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  • A lost red glove dropped on a path in Clowes Wood, Chestfield, Kent hangs on a twig in case its owner returns to search.
    electricity312-25-01-2008 .jpg
  • Detail of a pink-coloured glove on the pavement in a central London street, on 6th February 2018, in London, England.
    pink_glove-02-06-02-2018.jpg
  • Detail of a pink-coloured glove on the pavement in a central London street, on 6th February 2018, in London, England.
    pink_glove-01-06-02-2018.jpg
  • A Maldivian fisherman shows a hook and mesh glove used to line catch yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a dhoni boat, Indian Ocean
    maldives313-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Detail of senior officers gloved hand before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
    thatcher_funeral18-17-04-2013.jpg
  • One single soldier of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders regiment of the British Army, stifles a yawn, his white gloved hand covering his gaping mouth. They are all in correct position, practising for an official portrait at Redford Barracks, Edinburgh, which will include Her Majesty the Queen the next day. After hours of rehearsal arriving efficiently into position, warm summer fatigue set in. The group of men are laid out in strict military lines, their heads and buttons show clearly and have been selected for even height to allow the picture to be as regimented as possible.
    RB-0069.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show05-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A single pink child's mitten left on park railings on a wintry day, on 15th December 2016, in Ruskin Park, London, England.
    pink_mitten-01-13-12-2016.jpg
  • A single pink child's mitten left on park railings on a wintry day, on 15th December 2016, in Ruskin Park, London, England.
    pink_mitten-02-13-12-2016.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show04-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show10-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show09-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A pair of gloved hands worn by a south London pharmacist prepares an AstraZenica Covid-19 jab by syringe for a local person's vaccination during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 2nd March 2021, in London, England.
    covid_vaccination02-02-03-2021.jpg
  • A pair of gloved hands worn by a south London pharmacist prepares an AstraZenica Covid-19 jab by syringe for a local person's vaccination during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 2nd March 2021, in London, England.
    covid_vaccination01-02-03-2021.jpg
  • A pair of gloved hands worn by a south London pharmacist prepares an AstraZenica Covid-19 jab by syringe for a local person's vaccination during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 2nd March 2021, in London, England.
    covid_vaccination05-02-03-2021.jpg
  • In the 24hrs that a further 38 died from Coronavirus, bringing the total to 41,736, a further easing of the UK’s Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions took place with many high street shops today being allowed to re-open after three months of forced closure. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wanting to stimulate the economy, has urged people to "shop with confidence" and long queues formed outside the main brands. But unlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory so shop floors and shopping practices have had to be adapted to ensure customers’ social distances, amid fears of a second infection wave. A security lady with blue gloves stands at an exit-only door and shows shoppers where to queue 2 metres apart outside Selfridges on Oxford Street, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shops-64-15-06-2020.jpg
  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues around the capital, and the UK death toll rising by 563 to 2,325, with 800,000 reported cases of Covid-19 worldwide, a youth slips of protective gloves before entering a local butchers shop where only 2 customers at a time are being served and signs warn that social distancing must be observed according to government guidelines and restrictions, on 1st April 2020, in Clapham south London, England.
    coronavirus_clapham-10-01-04-2020.jpg
  • Pigeon pest controller, Sue Van Vynck releases Harriet, her Harris Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) to scare away the local pigeon population. The ancient sport of Falconry has become today's humane pest control of choice, particularly as costs falls. Once a pigeon population has been scared away, it requires only a token hawk presence to keep it away. Van Vynck Bird Control is a specialist company providing over 25 years, a range of environmental services dealing with nuisance bird management. They are pioneers of specialist techniques such as the use of predatory species (such as falconry) to displace and interrupt behavioural patterns as well as offering a complete range of physical deterrents. Here at Broadgate the nuisance was pigeons and Harriet leaves Sue's gloved hand to patrol the architecture of this 32 acres (129,499 m2) office and retail space.
    harris_hawk16-07_1993.jpg
  • A little boy wearing a blue jump suit stands on the pavement outside his house holding the handlebars of a favourite matching blue coloured tricycle. He looks upwards towards the viewer slightly bemused about having his picture taken by his father who looks down from a standing position. Meanwhile, the boys sister towers above him dressed in a bright red coat and clean white gloves and short white socks. Alongside her is a friend also wearing gloves and a knee-length skirt but we see only their lower bodies and not their faces so they are unrecognisable - an older sibling and a girl friend. It is the summer of 1960 and while the red is vibrant, the blues and greens are more muted in this Kodachrome film which has a wonderful magenta colour cast in the mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look
    family_archive2420-11_1960.jpg
  • "Puddle in Oxleas Wood." A six month-old infant looks out from a baby back carrier frame whilst out on a muddy winter jaunt in Oxleas Wood on Shooters Hill, South London. The girl peers out with a fascination for the outdoors from a warm coat wearing a tiny hat and loose-fitting gloves to view the world while perched high-up on her mother's back who carries her child on the chilly walk. The bare trees and forested landscape can be imagined from the waterlogged puddle that is out of focus to the right. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella15-20-04-1995.jpg
  • A pair of gloved hands worn by a south London pharmacist prepares an AstraZenica Covid-19 jab by syringe for a local person's vaccination during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 2nd March 2021, in London, England.
    covid_vaccination04-02-03-2021.jpg
  • A pair of gloved hands worn by a south London pharmacist prepares an AstraZenica Covid-19 jab by syringe for a local person's vaccination during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 2nd March 2021, in London, England.
    covid_vaccination03-02-03-2021.jpg
  • A pair of gloved hands worn by a south London pharmacist prepares an AstraZenica Covid-19 jab by syringe for a local person's vaccination during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 2nd March 2021, in London, England.
    covid_vaccination06-02-03-2021.jpg
  • A close-up of a pair of lower legs and shoes with a pair of discarded protecting gloves on the ground in the City of London during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 31st July 2020, in London, England.
    feet_gloves01-31-07-2020.jpg
  • During the Coronavirus pandemic, a DHL courier wearing surgical gloves walks beneath the Monument in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 29th July 2020, in London, England.
    fuji_test27-29-07-2020.jpg
  • In the 24hrs that a further 38 died from Coronavirus, bringing the total to 41,736, a further easing of the UK’s Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions took place with many high street shops today being allowed to re-open after three months of forced closure. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wanting to stimulate the economy, has urged people to "shop with confidence" and long queues formed outside the main brands. But unlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory so shop floors and shopping practices have had to be adapted to ensure customers’ social distances, amid fears of a second infection wave. A security lady with blue gloves stands at an exit-only door and shows shoppers where to queue 2 metres apart outside Selfridges on Oxford Street, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shops-68-15-06-2020.jpg
  • In the 24hrs that a further 38 died from Coronavirus, bringing the total to 41,736, a further easing of the UK’s Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions took place with many high street shops today being allowed to re-open after three months of forced closure. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wanting to stimulate the economy, has urged people to "shop with confidence" and long queues formed outside the main brands. But unlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory so shop floors and shopping practices have had to be adapted to ensure customers’ social distances, amid fears of a second infection wave. A security lady with blue gloves stands at an exit-only door and shows shoppers where to queue 2 metres apart outside Selfridges on Oxford Street, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shops-70-15-06-2020.jpg
  • In the 24hrs that a further 38 died from Coronavirus, bringing the total to 41,736, a further easing of the UK’s Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions took place with many high street shops today being allowed to re-open after three months of forced closure. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wanting to stimulate the economy, has urged people to "shop with confidence" and long queues formed outside the main brands. But unlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory so shop floors and shopping practices have had to be adapted to ensure customers’ social distances, amid fears of a second infection wave. A security lady with blue gloves stands at an exit-only door and shows shoppers where to queue 2 metres apart outside Selfridges on Oxford Street, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shops-69-15-06-2020.jpg
  • In the 24hrs that a further 38 died from Coronavirus, bringing the total to 41,736, a further easing of the UK’s Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions took place with many high street shops today being allowed to re-open after three months of forced closure. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wanting to stimulate the economy, has urged people to "shop with confidence" and long queues formed outside the main brands. But unlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory so shop floors and shopping practices have had to be adapted to ensure customers’ social distances, amid fears of a second infection wave. A security lady with blue gloves stands at an exit-only door and shows a shopper where to queue 2 metres apart outside Selfridges on Oxford Street, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shops-66-15-06-2020.jpg
  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues around the capital, and the UK death toll rising by 563 to 2,325, with 800,000 reported cases of Covid-19 worldwide, a youth slips of protective gloves before entering a local butchers shop where only 2 customers at a time are being served and signs warn that social distancing must be observed according to government guidelines and restrictions, on 1st April 2020, in Clapham south London, England.
    coronavirus_clapham-11-01-04-2020.jpg
  • A pair of gloved hands in a greenhouse potting shed on a north Somerset farmstead.
    potting_greenhouse01-04-05-2013.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. Wearing white gloves and a decorative overcoat worn on special occasions, we see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    aldeman_sceptre01-15-11-1983.jpg
  • Wearing a company wastecoat and blue rubber gloves, the uniform of a Holiday Inn employee, a man of Black ethnicity bends forward to wipe the glass revolving doors at the entrance of this hotel in Paris. Nearby is the man's trolley containing janitorial cleaning products such as a mop and bucket, towels, cloth rolls, atomiser sprays, detergents and tissues needed to maintain the high standards of this motel chain. Coincidentally, a customer is also bending down to re-arrange something in her baggage and leaning at the same angle as the cleaner.
    esa_guiana02113-08-2007.jpg
  • On the second day of the Easter Bank Holiday during the  lockdown, a restriction imposed by the UK government during the Coronavirus pandemic, a young woman wearing a scarf around her mouth against fine dust, rather than viral droplets, rubs down an old chair with sandpaper in the garden of a suburban home in south London, on 11th April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_DIY-05-11-04-2020.jpg
  • On the second day of the Easter Bank Holiday during the  lockdown, a restriction imposed by the UK government during the Coronavirus pandemic, a young woman wearing a scarf around her mouth against fine dust, rather than viral droplets, rubs down an old chair with sandpaper in the garden of a suburban home in south London, on 11th April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_DIY-03-11-04-2020.jpg
  • A machine operator gives a hand signal to a crane driver from inside enclosed equipment cleaning the stone work surfaces of an address in Aldwych WC2, on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
    building_cleaners-04-02-05-2019.jpg
  • A machine operator gives a hand signal to a crane driver from inside enclosed equipment cleaning the stone work surfaces of an address in Aldwych WC2, on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
    building_cleaners-03-02-05-2019.jpg
  • A machine operator gives the standard hand signal to a crane driver from inside enclosed equipment cleaning the stone work surfaces of an address in Aldwych WC2, on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
    building_cleaners-02-02-05-2019.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show08-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Fading aspirational poster showing local kids enjoying sports in housing estate opposite 2012 Olympic site, Stratford
    stratford80-14-10-2011.jpg
  • Lady skiers wearing bright thermal layers watch a local downhill competition on the slopes at Zauchensee, Austria
    ski_wear01-18-11-2003.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team before an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows739_RBA.jpg
  • A production line of lady employees from the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, prepare salad trays in the company's factory on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1361-18-08-2009.jpg
  • A production line of lady employees from the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, prepare salad trays in the company's factory on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1357-18-08-2009.jpg
  • A chef coats Welsh Lamb cutlets in breadcrumbs destined for airline meals at Gate Gourmet at Heathrow Airport. .
    heathrow_airport1366-18-08-2009.jpg
  • A female employee prepares salads destined for airline meals by Gate Gourmet at Heathrow Airport. .
    heathrow_airport1358-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Readying to re-open a burger and lobster restaurant business, a females employee wipes down door surfaces during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th August 2020, in London, England.
    city_people11-06-08-2020.jpg
  • On the second day of the Easter Bank Holiday during the  lockdown, a restriction imposed by the UK government during the Coronavirus pandemic, a young woman wearing a scarf around her mouth against fine dust, rather than viral droplets, rubs down an old chair with sandpaper in the garden of a suburban home in south London, on 11th April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_DIY-04-11-04-2020.jpg
  • On the second day of the Easter Bank Holiday during the  lockdown, a restriction imposed by the UK government during the Coronavirus pandemic, a young woman wearing a scarf around her mouth against fine dust, rather than viral droplets, rubs down an old chair with sandpaper in the garden of a suburban home in south London, on 11th April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_DIY-02-11-04-2020.jpg
  • On the second day of the Easter Bank Holiday during the  lockdown, a restriction imposed by the UK government during the Coronavirus pandemic, a young woman wearing a scarf around her mouth against fine dust, rather than viral droplets, rubs down an old chair with sandpaper in the garden of a suburban home in south London, on 11th April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_DIY-01-11-04-2020.jpg
  • A machine operator gives the standard hand signal to a crane driver from inside enclosed equipment cleaning the stone work surfaces of an address in Aldwych WC2, on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
    building_cleaners-01-02-05-2019.jpg
  • Detail of a firefighter's chest-mounted equipment after a London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) who gave a demonstration on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo34-14-05-2013.jpg
  • A Chinese army portable mobile missile launcher demonstrated by a mannequin at the UK's bi-annual Farnborough air show, England. Wearing goggles and helmet and a generic uniform, the model points the launcher into the air to simulate it being fired at a moving target, an example of 80s warfare technology.
    chinese_missile-20-07-1989.jpg
  • A US Navy dentist and technician inspects the mouth of a sailor below deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the .
    us_navy_carrier12-08-05-2000.jpg
  • A red shirted ordnance man prepares to fit smart bombs to an F/A-18 fighter jet on deck of USS Harry S Truman. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women.
    us_navy_carrier09-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Fading aspirational poster showing local kids enjoying sports in housing estate opposite 2012 Olympic site, Stratford
    stratford82-14-10-2011.jpg
  • Fading aspirational poster showing local kids enjoying sports in housing estate opposite 2012 Olympic site, Stratford
    stratford81-14-10-2011.jpg
  • Fading aspirational poster showing local kids enjoying sports in housing estate opposite 2012 Olympic site, Stratford
    stratford79-14-10-2011.jpg
  • Volunteers' gardening tools at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, East Sussex, England.
    buddhist_retreat54-27-06-2010.jpg
  • Volunteer Buddhists on working retreat at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, East Sussex, England.
    buddhist_retreat05-27-06-2010.jpg
  • A chef working for the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, fries Welsh Lamb cutlets in the company's factory on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1368-18-08-2009.jpg
  • A lady employee of the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, reaches out to add the last items to fresh fruit salads in the company's factory on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1364-18-08-2009.jpg
  • A lady employee of the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, reaches out to add the last items in the company's factory on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1349-18-08-2009.jpg
  • A female employee prepares fruit salads destined for airline meals by Gate Gourmet at Heathrow Airport. .
    heathrow_airport1363-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Female employees prepares salads destined for airline meals by Gate Gourmet at Heathrow Airport. .
    heathrow_airport1355-18-08-2009.jpg
  • A female employee prepares fruit salads destined for airline meals by Gate Gourmet at Heathrow Airport. .
    heathrow_airport1380-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Two crewmen aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman sit on a fire vehicle on the ship's deck. Wearing red signifies that they are part of a crash and salvage team who respond to emergencies and fire hazards and so wear flame-retardant and anti-flash clothing material. Ordinarily they are responsible for making safe and towing ("doing the bow dance") $38 million F/A-18s fighters round the deck of the Navy?s newest aircraft carrier, here on coalition patrol somewhere off Kuwait in the Arabian Sea. The Truman is so called after the US President who was in office from 1945 to 1953.  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.
    aviation_corbis01-19-04-2001.jpg
  • At the beginning of the second week of the UK's Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with government guidelines for social distancing and local daily exercise, a local dog sniffs and chews a used discaded surgical glove that lies in the grass in Ruskin Park, a green public space in the borough of Lambeth, south London, on 30th March 2020, in London.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-42-30-03-2020.jpg
  • At the beginning of the second week of the UK's Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with government guidelines for social distancing and local daily exercise, a local dog sniffs a used discaded surgical glove that lies in the grass in Ruskin Park, a green public space in the borough of Lambeth, south London, on 30th March 2020, in London.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-41-30-03-2020.jpg
  • At the beginning of the second week of the UK's Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with government guidelines for social distancing and local daily exercise, a used discaded surgical mask and glove lie in the grass alongside a passing Londoner in Ruskin Park, a green public space in the borough of Lambeth, south London, on 30th March 2020, in London.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-37-30-03-2020.jpg
  • At the beginning of the second week of the UK's Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with government guidelines for social distancing and local daily exercise, a used discaded surgical mask and glove lies in the grass alongside a path used by passing Londoners in Ruskin Park, a green public space in the borough of Lambeth, south London, on 30th March 2020, in London.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-34-30-03-2020.jpg
  • At the beginning of the second week of the UK's Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with government guidelines for social distancing and local daily exercise, a used discaded surgical mask and glove lies in the grass alongside a path used by passing Londoners in Ruskin Park, a green public space in the borough of Lambeth, south London, on 30th March 2020, in London.
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  • At the beginning of the second week of the UK's Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with government guidelines for social distancing and local daily exercise, a used discaded surgical mask and glove lies in the grass alongside passing young child on a scooter in Ruskin Park, a green public space in the borough of Lambeth, south London, on 30th March 2020, in London.
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  • At the beginning of the second week of the UK's Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with government guidelines for social distancing and local daily exercise, a used discaded surgical mask and glove lies in the grass alongside passing young child on a scooter in Ruskin Park, a green public space in the borough of Lambeth, south London, on 30th March 2020, in London.
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  • At the beginning of the second week of the UK's Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with government guidelines for social distancing and local daily exercise, a used discaded surgical mask and glove lies in the grass alongside passing young child on a scooter in Ruskin Park, a green public space in the borough of Lambeth, south London, on 30th March 2020, in London.
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  • Female officer cadets march in line with their weapons on shoulders past guests and VIPs at their passing out parade in the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. An honoured cadet strides in front holding a ceremonial sword vertically in her white glove while one cadet in the main line-up is of an ethnic minority. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is the British Army officer initial training centre. Sandhurst is prestigious and has had many famous alumni including Sir Winston Churchill, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Sultan Qaboos of Oman and, more recently, Prince Harry and Prince William. All British Army officers, and many from elsewhere in the world, are trained at Sandhurst. RMA Sandhurst was formed in 1947, from a merger of the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939) and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
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  • A cyclist wearing pink gloves rides past a split pink plastic sphere which has come to rest in the gutter on a side street in central London, on 23rd February 2021, in London, England.
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  • A cyclist wearing pink gloves rides past a split pink plastic sphere which has come to rest in the gutter on a side street in central London, on 23rd February 2021, in London, England.
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  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a shopper wearing a face mask and gloves walks past the temporary Christmas-themed Harvey Nichols window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
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  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a shopper wearing a face mask and gloves walks past the temporary Christmas-themed Harvey Nichols window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
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  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. A Social Distance Ambassador's arm and gloved hands lean on a railing of a tent that demonstrates hand washing hygiene advice, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
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  • In the 24hrs that a further 38 died from Coronavirus, bringing the total to 41,736, a further easing of the UK’s Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions took place with many high street shops today being allowed to re-open after three months of forced closure. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wanting to stimulate the economy, has urged people to "shop with confidence" and long queues formed outside the main brands. But unlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory so shop floors and shopping practices have had to be adapted to ensure customers’ social distances, amid fears of a second infection wave. A security lady with blue gloves stands at an exit-only door and shows shoppers where to queue 2 metres apart outside Selfridges on Oxford Street, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation with his roadmap for the coming weeks and months during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and asking the British public to wear face masks when travelling on the transport system, various masks and gloves are on sale in the window of a hardware shop in Camberwell, on 11th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation with his roadmap for the coming weeks and months during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and asking the British public to wear face masks when travelling on the transport system, various masks and gloves are on sale in the window of a hardware shop in Camberwell, on 11th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_camberwell-10-11-05-2020.jpg
  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation with his roadmap for the coming weeks and months during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and asking the British public to wear face masks when travelling on the transport system, various masks and gloves are on sale in the window of a hardware shop in Camberwell, on 11th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation with his roadmap for the coming weeks and months during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and asking the British public to wear face masks when travelling on the transport system, various masks and gloves are on sale in the window of a hardware shop in Camberwell, on 11th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_camberwell-07-11-05-2020.jpg
  • At the beginning of the second week of the UK's Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with government guidelines for social distancing and the forced closure of all shops and local businesses, a hooded man wearing a surgical mask and gloves uses his phone on the corner of East Dulwich Grove SE22 in East Dulwich, Southwark, on 30th March 2020, in London.
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  • As the number of UK Coronavirus cases rose to over 8,000, it was announced that thousands of 15-minute home tests could be made available within days to those self-isolating with symptoms. Fading chalk writing is written on the pavement outside a now closed general store business selling gloves and masks in Camberwell, south London, on 25th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the UK government lead by Prime Minister Boris Johnson urges Britons to avoid non-essential travel to EU countries, and to avoind contact with others in public places like pubs and theatres during the Coronavirus pandemic, a masked traveller wearing blue surgical gloves pulls heavy baggage behind her through the capital's financial district, on 16th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the UK government lead by Prime Minister Boris Johnson urges Britons to avoid non-essential travel to EU countries, and to avoind contact with others in public places like pubs and theatres during the Coronavirus pandemic, a masked traveller wearing blue surgical gloves pulls heavy baggage behind her through the capital's financial district, on 16th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus-35-16-03-2020.jpg
  • As the UK government lead by Prime Minister Boris Johnson urges Britons to avoid non-essential travel to EU countries, and to avoind contact with others in public places like pubs and theatres during the Coronavirus pandemic, a masked traveller wearing blue surgical gloves pulls heavy baggage behind her through the capital's financial district, on 16th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • An physical education instructor tests an army recruit for concussion after a bout of Milling, a test of aggression that  recruits must pass before qualifying as a paratrooper in the Para Regiment of the British Army, on 23rd July 1996, at Aldershot, England. The controversial Milling tradition unique to the Paras is a test for young men to prove they have a killer spirit by a timed gloved one-to-one boxing fight. Within that time, they have to punch as fiercely as possible, often resulting in blooded noses and temporary concussion.
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  • Paper towel and gloves dispensers in German Red Cross hospital, Berlin.
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  • Detail of senior officers gloved hands before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
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  • Standing in their cradles are three members of a National Grid Live-line electricity cable crew, protected in a conductive cage beneath the electricy cables that they maintaining. We see the sagging cables stretching to distant electricity pylons and the three human figures standing like astonauts in their protective cradles. Huge structure of girders and relays are behind them and they wear safety clothing allowing them to work comfortably inside the electrical field at close range with gloved hands. National Grid Electricity Transmission plc owns and operates the National Grid high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales.National Grid plc is a United Kingdom based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally in the United States.
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  • As a young office worker sleeps incongruously on a marble pavement, a street sweeper nearby brushes away litter with a small dustpan. The manual labourer wears blue overalls, yellow gloves and keys in his back pocket while the man in a wastecoat and smart trousers and polished slip-on shoes appears to be fast asleep, his fingers across his chest. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-demanding job of a man whose life has been spent cleaning and sweeping. English social differences is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus a lazy youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
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  • Reaching out to a tower of scaffolding, high above the skyline of North London, a member of a company of abseiling construction scaffold workers make use of circus skills. Suspended with ropes, carabinas and a seat harness normally used by mountaineers, this man is wearing a safety helmet and blue overalls and his dirty gloved hand is about to make contact with yellow iron work as his colleague looks skyward, already tethered to the reinforced structure. A 60s tower block is immediately behind and suburban houses and streets are below. We see a man about to make contact with a place of safety, reaching out to his destination while spread across London's skies. Lit by flash, this picture is confusing because the viewer sees a false sense of size and scale between the iron work and the flats behind.
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  • British Army Parachute Regiment soldiers prepare for another bout of Milling, a test of aggression for new recruits. In this event, each candidate is paired with another of similar weight and build, and is given 60 seconds to demonstrate 'controlled physical aggression' in a milling contest - similar to boxing, except neither winning, losing, nor skill are pre-requisites of passing. Candidates are instead scored on their determination, while blocking and dodging result in points deducted. Candidates now wear head protection as well as boxing gloves.
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  • A Polish man leans over to put the finishing touches to two small snowmen that now occupy a park bench on Goose Green in East Dulwich, Southwark, South London, England. This otherwise green space has seen snow falls that have gripped this part of the capital with unsalted road surfaces and commuting nightmares. But this young man is having fun with his diminutive snowy creations who have been dressed up in his and a friend's glasses, their scarves and gloves and with locally-found twigs. The park is relatively quiet with only a hint of the chaos elsewhere but the time spent on pointless pursuits is one way of enjoying adverse weather, rather than the more serious business of getting to work, proving also that snow brings out the childish nature in us all.
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  • After a bleak year of Coronavirus pandemic misery, a shopper wearing a face mask and gloves walks past the temporary Christmas-themed Harvey Nichols window which urges Londoners to be optimistic for the coming year, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    knightsbridge_optimism03-13-11-2020.jpg
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