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  • Sagging shelves, heavy with the weight of imported colourful fabrics in an East End street, on 14th February 2018, in London, England.
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  • Sagging shelves, heavy with the weight of imported colourful fabrics in an East End street, on 14th February 2018, in London, England.
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  • Sagging shelves, heavy with the weight of imported colourful fabrics in an East End street, on 14th February 2018, in London, England.
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  • Tartan kilts and national Scots fabrics on sale in the window of a tourist shop on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, on 25th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • Tartan kilts and national Scots fabrics on sale in the window of a tourist shop on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, on 25th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • Tartan kilts and national Scots fabrics on sale in the window of a tourist shop on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, on 25th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • Tartan kilt T-shirts on sale in a tourist shop in Edinburgh, on 25th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • A detail showing the fine stitching of a cotton dress by couturier Margaret Howell in the company's workshop factory in Edmonton, North London. England. In close-up, the eye is drawn into the centre of focus where the buttons are held in a criss-cross stich in its four holes. There are pins in this still prototype design as it evolves from an idea on paper to an actual garment. The fine check pattern of its fabric is beautifully sewn together in this fine and intricate dress. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • British couturier Margaret Howell holds a meeting takes place to discuss fabrics for the next fashion show at her studio
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  • A meeting takes place to discuss fabrics for the next fashion show at British couturier Margaret Howell's Wigmore Street studio
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  • Shades of yellow and brown coloured cotton threads are seen in an open drawer used by couturier Margaret Howell is displayed in the company's workshop in Edmonton, North London. England. They lies diagonally, as flat neighbouring tones and ready for use in the many fine garments manufactured in this small factory. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • An employee of British couturier Margaret Howell models a simple white top in the company's retail flagship and design studio at 34 Wigmore Street, Central London England. In a back rooom studio workshop, the group of 5 staff with Margaret Howell in the middle, they dicsuss the positives of the garment that is considered for a forthcoming collection. Racks of clothes are in the background and they sit around a trestle table. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • A beautifully simple white cotton shirt by couturier Margaret Howell is displayed in the company's workshop factory in Edmonton, North London. England. Ironed without creases, the garment has been set on a dress making tailor's dummy made by Kennett and Lindsell of Romford Essex. The pure white shirt is seen against a similarly-toned white wall and lit by daylight. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • A Japanese buyer watches a male model walk the catwalk of couturier Margaret Howell's Fashion Week show rehearsal in the company's retail flagship and design studio at 34 Wigmore Street, Central London England. Making notes on his clipboard as he looks at the striding man, the audience has yet to arrive so we see a largely empty scene that usually  serves as a shop. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • A male model starts his walk on the catwalk of couturier Margaret Howell's Fashion Week show rehearsal in the company's retail flagship and design studio at 34 Wigmore Street, Central London England. With a duster and spray cleaning agent in the foreground, the young man walks, as if having emerged through the wall. Bottles of bottled mineral water await their users but the fashion show's audience have yet to arrive. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • Make-up and hair stylists ready a model before the couturier Margaret Howell's Fashion Week show in the company's retail flagship and design studio at 34 Wigmore Street, Central London England. The young beauty has her lips dabbed with tissue to stop her lipstick from smudging. The hairdresser pins her braided hair in a whirl on her head and in the background, other freelance stylists busy themselves in the frantically busy room to get the show on the road. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • A young Nepali man peers out from a curtain to talk to an unseen neighbour in a remote village near Ulleri, in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal. It is a colourful (colorful) scene as the curtain fabric is a striking blue with mauve leaf motifs drawn in but it is a natural opposite colour against the badly-painted yellow wooden walls of his shack. Villages such as these partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. Tea houses are dotted along the trail offering lodging, refreshments and basic, but delicious food to the weary traveller.
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  • A man who is wearing a denim material jacket with studs sewn into the fabric and an expensive-looking wrist watch, drapes his arm over the shoulder of an unseen female at a glitzy couture party in London, for the fashion label Voyage. A large bouquet of flowers on the right are lit by a spotlight making their colours very bright and garish. The gathering was to celebrate the opening of the company's new store on the Fulham Road in a trendy area of Chelsea. It is an image of colourful (colorful) chic opulence and although  we see only the arm and back of two people and the slightly blurred flowers to the right, we imagine these people are wealthy and from privileged backgrounds.
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  • A hot air balloon is partially inflated before flight at Longleat Estate, Warminster, England. Using firstly cold air from a gas-powered fan, before its propane burners are used for final inflation, one of the ground crew assists in the process by pulling at the fragile synthetic material so that the volume within the whole 'envelope' can fill without damage and it's spectrum arc of colours are becoming rainbow-like. The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. The first manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783. In today's sport balloons the envelope is generally made from nylon fabric and the mouth of the balloon (closest to the burner flame) is made from fire resistant material such as Nomex.
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  • A 17 year-old girl studying A-Level Textiles, makes her own garment, using a family sewing machine.
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  • A rectangle of a Paisley rug on upright display in a Piccadilly window. Paisley or Paisley pattern is a droplet-shaped vegetable motif of Indian, Pakistani and Persian origin. The pattern is sometimes called "Persian pickles" by American traditionalists, especially quiltmakers or "Welsh pears" in Welsh textiles as far back as 1888.
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  • Girl model starts her catwalk at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio
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  • Make-up and hair stylists ready models at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio
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  • Model shows clothes to staff before couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio
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  • Clothes and model running order at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
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  • A simple white cotton shirt set on a dressmaker's tailoring dummy in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's workshop
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  • A seamstress runs up garments on a sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • Garment production order form and pins in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • A 17 year-old girl studying A-Level Textiles, makes her own garment, using a family sewing machine.
    ella_sewing01-02-04-2013.jpg
  • A 17 year-old girl studying A-Level Textiles, makes her own garment, using a family sewing machine.
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  • Middle-aged men sit chatting on a Manama City street pavement behind a womens' clothing outfitters in Bahrain, Gulf State
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  • Two rolls of the red fireproof material Nomex made by the Du Pont corporation, is stored ready for tailoring by a bespoke seamstress at Dale Techniche, Nelson, Lancashire where every Winter, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team place about 40 pilot suit orders and 180 blue (support ground crew) suits before their Summer air show season starts. Containing 5% Kevlar, all suits are made to fit exactly each team member. Fouteen different measurements are taken before the first suit is cut, each one requiring approximately three metres of dyed cloth. When a suit is complete, each one is signed inside by the machinist..The clothing factory also designs the Red Arrows badges, each requiring 15,000 stitches as well as suits for racing drivers, soldiers and pilots from other aerobatic teams. The Red Arrows have, since 1965 flown over 4,000 air shows in 52 countries.
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  • On the very last day of British rule over its Hong Kong colony, we see an elegant but headless life-size clothing mannequin seated on a chair on the shop floor of Chinese clothing brand Shanghai Tang. In the brand's flagship store, the last hours tick away before the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight of that day signified the end of British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Shanghai Tang is an international clothing chain company, founded in 1994 by Hong Kong businessman David Tang Wing Cheung. This was the original store in Hong Kong's Pedder Street (in Central) providing the lead for 24 outlets worldwide.
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  • A British lady applies a layer of sun cream to her hand on a beach in Magaluf.  In the foreground, and aligned with the lady's own body is a sun lounger with a beach towel draped over which depicts the torso and legs of a cartoon Hercules Adonis character complete in ancient Greek style with muscular thighs and short skirt. In the background is a hotel building and two other tourists with their tanned backs towards the viewer. Magaluf is a popular holiday resort on the island of Mallorca, one of the Spanish Balearic Islands. A seedy resort very much orientated around British tourists and catering for both young parties as well as families, it is considered as a hot and exotic alternative to the chilly seaside towns around the UK's coast.  .
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  • Seen in close-up detail, a holidaymaker's shirt is displayed in Magaluf. He has two pairs of spectacles hanging around his sunburned neck and a printed short-sleeved shirt depicting tropical paradise beach scenes with blue skies, palm trees and representing a Hawaiian Pacific Ocean scene with boats at sea, rolling on the waves. Magaluf is a popular holiday resort on the island of Mallorca, one of the Spanish Balearic Islands. A seedy resort very much orientated around British tourists and catering for both young parties as well as families, Magaluf is considered as an exotic alternative to the chilly seaside towns around the UK's coast.  .
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  • A lady wearing a Hejab sits among Western ethnic fashion mannequins in a womens' clothes shop in Manama City, Bahrain.
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  • Luvvies hug after the British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
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  • Models scrutinized by media at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio
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  • Media and guests queue for entry at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
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  • Girl model rehearses before design team before British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in design studio
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  • Girl model rehearses with bottled water at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in design studio
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  • Relaxing model before British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
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  • Male model rehearses British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
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  • Make-up and hair stylists ready models at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio
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  • Polaroid print for fashion model Flavia de Oliveira on a rack of her clothes to wear at designer Margaret Howell's Autumn show
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  • A customer tries on a jacket with pet dog at British couturier Margaret Howell's flagship Wigmore Street London shop
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  • A customer tries on shirts in a dressing room at British couturier Margaret Howell's flagship Wigmore Street London shop
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  • A customer tries on summer shirts at British couturier Margaret Howell's flagship Wigmore Street London shop
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  • A customer tries on shirts with friends at British couturier Margaret Howell's flagship Wigmore Street London shop
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  • Labelled wool rolled up on a shelf ready for tayloring in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's workshop
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  • Portrait of a seamstress with her sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • Detail of a seamstress runs up garments on a sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • A seamstress runs up garments on a sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • A garment tailor works with mannequins in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • Detail showing the fine stiching of a cotton dress in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • A tailor uses an Eastman Bluestreak II cloth cutting machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • A detail showing the fine stitching of a cotton dress in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's workshop factory
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  • A model waits for more test clothes for the next fashion show at British couturier Margaret Howell's Wigmore Street studio
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  • Preparing places before British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
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  • Fine cloth cutting with scissors using a template pattern in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's workshop factory
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  • Writer Alain de Botton sits in couturier Margaret Howell's retail flagship and design studio in Wigmore Street, London while researching his book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Hamish Hamilton, UK 2009)
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  • The location of Laura Ashley's first shop in Machynlleth, on 12th September 2018, in Machynlleth, Wales. Laura Ashley (1925-1985) was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s. Ashley's first shop was opened at 35 Maengwyn Street, Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, in 1961 - eventually becoming a global brand. The Laura Ashley style is characterised by Romantic English designs — often with a 19th-century rural feel — and the use of natural fabrics.
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  • Union Jack bunting hangs over a British summer fete bringing the local community together and to celebrate their important public space, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ship's communications officer.
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  • Union Jack bunting hangs over a British summer fete bringing the local community together and to celebrate their important public space, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ship's communications officer.
    fete_bunting-03-24-06-2017.jpg
  • Union Jack bunting hangs over a British summer fete bringing the local community together and to celebrate their important public space, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ship's communications officer.
    fete_bunting-05-24-06-2017.jpg
  • Union Jack bunting hangs in the trees of a London park, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ship's communications officer.
    fete_bunting-04-24-06-2017.jpg
  • Union Jack bunting hangs over a British summer fete bringing the local community together and to celebrate their important public space, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ship's communications officer.
    fete_bunting-02-24-06-2017.jpg
  • A cat watches passers-by in its usual sleeping spot in the window of a materials and fabric business on Lordship Lane in East Dulwich, on 3rd February 2020, in London, England
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  • Walkers climb the steep dome of the O2 Arena, on 24th June 2017, Greenwich Peninisular, London. Designed and developed by the original architects of The O2 music and entertainment venue (once called The Millennium Dome), climbers are challenged on a 30° ascent on the 380 metres fabric walkway 52m above the ground. Climbers are rewarded for their efforts with panoramas of the City, Greenwich Park and such landmarks as the Tower of London, the Observatory and The Shard.
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  • Walkers climb the steep dome of the O2 Arena, on 24th June 2017, Greenwich Peninisular, London. Designed and developed by the original architects of The O2 music and entertainment venue (once called The Millennium Dome), climbers are challenged on a 30° ascent on the 380 metres fabric walkway 52m above the ground. Climbers are rewarded for their efforts with panoramas of the City, Greenwich Park and such landmarks as the Tower of London, the Observatory and The Shard.
    O2_walk-03-23-06-2017.jpg
  • All Hallows-by-the-Tower church and modern architecture of Tower Place glas atrium. All Hallows-by-the-Tower, also previously dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin[1] and sometimes known as All Hallows Barking, is an ancient Anglican church on Byward Street in the City of London, overlooking the Tower of London. Founded in 675, it is one of the oldest churches in London, and contains inside a 7th-century Saxon arch with recycled Roman tiles, the oldest surviving piece of church fabric in the city. (St. Pancras Parish Church in King's Cross has been a place of Christian worship since the sixth century.)
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  • Four water-logged deckchairs have been abandoned on a wet Brighton's East Pier in East Sussex. It is Spring but the rain has driven away holidaymakers from this desolate and depressing spot from England's South coast seaside resort. We see a gloomy, grey sky and empty horizon with neither people, nor water activity but the stripes of the railings are echoed in the reflective wooden planks on this Victorian-era pier and of the fabric on the deckchairs. We wonder who might have sat on these chairs and where they might be now?  This landscape might be the antithesis of a holiday poster that repels rather than attracts tourists to this location.
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  • Spectators watch an air show at North Weald in Cambridgeshire, England. A man films a lone aircraft that banks across the summer sky. The enthusiast's blue denim jacket is almost fully-covered with aeronautical badges which depict various foreign military aerobatic teams, including the Swiss, Norwegian and German squadrons, whose emblems have been stitched into the fabric. Plane spotters form hardcore groups of aviation pilgrims. Logging and photographing flying machines, they follow air displays across their own countries and the calendars of other European festivals that attract hundreds of thousands. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • All Hallows-by-the-Tower church and modern architecture of Tower Place glas atrium. All Hallows-by-the-Tower, also previously dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin[1] and sometimes known as All Hallows Barking, is an ancient Anglican church on Byward Street in the City of London, overlooking the Tower of London. Founded in 675, it is one of the oldest churches in London, and contains inside a 7th-century Saxon arch with recycled Roman tiles, the oldest surviving piece of church fabric in the city. (St. Pancras Parish Church in King's Cross has been a place of Christian worship since the sixth century.)
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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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  • The shadows of two passing locals approach the tiny Cameron-run post office hut at Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. We see in the foreground the freshly painted Royal Mail post box which is lit by early morning sunshine telling us that the next collection is at 2.45pm despite it being 8.50am. This branch serves the local community of this Skye town, close to the Skye Bridge and is not only a place to post letters and packages but to buy miscellaneous supplies like newspapers and food at a time when rural sub-post offices are threatened with closure by a financially-troubled Royal Mail. Small villages like this often say that the post office is the ties its folk together, acting as a nucleus for information about village life. Their closure would therefore mean that the fabric of such remote communities are in jeopardy.
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