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  • Visitors to St. Paul's Cathedral undergo security checks, filling out their contact details and other personal information during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, on 20th July 2020, in London, England. Contact details may be used to track and trace those who may have been in close proximity with anyone revealed to be infected with Covid.
    st_pauls01-20-07-2020.jpg
  • Pilot of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team enjoys afternoon off from training on karting track.
    Red_Arrows351_RBA.jpg
  • A tourist crouches on the original 4th century marble starting line at ancient Olympia's athletics track where both ancient Greeks and Romans held their games. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers before competition. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet, or 'Stadion,' from which we get the word 'Stadium'. Olympic spectators suffered dehydration due to to extreme heat. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and at the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now.
    greek_olympiad005-20-10_2003.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage is a view of railway tracks and the carriages of another service travelling towards Victoria station, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-13-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Empty aerial mid-winter landscape of local railway tracks in Dulwich, south London.
    railway_snow01-21-01-2013.jpg
  • Empty aerial mid-winter landscape of local railway tracks in Dulwich, south London.
    railway_snow02-21-01-2013.jpg
  • An aerial landscape view of a railway network whose tracks and rails converge on a station in central London. Three trains filled with commuters all make their way into this unseen railway hub. The route curls away into the distance, slicing its way through the capital. London Rail is a directorate of Transport for London (TFL), involved in the relationship with the National Rail network within London, UK. It manages non-tube rail systems in London. Railways started to change the landscape of London itself, followed by its suburbs in the mid to late 19th century when streets and neighbourhoods were cut in half by the new infrastructure.
    railway_trains-13-05-1993.jpg
  • A local delivery van full of gas cylinders struggles to round an uphill corner in central Lisbon, Portugal. The narrow streets, not designed for heavy traffic, still do not accommodate smaller vehicles. A tram waits for the obstructing truck to clear the tracks and rails and onlookers stop to see how the driver manages to get round without spilling its dangerous cargo.
    lisbon_traffic-21-03-1994.jpg
  • During a rain shower in the West End, a man walks with head covered by a copy of the Evening Standard newspaper, walking past posters for Mackintosh Theatres which remain closed during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th September, in London, England. New restrictions are being re-introduced by the government after a sudden climb in the Covid infection rate, a predicted 'second spike'.
    soho_man01-23-09-2020.jpg
  • A family walk through late evening summer sunshine in woodland in North Somerset, UK.
    summer_woods01-07-08-2015.jpg
  • A 4 year-old boy holds an umbrella outdoors with his parents in family woods.
    jen_stef_jamie01-20-04-2014.jpg
  • A local man carries tourism industry supplies downhill on the Annapurna Sanctuary trekking route in central Nepal. With the heavy load on his back, supported in the traditional Himalayan manner of a head strap that steadies the pack, the man makes his steady way down the foothill using a long pole for extra balance. Communities here partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing but also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers from all over the world walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. To be greeted by so much choice is the most rewarding experience and the offer of hot showers is about the best reward for so much exertion.
    himalayas_porter01-12-12-1997.jpg
  • Sarah Leggitt feeds her livestock on her land and near the estate cottage, a former Smithy with livestock at Lochbuie, Isle of Mull, Scotland. She and her husband moved from southern England 6 years ago to work for the Lochbuie Estate and the old Smithy is provided to them as living accommodation. Lochbuie is a settlement on the island of Mull in Scotland about 22 kilometres (14 mi) west of Craignure. The name is from the Scottish Gaelic Locha Buidhe, meaning "yellow loch". http://lochbuie.com/Lochbuie
    isle_of_mull40-18-11-2011.jpg
  • Three tables for 3 pairs of customers sitting very close to one another outside Caffe Concerto on Piccadilly at the 6-month milestone of the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, 24th September, in London, England. New restrictions are being re-introduced by the government after a sudden climb in the Covid infection rate, a predicted 'second spike'.
    piccadilly_cafe01-23-09-2020.jpg
  • Villagers work on land in a rural Slovenian village shrine, on 20th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-147-20-06-2018.jpg
  • Members of a local hunt ride their horses on a hillside bridle path on the Welsh/English border between Gladestry and Kington.
    kington_hunt-01-05-11-2016.jpg
  • Two long boarders descend a hill on private road in Tregaron, Wales.
    long_boarding03-30-08-2015.jpg
  • A guest house sign near Ulleri on the Annapurna Sanctuary trekking route in central Nepal. Locals meet at a table for morning tea and the sign advertises Laligurans Guest House, a well-built house on the popular route for travellers from around the world. <br />
Communities here partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing but also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers from all over the world walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. To be greeted by so much choice is the most rewarding experience and the offer of hot showers and great food is about the best reward for so much exertion.
    himalayas_guesthouse01-16-11-1995.jpg
  • Aerial view of south London looking from Camberwell towards a commuter train crossing the capital.
    aerial_lambeth10-22-09-2012.jpg
  • Members of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team enjoy go-karting on MoD land at RAF Akrotiri.
    Red_Arrows107_RBA.jpg
  • Teenage boy jumps down off a pile of logs during a countryside walk with his pet dog.
    sam_logs01-08-04-2012.jpg
  • High in the Nepali Himalayan foothills, an elderly woman is carried downhill by a relative for medical attention.
    annapurna_sanctuary02-12-12-1997.jpg
  • First world war memorial to those killed in the parish of Kinlochspelve, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Kinlochspelve Parish Church, a little way off the road to your left. This was built in 1828 to a standard "Parliamentary" design produced by Thomas Telford. Nearby is the parish war memorial. As you look west along Loch Uisg from here, two things catch your eye. The first is the splendid Craig Ben Lodge, on the north side of the loch. (http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/22381/details/mull+kinlochspelve+church/)...Kinlochspelvie Church has only recently been available to let from Friday to Friday. Also available for Christmas and New Year. Contact: edwards@barrachandroman.co.uk
    isle_of_mull7-18-11-2011.jpg
  • Sarah Leggitt feeds her livestock on her land and near the estate cottage, a former Smithy with livestock at Lochbuie, Isle of Mull, Scotland. She and her husband moved from southern England 6 years ago to work for the Lochbuie Estate and the old Smithy is provided to them as living accommodation. Lochbuie is a settlement on the island of Mull in Scotland about 22 kilometres (14 mi) west of Craignure. The name is from the Scottish Gaelic Locha Buidhe, meaning "yellow loch". http://lochbuie.com/Lochbuie
    isle_of_mull40-18-11-2011.jpg
  • Sarah Leggitt's estate cottage, a former Smithy with livestock at Lochbuie, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Sarah and her husband are, like many Mull inhabitants, of English birth. They moved from southern England 6 years ago to work for the Lochbuie Estate and the old Smithy is provided to them as living accommodation. Lochbuie is a settlement on the island of Mull in Scotland about 22 kilometres (14 mi) west of Craignure. The name is from the Scottish Gaelic Locha Buidhe, meaning "yellow loch". http://lochbuie.com/Lochbuie
    isle_of_mull27-18-11-2011.jpg
  • Early morning lady jogger runs up start of Penine Way in Vale of Edale, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire. .Edale is a valley in North Derbyshire, situated about 15 miles west of Sheffield, in the heart of the Peak District National Park. Edale valley is a loose collection of scattered farmsteads or 'booths' as they are known which grew up around the original shelters or 'boothies' used by shepards when tending their sheep on the hillsides. There are 5 main ones in Edale valley, Nether Booth, Ollerbooth, Upper Booth, Barber booth and Grindsbrook Booth of which the village called Edale is part. Edale village is in a lovely setting below Kinder Scout and is the start of the Pennine way, the first and longest footpath in England, opened in 1965.
    edale_landscape06-02-06-2010.jpg
  • High in the Nepali Himalayan foothills, travellers may be greeted by the welcoming relief of a group of mountain inns and hotels offering lodging to weary legs after many hours walking uphill in this gruelling landscape. Communities here partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing but also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers from all over the world walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. To be greeted by so much choice is the most rewarding experience and the offer of hot showers is about the best reward for so much exertion.
    nepal_travel2612-12_1997.jpg
  • High in the Himalayan foothills, dawn arrives on a bitterly cold morning at Poon Hill. Trekkers have gathered at this spot to take in the wonder of this spectacular landscape of snow-capped peaks in the distance. A sherpa has written his name in ice on a rail and western travellers continue their journey higher into the Annapurna range to sample the inner-peace to be discovered here in one of the most dramatic locations on the planet. Villages partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak.
    nepal_travel2512-12_1997.jpg
  • High in the Himalayan foothills, dawn arrives on a bitterly cold morning. A traveller has emerged from his rudimentary room on the left of this lodge in Nepal to stand outside staring at the spectacular landscape of snow-capped peaks in the distance. The wind is whipping snow and ice from the peaks of the Annapurna range and trekkers come from all over the world to sample the inner-peace to be discovered here in one of the most dramatic locations on the planet. Villages such as these partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak.
    nepal_travel2412-12_1997.jpg
  • Lit by early sun that filters through mountain peaks to this remote village near Ulleri, in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal, we see the veranda of a tea shop that serves weary travellers trekking the Annapurna Circuit and traditional doko basket. Villages such as these partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary, a sometimes gruelling walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak - and beyond. Tea houses are dotted along the trail offering lodging, refreshments and basic, but delicious food to the weary traveller and the landscapes are often shared with local livestock.
    nepal_travel2312-12_1997.jpg
  • Tourists lunge over the original 4th century start/finish line in the stadium at Olympia. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet - or Stadion - from which we get the word 'stadium. On the grassy bank in the background is where the seating once accommodated the many sporting pilgrims who travelled to this place from all over Greece during agreed warfare truces in the weeks of the Olympic festival. The 29th Olympics came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past..
    greek_olympiad006-20-10_2003.jpg
  • A local man carries electric cabling uphill on the Annapurna Sanctuary trekking route in central Nepal. With few roads that can transport supplies and raw materials up to remote foothill communities, the only way is often to carry what one needs on the back or by yak. The paths are even but often very steep in places so stamina and endurance are needed to get even modest weights uphill. Nepalis up here often want newer technology and basic electricity to power lights and showers although solar power is another answer.
    himalayas_porter02-12-12-1997.jpg
  • A lone Australian spectator with the national flag on the person's back in the Olympic Park, near the Velodrome, watches a heat of the  women's team sprint between Team GB and Australia - featuring the British darling of cycling Victoria Pendleton, who was later disqualified after a technical error, during the London 2012 Olympics. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park119-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Sarah Leggitt's estate cottage, a former Smithy with livestock at Lochbuie, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Sarah and her husband are, like many Mull inhabitants, of English birth. She and her husband moved from southern England 6 years ago to work for the Lochbuie Estate and the old Smithy is provided to them as living accommodation. Lochbuie is a settlement on the island of Mull in Scotland about 22 kilometres (14 mi) west of Craignure. The name is from the Scottish Gaelic Locha Buidhe, meaning "yellow loch". http://lochbuie.com/Lochbuie
    isle_of_mull26-18-11-2011.jpg
  • On both sides of the railway track, thousands of commuters desperate to get home after a long day at work in central London, line the platforms to we see from an aerial perspective. But the rail workers' union has called for industrial action and there are no trains yet for these passengers to board for north or southbound services. Sensibly away from the edges, people are standing up to six-deep in anticipation of a ride home as the exodus to the suburbs hits its peak time. 37 per cent of workers in the capital used rail or underground travel as their main form of transport to work, according to regional and local statistics compiled by the Office for National Statistics.
    rail_strike-21-06-1989.jpg
  • A VT Merlin satellite tracking dish appears to blow clouds across a blue sky at the Diane Tracking station, French Guiana
    esa_guiana32817-08-2007.jpg
  • A hot tropical landscape with water tap and satellite tracking dish at the VT Merlin Diane Tracking station, French Guiana
    esa_guiana33216-08-2007.jpg
  • Original Olympic track, ancient Olympia. English tourist family lunge for their own Olympic victory at Olympia's original start/finish line in the stadium. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet - or Stadion - from which we get the word 'stadium'. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
    Greece Olympia14 RBA.jpg
  • A junction of tracks and roadways on the high overpass of the L1 and L3 tram routes at Gare Saint-Roch in Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-104-19-06-2016.jpg
  • Tyre (tire) tread tracks are left as abstract patterns in melting snow after bad weather on London roads.
    london_snows08-11-01-2010.jpg
  • Tyre (tire) tread tracks are left as abstract patterns in melting snow after bad weather on London roads.
    london_snows02-11-01-2010.jpg
  • Real-time flight tracking over US airspace seen at the British Airways' operations centre at their Waterside corporate HQ.
    heathrow_airport1616-20-08-2009.jpg
  • A junction of tracks and roadways on the high overpass of the L1 and L3 tram routes at Gare Saint-Roch in Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-106-19-06-2016.jpg
  • Human presence in the form of 4x4 tyre tracks left in the sand of dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. .
    egypt466-08-03-2016.jpg
  • Abstract tyre (tire) tread tracks are left as abstract patterns in melting snow after bad weather in a supermarket car park.
    london_snows25-13-01-2010.jpg
  • Bird and human tracks left in freshly-fallen snow in a South London Park.
    london_snows21-13-01-2010.jpg
  • Tyre (tire) tread tracks are left as abstract patterns in melting snow after bad weather on London roads.
    london_snows09-11-01-2010.jpg
  • Tyre (tire) tread tracks are left as abstract patterns in melting snow after bad weather on London roads.
    london_snows06-11-01-2010.jpg
  • Snow showers are falling in a deserted South London street in Herne Hill, London SE24. Snowflakes are falling in large amounts settling on this road and tyre tracks from vehicles have been left in the snow though many parked cars are becoming covered in the snow fall as they sit at the kerbside. Snowflakes are falling in their thousands, settling on this part of London's inner-city - an unusual event - and the  heaviest precipitation for 18 years. It is early morning and still dark and street lights are making the landscape orange before the blue of dawn changes the colour and the atmosphere.
    london_snow13-02-02_2009.jpg
  • The rack and pinion narrow guage mountain railway nearing the summit of Mount Snowdon, the highest point in England, on 14th June 1992, in Llanberis, Wales, UK. The rack and pinion system used is that patented by the Swiss engineer Dr Roman Abt. The railway uses double rack rails, fastened to steel sleepers between the running rails. Each locomotive is equipped with toothed pinions (cogwheels), which engage the rack and provide all the traction necessary to scale the steepest inclines. On the way down, the rack and pinion system also acts as a brake.
    snowdon_railway-14-06-1992.jpg
  • A Bedouin and his desert expedition 4x4 vehicle in sand dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The past few decades have been difficult for traditional Bedouin culture due to changing surroundings and the establishment of new resort towns on the Red Sea coast, such as Sharm el-Sheikh. Bedouins in Egypt are facing a number of challenges: erosion of traditional values, unemployment, and various land issues. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
    egypt436-08-03-2016.jpg
  • Human presence in the form of footprints left in the sand of dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. .
    egypt435-08-03-2016.jpg
  • leaving footprints, a Bedouin walks away into desert sand dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The past few decades have been difficult for traditional Bedouin culture due to changing surroundings and the establishment of new resort towns on the Red Sea coast, such as Sharm el-Sheikh. Bedouins in Egypt are facing a number of challenges: erosion of traditional values, unemployment, and various land issues. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
    egypt433-08-03-2016.jpg
  • leaving footprints, a Bedouin walks away into desert sand dunes at al-Galamun, near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The past few decades have been difficult for traditional Bedouin culture due to changing surroundings and the establishment of new resort towns on the Red Sea coast, such as Sharm el-Sheikh. Bedouins in Egypt are facing a number of challenges: erosion of traditional values, unemployment, and various land issues. The Western Desert covers an area of some 700,000 km2, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area. Dakhla Oasis is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert (part of the Libyan Desert). It lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
    egypt432-08-03-2016.jpg
  • A city tram climbs the steep countours of Lisbon's Rua de Bica de Quarte Belo in the Portuguese capital's Bica district.
    lisbon_tram-21-03-1994.jpg
  • The steep countours of Lisbon's Rua de Bica de Quarte Belo in the Portuguese capital's Bica district.
    lisbon_streets-21-03-1994_1.jpg
  • An engineer working underground during construction of the Heathrow Express train project on behalf of Heathrow airport operator BAA (British Airport Authority), London England. While standing erect, he twists a high-tension tool that secures the concrete sleepers to the steel rails using a Pandrol Clip. The tunnel snakes its way into the distance behind him, lit by temporary lighting on the 5-mile tunnel wall. Its sections are reinforced concrete, shaped for the Heathrow Express electric Siemens-built trains that provide a direct link between Heathrow's terminals and Paddington station in central London. This is now the most expensive rail-mile fare in the UK at £15.50 for a 15-minute journey. In 1994 one tunnel collapsed without warning in one of the most catastrophic civil engineering disasters in British history.
    RB_012-26-03-1997.jpg
  • This memorial has been placed where a man called 'Lee' died on the A3130 Tickenham Road, Somerset, England, UK. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "?Do not stand at my grave and weep/I am not there, I do not sleep.? ?I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in a circled flight.? From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
    memorials004-02-02_2001.jpg
  • A vacated parking space in a South London road has left a bare patch in freshly-fallen snow.
    london_snows01-13-01-2010.jpg
  • A map and exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park40-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park35-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park22-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Exterior of the of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park44-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park37-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Exterior of the of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park45-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Exterior of the of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park43-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Exterior of the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. The London Velopark is a cycling centre in Leyton in east London. It is one of the permanent Olympic and Paralympic venues for the 2012 Games. The Velopark is at the northern end of Olympic Park. It has a velodrome and BMX racing track, which will be used for the Games, as well as a one-mile (1.6 km) road course and a mountain bike track.[2] The park replaces the Eastway Cycle Circuit demolished to make way for it. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park20-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Followed by other vehicles, an anonymous Suzuki 4x4 drives along a boggy track in the English countryside. The drivers form a club of off-roaders who see it as their right to drive along public footpaths, designated as allowable for cars to drive upon. Churning up the mud, they create deep ruts in the path that disturbs local wildlife, alarms horses and endangers their riders if the world of technology meets nature. The front driver has taped over his registration plate number to remain unrecognisable.
    offroading_cars-02-02-1996.jpg
  • Original Olympic track, ancient Olympia. Tourists play out their own Olympic heroism on the original athletic track at ancient Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet, or 'Stadion,' from which we get the word 'Stadium'. Olympic spectators suffered dehydration due to to extreme heat. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
    The Home Coming06 RBA.jpg
  • As his mother washes clothes in a communal spring below, a young boy of about 9 years of age stands on a track in the Himalayan foothills near the town of Gorkha. Here, the British army traditionally recruits young men for the Gurkha regiment (as they have done since 1857). The lad is wearing a yellow hooded sweatshirt and like many in this region - even is sub-zero temperatures - flip-flops. Nepal is one of the world's poorest countries. The prospects for this child may mean they will in future, if the army has no place for him, he may try to seek work in cities like Kathmandu rather than face a lifetime's struggle in local agriculture, as can be seen in the valley below. Their supplies and contact with the outside world comes up from these tracks of boulders and stone along which either men or yaks carry up food for basic survival and luxury goods.
    gorkha05-16-01-1997.jpg
  • A woodland landscape of the iron Bridge that spans the former Victorian railway line that took visitors to Crystal Palace, in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 25th October 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood, and the track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost.
    sydenham_wood01-25-10-2020.jpg
  • Graffiti covers the closed tunnel that was once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through Sydenham Hill Woods. The track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost, on 25th October 2020, in London, England.
    sydenham_wood06-25-10-2020.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial perspective during a rail strike in the 90s, on both sides of the railway track, thousands of commuters desperate to get home after a long day at work in central London, on 22nd June 1993, in London, England.
    train_strike-21-06-1989.jpg
  • A seller of candy floss awaits custom on a rural track near the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt391-06-03-2016.jpg
  • Children practice winning a sprint final on the grid-like patterned floor in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. The kids race under a pretend track tape held by two volunteer Games Makers who offer the everyone winners' chocolate gold medals. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. .
    olympic_park81-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team enjoy afternoon off from training on karting track.
    Red_Arrows105_RBA.jpg
  • Gathered on the Docklands Light Railway track, a group of police investigators and health and safety experts stand beneath the devastation and wreckage caused by the IRA's docklands bomb on 10th February 1996. Office windows have been blown out and shattered glass lies everywhere making these workplaces unusable for many months afterwards. We see the men under the tall buildings looking tiny in comparison to the chaotic aftermath of this enormous explosion the day before. The bombing marked the end of a 17-month IRA ceasefire during which Irish, British and American leaders worked for a political solution to the troubles in Northern Ireland. 2 people were killed in the half-tonne lorry bomb blast which caused an estimated £85 million damage.
    docklands_bomb_team-11-02-1996.jpg
  • Nike trainers on the ancient Olympia's start line. A tourist crouches on the original marble starting line at ancient Olympia's athletics track where both ancient Greeks and Romans held their games. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers before competition. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet, or 'Stadion,' from which we get the word 'Stadium'. Olympic spectators suffered dehydration due to to extreme heat. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
    The Home Coming01 RBA.jpg
  • A lone figure stands silhouetted against a hangar belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Two huge hangar doors are ajar revealing an orange glow spilling on to the concrete outside. A Hawk jet aircraft is parked awaiting overnight maintenance. Engineers talk inside as the door travels along its track. The men are the team's support ground crew and eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF qualifies. The hangar dates to World War 2, housing Lancaster bombers of 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. This version of BAE Systems Hawks are low-tech, without computers nor fly-by-wire technology, Some of the  team's aircraft are 25 years old and their airframes require frequent overhauls due.
    Red_Arrows074_RBA.jpg
  • A fence warns walkers to this part of the ancient woodland habitat in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 18th November 2020, in London, England. Once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through this flat part of Sydenham Hill Woods, its track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    woodland_habitat01-18-11-2020.jpg
  • A fence warns walkers to this part of the ancient woodland habitat in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 18th November 2020, in London, England. Once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through this flat part of Sydenham Hill Woods, its track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    woodland_habitat02-18-11-2020.jpg
  • A woodland landscape of the iron Bridge that spans the former Victorian railway line that took visitors to Crystal Palace, in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 25th October 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood, and the track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost.
    sydenham_wood02-25-10-2020.jpg
  • A family walk towards the closed tunnel that was once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through Sydenham Hill Woods. The track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost, on 25th October 2020, in London, England.
    sydenham_wood08-25-10-2020.jpg
  • Graffiti covers the closed tunnel that was once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through Sydenham Hill Woods. The track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost, on 25th October 2020, in London, England.
    sydenham_wood06-25-10-2020-2.jpg
  • A family walk towards the closed tunnel that was once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through Sydenham Hill Woods. The track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost, on 25th October 2020, in London, England.
    sydenham_wood08-25-10-2020-2.jpg
  • The legs and arms of young speed skaters merge during a race at a local track, on 11th January 1999, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
    quebec_canada-11-01-1999_4.jpg
  • The WW1 Somme Courcelette cemetery. Courcelette was a major tactical objective in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive of the First World War during which the nearby village was razed. Courcelette is 10 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert, just off the D929 road to Bapaume. The Cemetery, signposted in the village, is approximately 1 kilometre west of the village on the south side of a track (suitable for cars) from the secondary road from Courcelette to Pozieres.
    WW1_cemetery07-20-08-2003.jpg
  • A 1992 portrait of a British Rail employee stands at the gate of a platform at Victoria station. Wearing the old uniform of that rail company. British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997. The British Rail "double arrow" logo is formed of two interlocked arrows showing the direction of travel on a double track railway and was nicknamed "the arrow of indecision". It is now employed as a generic symbol on street signs in Great Britain denoting railway stations.
    railway_employee01-12-05-1992.jpg
  • Spectators dine outside on tressle tables near the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. Located in the north of the Olympic Park, the Velodrome is one of the most sustainable and iconic venues of the London 2012 Games. Sustainable choices have been made wherever possible; from the sourcing of wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council used on the track and external cladding, to the installation of a 100% naturally ventilated system that eliminates the need for air conditioning. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park54-10-08-2012.jpg
  • An image of British sprint cycling hero and 5-times Gold medallist, Sir Chris Hoy appears on the side of a tower block that overlooks the Olympic Park, seen during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. Hoy is endorsing the Gillette brand whose slogan is 'Nothing Beats a Great Start' and is seen on his Team GB track bike.
    olympic_stratford06-06-08-2012.jpg
  • An image of British sprint cycling hero and 5-times Gold medallist, Sir Chris Hoy appears on the side of a tower block that overlooks the Olympic Park, seen during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. Hoy is endorsing the Gillette brand whose slogan is 'Nothing Beats a Great Start' and is seen on his Team GB track bike.
    olympic_stratford05-06-08-2012.jpg
  • Spectators queue near the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. Located in the north of the Olympic Park, the Velodrome is one of the most sustainable and iconic venues of the London 2012 Games. Sustainable choices have been made wherever possible; from the sourcing of wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council used on the track and external cladding, to the installation of a 100% naturally ventilated system that eliminates the need for air conditioning. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park42-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Spectators dine outside on tressle tables near the £105m Siberian Pine Velodrome curved roof during the London 2012 Olympics. Located in the north of the Olympic Park, the Velodrome is one of the most sustainable and iconic venues of the London 2012 Games. Sustainable choices have been made wherever possible; from the sourcing of wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council used on the track and external cladding, to the installation of a 100% naturally ventilated system that eliminates the need for air conditioning. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village.
    olympic_park41-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Late summer sunlight and a cornfield track in Suffolk, England.
    corn_field03-24-07-2012.jpg
  • Pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team enjoy afternoon off from training on karting track.
    Red_Arrows342_RBA.jpg
  • A hangar belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Two huge hangar doors are ajar revealing an orange glow spilling on to the concrete outside. A Hawk jet aircraft is parked awaiting overnight maintenance. Engineers talk inside as the door travels along its track. The men are the team's support ground crew and eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF qualifies. The hangar dates to World War 2, housing Lancaster bombers of 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. This version of BAE Systems Hawks are low-tech, without computers nor fly-by-wire technology, Some of the  team's aircraft are 25 years old and their airframes require frequent overhauls due.
    Red_Arrows070_RBA.jpg
  • Ready for the arrival of Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton who is about to attend a press conference hosted by the aircraft manufacturer Bombardier, his name is seen on a press conference table. He uses Bombardier's Learjet 45 to attend races and events around the world. Fulfilling his commitments to the many sponsors of his McLaren team and those of his personal life, Hamilton travels to events between his professional driving at Grand Prix around the world. He uses the Learjet as a means of fast flight after races to spend more time with his family and to prepare for the next track competition.
    farnborough_air_show03-14-07-2008.jpg
  • Seen from a low angle at the side of the track, near where grass and daisies grow, a speeding Eurostar TGV train hurtles towards the viewer, blurring as it comes towards us. This is the Kent countryside, otherwise known as the fertile Garden of England, and the route for high-speed trains that ply back and forth between western Europe and London St Pancras. This international passenger service was made possible by the completion of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 operating eighteen-carriage Class 373 trains which run at up to 300 kilometres per hour (186 mph) on a network of high-speed lines. Eurostar is operated by the national railway companies of France and Belguim, SNCF and SNCB, and by Eurostar (UK) Ltd (EUKL), a subsidiary of London and Continental Railways (LCR) which in turn also owns the high-speed infrastructure and stations on the British side.
    eurostar_speed-25-05-1995.jpg
  • Ancient Greek texts on statue plinth. Original texts on a statue plinth near the main tunneled entrance of the 'Stadion', Ancient Olympia's running track. heroic athletes had statues commissioned in their victorious honour as well as past cheats whose dishonesty discouraged others into making the Olympics a festival of honesty. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
    Greece Olympia24 RBA.jpg
  • Longhorn cattle occupy the single-track road at Kilbrennan, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
    isle_of_mull296-21-11-2011.jpg
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