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  • Local and nationwide electricity power lines merging with golden reed grasses on Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent.
    electricity414-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • Local and nationwide electricity power lines merging with golden reed grasses on Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent.
    electricity415-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • Camouflaged birdspotters peer through binoculars for wildlife at the RSPB's bird and wildlife reserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex
    electricity363-03-02-2008 .jpg
  • The entrance to the RSPB's bird and wildlife reserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex.
    electricity375-03-02-2008 .jpg
  • Avoiding fly-tippers, a barricaded and disused car park entrance is near electricity pylons at Dartford, Kent.
    electricity420-12-02-2008 .jpg
  • As evening light fades, bright light from the electricity-hungry Canary Wharf docklands development is supplied by the voltage from electricity cables and supporting struts at an east London sub-station, England. A network of 110 miles of cables have stretched across 542 'L6' pylons across England's Kent countryside, from the coal-fired power station at Dungeness to this location, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of London's high supply demands. Insatiable appetites for energy means electricity is now an expensive commodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity278-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • Dropped during construction of electricity pylons, a bolt and its nut lies on a forest floor, Clowes Wood, Chestfield, Kent
    electricity302-25-01-2008 .jpg
  • Industrial pipes and red gate valve situated on the River Thames mud at low-tide on an overcast day at Grays, Essex
    river_business50-31-08-2007.jpg
  • Health and Safety cones, taping off a broken City of London bollard.
    walbrook_pilgrimage06-05-10-2013.jpg
  • Flight Lieutenant Simon Stevens, a pilot in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, makes a pre-flight check of his Hawk jet aircraft before a practice flight at RAF Scampton. Stevens and his fellow-aviators fly up to 6 times in winter training, learning new manoeuvres. The dangers of high-speed close formation flight makes health and safety precuations vital; the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Royal Air Force take working environments of their personnel seriously so pre-flight examination of aircraft happens before every sortie (flight). Performing the brief safety walk-around, Stevens bends at the waste to avoid the aeroplane's low aileron despite wearing a helmet, full flying suit, boots, life-vest and anti-g-pants. Flying still continues despite rainclouds in the gloomy Lincolnshire sky.
    Red_Arrows005_RBA.jpg
  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, listen during health and safety course.
    Red_Arrows057_RBA.jpg
  • 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.
    acrobatic_scaffolders01.jpg
  • 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.
    RB_042-21-04-1995.jpg
  • A makeshift warning sign made from plywood is roughly painted with letters declaring 'oil on beach.' It hangs on some silver railings on an unknown beach in England. The sand is strewn with sharp stones and litter and coloured (colored) a dirty brown stain high up on the shore line and more worrying, a little more distant, a father cuddles his baby child on a towel surrounded by possessions such as a cool box and the seaside toys of a happy family holiday (vacation). We look down on to this scene in disbelief that a parent lies down on such polluted terrain when health and safety considerations might have closed the entire esplanade.
    RB-0112.jpg
  • A theatrical joke about bureaucracy between French and British comedians at an event to mark the opening of the Channel Tunnel produces this quirky scene where each country's officials are seated at a long table, dressed in British flags, to symbolise the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age. Wearing smart uniforms, French immigration police and Gendarmes sit among British customs and immigration officials who, rather comically wear yellow hard hats because Health and Safety laws make the wearing of protective headgear compulsory on construction sites. A frontier control point notice stands for the benefit of viewers who might otherwise be guessing what is going on.
    eurotunnel12-01-1990.jpg
  • The Walkodile for better child safety is demonstrated by an entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair36-19-10-2007.jpg
  • The Walkodile for better child safety is demonstrated by an entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
    inventors_fair39-19-10-2007.jpg
  • Striped covers for electrical cables turn a right-angle turn to the left towards power cabinets  which are numbered 1 to 6 at the European Space Agency's Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket Booster Integration Building. Railings ensure that pedestrians keep to the  walkways without endangering health and safety, according to EU law. Elsewhere in this giant building the boosters that propel ESA rockets into space are integrated with their payloads.  ...
    esa_guiana22415-08-2007.jpg
  • An employee of an unidentified recycling company used by BAA (British Airports Authority) rakes through a mountain of glass bottles, piled high in a depsitory near Gatwick Airport, Sussex England. The drinks from these branded bottles have been consumed at airport terminal buildings and other BAA property and the man dressed in a fluorescent safety jacket scrapes the containers in readiness for transportation to another facility. The picture is an upright and with such a wide-angle view, we see the bottles stretching from the closest to the lens to the far end of the compartment in a mound of materials destined for a machine that will crush and transform them into new glass.
    RB_015-30-04-2008.jpg
  • Stopping work for a moment to pose for a portrait on the sea wall at Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, a team of the resort's lifeguards show their youth, fitness and bodies beautiful, displaying themselves in the sun of a fine summer day. There is only one female member but some are standing on the wall while others are seated in deck chairs, a ladder seat or on the hot sand near three sexy girls are are sunning themselves near a railing. Wearing bikinis one is not asleep but eyeing-up some of the alpha-male specimens  on show wearing only red shorts. Meanwhile, holidaymakers walk past with ice-creams. It is a bright scene and obviously a busy time for these safety experts when tourists forever get themselves into danger in the sea and surf. Currents here make for a hazardous experience for those unable to swim out of trouble.
    england_beach04-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewer_team01-19-06-1994.jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewermen01-19-06-1994.jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewermen-19-06-1994.jpg
  • A sawn-off tree trunk is left on the pavement, taped up for health & safety reasons near progress of new car park architecture.
    city_tree-20-10-2002.jpg
  • Wearing a peaked cap and small rucksack, a young adventurer, clambers over rocks in the ancient forest of Monbachtal Bach in Germany's Black Forest. Stretching to climb the rock, the lad of 10 uses his hand and walking stick to balance as he puts a boot higher to gain a sure footing. There is ample covering of moss and lichen on the primeval landscape making it hazardous to conquer but the boy stumbles over the terrain and continues his walk through this beautiful wilderness. The boy is alone in the picture though accompanied by his family but he seems to mange on his own, capable of finding his own limits of endurance and confidence. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
    germany_holiday36-02082008.jpg
  • Wearing a peaked cap and small rucksack, a young adventurer, scales a giant boulder in the ancient forest of Monbachtal Bach in Germany's Black Forest. Stretching to climb the rock, the lad of 10 uses his hand and walking stick to balance as he puts a boot higher to gain a sure footing. There is ample covering of moss and lichen on the primeval landscape making it hazardous to conquer but the boy has the stamina to get to the top and continue his walk through this beautiful wilderness. The boy is alone in the picture though accompanied by his family but he seems to mange on his own, capable of finding his own limits of endurance and confidence. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
    germany_holiday37-02082008.jpg
  • As a boy swings from a tree, canoeists enjoy a day's paddling down the River Lesse, Belgium's prime kayaking destination  in the southern Ardennes region. At Anseremme, south of the town of Dinant, the adventurers negotiate their way down 21 km of gentle fresh water through the beautiful Belgian gorges and forests. Before plunging down a weir (Barrage in French) near a camp site they are pelted by splashing water from campers in the water. The red canoes have been hired for the day from 'Kayaks Ansiaux' and another rival company who rent blue boats. Families and young people make the slow journey along the Lesse, Paddles match the colours of the canoes and they all glint off a strong afternoon sun during the high-season holiday month. Most commonly routes start in Han and go all the way down to Dinant, where the Lesse meets the Meuse.
    germany_holiday39-06082008.jpg
  • A boy stands leaning on a hand rail near the top steps at Paignton sea front. At the bottom of the steps and floating face down in the clear, unpolluted  water, his arms outstretched, is a diver wearing a wet suit who appears lifeless. It is a scene of ambiguity and the viewer might be confused over whether the diver is in fact dead. It looks as if the diver has drowned but he is only enjoying the buoyancy of the salt sea water. It is a sunny afternoon and the shadows of the steps' rail which zigzags down the concrete steps.
    paignton_diver01-21-07-993.jpg
  • A life belt hangs on a cross-shaped post, all painted a vivid red as the sun sinks down below the horizon and beyond the historic Bamburgh Castle, in Northumberland, northern England. Lit with a strong off-camera flash we see the slightly blurred device, invented for saving lives at sea, with a ghostly corona around its form, against a fading blue sky. The rope dangles near the ground, around which the grasses of the dunes blow in a faint breeze. Only the foreground is lit by the flash and the distant castle building and shoreline. We see such equipment and imagine safety and rescue and also jeopardy and hazards at sea. Supplied for those taking risks and making stupid decisions makes these items essential on coastal areas.
    england_beach05-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • Aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, a father and son are practicing wearing life-preservers during the first few hours of their voyage from Miami around the Gulf of Mexico. They and every passenger on-board are being instructed by members of the ship's crew to muster (gather) in specific locations around the vessel before heading further out to sea. Under international law, everyone on a holiday ship like this needs to know what do in the event of an emergency at sea so well-organised drills are rehearsed on deck. The baby looks uncomfortable wrapped in his life vest but sucks on a pacifier dummy. The father looks relaxed in the knowledge that their lives are not risk on this occasion. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew belonging to Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines.
    carnival_cruises01-22-12-2007 .jpg
  • Archive image - also used in the book 'Risk Wise'.<br />
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Wearing his bathing costume, a young adventurer clambers over rocks in the Gross Enz river in Germany's Black Forest. The lad of 10 crouches to better balance himself, carefully placing his bare feet on the slippery rock's surface as he emerges from the chilly mountain water. It is high summer and we can see the boy backlit by the glare of strong sunlight in the background. The Gross Enz river rises in Enzklosterle in Baden-Württemberg and is an eventual  tributary of the Neckar. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
    germany_holiday24-29072008.jpg
  • Beneath a huge banner that hangs from the exterior wall of the Ikea store in Croydon, South London adults await their partners to emerge from their shopping expeditions by the childrens' playground where a climbing frame and wood-chip surface protects young bodies from injury. The poster's message is simple and clear: That their customers and especially children, are our most important assets - our responsibility to protect their safety and well-being. Strong corporate Ikea colours are dominant, their well-known yellow and blue are known throughout Europe as well as the added banner in red. The fonts are in block capitals and possibly easy for young readers too to understand.
    ikea_people08-21-1999.jpg
  • A pedestrian walks towards a walkway and electricity pylon near West Ham substation, Canning Town, London
    electricity264-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • Roller-coaster fans gasp with excitement as they plunge down an almost vertical drop on the Pepsi-Max Big One, Britain's largest and the second Highest, 4th fastest Roller Coaster in Europe. It is a steel structure located at the Pleasure Beach, Blackpool, opened in 1994. Roller-coaster freaks raise their arms above their heads though one's instinct is to hold on for dear life. Although it is no longer the tallest, fastest and steepest roller coaster in the world, it is still one of the scariest roller-coaster experiences on offer. Extended caption ..
    pepsi-max02-18-06-994.jpg
  • Ripples reflected onto shiny surfaces of rocks and pebbles in the River Enz in Germany's Black Forest.
    germany_holiday26-29072008.jpg
  • Circus acrobats perform high above auditor staff during a company Academy Day held for 3,000 of their London employees at Excel in London's Docklands England. Lit with blue light by powerful spotlights, the two girls are suspended in mid-air using hoops attached to safety ropes. They both make dramatic shapes in the air to demonstrate confidence, synchronised teamwork and co-operation between partners, the themes of this corporate day out of the office. The employees out of sight below are attending this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
    Ernst+Young_Academy129-21-09-2007.jpg
  • A Mexican-born employee of Hanson Pipe & Products, at Grand Prairie, Texas, USA...They are inspcting the inner-surfaces and tongue and groove seals of the horizontal pipes wearing obligatory hard hats and corporate blue shirts. Precast concrete is made from a reusable mold or "form" and cured in a controlled environment, then transported to the construction site and lifted into place. Used in the construction of commercial building components, bridges, manholes and retaining walls, these products are the strongest pipe available, designed and plant tested to resist any load required with a design life of 70-100 years. ...
    hanson_worker-03-11-1998.jpg
  • Many pairs of anti-slip Acifort Wellington boots are awaiting users at the New England seafood suppliers in Chessington, London England. Made by British company Dunlop, these boots are designed as protection against the cold , insulating wearers in refrigerated workplaces such as this facility where fresh fish is processed ready for supplying UK supermarkets. Either showing their soles or standing on the floor alongside the wearers' outdoor footwear, they are coloured various shades of clean off-white or soiled cream. New England Seafood is a major supplier of fresh and frozen premium sustainable fish and seafood in the UK and one of the largest importers of fresh tuna. The Wellington boot -or wellie - was worn and popularised by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and fashionable among the British aristocracy in the early 19th century.
    new_england55-27-11-2007.jpg
  • A picture of St. Paul's cathedral dome and some construction background of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-30-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-27-27-10-2017.jpg
  • A picture of St. Paul's cathedral dome and some construction background of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-29-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-26-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-24-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Moving steadily 100 feet (8 metres) along a live-line electricity cable, a National Grid maintenance worker protected in a conductive cage, proceeds to the next 'separator' that holds the high-voltage cables from touching each other. From the ground we see the sagging cables stretching to a distant electricity pylon and two yellow cages, one large in the foreground where we see the human figure standing like an astonaut, and the other cage out of focus, a greater distance away but all dwarfed by the huge structure of girders and relays. Wearing clothing bonded to the conductor, the lineman can 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. The company adopted its current name in July 2005 when shareholders agreed the change from National Grid Transco plc.
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  • The ancient Parthenon (circa 400 BC, the largest Doric temple ever built) sits on Acropolis hill surrounded by global tourists and scaffolding. Here the modern world's philosophy was born, once the centre of classical Greek culture which the world has inherited for its laws and forward-thinking. Mounted above the Athenian city within fortified 60m high walls, its history is a World Heritage Site, important because of its "universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex." The establishment of democracy, took a leading position amongst the other city-states of the ancient world.
    greek_olympiad013-23-10_2003.jpg
  • Many pairs of anti-slip Acifort Wellington boots are awaiting users at the New England seafood suppliers in Chessington, London England. Made by British company Dunlop, these boots are designed as protection against the cold , insulating wearers in refrigerated workplaces such as this facility where fresh fish is processed ready for supplying UK supermarkets. Either showing their soles or standing on the floor alongside the wearers' outdoor footwear, they are coloured various shades of clean off-white or soiled cream. New England Seafood is a major supplier of fresh and frozen premium sustainable fish and seafood in the UK and one of the largest importers of fresh tuna. The Wellington boot -or wellie - was worn and popularised by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and fashionable among the British aristocracy in the early 19th century.
    new_england55-27-11-2007.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-23-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-17-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-10-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Workmen fix triangular-shaped cladding to the exterior of a part of the One Blackfriars residential tower, on 27th October 2017, in Southwark, London, England. 1 Blackfriars or One Blackfriars, is a mixed-use development at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street at Bankside, London. The development is a 52-storey 170m tower and two smaller buildings of 6 and 4 stories respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail.
    one_blackfriars-12-27-10-2017.jpg
  • An environmental protester wears a protective helmet issued by police before a grinder is used to saw through chains on the road in Fleet Street on the 11th and final day of protests, road-blockages and arrests across London by the climate change campaign Extinction Rebellion, on 25th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-26-25-04-2019.jpg
  • An environmental protester wears a protective helmet issued by police before a grinder is used to saw through chains on the road in Fleet Street on the 11th and final day of protests, road-blockages and arrests across London by the climate change campaign Extinction Rebellion, on 25th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-25-25-04-2019.jpg
  • An environmental protester wears a protective helmet issued by police before a grinder is used to saw through chains on the road in Fleet Street on the 11th and final day of protests, road-blockages and arrests across London by the climate change campaign Extinction Rebellion, on 25th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-24-25-04-2019.jpg
  • Detail of construction sheeting by Greater London Demolition on a site being cleared for the 10-storey luxury apartment development called The Denizen, a controversial building by Taylor Wimpey on Golden Lane that locals say will dominate their view and block their daylight, on 30th October 2017, in London, England. Despite this, they say "We are one of the UK's largest residential developers. As a responsible developer we are committed to working with local people and communities."
    denizen_protest-25-30-10-2017.jpg
  • Flour delivery and football club shelter and bench in front of the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont, Belgium.
    lambermont-biscuits38.jpg
  • An environmental protester wears a protective helmet issued by police before a grinder is used to saw through chains on the road in Fleet Street on the 11th and final day of protests, road-blockages and arrests across London by the climate change campaign Extinction Rebellion, on 25th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-28-25-04-2019.jpg
  • An environmental protester wears a protective helmet issued by police before a grinder is used to saw through chains on the road in Fleet Street on the 11th and final day of protests, road-blockages and arrests across London by the climate change campaign Extinction Rebellion, on 25th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-27-25-04-2019.jpg
  • The figure of a construction worker warning pedestrians to cross sensibly, and a passing bus, on 12th December 2017, in London England.
    london_people-06-12-12-2017.jpg
  • The figure of a construction worker warning pedestrians to cross sensibly, and a passing bus, on 12th December 2017, in London England.
    bus_ads-02-12-12-2017.jpg
  • The figure of a construction worker warning pedestrians to cross sensibly, and a passing bus, on 12th December 2017, in London England.
    bus_ads-05-12-12-2017.jpg
  • The figure of a construction worker warning pedestrians to cross sensibly, and a passing bus, on 12th December 2017, in London England.
    bus_ads-01-12-12-2017.jpg
  • Detail of construction sheeting by Greater London Demolition on a site being cleared for the 10-storey luxury apartment development called The Denizen, a controversial building by Taylor Wimpey on Golden Lane that locals say will dominate their view and block their daylight, on 30th October 2017, in London, England. Despite this, they say "We are one of the UK's largest residential developers. As a responsible developer we are committed to working with local people and communities."
    denizen_protest-23-30-10-2017.jpg
  • Detail of construction sheeting by Greater London Demolition on a site being cleared for the 10-storey luxury apartment development called The Denizen, a controversial building by Taylor Wimpey on Golden Lane that locals say will dominate their view and block their daylight, on 30th October 2017, in London, England. Despite this, they say "We are one of the UK's largest residential developers. As a responsible developer we are committed to working with local people and communities."
    denizen_protest-21-30-10-2017.jpg
  • Detail of construction sheeting by Greater London Demolition on a site being cleared for the 10-storey luxury apartment development called The Denizen, a controversial building by Taylor Wimpey on Golden Lane that locals say will dominate their view and block their daylight, on 30th October 2017, in London, England. Despite this, they say "We are one of the UK's largest residential developers. As a responsible developer we are committed to working with local people and communities."
    denizen_protest-26-30-10-2017.jpg
  • Construction and a tall gantry tower tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, on 27th October 2017, in London, England.
    blackfriars_crane-10-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Construction crane and tall gantry tower that is tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge,, on 20th October 2017, in London, England.
    gantry_crane-02-20-10-2017.jpg
  • Construction crane and tall gantry tower that is tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge,, on 20th October 2017, in London, England.
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  • Two window cleaners safely attached to an outside cradle, wash the large panes of glass at a building at Broadgate in the City of London. While stretching with his long sponge into the corner of this window, one worker on the left is wiping soapy liquid onto the grimy glass before cleaning it off with a squeegee. His colleague on the right is communicating with the cradle operator in the building's roof, way above these men, in order to raise the cradle and allowing the men to achieve the correct operating height. Far below them is the capital's Square Mile, London's financial and oldest area. The famous dome of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen most prominently although it is a grey day across this modern metropolis skyline.
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  • The figure of a construction worker warning pedestrians to cross sensibly, and a passing bus, on 12th December 2017, in London England.
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  • Construction crane and tall gantry tower that is tied to the side of an office building (formerly Express Newspapers) being renovated at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge,, on 20th October 2017, in London, England.
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  • Technicians and managers taste new biscuit product in the experimental kitchen of the Delacre production factory in Lambermont
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  • A workman kneels on a pallet, raised at its maximum height limit up on a forklift and at the top of a ladder while brushing down an old clapboard warehouse, on 29th May 2019, in Faversham, Kent, England.
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  • Pavement repairs and pedestrian signs in the City of London
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  • A window cleaning contractor wipes glass while abseiling down the side of high-rise apartments at Nine Elms, Battersea, during the second lockdown of the UK's Coronavirus pandemic, when all but essential retailers and businesses remain shut according to the government's restriction rules, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
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  • A workman kneels on a pallet, raised at its maximum height limit up on a forklift and at the top of a ladder while brushing down an old clapboard warehouse, on 29th May 2019, in Faversham, Kent, England.
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  • A theme of squares at the foot of scaffolding tubes and pedestrian crossing markings on the road surface, on 9th December 2016, in the City of London.
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  • A window cleaning contractor wipes glass while abseiling down the side of high-rise apartments at Nine Elms, Battersea, during the second lockdown of the UK's Coronavirus pandemic, when all but essential retailers and businesses remain shut according to the government's restriction rules, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
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  • Surrounded by black bin-bags during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991, two young "Scouse' girls lean against a brick wall in a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England. There is an older, taller white teenage girl with blonde hair dressed in a blue shell-suit and a shorter and younger friend of Asian-descent. Looking suspicious and amused at something across the cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses in a poor area, South of the city centre, home to deprived families. The industrial action aginst the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
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  • In a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England, we see many black bin-bags are left against industrial brick walls awaiting collection during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. The cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses are in a poor area, south of the city centre and home to deprived families. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs now exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
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  • Standing on the back of his utility vehicle, a man empties the contents of his dustbin onto a growing pile of rubbish in a recreation park in the otherwise  affluent Allerton area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. Adding to this mountain of refuse, the 'Scouse' man (someone from Liverpool) is seen surrounded by black binliners and items from domestic homes which have been allocated this public space to become a temporary landfill. The industrial action aginst the local authority - over pay and working conditions  - was a health problem for Liverpool's population during the summer of 1991 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks such as this were filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
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  • Household refuse pollutes a coral beach on Meedu Island, an indigenous community in the Republic of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Packaging, foodstuffs and general waste has been tossed away on this otherwise beautiful place, north of the capital Male. Unfortunately, the practice of tossing away one's rubbish is a normal practice in this culture, the local people selfishly unconcerned about the future of their habitat and the health of their community. Only a few miles from Meedu are islands that serve as holiday resorts where families from Europe travel by air for the perffect vacation - unaware that fly-tipping is so widespread that it threatens this nation's worldwide status as a paradise on earth..
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  • A chunk of prime yellow fin tuna fish steak lies after filleting on a table in a processing factory on the island of Himmafushi, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and having just been line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been encased in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan butchers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
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  • Two employees of Cyprea Marine Foods fillet freshly-caught  yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives89-12-11-2007.jpg
  • An employee of Cyprea Marine Foods fillets freshly-caught  yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives93-12-11-2007.jpg
  • The head of a freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish lies inert on a filleting table at a refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcass has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The filleting is performed by Sri Lankan ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives105-12-11-2007.jpg
  • An unidentified father in the act of pouring coffee from a cafetiere into two metallic silver mugs in while holding his sleeping baby son in his London kitchen. The unconscious child is a few months old and the parent stands expertly holding both hot liquid and infant as if juggling pleasure and parenthood simultaneously. The sleeping child is limp in the father's arm and is dressed in the same scarlet red as the vibrant colour on the wall behind. We only see the man's upper-legs and torso but the baby is tiny against his body making the scale of both young and old. otherwise, the generic room is bare of decoration or possessions - only a drying cloth and chopping board is seen on the draining board, near plain white tiles.
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  • With a grimace on her pained face, a female Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst splashes through a water obstacle during  an endurance race. Recruits are running a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perseverance or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
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  • An Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is loaded into the back of a British Army Land Rover ambulance to join the downfacing trainers of a collapsed colleague, after retiring  from an endurance race. Recruits run a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding,. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perserverence or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
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  • An advertisement for stock car and banger racing taking place at the motorsport venue Arena Essex raceway..
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  • A couple walk down the centre of the Mall away from the Victoria Memorial and the Queen's Buckingham Palace in London
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  • Tangled clothing hangs on barbed wire fencing below an enbankment alongside the A13 road in Dagenham, Essex..
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  • Camouflaged birdspotters peer through binoculars for wildlife at the RSPB's bird and wildlife reserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex
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  • Dated technology of the desolate electricity substation at South Bromley is seen from the Pylon Industrial Estate. .
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  • Insulator discs and pylon at the electricity substation, South Bromley, seen from the Pylon Industrial Estate, London.
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  • Plantation of sapling trees near an electricity pylon on Rainham Marshes, Essex.
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  • Thorny twig in the foreground near an electricity pylon behind one foggy morning on Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent
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  • An electricity pylon stands against an overcast winter sky on rural land near Wrington, North Somerset England.
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  • A clothes line merges with the lines of an electricity pylon near flats on the Hales Place estate in Canterbury
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  • Grazing cow pokes her head through barbed wire with pylons behind at the RSPB wildlife sanctuary at Rainham Marshes
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  • The leg of an electricity pylon carrying lines 1.3km over the Thames from Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent to Thurrock, Essex.
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