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  • A detail of a peeling wall and a nameplate for the Ristorante Corleone on Poselska street in central Krakow, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Vintage Morris Minor with a soft top outside a house with a peeling paint door in Spitalfields, London, UK. The Morris Minor is a British economy car that debuted on 20 September 1948. Designed under the leadership of Alec Issigonis, more than 1.3 million were manufactured between 1948 and 1972. Initially available as a two-door saloon, the range was subsequently expanded to include a convertible version.
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  • The layers of advertising sheets are peeling away above the head of a female model advertising a retail brand on a billboard in Surbiton, on 12th November 2020, in London, England.
    surbiton_ad02-12-11-2020.jpg
  • Detail of peeling paint textures on an old, decaying door, on 25th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of Frances most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-79-25-05-2017.jpg
  • Detail of a peeling and faded pub sign feating its Saturday night entertainment in a Northumbrian town, on 26th September 2017, in Alnwick, Northumberland, England.
    alnwick-07-26-09-2017.jpg
  • Detail of peeling paint textures on an old, decaying door, on 25th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of Frances most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-80-25-05-2017.jpg
  • Detail of peeling paint textures on an old, decaying door, on 25th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of Frances most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-77-25-05-2017.jpg
  • CCTV camera watches men peeling the background of Canaletto's 18th century painting of the Lord Mayor's Show regatta at London Bridge railway station. The  30-metre-long work of art is positioned on a temporary wall at the recently-refurbished station entrance. The picture is a reproduction of Canaletto’s The Thames on Lord Mayor’s Day, Reproduced at this scale commuters and tourists are be able to admire the detail of the famous painting depicting the bustling activity of the Lord Mayor’s Show river procession as seen from Bankside before 1752.
    canaletto_mural01-17-09-2012_1.jpg
  • With his personal belongings and beach shingle surrounding him, a man sits on his seaside towel in soft sunlight in Dover eating a snack which is dribbling out of his mouth. The skin from many previous hours of exposure to solar radiation has left him raw and sunburned and therefore dried and dying skin is peeling in shreds on his back and shoulder. He looks like an eccentric local character who seems oblivious to the health risks that his continued sunbathing is inflicting on his bizarrely scorched body.
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  • Neglected but expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk. With peeling paint and a boarded up rear window, the property has been allowed to deteriorate, upsetting locals who value their standards and aware of the hut's value and demand. A beach hut (also known as a beach cabin or bathing box) is a small, usually wooden and often brightly coloured, box. The huts are an iconic image resorts such as Southwold, the most quintessential of British beach holiday destinations. Today Southwold’s beach huts are most likely to hit the national media because of their value meaning that they sell for large sums of money. Estate agents Durrants say huts on the promenade behind the sale item can go for £100,000. In 2012 a derelict beach hut in Southwold was on the market for £40,000.
    beach_hut10-25-07-2012_1.jpg
  • A detail of a crewman's foot with the peeling boards of his boat while sailing on the River Nile at Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Feluccas are ancient Egyptian sail boats which were used in ancient times as a primary mode of transport and are the only type of boat that is still used extensively in the country. Plying this great African river is a cheap fare state-run ferry used by commuters and locals but these sailing boats serve tourists and therefore are the many victims of the tourism downturn. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
    egypt126-02-03-2016_1.jpg
  • An abandoned Crazy Golf course lies broken and sad in a field at the northwestern seaside resort of Southport. It is a dark winter’s day and off-season when no tourists, let alone locals have ventured out to this otherwise popular summer resort for those away from the towns and cities such as nearby Liverpool. The word Golf is peeling and fading on a broken green fence and the course that was once freshly painted woodwork attracted families for an hour’s fun. The rapid growth of Southport largely coincided with the Industrial Revolution and the Victorian era. Town attractions include Southport Pier, the second longest seaside pleasure pier in the British Isles. Now it is a sad indictment of the decline of many English towns and only the green grass looks fresh and healthy.
    crazy_golf_landscape01-19-12-1997_1.jpg
  • The detail of a peeling beach sign for the 999 emergency Coastguard service, on 31st March 2019, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable-01-31-03-2019.jpg
  • A holiday couple sleep on portable beds in a particularly shabby corner of Bournemouth, a seaside resort in southern England. Above them are posters for this seedy part of the seaside resort on the south coast. Stars appearing in the summer season are an Elvis impersonator and the comedians Joe Longthorne and Les Dawson, who is appearing in Ray Cooney’s show called “Run For Your Wife!” The couple lie on their fold-up chairs, stretched out in a quiet corner below peeling plaster walls and beside a chained-up stack of deck chairs. The scene is a quintessentially English resort town that many from the 60s and 70s recall, when the Spanish package holiday suddenly became more attractive options, than the domestic week at home.
    seaside_posters01-20-10-1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as a reminder of Soviet discipline, the picture shows soldiers marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow01-16-06_1990.jpg
  • Summer scenes in the peeling window of the Age Concern charity, showing an event in the London suburb of Swanley in which Winter Olympic Skeleton medallist Lizzie Yarnold paraded her medal around Kent towns in 2018, on 3rd February 2020, in London, England.
    swanley_journey-02-03-02-2020.jpg
  • A now disused peeling old K2 telephone box kiosk, on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-17-10-09-2018.jpg
  • Oruro. Peeling posters of President Evo Morales.
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  • Old Communist graffiti adorns the walls of a crumbling building as an elderly lady walks past. Heroic but peeling portraits and slogans adorn the plater wall reminder passers-by of previous era when Portuguese politics were more turbulent. The Portuguese Communist Party is a major left-wing political party in Portugal. It is a Marxist-Leninist party  based upon democratic centralism. The party was founded in 1921 but made illegal after a coup in the late 1920s. The PCP played a major role in the opposition to the dictatorial regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. After the bloodless Carnation Revolution in 1974 which overthrew the 48-year regime, the 36 members of party's Central Committee had, in the aggregate, experienced more than 300 years in jail.
    lisbon8-21-03-1994.jpg
  • A wall landscape of cracked and peeling plaster and a poster for an all-day breakfast cafe called the Coffee Pot located around the corner, on 3rd October 2019, in Dartford, Kent, England. Voters in Dartford voted 64% in favour of Brexit during the 2016 referendum.
    dartford_journey-11-03-10-2019.jpg
  • A now disused peeling old K2 telephone box kiosk, on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-16-10-09-2018.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow02-16-06_1990.jpg
  • Peeling walls plus broken windows and doors on a derelict property in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, on 8th August 1991, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
    liverpool-08-08-1991.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show an instruction mural for guarding prison camps seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier standing at the barbed wire of a generic Gulag holding his AK-47 weapon and dressed in fur hat and uniform from that era. Perhaps those training here were eventually to guard political prisoners though it is a reminder of a fallen ideology. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer.
    russian_wustrow03-16-06_1990.jpg
  • High above the streets of Old Lisbon, we see a Portuguese lady leaning out of her window to hang out her washing on the line that is attached to her home's exterior wall in the Bairro Alto district - or Upper City - the oldest of Lisbon's residential quarters. Items of underwear, socks and other miscellaneous clothing have been strung out on the line that is now pegged along the crumbling wall's surface with faded, peeling plaster and paint. A TV aerial has also been fixed precariously by the window and it's shadow can be seen in the sunshine which is strong and side-lighting the scene which has a warm, morning glow about it. Lisbon's Bairro Alto quarter is located above Baixa and developed in the 16th Century. Suffering very little damage in the earthquake of 1755, it remains the area of most character and renowned for its residential and working quarter for craftsmen and shopkeepers. At night, life takes on a diferent personality when bars and up until the 60s, prostitution gave the district a bad reputation in the past but nowadays tourists and the chic frequent its streets and traditional 'Fado' (classical Portuguese opera) bars.
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  • A detail of an ill-fated Comet airliner door now confined to the ground at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, England. Peeling paint and a make-shift padlock shows this museum piece's age and exposure to the outside elements. A year after entering commercial service the Comets began suffering problems, with three of them breaking up during mid-flight in well-publicised accidents. This was later found to be due to catastrophic metal fatigue, not well understood at the time, in the airframes. The Comet was withdrawn from service and extensively tested to discover the cause; the first incident had been incorrectly blamed on adverse weather.
    comet_door01-07-08-2000_1.jpg
  • A construction site hoarding peels in summer heat, below the spikes of security railings, on 3rd July 2017, in Clapham, London, England.
    peeling_hoarding-01-03-07-2017.jpg
  • After harvesting, the hemp plant (cannabis sativa) is left to dry in the sun for around 7 days, then the bark is peeled off in long thin lengths, Ban Long Kuang, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. Making hemp fabric is a long and laborious process; the end result is a strong durable cloth with qualities similar to linen which the Hmong women make into skirts for their traditional clothing. In Lao PDR, hemp is now only cultivated in remote mountainous areas of the north.
    A0026786cc_1.jpg
  • After harvesting, the hemp plant (cannabis sativa) is left to dry in the sun for around 7 days, then the bark is peeled off in long thin lengths, Ban Long Kuang, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. Making hemp fabric is a long and laborious process; the end result is a strong durable cloth with qualities similar to linen which the Hmong women make into skirts for their traditional clothing. In Lao PDR, hemp is now only cultivated in remote mountainous areas of the north.
    A0026784cc_1.jpg
  • After harvesting, the hemp plant (cannabis sativa) is left to dry in the sun for around 7 days, then the bark is peeled off in long thin lengths, Ban Long Kuang, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. Making hemp fabric is a long and laborious process; the end result is a strong durable cloth with qualities similar to linen which the Hmong women make into skirts for their traditional clothing. In Lao PDR, hemp is now only cultivated in remote mountainous areas of the north.
    A0026774cc_1.jpg
  • Peeled and torn poster showing remains of woman's face and features in Soho, central London. The eyes of female models peer through the layers of torn paper in a small street in the capital - a vandalised version of what was once an expensive advertising campaign reduced to litter and waste. The resulting image seems almost abstract, an artistic statement of dystopia and finality.
    female_media04-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Peeled and torn poster showing remains of woman's face and features in Soho, central London. The eyes of a female model peer through the layers of torn paper in a small street in the capital - a vandalised version of what was once an expensive advertising campaign reduced to litter and waste. The resulting image seems almost abstract, an artistic statement of dystopia and finality.
    female_media02-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A workman peels off fresh wrapping outside a Mayfair shop retailer, on 5th June 2019, in London, England.
    west_end-10-05-06-2019.jpg
  • Inside a traditional Beijing courtyard house, Mr Chen Yun Jiang’s opera singer father’s ( Chen Yan Qiu), original travelling trunks which would contain his Opera costumes when he performed.
    chicourt_025_1.jpg
  • A detail of old advertising for a cigarette brand from decades ago called Wills whose product was Goldflake, on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was founded in 1786 and was the first UK company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco along with John Player & Sons.
    whitstable_shops06-19-07-2020.jpg
  • In afternoon heat, baked hard paint textures on village closed wooden shutters, on 25th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of Frances most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    homps_france-07-25-05-2017.jpg
  • In afternoon heat, baked hard paint textures on village closed wooden shutters, on 25th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of Frances most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-88-25-05-2017.jpg
  • Beneath rusting railings is the name of Hotel Serra, the faded grandeur of a once-grand establishment, on 17th July 2016, in the spa resort of Luso, Portugal. In the 11th century, Luso was a sleepy village linked to a monastery in the hills near Coimbra but it became a lively spa resort in the 1700s as its hot water springs became a focus for tourism. The waters here are said to have therapeutic value in the treatment for bad circulation, muscle tone, rheumatism and renal problems.
    portugal_luso-20-17-07-2016.jpg
  • Old cigarette dispenser in a high street, Deal Kent. As a piece of bygone street fixture to a wall in this small town in south-eastern England, we see what used to be a common sight on Britain's streets, shops and pubs. Then, cigarette smoking was a national habit and before the changes of smoking in public laws by progressive governments who also banned the selling of tobacco anywhere, except in licensed premises. Yet somehow this old dispenser remains in place, a symbol of the way things were.
    cigarette_dispenser01-04-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Old shipping container colours and their textures along the on the Saxon Shore Way footpath near Oare, on 29th May 2019, near Faversham, Kent, England.
    faversham_walk-24-29-05-2019.jpg
  • In afternoon heat, baked hard paint textures on village closed wooden shutters, on 26th May, 2017, in Villerouge-Termenes, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France.
    villerouge_france-05-26-05-2017.jpg
  • In afternoon heat, baked hard paint textures on village closed wooden shutters and doorway, on 26th May, 2017, in Villerouge-Termenes, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France.
    villerouge_france-04-26-05-2017.jpg
  • A window of a red-painted rorbu fisherman’s cabin on 25th August 2016 in Lofoten, Norway. The Lofoten islands are famous for their jagged mountains, red-painted rorbu cabins and racks with fish hanging closely packed to dry.
    DSCF0190_1.jpg
  • Old West End theatre posters uncovered on Charing Cross Road in central London. The layers of past plays and musicals have been revealed during building work to the Garrick Theatre on Charing Cross Road in the heart of the capital's West End and Theatreland. Most prominently is the word 'Last' that may refer to the last night or week's run of a production long-forgotten or perhaps celebrated in the history of London stage. The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster. It opened on 24 April 1889.
    theatre_posters01-03-09-2015.jpg
  • Plaster Catholic idols in a corner of the Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais church at Le Grand-Pressigny, Indre-et-Loire, France. In the foreground is a small child in the arms of a monk with other figurines in the background. <br />
The Gothic style church has its origins in the 12th century but has been added to and amended over the centuries like so many other ancient places of worship here in the Loire Valley and the rest of the country.
    french_church04-09-07-2014_1.jpg
  • Interior of a sheepfold with religious icon and woollen weaving on the wall and net curtains at the window, Lunca Ilvei, Romania
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  • The locked and security grilled doorway of a Pakistani takeaway shop on Lumb Lane near Bradford City centre, Yorkshire. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    bradford_windows02-09-05-2009_1.jpg
  • A detail of old advertising for a cigarette brand from decades ago called Wills whose product was Flag Empire Blend, on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was founded in 1786 and was the first UK company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco along with John Player & Sons.
    whitstable_shops04-19-07-2020.jpg
  • Summer scenes in a cracked window of the Age Concern charity, showing an event in the London suburb of Swanley in which Winter Olympic Skeleton medallist Lizzie Yarnold paraded her medal around Kent towns in 2018, on 3rd February 2020, in London, England.
    swanley_journey-04-03-02-2020.jpg
  • The detail of the colour samples being tried on the exterior of a wooden beach hut, on 31st March 2019, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable-03-31-03-2019.jpg
  • Detail of a plaster-rendered village wall, on 25th May, 2017, in Homps, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France.
    argens_ minervois-01-25-05-2017.jpg
  • A window of a red-painted Rorbu fisherman’s cabin on 25th August 2016 in Lofoten, Norway. The Lofoten islands are famous for their jagged mountains, red-painted rorbu cabins and racks with fish hanging closely packed to dry.
    DSCF0188_1.jpg
  • Highlander effigy on an outside wall of Old Ferry House, now a remote self-catering house at Grasspoint, Loch Don, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Until 1881 a regular packet boat operated from here between Oban and Grass Point.
    isle_of_mull347-21-11-2011_1.jpg
  • A red-painted Rorbu fisherman’s cabin on 25th August 2016 in Lofoten, Norway. The Lofoten islands are famous for their jagged mountains, red-painted rorbu cabins and racks with fish hanging closely packed to dry.
    DSCF0185_1.jpg
  • New work by street artist Jo Peel on Holywell Lane, Shoreditch. Jo Peel is a member of internationally acclaimed Scrawl Collective and spends her time documenting in great detail her fascination with everyday scenes and scenarios.  Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20120328street art jo peel_G.jpg
  • New work by street artist Jo Peel on Holywell Lane, Shoreditch. Jo Peel is a member of internationally acclaimed Scrawl Collective and spends her time documenting in great detail her fascination with everyday scenes and scenarios.  Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20120328street art jo peel_F.jpg
  • New work by street artist Jo Peel on Holywell Lane, Shoreditch. Jo Peel is a member of internationally acclaimed Scrawl Collective and spends her time documenting in great detail her fascination with everyday scenes and scenarios.  Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20120328street art jo peel_D.jpg
  • New work by street artist Jo Peel on Holywell Lane, Shoreditch. Jo Peel is a member of internationally acclaimed Scrawl Collective and spends her time documenting in great detail her fascination with everyday scenes and scenarios.  Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20120328street art jo peel_C.jpg
  • New work by street artist Jo Peel on Holywell Lane, Shoreditch. Jo Peel is a member of internationally acclaimed Scrawl Collective and spends her time documenting in great detail her fascination with everyday scenes and scenarios.  Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20120315street art jo peel_A.jpg
  • The silhouetted statue of Sir Robert Peel and the Elizabeth Tower of the British parliament, on 17th January 2017, in London England. The Elizabeth Tower previously called the Clock Tower named in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II in her Diamond Jubilee year – was raised as a part of Charles Barrys design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was largely destroyed by fire on the night of 16 October 1834. The new Parliament was built in a Neo-gothic style, completed in 1858 and is one of the most prominent symbols of both London and England. Sir Robert Peel, was a British statesman and member of the Conservative Party, served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and twice as Home Secretary. He created the modern police force and officers known as bobbies and peelers.
    westminster-18-17-01-2017.jpg
  • The statue of Sir Robert Peel and the British Houses of Parliament, on 17th January 2017, in Parliament Square, London England. The Elizabeth Tower previously called the Clock Tower named in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II in her Diamond Jubilee year – was raised as a part of Charles Barrys design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was largely destroyed by fire on the night of 16 October 1834. The new Parliament was built in a Neo-gothic style, completed in 1858 and is one of the most prominent symbols of both London and England. Sir Robert Peel, was a British statesman and member of the Conservative Party, served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and twice as Home Secretary. He created the modern police force and officers known as bobbies and peelers.
    westminster-44-18-01-2017.jpg
  • The silhouetted statue of Sir Robert Peel and the Elizabeth Tower of the British parliament, on 17th January 2017, in London England. The Elizabeth Tower previously called the Clock Tower named in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II in her Diamond Jubilee year – was raised as a part of Charles Barrys design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was largely destroyed by fire on the night of 16 October 1834. The new Parliament was built in a Neo-gothic style, completed in 1858 and is one of the most prominent symbols of both London and England. Sir Robert Peel, was a British statesman and member of the Conservative Party, served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and twice as Home Secretary. He created the modern police force and officers known as bobbies and peelers.
    westminster-21-17-01-2017.jpg
  • The silhouetted statue of Sir Robert Peel and the clockface containing the Big Ben bell in the Elizabeth Tower of the British parliament, on 17th January 2017, in London England. The Elizabeth Tower previously called the Clock Tower named in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II in her Diamond Jubilee year – was raised as a part of Charles Barrys design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was largely destroyed by fire on the night of 16 October 1834. The new Parliament was built in a Neo-gothic style, completed in 1858 and is one of the most prominent symbols of both London and England. Sir Robert Peel, was a British statesman and member of the Conservative Party, served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and twice as Home Secretary. He created the modern police force and officers known as bobbies and peelers.
    westminster-09-17-01-2017.jpg
  • Drying fruit peel, leaves, and other remedies as part of the vast array of Chinese medicine potions, Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province.
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  • Drying fruit peel, leaves, and other remedies as part of the vast array of Chinese medicine potions, Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province.
    chiherb_039_1.jpg
  • Rare Maserati vintage Peel Bubble Car passes the Murder and Mayhem crime book shop in Hay-on-Wye or Y Gelli Gandryll in Welsh, known as "the town of books", is a small town in Powys, Wales famous for it's many second hand and specialist bookshops, although the number has declined sharply in recent years, many becoming general antique shops and similar.
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  • Rare Maserati vintage Peel Bubble Car passes the Murder and Mayhem crime book shop in Hay-on-Wye or Y Gelli Gandryll in Welsh, known as "the town of books", is a small town in Powys, Wales famous for it's many second hand and specialist bookshops, although the number has declined sharply in recent years, many becoming general antique shops and similar.
    20130825_hay bubble car_B.jpg
  • 800 varieties of plants, roots, bark, peel, leaves, etc. are stored by Chinese Herbalist Chen Yi He, he is able to dispense from his clinic, Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province, China.
    chiherb_009_1.jpg
  • A week after a Black Lives Matter protest turned to violence when the statue of wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was daubed in graffiti which called him a racist, and despite warning from police not to attend protests at all today - and to be off the streets by 5.00pm - a large group crowd of right-wing groups gathered at the boxed-in statue to protect it from further vandalism by Black Lives Matter and anti-racism opponents. Alongside the statue of Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the modern police force, Met Police officers also guarded the boxed-in statue of Nelson Mandela which the far-right had said they would attack, on 13th June 2020, in London, England.
    racism_protest-04-13-06-2020.jpg
  • A week after a Black Lives Matter protest turned to violence when the statue of wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was daubed in graffiti which called him a racist, and despite warning from police not to attend protests at all today - and to be off the streets by 5.00pm - a large group crowd of right-wing groups gathered at the boxed-in statue to protect it from further vandalism by Black Lives Matter and anti-racism opponents. Alongside the statue of Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the modern police force, Met Police officers also guarded the boxed-in statue of Nelson Mandela which the far-right had said they would attack, on 13th June 2020, in London, England.
    racism_protest-05-13-06-2020.jpg
  • Rare Maserati vintage Peel Bubble Car parked outside a cafe in Hay-on-Wye or Y Gelli Gandryll in Welsh, known as "the town of books", is a small town in Powys, Wales famous for it's many second hand and specialist bookshops, although the number has declined sharply in recent years, many becoming general antique shops and similar.
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  • A boy peels vegetables, Bein al-Qasreen area, Islamic Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
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  • Peeled chestnuts left on a wall for the squirrels by a nature loving neigbour in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • Peeled chestnuts left on a wall for the squirrels by a nature loving neigbour in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • Portrait of Yai with her peeled hemp outside her home in the Hmong village of Ban Pom Khor, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. Making hemp fabric is a long and laborious process; the end result is a strong durable cloth with qualities similar to linen which the Hmong women make into skirts for their traditional clothing. In Lao PDR, hemp is now only cultivated in remote mountainous areas of the north.
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  • Peeled chestnuts left on a wall for the squirrels by a nature loving neigbour in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • A detail of organic vegetable and fruit matter decomposing inside a home garden composting bin. We look down on to the natural waste as a close-up of the vegetables and fruit scraps that have been thrown away by a city householder in south London. Local authorities encourage the use of compost bins in back gardens (yards) and the proliferation of these efficient containers mean that their residue can be returned to the soil without the expense of transport to landfill. The rotting matter of banana skins, onions and potato peelings will eventually become a nutritious feed for new plants - and so the cycle goes on.
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  • A detail of organic vegetable and fruit matter decomposing inside a home garden composting bin. We look down on to the natural waste as a close-up of the vegetables and fruit scraps that have been thrown away by a city householder in south London. Local authorities encourage the use of compost bins in back gardens (yards) and the proliferation of these efficient containers mean that their residue can be returned to the soil without the expense of transport to landfill. The rotting matter of banana skins, onions and potato peelings will eventually become a nutritious feed for new plants - and so the cycle goes on.
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  • Chen YiHe, Chinese Herbalist, studying the inventory of his remedies and potions in his clinic, Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province, China.
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  • Chen Yi He, Chinese Herbal doctor, weighing remedies and ingredients, in his clinic , Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province, China.
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  • A detail of rotting vegetables in a garden compost bin. A detail of organic vegetable and fruit matter decomposing inside a home garden composting bin. We look down on to the natural waste as a close-up of the vegetables and fruit scraps that have been thrown away by a city householder in south London. Local authorities encourage the use of compost bins in back gardens (yards) and the proliferation of these efficient containers mean that their residue can be returned to the soil without the expense of transport to landfill. The rotting matter of carrot skins etc. will eventually become a nutritious feed for new plants - and so the cycle goes on.
    compost_detail01-21-01-2014.jpg
  • Despite a gloriously bright summer afternoon, we see a depressing corner of Southend-on-Sea's Adventure Island. A young couple sits on some white towels in front of a wall that is adorned with graffiti and has its paint rubbed away. It is a scene of squalor and desolation in a town that makes revenue from the day-tripper holiday market. Since Victorian times, many Londoners have traditionally come to this south-east coast on the Thames Estuary, close to the capital. Towns like this have seen a marked decline since the advent of the package tourism in favour of exotic beaches in Spain.
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  • A peeling billboard reveals older layers of Primesight street advertising incl the dystopian message "It's a wonderful world." The differences between dream and dystopia make for a comical, if slightly sad landscape in this south London street called Coldharbour Lane SW9, the home for housing estates and problem families in the borough of Lambeth. Peeling sheets of past ad campaigns after rainfall has helped tear the top layer to reveal others underneath. <br />
Primesight is one of the UK's leading Outdoor advertising companies with ownership of a diverse portfolio of products in a range of environments.
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  • Political posters peeling on a wall in the northern Italian city of Trento. Various pieces of paper have been stuck to the board in the city centre and all have been torn. Trento is an educational, scientific, financial and political centre in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, in Tyrol and Northern Italy in general. The University of Trento ranks highly out of Italy's top 30 colleges.
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  • An old beetle fusca with peeling paint, Street scene, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
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  • Personal underwaer clothing hangs from string against a wall of peeling plaster, on 21st March 1994, in Lisbon, Portugal.
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  • A No Pedestrians entry sign on the red door of a local garage business. Seen as a detail, we look at the surface of the wooden door painted red but peeling on the bottom part. The triangular-shaped sign looks handmade with the shop-bought sign on the top.
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  • Typical wooden doorways in a backstreet courtyard of the modern town of Klausen-Chiusa in south Tyrol, north Italy. This tiny courtyard has been swallowed up into the more modern parts of town but the history and architectural style of past centuries can still be seen from the weathered wood and peeling plaster walls. Klausen (Italian: Chiusa) is a commune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of the city of Bolzano. In the 2011 census, 91.3% of the population speak German, 7.9% Italian and 0.8% spoke the ancient Ladin langauge as their mother tongue.
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  • A maid uses a mop and bucket to wash down paintwork and railings at an exclusive address in Chester Square, Belgravia, SW1. In a house next door to where ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once lived from 1991 to 2012. The maid wearing an apron and regulation shoes uses her mop on a long handle to poke between the iron railings, wiping off dirst and dust. The paint however is peeling, needing redecoration and its cracks refilling. Chester Square was laid out between 1828 and 1840 by the 1st Duke of Westminster and his surveyor and architect Thomas Cundy II as part of the Grosvenor Estate.
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  • On the day that UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson announced in parliament of a major easing of Coronavirus pandemic restrictions on July 4th next week - including the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers in England - a detail of a billboard shows peeling imagery of black men, near the Southbank which remains closed for the forseeable future, on 23rd June 2020, in London, England. The three month two metre social distance will be also reduced to one metre plus but in the last 24hrs, a further 171 have died from Covid, bringing the UK total to 42,927.
    coronavirus_southbank-03-23-06-2020.jpg
  • Marc Gooderham, a contemporary British artist sketches on a street in London, United Kingdom. Born in 1977 in West London, Gooderham attended The University of Westminster to study Illustration. He is especially attracted to desolate buildings, with their peeling paint, numberless front doors, and glimpses into empty rooms through uncurtained windows that naturally evoke a loneliness inherent in any large city.
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  • Typical wooden doorways in a backstreet courtyard of the modern town of Klausen-Chiusa in south Tyrol, north Italy. This tiny courtyard has been swallowed up into the more modern parts of town but the history and architectural style of past centuries can still be seen from the weathered wood and peeling plaster walls. Klausen (Italian: Chiusa) is a commune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of the city of Bolzano. In the 2011 census, 91.3% of the population speak German, 7.9% Italian and 0.8% spoke the ancient Ladin langauge as their mother tongue.
    klausen_italy19-16-07-2015_1.jpg
  • Volunteers peeling potatoes in the kitchen of Slough Homeless our concern (SHOC) A local homeless charity helping the homeless and vulnerable in Slough. Berkshire, UK.
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  • A filthy alleyway in Toxteth, Liverpool amid socially-deprived streets and terraced housing. Graffiti of girls' names has been painted on to the brick wall of a tenement building but is now peeling off. Weeds have grown around the cobbled pavement and the windows are boarded up in a landscape of urban dereliction and social depravity.
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  • On the day that UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson announced in parliament of a major easing of Coronavirus pandemic restrictions on July 4th next week - including the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers in England - a detail of a billboard shows peeling imagery of black men, near the Southbank which remains closed for the forseeable future, on 23rd June 2020, in London, England. The three month two metre social distance will be also reduced to one metre plus but in the last 24hrs, a further 171 have died from Covid, bringing the UK total to 42,927.
    coronavirus_southbank-02-23-06-2020.jpg
  • A closed cafe that once offered all day breakfast with empty seating in central London, a victim of the UK recession. With peeling paint and unused street furniture, se see that the corner business has closed, its windows covered in white emulsion paint to render it opaque. The shop's former menu is still displayed on this window: "Beverages and filled sandwiches & baguettes" once sold to regular customers.
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  • A week after a Black Lives Matter protest turned to violence when the statue of wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was daubed in graffiti which called him a racist, and despite warning from police not to attend protests at all today - and to be off the streets by 5.00pm - a large group crowd of right-wing groups gathered at the boxed-in statue to protect it from further vandalism by Black Lives Matter and anti-racism opponents. Alongside the statue of Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the modern police force, Met Police officers also guarded the boxed-in statue of Nelson Mandela which the far-right had said they would attack, on 13th June 2020, in London, England.
    racism_protest-06-13-06-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion demonstrators with a banner reading “Eyes on Government IN-Action’ protest in the trees above the Robert Peel statue in Parliament Square outside the House of Commons for the climate and ecological emergency.  Westminster London, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a political movement with the main aim to avert climate breakdown, minimise human extinction and stop ecological collapse using non violent resistance.
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  • Extinction Rebellion demonstrators with a banner reading “Eyes on Government IN-Action’ protest in the trees above the Robert Peel statue in Parliament Square outside the House of Commons for the climate and ecological emergency.  Westminster London, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a political movement with the main aim to avert climate breakdown, minimise human extinction and stop ecological collapse using non violent resistance.
    UK-Protest-Extinction-Rebellion-_83B...jpg
  • The Marine Police Force, sometimes known as the Thames River Police, claimed to be England's oldest police force and was formed in 1798 to tackle theft and looting from ships anchored in the Pool of London and in the lower reaches and docks of the Thames. Pre-dating the Metropolitan Police, it merged in 1839 with that nascent force instigated by Robert Peel. Its base was (and remains) in Wapping High Street. It has gradually evolved into the Metropolitan Police Marine Policing Unit.
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