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  • Student officers and a sailor rating on duty beneath the giant hull of their ship during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
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  • Student officers and a sailor rating on duty beneath the giant hull of their ship during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day53-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Sailors on duty beneath the giant hull of their ship during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day57-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Three black Royal Navy personnel refer to instructions while waiting to enter Westminster Abbey on the occasion of Commonwealth Day, on 11th March 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    navy_guests-01-11-03-2019.jpg
  • Two student officers on duty on the top deck during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day44-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Sailors on duty wait for a launch before going ashore during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day23-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Exchange rate board outside a currency conversion shop in central London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Exchange rate board outside a currency conversion shop in central London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • An ostrich chick stands alone in a private pen, beneath a heat lamp at the ostrich farm belonging to Robert and Nina Bailey near Chepstow, Wales. The reddish glow from the heat source concentrates life-giving energy into the young bird, helping it survive the first three months after hatching. Rearing these birds is a specialist and very expensive business but Ostrich meat is a South African delicacy, used for Biltong. Nutritionists promote it as a more healthy alternative because it is higher in protein and lower in fat and cholesterol. An ostrich lays an egg every other day, of which 40 to 80% are fertile. In the wild there is a 95% failure rate but using an incubator like this almost guarantees total success. Its latin name, 'Struthio camelus', is the largest of living birds with some males reaching a height of 8 ft (244 cm) and weighing 200 to 300 lb (90-135 kg). In the wild, the polygamous male has from two to six females in his flock. The cock scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which weigh nearly 3 lb (1.35 kg) each. One of the females incubates the eggs during the day, and the cock takes over at night. On the savannah they can run at 40mph (64 kph) for 10 hours though their top speed can reach 80mph. During the 19th-century vogue for ostrich plumes, farms were established in South Africa and later in North America, Australia, and Europe; after World War I fashions changed and the industry collapsed.
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  • A detail of the London Evening Standard vendor with a headline dated 3rd September about a falling Pound rate, the consequences of a possible No-deal Brexit, in the City of London, aka The Square Mile the capitals financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_headline-01-04-09-2019.jpg
  • Theatre employees from the Old Vic stick up a 5-star rating banner for their newest play, High Society in Waterloo, south London. We look from the rear of two theatre employees who are taping the banner to the poster advertising the Cole Porter musical. Given the top rating by the Daily Mail newspaper, it has been a smash hit for the Old Vic on the Southbank.
    theatre_poster04-15-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A bureau de change shop offers deals and best prices to tourists and Italian passers-by on a Florence street. With the countries' flags on the far left and across, are the buy and sell rates for the Euro. Lit with dot matrix numbers, the list of decimal figures can be seen from across the street. A local-looking people walk past the store situated in a pedestrian street in the commercial centre of the city and we see the typical flag stones that line the pavements and roads.
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  • Theatre employees from the Old Vic stick up a 5-star rating banner for their newest play, High Society in Waterloo, south London. We look from the rear of two theatre employees who are taping the banner to the poster advertising the Cole Porter musical. Given the top rating by the Daily Mail newspaper, it has been a smash hit for the Old Vic on the Southbank.
    theatre_poster01-15-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Cracked glass in a foreign currency exchange rates window. Currencies from the Eurozone and the USA, to Canada and Egypt, are displayed in the window of a post office in south London where customers are able to buy their foreign holiday money. The rates are there too for buying and selling notes and coins from countries abroad. The glass has been smashed, its cracks spreading out from the central point of impact, a metaphor for the cracks in the global economy.
    foreign_exchange03-03-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A bureau de change shop offers deals and best prices to tourists and Italian passers-by on a Florence street. With the countries' flags on the far left and across, are the buy and sell rates for the Euro. Lit with dot matrix numbers, the list of decimal figures can be seen from across the street. The female member of staff sits behind a glass window because she handles foreign cash from behind the security screen. Gazing into her computer screen and supporting her chin in her hand, the woman is in her own world, unaware of the busy street outside.
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  • A bureau de change shop offers deals and best prices to tourists and Italian passers-by on a Florence street. With the countries' flags on the far left and across, are the buy and sell rates for the Euro. Lit with dot matrix numbers, the list of decimal figures can be seen from across the street. A local-looking lady walks past the store situated in a pedestrian street in the commercial centre of the city and we see the typical flag stones that line the pavements and roads.
    florence_italy14-22-10-2010_1.jpg
  • A city worker buys a copy of the Evening Standard with a headline relating to the ERM crisis in 1992, known as Black Wednesday which referred to the events of 16 September 1992 when the British Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after they were unable to keep it above its agreed lower limit. George Soros, the most high profile of the currency market investors, made over US$1 billion profit by short selling sterling. In 1997 the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.4 billion, with the actual cost being £3.3 billion which was revealed in 2005 under the Freedom of Information Act
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  • International currency rates on the board outside a bureau-de-change in Hradcany district, on 19th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
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  • International currency rates on the board outside a bureau-de-change in Hradcany district, on 19th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
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  • A detail of three screens showing the current rates for foreign currencies on the Strand, on 12th December 2017, in London England.
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  • Stacks of cigarette cartons are piled up in a display of duty free goods at Bahrain International airport . Camel Filters are featured more prominently here to suggest the importance of desert Gulf States like Bahrain in the global market. Bahrain is a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the major hub for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements. It is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. Duty free merchandise such as tobacco, jewellery, perfumes and electronics are big business here, favouring cheaper import duties and currency rates. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • A female member of the Thomas Cook staff issues foreign currency to an unseen airline passenger in the departures concourse at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. This Bureau de Change is one of two companies trading in foreign exchange, travel insurance and travellers cheques for passengers passing through this aviation hub is west London. We see on the wall behind the assistant, a beach paradise scene of palm trees, calm seas and beach chalets, the idea of tranquillity and prosperity. On the left are the exchange rates for the world's currencies for purchase at this kiosk. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Foreign currency exchange board advertising No Commission in central London. On the board that is propped up against a wall in this busy tourist area, formerly a market of fruit and flowers produce, we see five nationalities' currencies represented with their current rates against the Pound sterling. The US and Canadian Dollar, the Euro, Yen and the Swiss Franc are there with respective flags to attract those wishing to change money.
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  • A married couple ready themselves for a formal Buckingham Palace garden party in after sunshine. The lady and man have been invited to take tea with and meet the Queen along with many hundreds more in London England. They are Mr and Mrs Johnson and he is a Flag officer junior rating serving in Britain's Royal Navy. His wife adjusts his Navy cap (denoting his ship's name) to make sure it's straightened and presentable for Her Majesty. It is a proud day for her husband and his spouse, when the achievements of his military career are recognized by his Sovereign. The Queens' garden parties are held ever summer, allowing ordinary men and women from diverse members of society the chance to walk the Palace grounds and meet others from all walks of life. Some may be from the armed services and others , merely known for their charitable work or individual merit.
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  • Vinnie Browse switches off his overhead reading light in his Junior Rating bunk aboard HMS Vigilant, a 16,000 ton, 150m long Vanguard class nuclear submarine while moored at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, Scotland. Vigilant has a crew of 140 men and when at sea, only incoming communication, family-grams, are allowed so many months away on operational duty can be tough on home life. On-board entertainment is therefore important for morale. The Vanguard Class SSBN (Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear) provides the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear deterrent and carries Trident II ballistic missiles, powered by a pressurised water reactor (PWR) fuelled by a ton of fissionable uranium elements producing huge amounts of energy. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • A young lady sits at her kitchen table at home checking over the household bills. Dealing with debt. Household utility bills making it difficult for a British<br />
home owner to afford. Difficulty paying gas and electricity bills is common<br />
as the economic downturn makes personal finances feel the pinch. London, UK.
    UK-Finance-Household-Money-7177.jpg
  • A young lady sits at her kitchen table at home checking over the household bills. Dealing with debt. Household utility bills making it difficult for a British<br />
home owner to afford. Difficulty paying gas and electricity bills is common<br />
as the economic downturn makes personal finances feel the pinch. London, UK.
    UK-Finance-Household-Money-7174.jpg
  • A young lady sits at her kitchen table at home checking over the household bills. Dealing with debt. Household utility bills making it difficult for a British<br />
home owner to afford. Difficulty paying gas and electricity bills is common<br />
as the economic downturn makes personal finances feel the pinch. London, UK.
    UK-Finance-Household-Money-7154.jpg
  • A young lady sits at her kitchen table at home checking over the household bills. Dealing with debt. Household utility bills making it difficult for a British<br />
home owner to afford. Difficulty paying gas and electricity bills is common<br />
as the economic downturn makes personal finances feel the pinch. London, UK.
    UK-Finance-Household-Money-7147.jpg
  • A young lady sits at her kitchen table at home checking over the household bills. Dealing with debt. Household utility bills making it difficult for a British<br />
home owner to afford. Difficulty paying gas and electricity bills is common<br />
as the economic downturn makes personal finances feel the pinch. London, UK.
    UK-Finance-Household-Money-7143.jpg
  • A young lady sits at her kitchen table at home checking over the household bills. Dealing with debt. Household utility bills making it difficult for a British<br />
home owner to afford. Difficulty paying gas and electricity bills is common<br />
as the economic downturn makes personal finances feel the pinch. London, UK.
    UK-Finance-Household-Money-7135.jpg
  • A young lady sits at her kitchen table at home checking over the household bills. Dealing with debt. Household utility bills making it difficult for a British<br />
home owner to afford. Difficulty paying gas and electricity bills is common<br />
as the economic downturn makes personal finances feel the pinch. London, UK.
    UK-Finance-Household-Money-7129.jpg
  • A young lady sits at her kitchen table at home checking over the household bills.  he rising costs of all the household bills. Dealing with debt. Household utility bills making it difficult for a British<br />
home owner to afford. Difficulty paying gas and electricity bills is common<br />
as the economic downturn makes personal finances feel the pinch. London, UK.
    UK-Finance-Household-Money-7128.jpg
  • A Film industry crew remove camera and sound equipment from a location among members of the public in Kingston town centre, after filming outside in the street, on 13th November 2019, in London, England.
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  • A detail of a generic AA the Automobile Association motoring organisation sign at the entrance of a Northumbrian 4-star-awarded rural country hotel, on 26th September 2017, in Eshott, Northumberland, England.
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  • Prices at the pumps in the Jet petrol station, Europe's first completely unleaded forecourt in London in 2001. The detailed picture shows us the amounts we paid for fuel in the early part of the 21st century when the UK's economy was still very prosperous, before the crashes and recessions of the following decade. This forecourt was the first to offer exclusively Unleaded petrol which wasn't then available across the country. Drivers were forced to journey to specially-converted stations far apart. On this day, it cost 36.8p a litre whereas 13 years later it would cost roughly £1 more for the same amount.
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  • A young family walk gloomily past property Sold signs in a street at Grays, Essex England. Passing the prominent signs that bear the name of Quirk Deakin, a local estate agent in the industrial towns of south Essex and the Thames Gateway, is the location for dramatic increases of new housing developments. Both the parents and their daughter look depressed in this time of economic recession, when families are having their homes repossessed after defaulting on mortgage repayments. It is a bright summer day in Grays, east of the capital, just outside of the M25 orbital motorway and on the Thames river.
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  • Taken from a tall apartment block, we see an aerial view overlooking the ex-Portuguese colony of Macau's Chinese Christian cemetery of San Miguel. The Cemiterio de São Miguel Arcanjo (Saint Miguel Catholic Cemetery) is located right in the middle of Macao island, on Estrada do Cemiterio and host the graves of the old Dutch and Portuguese colonials that helped shape Macau, now one of the world's most densely-populated city. We see a single Chinese lady walking along one of many criss-crossing diagonal pathways carrying a red bucket of water to tend these graves. She appears tiny compared to the multitude of plots, some which have crosses and others which have simple headstones. They are mostly neat and tidy but some have become overgrown with grass sprouting up. Macau's gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese. The Macau Special Administrative Region is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover.
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  • Looking upwards towards the back of a number 8 red London bus which passes the pillars of the famous Bank of England building at Cornhill in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. We see the Bank rising as an imposing classical structure. Its columns are converging because of wide-angle lens-distortion, giving us the image of strength, stability and influence in UK economics. The bus is a traditional design called a Routemaster which has been in service on the capital's roads since 1954 and is nowadays only seen on heritage routes. Its distinctive rounded rear bodywork is easily recognisable as that classic British icon.
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  • Wearing a company wastecoat and blue rubber gloves, the uniform of a Holiday Inn employee, a man of Black ethnicity bends forward to wipe the glass revolving doors at the entrance of this hotel in Paris. Nearby is the man's trolley containing janitorial cleaning products such as a mop and bucket, towels, cloth rolls, atomiser sprays, detergents and tissues needed to maintain the high standards of this motel chain. Coincidentally, a customer is also bending down to re-arrange something in her baggage and leaning at the same angle as the cleaner.
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  • A young trader in currencies leans back in his chair on the currency trading floor of Barclays Bank in the City of London, England, UK. Easing back during the stress of a day when the money markets have been volatile, this young man has the responsibilities of millions of Pounds Sterling to trade and value. He has old technology at his disposal, in the decade when technology made a big impression on the workplace but before the arrival of the internet and e-mail. Communication was therefore slow and unreliable although banks like Barclays who traded money across the world were skilled in migrating information across time-zones.
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  • Looking upwards towards a memorial that commemorates the dead from the First World War of 1914-18 between the converging pillars of the Cornhill Exchange building and beyond, to the famous Bank of England in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. It is early evening as the ambient light fades while artificial illumination becomes the dominant light-source. With such a wide-angle perspective the bank and its architecture looks powerful and influential in the UK's economy. The dark pillars contrasting with the colourful (colorful) light emitted from this established Bank makes for a scene of stability and strength against the pity and tragedy of a past conflict that claimed millions of lives.
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  • Rosettes and sheep competition mementoes adorn the wall and mantlepiece of champion breeder Vic Bull's crofting bungalow home overlooking Loch Bay, Waternish, Isle of Skye Scotland. Afternoon sunlight pours through a front window into his living room which serves as a shrine to the Sheep. Having already refused a half million Pounds for his house and spectacular view high up on a hill, he prefers to breed his beloved Blackface sheep which he shows only twice a year at local competitions in the Dunvegan area and the prizes and awards are proof of his success. Vic now lives alone rearing his livestock with four sheepdogs for training and company. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • Across the calm waters of a Scottish bay, isolated houses and crofts sit before the dramatic Cuillin Mountains that rise up in the distance on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Sunlight from unusually fine weather spreads across this beautiful landscape seen from the road to Dunvegan, near the hamlet of Harlosh. Farming practices have changed irreversably in a generation and many southerners have English accents rather than that of native Scots islanders as city dwellers from the far south seek an alternative to urban lifestyles. The weather can have adverse effects on those unprepared for such wild conditions, especially during harsh winters when violent storms batter these Atlantic coasts. But old crofts have been converted to bed and breakfast homes, catering for tourist visitors who adore this form of idyllic escapism.
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  • The last light of day fades on the still waters of Sgeir Nam Biast, a bay overlooking Waternish Headland, near Dunvegan, north-west Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. A solitary light bulb glows from an upstairs room in this isolated cottage across the calm lake. The weather is perfect but unusual for one of the wildest parts of Britain. Farming practices have changed irreversably in a generation and many residents have English accents rather than that of native Scots islanders as city dwellers from the far south seek an alternative to urban lifestyles. The weather can have adverse effects on those unprepared for such wild conditions, especially during harsh winters when violent storms batter these Atlantic coasts. But old crofts have been converted to bed and breakfast homes, catering for tourist visitors who adore this form of idyllic escapism.<br />
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  • Barbara Christie, 58, sits alone in her conservatory at Swordale House overlooking Beinn Na Caillich (The Hill of the Old Woman) mountain. It is nearly dark at this northern latitude and it looks cosy inside this house with its warm and inviting lights. Barbara's father built this family home and she has lived in this house all her life apart from when studying in Edinburgh many years ago. It sits on a tiny road near Broadford on the Isle of Skye, beneath the magnificent hill whose myth goes back to a Norse Princess saga. Barbara sits in the more recent addition to the house, a conservatory that she enjoys sitting and reading away from her Summer Bed and Breakfast guests. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • Decorator and part-time chimney sweep Alan Squires prepares to apply another coat of emulsion paint to the exterior walls of a cottage called Burnside in the tiny hamlet of Hallin, Waternish, on the Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. With his shadow looming large on the newly-painted off-white pebbledash that is rendered a warm orange in the low sunlight, Alan walks with his long roller after a day's decorating in this beautiful place near Dunvegan. Alan is an Englishman who came to Skye in 1987 for the community spirit. "everybody knows everybody' he says though admits that southerners come from the south in search of an idyllic lifestyle but harsh winters often send them back to warmer climates. Alain's fresh paint therefore needs to dry before winter weather blows in from the Atlantic. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • Two toilet rolls are ready for use in a Paris hotel room toilet. Folded into triangular, pointed ends that point down to the bathroom floor in a famliar manner known to businessmen and and tourists during overnight stays in these anonymous and generic rest-stops frequented by travellers. Mounted onto a brown wall, the twin toilet roll holders are fixed side by side and have a shiny chrome finish.
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  • A Deliveroo rider cycles past large concrete blocks, part of a construction site on the corner of Brook and New Bond Streets, on 6th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Yellow house with blue door and blue recycling bags on front doorstep, London. The bright complimentary colours seem over saturatedon such a grey day in the capital. By coincidence, the blue council recycling bags matches the blue door in a scene of domestic colour and residential landscape.
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  • An aerial view of a west London street and its surrounding neighbourhood. Homes and houses, flats, tower blocks and estates are seen stretching into the distance from this high vantage-point across the capital city. Cars of residents are parked on both sides of the tree-lined roads.
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  • A Chief Petty Officer near the Navy's Ensign flag on the hangar deck during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day50-11-05-2013.jpg
  • A foreign currency conversion sign in the capitals tourist area of Covent Garden, on 1st September 2017, in London, England.
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  • An image of a guardsman and a money exchange list that once displayed foreign currencies and their values, on 3rd February 2017, in London, England.
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  • A buses and traffic pass below, early evening lighting illuminates the street, below the Bank of England, on 9th December 2016, in the City of London, England. The Bank moved to its current location in Threadneedle Street in 1734, and thereafter slowly acquired neighbouring land to create the edifice seen today. Sir Herbert Bakers rebuilding of the Bank, demolishing most of Sir John Soanes earlier building, was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century.
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  • Early evening lighting illuminates the street, below the Bank of England, on 9th December 2016, in the City of London, England. The Bank moved to its current location in Threadneedle Street in 1734, and thereafter slowly acquired neighbouring land to create the edifice seen today. Sir Herbert Bakers rebuilding of the Bank, demolishing most of Sir John Soanes earlier building, was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century.
    bank_lights-12-09-12-2016.jpg
  • An arabic currency exchange poster in English and Arabic, in the city of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The detail of the banner shows currencies of many countries including the British Pound showing the queen's head - alongside those of the Egyptian Pound, far right.
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  • A detail of a 1930s house gable in the Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea. Well-painted white woodwork looks fresh and clean despite it being 90 years old. The property is shown as Essex House with the date of its construction as 1936. A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used (which is often related to climate and availability of materials) and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable. A gable wall or gable end more commonly refers to the entire wall, including the gable and the wall below it.
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  • A detail of a Victorian house gable in the Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea. Ornate blue painted woodwork looks fresh and clean despite it being 100 years old. The name of the property reads as Essex House and the date of its construction as 1896. A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used (which is often related to climate and availability of materials) and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable. A gable wall or gable end more commonly refers to the entire wall, including the gable and the wall below it.
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  • A boarded up central London mini cab business and an End of works triangle sign on a Holborn corner. The visual pun plays off the triangular sign that tells us that work has ended, a message we also understand from the plyboard attached to the former business premises, securing it from vandals, squatters or illegal occupation. A security light burns 24/7 and the old cab office's details along with the property agent's.
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  • A sailor walks down the gangplank beneath the giant hull of their ship during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day52-11-05-2013.jpg
  • A student officer on duty on the top deck during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day27-11-05-2013.jpg
  • As if about to be crunched underfoot, shattered glass from the windows of offices in the historic City of London side-street, stickers and notices for Access (Mastercard) and American Express (Amex) credit cards lie on the disaster-strewn pavement (sidewalk). This is some of the debris lying about after the huge Bishopsgate bomb on 24th April 1993, London's most expensive terrorist atrocity during the Provisional Irish Republican Army's (IRA) sustained bombings on the British mainland. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 sq m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million and was possibly the IRA's most successful military tactic since the start of what was called the Troubles from 1969 onwards.
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  • A man walks down a street near rows of new apartment buildings in Jining, China, on Monday, May 30, 2016. Shandong got a boost in the past from its proximity to Japan and South Korea, the source of much of its early investment. Now, its trying to maintain the high growth rate needed to make the same leap they did: from middle- to high-income status.
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  • Employees make suits at a factory operated by the Shandong Ruyi Technology Group in Jining, China, on Monday, May 30, 2016. Shandong got a boost in the past from its proximity to Japan and South Korea, the source of much of its early investment. Now, its trying to maintain the high growth rate needed to make the same leap they did: from middle- to high-income status.
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  • Employees make suits at a factory operated by the Shandong Ruyi Technology Group in Jining, China, on Monday, May 30, 2016. Shandong got a boost in the past from its proximity to Japan and South Korea, the source of much of its early investment. Now, its trying to maintain the high growth rate needed to make the same leap they did: from middle- to high-income status.
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  • Employees make suits at a factory operated by the Shandong Ruyi Technology Group in Jining, China, on Monday, May 30, 2016. Shandong got a boost in the past from its proximity to Japan and South Korea, the source of much of its early investment. Now, its trying to maintain the high growth rate needed to make the same leap they did: from middle- to high-income status.
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  • Employees make suits at a factory operated by the Shandong Ruyi Technology Group in Jining, China, on Monday, May 30, 2016. Shandong got a boost in the past from its proximity to Japan and South Korea, the source of much of its early investment. Now, its trying to maintain the high growth rate needed to make the same leap they did: from middle- to high-income status.
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  • Employees make suits at a factory operated by the Shandong Ruyi Technology Group in Jining, China, on Monday, May 30, 2016. Shandong got a boost in the past from its proximity to Japan and South Korea, the source of much of its early investment. Now, its trying to maintain the high growth rate needed to make the same leap they did: from middle- to high-income status.
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  • Employees make suits at a factory operated by the Shandong Ruyi Technology Group in Jining, China, on Monday, May 30, 2016. Shandong got a boost in the past from its proximity to Japan and South Korea, the source of much of its early investment. Now, its trying to maintain the high growth rate needed to make the same leap they did: from middle- to high-income status.
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  • Employees make suits at a factory operated by the Shandong Ruyi Technology Group in Jining, China, on Monday, May 30, 2016. Shandong got a boost in the past from its proximity to Japan and South Korea, the source of much of its early investment. Now, its trying to maintain the high growth rate needed to make the same leap they did: from middle- to high-income status.
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  • Employees make suits at a factory operated by the Shandong Ruyi Technology Group in Jining, China, on Monday, May 30, 2016. Shandong got a boost in the past from its proximity to Japan and South Korea, the source of much of its early investment. Now, its trying to maintain the high growth rate needed to make the same leap they did: from middle- to high-income status.
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  • Employees make suits at a factory operated by the Shandong Ruyi Technology Group in Jining, China, on Monday, May 30, 2016. Shandong got a boost in the past from its proximity to Japan and South Korea, the source of much of its early investment. Now, its trying to maintain the high growth rate needed to make the same leap they did: from middle- to high-income status.
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  • Employees make suits at a factory operated by the Shandong Ruyi Technology Group in Jining, China, on Monday, May 30, 2016. Shandong got a boost in the past from its proximity to Japan and South Korea, the source of much of its early investment. Now, its trying to maintain the high growth rate needed to make the same leap they did: from middle- to high-income status.
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  • Employees make suits at a factory operated by the Shandong Ruyi Technology Group in Jining, China, on Monday, May 30, 2016. Shandong got a boost in the past from its proximity to Japan and South Korea, the source of much of its early investment. Now, its trying to maintain the high growth rate needed to make the same leap they did: from middle- to high-income status.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • On March 8th 2019 - International Women's Day, tens of thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their demands are for better women's rights. In a macho society like Brazil, there is still a way to go. Brazil has the fifth highest rate of femicide globally, and abortion is still illegal. These are some of the issues that the feminism movement in Brazil is demanding.
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  • A businessman reads a 1992 edition of the Daily Express whose headline announces that Prime Minister John Major is fighting the Pound Crisis, on a bench in the City of London aka The Square Mile, the capitals financial centre, on 18th September 1992, in London, England. Black Wednesday occurred in the United Kingdom on 16 September 1992, when John Majors Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ERM after it was unable to keep the pound above its agreed lower limit in the ERM.
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  • A businessman reads a 1992 edition of the Daily Express whose headline announces that Prime Minister John Major is fighting the Pound Crisis, on a bench in the City of London aka The Square Mile, the capitals financial centre, on 18th September 1992, in London, England. Black Wednesday occurred in the United Kingdom on 16 September 1992, when John Majors Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ERM after it was unable to keep the pound above its agreed lower limit in the ERM.
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  • Interior of the Surgery Cabin at the WW2-era Franja Partisan Hospital, on 20th June 2018, near Dolenji Novaki, Slovenia. From December 1943 until the end of the war as part of a broadly organized resistance movement against the Fascist and Nazi occupying forces, the hospital was set in a deep gorge in rural Slovenia where fighters were brought in from many areas to be treated in this secret location. 578 were treated here but the mortality rate were only 10% and the site was never discovered by German forces. Franja is in the UNESCO Tentative List of World Heritage sites.
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  • Names of those who died from injuring while at the WW2-era Franja Partisan Hospital on 20th June 2018, near Dolenji Novaki, Slovenia. From December 1943 until the end of the war as part of a broadly organized resistance movement against the Fascist and Nazi occupying forces, the hospital was set in a deep gorge in rural Slovenia where fighters were brought in from many areas to be treated in this secret location. 578 were treated here but the mortality rate were only 10% and the site was never discovered by German forces. Franja is in the UNESCO Tentative List of World Heritage sites.
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  • Interior of the Cabin for the Wounded at the WW2-era Franja Partisan Hospital, on 20th June 2018, near Dolenji Novaki, Slovenia. From December 1943 until the end of the war as part of a broadly organized resistance movement against the Fascist and Nazi occupying forces, the hospital was set in a deep gorge in rural Slovenia where fighters were brought in from many areas to be treated in this secret location. 578 were treated here but the mortality rate were only 10% and the site was never discovered by German forces. Franja is in the UNESCO Tentative List of World Heritage sites.
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  • Interior of the Kitchen at the WW2-era Franja Partisan Hospital, on 20th June 2018, near Dolenji Novaki, Slovenia. From December 1943 until the end of the war as part of a broadly organized resistance movement against the Fascist and Nazi occupying forces, the hospital was set in a deep gorge in rural Slovenia where fighters were brought in from many areas to be treated in this secret location. 578 were treated here but the mortality rate were only 10% and the site was never discovered by German forces. Franja is in the UNESCO Tentative List of World Heritage sites.
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  • Interior of the Cabin for the Wounded at the WW2-era Franja Partisan Hospital, on 20th June 2018, near Dolenji Novaki, Slovenia. From December 1943 until the end of the war as part of a broadly organized resistance movement against the Fascist and Nazi occupying forces, the hospital was set in a deep gorge in rural Slovenia where fighters were brought in from many areas to be treated in this secret location. 578 were treated here but the mortality rate were only 10% and the site was never discovered by German forces. Franja is in the UNESCO Tentative List of World Heritage sites.
    slovenia-156-20-06-2018.jpg
  • Interior of the Physicians Room at the WW2-era Franja Partisan Hospital, on 20th June 2018, near Dolenji Novaki, Slovenia. From December 1943 until the end of the war as part of a broadly organized resistance movement against the Fascist and Nazi occupying forces, the hospital was set in a deep gorge in rural Slovenia where fighters were brought in from many areas to be treated in this secret location. 578 were treated here but the mortality rate were only 10% and the site was never discovered by German forces. Franja is in the UNESCO Tentative List of World Heritage sites.
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  • Ofo bikes ready for hire in London, England, United Kingdom. Ofo is a Beijing-based bicycle sharing company founded in 2014. It operates over 10 million yellow-colored bicycles in 250 cities and 20 countries, as of 2017. The dockless ofo system uses a smartphone app to unlock bicycles, charging an hourly rate for use. photo by Mike Kemp/
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  • An Ofo employee pushes two rental bikes along a street, 24th January 2018, in London, England. ofo is a Beijing-based bicycle sharing company founded in 2014. It operates over 10 million yellow-colored bicycles in 250 cities and 20 countries, as of 2017. The dockless ofo system uses a smartphone app to unlock bicycles, charging an hourly rate for use. As of 2017, the company is valued at $3 billion and has over 62.7 million monthly active users.
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  • A former south London pub once called The British Queen dating to the Victorian era but now closed and awaiting sale, on 4th January, London borough of Southwark, England. British pubs have been closing at a rate of 27 a week, says the Campaign for Real Ale Camra. There were 52,750 pubs at the end of last year, down from 54,194 in December 2014.
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