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  • Hardback (2022) jacket image of 'A Fortunate Woman' by Polly Morland. Photograph by Richard Baker.
    AFW_jacket.tif
  • A woman's jacket hangs from the back of a chair in a corporate office in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 20th January 2022, in London, England. The government has announced that workers are to be encouraged to return to work after the Covid Plan-B police from late-2021. A return to office buildings will begin immediately amid public worries of an increase in new Covid-19 infections.
    roof_garden-04-20-01-2022.jpg
  • A businessman whose suit jacket is secured in a front pannier avoids a pedestrian while  riding a Brompton foldaway bike speeds through Bank in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 29th September 2022, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-04-29-09-2022.jpg
  • A formal military dress uniform and a civilian jacket on display in a london's taylor's premises in Sackville Street, London. Jones Chalk & Dawson have well over a century of fine tailoring tradition. The company commenced trading in 1896 when William Jones broke away from Hawkes of Savile Row (later Gieves and Hawkes), where he was head military cutter. Joseph H Dawson and Arthur Chalk also worked at Hawkes. In 1902 the young company were soon a Royal appointment from HRH the Prince of Wales, later King George V. In 1940 they were appointed by King George VI and today, Jones Chalk & Dawson continue to hold a warrant to the Belgian Royal Family.
    military_tailor1-18-10-2011.jpg
  • A formal military dress uniform and a civilian jacket on display in a london's taylor's premises in Sackville Street, London. Jones Chalk & Dawson have well over a century of fine tailoring tradition. The company commenced trading in 1896 when William Jones broke away from Hawkes of Savile Row (later Gieves and Hawkes), where he was head military cutter. Joseph H Dawson and Arthur Chalk also worked at Hawkes. In 1902 the young company were soon a Royal appointment from HRH the Prince of Wales, later King George V. In 1940 they were appointed by King George VI and today, Jones Chalk & Dawson continue to hold a warrant to the Belgian Royal Family.
    military_taylor4-29-09-2011.jpg
  • An employee of an unidentified recycling company used by BAA (British Airports Authority) rakes through a mountain of glass bottles, piled high in a depsitory near Gatwick Airport, Sussex England. The drinks from these branded bottles have been consumed at airport terminal buildings and other BAA property and the man dressed in a fluorescent safety jacket scrapes the containers in readiness for transportation to another facility. The picture is an upright and with such a wide-angle view, we see the bottles stretching from the closest to the lens to the far end of the compartment in a mound of materials destined for a machine that will crush and transform them into new glass.
    RB_015-30-04-2008.jpg
  • Writer Alison (A L) Kennedy leans against the old Victorian windows of Glasgow's Botanical gardens, in Scotland. Looking serious and rather troubled, she is wearing a worn leather jacket and a tartan scarf, she looks towards the ground during her portrait session for Stern Magazine. A L Kennedy is one of Britain's most respected novelists, dramatist, newspaper columnists and more recently, stand-up comedian after her 2007 performances at the Edinburgh festival. Her books include: Paradise; Indelible Acts; On Bullfighting; Everything You Need; Original Bliss; So I Am Glad; Looking for the Possible Dance;  Night Geometry & the Garscadden Trains; Now That You're back and Life & Death of Colonel Blimp. Born in Dundee on 22nd October 1965, she was educated at Dundee High School 1970 - 1983 & Warwick University 1983 - 86 (BA Hons in Theatre Studies & Drama).
    A_L_Kennedy03-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Writer Alison (A L) Kennedy leans against the old Victorian windows of Glasgow's Botanical gardens, in Scotland. Looking serious and rather troubled, she is wearing a worn leather jacket and a tartan scarf, she looks towards the ground during her portrait session for Stern Magazine. A L Kennedy is one of Britain's most respected novelists, dramatist, newspaper columnists and more recently, stand-up comedian after her 2007 performances at the Edinburgh festival. Her books include: Paradise; Indelible Acts; On Bullfighting; Everything You Need; Original Bliss; So I Am Glad; Looking for the Possible Dance;  Night Geometry & the Garscadden Trains; Now That You're back and Life & Death of Colonel Blimp. Born in Dundee on 22nd October 1965, she was educated at Dundee High School 1970 - 1983 & Warwick University 1983 - 86 (BA Hons in Theatre Studies & Drama).
    A_L_Kennedy01-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Spectators watch an air show at North Weald in Cambridgeshire, England. A man films a lone aircraft that banks across the summer sky. The enthusiast's blue denim jacket is almost fully-covered with aeronautical badges which depict various foreign military aerobatic teams, including the Swiss, Norwegian and German squadrons, whose emblems have been stitched into the fabric. Plane spotters form hardcore groups of aviation pilgrims. Logging and photographing flying machines, they follow air displays across their own countries and the calendars of other European festivals that attract hundreds of thousands. 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.
    aviation_corbis10-12-05-1997.jpg
  • A customer tries on a jacket with pet dog at British couturier Margaret Howell's flagship Wigmore Street London shop
    margaret_howell_shop136-14-07-2007.jpg
  • A man searches his jacket while walking down a street with reflected light from plate glass windows in the City of London, the capital's financial district which is still largely quiet as workers continue to work from home during the on-going Coronavirus pandemic,  on 6th August 2020, in London, England.
    city_people13-06-08-2020.jpg
  • An elderly gentleman wearing a deerstalker hat and a tweed jacket, on 15th February 2017, in London, United Kingdom.
    deerstalker_man-01-15-02-2017.jpg
  • As a red London Routemaster bus passesd-by, a tourist wearing a matching red jacket shields his face from sunshine.
    street_people21-12-10-2010.jpg
  • Paperback (2023) jacket image of 'A Fortunate Woman' by Polly Morland. Illustration photograph by Richard Baker.
    Fortunate Woman PB Cover Lo-res.jpg
  • Passer-by and a City cafe in sunlight on King William Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district and oldest quarter.
    city_people28-09-10-2015.jpg
  • A businessman avoids a pedestrian while  riding a Brompton foldaway bike speeds through Bank in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 29th September 2022, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-03-29-09-2022.jpg
  • A businessman riding a Brompton foldaway bike speeds through Bank in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 29th September 2022, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-02-29-09-2022.jpg
  • A businessman riding a Brompton foldaway bike speeds through Bank in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 29th September 2022, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-01-29-09-2022.jpg
  • A male retaill contractor pastes a recyclig sticker on to the window surface at the Jermyn Street branch of Charles Tyrwhitt, on 27th April 2021, in London, England. Now that their branches are re-opening after pandemic lockdowns, men's clothing retailer Charles Tyrwhitt are offering a recycling service for old shirts.
    poster_man10-27-04-2021.jpg
  • A male retaill contractor pastes a recyclig sticker on to the window surface at the Jermyn Street branch of Charles Tyrwhitt, on 27th April 2021, in London, England. Now that their branches are re-opening after pandemic lockdowns, men's clothing retailer Charles Tyrwhitt are offering a recycling service for old shirts.
    poster_man09-27-04-2021.jpg
  • A male retaill contractor pastes a recyclig sticker on to the window surface at the Jermyn Street branch of Charles Tyrwhitt, on 27th April 2021, in London, England. Now that their branches are re-opening after pandemic lockdowns, men's clothing retailer Charles Tyrwhitt are offering a recycling service for old shirts.
    poster_man08-27-04-2021.jpg
  • A male retaill contractor pastes a recyclig sticker on to the window surface at the Jermyn Street branch of Charles Tyrwhitt, on 27th April 2021, in London, England. Now that their branches are re-opening after pandemic lockdowns, men's clothing retailer Charles Tyrwhitt are offering a recycling service for old shirts.
    poster_man07-27-04-2021.jpg
  • A male retaill contractor pastes a recyclig sticker on to the window surface at the Jermyn Street branch of Charles Tyrwhitt, on 27th April 2021, in London, England. Now that their branches are re-opening after pandemic lockdowns, men's clothing retailer Charles Tyrwhitt are offering a recycling service for old shirts.
    poster_man06-27-04-2021.jpg
  • The window of a menswear outfitters displays a 50% reduction on some stock during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 30th July 2020, in London, England.
    fuji_test34-30-07-2020.jpg
  • The window of a menswear outfitters displays a 50% reduction on some stock during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 30th July 2020, in London, England.
    fuji_test35-30-07-2020.jpg
  • A man wearing an organge coat walks past the window of the Qatar Airlines office on Conduit Street in Mayfair, on 20th January 2020, in London, England.
    mayfair-08-20-01-2020.jpg
  • A man wearing a distinctive hooded coat uses his phone while taking shelter under the arches outside Piccadilly Circus underground station, on 12th November 2019, in London, England.
    rain_people-15-12-11-2019.jpg
  • A man wearing a distinctive hooded coat uses his phone while taking shelter under the arches outside Piccadilly Circus underground station, on 12th November 2019, in London, England.
    rain_people-14-12-11-2019.jpg
  • A man wearing a distinctive hooded coat takes shelter under the arches outside Piccadilly Circus underground station, on 12th November 2019, in London, England.
    rain_people-05-12-11-2019.jpg
  • A man wearing a distinctive hooded coat takes shelter under the arches outside Piccadilly Circus underground station, on 12th November 2019, in London, England.
    rain_people-04-12-11-2019.jpg
  • A man wearing a distinctive hooded coat takes shelter under the arches outside Piccadilly Circus underground station, on 12th November 2019, in London, England.
    rain_people-02-12-11-2019.jpg
  • A man wearing a distinctive hooded coat takes shelter under the arches outside Piccadilly Circus underground station, on 12th November 2019, in London, England.
    rain_people-01-12-11-2019.jpg
  • An Englishman descends steps beneath the Fourth Plinth, in Trafalgar Square, Westminster, on 9th April 2019, in London, England.
    trafalgar_square-47-09-04-2019.jpg
  • A lady wearing a leopard print coat walks with her pink wheelie case near Elephant & Castle in Southwark, on 27th March 2019, in London, England
    bus_views-03-27-03-2019-2.jpg
  • On the day that Prime Minister Theresa May's Meaningful Brexit vote is taken in the UK Parliament, a Leave supporter is spoken to by a Met Police officer beneath the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, on 15th January 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    brexit_protest-02-15-01-2019.jpg
  • On the day that Prime Minister Theresa May's Meaningful Brexit vote is taken in the UK Parliament, a Leave supporter comes face to face with a tourist beneath the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, on 15th January 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    brexit_protest-01-15-01-2019.jpg
  • A man wearing a striped suit descends the steps of Westminster Underground Station, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
    striped_man-02-16-10-2018.jpg
  • A man wearing a striped suit descends the steps of Westminster Underground Station, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
    striped_man-01-16-10-2018.jpg
  • A man struggles through sudden heavy rain in Trafalgar Square, on 13th August 2018, in London, England.
    trafalgar_square-09-13-08-2018.jpg
  • A stylish young man stands with a briefcase looking confident on a Mayfair street corner in central London.
    mayfair_man01-16-02-2016.jpg
  • Tabard on a hangar at German Red Cross (Deutches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) administrative HQ at 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'A life to save' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    christian_schuh101-04-06-2014.jpg
  • German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh106-04-06-2014.jpg
  • German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - DRK) vehicle logos at their administrative HQ, 58 Carstennstrasse, Berlin.
    christian_schuh104-04-06-2014.jpg
  • Patriotic Union jack wastecoat on display in a City of London taylor's shop on St George's Day.
    patriotic_wastecoat01-23-04-2014.jpg
  • Two pet dogs wearing red coat stand outside a red-themed business in central London
    red_dogs01-28-03-2014.jpg
  • A gentleman client has a fitting for a new made-to-measure suit, seen through a City taylor's window.
    suit_fitting03-21-02-2014.jpg
  • A gentleman client has a fitting for a new made-to-measure suit, seen through a City taylor's window.
    suit_fitting01-21-02-2014.jpg
  • A officer from the City of London police, questions a white van driver at a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police01-18-10-2013.jpg
  • An airshow aviation enthusiast adorned with badges enjoy aerobatic activity above their heads at Biggin Hill, Kent, England. As a helicopter banks tightly to the right, other groupies film something else to the left from the public areas during the many varied flying displays  at this small airfield north of London that saw action as an important airfield during the WW2 Battle of Britain, a location for the "Operations Room" for the Operation Crossbow V-1 flying bomb defences.
    plane_spotters03-29-07-2002.jpg
  • Hanging goose at Sarah Leggitt's estate cottage, a former Smithy with livestock at Lochbuie, Isle of Mull, Scotland. She and her husband moved from southern England 6 years ago to work for the Lochbuie Estate and the old Smithy is provided to them as living accommodation. Lochbuie is a settlement on the island of Mull in Scotland about 22 kilometres (14 mi) west of Craignure. The name is from the Scottish Gaelic Locha Buidhe, meaning "yellow loch". http://lochbuie.com/Lochbuie
    isle_of_mull44-18-11-2011.jpg
  • A formal military dress uniform of a guardsman on display in a london's taylor's premises in Sackville Street, London. Jones Chalk & Dawson have well over a century of fine tailoring tradition. The company commenced trading in 1896 when William Jones broke away from Hawkes of Savile Row (later Gieves and Hawkes), where he was head military cutter. Joseph H Dawson and Arthur Chalk also worked at Hawkes. In 1902 the young company were soon a Royal appointment from HRH the Prince of Wales, later King George V. In 1940 they were appointed by King George VI and today, Jones Chalk & Dawson continue to hold a warrant to the Belgian Royal Family.
    military_taylor1-29-09-2011.jpg
  • Union Jack flags hanging and clothing on sale in an Oxfam charity shop window display.
    oxfam_window1-09-May-2011.jpg
  • Gold rings and bling of family security man during East End  funeral to notorious 60s gangster twin Ronnie Kray.
    ronnie_kray_funeral03-29-03-1995.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
  • A Royal Mail postman makes a scheduled collection of post from a post box in the busy Piccadilly street in London.
    postman_collection01-12-10-2010.jpg
  • Flight deck and cabin crews' baggage in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5
    heathrow_airport1030-11-08-2009.jpg
  • A man wearing a distinctive hooded coat takes shelter under the arches outside Piccadilly Circus underground station, on 12th November 2019, in London, England.
    rain_people-03-12-11-2019.jpg
  • Two pet dogs wearing red coat stand outside a red-themed business in central London
    red_dogs02-28-03-2014.jpg
  • Red jacket security staff stand in the foyer of a large City of London financial institution in Lime Street.
    lime_street_city06-20-04-2015.jpg
  • Three young men are seen from a very low angle as they make arrangements with other friends to meet at the Spring Feria in Seville, Spain. Beneath dozens of colourful lights which hang from cables above their heads, two stand holding drinks while the third speaks into his mobile phone. They are all impeccably dressed in smart jackets and tasteful ties with one owning a carnation in his lapel. It is a lively event that Seville holds annually in the vast fairground area on the far bank of the Guadalquivir River. Rows of temporary marquee tents, or casetas, host families, corporations and friends into the late hours during the April Fair which begins begins two weeks after the Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week in the Andalusian capital.
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  • High-visibility jackets hang on a clothes stand belonging to Airside Operations Safety Unit (AOSU) staff at Heathrow airport.
    heathrow_airport1560-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Filled with suits, jackets, trousers, and overcoats, the choices of mens' office worker clothes fill a shop front window belonging to Mr Byrite, a high-street clothes store chain in London England UK. Bargain sale prices for the items of clothing are all over the window display, offering discounts for £30, £40 or £60 and the mannequins used to wear these clothes either have bald-headed representations of men, or faceless white models wearing sun glasses. There is a sale of cheap items attracting young city men, far from traditional work attire, and more fashionable for the day.
    RB_074-16-02-1992.jpg
  • Two men wearing matching orange jacets and striped trousers, enter the Nike shop at Oxford Circus, on 13th March 2023, in London, England.
    orange_men-01-13-03-2023.jpg
  • Three members of the public wear the same chequered-theme coats at a food stall outside the Oxford Street branch of Selfridges department store, on 30th November 2022, in London, England.
    cheque_coats-1-30-11-2022.jpg
  • Three members of the public wear the same chequered-theme coats at a food stall outside the Oxford Street branch of Selfridges department store, on 30th November 2022, in London, England.
    cheque_coats-2-30-11-2022.jpg
  • Three mannequins wearing Scottish tweed in a shop window near Covent Garden in the West End, on 22nd January 2019, in London England.
    scottish_tweed-01-22-01-2019.jpg
  • A man and woman look at the display of a menswear outfitters  in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 17th May 2018, in London, UK.
    city_people-06-17-05-2018.jpg
  • As it becomes dark in the city, a mother carries her child on her shoulders, both wearing clashing patterns on their coats, on 16th February 2017, in the City of London, England.
    rear_pattern-02-16-02-2017.jpg
  • Reiss shop suits on display in a central London window.
    reiss_suits05-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Reiss shop suits on display in a central London window.
    reiss_suits01-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Reiss shop suits on display in a central London window.
    reiss_suits02-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Active trading inside the London Stock Exchange in the City of London during the late-eighties. We see an aerial view of the 1980s-era options trading floor, looking  down from a high vantagepoint on to the traders as they go about their business. Three years after the so-called Big Bang in 1986 , this location at the old Stock Exchange Tower  became redundant with the advent of the Big Bang, which deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities as it enabled an increased use of computerised systems that allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading. Thus, in 2004, the House moved to a brand new headquarters in Paternoster Square, close to St Paul's Cathedral.
    stock_exchange02-02-05-1989.jpg
  • Officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police05-18-10-2013.jpg
  • Officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police06-18-10-2013.jpg
  • Officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police04-18-10-2013.jpg
  • Officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police03-18-10-2013.jpg
  • A passer-by walks through narrow winter sunshine street past a tuxedo suit rental shop in Fleet Street, City of London.
    tuxedo_window02-19-11-2010.jpg
  • US expatriate citizens gather at a formal ball for Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th US President in London. .
    obama_inauguration15-20-01_2009.jpg
  • Three mannequins wearing Scottish tweed in a shop window near Covent Garden in the West End, on 22nd January 2019, in London England.
    scottish_tweed-02-22-01-2019.jpg
  • Reiss shop suits on display in a central London window.
    reiss_suits03-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Two passers-by walk through narrow winter sunshine street past a tuxedo suit rental shop in Fleet Street, City of London.
    tuxedo_window03-19-11-2010.jpg
  • Seen from the rear of a London bus, a cyclist wearing a hi-viz jacket rides northwards across Waterloo Bridge towards Westminster, on 1st December 2020, in London, England.
    bridge_cyclist02-01-12-2020.jpg
  • Seen from the rear of a London bus, a cyclist wearing a hi-viz jacket rides northwards across Waterloo Bridge towards Westminster, on 1st December 2020, in London, England.
    bridge_cyclist03-01-12-2020.jpg
  • A young girl sits on her pony, waiting for the beginning of her race at a local gymkhana, on 17th September 1999, in Cheltenham, England. Wearing a smart herringbone patterned jacket, regulation jodhpurs and holding a crop to encourage the horse to perform a series of trick and races, she sits calmly awaiting the next event. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
    pony_rider-17-09-1999.jpg
  • A City worker's jacket lifts in the wind with modern architecture of Leadenhall where many insurance brokers and companies are grouped near Lloyds of London (left) in the City of London, (aka The Square Mile) the capital's financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-03-04-09-2019.jpg
  • As heatwave temperatures climb to record levels - the hottest day of the year so far - a Londoner in the City of London (the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile) takes off his jacket on Threadneedle Street, on 25th July 2019, in London, England.
    city_heatwave-09-25-07-2019.jpg
  • A woman walks past a bus stop at Borough Station with an ad of a female face, wearing a jacket with an eye on her back, on 11th October 2018, in London England.
    bus_stop-06-11-10-2018.jpg
  • A woman walks past a bus stop at Borough Station with an ad of a female face, wearing a jacket with an eye on her back, on 11th October 2018, in London England.
    bus_stop-05-11-10-2018.jpg
  • Jacket hanging on fence in risk averse playground called The Land on Plas Madoc Estate, Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales.
    the_land23-18-06-2014.jpg
  • A trader from the LIFFE futures exchange meets an associate in the street during a weekday lunchtime on a bench in the City of London. Talking over paperwork with an opened attache briefacse and wearing the colourful jacket of this once thriving financial institution, we see a scene of wealth and prosperity, from an era of growth during the industrial revolution to the arrogance and self-indulgence during the government of John Major - a political inheritance from Margaret Thatcher. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    trader_meeting-16-03-1993.jpg
  • A trader from the LIFFE futures exchange takes a break in the street during a weekday lunchtime. Alongside him on another bench is a homeless man in the City of London in a scene of wealth with prosperity versus the fate of poverty and loss. Wearing the orange jacket of this once thriving financial instutution, we see a scene of wealth and prosperity, from an era of growth during the industrial revolution to the arrogance and self-indulgence during the government of John Major - a political inheritance from Margaret Thatcher. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    city_trader-16-03-1993_2.jpg
  • A courier in blue and two traders from the LIFFE futures exchange take a break in the street during a weekday lunchtime in the City of London. Wearing the orange jacket of this once thriving financial instutution, we see a scene of wealth and prosperity, from an era of growth during the industrial revolution to the arrogance and self-indulgence during the government of John Major - a political inheritance from Margaret Thatcher. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    city_trader-16-03-1993_1.jpg
  • A mourner in tailed jacket and pinstripes, walks towards Windsor Castle's visitor entrance for Princess Margaret's funeral.
    royal_funeral01-13-02-2002.jpg
  • The legs of two young girls sit astride their beloved ponies at a gymkhana in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Wearing a smart herringbone patterned jacket, regulation jodhpurs, short polished boots and holding a crop to encourage the horse to perform a series of trick and races, the rider nearest the viewer sits calmly awaiting the next event. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
    gymkhana03-17-09-1999.jpg
  • We are looking down from above to office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market and other animals used for transport. It is a warm afternoon and in the foreground, a man wearing a dark suit has taken off his polished shoes and is lying his head on his jacket in the warm afternoon, loosening his tight tie and stretching his neck. Elsewhere, a lady is sitting eating a packed lunch with the Sun newspaper and a man a little further behind is in jeans and plimsoll shoes. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is seen dancing with a Tory Party official during the 1990 Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. Thatcher is wearing a favourite black and red ball gown and is the centre of attention for delegates and media whose TV lights have lit the dancing couple from the right-hand side. Her partner is young and has acne and is wearing a formal dinner jacket and bow tie. The image is warm from the ambient light and there is a slight blur of movement as they sweep past the viewer.
    margaret_thatcher05-03-09-2007.jpg
  • 13 year-old Adam leader celebrates his Bar Mitzvah by holding a lavish party in Borehamwood in north London, England. Paid for by his parents, the celebration took place in a hotel off the A1 road and here Adam can be seen surrounded like a celebrity by a gaggle of teenage girl friends, one of whom is dressed in a thin-strapped dress and pendant, giggling at a joke and all enjoying the occasion. Adam looks dashing in a rented dinner jacket complete with bow-tie. He is fresh-faced and clean-cut, cutting a handsome figure much-admired by his female friends. .
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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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  • Chief Technician Kerry Griffiths is a with the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. In camouflaged military green jacket, large forearms and rolled-up sleeves, he oversees the loading of spares and personal effects into a C-130 Hercules aircraft before the two-day journey from RAF Scampton to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Surrounded by heavy-duty flight-spares, survival equipment boxes and a tyre for a Hawk jet aircraft, the Hercules looms large in the overcast sky. The team complete their winter training schedule in Cyprus. The Red Arrows pilots fly their own jet aircraft to air shows but when requiring the support of ground crew  they borrow a transporter to fly behind the main airborne squadron. 10 tons of spares and personal effects are shipped for a six-week stay.
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  • Seen from the rear of a London bus, a cyclist wearing a hi-viz jacket rides northwards across Waterloo Bridge towards Westminster, on 1st December 2020, in London, England.
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