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  • A placard is held up to the frontage of the Ritzy Cinema, part of the Picturehouse chain, in dispute with Bectu union employees for a living London wage, on 3rd July 2017, in Brixton, London, England. The Picturehouse chain is owned by Cineworld which has 2,000 cinema screens in nine countries. The London Living Wage is set at £9.75 per hour (the national rate is £8.45).
    ritzy_protest-02-03-07-2017.jpg
  • A placard is held up to the frontage of the Ritzy Cinema, part of the Picturehouse chain, in dispute with Bectu union employees for a living London wage, on 3rd July 2017, in Brixton, London, England. The Picturehouse chain is owned by Cineworld which has 2,000 cinema screens in nine countries. The London Living Wage is set at £9.75 per hour (the national rate is £8.45).
    ritzy_protest-01-03-07-2017.jpg
  • In early morning light shines over Victorian cobbles, a rubbish collector checks the contents of bins at the Tower of London.
    london_time09-03-09-2008.jpg
  • Clubbing to death an adult yellow fin tuna on the blue deck of a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean, Maldives
    maldives316-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Hosing down a freshly-killed line caught yellow fin tuna fish on the blue deck of a traditional dhoni fishing boat, Maldives
    maldives286-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Using a mop and bucket, a chamber maid bends over in a bathroom to service a Paris hotel room.
    Lambermont_biscuits_03.jpg
  • A fisherman from the Maldives clubs to death a yellow fin tuna on the deck of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. Using a handmade instrument of death, carved from beach flotsam, the man raises his hands to again bring the club down on the dying fish whose skull has already been smashed by repeated blows. Next it will be gutted efficiently with sharp knives and immediately plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
    maldives279-14-11-2007.jpg
  • With blood and guts on the blue deck, a fisherman from the Maldives hoses down a yellow fin tuna on the floor of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. After clubbing it death, he has removed its respiratory organs with sharp knives and washes it down with a hose. Next it will be plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught (often weighing 50kg) before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
    maldives281-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Hosing down a freshly-killed line caught yellow fin tuna fish on the blue deck of a traditional dhoni fishing boat, Maldives
    maldives280-14-11-2007.jpg
  • A chamber maid's trolley with cleaning supplies and equipment stands idle in the corridor of a Paris hotel.
    lambermont-biscuits01.jpg
  • Facing its own blood and guts on the blue deck, a yellow fin tuna is dead on the floor of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. After clubbing it death, fishermen from the Maldives have removed its respiratory organs with sharp knives and washes it down with a hose. Next it will be plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught (often weighing 50kg) before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
    maldives288-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Wearing a company wastecoat and blue rubber gloves, the uniform of a Holiday Inn employee, a man of Black ethnicity bends forward to wipe the glass revolving doors at the entrance of this hotel in Paris. Nearby is the man's trolley containing janitorial cleaning products such as a mop and bucket, towels, cloth rolls, atomiser sprays, detergents and tissues needed to maintain the high standards of this motel chain. Coincidentally, a customer is also bending down to re-arrange something in her baggage and leaning at the same angle as the cleaner.
    esa_guiana02113-08-2007.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising09-24-07-2020.jpg
  • On the first day back to work after the Christmas and New Year holidays, a staff member wipes surfaces inside a retail business on Oxford Street, on 3rd January 2023, in London, England.
    january_sales-04-03-01-2023.jpg
  • On the first day back to work after the Christmas and New Year holidays, a staff member wipes surfaces inside a retail business on Oxford Street, on 3rd January 2023, in London, England.
    january_sales-05-03-01-2023.jpg
  • On the first day back to work after the Christmas and New Year holidays, a staff member wipes surfaces inside a retail business on Oxford Street, on 3rd January 2023, in London, England.
    january_sales-02-03-01-2023.jpg
  • On the first day back to work after the Christmas and New Year holidays, a staff member wipes surfaces inside a retail business on Oxford Street, on 3rd January 2023, in London, England.
    january_sales-03-03-01-2023.jpg
  • Above an illustration of two women office workers at their desks who appear on the side of parked van, two male contractors abseil down to clean the windows of corporate offices in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
    window_cleaners02-26-10-2020.jpg
  • Above an illustration of two women office workers at their desks who appear on the side of parked van, two male contractors abseil down to clean the windows of corporate offices in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
    window_cleaners08-26-10-2020.jpg
  • Above an illustration of two women office workers at their desks who appear on the side of parked van, two male contractors abseil down to clean the windows of corporate offices in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
    window_cleaners06-26-10-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising11-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising14-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising12-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising02-24-07-2020.jpg
  • A workman with a tattoo on his arm carries a bundle of short wooden planks on his shoulder, about to cross Westminster Bridge towards the Houses of Parliament, on 12th September 2017, in London, England.
    southbank_people-11-12-09-2017.jpg
  • Aerial view of a corporation of London contract street sweeper brushes litter in the gutter of a City street.
    street_sweeper02-22-03-2012.jpg
  • An excavator and aspirational poster on wall during building of 2012 Olympic Westfield City shopping centre, Stratford. A glamorous woman sips a drink with a straw representing the good times - wealth and beauty and the symbols of affluence - while the working men are seen small in comparison, the downtrodden Man. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector..
    olympic_stratford29-15-03-2012.jpg
  • Young Chinese couple walk past a woman mopping floor of Angus Steak House in Soho, on Charing Cross Road, central London.
    street_cleaner01-08-02-2011.jpg
  • On the first day back to work after the Christmas and New Year holidays, a staff member wipes surfaces inside a retail business on Oxford Street, on 3rd January 2023, in London, England.
    january_sales-01-03-01-2023.jpg
  • Hours before the UK's rail network is shut down, when railway workers with the RMT union take industrial action across the UK, the most disruptive rail strikes across England, Scotland and Wales for thirty years, passengers pass through Waterloo mainline station during the evening rush-hour, on 20th June 2022, in London, England.
    waterloo_station-21-20-06-2022.jpg
  • Above an illustration of two women office workers at their desks who appear on the side of parked van, two male contractors abseil down to clean the windows of corporate offices in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
    window_cleaners03-26-10-2020.jpg
  • Above an illustration of two women office workers at their desks who appear on the side of parked van, two male contractors abseil down to clean the windows of corporate offices in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
    window_cleaners04-26-10-2020.jpg
  • Above an illustration of two women office workers at their desks who appear on the side of parked van, two male contractors abseil down to clean the windows of corporate offices in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
    window_cleaners05-26-10-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising13-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising10-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising06-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising08-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising05-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising07-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising04-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising03-24-07-2020.jpg
  • Staff with visual merchandising supplier 'Bright Leaf' carry blue boards and materials  back to their West End premises, on 24th July 2020, in London, England.
    visual_merchandising01-24-07-2020.jpg
  • An excavator and aspirational poster on wall during building of 2012 Olympic Westfield City shopping centre, Stratford. A glamorous woman representing the good times - wealth and beauty and the symbols of affluence - while the working Man is seen small in comparison, the downtrodden Man. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector..
    olympic_stratford31-15-03-2012.jpg
  • JCB excavator and aspirational poster on wall during building of 2012 Olympic Westfield City shopping centre, Stratford.
    westfield_stratford20-08-03-2012.jpg
  • A woman carries her mop and bucket back into an Angus Steak House in Soho, on Charing Cross Road, central London.
    street_cleaner02-08-02-2011.jpg
  • At night we see the floodlit exterior of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, home to the post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_building0207-16-1993.jpg
  • A contract street cleaner pushes a laden bin trolley beneath the tall columns of St Paul's Cathedral, on 5th October 2020, in London, England.
    st_paul's_cleaner01-05-10-2020.jpg
  • A Just Eat delivery rider pedals past Christmas themed lettering on the King's Road in Chelsea during the second Coronavirus lockdow when - apart from takeaways - most non-essential retailers and small businesses remain closed by order of the government, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    kings_road08-13-11-2020.jpg
  • Resting road and leaf sweeper reads magazine on his cart during brief break of his morning shift in Dulwich, London.
    street_sweeper-08-11-2003.jpg
  • A businessman stands over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. His black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look downwards from the perspective of the wealthier man, a superior view that the client feels when paying for such a service. Wearing a red uniform, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
    shoeshiner-15-04-1993.jpg
  • Construction worker and aspirational poster on wall during building of 2012 Olympic Westfield City shopping centre, Stratford.
    westfield_stratford17-08-03-2012.jpg
  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, traditional thatchers work together in afternoon sun. While in the background new straw is brought up onto the roof while in the foreground another thatcher leans into the ladder and the roof's slope. Using a thatching tool called a Leggett, Legate, bat or dresser to position the thatch on the roof. Typically one end is treated so as to catch the ends of the reed used. This tool is used by the thatcher to dress the reed into place and ensure an even finish. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10-15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
    thatchers02-16-08-1993.jpg
  • Standing in their cradles are three members of a National Grid Live-line electricity cable crew, protected in a conductive cage beneath the electricy cables that they maintaining. We see the sagging cables stretching to distant electricity pylons and the three human figures standing like astonauts in their protective cradles. Huge structure of girders and relays are behind them and they wear safety clothing allowing them to work comfortably inside the electrical field at close range with gloved hands. National Grid Electricity Transmission plc owns and operates the National Grid high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales.National Grid plc is a United Kingdom based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally in the United States.
    RB_042-21-04-1995.jpg
  • A married couple ready themselves for a formal Buckingham Palace garden party in after sunshine. The lady and man have been invited to take tea with and meet the Queen along with many hundreds more in London England. They are Mr and Mrs Johnson and he is a Flag officer junior rating serving in Britain's Royal Navy. His wife adjusts his Navy cap (denoting his ship's name) to make sure it's straightened and presentable for Her Majesty. It is a proud day for her husband and his spouse, when the achievements of his military career are recognized by his Sovereign. 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.
    RB_036-13-07-1995.jpg
  • From a high vantage point looking across the atrium of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, we see the zig-zag-shape stripes of escalators, beyond which we see the desks of insurance underwriters at the Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located in Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. 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. looking across
    RB-0142.jpg
  • A male passenger is asleep with his mouth open, leaning his head on a bus window as it passes the background pillars of the Bank of England in the financial district City of London. On the exterior of the bus are the words: "We've got to get this city to work," an advertising slogan used by London Transport to seduce commuters from their cars and back on to public transport which is one of the most expensive world capitals on which to travel by bus, train or underground. This style of bus is a traditional design called a 'Routemaster' which has been in service on the capital's roads since 1954 and is nowadays only seen on heritage routes such as these destination: Victoria, Bond Street, Oxford Street, Holborn and Bank (the Bank of England). From any angle, the bus is easily recognisable as that classic British transport icon.  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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  • The unrecognisable driver of a number 38 red London bus which is passing between sunlight and shadow, gives a thumbs up signal to another road-user in the streets of Victoria. On the side of the vehicle's bodywork are the destinations the 38 route passes:  Hackney, Dalston Junction, Angel, Piccadilly Circus and Victoria Station. The bus is a traditional design called a Routemaster which has been in service on the capital's roads since 1954 and is nowadays only seen on heritage routes. From any angle, the bus is easily recognisable as that classic British transport icon.
    RB-0041.jpg
  • A businessman stands over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. His black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look downwards from the perspective of the wealthier man, a superior view that the client feels when paying for such a service. Wearing a red uniform, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
    city_london12-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A team of English tea-tasters employed by the tea company Lyons sample different blends for the PG Tips brand in the City of London, England UK. With variously-sourced teas from tea estate plantations, they smell, touch, sip, slurp then spit the hot drink out into a spitoon rather than swallow it many times repeatedly. Britons drink 35 million cups of PG Tips a day and world tea production is approximately 3.2 million tonnes a year. Kenya is the largest producer with Sri Lanka a close second. PG Tips is imported as single estate teas from around the world and blended in precise proportions set by the tea tasters to make blend 777, which can contain between 12 and 35 single estate teas at any one time depending on season..
    RB_133-21-05-1993.jpg
  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, traditional thatchers work together in afternoon sun
    thatchers-16-08-1993.jpg
  • A smiling female member of staff at the British Airways information desk in Departures at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1472-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Two female BAA security instructors stand in front of a Powerpoint image showing the Glasgow airport terrorist attack.
    heathrow_airport1684-24-08-2009.jpg
  • Unhappily, ladies darts champion Anastasia Dobromyslova collects third place certificate from tournament organisers
    anastasia_dobromyslova27-12-04-2008.jpg
  • Ladies darts champion Anastasia Dobromyslova plays semi-final with arch-rival 7-times world ladies champion Trina Gulliver
    anastasia_dobromyslova26-12-04-2008.jpg
  • An HGV driver is ready to leave Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket distribution depot at Waltham Poiint
    sainsburys_depot215-09-05-2007.jpg
  • The Royal Mail's Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) handling some of the 82 million items a day to 27 million UK addresses
    nine_elms_71.jpg
  • Pairs of insulated, anti-slip Dunlop Acifort Wellington boots await users a cold room of New England seafood importers
    new_england58-27-11-2007.jpg
  • A cargo handler operates a loader to place freight containers into the hold of a Sri Lankan Airlines Airbus A340 at Male.
    maldives437-15-11-2007.jpg
  • Maldivian crewmen arrive home late after a day's yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
    maldives344-14-11-2007.jpg
  • A Maldivian crewman eats after a day's yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
    maldives265-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Mixed gender office with men working alongside ladies wearing the hejab at Fisheries Ministry of the Maldives government
    maldives38-12-11-2007.jpg
  • Straightening one's tie at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair46-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Making life-changing calls at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
    grad_fair30-07-03-2008 .jpg
  • Young technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana29116-08-2007.jpg
  • Guided tour of an auditing company's London headquarters
    ernst+young101-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Accountancy employees watch motivational circus acrobats at their corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel
    Ernst+Young_Academy128-21-09-2007.jpg
  • Accountancy employees watch their Chairman speaking at their corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel
    Ernst+Young_Academy138-21-09-2007.jpg
  • Four business partners are in the middle of a meeting at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Seated within a private area that looks like a cage, they engage in conversation on this stylish stand that also features a lush oasis of green vegetation. The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
    paris_air_show123-20-06-2007.jpg
  • A detailed close-up of a trader in the central fish market of Malé, Republic of the Maldives. It is located to the west of Republic Square. This area is the main hub of trade and is a hive of activity through out the day. The waterfront and the by-lanes in the area are crowded with shops stocked with a variety of good. Grasping tight a handful of slippery skipjack tuna tails, the unseen man is carrying the fishes over to a stall table for a customer who wants them gutted and filleted, a scene that is familiar in similar markets across the world. The skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis), represents 50-75% of all fish caught. The main method is pole and line in the Indian Ocean and fishery is the main occupation and major livelihood of the Maldivian people.
    maldives385-15-11-2007.jpg
  • An employee of Cyprea Marine Foods fillets freshly-caught  yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives93-12-11-2007.jpg
  • An aerial view overlooking the processing depot of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Commercial postage of catalogues, junk mail and brochures pass through this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres such as DIRFT.
    DIRFT176-20-02-2007 .jpg
  • A construction contractor paints benches green and pink, located at Elephant Park in south London, on 29th March 2021, in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle04-29-03-2021.jpg
  • A construction contractor paints benches green and pink, located at Elephant Park in south London, on 29th March 2021, in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle05-29-03-2021.jpg
  • Gig economy 'Just Eat' delivery riders await their next takeaway orders outside the McDonalds on the Walworth Road in south London, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 22 February 2021, in London, England.
    just_eats02-22-02-2021.jpg
  • Gig economy 'Just Eat' delivery riders await their next takeaway orders outside the McDonalds on the Walworth Road in south London, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 22 February 2021, in London, England.
    just_eats01-22-02-2021.jpg
  • A Just Eat takeaway delivery cyclist checks messages while standing next to a poster from the Victorian era, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic when retailers and businesses are allowed to trade only for takeaway and collections, on 19th February 2021, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    takeaway_man01-18-02-2021.jpg
  • A man sits in a chair at the entrance to a commercial property in Holborn, on 19th February 2021, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    doorway_man01-18-02-2021.jpg
  • A Just Eat delivery rider pedals past Christmas themed lettering on the King's Road in Chelsea during the second Coronavirus lockdow when - apart from takeaways - most non-essential retailers and small businesses remain closed by order of the government, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    kings_road09-13-11-2020.jpg
  • A construction workman pushes a trolley across Bishopsgate (Street) in the City of London, the capital's financial district.
    city_roadworks02-10-04-2014.jpg
  • A removals man rests on a collection trolley beneath a fashion model poster in a Mayfair street, London.
    fashion_workman02-01-04-2014.jpg
  • A portrait of a lady fishmonger and her shellfish in the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth. Holding up a tray of fish and shellfish, the lady proudly stands outside her kiosk in the centre of this eastern England seaside resort. A pot of shrimps, some crabs, salmon steaks and traditional kippers are shown to us. In the background are cod fillets, prawns and other smoked fish.
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  • A grinning portrait of a fishmonger from the Princess Cafe on Foreshore Road in the North Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. Smiling with bad teeth but with a generous and kind face, the elderly man stands on the corner, outside his traditional seaside business in the centre of town where passing trade from locals and tourists guarantee him an income  - a secure future towards his retirement in the coming years. In the background are signs advertising his produce: Haddock, Cod, and Lemon Sole - all locally caught and served with chips.
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  • Using techniques developed over thousands of years, a portrait of traditional thatchers with straw for a barn roof in Suffolk, England. In England a ridge will normally last 10–15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates. Thatch is still the choice of affluent people who desire a rustic look for their home or who have purchased an originally thatched abode.
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  • Two Metropolitan Police officers patrol the tidal waters River Thames near Tower Bridge in London, England. In their small boat used to police and often make searches of the river in central London, their searchlight watches for people in the water - especially on Fridays and around New year. The Underwater and Confined Space Search Team (UCSST), are part of the Marine Support Unit and based at Wapping. They also carry out searches in canals, ponds, lakes and reservoirs. It was set up as a full time unit in 1964. One of their most distressing jobs, however, is recovering bodies from the River. On average over 50 people lose their lives in the Thames each year and about 80% of these are by suicide (usually by jumping off one of the many bridges that cross the Thames).
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  • A team of English tea-tasters employed by the tea company Lyons sample different blends for the PG Tips brand in the City of London, England UK. With variously-sourced teas from tea estate plantations, they smell, touch, sip, slurp then spit the hot drink out into a spittoon rather than swallow it many times repeatedly. Britons drink 35 million cups of PG Tips a day and world tea production is approximately 3.2 million tonnes a year. Kenya is the largest producer with Sri Lanka a close second. PG Tips is imported as single estate teas from around the world and blended in precise proportions set by the tea tasters to make blend 777, which can contain between 12 and 35 single estate teas at any one time depending on season..
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  • 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.
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  • A smoking worker enjoys a rest and cigarette in a designated smoking zone area in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London.
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  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London.
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