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  • A cheeky young boy climbs over a back yard gate armed with a homemade bow and arrow in a back street in Liverpool, England. His homemade toy is the antithesis of what a wealthy lad might wish for in 21st century Britain when gadgets were all a kid wants and games outside have become rare and uncool. But this is still the early 1990s in times of recession when a make do and mend philosophy means families improvise with what they have and wealth is out of reach for many.
    bow_arrow-08-08-1991.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
  • A mother and her troublesome child at a bus stop in south London, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
    mother_child-01-25-03-2019.jpg
  • Wealthy adults and a child wearing sunglasses who smiles in the back of an open-top car remaining stationary at traffic lights in Sloane Square, on 14th May 2017, in London, England.
    rolls_family-02-14-05-2017.jpg
  • Outside Britain's Palace of Westminster parliament, a young black boy looks a passing woman as a Charlie Chaplin character making a Donald trump joke, on the day of Trump's inauguration as the 45th US president, on 20th January, in Parliament Square, London borough of Westminster, England.
    trump_inauguration-27-20-01-2017.jpg
  • Outside Britain's Palace of Westminster parliament, a young black boy looks sideways at a Charlie Chaplin character making a Donald trump joke, on the day of Trump's inauguration as the 45th US president, on 20th January, in Parliament Square, London borough of Westminster, England.
    trump_inauguration-22-20-01-2017.jpg
  • Outside Britain's Palace of Westminster parliament, a black mother walks past a Charlie Chaplin character making a Donald trump joke, on the day of Trump's inauguration as the 45th US president, on 20th January, in Parliament Square, London borough of Westminster, England.
    trump_inauguration-17-20-01-2017.jpg
  • A youth on bike performs wheelies on the seafront of Cascais, near Lisbon, Portugal.
    portugal_cascais-16-12-07-2016.jpg
  • Campaigners locked out of the closed Carnegie Library play chess outside, in Herne Hill, south London on 7th May 2016. For ten days, members of the community in the south London borough occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. But after a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym is planned to replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it. London borough’s budget cuts mean four of its 10 libraries will either close, move or be run by volunteers.
    carnegie_library20-07-05-2016.jpg
  • Campaigners locked out of the closed Carnegie Library play chess outside, in Herne Hill, south London on 7th May 2016. For ten days, members of the community in the south London borough occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. But after a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym is planned to replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it. London borough’s budget cuts mean four of its 10 libraries will either close, move or be run by volunteers.
    carnegie_library19-07-05-2016.jpg
  • Mustafa, a young Egyptian brings soft sugarcane branches for horses and camels at the Pharaohs Stable (pharaohsstables.com), a business dependent on tourism based in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt209-04-03-2016.jpg
  • A young boy of about 5 years-old sits in the family back garden in the early 1960s. The small lad sits with an embarrassed expression on his face, a brick wall behind him with summer garden plants growing nearby. The boy has blonde hair and a striped t-shirt and was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family04-13-07-1964.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
  • A young boy, too short to reach points a Minigun cannon from the top deck of HMS Illustrious over the river Thames at Greenwich, London. During which the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier was docked on the river, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day48-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Spectators enjoy the grid-like patterned floor in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. As a child does a cartwheel, a French lady lies on the ground to pose for a family photo. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park78-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Young wannabe of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, holds up an RAF merchandise brolley during airshow.
    Red_Arrows196_RBA.jpg
  • A small boy shows a fascination for a huge tractor wheel at the Lambeth country fair in inner-city south London. Possibly never having seen a large machine such as this at close-quarters, the lad stares at the giant nuts that attach the wheel to the main frame. Perhaps he is captivated by its immensity and scale, so much larger than his toy vehicle at home in his toy box.
    tractor_wheel1-16-July-2011.jpg
  • A sleeping auburn-haired boy sleeps soundly in his buggy during a daytrip to London.
    sleeping_boy01-02-04-2011.jpg
  • A young boy in a pushchair yawns during an exhausting daytrip to London.
    street_people02-12-10-2010.jpg
  • As his mother washes clothes in a communal spring below, a young boy of about 9 years of age stands on a track in the Himalayan foothills near the town of Gorkha. Here, the British army traditionally recruits young men for the Gurkha regiment (as they have done since 1857). The lad is wearing a yellow hooded sweatshirt and like many in this region - even is sub-zero temperatures - flip-flops. Nepal is one of the world's poorest countries. The prospects for this child may mean they will in future, if the army has no place for him, he may try to seek work in cities like Kathmandu rather than face a lifetime's struggle in local agriculture, as can be seen in the valley below. Their supplies and contact with the outside world comes up from these tracks of boulders and stone along which either men or yaks carry up food for basic survival and luxury goods.
    gorkha05-16-01-1997.jpg
  • While seated to have dinner at home, a young boy of about 10 years of age hides his face and wipes his lips with a serviette. Demonstrating perfect manners that his parents must have instilled in him, the lad's face is hidden from the viewer as he presses the cloth to his face to obscure his identity. He is eating some sort of pudding with a spoon and a fork rests on the highly-polished table on which an ornamental posy of flowers is reflected. It is a scene of immaculate etiquette that a boy from a middle-class background might be expected to show to elders and visitors. It is an example of grooming and pedigree to take with him out into the outside world where he will be expected to be the best behaved.
    boy_table-16-03-1991.jpg
  • A schoolboy of Afro-Caribbean descent stands looking confused on a platform at Victoria mainline station in central London. The young lad looks smart in a new school uniform of cap, blazer, long trousers and polished black shoes. We might guess that it is the start of a new academic year and that he is about to attend a new school for which he needs to take a train on his own. His mother and younger and older sister are also to the far right of the picture so he may go with his elder sibling carrying a multi-coloured umbrella and a bright blue briefcase containing his lunch and a few items needed for lessons. Surrounded by adult commuters, some of who look on with mild amusement, also make await their train from the city out of town. Mostly, people mind their own business and what is a special day for the boy will become a much-travelled route.
    platform_schoolboy09-23-1994.jpg
  • A boy plays snowballs at night during heavy snow showers in central London - a rare event for an inner-city. Snowflakes are falling in large amounts settling on this street in Herne Hill, South London. The lad is in his element by going outdoors at night as the showers are falling everywhere about him. He hides behind a parked car at the kerbside, crouching low to avoid detection by his elder sister. Relishing the hide and seek game they're playing and the prospect of landing the snow as a direct hit makes him look mischievous and excited.
    london_snow07-01-02_2009.jpg
  • Young hoodie looks at the devastation of a construction site after an inner-city estate fire in south London. About 310 people were forced to leave their homes after the fire engulfed a wooden structure under construction in scaffolding at Sumner Road and Garrisbrooke Estate, Peckham, London at about 0430 AM. It spread to two blocks of maisonettes and a destroyed a pub. More than 150 firefighters tackled this unusually large and ferocious fire which injured ten people, including two police officers who received hospital treatment for minor injuries.  .
    peckham_fire17-26-11-2009.jpg
  • Young girl and mother tying birthday party balloons to railings of their immaculate house in Belgravia, London.
    belgravia027-26-04-2008.jpg
  • A young 10 year-old boy enjoys a fresh Maldives line caught yellow fin tuna steak, grilled in his London home on a Friday night
    new_england160-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A young boy looks carefully at the many saucy postcards on sale outside a seaside shop, on 19th July 1993, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. Telling jokes to send back to friends and family, they using cartoon characters of buxom women, hen-pecked husbands or sexually-frustrated young men, the humour is bawdy and cheeky - the epitome of seaside holiday kitsch. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by Bamforths (founded 1870) and despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly tacky, postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. In the 1950s, Bamforth postcards were among the most popular of the 18 million items purchased at British resorts.
    saucy_postcards-21-08-1993.jpg
  • A young Chinese boy pulls a face on top of a lion at the HSBC bank in Central, the day after the Handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China. Midnight signified 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.
    hong_kong_handover-30-06-1997_5.jpg
  • Wealthy adults and a child wearing sunglasses who smiles in the back of an open-top car remaining stationary at traffic lights in Sloane Square, on 14th May 2017, in London, England.
    rolls_family-03-14-05-2017.jpg
  • Wealthy adults and a child wearing sunglasses who smiles in the back of an open-top car remaining stationary at traffic lights in Sloane Square, on 14th May 2017, in London, England.
    rolls_family-01-14-05-2017.jpg
  • Outside Britain's Palace of Westminster parliament, a young black boy and a Charlie Chaplin character making a Donald trump joke, on the day of Trump's inauguration as the 45th US president, on 20th January, in Parliament Square, London borough of Westminster, England.
    trump_inauguration-29-20-01-2017.jpg
  • Outside Britain's Palace of Westminster parliament, a young black boy looks sideways at a Charlie Chaplin character making a Donald trump joke, on the day of Trump's inauguration as the 45th US president, on 20th January, in Parliament Square, London borough of Westminster, England.
    trump_inauguration-26-20-01-2017.jpg
  • Campaigners locked out of the closed Carnegie Library play chess outside, in Herne Hill, south London on 7th May 2016. For ten days, members of the community in the south London borough occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. But after a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym is planned to replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it. London borough’s budget cuts mean four of its 10 libraries will either close, move or be run by volunteers.
    carnegie_library18-07-05-2016.jpg
  • Mustafa, a young Egyptian brings soft sugarcane branches for horses and camels at the Pharaohs Stable (pharaohsstables.com), a business dependent on tourism based in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt208-04-03-2016.jpg
  • Mustafa, a young Egyptian brings soft sugarcane branches for horses and camels at the Pharaohs Stable (pharaohsstables.com), a business dependent on tourism based in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt207-04-03-2016.jpg
  • Mustafa, a young Egyptian brings soft sugarcane branches for horses and camels at the Pharaohs Stable, a business dependent on tourism based in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt206-04-03-2016.jpg
  • A young Egyptian boy peers from behind a tree in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt198-03-03-2016.jpg
  • Two sexy girls pose for a photoshoot - a PR stunt for a womens' underwear company - employing their body services to promote their bras. A young boy looks on with a look of wonder and suspicion and workmen in the background look on with interest too.
    pr_photocall-02-07-1998.jpg
  • A young boy eats an ice cream below portraits of the BMX athlete Shanaze Reade and celebrated diver Tom Daley, both funded by the National Lottery, an exhibition featured in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. As the tally for gold medals climbed, so the argument over government funding for the young gathered pace. In times of austerity, schools and sports clubs had their budgets for sport reduced and Team GB's success raised more concerns for the future of British youth as potential medal winners.
    olympic_park14-10-08-2012.jpg
  • As a little boy drifts off to sleep, a father with a painted face holds a giant union jack hand as British fans cheer on their hero David Florence during the canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
    canoe_slalom39-29-07-2012.jpg
  • As a little boy drifts off to sleep, a father with a painted face holds a giant union jack hand as British fans cheer on their hero David Florence during the canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
    canoe_slalom41-29-07-2012.jpg
  • A young winner at a beauty talent contest in the gym at the Bedford-King Recreation Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The black community hold annual events here including sports competitions and occasions such this pageant where the girls and also boys prove their talents and potential.
    atlanta_children02-10-11-1995.jpg
  • A young boy sits in BAE Systems Hawk cockpit of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
    Red_Arrows624_RBA.jpg
  • A young boy sits in BAE Systems Typhoon model cockpit.
    Red_Arrows287_RBA.jpg
  • Reaching high above his head, a young four year-old boy waves a hoop drenched in a soapy solution that creates large bubbles trailing in the air at a camp site in Heerde, Gelderland, in the Netherlands. We look up at the lad between tall trees during his summer holidays as he arcs the rod loaded with a thin film of soap water, creating a thin film of iridescence on its surface. But moments after it forms, it bursts. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam30-16-08_2002.jpg
  • A young girl hangs from railings where her helium-filled  birthday balloons signal the party is soon to commence as her mother prepares indside their fine house in an exclusive and classically-designed location in Belgravia, London. The pastel-coloured balloons rise up in a breeze as the girl is self-absorbed on her big day. 103 Eaton Place faces Eaton Square, one of London's three garden squares built by Thomas Cubitt and the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia from 1826 until 1855. Belgravia attracts actors, politicians, ambassadors, big-budget bankers, traders and Prime Ministers like Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin at number 93.
    belgravia029-26-04-2008.jpg
  • A young girl and her mother prepare for the child's birthday party by tying balloons to the railings of their fine house in this exclusive and classically-designed location in Belgravia, London. The pastel-coloured balloons are helium-filled and rise up in a breeze as the girl smiles to herself. 103 Eaton Place faces Eaton Square, one of London's three garden squares built by Thomas Cubitt and the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia from 1826 until 1855. Belgravia attracts actors, politicians, ambassadors, big-budget bankers, traders and Prime Ministers like Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin at number 93.
    belgravia026-26-04-2008.jpg
  • A young skateboarder leaps into the air beneath the huge memorial to the German Communist leader Ernst Thalmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944. The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth scouting-styled organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14, in East Germany. Its motto was" "Für Frieden und Sozialismus seid bereit - Immer bereit" ("For peace and socialism be ready - always ready") but the Pioneers were disbanded in 1989 after early protests here in Leipzig at the same time as the Berlin Wall and the Socialist state's fall.
    DDR_travel05-06_1990.jpg
  • A boy plays snowballs at night during heavy snow showers in central London - a rare event for an inner-city. Snowflakes are falling in large amounts settling on this street in Herne Hill, South London. The lad is in his element by going outdoors at night as the showers are falling everywhere about him. He hides behind a parked car at the kerbside, crouching low to avoid detection by his elder sister. Relishing the hide and seek game they're playing and the prospect of landing the snow as a direct hit makes him look mischievous and excited.
    london_snow07-01-02_2009.jpg
  • Next to a freshly-dug grave covered with traffic bollards is a recent plot for a boy n Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery17-16-05-2009.jpg
  • Helium-filled pastel-coloured brthday party balloons tied to railings in exclusive property in Belgravia's Eaton Place, London
    belgravia031-26-04-2008.jpg
  • Helium-filled pastel-coloured brthday party balloons tied to railings in exclusive property in Belgravia's Eaton Place, London
    belgravia030-26-04-2008.jpg
  • A young three year-old boy has his hair cut by his mother in the family South London home. Lifting his hair with her fingers, the mum snips with a pair of scissors. While lifting her left elbow to gain the right angle of her cutting, we see her holding a comb in her mouth. The boy's elder sister looks on offering unhelpful comments which will eventually lead to an exchange of unkind words between the siblings while their mother concentrates hard on not making a mess of the kid's haircut. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam24-14-04_2002.jpg
  • Children practice winning a sprint final on the grid-like patterned floor in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. The kids race under a pretend track tape held by two volunteer Games Makers who offer the everyone winners' chocolate gold medals. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. .
    olympic_park81-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Fading aspirational poster showing local kids enjoying sports in housing estate opposite 2012 Olympic site, Stratford
    stratford80-14-10-2011.jpg
  • A mid-morning mist sweeps across the seafront's South Beach at Scarborough, the seaside town in North Yorkshire. Kids run about on the wet sand, some leaping and some just carrying buckets of salt water for sandcastles elsewhere. With the freedom and open-space, children who perhaps live in bleak industrial towns in northern England can enjoy the fresh-air on this north-eastern coast. Their reflections are also seen on the shiny sand and although it appears to be as grim as their home may be, it is in fact a warm day but the daily sea fogs that roll across this beach, a microclimate exists and is unique to this area.
    scarborough_beach08-21-1992_1.jpg
  • Children play near a puddle in the town of Nova Huta. In filthy industrial streets, the kids look undernourished in this scene of impoverished, Communist dereliction. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen reflected in the puddle before them. After the war, Stalin decided to build an industrial Communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nowa Huta  - or, the new steel mill. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area..
    nova_huta_puddle01-20-06-1990.jpg
  • Two children walk along a path between two dry stone walls in the countryside around the Yorkshire town of Settle. Striding between the boundaries of agricultural grazing land, whose trees and undergrowth has been cleared, the kids have come from a distant farmhouse which has recently lost its stock of sheep due to Foot and Mouth disease. Dry stone walls serve as boundaries and enclosures for farmers and land owners. Built by tradesmen called Wallers, a dying tradition and skill, they're constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. The stones must be carefully selected by shape to ensure that they have a large contact surface area with their neighbours and so do not slip. They are a legacy of the movement towards enclosure of common farming and grazing land as English society moved away from medieval feudalism. Model released.
    ella+sam25-23-06_2002.jpg
  • A crowd of Londoners laugh during an afternoon's Punch and Judy show at The Lambeth Show in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, England. Children of all ages along with parents grin at the out-of-sight puppet entertainment during this public festival of amusements and stalls in London's inner-city. Only one young girl sits unimpressed at the standard of comedy. She sits with her mother looking serious while the kids nearby roar with laughter - hugely involved with the show. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam17-15-07_2001.jpg
  • A group of young boys play in the calm waters of the Indian Ocean on Meedu Island, in the Republic of the Maldives. The shallows are a safe playground for these kids who swim and splash about in the clear shallows next to two small dhoni boats often used to fish using traditional hand and line, an important source of income for remote communities in this island nation. The sea is perfectly clear blue and the sand coral-white, in jeopardy to rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
    maldives207-13-11-2007.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, shops like Hamleys continue opening along London's Regent Street where childrens' entertainers again provide theatrical action for passing kids, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-37-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, shops like Hamleys continue opening along London's Regent Street where childrens' entertainers again provide theatrical action for passing kids, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-36-02-07-2020.jpg
  • Local 1990s kids on bikes watch an event on Venice Beach, on 18th May 1996, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
    LA_kids-18-05-1996.jpg
  • A mother leads her kids past the exterior frontage of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill. Faced with the closure of its local library, Lambeth council plan to close the facility used by the community as part of austerity cuts, saying they will convert the building into a gym and privately-owned gentrified businesses - rather than a much-loved reading and learning resource. £12,600 was donated by the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to help build the library which opened in 1906. It is a fine example of Edwardian civic architecture, built with red Flettan bricks and terracotta, listed as Grade II in 1981.
    carnegie_library14-25-02-2016.jpg
  • A father leads his kids past the exterior frontage of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill. Faced with the closure of its local library, Lambeth council plan to close the facility used by the community as part of austerity cuts, saying they will convert the building into a gym and privately-owned gentrified businesses - rather than a much-loved reading and learning resource. £12,600 was donated by the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to help build the library which opened in 1906. It is a fine example of Edwardian civic architecture, built with red Flettan bricks and terracotta, listed as Grade II in 1981.
    carnegie_library09-25-02-2016.jpg
  • A mother leads her kids past the exterior frontage of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill. Faced with the closure of its local library, Lambeth council plan to close the facility used by the community as part of austerity cuts, saying they will convert the building into a gym and privately-owned gentrified businesses - rather than a much-loved reading and learning resource. £12,600 was donated by the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to help build the library which opened in 1906. It is a fine example of Edwardian civic architecture, built with red Flettan bricks and terracotta, listed as Grade II in 1981.
    carnegie_library08-25-02-2016.jpg
  • A mother leads her kids past the exterior frontage of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill. Faced with the closure of its local library, Lambeth council plan to close the facility used by the community as part of austerity cuts, saying they will convert the building into a gym and privately-owned gentrified businesses - rather than a much-loved reading and learning resource. £12,600 was donated by the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to help build the library which opened in 1906. It is a fine example of Edwardian civic architecture, built with red Flettan bricks and terracotta, listed as Grade II in 1981.
    carnegie_library03-25-02-2016.jpg
  • Children play on a UN armoured vehicle exhibited during 1995 VE Day 50th anniversary celebrations in London. Climbing on the top of the tank, the kids risk injury on the surface, with many sharp corners and places to fall from. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
    UN_children-06-05-1995.jpg
  • Schoolchildren of many ages and ethnic backgrounds spend their morning break-time in their school playground in inner-city London. Faces of a variety of skin colours and expressions look to the viewer as the kids delight in having their picture taken. Their cheeky, mischievous grins make us smile as we remember our own pre-technology childhoods, an era before computers took our natural sense of outdoor fun away.
    schoolchildren-12-06-1990.jpg
  • Kids enjoying home-made cakes at a neighbourhood street party in Dulwich, 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.
    jubilee_party02-02-06-2012.jpg
  • Fading aspirational poster showing local kids enjoying sports in housing estate opposite 2012 Olympic site, Stratford
    stratford83-14-10-2011.jpg
  • Fading aspirational poster showing local kids enjoying sports in housing estate opposite 2012 Olympic site, Stratford
    stratford82-14-10-2011.jpg
  • Fading aspirational poster showing local kids enjoying sports in housing estate opposite 2012 Olympic site, Stratford
    stratford81-14-10-2011.jpg
  • Fading aspirational poster showing local kids enjoying sports in housing estate opposite 2012 Olympic site, Stratford
    stratford79-14-10-2011.jpg
  • A mother sits alongside her young children whilst riding in a central London rickshaw taxi with the kids' pushchair on the roof.
    rickshaw1-30-09-2011.jpg
  • Mothers swing a child across a filthy puddle in the town of Nova Huta, an industrial Stalinist steel town oin southern Poland..In filthy industrial streets, the kids look undernourished in this scene of impoverished, Communist dereliction. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen reflected in the puddle before them. After the war, Stalin decided to build an industrial Communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nowa Huta  - or, the new steel mill. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area.
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  • Four children leap out into the wide blue yonder on a beach in Whitley Bay, England. Jumping at a height from a sea defence wall, the kids all hold their towels above their heads and as they leave the ground, look down to their landing spot - the soft sand below. It is a scene of chilhood recklnessness, when children and young people take risks that adults don't. But  youngsters don't have a sense of danger but instead, exhilarating desire for adventure. The beach in the distance is largely deserted so the kids have lots of space to fulfill their games.
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  • Two local children squeeze through railings of the  unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). The kids have walked their dog through this field filled with old headstones and graves, playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society. .
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  • 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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  • Awkwardly, carrying their giant rubber rings by wrapping their left hands over the top curves, three kids make their way tentatively down a ramp of concrete to a poolside ride called River Run.
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  • In the weeks before Christmas day on December 25th, the Lord Mayor of London hosts an annual party at his official town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the City of London. Inviting Greater London's borough Mayors, they can each invite worthy children for an afternoon's fancy dress party. Two children dressed as Tarzan with a small monkey and a Grenadier Guard with a bearskin, and are seated on the Mayoral throne like two princes in a royal court. The chairs are coated with gold leaf with red cushioned fabric and with the Corporation of London's crest on the top. It looks resplendent and opulent. The two kids are sat looking small in the chairs seemingly made for giants but behind them is another boy dressed as a grey rabbit with floppy ears running past. The Guildhall has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial centre of the City of London. The term Guildhall refers both to the whole building and to its main room, which is a medieval style great hall similar to those at many Oxbridge colleges. The Guildhall complex houses the offices of the Corporation of London and various public facilities. (Greater London also has a City Hall). The great hall is believed to be on the site of an earlier Guildhall, and has large mediaeval crypts underneath. During the Roman period it was the site of an amphitheatre, the largest in Britannia. The City of London is still part of London's city centre, but apart from financial services, most of London's metropolitan functions are centred on the West End. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
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  • A group of young Nepali children stand on the terrace of a small hut where they live in the village of Rip in the Gorkha district of central Nepal, one of the 75 districts of modern Nepal. The kids gaze into many directions while two village elders attend to domestic chores in the dirt. Beyond them, we see snow capped peaks of Himalayan mountains. Gorkha has lent its name to the Gurkha soldier, from where young teenage boys are typically recruited for service into the British army, a tradition that goes back to the Indian Mutiny of 1857
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  • While her brother apparently sinks beneath the surface of plastic balls, a three year-old girl scrabbles up a small slide in the Croydon branch of IKEAS's crèche facility, allowing parent shoppers to browse the store while their children frolic in the ball pond. Designed to encourage adventure and stimulate developing senses, the kids play on their own in this safe environment. 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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  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, passengers walk through the concourse of Westminster station where social distance sign urge transport users to stay distanced as the country experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England.
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  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
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  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
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  • A young family stand next to a seaside cut-out board on Southwold Pier, on 14th August 2020, in Southwold, Norfolk, England.
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  • A father and his young children wait to safely enter Shoe Lane Library during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • A father and his young children wait to safely enter Shoe Lane Library during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • A family who are all wearing face masks walk hand in hand at Elephant and Castle on the day that UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson announced in parliament of a major easing of Coronavirus pandemic restrictions on July 4th next week, including the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers in England, on 23rd June 2020, in London, England. The three month two metre social distance will be also reduced to one metre plus but in the last 24hrs, a further 171 have died from Covid, bringing the UK total to 42,927.
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  • Young boys play football opposite the skyline of the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the UK's Conoriavirus pandemic lockdown, on 7th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,161, a further 324 victims in the last 24hrs, and the government's pandemic lockdown still in effect, mainly walkers and sightseers now cross at what would normally be rush-hour on London Bridge, which has quickly been converted to a social distancing thoroughfare over the river Thames where pedestrians should keep to the left of a green centreline, on 29th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • After a period of warm spring weather, and during the UK's government's Coronavirus continuing lockdown restrictions, when a total of 36,393 UK citizens are now reported to have lost their lives, strong gusts of wind brought down a large branch from a 100 year-old ash tree that fell across a well-used path during the lockdown in Ruskin Park, a public green space in the south London borough of Lambeth, on 22 May 2020, in London, England. No-one has been reported as hurt in the incident.
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  • Summer scenes in the peeling window of the 'Age Concern' charity, showing an event in the London suburb of Swanley in which Winter Olympic Skeleton medallist Lizzie Yarnold paraded her medal around Kent towns in 2018, on 3rd February 2020, in London, England
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  • Summer scenes in the peeling window of the 'Age Concern' charity, showing an event in the London suburb of Swanley in which Winter Olympic Skeleton medallist Lizzie Yarnold paraded her medal around Kent towns in 2018, on 3rd February 2020, in London, England.
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  • Two boys carry large inflatable rings at a watersport ride called the River Run, at the north-eastern seaside resort of Scarborough, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
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  • On a typical rainy day in south-east Asia, a nursery schoolchild is lifted over railings into local transport, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, children play in Marx Engels Platz on an East Berlin shopping precinct roof built during the Communist DDR-era, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany. Marx-Engels-Forum was a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin. It was named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as founders of the Communist movement. The park was created by authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986
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  • Children pose for a photo at a swimming pool in Germany, on 13th July 1970, in Bielefeld, Germany.
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  • On the day that Members of Parliament sat on a Saturday (the first time in 37 years and dubbed 'Super Saturday') in order to vote for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal with the EU in Brussels, a million Remainers (according to organisers) marched through the capital to voice their opposition to a Brexit and calling for a peoples' Vote, on 19th October 2019, in London, England.
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