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  • A Boxercise class in front of terraced period homes, and in the distance, the growing development at Nine Elms at Battersea, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 21st April 2022, in London, England.
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  • A Boxercise class in front of terraced period homes, and in the distance, the growing development at Nine Elms at Battersea, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 21st April 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_park-18-21-04-2022.jpg
  • With the Shard seen in the distance, a personal trainer leads a Boxercise class in Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 21st April 2022, in London, England.
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  • Graffiti sprayed on a rendered brick wall proclaims that a higher authority 'Can't evict our ideas'. This message of resistance by the underdogs of a moral majority appears on a part of wasteland in the Yorkshire city of Bradford, where the residents of an estate near the city centre have been forcibly removed to make space for a new development. Before their migration, the anonymous, downtrodden people were desperate enough to write this piece of anarchical philosophy that might be seen as a metaphor for a class war against the establishment by The People; the working classes otherwise known in Marxist ideology, as the Proletariat - a kind of thought from the (Orwellian) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.
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  • With cabin lights dimmed, economy class passengers sleep under blankets on an international long-haul flight
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  • An early morning Boxercise class in front of terraced period homes in Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 21st April 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_park-24-21-04-2022.jpg
  • Vinnie Browse switches off his overhead reading light in his Junior Rating bunk aboard HMS Vigilant, a 16,000 ton, 150m long Vanguard class nuclear submarine while moored at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, Scotland. Vigilant has a crew of 140 men and when at sea, only incoming communication, family-grams, are allowed so many months away on operational duty can be tough on home life. On-board entertainment is therefore important for morale. The Vanguard Class SSBN (Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear) provides the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear deterrent and carries Trident II ballistic missiles, powered by a pressurised water reactor (PWR) fuelled by a ton of fissionable uranium elements producing huge amounts of energy. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
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  • Five elderly women on-lookers are lined against a wall outside the famous Ascot race course on Ladies' Day, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar in June. Each are standing in order of size, from tallest (who holds a Tesco supermarket bag) to smallest and watch as a man dressed in formal tails walks towards an entrance gate for the private members' enclosure. We see the two sides of the class system but it is a humerous scene. There is good nature between the two groups with smiles exchanged with one couple but discomfort from those behind.
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  • Five elderly women on-lookers are lined against a wall outside the famous Ascot race course on Ladies' Day, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar in June. Each are standing in order of size, from tallest (who holds a Tesco supermarket bag) to smallest and watch as two posh couples arrive for the day's racing dressed in showy dresses for the ladies and the men in formal top hat and tails. The posh lady in the front is in yellow and holds on to her straw hat on this windy summer day. Each wears their red Ascot badges allowing them entry to this exclusive royal event attended by the Royal Family and the hoi polloi of English society. We see the two sides of the class system but it is a humerous scene. There is good nature between the two groups with smiles exchanged with one couple but discomfort from those behind.
    ascot_women01-18-06-1992.jpg
  • A class of schoolboys accompanied by their teachers play on the shingle at the water's edge in the south coast seaside town of Brighton. The East Pier is resplendent with amusement rides and attractions that populate its long structure, jutting out into the calm English Channel beyond which is the French coast further south. The children are still in their school shirts, shorts and ties but have taken off their shoes and socks to frolic and enjoy some precious fresh-air and the freedom that childhood brings. According to British legal requirements, schoolchildren on away day visits must have accompanying adults with a ratio of 1:xx though it appears this group's quota is less with two teachers per 28 boys.
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  • Opulent calm in the British Airways Concorde Room for First Class passengers at Heathrow airport's terminal 5.
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  • Free media on offer in the British Airways Concorde Room for First Class passengers at Heathrow airport's terminal 5.
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  • Lady passenger sampling Concorde Dining in the British Airways First Class restaurant at Heathrow airport's terminal 5.
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  • Receptionist in the British Airways Concorde Room for First Class passengers at Heathrow airport's terminal 5.
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  • An exercise class for schoolchildren on a basketball court at a sports ground in the highly-populated Asian city, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
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  • Business Class meals and luxury seating in a Qatar Airways Airbus A350-1000 at the Farnborough Airshow, on 18th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
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  • Business Class meals and luxury seating in a Qatar Airways Airbus A350-1000 at the Farnborough Airshow, on 18th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
    farnborough_airshow-33-18-07-2018.jpg
  • Five elderly women on-lookers are lined against a wall outside the famous Ascot race course on Ladies' Day, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar in June. Each are standing in order of size, from tallest (who holds a Tesco supermarket bag) to smallest and watch as two posh couples arrive for the day's racing dressed in showy dresses for the ladies and the men in formal top hat and tails. The posh lady in the front is in yellow and holds on to her straw hat on this windy summer day. Each wears their red Ascot badges allowing them entry to this exclusive royal event attended by the Royal Family and the hoi polloi of English society. We see the two sides of the class system but it is a humerous scene. There is good nature between the two groups with smiles exchanged with one couple but discomfort from those behind.
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  • Club Class passengers enjoying luxurious facilities at the British Airways Galleries Club lounge at Heathrow Airport's T5
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  • Club Class passengers enjoying luxurious facilities at the British Airways Galleries Club lounge at Heathrow Airport's T5
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  • Receptionist in the British Airways Galleries First .for First Class passengers at Heathrow airport's terminal 5.
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  • Entrance sign in the British Airways Concorde Room for First Class passengers at Heathrow airport's terminal 5.
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  • Receptionist and horse artwork in the British Airways Galleries First for First Class passengers at Heathrow airport's T5
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  • Waitress in the British Airways Concorde Bar for First Class passengers at Heathrow airport's terminal 5.
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  • "The week of Dunblane."  Mindful of the Dunblane massacre that week, a baby massage class takes place at a health clinic in south London. Spread across a matt are six babies of varying ages and sizes whose mums are tenderly stroking their infants' bodies and senses with soft, gentle touches over the head, face, shoulders, arms, chest, stomach and legs which is a recommended way of tactile communication between mother and child. Some children are looking up into their mothers' faces, others are looking elsewhere and one is upset but comforted. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old...
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  • About to board their Sri Lankan airlines flight to the Maldives, crowds of economy class passengers stand and make an orderly queue when their flight has been called by ground staff at London Heathrow airport England. Lines of people from all nations can be seen reflected in a large window that also overlooks the airport apron where their front-facing Airbus A340-300 aircraft awaits them, its flight-deck crew is seen in the cockpit readying their plane for the long night journey ahead. Catering service trucks are parked alongside the aircraft, loading supplies and all is on schedule from this large intercontinental airport hub to the much smaller island airfield in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the idyllic destination for holidaying Europeans.
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  • About to board their Sri Lankan airlines flight to the Maldives, crowds of economy class passengers stand and make an orderly queue when their flight has been called by ground staff at London Heathrow airport England. Lines of people from all nations can be seen reflected in a large window that also overlooks the airport apron where their front-facing Airbus A340-300 aircraft awaits them, its flight-deck crew is seen in the cockpit readying their plane for the long night journey ahead. Catering service trucks are parked alongside the aircraft, loading supplies and all is on schedule from this large intercontinental airport hub to the much smaller island airfield in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the idyllic destination for holidaying Europeans.
    maldives01-10-11-2007.jpg
  • Girlfriends eagerly await the opening by one woman of a bottle of bubbly, en-route by First Class train carriage to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week, on 21st June 1993, in London, England. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting.
    ascot_train-21-06-1993.jpg
  • On the day that Britain's new Conservative Party Prime Minister, Boris Johnson enters Downing Street to begin his government administration, replacing Theresa May after her failed Brexit negotiations with the European Union in Brussels, Class War protesters stretch their classist banner outside Downing Street, on 24th July 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    boris_johnson_new_PM-24-24-07-2019.jpg
  • On the day that Britain's new Conservative Party Prime Minister, Boris Johnson enters Downing Street to begin his government administration, replacing Theresa May after her failed Brexit negotiations with the European Union in Brussels, Class War protesters stretch their classist banner outside Downing Street, on 24th July 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    boris_johnson_new_PM-26-24-07-2019.jpg
  • On the day that Britain's new Conservative Party Prime Minister, Boris Johnson enters Downing Street to begin his government administration, replacing Theresa May after her failed Brexit negotiations with the European Union in Brussels, Class War protesters stretch their classist banner outside Downing Street, on 24th July 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    boris_johnson_new_PM-22-24-07-2019.jpg
  • On the day that Britain's new Conservative Party Prime Minister, Boris Johnson enters Downing Street to begin his government administration, replacing Theresa May after her failed Brexit negotiations with the European Union in Brussels, Class War protesters stretch their classist banner outside Downing Street, on 24th July 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    boris_johnson_new_PM-20-24-07-2019.jpg
  • Schoolboys learn verses from the Koran during a religious class in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • Schoolboys learn verses from the Koran during a religious class in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt375-06-03-2016.jpg
  • A group of attractive young ladies sit together in a train compartment. They are all on their way from London's Waterloo mainline station to Royal Ascot in Berkshire for Ladies Day during the Royal Ascot racing week. Wearing their best clobber and obligatory headwear for the posh event, the seated females are dressed in summer skirts and tops, in readiness for a warm day at the races. Sharing a joke and with plastic glasses filled with champagne from a bottle that one has been serving from, the 7 women are in good spirits in their private first class compartment that has a number 1 on the outside door. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season.
    ascot_ladies-21-06-1993.jpg
  • An elderly gentleman wearing a traditional bowler hat and carrying an umbrella, pauses to read the headlines in the London Evening Standard newspaper, before making his way home from Bank Triangle, outside the Bank of England. He is one of the last examples of a bygone age, when many in London's financial district wore such work clothes - a way of typifying a cretain breed of Englishness and class system, known all over, and still expected, around the world. Sadly, gents like this are very rare after modern fashions, lower standards and changed attitudes in the workplace meant that younger men no longer wanted to wear a stuffy outfit to work. The days of the bowler are fast disappearing.
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  • The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair MP, as Leader of the Opposition, stares in deep thought whilst on a train en-route to an evening Labour Party rally in Nottingham, 2 years before his victory in the 1997 General Election that eventually made him British Prime Minister. Blair is with an unknown Downing Street assistant and is has been reading the London Evening Standard newspaper in the First Class carriage at a time when fellow-passengers take little notice of the future controversial world statesman. Then, he could travel in relative obscurity, without large security details. Blair is wearing a blue shirt with a sober, patterned tie and his hair is still dark without the greyness that would appear rapidly when the pressures of office prematurely aged him. It is dark outside and we see no detail through the window of the vast Victorian mainline station outside.
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  • British Airways First Class landside check-in counter at newly-opened London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building.
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  • Silver Royal Navy ship's bell of HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine while docked at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane
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  • HMS Vigilant, a 15,000 ton Vanguard class nuclear submarine docked at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, Scotland.
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  • Naval Lieutenant's uniform belonging a Weapons Engineering Officer aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine.
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  • Royal Navy crew rest in the Junior Ratings wardroom aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine
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  • Able-bodied sailor relaxes in his Junior Rating bunk aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine
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  • Royal Navy crewman watches TV in the Junior Ratings wardroom aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine
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  • Able-bodied sailor relaxes in his Junior Rating bunk aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine
    5105-RPB59-faslane054-26-09-2007.jpg
  • On the day that Britain's new Conservative Party Prime Minister, Boris Johnson enters Downing Street to begin his government administration, replacing Theresa May after her failed Brexit negotiations with the European Union in Brussels, Class War protesters stretch their classist banner outside Downing Street, on 24th July 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    boris_johnson_new_PM-21-24-07-2019.jpg
  • On the day that Britain's new Conservative Party Prime Minister, Boris Johnson enters Downing Street to begin his government administration, replacing Theresa May after her failed Brexit negotiations with the European Union in Brussels, Class War protesters stretch their classist banner outside Downing Street, on 24th July 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    boris_johnson_new_PM-23-24-07-2019.jpg
  • While campaigning during John Major's election campaign, ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits a chemistry class at a north London school on 1st March 1992 in London, England. Originally a research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959. Her political career was over in 1990 after a leadership challenge and she died in 2013.
    margaret_thatcher05-01-03-1992.jpg
  • Schoolboys learn verses from the Koran during a religious class in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt377-06-03-2016.jpg
  • Schoolboys learn verses from the Koran during a religious class in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt372-06-03-2016.jpg
  • Girlfriends eagerly await the opening by one woman of a bottle of bubbly, en-route by train to Ascot racecourse  on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. The hats are wide-brimmed and the pinks are bright in this first class carriage with an old fashioned corridor. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
    ascot_races07-21-06-1993.jpg
  • A hunched, homeless elderly man walks along Fenchurch Street in the City of London while younger and affluent office workers saunter past, smiling and with a care in the world. It is a scene of social class division, the contrasts between wealth and poverty, have and have nots, prospects and no hope for the future and of old age and youth. The old man carries a plastic bag with all his belongings and the workers carry their lunch in a paper bag. They are not only smart and he dishevelled but they stand tall and he is stooped, further proof of the hard, demanding life he leads on the capital's streets.
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  • On the very last day of British rule over its Hong Kong colony, we see two groups representing this colonial territory's population. Commuters walk through Chater Garden about to pass another group of older exercise class. Towering above them all is the Bank of China skyscraper, then the tallest building in Asia, As the last hours tick away before the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight of that day signified the end of British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Almost 7 million people call a territory of 1100 sq km home, squeezing onto only 10% of the available land space. This is a metropolis of high population density and one of the world's economic powerhouses.
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  • 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.
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  • An elderly gentleman wearing a traditional bowler hat and carrying a folded newspaper descends the steps from the bright daylight to the dark of the London Underground, before making his way home from Royal Exchange at Bank Triangle by tube. He is one of the last examples of a bygone age, when many in London's financial district wore such work clothes - a way of typifying a breed of Englishness and class system, known all over, and still expected, around the world. Sadly, gents like this are very rare after modern fashions, lower standards and changed attitudes in the workplace meant that younger men no longer wanted to wear a stuffy outfit to work. The days of the bowler are fast disappearing. Behind him are the tall and solid Corinthian pillars of the 3rd Royal Exchange built in 1842 by Sir William Tite.
    city_bowler_gent-25-06-1993.jpg
  • In an office stock room, an archivist in British Airways' Customer Experiences Divition shows some conceptual design ideas for future Business Class cabin layouts, seen at the airline's corporate headquarters at Waterside at Harmondsworth near Heathrow Airport. Having listened to their passengers' ideas for what they'd like to experience in their long-haul cabins, BA regularly come up with ways to make the flight for premium users a reason to become loyal fare-payers. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ..
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  • Economy class seats in mid-day heat of arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
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  • Able-bodied sailor shaves in his Junior Rating head (toilets)  aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine
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  • Able-bodied sailor gets dressed in his Junior Rating quarters aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine
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  • Two employees of the Japanese aircraft manufacturer Mitsubishi sit in a full-scale model of their MRJ at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Seated in different rows of this stylish small regional jet, they awkwardly stare expressionless, straight ahead and although the seats are real, the mock-up fuselage is in the middle of an exhibition hall. The MRJ is a next generation jetliner with 70 or 90 seat economy class configurations, the first regional jet to adopt composite materials for its wings and vertical fins on significant scale. The Paris Air Show expo is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry who demonstrate military and civilian aircraft equipment to interested customers.
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  • During a lull in activity, a Boeing 747 is swathed in engineering gantries during a major check (maintenance schedule) at the British Airways Heathrow base in London England. As if in a hospital ER several metres off the ground, yellow struts surround the aircraft's forward nose section and the first class windows along the white fuselage allowing mechanics, engineers and avionics specialists unimpeded access to every element of the air frame. Neon tubes illuminate the hangar that houses flying machines which are serviced here between transcontinental commercial passenger flights. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
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  • A Weapons Engineering Officer works in his cabin quarters aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine.
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  • A businessman and lady carry boxes beneath a poster for the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters at Liverpool Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district - a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat.
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  • With smartphone in hand, a woman walks beneath a poster for the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters in Eldon Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district - and a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, a bygone gentlemanly tradition. when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat.
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  • A group of American interior design students sketch buildings adjacent while sitting on steps of public building in Florence's Piazza Di Annunziata. The small class is made up mostly of young women and there is a young man who is apparently teaching one woman how to capture the finer points of the architecture opposite. They all have sketchpads on their laps and are either looking into the distance, memorising the landscapes - or using pencils to reproduce these features on to paper. Florence and other Italian cities are full of young Americans studying music and painting, art and design, completing and complimenting US-based courses often as foreign exchange students or as residential terms.
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  • Two manual labourers walk beneath a poster for the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters at Liverpool Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district - a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat.
    gentlemen_poster05-14-03-2013.jpg
  • Two manual labourers walk past the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters at Liverpool Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district - a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat
    city_menswear10-12-03-2013.jpg
  • In the middle of a field serving as a grass car park, three couples celebrate the Ladies' Day event at Royal Ascot. Holding their glasses to toast a grand day out at this annual sporting event in the social calendar, the gentlemen are dressed in formal top hats and tails, the ladies in wide hats and summer dresses. Grinning and looking smug in their upp-class social status, they are seated eccentrically and comically around a plastic table with a tablecloth, two Candelabras and their picnic lunch plates full of fine food.
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  • Honeymoon couple on their return home after a holiday in the Maldives return home in economy class, happy.
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  • Middle-class housing at dawn in the village of Gezirat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • Honeymoon couple on their return home after a holiday in the Maldives return home in economy class, grinning.
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  • Schoolboys get dressed after an afternoon off from classes, spent next to the western Palace Pier at the seaside town of Brighton. Pulling on socks is a young lad from a nearby school whose uniform is a red blazer and striped tie. With their clothing of their friends still lie on the shngle, their afternoon of play day is coming to an end. In the background is the western Palace Pier, a major landmark on this south coast resort. Ofsted's guidelines are that for children of 9-12, a ratio of one adult to 8 young people is a requirement.
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  • Businessman passes below a billboard for clothing retailer Tommy Hilfiger showing the wealthy classes in a country setting.
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  • A woman of Indian descent passes below a billboard for clothing retailer Tommy Hilfiger showing the wealthy classes in a country setting.
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  • A man of African origin passes below a billboard for clothing retailer Tommy Hilfiger showing the wealthy classes in a country setting.
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  • Woman passes below a billboard for clothing retailer Tommy Hilfiger showing the wealthy classes in a country setting.
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  • Workman stands beneath a billboard for clothing retailer Tommy Hilfiger showing the wealthy classes in a country setting.
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  • Workman carries pipe beneath a billboard for clothing retailer Tommy Hilfiger showing the wealthy classes in a country setting.
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  • Workman sweeps beneath a billboard for clothing retailer Tommy Hilfiger showing the wealthy classes in a country setting.
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  • At the famous Butlins holiday camp in the Somerset town of Minehead, a poolside lifeguard overlooks the main  pool from an overhead bridge. Behind him a monorail transports holidaymakers around the resort. Wearing the large letter B for Butlins on his red vest, the young lad sucks on his whistle held between his lips and prominently, the words 'Made in England' have been tattooed on his left shoulder - as if a statement for his patriotic ideals but also for those of Butlins - an institution for the British working classes who after the war had the opportunity to spend their summers at special resorts in seaside towns that provided entertainment and fun. Butlins and other camp businesses went into decline when the masses preferred Spanish vacations but have since been revived as travel costs have again soared and holidays at home are once again popular.
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  • A couple just off the train from Waterloo are en-route to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. Not looking particularly happy to have arrived, two elderly women look at the clothes worn including the man's top hat and tails. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
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  • A husband and wife make their way along a pavement towards the entrance of the Ascot racecourse where the annual Ladies' Day event is held as part of the English social season calendar. Leading the way and carrying two walking sticks and in a polythene bag, his best jacket for the dress-code is important if one is allowed access to the private enclosures. He wears a top hat and waste coat as he hobbles along with wife in tow. She is behind him rummaging through her handbag perhaps looking for tickets or cash. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season.
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  • As a young office worker sleeps incongruously on a marble pavement, a street sweeper nearby brushes away litter with a small dustpan. The manual labourer wears blue overalls, yellow gloves and keys in his back pocket while the man in a wastecoat and smart trousers and polished slip-on shoes appears to be fast asleep, his fingers across his chest. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-demanding job of a man whose life has been spent cleaning and sweeping. English social differences is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus a lazy youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
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  • We see a welcome screen at the British Airways Galleries Club lounge at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. This exclusive facility is only available to passengers travelling open to passengers travelling in First, Club World and Club Europe as well as Gold and Silver Executive Club members and was designed by Artwise. The lounge's 15,000 sq ft complex was built at the cost of £60 million. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • In the British Airways Galleries First lounge at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, two businessmen sit with identical laptops open, perched on their knees. The colleagues are en-route to Australia and are enjoying this exclusive facility (only available to passengers travelling in First and Gold Executive Club members) designed by Artwise. The lounge's 15,000 sq ft complex was built at the cost of £60 million. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Business passengers self-service in the British Airways Galleries Club for passengers at Heathrow airport's T5
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  • Business traveller reading novel during layover in the British Airways Galleries Club for passengers at Heathrow airport's T5
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  • In the British Airways Galleries First lounge at Heathrow Airport's T5 a passenger reads the Business section of a newspaper.
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  • Squadron Leader Spike Jepson, leader of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, demonstrates the Corkscrew manoeuvre to his group of pilots and visitors in the briefing room at their RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire headquarters. Using two scaled model Hawk jet aircraft he shows how their formation is to be flown on their next training flight. Five autumn and winter months are spent teaching new recruits manual aerobatic display flying while the older members (who rotate positions) learn new disciplines within the routine. Their leaning curve is steep, even for these accomplished fast-jet aviators who had already accumulated 1,500 hours in fighters. By Summer they need every aspect of their 25-minute displays honed to perfection. In this meeting room they meet before and after every flight discussing safety, merits and failures.
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  • With colonial Portuguese architecture in the background, older women and a few men participate in a group exercise on an astroturf-covered sports ground, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. The Macau Special Administrative Region is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover.
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  • A family risk their safety near a larger cruiser while passing-by in a tiny motorised boat on the River Thames during the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. The father and children float past the larger vessel that could badly damage their boat in a collision. The river is busy on Regatta weekend and vessels of all shapes and sizes occupy an otherwise narrow stretch of water in rural Oxfordshire. Parties and good-humour on-board the cruisers still means that river laws and good behaviour must be followed to avoid accidents. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi.
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  • Two young men dressed in office suits casually stuff their lunches during a hot lunchtime break in the Broadgate Estate in the City of London. Both with legs across knees, the lads in their 20s sit on a bench beneath a tree alongside the statue of a traditional gardener, slightly bent and equipped with hoe and wearing a wastecoat, hobnailed boots and flat cap, an iconic salt-of-the-earth workman. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-exhausted man whose life has been spent working the honest land.  The English social divide is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus the youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
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  • Bespoke choice of wines in the British Airways Galleries Club for passengers at Heathrow airport's T5
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  • In the British Airways Galleries First lounge at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 passengers work on identical DELL laptops
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  • In the British Airways Galleries First lounge at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, an unseen business passenger hides his face while reading the Business section of the Daily Telegraph. With his laptop perched across his knees the anonymous man sits by a window where natural light is a feature of this exclusive facility (only available to passengers travelling in First and Gold Executive Club members) designed by Artwise. The lounge's 15,000 sq ft complex was built at the cost of £60 million. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ..
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  • The wash from a passing Norfolk Broads pleasure cruiser disturbs the peace for man enjoying the tranquility while fishing for perch on the still waters of the river Chet, on 13th August 2020, in Loddon, Norfolk, England.
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  • A formally-dressed gent walks past serving Coldstream Guards soldiers collecting cash for charity during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
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  • Formally-dressed gentlemen donate coins to soldiers from the Coldstream Guards (from nearby Windsor barracks and deploying to Afghanistan later this year) <br />
during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
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  • A young woman chats with a tall, athletic rower at the annual Henley Regatta, England. Fondling the man's rear, the girl smiles happily during this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the upper-classes.
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  • Well-dressed and well-appointed English people pass-by on the River Thames during the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. In the foreground is a smart and highly-polished launch filled with a party of friends who motor past while to their port (left) a rowing boat with three men in blazers pass them going downstream. On the riverbank a garden marquee hosts another social gathering. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi
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