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  • Entrance to a vacant British Inventors Society (BIS) at their stand at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace
    inventors_fair01-19-10-2007.jpg
  • Guests arrive at Buckingham Palace's gates for a special garden party in afternoon sunshine. .. The Queens' garden parties are held ever summer, allowing ordinary men and women from diverse members of society the chance to walk the Palace grounds and meet others from all walks of life. Some may be from the armed services and others , merely known for their charitable work or individual merit.
    society-13-07-1995.jpg
  • Campaigner for the Childrens' Society waits for new donors next to David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline15-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Young woman withdraws cash from her local London branch of the Abbey National Building Society in 1989. With her finger almost touching the keypad, the lady and her companion are withdrawing cash from this hole in the wall after investing their funds in this branch of Britain's building society. Abbey National plc was a UK-based bank and former building society, which latterly traded under the Abbey brand name. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Spanish Santander Group in 2004, and was combined with the savings business of the former Bradford & Bingley in January 2010 to form Santander UK plc. Before the takeover, it was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
    cash_dispenser01-23-04-1989.jpg
  • Campaigner for the Childrens' Society waits for new donors next to David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline08-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Campaigner for the Childrens' Society waits for new donors next to David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline07-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Campaigner for the Childrens' Society waits for new donors next to David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline04-14-04-2015.jpg
  • During a fair at the famous Alexandra Palace in north London England, where the first BBC broadcasts were made in the mid-30s, the British Inventors Society (BIS) meet in a stand during a British Invention Show, an expo to help international entrepreneurs to sell their new ideas and concepts. BIS was formed in December 2003. The team that came together includes leading inventors and innovators, academics and entrepreneurs who share a common belief - that invention is the vital spark that drives the world's technology and new orders of wealth creation. But there is no-one at home here, its stand remains unoccupied with vacated seats seen through the open doorway and beneath the plain sign. It is a comical and ironic scene, of unfulfilled ambition and failing innovation.
    inventors_fair02-19-10-2007.jpg
  • Beneath Corinthian pillars and columns, members of English society look down from a balcony during the annual Trooping of the colour parade in the Mall. From their high vantagepoint, this high-society watches a parade of armed services members as they march past towards the nearby parade ground at Horseguards. Waving patriotic union jack flags, children join in the euphoria on this royal annual event, an occasion on the summer season's calendar. The Sovereign's birthday is officially celebrated by the ceremony of Trooping the Colour on a Saturday in June.
    balcony_soceity-20-06-1991.jpg
  • Days after the weekend's 50th anniversary LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations in the capital, the rainbow spectrum is still seen behind shoppers walking past the New Oxford Street branch of the Halifax Building Society, on 5th July 2022, in London, England.
    halifax_pride-05-05-07-2022.jpg
  • Days after the weekend's 50th anniversary LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations in the capital, the rainbow spectrum is still seen behind shoppers walking past the New Oxford Street branch of the Halifax Building Society, on 5th July 2022, in London, England.
    halifax_pride-03-05-07-2022.jpg
  • Days after the weekend's 50th anniversary LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations in the capital, the rainbow spectrum is still seen behind shoppers walking past the New Oxford Street branch of the Halifax Building Society, on 5th July 2022, in London, England.
    halifax_pride-04-05-07-2022.jpg
  • Days after the weekend's 50th anniversary LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations in the capital, the rainbow spectrum is still seen behind shoppers walking past the New Oxford Street branch of the Halifax Building Society, on 5th July 2022, in London, England.
    halifax_pride-02-05-07-2022.jpg
  • Overgrown tomb and gravestones are covered by ivy undergrowth in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of society from the industrial age. On the left is a memorial ('With loving memory of Charlotte Catherine, the beloved wife ..") including an angel figure that leans over at an angle, probably caused by tree roots or perhaps by vandalism during the 50s and 60s when this land was left open for youngsters to commit criminal damage to stonework and carvings. During the cemetery's annual open day, there is an opportunity for the of the cemetery 'Friends' (society) to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young, to help preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery12-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A genealogy society has a stall next to tombs and memorials in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. Family history groups are also present to advertise their products during this annual open day, an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery06-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A genealogy society has a stall next to tombs and memorials in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. Family history groups are also present to advertise their products during this annual open day, an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery05-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A genealogy society has a stall next to tombs and memorials in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. Family history groups are also present to advertise their products during this annual open day, an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery04-16-05-2009.jpg
  • Cafe society in the popular Broadway Market, a gentrified area of the otherwise poor borough of Hackney and Haggerston.
    hackney_broadway7-14-August-2011.jpg
  • Cafe society in the popular Broadway Market, a gentrified area of the otherwise poor borough of Hackney and Haggerston.
    hackney_broadway2-14-August-2011.jpg
  • Cafe society in the popular Broadway Market, a gentrified area of the otherwise poor borough of Hackney and Haggerston.
    hackney_broadway1-14-August-2011.jpg
  • Relatives and friends stand on the steps of  the Chelsea registry office after a civil society wedding.
    chelsea_wedding01-23-07-1998.jpg
  • Four lines of graffiti writing that describes the daily humdrum of a person living in any modern society, scrawled on a wall beneath Southwark bridge on the capital's Southbank, on 9th December 2021, in London, England.
    life_message-05-09-12-2021.jpg
  • Four lines of graffiti writing that describes the daily humdrum of a person living in any modern society, scrawled on a wall beneath Southwark bridge on the capital's Southbank, on 9th December 2021, in London, England.
    life_message-03-09-12-2021.jpg
  • Four lines of graffiti writing that describes the daily humdrum of a person living in any modern society, scrawled on a wall beneath Southwark bridge on the capital's Southbank, on 9th December 2021, in London, England.
    life_message-01-09-12-2021.jpg
  • Four lines of graffiti writing that describes the daily humdrum of a person living in any modern society, scrawled on a wall beneath Southwark bridge on the capital's Southbank, on 9th December 2021, in London, England.
    life_message-02-09-12-2021.jpg
  • Four lines of graffiti writing that describes the daily humdrum of a person living in any modern society, scrawled on a wall beneath Southwark bridge on the capital's Southbank, on 9th December 2021, in London, England.
    life_message-04-09-12-2021.jpg
  • Four lines of graffiti writing that describes the daily humdrum of a person living in any modern society, scrawled on a wall beneath Southwark bridge on the capital's Southbank, on 9th December 2021, in London, England.
    life_message-06-09-12-2021.jpg
  • A street beggar has been noticed by a young Italian boy who points out the poor kneeling body to his parent. A stick lies on the ground with a paper cup to collect any spare change offered and a cash customer stands entering his pin number into the automated bank dispenser, his back to the underclass of society. This has become normal for what has become the modern face of Italian society in this once-grand medieval city. The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
    florence_italy171-24-10-2010.jpg
  • The inscription 'In Memoriam' is written at the base of a statue artwork located in the Victorian cemetery at Nunhead in south London, on 1st march 2020, in London, England. Nunhead is of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London, its 52-acre site near Peckham is the final resting place for many members of Victorian society: From music hall artists, inventors, WW1, and soldiers who survived the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar.
    in_memoriam-02-01-03-2020.jpg
  • Businessmen walk near David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline14-14-04-2015.jpg
  • City workers enjoy warm sunshine  walk near David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline10-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Man with large belly touts for tickets next to a society bar in the street 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_ascot08-19-06-2013.jpg
  • Local society plaque commemorating WW2 V2 victims on Court Lane Gardens in Dulwich Village during mid-winter snow.
    dulwich_snow20-21-01-2013.jpg
  • As two city office workers walk briskly towards the viewer, we also see an artwork, a series of statues of commuting people are also striding as one, making their homeward journeys. The two gentlemen however appear to be taking a lunchtime break from their desk jobs and carrying sports holdalls with the 90s sports brand Head, are probably on their way to any number of city-based gyms. They look successful and wealthy, products of a healthy economy and a business culture of bonuses and high prospects of affluence whereas the statues lend a feeing of suppression and the treadmill of their anonymous daily lives as if they were part of some Orwellian society. .
    commuters-16-07-1990.jpg
  • Celebrated grave for the Dublin-born playright and known homosexual, Oscar Wilde in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. 19th century Irish playwright and wit Oscar Wilde once quipped: "One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation." He died in Paris at only 46, impoverished and broken down from years of being villified by Victorian society. He was buried at Père Lachaise with a modest tomb, but a memorial was later erected. Today the monument is covered in lipstick marks left by ardent visitors..
    pere_lachaise03-19-08-2012.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.
    ascot_women01-18-06-1992.jpg
  • The fishing fleet of Tarbert on Scotland's Mull of Kintyre lies moored at the dock of this pretty coastal village in the Western Isles. Their colourful hulls shine in late afternoon sunshine as they are tied up awaiting another outing at sea to provide for this small fishing community a living and a livelihood for its families. But in the foreground sit a young couple whose prospects are not so positive: they rest on a bench in silhouette, one smoking a cigarette while turned to the friend who stares out to distant rolling hills. It is a scene of hopelessness that reflects modern life for the youth in remote communities where jobs are scarce and their futures far from secure. In an otherwise idyllic Scottish landscape, we guess at the disintegration of society up here - the scourge of economic downturn and future social problems.
    tarbet07-18-1993.jpg
  • Overgrown Victorian headstone, almost covered in undergrowth in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery13-16-05-2009.jpg
  • Two young girls play around the grand Victorian memorial grave stones in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery09-16-05-2009.jpg
  • Hidden in a wooden hut, a group of bird-spotting ornithologists peer through binoculars at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) rreserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex England. Watching dozens of wintering birds, the group are intensely looking through their optical equipment in anticipation of seeing rare breeds at this Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), a wetland alongside the River Thames, 20 miles from Central London. A narrow slit is open to keep them hidden from sight so leaning on elbows and with a guide sheet in front to identify particular species, they concentrate on their hobby. The RSPB has 200 nature reserves covering almost 130,000 hectares, home to 80% of Britain's rarest or most threatened bird species. Its role is to speak out for birds and wildlife, tackling the problems that threaten the environment.
    electricity385-03-02-2008 .jpg
  • A male visitor sleeps with his head back while sitting in front of Victorian graves and memorials in south London's in south London's Nunhead Cemetery, on 1st march 2020, in London, England. Nunhead is of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London, its 52-acre site near Peckham is the final resting place for many members of Victorian society: From music hall artists, inventors, WW1, and soldiers who survived the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar.
    nunhead_cemetery-01-01-03-2020.jpg
  • The inscription 'In Memoriam' is written at the base of a statue artwork located in the Victorian cemetery at Nunhead in south London, on 1st march 2020, in London, England. Nunhead is of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London, its 52-acre site near Peckham is the final resting place for many members of Victorian society: From music hall artists, inventors, WW1, and soldiers who survived the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar.
    in_memoriam-01-01-03-2020.jpg
  • City workers near David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline13-14-04-2015.jpg
  • City workers near David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline12-14-04-2015.jpg
  • City workers walk past David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline11-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Businessmen walk near David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline05-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Businessmen walk past David Cameron's Conservative party's election promise on Evening Standard headline in the City of London. David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto. The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people". Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".
    tory_headline01-14-04-2015.jpg
  • Discarded leftovers of picnic food and drink on the grass during the annual Chelsea Flower Show, the annual event held by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in London. Plates of shellfish and puddings plus bottles and corks from champagne and Bucks Fizz, for example, are seen on the catering tays on a patch of grass near show pavilions.
    leftovers_rubbish-26-05-1989.jpg
  • Nationwide Building Society promo people hold down their balloon props in the City of London.
    balloons_promo02-23-04-2013.jpg
  • Wearing a turban according to the beliefs of the Sikh faith, a Metropolitan police officer helps an Asian lady citizen outside Buckingham Palace, London England UK. At a time when the 'Met' were recruiting members of ethnic minorities to demonstrate their tolerance of other communities, this man is clearly a symbol of how Britain has changed, since the 1960s to a multi-cultural society. Pointing out direction to help the lady find her way, the officer proudly wears his turban of his religion.
    sikh_policeman01-21-04-1989.jpg
  • A poverty-stricken homeless man looks down at the pavement while a smartly-dressed professional puts a finger on his location on a steel map (and his own position in life) - a scene of wealth and prosperity and the downtrodden in society. They are both in a place known as Bank Triangle in what is called the Square Mile, London's oldest district of banking and finance businesses.
    homeless_tourist01-17-05-1998.jpg
  • Celebrated grave for the Dublin-born playright and known homosexual, Oscar Wilde in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. 19th century Irish playwright and wit Oscar Wilde once quipped: "One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation." He died in Paris at only 46, impoverished and broken down from years of being villified by Victorian society. He was buried at Père Lachaise with a modest tomb, but a memorial was later erected. Today the monument is covered in lipstick marks left by ardent visitors..
    pere_lachaise02-19-08-2012.jpg
  • The busy atmosphere of mid-day Portuguese society inside the famous Café A Brasileira do Chiado in central Lisbon.
    lisbon9-21-03-1994.jpg
  • Two local children squeeze through railings of the  unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). The kids have walked their dog through this field filled with old headstones and graves, playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society. .
    wales_cemetery02-15-06-1986.jpg
  • Among headstones and graves, two local children play in the unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). Along with their pet Labrador dog who enjoys joining in on the fun, the children are playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society.
    wales_cemetery01-15-06-1986.jpg
  • Wearing a turban according to the beliefs of the Sikh faith, a Metropolital police officer stands outside Buckingham Palace, London England UK. At a time when the 'Met' were recruiting members of ethnic minorities to demonstrate their tolerance of other commnities, this man is clearly a symbol of how Britain has changed, since the 1960s to a multi-cultural society
    RB_119-21-04-1989.jpg
  • Pasted to the wall in Gerrard Street, Soho, in London's Chinatown, the Metropolitan Police are appealing for witnesses to help with their investigation of a murder of Vien Xuan Cao, a Chinese immigrant who was murdered in this street after being attacked with a meat cleaver. The implication is that this was a Triad turf war, a territorial dispute between gang members of this secret society. We see the young man's face photocopied to the paperwork, laid over more traditional images of ethnic Chinese and a boxing contest promotional poster. "Can you Help?" reads the Police's appeal and alongside, the same text has been translated into Chinese for locals to read.
    RB_118-08-10-1992.jpg
  • A young office worker wearing a dark suit stands outside his place of work in a sunny Trinity Square in the City of London, for a quick cigarette break. Puffing guiltily on his fag n the pavement outside beneath the huge supporting pillars of this financial institution. He draws on his cigarette, a sign of his addiction and enjoyment of taking a five or ten-minute pause from his office job. A report showed smokers each lose an average of 30 minutes a day from their workplaces to satisfy their habit. The average smoker takes at least three breaks from the office, each lasting around 10 minutes, research for the Benenden Healthcare Society found. The healthcare group estimates that 290,000 working days are being lost by people leaving their office to smoke.
    RB_082-18-06-2005.jpg
  • An actor plays the part of an office worker, toiling away at a desk-top PC while outside in the courtyard of the Z33 art gallery in Hasselt, Limburg Belgium. The lady artist sits typing at an imaginary work station with jackets hanging on a coat stand and with her area marked out in sand on the gravel. This incongruous scene is played out during the gallery's 'Werk Nu' (Work Now) exhibition that reflected upon the concept and meaning of 'work' in our present society, with issues such as flexibility, mobility, motivation, significance, and the work-life balance are dealt with. The art works in 'Work Now' are direct or ambiguous, whimsical.
    hasselt019-27-06-2009.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.
    ascot_ladies01.jpg
  • A couple show their official inviitation to a formal Buckingham Palace garden party to meet the Queen along with many more...The Queens' garden parties are held ever summer, allowing ordinary men and women from diverse members of society the chance to walk the Palace grounds and meet others from all walks of life. Some may be from the armed services and others , merely known for their charitable work or individual merit.
    palace_party-13-07-1995.jpg
  • Visitors browse through a book stall beneath tombs and memorials in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
    nunhead_cemetery02-16-05-2009.jpg
  • A Big Issue seller sits near a Christian Dior fashion House sponsored taxi in London's Bond Street during Vogue's Fashion's Night Out festival in the streets of the West End. But it is still early and passers-by pay more attention to the vehicle than the poor newspaper seller, traditionally a homeless person who earns cash from selling this charity magazine to members of the public. She sits strategically outside the Louis Vuitton shop where a different class of English society spend their wealth on couture and luxury items such as accessories and jewellery.
    dior_show7-08-September-2011.jpg
  • A woman street beggar prostrates herself on a pavement, ignored by Italian shoppers and pedestrians in Florence. As shoppers and tourists walk past in a hurry, pulling suitcases or carrying shopping, the people walk around the kneeling body whose stick lies on the ground with a paper cup to collect any spare change offered. There seems to be a mixture of indifference, pity and shame for what has become the modern face of Italian society in this once-grand medieval city. The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
    florence_italy140-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Wealthy friends enjoy bubbly and fizz during the annual Henley Regatta on a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley boat races, England. Dressed in quintessentially English blazers and English jackets and dresses, they are in jovial spirits 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 hoi polloi
    regatta_toffs02-03-07-1993.jpg
  • Wealthy friends enjoy bubbly and fizz during the annual Henley Regatta on a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley boat races, England. Dressed in quintessentially English blazers and English jackets and dresses, they are in jovial spirits 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 hoi polloi
    regatta_toffs01-03-07-1993.jpg
  • Messing about on a pedal water craft, a member of a local rowing club looks up to see where the cork to his opened champagne bottle will land on the River Thames during a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. 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 wealthy upper-classes.
    henley_regatta03-03-07-1993.jpg
  • A group of four friends drink Champagne from glasses and plastic cups from beneath welcome shade during a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. Dressed in quintessentially English blazers that denote their university and boat club, the four are in jovial spirits 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 hoi polloi
    henley_blazer_men-03-07-1993.jpg
  • 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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  • In a grass-covered car park, two ladies sit in the boot of a shining blue Rolls-Royce, chatting and sipping Champagne from crystal glasses by an unseen male friend during the day at Royal Ascot horse racing week. Surrounded by other cars and members of high-society who have congregated on this part of southern England, they are dressed in the fashion of the era, one of the girls' with her long bare legs dangling from the cover of this luxury car. car. The day is overcast, with threatening clouds behind the party but despite this, they are in a bubbly and excitable mood. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season.
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  • Listening intently to a speech given by the Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke MP, the then-Chancellor in John Major's Conservative government of 1994, these city and financial dignitaries have feasted well in the old Guildhall, the City of London's town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the capital. Wearing formal banquet attire, these chiefs of industry appear to be an all-male audience though there were also women sat at tables during the Banker's Dinner held every in June when the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a speech known as the Mansion House Speech hosted by the Lord Mayor, which takes its name from his official residence nearby. They concentrate on the speech to hear the Chancellor's predictions for growth and prosperity.
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  • As part of the annual 'Art in the City' in the City of London, the artwork entitled Temple (2008) by Damien Hirst occupies a space opposite a menswear shop window mannequin in Lime Street in the heart of the capital's financial district, on 26th June 2017 in the City of London, England.
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  • A man has chosen a free surface to spread himself out on during a lunchtime break in the City of London. Having removed his shirt and tie, he sunbathes topless with only his trousers and shoes, the clue as to his day-job in a London office. There is a heat wave in the capital and others are soaking up rays during a working week. Bronzed and asleep, the young man is carefree enough not to worry about his eccentric behaviour in a public place.
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  • Businesswoman sits in sunlit window beneath poster showing quality chocolates, in Manon Cafe on King William Street in the City of London, the capital's oldest, financial heart.
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  • As part of the annual 'Art in the City' in the City of London, the artwork entitled Temple (2008) by Damien Hirst occupies a space opposite a menswear shop window mannequin in Lime Street in the heart of the capital's financial district, on 26th June 2017 in the City of London, England.
    city_art-16-26-06-2017.jpg
  • Canterbury 21/3/2013 - VIP guests from all religions, denominations and faiths arrive before the enthronement of the Church of England's 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, ex-oil executive and former Bishop of Durham the Right Reverend Justin Welby. Welby (57) follows a long Anglican heritage since Benedictine monk Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury in 597AD Prince Charles and Prime Minister David Cameron joined 2,000 VIP guests to Canterbury Cathedral, the oldest church in England which has attracted pilgrims since Thomas a Becket was murdered in the Cathedral in 1170.
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  • Two CCTV cameras in the City of London, one of the most-watched  on 11th August, 2017, in London, England. According to 2011 figures, there are 420,000 CCTV cameras in London.
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  • Ladies swap shoes 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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  • The Broadgate Venus by Fernando Botero in Exchange Square, Broadgate, City of London.
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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.
    city_resting01-16-1993.jpg
  • Listening intently to a speech given by a city dignitary before Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke MP, the then-Chancellor in John Major's Conservative government of 1994, these city and financial dignitaries have feasted well in the old Guildhall, the City of London's town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the capital. Wearing formal banquet attire, these chiefs of industry appear to be an all-male audience though there were also women sat at tables during the Banker's Dinner held every in June when the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a speech known as the Mansion House Speech hosted by the Lord Mayor, which takes its name from his official residence nearby. They concentrate on the speech to hear the Chancellor's predictions for growth and prosperity.
    guildhall_banquet03-16-06-1994.jpg
  • City workers walk past Evening Standards with Prime Minister Theresa May on the front page, asking the nation to trust her and yesterday's snap election announcement, outside the Bank of England in the heart of the capital's financial district, on 19th April, in the City of London, England.
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  • In the weeks before Christmas day on December 25th, the Lord Mayor of London hosts an annual party at his official town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the City of London. Inviting Greater London's borough Mayors, they can each invite worthy children for an afternoon's fancy dress party. Two children dressed as Tarzan with a small monkey and a Grenadier Guard with a bearskin, and are seated on the Mayoral throne like two princes in a royal court. The chairs are coated with gold leaf with red cushioned fabric and with the Corporation of London's crest on the top. It looks resplendent and opulent. The two kids are sat looking small in the chairs seemingly made for giants but behind them is another boy dressed as a grey rabbit with floppy ears running past. The Guildhall has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial centre of the City of London. The term Guildhall refers both to the whole building and to its main room, which is a medieval style great hall similar to those at many Oxbridge colleges. The Guildhall complex houses the offices of the Corporation of London and various public facilities. (Greater London also has a City Hall). The great hall is believed to be on the site of an earlier Guildhall, and has large mediaeval crypts underneath. During the Roman period it was the site of an amphitheatre, the largest in Britannia. The City of London is still part of London's city centre, but apart from financial services, most of London's metropolitan functions are centred on the West End. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
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  • Ten weeks after the UK went into Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reveal that the total death toll has passed 50,000 covid-19 victims, clothing mannequins in the shop window of a retailer undergoing extensive refurbishment, are covered in a protective layer of plastic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 2nd June 2020, in London, England. The retail industry has taken advantage of quiet roads during lockdown, as an opportunity to have repairs and refurbs caried out in their premises.
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  • City dwellers pass beneath advice about street etiquette on a construction hoarding in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 24th January 2019, in London, England.
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  • Construction fencing among the historical Victorian headstones of Bunhill Fields cemetery in the City of London.
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  • Homeless man beneath the statue of philathropist, banker and entrepreneur George Peabody ( 1795 - 1869)
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  • An aerial cityscape of Londoners, general traffic and a London taxi on Upper Thames Street (west of London Bridge) in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • An elderly homeless man walks slowly past a Barclays Bank cash dispenser at which business people are either queueing or typing in their PIN numbers from cash accounts, or simply passing-by. One middle-aged gent stands eyeing the poor man suspiciously while other men of wealth, prospects and prosperity are tall and stand erect in smart suits and polished shoes, the homeless man is hunched and dishevelled, carrying a supermarket bag - perhaps containing all of his worldly goods. It is a tragic scene of extremes between the haves and the have-nots; the rich and poor; between people with hope and those in despair. This is the City of London, near Fenchurch Street Station where the UK's insurance companies are based and it is impossible to know if any of these men in smart clothes are the same age as the poor man.
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  • Carrying plants through the popular Broadway Market, a gentrified area of the otherwise poor borough of Hackney and Haggerston.
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  • A waiter serves a pot of tea at his outdoor cafe in the Italian capital, on 3rd November 1999, in Rome, Italy.
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  • A cafe customer reads his copy of the English language Herald Tribune newspaper in the Italian capital, on 3rd November 1999, in Rome, Italy.
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  • Afternoon coffee drinkers sit outside Caffe Nero in Old Brompton Street in Soho.
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  • Carrying plants through the popular Broadway Market, a gentrified area of the otherwise poor borough of Hackney and Haggerston.
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  • Carrying plants through the popular Broadway Market, a gentrified area of the otherwise poor borough of Hackney and Haggerston.
    hackney_broadway4-14-August-2011.jpg
  • Carrying plants through the popular Broadway Market, a gentrified area of the otherwise poor borough of Hackney and Haggerston.
    hackney_broadway3-14-August-2011.jpg
  • With one day before the coronation of King Charles III, a contractor ties down banners with messages proclaiming 'God Save the King', 'Happy And Glorious' and 'Long May He Reign' across Trafalgar Square which is on tomorrow's procession route, on 5th May 2023, in London, England.
    coronation_preparations-44-05-05-202...jpg
  • With one day before the coronation of King Charles III, a contractor ties down banners with messages proclaiming 'God Save the King', 'Happy And Glorious' and 'Long May He Reign' in front of the National Gallery across Trafalgar Square which is on tomorrow's procession route, on 5th May 2023, in London, England.
    coronation_preparations-45-05-05-202...jpg
  • With one day before the coronation of King Charles III, messages proclaiming 'God Save the King', 'Happy And Glorious' and 'Long May He Reign' stretch in front of the National Gallery and across Trafalgar Square which is on tomorrow's procession route, on 5th May 2023, in London, England.
    coronation_preparations-43-05-05-202...jpg
  • With one day before the coronation of King Charles III, messages proclaiming 'God Save the King', 'Happy And Glorious' and 'Long May He Reign' stretch in front of the National Gallery and across Trafalgar Square which is on tomorrow's procession route, on 5th May 2023, in London, England.
    coronation_preparations-42-05-05-202...jpg
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