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  • An HGV driver is ready to leave Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket distribution depot at Waltham Poiint
    sainsburys_depot215-09-05-2007.jpg
  • A man tucks in to his in-flight meal on-board an Air France Boeing 777 flight from Paris Orly to Cayenne, French Guiana. Putting more food into his mouth while watching an in-flight movie, the male passenger has an aisle seat on this airliner. We also see on another seat back, the progress of this journey across the Atlantic Ocean towards the mainland of South America, seen on the moving map system screen which reveals statistics such as altitude, airspeed, distance to destination, distance from origination and local time. Using GPS avionics, the capital Cayenne is seen as the destination as well as Caracas, Georgetown, Kingstown and San Juan in the Caribbean. On the viewer's lowered tray is a light lunch of fruit, natural yoghurt, bread roll, orange juice and empty up. This is the best of Economy class.
    esa_guiana02813-08-2007.jpg
  • Wearing a high-vis tabard and peaked cap, a young driver sits at the wheel of his HGV lorry on the A3 trunk road in London
    new_england26-27-11-2007.jpg
  • Wearing a high-vis tabard and peaked cap, a young driver sits at the wheel of his HGV lorry on the A3 trunk road in London
    new_england24-27-11-2007.jpg
  • Dented, empty airline freight containers and pallets are stacked up in a Heathrow warehouse car park awaiting the next shipment
    new_england11-27-11-2007.jpg
  • A British Airways baggage handler scans the bar code of his airline passenger's item of luggage before loading it into the aircraft hold container bins. 50-70,000 pieces of BA 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. 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_airport1200-13-08-2009.jpg
  • With cabin lights dimmed, economy class passengers sleep under blankets on an international long-haul flight
    maldives496-16-11-2007.jpg
  • A security guard stands over unattended baggage at Atlanta Hartsfield airport's arrivals hall carousel.
    baggage_security-20-08-1998.jpg
  • A family just arrived from Chennai (India) drags heavy suitcases from the carousel in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. 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. 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_airport1533-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Wide aerial view of passengers awaiting baggage in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport477-14-07-2009.jpg
  • Young child on mother's back await baggage from African flight at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1536-19-08-2009.jpg
  • A British Airways baggage loads passengers' possessions into an airline container at Heathrow terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1195-13-08-2009.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
  • Gazing out of the window at an inner-city landscape from of a commuter train between Denmark Hill and Victoria, South London
    tube_strike_commuters01-04-09-2007.jpg
  • Clouds and blue sky above the Indian Ocean are far below a Sri Lankan Airbus aircraft port wing and CFM engines.
    maldives04-11-11-2007.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial walkway, we look down on a lady airline passenger being helped to pull her heavy suitacse from the carousel in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. 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. 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_airport459-14-07-2009.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial walkway, we look down on airline passengers awaiting the arrival of their baggage in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. 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. 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_airport1527-19-08-2009.jpg
  • 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through these 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. 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. There are four colour codes: Yellow for out-of-gauge (oversized, like golf clubs); dark blue for not x-rayed; light blue for transfer and red, meaning the item has been subjected to 12 seconds of x-ray scanning. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1177-13-08-2009.jpg
  • Last ladies awaiting their luggage from domestic baggage reclaim carousel at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport525-14-07-2009.jpg
  • Lone lady awaiting her luggage from domestic baggage reclaim carousel at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport522-14-07-2009.jpg
  • Airline passengers grabs his suitcase from the carousel in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport478-14-07-2009.jpg
  • Wide aerial view of passengers awaiting baggage in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport476-14-07-2009.jpg
  • A family just arrived from Chennai (India) drags heavy suitcases from the carousel in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1532-19-08-2009.jpg
  • A family just arrived from Chennai (India) drags heavy suitcases from the carousel in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1530-19-08-2009.jpg
  • A British Airways baggage loads passengers' possessions into an airline container at Heathrow terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1193-13-08-2009.jpg
  • A British Airways baggage loads passengers' possessions into an airline container at Heathrow terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1191-13-08-2009.jpg
  • A British Airways baggage handler scans the bar code of his airline passenger's item of luggage before loading in container
    heathrow_airport1189-13-08-2009.jpg
  • Baggage travels down some of the 11 miles of conveyor belts Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport.
    heathrow_airport1170-13-08-2009.jpg
  • Lone lady awaiting her luggage from domestic baggage reclaim carousel at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport528-14-07-2009.jpg
  • Sri Lankan Airlines cabin crew serve drinks to economy class passengers between the Maldives and Colombo
    maldives479-16-11-2007.jpg
  • A blue Indian Ocean and remote atolls in the Republic of the Maldives are far below an Airbus port wing and CFM engines.
    maldives08-11-11-2007.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
  • Off-duty soldier returning from active service in Afghanistan wheels baggage through departures at Heathrow's terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport695-17-07-2009.jpg
  • Last ladies awaiting their luggage from domestic baggage reclaim carousel at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport527-14-07-2009.jpg
  • Close-up detail of a dented airline baggage container beneath the floors of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1196-13-08-2009.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
  • iXPLOR moving map technology gives the air traveller real-time geographical positions on an economy class airline seat.
    maldives507-16-11-2007.jpg
  • Close-up detail of stickers and dents of a airline baggage container beneath the floors of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1199-13-08-2009.jpg
  • Two businessmen in dark formal suits carry identical blue boxes along a London street. Walking away with their backs to us, the two men stride towards an appointment in the City of London. The two boxes are both held in the arms of both executives as they cross the churchyard in front of St. Paul's cathedral in the capital's financial district.
    blue_boxes4-23-09-2011.jpg
  • Two businessmen in dark formal suits carry identical blue boxes along a London street.
    blue_boxes1-23-09-2011.jpg
  • Two businessmen carrying identical blue boxes walk through a London street and enter offices belonging to Citibank.
    blue_boxes5-23-09-2011.jpg
  • Two businessmen in dark formal suits carry identical blue boxes along a London street. Walking away with their backs to us, the two men stride towards an appointment in the City of London. The two boxes are both held in the arms of both executives as they cross the churchyard in front of St. Paul's cathedral in the capital's financial district.
    blue_boxes3-23-09-2011.jpg
  • A lorry load of aggregates awaiting transporting to a nearby construction site in the City of London.
    truck_landscape1-05-July-2011.jpg
  • A night-time exposure during the flight over a city in rural Arizona whose lights are blurred underneath the twin-propeller powered aircraft, an air ambulance ferrying a patient to hospital. The British Aerospace BAe-3101 Jetstream 31 is an air ambulance en-route from San Carlos Apache reservation in Arizona, USA. Native American Air Services, provides critical care level air ambulance services in Arizona. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Mesa, Arizona. 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_carlos03-07-01-2000.jpg
  • A pink Dodo is pushed through London streets en-route to where other environmental and climate change protesters block Fleet Street on the first day of a week-long country-wide protests using using five boats to stop traffic in Cardiff, Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds, and London, on 15th July 2019, in London, England. The group is calling on the government to declare a climate emergency, saying it was beginning a five-day "summer uprising" and that 'Ecocide' ought to be a criminal offence in law.
    extinction_rebellion-32-15-07-2019.jpg
  • Leader of the Opposition and future Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Tony Blair MP, sits reading newspapers whilst on a train en-route to an evening Labour Party rally in Nottingham, 2 years before his victory in the 1997 General Election, on 2nd February 1995 in London UK. Then, he could travel in relative obscurity, without large security details. Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.
    tony_blair-02-02-1995.jpg
  • On the day that Britain's new Conservative Party Prime Minister, Boris Johnson enters Downing Street to begin his government administration, replacing Theresa May after her failed Brexit negotiations with the European Union in Brussels, Johnson's car and police escort speeds down the Mall en-route to Buckingham Palace to seek the Queen's permission to form a new government, on 24th July 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    boris_johnson_new_PM-12-24-07-2019.jpg
  • A pink Dodo is pushed through London streets en-route to where other environmental and climate change protesters block Fleet Street on the first day of a week-long country-wide protests using using five boats to stop traffic in Cardiff, Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds, and London, on 15th July 2019, in London, England. The group is calling on the government to declare a climate emergency, saying it was beginning a five-day "summer uprising" and that 'Ecocide' ought to be a criminal offence in law.
    extinction_rebellion-36-15-07-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, Melania Trump sits in his Presidential cavalcade, making her way en-route from Westminster Abbey, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-64-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, his Presidential cavalcade makes its way along Horseguards en-route to Westminster Abbey, on 3rd June 2019, in London England. The armour-plated car, formerly named Cadillac One, is understood to cost around £1.1million and weighs at least four tonnes. 'The Beast' is flown to whichever country the US president is visiting and is reportedly armed with tear gas canisters, pump-action shotguns a life support machine and blood supply.
    trump_visit-62-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, his Presidential cavalcade makes its way along Horseguards en-route to Westminster Abbey, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-58-03-06-2019.jpg
  • Two women dressed in bright pink sit on a station bench en-route to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. A man with top hat and tails sits reading a newspaper with a Wimbledon tennis news headline on the back page, Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
    ascot_races06-21-06-1993.jpg
  • We are looking down from above to office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market and other animals used for transport. It is a warm afternoon and in the foreground, a man wearing a dark suit has taken off his polished shoes and is lying his head on his jacket in the warm afternoon, loosening his tight tie and stretching his neck. Elsewhere, a lady is sitting eating a packed lunch with the Sun newspaper and a man a little further behind is in jeans and plimsoll shoes. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
    RB-0126.jpg
  • Soon after setting sail from Miami, en-route to Cancun in Mexico, passengers of Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy liner are told to report on the top sun deck for the obligatory safety drill. Told to fetch their life vests from their respective cabins and suites, they have gathered at various muster points around the vessel to hear the crews' instructions about abandoning ship or the precuations needed to enter the water. We look down from a higher deck to see several dozen tourists on red vests, milling around awaiting the signal to return to their previous activities and entertainment. Operators like US-owned Carnival take these drills very seriously. Carnival was a pioneer in the concept of cheaper and shorter cruises. Its ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The cruise line calls its ships The Fun Ships and the MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping. After Hurricane Katrina, she spent six months in New Orleans serving as quarters for refugees and relief workers. She suffered heavy damage in 1998 after the laundry room in the ship's stern caught fire damaging much of her stern and aft section.
    RB-0180.jpg
  • The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair MP, as Leader of the Opposition, stares in deep thought whilst on a train en-route to an evening Labour Party rally in Nottingham, 2 years before his victory in the 1997 General Election that eventually made him British Prime Minister. Blair is with an unknown Downing Street assistant and is has been reading the London Evening Standard newspaper in the First Class carriage at a time when fellow-passengers take little notice of the future controversial world statesman. Then, he could travel in relative obscurity, without large security details. Blair is wearing a blue shirt with a sober, patterned tie and his hair is still dark without the greyness that would appear rapidly when the pressures of office prematurely aged him. It is dark outside and we see no detail through the window of the vast Victorian mainline station outside.
    RB-0165.jpg
  • Boys from a Scottish scout group sit and in the departures concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. All wearing traditional kilts favoured by the Scots, the lads are en-route between Switzerland and Scotland after a week's international jamboree in the Alps. Their sleeves are filled with the stitched badges of past achievements and one reads a newspaper while the others pass away the time before their flight by watching other passengers. The kilt's are alternately red and green and historically, relate to their wearers old family clans. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport486-14-07-2009.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters blur through London Bridge mainline Station, walking en-route to exit and security barriers
    ernst+young042-09-08-2007.jpg
  • A couple cuddle at the Neon Bar on the cruise ship Ecstasy, en-route from Miami to Cancun in Mexico, on 15th May 1996, in Miami, Florida, USA. The Neon Bar features an enormous circular piano which doubles as a bar for those who like to sing along and neon artwork is lit behind the females, one the shape of another cocktail glass. Carnival’s ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The cruise line calls its ships The Fun Ships and the MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping.
    cruise_passengers-15-05-1996.jpg
  • Girlfriends eagerly await the opening by one woman of a bottle of bubbly, en-route by First Class train carriage to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week, on 21st June 1993, in London, England. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting.
    ascot_train-21-06-1993.jpg
  • A pink Dodo is pushed through London streets en-route to where other environmental and climate change protesters block Fleet Street on the first day of a week-long country-wide protests using using five boats to stop traffic in Cardiff, Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds, and London, on 15th July 2019, in London, England. The group is calling on the government to declare a climate emergency, saying it was beginning a five-day "summer uprising" and that 'Ecocide' ought to be a criminal offence in law.
    extinction_rebellion-38-15-07-2019.jpg
  • A pink Dodo is pushed through London streets en-route to where other environmental and climate change protesters block Fleet Street on the first day of a week-long country-wide protests using using five boats to stop traffic in Cardiff, Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds, and London, on 15th July 2019, in London, England. The group is calling on the government to declare a climate emergency, saying it was beginning a five-day "summer uprising" and that 'Ecocide' ought to be a criminal offence in law.
    extinction_rebellion-35-15-07-2019.jpg
  • A pink Dodo is pushed through London streets en-route to where other environmental and climate change protesters block Fleet Street on the first day of a week-long country-wide protests using using five boats to stop traffic in Cardiff, Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds, and London, on 15th July 2019, in London, England. The group is calling on the government to declare a climate emergency, saying it was beginning a five-day "summer uprising" and that 'Ecocide' ought to be a criminal offence in law.
    extinction_rebellion-34-15-07-2019.jpg
  • A pink Dodo is pushed through London streets en-route to where other environmental and climate change protesters block Fleet Street on the first day of a week-long country-wide protests using using five boats to stop traffic in Cardiff, Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds, and London, on 15th July 2019, in London, England. The group is calling on the government to declare a climate emergency, saying it was beginning a five-day "summer uprising" and that 'Ecocide' ought to be a criminal offence in law.
    extinction_rebellion-33-15-07-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, his Presidential cavalcade makes its way along Horseguards en-route to Westminster Abbey, on 3rd June 2019, in London England. The armour-plated car, formerly named Cadillac One, is understood to cost around £1.1million and weighs at least four tonnes. 'The Beast' is flown to whichever country the US president is visiting and is reportedly armed with tear gas canisters, pump-action shotguns a life support machine and blood supply.
    trump_visit-61-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, his Presidential cavalcade makes its way along Horseguards en-route to Westminster Abbey, on 3rd June 2019, in London England. The armour-plated car, formerly named Cadillac One, is understood to cost around £1.1million and weighs at least four tonnes. 'The Beast' is flown to whichever country the US president is visiting and is reportedly armed with tear gas canisters, pump-action shotguns a life support machine and blood supply.
    trump_visit-60-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, his Presidential cavalcade makes its way along Horseguards en-route to Westminster Abbey, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-57-03-06-2019.jpg
  • A couple just off the train from Waterloo are en-route to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. Not looking particularly happy to have arrived, two elderly women look at the clothes worn including the man's top hat and tails. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
    ascot_races08-21-06-1993.jpg
  • Girlfriends eagerly await the opening by one woman of a bottle of bubbly, en-route by train to Ascot racecourse  on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. The hats are wide-brimmed and the pinks are bright in this first class carriage with an old fashioned corridor. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
    ascot_races07-21-06-1993.jpg
  • Looking down on office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market. In the foreground a man in a dark suit has taken off his jacket and is lying down to complete his Financial Times (FT) crossword. Nearby, a lady and man are sitting eating a packed lunch. The City, is the historic financial core of London from which the modern conurbation grew and its one square mile (2.6 km) boundary has remained constant since the Middle Ages.
    finsbury_sheep_people-08-03-2007.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
  • Rush hour train commuters descend by escalator into Underground at London Bridge mainline Station, en-route to tube sevices
    london_bridge_commuters035-12-09-200...jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters blur through London Bridge mainline Station, walking en-route to exit and security barriers
    ernst+young049-09-08-2007.jpg
  • As a helicopter from an Air Ambulance service takes off into overcast skies from the helipad on the roof of Kings College Hospital Trust, a London Overground train leaves nearby Denmark Hill station, en-route towards Brixton and Clapham Junction, on 27th February 2020, in London, England.
    denmark_hill-01-26-02-2020.jpg
  • On the day that Britain's new Conservative Party Prime Minister, Boris Johnson enters Downing Street to begin his government administration, replacing Theresa May after her failed Brexit negotiations with the European Union in Brussels, Johnson's car and police escort speeds down the Mall en-route to Buckingham Palace to seek the Queen's permission to form a new government, on 24th July 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    boris_johnson_new_PM-11-24-07-2019.jpg
  • A pink Dodo is pushed through London streets en-route to where other environmental and climate change protesters block Fleet Street on the first day of a week-long country-wide protests using using five boats to stop traffic in Cardiff, Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds, and London, on 15th July 2019, in London, England. The group is calling on the government to declare a climate emergency, saying it was beginning a five-day "summer uprising" and that 'Ecocide' ought to be a criminal offence in law.
    extinction_rebellion-37-15-07-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, his Presidential cavalcade makes its way along Horseguards en-route to Westminster Abbey, on 3rd June 2019, in London England. The armour-plated car, formerly named Cadillac One, is understood to cost around £1.1million and weighs at least four tonnes. 'The Beast' is flown to whichever country the US president is visiting and is reportedly armed with tear gas canisters, pump-action shotguns a life support machine and blood supply.
    trump_visit-59-03-06-2019.jpg
  • The hydraulic arm of a Fiat-Hitachi caterpillar digger frames the 17th Century dome of St Paul's Cathedral during the redevelopment of the southbank in central London. Standing on a pile of rubble it sits idol during a break in reconstruction project that transformed Bankside from an unlandscaped are to a smart walkway in time for the Millennium of 2000. An aircraft en-route to City Airport flies overhead and a Police river patrol boat cruises past too.
    southbank_construction-09-04-2000.jpg
  • A Concorde supersonic airliner registration G-BOAB flies overhead during its service for British Airways - en-route for a foreign destination. The delta-winged jet was first flown in 1969, entering commercial service in 1976 for 27 years until the disastrous in Paris ended its viability. Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner or supersonic transport (SST). With a program cost of £1.3 billion and a unit cost of £23 million in 1977.
    concorde-11-07-1988.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters blur through London Bridge mainline Station, walking en-route to exit and security barriers
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  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, his Presidential cavalcade makes its way along Horseguards en-route to Westminster Abbey, on 3rd June 2019, in London England. The armour-plated car, formerly named Cadillac One, is understood to cost around £1.1million and weighs at least four tonnes. 'The Beast' is flown to whichever country the US president is visiting and is reportedly armed with tear gas canisters, pump-action shotguns a life support machine and blood supply.
    trump_visit-63-03-06-2019.jpg
  • Blurred travellers on the escalator in an inter-terminal tunnel at Chicago-O'Hare airport, Illinois, USA. As the travelling escalator makes its way along the tunnel, colours and shapes blur except for a lone figure coming the other way, en-route to a departure or arrival gate in the public domain area of the airport hub, one of the largest airport in the United States, and 12 months before the terrorist attacks on America that changed the public's attitude to flying on commercial airliners.
    chicago_o_hare01-23-11-2000 15-08-13.jpg
  • A lady office worker dashes through a City of London street, the heart of the capital's financial district. Carrying an armful of paper files and folders, clasped in her arms that makes her way across the city en route to a meeting with associates. Their education and careers have taken her to positions of influence and success, still hard to do in 90s Britain.
    city_people02-20-03-1993.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.
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  • 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, on 26th April 1993, in London, England. 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.
    city14-26-04-1993.jpg
  • A male office worker walks through a darkening winter afternoon in the rain in the City of London. Holding a large corporate brolley and sucking on a pipe in his mouth, the middle-aged gent walks briskly along en route to a meeting with associates elsewhere.
    city_people06-20-03-1993.jpg
  • Women office workers dash through a City of London street, the heart of the capital's financial district. Carrying an armful of paper files and folders, clasped in their arms that make their way across the city en route to a meeting with associates. Their education and careers have taken them to positions of influence and success, still hard to do in 90s Britain.
    city_people03-20-03-1993.jpg
  • Heathrow Express passenger and sunglasses advertising seen en route between airport terminals.
    heathrow_airport719-22-07-2009.jpg
  • City workers carry office possessions including trays 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_damage01-26-04-1993.jpg
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