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  • Detail of a trench cover belonging to the National Grid, on 1st May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    national_grid-01-01-05-2017.jpg
  • Detail of a trench cover belonging to the National Grid, on 1st May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    national_grid-02-01-05-2017.jpg
  • Moving steadily 100 feet (8 metres) along a live-line electricity cable, a National Grid maintenance worker protected in a conductive cage, proceeds to the next 'separator' that holds the high-voltage cables from touching each other. From the ground we see the sagging cables stretching to a distant electricity pylon and two yellow cages, one large in the foreground where we see the human figure standing like an astonaut, and the other cage out of focus, a greater distance away but all dwarfed by the huge structure of girders and relays. Wearing clothing bonded to the conductor, the lineman can work comfortably inside the electrical field at close range with gloved hands. National Grid Electricity Transmission plc owns and operates the National Grid high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales.National Grid plc is a United Kingdom based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally in the United States. The company adopted its current name in July 2005 when shareholders agreed the change from National Grid Transco plc.
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  • Standing in their cradles are three members of a National Grid Live-line electricity cable crew, protected in a conductive cage beneath the electricy cables that they maintaining. We see the sagging cables stretching to distant electricity pylons and the three human figures standing like astonauts in their protective cradles. Huge structure of girders and relays are behind them and they wear safety clothing allowing them to work comfortably inside the electrical field at close range with gloved hands. National Grid Electricity Transmission plc owns and operates the National Grid high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales.National Grid plc is a United Kingdom based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally in the United States.
    RB_042-21-04-1995.jpg
  • Traffic grid and pedestrians on the other side of Bishopsgate on 12th September, in the City of London, UK.
    city_people-02-12-09-2016.jpg
  • Spinning turbine blades of the Wind farm near the Cornish town of Delabole in England are blurred against fast-fading light. We barely see the three blades as they revolve to produce electricity for the national grid. First operational in mid December 1991 they were a very controversial project with locals who saw them as a blot on their familiar c though it’s permission went ahead nonetheless. The 10 turbines operated by Windelectric are carefully positioned in existing hedge lines about 270 m apart and have an annual output of about 12 million Kw hours, which equals 1 years consumption by 2700 average homes (a small town). To produce the same amount of electricity by conventional means, about 2000 tonnes of oil or 5000 tonnes of coal would have to be burnt each year, this has a Co2 offset of 4,475 tonnes.
    tehachapi_windmills01-20-08-2000.jpg
  • National Grid gas works van and passers-by in the busy Oxford Circus in central London.
    gas_works04-04-12-2012.jpg
  • National Grid gas works van and passers-by in the busy Oxford Circus in central London.
    gas_works01-04-12-2012.jpg
  • Bright yellow and green City Link delivery van drives mid-way over a yellow box junction grid in a City of London street.
    courier_grid01-26-04-2012.jpg
  • Bright pink delivery van turns mid-way over a yellow box junction grid in a City of London street.
    road_stripes09-17-04-2012.jpg
  • Pedestrian in stripy suit strides past a yellow box junction grid in a City of London street.
    road_stripes06-17-04-2012.jpg
  • Pedestrians and cyclist who rides over a yellow box junction grid in a City of London street.
    road_stripes05-17-04-2012.jpg
  • National Grid electricity instalation on industrial wasteland at Barton Down, Canterbury, Kent
    electricity291-25-01-2008 .jpg
  • As workers in London largely remain working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, the reflection of a locked bike, a traffic grid and street barrier in the City of London, on 4th September 2020, in London, England.
    itsu_windows01-04-09-2020.jpg
  • As workers in London largely remain working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, a City worker emerges from a doorway next to a reflection of a locked bike, a traffic grid and street barrier in the City of London, on 4th September 2020, in London, England.
    itsu_windows03-04-09-2020.jpg
  • As workers in London largely remain working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, a City worker emerges from a doorway next to a reflection of a locked bike, a traffic grid and street barrier in the City of London, on 4th September 2020, in London, England.
    itsu_windows04-04-09-2020.jpg
  • As workers in London largely remain working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, a figure carries a blue rucksack walks through the reflection of a locked bike, a traffic grid and street barrier in the City of London, on 4th September 2020, in London, England.
    itsu_windows05-04-09-2020.jpg
  • As workers in London largely remain working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, the reflection of a locked bike, a traffic grid and street barrier in the City of London, on 4th September 2020, in London, England.
    itsu_windows02-04-09-2020.jpg
  • DHL delivery van turns mid-way over a yellow box junction grid with passing cyclist in a City of London street.
    road_stripes08-17-04-2012.jpg
  • Cyclist turns a corner past a yellow box junction grid in a City of London street.
    road_stripes03-17-04-2012.jpg
  • Seen from the air at dawn, dozens of F-4 Phantom fighters from the Cold War-era are laid out in grids across the arid desert at Davis-Monthan Air Forbe Base near Tucson Arizona. These retired aircraft whose air frames are too old for flight are being stored then recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total at this repository for old military fighter and bomber aircraft. They sit in neat rows in low light, their shadowy wings are blue in colour but their fuselage are stripped of markings, being taped up against the dust. This is a scene of once-great flying machines relegated to sad scrap, long-after the Soviet Union's own demise when western armies fought a war of propaganda. .
    davis_monthan01-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • An English Cross of St. George flag flaps in a strong breeze on a flag pole near electricity pylons in Grays,  Thames Gateway
    river_business182-31-08-2007.jpg
  • Gnomes and garden figures displayed below an electricity pylon in a back Somerset garden.
    electricity010-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • A Union Jack flag flies beneath the English Cross of St. George on a flag pole beneath an electricity pylon in a Somerset garden.
    electricity023-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • Pensioner Barbara Dowling sips tea views an electricity pylon from the warm kitchen of her North Somerset home.
    electricity030-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • An electricity pylon stands astride a car park at a local Rugby club on land near Wrington, North Somerset England.
    electricity039-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • A sign showing instant death warns anyone climbing this electricity pylon standing in woodland near Wrington, North Somerset England.
    electricity059-28-12-2007 .jpg
  • Dated technology of the desolate electricity substation at South Bromley is seen from the Pylon Industrial Estate. .
    electricity150-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Pensioner Jim Burrows cuts leaks by his shed overlooked by a giant eletricity pylon at Leys Road allotments, East London.
    electricity191-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Tangled clothing hangs on barbed wire fencing below an enbankment alongside the A13 road in Dagenham, Essex..
    electricity197-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Billy Cocklin has painted woz ere on the aluminium leg of an electricity pylon near a housing estate in Beckton.
    electricity255-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • A pedestrian walks towards a walkway and electricity pylon near West Ham substation, Canning Town, London
    electricity264-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • Plantation of sapling trees near an electricity pylon on Rainham Marshes, Essex.
    electricity327-27-01-2008 .jpg
  • Thorny twig in the foreground near an electricity pylon behind one foggy morning on Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent
    electricity406-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • Local and nationwide electricity power lines merging with golden reed grasses on Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent.
    electricity415-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • Insulators discs stopping electricity from jumping to a pylon down to earth stretches between pylons, Botany Marshes, Swanscombe
    electricity418-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • Avoiding fly-tippers, a barricaded and disused car park entrance is near electricity pylons at Dartford, Kent.
    electricity420-12-02-2008 .jpg
  • As evening light fades, bright light from the electricity-hungry Canary Wharf docklands development is supplied by the voltage from electricity cables and supporting struts at an east London sub-station, England. A network of 110 miles of cables have stretched across 542 'L6' pylons across England's Kent countryside, from the coal-fired power station at Dungeness to this location, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of London's high supply demands. Insatiable appetites for energy means electricity is now an expensive commodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity283-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • Electricity cables stretch into early morning mist above Swanscombe, Kent, London England. In the foreground we see a stack of discs called Insulators which stop the electricity carried in the conductor (the wires strung between each pylon) from jumping to the pylon and then down to earth. The cables disappear into the winter fog creating a Sci-Fi scene of 21st technology. Diagonally, the cables travel across the picture but they are part of a line of 542 pylons that have already crossed 110 miles of English countryside, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables from Dungeness coal-fired power station to West Ham sub station in London's East End - to power the West End's high supply demands.
    electricity409-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • Red glowing sun reflected off the glossy facade of Canary Wharf tower next to electricity pylons.
    electricity_power01-05-08-1991.jpg
  • Patriotic pensioner Ivor Dowling attaches the Welsh flag beneath the Union Jack to fly in his back Somerset garden.
    electricity002-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • A Union Jack flag flies beneath the English Cross of St. George on a flag pole beneath an electricity pylon in a Somerset garden.
    electricity020-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • A flock of grazing sheep eat grass in a field beneath an electricity pylon in a North Somerset field.
    electricity026-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • An electricity pylon is seen through a bedroom window where a pillow
    electricity036-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • An electricity pylon stands against an overcast winter sky on rural land near Wrington, North Somerset England.
    electricity042-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • The dark outline of an electricity pylon stands over a gloomy winter sky in woodland near Wrington, North Somerset England.
    electricity055-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • An electricity pylon stands amongst bare trees on a gloomy winter day in woodland near Wrington, North Somerset England.
    electricity057-28-12-2007 .jpg
  • An advertisement for stock car and banger racing taking place at the motorsport venue Arena Essex raceway..
    electricity200-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • The steel girders of an electricity pylon stands close between housing on an estate in Beckton, East London.
    electricity243-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Tangled tricycle hangs in barbed wire of an electricity pylon on an estate in Beckton, East London.
    electricity247-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • The steel girders of an electricity pylon stands close between housing on an estate in Beckton, East London.
    electricity248-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • The steel girders of an electricity pylon stands close between housing on an estate in Beckton, East London.
    electricity249-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • The steel girders of an electricity pylon stands close between housing on an estate in Beckton, East London.
    electricity252-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • Insulator discs and pylon at the electricity substation, South Bromley, seen from the Pylon Industrial Estate, London.
    electricity271-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • Technology of the electricity substation at South Bromley, seen with rubbish in the Pylon Industrial Estate. .
    electricity274-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • As evening light fades, bright light from the electricity-hungry Canary Wharf docklands development is supplied by the voltage from electricity cables and supporting struts at an east London sub-station, England. A network of 110 miles of cables have stretched across 542 'L6' pylons across England's Kent countryside, from the coal-fired power station at Dungeness to this location, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of London's high supply demands. Insatiable appetites for energy means electricity is now an expensive commodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity278-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • An electricity L6 pylon stands framed in height restriction poles on industrial wasteland at Barton Down, Canterbury, Kent
    electricity290-25-01-2008 .jpg
  • A clothes line merges with the lines of an electricity pylon near flats on the Hales Place estate in Canterbury
    electricity298-25-01-2008 .jpg
  • Camouflaged birdspotters peer through binoculars for wildlife at the RSPB's bird and wildlife reserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex
    electricity363-03-02-2008 .jpg
  • Camouflaged birdspotters peer through binoculars for wildlife at the RSPB's bird and wildlife reserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex
    electricity367-03-02-2008 .jpg
  • Grazing cow pokes her head through barbed wire with pylons behind at the RSPB wildlife sanctuary at Rainham Marshes
    electricity374-03-02-2008 .jpg
  • The entrance to the RSPB's bird and wildlife reserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex.
    electricity375-03-02-2008 .jpg
  • Thorny plants in the foreground near an electricity pylon behind one foggy morning on Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent
    electricity405-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • The leg of an electricity pylon carrying lines 1.3km over the Thames from Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent to Thurrock, Essex.
    electricity412-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • Local and nationwide electricity power lines merging with golden reed grasses on Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent.
    electricity414-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • The outline of electricity cables stretch across a gloomy winter sky in woodland near Wrington, North Somerset England. Diagonally, the cables travel across the picture but they are part of a line of L6 pylons that have already crossed many miles of South-West England's countryside, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of Bristol's high supply demands. In the foreground we see the bare boughs and branches of trees creating a Sci-Fi scene of ugly 21st technology versus the beauty of nature. Insatiable appetites for raw power and energy means electricity is now an expensive comodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity050-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • As evening light fades, bright light from the electricity-hungry Canary Wharf docklands development is supplied by the voltage from electricity cables and supporting struts at an east London sub-station, England. A network of 110 miles of cables have stretched across 542 'L6' pylons across England's Kent countryside, from the coal-fired power station at Dungeness to this location, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of London's high supply demands. Insatiable appetites for energy means electricity is now an expensive commodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity280-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • Electricity cables stretch into early morning mist above Swanscombe, Kent, London England. In the foreground we see a stack of discs called Insulators which stop the electricity carried in the conductor (the wires strung between each pylon) from jumping to the pylon and then down to earth. The cables disappear into the winter fog creating a Sci-Fi scene of 21st technology. Diagonally, the cables travel across the picture but they are part of a line of 542 pylons that have already crossed 110 miles of English countryside, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables from Dungeness coal-fired power station to West Ham sub station in London's East End - to power the West End's high energy supply demands.
    electricity407-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • A landscape of coastal grasses, distant hills and a Welsh Power electricity power pole, on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    wales_electricity-02-13-09-2018.jpg
  • A landscape of coastal grasses, distant hills and a Welsh Power electricity power pole, on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    wales_electricity-01-13-09-2018.jpg
  • Police tape tangled between two trafic cones and a wet road surfaceon 12th January 2017, in central London, UK.
    city_snow-14-12-01-2017.jpg
  • Police tape tangled between two trafic cones and a wet road surfaceon 12th January 2017, in central London, UK.
    city_snow-15-12-01-2017.jpg
  • Seen through the chequered squares of a shop window, a worker on a lunch break waits to be served in the City of London, England UK.
    city_people-15-08-09-2016.jpg
  • Seen through the chequered squares of a shop window, a worker on a lunch break waits to be served in the City of London, England UK.
    city_people-14-08-09-2016.jpg
  • Fashions and styles in H&M retailer's window on London's Oxford Street.
    retail_reflections02-20-11-2014.jpg
  • In the window of a London estate agency, we see many properties in various styles and ages for sale. A sales executive swaps some of the pictures as some sell or perhaps, are taken off the market by their vendors.
    estate_agent01-13-03-1991.jpg
  • Multi-coloured London buses pass each other at Bank triangle beneath the Bank of England.
    bank_buses01-17-04-2012.jpg
  • The below-deck highly-classified Conflict Direction Center or War Room on the aircraft carrier US Navy USS Harry S Truman. This top secret office is used for planning and executing sophisticated tactical electronic warfare that fighter jets and surveillance aircraft engage in from air operations mounted from the carrier. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998.  .
    us_navy_carrier13-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Windfarm turbine blades on hilltop of Sierra Nevada foothills.
    spain_windfarm-1-15-April-2011.jpg
  • A power cable plugs into the place of a petrol cap while recharging an electronic Daimler-Chrysler-made Smart car.
    electricity_car02-10-11-2010.jpg
  • A power cable plugs into the place of a petrol cap while recharging an electronic Daimler-Chrysler-made Smart car.
    electricity_car01-10-11-2010.jpg
  • A businessman wearing a light summer suit and carrying a briefcase walks away in the opposite direction to Canary Wharf tower which is seen over his shoulder from across a tree-lined Brockwell Park in South London, approximately 7.5 miles away. The flattened-perspective is because of an extremely long telephoto lens making it seem closer than it is in reality. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • 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 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
  • Canary Wharf tower seen through a telephoto lens from across West India Docks, London Docklands, East London England. We see dozens of office windows illuminated by fragmented solar light from a rising sun. Office windows reflect that golden orange light which underexposes the darkened sky behind and the remainder of the building. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s  financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
    RB-0097.jpg
  • One single soldier of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders regiment of the British Army, stifles a yawn, his white gloved hand covering his gaping mouth. They are all in correct position, practising for an official portrait at Redford Barracks, Edinburgh, which will include Her Majesty the Queen the next day. After hours of rehearsal arriving efficiently into position, warm summer fatigue set in. The group of men are laid out in strict military lines, their heads and buttons show clearly and have been selected for even height to allow the picture to be as regimented as possible.
    RB-0069.jpg
  • Deep below-decks, we peer through a striped window of the highly-classified Conflict Direction Center or War Room on the aircraft carrier US Navy USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-flyzone in the Persian Gulf, near the Kuwaiti coast. This top secret office is used for planning and executing sophisticated tactical electronic warfare that fighter jets and surveillance aircraft engage in from air operations mounted from the carrier. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998.  .
    RB-0046.jpg
  • B-52 Cold War bombers of the US Air Force lie abandoned at Davis-Monthan aircraft graveyard awaiting recycling for scrap..
    B52s_graveyard01-15-08-1998.jpg
  • A cyclist pushes his bike across a road junction near a crushed traffic bollard in London's Tottenham Court Road.
    electricity084-12-01-2008 .jpg
  • Visitors to Theatreland in London's West End, read newspapers at a kiosk lit by spotlights on Tottenham Court Road.
    electricity087-12-01-2008 .jpg
  • Lady visitor to London's Theatreland gets directions from a passer-by beneath a Freddy Mercury  outside the Dominion Theatre
    electricity092-12-01-2008 .jpg
  • Left-turn traffic arrow and double-yellow no parking lines shine during rain on a wet street in London's West End.
    electricity098-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • On a rainy night, a young female smokes under a heated, sheltered smokers' zone outside a bar in London
    electricity117-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • A tangle of electric lights are strung together on the ceiling of a West End construction site in London's Soho.
    electricity126-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • A young couple walks through the car park of Lakeside, the giant Essex shopping mall on the outskirts of London.
    electricity211-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Letting coloured in yellow painted on a wall says Car Park Open, in Canning Town, Newham, East London..
    electricity214-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Detail of an exposed junction box and analogue electricity meter on an industrial estate in West Ham substation, Canning Town
    electricity262-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • Dropped during construction of electricity pylons, a bolt and its nut lies on a forest floor, Clowes Wood, Chestfield, Kent
    electricity302-25-01-2008 .jpg
  • Bird feathers from dead wildlife, killed after colliding with electricity lines on a forest floor, Clowes Wood, Chestfield, Kent
    electricity309-25-01-2008 .jpg
  • As winter fog lifts, the waters of the River Thames clear to reveal an eerie landscape of industrial river life and architecture at Gravesend, Kent England. It is late-morning and in the hazy distance on the northern river bank, steam clouds near the double twin chimneys of npower's 1400MW coal fired Tilbury power station (powering 1.4 million homes using ?biomass? fuels and low-sulphur coal) which rise above the passing ghostly bulk of a cargo freighter on its last miles of its voyage from open sea into the Thames Estuary and on to Tilbury Docks. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
    river_business320-11-02-2008 .jpg
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