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  • As a mother and younger brother look on, a 4 year-old girl has her weight checked by a local health visitor on scales in a south London childrens' clinic.
    health_check-19-02-1999.jpg
  • Ageing guitarist Rick Parfitt of Status Quo adjusts his Marshall Amplifier during sound check on European tour in Lille, France.
    status_quo029-15-10-2007.jpg
  • A police officer from the City of Atlanta checks the identity of a suspect on the police car's database during a night shift.
    atlanta_police-05-11-1995.jpg
  • Pilot of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team checks timings of forthcoming airshow display in team coach.
    Red_Arrows506_RBA.jpg
  • An elderly man checks the netting of his garden pond due to the visits of a local heron with an eye on his fish, on 5th May 2018, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
    wrington_family-69-05-05-2018.jpg
  • An elderly man checks the netting of his garden pond due to the visits of a local heron with an eye on his fish, on 5th May 2018, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
    wrington_family-71-05-05-2018.jpg
  • A Sri Lankan Airlines cargo inspector checks an aircraft container of tuna fish on a harbour quay before loading.
    maldives422-15-11-2007.jpg
  • A Swiss border guard checks documents at Schaanwald on the Liechtenstein/Austrian border
    nineties_border01-15-01-1990.jpg
  • Cabin crew hostess checks her watch at the bottom of steps a Qatar Airways Boeing 787 at the Farnborough Air Show, UK.
    qatar_78703-09-07-2012.jpg
  • Ladies darts champion Anastasia Dobromyslova  checks to see when her next game is due during tournament
    anastasia_dobromyslova14-12-04-2008.jpg
  • Businessman checks his watch while dashing to the next meeting in London.
    city_gent_shadow-20-06-1993.jpg
  • Female security operative feels around a lady passenger's back for suspect items during search at Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1462-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Squadron Leader Spike Jepson, leader of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team memorises manoeuvres.
    Red_Arrows295_RBA.jpg
  • Paramedics assist a bloodied man under the influence of alcohol, picked up by Atlanta police after a street altercation.
    paramedic_help01-10-11-1995.jpg
  • Female security operative feels around a male passenger's leg for suspect items during search at Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1466-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Female security operative feels around a male passenger's back for suspect items during search at Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1464-18-08-2009.jpg
  • A male security operative uncovers forbidden bottle of Vodka among a passenger's hand baggage during search at Heathrow T5
    heathrow_airport1470-18-08-2009.jpg
  • A female security officer has spotted an abandoned bag with the words 'Giraffe To Go' on the side, inside a lift of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. The woman talks urgently but calmly using her walkie-talkie. She needs to report it to her controllers as a suspicious package but may turn out to be an innocent lunch bag left by a hurrying and absent-minded passenger, realising their flight is about to close, instead of a bomb left by a malicious terrorist. The lady bends down to give as accurate description as she can before airport police arrive to determine how serious the treat is and possibly order a costly evacuation. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport505-14-07-2009.jpg
  • Security employed by contractor OCS searches a passenger at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Teams of 5-8 perform a rotational order of tasks, changing every 20 minutes: A loader (asking travellers to take off clothing, shoes etc); archway detectors; X-ray operator; liquid tester and bag searcher. The X-ray operator can earn a £50 bonus for a suspect item randomly inserted by undercover officials and known as an Airlock Find. Also, a Tip is a random image flashed on the screen that shows a suspect item they have to spot. A typical day of searched passengers is 25,000 passengers in T5. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1467-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Monitoring logistics by PC at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution warehouse depot at Waltham Point, London
    sainsburys_depot182-09-05-2007.jpg
  • Security employed by contractor OCS monitors an X-ray machine at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Teams of 5-8 perform a rotational order of tasks, changing every 20 minutes: A loader (asking travellers to take off clothing, shoes etc); archway detectors; X-ray operator; liquid tester and bag searcher. The X-ray operator can earn a £50 bonus for a suspect item randomly inserted by undercover officials and known as an Airlock Find. Also, a Tip is a random image flashed on the screen that shows a suspect item they have to spot. A typical day of searched passengers is 25,000 passengers in T5. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1461-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police06-18-10-2013.jpg
  • Officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police03-18-10-2013.jpg
  • A young man has stopped by a rubbish bin to inspect his shoulder on which a nearby pigeon has recently messed on his best work suit. It is an unfortunate incident in the middle of a working day for this man in the heart of the City of London, London's financial centre - otherwise called The Square Mile. Armed with a spare tissue paper, the male cranes his neck over the shoulder to see how much of the crap remains while the flock of birds pace around on nearby grass to scavenge for crumbs left by other lunchtime office workers, otherwise enjoying warm weather in Bishopsgate Churchyard.
    pigeon_droppings07-16-1992.jpg
  • Officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police05-18-10-2013.jpg
  • Officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police04-18-10-2013.jpg
  • A officer from the City of London police, questions a white van driver at a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police01-18-10-2013.jpg
  • A construction worker uses a theodolite to measure triangulation angles on a building project site.
    construction_workman02-13-05-1994.jpg
  • High up in the picture, two employees (one in traditional Arab clothes, the other in western dress) of Bahrain International Airport stand on the edge of a passenger 'air bridge' to oversee the departure of an airliner at Bahrain International Airport as it is pushed back by an unseen airport vehicle. It is night time and the ramp (or aircraft parking tarmac) is illuminated by yellow artificial light with the bridge itself, lit my overhead fluorescent tubes that give a blue-green tint above the mens' heads who watch the nose of a departing airliner. It is slowly taken backwards on its way to the runway take-off  position with its passengers on-board. We see only the fuselage, wings and part of its engine cowlings but not the undercarriage wheels, nor the ground itself. The men look as if they are floating in mid-air, being disembodied from the rest of the airfield's equipment.
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  • Precast concrete pipes are prepared for distribution by a Mexican-born employees at Hanson Pipe & Products, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA. They are inspcting the inner-surfaces and tongue and groove seals of the horizontal pipes wearing obligatory hard hats and corporate blue shirts. Precast concrete is made from a reusable mold or "form" and cured in a controlled environment, then transported to the construction site and lifted into place. Used in the construction of commercial building components, bridges, manholes and retaining walls, these products are the strongest pipe available, designed and plant tested to resist any load required with a design life of 70-100 years. ...
    hanson02-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • The £18.2m Millennium Bridge (a Thames crossing linking the City of London at St. Paul's Cathedral with the Tate Modern Gallery at Bankside) was London's newest river crossing for 100-plus years and coincided with the Millennium, it was hurriedly finished and opened to the public on 10 June 2000 when an estimated 100,000 people crossed it to discover the structure oscillated so much that it was forced to close 2 days later. Over the next 18 months designers added dampeners to stop its wobble but it already symbolised what was embarrassing and failing in British pride. Now the British Standard code of bridge loading has been updated to cover the swaying phenomenon, referred to as Synchronous Lateral Excitation. Here a surveyor stands with legs spread peering into a tripod-mounted theodolite to measure its 370 metres (1,214 ft) steel length.
    bridge_surveyor04-09-2000.jpg
  • A Mexican-born employee of Hanson Pipe & Products, at Grand Prairie, Texas, USA...They are inspcting the inner-surfaces and tongue and groove seals of the horizontal pipes wearing obligatory hard hats and corporate blue shirts. Precast concrete is made from a reusable mold or "form" and cured in a controlled environment, then transported to the construction site and lifted into place. Used in the construction of commercial building components, bridges, manholes and retaining walls, these products are the strongest pipe available, designed and plant tested to resist any load required with a design life of 70-100 years. ...
    hanson_worker-03-11-1998.jpg
  • An assistant counts through Pounds Sterling notes at the Travelex bureau de change at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1451-18-08-2009.jpg
  • An assistant counts through blurred Pounds Sterling notes at the Travelex bureau de change at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1450-18-08-2009.jpg
  • A man stops to consult a map on the south side of London Bridge in Southwark, central London
    city_people28-09-12-2015.jpg
  • Precast concrete pipes are prepared for distribution by a Mexican-born employee at Hanson Pipe & Products, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA. He cleans and inspects the tongue and groove seals of the upturned pipes wearing an obligatory hard hat and blue overalls. Precast concrete is made from a reusable mold or "form" and cured in a controlled environment, then transported to the construction site and lifted into place. Used in the construction of commercial building components, bridges, manholes and retaining walls, these products are the strongest pipe available, designed and plant tested to resist any load required with a design life of 70-100 years. ..
    hanson01-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • An assistant counts through Suadi Riyal notes at the Travelex bureau de change at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1666-24-08-2009.jpg
  • An assistant counts through blurred Pounds Sterling notes at the Travelex bureau de change at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1446-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Flight Lieutenant Simon Stevens, a pilot in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, makes a pre-flight check of his Hawk jet aircraft before a practice flight at RAF Scampton. Stevens and his fellow-aviators fly up to 6 times in winter training, learning new manoeuvres. The dangers of high-speed close formation flight makes health and safety precuations vital; the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Royal Air Force take working environments of their personnel seriously so pre-flight examination of aircraft happens before every sortie (flight). Performing the brief safety walk-around, Stevens bends at the waste to avoid the aeroplane's low aileron despite wearing a helmet, full flying suit, boots, life-vest and anti-g-pants. Flying still continues despite rainclouds in the gloomy Lincolnshire sky.
    Red_Arrows005_RBA.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a second Coronavirus nationwide lockdown during the second wave of the pandemic, staff check customer tickets outside the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue where Adam Kay's medical comedy 'This Is Going To Hurt' is playing, on 31st October 2020, in London, England. But business such as theatres will again have to close from Thursday, and for a period of at least one month.
    coronavirus_theatre01-31-10-2020.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a second Coronavirus nationwide lockdown during the second wave of the pandemic, staff check customer tickets outside the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue where Adam Kay's medical comedy 'This Is Going To Hurt' is playing, on 31st October 2020, in London, England. But business such as theatres will again have to close from Thursday, and for a period of at least one month.
    coronavirus_theatre03-31-10-2020.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a second Coronavirus nationwide lockdown during the second wave of the pandemic, staff check customer tickets outside the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue where Adam Kay's medical comedy 'This Is Going To Hurt' is playing, on 31st October 2020, in London, England. But business such as theatres will again have to close from Thursday, and for a period of at least one month.
    coronavirus_theatre02-31-10-2020.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a second Coronavirus nationwide lockdown during the second wave of the pandemic, staff check customer body temperatures outside the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue where Adam Kay's medical comedy 'This Is Going To Hurt' is playing, on 31st October 2020, in London, England. But business such as theatres will again have to close from Thursday, and for a period of at least one month.
    coronavirus_theatre05-31-10-2020.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a second Coronavirus nationwide lockdown during the second wave of the pandemic, staff check customer tickets outside the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue where Adam Kay's medical comedy 'This Is Going To Hurt' is playing, on 31st October 2020, in London, England. But business such as theatres will again have to close from Thursday, and for a period of at least one month.
    coronavirus_theatre04-31-10-2020.jpg
  • Pilot of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team performs a pre-flight check before training flight.
    Red_Arrows087_RBA.jpg
  • A detail showing the fine stitching of a cotton dress by couturier Margaret Howell in the company's workshop factory in Edmonton, North London. England. In close-up, the eye is drawn into the centre of focus where the buttons are held in a criss-cross stich in its four holes. There are pins in this still prototype design as it evolves from an idea on paper to an actual garment. The fine check pattern of its fabric is beautifully sewn together in this fine and intricate dress. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
    margaret_howell06123-05-2007 .jpg
  • A Boeing 747 is surrounded by gantries during late night work by engineering staff perform maintenance checks in the British Airways engineering hangar on the far side of London's Heathrow airport. As a landscape of confusing lines and linear design, we see the paintwork of the jet aircraft echoed in those of the platform struts and the steps that help the maintenance crews gain height and access to the high places required for the work to be carried out. At its tallest point, the 747's tail is 63 feet (19m).
    ba_engineering03-23-11-2000.jpg
  • "Diptheria, tetanus, polio, whooping cough, meningitis."  A four month-old baby screams with the sharp prick of an innoculation needle administered by a health visitor at a doctor's surgery, London. The post-natal clinic is a health check for the baby and for new mothers to discuss parenting problems with a NHS-qualified midwife and paediatric specialist. She attends to mother and child since they arrived back home from hospital, days after birth and therefore knows all their details and the baby's growth statistics and development curves. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella09-20-04-1995.jpg
  • Two ladies simultaneously check mobile phone messages in a lift at an auditing company's London headquarters
    ernst+young278-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Visitors to St. Paul's Cathedral undergo security checks, filling out their contact details and other personal information during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, on 20th July 2020, in London, England. Contact details may be used to track and trace those who may have been in close proximity with anyone revealed to be infected with Covid.
    st_pauls01-20-07-2020.jpg
  • An annoyed cyclist stops to confront a motorist and very slowly check his bike over for any damage after a Mercedes driver nudged his rear wheel in frustration of heavy traffic, on 22nd November 2017, in London England.
    cyclist_car-02-22-11-2017.jpg
  • An annoyed cyclist stops to confront a motorist and very slowly check his bike over for any damage after a Mercedes driver nudged his rear wheel in frustration of heavy traffic, on 22nd November 2017, in London England.
    cyclist_car-01-22-11-2017.jpg
  • A Boeing 747 is surrounded by gantries during late night work by engineering staff who perform maintenance checks in the British Airways engineering hangar on the far side of London's Heathrow airport. As a landscape of confusing lines and linear design, we see the paintwork of the jet aircraft echoed in those of the platform struts and the steps that help the maintenance crews gain height and access to the high places required for the work to be carried out. At its tallest point, the 747's tail is 63 feet (19m).
    ba_engineering01-23-11-2000 15-08-13.jpg
  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, makes last pre-flight checks before training flight.
    Red_Arrows425_RBA.jpg
  • A repeating moment of symmetrical reflections as one man in stripes and another in checks are seen in a shop window.
    symmetrical_people3-29-09-2011.jpg
  • A Sri Lankan Airlines ground staff manager checks on the flight status of his next scheduled departure from Male, Maldives.
    maldives430-15-11-2007.jpg
  • Visitors to London all wearing different checkered patterns look in a design shop in Regent Street, Westminster.
    check_clothes1-27-09-2011.jpg
  • As darkness approaches, a queue of campervans and other vehicles queue up at the first checkpoint in the Port of Dover's Eastern Docks, the holidaymakers' first step to travelling across the English Channel to France or Belgium. beneath the famous white cliffs of Dover, that symbol of England's edge that is seen from the sea as one leaves or approaches the English shores. It is dusk and the flood lights have started illuminating the busy port roads and ramps, the red rear tail lights from a truck cross the picture's foreground and the signs - with graphics of busses, cars  and arrows that tell drivers in which lane to line-up glow yellow. Dover has long been one of the World's premier seaports, with centuries of maritime heritage, presented with a Royal Charter in 1606.
    RB_047-06-08-1994.jpg
  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, during turnarounds of training flights.
    Red_Arrows026_RBA.jpg
  • A woman stands in the entrance to the Coty office and prepares her face using a mirror before attending a meeting.
    makeup_lady01-03-03-2011.jpg
  • The last days of 12th month December, have been crossed off as a countdown to the end of a year, written on a shop window.
    calendar_window03-17-02-2010.jpg
  • The last days of 12th month December, have been crossed off as a countdown to the end of a year, written on a shop window.
    calendar_window02-17-02-2010.jpg
  • The last days of 12th month December, have been crossed off as a countdown to the end of a year, written on a shop window.
    calendar_window01-17-02-2010.jpg
  • Baggage enters an x-ray machine within the 11 miles of conveyor belts Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport.
    heathrow_airport1182-13-08-2009.jpg
  • A 10 year-old boy and fellow-musician play amplified electric Fender guitars at Regent Sound at 4 Denmark Street, Tin Pan Alley
    sam_guitar_shop04-08-11-2008.jpg
  • A 10 year-old boy plays an amplified electric Fender Stratocaster guitar at Regent Sound at 4 Denmark Street, Tin Pan Alley
    sam_guitar_shop01-08-11-2008.jpg
  • A security guard inspects a customer's bag at the entrance of menswear retailer Auston Reed in central London.
    shop_security02-09-04-2015.jpg
  • A flight nurse examines a lady from the Native American Reserve at San Carlos, Arizona, from where she is to be taken from the rural Arizona airstrip by  twin-propeller powered aircraft, an air ambulance, to hospital for treatment. The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, in southeastern Arizona, United States, was established in 1872 as a reservation for the Chiricahua Apache tribe. It was referred to by some as "Hell's Forty Acres," due to a myriad of dismal health and environmental conditions. The San Carlos Reservation is one of the poorest Native American communities in the United States, with an annual median household income of approximately $14,000 in 2000, according to the US Census. About 60% of the people live under the poverty line, and 68% of the active labor force is unemployed
    san_carlos01-07-01-2000.jpg
  • Ground commentator pilot of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team watches training flight from air conditioned car.
    Red_Arrows045_RBA.jpg
  • A US Navy dentist and technician inspects the mouth of a sailor below deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the .
    us_navy_carrier12-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Half-way across the thin taut wire of a tightrope, an tightwire walker acrobat riding a monocycle pauses and wobbles to compensate his balance before continuing his journey across to safety at the other end of two supporting poles The act forms part of the Canadian circus troupe Cirque de Soleil during a show in Battersea, London. Blue and red spotlights illuminate this daredevil and we see his tights, his wide-sleeved theatrical shirt and the concentration and grim determination on his face - the look of a professional trickster at work. He may be showing a seemingly dangerous and unpredictable stunt though in truth, he will have rehearsed this simple balancing act for many years but must still keep up the illusion of danger for the sake of a gasping, gullible audience.
    tightrope_walker09-27-1990.jpg
  • Individual trays for airline baggage in the Early Bags Store where 4,000 pieces are held. 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. Here we see items of luggage spending 4 hours in transit, held in a fully-automated parking lot for bags. Computers decide when to fish the item out and re-introduce it into the system and load it on to the appropriate aircraft. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1184-13-08-2009.jpg
  • In the darkness of a taxiway at the southern end of Heathrow Airport, the bright lights of an engineering hangar spill out into the night. A Boeing 747 Jumbo jet sits nose-in behind another during a scheduled set of maintenance tasks that every aircraft needs to keep to in order for its continued airworthiness. The unmistakable shape of this large aircraft is a half-silhouette against the intensity of the hangar and blue flare spots that arise from the internal glass in the camera's lens. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1564-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Individual trays for airline baggage in the Early Bags Store where 4,000 pieces are held. 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. Here we see items of luggage spending 4 hours in transit, held in a fully-automated parking lot for bags. Computers decide when to fish the item out and re-introduce it into the system and load it on to the appropriate aircraft. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1187-13-08-2009.jpg
  • A 10 year-old boy plays an amplified electric Fender Stratocaster guitar at Regent Sound at 4 Denmark Street, Tin Pan Alley
    sam_guitar_shop05-08-11-2008.jpg
  • Detail showing the fine stiching of a cotton dress in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell07023-05-2007 .jpg
  • A detail showing the fine stitching of a cotton dress in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's workshop factory
    margaret howell (shop)63-04-07-2007.jpg
  • Parked on the apron at Paris Orly Airport, a lone pilot of the French national airline Air France, leans out of his right-hand seat's cockpit window of his Boeing 777-328/ER aircraft (F-GSQT). It is a bright morning at this international hub for Air France and without help from ground staff, the silver-haired gentleman who may be the captain and commander of the aircraft (because of age and seat position) has decided to get on with the job of cleaning his window himself much like a driver wiping away flies from his car windscreen. Here however, this chore being performed approximately six meters off the ground so safety is vital - just as a clear front view for the flight-deck crew before their flight. Attached to the plane is the mobile walkway, the air bridge, that awaits boarding passengers but no 'ramp agent' is below.  .
    esa_guiana02513-08-2007.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, a senior officer shows his pass to enter Horseguards, next to the memorial to those killed in the 2002 Bali bombing, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-35-10-07-2018.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, a senior officer shows his pass to enter Horseguards, next to the memorial to those killed in the 2002 Bali bombing, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-36-10-07-2018.jpg
  • City of London police officers not the license numbers of black London cabs while they protest about their being banned from City road junctions, on 18th January 2017, in Parliament Square, London England.
    london_taxis-03-18-01-2017.jpg
  • A workman operates a scissor lift beneath the large ceiling of a new development in Fenchurch Street, the heart of the capital's financial district. Surrounded by scaffolding and the sheeting from a nearby construction site facade, the man inspects work carried out by others from the safety and height of the scissor lift.
    city_architecture25-04-03-2013.jpg
  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, during turnarounds of training flights.
    Red_Arrows346_RBA.jpg
  • Queues of newly-arrived airline passengers line up to await their turn at the UK Border Agency's passport control at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Immigration officers deal with each member of the public seeking entry into the United Kingdom but on average, 10 a day are refused entry at this London airport and between 2008 and 2009, 33,100 people were detained at the airport for mainly passport irregularities. The UK Border Agency is responsible for securing the United Kingdom borders and controlling migration in the UK. They manage border control enforcing immigration and customs regulations and also consider applications for permission to enter or stay in the United Kingdom, citizenship and asylum. From writer Alain de Botton's book: "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1154-12-08-2009.jpg
  • Airside Operations Safety Unit (AOSU) runway centreline night drive inspection at Heathrow Airport
    heathrow_airport1103-11-08-2009.jpg
  • Opening security gate asking visitors to stop and ring here at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont, Belgium.
    lambermont-biscuits54.jpg
  • A veiled Muslim lady passes European men at security barriers of an auditing company's London headquarters
    ernst+young344-09-08-2007.jpg
  • An inspection by the Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team looks closely at Victorian-era brick wall linings of the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London, on 19th June 1994, in London, England. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewer_inspection-19-06-1994.jpg
  • Met Police officers question a car driver in the borough of Southwark, on 19th April, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-63-19-04-2017.jpg
  • A City of London police officer notes the license numbers of black London cabs while they protest about their being banned from City road junctions, on 18th January 2017, in Parliament Square, London England.
    london_taxis-02-18-01-2017.jpg
  • A City of London police officer notes the license numbers of black London cabs while they protest about their being banned from City road junctions, on 18th January 2017, in Parliament Square, London England.
    london_taxis-01-18-01-2017.jpg
  • Queues of newly-arrived airline passengers line up to await their turn at the UK Border Agency's passport control at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Immigration officers deal with each member of the public seeking entry into the United Kingdom but on average, 10 a day are refused entry at this London airport and between 2008 and 2009, 33,100 people were detained at the airport for mainly passport irregularities. The UK Border Agency is responsible for securing the United Kingdom borders and controlling migration in the UK. They manage border control enforcing immigration and customs regulations and also consider applications for permission to enter or stay in the United Kingdom, citizenship and asylum. From writer Alain de Botton's book: "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Queues of newly-arrived airline passengers line up to await their turn at the UK Border Agency's passport control at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Immigration officers deal with each member of the public seeking entry into the United Kingdom but on average, 10 a day are refused entry at this London airport and between 2008 and 2009, 33,100 people were detained at the airport for mainly passport irregularities. The UK Border Agency is responsible for securing the United Kingdom borders and controlling migration in the UK. They manage border control enforcing immigration and customs regulations and also consider applications for permission to enter or stay in the United Kingdom, citizenship and asylum. From writer Alain de Botton's book: "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1153-12-08-2009.jpg
  • Secure razor wire and fencing keeps tresspassers out from the European Space Agency's Neptune buildings in French Guiana. .
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  • Secure razor wire and fencing keeps tresspassers out from the European Space Agency's Neptune buildings in French Guiana. .
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  • A man recovers and straightens after checking his shoelaces in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 1st April, 2019, in London England.
    city_people-01-01-04-2019.jpg
  • A man stands checking his messages, outside the Rafael Valls Old Master Paintings gallery showing a portrait painting in the window on their Duke Street SW1 premises, on 18th February 2020, in London, England.
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  • While checking his phone, a cyclist rides past a mural and sculpture outside Cathedral of saint Nicholas in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 28th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ljubljana is a small city with flat terrain and a good cycling infrastructure. It was featured at eighth on the 'Copenhagenize' index listing the most bike-friendly cities in the world though bike theft is prevalent.
    slovenia-425-28-06-2018.jpg
  • The coincidental relationship between a direct marketing company poster and a man checking messages outside in the rain on a central london street.
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  • Model on an Adidas seemingly looks over her shoulder to watch a woman checking her bag on Oxford Street, London.
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