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68 images Created 22 Mar 2019

A-B, there and back, most days.

As if a daily commuter, I take the bus to work. But by the time I've taken my place in a favourite rear window seat, I'm already 'at my desk' seeing everyday Londoners below on London's pavements.

Every £1.50 chauffeured drive into the West End or the City is a road trip along the Walworth Road via Elephant & Castle. And when I reach my destination, it is the walk and not the ride which takes me elsewhere.

Later this year I qualify for a Freedom Pass which entitles me to free bus and train travel around the capital and so the world (London and the south-east) will be my Oyster.

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  • Coincidental timing of a Billy Elliot musical poster while a young skateboarder flies through the air during his acrobatic jump over steps.
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  • Schoolchildren wearing distinctive orange hats wait to cross Parliament Square, on 19th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • Graffiti written on the window of a London bus and urban tower blocks at Elephant & Castle, on 13th November 2017, in London, England.
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  • A pump-action water pistol lies on the roof of a bus shelter on the Walworth Road in the borough of Southwark, on 10th August 2017, in London, England.
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  • Aerial view of a youth using a mobile phone on next a diagonal pavement line, 21st September 2018, in London England
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  • Two elderly men carefully descend steps into an inner-city underpass at Elephant & Castle, in central London.
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  • The view from the top deck of a London bus, of women at the northern end of Vauxhall Bridge, on 23rd May 2019, in London, England.
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  • Pedestrians walk past two outdoor smokers' cubicles located at the Park Plaza Hotel at the southern end of Westminster Bridge, on 27th February, in London, England.
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  • Aerial view of roadworks disruption and orange circle theme.
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  • view from the top deck of a London bus, of resting workmen, the  empty traffic lanes in the road and the legs of a construction sheeting covering a large project in Knightsbridge, on 23rd May 2019, in London, England.
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  • A single female sits in a rear seat of a London bus, as it drives past Trafalgar Square, on 28th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
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  • A workman attaches ties to a lamp post on the Walworth Road in the south London borough of Southwark, on 7th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • Decorators paint the pillars on the exterior of a pub in Southwark, on 26th March 2019, in London, England
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  • A man acts strangely while facing a blue wall at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, on 26th February, in London, England.
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  • A group of Jehovah's Witnesses stand with their literature stands at Elephant & Castle, on 27th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • Passers-by and the roof of a black London cab carrying an ad for Sandals Caribbean beach holidays, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • A aerial view of an excited young boy and older tourists being taken around the capital by horse-drawn carriage down Whiutehall in Westminster, on 5th June 2019, in London, England.
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  • During a seasonal rain shower, a lady wearing a yellow coat pauses to cross the road at St. George's Circus in Southwark, on 9th May 2019, in London, England.
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  • Seen from the window of a London bus, a man in read stands beneath the KFC logo of Colonel Sanders on the Walworth Road in Southwark, south London, on 30th April 2019, in London, England
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  • Women wait for buses at a stop while a woman sits in a park behind, in central London, UK.
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  • A group of Jehovah's Witnesses with Spanish language pamphlets and a person stopping to tie a shoelace at Elephant & Castle, Southwark, on 26th March 2019, in London, England
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  • A couple kiss at a bus stop in Whitehall, Westminster, on 9th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • Surrounded by other shoppers and passers-by, a romantic couple kiss in the street, on 28th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
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  • Kissing couple and aerial view of bus stop shadows and reflections.
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  • As a mum and her young children walk past, a heavily pregnant mother-to-be with her doting partner stands at the bus stop opposite St. Thomas's Hospital, on 5th June 2019, in London, England.
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  • A person wearing an England cap looks down at the ground in Camberwell, on 26th September 2018, in Southwark, London, England.
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  • A man messages on his mobile phone and another walks towards him while in conversation, on Whitehall, on 28th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
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  • A lady walks into the shadow of a traffic signpost at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, on 25th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • A stubborn pet dog refuses to walk with its owner as they confront each other during a stand-off in Aldwych, on 16th January 2019, in London, England.
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  • A lady walks her pet dog past the faces and biographies of famous achievers, alumni of Kings College London University on the Strand, on 6th September, in London, England.
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  • A supermarket delivery driver raises his hydraulic tailgate at the rear of his lorry while offloading supermarket caged goods while being parked on the Walworth Road, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • A boy on a bike holds an inflatable penis outside a Poundland on the Walworth Road, on 31st March 2017, in south London, England.
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  • An awning for the beauty bar Passion For Beauty is broken and twisted on the Walworth Road in Southwark, on 27th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • A contractor hangs from the roof to position a banner for a new exhibition of the artist Kader Attia, of the Hayward Gallery on the Southbank, on 7th May 2019, in London, England. Kadar Attia works, "In sculptures, installations, collages, videos and photographs that move ‘back and forth between politics and poetry’, Attia inventively explores the ways in which colonialism continues to shape how Western societies."
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  • Two women run for their bus along the concrete walkway at the Southbank's Royal Festival Hall, on 15th June 2019, in London, England.
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  • Women and a man enjoy each others' company in the window of a Costa Coffee shop in Camberwell, Southwark, south London, on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
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  • Seen through the purple swirls of graffiti marking the window of a bus driving through south London, a fruit and veg retailer on the Old Kent Road, on 21st March 2019, in London, England.
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  • Autumn leaves and in the background, the displayed stock of a Poundbuster shop on the Walworth Road, on 17th October 2017, in south London, England.
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  • A disabled woman pushed by her carer pass-by a fresh fruit stall in a south London street.
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  • A small girl looks down at a pet dog while waiting for a bus service onthe Walworth Road in south London, on 5th September 2019, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Passengers await the next service at a bus stop at Hyde Park Corner, on 7th March 2018, in London England.
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  • An elderly gentleman wipes his spectacles clean with a cloth, as a lady raises hers to see oncoming buses, on Denmark Hill in Southwark, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
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  • Aerial view of passengers with reading material at a bus stop, on 17th April 2018, in the City of London, England.
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  • A young woman carries an oversized Happy Birthday balloon for a friend in Camberwell, on 30th May 2018, in London, England.
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  • A lady looks up at due bus times, at a bus stop in central London, on 19th October 2017, in London, England.
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  • Alongside an ad for the B&Q DIY brand, an elderly lady holds two armfuls of shopping whilst waiting for the next bus at a bus stop at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, on 11th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • A woman walks past a bus stop at Borough Station with an ad of a female face, wearing a jacket with an eye on her back, on 11th October 2018, in London England.
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  • The shadows of commuters in a queue stretching beyond a bus stop shelter at Waterloo, central London.
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  • A woman smokes a cigarette as she walks past an ad for a forthcoming easyGym in Camberwell, south London, on 29th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • A young girl stands next to an older lady who is using her mobile phone in the street, on 31st January 2020, in London, England.
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  • A lady carries a child past a fruit and vegetable shop in Camberwell, Southwark, on 18th June 2019, in London, England.
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  • A mother and her troublesome child at a bus stop in south London, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • Mother and active child with aerial view of bus stop shadows and reflections.
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  • A young and healthy black man strides along the street and an infirm elderly man using a walking stick prepares to carefully cross the road, on 22nd May 2019, in Southwark, south London, England
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  • Lonely looking woman standing at the kerbside on a London street, seen from a travelling commuter bus.
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  • Aerial view of bus passengers at bus stop with union jack flag bags.
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  • A man wearing a patriotic Union Jack suit waits for the next bus along with other commuters at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, south London, on 10th May 2019, in London, England.
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  • While her friend stands close-by, a young woman from Asia photographs the Palace Theatre at Cambridge Circus, in the heart of London's West End district, during the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic, on 12th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • Aerial view of Londoners at a bus stop on Whitehall in Westminster, on 26th March 2019, in London, England
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  • A man tramples waste on a Lambeth Council bin, at Lambeth North, on 14th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • A window cleaner soaps a tall window near a blue wall on the Walworth Road, near Elephant And Castle, on 12th September 2017, in London, England.
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  • A man sits on a public bench with a new long-handled brush on the Walworth Road, on 5th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • An anonymous man uses a free street phone service on the Walworth Road, on 25th July 2019, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • An anonymous man uses a free street phone service on the Walworth Road, on 25th July 2019, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Looking down from the top deck of a bus are posters stuck to the back of an old phone kiosk on the Walworth Road in Southwark, on 10th April 2019, in Westminster, London, UK
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  • Seen from a London bus, resting pigeons sit on spike-free ledges, on 6th December 2017, in London England.
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  • A lady navigating by mobile phone app is distracted while walking towards two men taking measurements using a tape stretched across the pavement in Waterloo SE1, on 9th May 2019, in London, England.
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  • Aerial view through misted bus window of Londoners drab lives below during seasonal downpour of rain.
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