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  • An Aerospatiale SA365N Dauphin II offshore helicopter (reg number G-BKXD) operated by Bond Helicopters takes-off from a gas platform in the Irish Sea bound for its base at Blackpool, England. On duty ferrying offshore gas workers from Morcambe Bay, England, the helicopter flies off into a pink sky as darkness approaches. Left behind are the lights that illuminate the deck of the gas rig, the letter H beneath the facilities' netting. Bond Offshore Helicopters are a British Helicopter operator, specialising in providing offshore helicopter transportation services between Aberdeen, Scotland, Blackpool, Norwich and Humberside to North Sea and Irish Sea oil and gas platforms.
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  • A wide landscape of mudflats at low-tide at Leigh-on-sea, Essex.
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  • A wide landscape of mudflats at low-tide at Leigh-on-sea, Essex.
    leigh_on_sea04-06-12-2015.jpg
  • Someone's pet spaniel is enjoying the smell of another dog's faeces that has been deposited on the pavement at Newbiggin-by-the-sea in Northumberland, northern England. Using its wet nose to test its acute sense of smell, the spaniel shows great curiosity in another animals crap that has been left by the other animal's owner, rather than be collected and placed in a dog poo receptacle. The irony is that there is graffiti on the sea wall of this seaside town. The mis-spelled words 'England For Ever' have been sprayed in aerosol on the wall and we see someone's idea of a utopian England and another's lowered standards where the fouling of a public pavement is seen as acceptable.
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  • Beachcombers explore pools at low-tide on the estuary at Wells-next-the-Sea in Nofolk.
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  • A seascape of a bold yellow line on Southend Pier, the world's longest at a mile and a quarter, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-16-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A crumpled newspaper on Southend Pier, the world's longest at a mile and a quarter, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-15-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A seascape of a bold yellow line on Southend Pier, the world's longest at a mile and a quarter, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-17-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A wedding group stand on a grey day on Southend Pier, the world's longest at a mile and a quarter, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-18-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A crumpled newspaper on Southend Pier, the world's longest at a mile and a quarter, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-14-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Three seats awaiting musicians before a local village concert at Wells-next-the-Sea in Nofolk.
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  • A rusting First Aid container hut and a telescope pointing to the sky instead of the sea, on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-12-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Hovering seagulls hoping for chips on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-39-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A seascape looking towards the Thames estuary, with an Emergency telephone on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-02-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A seascape looking towards the Thames estuary, with an Emergency telephone on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-01-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A seascape of a seafront business hut on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-03-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A seascape of a seafront business hut and resting gull on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-04-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A 50p a go telescope looking out to the Thames estuary, on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-06-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A blank board outside a pub in Leigh-on-sea, Essex.
    leigh_on_sea06-06-12-2015.jpg
  • Seafood and shellfish on boards in Leigh-on-sea, Essex.
    leigh_on_sea02-06-12-2015.jpg
  • A derelict business about to be redeveloped in Leigh-on-sea, Essex.
    leigh_on_sea08-06-12-2015.jpg
  • A blank board outside a pub in Leigh-on-sea, Essex.
    leigh_on_sea07-06-12-2015.jpg
  • Seafood and shellfish on boards in Leigh-on-sea, Essex.
    leigh_on_sea03-06-12-2015.jpg
  • A business undergoes change with a new owner in Leigh-on-sea, Essex.
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  • The Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, perform their public display over a landscape of the Thames estuary mud.
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  • A lone Tornado jet fighter arcs across a typically overcast sky at Southend-on-Sea on a Bank Holiday Sunday. Well-defined figures of children and adults either play nonchalantly on the beach at low tide, or watch in awe as the aircraft thunders over the Thames Estuary mud. A few stranded yachts stand upright in the low water and a groyne stretches out to sea towards the Kent coast, seen in the distance. It is a bleak and depressingly empty scene and the jet is merely a dot in the grey English sky, traditionally familiar summer weather. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
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  • A fisherman from the Maldives clubs to death a yellow fin tuna on the deck of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. Using a handmade instrument of death, carved from beach flotsam, the man raises his hands to again bring the club down on the dying fish whose skull has already been smashed by repeated blows. Next it will be gutted efficiently with sharp knives and immediately plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
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  • Two young girls fly through the air on a fairground ride at Treasure Island ammusement park on the sea front at Southend-on-Sea, Essex England.
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  • Aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, a father and son are practicing wearing life-preservers during the first few hours of their voyage from Miami around the Gulf of Mexico. They and every passenger on-board are being instructed by members of the ship's crew to muster (gather) in specific locations around the vessel before heading further out to sea. Under international law, everyone on a holiday ship like this needs to know what do in the event of an emergency at sea so well-organised drills are rehearsed on deck. The baby looks uncomfortable wrapped in his life vest but sucks on a pacifier dummy. The father looks relaxed in the knowledge that their lives are not risk on this occasion. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew belonging to Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines.
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  • Half-way across the Gulf of Mexico, between Miami and Cancun in Mexico, two of Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy's female passengers are at a small circular pool on the Sun Deck to enjoy the first few days sailing on the tropical seas. The two girl friends frolic around the poolside exposing, tanned skin under a baking hot tropical sun at its zenith, directly overhead at mid-day. Carnival's ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment, calling its vessels Fun Ships. The young lady in the pool wears a bikini featuring a patriotic Stars and Stripes and cups her hands to coax her friend to too but she sits reluctantly on the edge. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping.
    carnival_pool_girls05-07-1996.jpg
  • With blood and guts on the blue deck, a fisherman from the Maldives hoses down a yellow fin tuna on the floor of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. After clubbing it death, he has removed its respiratory organs with sharp knives and washes it down with a hose. Next it will be plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught (often weighing 50kg) before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
    maldives281-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Facing its own blood and guts on the blue deck, a yellow fin tuna is dead on the floor of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. After clubbing it death, fishermen from the Maldives have removed its respiratory organs with sharp knives and washes it down with a hose. Next it will be plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught (often weighing 50kg) before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
    maldives288-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Fishermen from the Maldives haul aboard a yellow fin tuna to the deck of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. The tuna has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth but after being dragged up with hooks, the 50kg fish will be clubbed to death by smashing its skull with repeated blows. Next it will be gutted efficiently with sharp knives and immediately plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
    maldives298-14-11-2007.jpg
  • A fisherman from the Maldives sits making a call on his mobile cell phone on the bow of a dhoni boat which heads along on a calm Indian Ocean. After a hard day's fishing he gazes forward to open sea where an almost uninterrupted view of sea and horizon is seen beyond except for a small island is faintly in view. Even small remote atoll communites in the Maldives have strong phone signals and many also have good Wi-Fi connections. He and his crew have been catching Yellow Fin Tuna in the seas north of the capital Male in this Islamic Republic. Their catch is for export to the EU and in particular, the UK's supermarkets. There is no limit and no obvious destination, just infinity and the thought of tomorrow.
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  • Half-way across the Gulf of Mexico, between Miami and Cancun in Mexico, Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy's passengers are on the Sun deck to enjoy the first few days sailing on the tropical seas. One of the ship's photographers has passed around a ship's circular life ring buoy through which one busty blonde lady has posed for a photograph and is about to pass it on to her nearest neighbour. She is wearing a garish pink and yellow bikini and is holding the life-saving device so that only her breasts are showing, obscuring her face. We see the name of the ship, Ecstasy, around the ring and the plastic ropes are falling on the lady's cleavage, forming circles around her bosoms. In the background, another cruise traveller (traveler) wears a straw sun hat and is also sitting on a blue sun lounger. We see exposed, tanned skin and it looks baking hot with the tropical sun at its zenith, directly overhead at mid-day. Carnival was a pioneer in the concept of cheaper and shorter cruises. Its ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The line calls its ships The Fun Ships. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping. After Hurricane Katrina, she spent six months in New Orleans serving as quarters for refugees and relief workers. She suffered heavy damage in 1998 after the laundry room in the ship's stern caught fire damaging much of her stern and aft section.
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  • Setting off at dawn from a jetty to fish for Yellow Fin Tuna aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
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  • Members of the public watch the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team at Southend Air show.
    Red_Arrows187_RBA.jpg
  • Members of the public watch the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team at Southend Air show.
    Red_Arrows186_RBA.jpg
  • Soon after setting sail from Miami, en-route to Cancun in Mexico, passengers of Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy liner are told to report on the top sun deck for the obligatory safety drill. Told to fetch their life vests from their respective cabins and suites, they have gathered at various muster points around the vessel to hear the crews' instructions about abandoning ship or the precuations needed to enter the water. We look down from a higher deck to see several dozen tourists on red vests, milling around awaiting the signal to return to their previous activities and entertainment. Operators like US-owned Carnival take these drills very seriously. Carnival was a pioneer in the concept of cheaper and shorter cruises. Its ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The cruise line calls its ships The Fun Ships and the MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping. After Hurricane Katrina, she spent six months in New Orleans serving as quarters for refugees and relief workers. She suffered heavy damage in 1998 after the laundry room in the ship's stern caught fire damaging much of her stern and aft section.
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  • Whilst on a cruise aboard the Fun Ship Ecstasy during a voyage from Miami around the Gulf of Mexico, passengers enjoy a sexual game on deck beneath a strong tropical sun. Male contestants have lined up to be inspected by a blindfolded lady wearing a swim suit and painted nails who is required to identify her own husband by feeling his lower body and torso. Howls of laughter emit from the other men as the lady realises that this is indeed her own spouse who stands on a chair, his bulging crotch at chest height. She smiles to herself, still blind beneath a towel and the moment is funny enough for all to enjoy a happy hour of organised entertainment on deck. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew belonging to Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines.
    carnival_cruises02-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • As the Statten Island ferry nears the business district and skyscrapers of Manhattan Island, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) police officer stands guard at the very front (the bow) of the boat. It is approximately ten days after the 9/11 attacks and with pistol safely holstered and arms folded, he can see the settling dust from Ground Zero beyond the safety chain, where the Twin Towers once stood. It is a bright day and behind the policeman, commuters are already returning to work because normality is a priority for those affected by disruption and fear.
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  • A detail of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', a boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
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  • A detail of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', a boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-13-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A low-tide landscape of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', an boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-16-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A low-tide landscape of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', an boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-15-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A detail of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', a boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-12-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A detail of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', a boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-11-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A detail of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', a boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-10-10-09-2019.jpg
  • An elderly couple sleep on a sheltered bench on the promenade at the southern English resort of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
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  • A landscape of assorted boats and estuary vessels at low-tide at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The land to the right is Two tree Island, a marshland nature reservebetween Leigh and Canvey Island.
    estuary_walk-19-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of assorted boats and estuary vessels at low-tide at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The land to the right is Two tree Island, a marshland nature reservebetween Leigh and Canvey Island.
    estuary_walk-18-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of assorted boats and estuary vessels at low-tide at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-08-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of assorted boats and estuary vessels at low-tide at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-07-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A mother holds her 3 year-old son during summer time in the early 1960s. Looking up from a low angle, see see the mother and her young son in sunlight, made dark by underexposure of the film, recorded on a camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The mast and rigging of a small boat can be seen behind so they must be at the seaside, near from where they live in Southend-on-Sea in Essex. The sky is a deep blue and the shapes on their heads almost merge with the background. It was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A young boy of about 5 years-old stands on a seaside bridge as an older man walks past in the early 1960s. Seen from a low angle, we look up at the small boy standing on some steps of a bridge on the seafront at Southend-on-Sea in Essex, recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • Young girls enjoy the beach on the seafront at Southend, on 29th July 2002, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • Ice cream cones on sale at a cafe in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • Ice cream cones on sale at a cafe in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • Two elderly ladies walk along the promenade where a single yacht sits upright in low-tide estuary mud at Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • Traditional seafront holiday trinket and seaside memento shop doorway on Pier Hill at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
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  • Landscape of the Forresters Pub, a long-standing business featuring 'exotic dancing ladies' on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
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  • A cartoon character promoting chips outside the now vacant Britannia pub on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
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  • A family enjoy a hot day in their beach hut on the seafront at Southend, on 29th July 2002, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • Details of a small yacht on sale on the Thames estuary at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-09-10-09-2019.jpg
  • Two elderly ladies walk along the promenade where a single yacht sits upright in low-tide estuary mud at Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-01-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of a single yacht sitting upright in low-tide estuary mud at Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-03-10-09-2019.jpg
  • Before the area was completely redeveloped with a pleasure fairground, 1990s sunbathers stretch out on bare grass on the seafront that still shows its heyday landscape, on 2nd August 1993, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    southend_landscape-02-08-1993.jpg
  • Traditional seafront holiday trinket and seaside memento shop on Pier Hill at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-19-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Exterior of Fish and Chip restaurant, Neptunes on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-22-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Tired sikh gentlemen rest outside an ice cream parlour on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
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  • Landscape of the Forresters Pub, a long-standing business featuring 'exotic dancing ladies' on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-25-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Landscape of the Forresters Pub, a long-standing bar featuring 'exotic dancing ladies' on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-26-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Landscape of the Forresters Pub, a long-standing bar featuring 'exotic dancing ladies' on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-27-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A cartoon character promoting chips outside the now vacant Britannia pub on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-32-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Shutters of a closed beach concession are pulled down on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
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  • Food and drink choices outside a beach concession on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
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  • Locked and rusting back door outside a beach concession on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
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  • Young boy looks at reclining giant figure resembling Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput on Southend seafront.
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  • A portrait of a mother in her 41st year has been gathering heather in handfuls and holds up her young child who grins towards his father who is taking the picture at a park near the Essex seaside town of Southend. It is the summer of 1960 and the mum's dress is styled from the previous decade: blue with white spots and pearl necklace. She too is smiling as she grasps the flowers and her child on a warm day. Oddly, the boy looks as though he is wearing a girl's dress which may have been a hand-me-down from an older sibling or just the trend then.
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  • Locals await the next bus in a public transport bus shelter, St. Leonard's-on-Sea.
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  • A father climbs steps carrying a child's buggy with the face of Thomas The Tank, on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
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  • A boarded-up cafe with wonky shutters on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
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  • A banner telling customers a seedy cafe is still open, on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
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  • A family stand at railings watching shipping on the River Thames at Gravesend during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing at some railings, the two women and the young boy are looking out towards the River Thames at the Kent town just a few miles outside London. Here is shipping that is taking cargo to the capital in an era when the river still a main artery for goods brought from across the world into London. The picture was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family06-13-08-1962.jpg
  • A young woman holds the hand of her 5 year-old brother during a visit to London zoo in the early 1960s. Looking closely at a tame llama that has been hitched up to a harness and about to pull children for a short ride around the enclosures of London's zoo in Regents Park. It was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964.The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family09-13-08-1962.jpg
  • A lady smiles in a portrait near dodgem cars at the seaside during summer time in the early 1960s. The happy woman smiles to the film camera in a portrait on Southend Pier and recorded on a film camera by a relative, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family16-20-08-1962.jpg
  • A family walk along a town's side street during summer time in the early 1960s. A small boy is accompanied by his older sister who points at something in the distance, his mother wearing pearls behind and a family friend who holds his hand as the walk towards the town's new shopping precinct. The picture was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family05-13-08-1962.jpg
  • Family and friends sit on a rocking horse in a playground during summer time in the early 1960s. The portrait has been recorded on a film camera by the boy at the front's father, an amateur photographer in 1961. A man is holding on tight to a black and white pet sheepdog and two mothers chat on the right of the picture in this public park in Kent. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family14-15-03-1961.jpg
  • A mother and two teenage girls stand among heather in country field during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing in the naturally-growing heather in afternoon sunshine, the women and the young child are looking at the plants that they've just picked to show the youngster. Polka dots seem to be the fashion in this picture recorded on a film camera by the child's father, an amateur photographer in 1960. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A mother of 42 years of age holds her 1 year-old son among heather in country field during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing in naturally-growing heather in afternoon sunshine, the mum and the young child are looking at plants, her polka dot dress seems to be the fashion in this picture recorded on a film camera by the child's father, an amateur photographer in 1960. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • Two fishermen return to their home port of Tarbert on the western Scottish Mull of Kintyre. Looking towards the quay that will receive their boat called Prospector and where they are to unload their catch of shrimp, one man is the skipper and he steers the vessel from the wheelhouse while his partner at sea, wears chest-high waders and matching rubber gloves that can handle fish and sea creatures they drag up from the Atlantic waters. The boat has its identifying letters and number on its hull TT25 as well as on the life-ring it carries by law. The men probably support their families and so are the breadwinners - their livelihoods dependent of fisheries policy and EU quotas that dictate how much they're allowed to catch per day/per week. But they are safe after a period at sea and appear happy to have returned with a catch to sell.
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  • A life belt hangs on a cross-shaped post, all painted a vivid red as the sun sinks down below the horizon and beyond the historic Bamburgh Castle, in Northumberland, northern England. Lit with a strong off-camera flash we see the slightly blurred device, invented for saving lives at sea, with a ghostly corona around its form, against a fading blue sky. The rope dangles near the ground, around which the grasses of the dunes blow in a faint breeze. Only the foreground is lit by the flash and the distant castle building and shoreline. We see such equipment and imagine safety and rescue and also jeopardy and hazards at sea. Supplied for those taking risks and making stupid decisions makes these items essential on coastal areas.
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  • Writer, essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton leans against the wheel of a traditional dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean.
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  • Soon to arrive in the English port of Portsmouth from Cherbourg, the first of its routes, we see the SeaCat leaving its watery wake in the English Channel. Hoverspeed Great Britain is a 74 metre long, ocean-going catamaran built in 1990 by Incat for the UK company Hoverspeed. It is powered by four 20RK270 marine engines with a 7080 kW at 100% Maximum Continuous Rating (MCR). The engines were built at the Newton-le-Willows site which at the time was part of the Alstom group. Since then it has been bought by MAN B&W Germany and the site was closed and production transferred to nearby Mirrlees Blackstone site. Hoverspeed, formed in 1981 by the merger of Seaspeed and Hoverlloyd, was a ferry and hovercraft company that operated on the English Channel from 1981 until 2005.
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  • A Maldivian crewman uses a mobile phone after a day's tuna fishing aboard a dhoni fishing boat in a remote area of Indian Ocean
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  • Using binoculars to sight yellow fin tuna on the upper deck aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean, Maldives
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  • Maldivian crewmen arrive home late after a day's yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
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  • A Maldivian crew rest before a day's yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
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  • A Maldivian crewman eats after a day's yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
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  • A Maldivian crew rest before a day's yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
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