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  • Incongruous landscape of bygone era fencing, shipping container and new 2012 Olympic stadium on Stratford Greenway
    stratford_olympic23-08-03-2012.jpg
  • An elderly gentleman wearing a traditional bowler hat and carrying a folded newspaper descends the steps from the bright daylight to the dark of the London Underground, before making his way home from Royal Exchange at Bank Triangle by tube. He is one of the last examples of a bygone age, when many in London's financial district wore such work clothes - a way of typifying a breed of Englishness and class system, known all over, and still expected, around the world. Sadly, gents like this are very rare after modern fashions, lower standards and changed attitudes in the workplace meant that younger men no longer wanted to wear a stuffy outfit to work. The days of the bowler are fast disappearing. Behind him are the tall and solid Corinthian pillars of the 3rd Royal Exchange built in 1842 by Sir William Tite.
    city_bowler_gent-25-06-1993.jpg
  • A young child beneath  large screen images showing childhood of a bygone era in Britain's history, on display at London's Royalk Festival Hall on the Southbank.
    southbank_child02-07-05-2015.jpg
  • 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.
    seaside_people-19-07-1993.jpg
  • A young child beneath  large screen images showing childhood of a bygone era in Britain's history, on display at London's Royalk Festival Hall on the Southbank.
    southbank_child01-07-05-2015.jpg
  • As if separated by many decades, we see an older generation beach guard from a bygone era and a much younger lifeguard, both resting on the seafront of the posh Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea, England. If simply comparing the colour schemes of the past, to the modern day, we might guess that in the gentleman on the right's day, people wore more formal blues, with collar and tie and polished shoes on the hottest day - reminiscent of Victorian times when pomp and tradition rather than practicalities were important . Nowadays, complimentary reds and yellows adorn the uniform of the lad trained in water injuries and life-saving. He is barefoot and sits comfortably against the sea defence wall in peak cap and t-shirt. This is a scene describing the generation gap, of youth versus experience - the classic English seaside holiday.
    frinton_lifeguards-26-06-1992.jpg
  • Three bygone era dockside cranes stand motionless in early morning fog, redundant after decades of handling shipping freight
    river_business343-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • An elderly gentleman wearing a traditional bowler hat and carrying an umbrella, pauses to read the headlines in the London Evening Standard newspaper, before making his way home from Bank Triangle, outside the Bank of England. He is one of the last examples of a bygone age, when many in London's financial district wore such work clothes - a way of typifying a cretain breed of Englishness and class system, known all over, and still expected, around the world. Sadly, gents like this are very rare after modern fashions, lower standards and changed attitudes in the workplace meant that younger men no longer wanted to wear a stuffy outfit to work. The days of the bowler are fast disappearing.
    RB_087-18-04-1993.jpg
  • Standing on weathered concrete at an old launchpad from a bygone age, space tourists stop to photograph the current Ariane 5 launchpad while on a tour of the European Space Agency at Kourou, French Guiana. They are mostly Japanese, representing their B-SAT communications satellite which is to be sent into orbit later that night alongside a US-made Hughes Corporation and Lockheed Martin technology. An American NASA space technician walks past the four Japanese as they hold cameras that record their souvenirs of a memorable day at this space facility deep in the South American rainforest. The orange bags carried by all are gas masks. Should the out of sight rocket booster explode or leak liguid propellant, dangerous fumes might overcome the visitors.
    esa_guiana09114-08-2007.jpg
  • A 1960 Bentley S2 Continental drives down the Kings Road, Chelsea. A couple pass along the street in west London with the roof down, the sun glinting off their bumper (fender) and onto them on a perfect late-summer afternoon. The scene echoes a bygone era when drivers and passengers would parade down here to show off their motors - this still happens today. The Bentley S2 (and the high-performance Bentley Continental S2 derived from it) was a luxury car produced by Bentley from 1959 until 1962. 1,920 standard and long-wheelbase car chassis were built between 1959 and 1962. Almost all were fitted with standard factory bodywork. A number had coachbuilt bodies by Park Ward, Hooper, H. J. Mulliner & Co., and James Young.
    chelsea_bentley01-07-09-2013.jpg
  • Two women on their way to a waiting taxi run past the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters at Liverpool Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district - a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat. A leggy girl strides past the shop frontage, seemingly curious of this bygone gentlemanly tradition.
    city_menswear02-12-03-2013.jpg
  • Two women walk past the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters in Eldon Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district and a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat. A leggy girl strides past the shop frontage, seemingly curious of this bygone gentlemanly tradition.
    city_menswear04-12-03-2013.jpg
  • With smartphone in hand, a woman walks beneath a poster for the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters in Eldon Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district - and a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, a bygone gentlemanly tradition. when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat.
    gentlemen_poster03-14-03-2013.jpg
  • Fading, graduated light of the arid Sonoran desert shows the remains of airliners at the storage facility at Mojave, California, their silhouettes forming a line of aviation's by-gone era. Because of age or a cooling economy they are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903...
    aviation_corbis41-15-08-1998.jpg
  • Rusting corrugated iron sheeting and sprayed graffiti on wasteland in Canning Town, Newham, East London..
    electricity215-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Detail of an exposed junction box and analogue electricity meter on an industrial estate in West Ham substation, Canning Town
    electricity262-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • A boarded-up derelict cafe that once served All Day Breakfasts, now on wasteland in Canning Town, Newham..
    electricity216-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • MDF board obscuring a blackboard advertising enterntainment in a closed pub on wasteland in  Canning Town, Newham..
    electricity226-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Londoners walk over Hammersmith Bridge, closed to motor traffic but open to pedestrians because of structural concerns, on 6th April 2022, in London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's been left with no choice but to shut the 132-year-old bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. In march 2022, a new capital spend of £3.5million was approved to progress concept design and associated works to stabilise the grade II-listed structure.
    hammersmith_bridge-14-07-04-2022.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
  • Londoners walk over Hammersmith Bridge, closed to motor traffic but open to pedestrians because of structural concerns, on 6th April 2022, in London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's been left with no choice but to shut the 132-year-old bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. In march 2022, a new capital spend of £3.5million was approved to progress concept design and associated works to stabilise the grade II-listed structure.
    hammersmith_bridge-12-07-04-2022.jpg
  • An architectural detail of Hammersmith Bridge, closed to motor traffic but open to pedestrians because of structural concerns, on 6th April 2022, in London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's been left with no choice but to shut the 132-year-old bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. In march 2022, a new capital spend of £3.5million was approved to progress concept design and associated works to stabilise the grade II-listed structure.
    hammersmith_bridge-11-07-04-2022.jpg
  • A cyclist cycles between cones and barriers which block the southern end of Hammersmith Bridge, closed to motor traffic but open to pedestrians because of structural concerns, on 6th April 2022, in London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's been left with no choice but to shut the 132-year-old bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. In march 2022, a new capital spend of £3.5million was approved to progress concept design and associated works to stabilise the grade II-listed structure.
    hammersmith_bridge-07-07-04-2022.jpg
  • Cones and barriers block the southern end of Hammersmith Bridge, closed to motor traffic but open to pedestrians because of structural concerns, on 6th April 2022, in London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's been left with no choice but to shut the 132-year-old bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. In march 2022, a new capital spend of £3.5million was approved to progress concept design and associated works to stabilise the grade II-listed structure.
    hammersmith_bridge-06-07-04-2022.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
  • An architectural detail of Hammersmith Bridge, closed to motor traffic but open to pedestrians because of structural concerns, on 6th April 2022, in London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's been left with no choice but to shut the 132-year-old bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. In march 2022, a new capital spend of £3.5million was approved to progress concept design and associated works to stabilise the grade II-listed structure.
    hammersmith_bridge-10-07-04-2022.jpg
  • Cones and barriers block the southern end of Hammersmith Bridge, closed to motor traffic but open to pedestrians because of structural concerns, on 6th April 2022, in London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's been left with no choice but to shut the 132-year-old bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. In march 2022, a new capital spend of £3.5million was approved to progress concept design and associated works to stabilise the grade II-listed structure.
    hammersmith_bridge-05-07-04-2022.jpg
  • A week after the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, a rain-spattered poster sends a 'United We Stand' message to American patriots, on 19th September 2001, New York, USA.
    united_stand-19-09-2001.jpg
  • A detail of home-made posters by residents from Kent over the planned high-speed (TGV-style) rail link from London to the south-east coast, on 5th August 1989, in London, England. Locals from the Darenth Valley in rural Kent, against the forthcoming Channel Tunnel rail link organised their own campaign to reverse decisions by British Rail to cut a new rail link through their community. British Rail announced that 150mph TGV trains would travel through their rural Kent countryside, forcing residents to sell their homes within a 240 metre corridor to the rail line, at great loss while splitting up the community.
    rail_link_protest02-05-08-1989.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
  • 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
  • Londoners walk over Hammersmith Bridge, closed to motor traffic but open to pedestrians because of structural concerns, on 6th April 2022, in London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's been left with no choice but to shut the 132-year-old bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. In march 2022, a new capital spend of £3.5million was approved to progress concept design and associated works to stabilise the grade II-listed structure.
    hammersmith_bridge-13-07-04-2022.jpg
  • Londoners walk and run over Hammersmith Bridge, closed to motor traffic but open to pedestrians because of structural concerns, on 6th April 2022, in London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's been left with no choice but to shut the 132-year-old bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. In march 2022, a new capital spend of £3.5million was approved to progress concept design and associated works to stabilise the grade II-listed structure.
    hammersmith_bridge-09-07-04-2022.jpg
  • Londoners with Hammersmith Bridge, closed to motor traffic but open to pedestrians because of structural concerns, on 6th April 2022, in London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's been left with no choice but to shut the 132-year-old bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. In march 2022, a new capital spend of £3.5million was approved to progress concept design and associated works to stabilise the grade II-listed structure.
    hammersmith_bridge-08-07-04-2022.jpg
  • Cones and barriers block the southern end of Hammersmith Bridge, closed to motor traffic but open to pedestrians because of structural concerns, on 6th April 2022, in London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's been left with no choice but to shut the 132-year-old bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. In march 2022, a new capital spend of £3.5million was approved to progress concept design and associated works to stabilise the grade II-listed structure.
    hammersmith_bridge-03-07-04-2022.jpg
  • On the day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced what is possibly one of his last PMQs (Prime Minister's Questions) in parliament, due to the likelihood of a leadership challenge, the statue of suffragist, Millicent Garrett Fawcett is seen with the recently-restored Elizabeth Tower, on 19th January 2022, in London, England. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE was a British feminist, intellectual, political leader, activist and writer. She is primarily known for her work as a campaigner for women's suffrage.
    parliament_statue-01-19-01-2022.jpg
  • A family wedding party stands for a historical photo at the bottom of the steps on 24th April 1962 , in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK.
    wedding_group-24-04-1962.jpg
  • A week after the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, an NYPD police officer cop wears a face mask covering nose and mouth - protection from Ground Zero pollutants rumoured to be toxic, on 21st September 2001, New York, USA.
    police_mask-21-09-2001.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
  • 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
  • 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.
    ascot03-18-06-1992.jpg
  • A week after the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, a Liberty busker drinks in front of a crowd in Union Square, on 21st September 2001, New York, USA.
    liberty_busker-21-09-2001.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
  • The silhouetted statue of suffragist, Millicent Garrett Fawcett seen with the recently-restored Elizabeth Tower, on 31st May 2022, in London, England. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE was a British feminist, intellectual, political leader, activist and writer. She is primarily known for her work as a campaigner for women's suffrage.
    suffragist_statue-01-31-05-2022.jpg
  • Cones and barriers block the southern end of Hammersmith Bridge, closed to motor traffic but open to pedestrians because of structural concerns, on 6th April 2022, in London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's been left with no choice but to shut the 132-year-old bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. In march 2022, a new capital spend of £3.5million was approved to progress concept design and associated works to stabilise the grade II-listed structure.
    hammersmith_bridge-04-07-04-2022.jpg
  • On the day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced what is possibly one of his last PMQs (Prime Minister's Questions) in parliament, due to the likelihood of a leadership challenge, the statue of suffragist, Millicent Garrett Fawcett is seen with the recently-restored Elizabeth Tower, on 19th January 2022, in London, England. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE was a British feminist, intellectual, political leader, activist and writer. She is primarily known for her work as a campaigner for women's suffrage.
    parliament_statue-02-19-01-2022.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
  • 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.
    90s_commuters-20-11-1993.jpg
  • In the foreground are period Edwardian houses on Ruskin Park and distant high-rise flats and tower blocks at Loughborough Junction, on 20th April 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-01-20-04-2022.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
  • A sixties portrait of a mother holding the family pet hamster, on 13th July, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
    hughes_family02-13-07-1968.jpg
  • In the week that many more Londoners returned to their office workplaces after the Covid pandemic, City workers walk through sunlight and shadows in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 8th September 2021, in London, England.
    city_people-24-08-09-2021.jpg
  • Socially distanced bus passengers wear face coverings while waiting for the next service, and the famous scientists who studied at University College London (UCL), on the Strand in central London, on 8th March 2021, in London, England. King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding college and member institution of the federal University of London.
    UCL_alumni02-08-03-2021.jpg
  • Social distancing hazard tape is on historical  flagstones in the nave of St. Michael's C of E church, during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 13th August 2020, in Beccles, Suffolk, England.
    beccles07-13-08-2020.jpg
  • A detail of old advertising for a cigarette brand from decades ago called Will's whose product was 'Flag Empire Blend', on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was founded in 1786 and was the first UK company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco along with John Player & Sons.
    whitstable_shops04-19-07-2020.jpg
  • A derelict building now used for agricultural purposes but once part of the WW2-era RAF Lavenham,  a former bomber base used by the United States Air Force in the 1940s, on 10th July 2020, in Alpeton, Suffolk, England. Lavenham airfield was built during 1943. The technical site and administrative buildings were on the southern side of the airfield as were most of the dispersed temporary buildings which gave accommodation for 2,900 personnel.
    suffolk-34-10-07-2020.jpg
  • A derelict building now used for agricultural purposes but once part of the WW2-era RAF Lavenham,  a former bomber base used by the United States Air Force in the 1940s, on 10th July 2020, in Alpeton, Suffolk, England. Lavenham airfield was built during 1943. The technical site and administrative buildings were on the southern side of the airfield as were most of the dispersed temporary buildings which gave accommodation for 2,900 personnel.
    suffolk-33-10-07-2020.jpg
  • The street sign for the Suffolk wool town of Clare in rural Suffolk, on 10th July 2020, in Clare, Suffolk, England. During the medieval period Clare became a prosperous town based on cloth making. The wool trade was already present by the 13th century, steadily expanding as demand grew. 3000 local fleeces were sold from Clare Manor alone in 1345. By the 1470s Suffolk produced more cloth than any other county.
    suffolk-30-10-07-2020.jpg
  • The street sign for the Suffolk wool town of Clare in rural Suffolk, on 10th July 2020, in Clare, Suffolk, England. During the medieval period Clare became a prosperous town based on cloth making. The wool trade was already present by the 13th century, steadily expanding as demand grew. 3000 local fleeces were sold from Clare Manor alone in 1345. By the 1470s Suffolk produced more cloth than any other county.
    suffolk-25-10-07-2020.jpg
  • A For Sale sign stands outside the main door of River House, a building in the wool town of Kersey, being sold by the Savills and Winkworth estate agents (both seen on reverse sides of the placard)  that opens on to the street in on 9th July 2020, in Kersey, Suffolk, England. River House is a 15th century Elizabethan town house, on the market for £1.2m though is currently in a derelict state.  The wool trade was already present by the 13th century, steadily expanding as demand grew. By the 1470s Suffolk produced more cloth than any other county.
    suffolk-17-10-07-2020.jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by its owner, the Canal and River Trust charity, the statue of slave merchant, Robert Milligan stands covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of London's Docklands Museum on West India Quay, once the world's longest warehouse paid for by slavery profits, on 9th June 2020, in London, England. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligan's and other statues of British slavery profiteers, have become a focus of protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-24-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by its owner, the Canal and River Trust charity, the statue of slave merchant, Robert Milligan stands covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of London's Docklands Museum on West India Quay, once the world's longest warehouse paid for by slavery profits, on 9th June 2020, in London, England. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligan's and other statues of British slavery profiteers, have become a focus of protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-22-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by the Canal and River Trust, the statue of merchant slave owner, Robert Milligan stands partially covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of London's Docklands Museum on the former quay of West India Docks, on 9th June 2020, in London, England. Scottish merchant Robert Milligan (1746 - 1809) grew up on his family's sugar plantation in Jamaica and by the time of his death, owned 526 slaves of his own. Because of the theft of his sugar and rum cargoes from the docks of the day, he and other busnessmen built the massive West India Docks trade hub, him becoming Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligan's and other statues of British slavery owners and profiteers, have become a focus of impassioned protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-21-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by its owner, the Canal and River Trust charity, the statue of slave merchant, Robert Milligan stands covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of London's Docklands Museum on West India Quay, once the world's longest warehouse paid for by slavery profits, on 9th June 2020, in London, England. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligan's and other statues of British slavery profiteers, have become a focus of protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-15-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by its owner, the Canal and River Trust charity, the statue of slave merchant, Robert Milligan stands covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of London's Docklands Museum on West India Quay, once the world's longest warehouse paid for by slavery profits, on 9th June 2020, in London, England. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligan's and other statues of British slavery profiteers, have become a focus of protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-07-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by its owner, the Canal and River Trust charity, the statue of slave merchant, Robert Milligan stands covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of London's Docklands Museum on West India Quay, once the world's longest warehouse paid for by slavery profits, on 9th June 2020, in London, England. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligan's and other statues of British slavery profiteers, have become a focus of protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-06-09-06-2...jpg
  • Hours before it was removed by its owner, the Canal and River Trust charity, the statue of slave merchant, Robert Milligan stands covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of London's Docklands Museum on West India Quay, once the world's longest warehouse paid for by slavery profits, on 9th June 2020, in London, England. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligan's and other statues of British slavery profiteers, have become a focus of protest.
    black_lives_matter_statue-03-09-06-2...jpg
  • A political message about the value of migration is attached to the exterior of the location where Dutch landscape painter Vincent van Gogh lived for a short period between 1873-4, at 87 Hackford Road, London S9 in Brixton SW9, on 11th May 2020, in London, England. The 20 year-old Van Gogh was not yet an artist when he came to London to work for Dutch art dealer, Goupil & Cie in Covent Garden. His lodgings was at one point semi-derelict but is now a listed Art House created by Artangel's Saskia Olde Wolbers.
    van_gogh_house-03-10-05-2020.jpg
  • A political message about the value of migration is attached to the exterior of the location where Dutch landscape painter Vincent van Gogh lived for a short period between 1873-4, at 87 Hackford Road, London S9 in Brixton SW9, on 11th May 2020, in London, England. The 20 year-old Van Gogh was not yet an artist when he came to London to work for Dutch art dealer, Goupil & Cie in Covent Garden. His lodgings was at one point semi-derelict but is now a listed Art House created by Artangel's Saskia Olde Wolbers.
    van_gogh_house-01-10-05-2020.jpg
  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation with his roadmap for the coming weeks and months during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, is the inscription ‘The Health of the People is the Highest Law’ - a quote translated from the Latin, of Roman philosopher Cicero's ‘De Legibus’ speech: “Salus populi suprema lex esto." The quote is above the main doorway of Walworth Clinic on Walworth Road in south London, a 1937 Grade II listed Art Deco building whose concept predated the establishment of the National Health Service, on 11th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation with his roadmap for the coming weeks and months during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, is the inscription ‘The Health of the People is the Highest Law’ - a quote translated from the Latin, of Roman philosopher Cicero's ‘De Legibus’ speech: “Salus populi suprema lex esto." The quote is above the main doorway of Walworth Clinic on Walworth Road in south London, a 1937 Grade II listed Art Deco building whose concept predated the establishment of the National Health Service, on 11th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the UK government's lockdown restrictions during the Coronavirus pandemic continues, and number of UK reported cases rose to 138,078 with a total now of 18,738 deaths, the faces and biographies of famous alumni outside one of UCL's sites on Kingsway, on 23rd April 2020, in London, England. King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding college and member institution of the federal University of London.
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  • A male visitor sleeps with his head back while sitting in front of Victorian graves and memorials in south London's in south London's Nunhead Cemetery, on 1st march 2020, in London, England. Nunhead is of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London, its 52-acre site near Peckham is the final resting place for many members of Victorian society: From music hall artists, inventors, WW1, and soldiers who survived the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar.
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  • Pedestrians point towards a London site next to a temporary construction hoarding beneath the partially hidden statue of the world famous London Victorian-era landmark, Eros in Piccadilly Circus, on 25th February 2020, in London, England. Eros, or the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain is located at the southeastern side of Piccadilly Circus in London, United Kingdom. Moved after World War II from its original position in the centre, it was erected in 1892–1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Lord Shaftesbury, who was a famous Victorian politician and philanthropist. The monument is surmounted by Alfred Gilbert's winged nude statue generally, though mistakenly, known as Eros. This has been called "London's most famous work of sculpture."
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  • A pedestrian points towards a London site next to a temporary construction hoarding beneath the partially hidden statue of the world famous London Victorian-era landmark, Eros in Piccadilly Circus, on 25th February 2020, in London, England. Eros, or the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain is located at the southeastern side of Piccadilly Circus in London, United Kingdom. Moved after World War II from its original position in the centre, it was erected in 1892–1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Lord Shaftesbury, who was a famous Victorian politician and philanthropist. The monument is surmounted by Alfred Gilbert's winged nude statue generally, though mistakenly, known as Eros. This has been called "London's most famous work of sculpture."
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  • Tall financial properties in the City of London including the Swiss Re building, left,  (aka the Gherkin) rise above modern riverside residential apartments and the terrace of former dock officials’ houses (designed by Daniel Asher Alexander) at Wapping Pierhead, built in 1811–13, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • Weeks before the UK's Brexit from the European Union (on 31st January 2020), a wide cityscape of the Tower of London (far right) and the City of London, the capital's financial district, under a darkening sky, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • River traffic uses the Thames as a water highway with St. Paul's Cathedral, the Monument and Tower Bridge in the distance, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • A Thames Clipper passenger riverboat service heads upriver before continuing under Tower Bridge on the river Thames, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • With weeks before the UK's historic Brexit date (January 31st),  the Walkie-Talkie building (left) plus others in the capital's financial district, the City of London - aka the Square Mile - are seen from across the Thames river where a life-saving life-buoy is located to help save lives, on 16th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • With weeks before the UK's historic Brexit date (January 31st), the Tower of London (far right), the Walkie-Talkie building (far left) plus others in the capital's financial district, the City of London - aka the Square Mile - are seen from across the Thames river, on 16th January 2020, in London, 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)
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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.
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  • Seen from an aerial perspective during a rail strike in the 90s, on both sides of the railway track, thousands of commuters desperate to get home after a long day at work in central London, on 22nd June 1993, in London, England.
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  • 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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  • On the day that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister, newspaper headlines report her departure after being deposed by Conservative Party colleagues, after 11 years as UK premier, on 22nd November 1990, in London, England.
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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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  • 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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  • Two men walk around the corner of a property wall and towards a roundabout, on 20th March 1968, in Kuwait, Persian Gulf. The period of 1946-82 is often termed "the golden period of Kuwait" by western academics. In the 1960s and 1970s, Kuwait was considered by some as the most developed country in the region. Kuwait was the pioneer in the Middle East in diversifying its earnings away from oil exports. The Kuwait Investment Authority is the world's first sovereign wealth fund. From the 1970s onward, Kuwait scored highest of all Arab countries on the Human Development Index.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • City of London office workers dodge the rain under umbrellas in a darkening street, on 22nd March 1993, in London, England.
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  • As queues of Londoners line up to gain a ride on a bus during a one-day strike by underground tube unions, a lady with head covered in a scarf reads a newspaper at Victoria Station, on 8th May 1989, in London, England. More than 3,000 British Rail employees launched an unofficial overtime ban, walking out in protest at the end of their eight-hour shifts. Thousands were disrupted at Victoria station in central London, on their way to their inner-city destinations. The buses have a maximum capacity and too few seats for the commuters waiting patiently in line.
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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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  • Before it erupts into a full-scale riot, peaceful protesters against Margaret Thatcher's Poll Tax policy, gather in Whitehall, on 31st March 1990, in London, England. London, England. Later that day, angry crowds 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. 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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  • Before it erupts into a full-scale riot, families and peaceful protesters against Margaret Thatcher's Poll Tax policy, gather in Trafalgar Square, on 31st March 1990, in London, England. London, England. Later that day, angry crowds 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. 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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  • A shop assistant arranges male mink coats on sale from a rack on the shop floor of the Knightsbridge Harrods department store, on 17th March 1991, in London, 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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