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  • Seaweed farmers tying the seaweed seedlings to the lines to put into the sea, Tamiao, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. The polystyrene floaters are important to keep the seaweed lines at water level to deter fish from eating the seaweed. Seaweed is fast growing and can be harvested in 1-2 months. The seaweed is then dried and sold to local buyers and a commercial processing plant in Cebu, where it is turned into powder; a high value product used by many industries including cosmetics and food. Before Typhoon Haiyan, Bantayan Island was the largest seaweed producer in Cebu province. The typhoon destroyed seaweed farms leaving over 2000 farmers without essential equipment and seedlings. Oxfam awarded cash grants to around 700 families to finance the purchase of seaweed seedlings and farming equipment including ropes, poles and floaters.
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  • "Best Six Sticks" - tying up with raffia.  David Brook and John Smiles preparing rhubarb for the 82nd Annual Rhubarb Show, Caldergrove, Wakefield. February is high season for the forced rhubarb of the so-called 'Rhubarb Triangle' formed by Wakefield, Rothwell and Morley. These intensely flavoured plants with pink stems and yellow leaves - grown by candlelight and tended by hand in huge, heated forcing sheds - are one of the first culinary delights of the British winter.
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  • A young girl and her mother prepare for the child's birthday party by tying balloons to the railings of their fine house in this exclusive and classically-designed location in Belgravia, London. The pastel-coloured balloons are helium-filled and rise up in a breeze as the girl smiles to herself. 103 Eaton Place faces Eaton Square, one of London's three garden squares built by Thomas Cubitt and the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia from 1826 until 1855. Belgravia attracts actors, politicians, ambassadors, big-budget bankers, traders and Prime Ministers like Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin at number 93.
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  • The bird man with bailer twine in his pocket for tying the pheasants at the shoot at Swinton Estate, Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • An officer attends to tying the shoelace of the Sultan of Brunei during a state visit to the UK in November 1992 at RAF Cranwell, England. Wearing the uniform of an RAF Air Chief Marshal, Hassanal Bolkiah, GCB GCMG full name: Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Muizzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar Ali Saifuddien Saadul Khairi Waddien; b1946 is the 29th and current Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei. The eldest son of Sir Muda Omar Ali Saifuddien III and Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Queen Damit, he succeeded to the throne as the Sultan of Brunei, following the abdication of his father on 4 October 1967. The Sultan has been ranked among the wealthiest individuals in the world; Forbes estimated the Sultans total peak net worth at US$20 billion in 2008.
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  • A businessman stoops down to tie a shoelace, resting his leg in Fye Foot Lane EC4 in the financial City of London. Crouching on one leg with the other on a stone plinth, the man ties the laces while on his lunch break. The City sign tells us the location and postcode of this area, in the heart of the financial City of London, known as the Square Mile after its ancient Roman walled past.
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  • Woman bends down to tie a shoelace beneath a fashion poster showing a fashion couple and St Paul's Cathedral. Stooping down on a ledge at near pavement level, the lady makers her adjustments before continuing her journey. The models are the epitome of youth and happiness, with the backdrop of the capital's famous landmark.
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  • A businessman stops to tie a loose shoelace on Lombard Street in the City of London, aka The Square Mile the capitals financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
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  • A man stops to tie a shoe lace while other commuters and pedestrians walk over London Bridge, the oldest of the capitals crossing over the river Thames between the capitals financial district, the City of London, and Southwark on the south bank, on 17th May 2018, in London, UK.
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  • Pride in London parade on Regents Street on the 7th July 2018 in central London in the United Kingdom. 30,000 marched through central London for the city’s annual LGBT Pride celebration.
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  • Mustafa, a young Egyptian brings soft sugarcane branches for horses and camels at the Pharaohs Stable (pharaohsstables.com), a business dependent on tourism based in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Workers of all ages like this are dependent of the tourism industry and therefore badly affected by the downturn. 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 so communities like this are suffering economically, as a result.
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  • A man climbs up to pavement level after tying up his launch on the River Thames at Clifton Lock. The family outing has paused at this point on the Thames in Oxfordshire where they can enjoy the peace of this solitary location in the English countryside. A younger member of the group already ties the front of the boat and an older man stretches up some steps to help secure their small vessel. Clifton Lock is a lock on River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. It is located south of the village of Clifton Hampden and north of Long Wittenham. It is at the start of the Clifton Cut, which bypasses the river to the north of Long Wittenham. The lock was completed in 1822 by the Thames Navigation Commissioners.
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  • Classic Austin Mini Metro car tied up with a red bow on a street in Moseley as a gift for Christmas Day on 25th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Metro is a supermini car, later a city car that was produced by British Leyland BL and, later, the Rover Group from 1980 to 1998. It was launched in 1980 as the Austin Mini Metro. It was intended to complement and eventually replace the Mini, and was developed under the codename LC8. The Metro was named by What Car? as Car of The Year in 1983 as an MG, and again as a Rover in 1991.
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  • Classic Austin Mini Metro car tied up with a red bow on a street in Moseley as a gift for Christmas Day on 25th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Metro is a supermini car, later a city car that was produced by British Leyland BL and, later, the Rover Group from 1980 to 1998. It was launched in 1980 as the Austin Mini Metro. It was intended to complement and eventually replace the Mini, and was developed under the codename LC8. The Metro was named by What Car? as Car of The Year in 1983 as an MG, and again as a Rover in 1991.
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  • Handweaving organic cotton with a mutmee/tie dye design in Ban Lahanam, Savannakhet province, Lao PDR. In Savannakhet most textiles are dyed with natural dyes according to longstanding traditions. 'Mutmee' is a tie-dye weaving technique that is special to the Phu-Tai ethnic group where the string is tied  in each row wherever the colour is not wanted and then removed after dyeing.
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  • Indigo dyed cotton for weaving a mutmee/tie dye design in the Phu Tai ethnic minority village of Ban Lahanam, Savannakhet province, Lao PDR. In Savannakhet most textiles are dyed with natural dyes according to longstanding traditions. 'Mutmee' is a tie-dye weaving technique that is special to the Phu-Tai ethnic group where the string is tied in each row wherever the colour is not wanted and then removed after dyeing. Although only plainweave, the weaving is slow as each weft row needs to be lined up to maintain the pattern.
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  • Handweaving organic cotton with a mutmee/tie dye design in the Phu Tai ethnic minority village of Ban Lahanam, Savannakhet province, Lao PDR. In Savannakhet most textiles are dyed with natural dyes according to longstanding traditions. 'Mutmee' is a tie-dye weaving technique that is special to the Phu-Tai ethnic group where the string is tied in each row wherever the colour is not wanted and then removed after dyeing. Although only plainweave, the weaving is slow as each weft row needs to be lined up to maintain the pattern.
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  • Handweaving organic cotton with a mutmee/tie dye design in the Phu Tai ethnic minority village of Ban Lahanam, Savannakhet province, Lao PDR. In Savannakhet most textiles are dyed with natural dyes according to longstanding traditions. 'Mutmee' is a tie-dye weaving technique that is special to the Phu-Tai ethnic group where the string is tied in each row wherever the colour is not wanted and then removed after dyeing. Although only plainweave, the weaving is slow as each weft row needs to be lined up to maintain the pattern.
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  • Handweaving organic cotton with a mutmee/tie dye design in the Phu Tai ethnic minority village of Ban Lahanam, Savannakhet province, Lao PDR. In Savannakhet most textiles are dyed with natural dyes according to longstanding traditions. 'Mutmee' is a tie-dye weaving technique that is special to the Phu-Tai ethnic group where the string is tied in each row wherever the colour is not wanted and then removed after dyeing. Although only plainweave, the weaving is slow as each weft row needs to be lined up to maintain the pattern.
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  • Handspun cotton prepared for ‘mutmee’ or tie-dyeing in the Phu Tai ethnic minority village of Ban Lahanam, Savannakhet province, Lao PDR. In Savannakhet most textiles are dyed with natural dyes according to longstanding traditions. 'Mutmee' is a tie-dye weaving technique that is special to the Phu-Tai ethnic group where the string is tied in each row wherever the colour is not wanted and then removed after dyeing.
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  • Sign for accessory shop Tie Rack.
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  • A rear view of a man eating his lunch with his orange tie laying over his shoulder and down his back, at the Strand West End branch of Sushi restaurant, ITSU, on 28th September 2020, in London, England.
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  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, a Leaver Brexiteers Union Jack tie and badge outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • A lunchtime drinkers tie in Leadenhall Market in the capitals financial district aka The Square Mile, on 23rd April, City of London, England.
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  • A man wearing a bow tie walks through Seven Dials near Covent Garden, on 12th December 2017, in London England.
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  • A Union jack tie and political pin detail of UKIP (UK Independence Party) member from Ayelsbury Vale District council, Cllr Chris Adams.
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  • A Union jack tie and political pin detail of UKIP (UK Independence Party) member from Ayelsbury Vale District council, Cllr Chris Adams.
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  • A Union jack tie and political pin detail of UKIP (UK Independence Party) member from Ayelsbury Vale District council, Cllr Chris Adams.
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  • We are looking down from above to office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market and other animals used for transport. It is a warm afternoon and in the foreground, a man wearing a dark suit has taken off his polished shoes and is lying his head on his jacket in the warm afternoon, loosening his tight tie and stretching his neck. Elsewhere, a lady is sitting eating a packed lunch with the Sun newspaper and a man a little further behind is in jeans and plimsoll shoes. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • Holding drained pint beer glasses that symbolises an economic recession, City of London office workers gather to drink at lunchtime while dressed in red ties and white shirts, on the 23rd April, St George's Day, England's national day. In recent years, more English flags have become more prevalent in a resurgence of national pride and more citizens have come to work dressed with a red and white theme such as ties and shirts, hats or shoes. Anything for a little fun in such gloomy times. This anonymous trio have all agreed to dress identically and enjoy an early warm spell of good weather to show-off their dress sense and patriotism.
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  • Indigo dyed handspun cotton hanging to dry in the Phu Tai ethnic minority village of Ban Lahanam, Savannakhet province, Lao PDR. In Savannakhet most textiles are dyed with natural dyes according to longstanding traditions. 'Mutmee' is a tie-dye weaving technique that is special to the Phu-Tai ethnic group where the string is tied in each row wherever the colour is not wanted and then removed after dyeing. Although only plainweave, the weaving is slow as each weft row needs to be lined up to maintain the pattern.
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  • Both wearing slightly ridiculous pairs of glasses, two delegates dance on the floor at the annual Party Conference of 1990 at Blackpool during the premiership of Prime Minister John Major. The dance they are attempting allows them to somehow stretch out their arms to make a theatrical point. The lady is wearing a bare-backed dress with old-fashioned spectacles while her partner wears a formal dinner suit including a black bow tie and with thick-rimmed glasses. They are at this evening event to help raise funds for Britain’s Conservative Party under the leadership of the then PM Major who had just taken over the running of the country from the deposed Margaret Thatcher earlier that year.
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  • 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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  • Show steward, Nick Saunders wearing a tie with a cartoon cow print, at the annual Suffolk Show at the Suffolk Show Ground on the 29th May 2019 in Ipswich in the United Kingdom. The Suffolk Show is an annual show that takes place in Trinity Park, Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. It is organised by the Suffolk Agricultural Association.
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  • A farmer wearing a green tie with a Hereford cattle motif and a check jacket at the Tenbury Agricultural Show, Worcestershire, UK
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  • Colin the Papillion in his business collar and tie at Paw Pageant dog show at Spitalfields Market, London. Local people enter their dogs into the Shoreditch Unbound Festival Dog Show to win prizes and to show off their pets. Prizes and categories included: Dead Ringer, Dressed Up to the K-Nines, Fugliest Dog (meaning funny / ugly), Shoreditch Show Off, Paw-fection, Best in Ditch, Best Bitch in the Ditch.
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  • Colin the Papillion in his business collar and tie at Paw Pageant dog show at Spitalfields Market, London. Local people enter their dogs into the Shoreditch Unbound Festival Dog Show to win prizes and to show off their pets. Prizes and categories included: Dead Ringer, Dressed Up to the K-Nines, Fugliest Dog (meaning funny / ugly), Shoreditch Show Off, Paw-fection, Best in Ditch, Best Bitch in the Ditch.
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  • Pride in London, formally known as Pride London, is an annual LGBT pride festival and parade held each summer in London, United Kingdom. A group of men and women wearing rainbow coloured ties march behind a banner saying Affirmation. LGBT Mormons , families and friends.
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  • Close up of office workers tie and lunch in the canteen, GKS, Brentford. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • A surgeon has his mask tied by a nurse before an operation in the Medicity, Gurgaon, India<br />
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The Medanta Medicity is India's newest and most comprehensive hospital which when finished, will have 45 operating theatres, 1250 beds and over 350 critical care beds. Uniquely for India, the Institute offers multiple specialisms within one hospital with state of the art treatment facilities.
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  • The laces of child’s bootie shoe ties together a cartoon-print curtain. Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a curtain at Princess Alice’s Adoption home; a children’s home in association with BigShoes Foundation.
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  • Two smartly-dressed young men wearing matching pink ties stand watching a passing protest march on Piccadilly, on 4th February 2017 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • An abandoned mattress lies tied up on a residential street corner in the borough of Lambeth, on 4th December 2017, in London England.
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  • Three colours deflated balloons tied to a garden fence, weeks after a party, on 16th November 2017, in London, England.
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  • Three colours deflated balloons tied to a garden fence, weeks after a party, on 16th November 2017, in London, England.
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  • Birthday party balloons left tied in a tree of Ruskin Park, south London borough of Lambeth, UK. The park no longer has proper funding nor is staffed by the full compliment of council employees to ensure bins are emptied and trees properly maintained.
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  • A bin overflows with refuse and litter in a public space with discarded birthday party balloons left tied in a tree in Ruskin Park, south London borough of Lambeth, UK. The park no longer has proper funding nor is staffed by the full compliment of council employees to ensure bins are emptied and trees properly maintained.
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  • Campaigners locked out of the closed Carnegie Library have tied yellow ribbons and messages to the railings in Herne Hill, south London on 7th May 2016. For ten days, members of the community in the south London borough occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. But after a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the librarys doors because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym is planned to replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it. London borough’s budget cuts mean four of its 10 libraries will either close, move or be run by volunteers.
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  • A bin overflows with refuse and litter in a public space with discarded birthday party balloons left tied in a tree in Ruskin Park, south London borough of Lambeth, UK. The park no longer has proper funding nor is staffed by the full compliment of council employees to ensure bins are emptied and trees properly maintained.
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  • Two you women tied together in Portobello Road. The Notting Hill Carnival has been running since 1966 and is every year attended by up to a million people. The carnival is a mix of amazing dance parades and street parties with a distinct Caribbean feel.
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  • Glastonbury Festival, 2015.<br />
Tie-dyed cloth on oak tree near stone circle
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  • Humayan Beria works at Arianna TV Studios, as a comedian, writer and producer.He is the star behind some of Afghanistan’s biggest comedy shows. Fahim Sadozi, Head of Programming says, “There was no TV in Taliban times, but eighty per cent of the country now watches television”. <br />
Arianna are also working on an Afghan version of ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’.. Contestants win 1 million (Afghani equivalent to 20,000 US dollars). There are also Afghan versions of Oprah, Dragons Den and Pop Idol.
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  • Bride groom Guillermo Gomez and his just married wife Joaquina, together with their troupe of fellow dwarfs inside Cienpozuelo's bull ring after their wedding ceremony. Their troupe travel around Spain fighting bulls, Guillermo is the "matador" bullfighter, the rest are the "picadores" the lancers.
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  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, a Leaver Brexiteer protests in front of railings outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • At the base of the Leadenhall Building, city workers walk in the sunshine surrounded by new high rise modern architecture in the City of London, England, United Kingdom. As Londons financial district grows in height, the classical buildings are being dwarfed by the towers of glass.
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  • A man holding a take away bacon and egg bap at a roadside cafe on the 23rd June 2017 in Brome North Suffolk, United Kingdom
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  • Simon Wilkes, accountant. posing for a portrait at his office, in Southampton.  From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Chris Somers, left, Andrew Allen, second from left and colleagues take  a smoke break . This scene must be a familiar sight in car parks on industrial estate around the UK especially since smoking was banned inside public spaces. The dress code is similar for all the workers it seems to the point where it could be considered  as a self imposed uniform. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Chris Somers takes a fast food lunch In the staff break room. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Kitchen worker sporting old Butlins badges on his lapels. <br />
Butlins issued badges, a different design each year, right up to 1967. Butlins Skegness is a holiday camp located in Ingoldmells near Skegness in Lincolnshire. Sir William Butlin conceived of its creation based on his experiences at a Canadian summer camp in his youth and by observation of the actions of other holiday accommodation providers, both in seaside resort lodging houses and in earlier smaller holiday campsThe camp began opened in 1936, when it quickly proved to be a success with a need for expansion. The camp included dining and recreation facilities, such as dance halls and sports fields. Over the past 75 years the camp has seen continuous use and development, in the mid-1980s and again in the late 1990s being subject to substantial investment and redevelopment. In the late 1990s the site was re-branded as a holiday resort, and remains open today as one of three remaining Butlins resorts.
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  • John Caudwell, millionaire businessman and founder of Phones 4 U outside his home
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  • A veteran and former soldier from world war 2 stands in a side street of Westminster during the annual Armistice Day. This is a full-face portrait of a quintessential Englishmen from a bygone era, typical of the stereotype expected by those from other countries when in fact, he is a disappearing breed. The man has been parading though London's political district near Parliament as old soldiers march with their old comrades in rank, as they would have in their glory days. We see his pencil moustache and the famous bowler hat. The bowler hat, also known as a coke hat, derby (US), billycock or bombín, is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown originally created in 1849 for the British soldier and politician Edward Coke. The bowler hat was popular with the working class during the Victorian era though it came to form the official work uniform of bankers.
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  • Six delegates sit down in good humour at the annual Party Conference of 1993 at Blackpool during the premiership of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In the centre of frame a lady is sitting on her partner's lap, holding her security pass and wearing a chintzy royal blue ball gown. The male friend is holding her around the waist with both hands and they chat with a third person on the end. Behind the lady in blue are three other people, one of whom is inspecting her cleavage to the surprise of another lady who is staring wide-eyed down at the lady's bosoms. It is a humorous, ridiculous scene at a formal political function
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  • A waiter from a restaurant waits on the street in Verona, Italy
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  • An environmental prefect and head boy shows his badges at Ringmer College in East Sussex.
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  • An environmental prefect and head boy shows his badges at Ringmer College in East Sussex.
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  • A member of the Orthodox Jewish security force the CST patrolling an Orthodox Jewish event in Stamford Hill. The CST has over three thousand volunteers in the UK. They provide training and security throughout the community giving help and advice against crime and anti-Semitism.
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  • As MPs decide on how to progress with Brexit parliamentary procedure, a Leaver Brexiteer protests in front of railings outside the UK Parliament in Westminster, on 28th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • Students from Whitley Bay High School , aged mainly  17-18, Newcastle, celebrate their leaving prom, following graduation from A levels. In recent years American style prom nights to celebrate graduation from high School have been gaining popularity in the UK. These pictures are part of a set  <br />
commissioned for the Times magazine that  look at this teenage rite of passage across three schools in the UK.
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  • Mr Massoudi,  Director of the  National Museum of Afghanistan pictured next to a statue recently restored after the Taliban smashed it to pieces. Overall the Taliban smashed 2000 museum exhibits and more famously two colossal Buddhas in Bamiyan ‘because they were "false idols" contrary to Islam.  Mr Massouudi with the help of the international community has rebuilt and reopened his museum and is now seeking to recover and restore the many artifacts either looted in the civil war or smashed by the Taliban:<br />
"They took the decision that artefacts such as statues, or anything representing the human figure, was against Sharia Islam . Looking at statues as part of history, is not the same as worshiping them. It was an extremely sad time not just for me, but all museum staff , cultural and educated people in Afghanistan. They destroyed around 2000 artefacts.”
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  • A doctor on call in the Medicity Hospital<br />
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The Medicity, Gurgaon is India's most technologically advanced multi disciplinary hospital. Founded by India's leading cardiac surgeon, Dr Naresh Trehan, it will when completed also contain a medical school and 1600 beds with over 48 operating theatres.
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  • Millennial suits fashion and a models face looking out from the window of a menswear retailer, on 9th February 2017, in the City of London, England. Traditional City bowler hats and pinstripe suits are now rare, even among older bankers and financiers.
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  • A pet dog awaits its owner outside a shop, on 30th December 2018, in Kensington, London, UK.
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  • Two pet dogs await their owners outside a supermarket, shiver in the cold during late winter temperatures, on 17th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
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  • Yellow party balloon attached to railings in London, England, United Kingdom. photo by Mike Kemp/
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  • The detail of diagonal rope that holds a ship in winter ice, on the Saint Lawrence River, on 11th January 1999, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
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  • Detail of a BT Openreach van and a coil of yellow broadband fibre cable on the ground and awaiting installation, on 16th February 2017, in the City of London, England. Openreach is a subsidiary of telecommunications company BT Group that owns the pipes and telephone cables that connect nearly all businesses and homes in the United Kingdom to the national broadband and telephone network.
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  • Millennial suits fashion and a models face looking out from the window of a menswear retailer, on 9th February 2017, in the City of London, England. Traditional City bowler hats and pinstripe suits are now rare, even among older bankers and financiers.
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  • Travellers' horses rest during the ancient annual Priddy Sheep (and horse) fair in Somerset, England. Set in the Mendip Hills, in the south-western English county of Somerset, the Priddy Sheep fair is host to an odd mix of farmers and travellers (commonly and incorrectly known as gypsies). In this field set aside purely for travellers, many with West Country accents but also with nearby Welsh and Irish too, deals are done with a traditional spit on the hand and a smacking of palms, selling a pony to another family. The Priddy Sheep Fair moved from the city of Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death.
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  • A rather eccentric-looking man is seated on a bench on Blackpool's North Pier. This northern seaside resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd. The pier has intricate cast ironwork seat backs dating from 1863 and the man sits with ankles crossed, wearing a suit and trilby hat on a warm summer's day. In the background we see families - parents and children - playing and walking on the beach at low-tide - the golden sands a much-visited aspect of Blackpool, the largest resort in the north of England and visited traditionally by working people from industrial towns and cities during the industrial revolution.
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  • Visitors to the world's largest aviation airshow at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, admire home-built kit aeroplanes at Oshkosh Air Venture, the world’s largest air show in Wisconsin USA. Close to a million people populate the mass fly-in over the week, a pilgrimage worshipping all aspects of flight. The event annually generates $85 million in revenue over a 25 mile radius from Oshkosh. The event is presented by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), a national/international organization based in Oshkosh. The airshow is seven days long and typically begins on the last Monday in July. The airport's control tower is the busiest control tower in the world during the gathering
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  • On a street in Macau (also Macao) in the Chinese Special Economic Region (SER), we see the tall stack of cardboard on the back of a bicycle. Its partly-obscured rider and owner has one foot placed on the bike's pedal while his right arm has firm hold of the pile of materials to prevent it from toppling over. In the background we see the signs of many local businesses, their Chinese characters seen clearly on the sides of buildings as pedestrians walk on the pavements. Administered by Portugal until 1999, Macau was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover. Macau's name is derived from A-Ma-Gau or Place of A-Ma
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  • In a Budapest pet grooming salon, a Lakeland Terrier is trimmed by an assistant using a pair of scissors to style the dog's fur. Its owner holds a lead and helps calm the animal from the sensation of being held and snipped. Posters of other breeds of dogs are on the walls above the grooming areas. The Lakeland terrier is one of many Terrier breeds that originated in the Lake District England, near the Scottish border in the 1800s. a descendant of the now extinct English Black and Tan and Fell Terriers for the purpose of hunting vermin. But he is also related to several terrier breeds and is one of the oldest working terrier breeds still in use today. His diverse ancestors include the Dandie Dinmont Terrier, Bedlington Terrier and Border Terrier.
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  • In a London street, an apprentice in the bakery or milk industry endures a shower of fresh milk being poured over his head after a dusting of flour. This traditional ritual is usually performed on the unfortunate young man when he has successfully passed his apprenticeship term in the company - his mates participating in making his day as miserable as possible. But he takes it with good humour as it means he is now initiated into the industry.
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  • Puffin hunter Jakob Erlingsson tying up the day's catch of puffins with rope for carrying home, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. Puffin hunting has been of major importance in Vestmannaeyjar and during the hunting season of just over 6 weeks every year, some 16,000 puffins were caught to make up Iceland’s national dinner. However by 2011 and 2012, breeding failures had taken such a toll that puffin hunting was banned in the Vestmannaeyjar.  In 2013 a five-day puffin-hunting season was allowed at the end of July.
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  • Statue of a victorious athlete, a Roman version of a Greek bronze original of about 440-430BC, found by the Roman theatre at Vaison, France but perhaps from a nearby villa. Known as Diadoumensos, it represents a triumphant athlete tying a ribbon round his head. At Greek festivals, it was the custom to give red ribbons to the winners of games. He may symbolise athletic victories in general, rather than an individual.
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  • After the week shooting ducks and upland game birds in North Dakota, the hunters have the job of cleaning, plucking, skinning, dividing and generally processing the birds into a state ready to cook. This is a strong smelling and gruesome job, but an important part of the process of gaining your own wild meat. A prolific fisherman, these pheasant tail feathers will be used by hunter Byron Grubb in his fly tying.
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  • A City businessman bends down to tie a shoelace outside the Guildhalls Art Gallery on 13th February 2017, in the City of London, United Kingdom. The Guildhalls Art gallery was established in 1886 as a Collection of Art Treasures worthy of the capital city, and includes works dating from 1670 to the present, including 17th-century portraits, Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces and a range of paintings documenting Londons dramatic history.
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  • A Lao Phong woman weaves fabric using the 'mutmee' tie-dye weaving technique, in Ban Saleuy, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. Ikat, called mutmee or matmee in Lao, is the Malay word for tie. Threads are tied to resist the dye, then coloured in the dyebath to pattern them before being woven as plainweave. The colours on the fabric blur at the edges like tie-dye.
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  • An English gentleman of excellent breeding eats junk food - seemingly a Mathesons 'Smokey Joe's' hotdog. Sporting a pencil moustache he eats the fast-food at an event in southern England. He appears to have kept the discipline from his army days - a smart jacket and tie with regimental tie pin plus well-groomed hair greased with Brylcream to keep it in place.
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  • Buddhist monks tie cotton string onto an elephants tusk during the Baci ceremony at the Sayaboury elephant festival, Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. The baci is a long series of chanted blessings and exhortations to welcome back any ‘kwans’ or body spirits that might have been lost. In traditional Lao culture it is believed that elephants, like humans, have 32 kwan (or souls), vital for health and spiritual wellbeing. Originally created by ElefantAsia in 2007, the 3-day elephant festival takes place in February in the province of Sayaboury with over 80,000 local and international people coming together to experience the grand procession of decorated elephants. It is now organised by the provincial government of Sayaboury.The Elephant Festival is designed to draw the public's attention to the condition of the endangered elephant, whilst acknowledging and celebrating the ancestral tradition of elephant domestication and the way of life chosen by the mahout.
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  • Girls help each other to tie a costume backstage during a folk event in Pecs, Hungary.Pecs has been chosen as the 2010 European City of Culture. The city is on the southern slopes of the Mecsek Hills and has a sub-Mediterranean climate. Settled by Romans as Sopianae, it was a significant Christian settlement. Later conquered by the Ottomans, it has important Turkish architecture.
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  • With a further 184 reported UK Covid deaths in the last 24 hrs, a total now of 43,414, the image of a leg with wrap around straps matches the tie cords keeping the billboard in place during the construction of a new Versace store on New Bond Street during the Covid pandemic lockdown, now easing after three months of the Stay At Home policy but now being relaxed as the shops re-open, on 26th June 2020, in London, England. Government restrictions on the 2 metre rule is to be realxed on 4th July and replaced with one metre plus in the hope it stimulates the struggling UK economy.
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  • A businessman wearing a dark suit and an orange tie using an e-cigarette at a cafe at Leadenhall Market on the 24th September in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Climate change activist from the Extinction Rebellion group is arrested for trying to tie a bag to a rope to pass tools up to protesters in the trees above at Parliament Square in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests.
    20190424_extinction rebellion arrest...jpg
  • Climate change activist from the Extinction Rebellion group is arrested for trying to tie a bag to a rope to pass tools up to protesters in the trees above at Parliament Square in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests.
    20190424_extinction rebellion arrest...jpg
  • Climate change activist from the Extinction Rebellion group is arrested for trying to tie a bag to a rope to pass tools up to protesters in the trees above at Parliament Square in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests.
    20190424_extinction rebellion arrest...jpg
  • Climate change activist from the Extinction Rebellion group is arrested for trying to tie a bag to a rope to pass tools up to protesters in the trees above at Parliament Square in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests.
    20190424_extinction rebellion arrest...jpg
  • Climate change activist from the Extinction Rebellion group is arrested for trying to tie a bag to a rope to pass tools up to protesters in the trees above at Parliament Square in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests.
    20190424_extinction rebellion arrest...jpg
  • Climate change activist from the Extinction Rebellion group is arrested for trying to tie a bag to a rope to pass tools up to protesters in the trees above at Parliament Square in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests.
    20190424_extinction rebellion arrest...jpg
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