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  • Deep in the West Sussex countryside are a group of Territorial Army soldiers. They have stopped in a remote lane to consult their Ordnance Survey maps during a day of learning to navigate with maps and compasses. Over a weekend learn the skills needed to be part-time army volunteers known as the TA and have far to go. Together they look at maps and argue where they should go next. Looking on with mild amusement is their senior officer who accompanies them to assess their leadership skills and initiative. Behind them a road sign tells them the road ahead is a dead end to traffic. It is a very English summer landscape of lush green vegetation and grasses. The TA work as part of Britain's reserve land forces. Together with the Regular Army they provide support at home and overseas including Iraq and Afghanistan. .
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  • A female member of the Territorial Army hangs on to ropes before falling in pond water during weekend initiative manoeuvres
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  • In the foreground we see the strong forearm of a British army soldier whose blood group O-Negative has been tattooed in large letters beneath an image of a Japanese Geisha girl. He also wears a watch with aq green strap matching his working army fatigues uniform. Behind him are two part-time territorial army conscripts who are sitting on their  army-issued rucksack Bergens awaiting further orders to serve on active duty from Sandhurst military academy to the Balkans during Operation Resolute, the  National Support Element to support NATO action. The dominating figure in the foreground stands upright though we don't see his face. His two conscripts sit on the ground looking dejected or perhaps worried about their forthcoming duties. They are still in civillian clothing, jeans and t-shirts but will soon change into uniform.
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  • Pasted to the wall in Gerrard Street, Soho, in London's Chinatown, the Metropolitan Police are appealing for witnesses to help with their investigation of a murder of Vien Xuan Cao, a Chinese immigrant who was murdered in this street after being attacked with a meat cleaver. The implication is that this was a Triad turf war, a territorial dispute between gang members of this secret society. We see the young man's face photocopied to the paperwork, laid over more traditional images of ethnic Chinese and a boxing contest promotional poster. "Can you Help?" reads the Police's appeal and alongside, the same text has been translated into Chinese for locals to read.
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  • During an August heatwave, the population of Brixton and many others from all over London, bask in the glorious weather at the Brockwell (Brixton)  Lido in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, South London. The Lido is a magnet for families, select groups, the young and old and represents an amalgam of humanity who enjoy the benefits of outdoor bathing and the friendship of meeting old friends and new acquaitances. We see two men of Afro-carribean origin who have a corner of the Lido to themselves. One wears a towel wrapped around his lower-body and sits, arms folded with a look of territorial superiority while the other applies sun lotion to his leg. There is little space left on the full pavement which retains its solar heat long after the sun has left the quadrangle of the lido's oblong design but their colourful towels and possessions are spread out on the paving stones along with childrens' toys including an Action Man toy soldier who is also tanning himself. It is a scene of fun for all ages and backgrounds. Brockwell Lido is a large, open air swimming pool in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London. It opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 and after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994. Brockwell Lido was designed by HA Rowbotham and TL Smithson of the London County Council's Parks Department to replace Brockwell Park bathing pond. It is now a Grade II listed building
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  • An urban fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle.
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  • An urban fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle.
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  • An urban fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle.
    dead_fox06-01-04-2015.jpg
  • An urban fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle.
    dead_fox01-01-04-2015.jpg
  • An urban fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle.
    dead_fox02-01-04-2015.jpg
  • 1990s British customs and immigration officials and a French Gendarme await the arrival of the first people to have crossed from France to the British mainland on the occasion of the Channel Tunnel bores breaking through, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, Kent England.
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  • An urban fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle.
    dead_fox08-01-04-2015.jpg
  • An urban fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle.
    dead_fox09-01-04-2015.jpg
  • An urban fox lies dead in a south London road after being killed by a local vehicle.
    dead_fox05-01-04-2015.jpg
  • British and French customs officials shake hands during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side. As proof of Anglo-french relations between the two European states, an Entente Cordiale exists in this theatrical joke about bureaucracy between France and Britain. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
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  • The number 5 has been sprayed in aerosol on to tree bark to identify their location in an English wood
    trees_number03-15-09-2013.jpg
  • Foreign media tape markings for their TV broadcasts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth to a baby boy. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where the heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the waiting world.
    royal_baby_wait30-22-07-2013.jpg
  • Media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait26-19-07-2013.jpg
  • Spanish news reporter in media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait14-19-07-2013.jpg
  • BBC brolley and camera in media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait10-19-07-2013.jpg
  • Media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait09-19-07-2013.jpg
  • Dropped during construction of electricity pylons, a bolt and its nut lies on a forest floor, Clowes Wood, Chestfield, Kent
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  • A lost red glove dropped on a path in Clowes Wood, Chestfield, Kent hangs on a twig in case its owner returns to search.
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  • A portrait of both British and French customs officials during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, England. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
    customs_women-01-12-1990.jpg
  • The number 8 has been sprayed in aerosol on to tree bark to identify their location in an English wood.
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  • The number 8 has been sprayed in aerosol on to tree bark to identify their location in an English wood.
    8_tree03-30-09-2014.jpg
  • The number 8 has been sprayed in aerosol on to tree bark to identify their location in an English wood.
    8_tree01-30-09-2014.jpg
  • The number 5 has been sprayed in aerosol on to tree bark to identify their location in an English wood
    trees_number02-15-09-2013.jpg
  • Foreign media tape markings for their TV broadcasts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth to a baby boy. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where the heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the waiting world.
    royal_baby_wait26-22-07-2013.jpg
  • Foreign media mark out tape for their TV broadcasts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth to a baby boy. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where the heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the waiting world.
    royal_baby_wait27-22-07-2013.jpg
  • Media interview on tall stepladders as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending birth to a baby boy. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where the heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the waiting world.
    royal_baby_wait03-22-07-2013.jpg
  • Media photographers stand on tall stepladders  as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending birth to a baby boy. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where the heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the waiting world.
    royal_baby_wait23-22-07-2013.jpg
  • Media and reflectors as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait33-19-07-2013.jpg
  • US Fox TV markings on pavement as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait30-19-07-2013.jpg
  • London 19th July 2013: Japanese Fuji TV markings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world. Copyright Richard Baker/Alamy Live News
    royal_baby-wait29-19-07-2013.jpg
  • US NBC TV  time zone clocks in media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait28-19-07-2013.jpg
  • US Fox TV markings on pavement as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait25-19-07-2013.jpg
  • US NBC TV  time zone clocks in media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait24-19-07-2013.jpg
  • Amercian NBC TV correspondent Natalie Morales plus technicians reports live for the Today show from media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London. Here, media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait23-19-07-2013.jpg
  • Amercian NBC TV correspondent Natalie Morales plus technicians reports live for the Today show from media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London. Here, media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait22-19-07-2013.jpg
  • Amercian NBC TV correspondent Natalie Morales plus technicians reports live for the Today show from media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London. Here, media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait20-19-07-2013.jpg
  • London 19th July 2013: Media interview Met policeman as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world. Copyright Richard Baker/Alamy Live News
    royal_baby-wait19-19-07-2013.jpg
  • Amercian NBC TV correspondent Natalie Morales plus technicians reports live for the Today show from media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London. Here, media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait18-19-07-2013.jpg
  • Media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait12-19-07-2013.jpg
  • US NBC TV reporter Natalie Morales with technicians reports live for Today from media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world. Amercian NBC TV correspondent Natalie Morales plus technicians reports live for the Today show from media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London. Here, media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait11-19-07-2013.jpg
  • London 19th July 2013: Media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world. Copyright Richard Baker/Alamy Live News
    royal_baby-wait06-19-07-2013.jpg
  • London 19th July 2013: Media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world. Copyright Richard Baker/Alamy Live News
    royal_baby-wait05-19-07-2013.jpg
  • Abandoned aerosol spray cans lie in soil after a graffiti gang's overnight vandalism visit in Notting Hill, West London.  We see the cans having been emptied of their contents, in the soil next to the wall that has been covered with tags and graffiti art, the drawings of which have been sketched on a sheet of paper.
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  • A theatrical joke about bureaucracy between French and British comedians at an event to mark the opening of the Channel Tunnel produces this quirky scene where each country's officials are seated at a long table, dressed in British flags, to symbolise the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age. Wearing smart uniforms, French immigration police and Gendarmes sit among British customs and immigration officials who, rather comically wear yellow hard hats because Health and Safety laws make the wearing of protective headgear compulsory on construction sites. A frontier control point notice stands for the benefit of viewers who might otherwise be guessing what is going on.
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  • From a high viewpoint on Snow Hill, we see the green  'Long Walk' in the Royal Estate's Windsor Great Park. We look down the 3-mile straight road into the distance towards Windsor Castle in the summer shinshine during the equestrian 3-Day Event held annually on Her Majesty the Queens's property. Half-way down the lush avenue of Elm trees there are some horses and their riders either warming up before competition, or galloping across the landscape on a round against the clock. A few spectators have stopped to watch this part of the course but others are elsewhere at the dramatic water jumps. The Long Walk was commenced by Charles II from 1680-1685 by planting a double avenue of elm trees. The central carriage road was added by Queen Anne in 1710. Windsor Castle was begun in the 11th century by William the Conqueror as it afforded a good defensive point over the River Thames. A vast area of Windsor Forest to the south of the castle became reserved by the King for personal hunting and also to supply the castle with wood, deer, boar and fish. Windsor Great Park (locally referred to simply as the Great Park) is a large deer park and Crown Estate of 5,000 acres, to the south of the town of Windsor on the border of Berkshire and Surrey in England. The park was, for many centuries, the private hunting ground of Windsor Castle and dates primarily from the mid-13th century. Now largely open to the public, the parkland is a popular recreation area for residents of the western London suburbs.
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  • A passer-by stands outside a Chinese Restaurant offering Dim Sum in Chinatown, home to London's ethnic Chinese community.
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  • Bird feathers from dead wildlife, killed after colliding with electricity lines on a forest floor, Clowes Wood, Chestfield, Kent
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  • Peering through the steamy window of a Chinese restaurant in London's Chinatown district, we see the shapes and forms of kitchen staff and customers in this lively scene. In the window are rows of Peking Duck with their skins cooked a crispy dark brown. Meanwhile, surrounded by cooking utensils and implements, the tools of their trade, two chefs busy themselves in the kitchen area, one's face shows him to be ethnic Chinese who is rubbing his hands in a cloth before continuing his chores. Two European girls are waiting expectantly for their dishes to arrive. Obscured by the steam and heat, a waiter in green bustles about this small eaterie.
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  • US NBC TV reporter and technicians in media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait16-19-07-2013.jpg
  • A passer-by stands next to a menu from a Chinese restaurant in Gerrard Street in London's Chinatown, England. The words Dim Sum Daily are displayed in neon lights above the person's head, its translated message is written on the top in Chinese characters. In the clear window we can see rows of Peking duck. It is early evening and the street is full of colour from the artificial lighting that creates an inviting mood for those browsing the menus on offer in this lively part of London's West End. The pedestrian is partly silhouetted and she stands in profile looking straight ahead as if ignoring what is on offer.
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  • A union jack flies proudly in front of tall Leylandii trees in a garden at Horning on the Norfolk Broads. As a statement of British territorial ownership in sububia where an Englishman's home is his castle is reflected also in his garden and the high boundaries between him and his neighbour, with the blight of the evergreen - a screen of privacy and supremacy. Even on sites of relatively poor culture, plants have been known to grow to heights of 15 metres (49 ft) in 16 years. Their rapid, thick growth means they are sometimes used to enforce privacy, but such use can result in disputes with neighbours whose own property becomes overshadowed.[
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  • Families examine a map of the Hong Kong region, with outlying islands and mainland Chinese territories.
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  • Beyond Chinese TV media images, a red sun sinks behind late cloud in the west, a glowing red sky illuminates Hong Kong's harbour, this scene is symbolic of the decline of empire, the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) two years after this picture was taken, often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight of that day signified the end of British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. From this famous ferry terminal that protrudes out into the busy waters of this colony's harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood in the days before China ceded its territory to the British for 155 years until the 1997 deadline.
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  • On the very last day of British rule over its Hong Kong colony, we see two groups representing this colonial territory's population. Commuters walk through Chater Garden about to pass another group of older exercise class. Towering above them all is the Bank of China skyscraper, then the tallest building in Asia, As the last hours tick away before the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight of that day signified the end of British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Almost 7 million people call a territory of 1100 sq km home, squeezing onto only 10% of the available land space. This is a metropolis of high population density and one of the world's economic powerhouses.
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  • A 1970s landscape of duck farms and rural paths at Lok Ma Chau in the New Territories of northern Hong Kong, a village within the territory's Frontier Closed Area, a buffer zone established by the Hong Kong government to prevent illegal immigrants from mainland China, and access to the area is restricted to those holding Closed Area Permits, on 16th April 1979, in Hong Kong, China.
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  • While still a British colony, a 1990s market shallholder drags a load of vegetable items in baskets in the New Territories, on 21st April 1995, in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • In heavy monsoonal rain, crowds gather at the stroke of midnight beneath umbrellas to witness the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. From the on the roof of Ocean Terminal shopping mall, the skyline is filled with fireworks but the glowing red comes from giant advertising lettering behind the viewer on the top floor of the building which protrudes out into Hong Kong harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory.  Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • In heavy monsoonal rain, crowds gather beneath umbrellas on the roof of Ocean Terminal to witness the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. A cruise liner is moored s small distance away but the glowing red comes from giant advertising lettering on the top floor of the shopping mall which protrudes out into Hong Kong harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory.  Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • Aerial landscape of Lantau Island and cargo shipping at anchor in West Lamma Channel.
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  • A British soldier with the Scottish British Black Watch Regiment keeps the public safely away from a vehicle leaving the Prince of Wales Barracks, on the eve of 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_kong12-30-06-1997.jpg
  • A British family hoping to catch a glimpse of passing VIPs, wave Union Jack flags on the eve of the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China. That night 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_kong09-30-06-1997.jpg
  • A shop assistant arranges clothing on the rail in the Chinese fashion brand Shanghai Tang who make a presence in their store in Central, on the eve of the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China.
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  • The Chinese fashion brand Shanghai Tang makes a presence in their shop in Central, on the eve of the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China.
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  • British Prime Minister Tony Blair greets crowds in the Pacific shopping mall on the eve of the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China. Blair accompanied the outgoing Governor, Chris Patten on the walkabout around parts of the still-British colony. 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_kong04-30-06-1997.jpg
  • A large banner Chinese flag hangs over a pedestrian on the eve of 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_kong03-30-06-1997.jpg
  • The Chinese flag hangs over Central, on the eve of 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_kong02-30-06-1997.jpg
  • The British Hong Kong flag flies over Hong Kong harbour for the last few hours, on the eve of 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_kong01-30-06-1997.jpg
  • A VW camper van adorned with British union jack colours is parked on a campsite at Reedham on the Norfolk Broads. With late sun shining on its polished surfaces, we see a tent belonging to a camper at the site in East Anglia. Painted in the colours British flag, a theme of patriotic feeling by people summing up a great, traditional British summer and their love of the countryside. The Volkswagen Type 2, known officially, depending on body type as the Transporter, Kombi and Microbus, and informally as the Bus (US) or Camper (UK), is a panel van introduced in 1950 by German automaker Volkswagen as its second car model – following and initially deriving from Volkswagen's first model, the Type 1 (Beetle), it was given the factory designation Type 2.
    british_campervan06-01-08-2013.jpg
  • A VW camper van adorned with British union jack colours is parked on a campsite at Reedham on the Norfolk Broads. With late sun shining on its polished surfaces, we see a tent belonging to a camper at the site in East Anglia. Painted in the colours British flag, a theme of patriotic feeling by people summing up a great, traditional British summer and their love of the countryside. The Volkswagen Type 2, known officially, depending on body type as the Transporter, Kombi and Microbus, and informally as the Bus (US) or Camper (UK), is a panel van introduced in 1950 by German automaker Volkswagen as its second car model – following and initially deriving from Volkswagen's first model, the Type 1 (Beetle), it was given the factory designation Type 2.
    british_campervan04-01-08-2013.jpg
  • Walking past a boarded-up shop on a Liverpool street corner, a middle-aged woman passes graffiti scrawled by local youths on the doors. The scene is of a poor area needing investment but this is an area of the city known for high crime and areas of dereliction where the community are treated as second class citizens.
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  • The Mile End Road leading up to the City of London with the Natwest tower on the horizon. The evening exodus is underway, the rush-hour for commuters and car drivers who head east and west along this old road to and from the City of London, through the poorer east end to the wealth and prosperity of the financial district. Light trails from the vehicles's headlights and tail lights register during a time exposure and the pink city skies to the west glow above the tall office complexes on the skyline.
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  • 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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  • Sinister graffiti artist silhouette sprays walls in underpass tunnel in Waterloo.
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  • Passers-by ignore destitute bag-lady in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui street on the Kowloon side.
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  • In light monsoonal rain, a lone pedestrian is seen from a high viewpoint, crossing a zebra crossing with a yellow grid box junction to his right in Central Hong Kong on the last day of British rule. The junction is empty and without any traffic but the word 'Look' is stencilled in white letters for the benefit of unwary pedestrians. An umbrella used by the unrecognisable person is a colour match with the painted striped road markings, identical to the British highway traffic code. The transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" occurred at midnight on June 30, 1997, signifying the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • Three citizens from the Chinese Special Economic region Hong Kong stand along a vertical banners filled with Chinese characters on a sunny day in Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon side in 1995. This is dated two years before the ransfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. But at the time of this picture, these people are still under British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China has still to happen. They are therefore still British subjects, with British passports, living under British law.
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  • In a field at the town of Boofzheim in the eastern French Alsace region, an elderly Frenchman harvests some of his self-grown carrots crop. Having left his old bicycle standing at the kerb of a narrow access road and in front of a field full of maturing maize, he bends down with much effort to dig in his fork or spade into the rich Alsace earth and lift out his vegetables to take home. This landscape is typically French or German (Alsace borders the western side of Germany and saw much tragic action in WW2) where maize is a nutritious foodstuff for cattle and also for ducks and geese who are force-fed it locally in the making of fois gras and pate.
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  • A young boy sits between Europe and Asia on a map laid across the pavement beneath Monument of Discoveries, Lisbon
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  • Pretty remote valley farm cottage sits in the secluded Cotswolds Bagpath valley, Gloucestershire.
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  • Office worker's cluttered desk with trophy, shield and company statement at an auditing company's London headquarters.<br />
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A limited edition (4 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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  • Aerial view of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) the front-line town in north Darfur. Basic housing is seen against the barren and scorched red earth in this area of south-western Sudan. ..
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  • A hand-drawn map shows You Are Here in Nunhead Cemetery, especially designed for visitors to stalls of various societies and organisations displaying in this Victorian burial place during its annual open day.
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  • An arrow pointing to the You Are Here location on a map  of Baildon Green near Shipley and Bradford, showing the streets, roads and landmarks of this Yorkshire village.
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  • An arrow pointing to the You Are Here location on a map of Bradford's University, showing the campus streets, roads, buildings and landmarks of this Yorkshire college.
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  • An arrow pointing to the You Are Here location on a map of Bradford city centre, showing the streets, roads and landmarks of this Yorkshire town.
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  • The words Please No Parking and Loading Area have been painted by hand on a wall of a warehouse-based business. The artist has also drawn a long arrow that stretches along the wall to mark the length of free area wanted in this quiet street near Bradford city centre, Yorkshire.
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  • Housing properties are displayed in a South London estate agent's window with surrounding steet and houses reflected in window
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  • Tourist feet and macabre fish exhibits in display jars  at Museum of Guyanese Culture, Cayenne, French Guiana. .
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  • Young boy runs through town of Kourou in French Guiana, home of the European Space Agency's Spaceport.
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  • Razor-wire and fencing protects garden shrubs and plant stocks at a town garden centre in Kourou, French Guiana.
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  • Signpost in Kourou, named after English gravity scientist, Sir Isaac Newton in French Guiana, home of ESA's Spaceport.
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  • Traditional ramshackle Creole house in the town of Sinnamary, French Guiana.
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  • Peeling mural of golf club trolley on the side of green container parked near the European Space Agency's Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Tourist boatman reaches to grab a drifting longboat on the Kourou River in French Guiana.
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  • An employee works diligently in an open plan office at an auditing company's London headquarters
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