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  • 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.
    RB_087-18-04-1993.jpg
  • 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
  • Morris man and lunchtime drinkers gather in Leadenhall Market on St George's Day, when 'Englishmen' celebrate their patron saint. Wearing white uniforms they jig their traditional dance, a form of English folk dance accompanied by accordion and pipes. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers. Implements such as sticks, swords, and handkerchiefs may also be wielded by the dancers. In a small number of dances for one or two men, steps are performed near and across a pair of clay tobacco pipes laid across each other on the floor. English records of Morris dancing date back to 1448.
    morris_men_leadenhall01-23-04-2013.jpg
  • The statue (by sculptor Hamo Thornycroft) of Saxon King Alfred that overlooks English citizens living in a modern Winchester, Hampshire, England. Alfred the Great (849 - 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". The Thornycroft statue was unveiled during the millenary celebrations of Alfred's death.
    king_alfred02-10-12-2012.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag06-27-04-2013.jpg
  • A mother and son sit below the statue (by sculptor Hamo Thornycroft) of Saxon King Alfred that overlooks English citizens living in a modern Winchester, Hampshire, England. Alfred the Great (849 - 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". The Thornycroft statue was unveiled during the millenary celebrations of Alfred's death.
    king_alfred01-10-12-2012.jpg
  • Dystopian detail of three torn English flags above the window of a closed retailer in central London.
    england_dystopia01-10-12-2014.jpg
  • Morris man and lunchtime drinkers gather in Leadenhall Market on St George's Day, when 'Englishmen' celebrate their patron saint. Wearing white uniforms they jig their traditional dance, a form of English folk dance accompanied by accordion and pipes. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers. Implements such as sticks, swords, and handkerchiefs may also be wielded by the dancers. In a small number of dances for one or two men, steps are performed near and across a pair of clay tobacco pipes laid across each other on the floor. English records of Morris dancing date back to 1448.
    morris_men_leadenhall02-23-04-2013.jpg
  • Towering over a Stagecoach bus service is the statue (by sculptor Hamo Thornycroft) of Saxon King Alfred that overlooks a modern Winchester, Hampshire, England. Alfred the Great (849 - 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". The Thornycroft statue was unveiled during the millenary celebrations of Alfred's death.
    king_alfred10-10-12-2012.jpg
  • Towering over a Stagecoach bus passenger is the statue (by sculptor Hamo Thornycroft) of Saxon King Alfred that overlooks a modern Winchester, Hampshire, England. Alfred the Great (849 - 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". The Thornycroft statue was unveiled during the millenary celebrations of Alfred's death.
    king_alfred07-10-12-2012.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag04-27-04-2013.jpg
  • Seen through the window of a dirty bus stop is the statue (by sculptor Hamo Thornycroft) of Saxon King Alfred that overlooks a modern Winchester, Hampshire, England. Alfred the Great (849 - 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". The Thornycroft statue was unveiled during the millenary celebrations of Alfred's death.
    king_alfred04-10-12-2012.jpg
  • The English flag flies in the churchyard of St Dunstan church, West Peckham, Kent.
    england_landscape04-07-07-2013.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag11-27-04-2013.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag02-27-04-2013.jpg
  • Towering over a Stagecoach bus passenger is the statue (by sculptor Hamo Thornycroft) of Saxon King Alfred that overlooks a modern Winchester, Hampshire, England. Alfred the Great (849 - 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". The Thornycroft statue was unveiled during the millenary celebrations of Alfred's death.
    king_alfred09-10-12-2012.jpg
  • The English flag flies in the churchyard of St Dunstan church, West Peckham, Kent.
    england_landscape06-07-07-2013.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag12-27-04-2013.jpg
  • With coils of barded security wire beneath, a sad-looking English flag on a pole overlooks an industrial yard in south London.
    england_flag07-27-04-2013.jpg
  • The statue (by sculptor Hamo Thornycroft) of Saxon King Alfred that overlooks a modern Winchester, Hampshire, England. Alfred the Great (849 - 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". The Thornycroft statue was unveiled during the millenary celebrations of Alfred's death.
    king_alfred03-10-12-2012.jpg
  • Towering over a Stagecoach bus service is the statue (by sculptor Hamo Thornycroft) of Saxon King Alfred that overlooks a modern Winchester, Hampshire, England. Alfred the Great (849 - 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". The Thornycroft statue was unveiled during the millenary celebrations of Alfred's death.
    king_alfred08-10-12-2012.jpg
  • Hundreds of union jack flag bunting stretches back downhill through woods towards the local station 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.
    royal_ascot72-19-06-2013.jpg
  • The statue (by sculptor Hamo Thornycroft) of Saxon King Alfred that overlooks a modern Winchester, Hampshire, England. Alfred the Great (849 - 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". The Thornycroft statue was unveiled during the millenary celebrations of Alfred's death.
    king_alfred06-10-12-2012.jpg
  • Summer sunshine and light through the branches and leaves of an English oak in Kent.
    oak_sunshine02-07-07-2013.jpg
  • Summer sunshine and light through the branches and leaves of an English oak in Kent.
    oak_sunshine01-07-07-2013.jpg
  • Hundreds of union jack flag bunting stretches back downhill through woods towards the local station 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.
    royal_ascot71-19-06-2013.jpg
  • A lunchtime gentleman wearing the red theme of St George, walks through the City of London on St George's Day, when 'Englishmen' celebrate their patron saint.
    st_george's01-23-04-2013.jpg
  • Lunchtime drinkers gather in Leadenhall Market on St George's Day, when 'Englishmen' celebrate their patron saint.
    leadenhall_St_george02-23-04-2013.jpg
  • Lunchtime drinkers wearing red in Leadenhall Market on St George's Day, when 'Englishmen' celebrate their patron saint.
    leadenhall_St_george04-23-04-2013.jpg
  • Lunchtime drinkers gather in Leadenhall Market on St George's Day, when 'Englishmen' celebrate their patron saint.
    leadenhall_St_george03-23-04-2013.jpg
  • Lunchtime drinkers gather in Leadenhall Market on St George's Day, when 'Englishmen' celebrate their patron saint.
    leadenhall_St_george01-23-04-2013.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day on Liverpool Street in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-29-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men walk past a young City worker at lunchtime on St George's Day in the gardens of St Botolph's without Bishopsgate church in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-24-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day in the gardens of St Botolph's without Bishopsgate church in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-22-23-04-2018.jpg
  • A lunchtime drinker enjoys a pint at a pub in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    st_georges_day-07-23-04-2018.jpg
  • A Sikh man stands under one of the four lions at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
    asian_london01-05-03-2015.jpg
  • An elderly gentlemen member of an unknown rowing and sculling club at the annual Henley-on-Thames boating festival.
    henley_member01-03-07-1993.jpg
  • Three medieval knights spend lunchtime on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-44-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Three medieval knights spend lunchtime on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-49-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men walk past a young City worker at lunchtime on St George's Day in the gardens of St Botolph's without Bishopsgate church in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-26-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Union Jack bunting hangs over a British summer fete bringing the local community together and to celebrate their important public space, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ship's communications officer.
    fete_bunting-01-24-06-2017.jpg
  • Three medieval knights spend lunchtime on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-45-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day on Liverpool Street in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-35-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day in the gardens of St Botolph's without Bishopsgate church in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-15-23-04-2018.jpg
  • A gentleman carrying his jacket over a shoulder descends the steps from the bright daylight to the darkness of the London Underground, before making his way home from Royal Exchange at Bank Triangle by tube. Behind him are the tall and solid Corinthian pillars of the 3rd Royal Exchange built in 1842 by Sir William Tite in a wide area known as Bank Triangle which is adjacent to the Bank of England in the heart of the capital's financial district known as the Square Mile.
    cornhill_exchange01-15-06-1992.jpg
  • Winston Churchill impersonator, Derek Herbert gives his Battle of Britain speech in front of three knights and lunchtime drinkers on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-65-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Winston Churchill impersonator, Derek Herbert gives his Battle of Britain speech in front of three knights and lunchtime drinkers on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-63-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Three medieval knights spend lunchtime on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-42-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day on Liverpool Street in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-39-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day on Liverpool Street in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-33-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day in the gardens of St Botolph's without Bishopsgate church in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-12-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Sad spotted bunting hanging from a cricket pavillion, on 3rd April, 2017, in Hadlow, Kent, England.
    kent_bunting-01-02-04-2017.jpg
  • A Sikh man with another, beneath one of the four lions at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
    asian_london05-05-03-2015.jpg
  • Winston Churchill impersonator, Derek Herbert gives his Battle of Britain speech in front of three knights and lunchtime drinkers on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-57-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Winston Churchill impersonator, Derek Herbert gives his Battle of Britain speech in front of three knights and lunchtime drinkers on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-52-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Three medieval knights spend lunchtime on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-41-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day on Liverpool Street in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-34-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day on Liverpool Street in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-32-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day on Liverpool Street in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-30-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day in the gardens of St Botolph's without Bishopsgate church in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-20-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day in the gardens of St Botolph's without Bishopsgate church in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-18-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Lunchtime drinker enjoys a pint at a pub in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-08-23-04-2018.jpg
  • A Sikh man stands under one of the four lions at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
    asian_london03-05-03-2015.jpg
  • Union Jack flags flutter on a summer breeze at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    british_seaside02-25-07-2012.jpg
  • Union Jack flags flutter on a summer breeze at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    british_seaside03-25-07-2012.jpg
  • Three medieval knights spend lunchtime on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-43-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day on Liverpool Street in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-40-23-04-2018.jpg
  • A lunchtime drinker's tie in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-21-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Union Jack bunting hangs in the trees of a London park, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ship's communications officer.
    fete_bunting-04-24-06-2017.jpg
  • A Sikh man helps another up, beneath one of the four lions at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
    asian_london04-05-03-2015.jpg
  • Elderly ladies wave union jack flags and enjoy an afternoon of nostalgia in their local east end pub in east London, remembering the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now - as they did in 1945 - played a large part in the country's patriotic well-being.
    VE_day_anniversary03-06-05-1995.jpg
  • Expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    beach_hut06-25-07-2012.jpg
  • Sitting in chair outside his house in the East End of London, a young football fan waits for his painted face to dry. In the colours his favourite Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, he also wears a Union Jack cape. He sits with an outdoor party behind him in full swing that celebrates the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now - as they did in 1945 - played a large part in the country's patriotic well-being.
    ve_day_patriots003-06-05-1995.jpg
  • Gathering outside their house in the East End of London, a family sits together to celebrate 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. A man hangs out a Union Jack flag to accompany the Stars and Stripes on a washing line in the front garden. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now - as they did in 1945 - played a large part in the country's patriotic well-being.
    ve_day_patriots001-06-05-1995.jpg
  • Winston Churchill impersonator, Derek Herbert gives a V for Victory after making the wartime leader's Battle of Britain speech in front of three knights and lunchtime drinkers on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-66-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Winston Churchill impersonator, Derek Herbert gives a V for Victory after making the wartime leader's Battle of Britain speech in front of three knights and lunchtime drinkers on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-64-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Three medieval knights spend lunchtime on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-51-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day on Liverpool Street in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-31-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men walk past a young City worker at lunchtime on St George's Day in the gardens of St Botolph's without Bishopsgate church in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-25-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day in the gardens of St Botolph's without Bishopsgate church in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-23-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Lunchtime drinker enjoys a pint at a pub in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-10-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Union Jack bunting hangs over a British summer fete bringing the local community together and to celebrate their important public space, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ship's communications officer.
    fete_bunting-02-24-06-2017.jpg
  • Union Jack bunting hangs over a British summer fete bringing the local community together and to celebrate their important public space, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ship's communications officer.
    fete_bunting-03-24-06-2017.jpg
  • Elderly ladies wave union jack flags and enjoy an afternoon of nostalgia in their local east end pub in east London, remembering the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now - as they did in 1945 - played a large part in the country's patriotic well-being.
    VE_day_anniversary02-06-05-1995.jpg
  • Gathering outside his house in the East End of London, a young football fan whose painted face is in the colours his favourite Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, also wears a Union Jack cape and shorts. He stands in the front doorway of his terraced home to celebrate the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now - as they did in 1945 - played a large part in the country's patriotic well-being.
    ve_day_patriots002-06-05-1995.jpg
  • Winston Churchill impersonator, Derek Herbert gives a V for Victory after making the wartime leader's Battle of Britain speech in front of three knights and lunchtime drinkers on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-62-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Winston Churchill impersonator, Derek Herbert gives his Battle of Britain speech in front of three knights and lunchtime drinkers on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-53-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Three medieval knights spend lunchtime on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-50-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day on Liverpool Street in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-37-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Morris Men dance on St George's Day in the gardens of St Botolph's without Bishopsgate church in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
    st_georges_day-19-23-04-2018.jpg
  • A lunchtime drinker enjoys a pint at a pub in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    st_georges_day-09-23-04-2018.jpg
  • Union Jack bunting hangs over a British summer fete bringing the local community together and to celebrate their important public space, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ship's communications officer.
    fete_bunting-05-24-06-2017.jpg
  • A Sikh man stands under one of the four lions at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
    asian_london02-05-03-2015.jpg
  • East end Londoners dance in a wave of nostalgia as they gather in their local east end pub in east London, England. Union Jack flags are everywhere - and even on a singer's acoustic guitar - as they remember the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now - as they did in 1945 - played a large part in the country's patriotic well-being.
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  • Winston Churchill impersonator, Derek Herbert gives his Battle of Britain speech in front of three knights and lunchtime drinkers on St George's Day in Leadenhall Market in the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 23rd April, City of London, England.
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  • Sad spotted bunting hanging from a cricket pavillion, on 3rd April, 2017, in Hadlow, Kent, England.
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  • A lady sits outside in morning sunshine on the terrace of her B+B guesthouse in the Devon seaside town of Paignton. It is late morning and a lady has emerged from her bead and breakfast. Sunlight is quite high in the sky and the shadows of a vine that is growing across the roof of the building's terrace, is seen on the wall behind the woman. She is seated reading a magazine in a garden chair and is surrounded by colourful flowers in their prime. Well-painted original victorian railings that act as a sort of ballustrade are in front of the female. In the window is a scene of typical seaside Englishness. Serviettes are splayed out on a table along with breakfast or dinner items awaiting guests at the next meal.
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  • It is late morning and a lady has emerged from her bead and breakfast (B+B)  in Paignton, Devon. Sunlight is quite high in the sky and the shadows of a vine that is growing across the roof of the building's terrace, is seen on the wall behind the woman. She is seated reading a magazine in a garden chair and is surrounded by colourful flowers in their prime. Well-painted original victorian railings that act as a sort of ballustrade are in front of the female. In the window is a scene of typical seaside Englishness. Serviettes are splayed out on a table along with breakfast or dinner items awaiting guests at the next meal.
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  • Antiquarian copies of the English Dialect Dictionary line the shelves in the Lee Library of the British Academy, on 17th September 2017, at 10-12 Carlton House Terrace, in London, England. The English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is a dictionary of English dialects compiled by Joseph Wright (1855–1930). The English Dialect Dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years; founded on the publications of the English Dialect Society and on a large amount of material never before printed was published by Oxford University Press in 6 volumes between 1898 and 1905. Its compilation and printing was funded privately by Joseph Wright, a self-taught philologist at the University of Oxford.
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  • Antiquarian copies of the English Dialect Dictionary line the shelves in the Lee Library of the British Academy, on 17th September 2017, at 10-12 Carlton House Terrace, in London, England. The English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is a dictionary of English dialects compiled by Joseph Wright (1855–1930). The English Dialect Dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years; founded on the publications of the English Dialect Society and on a large amount of material never before printed was published by Oxford University Press in 6 volumes between 1898 and 1905. Its compilation and printing was funded privately by Joseph Wright, a self-taught philologist at the University of Oxford.
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