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  • A missing panel in a street directions sign, frames a businessman on his phone, beneath the Monument where the Great Fire of London of 1666 is commemorated, in the City of London.
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  • A lady carries two birthday 30th balloons along Bond Street in central London, on 6th April 2018, in London, England.
    carrying_balloons-03-06-04-2018.jpg
  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.<br />
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A limited edition (2 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
    ernst+young244-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Casually-dressed accountants work in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
    ernst+young240-09-08-2007.jpg
  • A lady carries two birthday 30th balloons along Bond Street in central London, on 6th April 2018, in London, England.
    carrying_balloons-07-06-04-2018.jpg
  • A lady carries two birthday 30th balloons along Bond Street in central London, on 6th April 2018, in London, England.
    carrying_balloons-01-06-04-2018.jpg
  • Casually-dressed accountants work in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
    ernst+young253-09-08-2007.jpg
  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
    ernst+young243-09-08-2007.jpg
  • A lady carries two birthday 30th balloons along Bond Street in central London, on 6th April 2018, in London, England.
    carrying_balloons-06-06-04-2018.jpg
  • Two men stand on a street corner and wave to a colleague, on 19th April, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-18-19-04-2017.jpg
  • A male employee of a Barristers helps a woman colleague with a boxes of legal documents into the chambers address in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
    legal_clerk-01-25-03-2019.jpg
  • Two ladies stand outside of a bar to sip lunchtime drinks in Broadgate, City of London. Dressed in matching scarlet red jackets, the brunette and the blonde look relaxed in the warm mid-day sunshine during a warm spell in the capital. The nearest woman holds the remains of a gin and tonic whose lemon slice  is at the bottom of her glass while her friend or colleague, with wide shoulder pads and gold chain strap for her bag draped over across a shoulder, smiles to show white teeth. In the background are other women who wear the same red clothes and these primary colours are set amongst the deep green foliage of the bar's plants. .
    city_ladies-25-06-1993.jpg
  • Two window cleaners safely attached to an outside cradle, wash the large panes of glass at a building at Broadgate in the City of London. While stretching with his long sponge into the corner of this window, one worker on the left is wiping soapy liquid onto the grimy glass before cleaning it off with a squeegee. His colleague on the right is communicating with the cradle operator in the building's roof, way above these men, in order to raise the cradle and allowing the men to achieve the correct operating height. Far below them is the capital's Square Mile, London's financial and oldest area. The famous dome of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen most prominently although it is a grey day across this modern metropolis skyline.
    window_cleaners07-16-1993.jpg
  • In the shadow of 1 Canada Square, the iconic Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands stands as an icon for Thatcherite Britain when the good times, prosperity and economic upturns seemed unshakeable. Four work colleagues stand under a hot lunchtime sun during a summer heatwave. In their shirtsleeves the men each hold pints of refreshing lager, all having removed their dark jackets to enjoy the company of a flirtatious female who appears to be flirting with an older male companion. The sky is blue and the five are care-free to any future economic uncertainty.
    canary_wharf_drinkers07-18-1991.jpg
  • Old colleagues greet each other in the City of London as an outsider looks on.
    city_people03-13-08-2014.jpg
  • Three work colleagues enjoy a picnic on the grass in a City of London park in summer sunshine. As the male admires the body of the younger, more beautiful lady, she throws her head back as a reaction to the conversation. In the background are other office workers also relishing the warm weather in the capital.
    city_lunchtime08-20-05-1993.jpg
  • Three work colleagues enjoy a picnic on the grass in a City of London park in summer sunshine.
    city_lunchtime07-20-05-1993.jpg
  • A group of 1990s work colleagues drink outside in summer sunshine, beneath the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_drinkers-20-06-1993.jpg
  • In the British Airways Galleries First lounge at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, two businessmen sit with identical laptops open, perched on their knees. The colleagues are en-route to Australia and are enjoying this exclusive facility (only available to passengers travelling in First and Gold Executive Club members) designed by Artwise. The lounge's 15,000 sq ft complex was built at the cost of £60 million. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport921-10-08-2009.jpg
  • Colleagues and associates meet in the window of a cafe in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 6th June 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-02-06-06-2018.jpg
  • Labour MP John Smith sits with shadow cabinet colleagues at a Labour event in April 1992 in London, UK. John Smith QC PC (b1938) was a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death from a heart attack in May 1994.
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  • A group of work colleagues, friends and associates gather on a sunlit terrace with a backdrop of the City of London on the opposite, northern shore of the River Thames. People stand with drinks in their hands in the evening summer sunshine and we see the tall Natwest tower and other banking institutions plus the much older Monument on the far right, commemorating the Great Fire of London in 1666, when the old Elizabethan city was burned to the ground, making way for the newer metropolis. But the architecture we see here is largely from the 1980s building boom of the Thatcherism era.
    city_drinks01-18-08-1993.jpg
  • Work colleagues and friends' pictures and trophies displayed on a board in an auditing company's London headquarters
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  • A man in a central London street speaks through a gap in construction sheeting to a hidden colleage whose boots are seen below.
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  • 1990s British customs and immigration officials and a French Gendarme await the arrival of the first people to have crossed from France to the British mainland on the occasion of the Channel Tunnel bores breaking through, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, Kent England.
    tunnel_customs-01-12-1990.jpg
  • A man in a central London street speaks through a gap in construction sheeting to a hidden colleage whose boots are seen below.
    hoarding_man5-20-10-2011.jpg
  • With thousands of employees in the capital's financial district still working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, other City workers enjoy a socially distanced lunch beneath the Swiss Re building (aka the Gherkin), on 29th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs have now re-opened and staff working under cover outside the riverside Trafalgar Tavern, a pub on the Thames at Greenwich, serve customers wearing required face shields, on 5th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs have now re-opened and staff working under cover outside the riverside Trafalgar Tavern, a pub on the Thames at Greenwich, serve customers wearing required face shields, on 5th July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Greenwich-08-05-07-2020.jpg
  • With the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules being eased, pubs have now re-opened and staff working under cover outside the riverside Trafalgar Tavern, a pub on the Thames at Greenwich, serve customers wearing required face shields, on 5th July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Greenwich-06-05-07-2020.jpg
  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy a tranquill lunchtime high above the City on the rooftop garden at Fen Court in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
    roof_garden-01-22-08-2019.jpg
  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy drinks in summer sunshine outside the Swiss Re building (aka The Gherkin), in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-46-22-08-2019.jpg
  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy drinks in summer sunshine beneath the Swiss Re building (aka The Gherkin), in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-40-22-08-2019.jpg
  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy drinks in summer sunshine beneath the Swiss Re building (aka The Gherkin), in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-41-22-08-2019.jpg
  • Lunchtime City workers enjoy drinks in summer sunshine beneath the Swiss Re building (aka The Gherkin), in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-39-22-08-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile), on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-32-25-07-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile), on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-31-25-07-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile), on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-28-25-07-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile), on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-27-25-07-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile), on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-26-25-07-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile), on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-25-25-07-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far, office co-workers sunbathe on the grass beneath St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile), on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-24-25-07-2019.jpg
  • Financial industry businessmen walk past the sculpture entitled City Wing on Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 11th July 2019, in London, England. City Wing is by the artist Christopher Le Brun. The ten-metre-tall bronze sculpture is by President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun, commissioned by Hammerson in 2009. It is called ‘The City Wing’ and has been cast by Morris Singer Art Founders, reputedly the oldest fine art foundry in the world.
    city_people-15-11-07-2019.jpg
  • Financial industry businessmen walk past the sculpture entitled City Wing on Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 11th July 2019, in London, England. City Wing is by the artist Christopher Le Brun. The ten-metre-tall bronze sculpture is by President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun, commissioned by Hammerson in 2009. It is called ‘The City Wing’ and has been cast by Morris Singer Art Founders, reputedly the oldest fine art foundry in the world.
    city_people-03-11-07-2019.jpg
  • Insurance industry business people gather outside the Lloyds of London building on leadenhall Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 10th July 2019, in London England.
    city_people-22-10-07-2019.jpg
  • Lunchtime crowds enjoy summer sunshine in Leadenhall in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 10th July 2019, in London England.
    city_people-09-10-07-2019.jpg
  • Two businessmen walk along Upper Thames Street beneath the London HQ of the Wells Fargo Bank in the City of London, the capital's ancient, financial district, on 14th May, in London, England.
    bus_journey-04-14-05-2019.jpg
  • Businessmen walk along St. Mary Axe street in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 10th May 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-05-10-05-2019.jpg
  • Businessmen walk along St. Mary Axe street in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 10th May 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-03-10-05-2019.jpg
  • Work mates share a cigarette break outside a Co-Op in Southwark, on 26th March 2019, in London, England
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  • Three runners pass the temporary renovation hoarding of luxury brand Louis Vuitton in New Bond Street, on 27th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • Three runners pass the temporary renovation hoarding of luxury brand Louis Vuitton in New Bond Street, on 27th February 2019, in London, England.
    vuitton_corner-28-27-02-2019.jpg
  • Associates hold a conversation after spontaneously bumping into each other beneath the temporary renovation hoarding of luxury brand Louis Vuitton in New Bond Street, on 27th February 2019, in London, England.
    vuitton_corner-21-27-02-2019.jpg
  • Associates hold a conversation after spontaneously bumping into each other beneath the temporary renovation hoarding of luxury brand Louis Vuitton in New Bond Street, on 27th February 2019, in London, England.
    vuitton_corner-16-27-02-2019.jpg
  • A 1990s tired office worker has forty winks at lunchtime in Broadgate in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_lunchtime-20-06-1993.jpg
  • Two businessmen descend the steps at the southern end of London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-61-10-10-2018.jpg
  • An aerial cityscape of Londoners and traffic on Upper Thames Street (west of London Bridge) in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-37-10-10-2018.jpg
  • Business person walk through sunlight in the City of London, the capital's financial heart (aka The Square Mile), on 26th September 2018, in London, England.
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  • Japenses businessmen bow to each other after a day at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    farnborough_airshow-113-16-07-2018.jpg
  • Two businessmen shake hands after meeting in a side street in the capital's financial district, on 5th October, 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_handshake-01-05-10-2017.jpg
  • Two afternoon drinkers stand outside a public house (pub) enjoying cool beers on a hot day in the Square Mile, the capital's ancient financial district dating back to the 1st century Roman era, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_pub-01-17-07-2017.jpg
  • Modern English and ancient Latin marks the re-burial place of an unknown Roman girl near afternoon drinkers enjoying warm summer sunshine beneath the architecture of the Swiss Re building (aka The Gherkin), on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-05-17-07-2017.jpg
  • Afternoon drinkers enjoy warm summer sunshine beneath the architecture of the Swiss Re building (aka The Gherkin), on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-02-17-07-2017.jpg
  • An older businessman walks with another wearing a flat cap below the classical architecture of Royal Exchange and the WW1 war memorial at Bank Triangle, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-29-10-05-2017.jpg
  • An older businessman walks with others below the classical architecture of Royal Exchange and the WW1 war memorial at Bank Triangle, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-15-10-05-2017.jpg
  • As nearly-empty lager glasses are lined up on a sill of a City on Lime Street, male businessman enjoy after-work drinks, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_pub-02-10-05-2017.jpg
  • Two cigarette smokers talk at Royal Exchange on Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district also known as the Square Mile, on 6th April 2017, in London, England.
    city_people-42-06-04-2017.jpg
  • Two smartly-dressed young men wearing matching pink ties stand watching a passing protest march on Piccadilly, on 4th February 2017 in London, United Kingdom.
    anti_trump_protest-24-04-02-2017.jpg
  • An aerial view of a conversation between two local men over a cart full of produce in the modern city of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • Local men on the West Bank of the river Nile talk at dawn on railings overlooking the city of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt340-06-03-2016.jpg
  • Girlfriends look at a pet dog's paws during a day out in wales.
    long_boarding07-30-08-2015.jpg
  • Three blue-suited businessmen walk along a City of London street holding identical blue spiral-bound notebooks.
    blue_suits02-10-06-2015.jpg
  • Two businessmen enjoy an informal lunchtime meal outside a City of London bar in Milford Lane, WC2.
    city_lines04-30-04-2015.jpg
  • Women walk into dark shadows in Broadgate in the City of London.
    broadgate_people01-09-02-2015.jpg
  • People walk through sunlight at Cornhill in the City of London.
    city_people13-20-08-2014.jpg
  • Businessmen walk through sunlight at Cornhill in the City of London.
    city_people05-20-08-2014.jpg
  • Businessmen pass an office foyer entrance featuring dots and circles (and shadows) on exterior windows in the City of London.
    window_spots14-10-04-2014.jpg
  • A symmetrical scene of London city workers out walking and shopping at lunchtime, with tall office buildings rising above.
    city_symmetry09-10-04-2014.jpg
  • Angled passer-by reflections in sheet glass of City office entrance.
    city_people09-13-02-2014.jpg
  • City of London bollard and businessmens' shadows on church wall.
    city_people06-13-02-2014.jpg
  • Three businessmen gather for an informal meeting, outside a bar in central Milton Keynes, UK. Each with a pint of bitter or lager, the three associates sit outside a bar in the town centre at lunchtime, half-way through the working day. One takes a sip from his pint glass and the others refer to paperwork, the subject of their time together.
    90s_businessmen-18-05-1994.jpg
  • British and French customs officials shake hands during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side. As proof of Anglo-french relations between the two European states, an Entente Cordiale exists in this theatrical joke about bureaucracy between France and Britain. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
    anglo_french_90s-01-12-1990.jpg
  • Two old friends regularly spend afternoons sunbathing at Brixton Lido and talk of old times in the sun. The friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido_men01-25-08-1995.jpg
  • Four men of Asian appearance share a funny moment while eating lunch in a City of London park.
    students_lunch01-17-10-2013.jpg
  • Two Londoners walk past an illustration of future office development of the Leadenhall Building by the Brookfield Multiplex construction company at 100 Bishopsgate in the financial district City of London. Looking up to see the rise of the mammoth buildings already in use, the newest site grows upwards to occupy the empty location. The Brookfield Multiplex builds, engineers, develops and maintains property and infrastructure around the world. Over the past five decades we have successfully completed over 726 major projects, with a combined value of over $27.5 billion in Australasia, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The 100 Bishopsgate development will become one of the most significant new commercial office buildings in the City comprising 3 buildings totalling c815,000sf NIA.
    city_billboard02-18-10-2013.jpg
  • Two men walk past a fashion poster showing a fashion boy and girl and St Paul's Cathedral.
    city_people13-08-10-2013.jpg
  • Two businessmen eat takeaway lunches in St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate churchyard
    city_people02-08-10-2013-2.jpg
  • Walkers blur as they walk through an English wood during a weekend ramble.
    ramblers04-15-09-2013.jpg
  • South Londoners enjoy al fresco cafe street life in Herne Hill station during a summer heatwave.
    herne_hill01-20-07-2013.jpg
  • Two catering staff rest outside in the street on a hot afternoon in the City of London, the capital's Square Mile, and its financial heart.
    city_people08-05-07-2013.jpg
  • Wealthy punters with bottles of empty Champagne laid out enjoy a morning car park party on grass, hours before the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot56-19-06-2013.jpg
  • Wealthy punters with bottles of empty Champagne laid out enjoy a morning car park party on grass, hours before the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot55-19-06-2013.jpg
  • Two Spanish men walk and talk during the Spring Feria in Seville, Spain. Crowds of locals mingle in the late-afternoon sunshine at this lively event that Seville holds annually in the vast fairground area on the far bank of the Guadalquivir River. Rows of temporary marquee tents, or casetas, host families, corporations and friends into the late hours during the April Fair which begins begins two weeks after the Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week in the Andalusian capital.
    seville_feria02-11-06-1999.jpg
  • Lifeguards in the seaside resort of Lowestoft practise the recovery position and resuscitation to a volunteer seaside victim. Lying on the smooth sand near the water's edge, a young man wearing a wetsuit lies pretending to be unconscious, having ingested sea water and requiring immediate treatment by the staff, well-versed in saving lives. As one starts chest compressions, the other holds on the mouth before continuing mouth-to-mouth. Passing time is vital if they are to start a heart and get air into the brain.
    lifeguard_exercise-19-07-1993.jpg
  • Four friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Bare except for their costumes, they stretch and yawn, read a newspaper and lean against a railing all the while swapping anecdotes and complaining grumpily about the state of the world near a brick wall that retains heat. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido_summer04-25-08-1995.jpg
  • As two city office workers walk briskly towards the viewer, we also see an artwork, a series of statues of commuting people are also striding as one, making their homeward journeys. The two gentlemen however appear to be taking a lunchtime break from their desk jobs and carrying sports holdalls with the 90s sports brand Head, are probably on their way to any number of city-based gyms. They look successful and wealthy, products of a healthy economy and a business culture of bonuses and high prospects of affluence whereas the statues lend a feeing of suppression and the treadmill of their anonymous daily lives as if they were part of some Orwellian society. .
    commuters-16-07-1990.jpg
  • Young businessmen drink and chat outside a City of London pub during a warm lunchtime in Broadgate. With pint glasses lined up on the wall, the suits talk business informally in spring sunshine.
    city_lunchtime06-20-05-1994.jpg
  • An aerial view of city of London businessmen (and one lady) using the opportunity for business lunches at three tables outside in the city complex known as Broadgate Circle, an eighties development of offices and trading institutions. The three tables each have crisp white table cloths, cutlery and plates and green bottles of Perrier mineral water, rather than alcohol.
    city_lunchtime04-20-05-1993.jpg
  • City workers carry office possessions including computer hard drives and files that were damaged by the IRA bomb that devastated the City of London's Bishopsgate area in 1993. Allowed to return to their desks to recover their data and working paperwork, they walk through the ancient streets en route to new emergency office elsewhere in the capital. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Repair costs reached approx £350 million. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church.
    bomb_damage02-26-04-1993.jpg
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