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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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  • Mothers and sons hug emotionally in the international arrivals hall of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 airport. Three families have gathered to meet their respective sons who have been travelling around the world during their university gap year sabbatical trip of a lifetime. With balloons and banners amid the hectic concourse where other relatives greet their loved-ones after months away from home on their adventures. This is a tradition practised across the world's airports where families are separated by the need to travel or work in other countries and the emotion of meeting again after long absences is always hard. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • A helium-filled Welcome Home balloon floats in the air and a home-made banner stretches across Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 arrivals hall. Three families have gathered to meet their respective sons who have been travelling around the world during their university gap year sabbatical trip of a lifetime. With balloon and banner amid the hectic concourse where other relatives greet their loved-ones after months away from home on their adventures. This is a tradition practised across the world's airports where families are separated by the need to travel or work in other countries and the emotion of meeting again after long absences is always hard. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport63-13-07-2009.jpg
  • A helium-filled Welcome Home balloon floats in the air in Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 arrivals hall. Three families have gathered to meet their respective sons who have been travelling around the world during their university gap year sabbatical trip of a lifetime. Floating upwards, the balloon is brightly coloured amid the hectic concourse where other relatives greet their loved-ones after months away from home on their adventures. This is a tradition practised across the world's airports where families are separated by the need to travel or work in other countries and the emotion of meeting again after long absences is always hard. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport50-13-07-2009.jpg
  • Businessmen in the insurance industry meet and talk outside the Lloyds of London address in the City of London
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  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local residents sing the wartime morale-raising songs of Dame Vera Lynn: 'White Cliffs of Dover' and 'We'll Meet Again', on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local residents joke about social distancing before together singing the wartime morale-raising songs of Dame Vera Lynn: 'White Cliffs of Dover' and 'We'll Meet Again', on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-50-08-05-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local residents sing the wartime morale-raising songs of Dame Vera Lynn: 'White Cliffs of Dover' and 'We'll Meet Again', on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-48-08-05-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local residents sing the wartime morale-raising songs of Dame Vera Lynn: 'White Cliffs of Dover' and 'We'll Meet Again', on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-47-08-05-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local residents sing the wartime morale-raising songs of Dame Vera Lynn: 'White Cliffs of Dover' and 'We'll Meet Again', on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-46-08-05-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local residents sing the wartime morale-raising songs of Dame Vera Lynn: 'White Cliffs of Dover' and 'We'll Meet Again', on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-45-08-05-2020.jpg
  • Three businessmen gather for an informal meeting, outside a bar in central Milton Keynes, UK. Each with a pint of bitter or lager, the three associates sit outside a bar in the town centre at lunchtime, half-way through the working day. One takes a sip from his pint glass and the others refer to paperwork, the subject of their time together.
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  • Christian Taylor, the American world triple jump champion meets fans after his TV appearance on NBC's Today show broadcast live from the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Taylor added Olympic gold to his tally, holding off his compatriot Will Claye in a contest whose earlier stages almost saw Taylor eliminated after two fouls.
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  • Christian Taylor, the American world triple jump champion meets fans after his TV appearance on NBC's Today show broadcast live from the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Taylor added Olympic gold to his tally, holding off his compatriot Will Claye in a contest whose earlier stages almost saw Taylor eliminated after two fouls.
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  • A two and half year-old girl meets her sleeping baby brother for the first time on his actual birthday. In the maternity ward at Kings College Hospital, Camberwell, London, the child reaches out with the maternal instincts of her gender to touch the fragile infant who is wrapped up in an NHS blanket in a cot that was wheeled directly from the birthing room a few hours beforehand. The baby boy is oblivious to his sister's affection and attention but he is healthy and already thriving before waking up for his first feeds. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes.
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  • British Labour peer, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham is thanked by Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir after receiving a gift of a pen and mints for the head of state's two wives, in a reception room of his palace in central Khartoum. Al Bashir is head of the National Congress Party and has been in power since October 1993. Nazir, Baron Ahmed (born 1958) is a member of the House of Lords, having become the United Kingdom's first Muslim life peer in 1998 and is in this war-torn province of Sudan to attend the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, hosted by the govenor in his own compound.
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  • A greeting driver attempts to identify one of his passengers from a group of non-English-speaking young people who have just arrived off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's Terminal 5, the man hold up a name board to attract the attention of those Chinese nationals who are new students at a Bournemouth language college called Education First (EF), based on England's south coast. With the help of a chaperone, the man points to a young girl in the hope she might be on his list. Neither speak each other's mother tongue and the language barrier is difficult to overcome. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • A mother awaitng her son in Arrivals of Heathrow's terminal 5 excitedly waves a Welcome Home Matt banner
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  • Greeting driver holding passenger name card in Arrivals at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
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  • A greeting driver attempts to identify one of his passengers from a group of Chinese-speaking language students
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  • Drivers await their fares to arrive off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's T5
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  • Old colleagues greet each other in the City of London as an outsider looks on.
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  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, perform in blue skies.
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  • A diving England rugby player spreads across the Nike shop window at Oxford Circus, in front of kissing passers-by.
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  • Members of Freemasonry gather outside London's United Grand Lodge at Freemason's Hall, 60 Great Queen Street. http://www.ugle.org.uk/
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  • From a low angle, we see a greeting driver from Dover Heritage Taxis who awaits his passenger to arrive off a flight from Turkey. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, the man holds up a name board to attract the attention of the man who is a member of a cruise ship's crew that is due to sail from the sea port of Dover. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport105-13-07-2009.jpg
  • A greeting driver from Dover Heritage Taxis awaits his fare to arrive off a flight from Turkey in Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5
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  • An unseen person holds out name card and awaits the arrival of a passenger on the ground floor of at Heathrow airport's T5
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  • An unseen person holds out name card and awaits the arrival of a fellow-Kuwaiti on the ground floor of at Heathrow airport's T5
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  • An Ahmadiyya mosque official holds a name card and awaits a fellow-Muslim in Arrivals at Heathrow airport's Terminal 5.
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  • An Ahmadiyya mosque official holds a name card and awaits a fellow-Muslim in Arrivals at Heathrow airport's Terminal 5.
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  • Awaiting loved-ones in International Arrivals concourse at Heathrow's terminal 5.
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  • A helium-filled Welcome Home balloon of a family waiting for loved-ones floats in the air in Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport49-13-07-2009.jpg
  • Drivers await their fares to arrive off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's T5
    heathrow_airport411-13-07-2009.jpg
  • Greeting driver holding passenger lady's name card in Arrivals at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport120-13-07-2009.jpg
  • Greeting driver holding passenger lady's name card in Arrivals at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport108-13-07-2009.jpg
  • Greeting driver holding passenger name card in Arrivals at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport97-13-07-2009.jpg
  • A family awaitng loved-ones in Arrivals of Heathrow's terminal 5 stretch a banner and float a helium-filled balloon.
    heathrow_airport60-13-07-2009.jpg
  • Greeting drivers await their passengers to arrive off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's Terminal 5, the men hold up name boards to attract the attention of those Chinese nationals who are new students at a Bournemouth language college called Education First (EF), based on England's south coast. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport403-13-07-2009.jpg
  • As it is reported that a further 428 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, the total number of deaths in hospitals and the wider community to 33,614, the wider implications of social distancing in the workplace after lockdown is being widely discussed with the concept of 'hot desking' being a thing of the past. A closed Hot Desking office space in Noel Street, Soho welcomes through its doors, on 14th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • A receptionist seen through the window of a restaurant in stylish Mayfair, London.
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  • 30th Chief of the ancient clan MacLeod, Hugh MacLeod, 34, greets tourists and talks to the curator of Dunvegan Castle, Maureen Byers on the north-west corner of the Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. Dunvegan has been the clan's traditional stronghold and ancestral home for 800 years which makes it the longest inhabited family home in Scotland. Now a visitor centre and place of pilgrimage for MacLeods from all over the world, it houses medieval artefacts from when Scotland was a wild and warring nation against the English. It has survived clan battles, extremes of feast and famine and profound social, political and economic changes in the Highlands. Originally designed to keep people out, Dunvegan Castle was first opened to the public in 1933. Visitors include Sir Walter Scott, Dr Johnson, Queen Elizabeth II and Emperor Akihito.
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  • Seen from a London bus on a rainy night in the West End, night customers queue inside a Chinese fast food business at a time when bars and restaurants need business to return to normal during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 27th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • As it is reported that a further 428 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, the total number of deaths in hospitals and the wider community to 33,614, the wider implications of social distancing in the workplace after lockdown is being widely discussed with the concept of 'hot desking' being a thing of the past. A closed Hot Desking office space in Noel Street, Soho welcomes through its doors, on 14th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-17-14-05-2020.jpg
  • As it is reported that a further 428 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, the total number of deaths in hospitals and the wider community to 33,614, the wider implications of social distancing in the workplace after lockdown is being widely discussed with the concept of 'hot desking' being a thing of the past. A closed Hot Desking office space in Noel Street, Soho welcomes through its doors, on 14th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-16-14-05-2020.jpg
  • 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.
    lido01-08-25-1995.jpg
  • Two Hawk jets from the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, almost touch in mid-air at an altitude of approximately 4,100 feet in the Mediterranean skies above Cyprus. The texture of mottled cirrus cloud provides a soft background for the  aircraft which approach each other at a combined air speed of approximately 800 miles per hour (1,200 kph). The Opposition Loop is flown by the two pilot partners known as the Synchro Pair who fly independently of the other seven in the second-half of their 25-minute show. The two jets have vegetable dye and derv (diesel fuel) smoke mixture coloured red, blue or white. Here it traces the paths of both airplanes which curve from the edges of the frame to the centre (center). To the crowds far below, both look as if they are on collision course but wil safely pass within feet of each other.
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  • A married couple ready themselves for a formal Buckingham Palace garden party in after sunshine. The lady and man have been invited to take tea with and meet the Queen along with many hundreds more in London England. They are Mr and Mrs Johnson and he is a Flag officer junior rating serving in Britain's Royal Navy. His wife adjusts his Navy cap (denoting his ship's name) to make sure it's straightened and presentable for Her Majesty. It is a proud day for her husband and his spouse, when the achievements of his military career are recognized by his Sovereign. The Queens' garden parties are held ever summer, allowing ordinary men and women from diverse members of society the chance to walk the Palace grounds and meet others from all walks of life. Some may be from the armed services and others , merely known for their charitable work or individual merit.
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  • Colleagues and associates meet in the window of a cafe in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 6th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • Businessmen meet in the Aviva office foyer in front of a Christmas tree at the insurance corporate's HQ, on 9th December 2016, in the City of London.
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  • Partially-sighted skiing paralympian from the Sochi Olympics, Kelly Gallagher and her sighted guide Charlotte Evans meet the public at the National Paralympic Day, Stratford, London.
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  • Partially-sighted skiing paralympian from the Sochi Olympics, Kelly Gallagher and her sighted guide Charlotte Evans meet the public at the National Paralympic Day, Stratford, London.
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  • Christmas presents remain unopened beneath a Christmas tree and footage of Prince Charles meeting members of the military during the Queen's speech to the nation on Christmas Day, a tradition started in 1932 and which she first broadcast on television in 1957, on 25th December 2019, in Bristol, England.
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  • As Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Andrea Leadsome MP arrives at the Cabinet Office on Whitehall, the location of daily Brexit contingency planning meetings (codenamed Yellowhammer, in government departments), on 19th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • As a contract cleaner sweeps up litter, office workers hold a meeting outside the Leadenhall Buolding during the 2018 heatwave in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 24th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • The artwork entitled The Meeting Place by British artist Paul Day stands in the main concourse at St. Pancras Station, on 10th April 2018, in London, England. The Meeting Place is a 9-metre high, 20-tonne bronze statue that stands at the south end of the upper level of St Pancras evoking the romance of travel through the depiction of a couple locked in an amorous embrace. The statue, is reported to have cost £1 million and was installed as the centrepiece of the refurbished station. The work, commissioned by London and Continental Railways, is modelled on the sculptor and his wife.
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  • The artwork entitled The Meeting Place by British artist Paul Day stands in the main concourse at St. Pancras Station, on 10th April 2018, in London, England. The Meeting Place is a 9-metre high, 20-tonne bronze statue that stands at the south end of the upper level of St Pancras evoking the romance of travel through the depiction of a couple locked in an amorous embrace. The statue, is reported to have cost £1 million and was installed as the centrepiece of the refurbished station. The work, commissioned by London and Continental Railways, is modelled on the sculptor and his wife.
    st_pancras-15-10-04-2018.jpg
  • The House of Fraser department store (left) and a business meeting on the top floor of corporate offices in late afternoon in the heart of the Square Mile, the capital's historical and financial centre, on 1st November 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • The reflection on a polished table, of a businessman's hands and biro pen during a meeting, on 17th April 1999, at Chipping Sodbury, England.
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  • The Earl Spencer, brother to Diana Princess of Wales, meets the public allowed in to the family ancestral home, Althorp, the year after his sister's death in 1997, on 21st May 1998, in Althorp, Northamptonshire, England.
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  • The long meeting table in the Locarno Room at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. In 1925 the Foreign Office played host to the signing of the Locarno Treaties, aimed at reducing tension in Europe. The ceremony took place in a suite of rooms that had been designed for banqueting, which subsequently became known as the Locarno Suite. During the Second World War, the Locarno Suite's fine furnishings were removed or covered up, and it became home to a foreign office code-breaking department.
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  • The long meeting table in the Locarno Room at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. In 1925 the Foreign Office played host to the signing of the Locarno Treaties, aimed at reducing tension in Europe. The ceremony took place in a suite of rooms that had been designed for banqueting, which subsequently became known as the Locarno Suite. During the Second World War, the Locarno Suite's fine furnishings were removed or covered up, and it became home to a foreign office code-breaking department.
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  • Empty seats in a vacant meeting room, on 5th March 2017, at the Barbican in the City of London, England.
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  • Empty seats in a vacant meeting room, on 5th March 2017, at the Barbican in the City of London, England.
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  • Actor Dustin Hoffman meets nursing staff and patients during a visit to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children on 5th April 1992 in London, England. Great Ormond Street Hospital is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.
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  • An evening meeting by campaigners outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
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  • An evening meeting by campaigners outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library22-06-04-2016.jpg
  • An evening meeting by campaigners outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library30-06-04-2016.jpg
  • An evening meeting by campaigners outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library17-06-04-2016.jpg
  • An evening meeting by campaigners outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 6 of its occupation, 5th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library36-05-04-2016-2.jpg
  • Car workers gather to hear from a union representative during a union meeting during the scheduled rest break in the German BMW-owned Rover production factory in Cowley, Solihull, England. Employees listen to news and  employment terms and conditions. Motor car production has taken place at Cowley near the city of Oxford, England for over ninety years. The car factory is known today as Plant Oxford and is now owned by BMW and has been extensively redeveloped. It remains the largest industrial employer in Oxfordshire employing more than 4,300 people.
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  • A young girl hugs her beloved pony at a gymkhana meeting in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the United Kingdom and east coast of the United States, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
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  • After an internal meeting, a male employee is ready to leave a small conference room at the British Airways' corporate headquarters at Waterside at Harmondsworth near Heathrow Airport. Themed rooms like this are titled after BA's destinations - in this case, the southern French Cote d'Azur town of Nice. The man is reaching out to shake a colleague's hand before they all exit and re-convene elsewhere. Focus is on the room's name and not on the man, who remains anonymous. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • An employee raises his hand during airport operator BAA's company meeting at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
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  • Seated in a presidential palace meeting room is Dr Ghazi Salahudin Atabani, a special advisor to the Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir during a media briefing in Khartoum.
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  • British couturier Margaret Howell holds a meeting takes place to discuss fabrics for the next fashion show at her studio
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  • A meeting takes place to discuss fabrics for the next fashion show at British couturier Margaret Howell's Wigmore Street studio
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  • Four business partners are in the middle of a meeting at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Seated within a private area that looks like a cage, they engage in conversation on this stylish stand that also features a lush oasis of green vegetation. The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
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  • Faceless Russian delegates are in deep discussion in a hall at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. With the flag of the Russian Federation strategically placed to the right of the stand, the three anonymous are secretively talking business in a group meeting, their crumpled suits show they have been working on this project for many hours or days. Two of the men have exchanged business cards to make new contacts. The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
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  • As the UK government urged that all Britons should avoid non-essential travel abroad in order to combat the Coronavirus pandemic in Britain and when physical contact is discouraged, a detail showing families saying farewell to departing WW1 troops at a station platform, found on the lower base of the statue entitled The Meeting Place by British artist Paul Day, on 17th March 2020, in London, England. The Meeting Place is a 9-metre high, 20-tonne bronze statue that stands at the south end of the upper level of St Pancras evoking the romance of travel through the depiction of a couple locked in an amorous embrace. It's cost is reported to be £1 million. St. Pancras is the London terminus for Eurostar services to mainland Europe.
    coronavirus_StPancras-14-17-03-2020.jpg
  • As the UK government urged that all Britons should avoid non-essential travel abroad in order to combat the Coronavirus pandemic in Britain and when physical contact is discouraged, a detail showing families saying farewell to departing WW1 troops at a station platform, found on the lower base of the statue entitled The Meeting Place by British artist Paul Day, on 17th March 2020, in London, England. The Meeting Place is a 9-metre high, 20-tonne bronze statue that stands at the south end of the upper level of St Pancras evoking the romance of travel through the depiction of a couple locked in an amorous embrace. It's cost is reported to be £1 million. St. Pancras is the London terminus for Eurostar services to mainland Europe.
    coronavirus_StPancras-12-17-03-2020.jpg
  • As the UK government urged that all Britons should avoid non-essential travel abroad in order to combat the Coronavirus pandemic in Britain and when physical contact is discouraged, a detail showing families saying farewell to departing WW1 troops at a station platform, found on the lower base of the statue entitled The Meeting Place by British artist Paul Day, on 17th March 2020, in London, England. The Meeting Place is a 9-metre high, 20-tonne bronze statue that stands at the south end of the upper level of St Pancras evoking the romance of travel through the depiction of a couple locked in an amorous embrace. It's cost is reported to be £1 million. St. Pancras is the London terminus for Eurostar services to mainland Europe.
    coronavirus_StPancras-13-17-03-2020.jpg
  • Christmas presents remain unopened beneath a Christmas tree as Queen Elizabeth meets NHS staff during her speech to the nation on Christmas Day, a tradition started in 1932 and which she first broadcast on television in 1957, on 25th December 2019, in Bristol, England.
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  • As Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Andrea Leadsome MP arrives at the Cabinet Office on Whitehall, the location of daily Brexit contingency planning meetings (codenamed Yellowhammer, in government departments), on 19th August 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_whitehall-07-19-08-2019.jpg
  • Two young 1990s girls stand with their beloved ponies at a gymkhana in, on 17th September 1999, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    pony_girls-17-09-1999.jpg
  • Two businessmen hold a meeting in a financial office building and the windows of the Walkie Talkie building in the heart of the Square Mile, the capital's historical and financial centre, on 1st November 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • The House of Fraser department store (left) and a business meeting on the top floor of corporate offices in late afternoon in the heart of the Square Mile, the capital's historical and financial centre, on 1st November 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_offices-03-01-11-2017.jpg
  • The clock face of the House of Fraser department store and a business meeting on the top floor of corporate offices in late afternoon in the heart of the Square Mile, the capital's historical and financial centre, on 1st November 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_offices-01-01-11-2017.jpg
  • The Earl Spencer, brother to Diana Princess of Wales, meets the public allowed in to the family ancestral home, Althorp, the year after his sister's death in 1997, on 21st May 1998, in Althorp, Northamptonshire, England.
    earl_spencer-21-05-1998_1.jpg
  • The furnishings of the Ambassadors Meeting Room where senior foreign diplomats wait for official meetings, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England.
    foreign_office-30-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The long meeting table in the Locarno Room at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. In 1925 the Foreign Office played host to the signing of the Locarno Treaties, aimed at reducing tension in Europe. The ceremony took place in a suite of rooms that had been designed for banqueting, which subsequently became known as the Locarno Suite. During the Second World War, the Locarno Suite's fine furnishings were removed or covered up, and it became home to a foreign office code-breaking department.
    foreign_office-23-17-09-2017.jpg
  • Empty seats in a vacant meeting room, on 5th March 2017, at the Barbican in the City of London, England.
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  • Accompanied by sons William and Harry, Diana Princess of Wales meets nursing staff during a visit to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children on 5th April 1992 in London, England. Great Ormond Street Hospital is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.
    great_ormond_street01-05-04-1992.jpg
  • An evening meeting by campaigners outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library29-06-04-2016.jpg
  • An evening meeting by campaigners outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library25-06-04-2016.jpg
  • An evening meeting by campaigners outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library27-06-04-2016.jpg
  • An evening meeting by campaigners outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library23-06-04-2016.jpg
  • An evening meeting by campaigners outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library20-06-04-2016.jpg
  • An evening meeting by campaigners outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library19-06-04-2016.jpg
  • An evening meeting by campaigners outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London while occupiers remain inside the premises day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library15-06-04-2016.jpg
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