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  • An elderly couple sit in a central London cafe with love hearts theme stencils. The romantic couple are seated in the window as they talk to each other across their table inside. We look across other tables and chairs with red and blue theme complimentary colours on the spectrum. Empty places take our attention to the pensioner lovers in a scene of romance, relationships and perhaps marriage too.
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  • Wearing darkened glasses, unsighted Tim Gutteridge stands outside The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association's offices in Reading, England with Lewis, a one year-old Labrador Retriever who has been groomed to become a guide dog. Tim is hoping to forge a strong relationship with his new-found companion whose job is to confidently leads the way anticipating and avoiding obstacles and dangers. Animals like Lewis don't start learning with a guide dog trainer until they are 12-15 months old. There are around 5,000 working guide dogs in the UK today, though the Guide Dogs charity care for around 8,000 dogs, including breeding stock, puppies, dogs in training and retired dogs. A sign in bright yellow says 'Please don't distract me I'm working.'
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  • Wearing darkened glasses, unsighted Tim Gutteridge walks along a suburban pavement near to The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association's offices in Reading, England with Lewis, a one year-old Labrador Retriever who has been groomed to become a guide dog. Tim is hoping to forge a strong relationship with his new-found companion who confidently leads the way along the path anticipating and avoiding obstacles and dangers. Animals like Lewis don't start learning with a guide dog trainer until they are 12-15 months old. There are around 5,000 working guide dogs in the UK today, though the Guide Dogs charity care for around 8,000 dogs, including breeding stock, puppies, dogs in training and retired dogs.
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  • A couple climb steps next to the shadows of other anonymous people on a wall in Southwark, on the south side of London Bridge. They may be married or part of a long-term relationship, seen as silhouetted figures, we see their shape and form against the constructed modern wall of an office development on the southern side of London Bridge in the borough of Southwark.
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  • Interlocked arms and hands as a family portrait is recorded after a civil wedding ceremony in Essex, England. The family members include the bride herself, the groom, the bride's mother and her husband - the bride's father all stand with their backs to the viewer and stand in a close relationship of affection and bond. This European wedding has taken place inside a covered Orangery at a private wedding and event venue. Rather than marrying in a religious context, the happy couple have preferred to tie the knot in this popular setting for a non-church meaning.
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  • A businessman stands over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. His black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look downwards from the perspective of the wealthier man, a superior view that the client feels when paying for such a service. Wearing a red uniform, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
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  • A businesswoman stands seductively over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. Her black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look see a sexually-dominant situation where the wealthy-looking lady is standing over the man with her strong leg showing in a provocative manner. Wearing a red uniform and ID, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
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  • A businessman stands over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. His black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look downwards from the perspective of the wealthier man, a superior view that the client feels when paying for such a service. Wearing a red uniform, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
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  • Nuns taking tea at the Anglican Convent of the Holy Name, Malvern
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  • Nuns n the garden at the Anglican Convent of the Holy Name, Malvern
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  • Nun stroking a cat at the Anglican Convent of the Holy Name, Malvern
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  • Nuns at the Anglican Convent of the Holy Name, Malvern
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  • A nun chasing a rabbit in the gardens of St Michael's Convent, Ham.Richmond, Surrey. England
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  • Chairman of Ernst & Young Mark Ottey peers down on his employees on a giant screen, addressing his loyal audience of E & Y staff who have congregated at an Ernst & Young Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The hall is packed and his disciples listen and watch intently and obediently to watch their Leader speak like a Big Brother character, who ernestly and sincerely talks down to them despite being dressed casually for such a large event. Each employee will attend this brainstorming fair where later, motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • Passers-by walk past the oversized artwork of a hand bag accessory entitled 'Bag of Aspirations' (2019) by the Greek artist Kalliopi Lemos (b1951) located on New Bond Street, on 30th October 2020, in London, England.
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  • A couple stand arm in arm with a young mother pushing her child's buggy past a grey construction hoarding in central London's Trafalgar Square. Interlinked with fingers similarly together, the man and woman (husband and wife) look in opposite directions, perhaps overwhelmed by the busy square in the heart of the capital.  A lamp post's has created a strong linear theme to the pavement and background hoarding that screens other work.
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  • Passers-by and London Fashion Week red dress in central London window. The red frock stands in the window of a Covent Garden shop selling sunglasses but who champion the bi-annual style and fashion fest around the capital. Passers-by walk past the window in strong afternoon winter sunshine.
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  • The circus animal trainer leads two of his elephant friends one morning after a Gerry Cottle show the night before. Riding a bicycle across a field in London, he leads one beast, its trunk holding his white stick while another follows behind. Peters is topless, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and bright blue trousers. Marcel Peters is a circus animal trainer who has worked in the ring for many years, starting with Billy Smart's Circus and working with Polar bears, tigers, lions and elephants. Gerry Cottle sold his elephants and Peters moved with them to the Spanish Circus Mundial. His real name is Marcel Peter Hodge.
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  • An embracing couple on the bridge that connects Stratford's mainline station and the Westfield shopping mall near the 2012 Olympic Park. Standing close as they speak intimately, the boy and girl are seen framed in a window panel with one other person in the distance. Standing close to talk, they share a private moment amid modern architecture and design of this new development project built in time for the London Games in 2012.
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  • A mature romantic couple cuddle in a London street. As late sun throws the shadows of large London Plane trees across the walls of the South African Embassy in the capital’s Trafalgar Square, the man and woman seem oblivious to all else about them except their own private space. The lady’s head is angled to one side before another smooch, her long legs and smart clothes evident of an evening date in the city. The classic kiss on a street corner.
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  • A mature romantic couple cuddle in a London street. As late sun throws the shadows of large London Plane trees across the walls of the South African Embassy in the capital’s Trafalgar Square, the man and woman seem oblivious to all else about them except their own private space. The lady’s head is angled to one side before another smooch, her long legs and smart clothes evident of an evening date in the city. The classic kiss on a street corner.
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  • Messages of love written in marker pen on a public park sign containing local bylaws. The large letters form the words LOVE YOU in the centre of frame - an amorous declaration of affection - by an admirer followed in red writing of the words "I love you too!" The scrawled writing is on the background of a local park's laws that indicate in parts 2 and 3 what not to do in this public space in south London, England.
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  • Honeymooners cuddle in front of their Boeing 747-400 that will soon take them on a round-the-world adventure, leaving from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5B. The couple are seen as silhouettes against the natural light of the large plate glass windows. As the aircraft is readied and before the flight's air travellers are called to the departure gate, the young man and woman put their heads imagining what new things they will see as their airliner is about to transport them to experience new cultures and possibly a new life. In the background, we see other jets that are parked in their respective jetties across the main movement area, the apron. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • A departing lover hugs her boyfriend farewell before her long-haul flight in the Departures concourse at. Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. While embracing her young man, she gazes off into the distance amid the otherwise busy airport terminal where the emotions of parting as well as the joys of reunited loved-ones are played out in various parts of aviation hubs around the world. They are both in their own worlds, removed from the noise and confusion of other passengers. Her departure is brief and yet their sadness of being separated is plainly too much to bear. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Amid the hectic arrivals concourse of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5, a young couple hold on to each other tight after a few weeks separation when the girl took a family holiday away from her boyfriend who needed to work here in London. They have clearly missed each other after such a short break from each other but are otherwise oblivious to the crowds that surround them in this busy international airport. They embrace with genuine affection for each other in a display of sexual freedom that is otherwise seen as a taboo in other countries. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Amid the hectic arrivals concourse of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5, a young couple kiss and hold on to each other after a few weeks separation when the girl took a family holiday away from her boyfriend who needed to work here in London. They have clearly missed each other after such a short break from each other but are otherwise oblivious to the crowds that surround them in this busy international airport. The boy holds the girl's bottom in a display of sexuality that is frowned upon in other cultures where open sexual behaviour is taboo. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • An exhausted father lays on the family sofa, snuggled up with his infant child who also slumbers on his chest. He has been reading a yellow-covered copy of the Don de Lillo novel, Libra. In the background, the wife and mother can be seen having some sort of personal crisis while the man looks very chilled out and probably  pleased to have the chance to read, snooze and have his sleeping child to comfort. It is a scene of role-reversal as the male of the family is the one left holding the baby, a scene of a modern family as opposed to the traditional Victorian or Edwardian gender.
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  • A menu of seminar room choices is placed near an entrance for those attending an Ernst & Young's counselling workshop held for employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. Words like 'Visualise, Captivate, Innovate and Expand' are listed vertically on a perspex board as well as directions to amenities such as the toilet and an 'Internet Touchdown.' Soon, seminar participants will arrive for a day's role-playing and brainstorming in classrooms named after these concepts. Encouraging the students to be inspired by these verbs.
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  • Circus acrobats perform high above auditor Ernst & Young's staff during a company Academy Day held for 3,000 of their London employees at Excel in London's Docklands England. Lit with blue light by powerful spotlights, the two girls are suspended in mid-air using hoops attached to safety ropes. They both make dramatic shapes in the air to demonstrate confidence, synchronised teamwork and co-operation between partners, the themes of this corporate day out of the office. The employees out of sight below are attending this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • Large arrows coloured red, green and yellow point north, west and east - or up, right and left - in three directions, to offer directions to seminars for Ernst & Young staff during their annual Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The people are either confidently pacing forward, standing still to seek guidance or simply spontaneously emerging from the shadows to a brighter future, a moment when freedom of choice is offered and the road ahead dictates their fate. It is a scene of corporate theate and each employee will attend this fair where pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and motivational gurus talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • A motivational guru is standing on a podium to address an audience of Ernst & Young staff during their annual Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. Standing confidently on his rostrum with a laptop computer, bottled water and a pyramid as teaching aids, he holds his hand to encourage the personnel to participate by offering their ideas and input dring the seminar. Each employee attending this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • We see a close-up of rows of name badges awaiting collection by their owners at the beginning of an Ernst & Young Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. Stacked neatly, we see yellow, green and red lanyards wrapped around each individual Christian and surname. Some names yield clues to the peoples' ethnicity: Either White British like Julia and Rosie, British-Asians like Pratul and Neeraj and possibly British-Muslim like Jamal. Each employee will attend this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
    Ernst+Young_Academy01-21-09-2007_1.jpg
  • A Chinese couple pose for their wedding portraits beneath Nelson's Column in central London's Trafalgar Square. Hiding out of their view is a spectator and unbeknown to the newlyweds  the man guards a pushchair containing a young child. It is a chilly November day and the bride shivers in a skimpy wedding dress  her collar bone revealing she is slim and is probably very cold. Her new husband wears a traditional English long coat with tails and a cravat and button hole flower  possibly hired for this special occasion. Together the lady and man stand against stone of four granite corners on which four lions sit guarding the famous English sailor.
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  • Many racial groups enjoy the pleasures of outdoor in the unheated pool of  the Grade II listed  Brockwell (Brixton) Lido in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill. The Lido is a magnet, an oasis, for city dwellers to escape, if only for an hour from the pressures of fast urban life. Many enjoy the benefits of outdoor bathing and the friendship of meeting old friends. Wearing a straw hat, necklace and hanging sunglasses, a young afro-Caribbean man sunbathes near a blonde white girl who looks over her shoulder. Brockwell Lido is a large, open air swimming pool in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London. It opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 and after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994. Brockwell Lido was designed by HA Rowbotham and TL Smithson of the London County Council's Parks Department to replace Brockwell Park bathing pond.
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  • Young adolescent couples kiss and cuddle in a dark corner of a Gatecrashers' Ball in London, England. Three boys and girls dressed in formal evening-wear have been consuming alcohol during the evening and are groping and snogging. The Gatecrasher Ball was an eighties phenomenon conceived by Edward Ormus Sharington Davenport whose parties catered for Public School students. Labled as excessive and out of control events, Davenport charged <br />
£14 a ticket, for often 3,000 kids although he was later fined for tax evasion.
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  • Mothers sit with their babies in pushchairs on park benches in the Silesian industrial town of Zabrze. A mining town known formerly as Hindenburg until 1945, under Stalinist thought, miners were considered a “working class elite” and were rewarded with higher wages and better social benefits but after communism, Zabrze has a high rate among mother of Ovarian Cancer because of the pollution, caused by the large concentration of industry, the triangle of land between Zabrze, Chorzów, and Bytom has locally been known as 'death triangle'. Since the collapse of communism in 1989, the environmental situation has steadily been improving due the restructuring of the Silesian industry although more than 250,000 jobs have been lost in coal mining since the reintroduction of capitalism. At the same time, enterprises are enjoying enormous profits.
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  • Honeymooners cuddle in front of other passengers before their round-the-world adventure, leaving from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5B. The couple are seen embracing at the departure gate as the remaining air travellers filter through the last security checks and board their long-haul flight. The young lady has a look of contentment on her face, the look of happiness and comfort in the arms of her new husband and they hug with all the affection of young love and trust. Another passenger grins in their direction during this show of devotion. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Vacant desks and empty chairs are placed facing each other for an Ernst & Young's counselling workshop held for company employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. Soon, employees of this seminar will arrive for a day's role-playing in this classroom setting where the office furnature makes a square to force participants to confront their opposite numbers. Jotter pads are provided for brainstorming ideas and concepts that help E & Y get the best out of their talented people. The room is otherwise empty as bright daylight floods through a window allowing positive thoughts and bright ideas to influence their thinking.
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  • An unidentified father in the act of pouring coffee from a cafetiere into two metallic silver mugs in while holding his sleeping baby son in his London kitchen. The unconscious child is a few months old and the parent stands expertly holding both hot liquid and infant as if juggling pleasure and parenthood simultaneously. The sleeping child is limp in the father's arm and is dressed in the same scarlet red as the vibrant colour on the wall behind. We only see the man's upper-legs and torso but the baby is tiny against his body making the scale of both young and old. otherwise, the generic room is bare of decoration or possessions - only a drying cloth and chopping board is seen on the draining board, near plain white tiles.
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  • Mladost housing estate on the outskirts of Sophia, Bulgaria. April 1989
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  • As a couple walk along the pavement, a workman standing on a stepladder fits night lighting to a construction hoarding belonging to the fashion retailer Brunello Cucinelli at their new premises on New Bond Street, on 26th May 2020, in London, England. Brunello Cucinelli is an Italian luxury fashion brand which sells menswear, womens wear and accessories in Europe, North America and East Asia.
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  • Seated on a park bench, as a young man approaches, a young woman reads a book in late afternoon sunshine, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • A man and woman say goodbye outside one entrance of Bank Underground Station in the City of London, the capitals ancient, financial district, on 14th May, in London, England.
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  • Campaigners hug beneath an image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellions campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
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  • Two 1990s British Asians talk discreetly at a club in West London, on 16th August 1998, innLondon, England.
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  • Looking northwards across London Bridge into the City of London - the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 2nd November 2018, in London, England.
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  • A placard asking passing motorists about the value of a Brexit is attached by pro-Europe anti-Brexit protesters to railings opposite the British Houses of Parliament in Westminster, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • The shadows of people and the steps of 1980s architecture of 1, London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • The shadow of a cyclist who has just carried his bike up the steps of 1, London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • A slim man and obese woman walk through Windsor, on 14th May 2018, in London, England.
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  • Two days after the London Bridge and Borough Market terrorist attack, Londoners from all faiths and religions attended a vigil outside City Hall, on Monday 5th June 2017, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. Rabbi Abraham Pinter chatted to Shiraz Kothia while a prominent armed police presence guarded dignitaries and the public who came to the Southbank to remember the seven killed and many others left with life-changing injuries. The British spirit of defiance and to carry on with every day life, endures.
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  • The trimmed topiary forming the letters spelling Love in a public park, on 22nd April 2017, in Clevedon, North Somerset, England.
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  • A devoted elderly couple show their love by holding hands as they walk in late afternoon sunshine through Ruskin Park, on 8th September 2016, south London borough of Southwark, England UK. Making their way slowly, the old people continue through the park with shadows on a brick wall behind them.
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  • Londoners cross southbound over London Bridge during the evening rush hour. A young couple walk arm in arm and next to them an older couple hold hands in a display of loyalty and affection followed by others walking away out of the City of London. There has been a crossing over the Thames here since the Romans first forded the river in the early 1st Century with subsequent medieval and Victorian stone bridges becoming an important thoroughfare from the City on the north bank, to Southwark on the south where transport hubs such as the mainline station gets commuters to the suburbs and satellite towns.
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  • In fine, late-summer weather, an eleven year-old girl gingerly steps over a stile on the coastal path at Carregwastad Point, near Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Steadying herself with a walking pole, she climbs over wearing trainers rather than stout walking boots as this path is gentle for younger outdoor enthusiasts. The Pembrokeshire Coast Path is the first National Trail in Wales. Opened in 1970, the path is almost entirely contained within the boundaries of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park that takes in 17 Sites of Scientific Interest (SSSI), two nature reserves, and Wales' only marine nature reserve. The cliff tops offer wonderful expanses of wildflowers in Spring (April and May are best). Wide variety of birds nest along the cliffs, and grey seals can often be seen in the water below.
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  • In a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England, we see many black bin-bags are left against industrial brick walls awaiting collection during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. The cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses are in a poor area, south of the city centre and home to deprived families. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs now exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
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  • 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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  • Vertical jets create a curtain of water as a child flexes his muscles, shivering from cold water cold and other young Londoner children spontaneously shed their clothes and get wet in a splash experience at the South Bank during the free Mayor's Thames Festival celebration along the capital's river. In the heat of summer, when the capital's temperatures have climbed to levels when urban children just want to play in any water they can find, this feature on the upper-level of the newly-renovated Festival Hall (seen on the left) satisfies their reckless and thrilling childhood, allowing them to await ever-changing jets of water pressure that alternates between off and on. The kids are drenched as they find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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  • While visiting London's tourist sites, a young boy of about 5 years-old spends time at Horse Guards where a soldier from the Household Cavalry, also dressed in a deep red coat, stands motionless and at-ease. It is a bright day and the gray stonework amplifies the scarlett uniform tunics as the boy has his picture taken by family. The British Household Cavalry is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660.
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  • RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station high on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Before their demolition by Ministry of Defence contractors this early attack warning Cold War facility, consisted of three 40-metre-diameter 'golfballs' or geodesic domes (radomes) containing mechanically steered radar. They became a local tourist attraction and coach tours drove past the site listening to the interference on radios emitted by the radomes. They have since been replaced by the current tetrahedron ('pyramid') structure and is still a secret location. Its Motto is "Vigilamus" ("We are watching"). It is now a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS).
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  • A young office worker wearing a dark suit stands outside his place of work in a sunny Trinity Square in the City of London, for a quick cigarette break. Puffing guiltily on his fag n the pavement outside beneath the huge supporting pillars of this financial institution. He draws on his cigarette, a sign of his addiction and enjoyment of taking a five or ten-minute pause from his office job. A report showed smokers each lose an average of 30 minutes a day from their workplaces to satisfy their habit. The average smoker takes at least three breaks from the office, each lasting around 10 minutes, research for the Benenden Healthcare Society found. The healthcare group estimates that 290,000 working days are being lost by people leaving their office to smoke.
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  • In neat diagonal rows, young Nepali boys are crouching on the ground at the British Army's Gurkha base in Pokhara, Nepal where the Britain's Ministry of Defence recruits the best choices to become fully-trained soldiers in the UK's Gurkha Regiment. Some 60,000 young Nepalese 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 in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the flight to the UK. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • Seen from a hillside opposite, with the clear blue backdrop of the snow-covered Himalayan mountain peaks, a Nepalese family crouch on the hilltop to rest during a family walk from their community village near Gorkha, Central Nepal. In the middle of the picture, a young girl twirls and dances across the clearing as her parents and siblings watch, drawfed by the powerfully- dominant range of natural features that form part of the highest altitudes on earth although Gorkha is only 3281 feet (about 1000 meters) above sea level. These peoples' homes cling to the sides of impressive mountains that draw tens of thousands of travellers to this region to trek the paths and conservation sanctuaries of this fast-developing Buddhist and Hindu Kingdom.
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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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  • A young, vulnerable-looking youth stands close to two members of a local Evangelical church who are using a carpet warehouse as a temporary Ministry. Rolls of carpets and rugs are behind these Christians as the two officials practice the 'laying on of hands' to cleanse the soul of their young convert during a religious meeting in Newport, Wales. As the ceremony takes place when this boy is persuaded to accept Jesus into his life, two retail signs proclaim the prices and credit terms of the household items. The laying on of hands is a religious practice found throughout the world in varying forms. In Christian churches, this practice is used as both a symbolic and formal method of invoking the Holy Spirit during baptisms, healing services, blessings, and ordination of priests, ministers, elders, deacons, and other holy church ceremonies.
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  • In the middle of a field serving as a grass car park, three couples celebrate the Ladies' Day event at Royal Ascot. Holding their glasses to toast a grand day out at this annual sporting event in the social calendar, the gentlemen are dressed in formal top hats and tails, the ladies in wide hats and summer dresses. Grinning and looking smug in their upp-class social status, they are seated eccentrically and comically around a plastic table with a tablecloth, two Candelabras and their picnic lunch plates full of fine food.
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  • In the shelter of a large red and yellow-striped marquee tent, a middle-aged husband and wife relax in deck chairs on Brighton's East Pier, England. The wife appears to be asleep and has taken the prrecution against splinters from the pier's planks by spreading a tiny towell to rest her feet upon. She has dyed hair and large sun glasses and her bony legs are tanned and veined from much exposure to the sun. The husband is also fully-clothed with a loud checked jacket, black shoes and socks and he sits crossed-legged with a peaked cap and dark glasses with his hands across his belly. They are in a peaceful spot on this pier, a Victorian seaside structure built in 1899 for those taking the air to walk out onto the sea without getting their feet wet.
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  • During a late-night party when the lights are low and the mood is intimate, couples smooch and cuddle under the roof of a garden marquee. The couple nearest embrace in a romantic close moment when the dance is slow and lovers can get close.
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  • A black student works diligently alongside a white-skinned man at the communications company Cable & Wireless in London, England. We see in the foreground, the dark-skinned young man with a short beard is writing with a pencil that has a rubber on the top but the man in the background is out of focus. It is an image of ethnic diversity, of a multicultural Britain with students living and working uninterrupted side-by-side. They are both concentrating on their work in  a generic office or classroom, perhaps entering an examination or performing a corporate test.
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  • Crowds of visitors and locals gather on the terrace of an Ocean Drive cafe in Miami Beach. It is early evening and we see the blurred people moving about over the picture during a time-exposure of a few seconds. The colours of ambient neon lights that these streets are well-known for have become very vivid with bright pinks and reds a main feature of this scene. A menu board listing cocktail drinks prices stands on the sidewalk. Candles have been lit in glass jars on table tops. Ghostly, blurred Palm trees sway about in the coastal breeze against the fading sky of early evening. This is a vibrant district of tropical Miami, Florida. The place to hang-out and be noticed. Glowing pinks and blues are vivid in this scene where beautiful people and expensive cars cruise along slowly, each parading bodywork and personality.
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  • A solo teenage player takes a shot at the net on a basketball court at the Cyprea Marine Foods (CMF) processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives in the Indian Ocean. It is dusk near the equator and soon dark. The landscape is barren except for some young trees on the waterfront where two people are walking in the cool tropical air. Seen in the last, darkening light of day, the player leaps upwards and his arm stays where his ball left his hand to roll around the ring. The man is enjoying some leisure time at the end of his working day, possibly an employee of CMF who handle newly-caught tuna fish for export to the EU and the UK's supermarket food industry.
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  • The head of a freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish lies inert on a filleting table at a refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcass has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The filleting is performed by Sri Lankan ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
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  • On the eve of transfer of law in Hong Kong from the UK to China, construction workers in Central Hong Kong carry on their tasks during a monsoonal rain shower on the last day of British rule. Some are dressed in yellow waterproof coats and hard hats, we see a British-style sign warning drivers of Men at Work resembling a man holding an umbrella. Lastly, on the right another man on a wall, also holding an brolley. In the foreground a car park sign states that the space is full in red letters and a local authority sign saying "Working for a better environment" is written in Chinese and English lettering. The transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China, referred to as "The Handover" occurred at midnight on June 30, 1997, signifying the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China.
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  • An English caucasian lady smiles at something of interest to the viewer's right. She is a wrinkled female in her sixties, a healthy person with her own original teeth and whose untidy hair is greying and whose skin is slightly tanned under a summer sun. She wears a blue shirt with a wide collar, fashionable in the 1980s (eighties) and has a bemused, attentive expression as if entertained by something of humour out of frame. This is someone's mother and grandmother, at an age when her hard-working life is nearly over and her pension is hopefully covering her everyday needs.
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  • A lone male figure makes his way along a corridor of power in the newly-opened European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium. As the new head-quarters of the EU and an administrative home to the Members of European Parliament (MEPs), it is a contemporary architectural symbol of infuence and modernity. We see the man walking towards an open atrium. The viewer can see three floors though there are many more out of sight and on two of the levels there are TV screens with the stars denoting the number of member states at that time. The interior is grid-like with warm and inviting lighting, making for a productive environment in which office workers can feel comfortable when dealing with European political business.
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  • Stopping work for a moment to pose for a portrait on the sea wall at Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, a team of the resort's lifeguards show their youth, fitness and bodies beautiful, displaying themselves in the sun of a fine summer day. There is only one female member but some are standing on the wall while others are seated in deck chairs, a ladder seat or on the hot sand near three sexy girls are are sunning themselves near a railing. Wearing bikinis one is not asleep but eyeing-up some of the alpha-male specimens  on show wearing only red shorts. Meanwhile, holidaymakers walk past with ice-creams. It is a bright scene and obviously a busy time for these safety experts when tourists forever get themselves into danger in the sea and surf. Currents here make for a hazardous experience for those unable to swim out of trouble.
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  • A lady protects herself from a mid-day summer summer sun with a brightly coloured parasol brolley. Oblivious to the viewer, she balances her lunch snack on her lap with toes pointing inwards, exposed to the hot solar rays. Meanwhile, she holds on tight to her eager pet poodle dog who is straining on its leash, wanting to go for a walk along the largely unpopulated promenade in this Devon resort, otherwise known as the English Riviera. But splashes of white paint (from the painted beach huts) have been left on the pavement. It is a horrible place to sit in the sun and her partner has left her alone to sit on her sun lounger, leaving the second chair vacant.
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  • Three friends in their thirties are hugging each other tightly at Coates Wine Bar on London Wall in the City of London, England. We see their three heads as close as possible accompanied by three wall-mounted lights that are glowing a warm red tone making this a cosy and welcoming atmosphere. The man and one of the girls are chubby with round cheeks and chins and so enjoy the good life.
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  • Young Born Again Christians express emotions during a ministry at Butlins holiday centre in Minehead, Somerset, England. The annual meeting of fellow-evangelical pilgrims at one of Britain's holiday centres gives this otherwise jolly evening entertainment venue - a ballroom for dance and music - lends a far different atmosphere during this religious festival of prayer and dialogue with Jesus. Young people hold up their hands towards Heaven with either peace or pain on their faces.
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  • A beautiful brunette woman is watched by an unknown male in a club in London's West End during a packed Bhangra-themed music night. As if being stalked by this male pest, we see a moment in this young woman’s evening as she enjoys a night out with girlfriends. The man scratches his nose at the same time as the woman brushes her hand against her cheek. It is hot in the busy club and the man is seen perspiring – he may be a stalker and he may be an innocent bystander – but it does look as though he has a keen interest in this dark-haired beauty. The Asian music is loud and the atmosphere is a pounding throng of young people but our attention is still with the two people, one oblivious to the other.
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  • A husband and wife make their way along a pavement towards the entrance of the Ascot racecourse where the annual Ladies' Day event is held as part of the English social season calendar. Leading the way and carrying two walking sticks and in a polythene bag, his best jacket for the dress-code is important if one is allowed access to the private enclosures. He wears a top hat and waste coat as he hobbles along with wife in tow. She is behind him rummaging through her handbag perhaps looking for tickets or cash. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season.
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  • The Kessler family live on a farm in the quiet village of Boofzheim in Alsace, France. Their business is producing Foie Gras and they raise force-fed ducks near the German border region. The youngest member is daughter Mireille wearing a blood-stained apron. She is about to cut the throat of a duck, draining the body and especially the liver of blood. After tapping the head with a knife to render the animal unconscious, she stands in a pool of  blood from other birds which stains the courtyard floor. On the left, her parents and grandmother are plucking the feathers from newly-killed carcasses which are strung up on a special rack for this purpose. France produces and consumes the most Foie Gras in Europe using the French Gavage method of forcing ducks or geese to consume vast quatities of corn mash down the esophagus two weeks before slaughter.
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  • Hermit, Tom Leppard, 72, has lived in seclusion at this unidentified spot on the Isle of Skye, Scotland for 22 years. He sits contemplating his quiet life in a self-made shelter largely cut-off from the outside world. Wind and rain-proof against harsh Scottish winters, his army survival skills keep him fit and healthy but his memory is fading and suffers muscular ailments. None of his possessions suffer from damp or mildew because everything he owns is wrapped in plastic containers carefully stored in special holes about his camp. Few know his exact whereabouts but concerned locals visit when weather prevents him from crossing a 2km-wide Loch in an old canoe. His days are spent washing, cleaning and carrying out maintenance jobs that keeps his home clean and fresh. Tom is a former solder and sailor and chose this spot when he sought ultimate solitude.
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  • A couple walk hand in hand towards period homes bordering Ruskin Park in Herne Hill, on 27th November 2020, in London, England.
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  • On a rainy night in Soho, three friends hug on Dean Street during the coronavirus pandemic, on 27th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Some outdoor cafes are already open and customers in Monmouth Street in the West End sit outside in sunshine, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
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  • A man and his girlfriend mess about in Beckenham Palace Park in south London, on 14th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • Young Hungarians socialise and kiss beneath a Soviet-era memorial, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
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  • A couple cuddle at the Neon Bar on the cruise ship Ecstasy, en-route from Miami to Cancun in Mexico, on 15th May 1996, in Miami, Florida, USA. The Neon Bar features an enormous circular piano which doubles as a bar for those who like to sing along and neon artwork is lit behind the females, one the shape of another cocktail glass. Carnival’s ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The cruise line calls its ships The Fun Ships and the MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping.
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  • A young couple enjoy each others company during an evening at Coates Wine Bar on London Wall in the City of London, on 22nd June 1993, in London, England.
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  • An elderly couple rest on a bench in front of Covent Garden Underground station, and next to a poster advertising the musical, Aladdin, on 15th June 2019, in London, England.
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  • Campaigners hug beneath an image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellions campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
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  • A kissing couple in front of temporary construction hoarding in a West End street, on 7th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • Circular lighting from the foyer of a City business and the other financial insitutions on Cornhill Street, in the City of London - the capitals fijnancial district, on 24th January 2019, in London, England.
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  • The shadows of evening commuters appear on corporate architecture at the north end of London Bridge in the City of London - aka the Square Mile - the capitals financial district, on 17th January 2019, in London, England.
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  • Women watch other ladies arriving from London to attend Royal Ascot Ladies Day, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar in June, on 18th June 1992, in Ascot, England.
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  • From behind, a 1990s Hispanic couple hold hands on Venice beach, on 18th May 1996, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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  • Five elderly women on-lookers are lined against a wall outside the famous Ascot race course on Ladies Day, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar in June, on 18th June 1992, in Ascot, England.
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  • A placard asking passing motorists about the value of a Brexit is attached by pro-Europe anti-Brexit protesters to railings opposite the British Houses of Parliament in Westminster, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • A placard asking passing motorists about the value of a Brexit is attached by pro-Europe anti-Brexit protesters to railings opposite the British Houses of Parliament in Westminster, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
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