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  • Londoners sit and stand in a packed carriage on an overground rail service, stopped at a central London station. The windows are filthy with railway and city grime and the faces on passengers tell the story of a miserable experience travelling at rush-hour in the capital. The 90s carriage was an old style phased out in the late 90s, their construction proving unsafe and out-of-date with a modern transport infrastructure.
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  • A city worker crouches on the pavement and opens his attache briefcase to check details written inside during his phone call conversation.  He is in the City of London, the capital's financial heart and makes his call using a 90s mobile (cell) phone in afternoon sunlight near a menswear shop on a street corner.
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  • A 90s departures board displays the times and destinations of rail services heading south from this London station hub. Routes to the south coasts towns of Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings departing in the afternoon from the capital. The Train Not Ready signs are also displayed telling passengers that carriages have yet to be designated and their platforms unallocated.
    railway_departures01-18-06-1992.jpg
  • In front of an ad for Mercury, the 90s mobile phone network provider, a city worker uses his mobile phone in a London street.  Actor Harry Enfield was the face of the media campaign on tv and in print to help promote the young industry, still then an expensive accessory for the ordinary Briton. Mercury Communications, was a national telephone company in the United Kingdom, formed in 1981 as a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless to challenge the monopoly of British Telecom (BT). Mercury was the first competitor to BT, and although it proved only moderately successful at challenging their dominance, it was to set the path for new communication companies to attempt the same. In 1997, Mercury ceased to exist as a brand with its amalgamation into the operations of Cable & Wireless Communications and totally exited from the telecommunications business by 1999.
    mercury_phone-15-07-1993.jpg
  • A currency banker with the British Union Jack above his desk, rubs tired eyes while working in front of 90s computers in the currency trading floor of National Westminster Bank PLC in the City of London, the capital's financial centre, on 20th May 1992, in London, England. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets.
    city04-22-06-1993.jpg
  • As a departing train disappears round the corner at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, a lone woman waits for the next service. This is the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform on the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station03-19-02-1993.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Londoners are sandwiched inside the nearest carriage. Waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station01-19-02-1993.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Weary Londoners sit waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_commuters02-09-03-1992.jpg
  • Four associates celebrate a successful day's business by treating themselves to a lunchtime bottle of white wine amid the scenes of prosperity and wealth of early 90s Britain. At their feet in the bay window are the fruits of a buoyant economy - Magnums of and jeroboams of Champagne to help revel in the success of the era. This is the City of London, the heart of the capital's financial district where money is earned in great quantities and commodities traded in their millions. The commissions are huge and lunchtimes are extravagant.
    city_lunchtime02-20-05-1993.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. A train guard watches for a green signal as Londoners are sandwiched inside the nearest carriage. Waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station02-19-02-1993.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Weary Londoners sit waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_commuters01-09-03-1992.jpg
  • As two city office workers walk briskly towards the viewer, we also see an artwork, a series of statues of commuting people are also striding as one, making their homeward journeys. The two gentlemen however appear to be taking a lunchtime break from their desk jobs and carrying sports holdalls with the 90s sports brand Head, are probably on their way to any number of city-based gyms. They look successful and wealthy, products of a healthy economy and a business culture of bonuses and high prospects of affluence whereas the statues lend a feeing of suppression and the treadmill of their anonymous daily lives as if they were part of some Orwellian society. .
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  • A woman employee works at a computer at Allen-Bradley Automation in Milton Keynes, England UK. The factory worker wears blue company overalls and types on the keyboard and a computer that has an industrial screen filter. A variety of electronics equipment is seen in the background. Allen-Bradley is the brand-name of a line of Factory Automation Equipment manufactured by Rockwell Automation (NYSE ROK). The company was initially founded as the Compression Rheostat Company by Dr. Stanton Allen and Lynde Bradley with an initial investment of $1,000 in 1903.
    90s_electronics-20-09-1994.jpg
  • 1990s rush-hour commuters cross London Bridge from Southwark on the south bank to the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 18th February 1992, in London, England.
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  • In Europe's largest currency trading floor at National Westminster Bank, a 1990s female banker works at her computer at  in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th May 1993, in London, England.
    90s_banker-20-05-1993.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a young German woman reads a newspaper at the feet of a Trummerfrau statue (honouring the rubble-clearing women after the war) in Rathauspark, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_12.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, two east German women walk past a closed and decaying Pharmacy and photography business where a poster advertising a New Germany weekly newspaper has been attached to a rotting door, on 15th June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany (former DDR).
    90s_germany-15-06-1990.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a cigarette brand marketing lady  hands out promos for 'Prince of Denmark' and photographs unhappy-looking former east Germans with a Polaroid camera in Leipzig's town square, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_11.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a wooden crate of cauliflowers are displayed underneath the prices of other vegetables at a street market in Leipzig in eastern Germany, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_8.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a van drives through a cold early morning central Berlin, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, children play in Marx Engels Platz on an East Berlin shopping precinct roof built during the Communist DDR-era, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany. Marx-Engels-Forum was a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin. It was named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as founders of the Communist movement. The park was created by authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, pro-Communist Germans carrying Soviet and DDR flags march in Berlin, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_4.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, German youths gather at a war memorial, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_1.jpg
  • A 1990s banker speaks on the phone and in front of his computer, on the trading floor of credit Lyonnais in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th May 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_bank-20-05-1993.jpg
  • Two 1990s office workers sunbathe on grass during their lunchtime, on the grass in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1992, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_sunbathing-20-06-1993.jpg
  • A 1990s tired office worker has forty winks at lunchtime in Broadgate in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_lunchtime-20-06-1993.jpg
  • A building worker grinds steel caging on a construction project site in Milton Keynes, UK. Bending down to ground level, the workman touches his grinder to cut the steel structure into the required size and shape, destined to be covered in reinforced concrete for this generic construction project. Sparks fly up though the worker wears no protection gear against burns from the hot sparks.
    90s_construction-18-05-1994.jpg
  • Three businessmen gather for an informal meeting, outside a bar in central Milton Keynes, UK. Each with a pint of bitter or lager, the three associates sit outside a bar in the town centre at lunchtime, half-way through the working day. One takes a sip from his pint glass and the others refer to paperwork, the subject of their time together.
    90s_businessmen-18-05-1994.jpg
  • Two police officers patrol past a group of Chinese state news consumers in a Shenzhen street. Locals stop to scan headlines and the stories of the day from the sheets of newsprint posted up on street corners. The policemen in uniform patrol the area with a presence to deter petty crime in a new and prosperous China. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and until the 1980s, almost all media outlets in Mainland China were state-run. Independent media outlets only began to emerge at the onset of economic reforms, although state-run media outlets such as Xinhua, CCTV, and People's Daily continue to hold significant market share.
    90s_china_police-21-04-1995.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, sunbathing Germans face away from the wind on the beach at the Baltic coast, a region of East Germany, 1st June 1990, Bezirk Rostock, eastern Germany (former DDR). The Bezirk Rostock, the northernmost part of the DDR, was on the coast of the Baltic Sea, in front of the Danish coasts. It bordered with the Bezirke of Schwerin and Neubrandenburg, with Poland and West Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1994.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, are the partially-collapsed ballustrade and porch of a semi-derelict German house, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_10.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, the stone decoration on an office building wall has been eaten away by atmospheric pollution, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_9.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, workman carries a wooden panel or door in a Berlin street, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_7.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, riot police tower over a young German girl outside Berlin Cathedral, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_3.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, German youths against Isolationism gather outside Berlin Cathedral, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_2.jpg
  • 1990s passengers sit and stand in an overcrowded train carriage in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 18th February 1992, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_commuters-16-02-1992.jpg
  • A group of 1990s work colleagues drink outside in summer sunshine, beneath the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_drinkers-20-06-1993.jpg
  • Exterior of the Kathmandu Stock Exchange, Nepal in 1997.
    stock_exchange-12-12-1997.jpg
  • A young mother holds her child while sitting on a street bench outside a closed 1990s Job Centre. As a result of the 1987 a stock market collapse, the UK economy experienced a downturn resulting in public services suffering a reduction, including the closure of the Job Centres of the day. The recession of the early 1990s describes the period of economic downturn affecting much of the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
    job_centre-12-11-1991.jpg
  • Four estate agent's property boards advertise their names and numbers in a London housing estate, each representing vendors selling their houses and flats for a set commission in the housing market. Above the signs is the pink blossom from a cherry tree whose branches hang over the temporary information boards. The term originally referred to a person responsible for managing a landed estate, while those engaged in the buying and selling of homes were "House Agents", and those selling land were "Land Agents". However, in the 20th century, "Estate Agent" started to be used as a generic term, perhaps because it was thought to sound more impressive. Estate agent is roughly synonymous in the United States with the term real estate broker.
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  • The still new Canary Wharf tower stands tall in the distance with a foreground of a city in turmoil.
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  • The still new Canary Wharf tower stands tall in the distance with a foreground of a city in turmoil. A still derelict space occupies the space where large offices will be built in the future. Fences stop trespassers from entering a water-filled hole on wasteland. This docklands development in east London 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. The centrepiece was 1, Canada Square, also known as the Canary Wharf tower.
    docklands_landscape-22-10-2012.jpg
  • A wide panorama aerial landscape of London Docklands in 1991 looking east from a new apartment tower block on the Isle of Dogs. Rising tall is the new Canary Wharf tower (known as 1, Canada Square) soon after its completion - and before the subsequently extensive development phases. This docklands development in east London 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. By 2012 Canary Wharf contained 14,000,000 square feet (1,300,000 m2) of office and retail space. Around 90,000 people work here and it is home to the world or European headquarters of numerous major banks, professional services firms and media organisations.
    docklands_aerial-06-06-1991.jpg
  • A family stand on a grassy bank to cut three figures in long grass on an embankment near the tall Canary Wharf tower structure a mile away in the background at Dockland's area of East London. Above the grassy bank at Mudchute, a city farm on London's Isle of Dogs, England, the sky is threatening with gathering clouds but sunlight still picks out the people against the darkening skyline. It is a seemingly rural location but is, in fact, an area of inner-city London, close to major construction projects, transforming Docklands into a major centre for finance and new housing.
    canary_wharf01-12-05-1991.jpg
  • Rubbish and litter blocks the waterways of a canal in east London. Algae and household pollution lies on the surface of the waters dug by navvies of the Victorian era when canals around Britain helped supply the industrial revolution with the raw ingredients to power the furnaces, mills and wharves of the transport age. This is a section of the River Neckinger that once flowed from south London into the Thames at Bermindsey but during the redevelopment of the warves into expensive riverside apartments, the waters were once again freed from 20th century dereliction.
    canal_pollution02-11-09-1993.jpg
  • A husband and wife make their way along a pavement towards the entrance of the Ascot racecourse where the annual Ladies' Day event is held as part of the English social season calendar. Leading the way and carrying two walking sticks and in a polythene bag, his best jacket for the dress-code is important if one is allowed access to the private enclosures. He wears a top hat and waste coat as he hobbles along with wife in tow. She is behind him rummaging through her handbag perhaps looking for tickets or cash. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season.
    ascot_couple06-18-1992.jpg
  • Two people of east Asian-descent look at Toshiba laptops displayed in a computer specialist in Tottenham Court Road - the centre for technology, gadgets and computing in central London. It is 1990 and the smaller, more portable laptop market is just taking off. The man takes notes on paper, writing prices, technical  specifications and offers for these Japanese-made items. Vying for sales with Toshiba in this particular window is Psion, Epson and Canon - all players in the early 1990s.
    toshiba_buyers-03-03-1990.jpg
  • An aerial landscape view of a railway network whose tracks and rails converge on a station in central London. Three trains filled with commuters all make their way into this unseen railway hub. The route curls away into the distance, slicing its way through the capital. London Rail is a directorate of Transport for London (TFL), involved in the relationship with the National Rail network within London, UK. It manages non-tube rail systems in London. Railways started to change the landscape of London itself, followed by its suburbs in the mid to late 19th century when streets and neighbourhoods were cut in half by the new infrastructure.
    railway_trains-13-05-1993.jpg
  • A Hungarian man stands in an open phone booth to make a call using a landline in a Budapest street. The word Telefon is overhead and this cold-war era technology is in use in 1990. According to Thomas Edison, "Tivadar Puskas was the first person to suggest the idea of a telephone exchange". Puskás's idea finally became a reality in 1877 in Boston. It was then that the Hungarian word "hallom" "I hear you" was used for the first time in a telephone conversation when, on hearing the voice of the person at the other end of the line, Puskás shouted "hallom". This cannot be confirmed by any original documents, however it has passed into Hungarian modern folklore. Hallom was shortened to Hello.
    hungary_payphone-13-06-1990.jpg
  • In the window of a London estate agency, we see many properties in various styles and ages for sale. A sales executive swaps some of the pictures as some sell or perhaps, are taken off the market by their vendors.
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  • A British passenger has a road map for the year 1996 on their lap in the left-hand seat as they queue with other Brits at the Eurotunnel terminal at Folkestone, England. Their journey will take them across the English Channel to   France via the Channel Tunnel.
    channel_crossing-18-07-1996.jpg
  • Rubbish and litter blocks the waterways of a canal in Stratford, east London. Algae and household pollution lies on the surface of the waters dug by navvies of the Victorian era when canals around Britain helped supply the industrial revolution with the raw ingredients to power the furnaces, mills and wharves of the transport age. This is a small outlet of the River Lea where the future Olympic Park would be built - the waters once again freed from 20th century dereliction.
    canal_pollution01-11-09-1993.jpg
  • Traffic, cyclists and pedestrians fill this busy urban landscape in Oxford Street in London's west end. As the cars drive past allowing for the space needed for the bikes and their riders, shoppers walking on the pavement (sidewalk) make their way to see the shops and stores. We see the signage of McDonalds, Virgin and Sock Shop - all major brands in the early 1990s - plus Cannon cinemas. There is boxes litter in the gutter which the cyclists have to steer past and they pass-by.
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  • A close-up detail of a London Metropolitan police officer's face and helmet. Wearing a moustache and the famous tall helmet with the crest of the Met Police on the front.
    met_policeman01-20-03-1991.jpg
  • The day after its catastrophic blaze, firefighters continue to assess fire damage from their ladders, to the Queen's official residence at Windsor Castle, on 20th November 1992, in London, England. The most northerly corner of this old building that caught fire in a private chapel on the first floor of the north-east wing. Spreading quickly, damaging St George's Hall, which is often used for banquets. In all, one hundred rooms were damaged in the fire and intense public debate was sparked about whether the taxpayer should foot the repair bill, as the castle is owned by the British Government and not the Royal Family. But the Queen agreed to meet 70% of the costs, and opened Buckingham Palace to the public to generate extra funds. The £40m restoration took five years. Windsor is the largest inhabited castle in the world and partly dates to the time of the Norman King William the Conquerer.
    windsor_fire-20-11-1992.jpg
  • Riot police officers stand firm nearTrafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot07-31-03-1990.jpg
  • Local 1990s kids on bikes watch an event on Venice Beach, on 18th May 1996, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
    LA_kids-18-05-1996.jpg
  • While still a British colony, a 1990s Chinese man stands in prayer near family vaults in the Muslim and Catholic cemetery, on 21st April 1995, in Hong Kong, China.
    hong_kong_cemetery-21-04-1995.jpg
  • A 1990s Hungarian gentleman snoozes in the shade of trees at the Szechenyi spa hotel, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    budapest_spa-13-06-1990.jpg
  • A female worker carries plastic goods on a traditional pole through the centre of Shenzhen, on 10th August 1994, in Shenzhen, China.
    shenzhen_worker-10-08-1994.jpg
  • Months before the new Millennium of 2000, women shoppers walk along a sunlit Oxford Street, outside the Selfridge's department store, on 19th September 1999, in London, England.
    selfridges-19-09-1999.jpg
  • Riot police officers stand firm in Trafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot09-31-03-1990.jpg
  • 1990s evening rush-hour traffic at the junction of the 400 to Buckhead and the 401 highway, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA.
    atlanta_freeway-05-11-1995.jpg
  • Women watch other ladies arriving from London to attend Royal Ascot Ladies' Day, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar in June, on 18th June 1992, in Ascot, England.
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  • A young boy directs his radio-controlled boat on the still waters of the river Thames early in the morning, on 14th July 1999, in Dorchester, England. The River Thames is the second longest river in the United Kingdom and the longest river entirely in England (215 miles or 346 km long). It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea at the Thames Estuary. Historically the Thames was only so-named downstream of the village; upstream it is named the Isis, and Ordnance Survey maps continue to label the river as "River Thames or Isis" until Dorchester. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    early_thames2-14-07-1999.jpg
  • A Racing Post vendor looks over to a young woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat on Ladies' Day during Royal Ascot, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar, on 18th June 1992, in London, England. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
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  • The Westland Wessex helicopter XR520 (built 1964) was flown by the Royal Air Force and is seen here hovering above London during the recovery of the wreckage of The Marchioness pleasure boat, on 20th August 1998, in London, England.
    helicopter2-20-08-1998.jpg
  • A group of young men sing karaoke at Coates Wine Bar on London Wall in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 18th December 1993, in London, England.
    wine_bar-18-12-1993.jpg
  • Two film crews record a USAF (United States Air Force) aviator, in training during week-long survival course held at the Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington, on 6th August 1995, in Spokane, Washington, USA. The course is aimed at highy-trained personnel conducting a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots and air crew need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. Held in hangars and the surrounding forests, it forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment of young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • City office workers stretch out over the lush grass during a hot summer lunchtime in Trinity Square in the City of London, on 18th July 1993, in London, England. Dozens of other co-workers  also enjoy the inner-city heatwave in the early nineties. .
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  • A city landscape showing looking westwards towards Tower Bridge and the river Thames at low-tide with the background of the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 22nd November 1991, in London, England.
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  • A shop assistant carries three boxes of Toshiba T1000 Portable Personal Computer laptops in an electronics and tech shop on the Tottenham Court Road, on 3rd March 1990, in London, England. The T1000 was a portable computer manufactured by the Toshiba Corporation from 1987. It had a similar specification to the IBM PC Convertible, with a 4.77 MHz 80C88 processor, 512 kB of RAM, and a monochrome CGA-compatible LCD. Unlike the Convertible, it includes a standard serial port and parallel port, connectors for an external monitor, and a real-time clock.
    toshiba_shop-03-03-1990.jpg
  • Conservative Party delegates sing 'Auld Lang Syne' during a party at the 1992 Conservative Party Conference, on 18th March 1992, in Brighton, England. Prime Minister of the day, John Major went on to win the election weeks later and was the fourth consecutive victory for the Tory Party although it was its last outright win until 2015 after Labour's 1997 win for Tony Blair.
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  • British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's political career of 11 years ends emotionally on the steps of 10 Downing Street after being deposed in a leadership challenge, on 28th November 1990 in London, England. Standing close behind her is Thatcher's husband and lifelong confidente, Dennis.
    thatcher_tears-28-11-1990.jpg
  • Ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher smiles at delegates during the 1991 Tory party conference, on 11th October 1991, in Blackpool, England. Two years after her colleagues deposed her, forcing her to resign from her 11 year premiership she is still in favour by Conservatives who are proud to display her in public, before eventually shunning her policies and profile for their campaigns. Thatcher has been lending her support to her replacement, the former Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, but the otherwise unknown John Major who governed until 1997.
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  • A portrait of the satirical puppet of Margaret Thatcher with Spitting with Spitting Image co-creator Peter Fluck and wears a blue Conservative rosette and For Hire sticker, on 20th March 1992, in London England. Peter Nigel Fluck is a caricaturist and one half of the partnership known as Fluck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the satirical TV puppet show 'Spitting Image'.
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  • Ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher applauds a speech during the 1991 Tory party conference, on 11th October 1991, in Blackpool, England. Two years after her colleagues deposed her, forcing her to resign from her 11 year premiership she is still in favour by Conservatives who are proud to display her in public, before eventually shunning her policies and profile for their campaigns. Thatcher has been lending her support to her replacement, the former Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, but the otherwise unknown John Major who governed until 1997.
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  • Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher is seen giving her last speech as PM at the October 1990 Conservative Party Conference, on 11th October 1990, in Blackpool, England. Weeks before being removed by her own colleagues, her fighting spirit and stern expression gives her the reputation of the Iron Lady.
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  • Released hostage Terry Waite waves as he steps out of an RAF aircraft, 5 years after being taken hostage by Jihadists in Lebanon, on 19th November 1991, in Lyneham, England. Terry Waite CBE (born 1939) is an English humanitarian and author who was then Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy. He was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991.
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  • An instructor with the Royal Gurkha Rifles points a recruit towards an objective while on tactical training manoeuvres on heathland above Farnborough, on 5th August 1996, in Farnborough, England. Nepali-born boys belong to an elite Regiment of the British army. Every year 60,000 boys attend recruiting sessions in villages and towns in the Himalayan Kingdom but only 150 are selected each year to serve on active duty across the world. They fly to the UK for basic soldier training where they learn the skills required for infantry, transport, communications or clerical duties. Their reputation as a fierce but intensely loyal fighting force and many Victoria Crosses were won for bravery during World War 2. Here they are seen cradling modern SA-80 rifles while dressed in camouflaged helmets with oak leaves.
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  • As families with children play on the sandy beach in the distance, a red wet suit dries on the sea wall, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
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  • Two boys carry large inflatable rings at a watersport ride called the River Run, at the north-eastern seaside resort of Scarborough, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
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  • A father rests his head on tattooed arms while minding his baby, asleep in its buggy on the promenade at the north-eastern seaside resort of Scarborough, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
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  • A lady peers down into the viewfinder of a vintage film camera whilst holidaying on the pier at Bournemouth seaside resort, on 20th October 1990, in Bournemouth, England.
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  • Two women enjoy some peace and a bygone ambience while rading their newspapers in a day room of a hotel in the seaside resort of Paignton, on 19th July 1993, in Paignton, England.
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  • Seen from the inside of her beach hut that looks out to the promenade and sea, a lady enjoys summer sunshine while holding on to her hat while others bathe in the waters beyond, on 12th June 1992, in Lowestoft, England.
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  • A Catholic priest leans his briefcase on railings to show a document to two nuns in St. Peter's Square, on 3rd November 1999, in Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
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  • Two police officers keep watch over tourists in the centre outside the Vatican in St. Peter's Square, on 3rd November 1999, in Rome Italy.
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  • Two nuns with their early morning shadows, walk over the cobbles of St. Peter's Square in front of the Vatican, on 3rd November 1999, in Rome, Italy.
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  • An elderly Italian man reads the latest news on the pages of El Tempo from a public display case, on 3rd November 1999, in Rome, Italy. El Tempo is a daily Italian newspaper published in Rome, Italy. was founded in Rome by Renato Angiolillo in 1944. Initially the newspaper was a conservative publication with an anti-communist stance.
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  • A protester wearing a Robert Maxwell t-shirt stands outside the entrance of Mirror Group Newspapers at a time when its pension fund was found to have been stolen by its tycoon owner, Robert Maxwell from former employees, on 9th June 1992, in London, England.
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  • As the flames of a fire strted deliberately burns in the background, police officer listens to his radio during disturbances about the Poll Tax, the controversial property tax imposed by Margaret Thatcher's government and which ultimately brought about her downfall weeks later, on 20th October 1990, in London, England.
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  • A young girl sits on her pony, waiting for the beginning of her race at a local gymkhana, on 17th September 1999, in Cheltenham, England. Wearing a smart herringbone patterned jacket, regulation jodhpurs and holding a crop to encourage the horse to perform a series of trick and races, she sits calmly awaiting the next event. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
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  • A pedestrian walks past an upturned car, a casualty of the Poll Tax riot, on 1st April 1990, in Charing Cross Road, London, England. when angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane, on 1st April 1990, in London, England. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • Two friends watch lipstick technique as a lady applies a layer to her lips while holding her cocktail before entering a party held in a marquee at the Royal Navy Air Station Culdrose, on 14th May 1998, at Culdrose, Devon, England.
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  • A market trader takes a mid-day sleep in the middle of the road, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
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  • A passing shopper blurs while passing a market stall selling duck and chicken on a dark and typical rainy day in south-east Asia, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
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  • On a typical rainy day in south-east Asia, a nursery schoolchild is lifted over railings into local transport, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
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  • An exercise class for schoolchildren on a basketball court at a sports ground in the highly-populated Asian city, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
    macau_people01-10-08-1994.jpg
  • A young boy plays with his mates in a street corner in the Aigburth district of Liverpool, on 14th June 1991. Aigburth is a suburb of Liverpool, England, bordered by Dingle, Toxteth, Sefton Park, Mossley Hill, Garston and Grassendale.
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