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  • The message in graffiti lettering "Don't come here they attack you" has been written on a wall outside a house in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, Merseyside England. Flat 1A has a bright red-painted door and red bricks in an otherwise poverty-stricken district of this poor inner-city where crime and social deprivation has become the normal way of life for Scouses (someone from Liverpool). We see the red theme carried throughout this image of threat and ill-discipline where survival is clearly hard. These 'back to back' terraced houses have largely been demolished during Liverpool's regeneration during the 60s and 70s though some remain, accommodating unfortunate families on low-income.
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  • The rotting blue door of a Victorian terraced house now dilapidated and abandoned on the streets of Toxteth, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, England. Toxteth is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside, located to the south of the city and, in the 1990s, was synonymous with social issues, degradation and poverty with some of the most underprivileged families in the UK. Recently many streets in the worst areas have been demolished including Beatle Ringo Starr's childhood home.
    liverpool_strike04-14-06-1991.jpg
  • A man stands on his own on a grassy bank to cut a lonely figure in long grass on an embankment near the tall Canary Wharf tower structure a mile away in the background at Dockland's area of East London. Above the grassy bank at Mudchute, a city farm on London's Isle of Dogs, England, the sky is threatening with gathering clouds but lights still picks out the man against the darkening skyline. He stands with arms folded looking thoughtfully at the ground as if depressed or considering his isolation in the world. It is a seemingly rural location but is, in fact, an area of inner-city London, close to major construction projects, transforming Docklands into a major centre for finance and new housing.
    canary_wharf_person-13-08-1991.jpg
  • Near children playing with a goat and a man laying with just his knees showing, a woman exercises her hamstrings in long grass on an embankment near the tall Canary Wharf tower structure a mile away in the background at Dockland's area of East London. Above the grassy bank at Mudchute, a city farm on London's Isle of Dogs, England. It is a seemingly rural location but is, in fact, an area of inner-city London, close to major construction projects, transforming Docklands into a major centre for finance and new housing.
    canary_wharf02-13-08-1991.jpg
  • A family stand on a grassy bank to cut three figures in long grass on an embankment near the tall Canary Wharf tower structure a mile away in the background at Dockland's area of East London. Above the grassy bank at Mudchute, a city farm on London's Isle of Dogs, England, the sky is threatening with gathering clouds but sunlight still picks out the people against the darkening skyline. It is a seemingly rural location but is, in fact, an area of inner-city London, close to major construction projects, transforming Docklands into a major centre for finance and new housing.
    canary_wharf01-12-05-1991.jpg
  • Grabbing a quiet few moments in an otherwise busy environment, two people lie in long grass near the tall Canary Wharf tower structure a mile away in the background at Dockland's area of East London. On the grassy bank at Mudchute, a city farm on London's Isle of Dogs, England, the two people have been joined on this war summer afternoon by a small goat who is making its way along, munching at the lush vegetation. It is a seemingly rural location but is, in fact, an area of inner-city London, close to major construction projects, transforming Docklands into a major centre for finance and new housing.
    RB_129-13-08-1991.jpg
  • Three teenage boys bait their lines in the calm of the River Wandle, one of London's lost rivers that still meanders through inner-city London on its course from Carshalton Pond to the Thames. The three lads are reflected in the ripples of this once-polluted water which was once flushed with the toxins of industry such as tanning factories and breweries. After expensive clean-ups by local authorities, kids like these are once again able to catch trout in the way boys like them would do hundreds of years before the industrial revolutiion fouled many a water course. It is a perfect later-summer afternoon and the sun is shining on waterside reeds and grasses making this a scene of idyllic boyhood and undusturbed lazy dreams.
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  • Looking down from above, we see young men who are open-chested and with their suit jackets either beneath their heads or on the grass, three office co-workers stretch out over the lush grass and sunbathe during a hot summer lunchtime in Trinity Square in the City of London, England. One has his paperwork under his head and a can of Coke to quench his thirst. Already tanned, the threesome bask under a hot mid-day sun. Risking sunburn after prolonged solar radiation exposure, they enjoy the inner-city heatwave.
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  • A middle-aged woman walks along a gloomy street in Toxteth, Liverpool, England. Passing a boarded-up greengrocer that probably once served the local community, the lady strides past its sealed window and the name of its past owner, obviously proud of her business' quality in an otherwise run-down area. Toxteth saw serious rioting in 1981 and the legacy of social-deprivation ever since meant a breakdown of law and order.  Used as the epitome of poor inner-city Britain, it is located to the south of the city and is synonymous with social issues, degradation and poverty with some of the most underprivileged families in the UK. Recently many streets in the worst areas have been demolished including a threat to Beatle Ringo Starr's childhood home.
    toxteth_woman-08-08-1991.jpg
  • Late at night in a South London street, two young children remain fast asleep in the back of their parents' car. It is a dark despite pools of light falling from street lighting that throw heavy shadows beneath other vehicles. The silhouettes of large ash trees can be seen against the city skyline. The interior lights in the car are switched on to reveal the sleeping childrens' faces. An older girl has her mouth wide open while her younger brother is seen in profile but both are peacefully unaware that they have arrived home after a long drive fro the countryside to the inner-city. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • Looking up towards majestically tall 100 year-old mature Ash trees and blue skies, the sun glints off a window pane in an Edwardian age semi-detached house on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) South London England. It is a beauitiful winter afternoon in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. A couple are walking their dogs past an elegant line of period homes that were completed in 1908, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
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  • Two young 'Scouse' girls sit on a telephone junction box and against a brick wall on which there is graffiti and childish scribbles. They are near a back alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England. The older, taller girl is of Asian-descent and the younger is White British who hides her face with her top. Both are facing other activity in this inner-city street where there are 'back to back' houses in a poor area, South of the city centre and home to deprived families. Few of these back-to-backs exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
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  • Two young boys concentrate on piling plastic bottle crates on top of each other making towers that echo the tall Canary Wharf tower structure a mile away in the background at Dockland's area of East London. On the grassy bank at Mudchute, a city farm on London's Isle of Dogs, the pile of crates is untidy and unstable making them lean at odd angles making the boys hold on to their building projects. They are dressed for a summer afternoon's activity in a seemingly rural location but which is, in fact, an area of inner-city London.
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  • Gazing out of the window at an inner-city landscape from of a commuter train between Denmark Hill and Victoria, South London
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  • The shadows of tree branches across the boarded-up entrance of All Hallows, an inner-city church on Copperfield Street, on 30th January 2018, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. All Hallows Church Southwark was designed by George Gilbert Scott Junior and built in 1879-80 in Copperfield Street south of the river. The church suffered bomb damage on two occasions in WW2, in addition to being gutted by a landmine where it remained a relative ruin. It was not until 1957 that any attempt was made to salvage the bombed church, but due to the poor state of the surviving remains, the main structure and northern parts of the building had to be demolished.
    southwark-14-30-01-2018.jpg
  • From an aerial perspective, we look down on the green algae and a lone rower who is sculling upstream of the River Lea (Also Lee) in east London, England. The words No Fishing have been painted by hand on a old Victorian lock that once served as a navigable route for barges to negotiate this inner-city waterway. With its source in the Chiltern Hills and ending in the River Thames, this stretch of river has seen development from Saxon times through to the building of the 2012 Olympic site at Stratford. Meticulously placing his oars in the water, he parts the organic growth with the slim boat's hull and looks over his shoulder to check his distance and angle as he nears the lock's concrete spans.
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  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-10-21-08-2019.jpg
  • A young boy horse rider jumps around the equestrian ring while Queen Elizabeth makes a brief visit to the Ebony Horse Club at Loughborough Junction, Brixton, London. Accompanied by the Duchess of Cornwall, Her Majesty watched an equestrian demonstration in one of the most disadvantaged inner city neighbourhoods in the country where there is a historic legacy of under-achievement in schools, high rates of teenage pregnancy and negative stereotypes of young people, gang violence and drug related crime.
    queen_brixton19-29-10-2013.jpg
  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-06-21-08-2019.jpg
  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-09-21-08-2019.jpg
  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-01-21-08-2019.jpg
  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-05-21-08-2019.jpg
  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-04-21-08-2019.jpg
  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-02-21-08-2019.jpg
  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-07-21-08-2019.jpg
  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-08-21-08-2019.jpg
  • Fire damage to a structure at the Ruskin Park Community Garden, on 21st August 2019, in London, England. The Community Garden is a source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables and encouraging inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. They receive grants from Capital Growth and the Lambeth Community Action Fund and were nominated for funding under the Lambeth Community Action Fund 2009/10 by the Herne Hill Ward Councillors.
    ruskin_fire-03-21-08-2019.jpg
  • Two young girl horse riders stand by a plaque just unveiled by Queen Elizabeth while making a brief visit to the Ebony Horse Club at Loughborough Junction, Brixton, London. Accompanied by the Duchess of Cornwall, Her Majesty watched an equestrian demonstration in one of the most disadvantaged inner city neighbourhoods in the country where there is a historic legacy of under-achievement in schools, high rates of teenage pregnancy and negative stereotypes of young people, gang violence and drug related crime.
    queen_brixton25-29-10-2013.jpg
  • Queen Elizabeth made a brief visit to the Ebony Horse Club at Loughborough Junction, Brixton, London. Accompanied by the Duchess of Cornwall, Her Majesty watched an equestrian demonstration in one of the most disadvantaged inner city neighbourhoods in the country where there is a historic legacy of under-achievement in schools, high rates of teenage pregnancy and negative stereotypes of young people, gang violence and drug related crime.
    queen_brixton23-29-10-2013.jpg
  • A young girl horse rider parades around the equestrian ring while Queen Elizabeth makes a brief visit to the Ebony Horse Club at Loughborough Junction, Brixton, London. Accompanied by the Duchess of Cornwall, Her Majesty watched an equestrian demonstration in one of the most disadvantaged inner city neighbourhoods in the country where there is a historic legacy of under-achievement in schools, high rates of teenage pregnancy and negative stereotypes of young people, gang violence and drug related crime.
    queen_brixton20-29-10-2013.jpg
  • Newly-completed high-rise apartments at Elephant & Castle in the south London borough of Southwark, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
    southwark_apartments02-26-02-2021.jpg
  • Newly-completed high-rise apartments at Elephant & Castle in the south London borough of Southwark, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
    southwark_apartments03-26-02-2021.jpg
  • Residents of members of the same social bubble sit in sunshine, on a balcony of a block of new apartments in Camberwell during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
    southwark_apartments01-26-02-2021.jpg
  • Through a filthy alleyway in Toxteth, Liverpool a local man still washes his car amid socially-deprived streets and housing
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  • Santander rental bikes await their next riders, in front of a pedestrian in Shoreditch where graffiti covers the exterior of a former office property, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
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  • Santander rental bikes await their next riders, in front of a cycling commuter who indicates with an outstretched arm a right turn, in Shoreditch where graffiti covers the exterior of a former office property, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
    santander_bikes05-26-02-2021.jpg
  • Santander rental bikes await their next riders, in front of a pedestrian in Shoreditch where graffiti covers the exterior of a former office property, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
    santander_bikes04-26-02-2021.jpg
  • Cardboard boxes used for sheltering in and bedding to sleep under by homeless rough sleeper occupies the entrance of a former office property in Shoreditch, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
    development_house01-26-02-2021.jpg
  • Santander rental bikes await their next riders, in front of a cycling commuter in Shoreditch where graffiti covers the exterior of a former office property, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
    santander_bikes09-26-02-2021.jpg
  • Santander rental bikes await their next riders, in front of a cycling commuter in Shoreditch where graffiti covers the exterior of a former office property, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
    santander_bikes02-26-02-2021.jpg
  • 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.
    RB_017-14-06-1991.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuter checks messages on-board carriages travelling into city mainline stations in south London.
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  • Commuters walk about in all directions in the heat of summer in the city during a 3-day underground tube strike in September 2007. As a result of the industrial action, the buses are full so the quickest way of reaching one's destination is to walk. People near Victoria Station, a transport hub for tube lines, buses and overground train routes so we see businessmen in dark suits during the heatwave, women striding along towards their transport home and we look up at them from a low-angle in the street. One man seems to pause from indecision while others are more confident about their fate and direction in life.
    tube_strike_commuters18-04-09-2007.jpg
  • Early evening lights glow from windows of Edwardian era semi-detached houses with 100 year-old mature ash trees Westminster and city behind, SE24
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  • Seen from a mid-level of the Eiffel Tower, we are looking down on the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Before us are the rooftops of apartment buildings in one of the 20 arrondissements (administrative districts) of the capital city of France. Just adjacent of the Rive Gauche (left bank) of the River Seine and sharing the Montparnasse district with the 6th and 14th arrondissements, it is the city's most populous arrondissement with an area of 8.5 sq km (3.3 sq miles, or 2,101 acres). Many have lead or zinc roofs that are seen as grey material on the tops of these urban homes. It's so bright that some residents have lowered blinds to keep glare out of their cool rooms that overlook other parts of Paris, its trees and curved, narrow streets..
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  • With the city (including Bg Ben and Parliament) in the distance and beneath 100 year-old ash trees, amateur cricketers play in south London's Ruskin Park in the London borough of Lambeth.
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  • Cardboard boxes used for sheltering in and bedding to sleep under by homeless rough sleeper occupies the entrance of a former office property in Shoreditch, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
    development_house02-26-02-2021.jpg
  • A man walks his dogs in front of south London suburban homes with a background of the Shard tower and City office buildings, in Ruskin Park, Lambeth, on 17th September 2020, in London, England.
    ruskin_park02-17-09-2020.jpg
  • Commuters to-and-fro in the heat of a city summer during a 3-day underground tube strike in September 2007. This is Victoria mainline station during a summer heatwave. It's a transport hub for tube lines, buses and overground train routes and we see masses of pedestrians and buses reflected in the glass of a bush shelter window. As a result of the industrial action, the buses are full so the quickest way of reaching one's destination is to walk. An official points out directions, someone shields his eyes from the sun, a lady walks with her hands in pockets, the 239 bus to Victoria approaches and sightseeing tours sign advertises tickets. People are seen in differing scales and sizes.
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  • Early morning regular swimmer swims solitary lengths at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido before crowds arrive
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  • The words "keeep (mis-spelled) clear .. door in constant use" has been painted by hand on an entrance to a now derelict building that is soon to be developed into new apartments. Peeled blue gates has been rubbed away to reveal the old wood in the once-industrial Tetley Street near Bradford city centre, Yorkshire.
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  • 'Jesus said' Biblical quotations on a city church and bleak background tower blocks in the London borough of Southwark. Locals in these bleak south London streets may be uplifted by the words from the Christian scriptures, comforting the troubled with messages of humanity from the Bible, perhaps guiding Londoners incarcerated in the depressing 1960s tower block high-rises, homes to the poor and the dispossessed.
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  • The words No Parking have been painted by hand on industrial bricks of a wall in a quiet street off Lumb Lane near Bradford city centre, Yorkshire. Above the message in the window is both Kashmiri and English writing for a mis-spelled business called Kashmir Catring Bradford.
    no_parking23-09-05-2009.jpg
  • On brick and metal shutters, the words No Parking and Please have been painted by hand in blue against a background stripe of yellow on a wall in a quiet street near Bradford city centre, Yorkshire. A modern Monday to Saturday 8am to 6pm parking zone sign is also a vertical line that is central to the picture.
    no_parking20-08-05-2009.jpg
  • Before this land is re-devloped for new apartments, a sign urging that parking is strictly for long-gone customers and employees of a certain Anderson Mills below now derelict buildings near Bradford city centre, Yorkshire.
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  • A residents car parking sign still stands to deter others from leaving vehicles on an abandoned derelict estate near Bradford city centre. Boarded up windows and doors show there is no longer any residents or their cars.
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  • Bent rubbish bins in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 London
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  • Bent rubbish bins in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 London
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  • An early morning swimmer bathes in the unheated pool of the Grade II listed  Brockwell (Brixton) Lido in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, 25th August 1995, in London, England. The Lido is an oasis for city dwellers to escape, if only for an hour from the pressures of fast urban life. Brockwell Lido is a large, open air swimming pool in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London. It opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 but after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994. Brockwell Lido was designed by HA Rowbotham and TL Smithson of the London County Council's Parks Department to replace Brockwell Park bathing pond. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A low, wide landscape of dereliction and poverty during the early 1990s in the city of Liverpool, England. The Catholic cathedral rises high in the distance over near-empty streets where bricks and refuse litter the pavements and empty buildings await destruction - the impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
    liverpool_dereliction02-08-08-1991.jpg
  • 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.
    RB_066-13-06-1991.jpg
  • Trunk of an Ash tree in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, London.<br />
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A limited edition (6 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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  • The words No Parking has been written in pain by hand three times on the sills of now bricked-up windows in a quiet cobbled street near Bradford city centre, Yorkshire.
    no_parking16-08-05-2009.jpg
  • The words "keeep (mis-spelled) clear .. door in constant use" has been painted by hand on an entrance to a now derelict building that is soon to be developed into new apartments. Peeled blue gates has been rubbed away to reveal the old wood in the once-industrial Tetley Street near Bradford city centre, Yorkshire.
    no_parking14-08-05-2009.jpg
  • Rush hour train commuters on-board carriages travelling into London between Denmark Hill and London Bridge stations, London.
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  • During the evening rush hour, hundreds of rail commuters are queueing to board a Thameslink train which has just arrived on the platform at Farringdon Station in Clerkenwell, London England. Standing 10-deep, they patiently wait the next ride home southbound during a tube strike forced the closure of underground stations and making workers take alternative routes. Looking down from a high bridge we see the train's roof and the heads of those delayed and inconvenienced. It is another miserable journey home.
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  • An urban landscape on the soon-to-be demolished Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977 and for decades it was seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of "one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom. Demolition is in progress for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate to consist of 3,500 new homes, 50% of which, according to Southwark council, will be affordable.
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  • An urban landscape on the soon-to-be demolished Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977 and for decades it was seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of "one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom. Demolition is in progress for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate to consist of 3,500 new homes, 50% of which, according to Southwark council, will be affordable.
    aylesbury_estate-12-04-09-2018.jpg
  • Street mural landscape and local man on the Rockingham Estate in the London borough of Southwark, England. The man carries a young girl in his arms, its face unseen to the viewer. Graffiti has been sprayed on the brickwaork where the mural has been painted near a junction and on the wall of a corner community shop. Rockingham is located in south London near the Elephant and Castle. Notorious for youth issues including gangs and knife crime where 12-year-olds are seen holding knives in broad daylight. For families with young children this would be an intimidating community in which to live.
    rockingham_estate04-27-03-2013.jpg
  • Resident Pelicans paddle in waters of St James's Park with Buckingham Palace and Union Jack flags in the background.
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  • Silhouetted commuters wait on benches for arriving train on covered platform at London Bridge mainline station.
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  • Londoners walk past a marketing billboard for The Levers - a new apartment development on the Walworth Road at Elephant And castle, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Levers (A Peabody development) will be a complex of 1,2,and 3 bed flats close to Elephant & Castle and Elephant Park - both undergoing major redevelopment.
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  • An urban landscape on the soon-to-be demolished Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977 and for decades it was seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of "one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom. Demolition is in progress for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate to consist of 3,500 new homes, 50% of which, according to Southwark council, will be affordable.
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  • An urban landscape on the soon-to-be demolished Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977 and for decades it was seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of "one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom. Demolition is in progress for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate to consist of 3,500 new homes, 50% of which, according to Southwark council, will be affordable.
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  • An urban landscape on the soon-to-be demolished Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977 and for decades it was seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of "one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom. Demolition is in progress for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate to consist of 3,500 new homes, 50% of which, according to Southwark council, will be affordable.
    aylesbury_estate-30-04-09-2018.jpg
  • An urban landscape on the soon-to-be demolished Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977 and for decades it was seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of "one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom. Demolition is in progress for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate to consist of 3,500 new homes, 50% of which, according to Southwark council, will be affordable.
    aylesbury_estate-26-04-09-2018.jpg
  • An urban landscape on the soon-to-be demolished Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977 and for decades it was seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of "one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom. Demolition is in progress for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate to consist of 3,500 new homes, 50% of which, according to Southwark council, will be affordable.
    aylesbury_estate-05-04-09-2018.jpg
  • A male commuter disappears underground after a rail journey terminated at the London Bridge mainline station. Travelling downwards into the London Underground tube system, the man seen as a generic silhouette is seen only from the upper legs and moves against the orange light from the escalator well wall. The polished machinery is in the foreground and the floor is spotlessley clean. London Bridge station is one of 18 railway stations managed by Network Rail and is a major transport terminus and interchange for central London and serves over 42 million people a year. The tube station serves the Jubilee Line and the Bank branch of the Northern Line.
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  • On a house's wooden garage gates the words Gate in Use have been painted by hand in white on wooden gates in a quiet suburban London street.
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  • An exterior of the Brixton Recreation Centre sports and activity centre (aka Brixton Rec), viewed from the window of a passing train carriage, on 5th December 2020, in London, England. Brixton Rec (completed 1986) is a Grade II Listed building designed by George Finch which features a swimming pool, sports halls, squash courts, dance studios, fitness programmes, sauna and steam rooms, and a gym.
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  • A solitary man walks through afternoon Autumnal sunlight in Ruskin Park, a popular green space in south London, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
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  • Rush hour train commuters blur through London Bridge mainline Station, walking en-route to exit and security barriers
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  • An urban landscape on the soon-to-be demolished Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977 and for decades it was seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of "one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom. Demolition is in progress for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate to consist of 3,500 new homes, 50% of which, according to Southwark council, will be affordable.
    aylesbury_estate-02-04-09-2018.jpg
  • Islamist Anjem Choudary is deputy and main spokesman of the radical UK group al Muhajiroun and banned breakaway group Islam4UK..
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  • Islamist Anjem Choudary is deputy and main spokesman of the radical UK group al Muhajiroun and banned breakaway group Islam4UK..
    Anjim Choudary_050503-05-2007.jpg
  • An urban landscape on the soon-to-be demolished Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977 and for decades it was seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of "one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom. Demolition is in progress for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate to consist of 3,500 new homes, 50% of which, according to Southwark council, will be affordable.
    aylesbury_estate-10-04-09-2018.jpg
  • A solitary person walks over wasteland in Liverpool, England, left after housing was demolished decades ago - its impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere. the sign tells us the name of this road but paint has been daubed over it in an attempt perhaps, to erase its identity now that the community has gone too. Billboards for consumer goods are on show for  non-existent shoppers.
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  • An elderly man struggles to cross the road near the soon-to-be demolished Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of "one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom.
    aylesbury_estate-25-04-09-2018.jpg
  • Street mural landscape on the Rockingham Estate in the London borough of Southwark, England. Graffiti has been sprayed on the brickwaork where the mural has been painted near a junction and on the wall of a corner community shop. Rockingham is located in south London near the Elephant and Castle. Notorious for youth issues including gangs and knife crime where 12-year-olds are seen holding knives in broad daylight. For families with young children this would be an intimidating community in which to live.
    rockingham_estate05-27-03-2013.jpg
  • Rooftops of Greenwich housing and Victorian terraced properties seen in a foreshortened perspective.
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  • Warring a face covering on his chin, a commuter rides an eScooter past the graffiti on the exterior of a former office property in during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
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  • Santander rental bikes await their next riders, in front of a cycling commuter in Shoreditch where graffiti covers the exterior of a former office property, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
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  • Santander rental bikes await their next riders, in front of a cycling commuter in Shoreditch where graffiti covers the exterior of a former office property, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
    santander_bikes01-26-02-2021.jpg
  • Cardboard boxes used for sheltering in and bedding to sleep under by homeless rough sleeper occupies the entrance of a former office property in Shoreditch, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
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  • An exterior street view of Castlemead, a high-rise block of flats on the Camberwell Road, on 7th September 2018, in south London, Southwark, UK
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  • An exterior street view of Castlemead, a high-rise block of flats on the Camberwell Road, on 7th September 2018, in south London, Southwark, UK
    high_rise-02-07-09-2018.jpg
  • An exterior street view of Castlemead, a high-rise block of flats on the Camberwell Road, on 7th September 2018, in south London, Southwark, UK
    high_rise-01-07-09-2018.jpg
  • An urban landscape on the soon-to-be demolished Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977 and for decades it was seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of "one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom. Demolition is in progress for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate to consist of 3,500 new homes, 50% of which, according to Southwark council, will be affordable.
    aylesbury_estate-41-04-09-2018.jpg
  • An urban landscape on the soon-to-be demolished Aylesbury Estate, on 4th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England. The Aylesbury Estate contained 2,704 dwellings in approximately 7500 residents and built between 1963 and 1977 and for decades it was seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. There were major problems with the physical buildings on the estate and the poor perception of estates in Britain as a whole have led to the Aylesbury Estate gaining the title of "one of the most notorious estates in the United Kingdom. Demolition is in progress for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate to consist of 3,500 new homes, 50% of which, according to Southwark council, will be affordable.
    aylesbury_estate-08-04-09-2018.jpg
  • Street mural landscape on the Rockingham Estate in the London borough of Southwark, England. Graffiti has been sprayed on the brickwaork where the mural has been painted near a junction and on the wall of a corner community shop. Rockingham is located in south London near the Elephant and Castle. Notorious for youth issues including gangs and knife crime where 12-year-olds are seen holding knives in broad daylight. For families with young children this would be an intimidating community in which to live.
    rockingham_estate02-27-03-2013.jpg
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