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  • A Stop / Go banksman dressed in a high-vis suit stands on a public road for oncoming traffic

  • At a road junction, contractors drag cables along underground channels in Railton Road, Brixton.

  • Contractor inspects underground cabling within manhole in a London street.

  • BT workmen attend to repairs or maintenance on a street pavement while a jogger nearby stretches his hamstrings on a railing.

  • Blurred passengers pass a workman occupies a small fence during works on the concourse by the platforms in Waterloo station.

  • Scaffolding equipment and flower bed during renovation work at a block of flats in the property's garden.

  • A building worker bends and attends to a panel while converting a high-street shop in London's Covent Garden.

  • Workmen clear away sexist ad posters lie on a London street after being removed from a refurbished shop construction site.

  • Street sweeper echoes Venice gondoleer on hoarding of Credit Suisse-sponsored Canaletto exhibition, National Gallery.

  • Maintenance work is carried out in a London estate with statue artwork taped-off.

  • Incongruously odd landscape of traffic cones, striped tape and urban trees on construction site.

  • Roadworks and construction fencing in London's Chinatown with paper lanterns hanging in background before Moon Festival.

  • Construction crew grind at the road surface surrounded by diagonals of red and white stripes of their works site.

  • Temporary masking tape sticking works project plastic tape in London's Southbank.

  • Three pedestrian signs show differing directions for passers-by in London's Cannon Street during pavement refurbishment.

  • Workman bends into hole behind industrial screen in Florence street.

  • Roadworks and hole dug in central London.

  • Southbank festival display with western tools propped up against showing Indian worker from developing world.

  • London contractor workmen close construction site screens, showing a new development at Leicester Square for 2012.

  • Two contractors lay fresh paving stones from behind protective street health & safety barriers.

  • Construction work by McAlpine makes for an incongruous landscape in Victoria Street, London. Sir Robert McAlpine is a leading UK building and civil engineering company. It carries out engineering and construction for the oil and gas, petrochemical, power generation, nuclear, pharmaceutical, defence, chemical, water and mining industries. The company was founded in 1869 by Sir Robert McAlpine, who was known as "Concrete Bob".

  • Roadworks connected to the Crossrail construction project at Tottenham Court Road, central London.

  • Real passing construction worker and a scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways during street improvements in Victoria, central London.

  • Workman carries construction fencing panel past bending maintenance man in Trafalgar Square.

  • Construction barrier and Libyan postal stamp mural image.

  • Construction workers in Central Hong Kong carry on working during a monsoonal rain shower on the last day of British rule.

  • Businessman with corporate umbrella passes beneath a new construction project in London's financial district, the Square Mile.

  • Red and white striped construction barrier and artwork of an eco leaf created by contractor Galliford Try in central LOndon. Galliford Try was been selected by Green Property (UK) Ltd for a £27 million project, to create 100,000 sq ft of Category A office space in St James's Park.

  • Construction hoarding and London cityscape showing the capital at The Pinnacle project on Bishopsgate in the City of London. Construction work has been suspended again on the Pinnacle in the City of London. Contractor Brookfield is understood to have been told to stop work following more funding concerns over the Square Mile's tallest tower. Brookfield restarted work last September after developer Arab Investments put together a new finance package. But a lack of a pre-let tenant has now caused further delays on site leaving Byrne Bros concrete cores standing idle. The Bishopsgate Tower, informally referred to as The Pinnacle, was to be a 288 m (945 ft), 64-storey skyscraper in the centre of London's main financial district.

  • National Grid gas works van and passers-by in the busy Oxford Circus in central London.

  • The large construction project known as the Pinnacle, on Bishopsgate in the financial City of London. Construction work has been suspended again on the Pinnacle in the City of London. Contractor Brookfield is understood to have been told to stop work following more funding concerns over the Square Mile's tallest tower. Brookfield restarted work last September after developer Arab Investments put together a new finance package. But a lack of a pre-let tenant has now caused further delays on site leaving Byrne Bros concrete cores standing idle. The Bishopsgate Tower, informally referred to as The Pinnacle, was to be a 288 m (945 ft), 64-storey skyscraper in the centre of London's main financial district.

  • An excavator and aspirational poster on wall during building of 2012 Olympic Westfield City shopping centre, Stratford. A glamorous woman representing the good times - wealth and beauty and the symbols of affluence - while the working Man is seen small in comparison, the downtrodden Man. 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..

  • Construction workman and tourists beneath renaissance art poster in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. .

  • London's Southbank Festival of the World designs being stuck to concrete underpass wall.

  • Workmen shovel unknown materials inside screened work area above Men at Work sign.

  • A reproduction of the painting called 'Portrait of Francesco I de' Medici ' which was painted by Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino in 1551, now adorns a construction hoarding screen, with plastic blue piping in a Florence side street, the original hanging in the Uffizi. Born in Florence, he was the son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo, and served as regent for his father starting in 1564. He went on to become grand Duke of Tuscany and marry his Venetian mistress, Bianca Cappello, after aptly disposing of her husband, a Florentine bureaucrat. Francesco and Bianca died on the same day. Although the original death certificates mention malaria, it has been widely speculated that the couple was poisoned.

  • Artwork of electricity power cables and their shadows on a house wall.

  • A Portaloo is closed off near railway arches in a central London street

  • UK Power Networks laying high-voltage cable in central London with reflective corporate backdrop behind.

  • Workman feeds yellow plastic tubing through an under pavement shaft to clear blockage beneath round pastry post ad..

  • Coils of plastic cable casings and roadworks signs all tidied away behind fencing in a south London side street, Southwark.

  • James Bond and fantasy theme characters' faces from "Rise of the Guardians" in London's Leicester Square. The DreamWorks production is a 2012 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film by Joyce and Reel FX.

  • Worker with contractor company Cousins paints metalwork within coned and taped-off site area in the financial City of London.

  • Construction workers and large blue panel in London street.

  • A construction site workman passes an item to his colleague by yellow temporary container offices.

  • Workmen and new apartments in a block developed by Skanska in Coldharbour Lane in Camberwell, Lambeth, South London

  • Pavement repairs and pedestrian signs in the City of London

  • Construction workers on site behind barrier fencing beneath cartoon character in Wardour Street, London.

  • Workmen carefully take a hired dumpster through London's Leicester Square in front the M&Ms retail outlet.

  • Construction fencing among the historical Victorian headstones of Bunhill Fields cemetery in the City of London.

  • Next to a freshly-dug grave covered with traffic bollards is a recent plot for a boy n Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.

  • A sawn-off tree trunk is left on the pavement, taped up for health & safety reasons near progress of new car park architecture.

  • Surveyor dressed in orange high-vis suit stands outside Soho sex bookshop.

  • A construction site's hoarding has arrows that point toward the company banksman who acts as watchman and security guard.

  • Engineering struts await use on a City of London construction site.

  • The sign for an Assembly Point is on a white wall, cracked and unsafe near a construction site.

  • Construction safety sheeting with plain tree shadow at a Skanska building project in Finsbury Circus.

  • Removals workmen position a prop into a West End theatre while partially blocking pavement to pedestrians on Charing Cross Rd.


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An ongoing theme (started in May 2010) about the incongruity of roadworks, of disruption, health & safety and urban signage.
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