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  • Individual trays for airline baggage in the Early Bags Store where 4,000 pieces are held. 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. Here we see items of luggage spending 4 hours in transit, held in a fully-automated parking lot for bags. Computers decide when to fish the item out and re-introduce it into the system and load it on to the appropriate aircraft. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Individual trays for airline baggage in the Early Bags Store where 4,000 pieces are held. 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. Here we see items of luggage spending 4 hours in transit, held in a fully-automated parking lot for bags. Computers decide when to fish the item out and re-introduce it into the system and load it on to the appropriate aircraft. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1184-13-08-2009.jpg
  • Baggage enters an x-ray machine within the 11 miles of conveyor belts Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport.
    heathrow_airport1182-13-08-2009.jpg
  • A protester is arrested by Met police officers at Oxford Circus on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • A protester is arrested by Met police officers at Oxford Circus on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-49-18-04-2019.jpg
  • A protester is arrested by Met police officers at Oxford Circus on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-48-18-04-2019.jpg
  • A protester is arrested by Met police officers at Oxford Circus on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-47-18-04-2019.jpg
  • A woman car passenger holds her hands up high, into the oncoming wind of a fast open-time car.
    car_freedom-10-06-1999.jpg
  • The lights from a jet airliner trail themselves during a long, hand-held time exposure above London skies.
    night_sky03-12-08-2010.jpg
  • The light from distant stars trace themselves during a long, hand-held time exposure above London skies.
    night_sky01-12-08-2010.jpg
  • The lights from a jet airliner trail themselves during a long, hand-held time exposure above London skies.
    night_sky06-12-08-2010.jpg
  • The Priddy Sheep hurdle stack shelter at the Priddy Sheep Fair. Moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack remains in the village, so will the Fair. The Fair is held on the nearest Wednesday to 21st August, although originally it was held on the feast of St Lawrence the Martyr on the10th August. The fair has been continuously held every year since 1348, apart from the recent 2001 and 2007 foot -and-mouth epidemic years.
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  • The Priddy Sheep hurdle stack shelter at the Priddy Sheep Fair. Moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack remains in the village, so will the Fair. The Fair is held on the nearest Wednesday to 21st August, although originally it was held on the feast of St Lawrence the Martyr on the10th August. The fair has been continuously held every year since 1348, apart from the recent 2001 and 2007 foot -and-mouth epidemic years.
    priddy_shelter01-21-08-2013.jpg
  • The musician with the 80s band The Police, Sting supports the charity Sport Aid's running event in London's Hyde Park, on 25th May 1986, in London, England. Sport Aid (also known as Sports Aid) was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in various sports, and culminating in the Race Against Time, a 10 km fun run held simultaneously in 89 countries. Timed to coincide with a UNICEF development conference in New York City, Sport Aid raised $37m for Live Aid and UNICEF. A second lower-key Sport Aid was held in 1988. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    sting_sportaid-25-05-1986.jpg
  • Two film crews record a USAF (United States Air Force) aviator, in training during week-long survival course held at the Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington, on 6th August 1995, in Spokane, Washington, USA. The course is aimed at highy-trained personnel conducting a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots and air crew need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. Held in hangars and the surrounding forests, it forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment of young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
    USAF_media-04-01-2020.jpg
  • A detail of a priest's Alb (outer garment) after Mass was held held in a local rural Catholic church, on 15th October 1997, in Neubourg, Normandy, France
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  • A young woman chats with a tall, athletic rower at the annual Henley Regatta, England. Fondling the man's rear, the girl smiles happily during this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the upper-classes.
    regatta_girlfriend-03-07-1993.jpg
  • Messing about on a pedal water craft, a member of a local rowing club looks up to see where the cork to his opened champagne bottle will land on the River Thames during a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. During this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the wealthy upper-classes.
    henley_regatta03-03-07-1993.jpg
  • Well-dressed and well-appointed English people pass-by on the River Thames during the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. In the foreground is a smart and highly-polished launch filled with a party of friends who motor past while to their port (left) a rowing boat with three men in blazers pass them going downstream. On the riverbank a garden marquee hosts another social gathering. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi
    henley_regatta01-03-07-1993.jpg
  • A group of four friends drink Champagne from glasses and plastic cups from beneath welcome shade during a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. Dressed in quintessentially English blazers that denote their university and boat club, the four are in jovial spirits during this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi
    henley_blazer_men-03-07-1993.jpg
  • A husband and wife make their way along a pavement towards the entrance of the Ascot racecourse where the annual Ladies' Day event is held as part of the English social season calendar. Leading the way and carrying two walking sticks and in a polythene bag, his best jacket for the dress-code is important if one is allowed access to the private enclosures. He wears a top hat and waste coat as he hobbles along with wife in tow. She is behind him rummaging through her handbag perhaps looking for tickets or cash. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season.
    ascot_couple06-18-1992.jpg
  • In pouring rain, United States Air Force pilots stand like canmouflaged statues in the undergrowth near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. They are listening to a USAF survival instructor giving them advice about another challenge they are about to face, a few hundred yards ahead in the woods, so they listen intently in the saturatedconditions. They stand motionless, green figures in a green maze of foliage, wearing waterproof cagoules covering their backpacks which are shiny as the rain trickles down. They look like hunchbacks of the forest. The week-long survival course is held at the military facilities around Fairchild where the Air Force conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. This part of the lecture is held in the forest and forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment for young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • English musician, Sting appears at the first Sport Aid event ("Run the World") in May 1986 at London's Hyde Park England. Sport Aid  was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in various sports, and culminating in the Race Against Time, a 10 km fun run held simultaneously in 89 countries.[1] Timed to coincide with a UNICEF development conference in New York City, Sport Aid raised $37m for Live Aid and UNICEF.
    sting-01-05-1986.jpg
  • Wealthy friends enjoy bubbly and fizz during the annual Henley Regatta on a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley boat races, England. Dressed in quintessentially English blazers and English jackets and dresses, they are in jovial spirits during this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi
    regatta_toffs02-03-07-1993.jpg
  • Wealthy friends enjoy bubbly and fizz during the annual Henley Regatta on a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley boat races, England. Dressed in quintessentially English blazers and English jackets and dresses, they are in jovial spirits during this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi
    regatta_toffs01-03-07-1993.jpg
  • Two elderly gentlemen watch the yacht racing during the Cowes week regatta, the annual sailing competitions held annually every August on the Isle of Wight. Cowes Week is one of the longest-running regular regattas in the world. With 40 daily races, up to 1,000 boats, and 8,500 competitors ranging from Olympic and world class professionals to weekend sailors, it is the largest sailing regatta of its kind in the world. Having started in 1826, the event is held on the Solent (the area of water between southern England and the Isle of Wight made tricky by strong double tides), and is run by Cowes Week Limited in the small town of Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
    cowes_binoculars-06-08-1993.jpg
  • A family risk their safety near a larger cruiser while passing-by in a tiny motorised boat on the River Thames during the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. The father and children float past the larger vessel that could badly damage their boat in a collision. The river is busy on Regatta weekend and vessels of all shapes and sizes occupy an otherwise narrow stretch of water in rural Oxfordshire. Parties and good-humour on-board the cruisers still means that river laws and good behaviour must be followed to avoid accidents. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi.
    henley_regatta02-03-07-1993.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house20-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house21-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house19-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house16-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house11-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house02-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house07-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house28-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house27-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house26-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house22-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house12-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house08-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house10-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house05-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house04-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house01-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house15-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house06-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house13-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house09-24-11-2013.jpg
  • Newspaper cutting, yellow ribbon and Union Jack flags mark the release of Beirut hostage, the TV journalist  John McCarthy. ..John Patrick McCarthy CBE (born 27 November 1956) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster, and one of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. He was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad terrorists in Lebanon in April 1986, and held hostage for more than five years. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1992. McCarthy was Britain's longest-held hostage in Lebanon, having spent over five years in captivity until his release on August 8, 1991. He shared a cell with the Irish hostage Brian Keenan, for several years.
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  • Released Beirut hostage, journalist John McCarthy (left) is greeted by United Nations Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar (centre) and Douglas Hogg MP from the British Foreign Office (right) at RAF Lyneham after being held prisoner for 5 years by Jihadists in Lebanon, on 11th August 1991, in Lyneham, England. McCarthy was the United Kingdom's longest-held hostage in Lebanon where he was a prisoner from April 1986, famously forging a strong bond with Irish educator Brian Keenan.
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  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house18-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house17-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house14-24-11-2013.jpg
  • The address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. UPDATE NOV 2015: Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, a Maoist cult leader who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control women he held captive has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults. He raped two followers and falsely imprisoned and mistreated his daughter for more than 30 years in a commune in South London.
    slavery_house03-24-11-2013.jpg
  • A tourist crouches on the original 4th century marble starting line at ancient Olympia's athletics track where both ancient Greeks and Romans held their games. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers before competition. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet, or 'Stadion,' from which we get the word 'Stadium'. Olympic spectators suffered dehydration due to to extreme heat. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and at the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now.
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  • Nike trainers on the ancient Olympia's start line. A tourist crouches on the original marble starting line at ancient Olympia's athletics track where both ancient Greeks and Romans held their games. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers before competition. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet, or 'Stadion,' from which we get the word 'Stadium'. Olympic spectators suffered dehydration due to to extreme heat. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • Held on a lead by its owner, a large Bulldog pees in the street in Knightsbridge, on 24th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • Held on a lead by its owner, a large Bulldog pees in the street in Knightsbridge, on 24th August 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. Young buyers queue outside Nikeworld and wait for opening time held in a pen  at Oxford Circus, on 15th June 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. Young buyers queue outside Nikeworld and wait for opening time held in a pen  at Oxford Circus, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shops-08-15-06-2020.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. Young buyers queue outside Nikeworld and wait for opening time held in a pen  at Oxford Circus, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shops-07-15-06-2020.jpg
  • Framed in the missing panels of a map of the capital's West End theatre district, a woman fashionista wearing a monochrome outfit stands outside in the street before an event held at the National Portrait Gallery during London Fashion Week, on 17th February 2020, in London, England.
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  • Stylish people walk beneath a workman with an events company who is removing sticky banners from the side of a venue on the Strand where shows have been held during London Fashion Show, on 17th February 2020, in London, England.
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  • Sheltered by an umbrella held above her head, a woman signwriter artist paints the text of a West End pub's food menu of pies and fish & chips, outside The Porcupine, a traditional British pub on Charing Cross Road, on 17th February 2020, in London, England.
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  • Sheltered by an umbrella held above her head, a woman signwriter artist paints the text of a West End pub's food menu of pies and fish & chips, outside The Porcupine, a traditional British pub on Charing Cross Road, on 17th February 2020, in London, England.
    sign_painter-02-17-02-2020.jpg
  • A Racing Post vendor looks over to a young woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat on Ladies' Day during Royal Ascot, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar, on 18th June 1992, in London, England. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
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  • Released hostage Terry Waite waves as he steps out of an RAF aircraft, 5 years after being taken hostage by Jihadists in Lebanon, on 19th November 1991, in Lyneham, England. Terry Waite CBE (born 1939) is an English humanitarian and author who was then Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy. He was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991.
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  • Two friends watch lipstick technique as a lady applies a layer to her lips while holding her cocktail before entering a party held in a marquee at the Royal Navy Air Station Culdrose, on 14th May 1998, at Culdrose, Devon, England.
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  • The Socialist Militant newspaper is held by a man alongside other workers, listen to speeches in central Liverpool during the bin men strike of 1991, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, England. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool over that summer when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin such as rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
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  • City dignitaries listen to a speech given by the Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke MP, the then-Chancellor in John Major’s Conservative government of 1994, on 16th June 1994, in London, England. These city and financial dignitaries have feasted well in the old Guildhall, the City of London’s town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the capital. Wearing formal banquet attire, these chiefs of industry appear to be an all-male audience though there were also women sat at tables during the Banker's Dinner held every in June when the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a speech known as the Mansion House Speech hosted by the Lord Mayor, which takes its name from his official residence nearby. They concentrate on the speech to hear the Chancellor’s predictions for growth and prosperity.
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  • Girlfriends eagerly await the opening by one woman of a bottle of bubbly, en-route by First Class train carriage to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week, on 21st June 1993, in London, England. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting.
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  • A detail of one of two panels commemorating the names of international athletes who won gold medals at the London Olympics held at the old Wembley Stadium in 1948, on 6th November 2019, in Wembley, London, England. The fragile and heavy panels were carefully removed when the old stadium was demolished in 2000 and restored when the new structure was completed, in memory of the post-war (austerity) games.
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  • A torn election poster for a Polish political candidate, on 21st September 2019, in Jaworki, near Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland. Poland's parliamentary elections will be held on 13 October 2019 when all 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators will be elected. The Sejm of the Republic of Poland is the lower house of the Polish parliament. It consists of 460 deputies elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the "Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland"
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  • A torn election poster for a Polish political candidate, on 21st September 2019, in Jaworki, near Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland. Poland's parliamentary elections will be held on 13 October 2019 when all 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators will be elected. The Sejm of the Republic of Poland is the lower house of the Polish parliament. It consists of 460 deputies elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the "Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland"
    poland-200-21-09-2019.jpg
  • An election poster for Polish political candidates Marta Fogler and Jan Karpiel of the Citizens' Coalition, on a residential street's tree, on 21st September 2019, in Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland. Poland's parliamentary elections will be held on 13 October 2019 when all 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators will be elected. The Sejm of the Republic of Poland is the lower house of the Polish parliament. It consists of 460 deputies elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the "Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland"
    poland-191-21-09-2019.jpg
  • A defaced election poster for the Polish political candidate Anna Waliczek, on 20th September 2019, in Biala Woda, Jaworki, near Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland. Poland's parliamentary elections will be held on 13 October 2019 when all 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators will be elected. The Sejm of the Republic of Poland is the lower house of the Polish parliament. It consists of 460 deputies elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the "Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland"
    poland-156-20-09-2019.jpg
  • Young local Polish schoolchildren take part in a cycling challenge held in an open green space and in front of large wooden lettering for their southern Polish town, on 17th September 2019, in Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • A landscape of an election poster for the Polish political candidate Marta Fogler of the Citizens' Coalition, on a residential street's tree, on 16th September 2019, in Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Poland's parliamentary elections will be held on 13 October 2019 when all 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators will be elected. The Sejm of the Republic of Poland is the lower house of the Polish parliament. It consists of 460 deputies elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the "Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland"
    poland-68-16-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of an election poster for the Polish political candidate Marta Fogler of the Citizens' Coalition, on a residential street's tree, on 16th September 2019, in Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Poland's parliamentary elections will be held on 13 October 2019 when all 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators will be elected. The Sejm of the Republic of Poland is the lower house of the Polish parliament. It consists of 460 deputies elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the "Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland"
    poland-69-16-09-2019.jpg
  • An image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square next to the statue of Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, the South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher, during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion's campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
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  • An image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion's campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
    extinction_rebellion-24-23-04-2019.jpg
  • An image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion's campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
    extinction_rebellion-22-23-04-2019.jpg
  • An image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion's campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
    extinction_rebellion-21-23-04-2019.jpg
  • An image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square next to the statue of Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, the South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher, during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion's campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
    extinction_rebellion-19-23-04-2019.jpg
  • An image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion's campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
    extinction_rebellion-16-23-04-2019.jpg
  • An image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion's campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
    extinction_rebellion-13-23-04-2019.jpg
  • An image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion's campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
    extinction_rebellion-09-23-04-2019.jpg
  • An image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion's campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
    extinction_rebellion-08-23-04-2019.jpg
  • An image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion's campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
    extinction_rebellion-07-23-04-2019.jpg
  • An image of veteran wildlife and environmental broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is held high in Parliament Square during the week-long protest by climate change activists with Extinction Rebellion's campaign to block road junctions and bridges around the capital, on 23rd April 2019, in London England.
    extinction_rebellion-04-23-04-2019.jpg
  • A south London landscape with a question mark being held in the context of a billboard ad, on 10th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • A south London landscape with a question mark being held in the context of a billboard ad, on 10th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • A south London child walks beneath a question mark being held in the context of a billboard ad, on 10th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • Royal Ascot racegoers picnic on the grass of an event car park, on 18th June 1992, in Ascot, England. Trays of food and two bottles of Champagne have been consumed during a break from betting and socialising. They are dressed in formal morning dress of top hat, waistcoat, tails with two of the men wearing red roses in their lapel button holes, all traditional and obligatory dress code in the Royal Enclosures which can be seen by visitors in the public car parks near the famous Berkshire race course. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • For their daily river washing ritual, young Nepali boys bathe in the river Seti Gandaki in a valley side near the British Gurkha Regiment's army camp at Pokhara during their recruitment selection held ever year, 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. <br />
After a gruelling series of physical tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.  (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Two young 1990s girls stand with their beloved ponies at a gymkhana in, on 17th September 1999, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Held by a parent, a young child squeezes between the pillars of one of the Triple Bridges (Tromostovje) in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 25th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • The covered remains of the Grenfell high-rise Grenfell, on the first anniversary of the tower block disaster, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
    grenfell_anniversary-55-14-06-2018.jpg
  • The covered remains of the Grenfell high-rise Grenfell, on the first anniversary of the tower block disaster, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
    grenfell_anniversary-53-14-06-2018.jpg
  • The covered remains of the Grenfell high-rise Grenfell, on the first anniversary of the tower block disaster, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
    grenfell_anniversary-52-14-06-2018.jpg
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