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  • Old colleagues greet each other in the City of London as an outsider looks on. Some of the men have recognised each other while with others as they head over Bishopsgate in the capital's financial heart. On the left is an outsider, a stranger with darker skin than the group of young professionals wearing suits. He makes his own way in the opposite direction, looking at the men with hands in pockets.
    city_people03-13-08-2014.jpg
  • 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
  • Three work colleagues enjoy a picnic on the grass in a City of London park in summer sunshine. As the male admires the body of the younger, more beautiful lady, she throws her head back as a reaction to the conversation. In the background are other office workers also relishing the warm weather in the capital.
    city_lunchtime08-20-05-1993_1.jpg
  • A group of 1990s work colleagues drink outside in summer sunshine, beneath the dome of St. Pauls Cathedral, in the City of London aka The Square Mile, the capitals financial centre, on 20th June 1993, in London, England.
    90s_drinkers-20-06-1993.jpg
  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR.  Deputy team leader, Manixia Thor, relaxes with her colleagues from UCT6 during breaktime whilst clearing UXO in Ban Namoune. The team has 10 minutes break every hour and works an 8 hour day.
    A0012041cc_1_1.jpg
  • Female colleagues enjoy a chat over an alfresco lunch in the city alongside an art installation of women at the beach. Rather suggestively we see, one lady eating a fresh banana to suggest a sexual act but this is in the open air at one of the City of London’s financial district’s landmarks, Broadgate that is adjacent to Liverpool Street Station whose arched Victorian roof is seen in the background. The scene is of the female gender, taking a well-earned break from office life, while perhaps, dreaming of and planning their next holiday vacation on a tropical beach. The working women and their leisurely counterparts are juxtaposed from an unknown artist’s installation in London. The banana, by its very curved shape has long been the butt of sexual innuendo and double-entendre. The surrogate penis being the perfect adult pun.
    banana_girl01-18-05-1995_1.jpg
  • Two smart, young city suited office workers stand outside in warm summer sunshine outside the Crispin pub at 3 Finsbury Avenue in London's Broadgate. Wearing hot, dark clothing that they might also wear in Winter, the men stand holding pint glasses of lager or bitter that hold equal measures of alcohol though they don't appear to be enjoying each other's company. Perhaps they are colleagues or client and customer but both seem nervous or uncomfortable in each other's company. It might also be the so-called Englishman’s stiff upper lip. St Crispin is the Christian patron saint of cobblers, tanners and leather workers.
    city_london_workers05-16-07-1994_1.jpg
  • Labour MP John Smith sits with shadow cabinet colleagues at a Labour event in April 1992 in London, UK. John Smith QC PC b1938 was a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death from a heart attack in May 1994.
    john_smith-01-04-1992.jpg
  • Six walkers blur as they walk through an English wood during a weekend ramble. The friends and colleagues make their way along a country path, through an oak forest in central Kent, south-east England. Our point of view follows the people as they blur, their rucksacks containing lunch and berries, their boots treading on the soft ground.
    ramblers03-15-09-2013_1.jpg
  • In the British Airways Galleries First lounge at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, two businessmen sit with identical laptops open, perched on their knees. The colleagues are en-route to Australia and are enjoying this exclusive facility (only available to passengers travelling in First and Gold Executive Club members) designed by Artwise. The lounge's 15,000 sq ft complex was built at the cost of £60 million. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport921-10-08-2009_1.jpg
  • A male employee of a Barristers helps a woman colleague with a boxes of legal documents into the chambers address in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
    legal_clerk-01-25-03-2019.jpg
  • Two window cleaners safely attached to an outside cradle, wash the large panes of glass at a building at Broadgate in the City of London. While stretching with his long sponge into the corner of this window, one worker on the left is wiping soapy liquid onto the grimy glass before cleaning it off with a squeegee. His colleague on the right is communicating with the cradle operator in the building's roof, way above these men, in order to raise the cradle and allowing the men to achieve the correct operating height. Far below them is the capital's Square Mile, London's financial and oldest area. The famous dome of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen most prominently although it is a grey day across this modern metropolis skyline.
    window_cleaners07-16-1993_1_1.jpg
  • Two ladies stand outside of a bar to sip lunchtime drinks in Broadgate, City of London. Dressed in matching scarlet red jackets, the brunette and the blonde look relaxed in the warm mid-day sunshine during a warm spell in the capital. The nearest woman holds the remains of a gin and tonic whose lemon slice  is at the bottom of her glass while her friend or colleague, with wide shoulder pads and gold chain strap for her bag draped over across a shoulder, smiles to show white teeth. In the background are other women who wear the same red clothes and these primary colours are set amongst the deep green foliage of the bar’s plants.
    city_ladies-25-06-1993_1.jpg
  • Fisherman Zhang Zhi Ping having lunch with his wife and friends
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  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Pauls Cathedral in the City of London the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-28-25-07-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Pauls Cathedral in the City of London the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-25-25-07-2019.jpg
  • Two men drink and talk in the window of Smiths Bar on Cannon Street in the heart of the Square Mile, the capitals historical and financial centre, on 1st November 2017, in the City of London, England.
    bar_mates-02-01-11-2017.jpg
  • With great care, two surgeons work intensely during an open heart procedure at the private Health Care International hospital, They wear hygienic face masks and do their intricate work carefully. This hospital delivered only high-end medicine to foreign patients and telemedicine was popular in the 90s when a growing awareness of the potential benefits of advanced medicine, emerging democracies, growing middle classes and an ageing population world-wide established locations like this in Scotland. But they were expensive to build and run and this hospital at Clydebank of up to 500 beds catered primarily for foreigners who flew into Glasgow airport, was built with the assistance of £30 million of public money, went into receivership when its target of overseas business was slower to build-up impacting its cash flows.
    nhs_hospital06-20-05-1994.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London. Standing beneath the main members' entrance of the Gothic tower, the two policemen talk outside the Palace of Westminster where the British Government meets and weilds its poeer. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their business. It is therefore a potent symbol for British Governmental power.
    met_police2-19-July-2011.jpg
  • City workers beneath the architecture at 122 Leadenhall Street, (aka the Leadenhall Building) on Leadenhall Street in the City of London during the Coronavirus pandemic, a time when office workers are still largely still working from home, on 16th September 2020, in London, England. The commercial skyscraper opened in July 2014 and was designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and is informally known as "The Cheesegrater" because of its distinctive wedge shape.
    leadenhall_architecture02-16-09-2020.jpg
  • With thousands of employees in the capitals financial district still working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, other City workers enjoy a socially distanced lunch beneath the Swiss Re building aka the Gherkin, on 29th July 2020, in London, England.
    fuji_test14-29-07-2020.jpg
  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs have now re-opened and staff working under cover outside the riverside Trafalgar Tavern, a pub on the Thames at Greenwich, serve customers wearing required face shields, on 5th July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Greenwich-06-05-07-2020.jpg
  • A portrait of both British and French customs officials during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, England. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
    customs_women-01-12-1990.jpg
  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy drinks in summer sunshine beneath the Swiss Re building aka The Gherkin, in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-39-22-08-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Pauls Cathedral in the City of London the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-30-25-07-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Pauls Cathedral in the City of London the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-26-25-07-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, an office worker sunbathes on the grass beneath St. Pauls Cathedral in the City of London the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-29-25-07-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Pauls Cathedral in the City of London the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-24-25-07-2019.jpg
  • Insurance industry business people gather outside the Lloyds of London building on leadenhall Street in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 10th July 2019, in London England.
    city_people-22-10-07-2019.jpg
  • Insurance industry business people gather outside the Lloyds of London building on leadenhall Street in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 10th July 2019, in London England.
    city_people-21-10-07-2019.jpg
  • Two young city worker women walk past the sculpture entitled City Wing on Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 11th July 2019, in London, England. City Wing is by the artist Christopher Le Brun. The ten-metre-tall bronze sculpture is by President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun, commissioned by Hammerson in 2009. It is called ‘The City Wing’ and has been cast by Morris Singer Art Founders, reputedly the oldest fine art foundry in the world.
    city_people-18-11-07-2019.jpg
  • Businessmen walk along St. Mary Axe street in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 10th May 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-04-10-05-2019.jpg
  • 1990s British customs and immigration officials and a French Gendarme await the arrival of the first people to have crossed from France to the British mainland on the occasion of the Channel Tunnel bores breaking through, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, Kent England.
    tunnel_customs-01-12-1990.jpg
  • A 1990s tired office worker has forty winks at lunchtime in Broadgate in the City of London aka The Square Mile, the capitals financial centre, on 20th June 1993, in London, England.
    90s_lunchtime-20-06-1993.jpg
  • An aerial cityscape of Londoners, general traffic and a London taxi on Upper Thames Street upstream from London Bridge in the City of London - the capitals financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-41-10-10-2018.jpg
  • An aerial cityscape of Londoners and traffic on Upper Thames Street upstream from London Bridge in the City of London - the capitals financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-36-10-10-2018.jpg
  • An aerial cityscape of Londoners and traffic on Upper Thames Street upstream from London Bridge in the City of London - the capitals financial district, on 11th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-09-11-10-2018.jpg
  • Two men in conversation beneath cafe lighting on Fleet Street, on 14th December 2017, in the City of London, England.
    cafe_men-01-14-12-2017.jpg
  • Two businessmen shake hands after meeting in a side street in the capitals financial district, on 5th October, 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_handshake-01-05-10-2017.jpg
  • Afternoon drinkers enjoy warm summer sunshine beneath the architecture of the Swiss Re building aka The Gherkin, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-03-17-07-2017.jpg
  • As nearly-empty lager glasses are lined up on a sill of a City on Lime Street, male businessman enjoy after-work drinks, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_pub-04-10-05-2017.jpg
  • Two cigarette smokers talk at Royal Exchange on Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capitals financial district also known as the Square Mile, on 6th April 2017, in London, England.
    city_people-42-06-04-2017.jpg
  • 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.
    anti_trump_protest-24-04-02-2017.jpg
  • Portuguese office workers have left their desks and PCs to climb on to a buildings ledge to watch their national football team during their victory procession through the capitals streets, the day after the Euro 2016 final with France, on 11th July 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. Lined up along the concrete ledge near Praca Marques de Pombal in the largely corporate and banking district of the city, they take photos and cheer their favourite players, including the national hero/deity, Christiano Ronaldo.
    portugal_lisbon-25-11-07-2016.jpg
  • Friends greet each other warmly in the booking hall of the main railway station in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. In front of them are passengers in queues for tickets. Overnight trains from Cairo arrive early morning with the station is some 400m from the River Nile and the ancient Egyptian antiquities of Luxor Temple.
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  • Local men on the West Bank of the river Nile talk at dawn on railings overlooking the city of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The waterfront is a meeting place to talk business or meet other commuters and from where the state-run ferry plies this great African river. In the distance are the twin spires of the Christian Manak church. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Image).
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  • Ken Pilkington, chief herdsman on the farm, looks at some data with Lindsey Hodgson. All of the data about each animal is shared and written onto boards so everyone is on the same page. Subsequently all of this data is collated on computer for analysis. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business, where nothing is left to chance. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
    20150924_dairy farm ken info_B.jpg
  • Ken Pilkington, chief herdsman on the farm, writes down some data onto his hand. All of the data about each animal is shared and written onto boards so everyone is on the same page. Subsequently all of this data is collated on computer for analysis. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business, where nothing is left to chance. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
    20150924_dairy farm ken info_A.jpg
  • Three blue-suited businessmen walk along a City of London street holding identical blue spiral-bound notebooks. The three gentlemen are possibly en-route to a nearby city meeting, using the same stationery issued by the boss or from the office supplies cupboard. The moment is faintly comical as the men wear almost identical suits with similar shades of blue, popular among young city workers in 2015.
    blue_suits02-10-06-2015.jpg
  • Three silhouettes walk into shadows beneath a south London railway tunnel. The three human figures make their way from strong winter sunlight into the depths of the shadow under the railway bridge tunnel in SE1, an area of businesses and apartments. A bent railing has been twisted in the direction of traffic that can drive through too.
    shadows_people02-18-02-2015_1.jpg
  • Women walk into dark shadows in Broadgate in the City of London. It is lunchtime in the part of the capital known as the Square Mile, London's financial heart. Making their way into shadow the ladies walk fast back towards their office jobs. The woman in red has shapely legs that compliment her bright red coat.
    broadgate_people01-09-02-2015_1.jpg
  • Two businessmen walk through sunlight and towards shadows at Cornhill Exchange in the City of London, the capital's financial heart. In perfect sync, their steps are the same as they progress towards the darker corner of this covered portico, beneath tall pillars of classic neo-Romanesque architecture of the Royal Exchange building. At the top of Doric and Ionic columns with their ornate stonework, designed by Sir William Tite in 1842-1844 and opened in 1844 by Queen Victoria). It’s the third building of the kind erected on the same site. The first Exchange erected in 1564-70 by sir Thomas Gresham but was destroyed in the great fire of 1666. It’s successor, by Jarman, was also burned down in 1838. The present building is grade 1 listed and cost about £150,000.
    city_people05-20-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Strangers to and fro in a sunny City of a London street corner. Businessmen walk during lunchtime, in conversation with associates and strangers in their own space. In an almost cinematic moment of street corner life, we see reflected light from nearby plate glass office buildings that fill in shadows and darker places in the capital's financial heart - the City of London, known as the Square Mile, founded by the Romans in AD43.
    city_people01-15-04-2014.jpg
  • Businessmen bring back takeaway lunches, walking past the construction hoarding belonging to Claridges in Mayfair, Westminster. Having collected their takeaways from the nearby Benugos chain, they have brown bags containing their lunches and they walk in step with each other. pass the image of railings, flowers and red brickwork - all fake - printed on to the temporary hoarding.
    claridges_hoarding04-01-04-2014.jpg
  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR. MAG provides a permanent camp for each team so that members can stay together during their three weeks on site. UCT6 spend time together after work washing themselves, their clothes and chatting together back at the camp in Ban Namoune village.
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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR.  MAG provides a permanent camp for each team so that members can stay together during their three weeks on site. UCT6 spend time together after work washing themselves, their clothes and chatting together back at the camp in Ban Namoune village.
    A0012142cc_1_1.jpg
  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed province in Lao PDR.  UCT6 team leader, Manixia Thor and a technician relax after work at the camp. MAG provides a permanent camp for each clearance team so that members can stay together during their three weeks on site.
    A0012132cc_1_1.jpg
  • Using techniques developed over thousands of years, a portrait of traditional thatchers with straw for a barn roof in Suffolk, England. In England a ridge will normally last 10–15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates. Thatch is still the choice of affluent people who desire a rustic look for their home or who have purchased an originally thatched abode.
    thatching02-16-08-1993_1.jpg
  • Two old friends regularly spend afternoons sunbathing at Brixton Lido and talk of old times in the sun. The friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido_men01-25-08-1995_1.jpg
  • British and French customs officials shake hands during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side. As proof of Anglo-french relations between the two European states, an Entente Cordiale exists in this theatrical joke about bureaucracy between France and Britain. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
    anglo_french_90s-01-12-1990_1.jpg
  • Two women seen in close-up while shopping in Knightsbridge.
    women_shoppers01-04-04-1993_1_1.jpg
  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, traditional thatchers work together in afternoon sun. While in the background new straw is brought up onto the roof while in the foreground another thatcher leans into the ladder and the roof’s slope. Using a thatching tool called a Leggett, Legate, bat or dresser to position the thatch on the roof. Typically one end is treated so as to catch the ends of the reed used. This tool is used by the thatcher to dress the reed into place and ensure an even finish. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10–15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
    thatchers02-16-08-1993_1_1.jpg
  • Surgeons performs open heart surgery during a procedure at the private Health Care International hospital in 1994, Glasgow, Scotland. Forceps and scissors and other various implements necessary for efficient medical practice as the masked and gowned doctors, consultants and assisting nurses concentrate on the work in hand, the saving of a human life.
    surgical_operation-20-05-1994_1_1.jpg
  • A traditional band of Morris Men dance outside the ancient Christian church of St. Botolph’s without Bishopsgate in the City of London on St George's Day. Wearing white uniforms they jig their traditional dance, a form of English folk dance accompanied by accordion and pipes. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers. Implements such as sticks, swords, and handkerchiefs may also be wielded by the dancers. In a small number of dances for one or two men, steps are performed near and across a pair of clay tobacco pipes laid across each other on the floor. English records of Morris dancing date back to 1448. The church may have survived the Great Fire of London unscathed, and only lost one window in the Second World War, but on 24 April 1993 was one of the many buildings to be damaged by an IRA bomb.
    st_georges_day14-23-04-2009_1_1.jpg
  • Wealthy punters with bottles of empty Champagne laid out enjoy a morning car park party on grass, hours before the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot55-19-06-2013_1.jpg
  • Formally-dressed gentlemen arrive at the racecourse during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot24-19-06-2013_1.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London. Standing beneath the main members' entrance of the Gothic tower, the two policemen talk outside the Palace of Westminster where the British Government meets and weilds its poeer. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their business. It is therefore a potent symbol for British Governmental power.
    met_police4-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London. Standing beneath the main members' entrance of the Gothic tower, the two policemen talk outside the Palace of Westminster where the British Government meets and weilds its poeer. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their business. It is therefore a potent symbol for British Governmental power.
    met_police3-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London. Standing beneath the main members' entrance of the Gothic tower, the two policemen talk outside the Palace of Westminster where the British Government meets and weilds its poeer. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their business. It is therefore a potent symbol for British Governmental power.
    met_police1-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Lifeguards in the seaside resort of Lowestoft practise the recovery position and resuscitation to a volunteer seaside victim. Lying on the smooth sand near the water's edge, a young man wearing a wetsuit lies pretending to be unconscious, having ingested sea water and requiring immediate treatment by the staff, well-versed in saving lives. As one starts chest compressions, the other holds on the mouth before continuing mouth-to-mouth. Passing time is vital if they are to start a heart and get air into the brain.
    lifeguard_exercise-19-07-1993.jpg
  • Four friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Bare except for their costumes, they stretch and yawn, read a newspaper and lean against a railing all the while swapping anecdotes and complaining grumpily about the state of the world near a brick wall that retains heat. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido_summer04-25-08-1995.jpg
  • Libyan nationals and diplomatic staff celebrate on the steps outside their London embassy in Knightsbridge, central London on 20/10/11, reacting to the death earlier in Sirte of the dictator Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, on the day his 42 year rule over Libya came to an official end.
    libyan_celebrations2-20-10-2011.jpg
  • Volunteer Guardian Angels patrol the London underground in central London, an experiment in anti-crime in late-80s London. Three members of the Angels mess about at street level, outside a London underground station. The Angels are under the supervision of the organisation's creator Curtis Sliwa, who started the band of youths to help make New York a safer place, - and in London's case in an era before CCTV made travel less secure. The Guardian Angels is a non-profit international volunteer organization of unarmed citizen crime patrollers. The Guardian Angels organization was founded February 13, 1979 in New York City by Curtis Sliwa and has chapters in 15 countries and 144 cities around the world. Sliwa originally created the organization to combat widespread violence and crime on the New York City Subways.
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  • Two shipbuilders chat beneath the heavy lifting cranes at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the two men in the foreground and those behind, wear bright yellow hard hats, protecting them from steel edges and rusting machinery. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
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  • Boeing employees beneath company 787 Dreamliner (N787BX) at the Farnborough Airshow. On its first flight outside of the US during its testing programme, the newest airliner in the Boeing aviation family, has arrived at the air show for a few days of exhibitions to the aerospace-buying community and the trade press. Later the public will have the chance to see this jet up close too. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a long range, mid-sized, wide-body, twin-engine  jet airliner developed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It seats 210 to 330 passengers, depending on variant. Boeing states that it is the company's most fuel-efficient airliner and the world's first major airliner to use composite materials for most of its construction
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  • A theatrical joke about bureaucracy between French and British comedians at an event to mark the opening of the Channel Tunnel produces this quirky scene where each country's officials are seated at a long table, dressed in British flags, to symbolise the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age. Wearing smart uniforms, French immigration police and Gendarmes sit among British customs and immigration officials who, rather comically wear yellow hard hats because Health and Safety laws make the wearing of protective headgear compulsory on construction sites. A frontier control point notice stands for the benefit of viewers who might otherwise be guessing what is going on.
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  • Large arrows coloured red, green and yellow point north, west and east - or up, right and left - in three directions, to offer directions to seminars for Ernst & Young staff during their annual Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The people are either confidently pacing forward, standing still to seek guidance or simply spontaneously emerging from the shadows to a brighter future, a moment when freedom of choice is offered and the road ahead dictates their fate. It is a scene of corporate theate and each employee will attend this fair where pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and motivational gurus talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • A motivational guru is standing on a podium to address an audience of Ernst & Young staff during their annual Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. Standing confidently on his rostrum with a laptop computer, bottled water and a pyramid as teaching aids, he holds his hand to encourage the personnel to participate by offering their ideas and input dring the seminar. Each employee attending this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • Walking friends enjoy a rest on benches at an outdoor cafe in Epping Forest, Essex, England. Gathered on bench seats and wrapped up against a Spring chill, the people sit with foam cups of tea, talking next to another person whose pet American Staffordshire Terrier is on a lead. The outdoor cafe is in a car park inside Epping Forest, an area of ancient woodland in south-east England, straddling the border between north-east Greater London and Essex. It covers 2,476 hectares and contains areas of woodland, grassland, heath, rivers, bogs and ponds - popular with families and more serious walkers.
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  • 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.
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  • Two men walk past a fashion poster showing a fashion boy and girl and St Paul's Cathedral. The stylish boys walk together along a street in the capital, where the billboards replace the windows of a soon-to-open retail business. The models are the epitome of youth and happiness, with the backdrop of the capital's famous landmark.
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  • Young businessmen drink and chat outside a City of London pub during a warm lunchtime in Broadgate. With pint glasses lined up on the wall, the suits talk business informally in spring sunshine.
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  • An aerial view of city of London businessmen (and one lady) using the opportunity for business lunches at three tables outside in the city complex known as Broadgate Circle, an eighties development of offices and trading institutions. The three tables each have crisp white table cloths, cutlery and plates and green bottles of Perrier mineral water, rather than alcohol.
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  • Four associates celebrate a successful day's business by treating themselves to a lunchtime bottle of white wine amid the scenes of prosperity and wealth of early 90s Britain. At their feet in the bay window are the fruits of a buoyant economy - Magnums of and jeroboams of Champagne to help revel in the success of the era. This is the City of London, the heart of the capital's financial district where money is earned in great quantities and commodities traded in their millions. The commissions are huge and lunchtimes are extravagant.
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  • As two city office workers walk briskly towards the viewer, we also see an artwork, a series of statues of commuting people are also striding as one, making their homeward journeys. The two gentlemen however appear to be taking a lunchtime break from their desk jobs and carrying sports holdalls with the 90s sports brand Head, are probably on their way to any number of city-based gyms. They look successful and wealthy, products of a healthy economy and a business culture of bonuses and high prospects of affluence whereas the statues lend a feeing of suppression and the treadmill of their anonymous daily lives as if they were part of some Orwellian society.
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  • Volunteers rest between canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. London 2012 volunteers are called ‘Games Makers’, as they are helping to make the Games happen. Up to 70,000 Games Makers take on a wide variety of roles across the venues: from welcoming visitors; to transporting athletes; to helping out behind the scenes in the Technology team to make sure the results get displayed as quickly and accurately as possible. Games Makers come from a diverse range of communities and backgrounds, from across the UK and abroad. The vast majority are giving up at least 10 days to volunteer during the Games.
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  • City workers carry office possessions including computer hard drives and files that were damaged by the IRA bomb that devastated the City of London's Bishopsgate area in 1993. Allowed to return to their desks to recover their data and working paperwork, they walk through the ancient streets en route to new emergency office elsewhere in the capital. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Repair costs reached approx £350 million. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church.
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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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  • With thousands of employees in the capitals financial district still working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, other City workers enjoy a socially distanced lunch beneath the Swiss Re building aka the Gherkin, on 29th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs have now re-opened and staff working under cover outside the riverside Trafalgar Tavern, a pub on the Thames at Greenwich, serve customers wearing required face shields, on 5th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs have now re-opened and staff working under cover outside the riverside Trafalgar Tavern, a pub on the Thames at Greenwich, serve customers wearing required face shields, on 5th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs have now re-opened and staff working under cover outside the riverside Trafalgar Tavern, a pub on the Thames at Greenwich, serve customers wearing required face shields, on 5th July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Greenwich-09-05-07-2020.jpg
  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs have now re-opened and staff working under cover outside the riverside Trafalgar Tavern, a pub on the Thames at Greenwich, serve customers wearing required face shields, on 5th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy drinks in summer sunshine outside the Swiss Re building aka The Gherkin, in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy drinks in summer sunshine beneath the Swiss Re building aka The Gherkin, in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy a tranquill lunchtime high above the City on the rooftop garden at Fen Court in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy drinks in summer sunshine beneath the Swiss Re building aka The Gherkin, in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy drinks in summer sunshine beneath the Swiss Re building aka The Gherkin, in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Lunchtime crowds eat takeaways in summer sunshine in Leadenhall in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 10th July 2019, in London England.
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  • City businessmen walk past the sculpture entitled City Wing on Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 17th June 2019, in London, England. This ten-metre-tall bronze sculpture is by President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun, commissioned by Hammerson in 2009. ‘The City Wing’ and has been cast by Morris Singer Art Founders, reputedly the oldest fine art foundry in the world.
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