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  • Looking up towards majestically tall Ash trees and blue skies, in an Edwardian age semi-detached house on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) South London England. It is a beautiful spring evening in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. The elegant line of period homes were completed in 1908, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and cultural commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
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  • A detail of number 62 London's famous Eaton Square complete with heavy gloss-painted black door and the cream walls of this exclusive and classically-designed street in Belgravia. The numbers are also painted in black to show a prosperous address in a wealthy part of town. The brass letter box is ornate too, having been polished along with the locks. Eaton Square is one of London's three garden squares built by Thomas Cubitt and the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia from 1826 until 1855. Belgravia attracts actors, politicians, ambassadors, big-budget bankers, traders and Prime Ministers like Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin at number 93.
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  • City workers enjoy a lunchtime siesta in summer sunshine under solid Corinthian pillars of the Royal Exchange in City of London. With his tie askew and loosened around his neck, a successful businessman sits on a bench below the war memorial and tall pillars of this Victorian market building in the heart of London’s financial district. Alongside is an older, less prosperous man whose rumpled coat gives us the sense that he might be less accomplished than the younger gentleman. There is a heat wave in the capital and officer workers have come out into the sunshine to unwind and snatch a quick sleep in parks and open spaces. The neo-Romanesque Royal Exchange building also has Doric and Ionic columns with their ornate stonework, strong lintels with carvings featuring the design by Sir William Tite in 1842-1844 and opened in 1844 by Queen Victoria.
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  • An prosperous-looking elderly middle-class voter who represents so-called middle-England, protests over coalition plans over the NHS, holding a placard in Butter Market in the centre of Canterbury. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Conservative (Tory) Prime Minister David Cameron are parodied on the poster urging them to keep the country's National Health Service out of private hands, to keep it as a government organisation, run by Hunt and overseen by his boss, Cameron. The town of Canterbury hosted the enthronement of the Church of England's new Archbishop, allowing students and this well-dressed tady to voice their concerns.
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  • The East River Savings Bank in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Walking across Church Street they go beneath two American flags of the bank at the corner of 26 Cortlandt Street. Seen from a low angle, we look upwards to a tall skyscraper that rises into the Manhattan sky, adjacent to the site of the former Twin Towers and Ground Zero. It symbolises a wealthy country whose people largely enjoy a prosperity and stability of both economy and government.
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  • Homegrown beds of dahlias grow in the front garden of a council house in the early 1960s. The flowers are fine specimens of this species. Prospering, tall and healthy in summer sunshine in this front garden in Southend-in-Sea in Essex, England, their reds are brilliantly reproduced and recorded by Kodachrome film by an amateur photographer in 1963. Net curtains (drapes) can be seen in the windows and the green grass is clipped and mown to reflect the obsessive nature of the resident and plant grower. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family01-20-04-1963_1.jpg
  • The East River Savings Bank in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Walking across Church Street they go beneath two American flags of the bank at the corner of 26 Cortlandt Street. Seen from a low angle, we look upwards to a tall skyscraper that rises into the Manhattan sky, adjacent to the site of the former Twin Towers and Ground Zero. It symbolises a wealthy country whose people largely enjoy a prosperity and stability of both economy and government.
    tim_lynch998-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. We look down from a high angle on the sea of yellow flowers prospering in summer sunshine and clouds suggest a landscape of growth and healthy crops. Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers07-11-07-2014_1.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. We look down from a high angle on the sea of yellow flowers prospering in summer sunshine and clouds suggest a landscape of growth and healthy crops. Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers04-11-07-2014_1.jpg
  • A wealthy man's hand hangs outside his shiny black limousine, holding a cigarette. While stationary in traffic in the capital's West End, the unseen man hangs his arm outside of the very expensive vehicle, polished and shiny in winter sunshine. We see a scene of prosperity and arrogance at a time of an improving economy after years of recession and economic downturn. Here is a person of means and privilege, sat at the back of his Bentley, driven by a chauffeur.
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  • A poverty-stricken homeless man looks down at the pavement while a smartly-dressed professional puts a finger on his location on a steel map (and his own position in life) - a scene of wealth and prosperity and the downtrodden in society. They are both in a place known as Bank Triangle in what is called the Square Mile, London's oldest district of banking and finance businesses.
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  • In the shadow of 1 Canada Square, the iconic Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands stands as an icon for Thatcherite Britain when the good times, prosperity and economic upturns seemed unshakeable. Four work colleagues stand under a hot lunchtime sun during a summer heatwave. In their shirtsleeves the men each hold pints of refreshing lager, all having removed their dark jackets to enjoy the company of a flirtatious female who appears to be flirting with an older male companion. The sky is blue and the five are care-free to any future economic uncertainty.
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  • A Ford Anglia is parked in an empty road and homegrown beds of dahlias grow in the front garden of a council house in the early 1960s. Looking through the clean window we see net curtains (drapes) and in the foreground are the flowers showing a prospering post-war era. The car is the only one parked in the road at a time when car ownership was still to become popular among the working and middle-classes is estates like this. The colours are brilliantly reproduced and recorded by Kodachrome film by an amateur photographer in 1963. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family02-20-04-1963_1.jpg
  • Healthy green leaves sprout from a tree below a tall office skyscraper, a scene of economic prosperity, growth and recovery. We look up at the tall structure whose dark surfaces reflect passing clouds while below, the tree's new leaves look more verdant after season rainfall.
    city_tree05-27-04-2012_1.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. We look down from a high angle on the sea of yellow flowers prospering in summer sunshine and clouds suggest a landscape of growth and healthy crops. Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers08-11-07-2014_1.jpg
  • American consumers pass the tall doorway of the East River Savings Bank in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Walking across Church Street they go beneath two American flags of the bank at the corner of 26 Cortlandt Street. Seen from a low angle, we look upwards to a tall skyscraper that rises into the Manhattan sky, adjacent to the site of the former Twin Towers and Ground Zero. As US citizens, they symbolise a wealthy country whose people largely enjoy a prosperity and stability of both economy and government.
    manhattan_buildings11-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Two very posh Belgian ladies window shop in one of Belgium's smartest chocolatiers in the famous Galleries de la Reine in central Brussels. Wearing fur coats and warm hats, they epitomise wealth and prosperity in late 1980s Europe. Golden packaging is seen in this wonderful display where individual chocolates and shaped hearts and cakes show their exclusive values.
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  • Listening intently to a speech given by a city dignitary before Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke MP, the then-Chancellor in John Major’s Conservative government of 1994, these city and financial dignitaries have feasted well in the old Guildhall, the City of London’s town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the capital. Wearing formal banquet attire, these chiefs of industry appear to be an all-male audience though there were also women sat at tables during the Banker's Dinner held every in June when the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a speech known as the Mansion House Speech hosted by the Lord Mayor, which takes its name from his official residence nearby. They concentrate on the speech to hear the Chancellor’s predictions for growth and prosperity.
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  • Catering staff polish silverware and glasses at the tables soon to be occupied by City of London dignitaries at the Guildhall when the Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke MP, the then-Chancellor in John Major’s Conservative government of makes his annual speech. Tables and cutlery are prepared before the bankers and financiers file in for this formal banquet in the ancient City's town hall. The Banker's Dinner is held every in June when the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a speech known as the Mansion House Speech hosted by the Lord Mayor of London when the Chancellor delivers his forecast predicts growth and prosperity.
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  • Four associates celebrate a successful day's business by treating themselves to a lunchtime bottle of white wine amid the scenes of prosperity and wealth of early 90s Britain. At their feet in the bay window are the fruits of a buoyant economy - Magnums of and jeroboams of Champagne to help revel in the success of the era. This is the City of London, the heart of the capital's financial district where money is earned in great quantities and commodities traded in their millions. The commissions are huge and lunchtimes are extravagant.
    city_lunchtime02-20-05-1993_1.jpg
  • Catering staff polish silverware and glasses at the tables soon to be occupied by City of London dignitaries at the Guildhall when the Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke MP, the then-Chancellor in John Major’s Conservative government of makes his annual speech. Tables and cutlery are prepared before the bankers and financiers file in for this formal banquet in the ancient City's town hall. The Banker's Dinner is held every in June when the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a speech known as the Mansion House Speech hosted by the Lord Mayor of London when the Chancellor delivers his forecast predicts growth and prosperity.
    guildhall_banquet02-16-06-1994_1.jpg
  • Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street30-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street78-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • 180 degree distorted fish-eye lens cityscape on Broadway, Lower Manhattan, New York City. The extreme nature of this specialist lens bends straight lines and translates them into curves to show a skyline of the city of NYC, blue sky surrounded by tall skyscrapers in this modern metropolis. New York City, with a Census-estimated population of over 8.4 million in 2013, is the most populous city in the United States. Alone, it makes up over 40 percent of the population of New York State.
    manhattan_fisheye01-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street71-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Tall, wide view of banking and financial institutions on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests.
    wall_street96-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • George Washington statue and classical pillars of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolising the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street46-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Detail of stone architecture dated anno domini 1928, on the surface of a wall on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City. This famous street symbolises the US economy. September 1929 was the peak of the stock market. and a few days later, on October 24, stock values plummeted and the market crash of 1929 ushered in the Great Depression. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. t
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  • Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street19-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street15-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Modern architecture and the 1903 Gothic Woolworth building on the left, in Manhattan, New York City. High-rise buildings are mostly corporate offices though some apartments in this, one of the world's great megacities. They occupy addresses along Broadway - a mixture of modernity and 19th century architecture can be seen in detail. The Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, is an early US skyscraper. The original site for the building was purchased by F. W. Woolworth and his real estate agent Edward J. Hogan by April 15, 1910, from the Trenor Luther Park Estate and other owners for $1.65 million.
    tim_lynch459-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Modern and 19th century architecture in Manhattan, New York City. High-rise buildings are mostly corporate offices though some apartments in this, one of the world's great megacities. They occupy addresses along Broadway - a mixture of modernity and 19th century architecture can be seen in detail.
    tim_lynch427-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Summer sunshine and clouds suggest a landscape of growth and healthy crops. <br />
Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers06-11-07-2014_1.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Summer sunshine and clouds suggest a landscape of growth and healthy crops. <br />
Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers02-11-07-2014_1.jpg
  • Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is seated against a gold leaf backdrop of Islamic texts in a reception room of his palace in central Khartoum. Al-Bashir is head of the National Congress Party and has been in power since October 1993. In 2009 he was indicted for war crimes by the ICC, (International Criminal Court) and represented as a bloodstained dictator by elements of the international media though is seemingly loved and respected for his role in empowering women. Secretary General of the National Council for Children’s Welfare, Amira Elfadil, says “He comes from within us all. He has a military background but he is a simple man, a man of the people, with good Islamic values. He speaks from his heart.”
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  • Semi-detached Edwardian period houses in warm evening sunshine, on 7th March 2018, in the south London borough of Lambeth.
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  • Detail of brick wall with Hampstead Grove NW3 road sign. Hampstead Grove is a street in London's Hampstead, District Camden with exclusive houses of great character, whose occupants have traditionally been of social and creative eminence. It runs between Lower Terrace to the north and Holly Hill in the south. In addition, Hampstead Grove meets the following streets: Upper Terrace to the north, Admiral's Walk in the middle and Windmill Hill in the south. The northern section of the road is flanked by green spaces. This area is called the Old Village Green. Here, by the year 1700, the parliamentary elections were Middlesex held. The green area was later used as a playing field for cricket used.
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  • Football theme window showing team players in betting business window, central London. Three footballers are seen in action on the pitch, during games in the Spanish league. They appear in the window of betting outlet William Hill to help sell the passer-by to stop and place a bet on international sport.
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  • On a fine spring day, we see the ornate fountain, ornamental central garden and beyond, the grand terraced properties of Wellington Square, SW3 in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London England. The pristine houses are all identically painted white, their perfect iron railings all black as are their heavy gloss-painted doors. Wellington Square is off the King's Road Chelsea and was built around 1830: Named after the 1st Duke of Wellington (the heroic Commander-in-Chief of the British Army - most famously at Waterloo in 1815 - then a Tory politician and in 1834, temporary Prime Minister).
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  • With their grand character of red brick and bay windows, railings and high-celinged rooms, are the grand properties at the junction of Cadogan Gardens and Clabon Mews SW3. On the left is the crest showing Stuart House, set in this parade of fine Victorian houses. Stuart House was constructed in 1880. It is a large red-brick detached house in the ‘Queen Anne’ style. Cadogan Gardens SW3, is an 1890s development between the King's Road and Sloane Street.
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  • With a prominent Royal Warrant as couturier to Her Majesty the Queen, the fashion house Stewart Parvin's boutique name is seen outside 14 Motcomb Street in exclusive Belgravia, London. Royal Warrants are a mark of recognition to individuals or companies who have supplied goods or services for at least five years to HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh or HRH The Prince of Wales. There are around 850 Royal Warrant Holders representing a huge cross-section of trade and industry. Warrant Holders may display the relevant Royal Arms and the legend ‘By Appointment’ on their products, premises, stationery, vehicles and advertising but must adhere to strict guidelines for its proper use.<br />
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  • In soft mid-morning spring sunshine, we see rising up from street-level the 5-storey houses with Doric columns in London's famous Eaton Square. Bathed in mid-morning spring sunshine, shadows from nearby trees are cast over the cream-coloured pillars of these exclusive and classically-designed properties in Belgravia. Shrubs and plants can be seen growing on the terraced balconies and all the painted surfaces are pristine. Eaton Square is one of London's three garden squares built by Thomas Cubitt and the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia from 1826 until 1855. Belgravia attracts actors, politicians, ambassadors, big-budget bankers, traders and Prime Ministers like Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin at number 93.
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  • A couple just off the train from Waterloo are en-route to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. Not looking particularly happy to have arrived, two elderly women look at the clothes worn including the man's top hat and tails. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
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  • A car-load of women travel towards Ascot in a rented limousine on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. With wide-brimmed hats taking up space in the low-roofed executive car, the ladies look excited at a day of horse racing and bubbly. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
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  • Wrapped in a sleeping bag, a homeless person lies in the doorway of Waterstones bookshop which is displaying copies of both Michelle and Barack Obamas bestselling books Becoming and A Promised Land respectively, on Piccadilly, on 2nd February 2021, in London, England.
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  • George Washington statue and classical pillars of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolising the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street107-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street61-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street17-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street12-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • 180 degree distorted fish-eye lens view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. The extreme nature of this specialist lens bends straight lines and translates them into curves to show this famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street05-25-05-2014-2_1.jpg
  • Distorted fish-eye lens view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. The extreme nature of this specialist lens bends straight lines and translates them into curves to show this famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street06-25-05-2014-2_1.jpg
  • The Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, is an early US skyscraper, designed in the neo-Gothic style by the architect Cass Gilbert for the company's new corporate headquarters on Broadway,  opposite City Hall. Originally designed to be 420 feet (130 m) high, the building was eventually elevated to 792 feet (241 m). At its opening, the Woolworth Building was 60 stories tall and had over 5,000 windows.
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  • Modern architecture and the 1903 Gothic Woolworth building far eft, in Manhattan, New York City. High-rise buildings are mostly corporate offices though some apartments in this, one of the world's great megacities. They occupy addresses along Broadway - a mixture of modernity and 19th century architecture can be seen in detail. The Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, is an early US skyscraper. The original site for the building was purchased by F. W. Woolworth and his real estate agent Edward J. Hogan by April 15, 1910, from the Trenor Luther Park Estate and other owners for $1.65 million.
    tim_lynch463-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Modern architecture and the 1903 Gothic Woolworth building - centre - in Manhattan, New York City. High-rise buildings are mostly corporate offices though some apartments in this, one of the world's great megacities. They occupy addresses along Broadway - a mixture of modernity and 19th century architecture can be seen as a wide panorama.
    tim_lynch391-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Modern and 19th century architecture (Woolworth buiulding far left)  in Manhattan, New York City including the new version of the World Trade Centre in the middle. High-rise buildings are mostly corporate offices though some apartments in this, one of the world's great megacities. They occupy addresses along Broadway - a mixture of modernity and 19th century architecture can be seen in detail.
    tim_lynch428-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Modern architecture and the 1903 Gothic Woolworth building on the left, in Manhattan, New York City. High-rise buildings are mostly corporate offices though some apartments in this, one of the world's great megacities. They occupy addresses along Broadway - a mixture of modernity and 19th century architecture can be seen in detail.
    tim_lynch384-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Summer sunshine and clouds suggest a landscape of growth and healthy crops. <br />
Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers05-11-07-2014_1.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Summer sunshine and clouds suggest a landscape of growth and healthy crops. <br />
Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers01-11-07-2014_1.jpg
  • The Chinese words Kung Hei Fat Choi or Happy New Year with cartoon characters outside Bank of China building, Hong Kong. A local businessman stops to seemingly talk with one of the boy characters that appear to be looking straight at the man, while pointing a wand to wish him well. Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese Lunisolar Calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions.
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  • As passers-by walk by, a homeless man sits with all his worldly possessions on Piccadilly in central London. A well-dressed gentleman strides past the vagrant who sits forlornly on the pavement, surrounded by his worldly good - plastic bags attached to an old bike. We see a scene of poverty and privilege - of wealth versus hopelessness - on this prestgious London street where money speaks volumes for those with successful lives.
    homeless_wealth02-06-03-2014.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys stride past poor elderly man in Kathmandu street after recruitment into the British Gurkhas. Trying for places in the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • Lone woman beneath British Union Jack flags strung together across a London alleyway, near Bond Street.
    flag_alleyway5-06-May-2011_1.jpg
  • Pinstriped suit businessman checks messages during a cigar break, beneath tall of columns at Cornhill, City of London. Holding his smartphone in one hand, and a small cigar in the other, the gentleman stands in a bold, confident pose, wearing a pinstriped suit and blue striped tie, the top of his bald head shown to us as he looks down to view the screen. A fire hydrant number code is on the wall at his elbow, the columns of the Cornhill Exchange above plus a sign pointing to the nearby St Paul's Cathedral. The City is a major business and financial centre. Throughout the 19th century, the City was perhaps the world's primary business centre, and it continues to be a major meeting point for businesses
    city_smoker01-05-08-2014.jpg
  • Businesswoman sits in sunlit window beneath poster showing quality Belgian chocolates, in Manon Cafe on King William Street in the City of London, the capital's oldest, financial heart. The lady sits in sunshine, reading her newspaper while enjoying coffee and a healthy banana. The corporate illustration shows us the premium product sold by this better than average cafe chain present in London and New York and selling Leonidas chcolotaes and Illy Coffee.
    city_people06-05-08-2014.jpg
  • A young trader in currencies leans back in his chair on the currency trading floor of Barclays Bank in the City of London, England, UK. Easing back during the stress of a day when the money markets have been volatile, this young man has the responsibilities of millions of Pounds Sterling to trade and value. He has old technology at his disposal, in the decade when technology made a big impression on the workplace but before the arrival of the internet and e-mail. Communication was therefore slow and unreliable although banks like Barclays who traded money across the world were skilled in migrating information across time-zones.
    city_banker07-16-1998_1.jpg
  • A classic Aston Martin DB5 is parked outside number 46, Chester Square SW1 in London's Belgravia. Such an example of great British design sits well outside this fine house on the western end of this Square laid out in 1840 by Thomas Cubitt and attracting the personalities of the day such as Mary Shelley, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Margaret Thatcher. Along with its sister squares Belgrave Square and Eaton Square, Chester Square is one of the most desirable addresses in London. The 1963 Aston Martin DB5 has a top speed of 141 mph (227 km/h) and was made famous by Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger.
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  • On the corner of Draycott Place SW1 and Cardogan Gardens SW3 is Stuart House, a red brick property boasting clipped vegetation set in a brick window recess that suggests that at one time, a window was removed and filled in with more brick - its mortar and pointing is a different spacing. Strong spring sunshine is almost overhead making hard shadows on the recess and on the well-painted black gloss paintwork on the railings. Stuart House was constructed in 1880. It is a large red-brick detached house in the ‘Queen Anne’ style. Cadogan Gardens SW3, is an 1890s development between the King's Road and Sloane Street.
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  • In a compressed perspective are the Doric pillars of London's famous Eaton Square. Bathed in mid-morning spring sunshine, shadows from nearby trees are cast over the cream-coloured pillars, some of which have the numbers of these exclusive and classically-designed properties in Belgravia. Shrubs and plants can be seen growing on the terraced balconies and  all the painted surfaces are pristine. Eaton Square is one of London's three garden squares built by Thomas Cubitt and the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia from 1826 until 1855. Belgravia attracts actors, politicians, ambassadors, big-budget bankers, traders and Prime Ministers like Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin at number 93.
    belgravia020-26-04-2008_1.jpg
  • A young girl hangs from railings where her helium-filled  birthday balloons signal the party is soon to commence as her mother prepares indside their fine house in an exclusive and classically-designed location in Belgravia, London. The pastel-coloured balloons rise up in a breeze as the girl is self-absorbed on her big day. 103 Eaton Place faces Eaton Square, one of London's three garden squares built by Thomas Cubitt and the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia from 1826 until 1855. Belgravia attracts actors, politicians, ambassadors, big-budget bankers, traders and Prime Ministers like Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin at number 93.
    belgravia029-26-04-2008_1.jpg
  • Detail of a City of Westminster sign describing this illustrious address in a wealthy part of London - Eaton Square. A single Doric column is seen lower-right and slightly discoloured paintwork from wet English weather is on the edge of the balcony of an otherwise exclusive and classically-designed street in Belgravia. Eaton Square is one of London's three garden squares built by Thomas Cubitt and the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia from 1826 until 1855. Belgravia attracts actors, politicians, ambassadors, big-budget bankers, traders and Prime Ministers like Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin at number 93.
    belgravia018-26-04-2008_1.jpg
  • A vertical version that shows the Corinthian columns and covered doorways of exclusive and classically-designed properties in London's famous Eaton Square Belgravia, SW1, owned by Grosvenor Estate. It is a bright spring day with a blue city sky and high, thin clouds. The sun shines on the cream-coloured architectural features and some shadows from trees opposite can be seen on the lower upright pillars and an ornate lamp post. Eaton Square is one of London's three garden squares built by Thomas Cubitt and the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia from 1826 until 1855. Belgravia attracts actors, politicians, ambassadors, big-budget bankers, traders and Prime Ministers like Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin at number 93.
    belgravia006-26-04-2008_1.jpg
  • Garden table and chairs are tidily propped up awaiting its owners to return to the grassy car park from the races during Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. Cans of lager, a fruit bowl and some Pringles hint at the snacks already eaten. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
    ascot_races09-21-06-1993_1.jpg
  • Two women dressed in bright pink sit on a station bench en-route to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. A man with top hat and tails sits reading a newspaper with a Wimbledon tennis news headline on the back page, Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
    ascot_races06-21-06-1993_1.jpg
  • Girlfriends eagerly await the opening by one woman of a bottle of bubbly, en-route by train to Ascot racecourse  on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. The hats are wide-brimmed and the pinks are bright in this first class carriage with an old fashioned corridor. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
    ascot_races07-21-06-1993_1.jpg
  • Two young women walk in a breeze towards the entrance gates to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. Both dressed in beige browns and with wide-brimmed hats that are about to blow off, they walk with wide smiles. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
    ascot_races05-21-06-1993_1.jpg
  • A few pedestrians and a homeless person on the junction at Bank Triangle, in front of Royal Exchange and the Bank of England, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, in the City of London, the capitals financial district, aka The Square Mile, on 2nd February 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city04-02-02-2021.jpg
  • Detail of stone architecture dated anno domini 1928, on the surface of a wall on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City. This famous street symbolises the US economy. September 1929 was the peak of the stock market. and a few days later, on October 24, stock values plummeted and the market crash of 1929 ushered in the Great Depression. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. t
    wall_street37-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street32-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street20-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street13-25-05-2014-2_1.jpg
  • Distorted fish-eye lens view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. The extreme nature of this specialist lens bends straight lines and translates them into curves to show this famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street11-25-05-2014-2_1.jpg
  • Distorted fish-eye lens view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. The extreme nature of this specialist lens bends straight lines and translates them into curves to show this famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street04-25-05-2014-2_1.jpg
  • The Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, is an early US skyscraper, designed in the neo-Gothic style by the architect Cass Gilbert for the company's new corporate headquarters on Broadway,  opposite City Hall. Originally designed to be 420 feet (130 m) high, the building was eventually elevated to 792 feet (241 m). At its opening, the Woolworth Building was 60 stories tall and had over 5,000 windows.
    tim_lynch747-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Modern architecture and the 1903 Gothic Woolworth building on the left, in Manhattan, New York City. High-rise buildings are mostly corporate offices though some apartments in this, one of the world's great megacities. They occupy addresses along Broadway - a mixture of modernity and 19th century architecture can be seen in detail.
    tim_lynch460-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Summer sunshine and clouds suggest a landscape of growth and healthy crops. <br />
Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers03-11-07-2014_1.jpg
  • A house-proud housewife trims her lawn with a pair of scissors in new housing on a terraced Liverpool street. Stooping down to ground level, the lady snips and preens individual blades of grass on an almost perfectly manicured lawn. Her home is new, surrounded by the early 20th century and Victorian terraced housing that populates this part of north-western Britain. There are few cars and two other people cross the road without fear of approaching vehicles – the economy here is largely depressed. And yet, the female gardener has taken the trouble to mow her garden and then trim her esteemed plot. She wears an orange suit too, a splash of colour in an otherwise drab street.
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  • Detail of brick wall with Hampstead Grove NW3 road sign. Hampstead Grove is a street in London's Hampstead, District Camden with exclusive houses of great character, whose occupants have traditionally been of social and creative eminence. It runs between Lower Terrace to the north and Holly Hill in the south. In addition, Hampstead Grove meets the following streets: Upper Terrace to the north, Admiral's Walk in the middle and Windmill Hill in the south. The northern section of the road is flanked by green spaces. This area is called the Old Village Green. Here, by the year 1700, the parliamentary elections were Middlesex held. The green area was later used as a playing field for cricket used.
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  • In the week after the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton (The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) we see a couple walks below British Union Jack flags strung together across a London alleyway, near Bond Street. Overhead summer sun has picked out the rectangles of the patriotic flags on the pavement below and shows the deep red, white and blues of the flags. Carrying shopping bags they have just left the stores of Bond Street and walk towards a nearby cafe for refreshments at mid-day.
    flag_alleyway1-06-May-2011_1.jpg
  • Businesswoman sits in sunlit window beneath poster showing quality Belgian chocolates, in Manon Cafe on King William Street in the City of London, the capital's oldest, financial heart. The lady sits in sunshine, reading her newspaper while enjoying coffee and a healthy banana. The corporate illustration shows us the premium product sold by this better than average cafe chain present in London and New York and selling Leonidas chcolotaes and Illy Coffee.
    city_people07-05-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Looking across south London towards Edwardian homes and block of flats in the darkness of the suburbs. It is late one evening in central London, in a suburb known as Herne Hill, SE24 in the borough of Lambeth. We see across the metropolis from quiet and expensive period homes, whose owners would typically be white middle-class, across to the blocks of flats (apartments) in the Loughborough Estate, a far rougher location for street gangs and high crime rates. Owners' cars are parked under streetlights and ash trees and lights shine out from living rooms and bedrooms.
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  • A young girl and her mother prepare for the child's birthday party by tying balloons to the railings of their fine house in this exclusive and classically-designed location in Belgravia, London. The pastel-coloured balloons are helium-filled and rise up in a breeze as the girl smiles to herself. 103 Eaton Place faces Eaton Square, one of London's three garden squares built by Thomas Cubitt and the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia from 1826 until 1855. Belgravia attracts actors, politicians, ambassadors, big-budget bankers, traders and Prime Ministers like Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin at number 93.
    belgravia026-26-04-2008_1.jpg
  • An aerial view of crowds of racegoers on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. Top-hatted gentlemen and women in posh frocks gather before the next race, planning which horses to back. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
    ascot_races02-21-06-1993_1.jpg
  • Seen from above, we see top-hatted gents discussing business or racing on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. From our aerial perspective we see their suits and carnation button-holes and racing cards on which details of runners and riders are listed. The name of Major Michael Young is on one man's name badge. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
    ascot_races01-21-06-1993_1.jpg
  • An aerial view of central Macau, looking down on high-rise apartments and poorer housing in this ex-Portuguese colony. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER). Taken from a tall apartment block that overloooks the Rua do Almirant e Costa Cabral, we can view the tightly-packed cities of one of the most densely-populated conurbations in the world, this area is a packed warren of houses, businesses and tower blocks, 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.
    aerial_city01-08-07-1994_1.jpg
  • Classical pillars and American flag hanging in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. This famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street67-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Distorted fish-eye lens view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. The extreme nature of this specialist lens bends straight lines and translates them into curves to show this famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street02-25-05-2014-2_1.jpg
  • Modern and 19th century architecture in Manhattan, New York City. High-rise buildings are mostly corporate offices though some apartments in this, one of the world's great megacities. They occupy addresses along Broadway - a mixture of modernity and 19th century architecture can be seen in detail.
    tim_lynch435-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Modern architecture and the 1903 Gothic Woolworth building tallest in the centre, in Manhattan, New York City. High-rise buildings are mostly corporate offices though some apartments in this, one of the world's great megacities. They occupy addresses along Broadway - a mixture of modernity and 19th century architecture can be seen as a wide panorama. The Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, is an early US skyscraper. The original site for the building was purchased by F. W. Woolworth and his real estate agent Edward J. Hogan by April 15, 1910, from the Trenor Luther Park Estate and other owners for $1.65 million.
    tim_lynch420-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • There is golden light across this narrow stretch of river, yellow flowers are on the bank and in late golden sunlight, two boys paddle upstream in their Indian canoe on the River Thames near the village of Shillingford, England. Lazily they plunge their paddles into the calm, clear blue waters of this majestic river whose source rises in deepest Gloucestershire to its industrial estuary in the English Channel 215 miles (346 km) away. But here in Oxfordshire, it is an idyllic scene of innocent childhood on calm rural waters in a beautiful and tranquil setting, on an English summer afternoon. The boys don't appear to be wearing life vests nor safety equipment but propel their craft forwards against the current with confidence.
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  • Families examine a map of the Hong Kong region, with outlying islands and Mainland Chinese territories. An older family member (probably the grandfather) points to his grandchildren various locations including Kowloon where they may live within the territorial limits of the ex-British colony. This scene is still 2 years before the British Handover to China and each place is written in English first then Chinese characters beneath, a sign that Britain still ruled administratively. The granddad’s memories of British rule before the Handover will remind those of the 99-year lease that China offered the British and which ended in July 1997.
    map_family01-20-01-1995.jpg
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