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  • A portrait of an executive from the Baltic Exchange holding a framed photo of what the trading institution before it was wrecked by the IRA terrorist bomb nearby in St Mary Axe in the City of London. On 10 April 1992 at 9:20 pm, the façade of the Exchange's offices at 30 St Mary Axe was partially demolished and the rest of the building was extensively damaged in the Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attack. The one-ton bomb was contained in a large white truck and consisted killed three people. Too heavily damaged, a full restoration of the premises was ruled out and the hall was completely razed in 1998. The Baltic Exchange is the world's only independent source of maritime market information for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative contracts.
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  • Two assessors inspect damage to buildings after the IRA Bishopsgate bomb in the City of London. They stand on a junction looking up at buildings whose windows were blown out by the force of this notorious blast that shook London's financial district. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Repair costs reached approx £350 million. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church.
    city_assessors-26-04-1993.jpg
  • Nurses dispense medicine in the mens' surgical ward  at St Bartholomews (Barts) Hospita n the City of London. Two gentlemen  patients rest either before or after their operations for which their care is ensured by the nursing staff seen in the blue uniforms. St Bartholomew's Hospital, also known simply as Barts, is a hospital in Smithfield in the City of London. Barts is the oldest hospital in London, having been founded in 1123, and the oldest in the United Kingdom that still occupies its original site. Barts was founded in 1123 by Rahere (died 1144, and entombed in the nearby priory church of St Bartholomew-the-Great), a favourite courtier of King Henry I. London's only statue of King Henry VIII is located above a gate at the hospital. Barts is part of Barts Health NHS Trust.
    NHS_hospital02-23-06-1993.jpg
  • Listening intently to a speech given by a city dignitary before Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke MP, the then-Chancellor in John Major's Conservative government of 1994, these city and financial dignitaries have feasted well in the old Guildhall, the City of London's town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the capital. Wearing formal banquet attire, these chiefs of industry appear to be an all-male audience though there were also women sat at tables during the Banker's Dinner held every in June when the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a speech known as the Mansion House Speech hosted by the Lord Mayor, which takes its name from his official residence nearby. They concentrate on the speech to hear the Chancellor's predictions for growth and prosperity.
    guildhall_banquet03-16-06-1994.jpg
  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the trading floor of Barclays de Zoete Wedd in the City of London, the capital's financial centre. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets.  .Employees talk on handsets or stare at their data near large keyboards and hard drives and deep monitors were state of the art technology in the early 1990s.
    trading_floor03-20-04-1993.jpg
  • Educated man looks at the cover of his book with City of London sculpture.
    man_reading04-17-10-2014.jpg
  • Modernist architecture at the entrance of 71 Queen Victoria Street on the corner with Trinity Lane EC4 in the City of London.
    city_people13-02-11-2015.jpg
  • The sun rises over the River Thames and City of London, the UK capital's financial heart. The solar power gathers in strength and intensity as it climbs from below the horizon and behind City buildings, its circular disc a flaming yellow which is soon to turn a deeper hue over the capital's orange skies at dawn. The tidal river is calm with only moored barges in the middle, used to secure other boats to their sides. The City wakes before another day of trading in the financial, banking and insurance institutions. The dome of St Paul's Cathedral is centre to the skyline.
    sunrise_thames01-02-06-1994.jpg
  • A young woman dances and sings with friends and associates during a karaoke night at a City of London wine bar. Holding high a glass of an unknown drink, she shouts out the words during this evening of after-work merriment where friends and associates gather to share alcohol and fun.
    party_people02-09-11-1997.jpg
  • City workers carry office possessions including computer hard drives and files that were damaged by the IRA bomb that devastated the City of London's Bishopsgate area in 1993. Allowed to return to their desks to recover their data and working paperwork, they walk through the ancient streets en route to new emergency office elsewhere in the capital. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Repair costs reached approx £350 million. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church.
    bomb_damage02-26-04-1993.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
  • 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..
    tea_tasting-14-02-1993.jpg
  • Urban landscape of modern architecture at Broadgate in the City of London.
    city_people05-31-07-2014.jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie-talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. One thermometer placed in the street reached 144F (62 celsius) and others off the scale and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to witness the strange phenomena of intense, Biblical light and blistering heat.
    eastcheap_light_building38-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie-talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. One thermometer placed in the street reached 144F (62 celsius) and others off the scale and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to witness the strange phenomena of intense, Biblical light and blistering heat.
    eastcheap_light_building30-05-09-201...jpg
  • People walk through sunlight at Cornhill in the City of London.
    city_people13-20-08-2014.jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie-talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. One thermometer placed in the street reached 144F (62 celsius) and others off the scale and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to witness the strange phenomena of intense, Biblical light and blistering heat.
    eastcheap_light_building85-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie-talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. One thermometer placed in the street reached 144F (62 celsius) and others off the scale and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to witness the strange phenomena of intense, Biblical light and blistering heat.
    eastcheap_light_building35-05-09-201...jpg
  • Two businessmen in the insurance industry smoke a cigar and checks a watch outside the Lloyds of London address in the City of London, the capital's heart of the financial district. The post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_of_london04-18-03-1993.jpg
  • An old City of London street sign for Poultry EC2 beneath a rusting police bylaws sign on a late 1980s brick wall. Before the older signage was replaced in the mid-1990s for more modern architecture, these signs will have disappeared or available through vintage auctions. Poultry is a short street in the City of London. It is an eastern continuation of Cheapside, between Old Jewry and Mansion House Street, near Bank junction. It takes its name, like other medieval roads nearby such as Milk Street and Bread Street, from the various produce once sold at Cheapside, meaning "market-place" in Old English. The street gave its name to a prison, Poultry Compter, once located there.
    city_sign-12-04-1989.jpg
  • Under a mounted head and antlers of a stag, three city businessmen enjoy a lunchtime drink in a bar at the Barbican in the City of London.
    deer_bar01-17-12-2014.jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie-talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. One thermometer placed in the street reached 144F (62 celsius) and others off the scale and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to witness the strange phenomena of intense, Biblical light and blistering heat.
    eastcheap_light_building67-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie-talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. One thermometer placed in the street reached 144F (62 celsius) and others off the scale and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to witness the strange phenomena of intense, Biblical light and blistering heat.
    eastcheap_light_building12-05-09-201...jpg
  • The pieces of two games of chess await players as a crowd on onlookers crowd above to see the lunchtime tournament at the Broadgate office plaza in the City of London. The first modern chess tournament was organized by Howard Staunton, a leading English chess player, and was held in London in 1851. It was won by the relatively unknown German Adolf Anderssen, who was hailed as the leading chess master, and his brilliant, energetic attacking style became typical for the time, although it was later regarded as strategically shallow. Broadgate is a large, 32-acre (13 ha) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and the Blackstone Group and managed by Broadgate Estates.
    city_chess-16-03-1993.jpg
  • A cyclist passes the aftermath of a car crash in which an overturned Nissan hatchback remains at the side of the road between Brixton and Camberwell on Coldharbour Lane, on 30th May 2023, in London, England.
    overturned_car-36-30-05-2023.jpg
  • A learner driver passes the aftermath of a car crash in which an overturned Nissan hatchback remains at the side of the road between Brixton and Camberwell on Coldharbour Lane, on 30th May 2023, in London, England.
    overturned_car-34-30-05-2023.jpg
  • Thorns coming through broken window at the former WW2 Old Buckenham airfield, built during 1942-43 for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Eighth Air Force. It was given designation USAAF Air Station 144. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. Throughout combat, the unit served chiefly as a strategic bombardment organization. Targets included a fuel depot at Dulmen, marshalling yards at Paderborn, aircraft assembly plants at Gotha, railway centres at Hamm, an ordnance depot at Glinde, oil refineries at Gelsenkirchen, chemical works at Leverkusen, an airfield at Neumünster, a canal at Minden, and a railway viaduct at Altenbeken. James "Jimmy" Stewart, the Hollywood movie star, was Group Operations Officer at Old Buckenham during the spring of 1944.
    WW2_bomber_base01-05-10-2000.jpg
  • Painted lettering from a staff shop (stores) at the former WW2 Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was the home of the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadron of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base13-05-10-2000.jpg
  • WW2 wall map mural showing American states at the former Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was the home of the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadron of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base11-05-10-2000.jpg
  • WW2 emblem painting at the former Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was a former airfield located around 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Bungay and home  to the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadrons of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base09-05-10-2000.jpg
  • A wall mural painting of a sexy woman at the former WW2 Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was the home of the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadron of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base12-05-10-2000.jpg
  • WW2 wall map mural showing American states at the former Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was the home of the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadron of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base10-05-10-2000.jpg
  • WW2 emblem painting at the former Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was a former airfield located around 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Bungay and home  to the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadrons of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base08-05-10-2000.jpg
  • Wall mural showing WW2 bombing targets in what is now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland at Seething, Norfolk England. Seething is a former Royal Air Force station, assigned to the 448th Bombardment Group (Heavy) flying B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. The group enered combat on 22 December 1943, and until April 1945 served primarily as a strategic bombardment organization, hitting such targets as aircraft factories in Gotha, ball-bearing plants in Berlin, an airfield at Hanau, U-boat facilities at Kiel, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, synthetic oil refineries at Politz, aircraft engine plants at Rostock, marshalling yards at Cologne, and a Buzz-bomb assembly plant at Fallersleben. Some of these buildings are in a reasonable condition, although they are derelict and overgrown.
    WW2_bomber_base07-05-10-2000.jpg
  • A wall mural of WW2 bombers crossing the sky at the former RAF Hethel air for base in Norfolk, England. Built during 1942 for use by the Americans and was transferred to the USAAF from 14 September 1943 though to 12 June 1945. Hethel served as headquarters for the 2nd Combat Bombardment Wing of the 2nd Bombardment Division. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign.  Strategic objectives in France, the Low Countries, and Germany included targets such as shipbuilding yards at Vegesack, industrial areas of Berlin, oil facilities at Merseburg, factories at Münster, railroad yards at Sangerhausen, and V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base03-05-10-2000.jpg
  • The semi-derelict bunkhouse at the former WW2 Wendling air base, Norfolk, England. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). During the war it was used primarily as a bomber airfield, being the home of the United States Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force 392nd Bombardment Group. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. The 392d BG entered combat on 9 September 1943 and engaged primarily in bombardment of strategic objectives on the Continent until April 1945. The group attacked such targets as an oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen, a marshalling yard at Osnabrück, a railroad viaduct at Bielefeld, steel plants at Brunswick, a tank factory at Kassel, and gas works at Berlin. With the end of military control the airfield has become a turkey farm.
    WW2_bomber_base04-05-10-2000.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a 'Stay At Home' message is displayed at a bus shelter in Shoreditch, on 11th January 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city04-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a 'Stay At Home' message is displayed at a bus shelter in Shoreditch, on 11th January 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city01-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a 'Stay At Home' message is displayed at a bus shelter in Shoreditch, on 11th January 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city03-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a 'Stay At Home' message is displayed at a bus shelter in Shoreditch, on 11th January 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city02-11-01-2021.jpg
  • A wall mural of WW2 bombers crossing the sky and wreck of a Rolls-Royce at the former RAF Hethel air for base in Norfolk, England. Built during 1942 for use by the Americans and was transferred to the USAAF from 14 September 1943 though to 12 June 1945. Hethel served as headquarters for the 2nd Combat Bombardment Wing of the 2nd Bombardment Division. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign.  Strategic objectives in France, the Low Countries, and Germany included targets such as shipbuilding yards at Vegesack, industrial areas of Berlin, oil facilities at Merseburg, factories at Münster, railroad yards at Sangerhausen, and V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base02-05-10-2000.jpg
  • The stern of Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory at Portsmouth. We look up at the rear of Britain's most famous warship from the Napoleonic war era and see the windows of Nelson's cabins and rooms - the location where the battle of Trafalgar was planned and where Nelson died on that day in 1805. Victory took Nelson's body to England where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 6 January 1806..HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. After Trafalgar, she served as a harbour ship, moved in 1922  to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She is the flagship of the First Sea Lord and is the oldest naval ship still in commission
    hms_victory-08-06-1987.jpg
  • An image of French swimming champion Yannick Agnel  stands on an ad for energy corporation EDF, one of the Olympic sponsor partners in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Young women stand to admire him and have their photos next to his athletic figure outside the EDF corporate pavillion. EDF Energy has installed monitoring technology at sports venues across the Olympic park to show real-time energy consumption at the 2012 games. Agnel is a French swimmer and national record holder in the 200 and 400 m freestyle. Yannick Agnel (born June 9, 1992 in Nîmes) is a French swimmer and national record holder in the 200 and 400 m freestyle (long course). Agnel is also a nine-time medalist at the European Junior Swimming Championships. He has won two Olympic gold medals, both at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
    olympic_park05-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96, her coffin with sceptre, crown and orb resting on the top, is draped with the Royal Standard and surrounded by Gentlemen At Arms who wear swan feathers, and pulled on the gun carriage by members of the Royal Navy during the funeral procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park and beyond to St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle where she is to be interred, on 19th September 2022, in London, England. Queen Elizabeth came to the British throne in 1952 and was, after 70 years, the longest reigning monarch in British history. Now succeeded by her eldest son Charles, his new title of King Charles III, it heralds a new era for Britain's monarchy and its constitution.
    queen_dead-72-19-09-2022.jpg
  • Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96, her coffin with sceptre, crown and orb resting on the top, is draped with the Royal Standard and surrounded by Gentlemen At Arms who wear swan feathers, and pulled on the gun carriage by members of the Royal Navy during the funeral procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park and beyond to St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle where she is to be interred, on 19th September 2022, in London, England. Queen Elizabeth came to the British throne in 1952 and was, after 70 years, the longest reigning monarch in British history. Now succeeded by her eldest son Charles, his new title of King Charles III, it heralds a new era for Britain's monarchy and its constitution.
    queen_dead-71-19-09-2022.jpg
  • Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96, her coffin with sceptre, crown and orb resting on the top, is draped with the Royal Standard and surrounded by Gentlemen At Arms who wear swan feathers, and pulled on the gun carriage by members of the Royal Navy during the funeral procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park and beyond to St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle where she is to be interred, on 19th September 2022, in London, England. Queen Elizabeth came to the British throne in 1952 and was, after 70 years, the longest reigning monarch in British history. Now succeeded by her eldest son Charles, his new title of King Charles III, it heralds a new era for Britain's monarchy and its constitution.
    queen_dead-74-19-09-2022.jpg
  • Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96, her coffin with sceptre, crown and orb resting on the top, is draped with the Royal Standard and surrounded by Gentlemen At Arms who wear swan feathers, and pulled on the gun carriage by members of the Royal Navy during the funeral procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park and beyond to St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle where she is to be interred, on 19th September 2022, in London, England. Queen Elizabeth came to the British throne in 1952 and was, after 70 years, the longest reigning monarch in British history. Now succeeded by her eldest son Charles, his new title of King Charles III, it heralds a new era for Britain's monarchy and its constitution.
    queen_dead-73-19-09-2022.jpg
  • Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96, her coffin with sceptre, crown and orb resting on the top, is draped with the Royal Standard and surrounded by Gentlemen At Arms who wear swan feathers, and pulled on the gun carriage by members of the Royal Navy during the funeral procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park and beyond to St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle where she is to be interred, on 19th September 2022, in London, England. Queen Elizabeth came to the British throne in 1952 and was, after 70 years, the longest reigning monarch in British history. Now succeeded by her eldest son Charles, his new title of King Charles III, it heralds a new era for Britain's monarchy and its constitution.
    queen_dead-76-19-09-2022.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, rail passengers walk through a quiet station concourse at Blackfriars, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city39-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city22-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city18-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city15-11-01-2021.jpg
  • At the beginning of the fourth week of the UK government's lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic, and with 120,067 UK reported cases with 16,060 deaths, a Men At Work traffic sign is on Oxford Street that would normally be a busy thoroughfare for shoppers and traffic and which remains largely deserted at mid-day, on 20th April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-35-20-04-2020.jpg
  • At the beginning of the fourth week of the UK government's lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic, and with 120,067 UK reported cases with 16,060 deaths, a Men At Work traffic sign is on Oxford Street that would normally be a busy thoroughfare for shoppers and traffic and which remains largely deserted at mid-day, on 20th April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-34-20-04-2020.jpg
  • A family stand at railings watching shipping on the River Thames at Gravesend during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing at some railings, the two women and the young boy are looking out towards the River Thames at the Kent town just a few miles outside London. Here is shipping that is taking cargo to the capital in an era when the river still a main artery for goods brought from across the world into London. The picture was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • Two old friends regularly spend afternoons sunbathing at Brixton Lido and talk of old times in the sun. The friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
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  • The Michelin Bibendum building at night in South Kensington. With the lights from passing vehicles registering on the film as streaks of light, we see across the road to decorative building known around London. <br />
Designed and built at the end of the Art-Nouveau period, Michelin House at 81 Fulham Road, Chelsea, London, was constructed as the first permanent UK headquarters and tyre depot for the Michelin Tyre Company Ltd. The building opened for business on 20 January 1911.
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  • A motor launch passes a narrow boat with parrot and dog in the early morning on a still River Thames at Dorchester, Oxfordshire. In the foreground is a caged parrot and a small Scotty dog. We see a scene of early misty light across the perfectly still waters, a landscape of peace and tranquillity. The mirror-like surface is at Dorchester-on-Thames, just above the Thame's confluence with the River Thames. 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.
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  • Day 2 of the annual lawn tennis championships and former champion Billie Jean King signs autographs for souvenir hunters at a side entrance of the venue. Billie Jean King is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles, including 12 singles, 16 women's doubles, and 11 mixed doubles titles and winning a record 20 career titles at Wimbledon - six singles, ten women's doubles, and four mixed doubles. The Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world, have been held at the nearby All England Club since 1877.
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  • The crushed wreckage of a ladies bike lies on the surface of the A3 Kennington Park Road at the junction with A23 Kennington Road, south London. A woman in her twenties was taken to King's College Hospital with a leg injury after a crash between a bus and a cyclist this morning. Emergency services were called to Kennington Park Road at 9.30am. A London Buses statement reads: ?At around 09:30 this morning a route 333 bus, operated by London General, was involved in a collision with a cyclist .."
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  • The crushed wreckage of a ladies bike lies on the surface of the A3 Kennington Park Road at the junction with A23 Kennington Road, south London. A woman in her twenties was taken to King's College Hospital with a leg injury after a crash between a bus and a cyclist this morning. Emergency services were called to Kennington Park Road at 9.30am. A London Buses statement reads: ?At around 09:30 this morning a route 333 bus, operated by London General, was involved in a collision with a cyclist .."
    cycling_accident06-30-04-2013.jpg
  • The crushed wreckage of a ladies bike lies on the surface of the A3 Kennington Park Road at the junction with A23 Kennington Road, south London. A woman in her twenties was taken to King's College Hospital with a leg injury after a crash between a bus and a cyclist this morning. Emergency services were called to Kennington Park Road at 9.30am. A London Buses statement reads: ?At around 09:30 this morning a route 333 bus, operated by London General, was involved in a collision with a cyclist .."
    cycling_accident03-30-04-2013.jpg
  • The crushed wreckage of a ladies bike lies on the surface of the A3 Kennington Park Road at the junction with A23 Kennington Road, south London. A woman in her twenties was taken to King's College Hospital with a leg injury after a crash between a bus and a cyclist this morning. Emergency services were called to Kennington Park Road at 9.30am. A London Buses statement reads: ?At around 09:30 this morning a route 333 bus, operated by London General, was involved in a collision with a cyclist .."
    cycling_accident04-30-04-2013.jpg
  • Queen Elizabeth's Royal Yacht Britannia is moored at the quayside at Portsmouth, England. With pendants blowing in the breeze, its pristine paintwork shining in sunlight, the boat awaits its royal passengers for another official tour or voyage abroad. In the background is Lord Nelson's flagship museum, HMS Victory. Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia was the former Royal Yacht of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. She was the 83rd such vessel since the restoration of King Charles II in 1660. She is the second Royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the famous racing cutter built for The Prince of Wales in 1893. Following Labour's victory on 1 May 1997 it was announced that the vessel would be retired and no replacement would be built. She is now permanently moored as an exhibition ship at Ocean Terminal, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.
    yacht_britannia-18-06-1994.jpg
  • A stallholder keeps an eye on a buyer at his collection of watches at Bermondsey market, south London, England. A spread of wristwatches and other time-pieces of all ages and styles are laid out on a table surface. In the background are other visitors to this famous market where unusual, if pricey, purchases can be found. Officially called New Caledonian Market, Bermondsey Market is an antiques market located at Bermondsey Square on Tower Bridge Road in Bermondsey, part of the London Borough of Southwark, in South London, England. The location was formerly the site of Bermondsey Abbey.
    watches_stall-12-06-1994.jpg
  • A depiction of a local event during the English Civil War depicting local historical figures appearing in stained glass windows part of an auction held by Bonhams of the contents of Stokesay Castle, the oldest fortified estate house in Britain originating in the late 13th century. During King Charles I reign it came into the ownership of the Craven family and was used as a supply base for the King's forces in the area, based in strength at nearby Ludlow Castle in the early stages of the English Civil War. .A skirmish took place at the castle during the English Civil War, in which Stokesay was handed over to the Parliamentarians after a short siege without a pitched battle. It is at present in the hands of English Heritage.
    stained_glass002-11-03-1994.jpg
  • A young girl of Asian descent pushes her doll in a pushchair uphill in an empty terraced Dingle Liverpool street. Walking up the steep pavement she pauses to look at the viewer in her pink dress. There is no-one else in the landscape and the little girl is quite alone in this inner-city scene. Dingle (known locally as the Dingle) is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is located to the south of the city, bordered by the adjoining districts of Toxteth and Aigburth. At the 2001 Census, the population was recorded at 13,246. Dingle is the last of the southern inner-city districts of Liverpool.
    gorbals_girl-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A young couple sit at a bench for an intense and intimate talk in the London Science Museum's Deep Blue Cafe. With illumination coming from overhead strip lighting and from below, inside the tables, people sit at the long seating to enjoy the food and drink sold by the Science Museum. The family restaurant, located on the ground floor at the back of the museum serves meals prepared on the premises using fresh, carefully sourced ingredients. A great place to relax and refresh with great views of the high-tech Wellcome Wing.
    blue_cafe01-15-05-1996.jpg
  • Garden table and chairs are tidily propped up awaiting its owners to return to the grassy car park from the races during Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. Cans of lager, a fruit bowl and some Pringles hint at the snacks already eaten. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and 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.
    ascot_races09-21-06-1993.jpg
  • A couple just off the train from Waterloo are en-route to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. Not looking particularly happy to have arrived, two elderly women look at the clothes worn including the man's top hat and tails. 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.
    ascot_races08-21-06-1993.jpg
  • CCTV cameras watch Londoners with the background of Canaletto's 18th century painting of the Lord Mayor's Show regatta at London Bridge railway station. The  30-metre-long work of art is positioned on a temporary wall at the recently-refurbished station entrance. The picture is a reproduction of Canaletto's The Thames on Lord Mayor's Day, Reproduced at this scale commuters and tourists are be able to admire the detail of the famous painting depicting the bustling activity of the Lord Mayor's Show river procession as seen from Bankside before 1752.
    thames_pageant03-07-09-2012.jpg
  • CCTV cameras and train schedule show Londoners with the background of Canaletto's 18th century painting of the Lord Mayor's Show regatta at London Bridge railway station. The  30-metre-long work of art is positioned on a temporary wall at the recently-refurbished station entrance. The picture is a reproduction of Canaletto's The Thames on Lord Mayor's Day, Reproduced at this scale commuters and tourists are be able to admire the detail of the famous painting depicting the bustling activity of the Lord Mayor's Show river procession as seen from Bankside before 1752.
    thames_pageant04-07-09-2012.jpg
  • CCTV cameras watch Londoners with the background of Canaletto's 18th century painting of the Lord Mayor's Show regatta at London Bridge railway station. The  30-metre-long work of art is positioned on a temporary wall at the recently-refurbished station entrance. The picture is a reproduction of Canaletto's The Thames on Lord Mayor's Day, Reproduced at this scale commuters and tourists are be able to admire the detail of the famous painting depicting the bustling activity of the Lord Mayor's Show river procession as seen from Bankside before 1752.
    thames_pageant01-07-09-2012.jpg
  • Watching live TV coverage of Equestrian events, spectators and other sports fans sit in summer deckchairs at the old Royal Naval College, Greenwich on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Greenwich Park is hosting the Olympic Equestrian competitions, plus the combined running and shooting event of the Modern Pentathlon. The Old Royal Naval College is the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site in Greenwich, London. The buildings were originally constructed to serve as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, now generally known as Greenwich Hospital, which was designed by Christopher Wren, and built between 1696 and 1712.
    greenwich_olympics24-30-07-2012.jpg
  • Watching live TV coverage of Equestrian events, spectators and other sports fans sit in summer deckchairs at the old Royal Naval College, Greenwich on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Greenwich Park is hosting the Olympic Equestrian competitions, plus the combined running and shooting event of the Modern Pentathlon. The Old Royal Naval College is the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site in Greenwich, London. The buildings were originally constructed to serve as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, now generally known as Greenwich Hospital, which was designed by Christopher Wren, and built between 1696 and 1712.
    greenwich_olympics23-30-07-2012.jpg
  • Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough watches video of killer whale sequence from The Trials of Life at home in London. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not care for the term. He is a younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.
    david_attenborough03-17-09-1990.jpg
  • An English caucasian lady smiles at something of interest to the viewer's right. She is a wrinkled female in her sixties, a healthy person with her own original teeth and whose untidy hair is greying and whose skin is slightly tanned under a summer sun. She wears a blue shirt with a wide collar, fashionable in the 1980s (eighties) and has a bemused, attentive expression as if entertained by something of humour out of frame. This is someone's mother and grandmother, at an age when her hard-working life is nearly over and her pension is hopefully covering her everyday needs.
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  • At the famous Butlins holiday camp in the Somerset town of Minehead, a poolside lifeguard overlooks the main  pool from an overhead bridge. Behind him a monorail transports holidaymakers around the resort. Wearing the large letter B for Butlins on his red vest, the young lad sucks on his whistle held between his lips and prominently, the words 'Made in England' have been tattooed on his left shoulder - as if a statement for his patriotic ideals but also for those of Butlins - an institution for the British working classes who after the war had the opportunity to spend their summers at special resorts in seaside towns that provided entertainment and fun. Butlins and other camp businesses went into decline when the masses preferred Spanish vacations but have since been revived as travel costs have again soared and holidays at home are once again popular.
    butlins_pool08-16-1986.jpg
  • In the mid-day heat, all members of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, stand at ease and we see the back of one of the squadron's official photographers head, looking into the viewfinder of his camera to record an official photograph immediately on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
    Red_Arrows092_RBA.jpg
  • A government NHS (National Heath Service) ad displaying the face of a Covid patient, is at the top of steps at a deserted Blackfriars rail station during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, in the 'City of London', the capital's financial district, aka The Square Mile, on 2nd February 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city03-02-02-2021.jpg
  • A government NHS (National Heath Service) ad displaying the face of a Covid patient, is at the top of steps at a deserted Blackfriars rail station during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, in the 'City of London', the capital's financial district, aka The Square Mile, on 2nd February 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city01-02-02-2021.jpg
  • A government NHS (National Heath Service) ad displaying the face of a Covid patient, is at the top of steps at a deserted Blackfriars rail station during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, in the 'City of London', the capital's financial district, aka The Square Mile, on 2nd February 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city02-02-02-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, rail passengers walk through a quiet station concourse at Blackfriars, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city40-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, a rail passenger walks through a quiet station concourse at Blackfriars, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city38-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city28-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city27-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city21-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city20-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city19-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city17-11-01-2021.jpg
  • As the UK government tells the nation to prepare for the worst two weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, a warning aimed at the population to stay at home and minimise contact with others, but in the week when new vaccination centres are opening, is a warning at Bank underground station, for the public to stay safe, on 11th January 2021, in the City of London, England.
    coronavirus_city16-11-01-2021.jpg
  • At the beginning of the fourth week of the UK government's lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic, and with 120,067 UK reported cases with 16,060 deaths, a digital ad telling Londoners to stay at home is displayed on Oxford Street that would normally be a busy thoroughfare for shoppers and traffic and which remains largely deserted at mid-day, on 20th April 2020, in London, England.
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  • At the beginning of the fourth week of the UK government's lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic, and with 120,067 UK reported cases with 16,060 deaths, a bus remains stationary in front of a deserted bus shelter displaying a 'Stay At Home', 'Save Lives' poster, at Waterloo bus station in South London, on 20th April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-21-20-04-2020.jpg
  • Lunchtime sun for City of London office workers in the grounds of St. Botolph’s without Bishopsgate church. <br />
Christian worship has probably been offered at this location at the church of St. Botolph’s without Bishopsgate since Roman times. The original Saxon church, the foundations of which were discovered when the present church was erected, is first mentioned as ‘Sancti Botolfi Extra Bishopesgate’ in 1212. St. Botolph without Bishopsgate may have survived the Great Fire of London unscathed, and only lost one window in the Second World War, but on 24 April 1993 was one of the many buildings to be damaged by an IRA bomb.
    st_botolphs01-13-08-2014.jpg
  • Roddy Doyle's The Commitments at London's Palace Theatre at Cambridge Circus.
    london_theatre04-13-02-2014.jpg
  • Teenage girl students sit on the sports field at the Gyosei International Japanese School, a boarding school for Japanese ex-pats opened in 1987 in Willen Park, Milton Keynes, England. The two girls lie on their fronts on clipped grass in the middle of their sports field, the main school building seen in the beckground. Holding on to a football, they're laughing at the antics of unseen school friends, they enjoy the summer's afternoon in the English Midlands.
    japanese_students-18-06-1994.jpg
  • Sheep up for auction at the ancient annual Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset, England. Buyers bid for the best quality animals while sellers gather to hear the prices their sheep have fetched during the sale in this picturesque village in the Mendip Hills. Unauthorised visitors are forbidden to enter the catle pens, avoiding the spread of epidemics like Foot and Mouth. According to tradition, Priddy Sheep Fair moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, although evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack shelter remains in the village, so will the Fair.
    sheep_auction26-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Sheep up for auction at the ancient annual Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset, England. Buyers bid for the best quality animals while sellers gather to hear the prices their sheep have fetched during the sale in this picturesque village in the Mendip Hills. Unauthorised visitors are forbidden to enter the catle pens, avoiding the spread of epidemics like Foot and Mouth. According to tradition, Priddy Sheep Fair moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, although evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack shelter remains in the village, so will the Fair.
    sheep_auction24-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Sheep up for auction at the ancient annual Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset, England. Buyers bid for the best quality animals while sellers gather to hear the prices their sheep have fetched during the sale in this picturesque village in the Mendip Hills. Unauthorised visitors are forbidden to enter the catle pens, avoiding the spread of epidemics like Foot and Mouth. According to tradition, Priddy Sheep Fair moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, although evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack shelter remains in the village, so will the Fair.  d.
    sheep_auction19-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Sheep up for auction at the ancient annual Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset, England. Buyers bid for the best quality animals while sellers gather to hear the prices their sheep have fetched during the sale in this picturesque village in the Mendip Hills. Unauthorised visitors are forbidden to enter the catle pens, avoiding the spread of epidemics like Foot and Mouth. According to tradition, Priddy Sheep Fair moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, although evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack shelter remains in the village, so will the Fair.
    sheep_auction22-21-08-2013.jpg
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