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  • Standing with a bloodied knife and hand is an instructor of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see also Corbis image 42-18212808) who has butchered a deer near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. The man teaches escape and evasion techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the teachers stand around the venison which is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife.
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  • Using a bloodied knife and hand, an instructor of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course who has butchered road kill deer. Near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State, the man teaches escape and evasion techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the teachers stand around the venison that is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife.
    usaf_survival01-06-08-1995_1_1.jpg
  • It is morning in Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India and on the streets around the Writers' Building, a busy fruit market is in full swing. Against the wall however, a dying skill is being shown: A man sits with his back to the bustle of the street and is hand-typing letters for those unable to write their own correspondence with his own battered typewriter. Working as a freelance typist, the man transcribes the hand-written words for a customer before the days of home PC or laptop. The Writers' Building (Mahakaran in Bengali) is the secretariat building of the State Government of West Bengal in India. The Writers' Building originally served as the office for writers of the British East India Company, hence the name. Designed by Thomas Lyon in 1780, it received its impressive Corinthian façade, an example of the Neo-Renaissance style, in 1889.
    kolkata01-18-11-1996.jpg
  • Wallers from the South West England Dry Stone Walling Association (SWEDSWA) demonstrate dry stone wallers in Priddy, Somerset. Across the UK, there are over 150,000 miles of wall in a state of disrepair. The members of SWEDSWA try to do their bit to rebuild some of those across the South West of England, demonstrating and educating their trade skills to the general public at country events such as this - a sheep fair held annually since 1348.
    priddy_fair08-21-08-2013_1.jpg
  • Deep in the West Sussex countryside are a group of Territorial Army soldiers. They have stopped in a remote lane to consult their Ordnance Survey maps during a day of learning to navigate with maps and compasses. Over a weekend learn the skills needed to be part-time army volunteers known as the TA and have far to go. Together they look at maps and argue where they should go next. Looking on with mild amusement is their senior officer who accompanies them to assess their leadership skills and initiative. Behind them a road sign tells them the road ahead is a dead end to traffic. It is a very English summer landscape of lush green vegetation and grasses. The TA work as part of Britain’s reserve land forces. Together with the Regular Army they provide support at home and overseas including Iraq and Afghanistan. .
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  • Wallers from the South West England Dry Stone Walling Association (SWEDSWA) demonstrate dry stone wallers in Priddy, Somerset. Across the UK, there are over 150,000 miles of wall in a state of disrepair. The members of SWEDSWA try to do their bit to rebuild some of those across the South West of England, demonstrating and educating their trade skills to the general public at country events such as this - a sheep fair held annually since 1348.
    priddy_fair04-21-08-2013_1.jpg
  • An airline flight-engineer occupies his own seat in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 - before the era arrived when technology made his role as a third flight crew member redundant. With a bowl of fresh fruit beside his seat, the male member of the flight-deck crew watches instruments and readings in front of the unseen pilots at the front. Wearing the three stripes designating his rank and seniority within his unspecified airline, the specialist's skills are in engineering systems that maintain efficient flight. When introduced, the Boeing 747-400 model was equipped with a two-crew glass cockpit, which dispensed with the need for a flight engineer - many of whom lost their jobs or retrained as pilots themselves.
    flight_engineer01-07-08-2000_1.jpg
  • Standing with a recently-killed deer run-over on a nearby highway, members of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see Corbis image 42-18212808) pose by the gutted carcass of their animal in a forest near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. These tough-looking men host visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of escape and evasion instruction. Should they land in enemy territory for example, they will need all the skills learned here to survive possibly weeks in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is of paramount importance. Here the teachers stand around the venison which is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife. They wear camouflage uniforms, face paint to look vicious, threatening and heartless.
    USAF0206-08_1995_1_1.jpg
  • A young apprentice stop near the top of a city centre chimney during a steeplejack course in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Using an elaborate system of harnesses and pulleys, the young lad is learning the skills to work safely and efficiently at dangerous heights and the town stretches below. Sponsored training is offered through the Steeplejack Industry Training Group Association and CITB-ConstructionSkills for young people aged 16. Applicants for this scheme will have to pass aptitude tests, literary and Maths assessments, and problem solving. Each year, the Steeplejack Industry Training Group and CITB-ConstructionSkills offer 12 places on training courses for trainee steeplejacks and 12 places for trainee Lightning Conductor Engineers.
    steeplejacks02-17-03-1993_1_1.jpg
  • A young couple demonstrate their rock 'n' roll dancing skills in front of a crowd in Myatts Fields park in Camberwell, South London UK. Spinning his partner on the specially-laid flooring, the gentleman is dressed in a double-breasted suit in keeping with the 1950s theme of this fair's celebration of a newly-refurbished park. The lady wears a red dress and holds her arm out to regain balance as she is pulled back towards her dance partner. The seated crowd watch attentively beneath London Plain trees whose foliage gives welcome shade on a warm summer afternoon.
    myatts_fields_fair006-20-06-2009.jpg
  • A teenage band of drums, bass and lead guitar perform in front of parents in an upstairs pub room in south London. 15 year-old lads play their own songs and covers by other musical artists. Looking over his shoulder, the bass player checks rhythm with the lead singer  and the drummer looks across his cymbals to ensure the tempo is right. The gig is a regular showcase organiused by their guitar teacher to demonstrate their musical skills as songwriters and musicians.
    guitar_showcase07-23-06-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Working in a dark corner of Desford Brickworks, the factory owned by Hanson Brick in Leicestershire, a labourer pats his clay aggregate into a clod (also known as a clot or warp) a lump of kneaded clay formed into a rough brick shape by hand in preparation for being thrown into the mould (or mold) and shaped once again with a stock. He will then skim off the surplus with the bow - a wire stretched between the ends of a curved wooden rod used for removing excess clay from the mould, which hangs on the wall by a nail. The stage afterwards is the firing in the kiln. Obviously the mechanisation of brick making endangers the careers of skilled craftsmen like this man. <br />
Bricks may be made from clay, shale, soft slate, calcium silicate, concrete, or shaped from quarried stone but Clay is the most common material.
    brick_maker-04-11-1998_1.jpg
  • Presidential Bodyguard soldiers in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This a regular activity as it requires the riders to perfect their horse riding skills and maneuvers for their official duties at ceremonial events.  The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071224_india_0107_1.jpg
  • Presidential Bodyguard soldiers in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This a regular activity as it requires the riders to perfect their horse riding skills and maneuvers for their official duties at ceremonial events.  The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071224_india_0086_1.jpg
  • Presidential Bodyguard soldiers in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This a regular activity as it requires the riders to perfect their horse riding skills and maneuvers for their official duties at ceremonial events.  The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071224_india_0078_1.jpg
  • Presidential Bodyguard soldier in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This a regular activity as it requires the riders to perfect their horse riding skills and maneuvers for their official duties at ceremonial events.  The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071224_india_0029_1.jpg
  • Presidential Bodyguard soldier in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's barrack training grounds. This a regular activity as it requires the riders to perfect their horse riding skills and maneuvers for their official duties at ceremonial events.  The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071222_india_0525_1.jpg
  • Nepalese teenagers stand on one foot during a life skills training session in Bisaneu Voice of Children centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The session is part of the rehabilitation program run by Voice of Children.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
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  • Sanjog Thakuri leads a training session in life skills in Bisaneu Voice of Children centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.  His teenage students sit on the floor in the class room. The session is part of the rehabilitation program run by Voice of Children.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
    Nepal-Young-Adult-training-6853_1.jpg
  • Nepalese teenagers sit and listen during a life skills training session in Bisaneu Voice of Children centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The session is part of the rehabilitation program run by Voice of Children.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
    Nepal-Young-Adult-training-6844_1.jpg
  • Nepalese teenagers put their hands up to answer a question during a life skills training session in Bisaneu Voice of Children centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The session is part of the rehabilitation program run by Voice of Children.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
    Nepal-Young-Adult-training-6841_1.jpg
  • Sanjog Thakuri leads a training session in life skills in Bisaneu Voice of Children centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The session is part of the rehabilitation program run by Voice of Children.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
    Nepal-Young-Adult-training-6815_1.jpg
  • The front of the violin is weighed. The maker keeps very accurate records of the weight of every piece of every violin he makes. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • Front being finely planed down. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • Front being finely planed down. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • Front being finely planed down. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerU.jpg
  • Templates for various violins, cellos and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • Back of a violin. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerR.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerP.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerO.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerH.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerJ.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerK.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerF.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerG.jpg
  • Extremely valuable Spruce wood for making violins. Much of this wood now comes from Eastern Europe. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerD.jpg
  • f-holes in the front. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerAC.jpg
  • Rod Ward makes accurate measurements. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerAB.jpg
  • Shaping the sides around a mould and blocks. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerA.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their aircraft before a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows684_RBA.jpg
  • Officer pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, lean against a wing of their Hawk jet in a pre-flight briefing while a member of their ground crew positions some wheel chocks. The highly-skilled engineer is known as a 'Blue' but the 'Reds' discuss  flight plans. Eleven trades skills are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. It is mid-day and only their flying boots and red legs are seen with the RAF roundel emblem is on the underside of the wing. The better-educated officers in the armed forces enjoy a more privileged lifestyle than their support staff. In the aerobatic squadron, the Blues outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Some of the team's Hawks are 25 years old and their air frames require constant attention, with increasingly frequent major overhauls due.
    Red_Arrows174_RBA_1.jpg
  • Two employees of Cyprea Marine Foods fillet 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.
    maldives89-12-11-2007.jpg
  • A chunk of prime yellow fin tuna fish steak lies after filleting on a table in a processing factory on the island of Himmafushi, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and having just been line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been encased in ice since being landed at sea 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 butchers 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.
    maldives120-12-11-2007.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerQ.jpg
  • Shaping the sides around a mould and blocks, and the front all prepared. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerZ.jpg
  • Front being finely planed down. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerW.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerS.jpg
  • A Cello having it's varnish dried under UV lights. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerN.jpg
  • Extremely valuable Spruce wood for making violins. Much of this wood now comes from Eastern Europe. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerM.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerL.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerI.jpg
  • Shaping the sides around a mould and blocks. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerB.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerE.jpg
  • Extremely valuable Spruce wood for making violins. Much of this wood now comes from Eastern Europe. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerC.jpg
  • Clear markings of the grain of this spruce wood. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerAD.jpg
  • f-holes in the front. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerAA.jpg
  • Some of the nine Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, perform the 5/4 Split high during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • Seen from another aircraft, the Diamond Nine formation of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team is seen over freshly-ploughed English fields and hedgerows (the result of the old agricultural ‘enclosure’ system of land division) the nine aircraft fly in a tight formation approximately 8 feet (2.5m) apart from each other. This is an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. In front of a local crowd at the airfield they practice a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. Their objective is to appear perfectly spaced from a ground perspective are seen below. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows642_RBA_1.jpg
  • From the rear seat of a 'Red Arrows' Hawk of Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Through the explosive Plexiglass canopy, we look towards the Lincolnshire countryside from an altitude of a few thousand feet. This is the view from the leader’s jet during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight. Waiting for the other eight members of the team to re-form as an airborne squadron, they fly in front of a local crowd at the airfield. The team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows572_RBA.jpg
  • In the mid-day heat, Squadron Leader John Green is a member of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Here he walks out alone to his aircraft, which is lined up with some of the others jets at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus before flying out to Marka in Jordan for the first display of the year. The Red Arrows arrive each April to fine-tune their air show skills in the clear Mediterranean skies and continue their busy display calendar above the skies of the UK and other European show circuit. We see John Green carrying his flight bag and life-vest over his shoulder. He paces confidently across the bright 'apron' dressed in his famous red flying suit that the Red Arrows have made famous since 1965. He is alone and striding confidently towards the matching red eight Hawk airplanes.
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  • 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
  • A team of employees of Cyprea Marine Foods fillet 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, 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.
    maldives85-12-11-2007.jpg
  • Using her own sewing machine, a young dressmaking hobbyist woman sews together the seams of a home-made dress that shes created from a pattern in her home, on 6th March 2021, in London, England.
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  • A young dressmaker woman uses a needle and thread to sew together a home-made dress that shes created from a pattern in her home, on 6th March 2021, in London, England.
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  • Using her own sewing machine, a young dressmaking hobbyist woman sews together the seams of a home-made dress that shes created from a pattern in her home, on 6th March 2021, in London, England.
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  • Using her own sewing machine, a young dressmaking hobbyist woman sews together the seams of a home-made dress that shes created from a pattern in her home, on 6th March 2021, in London, England.
    dressmaking04-06-03-2021.jpg
  • A young dressmaker woman uses a needle and thread to sew together a home-made dress that shes created from a pattern in her home, on 6th March 2021, in London, England.
    dressmaking02-06-03-2021.jpg
  • A teenage boy of 15 years of age learns the art of reversing a small trailer on a family farmstead in north Somerset. While steering the small garden mower, he looks behind him to guage the way the front wheels turn against the rear - gaining experience of how opposite locks on their turning circles change the path of two interlinked vehicles. In the background are tall beech trees set in a small wood on the small farm. The yard has a smooth ground gravel and stone on which to practice driving.
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  • 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.
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  • A Lambeth council contractor repairs park railings by welding uprights. With sparks flaring, fall and bounce off the pavement from his equipment on the ground. The man has been employed by Lambeth council to repair the railings that surround Ruskin Park, a public space in this south London borough. The workman uses Oxy-fuel welding (commonly called oxyacetylene welding, oxy welding, or gas welding in the U.S.) and oxy-fuel cutting are processes that use fuel gases and oxygen to weld and cut metals, respectively.
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  • A man walks down a street practicing the form of juggling called three-ball cascade. Walking past a stall of oranges and apples, the tennis balls are seen in mid-air, having been thrown from one hand, to land in the other. The juggler starts with two balls in one hand and the third ball in the other hand. One ball is thrown from the first hand in an arc to the other hand. Before catching this ball the juggler must throw the ball in the receiving hand, in a similar arc, to the first hand. Because the hands must move up and down when throwing and catching, putting this movement together causes the left hand to move in a counter clockwise motion, and the right hand to move in a clockwise motion.
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  • A teenage boy of 15 years of age learns the art of reversing a a small trailer on a family farmstead in north Somerset. While steering the small garden mower, he looks behind him to guage the way the front wheels turn against the rear - gaining experience of how opposite locks on their turning circles change the path of two interlinked vehicles. Giving instructions is an older man, the boy's granddad whose experience is passed on after a lifetime of handling the larger tractor in the background near his garage and wood shed.
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  • A shipbuilder wearing a face mask, leans through the incomplete window belonging to the superstructure of a large German ferry at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work. His overalls are torn from jagged steel edges and his skin is dirty. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today the city of Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
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  • Circus acrobats perform high above auditor Ernst & Young's staff during a company Academy Day held for 3,000 of their London employees at Excel in London's Docklands England. Lit with blue light by powerful spotlights, the two girls are suspended in mid-air using hoops attached to safety ropes. They both make dramatic shapes in the air to demonstrate confidence, synchronised teamwork and co-operation between partners, the themes of this corporate day out of the office. The employees out of sight below are attending this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • Late night work on a cargo pallet Ball Mat Flooring System by an engineer staff member who performs maintenance checks in the British Airways engineering hangar on the far side of London's Heathrow airport. On his hands and knees in the otherwise spacious compartment beneath the aircraft passengers' cabin, the hold is used for storing cargo freight and baggage containers that are pushed freely along then locked into position during the loading process.
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  • Using a system of ropes and cables, a team of window cleaners wipe plate-glass and lower themselves from a City of London office block in the heart of the capital's financial district otherwise known as the Square Mile, after its circling Roman wall. Reaching across the window glass that is reflecting background blue sky and white clouds. Looking from beneath them, we see the top of the office building as the duo work their way down towards the ground, their buckets of water used to dip the squeegees.
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  • Window cleaner abseilers lower themselves down the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London. Making their way steadily down the western face of one of London's newest city buildings, the team of window cleaners attending to the plate glass surfaces which already require attention high above London's streets. With equipment hanging below their feet, they edge slowly and safely to the ground using a system of ropes, harnesses and carabiners. 20 Fenchurch Street is a 37-storey building 160 m (525 ft) tall, commercial skyscraper taking its nickname because of its distinctive shape.
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  • Landscape painter Rob Pointon RBSA, MAFA who calls himself a 'Plein Air Artist' in Trafalgar Square, on 20th May 2019, in London, England. Rob Pointon (b1982) has been painting since he was a child under the tutelage of his artist Grandmother, and graduated in Fine Art from Aberystwyth University before studying at The Royal Drawing School in London. Rob is an Associate member of the ROI, a member of MAFA (Manchester Academy of Fine Arts).
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  • Landscape painter Rob Pointon RBSA, MAFA who calls himself a 'Plein Air Artist' in Trafalgar Square, on 20th May 2019, in London, England. Rob Pointon (b1982) has been painting since he was a child under the tutelage of his artist Grandmother, and graduated in Fine Art from Aberystwyth University before studying at The Royal Drawing School in London. Rob is an Associate member of the ROI, a member of MAFA (Manchester Academy of Fine Arts).
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  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, a traditional thatcher works in afternoon sun. Balancing across the width of the roof’s surface, the man uses a Shearing Hook to lay the straw into the outer weathering coat of the roof’s slope. 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 (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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  • Using techniques developed over thousands of years, traditional thatcher lays straw on a barn roof in Suffolk, England. Balancing across the width of the roof’s surface, the man uses a Shearing Hook to lay the straw into the outer weathering coat of the roof’s slope. 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 (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.
    thatching01-16-08-1993_1.jpg
  • A sculptor shapes the female form of an oversized woman sunbather  made from sand on the Thames foreshore on London's South Bank. Working with great care and patience  the artist who is a well-known character on this stretch of low-tide beach uses a yellow bucket and a wide shovel to dig  then work the soft sand into this shape of a giant reclining female who apparently wears a bikini and a hat or some kind. Come the changing tide however  his showcase will disappear beneath the capital's river waters that will soon lap against the south bank riverside at Gabriel's Wharf.
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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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  • 1,890 meters (6,200 feet) above sea level and surrounded by lush tea plantations in Sri Lanka's Hill Country district of Nuwara Eliya, women tea pickers bend over trees to harvest Ceylon tea leaves that are taken to the white building on the left for processing. A carpet of velvety green tea bushes stretch into the far distance. This is the heart of the island's tea industry but was a pleasure retreat of the European planters due to its temperate English climate that produces the finest leaves for the country's economy. Teas from this highest region are described as the champagne of Ceylon teas. The leaf is gathered all year round but the finest teas are made from that plucked in January and February. The best teas of the area give a rich, golden, excellent quality liquor that is smooth, bright, and delicately perfumed.
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  • Young apprentices climb ladders to the top of a tall chimney during a steeplejack course in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Climbing together, the youths haul themselves up a series of ladders to reach the top. Sponsored training is offered through the Steeplejack Industry Training Group Association and CITB-ConstructionSkills for young people aged 16. Applicants for this scheme will have to pass aptitude tests, literary and Maths assessments, and problem solving. Each year, the Steeplejack Industry Training Group and CITB-ConstructionSkills offer 12 places on training courses for trainee steeplejacks and 12 places for trainee Lightning Conductor Engineers.
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  • Kneeling in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
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  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle12-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • A camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle11-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • Looking down a firing range towards numbered targets, seen down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle10-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth with a photographer shooting pictures, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF.
    sniper_rifle03-06-03-2008 _1_1_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle02-06-03-2008 _1_1_1.jpg
  • Sheltered by an umbrella held above her head, a woman signwriter artist paints the text of a West End pubs food menu of pies and fish & chips, outside The Porcupine, a traditional British pub on Charing Cross Road, on 17th February 2020, in London, England.
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  • Two RAF fighter pilots listen to a pre-flight-briefing by the leader of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team whose elite ranks these two men want to join. The candidates are with others and are in Cyprus during the team’s training programme to be tested though only three new members are selected each year. They will have accumulated over 1,500 flying hours in fast jets with experience in theatres of war. If successful, they will spend three years in the Red Arrows then return to frontline and instructing duties. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries. During a forthcoming calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues they are an important recruiting tool for future personnel – of pilots and ground-based trades.
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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 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
  • Against orange evening light, a forest of high-rise cranes stand upright at the masive Canary Wharf development on London's Docklands, England. It is early evening and the crane drivers have left for the day, the day's shift have stopped work before resuming tomorrow. The silhouetted lines of each structure stand out clearly against the skyline before the regeneration of this region of East London grows upward. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • 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.
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  • An engineer working underground during construction of the Heathrow Express train project on behalf of Heathrow airport operator BAA (British Airport Authority), London England. While standing erect, he twists a high-tension tool that secures the concrete sleepers to the steel rails using a Pandrol Clip. The tunnel snakes its way into the distance behind him, lit by temporary lighting on the 5-mile tunnel wall. Its sections are reinforced concrete, shaped for the Heathrow Express electric Siemens-built trains that provide a direct link between Heathrow's terminals and Paddington station in central London. This is now the most expensive rail-mile fare in the UK at £15.50 for a 15-minute journey. In 1994 one tunnel collapsed without warning in one of the most catastrophic civil engineering disasters in British history.
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  • English Falmouth Estuary oysters have become highly sought-after around European restaurants and we see a freshly-caught specimen still in its shell after being landed from a traditional Falmouth antique working sail boat (fishing without mechanical power is a rule on this local fishery) that still dredge harvested oysters from the river bed using traditional methods unchanged since Victorian times. The fisherman's muddy fingers can be seen lifting (or shuck) the crustacean slightly from the shell with an old oyster knife to display this wild, native Fal oyster which is known for its distinctive sweet, fresh and delicate flavour.
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  • Four small vessels belonging to traditional oyster fishermen use nets to catch a new harvest of shellfish aboard their antique boat from the Fal Estuary. On calm waters, the oystermen have harvested on the River Fal in the same traditional and highly sustainable fashion, without the use of mechanical power, for more than five hundred years, being widely grown along the whole Cornish coast when the Romans invaded, and by 1602 they were being caught in much the same way as they are today, using thick, strong nets, called dredges. Byelaws banned oyster dredging by mechanical means, forcing local fishermen to rely on wind and tide in purpose-built, sail-powered Falmouth Working Boats. Although most oyster fishermen in Falmouth have other seasonal jobs, for the most experienced and committed fishermen oysters provide a decent year-round livelihood.
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  • British-born Flight Nurse Barbara Thompson listens to a Native American patient’s breathing in the ER at the San Carlos Apache reservation hospital. British-born Barbara has worked as a nurse in the UK and US for 20 years and listens to her patient’s lungs with a stethoscope as they poor lady lays back on a gurney with an oxygen line to help her difficulties. San Carlos is a 1.8m acre area of scrub and tiny settlements 100 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona with an 11,000 population, its hospital attracting patients from a radius of 20 miles. By flying her she can have far better specialist care at the Indian Medical Center in Phoenix than can be provided in San Carlos who have only a few doctors and four beds. Native American Air Ambulance (NAAA) is the brainchild of Okalahoma native Cherokee Rick Heape Williams.
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