child's tilted pushchair skating over compacted snow driven over many car tyres, the lady wears trainers that are themselves, ill-suited to walking though snow. Nearby vehicles are still covered in snow, having been left during this urban cold snap, something that Londoners are learning to cope with during times of economic council cuts when snow-clearing is not a spending priority.
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  • A disabled boy and his family walk past a sleeping man, on 31st July 2017, in Leicester Square, London, England.
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  • A mother holds her young son up to show him a paddle steamer on Southend pier in the early nineteen sixties. At the end of the world's longest pier (1 and a quarter miles) the steamer docked for day-trippers to traditionally sail upstream from the Thames estuary at Southend-on-Sea to Gravesend, westward towards London on the River. It is clearly something that this boy sees rarely such is his interest in the small ship full of other holidaymakers.
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  • With few visitors to see, a young boy pees into the water surrounding a model town at the Splendid China model village, the 30 hectares large tourist attraction in the city of Shenzen, China. The kid aims into the water with his mother's help. In the background we see some of the 50,000 ceramic figures and scenes from a period in Chinese history and further away, modern skyscrapers in the metropolis contrasting with ancient, traditional village life. Splendid China is an attraction at the Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen that has scaled down replicas of China's historical buildings, wonderful scenes and folk customs. The scale models are of a 1:15 with 100 miniaturized landmarks such as The Terracotta Warriors; Great Wall; Forbidden City; Old Summer Palace etc. all laid out according to their geographic locations.
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  • Making their way across a field, alongside a hedge, and away from a collection homes a mother and her two children walk from the direction of massive chimneys and cooling towers. The instillation in the distance is the Sellafield. Formerly known as Windscale, Sellafield (operated by Sellafield Ltd) is a nuclear processing and former electricity generating site, close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England. The site has been the subject of much controversy because of discharges of radioactive material into the sea, mainly accidental but some alleged to have been deliberate. 1983 was the year of the ‘Beach Discharge Incident’ in which high radioactive discharges containing ruthenium and rhodium 106, both beta-emitting isotopes, resulted in the closure of a beach. BNFL received a fine of £10,000 for this discharge.
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  • A family enjoy a hot day in their beach hut on the seafront at Southend, on 29th July 2002, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • Middle-aged and elderly visitors eat ice-cream cones on the seafront of Great Yarmouth, on 25th May 1992, in Great Yarmouth, England.
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  • A baby enjoys the sandy beach with his parents at Minehead, on 12th August 1993, in Minehead, England.
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  • Mother and child enjoy spring weather in Ruskin Park in the south London borough of Lambeth. Looking into late sunlight, we see the two figures walking downhill beneath tall ash trees planted over 100 years ago. This is a large public space in SE24 used by locals from many miles because of its panoramic views across the capital.
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  • A 1960s lady spoon feeds a young one year-old son, during an evening meal time in the family home, in March 1961, in Westcliff, Southend, Essex, England.
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  • Britons go to the polls today in a general election predicted to be the closest for decades as no single party is expected to secure a majority. Londoners vote at their local polling station, a Methodist church in the south London borough of Dulwich, Southwark.
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  • Two young boys wearing plastic police helmets are made happy by a real-life police officer outside the Cabinet Office on Whitehall in Westminster, on 28th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Two young boys wearing plastic police helmets are made happy by a real-life police officer outside the Cabinet Office on Whitehall in Westminster, on 28th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • A young modern Polish women walks and smokes a cigarette, passing a poster outside a Spar supermarket that shows the stereotyping of gender: a mother and her daughter enjoying baking in the kitchen together, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland. The poster translates as: My neighborhood ,my spar.
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  • Young modern Polish women walk past a poster outside a Spar supermarket showing the stereotyping of gender: a mother and her daughter enjoying baking in the kitchen together, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland. The poster translates as: My neighborhood ,my spar.
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  • A mother pushes her childs buggy on a footpath in the Tatra National Park, on 16th September 2019, near Koscielisko, Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Geometric angles and diagonal lines on new architecture at Southwark SE1, on 7th September 2018, in London, England.
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  • Standing with a mother and child and in a recreation of the Oval Office, the waxwork figure of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama stands in London’s Madame Tussauds waxwork museum on the day of his inauguration. Long before the actual election took place, models of both Obama and political opponent, John McCain were researched from thousands of photographs and 500 body measurements and prepared from clay, taking 20 dedicated sculptors 4 months to prepare. Only the eventual victor was completed using wax and real organic hair. On Obama’s inauguration day, US citizens were allowed free entry to the museum which is now Britain’s most visited tourist attraction.
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  • A mother holds her baby staying in intensive care, in the London Hospital, Whitechapel, on 23rd June 1993, in London, England.
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  • A local family discuss ideas and directions while walking uphill towards the houses of a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England.
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  • A local family discuss ideas and directions while walking uphill towards the houses of a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England.
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  • A mother swings her young child along the pavement and grass of Bath maze Bath Festival Maze (1984) in Beazer Gardens, Riverside Walk, Pulteney Weir, Bath is by renowned maze designer Gilbert Randoll Coate (8 October 1909 – 2 December 2005) who was a British diplomat, maze designer and "labyrinthologist".
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  • A Macanaese (Portuguese-Chinese) mother carries her baby in a sling on her back while shopping for supplies in a Macau market, China in this ex-Portuguese colony. Amid a crowded morning market, the shopping is done for families and the elderly during the rainy season.  Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER) and is home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
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  • A Macanaese (Portuguese-Chinese) mother carries her baby in a sling on her chest while shopping for supplies in a Macau market, China in this ex-Portuguese colony. Amid a crowded morning market, the shopping is done for families and the elderly during the rainy season.  Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER) and is home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
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  • A Muslim mother and son walk past a giant ad mural for Hollister California of a bare-chested young male model, a clash of western and eastern cultures. The large image of the model wearing only swimwear and a whistle is seen to the full height of the billboard that obscures the construction site behind of the newest addition to the Regent Street clothing brand. The lady and child walk past ignoring the sexuality of this ad, increasingly seen in UK media. It shows a handsome male youth and the use of the perfect specimen is displayed on the street more and more, seen here large and prominent for a female (or gay) audience while concentrating our attention on a the clashes of a multicultural Britain.
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  • Chinese families shop in a street market in the former Portuguese enclave of Macau, now in China. The narrow street is filled with humanity and stalls selling meat and almost everything else a family would want to buy. A father carries his child with the mother following behind in this district of Macau which is the most densely populated region in the world, with a population density of 20,497 persons per square kilometre in 2013. 95% of Macau's population is Chinese; another 2% is of Portuguese and/or mixed Chinese/Portuguese descent, an ethnic group often referred to as Macanese.
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  • A young girl plays with her mother near pedestrians and passers-by at the City of London boundary griffin on London Bridge. The City of London is a geographically small City within Greater London, England, the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. This is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • During the second Coronavirus lockdown when most non-essential retailers and small businesses remain closed by order of the government, Christmas themed lettering is on the King's Road in Chelsea, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
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  • Mother of the bride inspects her daughter's new ring after a civil wedding ceremony in Essex, England. The older lady holds her daughter's hand and looks more intently at her newly placed wedding ring on the third finger, according to tradition. The mother also holds a glass of Pims, a well-liked drink of alcohol and fruit that helps refresh on a warm day. And wearing a very English piece of headwear is the 'fascinator' that perches on the side of the head. This European wedding has taken place inside a covered Orangery at a private wedding and event venue. Rather than marrying in a religious context, the happy couple have preferred to tie the knot in this popular setting for a non-church meaning.
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  • A young mother holds her child while sitting on a street bench outside a closed 1990s Job Centre. As a result of the 1987 a stock market collapse, the UK economy experienced a downturn resulting in public services suffering a reduction, including the closure of the Job Centres of the day. The recession of the early 1990s describes the period of economic downturn affecting much of the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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  • A young girl holds her mothers shopping basket while she tries on sandals in a department store in central Budapest, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
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  • A sixties family holiday portrait at a German open-air pool, on 13th July, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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  • A child leans against an adult shopping for fresh vegetables at an Aberdeen street market, on 16th April 1979, in Hong Kong, while still UK.
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  • Colourful shutters of a shop business in Herne Hill, South London SE24. The Indian Take-away is called Chutney and is located in the borough of Lambeth. A mother pushes her child along the road with a pushchair buggy on wet ground after recent rainfall. On the shutters we see a very intricate illustration of Indian culture with a woman in a sari and a tiger above her head. On the other side we see a ceremonial elephant and Maharajah character. The name Chutney stretches across most of its width.
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  • A woman walks a pet dog and pushes a child under the railway bridge at the corner of Herne Hill and Milkwood Road in SE24, and on 21st January 2021, in London, England. Herne Hill is located betwen Brixton, Dulwich Village and Camberwell and lies over the shared London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark with a community of approximately 15,000.
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  • Alongside the 37 bus to Peckham, a woman walks a pet dog and pushes a child under the railway bridge at the corner of Herne Hill and Milkwood Road in SE24, and on 21st January 2021, in London, England. Herne Hill is located betwen Brixton, Dulwich Village and Camberwell and lies over the shared London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark with a community of approximately 15,000.
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  • A young mother holds up her daughter to insert a letter into a post box at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. The girl half-climbs up the red pillar box and tries to get the postage item into the narrow slot which is an even tighter fit because of security considerations - avoiding larger and potentially dangerous packages from entering the airport's postal system. In the background we see the bustle of a departures concourse where British Airways passengers walk past after having checked-in at BA's hub terminal. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ..
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  • Behind their horsebox, a dedicated mother puts the finishing touches to her daughter's hair at a gymkhana in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Wearing regulation jodhpurs, tie and hairnet, the young girl is almost ready to mount her pony and hopefully earn winning rosettes. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
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  • As his mother washes clothes in a communal spring below, a young boy of about 9 years of age stands on a track in the Himalayan foothills near the town of Gorkha. Here, the British army traditionally recruits young men for the Gurkha regiment (as they have done since 1857). The lad is wearing a yellow hooded sweatshirt and like many in this region - even is sub-zero temperatures - flip-flops. Nepal is one of the world's poorest countries. The prospects for this child may mean they will in future, if the army has no place for him, he may try to seek work in cities like Kathmandu rather than face a lifetime's struggle in local agriculture, as can be seen in the valley below. Their supplies and contact with the outside world comes up from these tracks of boulders and stone along which either men or yaks carry up food for basic survival and luxury goods.
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  • Mother and child with patriotic bunting, flags, balloons and royal memorabilia on display before the Queen's Golden Jubilee in a south London shop window. A few months before the Olympics come to London, a multi-cultural UK is gearing up for a weekend and summer of pomp and patriotic fervour as their monarch celebrates 60 years on the throne and across Britain, flags and Union Jack bunting adorn towns and villages.
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  • Voting arrive at the church of St. Saviours in the south London borough of Lambeth, serving as a polling station for the UKs General Election 2 weeks before Christmas, on 12th December 2019, in London, England.
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  • A modern Italian family and Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. The poster advertises the art exhibition by the celebrated painter Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino. Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. Eleonora di Toledo (1522 – 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Eleonora was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while travelling to Pisa.
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  • A family of three members covered with aviation and aerospace badges and knitted-plane jumpers during the bi-annual aerospace industry expo at the Farnborough airshow in southern England. Eccentric and obsessive, the family members look odd and ill-at-ease with their matching jumbers and adorned with dozens of collectable badges and pins loved by aviation groupies.
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  • A woman sits in the shade with a young girl during a daytrip to the Tower of London. Resting in front of the illustration showing one of the world's well-known tourist attractions, the lady and girl enjoy a quiet moment among the throng of visitors to the UK capital. Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078, and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new ruling elite.
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