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  • One of the warning signs alerting motorists of tidal dangers on the causeway between the tidal Lindisfarne island and the Northumbrian mainland, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Despite tide timetables posted all over the area, drivers often mis-time their crossings, their vehicles ending up submerged in salt water. The small Lindisfarne population of just over 160 is swelled by the influx of over 650,000 visitors from all over the world every year. A tidal Island: Lindisfarne is a tidal island in that access is by a paved causeway which is covered by the North Sea twice in every 24 hour period. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-53-27-09-2017.jpg
  • An unrecognisable bather wearing a stripy costume bends over awkwardly to adjust his towel on the promenade pavement (sidewalk) at Minehead, Devon. The man's reddened posterior is pointed towards the viewer and his dachshund (sausage) pet dog stands still looking away to the right, towards unseen interest. A family of four stroll along the sandy beach during low tide. It is a hot afternoon but we only see a quiet scene at this busy resort.
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  • The view through a car's windscreen on the journey over the causeway between the tidal Lindisfarne island and the Northumbrian mainland, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Despite tide timetables posted all over the area, drivers often mis-time their crossings, their vehicles ending up submerged in salt water. The small Lindisfarne population of just over 160 is swelled by the influx of over 650,000 visitors from all over the world every year. A tidal Island: Lindisfarne is a tidal island in that access is by a paved causeway which is covered by the North Sea twice in every 24 hour period. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-52-27-09-2017.jpg
  • The view through a car's windscreen on the journey over the causeway between the tidal Lindisfarne island and the Northumbrian mainland, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Despite tide timetables posted all over the area, drivers often mis-time their crossings, their vehicles ending up submerged in salt water. The small Lindisfarne population of just over 160 is swelled by the influx of over 650,000 visitors from all over the world every year. A tidal Island: Lindisfarne is a tidal island in that access is by a paved causeway which is covered by the North Sea twice in every 24 hour period. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-51-27-09-2017.jpg
  • The view through a car's windscreen on the journey over the causeway between the tidal Lindisfarne island and the Northumbrian mainland, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Despite tide timetables posted all over the area, drivers often mis-time their crossings, their vehicles ending up submerged in salt water. The small Lindisfarne population of just over 160 is swelled by the influx of over 650,000 visitors from all over the world every year. A tidal Island: Lindisfarne is a tidal island in that access is by a paved causeway which is covered by the North Sea twice in every 24 hour period. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-50-27-09-2017.jpg
  • Ageing 80s technology of the Thames Barrier on the River Thames near Woolwich in east London. As daylight fades to become a purple hue, we see the waters of the Thames flowing on the tide. Operational in 1982, the Thames Barrier is one of the largest movable flood barriers in the world, managed by the UK's Environment Agency. The barrier spans 520 metres across the River Thames near Woolwich, and it protects 125 square kilometres of central London from flooding caused by tidal surges.  The barrier has closed over 80 times since the year 2000 with ‘at least 800,000 homes and businesses have protected from tidal surges.
    thames_barrier-12-04-1989.jpg
  • Industrial pipes and red gate valve situated on the River Thames mud at low-tide on an overcast day at Grays, Essex
    river_business50-31-08-2007.jpg
  • A couple hug while looking out across the estuary at low-tide of the River Dovey, on 12th September 2018, in Aberdovey, Gwynedd, Wales.
    aberdovey_couple-03-12-09-2018.jpg
  • An artist sits against the riverside wall and others play on the low-tide mud as pedestrians on the Millennium Bridge walk overhead, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
    thames_landscape-03-30-10-2017.jpg
  • A wide landscape of mudflats at low-tide at Leigh-on-sea, Essex.
    leigh_on_sea05-06-12-2015.jpg
  • Pedalos and sea at low-tide in late evening on Bournemouth beach, seen from the town's pier.
    pedalo_beach01-20-10-1990.jpg
  • Abandoned trail bike covered in river weed and mud is exposed by low-tide Thames waters at Greenhithe, Kent
    river_business304-10-09-2007.jpg
  • A couple hug while looking out across the estuary at low-tide of the River Dovey, on 12th September 2018, in Aberdovey, Gwynedd, Wales.
    aberdovey_couple-02-12-09-2018.jpg
  • With the dome of St Paul's Cathedral the south suspension chains of Tower Bridge in the distance, privately-owned boats of many kinds sit in the low-tide mud on the Thames river at the a river community Tower Bridge Moorings, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    tower_bridge-08-13-09-2017.jpg
  • With the dome of St Paul's Cathedral the south suspension chains of Tower Bridge in the distance, privately-owned boats of many kinds sit in the low-tide mud on the Thames river at the a river community Tower Bridge Moorings, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    tower_bridge-06-13-09-2017.jpg
  • With the dome of St Paul's Cathedral the south suspension chains of Tower Bridge in the distance, privately-owned boats of many kinds sit in the low-tide mud on the Thames river at the a river community Tower Bridge Moorings, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    tower_bridge-05-13-09-2017.jpg
  • A wide landscape of mudflats at low-tide at Leigh-on-sea, Essex.
    leigh_on_sea04-06-12-2015.jpg
  • On Halstow Marshes, a Shelduck wades across low-tide estaury mud with a passing cargo ship and Coryton Refinery on River Thames
    thames_ships47-26-06-2007.jpg
  • Flotsam rubbish and waste washed up on the sandy foreshore of the River Thames in Grays, Essex England.
    river_ships02-19-07-2007.jpg
  • Flotsam rubbish and waste washed up on the sandy foreshore of the River Thames in Grays, Essex England.
    river_ships04-19-07-2007.jpg
  • Flotsam rubbish and waste washed up on the sandy foreshore of the River Thames in Grays, Essex England.
    river_ships03-19-07-2007.jpg
  • As stormy waves crash over its super-structure and funnel, the Liberian-registered MV Braer oil tanker spills 84,700 tonnes of crude oil into the North Sea. It sits below its water-line with crude oil leaking from its ruptured tanks after running ground in hurricane force winds, beeching itself on these rocks in Quendale Bay, west of Sunburgh Head, the Shetland Islands, Scotland. In fast-fading light, this ecological disaster occured in a beautiful region of Great Britain affecting much native wildlife although the Gulfaks oil the Braer was carrying is lighter therefore more biodegradable and able to disperse better than other North Sea crude. ..
    RB_028-07-01-1993.jpg
  • Three bathers lie on the shingle in the lee of a groyne, a wooden screen from the fresh breeze that has been written on by unknown people having scrawled their names and a noughts and crosses puzzle written in chalk. One person wears his socks in true English style and the lady in the middle has her bag containing possessions near her head. Above them sits a lifeguard on a pair of high steps, peering along the beach with a pair of binoculars. Meanwhile, a lone seagull wheels around the coastal thermals and is caught between the wooden slats of the groyne.
    brighton_bathers01-16-06-993.jpg
  • Flotsam rubbish and waste washed up on the sandy foreshore of the River Thames in Grays, Essex England.
    river_ships01-19-07-2007.jpg
  • Shipping spotters train binoculars on a Hapag-Lloyd container cargo ship navigating downstream on the River Thames.
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  • The Hamburg-registered Mol Caledon ship passes the giant dredging machinery at npower's Tilbury power station on the  River Thames northern shore, Essex England. Having just departed from Tilbury Docks with the evening sun glinting off the stern's reflective surfaces, stacks of tall containers are heaped high but evenly spread for stability along the massive vessel. They head out towards open sea, navigating through deeper water channels that naturally get shallower as silt chokes the waterways. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
    thames_ships172-26-06-2007.jpg
  • The Hamburg-registered Mol Caledon ship passes the giant dredging machinery at npower's Tilbury power station on the  River Thames northern shore, Essex England. Having just departed from Tilbury Docks with the evening sun glinting off the stern's reflective surfaces, stacks of tall containers are heaped high but evenly spread for stability along the massive vessel. They head out towards open sea, navigating through deeper water channels that naturally get shallower as silt chokes the waterways. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
    thames_ships172-26-06-2007.jpg
  • The cargo ship "CMA CGM Turkey" eases past two elderly shipping spotters who log its details on the River Thames
    river_business375-12-02-2008 .jpg
  • The cargo ship "CMA CGM Turkey" eases past two elderly shipping spotters who log its details on the River Thames
    river_business373-12-02-2008 .jpg
  • A  Hapag-Lloyd container cargo ship navigates past two fishermen on the southern shores of the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent England. Pausing from their fishing, the two men lean over the sea defence wall to watch the traffic to-and-fro as one giant vessel after another departs from Tilbury Docks towards open sea. The Thames has historically long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world. There are 133 Hapag-Lloyd containerships with a capacity of around 499.000 TEU (Twenty foot containers), Container capacity exceeds 1,1 million (TEU) containers.
    river_business353-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • In late afternoon Autumn sunshine and with the tall point of the Shard skyscraper in the distance, pedestrians walk over the Millennium Bridge on the River Thames, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
    thames_landscape-13-30-10-2017.jpg
  • In late afternoon Autumn sunshine and with the tall point of the Shard skyscraper in the distance, pedestrians walk over the Millennium Bridge on the River Thames, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
    thames_landscape-10-30-10-2017.jpg
  • A pleasure boat passes old riverside wharf timbers and the bank of the river Thames, before continuing under pedestrians on the Millennium Bridge, on 30th October 2017, at Queenhithe in the City of London, England. Queenhithe is also the name of the ancient, but now disused, dock which derives from the "Queen's Dock", or "Queen's Quay", which was probably a Roman dock (or small harbour). The dock existed during the period when the Wessex king, Alfred the Great, re-established the City of London, circa 886 AD.
    thames_landscape-02-30-10-2017.jpg
  • Visitors to Hastings Pier walk beneath Bank Holiday flags, on 29th April 2017, at Hastings, East Sussex, England.
    hastings-24-30-04-2017.jpg
  • A seascape looking towards the Thames estuary, with an Emergency telephone on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-02-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A rusting First Aid container hut and a telescope pointing to the sky instead of the sea, on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-12-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Visitors to Weston-super-Mare walk over the causeway on the seaside resort's seafront.
    weston_seafront04-08-08-2015.jpg
  • Cottages and homes in remote bay at Kintra, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The name comes from the Gaelic for 'end of the beach', 'Ceann Tràgha'. It was founded by the 5th Duke of Argyll to provide an income for himself and his tenants through fishing. Originally cottages with thatched roofs did not have gable ends or chimneys but this one has one gable and with a chimney attached. http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_photograph.jsp?item_id=22178
    isle_of_mull115-18-11-2011.jpg
  • A wife gives an tight, affectionate hug to her husband on the Promenade at North Bay, Scarborough, North Yorkshire. There is no such showing of reciprocated love from the man who continues to read a cricket report in the sports page of his tabloid newspaper. She is wearing a floral summer top and he is topless. In the background we see a bustling sea front. People are walking along the Prom, enjoying the sun and warmth of this usually chilly area of Britain.
    RB-0114.jpg
  • A boy stands leaning on a hand rail near the top steps at Paignton sea front. At the bottom of the steps and floating face down in the clear, unpolluted  water, his arms outstretched, is a diver wearing a wet suit who appears lifeless. It is a scene of ambiguity and the viewer might be confused over whether the diver is in fact dead. It looks as if the diver has drowned but he is only enjoying the buoyancy of the salt sea water. It is a sunny afternoon and the shadows of the steps' rail which zigzags down the concrete steps.
    paignton_diver01-21-07-993.jpg
  • In early morning light shines over Victorian cobbles, a rubbish collector checks the contents of bins at the Tower of London.
    london_time09-03-09-2008.jpg
  • London's famous Tower Bridge with a secure jetty razor-wire and stacked boxes of new catering supplies on the River Thames.
    london_time06-03-09-2008.jpg
  • A 9 year-old boy runs on the beach at Clevedon Pier, on 27th December 2018, in Clevedon, North Somerset, UK.
    clevedon_pier-06-27-12-2018.jpg
  • A 9 year-old boy plays with his dad on the beach at Clevedon Pier, on 27th December 2018, in Clevedon, North Somerset, UK.
    clevedon_pier-07-27-12-2018.jpg
  • Children play on the rocks at Clevedon Pier, on 27th December 2018, in Clevedon, North Somerset, UK.
    clevedon_pier-03-27-12-2018.jpg
  • Children play on the rocks at Clevedon Pier, on 27th December 2018, in Clevedon, North Somerset, UK.
    clevedon_pier-02-27-12-2018.jpg
  • In late afternoon Autumn sunshine and with the tall point of the Shard skyscraper in the distance, pedestrians walk over the Millennium Bridge on the River Thames, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
    thames_landscape-15-30-10-2017.jpg
  • In late afternoon Autumn sunshine and with the tall point of the Shard skyscraper in the distance, pedestrians walk over the Millennium Bridge on the River Thames, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
    thames_landscape-12-30-10-2017.jpg
  • In late afternoon Autumn sunshine and with the tall point of the Shard skyscraper in the distance, pedestrians walk over the Millennium Bridge on the River Thames, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
    thames_landscape-11-30-10-2017.jpg
  • A beachcomber trips on a rock while exploring the northern shore of Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-02-27-09-2017.jpg
  • Visitors to Hastings Pier walk beneath Bank Holiday flags, on 29th April 2017, at Hastings, East Sussex, England.
    hastings-23-30-04-2017.jpg
  • A seascape of a seafront business hut on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-03-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A seascape of a seafront business hut and resting gull on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-04-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A crumpled newspaper on Southend Pier, the world's longest at a mile and a quarter, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-15-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A seascape of a bold yellow line on Southend Pier, the world's longest at a mile and a quarter, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-16-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A seascape of a bold yellow line on Southend Pier, the world's longest at a mile and a quarter, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-17-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A wedding group stand on a grey day on Southend Pier, the world's longest at a mile and a quarter, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-18-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Hovering seagulls hoping for chips on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-39-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Aerial view from the deck of Hastings Pier, beach visitors paddle in the shallow sea.
    hastings_pier-04-29-05-2016.jpg
  • Fishing piers overlooking the river Gironde estuary at Talmont-sur-Gironde, Charente-Maritime, France.
    france_talmont08-29-06-2014.jpg
  • The sun rises over the River Thames and City of London, the UK capital's financial heart. The solar power gathers in strength and intensity as it climbs from below the horizon and behind City buildings, its circular disc a flaming yellow which is soon to turn a deeper hue over the capital's orange skies at dawn. The tidal river is calm with only moored barges in the middle, used to secure other boats to their sides. The City wakes before another day of trading in the financial, banking and insurance institutions. The dome of St Paul's Cathedral is centre to the skyline.
    sunrise_thames02-02-06-1994.jpg
  • Fishing creels with cottages and homes in remote bay at Kintra, Isle of Mull, Scotland.  The name comes from the Gaelic for 'end of the beach', 'Ceann Tràgha'. It was founded by the 5th Duke of Argyll to provide an income for himself and his tenants through fishing. Originally cottages with thatched roofs did not have gable ends or chimneys but this one has one gable and with a chimney attached. http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_photograph.jsp?item_id=22178
    isle_of_mull117-18-11-2011.jpg
  • Rope and rocks in remote bay at Kintra, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The name comes from the Gaelic for 'end of the beach', 'Ceann Tràgha'. It was founded by the 5th Duke of Argyll to provide an income for himself and his tenants through fishing. Originally cottages with thatched roofs did not have gable ends or chimneys but this one has one gable and with a chimney attached. http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_photograph.jsp?item_id=22178
    isle_of_mull116-18-11-2011.jpg
  • An aerial view looking down from a highpoint, on to the shallows and surf of waters near Lynton, Devon, England. Windsurfers traverse the windy seascape on a spring day on this south-western coast, one of England's warmest regions. Here, young surfers and ocean adventurers travel to these parts where the beaches are level and where the waves arrive at the coast in perfectly-formed breakers. In the picture, one surfer has fallen from their board, the sail now horizontal in the water. But the others are upright and travelling across the wind, expertly riding the waves.
    surfers-12-04-1990.jpg
  • Two men enjoy their own versions of Blackpool North Pier, Lancashire, England. On the right, the first man is lying down on a bench with his trousers gathered around his ankles, his red bathing costume or underpants are baggy and he is looking across to something of interest while scratching his bald head. The second man on the right is not wearing a shirt and his stomach is spilling over his trousers. He has a bunch of keys attached to his belt and is pointing a video camera (camcorder) towards the shore. It is a comical scene and typical of Blackpool beach life. This northern sea side resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd.
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  • With his personal belongings and beach shingle surrounding him, a man sits on his seaside towel in soft sunlight in Dover eating a snack which is dribbling out of his mouth. The skin from many previous hours of exposure to solar radiation has left him raw and sunburned and therefore dried and dying skin is peeling in shreds on his back and shoulder. He looks like an eccentric local character who seems oblivious to the health risks that his continued sunbathing is inflicting on his bizarrely scorched body.
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  • A makeshift warning sign made from plywood is roughly painted with letters declaring 'oil on beach.' It hangs on some silver railings on an unknown beach in England. The sand is strewn with sharp stones and litter and coloured (colored) a dirty brown stain high up on the shore line and more worrying, a little more distant, a father cuddles his baby child on a towel surrounded by possessions such as a cool box and the seaside toys of a happy family holiday (vacation). We look down on to this scene in disbelief that a parent lies down on such polluted terrain when health and safety considerations might have closed the entire esplanade.
    RB-0112.jpg
  • Two men enjoy their own versions of Blackpool North Pier, Lancashire, England. On the right, the first man is lying down on a bench with his trousers gathered around his ankles, his red bathing costume or underpants are baggy and he is looking across to something of interest while scratching his bald head. The second man on the right is not wearing a shirt and his stomach is spilling over his trousers. He has a bunch of keys attached to his belt and is pointing a video camera (camcorder) towards the shore. It is a comical scene and typical of Blackpool beach life. This northern sea side resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd.
    RB-0111.jpg
  • A young black couple enjoy each other's company on the sea defence wall while on holiday at Minehead, Somerset.
    seaside_love-19-07-1992.jpg
  • A father rescues his cold and drenched son from the icy North Sea surf on the beach at Whitley Bay
    newbiggin_surf_people-18-10-1993.jpg
  • As winter fog lifts, the waters of the River Thames clear to reveal an eerie landscape of industrial river life and architecture at Gravesend, Kent England. It is late-morning and in the hazy distance on the northern river bank, steam clouds near the double twin chimneys of npower's 1400MW coal fired Tilbury power station (powering 1.4 million homes using ?biomass? fuels and low-sulphur coal) which rise above the passing ghostly bulk of a cargo freighter on its last miles of its voyage from open sea into the Thames Estuary and on to Tilbury Docks. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
    river_business320-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • As winter fog lifts, the waters of the River Thames clear to reveal an eerie landscape of river life and industrial architecture at Gravesend, Kent England. It is late-morning and in the hazy distance tall old cranes that once lifted cargo from the holds of ships - before the development of containerization - rise from the waters on the south bank opposte the new Tilbury Docks. On its surface, a seagull dips to catch a fish. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury Docks (Europe's only specialist short-sea terminal, handling 120,000 containers each year.) remain a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
    river_business339-12-02-2008 .jpg
  • Beachcombers look for finds at Clevedon Pier, on 27th December 2018, in Clevedon, North Somerset, UK.
    clevedon_pier-05-27-12-2018.jpg
  • In late afternoon Autumn sunshine and with the tall point of the Shard skyscraper in the distance, gulls sit on one of the river litter cages on the Thames flowing beneath the Millennium Bridge, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
    thames_landscape-14-30-10-2017.jpg
  • A seascape looking towards the Thames estuary, with an Emergency telephone on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-01-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A 50p a go telescope looking out to the Thames estuary, on the Western Esplanade at Southend.
    southend_seafront-06-17-09-2016.jpg
  • A crumpled newspaper on Southend Pier, the world's longest at a mile and a quarter, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-14-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Aerial view from the deck of Hastings Pier, beach visitors paddle in the shallow sea.
    hastings_pier-05-29-05-2016.jpg
  • The sun rises over the River Thames and City of London, the UK capital's financial heart. The solar power gathers in strength and intensity as it climbs from below the horizon and behind City buildings, its circular disc a flaming yellow which is soon to turn a deeper hue over the capital's orange skies at dawn. The tidal river is calm with only moored barges in the middle, used to secure other boats to their sides. The City wakes before another day of trading in the financial, banking and insurance institutions. The dome of St Paul's Cathedral is centre to the skyline.
    sunrise_thames01-02-06-1994.jpg
  • A glowing crucifix faces out to the English Channel (in French, La Manche) at what was known during the WW2 D-Day landings on 6th June 1944, as Juno Beach at  Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, France.
    juno_beach01-20-08-2003.jpg
  • Low tide mud and silt with old wharves on the River Neckinger that once flowed from south London into the Thames at Bermindsey and once the inspiration for the end scenes of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, on 19th June 1994, in Bermindsey, London, England. During subsequent redevelopment, the warves became expensive riverside apartments, the waters once again freed from 20th century dereliction.
    butlers_wharf-19-06-1994_1.jpg
  • Four small vessels belonging to traditional oyster fishermen use nets to catch a new harvest of shellfish aboard their antique boat from the Fal Estuary. On calm waters, the oystermen have harvested on the River Fal in the same traditional and highly sustainable fashion, without the use of mechanical power, for more than five hundred years, being widely grown along the whole Cornish coast when the Romans invaded, and by 1602 they were being caught in much the same way as they are today, using thick, strong nets, called dredges. Byelaws banned oyster dredging by mechanical means, forcing local fishermen to rely on wind and tide in purpose-built, sail-powered Falmouth Working Boats. Although most oyster fishermen in Falmouth have other seasonal jobs, for the most experienced and committed fishermen oysters provide a decent year-round livelihood.
    oystermen-04-10-1994.jpg
  • A lone Tornado jet fighter arcs across a typically overcast sky at Southend-on-Sea on a Bank Holiday Sunday. Well-defined figures of children and adults either play nonchalantly on the beach at low tide, or watch in awe as the aircraft thunders over the Thames Estuary mud. A few stranded yachts stand upright in the low water and a groyne stretches out to sea towards the Kent coast, seen in the distance. It is a bleak and depressingly empty scene and the jet is merely a dot in the grey English sky, traditionally familiar summer weather. 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_corbis11-25-05-1997.jpg
  • A mudlarker looks for historical items lying in the mud and silt of the river Thames at low tide, on 30th October 2017, at Queenhithe, the City of London, England. Queenhithe is also the name of the ancient, but now disused, dock which derives from the "Queen's Dock", or "Queen's Quay", which was probably a Roman dock (or small harbour). The dock existed during the period when the Wessex king, Alfred the Great, re-established the City of London, circa 886 AD.
    thames_landscape-01-30-10-2017.jpg
  • An elderly man sunbathes on a summer beach in the seaside resort of Paignton, England. The gentleman looks out across the stretch of sandy coast at low-tide and a square pool made by flooding high-tide sea water provides a natural place to swim when the sea is far out. The male in the foreground is seen in close-up and we see the expanse of his back covered in freckles. After many sunny hours beneath solar rays he is tanned but not burned. Nevertheless, he is at risk of the pigment in those freckles turning into melanomas, the cause of skin cancer. More than 10,000 people a year are developing the deadliest form of skin cancer as a result of package holidays and excessive use of sunbeds. Cases of malignant melanoma rose by 650 (6.5 per cent) in a single year as a result of binge-tanning at home and abroad, according to Cancer Research UK.
    beach_freckles-31-08-2010.jpg
  • A low-tide landscape of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', an boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-16-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A low-tide landscape of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', an boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-15-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of assorted boats and estuary vessels at low-tide at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The land to the right is Two tree Island, a marshland nature reservebetween Leigh and Canvey Island.
    estuary_walk-19-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A detail of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', a boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-14-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A detail of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', a boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-13-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A detail of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', a boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-11-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A detail of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', a boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-10-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of assorted boats and estuary vessels at low-tide at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-08-10-09-2019.jpg
  • Two elderly ladies walk along the promenade where a single yacht sits upright in low-tide estuary mud at Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-02-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of a single yacht sitting upright in low-tide estuary mud at Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-03-10-09-2019.jpg
  • Sandy maze built on low-tide River Thames foreshore during Thames Festival on London's South Bank event.
    beach_maze01-11-09-2010.jpg
  • A city landscape showing looking westwards towards Tower Bridge and the river Thames at low-tide with the background of the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 22nd November 1991, in London, England.
    tower_bridge-22-11-1991.jpg
  • A landscape of assorted boats and estuary vessels at low-tide at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The land to the right is Two tree Island, a marshland nature reservebetween Leigh and Canvey Island.
    estuary_walk-18-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A detail of poetry and sentences forming 'Graveyard of Lost Species', a boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the 'Souvenir', a 39-foot Thames 'bawley' (1933) which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-12-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of assorted boats and estuary vessels at low-tide at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-07-10-09-2019.jpg
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