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  • A lady office worker dashes through a City of London street, the heart of the capital's financial district. Carrying an armful of paper files and folders, clasped in her arms that makes her way across the city en route to a meeting with associates. Their education and careers have taken her to positions of influence and success, still hard to do in 90s Britain.
    city_people02-20-03-1993.jpg
  • Women office workers dash through a City of London street, the heart of the capital's financial district. Carrying an armful of paper files and folders, clasped in their arms that make their way across the city en route to a meeting with associates. Their education and careers have taken them to positions of influence and success, still hard to do in 90s Britain.
    city_people03-20-03-1993.jpg
  • A families queue, a Royal Navy careers recruitment trailer is parked in the grounds of the Naval College in Greenwich, London. During a public open-day in Greenwich, when the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day21-11-05-2013.jpg
  • An Asian woman graduate  from Imperial College London rests sore feet after celebrating her education success with friends and families beneath the Albert Memorial after their graduation ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall, on 19th October 2022, in London, England.
    london_graduates-14-19-10-2022.jpg
  • 1990s rush-hour commuters cross London Bridge from Southwark on the south bank to the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 18th February 1992, in London, England.
    90s_commuters-20-11-1993.jpg
  • A financial industry businessman stands beneath the sculpture entitled City Wing on Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 11th July 2019, in London, England. City Wing is by the artist Christopher Le Brun. The ten-metre-tall bronze sculpture is by President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun, commissioned by Hammerson in 2009. It is called ‘The City Wing’ and has been cast by Morris Singer Art Founders, reputedly the oldest fine art foundry in the world.
    city_people-04-11-07-2019.jpg
  • As City businessmen walk past during their lunch hour, a homeless man searches through a bin for scraps of discarded food, on 16th June 1994, in the City of London, England.
    city26-16-06-1994.jpg
  • Smokers in a quiet corner of the Broadgate corporate offices development in the City of London. The silhouette of a businessman strides past the two colleagues as one smoker with his back to us, talks to a woman associate, both in a corner, under the tall steel architecture with the backdrop of the Broadgate development within the ancient boundary of the capital's Square Mile, it's financial district founded by the Romans in AD43.
    broadgate_silhouettes12-04-03-2014.jpg
  • A Londoner dashes homeward over London Bridge in the rain as the day darkens in the City of London, the heart of the capital's financial district. She uses her tabloid Sun newspaper to shield her from the face full of rain lashing herself in the open distance to London Bridge station.
    city_people04-20-03-1993.jpg
  • City workers walk past another giant office building Brookfield construction development in the financial district City of London.
    city_construction02-22-03-2012.jpg
  • Six office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall of the Credit Lyonnais Bank. They rush to work while one figure stands and talks into his mobile phone, at Broadgate in the City of London, UK. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s.
    RB-0182.jpg
  • A group of 1990s work colleagues drink outside in summer sunshine, beneath the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_drinkers-20-06-1993.jpg
  • Two businessmen in the insurance industry smoke a cigar and checks a watch outside the Lloyds of London address in the City of London, the capital's heart of the financial district. The post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_of_london04-18-03-1993.jpg
  • A businessman reads a 1992 edition of the Daily Express whose headline announces that Prime Minister John Major is fighting the Pound Crisis, on a bench in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 18th September 1992, in London, England. Black Wednesday occurred in the United Kingdom on 16 September 1992, when John Major's Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after it was unable to keep the pound above its agreed lower limit in the ERM. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    pound_crisis02-18-09-1992.jpg
  • A contractor with a yellow bin passes underneath a column of coloured panels within a landscape of corporate office space of modern architecture, on 16th February 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_architecture-04-16-02-2017.jpg
  • A businessman talks to an unseen woman on Lothbury Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district and oldest quarter.
    city_people33-09-10-2015.jpg
  • Two businessmen in dark formal suits carry identical blue boxes along a London street. Walking away with their backs to us, the two men stride towards an appointment in the City of London. The two boxes are both held in the arms of both executives as they cross the churchyard in front of St. Paul's cathedral in the capital's financial district.
    blue_boxes4-23-09-2011.jpg
  • A young woman holds a conversation on her phone while standing in the foyer of The Helicon, a company office space, on 16th February 2017, on Moorgate, in the City of London, England.
    spots_woman-02-16-02-2017.jpg
  • A male office worker walks through a darkening winter afternoon in the rain in the City of London. Holding a large corporate brolley and sucking on a pipe in his mouth, the middle-aged gent walks briskly along en route to a meeting with associates elsewhere.
    city_people06-20-03-1993.jpg
  • Office workers walk through a City of London street, the heart of the capital's financial district. It is lunchtime and two men have take-away sandwiches. One eats his on the go, biting into his long baguette from Pret a Manger in this narrow city street near St Paul's cathedral and the other chews his own.
    city_people01-20-03-1993.jpg
  • A team of labourers struggle to manhandle a very heavy plate-glass window through a City of London street.
    glass_workmen05-07-02-2013.jpg
  • Workmen contractors carry ceiling panelling along a City of London street, a hand emerging from the top.
    men_panel01-24-05-2012.jpg
  • Workmen on a construcion site work beneath the concrete core of a new building being erected in the City of London.
    construction_site02-15-02-2013.jpg
  • A woman walks into a corporate building entrance beneath the sculpture entitled City Wing on Threadneedle Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 12th July 2022, in London, England. City Wing is by the artist Christopher Le Brun. The ten-metre-tall bronze sculpture is by President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun, commissioned by Hammerson in 2009. It is called ‘The City Wing’ and has been cast by Morris Singer Art Founders, reputedly the oldest fine art foundry in the world.
    city_wing-02-12-07-2022.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, a solitary socially distanced company employee sits at his desk in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
    city_offices04-09-03-2021.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, a serviceman holds his child next to the memorial to those killed in the 2002 Bali bombing, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-26-10-07-2018.jpg
  • A delivery man and businessman cross paths in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 6th June 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-07-06-06-2018.jpg
  • A workman wipes the ceiling of a vacant office building in the City of London.
    vacant_offices05-06-01-2014.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys do a leadership initiative test in Pokhara  camp, hoping to be recruited for the Gurkha Regiment in the British army. This is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example, they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas03-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys watch how to perform sit-ups in Himalayas, hoping to be recruited for the Gurkha Regiment in the British army. This is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas02-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Surrounded by deep shadows, a young man climbs the steps of number 1 London Bridge.
    london_bridge27-08-04-2011.jpg
  • Commuters stream over London Bridge at the outer marker of the City of London, and along a walkway.
    london_bridge14-08-04-2011.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, a solitary socially distanced company employee sits alone in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
    city_workplace15-09-03-2021.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, a solitary socially distanced company employee sits alone in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
    city_workplace14-09-03-2021.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, a solitary socially distanced company employee sits at his desk in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
    city_workplace13-09-03-2021.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, a solitary socially distanced company employee sits at his desk in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
    city_workplace11-09-03-2021.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, a solitary socially distanced company employee sits at his desk in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
    city_workplace10-09-03-2021.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, a solitary socially distanced company employee sits at his desk in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
    city_offices05-09-03-2021.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, a solitary socially distanced company employee sits at his desk in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
    city_offices06-09-03-2021.jpg
  • 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.
    bus_journey-02-06-09-2019.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, a serviceman holds his child next to the memorial to those killed in the 2002 Bali bombing, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-32-10-07-2018.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, a serviceman holds his child next to the memorial to those killed in the 2002 Bali bombing, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-31-10-07-2018.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, a serviceman holds his child next to the memorial to those killed in the 2002 Bali bombing, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-30-10-07-2018.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, a serviceman holds his child next to the memorial to those killed in the 2002 Bali bombing, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-29-10-07-2018.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, a serviceman holds his child next to the memorial to those killed in the 2002 Bali bombing, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-28-10-07-2018.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, a serviceman holds his child next to the memorial to those killed in the 2002 Bali bombing, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
    RAF_100-27-10-07-2018.jpg
  • Women sit in a small area of sunlight on Fenchurch Avenue in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 6th June 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-11-06-06-2018.jpg
  • Women sit in a small area of sunlight on Fenchurch Avenue in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 6th June 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-10-06-06-2018.jpg
  • Met police officers patrol the Elephant & Castle area in the London borough of Lambeth.
    elephant&castle_police07-27-09-2013.jpg
  • A young boy, too short to reach points a Minigun cannon from the top deck of HMS Illustrious over the river Thames at Greenwich, London. During which the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier was docked on the river, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day48-11-05-2013.jpg
  • A lady insurance underwriter or broker stands on the floor at Lloyds of London's Richard Rogers headquarters building. She reads pages from iwhat is known as the Loss Book, a centuries-old tradition. Since the time of Edward Lloyd's Coffee House in the seventeenth century, the Loss Book has been the focal point for gathering intelligence and keeping a record of the commercial ships lost to the mighty oceans. Today, a feature of visits to Lloyd's is a look at the famous Loss Book and an example of its counterpart from 100 years earlier. The Lloyds market began around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_of_london03-18-03-1993.jpg
  • Workman delivering plaster wallboard destined for inside central London office building.
    workmen_panels05-19-03-2012.jpg
  • Workman delivering plaster wallboard destined for inside central London office building.
    workmen_panels04-19-03-2012.jpg
  • An excavator and aspirational poster on wall during building of 2012 Olympic Westfield City shopping centre, Stratford. A glamorous woman sips a drink with a straw representing the good times - wealth and beauty and the symbols of affluence - while the working men are seen small in comparison, the downtrodden Man. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector..
    olympic_stratford29-15-03-2012.jpg
  • JCB excavator and aspirational poster on wall during building of 2012 Olympic Westfield City shopping centre, Stratford.
    westfield_stratford20-08-03-2012.jpg
  • Resting workmen and businessman in a shaft of early spring light in a side street in the capital's financial district. This is Lombard Street, originally a piece of land granted by King Edward I to goldsmiths from the part of northern Italy known as Lombardy (larger than the modern region of Lombardy). It is a narrow and usually dark sidestreet near the Bank of England in the heart of what is called the Square Mile - the inner-part and oldest quarter of London occupied first by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Nowadays the City of London is home to banks and financial institutions but also with a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    city_people19-24-02-2012.jpg
  • Red shirted ordnance men prepare to fit smart bombs and missiles to an F/A-18 fighter jet on deck of USS Harry S Truman. 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.
    us_navy_carrier08-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Red shirted ordnance men prepare to fit smart bombs and missiles to an F/A-18 fighter jet on deck of USS Harry S Truman. 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.
    us_navy_carrier07-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Red shirted ordnance men prepare to fit smart bombs to an F/A-18 fighter jet on deck of USS Harry S Truman. 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.
    us_navy_carrier06-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Red shirted ordnance men organise the busy deck of F/A-18C fighter jets on aircraft carrier on deck of USS Harry S Truman. 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.
    us_navy_carrier02-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys admire a young girl on an army walk along Himalayan path during recruitment to the British Gurkha Regiment. This recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas06-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys in army red march though a Pokhara street after being recruited for the Gurkha Regiment in the Btitish army. This recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas05-16-01-1997.jpg
  • A young Nepali boys look at family photos during a lull in Gurkha recruiting selection in barracks room, Pokhara army camp. This recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas04-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Construction workers outside the mens' clothing outfitters Hackett in Philpot Lane in London's Square Mile.
    workmen_window1-23-09-2011.jpg
  • Surrounded by deep shadows, a commuter climbs the steps of number 1 London Bridge.
    london_bridge30-08-04-2011.jpg
  • Surrounded by deep shadows, a commuter helps a mother with a buggy up the steps of number 1 London Bridge.
    london_bridge29-08-04-2011.jpg
  • Surrounded by deep shadows, commuters climb the steps of number 1 London Bridge.
    london_bridge22-08-04-2011.jpg
  • Surrounded by deep shadows, a commuter climbs the steps of number 1 London Bridge.
    london_bridge20-08-04-2011.jpg
  • Surrounded by deep shadows, a commuter climbs the steps of number 1 London Bridge.
    london_bridge19-08-04-2011.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, a solitary socially distanced company employee sits alone in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
    city_workplace16-09-03-2021.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, a solitary socially distanced company employee sits at his desk in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
    city_offices02-09-03-2021.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, a solitary socially distanced company employee sits at his desk in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
    city_offices03-09-03-2021.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, a solitary socially distanced company employee sits at his desk in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
    city_offices01-09-03-2021.jpg
  • A delivery man and businessman cross paths in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 6th June 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-06-06-06-2018.jpg
  • British schoolchildren on a daytrip to the capital enjoy a chance encounter with guardsmen at Horseguards on London's Whitehall. Gathering around the two troops, they talk to the caucasian man rather than the smaller man of afro-caribbean descent, both wearing the scarlet uniform tunics of the British Household Cavalry. This regiment is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660.
    schoolchildren_soldier03-10-06-2013.jpg
  • British schoolchildren on a daytrip to the capital enjoy a chance encounter with guardsmen at Horseguards on London's Whitehall. Gathering around the two troops, they talk to the caucasian man rather than the smaller man of afro-caribbean descent, both wearing the scarlet uniform tunics of the British Household Cavalry. This regiment is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660.
    schoolchildren_soldier02-10-06-2013.jpg
  • An insurance underwriter or broker stands on the floor at Lloyds of London's Richard Rogers headquarters building. He reads pages from what is known as the Loss Book, a centuries-old tradition. Since the time of Edward Lloyd's Coffee House in the seventeenth century, the Loss Book has been the focal point for gathering intelligence and keeping a record of the commercial ships lost to the mighty oceans. Today, a feature of visits to Lloyd's is a look at the famous Loss Book and an example of its counterpart from 100 years earlier. The Lloyds market began around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_of_london02-18-03-1993.jpg
  • A circus family poses for a portrait outside their big top tent before performing at another local show in south London. The family members are from the well-known Czech Faltiny Troupe who are travelling here on a European tour with Gerry Cottle's Circus in 1990. Wearing traditional the costumes of east European performers, the adults and their children look happy with their lives in the circus ring.
    circus_family01-28-09-1990.jpg
  • Young air cadets photograph a Hawk of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team during visit to RAF Scampton.
    Red_Arrows411_RBA.jpg
  • Workman delivering plaster wallboard destined for inside central London office building.
    workmen_panels03-19-03-2012.jpg
  • Construction worker outside the mens' clothing outfitters Hackett in Philpot Lane in London's Square Mile.
    workmen_mural01-19-03-2012.jpg
  • Workman carries construction fencing panel past bending maintenance man in Trafalgar Square.
    workman_fencing01-19-03-2012.jpg
  • An excavator and aspirational poster on wall during building of 2012 Olympic Westfield City shopping centre, Stratford. A glamorous woman representing the good times - wealth and beauty and the symbols of affluence - while the working Man is seen small in comparison, the downtrodden Man. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector..
    olympic_stratford31-15-03-2012.jpg
  • Red shirted ordnance men prepare and fit smart bombs to an F/A-18 fighter jet on deck of USS Harry S Truman. 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.
    us_navy_carrier05-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Brown-shirted plane captains, responsible for cleanliness and operating readiness of aircraft on deck, wash an F/A-18..On the deck of USS Harry S Truman, 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.
    us_navy_carrier04-08-05-2000.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys stride past poor elderly man in Kathmandu street after recruitment into the British Gurkhas. The recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857..
    gurkhas09-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys pose for a group photo beneath Kathmandu's Boudhanath Stupa after recruitment into the British Gurkhas. The recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857...
    gurkhas08-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys adjust their spacing during a camp parade after recruitment to the British Gurkha Regiment. The recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • Young Nepali boys attend a line-up in Himalayas, hoping to be recruited for the Gurkha Regiment in the Btitish army. .This is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example, they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas01-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Surrounded by deep shadows, commuters climb the steps of number 1 London Bridge.
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  • Surrounded by deep shadows, commuters climb the steps of number 1 London Bridge.
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  • A woman is surrounded by men on the 'Sharjah Book Authority' stand during the first day of the London Book Fair at Hammersmith's Olympia Exhibition Hall, on 18th April 2023, in London, England. The three-day international London Book Fair (LBF) is an annual publishing industry expo and Europe's largest spring book fair that typically attracts 25,000 visitors; exhibitors from across the publishing sector; authors hoping for their book ideas to be commissioned and where international publication rights deals are made for foreign editions.
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  • Educational text books are displayed on the 'China International Publishing Group' (CIPO) during the first day of the London Book Fair at Hammersmith's Olympia Exhibition Hall, on 18th April 2023, in London, England. The three-day international London Book Fair (LBF) is an annual publishing industry expo and Europe's largest spring book fair that typically attracts 25,000 visitors; exhibitors from across the publishing sector; authors hoping for their book ideas to be commissioned and where international publication rights deals are made for foreign editions.
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  • The German stand during the first day of the London Book Fair at Hammersmith's Olympia Exhibition Hall, on 18th April 2023, in London, England. The three-day international London Book Fair (LBF) is an annual publishing industry expo and Europe's largest spring book fair that typically attracts 25,000 visitors; exhibitors from across the publishing sector; authors hoping for their book ideas to be commissioned and where international publication rights deals are made for foreign editions.
    london_book_fair-30-18-04-2023.jpg
  • The Canongate stand during the first day of the London Book Fair at Hammersmith's Olympia Exhibition Hall, on 18th April 2023, in London, England. The three-day international London Book Fair (LBF) is an annual publishing industry expo and Europe's largest spring book fair that typically attracts 25,000 visitors; exhibitors from across the publishing sector; authors hoping for their book ideas to be commissioned and where international publication rights deals are made for foreign editions.
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  • The Hachette Book Group stand during the first day of the London Book Fair at Hammersmith's Olympia Exhibition Hall, on 18th April 2023, in London, England. The three-day international London Book Fair (LBF) is an annual publishing industry expo and Europe's largest spring book fair that typically attracts 25,000 visitors; exhibitors from across the publishing sector; authors hoping for their book ideas to be commissioned and where international publication rights deals are made for foreign editions.
    london_book_fair-26-18-04-2023.jpg
  • The Hachette Book Group stand during the first day of the London Book Fair at Hammersmith's Olympia Exhibition Hall, on 18th April 2023, in London, England. The three-day international London Book Fair (LBF) is an annual publishing industry expo and Europe's largest spring book fair that typically attracts 25,000 visitors; exhibitors from across the publishing sector; authors hoping for their book ideas to be commissioned and where international publication rights deals are made for foreign editions.
    london_book_fair-20-18-04-2023.jpg
  • On the first of their four-day nationwide industrial action, striking junior doctors rally in Trafalgar Square before marching through central London, on 11th April 2023, in London, England. The walkout by members of the British Medical Association are staging the first of a four-day stoppage in pursuit of a 35% pay rise.
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  • On the first of their four-day nationwide industrial action, striking junior doctors rally in Trafalgar Square before marching through central London, on 11th April 2023, in London, England. The walkout by members of the British Medical Association are staging the first of a four-day stoppage in pursuit of a 35% pay rise.
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  • A man gives directions to another unseen person as he walks across the road in front of cycle lane wands in the City of London, aka the Square Mile - the capital's financial district, on 4th April 2023, in London, England.
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