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  • An elderly retired couple pause on the wide but darkly lit dance floor at Blackpool Tower Ballroom, England. They are the only dancers in the empty dance space, except for the Wurlitzer organist who is playing his accompanying music at the front of the stage, in a pool of bright light. We are looking down from a balcony high above and the husband and wife are pausing during their dance routine, stopping just long enough to register as sharp figures in the picture. The light is orange and red because of the tungsten light source. The Ballroom is the traditional home of the mighty Wurlitzer Organ and complemented by the 3 Deck Wersi - the world's most advanced organ. The Wersi is a state-of-the-art Louvre organ which is played by the resident organists in this magnificent setting. The present interior of the Blackpool Tower circus  was created by the famous theatre designer, Frank Matcham and completed in 1900.
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  • Having just unearthed more bodies from layers of volcanic ash and pumice, an archaeologist's assistant pauses for a cigarette, kneeling beside a victim of the AD79 eruption of Mount Versuvius over the ancient Roman town of Pompeii. Buried beneath huge amounts of toxic material this person was suffocated and crushed from falling debris. Preserved in a shell of volcanic material it is to be removed from this site on top of a villa roof where, it is calculated, this citizen was one of the last to die, having climbed 4 metres above ground level to await its fate. The Italian man ears a red t-shirt and holds a pick that has scraped and brushed away the soil to reveal the human form which also shows another body beneath. Others litter the rooftop too proving that many survivors of the first eruption perished after the second many hours later.
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  • A male smoker pauses beneath office buildings in the City of London.
    broadgate_people02-09-02-2015.jpg
  • A city worker pauses outside his office building in sunshine for a cigarette and call on his smartphone.
    street_smoker01-24-05-2012.jpg
  • A city worker pauses outside his office building in sunshine for a cigarette and call on his smartphone.
    street_smoker05-24-05-2012.jpg
  • Half-way across the thin taut wire of a tightrope, an tightwire walker acrobat riding a monocycle pauses and wobbles to compensate his balance before continuing his journey across to safety at the other end of two supporting poles The act forms part of the Canadian circus troupe Cirque de Soleil during a show in Battersea, London. Blue and red spotlights illuminate this daredevil and we see his tights, his wide-sleeved theatrical shirt and the concentration and grim determination on his face - the look of a professional trickster at work. He may be showing a seemingly dangerous and unpredictable stunt though in truth, he will have rehearsed this simple balancing act for many years but must still keep up the illusion of danger for the sake of a gasping, gullible audience.
    tightrope_walker09-27-1990.jpg
  • A city worker pauses outside his office building in sunshine for a cigarette and call on his smartphone.
    street_smoker03-24-05-2012.jpg
  • As workmen clean drains, a passing businessman pauses to photograph the notorious Traitors Gate at the Tower of London
    london_time07-03-09-2008.jpg
  • Two women country walkers stop on their day's trek across the Cotswolds in the village of Stanton.
    cotswolds_walkers01-23-09-2006.jpg
  • A farmer near the village of Grudziadz in Southern Poland rests on a hat cart on the edge of a corn field during harvest. it is later afternoon and the sun is falling on his weathered face and crossed arms which are muscular and veined, signs of a life of hard labour. He is in deep thought, perhaps thinking of Poland's fast-changing economy, now that the Berlin Wall has fallen and Poland is soon to become a member of the European Community (EU). Of Poland's 18,727,000 hectares of agricultural land (about 60 percent of the country's total area), 14,413,000 hectares is used for crop cultivation.
    misc_poland02-06-09-2007.jpg
  • A dog owner and her small puppy walks through a south London street.
    wimbledon18-25-06-2013.jpg
  • A male swimmer stands up after doing the Crawl across this scene of fresh water bathing in the Serpentine Lake in London's Hyde Park. This bathing area is where the normally busy Serpentine Swimming Club has the use of this Royal Lake known as Lansbury's Lido. It is now normally open only in the summer, but one traditional event occurs each year on New Year's Day, when the ice is broken and brave bathers dive into the cold waters of the lake. The Serpentine will be used for the swimming leg of the triathlon at the London 2012 Olympics. The pool was formed in 1730, its name from a snakelike, curve. Queen Caroline wife of George II ordered the damming of the River Westbourne and other natural ponds in Hyde Park.
    serpentine_swimmer01-21-06-1994.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team before an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • Two shipbuilders chat beneath the heavy lifting cranes at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the two men in the foreground and those behind, wear bright yellow hard hats, protecting them from steel edges and rusting machinery. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard07-03-09-2007.jpg
  • A lorry driver reads a newspaper and eats an apple for lunch in his cab at a drivers' layby on the A229 near Whitstable, Kent
    electricity315-25-01-2008 .jpg
  • Large arrows coloured red, green and yellow point north, west and east - or up, right and left - in three directions, to offer directions to seminars for accountants during their annual Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The people are either confidently pacing forward, standing still to seek guidance or simply spontaneously emerging from the shadows to a brighter future, a moment when freedom of choice is offered and the road ahead dictates their fate. It is a scene of corporate theatre and each employee will attend this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • A dog owner and her small puppy stops to sniff where a customer sits outside a cafe, on a walk through a south London street.
    wimbledon17-25-06-2013.jpg
  • A solitary woman office worker gazes out from her modern office complex in the City of London, the capital's financial district - also known as the Square Mile.
    office_woman01-14-03-2013.jpg
  • Young man of Chinese descent deep in thought on walkway with the new Olympic kinetic artwork called the Shoal at Stratford. 'The Shoal' at the Stratford Centre, east London, is made up of around 100 titanium clad 'leaves' mounted between 15 and 19 metres high on metal posts. Worth £13.5m, the Shoal is part of The Stratford Town Centre Public Realm Project, designed and manufacturered using 3D technology.
    olympic_stratford31-22-05-2012.jpg
  • Young man of Chinese descent deep in thought on walkway with the new Olympic kinetic artwork called the Shoal at Stratford. 'The Shoal' at the Stratford Centre, east London, is made up of around 100 titanium clad 'leaves' mounted between 15 and 19 metres high on metal posts. Worth £13.5m, the Shoal is part of The Stratford Town Centre Public Realm Project, designed and manufacturered using 3D technology.
    olympic_stratford33-22-05-2012.jpg
  • Chief Technician Kerry Griffiths is a with the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. In camouflaged military green jacket, large forearms and rolled-up sleeves, he oversees the loading of spares and personal effects into a C-130 Hercules aircraft before the two-day journey from RAF Scampton to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Surrounded by heavy-duty flight-spares, survival equipment boxes and a tyre for a Hawk jet aircraft, the Hercules looms large in the overcast sky. The team complete their winter training schedule in Cyprus. The Red Arrows pilots fly their own jet aircraft to air shows but when requiring the support of ground crew  they borrow a transporter to fly behind the main airborne squadron. 10 tons of spares and personal effects are shipped for a six-week stay.
    Red_Arrows052_RBA.jpg
  • A man stoops to adjust a shoelace in front of temporary construction hoarding in a West End street, on 7th March 2019, in London, England.
    broadwick_street-04-07-03-2019.jpg
  • A man stoops to adjust a shoelace in front of temporary construction hoarding in a West End street, on 7th March 2019, in London, England.
    broadwick_street-03-07-03-2019.jpg
  • Friends reach out in the busy Coventry Street in London's West End, on 6th February 2018, in London, England.
    piccadilly_circus-07-06-02-2018.jpg
  • Theodore Kyriakou is seen in his Real Greek restaurant in Hoxton, East London. He smiles to the view dressed in chef's apron and with a pen behind his ear. This Greek-born chef once served in the military but realised his ambition to cook by coming to London and eventually being the co-owner of Livebait, the renowned London fish restaurant chain. In 1999, he finally opened a restaurant specialising in the kind of food his mother used to make. The Real Greek was in business, recreating many of the dishes he remembered, he introduced authentic Greek cuisine to a new audience. Kyriakou's parents ran a deli in Athens. His mother, a natural cook, didn't follow recipes, though many of her dishes are influenced by a 2,000-year-old cookbook, the Deipnosophistai by Athenaeus. She still gets calls from her son to check facts.
    theodore_kyriakou02-03-09-2007.jpg
  • A man and woman pause outside the spotted-theme window display of Topshop on Oxford Street, on 2nd July 2019, in London, England.
    oxford_street-07-02-07-2019.jpg
  • Young Asian women tourists pause under a TFL development sign near Bond Street while exploring Oxford Street in central London.
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  • Villagers on a country walk with their Staffordshire Bull Terrier pause to read the notices on a Parish Council community noticeboard, on 10th September 2018, in Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-37-10-09-2018.jpg
  • Two young women pause to admire their photos on the steps of Royal Exchange, on 9th December 2016, in the City of London.
    cornhill_girls-01-09-12-2016.jpg
  • Women tourists pause to look at a map of central London (Londres) beneath a large male model's face advertising Nike's Tech Fleeces.
    london_shoppers06-15-09-2015.jpg
  • Shoppers pause on the busy walkway to Westfield's Stratford's mall, to check purchases from Primark.
    olympic_stratford14-22-05-2012.jpg
  • Shoppers pause on the busy walkway to Westfield's Stratford's mall, to check purchases from Primark.
    olympic_stratford15-22-05-2012.jpg
  • Dog and owner pause near construction netting during walk near Piazza Michelangelo to view Florence skyline
    florence_italy122-23-10-2010.jpg
  • A young office worker wearing a dark suit stands outside his place of work in a sunny Trinity Square in the City of London, for a quick cigarette break. Puffing guiltily on his fag n the pavement outside beneath the huge supporting pillars of this financial institution. He draws on his cigarette, a sign of his addiction and enjoyment of taking a five or ten-minute pause from his office job. A report showed smokers each lose an average of 30 minutes a day from their workplaces to satisfy their habit. The average smoker takes at least three breaks from the office, each lasting around 10 minutes, research for the Benenden Healthcare Society found. The healthcare group estimates that 290,000 working days are being lost by people leaving their office to smoke.
    RB_082-18-06-2005.jpg
  • 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
  • Two young women pause to admire their photos on the steps of Royal Exchange, on 9th December 2016, in the City of London.
    cornhill_girls-02-09-12-2016.jpg
  • With a giant David Beckham towering over them in the Westfield mall, spectators pause before entering the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre providing the main access to the Olympic park with a central 'street' giving 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space..
    olympic_stratford01-06-08-2012.jpg
  • Four office workers are outside their place of employment in central London for a quick cigarette break. Puffing guiltily on their fags that have sought a dark place on the pavement beneath some shelter although it is warm enough for two of the men to wear only shirts and ties while the only lady present is in a jumper. One member of the group draws heavily on his cigarette, a sign of his addiction and enjoyment of taking a five or ten-minute pause from his office job. A recent report showed smokers each lose an average of 30 minutes a day from their  workplaces to satisfy their habit. The average smoker takes at least three breaks from the office, each lasting around 10 minutes, research for the Benenden Healthcare Society found. The healthcare group estimates that 290,000 working days are being lost by people leaving their office to smoke.
    smokers02-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Three young women tourists pause with their suitcases and admire Piccadilly Circus on 12th November 2019, in London, England.
    cities_suitcase-01-12-11-2019.jpg
  • Travellers with wheelie baggage pause to find their way at Elephant & Castle, on 22nd May 2019, in London, England
    bus_journey-01-22-05-2019.jpg
  • Women tourists pause to look at a map of central London (Londres) beneath a large male model's face advertising Nike's Tech Fleeces.
    london_shoppers05-15-09-2015.jpg
  • Walkers pause in the City of London while following the River Walbrook through the City of London during a Psychogeography walk by the writer Tom Chivers.
    walbrook_pilgrimage04-05-10-2013.jpg
  • While a workmate manhandles a red panel, a workman pauses up yellow lassers at the rear St. Martin-in-the-Fields church off Trafalgar Square, on 30th April 2019, in London, England
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  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Londoners and repair and refurbishment workman pauses in front of a social distancing zone marked on the pavement in Dean Street, Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
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  • An aerial view of a law-abiding cyclist courier pauses at some give-way lines painted in the road at Cambridge Circus in London's West End, on 12th March 2020, in London, England.
    pavement_cyclist-01-12-03-2020.jpg
  • A young woman pauses on the street to wait for her young labrador puppy to carry on its walk through a Krakow suburb, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-338-23-09-2019.jpg
  • During a seasonal rain shower, a lady wearing a yellow coat pauses to cross the road at St. George's Circus in Southwark, on 9th May 2019, in London, England.
    bus_journey-07-09-05-2019.jpg
  • A villager on a country walk with her Staffordshire Bull Terrier pauses to read the notices on a Parish Council community noticeboard, on 10th September 2018, in Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-36-10-09-2018.jpg
  • A businessman pauses next to a closed shop poster featuring a similar man also wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-11-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A businessman pauses next to a closed shop poster featuring a similar man also wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-10-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A lady pauses to take a picture of the nearby Lloyds Building next to a closed shop poster featuring a businessman wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-09-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A lady pauses to take a picture of the nearby Lloyds Building next to a closed shop poster featuring a businessman wearing a blue suit - a favoured style and colour of menswear in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th August 2018, in London, England.
    golfing_city-08-29-08-2018.jpg
  • A dog owner pauses before throwing a ball for her pet in Ruskin Park, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
    ruskin_summer-05-08-08-2018.jpg
  • A lady pauses to check messages below a large construction hoarding for the retailer Alaia on New Bond Street, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
    alaia_hoarding-01-05-03-2018.jpg
  • A black cat pauses on a street corner after crossing the road, on 20th December 2017, in London, England.
    black_cat-02-20-12-2017.jpg
  • A businessman pauses beneath one of the symbolic Griffin marking the southern limit of the City of London, at the Southwark side of London Bridge, on 21st June 1997, in London, England.
    city_businessman-21-06-1997.jpg
  • Twelve days after the devastating fire that killed an unspecified number of people in Grenfell Tower, a passer-by pauses to take a selfie with children of the charred and blackened tower block which remains a crime scene, on 26th June 2017, in the London borough of Kensington & Chelsea, England.
    grenfell_tower-15-26-06-2017.jpg
  • A businessman pauses to the top hat belonging to the statue of 19th century Regency trendsetter, Beau Brummell.
    beau_brummell_statue01-06-03-2014.jpg
  • A middle-aged businessman looks up from paperwork during a working day in his 1970s Brussels office. The executive wearing a white shirt and tie pauses writing with a pencil to look over his glasses, past the In Tray and towards the viewer. There is no computer or electronic devices that describe this decade towards the end of the 20th century. The calendar shows us today's date of July 5th 1971. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A visitor pauses to read the writing on a Royal Mail postal box while walking round the East Anglia Transport Museum, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. A Routemaster double-decker bus in a local bus company colours sits in the sunshine - well-maintained and pristine in the sunshine.
    transport_museum02-12-06-1992.jpg
  • City of London bollard and street sweeper contractor pauses during shift outside the Bank of England.
    street_sweeper04-19-03-2012.jpg
  • City of London bollard and street sweeper contractor pauses during shift outside the Bank of England.
    street_sweeper01-19-03-2012.jpg
  • A city office worker pauses during a busy day for a quiet moment of peace with a cigarette in a former medieval narrow City of London called Fye Foot Lane which sources suggest was called Five Foot Lane (or Fyve" Foot) as being "five foote in breadth" at the west end. It was severely damaged in the Great Fire of 1666.
    city_people14-23-02-2012.jpg
  • A small dogs pauses to pee against a pile of rubbish on a central London street.
    peeing_dog01-04-03-2011.jpg
  • A Bahraini  baggage-handler employed by SABTCO pauses during his shift at Bahrain International airport. Having loaded luggage he is also about to put a cargo of fresh fruits on the conveyor belt and into the hold of an Egyptair Airbus. A colleague walks up the ramp towards the fuselage before the freight goes in before its imminent departure for Cairo, across the Mediterranean. It is another hot day in this Gulf State, a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the home for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements and is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first powered flight, 1903..
    bahrain_airport03-21-04-2001.jpg
  • An elderly Hungarian woman pauses to smile at the viewer during a busy morning in Budapest's Central Market Hall (Hungarian: Nagycsarnok), on F?vám Tér in the 9th district. The market is the largest indoor market in the Hungarian capital and is where this lady and many other market traders converge on every weekday morning to sell their own produce. This woman has a lined face suggesting she has had a hard life under a Communist regime. She still wears a traditional Hungarian covered head favoured by older people in rural communities but is now dying out as headwear for a younger generation.
    hungarian_woman02-13-06-1990.jpg
  • A Stop / Go banksman dressed in a high-vis suit stands on a public road for oncoming traffic as a pedestrian pauses in street.
    stop_go_man02-19-05-2010.jpg
  • A dog pauses to listen to its owner during a snow-bound walk in Ruskin Park, Lambeth.
    london_snows13-07-01-2010.jpg
  • Pausing at on the street corner, a man adjusts his headphones while carrying some bubble-wrapped tubes, on 3rd March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus-03-03-03-2020.jpg
  • A local authority street sweeper has paused during morning cleaning patrols beneath the architecture of the Cloth Hall and the the City Hall Tower (right) on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-305-23-09-2019.jpg
  • During a seasonal rain shower, a lady wearing a yellow coat pauses to cross the road at St. George's Circus in Southwark, on 9th May 2019, in London, England.
    bus_journey-06-09-05-2019.jpg
  • During a seasonal rain shower, a lady wearing a yellow coat pauses to cross the road at St. George's Circus in Southwark, on 9th May 2019, in London, England.
    bus_journey-05-09-05-2019.jpg
  • A woman pauses to allow her dog to sniff the ground opposite the temporary renovation hoarding of luxury brand Louis Vuitton in New Bond Street, on 25th February 2019, in London, England.
    vuitton_corner-23-26-02-2019.jpg
  • A dog owner pauses before throwing a ball for her pet in Ruskin Park, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
    ruskin_summer-04-08-08-2018.jpg
  • With the Houses of Parliament over the far side of the Thames river, a tour group pauses to hear about the capital from their leader on the Southbank, on 12th September 2017, in London, England.
    southbank_people-01-12-09-2017.jpg
  • Twelve days after the devastating fire that killed an unspecified number of people in Grenfell Tower, a passer-by pauses to take a selfie with children of the charred and blackened tower block which remains a crime scene, on 26th June 2017, in the London borough of Kensington & Chelsea, England.
    grenfell_tower-14-26-06-2017.jpg
  • Twelve days after the devastating fire that killed an unspecified number of people in Grenfell Tower, a passer-by pauses to take a picture of the charred and blackened tower block which remains a crime scene, on 26th June 2017, in the London borough of Kensington & Chelsea, England.
    grenfell_tower-12-26-06-2017.jpg
  • A Matadores pauses for a moment before entering the bullring at an evening 'Corrida de Touros', on 15th July 2016, at Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. A matador de toros (or "killer of bulls" from Latin mactator, killer, slayer, from mactare, to slay) is considered to be both an artist and an athlete, possessing great agility, grace, and co-ordination. The great personal danger of bullfighting adds to the performing matador's mystique; matadores are regularly injured by bulls and, concurrently, 533 professional bullfighters have been killed in the arena since 1700. In the Portuguese version, unlike Spanish bullfights, the bull is not killed. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_caldas-14-15-07-2016.jpg
  • On stage during their show, Francis Rossi (foreground) and Rick Parfitt of the band Status Quo play from their 90-minute repertoire of classic rock and roll songs. We see Rossi pausing to point to the photographer as Parfitt plays facing the audience whose front row members are jumping up and down in time with the beat, in l'Aeronef in Lille, France during their 2007 European Tour. Parfitt and Rossi are the two original members of the band, having met as school boys in the early 60s. Their distinctive three-chord guitar riff has made them a household name with hits like: Rockin' All Over the World and Sweet Caroline; selling 118 million albums. Over their 40 years of performing, QUO have played over 6000 live shows to an audience of 25 million people and travelling four million miles and spent 23 years away from home.
    status_quo048-15-10-2007.jpg
  • A visitor pauses to read the writing on a Royal Mail postal box while walking round the East Anglia Transport Museum, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. A Routemaster double-decker bus in a local bus company colours sits in the sunshine - well-maintained and pristine in the sunshine.
    transport_museum01-12-06-1992.jpg
  • A young girl of Asian descent pushes her doll in a pushchair uphill in an empty terraced Dingle Liverpool street. Walking up the steep pavement she pauses to look at the viewer in her pink dress. There is no-one else in the landscape and the little girl is quite alone in this inner-city scene. Dingle (known locally as the Dingle) is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is located to the south of the city, bordered by the adjoining districts of Toxteth and Aigburth. At the 2001 Census, the population was recorded at 13,246. Dingle is the last of the southern inner-city districts of Liverpool.
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  • City worker pauses in the shade to adjust the volume of his music device.
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  • A smoker pauses to enjoy a cigarette below two athletic people chosen to endorse the Speedo brand, in a window at the Westfield mall during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. Ironicvally juxtaposed together, we see the healthy specimens of the two athletes with fine bodies in Speedo swimwear contrasting the bad connotations of smoking and ill-health. Smoking kills around 120,000 people in the UK each year and with current smoking trends, about 500 million people alive today will eventually be killed by tobacco use. The international swimwear brand, which sponsors British Swimming and Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington as well as Multi-medallist Michael Phelps.
    olympic_stratford44-06-08-2012.jpg
  • Legs of a woman wearing bright purple shoes pauses at a Look Left stencil on a London street.
    purple_shoes04-20-03-2012.jpg
  • City of London bollard and street sweeper contractor pauses during shift outside the Bank of England.
    street_sweeper06-19-03-2012.jpg
  • A city office worker pauses during a busy day for a quiet moment peace with a cigarette in a London sidestreet.
    city_smoker01-23-02-2012.jpg
  • A city office worker pauses during a busy day for a quiet moment of peace with a cigarette in a former medieval narrow City of London called Fye Foot Lane which sources suggest was called Five Foot Lane (or Fyve" Foot) as being "five foote in breadth" at the west end. It was severely damaged in the Great Fire of 1666.
    city_people13-23-02-2012.jpg
  • An elderly retired couple dance on the wide but darkly lit dance floor at Blackpool Tower Ballroom, England. They are the only dancers in the empty dance space, except for the Wurlitzer organist who is playing his accompanying music at the front of the stage, in a pool of bright light. We are looking down from a balcony high above and the husband and wife are pausing during their dance routine, stopping just long enough to register as sharp figures in the picture. The light is orange and red because of the tungsten light source. The Ballroom is the traditional home of the mighty Wurlitzer Organ and complemented by the 3 Deck Wersi - the world's most advanced organ. The Wersi is a state-of-the-art Louvre organ which is played by the resident organists in this magnificent setting. The present interior of the Blackpool Tower circus  was created by the famous theatre designer, Frank Matcham and completed in 1900.
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  • An elderly retired couple dance on the wide but darkly lit dance floor at Blackpool Tower Ballroom, England. They are the only dancers in the empty dance space, except for the Wurlitzer organist who is playing his accompanying music at the front of the stage, in a pool of bright light. We are looking down from a balcony high above and the husband and wife are pausing during their dance routine, stopping just long enough to register as sharp figures in the picture. The light is orange and red because of the tungsten light source. The Ballroom is the traditional home of the mighty Wurlitzer Organ and complemented by the 3 Deck Wersi - the world's most advanced organ. The Wersi is a state-of-the-art Louvre organ which is played by the resident organists in this magnificent setting. The present interior of the Blackpool Tower circus  was created by the famous theatre designer, Frank Matcham and completed in 1900.
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  • Pet dogs wait with their owners to cross the street in front of a 4x4 Range Rover and near a Don't Dump sign. Turning to look at the viewer, the lighter shaded brown dog on unknown breed, is held on its leash as a woman pauses to check passing traffic outside the Royal Academy in London's Westminster. The sign actually refers to the dropping of litter in the capital's streets but echoes both the habit of owners to sometimes allowing their animals to foul the pavements - but also rhyming with the yellow number plate on the car top left.
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  • It is 10.15 in the morning and a mother and her daughter have crossed a road in Ruda Slaska, Poland, while an older lady has paused on the zebra crossing. It is a dark and gloomy day in this heavily polluted, industrial town in southern Poland. The local employer is the Huta Pokoj  SA steel mill that dominates the landscape, rising as a filthy tower that makes the air quality so poor that respiratory deceases are common, with soot present in the atmosphere for children to breathe. The environmental impact of 1990s post-Stalinist Polish heavy industry is evident. The day is damp, depressing and unhealthy with a truck's headlights on as pedestrians stand on the roadside, wait at the bus stop or cycle past on the pavement.
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  • An elderly gentleman wearing a traditional bowler hat and carrying an umbrella, pauses to read the headlines in the London Evening Standard newspaper, before making his way home from Bank Triangle, outside the Bank of England. He is one of the last examples of a bygone age, when many in London's financial district wore such work clothes - a way of typifying a cretain breed of Englishness and class system, known all over, and still expected, around the world. Sadly, gents like this are very rare after modern fashions, lower standards and changed attitudes in the workplace meant that younger men no longer wanted to wear a stuffy outfit to work. The days of the bowler are fast disappearing.
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  • A coal delivery man deposits chunks of brown coal into the cellar via a conveyor belt for an elderly lady who stands outside in the bitter cold wearing only a housecoat this grim day. Her slippers can be seen standing among fallen briquettes that have dropped on to the wet cobbled street as the man oversees the delivery from a truck that has backed on to the pavement near a junction. A passing Trabant car rattles up the hill past a mother who pauses to ensure a safe crossing for her baby. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008..
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  • A Bahrani baggage-handler employed by SABTCO pauses during his shift at Bahrain International airport. Having loaded luggage and cargo into the hold of an Egyptair Airbus, he sits looking hot and tired on the company?s conveyor belt awaiting last-minute additions to the manifest before its imminent departure for Cairo, across the Mediterranean. It is another hot day in this Gulf State, a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the home for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements and is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • A young girl pauses her duties, sitting at her desk with work colleagues at work in the background of an open plan office
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  • A  Hapag-Lloyd container cargo ship navigates past two fishermen on the southern shores of the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent England. Pausing from their fishing, the two men lean over the sea defence wall to watch the traffic to-and-fro as one giant vessel after another departs from Tilbury Docks towards open sea. The Thames has historically long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world. There are 133 Hapag-Lloyd containerships with a capacity of around 499.000 TEU (Twenty foot containers), Container capacity exceeds 1,1 million (TEU) containers.
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  • A cyclist on a Santander rental bike pauses at traffic lights in front of a number 8 Routemaster bus in Threadneedle Street and opposite the columns of Cornhill in the heart of the Square Mile, the capital's historical and financial centre, on 1st November 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • A cyclist pauses behind a bus featuring the Farepilot app in winter traffic on Bishopsgate, on 9th February 2017, in the City of London, England.
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