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  • The A30 highway runs deep into the South-West of England - from Exeter in the county of Devon to Penzance in the narrow peninsular of Cornwall. On certain dates in the calendar routes like this, near the Cornish town of Bodmin, England, come to a standstill from the huge volume of cars and private vehicles, all heading down to costal resorts and better weather. We see here a huge tailback of traffic that is queueing along one side of the British dual-carriageway (two lanes in each direction) from close-up  to the distance down and up a natural hill in this undulating landscape. The cars have edged forward are nose to tail for hours in summer heatwave and tempers fray, children arguing in the back and an otherwise relaxed holiday mood suddenly goes bad.
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  • In light monsoonal rain, a lone pedestrian is seen from a high viewpoint, crossing a zebra crossing with a yellow grid box junction to his right in Central Hong Kong on the last day of British rule. The junction is empty and without any traffic but the word 'Look' is stencilled in white letters for the benefit of unwary pedestrians. An umbrella used by the unrecognisable person is a colour match with the painted striped road markings, identical to the British highway traffic code. The transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" occurred at midnight on June 30, 1997, signifying the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • After heavy rain and the subsequent flooding, two lone canoeists paddle down the centre of the A27 near Chichester, West Sussex. The Dual carriageway has been completely submerged to approximately 1.5 metres and only the road sign with its directional arrow is visible above the surface which is rippling in a faint breeze. The men in red and yellow kayaks look inexperienced in boating activities and their clothing is not suitable for water sports. Even so, they are speeding down the highway that is otherwise empty of all other vehicles and they have the water and space to themselves without the fear of collision.
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  • Dressed in army uniform is a portrait of the military Colonel Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir in the central reservation of a highway near Khartoum's international airport.
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  • 1990s evening rush-hour traffic at the junction of the 400 to Buckhead and the 401 highway, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA.
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  • A woman toutist reads a map of the area, stopped by the side of highway 190 in Death Valley, California. A road sign warns of the bending road that skirts the arid area, dangerous for those caught without transport and water. Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California. Situated within the Mojave Desert, it is the lowest and driest area in North America. Death Valley has the record highest recorded air temperature in the world. The valley received its English name in 1849 during the California Gold Rush and called Death Valley by prospectors.
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  • In the foreground a local dog lies down in the afternoon heat on rutted ancient Roman flag stones while in the background tourists walk down the old highway in Pompeii, Italy. Next to his exhausted body, the grooved ruts carved by wooden wheels can still be seen next to a large stepping stone which let chariots ride over the stone yet allowed pedestrians to step over the road. Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. It was completely buried during a catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD. The volcano covered Pompeii under many metres of ash, and it was lost for over 1,600 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1748. Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. Today, it is a main tourist attraction of Italy and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pompeii has become a popular tourist destination; with approximately 2.5 million visitors a year, it is the most popular tourist attraction in Italy.
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  • From a slightly raised viewpoint we are looking up Bishopsgate Street in the oldest area of Britain's capital, the Square Mile in the City of London. As traffic is at a standstill when lights are red, pedestrians to and fro across the scene, blurring as they negotiate crossings and traffic islands mid-way across this old Roman and medieval highway that travels north-south in what is now the city's financial district. Buses can be seen in the far distance too adding to the general bustle of a busy metropolis. The highway tends to zigzag into the distance and with the foreshortening of a long lens, appears to have a compressed perspective.
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  • View through a car windscreen of a desert highway road sign for the New Valley, near Luxor, Western Desert, Egypt.
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  • Near the junction of the 400 to Buckhead, the 401 highway divides and splits during afternoon rush-hour traffic which slows and builds up so that vehicles and cars back-up as they head home and out of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The inner median is coned off during some construction work which slows the traffic even more. Crossing the 5-lane road comes a train of Atlanta's own mass-transit system, the MARTA network and it approaches the overpass with care. We see the infrastructure of a modern metropolis at the busiest time of day when the exodus to get home puts the roads and feeder lanes under the most pressure. Fortunately, the weather is fine with good visibility making drivers' journeys a little shorter and more tolerable but it shows too America's habit and dependency on car culture.
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  • Seen from the middle of the road, an empty highway landscape is seen at night alongside a giant generic warehouse wall at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. The tarmac is dark and the newly-painted white painted lines stand out. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
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  • Near the end of the military runway at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk England, a road sign warns of low-flying aircraft near the base which is populated by the United States Air Force Refuelling Wing. Beneath the triangular sign is a locally made makeshift advertisement for CJ's, a nearby cafe. It is summer and the shrubs are green with white flowers to the side. The sign itself has become discoloured with green algae after being rained on over successive wet weather days. In the UK, the Highway Code for road-users lists this warning sign (always triangular) as "Low-flying aircraft or sudden aircraft noise." Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
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  • A car drives slowly past wild New Forest ponies which occupy the highway in Lyndhurst, in the heart of Britain's oldest royal National Park. As part of the 1217 Charter of the Forest (carta de foresta), the horses - a specific breed to this small area of southern England - are allowed to walk along the road unhindered. Common rights survive today in the New Forest and are still protected by law.
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  • Street landscape near the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. On a new stretch of highway recently finished for those circumnavigating the perimeter of the Olympic park and its nearby shopping centre. The outer barrier of the Olympic Park is 2.5 sq km and circles a huge area of the borough of Stratford in the borough of Newham. The new landscape often looks incongruous to those living on many poor estates, excluded from the events. But this regeneration is the legacy by the government who promise a brighter future for this part of east London..
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  • Street landscape near the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. On a new stretch of highway recently finished for those circumnavigating the perimeter of the Olympic park and its nearby shopping centre. The outer barrier of the Olympic Park is 2.5 sq km and circles a huge area of the borough of Stratford in the borough of Newham. The new landscape often looks incongruous to those living on many poor estates, excluded from the events. But this regeneration is the legacy by the government who promise a brighter future for this part of east London..
    olympic_stratford13-06-08-2012.jpg
  • Taken six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a German lady from the old German Democratic Republic (DDR or GDR) looks back over her shoulder nostalgically at an abandoned Trabant car on a sunlit street in eastern Berlin, once in the eastern zone before the Communist-inspired Berlin Wall was breached in November 1989. Blocks of modern East German-designed flats line the street and a tram line can be seen in the middle of the highway. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means "fellow traveler" in German.
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  • As blue dawn light becomes another wintry day in south London, the glow of a car's brake lights shines through a covering of fresh snow. The driver has only swept the vehicle's back window with a rear wiper but with her foot on the brake pedal, she is about to set off on a drive to work this morning on roads that have controversially, not been gritted or salted by council highway workers. The surface is therefore still snowy in this residential area of Herne Hill, SE24, London and is a treacherous surface on which to maintain wheel and tyre (tire) traction and many accidents will result, including the heavy lorry (truck) which is about to climb this hill and which will soon prevent him from going much further.
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  • Moving fast past a farmhouse building on a busy UK A road, unseen traffic leaves its light trails on an otherwise dark winter night near the giant DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Some rooms are lit in this remote residence which show signs of occupation. Red tail lights from cars, lorries and trucks streak by with tall traces of container traffic leaves light on the picture, diagonally leaving their mark. It is a very busy highway on which to own a home but this infrastructure is a vital route that keeps Britain's logistics moving across the country 24/7.
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  • A desert highway road sign for the Egyptian town of Bagdad (not to be confused with Baghdad, Iraq) between Luxor and al-Kharga, Western Desert, Egypt.
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  • A desert highway road sign for the Egyptian town of Bagdad (not to be confused with Baghdad, Iraq) between Luxor and al-Kharga, Western Desert, Egypt.
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  • A desert highway road sign for the Egyptian town of Bagdad (not to be confused with Baghdad, Iraq) between Luxor and al-Kharga, Western Desert, Egypt.
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  • A young deer lies dead beside a busy highway on a road near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington State. Very recently run-over but seemingly unharmed, this animal has head injuries and died immediately from a collision with a passing vehicle, such as this heavy articulated lorry which blurrs past this location. This is forested area and the deer's natural habitat but too often wildlife in its natural surroundings violently meets the modern human environment and the animal comes of worst. As a result of the death, the roadkill was taken by members of a US Air Force survival course at their nearby facility and so it formed an unscheduled extra lesson in preparing venison for the pot that night (see Corbis image entitled 'US Air Force survival instructors with recent roadkill').
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  • Patriotic Americana - After 9/11. An aerosol American flag sprayed on a grassy knoll. In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. Evidence of a resilient nation was found on many roadsides. Here, a local garage owner has aerosol-sprayed the Stars and Stripes onto a grassy verge on Highway 422 in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania.."These Colours Don't Run." - From a New York City T-shirt...
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  • An Incident Support Vehicle with Highways England branding on the side and rear, seen next to a property in the Polish mountain village of Jaworki, on 21st September 2019, in Jaworki, near Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • An Incident Support Vehicle with Highways England branding on the side and rear, seen next to a property in the Polish mountain village of Jaworki, on 21st September 2019, in Jaworki, near Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • The face of a cyclist is illuminated from the red traffic light during evening rush-hour traffic, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
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  • A remote bus shelter in a desolate desert landscape near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is patrolled by armed police convoys.
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  • Traffic arrow bent and laying on pavement after road traffic accident, now guarding hazard to passing pedestrians.
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  • Seen from a London bus on a rainy night in the West End, cars queue in traffic at the edge of the Congestion Charge zone whose times of operation have temporarily changed to seven days a week during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 27th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • Police tape and a makeshift sign warn of a lane closure due to flooding in the village of Lavant, West Sussex. Afternoon sunshine illuminates the roughly-made board with red painted letters which says 'Road Closed'. The rippling water is less than a foot deep and we can see the broken white centre line beneath the surface but the linked posts that border the village green are also submerged. Even so, traffic is prohibited from passing through there for the risk of grounding or damaging engines. Lavant is a village just north of the city of Chichester. It is made up of two parts, Mid Lavant and East Lavant, and takes its name from the River Lavant which flows from East Dean. This area has been prone to flooding for several years and houses around the rising rivers can be blighted with insurance companies refusing future cover.
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  • A remote bus shelter in a desolate desert landscape near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is patrolled by armed police convoys.
    egypt502-09-03-2016.jpg
  • Lone woman struggles across a busy east London road laden with her supermarket shopping bags.
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  • Bus enthusiasts photograph London's newest red double-decker Routemaster (27th Feb 2012) bus which is seen in service on the capital's streets for the first time. The hybrid NB4L, or the Borismaster, New Routemaster or Boris Bus, is a 21st century replacement of the iconic Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London and is said to be 40 per cent more fuel efficient than conventional diesel buses. The brainchild of London's Conservative mayor Boris Johnson, its funding has been controversial amid massive fare increases in transport.
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  • Taxi and other traffic with yellow seating handles from the top deck of a London double-decker bus.
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  • Illuminated road bollards and passing Mercedes car during wintry snows in south London.
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  • City of London bench and modern city background.
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  • Two construction workmen manhandle a new post on Bishopsgate (Street) in the City of London, the capital's financial district.
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  • A construction workman pushes a trolley across Bishopsgate (Street) in the City of London, the capital's financial district.
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  • Three Superdry fashion store models on a large hoarding with three traffic parking cones in a London street.
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  • A businessman just exited from Bank tube station looks at his map for directions through the capital's Square Mile.
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  • The character known as Pandemonia, part-parody, living sculpture and fine artist leaves a London fashion show in a London taxi cab during Fashion Week. Writing about herself at www.pandemonia99.com she writes that she is "a 7ft tall personality often seen at exclusive premiers, events and exhibitions. Post pop, conceptual artist, written about in iD, independent and Vogue publications." Otherwise, few have any idea about who or what this cartoon character is, or even how this creature secures an invite to parties, society and art events. The writer Poonperm Paitayawat says ".. She is about branding, self-image and lifestyle. She is tapping into the collective unconsciousness. Pandemonia goes beyond pop art."
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  • Roadworks and construction fencing in London's Chinatown with paper lanterns hanging in background before Moon Festival.
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  • Engineering struts await use near scaffolding on a City of London construction site.
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  • Cones and No Entry sign in closed to traffic street and roadworks in the City of London.
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  • Winter trees and branches in London's Holborn.
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  • A Met Police officer wears a pollution mask while in traffic in central London. With elastic ties reaching behind his head, the policeman breathes easier in the presence of microscopic background bacteria particles and NO2 gas levels found in areas of heavy traffic, in large UK cities. His work takes him out into polluted areas and the Police Federation insist on protecting its union members from atmospheric harm.
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  • Alienated pedestrians negotitate new 2012 Olympic street landscape near the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford.
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  • An eccentric cyclist has dismounted his bike and straightens its front wheel and handlebars.
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  • A road's double-yellow lines lie under slush and ice after a wintry spell in inn-London.
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  • Surveyor dressed in orange high-vis suit stands outside Soho sex bookshop.
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  • American flags re on sale at night in the streets of Manhattan, only days after the attacks on New York's twin towers
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  • An empty urban landscape of a pedestrian crossing that leads nowhere in Stratford during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 26th November 2020, in London, England. Stratford was the home of the London 2012 Olympics where industrial estates centred around Carpenters Road were demolished to make way for sports venues  and now, after 8 years, for extensive housing. In the week of 8th-14th November, the east London borough of Newham (including Stratford) reported 703 positive cases (an increase of 13 from the previous 7 days) with a total of 6,259 cases.
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  • As the number of new Coronavirus cases in the UK climbs to 201,101, with UK deaths now standing at 30,076 - the highest recorded in Europe, Lambeth council have widened the pavements under the bridge at Herne Hill to accomodate more pedestrians and maintaining a safer social distance during the continuing Covid lockdown, on 6th May 2020, in south London, England.
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  • With the Shard in the background, a male pedestrian climbs the steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • Buses and cars queue on London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 7th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • A taxi queues in heavy traffic on London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 7th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • An aerial cityscape of Londoners and traffic on Upper Thames Street (west of London Bridge) in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • Pedestrian walks past reflected green light from nearby office building plate glass.
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  • Pedestrians walk beneath a wide billboard advertising the Fiat 500 with a 70s fashion theme.
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  • Aerial view through misted bus window of traffic bollard during seasonal downpour of rain.
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  • City of London bollard and street sweeper contractor pauses during shift outside the Bank of England.
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  • Roadworks and stripes from an adjacent office building reflects on to the road surface in Threadneedle Street, City of London.
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  • A Stop / Go banksman dressed in a high-vis suit stands on a public road for oncoming traffic as a pedestrian pauses in street.
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  • Before they were all replaced as working modes of public transport, a conductor sells a ticket wgile travelling along a London road, as part of a two-man crew of a number 88 red London Rotemaster bus, England UK. A parked car is seen through the open ledge of the bes' rear, blurred in the back ground and a lady passengers sits patiently as the bus speeds on its journey along its route through the capital. The man holds two fingers up to a foreign tourist to make sure they want two tickets for their destination. The conductor is the last human link with friendly public travel in London. He is usually a friendly face to accompany unsure travellers, often helping them reach their stop and answering questions about the journey with good humour and kindness. Their removal in favour of single driver crews meant that bus travel became more intimidating...
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  • Road markings warn shoppers of wearing facial coverings and no close gatherings when the weekly street market on Northcross Road is open on Saturdays in East Dulwich, during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 25th December 2020, in London, England.
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  • New social distance bollards have widened the pavement to allow for social distancing in Threadneedle Street during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the number of new Coronavirus cases in the UK climbs to 201,101, with UK deaths now standing at 30,076 - the highest recorded in Europe, Lambeth council have widened the pavements under the bridge at Herne Hill to accomodate more pedestrians and maintaining a safer social distance during the continuing Covid lockdown, on 6th May 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_HerneHill-04-06-05-2020.jpg
  • As the number of new Coronavirus cases in the UK climbs to 201,101, with UK deaths now standing at 30,076 - the highest recorded in Europe, Lambeth council have widened the pavements under the bridge at Herne Hill to accomodate more pedestrians and maintaining a safer social distance during the continuing Covid lockdown, on 6th May 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_HerneHill-03-06-05-2020.jpg
  • An aerial view of a law-abiding cyclist courier pauses at some give-way lines painted in the road at Cambridge Circus in London's West End, on 12th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • A young 23 year-old woman celebrates the passing of her driving test by holding up her L Plates in front of the family car in south London, on 7th December 2018, in London England.
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  • Buses and cars queue on London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • Buses and cars queue on London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • Buses and cars queue on London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 7th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • Pedestrians and traffic on Upper Thames Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 7th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • Pedestrians and traffic on Upper Thames Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 7th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • An aerial cityscape of Londoners, general traffic and a London taxi on Upper Thames Street (west of London Bridge) in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • An aerial cityscape of Londoners and traffic on Upper Thames Street (west of London Bridge) in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-34-10-10-2018.jpg
  • An aerial cityscape of Londoners, general traffic and a tour bus from The Original Tour  company on Upper Thames Street (west of London Bridge) in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • London city tour bus stopped at lights by construction work in central London.
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  • The privately-maintained Court Lane Gardens in Dulwich Village, Southwark during mid-winter snow.
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  • Cyclists peloton speeds through Hampton Court in southwest London compete for the 250km mens' road race on the first day of competition of the London 2012 Olympics. Starting from central London and passing the capital's famous landmarks before heading out into rural England to the gruelling Box Hill in the county of Surrey. Local southwest Londoners lined the route hoping for British favourite Mark Cavendish to win Team GB first medal but were eventually disappointed when Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov eventually won gold.
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  • Community street party in Herne Hill, south London celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth. A few months before the Olympics come to London, a multi-cultural UK is gearing up for a weekend and summer of pomp and patriotic fervour as their monarch celebrates 60 years on the throne and across Britain, flags and Union Jack bunting adorn towns and villages.
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  • London bus passenger showing the everyday tedium of commuting in the UK capital and a romantic film ad.
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  • Passing red bus featuring Wrath of the Titans movie ad and scaled human workman figure who warns pedestrians to stay on established footpath, and not wander into construction site roadways.
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  • Young men dash in front of approaching cyclist at a crossing in central London near miniature workman warning.
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  • A misleading landscape pretending that the street works relate to the demolition in Edwardian times of a Wren church.
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  • A passenger in the rear seat of a courtesy car is caught in a shaft of early spring light in a side street in the capital's financial district. This is Lombard Street, originally a piece of land granted by King Edward I to goldsmiths from the part of northern Italy known as Lombardy (larger than the modern region of Lombardy). It is a narrow and usually dark sidestreet near the Bank of England in the heart of what is called the Square Mile - the inner-part and oldest quarter of London occupied first by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Nowadays the City of London is home to banks and financial institutions but also with a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
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  • A large fashion advertising billboard stands above traffic, pedestrians and workmen fitting lights on the hoarding.
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  • Two young women walk past the entrance of London's Bank underground station whose steps go downwards from street level. As they pass the exit, a bus also drives through the gap of what we see on the road. The words 'How She Does It' refers to the Hollywood film titled "I Don't Know How She Does It" adapted from Allison Pearson's 2002 novel about a woman who "has it all". The steps of the underground station come downwards towards us with brass polished rails. Bank station, named after the Bank of England, opened in 1900 and is served by the Central, Northern and Waterloo and City lines, and the Docklands Light Railway.
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  • Two businessmen walk through a central London alleyway with their strong shadows on the pavement.
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  • An outdoor set is constructed for the Christian Dior fashion house in London's Bond Street during Vogue's Fashion's Night Out festival in the streets of the West End. Contracted workmen show their backsides wearing high-vis tabard vests put the finishing touches to a raised ramp that a Dior-sponsored taxi cab will be placed upon, complete with fake double-yellow lines. The fake road surface is being laid out as other workmen prepare a Dior street sign and staple parts of the ramp together.
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  • Urban backstreet landscape of a skip and fading walls in seaside town of Weston-super-Mare in north Somerset.
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  • A tall Shell sign seems to echo the palm tree landscape alongside the A 92 motorway near Paradas.
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  • Anonymous peoples' shadows and a London Crossrail construction site hoarding.
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  • An artwork showing a nightltime City of London's skyline with the sunny junction of Old Street roundabout and red bus.
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  • Dropped or discarded passport portrait of an Italian man lies on the ground next to a smoked cigarette butt.
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  • A young woman commuter reads a bus destination timetable sign at a flooded bus stop.
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  • We are looking upwards towards three converging pillars of the Cornhill Exchange building and beyond, to the famous Bank of England in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. Traffic leaves its light trails between the lens-distorted columns as it passes eastwards towards Bank Triangle, a busy intersection. It is early evening as the ambient light fades while artificial illumination becomes the dominant light-source.  With such a wide-angle perspective the bank and its architecture looks powerful and influencial in the UK's economy. The dark pillars contrasting with the colourful (colorful) light emitted from this established Bank makes for a scene of stability and strength.
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  • As the number of new Coronavirus cases in the UK climbs to 201,101, with UK deaths now standing at 30,076 - the highest recorded in Europe, Lambeth council have widened the pavements under the bridge at Herne Hill to accomodate more pedestrians and maintaining a safer social distance during the continuing Covid lockdown, on 6th May 2020, in south London, England.
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  • The aftermath of a black London taxi crashed into bike lock-up bars in Westminster, on 19th February 2019, in London, England.
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