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  • A retro poster and modern table and chair outside the Japan Centre off Leicester Square, in Panton Street, on 15th July 2021, in London, England. Japan Centre sells imported Japanese edibles and cookware, plus beauty products and manga comics.
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  • A retro poster and modern table and chair outside the Japan Centre off Leicester Square, in Panton Street, on 15th July 2021, in London, England. Japan Centre sells imported Japanese edibles and cookware, plus beauty products and manga comics.
    japanese_table02-15-07-2021.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.
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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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  • A Racing Post vendor looks over to a young woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat on Ladies' Day during Royal Ascot, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar, on 18th June 1992, in London, England. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
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  • The Westland Wessex helicopter XR520 (built 1964) was flown by the Royal Air Force and is seen here hovering above London during the recovery of the wreckage of The Marchioness pleasure boat, on 20th August 1998, in London, England.
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  • Two film crews record a USAF (United States Air Force) aviator, in training during week-long survival course held at the Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington, on 6th August 1995, in Spokane, Washington, USA. The course is aimed at highy-trained personnel conducting a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots and air crew need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. Held in hangars and the surrounding forests, it forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment of young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • City office workers stretch out over the lush grass during a hot summer lunchtime in Trinity Square in the City of London, on 18th July 1993, in London, England. Dozens of other co-workers  also enjoy the inner-city heatwave in the early nineties. .
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  • 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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  • A city landscape showing looking westwards towards Tower Bridge and the river Thames at low-tide with the background of the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 22nd November 1991, in London, England.
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  • A shop assistant carries three boxes of Toshiba T1000 Portable Personal Computer laptops in an electronics and tech shop on the Tottenham Court Road, on 3rd March 1990, in London, England. The T1000 was a portable computer manufactured by the Toshiba Corporation from 1987. It had a similar specification to the IBM PC Convertible, with a 4.77 MHz 80C88 processor, 512 kB of RAM, and a monochrome CGA-compatible LCD. Unlike the Convertible, it includes a standard serial port and parallel port, connectors for an external monitor, and a real-time clock.
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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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  • Ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher smiles at delegates during the 1991 Tory party conference, on 11th October 1991, in Blackpool, England. Two years after her colleagues deposed her, forcing her to resign from her 11 year premiership she is still in favour by Conservatives who are proud to display her in public, before eventually shunning her policies and profile for their campaigns. Thatcher has been lending her support to her replacement, the former Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, but the otherwise unknown John Major who governed until 1997.
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  • 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
  • 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
  • Released hostage Terry Waite waves as he steps out of an RAF aircraft, 5 years after being taken hostage by Jihadists in Lebanon, on 19th November 1991, in Lyneham, England. Terry Waite CBE (born 1939) is an English humanitarian and author who was then Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy. He was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991.
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  • An instructor with the Royal Gurkha Rifles points a recruit towards an objective while on tactical training manoeuvres on heathland above Farnborough, on 5th August 1996, in Farnborough, England. Nepali-born boys belong to an elite Regiment of the British army. Every year 60,000 boys attend recruiting sessions in villages and towns in the Himalayan Kingdom but only 150 are selected each year to serve on active duty across the world. They fly to the UK for basic soldier training where they learn the skills required for infantry, transport, communications or clerical duties. Their reputation as a fierce but intensely loyal fighting force and many Victoria Crosses were won for bravery during World War 2. Here they are seen cradling modern SA-80 rifles while dressed in camouflaged helmets with oak leaves.
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  • 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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  • Young girls enjoy the beach on the seafront at Southend, on 29th July 2002, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • As families with children play on the sandy beach in the distance, a red wet suit dries on the sea wall, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
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  • Two boys carry large inflatable rings at a watersport ride called the River Run, at the north-eastern seaside resort of Scarborough, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
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  • A father rests his head on tattooed arms while minding his baby, asleep in its buggy on the promenade at the north-eastern seaside resort of Scarborough, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
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  • Seen from the inside of her beach hut that looks out to the promenade and sea, a lady enjoys summer sunshine while holding on to her hat while others bathe in the waters beyond, on 12th June 1992, in Lowestoft, England.
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  • With Chinese characters of a nearby business behind, a market trader carries a heavy sack of produce while a local barber snips at the hair of a customer in a Malaysian kampung, a river village within Bako National Park, one of Southeast Asia’s smallest national parks, 37km ride from Kuching on the Rajang River, on 14th March 1982, in Bako Kampung, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.
    sarawak_barber-14-03-1982.jpg
  • A Catholic priest leans his briefcase on railings to show a document to two nuns in St. Peter's Square, on 3rd November 1999, in Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
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  • Two police officers keep watch over tourists in the centre outside the Vatican in St. Peter's Square, on 3rd November 1999, in Rome Italy.
    rome_people04-03-11-1999.jpg
  • 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.
    rome_people02-03-11-1999.jpg
  • An elderly Italian man reads the latest news on the pages of El Tempo from a public display case, on 3rd November 1999, in Rome, Italy. El Tempo is a daily Italian newspaper published in Rome, Italy. was founded in Rome by Renato Angiolillo in 1944. Initially the newspaper was a conservative publication with an anti-communist stance.
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  • A protester wearing a Robert Maxwell t-shirt stands outside the entrance of Mirror Group Newspapers at a time when its pension fund was found to have been stolen by its tycoon owner, Robert Maxwell from former employees, on 9th June 1992, in London, England.
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  • As 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.
    pony_rider-17-09-1999.jpg
  • A pedestrian walks past an upturned car, a casualty of the Poll Tax riot, on 1st April 1990, in Charing Cross Road, London, England. when angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane, on 1st April 1990, in London, England. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_afternoon01-01-04-1990.jpg
  • A young boy looks out from a parked car to watch a passing Scottish pipe band, on 18th August 1993, in Campbeltown, Scotland, UK.
    pipe_band-18-08-1993.jpg
  • Two friends watch lipstick technique as a lady applies a layer to her lips while holding her cocktail before entering a party held in a marquee at the Royal Navy Air Station Culdrose, on 14th May 1998, at Culdrose, Devon, England.
    party_women-14-05-1998.jpg
  • Reflected in a mirror, women shop for clothes at a stall in the covered market in Newport, on 29th November 1985, in Newport, Wales, UK.
    newport_market-29-11-1985.jpg
  • Months after the Millennium, a theatre group perform outside the London Aquarium on the Southbank and beneath a burning flame and the Millennium Wheel (later to be renamed The London Eye), on 6th April 2000, on the Southbank, London, England.
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  • A passing shopper blurs while passing a market stall selling duck and chicken on a dark and typical rainy day in south-east Asia, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
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  • On a typical rainy day in south-east Asia, a nursery schoolchild is lifted over railings into local transport, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
    macau_people02-10-08-1994.jpg
  • An exercise class for schoolchildren on a basketball court at a sports ground in the highly-populated Asian city, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
    macau_people01-10-08-1994.jpg
  • A young boy plays with his mates in a street corner in the Aigburth district of Liverpool, on 14th June 1991. Aigburth is a suburb of Liverpool, England, bordered by Dingle, Toxteth, Sefton Park, Mossley Hill, Garston and Grassendale.
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  • The Socialist Militant newspaper is held by a man alongside other workers, listen to speeches in central Liverpool during the bin men strike of 1991, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, England. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool over that summer when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin such as rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
    liverpool_strike02-14-06-1991.jpg
  • Young people drink beers during a fancy dress party in a Liechtenstein village hall, on 8th February 1990, in Gamprin, Liechtenstein.
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  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle works in the courtyard of his dairy and goat farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein, on 8th February 1990, in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
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  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle works in the courtyard of his dairy and goat farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein, on 8th February 1990, in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer02-08-02-1990.jpg
  • Athletic young men do pull-ups and weight exercises on gym equipment at the outdoor gym on Muscle Beach, on 18th May 1996, on Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA.
    LA_bodies-18-05-1996.jpg
  • Crowds enjoy picnic spreads before an outdoor concert at Kenwood House, North London, on 18th May 1995, in London, England. Set in Hampstead Heath, these grounds were remodelled by Robert Adam between 1764 and 1779. English Heritage host Summer concerts here and families and music fans spend war summer evenings listening to opera, classical or series of themed performances by visiting artists and groups. Here is also the source of one of London's lost rivers, The Fleet which rises here and flows downhill into the city where it becomes part of the sewer system, emerging in the Thames at Blackfriars.
    kenwood_house-18-05-1995.jpg
  • 13 year-old Adam leader dances with a girl at his Bar Mitzvah, a lavish party in Borehamwood, on 14th October 2001, in north London, England. Paid for by his parents, the celebration took place in a hotel off the A1 road and Adam can be seen with the arms of a young lady while a pair of hands reach around the back of his mother (left).
    jewish_party-14-10-2001.jpg
  • Hungarian gentlemen play chess in the thermal healing spa waters of Budapest's famous Szechenyi thermal bath, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest is especially known for its spas. The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath  (Szechenyi-gyogyfurdo) is the largest medicinal bath in Europe. Its water is supplied by two thermal springs, their temperature is 74°C/165°F and 77°C/171°F, respectively. The bath can be found in the City Park, and was built in 1913 in Neo-baroque style to the design of Gyozo Czigler.
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  • Hungarian woman shoppers admire the new range of shoes on display in a footwear shop on Vaci utca in central Budapest, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
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  • A middle-age husband pours thermal healing spa waters on to his wife in Budapest's famous Szechenyi thermal bath, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest is especially known for its spas. The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath  (Szechenyi-gyogyfurdo) is the largest medicinal bath in Europe. Its water is supplied by two thermal springs, their temperature is 74°C/165°F and 77°C/171°F, respectively. The bath can be found in the City Park, and was built in 1913 in Neo-baroque style to the design of Gyozo Czigler.
    hungary_people07-18-06-1990.jpg
  • A lady looks unhappy, and a dancer leans backwards while a suited man looks on in a night clun near Buda Castle, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
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  • A young girl holds her mother's shopping basket while she tries on sandals in a department store in central Budapest, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    hungary_people03-18-06-1990.jpg
  • A 1970s landscape of duck farms and rural paths at Lok Ma Chau in the New Territories of northern Hong Kong, a village within the territory's Frontier Closed Area, a buffer zone established by the Hong Kong government to prevent illegal immigrants from mainland China, and access to the area is restricted to those holding Closed Area Permits, on 16th April 1979, in Hong Kong, China.
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  • Hong Kong Chinese shop for fresh fish from a stall in a street market in Mid-Levels, on the eve of the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China.  Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • The Chinese fashion brand Shanghai Tang makes a presence in their shop in Central, on the eve of the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China.
    hong_kong06-30-06-1997.jpg
  • British Prime Minister Tony Blair greets crowds in the Pacific shopping mall on the eve of the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China. Blair accompanied the outgoing Governor, Chris Patten on the walkabout around parts of the still-British colony. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
    hong_kong04-30-06-1997.jpg
  • A large banner Chinese flag hangs over a pedestrian on the eve of the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
    hong_kong03-30-06-1997.jpg
  • Volunteer member of the Guardian Angels patrol the London underground in central London, an experiment in anti-crime in late-80s London, on 27th January 1989, in London, England. The Angels are under the supervision of the organisation's creator Curtis Sliwa, who started the band of youths to help make New York a safer place, - and in London's case in an era before CCTV made travel less secure. The Guardian Angels is a non-profit international volunteer organisation of unarmed citizen crime patrollers. The Guardian Angels organisation was founded February 13, 1979 with 'chapters' in 15 countries and 144 cities around the world. Sliwa originally created the organization to combat widespread violence and crime on the New York City Subways.
    guardian_angels-27-01-1989.jpg
  • A Gay rights protester is arrested by Met Police officers while still carrying an 'Equality Now!" sheet from the campaigning group 'Outrage!', on 6th February 1992, in London, England.
    gay_rights-06-02-1992.jpg
  • Portrait of an elderly man living in rural France, on 11th November 1990, in Etaples, France.
    french_man-11-05-1990.jpg
  • A cheerleader is thrown high into the air during a college football game between the home team Georgia Tech and visiting Clemson, at Georgia Tech University, on 5th May 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
    football_acrobats-05-11-1995.jpg
  • A portrait of Devon County Farmers Union, Geoff Cleverdon, on 28th May 1990, in Devon, England.
    farmer_portrait-28-05-1990.jpg
  • A young passenger wearing a jumper adorned with Disney characters looks across to the Port of Dover as she arrives on a cross-Channel ferry from France, on 18th June 1990, in Dover, England.
    dover_ferry-18-06-1990.jpg
  • With the homes of their mountain community in the background, villagers in a field and riding a mule, converse in the middle of the day in rural Crete, on 13th April 1979, in Tzermaido, Lasithi Plateau, Crete, Greece.
    crete_people01-13-04-1979.jpg
  • Three shoppers push their laden trolleys across the car park of the wholesale retailer, Costco Supermarket Club, on 1st November 1993, in London, England. Costco Wholesale Corporation, also known as Costco, is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only warehouse clubs.
    costco_shoppers-01-06-1993.jpg
  • A portrait of street market traders, on 16th April 1980, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
    colombo_men-12-04-1980.jpg
  • A City of London Police officer based at Bishopsgate station, flicks through a card index system during a nineties pre-digital era, on 16th June 1993, in London, England.
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  • Investors with Lloyds of London protest outside the insurance company's address on Lime Street during the controversy when Lloyds' investors (aka Names) lost fortunes when multibillion-pounds were lost by its investors in the late 1980s and early 1990s, on 16th June 1994, in the City of London, UK.
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  • Two City businessmen eat their takeaway sandwiches at Cornhill in the City of London, on 16th June 1994, in London, England.
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  • Businessmen sit in urban City sunshine during their lunch hour spent in Broadgate Circle, an Eighties development of offices and trading institutions, on 16th June 1994, in London, England.
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  • Days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, a main arterial road that travels north-south through London's financial area, City of London, bomb damaged stock goes on sale at reduced prices in a branch of menswear outfitters, Moss Bross at Liverpool Street Station. on 26th April 1993, in London, England. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m²) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million. It was possibly the (IRA's) most successful military tactic since the start of the Troubles.
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  • 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, on 26th April 1993, in London, England. 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.
    city14-26-04-1993.jpg
  • Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, a main arterial road that travels north-south through London's financial area, City of London engineering officials examine the huge crater left by the terrorist device, on 26th April 1993, in London, England.  Debris is strewn around the hole with drainage and road material. 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. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m²) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million. It was possibly the (IRA's) most successful military tactic since the start of the Troubles.
    city13-26-04-1993.jpg
  • London Marathon runners wearing fancy dress costumes - including a skinny pink ballerina and a Playboy Bunny, pass through the Canary Wharf development in 1991, on 21st April 1991, in London, England. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the term of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • Three nineties City workers enjoy their lunchtime with takeaway salad and a sandwich in Trinity Park in the City of London, on 22nd June 1993, in London, England.
    city07-22-06-1993.jpg
  • A currency banker with the British Union Jack above his desk, rubs tired eyes while working in front of 90s computers in the currency trading floor of National Westminster Bank PLC in the City of London, the capital's financial centre, on 20th May 1992, in London, England. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets.
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  • The Irish peace campaigner, Susan McHugh at a local play park, on 16th May 1993, in Dublin, Ireland. Susan McHugh is an Irish peace campaigner who organised rallies in Dublin for peace in Northern Ireland and against the IRA following the bombing in Warrington on March 20, 1992.
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  • Schoolchildren and other visitors experience the Body Zone inside The Millennium Dome (later to become the 02 Arena) weeks after the Millennium, on 14th January 2000, in London, England.
    body_zone-14-01-2000.jpg
  • A Republican mural proclaiming a Free Ireland and with the names of local IRA volunteers in a 'Roll of Honour', killed in the 70s and 80s during the 'Troubles', on 7th June 1995, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
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  • A Loyalist mural for the 'South Belfast Young Conquerors'  including an image of an ancient warrior armed with shield and sword plus the emblem of the UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force), on 7th June 1995, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
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  • The shadow of a person appears on a hoarding that surrounds the four chimneys of Battersea Power Station before its massive redevelopment in the 2010s, on 25th March 1998, in London, England.
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  • Girlfriends eagerly await the opening by one woman of a bottle of bubbly, en-route by First Class train carriage to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week, on 21st June 1993, in London, England. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting.
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  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, two east German women walk past a closed and decaying Pharmacy and photography business where a poster advertising a New Germany weekly newspaper has been attached to a rotting door, on 15th June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany (former DDR).
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a young German woman reads a newspaper at the feet of a Trummerfrau statue (honouring the rubble-clearing women after the war) in Rathauspark, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a cigarette brand marketing lady  hands out promos for 'Prince of Denmark' and photographs unhappy-looking former east Germans with a Polaroid camera in Leipzig's town square, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_11.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a wooden crate of cauliflowers are displayed underneath the prices of other vegetables at a street market in Leipzig in eastern Germany, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_8.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, children play in Marx Engels Platz on an East Berlin shopping precinct roof built during the Communist DDR-era, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany. Marx-Engels-Forum was a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin. It was named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as founders of the Communist movement. The park was created by authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_5.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, pro-Communist Germans carrying Soviet and DDR flags march in Berlin, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_4.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, German youths gather at a war memorial, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_1.jpg
  • A 1970 exterior view of the Hofburg, Austria's former Hapsburg Imperial Palace, on 13th July 1970, in Innsbruck, Austria. The Kaiserliche Hofburg is considered one of the three most significant cultural buildings in the country, along with the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna
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  • Children pose for a photo at a swimming pool in Germany, on 13th July 1970, in Bielefeld, Germany.
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  • Children in Germany stand in front of a house next to a British Army-registered Singer Chamois (aka Hillman Imp) car, on 13th July 1970, in Lippstadt, Germany.
    60s_germany02-13-07-1970.jpg
  • A 1970s street scene showing shoppers and pedestrians on the corner of Upper Borough Walls and Old Bond Street and the architecture of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital (now the Royal National Hospital of Rheumatic Deseseases), in central Bath, on 20th August 1971, in Bath, Somerset, England.
    60s_bath-20-08-1971.jpg
  • Detail of a Cunard White Star line luggage label.
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  • A detail of old family photos taken on 35mm transparency slides from the 1960s.
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  • A detail of old family photos taken on 35mm transparency slides from the 1960s.
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  • A detail of an old family photo taken on 35mm transparency slide from the 1960s.
    transparency_lightbox10-21-01-2014.jpg
  • A detail of an old family photo taken on 35mm transparency slide from the 1960s.
    transparency_lightbox11-21-01-2014.jpg
  • A detail of old family photos taken on 35mm transparency slides from the 1960s.
    transparency_lightbox12-21-01-2014.jpg
  • A portrait of a middle-aged man with Welsh mountains and hills in the background, taken on a film camera by an amateur photographer in the 1970s. Standing with hands on hips, the gentleman wearing a short red top is alone on the hillside during a daytrip to the north Welsh mountains in 1973. With the rolling valley and peaks in cloud in the distance, the scene is a tranquil landscape. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    70s_family02-13-09-1973.jpg
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