Show Navigation

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
{ 664 images found }

Loading ()...

  • A power cable plugs into the place of a petrol cap while recharging G-Wiz car in central London. A power cable plugs into the place of a petrol cap while recharging a G-Wiz AEV (Automatic Electric Vehicle) car. The car is parked at the kerbside in Dover Street and is hooked up to a recharging point. The AEV has a range of up to 48 miles per charge with a certified top speed of 50 mph. A charging station, also called an electric recharging point and EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment) supplies electricity for the recharging of electric vehicles (including plug-in hybrids). Although most electric cars can be recharged from a domestic wall socket, many support faster charging at higher voltages and currents that require dedicated equipment with a specialized connector.
    electric_car6-20-10-2011_1.jpg
  • A power cable plugs into the place of a petrol cap while recharging G-Wiz car in central London. A power cable plugs into the place of a petrol cap while recharging a G-Wiz AEV (Automatic Electric Vehicle) car. The car is parked at the kerbside in Dover Street and is hooked up to a recharging point. The AEV has a range of up to 48 miles per charge with a certified top speed of 50 mph. A charging station, also called an electric recharging point and EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment) supplies electricity for the recharging of electric vehicles (including plug-in hybrids). Although most electric cars can be recharged from a domestic wall socket, many support faster charging at higher voltages and currents that require dedicated equipment with a specialized connector.
    electric_car02-20-01-2011_1.jpg
  • A power cable plugs into the place of a petrol cap while recharging G-Wiz car in central London. A power cable plugs into the place of a petrol cap while recharging a G-Wiz AEV (Automatic Electric Vehicle) car. The car is parked at the kerbside in Dover Street and is hooked up to a recharging point. The AEV has a range of up to 48 miles per charge with a certified top speed of 50 mph. A charging station, also called an electric recharging point and EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment) supplies electricity for the recharging of electric vehicles (including plug-in hybrids). Although most electric cars can be recharged from a domestic wall socket, many support faster charging at higher voltages and currents that require dedicated equipment with a specialized connector.
    electric_car01-20-01-2011_1.jpg
  • Mannequins displaying casual stylish menswear in the window of City of London branch of the Dutch menswear business Suit Supply. Four of the models stand and sit on full display to passing trade in the side street in the capital's financial district near Leadenhall Market where businessmen in the insurance services work.
    male_mannequins01-27-04-2012.jpg
  • Power cables plug into the place of a petrol cap while recharging G-Wiz cars in central London. A power cable plugs into the place of a petrol cap while recharging a G-Wiz AEV (Automatic Electric Vehicle) car. The car is parked at the kerbside in Dover Street and is hooked up to a recharging point. The AEV has a range of up to 48 miles per charge with a certified top speed of 50 mph. A charging station, also called an electric recharging point and EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment) supplies electricity for the recharging of electric vehicles (including plug-in hybrids). Although most electric cars can be recharged from a domestic wall socket, many support faster charging at higher voltages and currents that require dedicated equipment with a specialized connector.
    electric_car13-20-10-2011_1.jpg
  • Electricity supply in the Dolomites, South Tyrol, northern Italy. 60% of the province's energy needs, excl transport, comes from renewable sources like water, biomass, biogas, solar, wind and geothermal. In 2013 South Tyrol produced 6,569 gigawatt-hours of electricity and 92% of electrical energy was generated via hydropower homemade energy producing more than twice its own requirements. The South Tyrolean budget is 5bn Euros with only 10% leaving the region for government in Rome. The Überetsch (Oltradige in Italian) is a hilly section of the Etschtal in South Tyrol, northern Italy.
    appiano_italy02-11-07-2015_1.jpg
  • As evening light fades, bright light from the electricity-hungry Canary Wharf docklands development is supplied by the voltage from electricity cables and supporting struts at West Ham sub-station, Canning Town, London England. A network of 110 miles of cables have stretched across 542 'L6' pylons across England's Kent countryside, from the coal-fired power station at Dungeness to this location, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of London's high supply demands. Insatiable appetites for energy means electricity is now an expensive comodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity283-22-01-2008 _1.jpg
  • London Fire Brigade (LFB) firefighters attend a local minor roof fire in Herne Hill, south London. One fireman wearing a face mask and hood is equipped for BA (Breathing Apparatus) necessary to a burning building. The man adjusts straps and regulates his oxygen supply so breathing is possible inside a smoking environment.
    SE24_fire08-24-04-2015_1.jpg
  • One shovel-full of road grit has been left in a small pile at the kerb of a side road in East Dulwich, South London. Left by workers from the borough of Southwark, this modest supply is symbolic of the controversial problem of local government running low on street grits and salts that help prevent thousands of traffic collisions and pedestrian falls every winter. In January of 2010 (following the equally snow fall of February 2009) councils were caught unprepared for adverse weather which virtually brought towns and cities and rural communities to a standstill. We look down at the fallen snow, trodden by countless pairs of boots which compress the snow and make it an often treacherous surface on which to tread.
    london_snows32-13-01-2010.jpg
  • A long-distance lorry is parked at the Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket warehouse and distribution depot at Waltham Point London England. With round wheels echoing the circles of oranges, long-distance vehicles depart every two minutes, 24 hours a day, 364 days a year to 80 UK stores and handling 2.5m supermarket cases a week. Transporting refrigerated perishable foodstuffs, these lorries are ever-present on the nation's motorways and A-roads, plying back and forth to re-supply the supermarkets. Food orders are conveyed with sorter systems that group products together, ordering them to favour the layout of specific stores, optimising how the shelves are stacked.
    sainsburys_depot123-09-05-2007.jpg
  • A  Hapag-Lloyd container cargo ship navigates past two fishermen on the southern shores of the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent England. Pausing from their fishing, the two men lean over the sea defence wall to watch the traffic to-and-fro as one giant vessel after another departs from Tilbury Docks towards open sea. The Thames has historically long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world. There are 133 Hapag-Lloyd containerships with a capacity of around 499.000 TEU (Twenty foot containers), Container capacity exceeds 1,1 million (TEU) containers.
    river_business353-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • The Hamburg-registered Mol Caledon ship passes the giant dredging machinery at npower's Tilbury power station on the  River Thames northern shore, Essex England. Having just departed from Tilbury Docks with the evening sun glinting off the stern's reflective surfaces, stacks of tall containers are heaped high but evenly spread for stability along the massive vessel. They head out towards open sea, navigating through deeper water channels that naturally get shallower as silt chokes the waterways. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
    thames_ships172-26-06-2007_1_1.jpg
  • As the community fill up their water butts and buckets, a young girl drinks fresh water from a cup supplied by a water tanker, provided by Thames Water during the southern England drought of 1989. During the heatwave that saw reservoirs depleted and in the south west, dry up altogether. A hosepipe ban and in some areas, tap water failed too so tankers stationed in affected areas so locals could fill up for essential use. Tourism increased as people visited tourist areas e.g. beaches at the weekends and took holidays in the UK rather than travelling abroad for the sun
    community_drought01-21-07-1989_1.jpg
  • Llyn Clywedog reservoir in Wales, United Kingdom. The Clywedog reservoir near Llanidloes, Wales. Completed in 1967, the reservoir supplies water to Birmingham and the English Midlands by river regulation and to mitigate flooding in the lower Severn by storing excess winter rainfall.
    20171017_llyn clywedog_003.jpg
  • Llyn Clywedog reservoir in Wales, United Kingdom. The Clywedog reservoir near Llanidloes, Wales. Completed in 1967, the reservoir supplies water to Birmingham and the English Midlands by river regulation and to mitigate flooding in the lower Severn by storing excess winter rainfall.
    20171017_llyn clywedog_002.jpg
  • Llyn Clywedog reservoir in Wales, United Kingdom. The Clywedog reservoir near Llanidloes, Wales. Completed in 1967, the reservoir supplies water to Birmingham and the English Midlands by river regulation and to mitigate flooding in the lower Severn by storing excess winter rainfall.
    20171017_llyn clywedog_001.jpg
  • As winter fog lifts, the waters of the River Thames clear to reveal an eerie landscape of industrial river life and architecture at Gravesend, Kent England. It is late-morning and in the hazy distance on the northern river bank, steam clouds near the double twin chimneys of npower's 1400MW coal fired Tilbury power station (powering 1.4 million homes using ‘biomass’ fuels and low-sulphur coal) which rise above the passing ghostly bulk of a cargo freighter on its last miles of its voyage from open sea into the Thames Estuary and on to Tilbury Docks. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
    river_business320-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • A newly-recruited Nepali boy is about to leave his homeland for the UK, where the British army is to make him a fully-trained soldier in the Gurkha Regiment. Daubed with saffron and paint, the sign of good luck on a journey to come, he stands with absolute pride with garlands of fresh flowers draped around his neck by well-wishing relatives before they wave good bye to their son or brother for his two years absence away from home. 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.
    RB-0079.jpg
  • For their regular river washing ritual, the red identical t-shirts of young Nepali boys walk in single-file down a valley side near the British Gurkha Regiment's army camp at Pokhara after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_training0316-01_1997_1.jpg
  • Red identical t-shirts of young Nepali boys walk in single-file through a dry valley near the British Gurkha Regiment's army camp at Pokhara after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_training0216-01_1997_1.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_training0116-01_1997_1.jpg
  • Officers and new recruits of the British Royal Gurkha Regiment pose for their official photograph at their army camp at Pokhara, Nepal after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, before the 160 lucky candidates travel to the UK for basic training. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_recruitment02-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • New recruits of the British Royal Gurkha Regiment learn to parade for their official photograph at their army camp in Pokhara, Nepal after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, before the 160 lucky candidates travel to the UK for basic training. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_recruitment04-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_recruitment08-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • British and Nepali-born army officers assess recruits during an army exercise trial known as the British Fitness Test (BFT) at the British Gurkha Regiment's camp at Pokhara, Nepal. The boys are among those trying for a highly-valued place in the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_recruitment07-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • A woman driver is breathalysed at the roadside by an officer from the City of London Police. During a night shift in the streets near Liverpool Street Station, the lady blows into the device until the officer tells her to stop, having supplied sufficient breath that can be measured for alcohol in milligrams of Oxygen. When the user exhales into the breathalyzer, any ethanol present in their breath is oxidized to acetic acid at the anode. The overall reaction is the oxidation of ethanol to acetic acid and water. The electrical current produced by this reaction is measured, processed, and displayed as an approximation of overall blood alcohol content by the breathalyser. The first practical roadside breath-testing device intended for use by the police was the drunkometer. The drunkometer was developed by Professor Harger in 1938.
    breathalyser_driver01-21-06-1993_1.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is straining in his last sit-ups during a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_training0416-01_1997_1.jpg
  • New recruits of the Royal Gurkha Regiment swear allegiance to Her Majesty the Queen’s portrait during their passing-out parade at their camp at Pokhara, Nepal. After being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, the lucky 160 fly to the UK for basic training. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those more educated 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 journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857
    gurkha_recruitment05-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • Wearing numbered bibs, four Nepali boys warm-up before an army exercise trial known as the British Fitness Test (BFT) at the British Gurkha Regiment's army camp at Pokhara, Nepal. These boys are among those trying for a highly-valued place in the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_recruitment01-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • New recruits of the British Royal Gurkha Regiment parade before taking official oaths on the Union Jack flag at their army camp in Pokhara, Nepal after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, before the 160 lucky candidates travel to the UK for basic training. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_inspection-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • The National Grid electricity control room maps and monitors the flow of high voltage electric power around the entire UK network from their head quarters in Berkshire, United Kingdom.
    UK_Electrical_Supply_National_Grid_7...jpg
  • The Map inside the National Grid electricity control room that monitors the flow of high voltage electric power around the entire UK network from their head quarters in Berkshire, United Kingdom.
    UK_Electrical_Supply_National_Grid_7...jpg
  • Workers inside the National Grid electricity control room maps and monitors the flow of high voltage electric power around the entire UK network from their head quarters in Berkshire, United Kingdom.
    UK_Electrical_Supply_National_Grid_7...jpg
  • The National Grid electricity control room maps and monitors the flow of high voltage electric power around the entire UK network from their head quarters  Wokingham, United Kingdom.
    UK_Electrical_Supply_National_Grid_7...jpg
  • The National Grid electricity control room maps and monitors the flow of high voltage electric power around the entire UK network from their head quarters in Berkshire, United Kingdom.
    UK_Electrical_Supply_National_Grid_7...jpg
  • The screens inside the National Grid electricity control room closely monitor weather and  the flow of high voltage electric power around the entire UK network from their head quarters in Berkshire, United Kingdom.
    UK_Electrical_Supply_National_Grid_7...jpg
  • The National Grid electricity control room maps and monitors the flow of high voltage electric power around the entire UK network from their head quarters  Wokingham, United Kingdom.
    UK_Electrical_Supply_National_Grid_7...jpg
  • Clean water on tap is limited in Lebanon, even in the capital Beirut and many private homes have water delivered by huge trucks. Pacific Water is one of several companies suppllying water, here in down town Beirut.
    IMG_6614_1_1.jpg
  • Seen from the middle of the road, an empty highway landscape is seen at night alongside a giant generic warehouse wall at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. The tarmac is dark and the newly-painted white painted lines stand out. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
    DIRFT022-20-02-2007 _1.jpg
  • The form of a giant generic warehouse glows from ambient light at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bare trees without foliage are seen in the foreground on this cold winter night. We see the building low in the picture and the sky graduates from light into near darkness. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
    DIRFT057-20-02-2007 _1.jpg
  • Seen from a high viewpoint, we overlook loading of roll cages at the Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket warehouse and distribution depot at Waltham Point London England. This is the largest of 10 distribution centres using an automated ordering system for receiving food direct from suppliers by truck through 170 dock doors. Long-distance vehicles depart every two minutes, 24 hours a day, 364 days a year to 80 UK stores and handling 2.5m supermarket cases a week. The temperature is just above freezing point in a series of chill, ambient and frozen chambers. Real-time ordering means that stores can obtain requested stock within hours. Food orders are conveyed (at 2 meters a second) with sorter systems that group products together, ordering them to favour the layout of specific stores, optimising how the shelves are stacked.
    sainsburys_depot054-09-05-2007.jpg
  • Outside Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, during the turnround of a British Airways jet aircraft, the refueller's heavy fuel nozzle is plugged into the airfield's underground reservoirs to pump some 109 tons of Jet A1 aviation fuel flowing at a rate of 3,000 litres a minute, to be uplifted into the wing tanks of a Boeing 747-300, a typical quantity of extra fuel for this aeroplane bound for Los Angeles. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1592-20-08-2009_1.jpg
  • Outside Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, during the turnround of a British Airways jet aircraft, the refueller’s heavy fuel nozzle is plugged into the airfield's underground reservoirs to pump some 109 tons of Jet A1 aviation fuel flowing at a rate of 3,000 litres a minute, to be uplifted into the wing tanks of a Boeing 747-300, a typical quantity of extra fuel for this aeroplane bound for Los Angeles. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1592-20-08-2009_1 1.jpg
  • Pointing towards the viewer and the bottom of the picture near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow directs traffic flow at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse walls shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
    DIRFT087-20-02-2007 _1.jpg
  • In front of an industrial doorway with a safety handrail and near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from left to right at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
    DIRFT089-20-02-2007 _1.jpg
  • In front of an industrial doorway with a safety handrail and near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from left to right at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
    DIRFT079-20-02-2007 _1.jpg
  • Moving fast past a farmhouse building on a busy UK A road, unseen traffic leaves its light trails on an otherwise dark winter night near the giant DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Some rooms are lit in this remote residence which show signs of occupation. Red tail lights from cars, lorries and trucks streak by with tall traces of container traffic leaves light on the picture, diagonally leaving their mark. It is a very busy highway on which to own a home but this infrastructure is a vital route that keeps Britain's logistics moving across the country 24/7.
    DIRFT098-20-02-2007 _1.jpg
  • Alongside the A5 highway, an industrial landscape is illuminated in light from roadside street-lighting. Reeds are in the foreground in front of a giant generic warehouse that glows from its own territory. Grass is next to the crash-barrier and faint mist is seen on this cold winter night at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
    DIRFT041-20-02-2007 _1.jpg
  • In front of empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from right to left in the foreground at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. A bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining  on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco’s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
    DIRFT_084_1.jpg
  • Emerging from his van, a dry cleaning contractor gathers many items of freshly-cleaned business clothing and delivers to a nearby address in the City of London - the capitals financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    dry_cleaning-05-10-10-2018.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with 53 cases now reported by health authorities, a mother and child walks past the window of a medical equipment business in south London, displays a face masks sign and surgical masks on a skeleton mannequin, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus_shop-13-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with 53 cases now reported by health authorities, the window of a medical equipment business in south London, displays a face masks sign and surgical masks on a skeleton mannequin, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus_shop-03-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with 53 cases now reported by health authorities, is a detail of lettering that spells out Face Masks being sold by a medical equipment business in south London, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus_shop-15-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with 53 cases now reported by health authorities, a mother and child walks past the window of a medical equipment business in south London, displays a face masks sign and surgical masks on a skeleton mannequin, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus_shop-09-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with 53 cases now reported by health authorities, the window of a medical equipment business in south London, displays a face masks sign and a surgical masks worn by a nurses mannequin, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus_shop-01-04-03-2020.jpg
  • Emerging from his van, a dry cleaning contractor gathers many items of freshly-cleaned business clothing and delivers to a nearby address in the City of London - the capitals financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    dry_cleaning-04-10-10-2018.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with 53 cases now reported by health authorities, the window of a medical equipment business in south London, a surgical mask is worn by a nurses mannequin, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus_shop-18-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with 53 cases now reported by health authorities, the window of a medical equipment business in south London, a surgical mask is worn by a nurses mannequin, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus_shop-16-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with 53 cases now reported by health authorities, the window of a medical equipment business in south London, displays a surgical masks attached to a skeleton mannequin, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus_shop-21-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with 53 cases now reported by health authorities, a mother and child walks past the window of a medical equipment business in south London, displays a face masks sign and surgical masks on a skeleton mannequin, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus_shop-04-04-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronovirus pandemic takes hold across the UK, with 53 cases now reported by health authorities, the window of a medical equipment business in south London, displays a face masks sign and surgical masks on a skeleton mannequin, on 4th March 2020, in London, England.
    cornovirus_shop-02-04-03-2020.jpg
  • A twisted blue electric recharging cable is plugged in to a white car on a central London street, on 16th April 2018, in London, England.
    recharging_car-05-16-04-2018.jpg
  • Fast charging a Nissan Leaf electric car at an electrical charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge at a south London Nissan dealership. The Nissan Leaf (Leading, Environmentally Friendly, Affordable, Family) is a five-door hatchback electric Nissan car. Its official range is 117 kilometres with an energy consumption of 765 kilojoules per kilometre and rated the Leaf's combined fuel economy at 2.4 L/100 km.
    electric_nissan02-21-03-2012_1.jpg
  • Fast charging a Nissan Leaf electric car at an electrical charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge at a south London Nissan dealership. The Nissan Leaf (Leading, Environmentally Friendly, Affordable, Family) is a five-door hatchback electric Nissan car. Its official range is 117 kilometres with an energy consumption of 765 kilojoules per kilometre and rated the Leaf's combined fuel economy at 2.4 L/100 km.
    electric_nissan07-21-03-2012_1.jpg
  • A man's hand reaches the handle of a plug after the fast charging of a Nissan Leaf electric car at an electrical charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge at a south London Nissan dealership. The Nissan Leaf (an acronym for Leading, Environmentally friendly, Affordable, Family car is a five-door hatchback electric car manufactured by Nissan and introduced in Japan and the United States in December 2010. The US Environmental Protection Agency official range is 117 kilometres (73 mi), with an energy consumption of 765 kilojoules per kilometre (34 kW·h/100 mi) and rated the Leaf's combined fuel economy at 99 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent (2.4 L/100 km). The Leaf has a range of 175 km (109 mi) on the New European Driving Cycle.
    electric_nissan08-21-03-2012_1.jpg
  • The SGTE fast charger technology for electric vehicles at a charging point offering an electric vehicle (EV) 30 minute charge. CHAdeMO (sometimes spelled CHΛdeMO) is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector. CHAdeMO is an abbreviation of "CHArge de MOve", equivalent to "charge for moving". The name is a pun for O cha demo ikaga desuka in Japanese,[translating to English as "How about some tea?", referring to the time it would take to charge a car. CHΛdeMO can charge a car in less than half an hour.
    electric_nissan13-21-03-2012_1.jpg
  • Fast charging a Nissan Leaf electric car at an electrical charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge at a south London Nissan dealership. The Nissan Leaf (Leading, Environmentally Friendly, Affordable, Family) is a five-door hatchback electric Nissan car. Its official range is 117 kilometres with an energy consumption of 765 kilojoules per kilometre and rated the Leaf's combined fuel economy at 2.4 L/100 km.
    electric_nissan01-21-03-2012_1.jpg
  • A parked Smart car recharges electric power at an EDF charging point in central London. Its yellow coiled cable stretching from charging point to car. Source London is now the capital’s largest charging network. It has significantly boosted existing numbers of charge points operated by a range of different localised schemes. By 2013, Source London will total at least 1,300 charge points, more than the number of petrol stations currently in London, ensuring the infrastructure is in place for significantly more people and businesses to buy an electric vehicle. The creation of an electric vehicle network is in line with the Mayor’s pledge to promote quality of life by reducing pollution and CO2 emissions.
    electric_car02-28-03-2014.jpg
  • A twisted blue electric recharging cable is plugged in to a white car on a central London street, on 16th April 2018, in London, England.
    recharging_car-04-16-04-2018.jpg
  • A Supermarine Spitfire awaits refuelling with Avgas 100LL fuel at Farnborough International Airshow media launch. The pilot is the air show's Flight Operations Director Rod Dean who stands on the wing of this old WW2 warbird fighter of the British Royal Air Force and the refueller man has unhooked the nozzle from the bowser and hauls it across the concrete towards the aircraft. Hazardous and flammable signs are on the truck's rear. Avgas 100LL is a fuel designed for piston engines and is the most commonly used aviation fuel, dyed blue for easy visual identification. 100LL, spoken as "100 low lead", contains a small amount of tetra-ethyl lead (TEL), a lead compound that reduces gasoline's tendency to spontaneously explode (detonation or "knock") under high loads, high temperatures and high pressures - perfect for aerobatic performance flying.
    farnborough_spitfire06-12-05-2010_1.jpg
  • A Supermarine Spitfire awaits refuelling with Avgas 100LL fuel at Farnborough International Airshow media launch. The pilot is the air show's Flight Operations Director Rod Dean who stands on the wing of this old WW2 warbird fighter of the British Royal Air Force, before the refueller man unhooks the nozzle from the bowser and hauls it across the concrete towards the aircraft. Hazardous and flammable signs are on the truck's rear. Avgas 100LL is a fuel designed for piston engines and is the most commonly used aviation fuel, dyed blue for easy visual identification. 100LL, spoken as "100 low lead", contains a small amount of tetra-ethyl lead (TEL), a lead compound that reduces gasoline's tendency to spontaneously explode (detonation or "knock") under high loads, high temperatures and high pressures - perfect for aerobatic performance flying.
    farnborough_spitfire03-12-05-2010_1.jpg
  • The SGTE fast charger technology for electric vehicles at a charging point offering an electric vehicle (EV) 30 minute charge. CHAdeMO (sometimes spelled CHΛdeMO) is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector. CHAdeMO is an abbreviation of "CHArge de MOve", equivalent to "charge for moving". The name is a pun for O cha demo ikaga desuka in Japanese,[translating to English as "How about some tea?", referring to the time it would take to charge a car. CHΛdeMO can charge a car in less than half an hour.
    electric_nissan12-21-03-2012_1.jpg
  • Fast charging a Nissan Leaf electric car at an electrical charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge. The Nissan Leaf (Leading, Environmentally Friendly, Affordable, Family) is a five-door hatchback electric Nissan car. Its official range is 117 kilometres with an energy consumption of 765 kilojoules per kilometre and rated the Leaf's combined fuel economy at 2.4 L/100 km. The Leaf has a range of 175 km (109 mi) on the New European Driving Cycle. CHAdeMO is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector. CHAdeMO is an abbreviation of "CHArge de MOve", equivalent to "charge for moving". The name is a pun for O cha demo ikaga desuka in Japanese, (or "How about some tea?"), referring to the time it would take to charge a car.
    electric_nissan06-21-03-2012_1.jpg
  • Fast charging a Nissan Leaf electric car at an electrical charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge. The Nissan Leaf (Leading, Environmentally Friendly, Affordable, Family) is a five-door hatchback electric Nissan car. Its official range is 117 kilometres with an energy consumption of 765 kilojoules per kilometre and rated the Leaf's combined fuel economy at 2.4 L/100 km. The Leaf has a range of 175 km (109 mi) on the New European Driving Cycle. CHAdeMO is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector. CHAdeMO is an abbreviation of "CHArge de MOve", equivalent to "charge for moving". The name is a pun for O cha demo ikaga desuka in Japanese, (or "How about some tea?"), referring to the time it would take to charge a car.
    electric_nissan03-21-03-2012_1.jpg
  • Fast charging a Nissan Leaf electric car at an electrical charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge. The Nissan Leaf (Leading, Environmentally Friendly, Affordable, Family) is a five-door hatchback electric Nissan car. Its official range is 117 kilometres with an energy consumption of 765 kilojoules per kilometre and rated the Leaf's combined fuel economy at 2.4 L/100 km. The Leaf has a range of 175 km (109 mi) on the New European Driving Cycle. CHAdeMO is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector. CHAdeMO is an abbreviation of "CHArge de MOve", equivalent to "charge for moving". The name is a pun for O cha demo ikaga desuka in Japanese, (or "How about some tea?"), referring to the time it would take to charge a car.
    electric_nissan04-21-03-2012_1.jpg
  • A parked Smart car recharges electric power at an EDF charging point in central London. Its yellow coiled cable stretching from charging point to car. Source London is now the capital’s largest charging network. It has significantly boosted existing numbers of charge points operated by a range of different localised schemes. By 2013, Source London will total at least 1,300 charge points, more than the number of petrol stations currently in London, ensuring the infrastructure is in place for significantly more people and businesses to buy an electric vehicle. The creation of an electric vehicle network is in line with the Mayor’s pledge to promote quality of life by reducing pollution and CO2 emissions.
    electric_car03-28-03-2014.jpg
  • A cyclist passes a parked Smart car recharges electric power at an EDF charging point in central London. Its yellow coiled cable stretching from charging point to car. Source London is now the capital’s largest charging network. It has significantly boosted existing numbers of charge points operated by a range of different localised schemes. By 2013, Source London will total at least 1,300 charge points, more than the number of petrol stations currently in London, ensuring the infrastructure is in place for significantly more people and businesses to buy an electric vehicle. The creation of an electric vehicle network is in line with the Mayor’s pledge to promote quality of life by reducing pollution and CO2 emissions.
    electric_car04-28-03-2014.jpg
  • An aerial view of cargo shipping containers that are stacked and await shipment to other continents and cities. From this high viewpoint we see a variety of coloured containers bound for countries around the globe, a portable Maersk box being transported across the docks by a lifter vehicle. Others are static, piled on top of each other in a system that revolutionised the way cargo was brought across oceans and continents.
    ipswich_port01-16-02-1998_1.jpg
  • A young girl drinks fresh water from a water tanker, provided by Thames Water during the southern England drought of 1989. During the heatwave that saw reservoirs depleted and in the south west, dry up altogether.<br />
A hosepipe ban and in some areas, tap water failed too so tankers stationed in affected areas so locals could fill up for essential use. Tourism increased as people visited tourist areas e.g. beaches at the weekends and took holidays in the UK rather than travelling abroad for the sun
    community_drought02-21-07-1989_1.jpg
  • As Britain looks ahead to the possibility of a controversial No-Deal Brexit, and behnd hazard tape, a Tesco supermarket poster advertises the merits of British Farming and UK agriculture with a pair of hands picking fresh strawberries, on Cheapside in the City of London, the capitals financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England.
    british_farmers-01-08-08-2019.jpg
  • Piles of sawn logs, ready for a winter home fire, stays dry under cover in a small holding shed. The ends of this timber is kept out of the weather, drying in readiness for the family hearth that heats the home. Originally tree trunks from nearby woodland, it has been chopped into quarters and sawn so its flat ends neatly fit into a tidy pile.
    log_pile01-08-04-2012.jpg
  • Factory recruiters, displaying hand-written signs of the type of employee skill-set they seek, wait for interested workers at an outdoor job market in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on 21 February, 2011.  China's main export-oriented private manufacturing centers in the Yangtze and Pearl River Delta are facing a labour shortage after the Lunar New Year holidays, as an increasing number of migrant workers in  are staying put in the countryside due to rapid urbanization and economic development in China's interior, while those who continue to work in the traditional industrial belts such as Yiwu are demanding and receiving more wages and benefits.
    QS110221Yiwu081.jpg
  • Migrant workers browse the job postings at an outdoor employemtn and recruitment center in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on 21 February, 2011.  China's main export-oriented private manufacturing centers in the Yangtze and Pearl River Delta are facing a labour shortage after the Lunar New Year holidays, as an increasing number of migrant workers in  are staying put in the countryside due to rapid urbanization and economic development in China's interior, while those who continue to work in the traditional industrial belts such as Yiwu are demanding and receiving more wages and benefits.
    QS110221Yiwu065.jpg
  • A view of the Yangshan Deepwater Container Port in Shanghai, China on 25 January 2010.  Shanghai is now the world's busiest port in terms of container volume.
    QS100125Shanghai051.jpg
  • Following UK commercial driving law, a lorry driver relaxes by reading in a window at the M40 motorway services in Warwickshire, England. Leaning back while engrossed in his book, the man is sitting in sunlight on this summer's day. Outside is a poster advertising the premium ice cream brand, Magnum. A girl is shown also lounging about enjoying a Magnum on a beautiful sun-kissed beach, with the sun reflecting on a calm sea. We see Magnum's web site and their products of Classic and White chocolate snacks in their wrappers. The man is oblivious to the nature of the ad but it lends a sense of paradise versus reality, between the fantasy of youth, natural beauty and the reality of an older working man on the road.
    truck_stop4-30-07-2007_1_1.jpg
  • Frescoes and tourist taking fresh drinking water fountain in Piazza Duomo, Trento. In the mountain region of south Tyrol and the Dolomites, fountains in villages and cities offer clean drinking water. The visitor fills her bottle with the water as it trickles down from its spout at the feet of an eagle. The oldest centre of Trento offers interesting architecture with a unique feel of both Italian Renaissance and Germanic influences including frescoes seen at the top.
    trento_italy20-10-07-2015_1.jpg
  • From the State Route 58 that makes its way through the Mojave Desert, we see just a few of the hundreds of wind turbines of the Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm. Spinning blades are seen close up, their pylon legs and towers secured into the ground by concrete and others on the distant hill sides, a multitude of white turbine blades. Development in the Tehachapi Pass began in the early 1980's and now is one of California's largest Wind resource areas, that generates electricity for other parts of the state. The area has multiple generations of wind turbine technology installed, including both single and double blade turbines, as well as the more modern three blade horizontal axis design. The older generation turbines generate kilowatts, and the modern turbines installed generate up to 3 megawatts, depending on the specific turbine and manufacturer.
    tehachapi_windmills02-20-08-2001_1_1.jpg
  • Spinning turbine blades of the Wind farm near the Cornish town of Delabole in England are blurred against fast-fading light. We barely see the three blades as they revolve to produce electricity for the national grid. First operational in mid December 1991 they were a very controversial project with locals who saw them as a blot on their familiar c though it’s permission went ahead nonetheless. The 10 turbines operated by Windelectric are carefully positioned in existing hedge lines about 270 m apart and have an annual output of about 12 million Kw hours, which equals 1 years consumption by 2700 average homes (a small town). To produce the same amount of electricity by conventional means, about 2000 tonnes of oil or 5000 tonnes of coal would have to be burnt each year, this has a Co2 offset of 4,475 tonnes.
    tehachapi_windmills01-20-08-2000_1.jpg
  • A display of red meat fills the shelves of a generic supermarket store in London. A sign tells us the beef has quality - its packaging is all the same size making each steak or joint a uniform size and shape.
    supermarket_meat-18-08-1989_1_1.jpg
  • Wind farm uprights and turbine blades perch on the hilltop of Sierra Nevada foothills near the spa town of Lanjaron, Andalucia. From a higher vantagepoint, looking downhill into a distant valley, we see four turbines turning on a re-landscaped hill with ditant could shroud the lower slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. According to information provided by the regional government’s “Andalusian Energy Agency” (Agencia Andaluza de la Energía), 31.8 percent of this region’s energy will come from renewable energy in 2013. That is equivalent to 90% of home energy consumption in the south of Spain.
    spain_windfarm-1-15-April-2011_1.jpg
  • Detail of logs in a traditional Slovenian barn in a rural village, on 19th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-106-19-06-2018.jpg
  • Detail of logs and timbers in a traditional Slovenian barn in a rural village, on 19th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-93-19-06-2018.jpg
  • An elaborate stack of logs piles around a barn structure in a Slovenian village, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-83-18-06-2018.jpg
  • Freshly-sawed planks piled up in a timber yard near a pine forest in rural Slovenia, on 18th June 2018, in Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-56-18-06-2018.jpg
  • Freshly-sawed planks piled up in a timber yard near a pine forest in rural Slovenia, on 18th June 2018, in Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-37-18-06-2018.jpg
  • Moving steadily 100 feet (8 metres) along a live-line electricity cable, a National Grid maintenance worker protected in a conductive cage, proceeds to the next 'separator' that holds the high-voltage cables from touching each other. From the ground we see the sagging cables stretching to a distant electricity pylon and two yellow cages, one large in the foreground where we see the human figure standing like an astonaut, and the other cage out of focus, a greater distance away but all dwarfed by the huge structure of girders and relays. Wearing clothing bonded to the conductor, the lineman can work comfortably inside the electrical field at close range with gloved hands. National Grid Electricity Transmission plc owns and operates the National Grid high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales.National Grid plc is a United Kingdom based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally in the United States. The company adopted its current name in July 2005 when shareholders agreed the change from National Grid Transco plc.
    RB-0166.jpg
  • Standing in their cradles are three members of a National Grid Live-line electricity cable crew, protected in a conductive cage beneath the electricy cables that they maintaining. We see the sagging cables stretching to distant electricity pylons and the three human figures standing like astonauts in their protective cradles. Huge structure of girders and relays are behind them and they wear safety clothing allowing them to work comfortably inside the electrical field at close range with gloved hands. National Grid Electricity Transmission plc owns and operates the National Grid high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales.National Grid plc is a United Kingdom based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally in the United States.
    RB_042-21-04-1995.jpg
  • Detail of the Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) operated by the Royal Mail at their Nine Elms sorting office Vauxhall, London. Developed in the mid-1990s it is the backbone of Royal Mail's system and Nine Elms is the biggest and most modern sorting office in Britain, employing 1,000 people and handling all post coming from/to south London: 1.1 million first-class items a day, 750,000 second class. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
    nine_elms_35.jpg
  • 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.
    maldives162-12-11-2007.jpg
  • A tuna fish's sharp yellow fin protrudes from shredded ice at the Cyprea Marine Foods processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and having just been line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been encased in ice since being landed at sea 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 Sri Lankan butchers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives135-12-11-2007.jpg
Next
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
x

In Pictures

  • About
  • Contact
  • Join In Pictures
  • Archive
    • All Galleries
    • Search
    • Cart
    • Lightbox
    • Client Area