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  • The date of a heritage cottage in the Northumbrian village of Blanchland, on 29th September 2017, in Blanchland, Northumberland, England. Blanchland is a village in Northumberland, England, on the County Durham boundary. The population of the Civil Parish at the 2011 census was 135. Blanchland was formed out of the medieval Blanchland Abbey property by Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew, the Bishop of Durham, 1674-1722. It is a conservation village, largely built of stone from the remains of the 12th-century Abbey. It features picturesque houses, set against a backdrop of deep woods and open moors. Set beside the river in a wooded section of the Derwent valley, Blanchland is an attractive small village in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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  • Sprayed dates for forthcoming council roadworks sprayed on a residential London street.
    road_aerosol02-11-01-2012.jpg
  • Sprayed dates for forthcoming council roadworks sprayed on a residential London street.
    road_aerosol01-11-01-2012.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a small menswear shop now forced to close after 42 years in business on Moorgate in the capital's financial district, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city09-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a masked mannquin looks out from the window of a menswear retailer, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city29-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a 'Stay At Home' message is displayed at a bus shelter in Shoreditch, on 11th January 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city03-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, empty display cases are in the window of a closed small business, in 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city32-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city22-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city19-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city27-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city21-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a Christmas-themed window of a pub remains closed two weeks after the holiday, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city37-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a small menswear shop now forced to close after 42 years in business on Moorgate in the capital's financial district, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city13-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a former WW2 bomb site that is still largely derelict, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city06-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a Christmas-themed window of a pub remains closed two weeks after the holiday, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city34-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city25-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a small menswear shop now forced to close after 42 years in business on Moorgate in the capital's financial district, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city12-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a Christmas-themed window of a pub remains closed two weeks after the holiday, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city35-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, empty display cases are in the window of a closed small business, in 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city31-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city20-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a 'Stay At Home' message is displayed at a bus shelter in Shoreditch, on 11th January 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city02-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, rail passengers walk through a quiet station concourse at Blackfriars, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city40-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a Christmas-themed window of a pub remains closed two weeks after the holiday, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city33-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a rail passenger walks through a quiet station concourse at Blackfriars, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city38-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, rail passengers walk through a quiet station concourse at Blackfriars, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city39-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city15-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is an abandoned and vandalised bike left by a city worker, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city08-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a 'Stay At Home' message is displayed at a bus shelter in Shoreditch, on 11th January 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city04-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is an old Evening Standard newspaper headline with more bad news about NHS hospitals being unable to cope due to Covid, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city23-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, two women wearing masks walk through Deans Court in the financial district, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city30-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is an old Evening Standard newspaper headline with more bad news about NHS hospitals being unable to cope due to Covid, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city24-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city18-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city17-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city16-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a small menswear shop now forced to close after 42 years in business on Moorgate in the capital's financial district, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city11-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a former WW2 bomb site that is still largely derelict, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city05-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city28-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a small menswear shop now forced to close after 42 years in business on Moorgate in the capital's financial district, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city10-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a former WW2 bomb site that is still largely derelict, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city07-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a Christmas-themed window of a pub remains closed two weeks after the holiday, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city36-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a small menswear shop now forced to close after 42 years in business on Moorgate in the capital's financial district, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city14-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a 'Stay At Home' message is displayed at a bus shelter in Shoreditch, on 11th January 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city01-11-01-2021.jpg
  • With a further 184 reported UK Covid deaths in the last 24 hrs, a total now of 43,414, old friends ignore lockdown rules when greeting each other with a hug infront of the statues of Gottfried Leibniz, Georges Cuvier and Carl Linnaeus, and alongside a social distance post outside the Royal Academy on Burlington Gardens, on 26th June 2020, in London, England. Government restrictions have yet to ease when the 2 metre rule is to be realxed on 4th July for 'one metre plus' and when art galleries like the RA re-open. Venues re-opening will be conditional on the progression of the virus and how well social distancing measures are implemented.
    coronavirus_westend-08-26-06-2020.jpg
  • Catering staff polish silverware and glasses at the tables soon to be occupied by City of London dignitaries at the Guildhall when the Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke MP, the then-Chancellor in John Major's Conservative government of makes his annual speech. Tables and cutlery are prepared before the bankers and financiers file in for this formal banquet in the ancient City's town hall. The Banker's Dinner is held every in June when the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a speech known as the Mansion House Speech hosted by the Lord Mayor of London when the Chancellor delivers his forecast predicts growth and prosperity.
    guildhall_banquet02-16-06-1994.jpg
  • Window display figure of a traditional Chinese herbalist's shop in London's West End. The shadows of known cures such as anxiety, depression and hay fever are reflected on the body of this male miniature. One of Chinese herbology's four natures is the degree of yin and yang, namely cold (extreme yin), cool, warm and hot (extreme yang). The patient's internal balance of yin and yang is taken into account when the herbs are selected. Medicinal herbs of "hot", yang nature are used when the person is thought to be suffering from internal cold that requires to be purged, or when the patient is believed to have a general cold constituency. Sometimes an ingredient is added to offset the extreme effect of one herb.
    chinese_medicine03-16-10-2012.jpg
  • With a further 184 reported UK Covid deaths in the last 24 hrs, a total now of 43,414, old friends ignore lockdown rules when greeting each other with a hug infront of the statues of Gottfried Leibniz, Georges Cuvier and Carl Linnaeus, and alongside a social distance post outside the Royal Academy on Burlington Gardens, on 26th June 2020, in London, England. Government restrictions have yet to ease when the 2 metre rule is to be realxed on 4th July for 'one metre plus' and when art galleries like the RA re-open. Venues re-opening will be conditional on the progression of the virus and how well social distancing measures are implemented.
    coronavirus_westend-06-26-06-2020.jpg
  • Catering staff polish silverware and glasses at the tables soon to be occupied by City of London dignitaries at the Guildhall when the Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke MP, the then-Chancellor in John Major's Conservative government of makes his annual speech. Tables and cutlery are prepared before the bankers and financiers file in for this formal banquet in the ancient City's town hall. The Banker's Dinner is held every in June when the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a speech known as the Mansion House Speech hosted by the Lord Mayor of London when the Chancellor delivers his forecast predicts growth and prosperity.
    guildhall_banquet01-16-06-1994.jpg
  • With a further 184 reported UK Covid deaths in the last 24 hrs, a total now of 43,414, old friends greet each other with a hug infront of the statues of Gottfried Leibniz, Georges Cuvier and Carl Linnaeus, and alongside a social distance post outside the Royal Academy on Burlington Gardens, on 26th June 2020, in London, England. Government restrictions have yet to ease when the 2 metre rule is to be realxed on 4th July for 'one metre plus' and when art galleries like the RA re-open. Venues re-opening will be conditional on the progression of the virus and how well social distancing measures are implemented.
    coronavirus_westend-07-26-06-2020.jpg
  • Social distance markers are on the ground at the entrance to the Roof Garden for when this popular rooftop viewpoint across the capital re-opens again when restrictions of the UK Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules are realxed further. The number of deaths from Coronavirus in the last 24hrs has increased by 287 to 37,979 while the UK government lowered the national Covid-19 alert level from 4 to 3, meaning the virus is considered to be "in general circulation .. with "a gradual reduction in restrictions", on 19th June 2020, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city-14-19-06-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
it is expected that many shops and retail businesses will open again on 15th June. A man walks past the window of the Regent Street branch of Burberry where a display of gorillas and a notice dating to when lockdown commenced, tells customers of the shops's temporary closure, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_west_end-20-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
it is expected that many shops and retail businesses will open again on 15th June. In the window of the Regent Street branch of Burberry is a display of gorillas and a notice dating to when lockdown commenced, telling customers of the shops's temporary closure, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_west_end-18-26-05-2020.jpg
  • The Atlantes figure by the sculptor H.A. Pegram (1896) at the entrance of Drapers' Hall livery company in Throgmorton Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 15th May 2018, in London, UK. The Drapers’ Company is a Livery Company in the City of London whose roots go back to the 13th century, when as its name indicates, it was involved in the drapery trade. While it is no longer involved in the trade, the Company has evolved acquiring a new relevance. Its main role today is to be the trustee of the charitable trusts that have been left in its care over the centuries. The Company also manages a thriving hospitality business. The first Drapers’ Hall was built in the 15th century in St Swithin’s Lane.  It bought a Hall on the present site in Throgmorton Street in 1543 from King Henry VIII for £1,200 (about £350,000 in today’s money). The Hall that the Company purchased from King Henry VIII in 1543 had been the private residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until his execution in 1540, when it was confiscated by the Crown.
    drapers_hall-01-15-05-2018.jpg
  • Two old friends regularly spend afternoons sunbathing at Brixton Lido and talk of old times in the sun. The friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
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  • During a late-night party when the lights are low and the mood is intimate, couples smooch and cuddle under the roof of a garden marquee. The couple nearest embrace in a romantic close moment when the dance is slow and lovers can get close.
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  • Four friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Bare except for their costumes, they stretch and yawn, read a newspaper and lean against a railing all the while swapping anecdotes and complaining grumpily about the state of the world near a brick wall that retains heat. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido_summer04-25-08-1995.jpg
  • Locals walk over the exposed stone walls of the once-thriving village of Ashopton that now lies at the bottom of Ladybower reservoir, Derbyshire, England. Remains of the village were revealed during the drought of 1989 the levels of water dropped from the country's reservoirs as rainfall failed in the heatwave while demand peaked in the cities such as Sheffield. The villages of Derwent & Ashopton were submerged when the valley was flooded, between 1943 & 1945, amid much controversy. Derwent church tower was left standing at first, but demolished in 1947 for safety reasons. The remains of the buildings are still visible when the water is very low, as it was in 1989.
    drought_reservoir-12-08-1989.jpg
  • Carrying a bunch of beautiful flowers, a lady walks along a Chelsea street accompanied by a friend after having just left the Chelsea Flower Show, in London England on the last day of the show when members of the Royal Horticultural Society and the general public are invited to purchase those plants and shrubs that have been displayed all week. It is the perfect summer May afternoon in west London, when lovers of horticulture have gathered from across the country to admire the ultimate in plants and flowers in the grounds of Chelsea Hospital. With its pink blooms hanging from the main bulk of the shrub, the Fuchsia is resplendent in the late sunshine, a scene of quintessential English gardens and long summer days.
    chelsea_show01-26-05-1989.jpg
  • A young boy adjusts his goggles before swimming again in London's Serpentine pool, Kensington. This bathing area is where the normally busy Serpentine Swimming Club have the use of this Royal lake known as Lansbury's Lido. It is now normally open only in the summer, but one traditional event occurs each year on New Year's Day, when the ice is broken and brave bathers dive into the cold waters of the lake. The Serpentine will be used for the swimming leg of the triathlon at the London 2012 Olympics. The Serpentine gets its name from its supposedly snakelike, curving shape. It was formed in 1730 when Queen Caroline, wife of George II, ordered the damming of the River Westbourne and other natural ponds in Hyde Park.
    serpentine_boy01-21-06-1994.jpg
  • In the mid-day heat, all members of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, stand at ease and we see the back of one of the squadron's official photographers head, looking into the viewfinder of his camera to record an official photograph immediately on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
    Red_Arrows159_RBA.jpg
  • In the mid-day heat, all members of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, stand on the wings of a Hawk aircraft as the official photograph is taken on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms. Since 1965 the team has flown over 4,000 air shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows154_RBA.jpg
  • Pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team exchange green flying suits for famous red ones on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
    Red_Arrows148_RBA.jpg
  • A pair of awkwardly splayed legs disappear into the cold, murky waters of the Serpentine Lake in London's Hyde Park. Having just dived head-first off a platform that juts out into the lake, the person is half in and half out and the splash is frozen in time. He or she is in incopetent diver with such ungainly plunge into the waters. It is otherwise a quiet moment. The water is largely undisturbed apart from the dive and buoy markers float to for a boundary line to keep rowing boats and bathers apart. This bathing area is where the normally busy Serpentine Swimming Club have the use of this Royal lake known as Lansbury's Lido. It is now normally open only in the summer, but one traditional event occurs each year on New Year's Day, when the ice is broken and brave bathers dive into the cold waters of the lake. The Serpentine will be used for the swimming leg of the triathlon at the London 2012 Olympics. The Serpentine gets its name from its supposedly snakelike, curving shape. It was formed in 1730 when Queen Caroline, wife of George II, ordered the damming of the River Westbourne and other natural ponds in Hyde Park. ..
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  • A few miles from the finish line, this long-distance runner has stopped in agony to lean against the walls beneath Tower Bridge during th London Marathon, England. Pushing against the solid wall and stretching his cramped leg muscles, he grimaces in pain as other runners speed past on their way completing their personal race. Pushed to his limits, this man needs to continue a few more Kilometres to claim his medal and to claim victory. But he still has to overcome the pain of an overworked body. When glycogen runs low, the body must then burn stored fat for energy, which does not burn as readily. When this happens, the runner will experience dramatic fatigue. This is called "hitting the wall".
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  • Two workmen stand near the Atlantes figure by the sculptor H.A. Pegram (1896) at the entrance of Drapers' Hall livery company in Throgmorton Street, a gatekeeper stoops to pick up dropped keys outside Drapers Hall in Throgmorton Street, in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 30th July 2020, in London, England. The Drapers’ Company is a Livery Company in the City of London whose roots go back to the 13th century, when as its name indicates, it was involved in the drapery trade. While it is no longer involved in the trade, the Company has evolved acquiring a new relevance. Its main role today is to be the trustee of the charitable trusts that have been left in its care over the centuries. The Company also manages a thriving hospitality business. The first Drapers’ Hall was built in the 15th century in St Swithin’s Lane. It bought a Hall on the present site in Throgmorton Street in 1543 from King Henry VIII for £1,200 (about £350,000 in today’s money). The Hall that the Company purchased from King Henry VIII in 1543 had been the private residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until his execution in 1540, when it was confiscated by the Crown.
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  • Social distance markers are on the ground at the entrance to the Roof Garden for when this popular rooftop viewpoint across the capital re-opens again when restrictions of the UK Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules are realxed further. The number of deaths from Coronavirus in the last 24hrs has increased by 287 to 37,979 while the UK government lowered the national Covid-19 alert level from 4 to 3, meaning the virus is considered to be "in general circulation .. with "a gradual reduction in restrictions", on 19th June 2020, in the City of London, England.
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  • Social distance markers are on the ground at the entrance to the Roof Garden for when this popular rooftop viewpoint across the capital re-opens again when restrictions of the UK Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules are realxed further. The number of deaths from Coronavirus in the last 24hrs has increased by 287 to 37,979 while the UK government lowered the national Covid-19 alert level from 4 to 3, meaning the virus is considered to be "in general circulation .. with "a gradual reduction in restrictions", on 19th June 2020, in the City of London, England.
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  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and on the day when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
it is expected that many shops and retail businesses will open again on 15th June. In the window of the Regent Street branch of Burberry is a display of gorillas and a notice dating to when lockdown commenced, telling customers of the shops's temporary closure, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • A business lady reads a 1992 edition of the Evening Standard whose headline reports on the 15% load rate after two days when Prime Minister John Major fought the Pound Crisis, in the City of London (the capital's financial district, aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 18th September 1992, in London, England. Black Wednesday occurred in the United Kingdom on 16 September 1992, when John Major's Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after it was unable to keep the pound above its agreed lower limit in the ERM.
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  • Investors with Lloyds of London protest outside the insurance company's address on Lime Street during the controversy when Lloyds' investors (aka Names) lost fortunes when multibillion-pounds were lost by its investors in the late 1980s and early 1990s, on 16th June 1994, in the City of London, UK.
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  • A detail of one of two panels commemorating the names of international athletes who won gold medals at the London Olympics held at the old Wembley Stadium in 1948, on 6th November 2019, in Wembley, London, England. The fragile and heavy panels were carefully removed when the old stadium was demolished in 2000 and restored when the new structure was completed, in memory of the post-war (austerity) games.
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  • A detail of one of two panels commemorating the names of international athletes who won gold medals at the London Olympics held at the old Wembley Stadium in 1948, on 6th November 2019, in Wembley, London, England. The fragile and heavy panels were carefully removed when the old stadium was demolished in 2000 and restored when the new structure was completed, in memory of the post-war (austerity) games.
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  • Beneath the Atlantes figure by the sculptor H.A. Pegram (1896) at the entrance of Drapers' Hall livery company in Throgmorton Street, a gatekeeper stoops to pick up dropped keys outside Drapers Hall in Throgmorton Street, in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 15th May 2018, in London, UK. The Drapers’ Company is a Livery Company in the City of London whose roots go back to the 13th century, when as its name indicates, it was involved in the drapery trade. While it is no longer involved in the trade, the Company has evolved acquiring a new relevance. Its main role today is to be the trustee of the charitable trusts that have been left in its care over the centuries. The Company also manages a thriving hospitality business. The first Drapers’ Hall was built in the 15th century in St Swithin’s Lane.  It bought a Hall on the present site in Throgmorton Street in 1543 from King Henry VIII for £1,200 (about £350,000 in today’s money). The Hall that the Company purchased from King Henry VIII in 1543 had been the private residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until his execution in 1540, when it was confiscated by the Crown.
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  • The entrance plaque of Drapers' Hall livery company in Throgmorton Street, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England. The Drapers’ Company is a Livery Company in the City of London whose roots go back to the 13th century, when as its name indicates, it was involved in the drapery trade. While it is no longer involved in the trade, the Company has evolved acquiring a new relevance. Its main role today is to be the trustee of the charitable trusts that have been left in its care over the centuries. The Company also manages a thriving hospitality business. The first Drapers’ Hall was built in the 15th century in St Swithin’s Lane.  It bought a Hall on the present site in Throgmorton Street in 1543 from King Henry VIII for £1,200 (about £350,000 in today’s money). The Hall that the Company purchased from King Henry VIII in 1543 had been the private residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until his execution in 1540, when it was confiscated by the Crown.
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  • The entrance plaque of Drapers' Hall livery company in Throgmorton Street, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England. The Drapers’ Company is a Livery Company in the City of London whose roots go back to the 13th century, when as its name indicates, it was involved in the drapery trade. While it is no longer involved in the trade, the Company has evolved acquiring a new relevance. Its main role today is to be the trustee of the charitable trusts that have been left in its care over the centuries. The Company also manages a thriving hospitality business. The first Drapers’ Hall was built in the 15th century in St Swithin’s Lane.  It bought a Hall on the present site in Throgmorton Street in 1543 from King Henry VIII for £1,200 (about £350,000 in today’s money). The Hall that the Company purchased from King Henry VIII in 1543 had been the private residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until his execution in 1540, when it was confiscated by the Crown.
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  • The entrance gates of Drapers' Hall livery company in Throgmorton Street, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England. The Drapers’ Company is a Livery Company in the City of London whose roots go back to the 13th century, when as its name indicates, it was involved in the drapery trade. While it is no longer involved in the trade, the Company has evolved acquiring a new relevance. Its main role today is to be the trustee of the charitable trusts that have been left in its care over the centuries. The Company also manages a thriving hospitality business. The first Drapers’ Hall was built in the 15th century in St Swithin’s Lane.  It bought a Hall on the present site in Throgmorton Street in 1543 from King Henry VIII for £1,200 (about £350,000 in today’s money). The Hall that the Company purchased from King Henry VIII in 1543 had been the private residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until his execution in 1540, when it was confiscated by the Crown.
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  • Towers and architecture of Drapers' Hall including the Atlantes figures by sculptor H.A. Pegram, reflected in the bonnet of a car parked in Throgmorton Street, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England. The Drapers’ Company is a Livery Company in the City of London whose roots go back to the 13th century, when as its name indicates, it was involved in the drapery trade. While it is no longer involved in the trade, the Company has evolved acquiring a new relevance. Its main role today is to be the trustee of the charitable trusts that have been left in its care over the centuries. The Company also manages a thriving hospitality business. The first Drapers’ Hall was built in the 15th century in St Swithin’s Lane.  It bought a Hall on the present site in Throgmorton Street in 1543 from King Henry VIII for £1,200 (about £350,000 in today’s money). The Hall that the Company purchased from King Henry VIII in 1543 had been the private residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until his execution in 1540, when it was confiscated by the Crown.
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  • Towers and architecture of Drapers' Hall including the Atlantes figures by sculptor H.A. Pegram, reflected in the bonnet of a car parked in Throgmorton Street, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England. The Drapers’ Company is a Livery Company in the City of London whose roots go back to the 13th century, when as its name indicates, it was involved in the drapery trade. While it is no longer involved in the trade, the Company has evolved acquiring a new relevance. Its main role today is to be the trustee of the charitable trusts that have been left in its care over the centuries. The Company also manages a thriving hospitality business. The first Drapers’ Hall was built in the 15th century in St Swithin’s Lane.  It bought a Hall on the present site in Throgmorton Street in 1543 from King Henry VIII for £1,200 (about £350,000 in today’s money). The Hall that the Company purchased from King Henry VIII in 1543 had been the private residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until his execution in 1540, when it was confiscated by the Crown.
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  • The entrance gates of Drapers' Hall livery company in Throgmorton Street, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England. The Drapers’ Company is a Livery Company in the City of London whose roots go back to the 13th century, when as its name indicates, it was involved in the drapery trade. While it is no longer involved in the trade, the Company has evolved acquiring a new relevance. Its main role today is to be the trustee of the charitable trusts that have been left in its care over the centuries. The Company also manages a thriving hospitality business. The first Drapers’ Hall was built in the 15th century in St Swithin’s Lane.  It bought a Hall on the present site in Throgmorton Street in 1543 from King Henry VIII for £1,200 (about £350,000 in today’s money). The Hall that the Company purchased from King Henry VIII in 1543 had been the private residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until his execution in 1540, when it was confiscated by the Crown.
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  • A businessman walks past an Atlantes figure by the sculptor H.A. Pegram (1896) at the entrance of Drapers' Hall livery company in Throgmorton Street, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England. The Drapers’ Company is a Livery Company in the City of London whose roots go back to the 13th century, when as its name indicates, it was involved in the drapery trade. While it is no longer involved in the trade, the Company has evolved acquiring a new relevance. Its main role today is to be the trustee of the charitable trusts that have been left in its care over the centuries. The Company also manages a thriving hospitality business. The first Drapers’ Hall was built in the 15th century in St Swithin’s Lane.  It bought a Hall on the present site in Throgmorton Street in 1543 from King Henry VIII for £1,200 (about £350,000 in today’s money). The Hall that the Company purchased from King Henry VIII in 1543 had been the private residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until his execution in 1540, when it was confiscated by the Crown.
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  • A businessman walks past an Atlantes figure by the sculptor H.A. Pegram (1896) at the entrance of Drapers' Hall livery company in Throgmorton Street, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England. The Drapers’ Company is a Livery Company in the City of London whose roots go back to the 13th century, when as its name indicates, it was involved in the drapery trade. While it is no longer involved in the trade, the Company has evolved acquiring a new relevance. Its main role today is to be the trustee of the charitable trusts that have been left in its care over the centuries. The Company also manages a thriving hospitality business. The first Drapers’ Hall was built in the 15th century in St Swithin’s Lane.  It bought a Hall on the present site in Throgmorton Street in 1543 from King Henry VIII for £1,200 (about £350,000 in today’s money). The Hall that the Company purchased from King Henry VIII in 1543 had been the private residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until his execution in 1540, when it was confiscated by the Crown.
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  • A businessman reads The Times newspaper in the early 90s when the News International title was a broadsheet - before it went to a tabloid format. The headline refers to a British Rail axing of 5,000 jobs, dated Friday 20th November 1992 when it cost just 45 pence. The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register (it became The Times on 1 January 1788). The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly owned by the News Corporation group headed by Rupert Murdoch.
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  • A cheeky young boy climbs over a back yard gate armed with a homemade bow and arrow in a back street in Liverpool, England. His homemade toy is the antithesis of what a wealthy lad might wish for in 21st century Britain when gadgets were all a kid wants and games outside have become rare and uncool. But this is still the early 1990s in times of recession when a make do and mend philosophy means families improvise with what they have and wealth is out of reach for many.
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  • Pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team let off steam after passing their display authority on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
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  • Pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team let off steam after passing their display authority on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
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  • Pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team let off steam after passing their display authority on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
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  • Pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team exchange green flying suits for famous red ones on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
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  • Pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team exchange green flying suits for famous red ones on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
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  • Wing Commander ill Ramsey congratulates pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
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  • Wing Commander ill Ramsey congratulates pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
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  • Serb politician Radovan Karadzic is seen leaning over to address the London Conference in 1992 when peace-makers attempted to diffuse the Bosnian European conflict. As one of the world's most wanted men, Karadzic was eventually arrested after 12 years on the run to face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity inflicted on Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat and other non-Serb civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992-95 war, when he was president of the breakaway Republika Srpska. Implicated in the murder of nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, after the supposedly UN-protected enclave fell to Bosnian Serb forces. The former psychiatrist and aspiring poet is also charged with running death camps for non-Serbs, and the shelling and sniping on civilians in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, in a siege that lasted more than three years. UPDATE MARCH 2016 Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted of genocide and war crimes over the 1992-95 war, and sentenced to 40 years in jail. UN judges in The Hague found him guilty of 10 of 11 charges, including genocide over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
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  • Serb politician Radovan Karadzic is seen leaning over to address the London Conference in 1992 when peace-makers attempted to diffuse the Bosnian European conflict. As one of the world's most wanted men, Karadzic was eventually arrested after 12 years on the run to face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity inflicted on Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat and other non-Serb civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992-95 war, when he was president of the breakaway Republika Srpska. Implicated in the murder of nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, after the supposedly UN-protected enclave fell to Bosnian Serb forces. The former psychiatrist and aspiring poet is also charged with running death camps for non-Serbs, and the shelling and sniping on civilians in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, in a siege that lasted more than three years. UPDATE MARCH 2016 Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted of genocide and war crimes over the 1992-95 war, and sentenced to 40 years in jail. UN judges in The Hague found him guilty of 10 of 11 charges, including genocide over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
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  • Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher is seen giving a party speech at the 1991 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, Lancashire, a full year after being removed by her own colleagues the previous November. Her softer and perhaps pensive expression contrasts with her reputation of the Iron Lady with a gaze that made her opponents uncomfortable. She seems distant here, perhaps recalling her great days in office when she was a powerful figure in world politics. She is wearing the same favourite two-tone blue suit with wide shoulders and a pearl ear-rings as she wore the year before when still in office. The ambient stage lights emphasize the blonde highlights in her hair.
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  • Four friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Bare except for their costumes, they stretch and yawn, read a newspaper and lean against a railing all the while swapping anecdotes and complaining grumpily about the state of the world near a brick wall that retains heat. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
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  • Breathing through her mouth, a lady wearing a bikini costume lifts her head supported with her hands to start another sit-up repetition during a morning exercise session at Brockwell Lido, Brixton South London. With other bathers also lying in sun on the warm poolside pavement, some white and another Rastafarian with dreadlocks, it's a largely mixed crowd ethnically. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
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  • Standing near Hougemont Farm, Waterloo, Belgium, scene of some of the fiercest fighting on the battlefield on the day in 1815 when French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the (Iron) Duke of Wellington, we see the current Duke, Brigadier Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, KG, LVO, OBE, MC, DL, FKC (born in Rome on 2nd July 1915). He is a British hereditory peer and a retired officer in the British Army. When he succeeded his father as Duke, he was known as Marquess Douro but is now styled His Grace The Duke of Wellington. Making an occasional visit to the battlefields, he stands on a raw winter's day on the very landscape where his ancestor's brave British men fought off a fierce French attack, the Duke gazes out over the rolling hills that proved the undoing of Napoleon and which changed the course of European history.
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  • Standing near Hougemont Farm, Waterloo, Belgium, scene of some of the fiercest fighting on the battlefield on the day in 1815 when French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the (Iron) Duke of Wellington, we see the current Duke, Brigadier Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, KG, LVO, OBE, MC, DL, FKC (born in Rome on 2nd July 1915). He is a British hereditory peer and a retired officer in the British Army. When he succeeded his father as Duke, he was known as Marquess Douro but is now styled His Grace The Duke of Wellington. Making an occasional visit to the battlefields, he stands on a raw winter's day on the very landscape where his ancestor's brave British men fought off a fierce French attack, the Duke gazes out over the rolling hills that proved the undoing of Napoleon and which changed the course of European history.
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  • A young trader in currencies leans back in his chair on the currency trading floor of Barclays Bank in the City of London, England, UK. Easing back during the stress of a day when the money markets have been volatile, this young man has the responsibilities of millions of Pounds Sterling to trade and value. He has old technology at his disposal, in the decade when technology made a big impression on the workplace but before the arrival of the internet and e-mail. Communication was therefore slow and unreliable although banks like Barclays who traded money across the world were skilled in migrating information across time-zones.
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  • Sitting among others in long grass a middle-class lady reads the high-circulation Daily Mail newspaper during a lunchtime break at the Chelsea Flower Show, in London England. The front page headline reads 'Icy Blast from the Kremlin' in an echo from the darkest days of the Cold War, when western media fuelled the insatiable appetite for propaganda. But this scene is from May 1989 before the fall of the Berlin Wall and when the eastern states of the Warsaw Pact were still ruled by their Communist masters. Visitors to this annual horticultural event either sit in the cool shade or like this woman who appears comfortable cross-legged in sandals and a summer dress, stays under the hot mid-day sun with her tabloid format paper spread and with her possessions kept in a shoulder bag.
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  • Balancing a huge basket of Fuchsias on her head, a lady walks along a Chelsea street accompanied by a friend after having just left the Chelsea Flower Show, in London England on the last day of the show when members of the Royal Horticultural Society and the general public are invited to purchase those plants and shrubs that have been displayed all week. It is the perfect summer May afternoon in west London, when lovers of horticulture have gathered from across the country to admire the ultimate in plants and flowers in the grounds of Chelsea Hospital. With its pink blooms hanging from the main bulk of the shrub, the Fuchsia is resplendent in the late sunshine, a scene of quintessential English gardens and long summer days.
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  • A tray of sardines fry on an outdoor grill in the Bairro Alto district - or Upper City - the oldest of Lisbon's residential quarters. We see in detail 16 fish (sardinhas assadas in Portuguese) all lying in the sunlight on their sides in neat, parralel rows with their clouded eyes staring up towards the viewer. They still have their silvery, scaley skin and Portuguese sardines are traditionally be served with finely-chopped potatoes, considered to be the sweetest and fattest sardines in the world. In Portugal, more than 60 percent of the national sardine catch is consumed fresh: 12 pounds a person, on average, compared to only 2 pounds of the fish canned. The sardine season - when the fish are plump and juicy - lasts from the end of May to the end of October, although the fat fish can keep coming until December. Lisbon's Bairro Alto quarter is located above Baixa and developed in the 16th Century. Suffering very little damage in the earthquake of 1755, it remains the area of most character and renowned for its residential and working quarter for craftsmen and shopkeepers. At night, life takes on a diferent personality when bars and up until the 60s, prostitution gave the district a bad reputation in the past but nowadays tourists and the chic frequent its streets and traditional 'Fado' (classical Portuguese opera) bars.  ..
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