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  • Man sweeping up outside the front of his property in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Cleaners sweeping through Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
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  • Workman sweeps beneath a billboard for clothing retailer Tommy Hilfiger showing the wealthy classes in a country setting. In a scene of the English class system, played out on the streets of the capital, we see this manual labourer sweeping the pavements - gathering litter and the detritus of a busy metropolis - beneath a group portrait of the upper-classes, all wearing a country clothing collection by this American clothing brand whose newest store opens in the autumn of 2012. Ironically, Hilfiger has been criticized for having manufactured clothes in sweatshop conditions in the United States territory of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands.
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  • In a farmer's tool shed, a painted mural depicting B-24 Liberators sweeping over the cracked brick wall of what was once an officers’ mess at the WW2 Wendling airfield, Norfolk England. Below this scene of heroic military might, young officers flying Liberators of the 392nd Bomb Group gathered before and after raids into Germany from November 1943 to July 1945. The runway is now partly covered by a turkey farm and this building is now full of car and tractor parts. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis19-05-10-2000_1.jpg
  • An Indian woman, sweeps her back yard as her child prepares to leave for school lessons, Salawas, Rajasthan, India.
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  • A female member of the Harvey Nichols In Store Services sweeps litter on the corner of Knightsbridge and Sloane Street, on 11th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • A caretaker sweeps dusty steps at the otherwise deserted ancient Egyptian Temple of Hatshepsut near the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP. The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the Djeser-Djeseru, is located beneath cliffs at Deir el Bahari ("the Northern Monastery"). The mortuary temple is dedicated to the sun god Amon-Ra and is considered one of the "incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt." The temple was the site of the massacre of 62 people, mostly tourists, by Islamists on 17 November 1997.
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  • A caretaker sweeps dusty steps at the otherwise deserted ancient Egyptian Temple of Hatshepsut near the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP. The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the Djeser-Djeseru, is located beneath cliffs at Deir el Bahari ("the Northern Monastery"). The mortuary temple is dedicated to the sun god Amon-Ra and is considered one of the "incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt." The temple was the site of the massacre of 62 people, mostly tourists, by Islamists on 17 November 1997.
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  • Beneath a religious frescoe, a woman sweeps the pavement while watched by local man in Vittorio Veneto, in the Province of Treviso, Veneto, Italy. Vittorio Veneto is a city and comune situated in the Province of Treviso, in the region of Veneto, Italy, in the northeast of the Italian peninsula, between the Piave and the Livenza rivers.
    vittoria_veneto03-20-07-2015_1.jpg
  • A Polish shop keeper sweeps the pavement outside his business,<br />
on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • An female employee sweeps up litter from around the feet of an overweight man sitting outside The Ned Hotel in Poultry street in the City of London - the capitals financial district, on 3rd September 2018, in London England.
    street_maid-01-03-09-2018.jpg
  • Road sweeper sweeps up leaves from the pavement as other vehicles pass on the road in Kings Heath, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
    20181127_kings heath sweeper_001.jpg
  • A woman sweeps her cleaning brush along the walkway within the ancient temple  of Angkor Wat Siem Reap, Cambodia.  Angkor Wat is one of UNESCO’s world heritage sites. It was built in the 12th century and is Cambodia’s main tourist destination. Tourists explore the site in the background.
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  • Road sweeper sweeps up leaves from the pavement as other vehicles pass on the road in Kings Heath, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • Bolivia 2010. Female street sweeper with dustpan made from recycled oil tin and female city worker talking on her mobile phone.
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  • A street sweeper with contractor Amey brushes round a leaning automatic traffic control bollard in St . Swithins Lane, City of London. The workman wears a high-vis jacket and trousers with a bright red hat and he reaches awkwardly behind the damaged pole that leans at an odd angle, seemingly hit by a vehicle. Behind him is swept litter that he will deposit into his bin trolley. It is an odd scene of irregularity in otherwise regimented urban streets of the capital's financial centre aka The Square Mile, founded by the Romans in the 1st century.
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  • A utopian view of a London street sweeper brushing the street in front of a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • A utopian view of a London street sweeper brushing the street in front of a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    olympic_stratford17-15-03-2012.jpg
  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021201.011_1.jpg
  • A street busker dressed as a crusader stands silent and motionless outside the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Sq.
    crusader_busker02-24-11-2010_1.jpg
  • A male street cleaner collecting rubbish and litter outside the world famous and iconic Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, London, United Kingdom.  Groups of tourists are in the background looking at the shop’s window displays being guided around London by Embassy Staff.
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  • Hindu devotees carrying coconuts and covered with ash roll upon the London tarmac behind the chariot to participate in the annual Tamil chariot festival at the Murugan Temple in Highgate, London, England 17th July 2016. Thousands attend the colourful celebration as the temple's Goddess Amman (Tamil for Mother) is paraded on a beautifully decorated chariot pulled by the people through the streets around the temple, which brings to a close the four week Mahotsava festival.
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  • An employee of Bartleys the florist business in Dulwich Village, south London, brushes melting pavement snow. Buckets of assorted blooms are on sale on the pavement, recently covered by snow but now wet from the following thaw. In the distance are Victorian shops and period homes in this quiet and exclusive part of south London. Dulwich Village is an area of Dulwich in South London's SE21 postcode area in England It is located in the London Borough of Southwark. "Dulwich Village" is also the name of one of the High Streets in the area. Residents in Dulwich Village have to pay ground rent to the Dulwich Estate a landowning charitable organisation. The first documented evidence of Dulwich is as a hamlet outside London in 967AD, granted by King Edgar to one of his thanes Earl Aelfheah.
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  • Two male street cleaners working hard to keep the pavement on Duke of York Square clean.  Duke of York Square is located on London’s affluent King’s Road which is famous for its high-end shops and attracts many rich shoppers from around the world. The cleaners are privately employed by Cadogan, who manage the square.
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  • The nose detail of a de Havilland Comet in the colours of the long-defunct airline Dan Air is seen in profile at the Imperial War Museum's Duxford airfield, Cambridgeshire, England. The British de Havilland Comet first flew in July 1949 and is noted as the world's first commercial jet airliner as well as one of the first pressurized commercial aircraft. Early models suffered from catastrophic metal fatigue and the aircraft was redesigned. Here, the nose structure is held together with rivets that sit askew of the aircraft skin making it aerodynamically unfit to fly. It remains however, one of the classic and iconic designs in the history of commercial aviation. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis15-12-12-1997_1.jpg
  • Seen through the window of Coates Wine Bar which contains small square patterns of frosted glass, the arched structure of Broadgate offices in the City of London, appears beyond. Trees whose leaves are turning into autumnal colour can also be seen blending into the landscape.  Broadgate is a vast estate of office buildings developed in the Thatcher years, sitting astride the redeveloped Liverpool Street mainline station. We see the classic architectural feature that gives strength to large buildings - the load-bearing arch.
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  • Hackney August 9th 2011. Clarence Road, scene of last night's riot. Council vehicle cleaning up the street where cars were burnt out.
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  • An activist clean the sqaure wearing an Anonymous mask. Activists all over the world have taken on the mask, modelled on Guy Fawkes and the film character V in defiance of the establishment. The camp Occupy London Stock Exchange outside St Paul's Cathedral was in the morning served with eviction notice after months of legal battle with the Corporation of London. The site was occupied Oct 15th.
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  • A sweeper uses a traditional twig brush to sweep leaves from the path at dawn in Siri Fort Park, New Delhi, India
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  • Rwanda February 2014. Anti corruption billboard encouraging people to 'sweep it away', saying, in English, corruption undermines your integrity.
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  • Chimney sweep's green broom sticking out of a chimney, while chimey is being cleaned. Early winter morning outside a north London home. It is tradition that to gain good luck the people in the house should go outside to watch the broom appear.
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  • A man sweeps whilst a woman prays at dawn at the statue of Lord Mahavira at the Ahinsa Sthal Jain temple, Delhi, India
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  • A man sweeps graves in the Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki dargah in Mehrauli, Delhi, India
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  • Korlap Rao (8) sweeps the floor whilst his mother, Narayamma (40) lies on a charpoy. She has AIDS and his father has fled. Kasapatanan  village, Araku valley, Andhra Pradesh, India
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  • A woman sweeps The Hawa Mahal, known as the Palace of the Winds. Built in 1799 by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh in the form of the crown of Krishna, the Hindu god. It has 953 small windows called jharokhas that are decorated with intricate latticework intended to allow the women of the court to see outside without being seen, Jaipur, India
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  • A man sweeps his own area where he sells food in the 4 sq km Abu Shouk refugee camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. The camp has 17 schools, clinics and commercial activity  based around a market, furniture manufacture and variety of cottage industries. The camp has 17 schools, clinics and commercial activity  based around a market, furniture manufacture and variety of cottage industries and a third of families in the camps are headed by women.
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  • A man sweeps graves in the Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki dargah in Mehrauli, Delhi, India
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  • A South Indian maid sweeps a courtyard with flowers in her hair, Janakpuri, New Delhi, India
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  • A man sweeps in from of a statue of Antonio Jorge de Silva, a former respected Colonial Governor, Principe, Sao Tome and Principe. Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • A homeless boy sweeps the pavement where he and his family will sleep, Karol Bagh, New Delhi, India.
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  • A sweetshop owner cleans the steps in front of his shop during the late afternoon, New Delhi, India. Sweets, commonly made with milk products and the sweetshops that sell them as treats, are common and popular in all local markets across India.
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  • A sweeper cleans the steps at the front of the Jama Masjid, Delhi, India.
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  • Hackney residents clean up debris from the riot after burnt out vehicles are removed along Clarence road, Pembrey estate, Hackney.
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  • Hackney residents clean up debris from the riot after burnt out vehicles are removed along Clarence road, Pembrey estate, Hackney.
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  • A miner uses his locker after finishing his shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
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  • People move past coal transfer and storage units at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
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  • A man rides his scooter past the gates of a baijiu liquor distillery city, made in imitation of a traditional Chinese city,  in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping. New business ventures like the distillery city, funded by coal money with grandiose hopes and expectations, often prove too ambitious and unrealistic.
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  • Row of buildings, mostly empty, stands in a baijiu liquor distillery city, made in imitation of a traditional Chinese city,  in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping. New business ventures like the distillery city, funded by coal money with grandiose hopes and expectations, often prove too ambitious and unrealistic.
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  • Miners line up to enter the shaft and begin their shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
    QS2016Archive_322.jpg
  • A miner walks out after using a retina scan to confirm indignity after a shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
    QS2016Archive_307.jpg
  • Evening view from Victoria Peak in Hong Kong, China. From this classic viewpoint the entire view across Hong Kong Harbour can be seen. The view sweeping down through Mid-levels to Central, along to Causeway Bay, all the way along Hong Kong Islands coast across North Point, Quarry Bay to Wan Chai. Also over the water we see the Chinese mainland area Kowloon. A deep blue Hong Kong sky forms a backdrop for the forming clouds which are lit up by Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kongs tallest building at 415m.
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  • Evening view from Victoria Peak in Hong Kong, China. From this classic viewpoint the entire view across Hong Kong Harbour can be seen. The view sweeping down through Mid-levels to Central, along to Causeway Bay, all the way along Hong Kong Islands coast across North Point, Quarry Bay to Wan Chai. Also over the water we see the Chinese mainland area Kowloon. A deep blue Hong Kong sky forms a backdrop for the forming clouds which are lit up by Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kongs tallest building at 415m.
    2005-06-28-Macau-hk peak 158_alamy.jpg
  • Evening view from Victoria Peak, Hong Kong. From this classic viewpoint the entire view across Hong Kong Harbour can be seen. The view sweeping down through Mid-levels to Central, along to Causeway Bay, all the way along Hong Kong Island's coast across North Point, Quarry Bay to Wan Chai. Also over the water we see the Chinese mainland area Kowloon. A deep blue Hong Kong sky forms a backdrop for the forming clouds which are lit up by Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong's tallest building at 415m.
    2005-06-28-hk peak 2 003_corbis.jpg
  • Coffee processing factory, worker sweeping up coffee dust. Coorg or Kadagu is the largest coffee growing region of India, in the state of Karnataka, the inhabitants - the Kodavas have been cultivating crops such as coffee, black pepper and cardamon for many generations.
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  • Street cleaner sweeping near an advertising billboard on a street corner on Cable Street, London, UK.
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  • Two police officers guard the outside of the London Libyan embassy that still flies the pro-Gadaffi flag. Seen from a low-angle, we look up top the two men in the uniforms of the Metropolitan police, we focus on the green flag of revolutionary Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi who made the solid green colours the emblem of his regime. On 1 September 1969, a small group of military officers led by then 27-year-old army officer Muammar al-Gaddafi staged a coup d'état against King Idris, launching the Libyan Revolution. In the days after the uprising sweeping across the north African country, the embassy remains loyal to the beleaguered government.
    libyan_protests01-24-02-2011.jpg
  • Evening view from Victoria Peak, Hong Kong. From this classic viewpoint the entire view across Hong Kong Harbour can be seen. The view sweeping down through Mid-levels to Central, along to Causeway Bay, all the way along Hong Kong Island's coast across North Point, Quarry Bay to Wan Chai. Also over the water we see the Chinese mainland area Kowloon. A deep blue Hong Kong sky forms a backdrop for the forming clouds which are lit up by Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong's tallest building at 415m.
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  • Chinese tourist takes pictures of the view from Victoria Peak viewing platform. As night falls from this classic viewpoint the entire view across Hong Kong Harbour can be seen. The view sweeping down through Mid-levels to Central, along to Causeway Bay, all the way along Hong Kong Island's coast across North Point, Quarry Bay to Wan Chai. Also over the water we see the Chinese mainland area Kowloon.
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  • Two Chinese tourists pose to have their photograph taken from the Victoria Peak viewing platform. As night falls from this classic viewpoint the entire view across Hong Kong Harbour can be seen. The view sweeping down through Mid-levels to Central, along to Causeway Bay, all the way along Hong Kong Island's coast across North Point, Quarry Bay to Wan Chai. Also over the water we see the Chinese mainland area Kowloon.
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  • Evening view from Victoria Peak, Hong Kong. From this classic viewpoint the entire view across Hong Kong Harbour can be seen. The view sweeping down through Mid-levels to Central, along to Causeway Bay, all the way along Hong Kong Island's coast across North Point, Quarry Bay to Wan Chai. Also over the water we see the Chinese mainland area Kowloon. A deep blue Hong Kong sky forms a backdrop for the forming clouds which are lit up by Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong's tallest building at 415m.
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  • A woman walks past the gates of a baijiu liquor distillery city, made in imitation of a traditional Chinese city,  in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping. New business ventures like the distillery city, funded by coal money with grandiose hopes and expectations, often prove too ambitious and unrealistic.
    QS2016Archive_325.jpg
  • Miners line up to enter the shaft and begin their shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
    QS2016Archive_318.jpg
  • A miner rides a lift up to exit the mine shaft after finishing his shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
    QS2016Archive_315.jpg
  • As a young office worker sleeps incongruously on a marble pavement, a street sweeper nearby brushes away litter with a small dustpan. The manual labourer wears blue overalls, yellow gloves and keys in his back pocket while the man in a wastecoat and smart trousers and polished slip-on shoes appears to be fast asleep, his fingers across his chest. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-demanding job of a man whose life has been spent cleaning and sweeping. English social differences is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus a lazy youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
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  • Chinese tourist takes pictures of the view from Victoria Peak viewing platform. As night falls from this classic viewpoint the entire view across Hong Kong Harbour can be seen. The view sweeping down through Mid-levels to Central, along to Causeway Bay, all the way along Hong Kong Island's coast across North Point, Quarry Bay to Wan Chai. Also over the water we see the Chinese mainland area Kowloon.
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  • A man stands on a street with row of buildings, mostly empty, in a baijiu liquor distillery city, made in imitation of a traditional Chinese city,  in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping. New business ventures like the distillery city, funded by coal money with grandiose hopes and expectations, often prove too ambitious and unrealistic.
    QS2016Archive_331.jpg
  • A man stands in an empty lot marked with truck tracks at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
    QS2016Archive_303.jpg
  • A miner rides a lift up to exit the mine shaft after finishing his shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
    QS2016Archive_314.jpg
  • A miner walks out after a shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
    QS2016Archive_312.jpg
  • A man shovels coal while standing on the top of a truck at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
    QS2016Archive_308.jpg
  • A tourist takes a photo of the view from Victoria Peak in Hong Kong, China. From this classic viewpoint the entire view across Hong Kong Harbour can be seen. The view sweeping down through Mid-levels to Central, along to Causeway Bay, all the way along Hong Kong Islands coast across North Point, Quarry Bay to Wan Chai. Also over the water we see the Chinese mainland area Kowloon. A deep blue Hong Kong sky forms a backdrop for the forming clouds which are lit up by Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kongs tallest building at 415m.
    2005-06-28-hk peak 2 054_alamy.jpg
  • Evening view from Victoria Peak in Hong Kong, China. From this classic viewpoint the entire view across Hong Kong Harbour can be seen. The view sweeping down through Mid-levels to Central, along to Causeway Bay, all the way along Hong Kong Islands coast across North Point, Quarry Bay to Wan Chai. Also over the water we see the Chinese mainland area Kowloon. A deep blue Hong Kong sky forms a backdrop for the forming clouds which are lit up by Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kongs tallest building at 415m.
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  • A young boy watches the sweeping arms of a Penny push/fall game in the amusement arcade at Weston-super-Mare's grand pier. Waiting for some coins to be caught in the log-jam and to fall into the prize tray below, the lad seems spellbound by the potential luck and possibilities although the odds are against him. Images of 1970s dancers, including John Travolta, strut their stuff at the disco. 2p pennies stack up until the moment when they topple over and spill out.
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  • Three Chinese tourists pose to have their photograph taken from the Victoria Peak viewing platform. As night falls from this classic viewpoint the entire view across Hong Kong Harbour can be seen. The view sweeping down through Mid-levels to Central, along to Causeway Bay, all the way along Hong Kong Island's coast across North Point, Quarry Bay to Wan Chai. Also over the water we see the Chinese mainland area Kowloon.
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  • Evening view from Victoria Peak, Hong Kong. From this classic viewpoint the entire view across Hong Kong Harbour can be seen. The view sweeping down through Mid-levels to Central, along to Causeway Bay, all the way along Hong Kong Island's coast across North Point, Quarry Bay to Wan Chai. Also over the water we see the Chinese mainland area Kowloon. A deep blue Hong Kong sky forms a backdrop for the forming clouds which are lit up by Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong's tallest building at 415m.
    2005-06-28-hk peak 2 003_1.jpg
  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is seen dancing with a Tory Party official during the 1990 Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. Thatcher is wearing a favourite black and red ball gown and is the centre of attention for delegates and media whose TV lights have lit the dancing couple from the right-hand side. Her partner is young and has acne and is wearing a formal dinner jacket and bow tie. The image is warm from the ambient light and there is a slight blur of movement as they sweep past the viewer.
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  • Cars driving down the A259 between Folkestone and Hythe at Sandgate, Kent on the south coast of England, as Storm Ciara continues to sweep over the country on February 10th 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Amber weather warnings were put into place by the MET office as gusts of up to 90mph and heavy rain swept across the UK. An amber warning from the MET office expects a powerful storm that will disrupt air, rail and sea links travel, cancel sports events, cut electrical power and damage property.
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  • People walking down the A259 between Folkestone and Hythe which is flooded at Sandgate, Kent on the south coast of England, as Storm Ciara continues to sweep over the country on February 10th 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Amber weather warnings were put into place by the MET office as gusts of up to 90mph and heavy rain swept across the UK. An amber warning from the MET office expects a powerful storm that will disrupt air, rail and sea links travel, cancel sports events, cut electrical power and damage property.
    UK-Weather-Storm-Ciara-4969.jpg
  • Waves cresting over the pedestrian walkway in Sandgate, Kent on the south coast of England, as Storm Ciara continues to sweep over the country on February 10th 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Amber weather warnings were put into place by the MET office as gusts of up to 90mph and heavy rain swept across the UK. An amber warning from the MET office expects a powerful storm that will disrupt air, rail and sea links travel, cancel sports events, cut electrical power and damage property.
    UK-Weather-Storm-Ciara-4917.jpg
  • Residents sweep a snow covered street as water vapor and smoke rise from a Tonghua Iron & Steel Group Co. plant in the distance in the Erdaojiang district in Tonghua, Jilin province, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. The citys once-vaunted state-run steel mills have slipped inexorably into decline, weighed down by slumping global markets, a changing economy, and the burden of costs and responsibilities to the people of the town they fostered. Previous attempts to privatise the enterprise have met with stiff resistance, one such attempt resulted the mob lynching and death of a private businessman who wanted to invest and streamline the operation.
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  • Residents sweep a snow covered street as water vapor and smoke rise from a Tonghua Iron & Steel Group Co. plant in the distance in the Erdaojiang district in Tonghua, Jilin province, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. The citys once-vaunted state-run steel mills have slipped inexorably into decline, weighed down by slumping global markets, a changing economy, and the burden of costs and responsibilities to the people of the town they fostered. Previous attempts to privatise the enterprise have met with stiff resistance, one such attempt resulted the mob lynching and death of a private businessman who wanted to invest and streamline the operation.
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  • Early morning rubbish overspilling a litter bin in Dorsoduro, a district of Venice, Italy. The detritus of tourism is left from the previous day but soon to be collected by an army of refuse workers who sweep and clean the city's streets before the day's influx of tourists begins once again. On this street corner, we see drinks bottles and general waste on top of an already overflowing bin, above the ad for swimwear brand Calzedonia. Venice attracts 22-million visitors each year (for a city of only about 60,000 residents) while the cultural protection organisation, Italian Nostra, warns that Venice can only accommodate about 33,000 visitors per day but currently at least 60,000 daily.
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  • Decorator and part-time chimney sweep Alan Squires prepares to apply another coat of emulsion paint to the exterior walls of a cottage called Burnside in the tiny hamlet of Hallin, Waternish, on the Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. With his shadow looming large on the newly-painted off-white pebbledash that is rendered a warm orange in the low sunlight, Alan walks with his long roller after a day's decorating in this beautiful place near Dunvegan. Alan is an Englishman who came to Skye in 1987 for the community spirit. "everybody knows everybody' he says though admits that southerners come from the south in search of an idyllic lifestyle but harsh winters often send them back to warmer climates. Alain's fresh paint therefore needs to dry before winter weather blows in from the Atlantic. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • Workers sweep up as improvements take place underneath Union Jack flags in central London on Oxford Street, UK. This is the most famous street in the UK for shopping and mid range retail, and is consequently one of the busiest shopping streets in the country. As Britain prepares for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London 2012 Olympics, the scenes of national pride are becomming common.
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  • Workers sweep up as improvements take place underneath Union Jack flags in central London on Oxford Street, UK. This is the most famous street in the UK for shopping and mid range retail, and is consequently one of the busiest shopping streets in the country. As Britain prepares for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London 2012 Olympics, the scenes of national pride are becomming common.
    20120430workers clean oxford st_B.jpg
  • Workers sweep up as improvements take place underneath Union Jack flags in central London on Oxford Street, UK. This is the most famous street in the UK for shopping and mid range retail, and is consequently one of the busiest shopping streets in the country. As Britain prepares for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London 2012 Olympics, the scenes of national pride are becomming common.
    20120430workers clean oxford st_A.jpg
  • Protester pretending to sweep up during an attack on a police vehicle. Anti capitalists / anarchists go on the rampage through central London on the back of the peaceful TUC protest march. The masked demonstrators ran a twisting route through the capital confusing the police and creating a situation which was very difficult to manage. The protesters attacked banks, shops and hotels, and the police in riot gear fought  face to face with them as they were pelted with ammonia, paint and fireworks loaded with coins.
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  • Waves cresting over the pedestrian walkway in Sandgate, Kent on the south coast of England, as Storm Ciara continues to sweep over the country on February 10th 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Amber weather warnings were put into place by the MET office as gusts of up to 90mph and heavy rain swept across the UK. An amber warning from the MET office expects a powerful storm that will disrupt air, rail and sea links travel, cancel sports events, cut electrical power and damage property.
    UK-Weather-Storm-Ciara-4924.jpg
  • A stagecoach local bus drives  down the A259 between Folkestone and Hythe which is flooded at Sandgate, Kent on the south coast of England, as Storm Ciara continues to sweep over the country on February 10th 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Amber weather warnings were put into place by the MET office as gusts of up to 90mph and heavy rain swept across the UK. An amber warning from the MET office expects a powerful storm that will disrupt air, rail and sea links travel, cancel sports events, cut electrical power and damage property.
    UK-Weather-Storm-Ciara-4904.jpg
  • People walking down the A259 between Folkestone and Hythe which is flooded at Sandgate, Kent on the south coast of England, as Storm Ciara continues to sweep over the country on February 10th 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Amber weather warnings were put into place by the MET office as gusts of up to 90mph and heavy rain swept across the UK. An amber warning from the MET office expects a powerful storm that will disrupt air, rail and sea links travel, cancel sports events, cut electrical power and damage property.
    UK-Weather-Storm-Ciara-4896.jpg
  • Waves cresting over the pedestrian walkway in Sandgate, Kent on the south coast of England, as Storm Ciara continues to sweep over the country on February 10th 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Amber weather warnings were put into place by the MET office as gusts of up to 90mph and heavy rain swept across the UK. An amber warning from the MET office expects a powerful storm that will disrupt air, rail and sea links travel, cancel sports events, cut electrical power and damage property.
    UK-Weather-Storm-Ciara-4919.jpg
  • The runners and riders for the 5th and 6th races during a horseracing meeting at the British-built Kolkata racecourse, on 18th November 1996, in Kolkata, India. The race course was built in 1820 and is maintained by the Royal Calcutta Turf Club RCTC, founded in 1847 in Calcutta, British India now Kolkata, India and became the premier horse racing organisation in India during the British Raj. At one time it was the governing body for almost all courses in the sub-continent, defining and applying the rules that governed the sport. During its heyday the races it organised were among the most important social events of the calendar, opened by the Viceroy of India. During the 1930s the Calcutta Derby Sweeps, organised by the club, was the largest sweepstake in the world. It is still an exclusive private club and still operates the Kolkata Race Course.
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  • May Day custom of Deptford Jack in the Green, a man encased in a framework entirely covered with greenery, is one of the lesser-known modern revivals by the Blackheath Morris Men of English traditional customs on May 1st 2016 in London, United Kingdom. A short play aobut the Jack is acted out. Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green was revived in the early 1980s. Originally a revival from about 1906, it developed from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade, decorated with garlands of flowers and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. By the mid eighteenth century other groups, notably chimney sweeps, were moving in on the milkmaids territory as they saw May Day as a good opportunity to collect money, so carried a Jack in the Green. Over the last 25 years several popular festivals have grown up around the Jack in the Green tradition. Deptford Jack in the Green is not very widely known although it has been running since the early 1980s.
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  • May Day custom of Deptford Jack in the Green, a man encased in a framework entirely covered with greenery, is one of the lesser-known modern revivals by the Blackheath Morris Men of English traditional customs on May 1st 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Traditional Morris Dancing in Greenwich. Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green was revived in the early 1980s. Originally a revival from about 1906, it developed from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade, decorated with garlands of flowers and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. By the mid eighteenth century other groups, notably chimney sweeps, were moving in on the milkmaids territory as they saw May Day as a good opportunity to collect money, so carried a Jack in the Green. Over the last 25 years several popular festivals have grown up around the Jack in the Green tradition. Deptford Jack in the Green is not very widely known although it has been running since the early 1980s.
    20160501_deptford jack in the green_...jpg
  • May Day custom of Deptford Jack in the Green, a man encased in a framework entirely covered with greenery, is one of the lesser-known modern revivals by the Blackheath Morris Men of English traditional customs on May 1st 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Traditional Morris Dancing in Greenwich. Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green was revived in the early 1980s. Originally a revival from about 1906, it developed from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade, decorated with garlands of flowers and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. By the mid eighteenth century other groups, notably chimney sweeps, were moving in on the milkmaids territory as they saw May Day as a good opportunity to collect money, so carried a Jack in the Green. Over the last 25 years several popular festivals have grown up around the Jack in the Green tradition. Deptford Jack in the Green is not very widely known although it has been running since the early 1980s.
    20160501_deptford jack in the green_...jpg
  • May Day custom of Deptford Jack in the Green, a man encased in a framework entirely covered with greenery, is one of the lesser-known modern revivals by the Blackheath Morris Men of English traditional customs on May 1st 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Traditional Morris Dancing in Greenwich. Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green was revived in the early 1980s. Originally a revival from about 1906, it developed from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade, decorated with garlands of flowers and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. By the mid eighteenth century other groups, notably chimney sweeps, were moving in on the milkmaids territory as they saw May Day as a good opportunity to collect money, so carried a Jack in the Green. Over the last 25 years several popular festivals have grown up around the Jack in the Green tradition. Deptford Jack in the Green is not very widely known although it has been running since the early 1980s.
    20160501_deptford jack in the green_...jpg
  • May Day custom of Deptford Jack in the Green, a man encased in a framework entirely covered with greenery, is one of the lesser-known modern revivals by the Blackheath Morris Men of English traditional customs on May 1st 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Working its route along the river, the Jack reaches Greenwich, underneath the masts of the Cutty Sark. Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green was revived in the early 1980s. Originally a revival from about 1906, it developed from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade, decorated with garlands of flowers and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. By the mid eighteenth century other groups, notably chimney sweeps, were moving in on the milkmaids territory as they saw May Day as a good opportunity to collect money, so carried a Jack in the Green. Over the last 25 years several popular festivals have grown up around the Jack in the Green tradition. Deptford Jack in the Green is not very widely known although it has been running since the early 1980s.
    20160501_deptford jack in the green_...jpg
  • May Day custom of Deptford Jack in the Green, a man encased in a framework entirely covered with greenery, is one of the lesser-known modern revivals by the Blackheath Morris Men of English traditional customs on May 1st 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Working its route along the river, the Jack reaches Greenwich, underneath the masts of the Cutty Sark. Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green was revived in the early 1980s. Originally a revival from about 1906, it developed from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade, decorated with garlands of flowers and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. By the mid eighteenth century other groups, notably chimney sweeps, were moving in on the milkmaids territory as they saw May Day as a good opportunity to collect money, so carried a Jack in the Green. Over the last 25 years several popular festivals have grown up around the Jack in the Green tradition. Deptford Jack in the Green is not very widely known although it has been running since the early 1980s.
    20160501_deptford jack in the green_...jpg
  • May Day custom of Deptford Jack in the Green, a man encased in a framework entirely covered with greenery, is one of the lesser-known modern revivals by the Blackheath Morris Men of English traditional customs on May 1st 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Working its route along the river, the Jack reaches Greenwich. Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green was revived in the early 1980s. Originally a revival from about 1906, it developed from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade, decorated with garlands of flowers and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. By the mid eighteenth century other groups, notably chimney sweeps, were moving in on the milkmaids territory as they saw May Day as a good opportunity to collect money, so carried a Jack in the Green. Over the last 25 years several popular festivals have grown up around the Jack in the Green tradition. Deptford Jack in the Green is not very widely known although it has been running since the early 1980s.
    20160501_deptford jack in the green_...jpg
  • May Day custom of Deptford Jack in the Green, a man encased in a framework entirely covered with greenery, is one of the lesser-known modern revivals by the Blackheath Morris Men of English traditional customs on May 1st 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Working its route along the river, the Jack reaches Greenwich. Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green was revived in the early 1980s. Originally a revival from about 1906, it developed from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade, decorated with garlands of flowers and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. By the mid eighteenth century other groups, notably chimney sweeps, were moving in on the milkmaids territory as they saw May Day as a good opportunity to collect money, so carried a Jack in the Green. Over the last 25 years several popular festivals have grown up around the Jack in the Green tradition. Deptford Jack in the Green is not very widely known although it has been running since the early 1980s.
    20160501_deptford jack in the green_...jpg
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