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  • London's empty Goodge Street with traffic direction arrows are seen outside the derelict Middlesex Hospital building whose windows are boarded up with plywood.
    window_plywood01-14-07-2007.jpg
  • Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, an optometrist's business remains open (like the eye illustration at the frontage) but it is boarded up with plywood with the words Open as Usual painted by hand. Debris has been swept up on the pavement awaiting collection but the scene is otherwise as it should. But one person was killed when the one-ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church on 24th April 1993. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office and retail space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million. It was possibly the (IRA's) most successful military tactic since the start of the Troubles.
    bomb_damage-26-04-1993.jpg
  • A boarded up central London mini cab business on a Holborn street corner.
    street_corner02-22-11-2012.jpg
  • Desaturated image of boarded up central London mini cab business and an End of works sign on street corner.
    no_work_cc01-22-11-2012.jpg
  • A boarded up central London mini cab business and an End of works triangle sign on a Holborn corner.
    no_work03-22-11-2012.jpg
  • A boarded up central London mini cab business and an End of works triangle sign on a Holborn corner.
    no_work01-22-11-2012.jpg
  • Desaturated image of boarded up central London mini cab business and an End of works sign on street corner.
    no_work_cc02-22-11-2012.jpg
  • A boarded up central London mini cab business and an End of works triangle sign on a Holborn corner.
    no_work02-22-11-2012.jpg
  • A young girl dressed in a red coat and pink socks walks half-way along a bright yellow stretch of corrugated sheet metal that screens off a derelict block of flats in Toxteth, Liverpool, England. The flats' windows are also partly-boarded up in an area that saw serious rioting in 1981.  Toxteth is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside. It is located to the south of the city and is synonymous with social issues, degradation and poverty with some of the most underprivileged families in the UK. Recently many streets in the worst areas have been demolished  including Beatle Ringo Starr's childhood home.
    RB-0026.jpg
  • A boarded-up bookshop in Hackney, a few days after the London riots.
    hackney_business32-11-August-2011.jpg
  • A derelict Victorian house boarded-up with similar patterns to that of blanked off windows and door pediment.
    abandoned_housing02-12-04-2012.jpg
  • A middle-aged woman walks along a gloomy street in Toxteth, Liverpool, England. Passing a boarded-up greengrocer that probably once served the local community, the lady strides past its sealed window and the name of its past owner, obviously proud of her business' quality in an otherwise run-down area. Toxteth saw serious rioting in 1981 and the legacy of social-deprivation ever since meant a breakdown of law and order.  Used as the epitome of poor inner-city Britain, it is located to the south of the city and is synonymous with social issues, degradation and poverty with some of the most underprivileged families in the UK. Recently many streets in the worst areas have been demolished including a threat to Beatle Ringo Starr's childhood home.
    toxteth_woman-08-08-1991.jpg
  • An anonymous shop doorway and window has been boarded up with plyboard, identifying writing obscured with black paint in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    recession_business01-28-02-2013.jpg
  • An anonymous shop doorway and window has been boarded up with plyboard, identifying writing obscured with black paint in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    recession_business03-28-02-2013.jpg
  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, plyboard has sealed the windows and doors of Pasta Brown, an Italian restaurant near Covent Garden, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-37-22-04-2020.jpg
  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, plyboard has sealed the windows and doors of Pasta Brown, an Italian restaurant near Covent Garden, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-36-22-04-2020.jpg
  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, plyboard has sealed the windows and doors of Pasta Brown, an Italian restaurant near Covent Garden, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-35-22-04-2020.jpg
  • A passer-by walks beneath a derelict and soon-to-be demolished building in the London borough of Islington, near the City of London. The Tabernacle Business Centre has been earmarked for redevelopment by Allsop, the property consultancy, tasked with the demolition of this property. The entrance has already been ply-boarded up and closed for business.
    derelict_building01-17-12-2012.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, an elderly lady walks past the message "Tory Scum Out!" which has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-15-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, a workman walks past the message "Tory Scum Out!" which has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-07-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, the message "Tory Scum Out!" has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-02-26-05-2020.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, two east German women walk past a closed and decaying Pharmacy and photography business where a poster advertising a New Germany weekly newspaper has been attached to a rotting door, on 15th June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany (former DDR).
    90s_germany-15-06-1990.jpg
  • An unwanted necktie lies still knotted in a central London street.
    abandoned_tie01-22-11-2012.jpg
  • Neglected but expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    beach_hut11-25-07-2012.jpg
  • Neglected but expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    beach_hut10-25-07-2012.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, plyboard wraps a corner shrimp restaurant in Coventry Street near Piccadilly Circus, a closed business in the capital, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_west_end-13-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, it is expected that many shops and retail businesses will open again on 15th June and an abusive message about Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been written on plyboard of a closed business near Leicester Square in the capital, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_west_end-12-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, it is expected that many shops and retail businesses will open again on 15th June and an abusive message about Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been written on plyboard of a closed business near Leicester Square in the capital, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_west_end-11-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, an elderly lady walks past the message "Tory Scum Out!" which has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-14-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, a man walks past the message "Tory Scum Out!" which has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-13-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, an elderly man walks past the message "Tory Scum Out!" which has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-12-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, a cyclist passes the message "Tory Scum Out!" which has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-06-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, the message "Tory Scum Out!" has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-05-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, the message "Tory Scum Out!" has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-03-26-05-2020.jpg
  • A closed Bed and Breakfast business on Ramsgate's Marine Parade, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a 'Brexit Port' by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UK's exit from the EU. Britain's Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
    ramsgate-141-08-01-2019.jpg
  • A blurred cat walks past the rotting front door of a Victorian terraced house now dilapidated and abandoned on the streets of Toxteth. Toxteth is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside. It is located to the south of the city and is synonymous with social issues, degradation and poverty with some of the most underprivileged families in the UK. Recently many streets in the worst areas have been demolished including Beatle Ringo Starr's childhood home.
    liverpool_dereliction01-08-08-1991.jpg
  • Closed for winter tourist shed and post box at Lochbuie, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
    isle_of_mull21-18-11-2011.jpg
  • Girders strengthen exterior walls of the former Meyerstein Institute of Radio-Therapy, opened in 1938.
    hospital_scaffolding01-12-07-2010.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, an elderly man walks past the message "Tory Scum Out!" which has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-11-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, a workman walks past the message "Tory Scum Out!" which has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-08-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, the message "Tory Scum Out!" has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-09-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
and seen the day after the very unusual press conference by UK Prime Minister's special advisor Dominic Cummings about his breaking of lockdown rules, the message "Tory Scum Out!" has been written on plyboard on a closed business in Soho, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_soho-04-26-05-2020.jpg
  • After the weekend's violence aginst police by far-right groups protesting about Black Lives Matter campaign, and especially the daubing of anti-racist graffiti on the plinth below wartime British Prime Minister the week before, Sir Winston Churchill's statue remains boarded up and boxed in a quiet Parliament Square, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shops-03-15-06-2020.jpg
  • The shadows of tree branches across the boarded-up entrance of All Hallows, an inner-city church on Copperfield Street, on 30th January 2018, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. All Hallows Church Southwark was designed by George Gilbert Scott Junior and built in 1879-80 in Copperfield Street south of the river. The church suffered bomb damage on two occasions in WW2, in addition to being gutted by a landmine where it remained a relative ruin. It was not until 1957 that any attempt was made to salvage the bombed church, but due to the poor state of the surviving remains, the main structure and northern parts of the building had to be demolished.
    southwark-14-30-01-2018.jpg
  • A boarded-up derelict cafe that once served All Day Breakfasts, now on wasteland in Canning Town, Newham..
    electricity216-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Possessions and rubbish collects outside a repossessed Victorian terraced house in south London. In the foreground we see a For Sale sign strapped on the brick wall by local estate agents Burnet Ware & Graves in Herne Hill, Lambeth SE24. The front bay window has been sealed up with plyboard to stop squatters gaining entrance and the domestic remnants of evicted owners who have perhaps defaulted on their mortgage is thrown on the path - a scene of domestic poverty. As a result of the 1987 a stock market collapse, the UK economy experienced a downturn resulting in public services suffering a reduction, including the loss of owners' homes. The recession of the early 1990s describes the period of economic downturn affecting much of the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
    repossessed_house-08-11-1991.jpg
  • Breeze blocks have sealed up this window at Marshgate industrial estate, location for the 2012 Olympic village, Stratford, London England.
    stratford_2012-022-12-06-2007.jpg
  • Rusting corrugated iron sheeting and sprayed graffiti on wasteland in Canning Town, Newham, East London..
    electricity215-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • MDF board obscuring a blackboard advertising enterntainment in a closed pub on wasteland in  Canning Town, Newham..
    electricity226-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • A departures information board at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 is viewed by passengers who stands motionless to read the details of flight departure times to echo that of a Vodafone advertisement containing a tourist on a beach, a generic scene of a person on holiday taking advantage of low mobile phone charges in mainland Europe.  A finger from an unseen traveller points to a flight time and to ladies stand gazing up at the check-in guide that helps tell which is the check-in zone of this 400 metre-long terminal that has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ..
    heathrow_airport1649-24-08-2009.jpg
  • Looking down from above, we see one lone queuing traveller at Charles de Gaulle, gazes up towards the large Departures board. Fellow-passengers wait by baggage trolleys in a civilised line beneath the information. Charles de Gaulle/Roissy is a hub airport for Air France north of the French capital. The departures information has schedule times, destinations, flight, satellite and gate numbers plus   remarks. Air travellers experience such misery every day and shows of how global air travel has become a routine, mundane and stressful for the everyday airline passenger - a far cry from when commercial flight was purely for the elite. 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. .
    aviation_corbis29-27-07-2000.jpg
  • Largely American passengers re-join their cruise holiday voyage around the Gulf of Mexico during a day's stop-over in Cancun, Mexico. Reflected in the puddles of recent seasonal rain, they queue up on the port's quayside to have their identity passes checked before being allowed back on board the Fun Ship Ecstasy. Seen above them and in reflected in the water at their feet are some of the many windows and portholes of this enormous vessel belonging to the Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines company. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew whose routes are mainly around the Gulf and Carribean Sea.
    carnival_cruises03-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A menu of seminar room choices is placed near an entrance for those attending a counselling workshop held for employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. Words like 'Visualise, Captivate, Innovate and Expand' are listed vertically on a perspex board as well as directions to amenities such as the toilet and an 'Internet Touchdown.' Soon, seminar participants will arrive for a day's role-playing and brainstorming in classrooms named after these concepts. Encouraging the students to be inspired by these verbs.
    ernst+young_counsillors48-18-09-2007.jpg
  • A menu of seminar room choices is placed near an entrance for those attending a counselling workshop held for employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. Words like 'Visualise, Captivate, Innovate and Expand' are listed vertically on a perspex board as well as directions to amenities such as the toilet and an 'Internet Touchdown.' Soon, seminar participants will arrive for a day's role-playing and brainstorming in classrooms named after these concepts. Encouraging the students to be inspired by these verbs.
    ernst+young_counsillors48-18-09-2007.jpg
  • BBC warm-up man Miles Crawford holds up two boards prompting the audience watching the National Lottery Show to Clap or Laugh in BBC Television Centre in West London, England. Lit by studio lighting with a universe of stars in the background, Crawford is a respected and versatile stand-up comic and TV personality in his own right  working for the BBC, Sky, Channel 4 and ITV. Ironically, warm-ups perform a preliminary act before a TV show is recorded to literally warm an audience into non-spontaneous laughter to help a comedy's atmosphere - albeit with the help of prompt signs like these. The first National Lottery Live show was at 19:00 on Saturday 19 November 1994.
    RB_013-16-03-1996.jpg
  • 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
  • Looking up to the Nokia information screen and high roof of newly-opened London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building.
    heathrow_terminal_five-03-17-03-2008.jpg
  • Looking up to the Nokia information screen and high roof of newly-opened London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building.
    heathrow_terminal_five-02-17-03-2008.jpg
  • Looking up to the Nokia information screen and high roof of newly-opened London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building.
    heathrow_terminal_five-22-17-03-2008.jpg
  • High in the Nepali Himalayan foothills, travellers may be greeted by the welcoming relief of a group of mountain inns and hotels offering lodging to weary legs after many hours walking uphill in this gruelling landscape. Communities here partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing but also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers from all over the world walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. To be greeted by so much choice is the most rewarding experience and the offer of hot showers is about the best reward for so much exertion.
    nepal_travel2612-12_1997.jpg
  • A scene of busy modern air travel as international passengers check-in at the British Airways Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Under the gaze of a giant eye that seems to be peering from out of a massive TV screen, the self-service kiosks that have been developed to allow customers to process their own ticketing on arrival at this aviation hub for British Airways. Once they've chosen their seat and printed a boarding pass, they can go straight to the Fast Bag Drop desk at the airport. There, baggage will be tagged by an agent and sent to the aircraft. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
    heathrow_airport626-15-07-2009.jpg
  • A residents car parking sign still stands to deter others from leaving vehicles on an abandoned derelict estate near Bradford city centre. Boarded up windows and doors show there is no longer any residents or their cars.
    no_parking11-08-05-2009.jpg
  • A filthy alleyway in Toxteth, Liverpool amid socially-deprived streets and terraced housing. Graffiti of girls' names has been painted on to the brick wall of a tenement building but is now peeling off. Weeds have grown around the cobbled pavement and the windows are boarded up in a landscape of urban dereliction and social depravity.
    liverpool_dereliction07-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A businessman checks his messages in front of a partially-boarded up Thai food restaurant in the City of London.
    city_people04-09-12-2015.jpg
  • A boarded-up cafe with wonky shutters on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-07-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Two young women walk past a morale-boosting message written on plyboard of the boarded-up Garrick Arms pub on Charing Cross Road during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 20th August 2020, in London, England
    coronavirus_stay_strong01-20-08-2020.jpg
  • Walking past a boarded-up shop on a Liverpool street corner, a middle-aged woman passes graffiti scrawled by local youths on the doors. The scene is of a poor area needing investment but this is an area of the city known for high crime and areas of dereliction where the community are treated as second class citizens.
    scouse_woman-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A boarded-up travel agent's business advertising For Your Place in the Sun seen in Bristol, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses15-27-12_2008.jpg
  • Bodyboards on sale in the north Devon coastal village of Combe Martin. The bodyboard differs from a surfboard in the fact that it is much shorter and made out of foam. Bodyboarding has been around since ancient Hawaiian days, it was called "Paipo" and was made out of koa wood. The modern board consists of a foam 'core' encapsulated by a plastic bottom and a softer foam top known as the deck. The core is made up from dow/polyethylene, arcel or, more recently, polypropylene.
    body-boards1-04-August-2011.jpg
  • On both sides of the railway track, thousands of commuters desperate to get home after a long day at work in central London, line the platforms to we see from an aerial perspective. But the rail workers' union has called for industrial action and there are no trains yet for these passengers to board for north or southbound services. Sensibly away from the edges, people are standing up to six-deep in anticipation of a ride home as the exodus to the suburbs hits its peak time. 37 per cent of workers in the capital used rail or underground travel as their main form of transport to work, according to regional and local statistics compiled by the Office for National Statistics.
    rail_strike-21-06-1989.jpg
  • Looking down into a steep-sided valley, Distant streets and working-class terraced homes are beyond smoking chimneys from a Furnacite coking plant at Abercwmboi. Once known as the worst polluter in Britain it was owned by the National Coal Board (NCB) and sold to the Welsh Development Asoociation (WDA) for £1 Pound though arguments are still raging about how to clear it up and cleanup estimates range from £15-£20 million. The pollution had cruel effects on the local population. It made smokeless coal and locals joked that the plant took the smoke out and dumped it on the Cynon Valley but there was concern about toxic waste dumped in the village after the plant's closure and some suffered birth defects. Ironically, the plant was closed because of environmental considerations.
    abercwmboi_furnacite001-26-05-1989.jpg
  • A greeting driver attempts to identify one of his passengers from a group of non-English-speaking young people who have just arrived off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's Terminal 5, the man hold up a name board to attract the attention of those Chinese nationals who are new students at a Bournemouth language college called Education First (EF), based on England's south coast. With the help of a chaperone, the man points to a young girl in the hope she might be on his list. Neither speak each other's mother tongue and the language barrier is difficult to overcome. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport424-13-07-2009.jpg
  • From a low angle, we see a greeting driver from Dover Heritage Taxis who awaits his passenger to arrive off a flight from Turkey. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, the man holds up a name board to attract the attention of the man who is a member of a cruise ship's crew that is due to sail from the sea port of Dover. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport105-13-07-2009.jpg
  • Police tape and a makeshift sign warn of a lane closure due to flooding in the village of Lavant, West Sussex. Afternoon sunshine illuminates the roughly-made board with red painted letters which says 'Road Closed'. The rippling water is less than a foot deep and we can see the broken white centre line beneath the surface but the linked posts that border the village green are also submerged. Even so, traffic is prohibited from passing through there for the risk of grounding or damaging engines. Lavant is a village just north of the city of Chichester. It is made up of two parts, Mid Lavant and East Lavant, and takes its name from the River Lavant which flows from East Dean. This area has been prone to flooding for several years and houses around the rising rivers can be blighted with insurance companies refusing future cover.
    RB-0148.jpg
  • It is night-time on Blackpool's Golden Mile, the seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Like an English Las Vegas the neon lights glow to entice the holidaymaker inside where slot machines, games and rides await visitors to lose their vacation money. The Golden Mile is the name given to the stretch of Promenade between the North and South piers. It emerged in the late 19th Century, when small-time fairground operators, fortune-tellers, phrenologists and oyster bars set up in the front gardens of boarding houses, This northern seaside resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd. Blackpool is the largest resort in the north of England and visited traditionally by working people from industrial towns and cities during the industrial revolution.
    blackpool01-30-07-1993.jpg
  • Greeting drivers await their passengers to arrive off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's Terminal 5, the men hold up name boards to attract the attention of those Chinese nationals who are new students at a Bournemouth language college called Education First (EF), based on England's south coast. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport403-13-07-2009.jpg
  • With the statue of King Richard the Lionheart (Richard Coeur de Lion) raising his sword, scaffolders lay boards high up on the exterior of the Palaces of Westminster, on 13th May, in London, England.
    parliament-02-13-05-2019.jpg
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