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  • Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher is seen giving her last speech as Prime Minister at the October 1990 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, Lancashire before being removed by her own colleagues a few weeks afterwards. Her fighting spirit and stern expression gives her the reputation of Iron Lady with a gaze that make her opponents uncomfortable. She is wearing a favourite two-tone blue suit with wide shoulders and a pearl ear-rings. The ambient stage lights emphasize the blonde highlights in her hair.
    margaret_thatcher10-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Rusting corrugated iron sheeting and sprayed graffiti on wasteland in Canning Town, Newham, East London..
    electricity215-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Reaching out to a tower of scaffolding, high above the skyline of North London, a member of a company of abseiling construction scaffold workers make use of circus skills. Suspended with ropes, carabinas and a seat harness normally used by mountaineers, this man is wearing a safety helmet and blue overalls and his dirty gloved hand is about to make contact with yellow iron work as his colleague looks skyward, already tethered to the reinforced structure. A 60s tower block is immediately behind and suburban houses and streets are below. We see a man about to make contact with a place of safety, reaching out to his destination while spread across London's skies. Lit by flash, this picture is confusing because the viewer sees a false sense of size and scale between the iron work and the flats behind.
    acrobatic_scaffolders01.jpg
  • Original wrought iron features are rusting in the old lido (now demolished) that was a main attraction for generations in Minehead.
    butlins2-16-08-1986.jpg
  • Corrugated iron gates padlocked and chained up to prevent trespassers.
    no_parking01-25-02-2012.jpg
  • A woodland landscape of the iron Bridge that spans the former Victorian railway line that took visitors to Crystal Palace, in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 30th October 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood, and the track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost.
    sydenham_wood-3-30-10-2022.jpg
  • A landscape of old iron railings and  temporary construction hoardings which proclaim a new neighbourhood at the redeveloped Battersea Power Station in Nine Elms, on 7th March 2022, in London, England.
    nine_elms-55-07-03-2022.jpg
  • A landscape of old iron railings and  temporary construction hoardings which proclaim a new neighbourhood at the redeveloped Battersea Power Station in Nine Elms, on 7th March 2022, in London, England.
    nine_elms-54-07-03-2022.jpg
  • Local residents pass a landscape of old iron railings opposite the renovated chimneys of the redeveloped Battersea Power Station in Nine Elms, on 7th March 2022, in London, England.
    nine_elms-51-07-03-2022.jpg
  • Local residents pass a landscape of old iron railings opposite the renovated chimneys of the redeveloped Battersea Power Station in Nine Elms, on 7th March 2022, in London, England.
    nine_elms-49-07-03-2022.jpg
  • A landscape of old iron railings and  temporary construction hoardings opposite the renovated chimneys of the redeveloped Battersea Power Station in Nine Elms, on 7th March 2022, in London, England.
    nine_elms-47-07-03-2022.jpg
  • A landscape of old iron railings and  temporary construction hoardings opposite the renovated chimneys of the redeveloped Battersea Power Station in Nine Elms, on 7th March 2022, in London, England.
    nine_elms-46-07-03-2022.jpg
  • A landscape of old iron railings and  temporary construction hoardings opposite the renovated chimneys of the redeveloped Battersea Power Station in Nine Elms, on 7th March 2022, in London, England.
    nine_elms-45-07-03-2022.jpg
  • A map showing the loction of Round Barrows and an artist's impression of an Iron Age Round Hut that was set in Randwick Wood, near Stroud, Gloucestershire
    you_are_here03-15-04-2009.jpg
  • A woodland landscape of the iron Bridge that spans the former Victorian railway line that took visitors to Crystal Palace, in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 30th October 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood, and the track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost.
    sydenham_wood-2-30-10-2022.jpg
  • A landscape of old iron railings and  temporary construction hoardings which proclaim a new neighbourhood at the redeveloped Battersea Power Station in Nine Elms, on 7th March 2022, in London, England.
    nine_elms-53-07-03-2022.jpg
  • A landscape of old iron railings and  temporary construction hoardings which proclaim a new neighbourhood at the redeveloped Battersea Power Station in Nine Elms, on 7th March 2022, in London, England.
    nine_elms-52-07-03-2022.jpg
  • Local residents pass a landscape of old iron railings opposite the renovated chimneys of the redeveloped Battersea Power Station in Nine Elms, on 7th March 2022, in London, England.
    nine_elms-50-07-03-2022.jpg
  • A landscape of old iron railings and  temporary construction hoardings opposite the renovated chimneys of the redeveloped Battersea Power Station in Nine Elms, on 7th March 2022, in London, England.
    nine_elms-48-07-03-2022.jpg
  • Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher is seen giving a party speech at the 1991 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, Lancashire, a full year after being removed by her own colleagues the previous November. Her softer and perhaps pensive expression contrasts with her reputation of the Iron Lady with a gaze that made her opponents uncomfortable. She seems distant here, perhaps recalling her great days in office when she was a powerful figure in world politics. She is wearing the same favourite two-tone blue suit with wide shoulders and a pearl ear-rings as she wore the year before when still in office. The ambient stage lights emphasize the blonde highlights in her hair.
    margaret_thatcher13-03-09-2007.jpg
  • A woodland landscape of the iron Bridge that spans the former Victorian railway line that took visitors to Crystal Palace, in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 25th October 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood, and the track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost.
    sydenham_wood01-25-10-2020.jpg
  • Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher is seen giving her last speech as PM at the October 1990 Conservative Party Conference, on 11th October 1990, in Blackpool, England. Weeks before being removed by her own colleagues, her fighting spirit and stern expression gives her the reputation of the Iron Lady.
    thatcher_head03-11-10-1990.jpg
  • Seen through iron railings is Horseguards in Westminster, on 9th November 2017, London, England. Horse Guards is a large Grade I listed historical building in the Palladian style in London between Whitehall and Horse Guards Parade. The first Horse Guards building was built on the site of the former tiltyard of Westminster Palace during 1664. It was demolished during 1749 and was replaced by the current building which was built between 1750 and 1753 by John Vardy after the death of original architect William Kent during 1748.
    horseguards-01-09-11-2017.jpg
  • Rusting iron crosses on graves in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loire.
    civray_cemetery01-07-07-2014.jpg
  • A father with a daughter in tow cycles past the IOC's Olympic logo brand of rings on a banner at Horse Guards in Whitehall during the London 2012 Olympics. Wrought iron railings are seen behind the banner at the sports venue hosting the volleyball in the centre of Westminster where governmental offices are located.
    olympics_westminster22-31-07-2012.jpg
  • The IOC's Olympic logo brand of rings on a banner at Horse Guards in Whitehall during the London 2012 Olympics. Wrought iron railings are seen behind the banner at the sports venue hosting the volleyball in the centre of Westminster where governmental offices are located.
    olympics_westminster21-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Corrugated iron gates padlocked and chained up to prevent trespassers.
    padlocked01-25-02-2012.jpg
  • Iron gates belonging to Torosay North Lodge lean agsinst a Horse Chestnut tree at the former entrance to Torosay Castle (now in private hands), Craignure, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
    isle_of_mull346-21-11-2011.jpg
  • Looking up at the tall wrought iron gates of Magdalene College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England
    magdalene_cambridge3-28-August-2011.jpg
  • Looking up at the tall wrought iron gates of Magdalene College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England
    magdalene_cambridge1-28-August-2011.jpg
  • Rusted corrugated iron in abandoned livestock farm pens in Glen Bauchor, Newtonmore, Scotland.
    newtonmore04-02-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Ornate iron railings and their shadows outside exclusive property in Belgravia's Wilbraham Place SW1, London
    belgravia062-26-04-2008.jpg
  • Ornate iron railings and their shadows outside exclusive property in Belgravia's Wilbraham Place SW1, London
    belgravia060-26-04-2008.jpg
  • Corrugated iron roof of semi-derelict crofter's outbuilding in hamlet of Waterloo, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
    5108-RPB59-angus_mchattie126-28-09-2...jpg
  • A woodland landscape of the iron Bridge that spans the former Victorian railway line that took visitors to Crystal Palace, in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 25th October 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood, and the track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost.
    sydenham_wood02-25-10-2020.jpg
  • As the UK's Coronavirus death toll during the government's social distancing lockdown, rose by 384 to 33,998, and the R rate of infection is reported to be between 0.7 and 1.0, a local lady walks past dying plants outside a closed restaurant called Flat Iron in Kings Cross, on 15th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-18-15-05-2020.jpg
  • Margaret Thatcher listens to speeches, the last as Prime Minister during the October 1990 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, on 11th October 1990, in Blackpool, England. Weeks before being removed by her own colleagues, her fighting spirit and stern expression gives her the reputation of the Iron Lady.
    thatcher_head04-11-10-1990.jpg
  • Margaret Thatcher listens to speeches, the last as Prime Minister during the October 1990 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, on 11th October 1990, in Blackpool, England. Weeks before being removed by her own colleagues, her fighting spirit and stern expression gives her the reputation of the Iron Lady.
    thatcher_head02-11-10-1990.jpg
  • Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher is seen giving her last speech as PM at the October 1990 Conservative Party Conference, on 11th October 1990, in Blackpool, England. Weeks before being removed by her own colleagues, her fighting spirit and stern expression gives her the reputation of the Iron Lady.
    thatcher_head01-11-10-1990.jpg
  • Clapboard barn and fern growing with corrugated iron, on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
    herefordshire_walk-15-10-09-2018.jpg
  • Seen through iron railings is Horseguards in Westminster, on 9th November 2017, London, England. Horse Guards is a large Grade I listed historical building in the Palladian style in London between Whitehall and Horse Guards Parade. The first Horse Guards building was built on the site of the former tiltyard of Westminster Palace during 1664. It was demolished during 1749 and was replaced by the current building which was built between 1750 and 1753 by John Vardy after the death of original architect William Kent during 1748.
    horseguards-02-09-11-2017.jpg
  • On a Barclays Bank-sponsored 'Boris' bike, a woman cyclist pedals past IOC's Olympic logo brand of rings on a banner at Horse Guards in Whitehall during the London 2012 Olympics. Wrought iron railings are seen behind the banner at the sports venue hosting the volleyball in the centre of Westminster where governmental offices are located.
    olympics_westminster25-31-07-2012.jpg
  • A cyclist pedals past the IOC's Olympic logo brand of rings on a banner at Horse Guards in Whitehall during the London 2012 Olympics. Wrought iron railings are seen behind the banner at the sports venue hosting the volleyball in the centre of Westminster where governmental offices are located.
    olympics_westminster23-31-07-2012.jpg
  • The IOC's Olympic logo brand of rings on a banner at Horse Guards in Whitehall during the London 2012 Olympics. Wrought iron railings are seen behind the banner at the sports venue hosting the volleyball in the centre of Westminster where governmental offices are located.
    olympics_westminster17-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Looking up at the tall wrought iron gates of Magdalene College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England
    magdalene_cambridge2-28-August-2011.jpg
  • Looking down from a high viewpoint, prospective auction bidders take notes from their catalogues of old red British Telecom (BT) pay phone boxes which are lined up on display in their hundreds before the actual sale starts. The 'lots' are squeezed together along pathways allowing customers to thoroughly inspect their potential purchases' details. This is a wide-angle picture taken on the slant with the distant boxes curling around to the left. One man in blue who has opened the stiff-opening door, cranes his neck to look up into the ceiling of these solid cast-iron frames. The K-series kiosks were largely designed in 1936 by the iconic designer Giles Gilbert Scott.
    RB-0059.jpg
  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is seen dancing with a Tory Party official during the 1990 Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. Thatcher is wearing a favourite black and red ball gown and is the centre of attention for delegates and media. She is seen with Joy, Babs and Teddie - otherwise known as the Beverly Sisters entertainers, the  longest surviving vocal group of all time without a change in the line up. The sisters kick their legs up in the air dancing the Charleston (though not in unison) but Mrs Thatcher in her long dress declines and merely stands straight-legged. They are on the dance floor and Tory party officials are enjoying the moment as their PM relishes the moment.
    margaret_thatcher06-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Multi-screen TV images of Margaret Thatcher's last speech as PM at Tory Party conference before being deposed weeks later.
    margaret_thatcher15-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is seen dancing with a Tory Party official during the 1990 Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. Thatcher is wearing a favourite black and red ball gown and is the centre of attention for delegates and media whose TV lights have lit the dancing couple from the right-hand side. Her partner is young and has acne and is wearing a formal dinner jacket and bow tie. The image is warm from the ambient light and there is a slight blur of movement as they sweep past the viewer.
    margaret_thatcher05-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Margaret Thatcher plays up to the media at a North London school in her own constituency of Finchley during the 1992 general election. Although Thatcher had already resigned as Prime Minister in November 1990, John Major won the ensuing leadership election later that year. Photographers and cameramen surround the former-Prime Minister who is wearing a purple suit and matching broach. She is mid-sentence and has found something amusing to respond to the chants of the media. We see cameras, sound booms and flashes all prepared to photograph this famous statesman including Tom Stoddart who is making eye-contact with the viewer.
    margaret_thatcher02-03-09-2007.jpg
  • A satirical Margaret Thatcher Spitting Image puppet by Fluck and Law wears a blue Conservative rosette and For Hire sticker.
    margaret_thatcher17-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives applause after her Brighton conference speech 2 years after being deposed.
    margaret_thatcher16-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher seen on TV wagging a finger during exchanges at the dispatch box with Labour opposition.
    margaret_thatcher14-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Margaret Thatcher gives her last speech as Prime Minister at the Tory conference, Blackpool before being deposed weeks later. .
    margaret_thatcher12-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Margaret Thatcher returns to the Conservative conference a year after being deposed by her own party colleagues, Blackpool.  .
    margaret_thatcher11-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Margaret Thatcher gives her last speech as Prime Minister at the Tory conference, Blackpool before being deposed weeks later. .
    margaret_thatcher09-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Margaret Thatcher returns to the Conservative conference a year after being deposed by her own party colleagues, Blackpool.  .
    margaret_thatcher08-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Margaret Thatcher returns to the Conservative conference a year after being deposed by her own party colleagues, Blackpool.  .
    margaret_thatcher07-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arrives with her late-husband Dennis at the formal 1990 Tory Party conference ball.
    margaret_thatcher04-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher hosts the Emir of Kuwait in London for his first visit, on the steps of Downing Street.
    margaret_thatcher01-03-09-2007.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show an instruction mural for guarding prison camps seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier standing at the barbed wire of a generic Gulag holding his AK-47 weapon and dressed in fur hat and uniform from that era. Perhaps those training here were eventually to guard political prisoners though it is a reminder of a fallen ideology. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer.
    russian_wustrow03-16-06_1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as a reminder of Soviet discipline, the picture shows soldiers marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow01-16-06_1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow02-16-06_1990.jpg
  • A young skateboarder leaps into the air beneath the huge memorial to the German Communist leader Ernst Thalmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944. The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth scouting-styled organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14, in East Germany. Its motto was" "Für Frieden und Sozialismus seid bereit - Immer bereit" ("For peace and socialism be ready - always ready") but the Pioneers were disbanded in 1989 after early protests here in Leipzig at the same time as the Berlin Wall and the Socialist state's fall.
    DDR_travel05-06_1990.jpg
  • Ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher smiles at delegates during the 1991 Tory party conference, on 11th October 1991, in Blackpool, England. Two years after her colleagues deposed her, forcing her to resign from her 11 year premiership she is still in favour by Conservatives who are proud to display her in public, before eventually shunning her policies and profile for their campaigns. Thatcher has been lending her support to her replacement, the former Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, but the otherwise unknown John Major who governed until 1997.
    thatcher_head06-11-10-1991.jpg
  • Railing ironwork and housing architecture on Moray Place, in Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    edinburgh-48-26-06-2019.jpg
  • The trunk of a tree that has grown through the ironwork of riverside railings on the Water of Leith at Dean Village, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    edinburgh-23-26-06-2019.jpg
  • Victorian stairwell architecture leading to flats in Edinburgh, on 25th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    edinburgh-19-25-06-2019.jpg
  • Lightweight long-span cellular beams Crown Place, a new office construction development in Sun Street in the City of London - the capital's historic financial district - on 20th August 2018, in London, England. One Crown Place will comprise of existing period buildings with two new residential towers offering 246 apartments. The six-floor podium features 15,500sqm of high-quality office space, with a variety of retail space at ground level.
    city_construction-04-21-08-2018.jpg
  • Construction girders on a new development in the City of London - the capital's historic financial district - on 20th August 2018, in London, England.
    city_construction-06-20-08-2018.jpg
  • The capital's landmark, Horseguards is seen through railings in St. James's Park, on 21st March 2017, in London, England. Horse Guards is a large Grade I listed historical building in the Palladian style in London between Whitehall and Horse Guards Parade. The first Horse Guards building was built on the site of the former tiltyard of Westminster Palace during 1664. It was demolished during 1749 and was replaced by the current building which was built between 1750 and 1753 by John Vardy after the death of original architect William Kent during 1748.
    horseguards_landscape-03-21-03-2017.jpg
  • City of London office workers pass one of a pair of leaning figures by Anthony Gormley entitled Parralel Field (1990), part of Sculpture in the City, a summer street art exhibition in the Square Mile, the capital's financial district. Antony Mark David Gormley, OBE, RA (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture near Newcastle upon Tyne in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998.
    city_gormley02-09-07-2013.jpg
  • An old arched corrugated shelter in a rural place<br />
near Halstow on the Kent Thames estuary marshes, potentially threatened by the future London airport.
    halstow_marshes18-02-06-2013.jpg
  • An old arched corrugated shelter in a rural place<br />
near Halstow on the Kent Thames estuary marshes, potentially threatened by the future London airport.
    halstow_marshes15-02-06-2013.jpg
  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. The two men are kissing on the lips, one of the most iconic paintings that symbolised a divided Europe during the Cold War. The Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kisses his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_gallery01-06-04-2013.jpg
  • Visitors enjoy the art on the old Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_gallery10-06-04-2013.jpg
  • The faces and names of those killed while trying to cross  Berlin Wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_victims01-07-04-2013.jpg
  • Visitors enjoy the art and an old Trabant car at the old Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Trabants were the common Socialist vehicle in East Germany, exported to countries both inside and outside the communist bloc. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_gallery12-06-04-2013.jpg
  • A hand-painted No Parking notice on derelict shutters near 2012 Olympic Park site.
    2012_stratford15-08-03-2012.jpg
  • A hand-painted No Parking notice on a garage's gates under railway arches in south London.
    no_parking01-29-09-2010.jpg
  • The stripes of a man's t-shirt are echoed in the bars of the Monument and their shadows on the column's surface.
    stripes-20-10-2002.jpg
  • Lying horizontal in a Budapest scrap yard are two Communist-era statues that were toppled along with the fall of the Hungarian Socialist state in March 1990. In the foreground is the statue of the once-hated Hungarian local Communist Ferenc Munnich who participated in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then a member of the 'Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government', the Workers' Militia and then defence minister and earning himself the Order of Lenin in 1967. After Hungary's transition to a democracy, he has been dumped horizontally on a wooden frame, sliced off its original plinth at the feet and painted red, awaiting its fate. In fact this statue is now located in the theme park called Szoborpark (Statue Park) in the south of the city where he shares a political tourist landscape of 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
    communist_statue-13-06-1990.jpg
  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. Two seemingly gay men are kissing on the lips but this is one of the most famous paintings - a symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War. It shows Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_kiss-04-11-1990.jpg
  • Pensioner Barbara Dowling sips tea views an electricity pylon from the warm kitchen of her North Somerset home.
    electricity030-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • The steel girders of an electricity pylon stands close between housing on an estate in Beckton, East London.
    electricity243-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Technology of the electricity substation at South Bromley, seen with rubbish in the Pylon Industrial Estate. .
    electricity274-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's political career of 11 years ends emotionally by being driven through the gates of Downing Street after being deposed in a leadership challenge, alongside husband and lifelong confidente, Dennis, on 28th November 1990 in London, England.
    margaret_thatcher04-11-28-1990 .jpg
  • British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's political career of 11 years ends emotionally on the steps of 10 Downing Street after being deposed in a leadership challenge, on 28th November 1990 in London, England. Standing close behind her is Thatcher's husband and lifelong confidente, Dennis.
    thatcher_tears-28-11-1990.jpg
  • 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.
    thatcher_resigns2-22-11-1990.jpg
  • 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.
    thatcher_resigns1-22-11-1990.jpg
  • A portrait of the satirical puppet of Margaret Thatcher with Spitting with Spitting Image co-creator Peter Fluck and wears a blue Conservative rosette and For Hire sticker, on 20th March 1992, in London England. Peter Nigel Fluck is a caricaturist and one half of the partnership known as Fluck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the satirical TV puppet show 'Spitting Image'.
    thatcher_puppet-20-03-1992.jpg
  • 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.
    thatcher_head05-11-10-1991.jpg
  • Railing ironwork and housing architecture on Moray Place, in Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    edinburgh-47-26-06-2019.jpg
  • Worn Victorian steps and terraced housing on Teviotdale Place alongside the Waters of Leith, in Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    edinburgh-38-26-06-2019.jpg
  • Worn Victorian steps and terraced housing on Teviotdale Place alongside the Waters of Leith, in Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • The trunk of a tree that has grown through the ironwork of riverside railings on the Water of Leith at Dean Village, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • Victorian stairwell architecture leading to flats in Edinburgh, on 25th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • Lightweight long-span cellular beams Crown Place, a new office construction development in Sun Street in the City of London - the capital's historic financial district - on 20th August 2018, in London, England. One Crown Place will comprise of existing period buildings with two new residential towers offering 246 apartments. The six-floor podium features 15,500sqm of high-quality office space, with a variety of retail space at ground level.
    city_construction-16-21-08-2018.jpg
  • Lightweight long-span cellular beams Crown Place, a new office construction development in Sun Street in the City of London - the capital's historic financial district - on 20th August 2018, in London, England. One Crown Place will comprise of existing period buildings with two new residential towers offering 246 apartments. The six-floor podium features 15,500sqm of high-quality office space, with a variety of retail space at ground level.
    city_construction-15-21-08-2018.jpg
  • Lightweight long-span cellular beams Crown Place, a new office construction development in Sun Street in the City of London - the capital's historic financial district - on 20th August 2018, in London, England. One Crown Place will comprise of existing period buildings with two new residential towers offering 246 apartments. The six-floor podium features 15,500sqm of high-quality office space, with a variety of retail space at ground level.
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