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  • As a small monkey looks on through the thick glass of its enclosure, we see two unsighted children reaching out to feel the soft feathers of a Barn Owl. As part of their learning experience as blind (or near-blind) children as well as the extra therapy of heightening their touch sensensation..The Barn Owl (Tyto alba) is the most widely distributed species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds. It is also referred to as Common Barn Owl, to distinguish it from other species in the barn-owl family Tytonidae. These form one of two main lineages of living owls, the other being the typical owls (Strigidae). Drusillas Park is a small zoo near to Alfriston, in East Sussex targetting children aged between about 2 to 10. The zoo is home to many exotic wild and domestic animals with hands-on activities such as this.
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  • Children battle it out using soft weapons during a Gladiator-style game. Bashing each other on the bodies on high platforms, they use the padded sticks to avoid injury, their heads protected by helmets. An instructor/judge look up to the boys to ensure their safety. In the background is a bouncy castle and other childrens' play area locations.
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  • Children play on a UN armoured vehicle exhibited during 1995 VE Day 50th anniversary celebrations in London. Climbing on the top of the tank, the kids risk injury on the surface, with many sharp corners and places to fall from. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
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  • Children play outside their home with the backdrop of snow-tipped Himalayan mountain peaks, a location also serving as a trekkers' rest house with hot, solar-powered showers, on 10th November 1995, in Ghorepani, Himalayas, Nepal,
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  • Two small children sleep in their respective buggies as unseen parents prepare to cross a street in the City of London.
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  • Children play in a desolate street in the town of Nova Huta. Amid the filthy walls of their tenement building home and of the grim, car less street beyond, two older children play in their doorway while younger friends peer from around a corner. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen st the end of the street. After the war, Stalin decided to build an ideological communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nova Huta. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area. .
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  • A two and half year-old girl watches her mother bath her baby brother in the bathroom of her South London home. She looks down at the correct technique that her mum uses by supporting his head with a hand, ensuring the child does not slip further into the warm bath water, the way that many babies drown in even shallow water. Such maternal instincts is how even young children learn to mother and care for their own children in later life, From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • A Nepali family consisting of parents and young children   outside their home in the central region of the Himalayan mountain kingdom. Children and adults are near a dry stone wall in a foothill dwelling near the town of Gorkha where the British army traditionally find young men for the Gurkha regiment (as thay have done since 1857). The family are wearing clean clothes with bright colours and appear healthy despite this country - and especially for those living at altitude - being one of the world's poorest. The prospects for these children may mean they will in future try to seek work in the cities like Kathmandu rather than face a lifetime's struggle in local agriculture. Their supplies and contact with the outside world comes up from tracks of boulders and stone along which either men or yaks carry up food for basic survival and luxury goods.
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  • Among headstones and graves, two local children play in the unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). Along with their pet Labrador dog who enjoys joining in on the fun, the children are playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society.
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  • In the weeks before Christmas day on December 25th, the Lord Mayor of London hosts an annual party at his official town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the City of London. Inviting Greater London's borough Mayors, they can each invite worthy children for an afternoon's fancy dress party. Two children dressed as Tarzan with a small monkey and a Grenadier Guard with a bearskin, and are seated on the Mayoral throne like two princes in a royal court. The chairs are coated with gold leaf with red cushioned fabric and with the Corporation of London's crest on the top. It looks resplendent and opulent. The two kids are sat looking small in the chairs seemingly made for giants but behind them is another boy dressed as a grey rabbit with floppy ears running past. The Guildhall has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial centre of the City of London. The term Guildhall refers both to the whole building and to its main room, which is a medieval style great hall similar to those at many Oxbridge colleges. The Guildhall complex houses the offices of the Corporation of London and various public facilities. (Greater London also has a City Hall). The great hall is believed to be on the site of an earlier Guildhall, and has large mediaeval crypts underneath. During the Roman period it was the site of an amphitheatre, the largest in Britannia. The City of London is still part of London's city centre, but apart from financial services, most of London's metropolitan functions are centred on the West End. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
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  • Two young children experience a little independence during a walk by themselves through a wood near their grandparents' cottage in Somerset, England. Discovering for themselves the delights of childish adventure without the worries of security unfortunately prevalent in the inner-cities. Here in the forest they return home with the sun in their eyes having had the time of their lives. The beech trees' branches are full with leaves on this mid-summer afternoon in this tranquil scene of childhood innocence, of long summer days and summer holidays. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • Two children play on interactive computers in an upper floor of the National Portrait Gallery, the well-known art museum on Trafalgar Square in Central London. The institution's IT Gallery allows young users to search and discover for themselves great works of art from its extensive database including this image of the Tudor Queen Elizabeth I whose painted portraits are on view elsewhere: Her face seen on the far right screen. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • Peering through a hole in the huge metal door of an old Victorian tunnel, two children stand on the place where a railway once emerged from this brick entrance - a link between nearby Dulwich and the Crystal Palace. Now the London Wildlife Trust maintains this once-wild wood at Sydenham, South London, England, which has reverted to forest again, 40 years after (one of the first the electrified railways) line fell silent. The brother and sister look through to see if there is light at the end of this tunnel but it has long been bricked up, sealed to deter vandals and danger to all. It is Autumn and the leaves on the beech and oak trees are about to fall, adding to the already organic deep forest floor. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released
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  • A young child is allowed by an unseen parent to play  unknowingly on the memorial for Jewish Kinder Transportees at Liverpool Street mainline Station in the City of London. The Kindertransport is a rescue mission that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, schools and farms. Often they were the only members of their families who survived the Holocaust.
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  • A two and half year-old girl has a mid-afternoon sleep on the sofa of her parents' home in South London. On the floor is her young baby brother who is also enjoying some rest in his carrying basket. Both are unconscious but getting welcome shut-eye from the morning's activities. Both children face each other during deep sleep and we see the different sizes of their small hands. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • It is late on a summer Somerset evening and light is fading towards bedtime for children. Clutching a small bunch of daisies, a five year-old girl gazes at one of her flowers as if held in a trance. Standing in a meadow belonging to her grandfather, she holds up a single stem and twirls it around in her fingers to see its shape and sense its smell. About to climb over a gate in the background, her younger brother is having an adventure of his own, standing on the metal horizontal part of the frame, holding on with one hand. It is a tranquil scene of childhood innocence, of long summer days and summer holidays. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • While her brother apparently sinks beneath the surface of plastic balls, a three year-old girl scrabbles up a small slide in the Croydon branch of IKEAS's crèche facility, allowing parent shoppers to browse the store while their children frolic in the ball pond. Designed to encourage adventure and stimulate developing senses, the kids play on their own in this safe environment. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • A father and his young children wait to safely enter Shoe Lane Library during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • Children and an adult messing about in a rowing boat on water at Cockshoot Broadland.
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  • Locals gather to pay their respects to a growing mound of a floral memorial in memory of two people killed by an IRA bomb in the centre of Warrington, Cheshire, England. On 20 March 1993 the explosion by Irish republican terrorists in Bridge Street in the town centre precinct. Two small bombs exploded in litter bins outside a Boots store and a McDonald's restaurant, killing two children and injuring many other people. Although a warning or warnings had been sent, the area was not evacuated in time. Both attacks were perpetrated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene, while his babysitter survived. The second victim, 12-year-old Tim Parry, who received the full force of the blast, was gravely wounded but died weeks later.
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  • Local children heave-ho on a large rope for the best of three tug o war games during a community park festival.
    tug_o_war06-23-06-2012.jpg
  • Children play on an East Berlin shopping precinct roof built during the Communist DDR-era - Alexanderplatz.
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  • Three children echo the three sizes of a tailors mannequin shop in Whitechapel, East London.
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  • Young Nepali children stand on the terrace of a small hut in the village of Rip in the Gorkha district of central Nepal.
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  • A young brother and sister look on in awe while a British Airways check-in lady asks security questions of the pair's parents who are taking her children on a long-haul flight from London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. The family baggage has been tagged and is about to disappear down the belt to join up to 70,000 other items in this average day at T5. The siblings stare as the young woman checks the travel details of the mother and father who have booked Business Class seats for them all. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • A father and his young children wait to safely enter Shoe Lane Library during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th August 2020, in London, England.
    city_people16-06-08-2020.jpg
  • Children pose for a photo at a swimming pool in Germany, on 13th July 1970, in Bielefeld, Germany.
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  • Children play with Mahjong tiles at a night-club, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. The Macau Special Administrative Region is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover.
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  • A mother sits alongside her young children whilst riding in a central London rickshaw taxi with the kids' pushchair on the roof.
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  • A father with his two children sits on a ledge outside a Pret a Manger lunchtime restaurant
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  • Two children walk along a path between two dry stone walls in the countryside around the Yorkshire town of Settle. Striding between the boundaries of agricultural grazing land, whose trees and undergrowth has been cleared, the kids have come from a distant farmhouse which has recently lost its stock of sheep due to Foot and Mouth disease. Dry stone walls serve as boundaries and enclosures for farmers and land owners. Built by tradesmen called Wallers, a dying tradition and skill, they're constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. The stones must be carefully selected by shape to ensure that they have a large contact surface area with their neighbours and so do not slip. They are a legacy of the movement towards enclosure of common farming and grazing land as English society moved away from medieval feudalism. Model released.
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  • A father pulls his young children along in the snow of a rural tree-lined avenue in rural Germany in the late-1960s, on 13th December 1969, in Bielefeld, Germany
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  • Children ignore a no climbing safety sign, to haul themselves on to the plinth of Nelson's Column, on 15th December 2016, in Trafalgar Square, London, England.
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  • A children playing warning sign in a rural location in northern Italy.
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  • Traditionally-dressed children and modern Chinatown in Manhattan, New York City.
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  • Traditionally-dressed children and modern Chinatown in Manhattan, New York City.
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  • School children from a nearby primary school run beneath  100 year-old mature ash trees, through their local park.
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  • Two fathers and their young children rest on a ledge of Louis Vuitton's shop window in London's New Bond Street.
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  • A four year-old girl pulls at her mother's t-shirt as she pushes a pushchair uphill while her two year-old brother in turn pushes her up the incline of a street in Rennes, Brittany, France. In order of size - from tallest to smallest, they march together up the gradient of this French street, they laugh at this great game of push and pull. The three are on holiday in this town, during a vacation to Britanny. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • Two children ride a merry-go-round on the sea front at Southport, Merseyside, northern England. Hanging on to the carousel's horse, the youngest child is a boy who grips the pole as he whizzes through along while an older girl who is possibly his sister, leans forward as she enjoys the circular speed. The background blurs but we see the bright lights above the pier's amusement arcade entrance (the second longest pier in the UK) but it is a chilly winter, an off-season day with few people about on this chilly day nearing Christmas.
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  • Young children play in the barren dust of the 4 sq km Abu Shouk refugee camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. .
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  • Children play hide and seek from western visitors to the 4 sq km Abu Shouk refugee camp, which is  (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons, on the outskirts of Al Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan.
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  • British Labour peer, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham hugs local children in a compound of the govenor of north Darfur, Osman Mohammed Yousef Kibir at Al Fashir, Sudan. Nazir, Baron Ahmed (born 1958) is a member of the House of Lords, having become the United Kingdom's first Muslim life peer in 1998 and is in this war-torn province of Sudan to attend the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, hosted by the govenor in his own compound.
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  • Londoners and police gather on Westminster Bridge, the scene of the Terrorist attack 7 days ago in which 4 people died and others severely injured, on 29th March 2017, London, England. Hundreds crossed the Thames in a silent vigil to commemorate those who died at 2.40pm when Khalid Masood drove into crowds on the bridge before stabbing a police officer at the nearby Palace of Westminster. The crowds fell silent, many bowing their heads, among them were dozens of young Muslim children and members of the Ahmadiyya community.
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  • A morning religious lesson held for local Christian children at St Tawdros (St Theodore's) Coptic Orthodox Christian Monastery, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The Copts are an ethno-religious group in North Africa and the Middle East, mainly in the area of modern Egypt, where they are the largest Christian denomination. Christianity was the religion of the vast majority of Egyptians from 400–800 A.D. and the majority after the Muslim conquest until the mid-10th century. Today, there are an extimated 9-15m Copts in Egypt.
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  • Beneath a huge banner that hangs from the exterior wall of the Ikea store in Croydon, South London adults await their partners to emerge from their shopping expeditions by the childrens' playground where a climbing frame and wood-chip surface protects young bodies from injury. The poster's message is simple and clear: That their customers and especially children, are our most important assets - our responsibility to protect their safety and well-being. Strong corporate Ikea colours are dominant, their well-known yellow and blue are known throughout Europe as well as the added banner in red. The fonts are in block capitals and possibly easy for young readers too to understand.
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  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,489, a further 113 victims in the last 24hrs, and the government's pandemic lockdown still in effect, children race around other south Londoners practicing social distances in Ruskin Park, a public green space in the borough of Lambeth, on 31st May 2020, in London, England.
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  • A  Polish father and his children walk past advertising signs, on 21st September 2019, in Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Children on their way to school on the morning of the UK 2017 general elections outside the polling station at St. Barnabas Parish Hall in Dulwich Village  on 8th June 2017, in London, England.
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  • Londoners and police gather on Westminster Bridge, the scene of the Terrorist attack 7 days ago in which 4 people died and others severely injured, on 29th March 2017, London, England. Hundreds crossed the Thames in a silent vigil to commemorate those who died at 2.40pm when Khalid Masood drove into crowds on the bridge before stabbing a police officer at the nearby Palace of Westminster. The crowds fell silent, many bowing their heads, among them were dozens of young Muslim children and members of the Ahmadiyya community.
    westminster_remembers-38-29-03-2017.jpg
  • Mothers read to their children while protesting on the steps of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 5 of its occupation, 4th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym will replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it.
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  • Mothers read to their children while protesting on the steps of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 5 of its occupation, 4th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym will replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it.
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  • Mother and children pass a delivery man and bottles of office drinking water in City street.
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  • As families queue in the grounds of the Naval College, Greenwich, children play beneath a giant inflatable figure of a Royal Navy sailor. During a public open-day in Greenwich, London when the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
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  • Children practice winning a sprint final on the grid-like patterned floor in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. The kids race under a pretend track tape held by two volunteer Games Makers who offer the everyone winners' chocolate gold medals. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. .
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  • American children stand for a souvenir photo on the Olympic rings that stand at the entrance of King Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace on the first day of competition of the London 2012 Olympic 250km mens' road race. Starting from central London and passing the capital's famous landmarks before heading out into rural England to the gruelling Box Hill in the county of Surrey. Local southwest Londoners lined the route hoping for British favourite Mark Cavendish to win Team GB first medal but were eventually disappointed when Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov eventually won gold.
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  • A mid-morning mist sweeps across the seafront's South Beach at Scarborough, the seaside town in North Yorkshire. Kids run about on the wet sand, some leaping and some just carrying buckets of salt water for sandcastles elsewhere. With the freedom and open-space, children who perhaps live in bleak industrial towns in northern England can enjoy the fresh-air on this north-eastern coast. Their reflections are also seen on the shiny sand and although it appears to be as grim as their home may be, it is in fact a warm day but the daily sea fogs that roll across this beach, a microclimate exists and is unique to this area.
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  • On a busy Summer weekend, families enjoy the old Tarr Steps Clapper Bridge over the River Barle in Exmoor National Park, Devon, England. Crossing on the huge stone prehistoric slabs which weigh up to 5 tons apiece, children play with fishing nets, walk dogs and sit enjoying the view below of others who mess about in a small inflatable dinghy on the flowing stream. Located in a National Nature Reserve about 2.5 miles (4 km) south east of Withypool and 4 miles (6 km) north west of Dulverton, this spot is a favourite tourist place in South-West England. This typical clapper bridge construction may date to around 1000 BC. It is 180 feet (55 m) long and has 17 spans and designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.
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  • A mannequin family of parents and children display clothes on sale in a Polish shop in Ostroleka, Poland.
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  • A Children's Air Ambulance takes-off from Ruskin Park in Lambeth, south London, on 21st June 2019, in London, England. The AgustaWestland AW169 helicopter G-TCAA is operated by used by UK Air Ambulances Specialist Aviation Services whose UK headquarters are at Gloucestershire Airport in England. It was built in 2016.
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  • A foreign family walk with their children in a buggy and who have just purchased heart-shaped balloons in Leicester Square, on 29th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • A town fountain and local children in a rural central Slovenian town, on 25th June 2018, in Skofja Loka, Slovenia.
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  • The floral memorial shrine in memory of two young victims killed by an IRA bomb in the centre of Warrington, Cheshire, England, on 27th February 1993, in Warrington, England. Two small bombs exploded in litter bins outside a Boots store and a McDonald's restaurant, killing two children and injuring many other people. Although a warning or warnings had been sent, the area was not evacuated in time. Both attacks were perpetrated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene, while his babysitter survived. The second victim, 12-year-old Tim Parry, who received the full force of the blast, was gravely wounded but died weeks later.
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  • Children and their scooters outside their local polling station on the morning of the UK 2017 general elections outside St. Saviour's Parish Hall in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th June 2017, in London, England.
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  • A voting mother arrives with children at the polling station on the morning of the UK 2017 general elections outside the polling station at St. Saviour's Parish Hall in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th June 2017, in London, England.
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  • In late sunshine, a family of parents and two young children try to launch a stunt kite into the air in a south London park.
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  • Local children enjoy handling a Burmese Python in their local park during a community festival.
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  • Father with road crossing children near posters and bright red sofas on sale in a London street.
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  • High-wire activity test for young children at YHA Edale.
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  • Making their way across a field, alongside a hedge, and away from a collection homes a mother and her two children walk from the direction of massive chimneys and cooling towers. The instillation in the distance is the Sellafield. Formerly known as Windscale, Sellafield (operated by Sellafield Ltd) is a nuclear processing and former electricity generating site, close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England. The site has been the subject of much controversy because of discharges of radioactive material into the sea, mainly accidental but some alleged to have been deliberate. 1983 was the year of the 'Beach Discharge Incident' in which high radioactive discharges containing ruthenium and rhodium 106, both beta-emitting isotopes, resulted in the closure of a beach. BNFL received a fine of £10,000 for this discharge.
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  • A young three year-old boy has his hair cut by his mother in the family South London home. Lifting his hair with her fingers, the mum snips with a pair of scissors. While lifting her left elbow to gain the right angle of her cutting, we see her holding a comb in her mouth. The boy's elder sister looks on offering unhelpful comments which will eventually lead to an exchange of unkind words between the siblings while their mother concentrates hard on not making a mess of the kid's haircut. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • A three year-old girl throws her head back with joy while playing with her young one-year-old brother in the back garden of their South London home. We look down on the small girl who throws her head back with delight and the freedom of an early summer afternoon at home. Little brother laughs with pleasure too, sitting on a toy tractor. The picture is slanted to lend a sense of drama. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • A two and half year-old girl shows affection to her baby brother in the living room of her South London home. Reaching out to show her love, the big sister tickles the boy under his chin although he looks more intrigued than amused at the attention that this person is showing him. He is a few weeks old and lies in a baby bouncer chair on the floor. from a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • A two and half year-old girl has a mid-afternoon sleep on the sofa of her parents' home in South London. On the floor is her young baby brother who is also enjoying some rest in his carrying basket. Both are unconscious but getting welcome shut-eye from their activities. Next to the girl is a book with the title 'Babies' Names' because her mum and dad have six weeks, under British law, in which to register a baby's birth and give it a name. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam03-20-04_1998.jpg
  • "The week of Dunblane."  Mindful of the Dunblane massacre that week, a baby massage class takes place at a health clinic in south London. Spread across a matt are six babies of varying ages and sizes whose mums are tenderly stroking their infants' bodies and senses with soft, gentle touches over the head, face, shoulders, arms, chest, stomach and legs which is a recommended way of tactile communication between mother and child. Some children are looking up into their mothers' faces, others are looking elsewhere and one is upset but comforted. 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_ella16-20-04-1995.jpg
  • Children and campaigners protesting the closure by Lambeth council of Carnegie Library on day 3 of its occupation in Herne Hill, south London on 3rd April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym will replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it.
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  • Local children enjoy handling a Burmese Python in their local park during a community festival.
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  • In a Brussels Flea Market, two curly-haired twin sisters wander about the cobbled square to play with a an empty push-chair at the Marché du Jeu de Balle, in the Marolles district of Belgium's capital city. In harsh sunlight the girls role-play at mothering, a gender conditioning that all children discover and these females are finding it natural to act as parents at such a young age. An antique doll sits looking in our direction, dressed in frilly clothes and all around is Chinese laquered furniture and other kids' toys like a hobby horse and a trike. At Place du Jeu de Balle Flea Market, you can find an extraordinary mix of household items, vintage clothes, crockery and furniture. This market is open daily from 6am to 2pm and is in the heart of the "Marolles" district, a working-class neighbourhood that was built in the 17th century...
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  • Londoners and police gather on Westminster Bridge, the scene of the Terrorist attack 7 days ago in which 4 people died and others severely injured, on 29th March 2017, London, England. Hundreds crossed the Thames in a silent vigil to commemorate those who died at 2.40pm when Khalid Masood drove into crowds on the bridge before stabbing a police officer at the nearby Palace of Westminster. The crowds fell silent, many bowing their heads, among them were dozens of young Muslim children and members of the Ahmadiyya community.
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  • Young children visit 2369 WW1 commonwealth burials and commemorations of war graves at Vis-en-Artois cemetery
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  • Young children visit 2369 WW1 commonwealth burials and commemorations of war graves at Vis-en-Artois cemetery
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  • We see two unsighted children reaching out to feel the soft feathers of a penguin as part of their learning experience for unsighted (or near-blind) children as well as the extra therapy of heightening their touch sensation. The penguin belongs to Drusillas Park Zoo near to Alfriston, in East Sussex targeting children aged between about 2 to 10. The zoo is home to many exotic wild and domestic animals with hands-on activities such as this.
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  • Late at night in a South London street, two young children remain fast asleep in the back of their parents' car. It is a dark despite pools of light falling from street lighting that throw heavy shadows beneath other vehicles. The silhouettes of large ash trees can be seen against the city skyline. The interior lights in the car are switched on to reveal the sleeping childrens' faces. An older girl has her mouth wide open while her younger brother is seen in profile but both are peacefully unaware that they have arrived home after a long drive fro the countryside to the inner-city. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam22-27-12_2001.jpg
  • Children play on old crates and pallets in risk averse playground called The Land on Plas Madoc Estate, Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales. <br />
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From the chapter entitled 'Playing with Fire' from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    the_land40-18-06-2014.jpg
  • A Nepali family consisting of parents and young children are viewed outside their home in the central region of the Himalayan mountain kingdom. 8 children and 3 adults are near a dry stone wall in a foothill dwelling near the town of Gorkha where the British army traditionally find young men for the Gurkha regiment (as thay have done since 1857). The family are wearing clean clothes with bright colours and appear healthy despite this country - and especially for those living at altitude - being one of the world's poorest. The prospects for these children may mean they will in future try to seek work in the cities like Kathmandu rather than face a lifetime's struggle in local agriculture. Their supplies and contact with the outside world comes up from tracks of boulders and stone along which either men or yaks carry up food for basic survival and luxury goods.
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  • Four children leap out into the wide blue yonder on a beach in Whitley Bay, England. Jumping at a height from a sea defence wall, the kids all hold their towels above their heads and as they leave the ground, look down to their landing spot - the soft sand below. It is a scene of chilhood recklnessness, when children and young people take risks that adults don't. But  youngsters don't have a sense of danger but instead, exhilarating desire for adventure. The beach in the distance is largely deserted so the kids have lots of space to fulfill their games.
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  • Children play near a puddle in the town of Nova Huta. In filthy industrial streets, the kids look undernourished in this scene of impoverished, Communist dereliction. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen reflected in the puddle before them. After the war, Stalin decided to build an industrial Communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nowa Huta  - or, the new steel mill. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area..
    nova_huta_puddle01-20-06-1990.jpg
  • A crowd of Londoners laugh during an afternoon's Punch and Judy show at The Lambeth Show in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, England. Children of all ages along with parents grin at the out-of-sight puppet entertainment during this public festival of amusements and stalls in London's inner-city. Only one young girl sits unimpressed at the standard of comedy. She sits with her mother looking serious while the kids nearby roar with laughter - hugely involved with the show. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam17-15-07_2001.jpg
  • On a wooden boardwalk that stretches across a sandy beach landscape, a young girl runs at full speed away from her mother and younger brother who walk along this walkway on the beach at Calais, France. It is low-tide, hazy winter sunshine makes soft shadows on the sand but there are few people out in the cold beyond except for a family in the surf approximately 200 yards away in the distance. Half-way back to the shore is a lone lifebelt attached to its pole in case of emergency. This near-deserted beach is an idyllic and tranquil place, allowing children to let off steam. Ffrom a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam16-18-07_2000.jpg
  • A four year-old girl throws a tantrum while playing with her young two-year-old brother in the back garden of their South London home. We look down on the small girl who throws her head back in a rage, mouth wide open, after not getting what she wants. But in the background, her younger sibling is oblivious to her emotional outburst and gets on with playing at the foot of a children's garden slide - in an innocent world of his own. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam14-20-03_2000.jpg
  • Two small children sleep in their respective buggies as unseen parents prepare to cross a street in the City of London.
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  • Children ignore a no climbing safety sign, to haul themselves on to the plinth of Nelson's Column, on 15th December 2016, in Trafalgar Square, London, England.
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  • Children ignore a no climbing safety sign, to haul themselvs on to the plinth of Nelson's Column, on 15th December 2016, in Trafalgar Square, London, England.
    trafalgar_climbing-01-15-12-2016.jpg
  • 1990s children play near a display of wartime Brits during 1995 VE Day 50th anniversary celebrations in London. Two girls wearing identical pink costumes with hearts stand near the poster of the happy wartime couple. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
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  • Members of Royal Marines Commandos demonstrate various weaponry to small children and young adults  during a public open-day in Greenwich, London during which the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day17-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Members of Royal Marines Commandos demonstrate various weaponry to small children and young adults  during a public open-day in Greenwich, London during which the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day16-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Members of Royal Marines Commandos demonstrate various weaponry to small children and young adults  during a public open-day in Greenwich, London during which the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day02-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Local children heave-ho on a large rope for the best of three tug o war games during a community park festival.
    tug_o_war01-23-06-2012.jpg
  • Local children heave-ho on a large rope for the best of three tug o war games during a community park festival.
    tug_o_war05-23-06-2012.jpg
  • Two children lay down on the ground at the foot of a solid dry stone wall, up in the hills of the area of northern England known as the Dales, near Settle, Yorkshire. The two brother and sister have their faces against the rocks that serve as boundaries and enclosures for farmers and land owners. These walls were built by tradesmen called Wallers, a dying tradition and skill. Dry stone walls are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. The wall is held up by special construction methods and by its weight. The stones must be carefully selected by shape to ensure that they have a large contact surface area with their neighbours and so do not slip. They are a legacy of the movement towards enclosure of common farming and grazing land as English society moved away from medieval feudalism. Model released.
    ella+sam23-21-02_2002.jpg
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