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  • In the shadow of 1 Canada Square, the iconic Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands stands as an icon for Thatcherite Britain when the good times, prosperity and economic upturns seemed unshakeable. Four work colleagues stand under a hot lunchtime sun during a summer heatwave. In their shirtsleeves the men each hold pints of refreshing lager, all having removed their dark jackets to enjoy the company of a flirtatious female who appears to be flirting with an older male companion. The sky is blue and the five are care-free to any future economic uncertainty.
    canary_wharf_drinkers07-18-1991_1.jpg
  • A young trader in currencies leans back in his chair on the currency trading floor of Barclays Bank in the City of London, England, UK. Easing back during the stress of a day when the money markets have been volatile, this young man has the responsibilities of millions of Pounds Sterling to trade and value. He has old technology at his disposal, in the decade when technology made a big impression on the workplace but before the arrival of the internet and e-mail. Communication was therefore slow and unreliable although banks like Barclays who traded money across the world were skilled in migrating information across time-zones.
    city_banker07-16-1998_1.jpg
  • Veiled Londoner inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford43-13-09-2011_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford40-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of consumer shoppers at Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. Local shoppers and consumers walk below a giant sign to the high-street retailer Marks & Spencer with the names of other brands on a pillar. 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.
    stratford20-14-10-2011_1_1.jpg
  • A mural of a tiled artwork and boundary sign of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. Situated on the perimeter fringe of the 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_stratford03-15-03-2012.jpg
  • The words 'Love Christmas at Boots' are spread across the frontage window of the Boots branch in London's Oxford Street. The Boots brand name appears twice on the window along with red and yellow stars. Boots UK Limited (commonly known as Boots, previously The Boots Company), is a leading pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, with outlets in most high streets throughout the country. Boots was established in 1849, by John Boot. After his father's death in 1860, Jesse Boot, aged 10 helped his mother run the family's herbal medicine shop in Nottingham, England.
    love_christmas2-09-12-2011.jpg
  • Lying horizontal in a busy salon, a lady passenger receives eyebrow threading treatment during a beauty session at the Blink Eyebrow Bar in World Duty Free, Heathrow Airport's terminal 5. The beautician holds the thread that squeezes the woman's eyebrow follicles, removing the tiniest and finest hair right from the root. Threading is a technique that China has been using for centuries but has recently become popular in western countries. Amid the busy departures terminal of this international aviation hub, this is a corner of quiet and tranquillity before the woman traveller boards her business flight after this few minutes of pampering. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport194-13-07-2009_1.jpg
  • Two elderly passengers have stopped by in a retail space called World of Duty Free to taste Scottish Malt Whiskey in Terminal 5 at heathrow Airport. The two South-Africans travel widely across the world to visit their extended family and like to stop by this shop to try the various blends of Scotch with the help of a sales person who helps them decide which bottles to buy. Together they swallow the fine alcohol and taste its delicate and subtle differences. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport132-13-07-2009_1.jpg
  • Two businessmen - one younger than the other, who may be his superior - pace through the Broadgate Estate during a break in the working day in the City of London, the capital's financial centre - otherwise called the Square Mile. Seen as they walk fast under a covered alleyway, the warm sun strikes their faces while they are deep in conversation - perhaps discussing a strategy while fetching a local coffee. Deep shadow allows us to focus in on their dark suits, their pink skin and the similarly orange colour of the strong vertical columns that form this urban architecture completed in the Bishopsgate development of the mid-1980s. Broadgate is a large, 32 acres (129,499 m2) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates.
    city-men06-20-1997_1.jpg
  • Londoners crowd inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford57-13-09-2011_1.jpg
  • Londoners crowd inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford45-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford42-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford41-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • A local passer-by and a property development ad on wall in east London borough of Stratford, Newham, home of 2012 Olympics. The 2012 Olympics has sparked a house price boom in east London but there are fears for this old East End neighbourhood as young professionals and penthouses push up Stratford house prices. Since London won the bid in 2005, talk of east London's Olympic property boom has proved both myth and reality. Even amid the worst recession since the 1930s, it was assumed that at least one corner of the country would be impregnable to house price doom. For some, this is true: parts of Hackney have recorded average rises of up to 56% between July 2005 and May 2011. But for other, less gentrified areas, it has been a different story; in Stratford the increase was 13%.
    stratford35-14-10-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Architecture and design of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. In the windows we see mannequins and models wearing the latest styles of this high-street retailer. 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.
    stratford21-14-10-2011_1.jpg
  • A young man has stopped by a rubbish bin to inspect his shoulder on which a nearby pigeon has recently messed on his best work suit. It is an unfortunate incident in the middle of a working day for this man in the heart of the City of London, London's financial centre - otherwise called The Square Mile. Armed with a spare tissue paper, the male cranes his neck over the shoulder to see how much of the crap remains while the flock of birds pace around on nearby grass to scavenge for crumbs left by other lunchtime office workers, otherwise enjoying warm weather in Bishopsgate Churchyard.
    pigeon_droppings07-16-1992.jpg
  • Apartment balconies of new Housing Association accomodation in the 2012 Olympic development zone built by contractor Armore. This is in east London, a kilometre south of the 2012 London Olympic Park and stadium site. Purple colour themed balconies look both modern and attractive to poorer residents in this otherwise downtrodden borough of Newham and designed and built by contractor, Ardmore for Genesis Housing Association, 150 High Street, Stratford, 704 homes, in five new residential blocks, one of which, at over 132 metres, will be one of the highest residential towers in London.
    olympic_stratford06-15-03-2012.jpg
  • An elderly lady receives a consultation from a professional beautician in the Clinique Bar at World Duty Free in Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. In a quiet corner of peace and tranquility, the woman's face is examined in detail using a magnifying lens that allows the assistant to see every hair follicle and pore. Amid the busy departures terminal of this international aviation hub, this is a corner of quiet and tranquillity before the woman traveller boards her flight after this few minutes of pampering. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport160-13-07-2009_1.jpg
  • Two young men dressed in office suits casually stuff their lunches during a hot lunchtime break in the Broadgate Estate in the City of London. Both with legs across knees, the lads in their 20s sit on a bench beneath a tree alongside the statue of a traditional gardener, slightly bent and equipped with hoe and wearing a wastecoat, hobnailed boots and flat cap, an iconic salt-of-the-earth workman. 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-exhausted man whose life has been spent working the honest land.  The English social divide is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus the youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
    city_resting01-16-1993_1.jpg
  • New apartment balconies in recently completed housing in Stratford, a short distance from the 2012 Olympic Park. Developers are building 4m sq ft of offices and 350 homes. Inter Ikea, proposed 1,200 homes and up to 500,000 sq ft of commercial space at a 26-acre site just 500 metres south of the Olympic Park. Houses close to the Olympic Park in Stratford have increased in value by £800 a month meaning average house prices have increased by £60,000, or 30pc. Also, short-term rentals in London in July 2012 is £2,858 per week, an increase of 444pc one year before the Games.
    2012_stratford11-08-03-2012_1.jpg
  • New apartment balconies in recently completed housing in Stratford, a short distance from the 2012 Olympic Park. Developers are building 4m sq ft of offices and 350 homes. Inter Ikea, proposed 1,200 homes and up to 500,000 sq ft of commercial space at a 26-acre site just 500 metres south of the Olympic Park. Houses close to the Olympic Park in Stratford have increased in value by £800 a month meaning average house prices have increased by £60,000, or 30pc. Also, short-term rentals in London in July 2012 is £2,858 per week, an increase of 444pc one year before the Games.
    2012_stratford10-08-03-2012_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford53-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford50-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford39-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Architecture and design of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. 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.
    westfield_stratford10-08-03-2012_1.jpg
  • Londoners flock to the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford07-08-03-2012_1.jpg
  • An aspirational poster landscape adorning a wall hoarding at Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. A chic couple show us their success and affluence with a table full of food and drink. 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.
    stratford32-14-10-2011_1.jpg
  • London transport logos on a pillar at Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home and main arrival point for rail travellers to the 2012 Olympics. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is 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
    stratford25-14-10-2011_1.jpg
  • Architecture and design of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. In the windows we see mannequins and models wearing the latest styles of this high-street retailer. 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.
    stratford14-14-10-2011_1.jpg
  • Through the window of a hairdressers business in central London  we see a pair of hands massaging a scalp of a male customer who is in a chair for his haircut. In the foreground is a large vertical image of a model whose red hair falls across her face and who wears a light jacket with a pocket dotted scarf. Through a transparent space in this picture we see the anonymous assistant's fingers spread across her client's head  kneading and stimulating his hair. He sits with eyes closed  enjoying the moment of utter self-indulgence and vanity.
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  • A female member of the Thomas Cook staff issues foreign currency to an unseen airline passenger in the departures concourse at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. This Bureau de Change is one of two companies trading in foreign exchange, travel insurance and travellers cheques for passengers passing through this aviation hub is west London. We see on the wall behind the assistant, a beach paradise scene of palm trees, calm seas and beach chalets, the idea of tranquillity and prosperity. On the left are the exchange rates for the world's currencies for purchase at this kiosk. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1135-12-08-2009_1.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.
    city_resting03-16-1997_1.jpg
  • Londoners crowd inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford62-13-09-2011_1.jpg
  • Londoners crowd inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford59-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford48-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Londoners outside the Speedo shop soon to open, on the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford20-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Londoners outside the Bosco shop soon to open, on the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford12-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Londoners flock to see the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford6-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • Architecture and design of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. 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.
    stratford58-14-10-2011_1.jpg
  • The words 'Love Christmas at Boots' are spread across the frontage window of the Boots branch in London's Oxford Street. The Boots brand name appears twice on the window along with red and yellow stars. Boots UK Limited (commonly known as Boots, previously The Boots Company), is a leading pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, with outlets in most high streets throughout the country. Boots was established in 1849, by John Boot. After his father's death in 1860, Jesse Boot, aged 10 helped his mother run the family's herbal medicine shop in Nottingham, England.
    love_christmas1-09-12-2011.jpg
  • Wearing braces, striped shirt and sitting on a block, a young lawyer studies a legal book during a mid-morning break in the Inner Temple in the historic City of London. The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice which may call members to the Bar and so entitle them to practise as barristers. The Temple was occupied in the twelfth century by the Knights Templar, who gave the area its name but was heavily bombed during the Blitz of 1940-1 and the reclining marble memorial to predecessor, John Hiccocks who held the office of Master in Chancery between 1702 and 1723 (d 1726) behind the young law student is marked by the partially-demolished Goldsmiths Chambers on the north side of Temple Church where Hiccocks is buried. An assortment of potted red plants add to an otherwise dark courtyard
    city_resting02-16-1993_1.jpg
  • New Met police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe and Londoners inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. 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.
    westfield_stratford37-13-09-2011_1_1.jpg
  • In the heart of the City of London, a caterpillar tracked crane tears down the walls of an old 70s office block close to St Paul's Cathedral, England. As a pedestrian walks past the blue hoardings that protect passers-by like him, the rubble is piled high before being removed as spoil to make way for an brand new construction that appears in an artist's impression picture on the right, above two site engineers wearing fluorescent jackets and hard hats. This is a scene of renewal in London's financial district. Of optimism and regeneration as businesses invest in new workplaces and replacing the tired, old offices that cannot accommodate new computer and server cabling technology.
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  • Against orange evening light, a forest of high-rise cranes stand upright at the masive Canary Wharf development on London's Docklands, England. It is early evening and the crane drivers have left for the day, the day's shift have stopped work before resuming tomorrow. The silhouetted lines of each structure stand out clearly against the skyline before the regeneration of this region of East London grows upward. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • At night we see the floodlit exterior of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, home to the post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_building0207-16-1993.jpg
  • Upturned boats lie by the sea, October 29th 2019, Denmark. The coast along Århus Bugten is calm on an early autumn morning, shortly after sun rise. The first frost has arrived and small upturned rowing boats are covered in frost. It is out of season and the boats are ready for winter. The beach is nearly deserted and is between Århus and the neaby coal power plant Studstrup.
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  • Precast concrete pipes are prepared for distribution by a Mexican-born employee at Hanson Pipe & Products, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA. He cleans and inspects the tongue and groove seals of the upturned pipes wearing an obligatory hard hat and blue overalls. Precast concrete is made from a reusable mold or "form" and cured in a controlled environment, then transported to the construction site and lifted into place. Used in the construction of commercial building components, bridges, manholes and retaining walls, these products are the strongest pipe available, designed and plant tested to resist any load required with a design life of 70-100 years.
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  • A disused boat now serving as a shed for a local fisherman sits upside down on the beach on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Local fishermen on Holy Island considered it a sin to send boats to the junkyard. They instead found a way to transform their old herring boats into perfect little storage sheds for their nets, tools, and other equipment. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • A young boy reads a book in the peace and quite of the garden at the AFCIC centre in Thika, Kenya. AFCIC - Action for children in conflict, help children who have been affected by various forms conflict or crisis.
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  • A disused boat now serving as a shed for a local fisherman sits upside down on the beach on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Local fishermen on Holy Island considered it a sin to send boats to the junkyard. They instead found a way to transform their old herring boats into perfect little storage sheds for their nets, tools, and other equipment. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • A young boy reads a book in the peace and quite of the garden at the AFCIC centre in Thika, Kenya. AFCIC - Action for children in conflict, help children who have been affected by various forms conflict or crisis.
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  • At the beginning of the fourth week of the UK governments lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic, and with 120,067 UK reported cases with 16,060 deaths, upturned seats are stacked on tables in the window of Eat Activ, a Soho cafe offering active-health, fast food, on 20th April 2020, in London, England.
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  • A pedestrian walks past an upturned car, a casualty of the Poll Tax riot, on 1st April 1990, in Charing Cross Road, London, England. when angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane, on 1st April 1990, in London, England. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • A cyclist pushes his upright bike on its rear wheel on the pavement at Bank station in the heart of Londons financial heart, on 15th August 2016 in the City of London, UK. Having upturned the bike to wheel it easily on the pavement, he steers it through the busy street where commuters walk beneath the pillars and columns of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street.
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  • An elderly Egyptian sleeps in the mid-day shade of a mud-splattered wall in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Stretched out on an upturned wooden box, the old man dozes peacefully at a time during the day when people stay indoors and sleep in their homes or businesses until cooler air once again flows through villages and cities alike.
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  • A close-up portrait of a young man in his late-twenties street portrait with moustache. The mustache is well-waxed to keep its upturned shape and is generally known as a handlebar style of facial growth. Focus is on the curled hair and eyes rather than on his clothing and urban background. The fellow is stylish and is very self-confident as he makes a bold statement of his own youth and gender.
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  • A close-up portrait of a young man in his late-twenties street portrait with moustache. The mustache is well-waxed to keep its upturned shape and is generally known as a handlebar style of facial growth. Focus is on the curled hair and eyes rather than on his clothing and urban background. The fellow is stylish and is very self-confident as he makes a bold statement of his own youth and gender.
    moustache_men45-28-May-2011-2.jpg
  • A close-up portrait of a young man in his late-twenties street portrait with moustache. The mustache is well-waxed to keep its upturned shape and is generally known as a handlebar style of facial growth. Focus is on the curled hair and eyes rather than on his clothing and urban background. The fellow is stylish and is very self-confident as he makes a bold statement of his own youth and gender.
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