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  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far - Londoners in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile) took to wear informal dress codes including shorts and sports shirts, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
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  • A long-distance runner prepares for the London Marathon before the race begins, whilst warming-up in Greenwich Park, London England. Seen in close-up detail, we see his hands and fingers massaging Vaseline jelly into his thighs and groin area to help avoid chafing during the annual 26-mile race through London's streets. He is wearing bright, garish running shorts decorated wth the British Union Jack flag, a sure sign of his patriotic attitude. Other runners are in the background, also preparing clothing that will be taken from the start to the finish line in Westminster.
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  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far - Londoners in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile) took to enjoy informal dress codes including shorts and sports shirts, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-12-25-07-2019.jpg
  • A woman with blowing hair wearing cut-off denim shorts with other shoppers outside a sunglasses shop window selling Ray Bans on Long Acre in London's Covent Garden.
    ray_ban_store03-04-06-2013.jpg
  • Seen from the top deck of a London bus, three young woman wearing shorts walk past a Man at Work traffic sign on London's edgeware Road.
    aerial_people03-19-07-2013.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far - Londoners in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile) walk in lunchtime sunshine, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-14-25-07-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far - a Londoner in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile) takes off his jacket on Threadneedle Street, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-09-25-07-2019.jpg
  • A young boy sits on the grass after falling from his tricycle on a summer's day in the family garden in the early nineteen sixties.
    sixties_archive07-13-07-1964.jpg
  • A young boy waters shrubs with a toy watering can in the family garden on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties.
    sixties_archive05-13-07-1964.jpg
  • An older uncle with his two nephews sit on tropical grass in the family African garden in 1970.
    seventies_archive03-20-07-1970.jpg
  • Whilst on a cruise aboard the Fun Ship Ecstasy during a voyage from Miami around the Gulf of Mexico, passengers enjoy a sexual game on deck beneath a strong tropical sun. Male contestants have lined up to be inspected by a blindfolded lady wearing a swim suit and painted nails who is required to identify her own husband by feeling his lower body and torso. Howls of laughter emit from the other men as the lady realises that this is indeed her own spouse who stands on a chair, his bulging crotch at chest height. She smiles to herself, still blind beneath a towel and the moment is funny enough for all to enjoy a happy hour of organised entertainment on deck. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew belonging to Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines.
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  • Two men in their pants hug each other after a water pool frolic at the Aquarium club in Shoreditch, East London.
    pool_boys01-20-06-1997.jpg
  • A mannequin family of parents and children display clothes on sale in a Polish shop in Ostroleka, Poland.
    fashion_poland01-20-06-1990.jpg
  • Pedestrians pass each other while walking through Bank in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th August 2020, in London, England.
    city_people08-06-08-2020.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far - Londoners in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile) rest on benches opposite the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-08-25-07-2019.jpg
  • Monarchists celebrate their Queen's Diamond Jubilee weeks before the Olympics come to London. The UK enjoys a weekend and summer of patriotic fervour as their monarch celebrates 60 years on the throne. Across Britain, flags and Union Jack bunting adorn towns and villages.
    jubilee_celebrations23-04-06-2012.jpg
  • Monarchists celebrate their Queen's Diamond Jubilee weeks before the Olympics come to London. The UK enjoys a weekend and summer of patriotic fervour as their monarch celebrates 60 years on the throne. Across Britain, flags and Union Jack bunting adorn towns and villages.
    jubilee_celebrations54-04-06-2012.jpg
  • Young men stand beneath H&M fashionable style posters in Oxford Street, London.
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  • A young boy poses proudly at the rear of the family Anglia car on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties.
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  • A young lad of 10 poses for a portrait taken by his brother while holding the hand of his young nephew. Confusingly, the 10 year-old uncle and the 1 year-old child are closer in age than the two brothers. The older boy is on holiday in Malawi visiting expat family in the then capital, Blantyre, so named after the town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, where the explorer David Livingstone was born. Both boys stand in the dust of a back yard where a broken windmill remains upright in the intense brightness of mid-day. It is a scene of awkward and gangly boyhood versus the confidence and innocence of young childhood and their posture is exaggerated by differing heights. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
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  • A mannequin family of parents and children display clothes on sale in a Polish shop in Ostroleka, Poland.
    misc_poland08-06-09-2007.jpg
  • Three soldier recruits wearing shorts and black army boots, one with blood trickling down from the knees to the shins, stand at ease, lined up for inspection after the rigorous steeple-chase endurance race, an individual test with candidates running against the clock over a 1.8 mile cross country course. The course features a number of 'water obstacles' and having completed the cross country element, candidates must negotiate and 'Assault Course' to complete the test. This forms part of  the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire, need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret. A plastic bottle of water stands between recruit number three (3) and six (6).
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  • 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
  • A model from the Alion Couture fashion house takes part in a street parade with horses for the benefit of the media in Kensington, central London UK. We see the lower section of a horse ramp and another horse is in the background. Seen from a low angle, both the horses hoof and her foot in red high heel shoes appear to be askew in a postural echo, when two mannerisms or body language are similar.  The light is blue because of the shadow both subjects are in but her shoes and matching short red dress appear vibrant in saturation and hue.
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  • A short-skirted Russian lady perches on a stool during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • A short-skirted Russian lady perches on a stool during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • A Film industry crew remove camera and sound equipment from a location among members of the public in Kingston town centre, after filming outside in the street, on 13th November 2019, in London, England.
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  • A Film industry crew remove camera and sound equipment from a location among members of the public in Kingston town centre, after filming outside in the street, on 13th November 2019, in London, England.
    kingston_journey-17-13-11-2019.jpg
  • Child and dog celebrate their Queen's Diamond Jubilee weeks before the Olympics come to London. The UK enjoys a weekend and patriotic fervour as their monarch celebrates 60 years on the throne. Across Britain, flags and Union Jack bunting adorn towns and villages.
    jubilee_celebrations55-04-06-2012.jpg
  • A To Let sign attached to the wall of a vacant building offering space near to the 2012 Olympic Park site.
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  • A To Let sign attached to the wall of a vacant building offering space near to the 2012 Olympic Park site.
    2012_stratford17-08-03-2012.jpg
  • Disney character Rapunzel from their film Tangled stands looking at women, exemplifying feminine beauty.
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  • A Parachute Regiment recruit is in mid-flight and leaps across a wide space between scaffolding and a rope net during the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Seen in silhouette, the man is in full stretch, half-way between the gantry he leapt from and the rope net that he is about to meet. It is an image that describes a mid-point, a half-way position between safety and uncertainty. Known as the Trainasium, it is an 'Aerial Confidence Course' which is unique to P Company. In order to assess his suitability for military parachuting, the Trainasium tests a candiates ability to overcome fear and carry out simple activities and instructions at a height above ground level. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire, need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
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  • A young woman stands in front of a turbofan of engine manufacturer CFM during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
    paris_air_show160-20-06-2007.jpg
  • Child and dog celebrate their Queen's Diamond Jubilee weeks before the Olympics come to London. The UK enjoys a weekend and summer of patriotic fervour as their monarch celebrates 60 years on the throne. Across Britain, flags and Union Jack bunting adorn towns and villages.
    jubilee_celebrations56-04-06-2012.jpg
  • A To Let sign attached to the gate of a building offering space near to the 2012 Olympic Park site.
    olympic_stratford01-22-05-2012.jpg
  • Disney character Rapunzel from their film Tangled stands looking at women, exemplifying feminine beauty.
    rapunzel_window10-23-03-2011.jpg
  • A portrait of three brothers of the same family have their picture taken outside their parents' home in Westcliff, England. The eldest is a teenager of approximately 17 and  is holding his youngest brother who is still only 12 months-old. The third boy is biting his lip while looking to the viewer, more anxiously than the other two. He is possibly 14 but both the elder lads wear identically-designed jumpers that cut across the throat to allow their clean white shirts and ties to remain visible. Apart from the young child, the elders share the same dark hair colour but genetically, they share one chromosome that has given them heavy eyebrows, a family trait. This was taken on Kodachrome film stock in the spring of 1961 so the look and feel of the image is dated with wonderfully muted colours that this Kodak film offered to consumers in the early 60s.
    family_archive2515-03_1961.jpg
  • A young mother holds up her daughter to insert a letter into a post box at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. The girl half-climbs up the red pillar box and tries to get the postage item into the narrow slot which is an even tighter fit because of security considerations - avoiding larger and potentially dangerous packages from entering the airport's postal system. In the background we see the bustle of a departures concourse where British Airways passengers walk past after having checked-in at BA's hub terminal. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ..
    heathrow_airport684-17-07-2009.jpg
  • A young lady perches on a stool outside an aircraft cabin mock-up during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
    paris_air_show127-20-06-2007.jpg
  • An eccentric Brit sports fan marches towards the Velodrome in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. In the background is one of the giant pillar signs showing landmark directions. Wearing a red wig and Union Jack t-shirt and shorts, he walks along aone of the main avenues along with thousands of other spectators. 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_park48-10-08-2012.jpg
  • A tall son in the middle accompanies his mother (l) and sister (R) in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Wearing Union Jack designs dresses and shorts plus a tie and flag to wave, the trio stand in front of the main Olympic stadium before the large crowds arrive later in the day. They have tickets to watch the Hockey and stand smiling as eccentric Brits wearing their national colours.
    olympic_park04-10-08-2012.jpg
  • A man hitches his shorts as he descends steps with a background of geometric lines, right-angles and rectangles, on 4th August 2019, at Tate Britain, Millbank, London, England
    tate_britain-05-04-08-2019.jpg
  • A man rests on a stretch of grass, his face shielded from a bright sky beneath a camping stool during a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. Wearing shorts, sandals and the quintessentially English socks, the man sleeps soundly while on the river, high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames make for a busy and tiring afternoon.
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  • Stopping work for a moment to pose for a portrait on the sea wall at Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, a team of the resort's lifeguards show their youth, fitness and bodies beautiful, displaying themselves in the sun of a fine summer day. There is only one female member but some are standing on the wall while others are seated in deck chairs, a ladder seat or on the hot sand near three sexy girls are are sunning themselves near a railing. Wearing bikinis one is not asleep but eyeing-up some of the alpha-male specimens  on show wearing only red shorts. Meanwhile, holidaymakers walk past with ice-creams. It is a bright scene and obviously a busy time for these safety experts when tourists forever get themselves into danger in the sea and surf. Currents here make for a hazardous experience for those unable to swim out of trouble.
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  • Gathering outside his house in the East End of London, a young football fan whose painted face is in the colours his favourite Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, also wears a Union Jack cape and shorts. He stands in the front doorway of his terraced home to celebrate the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. 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.
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  • A young adventurer bends down to inspect a newly-killed forest pig whilst on a Raleigh International expedition in Brunei, Borneo. The hog is dead and the boy wears only flip-flops and shorts but this is one of the remotest and most dangerous habitats on the planet and will have been a life-changing experience for him and his friends from all over the world who will have raised several thousands of sponsored Pounds for the privilege of spending two months away from a dull, comfortable life at home, rather than building community projects like bridges or schools. Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people. Over the last 23 years, 30,000 people have been involved in more than 250 expeditions to over 40 countries.
    raleigh-international03-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • Stopping work for a moment to pose for a portrait on the sea wall at Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, a team of the resort's lifeguards show their youth, fitness and bodies beautiful, displaying themselves in the sun of a fine summer day. There is only one female member but some are standing on the wall while others are seated in deck chairs, a ladder seat or on the hot sand near three sexy girls are are sunning themselves near a railing. Wearing bikinis one is not asleep but eyeing-up some of the alpha-male specimens  on show wearing only red shorts. Meanwhile, holidaymakers walk past with ice-creams. It is a bright scene and obviously a busy time for these safety experts when tourists forever get themselves into danger in the sea and surf. Currents here make for a hazardous experience for those unable to swim out of trouble.
    england_beach04-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A class of schoolboys accompanied by their teachers play on the shingle at the water's edge in the south coast seaside town of Brighton. The East Pier is resplendent with amusement rides and attractions that populate its long structure, jutting out into the calm English Channel beyond which is the French coast further south. The children are still in their school shirts, shorts and ties but have taken off their shoes and socks to frolic and enjoy some precious fresh-air and the freedom that childhood brings. According to British legal requirements, schoolchildren on away day visits must have accompanying adults with a ratio of 1:xx though it appears this group's quota is less with two teachers per 28 boys.
    brighton_beach08-21-1992.jpg
  • Football supporter mates mess around in a London street before going on to watch their team's match elsewhere in the capital. But this man in the green stripes of his team is NOT a pickpocket as might be suggested on first look. He reaches into the unbuttoned pocket of the older-looking man in shorts. But recaptioning this picture to suggest he is a street criminal might be thought libelous, giving this brief moment a misinterpretation and misrepresentation.
    pocket_men1-29-09-2011.jpg
  • A large man admires himself as he walks past a polished clothing shop window in central London. Wearing a bright lime green t-shirt the obese male in shorts and trainers holds his stomach as he self-consciously walks past the reflective glass
    vanity_reflection3-30-09-2011.jpg
  • In the terminal at Charles de Gaulle/Roissy airport, Paris France, the peace of the airport chapel looks like a Star Trek-style place of worship, typical of the new airport experience pushed upon in the late '60s and early '70s. Short stools and padded benches line the intimate space in the satellite building. Designed by Paul Andreu, Charles de Gaulle became a symbol for airport modernity becoming an 'Aérogare' where trains and planes whisk the new world traveller of the late '60s, away beyond an ever-extending horizon. From here, the Air France Concorde crashed on the aviation employment town of Gonesse on July 25th 2000. 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.
    aviation_corbis31-24-07-2001.jpg
  • Writer, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes. Author of The Maze he is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His first book, Little Infamies (2002) is a collection of connected short stories set in one nameless Greek village, and his second book, The Maze (2004), is a novel set in Anatolia in 1922. It was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. Short stories by Panos Karnezis have been broadcast by BBC Radio 4 and have appeared in Granta, New Writing 11, Prospect, and Areté. .
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  • Writer, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes. Author of The Maze he is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His first book, Little Infamies (2002) is a collection of connected short stories set in one nameless Greek village, and his second book, The Maze (2004), is a novel set in Anatolia in 1922. It was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. Short stories by Panos Karnezis have been broadcast by BBC Radio 4 and have appeared in Granta, New Writing 11, Prospect, and Areté.
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  • Writer, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes. Author of The Maze he is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His first book, Little Infamies (2002) is a collection of connected short stories set in one nameless Greek village, and his second book, The Maze (2004), is a novel set in Anatolia in 1922. It was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. Short stories by Panos Karnezis have been broadcast by BBC Radio 4 and have appeared in Granta, New Writing 11, Prospect, and Areté.
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  • Writer, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes. Author of The Maze he is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His first book, Little Infamies (2002) is a collection of connected short stories set in one nameless Greek village, and his second book, The Maze (2004), is a novel set in Anatolia in 1922. It was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. Short stories by Panos Karnezis have been broadcast by BBC Radio 4 and have appeared in Granta, New Writing 11, Prospect, and Areté.
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  • Writer, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes. Author of The Maze he is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His first book, Little Infamies (2002) is a collection of connected short stories set in one nameless Greek village, and his second book, The Maze (2004), is a novel set in Anatolia in 1922. It was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. Short stories by Panos Karnezis have been broadcast by BBC Radio 4 and have appeared in Granta, New Writing 11, Prospect, and Areté.
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  • Writer, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes. Author of The Maze he is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His first book, Little Infamies (2002) is a collection of connected short stories set in one nameless Greek village, and his second book, The Maze (2004), is a novel set in Anatolia in 1922. It was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. Short stories by Panos Karnezis have been broadcast by BBC Radio 4 and have appeared in Granta, New Writing 11, Prospect, and Areté.
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  • A political message about the value of migration is attached to the exterior of the location where Dutch landscape painter Vincent van Gogh lived for a short period between 1873-4, at 87 Hackford Road, London S9 in Brixton SW9, on 11th May 2020, in London, England. The 20 year-old Van Gogh was not yet an artist when he came to London to work for Dutch art dealer, Goupil & Cie in Covent Garden. His lodgings was at one point semi-derelict but is now a listed Art House created by Artangel's Saskia Olde Wolbers.
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  • Local club members from the Twickenham Yacht Club gather at the start of a short boating competition on the River Thames near Ham, on 5th May 2019, in London, England.
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  • Fire fighters attend a fire in premises on the Walworth Road, on 16th January 2019, in London, England. According to London Fire Brigade, "Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to a fire at a shop with flats above on Walworth Road in Walworth. The ground floor of the building was destroyed by the blaze and a small part of the basement, first floor and second floor were also damaged. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus rescued one man and one woman from a first floor flat roof using a short extension ladder. The woman was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation then taken to hospital by London Ambulance Service crews."
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  • Fire fighters attend a fire in premises on the Walworth Road, on 16th January 2019, in London, England. According to London Fire Brigade, "Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to a fire at a shop with flats above on Walworth Road in Walworth. The ground floor of the building was destroyed by the blaze and a small part of the basement, first floor and second floor were also damaged. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus rescued one man and one woman from a first floor flat roof using a short extension ladder. The woman was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation then taken to hospital by London Ambulance Service crews."
    walworth_fire-12-16-01-2019.jpg
  • Fire fighters attend a fire in premises on the Walworth Road, on 16th January 2019, in London, England. According to London Fire Brigade, "Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to a fire at a shop with flats above on Walworth Road in Walworth. The ground floor of the building was destroyed by the blaze and a small part of the basement, first floor and second floor were also damaged. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus rescued one man and one woman from a first floor flat roof using a short extension ladder. The woman was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation then taken to hospital by London Ambulance Service crews."
    walworth_fire-06-16-01-2019.jpg
  • Fire fighters attend a fire in premises on the Walworth Road, on 16th January 2019, in London, England. According to London Fire Brigade, "Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to a fire at a shop with flats above on Walworth Road in Walworth. The ground floor of the building was destroyed by the blaze and a small part of the basement, first floor and second floor were also damaged. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus rescued one man and one woman from a first floor flat roof using a short extension ladder. The woman was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation then taken to hospital by London Ambulance Service crews."
    walworth_fire-05-16-01-2019.jpg
  • A young 1990s boy looks over the Upper New York Bay during the short Staten Island ferry crossing towards Manhattan where the Twin Towers rise above the skyline before their destruction 2 years later, on 31st July 1998, in New York, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Pedestrians walk past a Road Closed sign at the entrance of Austin Friars in Threadneedle Street in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 3rd September 2018, in London England. Austin Friars, London was an Augustinian friary in the City of London from its foundation, probably in the 1260s, until its dissolution in November 1538. It covered an area of about 5.5 acres (2.2 hectares) a short distance to the north-east of the modern Bank of England and had a resident population of about 60 friars. Nowadays the site is mainly occupied by office blocks.
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  • The Leonardo AWHERO exhibited at the Farnborough Airshow, on 18th July 2018, in Farnborough, England. The AWHERO is a state-of-the-art Short Range Tactical Rotary Unmanned Air Vehicle (RUAV). The AWHERO is the perfect low cost/low maintenance solution for civil, military and homeland security applications.
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  • The Leonardo AWHERO exhibited at the Farnborough Airshow, on 18th July 2018, in Farnborough, England. The AWHERO is a state-of-the-art Short Range Tactical Rotary Unmanned Air Vehicle (RUAV). The AWHERO is the perfect low cost/low maintenance solution for civil, military and homeland security applications.
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  • A workman with a tattoo on his arm carries a bundle of short wooden planks on his shoulder, about to cross Westminster Bridge towards the Houses of Parliament, on 12th September 2017, in London, England.
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  • A young woman holds the hand of her 5 year-old brother during a visit to London zoo in the early 1960s. Looking closely at a tame llama that has been hitched up to a harness and about to pull children for a short ride around the enclosures of London's zoo in Regents Park. It 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.
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  • Accompanied by a pianist, south Londoners sit outside their rail station on whose wall is a screening of the silent film Easy Street starring a former local boy, Charlie Chaplin, kicking off a series of the Free Film Festival in Herne Hill in the London borough of Lambeth. There is no official record of his birth although Chaplin believed he was born at East Street in nearby Walworth. Chaplin's childhood was fraught with poverty and hardship, making his eventual trajectory 'the most dramatic of all the rags to riches stories ever told'. Easy Street is a 1917 short comedy. In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order and so it is Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, who steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help the poor, save women from madmen and generally keep the peace.
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  • Accompanied by a pianist, south Londoners sit outside their rail station on whose wall is a screening of the silent film Easy Street starring a former local boy, Charlie Chaplin, kicking off a series of the Free Film Festival in Herne Hill in the London borough of Lambeth. There is no official record of his birth although Chaplin believed he was born at East Street in nearby Walworth. Chaplin's childhood was fraught with poverty and hardship, making his eventual trajectory 'the most dramatic of all the rags to riches stories ever told'. Easy Street is a 1917 short comedy. In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order and so it is Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, who steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help the poor, save women from madmen and generally keep the peace.
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  • Accompanied by a pianist, south Londoners sit outside their rail station on whose wall is a screening of the silent film Easy Street starring a former local boy, Charlie Chaplin, kicking off a series of the Free Film Festival in Herne Hill in the London borough of Lambeth. There is no official record of his birth although Chaplin believed he was born at East Street in nearby Walworth. Chaplin's childhood was fraught with poverty and hardship, making his eventual trajectory 'the most dramatic of all the rags to riches stories ever told'. Easy Street is a 1917 short comedy. In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order and so it is Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, who steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help the poor, save women from madmen and generally keep the peace.
    chaplin_film09-19-04-2013.jpg
  • The field of stelae of the outdoor Holocaust Memorial, a reminder of Jewish persecution and anti-Semitism in Europe during the second world war. U.S. architect Peter Eisenman's controversial design was chosen as a fitting tribute to the Jews that died before and during World War II as part of Hitler's plan to exterminate them. Eisenman's design is quite unique and has drawn both praise and criticism. Occupying about 205,000 square feet (19,000 square meters) of space near the Brandenburg Gate and just a short distance from where the ruins of Hitler's bunker is buried, the Berlin Holocaust Memorial is made up of 2,711 gray stone slabs that bear no markings, such as names or dates.
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  • Fantasy theme characters' faces from "Rise of the Guardians" in London's Leicester Square. The DreamWorks production is a 2012 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film by Joyce and Reel FX.
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  • Fantasy theme characters' faces from "Rise of the Guardians" in London's Leicester Square. The DreamWorks production is a 2012 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film by Joyce and Reel FX.
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  • James Bond and fantasy theme characters' faces from "Rise of the Guardians" in London's Leicester Square. The DreamWorks production is a 2012 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film by Joyce and Reel FX.
    leicester_square01-04-12-2012.jpg
  • Les Miserables and fantasy theme characters' faces from "Rise of the Guardians" in London's Leicester Square. The DreamWorks production is a 2012 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film by Joyce and Reel FX.
    fantasy_landscape18-05-12-2012.jpg
  • Les Miserables and fantasy theme characters' faces from "Rise of the Guardians" in London's Leicester Square. The DreamWorks production is a 2012 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film by Joyce and Reel FX.
    fantasy_landscape15-05-12-2012.jpg
  • Fantasy theme characters' faces from "Rise of the Guardians" in London's Leicester Square. The DreamWorks production is a 2012 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film by Joyce and Reel FX.
    fantasy_landscape11-05-12-2012.jpg
  • Les Miserables and fantasy theme characters' faces from "Rise of the Guardians" in London's Leicester Square. The DreamWorks production is a 2012 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film by Joyce and Reel FX.
    fantasy_landscape05-05-12-2012.jpg
  • Fantasy theme characters' faces from "Rise of the Guardians" in London's Leicester Square. The DreamWorks production is a 2012 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film by Joyce and Reel FX.
    fantasy_landscape08-05-12-2012.jpg
  • A depiction of a local event during the English Civil War depicting local historical figures appearing in stained glass windows part of an auction held by Bonhams of the contents of Stokesay Castle, the oldest fortified estate house in Britain originating in the late 13th century. During King Charles I reign it came into the ownership of the Craven family and was used as a supply base for the King's forces in the area, based in strength at nearby Ludlow Castle in the early stages of the English Civil War. .A skirmish took place at the castle during the English Civil War, in which Stokesay was handed over to the Parliamentarians after a short siege without a pitched battle. It is at present in the hands of English Heritage.
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  • A city worker buys a copy of the Evening Standard with a headline relating to the ERM crisis in 1992, known as Black Wednesday which referred to the events of 16 September 1992 when the British Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after they were unable to keep it above its agreed lower limit. George Soros, the most high profile of the currency market investors, made over US$1 billion profit by short selling sterling. In 1997 the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.4 billion, with the actual cost being £3.3 billion which was revealed in 2005 under the Freedom of Information Act
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  • An old City of London street sign for Poultry EC2 beneath a rusting police bylaws sign on a late 1980s brick wall. Before the older signage was replaced in the mid-1990s for more modern architecture, these signs will have disappeared or available through vintage auctions. Poultry is a short street in the City of London. It is an eastern continuation of Cheapside, between Old Jewry and Mansion House Street, near Bank junction. It takes its name, like other medieval roads nearby such as Milk Street and Bread Street, from the various produce once sold at Cheapside, meaning "market-place" in Old English. The street gave its name to a prison, Poultry Compter, once located there.
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  • New apartment balconies in recently-completed housing in Stratford, a short distance from the 2012 Olympic Park.
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  • New apartment balconies in recently-completed housing in Stratford, a short distance from the 2012 Olympic Park.
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  • The legs of two young girls sit astride their beloved ponies at a gymkhana in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Wearing a smart herringbone patterned jacket, regulation jodhpurs, short polished boots and holding a crop to encourage the horse to perform a series of trick and races, the rider nearest the viewer sits calmly awaiting the next event. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
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  • A British lady applies a layer of sun cream to her hand on a beach in Magaluf.  In the foreground, and aligned with the lady's own body is a sun lounger with a beach towel draped over which depicts the torso and legs of a cartoon Hercules Adonis character complete in ancient Greek style with muscular thighs and short skirt. In the background is a hotel building and two other tourists with their tanned backs towards the viewer. Magaluf is a popular holiday resort on the island of Mallorca, one of the Spanish Balearic Islands. A seedy resort very much orientated around British tourists and catering for both young parties as well as families, it is considered as a hot and exotic alternative to the chilly seaside towns around the UK's coast.  .
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  • A little boy wearing a blue jump suit stands on the pavement outside his house holding the handlebars of a favourite matching blue coloured tricycle. He looks upwards towards the viewer slightly bemused about having his picture taken by his father who looks down from a standing position. Meanwhile, the boys sister towers above him dressed in a bright red coat and clean white gloves and short white socks. Alongside her is a friend also wearing gloves and a knee-length skirt but we see only their lower bodies and not their faces so they are unrecognisable - an older sibling and a girl friend. It is the summer of 1960 and while the red is vibrant, the blues and greens are more muted in this Kodachrome film which has a wonderful magenta colour cast in the mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look
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  • Three girlfriends sunbathe on a sandy Lowestoft beach as a muscular male admirer lies longingly a short distance away
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  • Amid the hectic arrivals concourse of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5, a young couple hold on to each other tight after a few weeks separation when the girl took a family holiday away from her boyfriend who needed to work here in London. They have clearly missed each other after such a short break from each other but are otherwise oblivious to the crowds that surround them in this busy international airport. They embrace with genuine affection for each other in a display of sexual freedom that is otherwise seen as a taboo in other countries. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Amid the hectic arrivals concourse of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5, a young couple kiss and hold on to each other after a few weeks separation when the girl took a family holiday away from her boyfriend who needed to work here in London. They have clearly missed each other after such a short break from each other but are otherwise oblivious to the crowds that surround them in this busy international airport. The boy holds the girl's bottom in a display of sexuality that is frowned upon in other cultures where open sexual behaviour is taboo. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport601-15-07-2009.jpg
  • "On all fours." An eleven month-old infant crawls up some back garden steps and into her parents' house. Her head and shoulders are already hidden as she disappears inside. She is exploring a familiar world, being bold, gaining strength and confidence to move independently to eventually stand upright and walk unaided. Someone has taped a short stick to the upper step to help her position herself downwards when exiting the house backwards.  Wearing only a nappy (diaper) it is clearly a warm summer's day. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
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  • Dr Safaa Elagib Adam reads documents on the journey by air to the firstever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur. Seated in a chartered Russian Antonov aircraft during flight to Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) where women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues. The short flight saves her a hazardous five-day drive by road, known for extreme acts of violence by rebels and Janjaweed soldiers.
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  • During a two-hour flight to attend the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur. Women sit patiently in the cabin of a chartered Russian Antonov aircraft during flight to Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur where women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues. The short flight saves them a hazardous five-day drive by road, known for extreme acts of violence by rebels and Janjaweed soldiers.
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  • Dr Safaa Elagib Adam and Maha Faraigon help themselves to airline sweets near the window on a flight to attend the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur. Discussing conference matters, they sit in a chartered Russian Antonov aircraft during flight to Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur where women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues. The short flight saves them a hazardous five-day drive by road, known for extreme acts of violence by rebels and Janjaweed soldiers.
    sudan035-23-05-2009.jpg
  • Ladies attending the first international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, sit in a chartered Russian Antonov aircraft during a flight to Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) where women from remote parts of Sudan gathereed to discuss peace and political issues. The short flight saves them a hazardous five-day drive by road, known for extreme acts of violence by rebels and Janjaweed soldiers.
    sudan031-24-05-2009.jpg
  • Looking out to the Mediterranean Sea from the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus, we see the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, practising their display finale, the Vixen Break, a show-stopping manoeuvre of their 25-minute air show display routine. A rusted and crumbling hulk of a ship lies in the shallow surf and the Hawk jets used by the Red Arrows fan out above it using red, white and blue smoke. It is a calm sea near the shoreline and the shipwreck's remains provide a sad foreground to the dynamic flying beyond making a graphic landscape. 'Datum' is an axis on which the Red Arrows focus their displays, from where the whole show is visible at the crowd's centre. 'The Wreck' is but one of a series of datum points selected by the team leader at short notice to simluate diverse geographical features and wind directions. The wreck is the MV Achaios. Built in 1932, it was on a voyage from Yugoslavia to Jeddah in 1976 with a cargo of timber. She ran aground in a storm at Akrotiri Peninsula, but no lives were lost.
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  • Sheltering from a rain shower at the Kemble Air Day, some pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, gather beneath a full-scale model of a Hawk jet aircraft. Spectators have also gathered in their waterproof wear to make a colourful group. Flight Lieutenant Steve Underwood, who as commentator and Ground Safety Manager worries about the cloud cover and the implications for a safe display. He looks towards the gloomy sky to assess the prospects of a Red Arrows show in a short while. Dressed in red flying suits, the pilots have been signing PR autographs and distributing team brochures to some of their many fans before the deluge which sent the public undercover to seek shelter. The team's main purpose is to forge a link between the RAFand potential recruits plus the general public.
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