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  • Viewed from a low angle, an unidentified youth is seen spraying graffiti art on to a wall in the Notting Hill area of West London, England. We see his partially-obscured face lit from behind with a strong amount of flash which throws a well-defined shadow of his hand holding a spray can. It is a chilly night and the boy's breath is seen against the frosty night air. His graffiti art has taken him some hours to spray on this white wall and shows a glossy finish. The picture is anonymous because of the young man's face is unseen and generic, because we don't see where the wall might be located.
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  • An aerial view of a west London street and its surrounding neighbourhood. Homes and houses, flats, tower blocks and estates are seen stretching into the distance from this high vantage-point across the capital city. Cars of residents are parked on both sides of the tree-lined roads.
    urban_streets01-12-05-1996.jpg
  • A couple watch Senator John McCain giving a hearfelt speech, conceeding defeat on a live CNN TV screen that is broadcasting live from Phoenix, Arizona the senator's conceeding speech immediately after the TV channel called Obama's victory in the 2008 US presidential elections. A life-sized cut-out of Barack Obama stands to the screen's left and the new President smiles towards the camera but his adversary, John McCain looks across the London pub as if talking to the young couple who sit without expression in this historic political election which saw the election of America's first black Commander in chief. The location is a pub called the Hoop and Toy, in South Kensington, West London which has been opened all night for this special event for the American expatriate community living in this European capital.
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  • In London England, a life-size cardboard cut-out of Barack Obama stands next to a SKY News TV screen that is broadcasting live the latest polls of the 2008 US presidential elections. A Democratic party supporter listens intently and reacts with the tension of the early polls that suggest Obama is doing well against his Republican adversary, John McCain in this historic political election which saw the election of America's first black Commander in chief. The location is a pub called the Hoop and Toy, in South Kensington, West London which has been opened all night for this special event for the American expatriate community living in this European capital.
    obama_election_night15-05-11-2008.jpg
  • A group of Democratic party supporters look ecstatically happy after the final news of their Man's victory. Gone is the nervous tension earlier in the evening when these party faithful arrived for a whole night following developments. Polls suggested Obama was doing well against his Republican adversary, John McCain in this historic political election which saw the election of America's first black Commander in chief. The location is a pub called the Hoop and Toy, in South Kensington, West London which has been opened all night for this special event for the American expatriate community living in this European capital.
    obama_election_night29-05-11-2008.jpg
  • With a hand-drawn map of the United States coloured in increasingly in blue, American expatriates of African-american ethnicity sit and watch live BBC and SKY News TV screen that is broadcasting live the latest polls of the 2008 US presidential elections. Early polls suggest Barack Obama is doing well against his Republican adversary, John McCain in this historic political election which saw the election of America's first black Commander in chief. The location is a pub called the Hoop and Toy, in South Kensington, West London which has been opened all night for this special event for the American expatriate community living in this European capital.
    obama_election_night22-05-11-2008.jpg
  • A group of Democratic party supporters look ecstatically happy after the final news of their Man's victory. Gone is the nervous tension earlier in the evening when these party faithful arrived for a whole night following developments. Polls suggested Obama was doing well against his Republican adversary, John McCain in this historic political election which saw the election of America's first black Commander in chief. The location is a pub called the Hoop and Toy, in South Kensington, West London which has been opened all night for this special event for the American expatriate community living in this European capital.
    obama_election_night29-05-11-2008.jpg
  • With a hand-drawn map of the United States coloured in increasingly in blue, American expatriates of African-american ethnicity sit and watch live BBC and SKY News TV screen that is broadcasting live the latest polls of the 2008 US presidential elections. Early polls suggest Barack Obama is doing well against his Republican adversary, John McCain in this historic political election which saw the election of America's first black Commander in chief. The location is a pub called the Hoop and Toy, in South Kensington, West London which has been opened all night for this special event for the American expatriate community living in this European capital.
    obama_election_night22-05-11-2008.jpg
  • Empty landscape of still unused cycling time trials facilities in the grounds of the Tudor King Henry the Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace in south west London - part of the London 2012 Olympics. The final bill for the 2012 Olympics could be ten times higher than the original estimate, according to an investigation. The predicted cost of the games when London won the bid in 2005 was £2.37billion. That figure has now spiralled to more than £12billion and could reach as much as £24billion, the Sky Sports investigation claims. The Olympics public sector funding package, which covers the building of the venues, security and policing, was upped to around £9.3bn in 2007. .
    olympic_cycling16-28-07-2012.jpg
  • Empty landscape of still unused cycling time trials facilities in the grounds of the Tudor King Henry the Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace in south west London - part of the London 2012 Olympics. The final bill for the 2012 Olympics could be ten times higher than the original estimate, according to an investigation. The predicted cost of the games when London won the bid in 2005 was £2.37billion. That figure has now spiralled to more than £12billion and could reach as much as £24billion, the Sky Sports investigation claims. The Olympics public sector funding package, which covers the building of the venues, security and policing, was upped to around £9.3bn in 2007. .
    olympic_cycling14-28-07-2012.jpg
  • Empty landscape of still unused cycling time trials facilities in the grounds of the Tudor King Henry the Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace in south west London - part of the London 2012 Olympics. The final bill for the 2012 Olympics could be ten times higher than the original estimate, according to an investigation. The predicted cost of the games when London won the bid in 2005 was £2.37billion. That figure has now spiralled to more than £12billion and could reach as much as £24billion, the Sky Sports investigation claims. The Olympics public sector funding package, which covers the building of the venues, security and policing, was upped to around £9.3bn in 2007. .
    olympic_cycling11-28-07-2012.jpg
  • Empty landscape of still unused cycling time trials facilities in the grounds of the Tudor King Henry the Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace in south west London - part of the London 2012 Olympics. The final bill for the 2012 Olympics could be ten times higher than the original estimate, according to an investigation. The predicted cost of the games when London won the bid in 2005 was £2.37billion. That figure has now spiralled to more than £12billion and could reach as much as £24billion, the Sky Sports investigation claims. The Olympics public sector funding package, which covers the building of the venues, security and policing, was upped to around £9.3bn in 2007. .
    olympic_cycling10-28-07-2012.jpg
  • Empty landscape of still unused cycling time trials facilities in the grounds of the Tudor King Henry the Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace in south west London - part of the London 2012 Olympics. The final bill for the 2012 Olympics could be ten times higher than the original estimate, according to an investigation. The predicted cost of the games when London won the bid in 2005 was £2.37billion. That figure has now spiralled to more than £12billion and could reach as much as £24billion, the Sky Sports investigation claims. The Olympics public sector funding package, which covers the building of the venues, security and policing, was upped to around £9.3bn in 2007. .
    olympic_cycling09-28-07-2012.jpg
  • Empty landscape of still unused cycling time trials facilities in the grounds of the Tudor King Henry the Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace in south west London - part of the London 2012 Olympics. The final bill for the 2012 Olympics could be ten times higher than the original estimate, according to an investigation. The predicted cost of the games when London won the bid in 2005 was £2.37billion. That figure has now spiralled to more than £12billion and could reach as much as £24billion, the Sky Sports investigation claims. The Olympics public sector funding package, which covers the building of the venues, security and policing, was upped to around £9.3bn in 2007. .
    olympic_cycling08-28-07-2012.jpg
  • Empty landscape of still unused cycling time trials facilities in the grounds of the Tudor King Henry the Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace in south west London - part of the London 2012 Olympics. The final bill for the 2012 Olympics could be ten times higher than the original estimate, according to an investigation. The predicted cost of the games when London won the bid in 2005 was £2.37billion. That figure has now spiralled to more than £12billion and could reach as much as £24billion, the Sky Sports investigation claims. The Olympics public sector funding package, which covers the building of the venues, security and policing, was upped to around £9.3bn in 2007. .
    olympic_cycling07-28-07-2012.jpg
  • Seen on a giant screen in the Olympic Park, South Africa's gold medallist rowers Sizwe Ndlovu, John Smith, Matthew Brittain and James Thompson celebrate after winning the men's lightweight four rowing finals during the London 2012 Olympics. Spectators pass by as the team members celebrate with emotional hugs in their winning boat a few miles away in west London. 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_park56-02-08-2012.jpg
  • A young girl uses her Blackberry Curve to films cyclists as they race past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial10-01-08-2012.jpg
  • A Dutch cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial06-01-08-2012.jpg
  • Venezuelan Tomas Aurelio Gil Martinez races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial01-01-08-2012.jpg
  • Empty landscape of still unused cycling time trials facilities in the grounds of the Tudor King Henry the Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace in south west London - part of the London 2012 Olympics. The final bill for the 2012 Olympics could be ten times higher than the original estimate, according to an investigation. The predicted cost of the games when London won the bid in 2005 was £2.37billion. That figure has now spiralled to more than £12billion and could reach as much as £24billion, the Sky Sports investigation claims. The Olympics public sector funding package, which covers the building of the venues, security and policing, was upped to around £9.3bn in 2007. .
    olympic_cycling15-28-07-2012.jpg
  • Two spectators watch a large tv screen coverage during the London 2012 Olympics. Spectators pass by as the team members celebrate with emotional hugs in their winning boat a few miles away in west London. 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_park57-02-08-2012.jpg
  • A cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial12-01-08-2012.jpg
  • Team GB cyclist Bradley Wiggins races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won Wiggins, 42 seconds ahead of German Tony Martin.
    olympic_time_trial15-01-08-2012.jpg
  • A Dutch cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial13-01-08-2012.jpg
  • A cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial11-01-08-2012.jpg
  • A cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial09-01-08-2012.jpg
  • A cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial08-01-08-2012.jpg
  • New Zealand's Jack Bauer races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial07-01-08-2012.jpg
  • A cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial05-01-08-2012.jpg
  • A cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial04-01-08-2012.jpg
  • Iranian Alireza Haghi races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial02-01-08-2012.jpg
  • Balancing a huge basket of Fuchsias on her head, a lady walks along a Chelsea street accompanied by a friend after having just left the Chelsea Flower Show, in London England on the last day of the show when members of the Royal Horticultural Society and the general public are invited to purchase those plants and shrubs that have been displayed all week. It is the perfect summer May afternoon in west London, when lovers of horticulture have gathered from across the country to admire the ultimate in plants and flowers in the grounds of Chelsea Hospital. With its pink blooms hanging from the main bulk of the shrub, the Fuchsia is resplendent in the late sunshine, a scene of quintessential English gardens and long summer days.
    chelsea_flowers_ladies-26-05-1989.jpg
  • Bella Freud stands looking over her sister Esther's garden in West London. She is known for her womens' fashion label, though she is currently focussing on knitwear, producing beautiful collections of sweaters in limited numbers each season. For Autumn/ Winter 2005 Bella's knitwear range expanded to include menswear for the first time ever with a capsule collection of four sweater designs for men. She works as consultant with Miss Selfridges plus designing one off pieces for special clients like Nick Cave to wear on stage. Her celebrity clients include Madonna, Kate Moss, Courtney Love and others. Bella Freud is the daughter of the artist Lucian Freud and the great grand daughter of Sigmund Freud...
    bella_freud02-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Window seat view of mid-Channel airliner wing and airspace over west London.
    adie_dolan438-05-06-2014.jpg
  • Window seat view of mid-Channel airliner wing and airspace over Richmond, west London.
    adie_dolan439-05-06-2014.jpg
  • An unidentified youth is seen climbing over a high security fence into a derelict basketball court in the Notting Hill area of West London, England. Half-way over the wire netting, the young man has put his right leg over the top to haul himself over the high barrier. In the distance we see the graffiti left by other kids, sprayed on to the concrete walls of the former sports place. This is an inner-city environment where lawless youth crime is prevalent.
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  • A masked youth is seen after spraying graffiti art on to a wall in the Notting Hill area of West London, England.
    graffiti_art03-08-11-1989.jpg
  • A masked youth is seen after spraying graffiti art on to a wall in the Notting Hill area of West London, England. We see his partially-obscured face while holding a spray can in one hand. It is a chilly night and the boy's breath is seen against the frosty night air. His graffiti art has taken him some hours to spray on this white wall and shows a glossy finish. The picture is anonymous because of the young man's face is unseen and generic, because we don't see where the wall might be located.
    graffiti_art02-08-11-1989.jpg
  • Viewed from a low angle, an unidentified youth is seen spraying graffiti art on to a wall in the Notting Hill area of West London, England. We see his partially-obscured face lit from behind with a strong amount of flash which throws a well-defined shadow of his hand holding a spray can. It is a chilly night and the boy's breath is seen against the frosty night air. His graffiti art has taken him some hours to spray on this white wall and shows a glossy finish. The picture is anonymous because of the young man's face is unseen and generic, because we don't see where the wall might be located.
    graffiti_art01-08-11-1989.jpg
  • Good-looking trendy young people spill out of a pub one sunny afternoon in fashionable Notting Hill in West London. Their confidence and sense of fun and living for the moment is seen in their clothes and style. But out-of-sight around the corner on this street stands a rather nervous-looking poor woman, an elderly lady perhaps in her sixties who is holding some shopping bags with her coat buttoned up, despite being warm outside. Her demeanour is that of tiredness and hardship - the opposite of the young generation. There is a wide generation gap here: The division of wealth, health and outlook between these two demographic groups which also symbolises a modern Britain, used to the class system that is alive and well.
    elderly_pub10-27-1997.jpg
  • Abandoned aerosol spray cans lie in soil after a graffiti gang's overnight vandalism visit in Notting Hill, West London.  We see the cans having been emptied of their contents, in the soil next to the wall that has been covered with tags and graffiti art, the drawings of which have been sketched on a sheet of paper.
    graffiti_art04-08-11-1989.jpg
  • A lady is sandwiched between her just purchased flowers in the back of a white van, returning home from the annual Chelsea Flower Show. It is a summer May afternoon in west London, when lovers of horticulture have gathered from across the country to admire the ultimate in plants and flowers in the grounds of Chelsea Hospital. With its pink blooms hanging from the main bulk of the shrub, the Fuchsia is resplendent in the late sunshine, a scene of quintessential English gardens and long summer days.
    chelsea_show02-26-05-1989.jpg
  • An aerial view of a west London Porsche car salesman in his salesroom. We look down from a high vantage point to see three of his sports cars looking highly-polished in this expensive and exclusive market for elite cars. Two 911 (964) Carrera models from their 1992 range are seen in red and black - one an open top and the other a saloon. The Porsche 964 is the company's internal name for the version of the Porsche 911 model manufactured and sold between 1989 and 1994, designed by Benjamin Dimson in 1986 and built in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
    car_salesman-12-08-1992.jpg
  • Clothing hanging on a washing line in a Pimlico housing estate in London. Reflecting a bygone era when the residents of inner-city tenements and housing estates hung out their washing on wash days (usually Mondays in the UK), relying on honesty and the community spirit to ensure their safety. Today we see this rarely apart from courtyards like this in west London. The walls are made fromclassic London stock bricks but the colours of a vibrant 21st century Britain are seen strung along the line.
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  • A 1960 Bentley S2 Continental drives down the Kings Road, Chelsea. A couple pass along the street in west London with the roof down, the sun glinting off their bumper (fender) and onto them on a perfect late-summer afternoon. The scene echoes a bygone era when drivers and passengers would parade down here to show off their motors - this still happens today. The Bentley S2 (and the high-performance Bentley Continental S2 derived from it) was a luxury car produced by Bentley from 1959 until 1962. 1,920 standard and long-wheelbase car chassis were built between 1959 and 1962. Almost all were fitted with standard factory bodywork. A number had coachbuilt bodies by Park Ward, Hooper, H. J. Mulliner & Co., and James Young.
    chelsea_bentley01-07-09-2013.jpg
  • Red London Routemaster bus passes Garrick theatre showing a West End play on Charing Cross Road.
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  • Tourist finding their way around Soho and the West End with the help of a large city map of London.
    london_tourist01-05-10-2010.jpg
  • Evening drinkers in the traditionally Victorian Salisbury pub on St Martin's Lane in the West End's Theatreland.
    london_time30-03-09-2008.jpg
  • Evening drinkers in the traditionally Victorian Salisbury pub on St Martin's Lane in the West End's Theatreland.
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  • Evening drinkers in the traditionally Victorian Salisbury pub on St Martin's Lane in the West End's Theatreland.
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  • Evening drinkers in the traditionally Victorian Salisbury pub on St Martin's Lane in the West End's Theatreland.
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  • Evening drinkers in the traditionally Victorian Salisbury pub on St Martin's Lane in the West End's Theatreland.
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  • Evening drinkers in the traditionally Victorian Salisbury pub on St Martin's Lane in the West End's Theatreland.
    london_time31-03-09-2008.jpg
  • Garrick theatre showing a West End production of Twelve Angry Men on Charing Cross Road.
    london_theatre02-13-02-2014.jpg
  • Roddy Doyle's The Commitments at London's Palace Theatre at Cambridge Circus.
    london_theatre04-13-02-2014.jpg
  • A passer-by stands next to a menu from a Chinese restaurant in Gerrard Street in London's Chinatown, England. The words Dim Sum Daily are displayed in neon lights above the person's head, its translated message is written on the top in Chinese characters. In the clear window we can see rows of Peking duck. It is early evening and the street is full of colour from the artificial lighting that creates an inviting mood for those browsing the menus on offer in this lively part of London's West End. The pedestrian is partly silhouetted and she stands in profile looking straight ahead as if ignoring what is on offer.
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  • Large arrows coloured red, green and yellow point north, west and east - or up, right and left - in three directions, to offer directions to seminars for accountants during their annual Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The people are either confidently pacing forward, standing still to seek guidance or simply spontaneously emerging from the shadows to a brighter future, a moment when freedom of choice is offered and the road ahead dictates their fate. It is a scene of corporate theatre and each employee will attend this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • Seen through the window of an amusement arcade in London's Gerrard Street, Chinatown, we see the colourful neon lights that garishly shine from behind the glass. Beyond is the hustle and bustle of daily life in this famous street of London's Chinese community. We are slightly confused as to what is inside and what is out. We see the Georgian architecture reflected from behind and to the left is a slot-machine game called Hi-Roller which suggests the use of dice in this gambling activity. Passers-by can be seen outside, making their way past the many restaurants and businesses. In the middle of the scene is a yellow sign positioned by the Metropolitan Police warning against pickpockets as this area of the West End is known for petty crime.
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  • Standing late at night in the doorway of a Soho nightclub in Old Compton Street, London England, a bouncer provides security for his employer. Otherwise known as doormen or door supervisers, these usually hardened men offer a deterrent for anyone causing trouble inside ot out of licensed bars and clubs such as this. Lit from overhead spotlights, he looks menacing and capable of street violence - enough to urge troublemakers to move on quick. reflected in the glass is Ed's Diner a well-known eaterie in this street. Soho is known as a rather seedy but vibrant area of London's West End and late-night social disorder fuelled by excessive alcohol is pretty much normal.
    RB_136-08-10-1992.jpg
  • Standing late at night in the doorway of a Soho nightclub in Old Compton Street, London England, a bouncer provides security for his employer. Otherwise known as doormen or door supervisers, these usually hardened men offer a deterrent for anyone causing trouble inside ot out of licensed bars and clubs such as this. Lit from overhead spotlights, he looks menacing and capable of street violence - enough to urge troublemakers to move on quick. reflected in the glass is Ed's Diner a well-known eaterie in this street. Soho is known as a rather seedy but vibrant area of London's West End and late-night social disorder fuelled by excessive alcohol is pretty much normal.
    RB_136-08-10-1992.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
  • An adult business window displays the naughty underwear worn by five mannequin models of a Soho sex shop on Old Compton Street in London's West End. Tilted slightly to the left, we see the 5 models posing in various positions of suggestive stances, all demonstrating the shop's array of erotic clothing for the Good Time Girl! On the far right is the artwork of a topless woman, wearing only knee-length stockings. See from behind, the line-drawing of the female suggests a dancer on a Parisian stage act such as the Folies Bergere or Paradis Latin - variety performances for the male admirer. She looks over her left shoulder as if to wink in our direction, all part of the illusion of coquettish desire and greedy eroticism. Old Compton Street is known for cafes, bars and especially the gay, trans-gender scene and for sellers of erotic toy 'accessories'!
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  • London pub window.Looking through an ornately traditional English pub window, an unidentified drinker reaches for their pint of beer, as seen through the front frosted window of a tradtional pub in Drury Lane, in London's West End..From the 'Windows' series.
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  • Visitors to Theatreland in London's West End, read newspapers at a kiosk lit by spotlights on Tottenham Court Road.
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  • A tangle of electric lights are strung together on the ceiling of a West End construction site in London's Soho.
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  • Just after heavy rain when the streets of London's West End are wet but brightening after the clouds have passed we look into the windows of a black taxi cab on the busy Charing Cross Road. It is a scene of urban transport and inclement weather. We can see the rough form of the taxi driver at the front of his vehicle but it appears that he is stationary, possibly awaiting for the return of his fare-paying passenger from nearby bookshops such as Foyles in the background. A No-Smoking sticker is on the window and advertising on the side panel shows the arms of an airline passenger sitting in an airliner seat but once the taxi passenger returns, their head will be directly above this. The car's roof is still wet from rain, glistening in the artificial street lights that have turned on during the dark rain storm.
    electricity100-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • Old West End theatre posters uncovered on Charing Cross Road in central London.
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  • A Post Office employee hauls a cart full of post onto the station platform on the Mail Rail system. The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless underground railway in London, built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices. Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company it operated from 3 December 1927 until 31 May 2003. It ran east-west from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Office at Whitechapel in the east, a distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km). It had eight stations, the largest of which was underneath Mount Pleasant, but by 2003 only three stations remained in use because the sorting offices above the other stations had been relocated.
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  • Tourists finding their way around Soho and the West End with the help of a large city map of London.
    city_map02-21-09-2010.jpg
  • Tourists finding their way around Soho and the West End with the help of a large city map of London.
    city_map01-21-09-2010.jpg
  • Older woman and younger girls in front of poster for Mamma Mia musical in London's West End.
    mamma_mia_poster06-17-04-2014.jpg
  • In the weeks before Christmas day on December 25th, the Lord Mayor of London hosts an annual party at his official town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the City of London. Inviting Greater London's borough Mayors, they can each invite worthy children for an afternoon's fancy dress party. Two children dressed as Tarzan with a small monkey and a Grenadier Guard with a bearskin, and are seated on the Mayoral throne like two princes in a royal court. The chairs are coated with gold leaf with red cushioned fabric and with the Corporation of London's crest on the top. It looks resplendent and opulent. The two kids are sat looking small in the chairs seemingly made for giants but behind them is another boy dressed as a grey rabbit with floppy ears running past. The Guildhall has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial centre of the City of London. The term Guildhall refers both to the whole building and to its main room, which is a medieval style great hall similar to those at many Oxbridge colleges. The Guildhall complex houses the offices of the Corporation of London and various public facilities. (Greater London also has a City Hall). The great hall is believed to be on the site of an earlier Guildhall, and has large mediaeval crypts underneath. During the Roman period it was the site of an amphitheatre, the largest in Britannia. The City of London is still part of London's city centre, but apart from financial services, most of London's metropolitan functions are centred on the West End. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
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  • The cast of The Commitments perform a Christmas song outside the Palace Theatre in London's West End.
    commitments_cast01-03-12-2014.jpg
  • On a rainy night, a young female smokes under a heated, sheltered smokers' zone outside a bar in London
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  • A passer-by stands outside a Chinese Restaurant offering Dim Sum in Chinatown, home to London's ethnic Chinese community.
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  • Seen from slightly behind, a young woman stands taking shelter from early evening rain in Goodge Street, London England. Holding a lit cigarette in her left hand and with an unused ashtray to her right, she is chatting with friends who are also enjoying a relaxing hour after work. Under the UK Government's recent laws on smoking in public places, the work mates are forced outside the pub to smoke on the street in a special area away from the anti-smoking people indoors. Lit by glowing red lights that also provide warmth on this chilly January night, the friends are comfortable in their own company.
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  • Peering through the steamy window of a Chinese restaurant in London's Chinatown district, we see the shapes and forms of kitchen staff and customers in this lively scene. In the window are rows of Peking Duck with their skins cooked a crispy dark brown. Meanwhile, surrounded by cooking utensils and implements, the tools of their trade, two chefs busy themselves in the kitchen area, one's face shows him to be ethnic Chinese who is rubbing his hands in a cloth before continuing his chores. Two European girls are waiting expectantly for their dishes to arrive. Obscured by the steam and heat, a waiter in green bustles about this small eaterie.
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  • Red London bus passing the sunlit exterior of the Haymarket Theatre in central London. The Theatre Royal, Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use.
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  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan. The £17bn expansion at Heathrow would mean 250,000 more flights a year.
    no3rd_runway_protest34-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan. The £17bn expansion at Heathrow would mean 250,000 more flights a year.
    no3rd_runway_protest31-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan. The £17bn expansion at Heathrow would mean 250,000 more flights a year.
    no3rd_runway_protest28-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan.
    no3rd_runway_protest26-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan.
    no3rd_runway_protest25-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith (left) and Labour's Sadique Khan.
    no3rd_runway_protest20-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan.
    no3rd_runway_protest19-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan (pictured) .
    no3rd_runway_protest14-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan. The £17bn expansion at Heathrow would mean 250,000 more flights a year.
    no3rd_runway_protest13-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan. The £17bn expansion at Heathrow would mean 250,000 more flights a year.
    no3rd_runway_protest12-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan. The £17bn expansion at Heathrow would mean 250,000 more flights a year.
    no3rd_runway_protest11-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan. The £17bn expansion at Heathrow would mean 250,000 more flights a year.
    no3rd_runway_protest07-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan. The £17bn expansion at heathrow would mean 250,000 more flights a year.
    no3rd_runway_protest06-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan. The £17bn expansion at Heathrow would mean 250,000 more flights a year.
    no3rd_runway_protest04-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan. The £17bn expansion at Heathrow would mean 250,000 more flights a year.
    no3rd_runway_protest02-10-10-2015.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan. The £17bn expansion at Heathrow would mean 250,000 more flights a year.
    no3rd_runway_protest01-10-10-2015.jpg
  • Before it erupts into a full-scale riot, peaceful protesters against Margaret Thatcher's Poll Tax policy, gather in Whitehall, on 31st March 1990, in London, England. London, England. Later that day, angry crowds stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • Before it erupts into a full-scale riot, families and peaceful protesters against Margaret Thatcher's Poll Tax policy, gather in Trafalgar Square, on 31st March 1990, in London, England. London, England. Later that day, angry crowds stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_afternoon02-01-04-1990.jpg
  • A pedestrian walks past an upturned car, a casualty of the Poll Tax riot, on 1st April 1990, in Charing Cross Road, London, England. when angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane, on 1st April 1990, in London, England. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_afternoon01-01-04-1990.jpg
  • Red London bus passing the sunlit exterior of the Haymarket Theatre in central London. The Theatre Royal, Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use.
    haymarket_theatre04-15-02-2016.jpg
  • Sunlit exterior of the Haymarket Theatre in central London. The Theatre Royal, Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use.
    haymarket_theatre01-15-02-2016.jpg
  • The white middle-classes gathered in Parliament Square to protest against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport - blighting, they say, thousands of homes in London's aviation hub's flight paths - especially to the west of the capital. Central to the demonstration were both London mayoral candidates: the Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadique Khan. The £17bn expansion at Heathrow would mean 250,000 more flights a year.
    no3rd_runway_protest37-10-10-2015.jpg
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