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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_table01-15-07-2021.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.
    wedding_group-24-04-1962.jpg
  • A young boy directs his radio-controlled boat on the still waters of the river Thames early in the morning, on 14th July 1999, in Dorchester, England. The River Thames is the second longest river in the United Kingdom and the longest river entirely in England (215 miles or 346 km long). It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea at the Thames Estuary. Historically the Thames was only so-named downstream of the village; upstream it is named the Isis, and Ordnance Survey maps continue to label the river as "River Thames or Isis" until Dorchester. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    early_thames2-14-07-1999.jpg
  • 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.
    tory-people04-13-10-1992.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
  • Young girls enjoy the beach on the seafront at Southend, on 29th July 2002, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    seaside_people-29-07-2002.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
  • 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.
    robber_bob-30-04-1991.jpg
  • 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.
    rail_strike-08-05-1989.jpg
  • 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
  • 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_farmer03-08-02-1990.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
  • Portrait of an elderly man living in rural France, on 11th November 1990, in Etaples, France.
    french_man-11-05-1990.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
  • 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.
    city30-16-06-1994.jpg
  • 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
  • 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.
    christine_mchugh-16-05-1993.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a young German woman reads a newspaper at the feet of a Trummerfrau statue (honouring the rubble-clearing women after the war) in Rathauspark, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, children play in Marx Engels Platz on an East Berlin shopping precinct roof built during the Communist DDR-era, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany. Marx-Engels-Forum was a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin. It was named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as founders of the Communist movement. The park was created by authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986
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  • Military parade through the streets of Blantyre, Malawi in 1970.
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  • A young boy of about 5 years-old sits in the family back garden in the early 1960s. The small lad sits with an embarrassed expression on his face, a brick wall behind him with summer garden plants growing nearby. The boy has blonde hair and a striped t-shirt and was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family04-13-07-1964.jpg
  • Real remembrance wreaths on the ground at the foot of a black and white vintage era photograph that shows the Cenotaph, currently hiding the real monument being renovated in London's Whitehall.
    cenotaph_landscape09-10-06-2013.jpg
  • Red construction safety hoarding and young men in a central London street.
    red_hoarding02-19-06-2012.jpg
  • A young boy waters shrubs with a toy watering can in the family garden on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties.
    sixties_archive05-13-07-1964.jpg
  • An older uncle with his two nephews sit on tropical grass in the family African garden in 1970.
    seventies_archive03-20-07-1970.jpg
  • A young blonde girl of approximately 3 years-old stands on a lawn looking delighted. She giggles with great mirth at something that pleases her - possibly the way her father has posed her as if she's a ballerina, or maybe because it is her birthday and her present is the blue dress she is showing off to the viewer. The girl holds out her arms while holding a special pair of sunglasses. It is the summer of 1967 and this is a housing estate for British soldiers stationed in Bielefeld, Germany still during the Cold War. The girl's father is a solder serving in the British Army and the they all live in a house nearby with other expat families. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones and where a small light-leak has affected the far right, reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
    family_archive2713-05_1967.jpg
  • A little boy wearing a blue jump suit stands on the pavement outside his house holding the handlebars of a favourite matching blue coloured tricycle. He looks upwards towards the viewer slightly bemused about having his picture taken by his father who looks down from a standing position. Meanwhile, the boys sister towers above him dressed in a bright red coat and clean white gloves and short white socks. Alongside her is a friend also wearing gloves and a knee-length skirt but we see only their lower bodies and not their faces so they are unrecognisable - an older sibling and a girl friend. It is the summer of 1960 and while the red is vibrant, the blues and greens are more muted in this Kodachrome film which has a wonderful magenta colour cast in the mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look
    family_archive2420-11_1960.jpg
  • Young Hungarians wearing formal suits with bow ties carry their McDonalds meals soon after it opened in central Budapest, the first in Hungary, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    hungary_people022-18-06-1990.jpg
  • A Racing Post vendor looks over to a young woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat on Ladies' Day during Royal Ascot, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar, on 18th June 1992, in London, England. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
    ascot_women2-18-06-1992.jpg
  • The Westland Wessex helicopter XR520 (built 1964) was flown by the Royal Air Force and is seen here hovering above London during the recovery of the wreckage of The Marchioness pleasure boat, on 20th August 1998, in London, England.
    helicopter2-20-08-1998.jpg
  • A group of young men sing karaoke at Coates Wine Bar on London Wall in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 18th December 1993, in London, England.
    wine_bar-18-12-1993.jpg
  • The two iconic towers of Wembley Stadium are demolished during the the large regeneration of the famous football venue and surrounding district, on 6th December 2002, in London, England. Wembley Stadium, was the most famous football ground in the world. Because England was the birthplace of the modern game and shared with Scotland the founding role in international football, Wembley, as it evolved into England's national stadium, gained worldwide regard as the citadel of football and as hallowed ground. After England began playing teams other than Scotland at Wembley in 1951, the world's national sides considered an invitation to play there a great honour. England played 223 matches at old Wembley including the historic 1966 Jules Rimet World Cup Final.
    wembley_demolition-06-12-2002.jpg
  • Two film crews record a USAF (United States Air Force) aviator, in training during week-long survival course held at the Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington, on 6th August 1995, in Spokane, Washington, USA. The course is aimed at highy-trained personnel conducting a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots and air crew need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. Held in hangars and the surrounding forests, it forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment of young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
    USAF_media-04-01-2020.jpg
  • US Navy personnel line-up for a below-deck briefing on the  aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman, a Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy, on 8th May 2000, in the Persian Gulf.  <br />
Launched on 7 September 1996 and costing US$4.5 billion, the Truman (CVN-75) is named after the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. The Truman is the largest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women.
    truman_crew-08-05-2000.jpg
  • 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. .
    trinity_lunchhour-18-07-1993.jpg
  • 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.
    train_strike-21-06-1989.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a pair of hands cup some nuts that go towards the construction of Trabant cars at the car factory in the former East Germany (DDR) where the last Trabants await buyers outside the factory production line, on 1st June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany (former DDR). The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means "fellow traveler" in German.
    trabant_factory-15-06-1990.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the last Trabant cars go through the factory production line, on 1st June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany (former DDR). The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means "fellow traveler" in German.
    trabant_factory-15-06-1990_1.jpg
  • 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.
    tower_bridge-22-11-1991.jpg
  • A shop assistant carries three boxes of Toshiba T1000 Portable Personal Computer laptops in an electronics and tech shop on the Tottenham Court Road, on 3rd March 1990, in London, England. The T1000 was a portable computer manufactured by the Toshiba Corporation from 1987. It had a similar specification to the IBM PC Convertible, with a 4.77 MHz 80C88 processor, 512 kB of RAM, and a monochrome CGA-compatible LCD. Unlike the Convertible, it includes a standard serial port and parallel port, connectors for an external monitor, and a real-time clock.
    toshiba_shop-03-03-1990.jpg
  • A Conservative Party delegate applauds Prime Minister John Major's closing speech at the 1992 Conservative Party Conference, on 18th March 1992, in Brighton, England. John Major went on to win the general 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.
    tory-people01-18-03-1992.jpg
  • Balancing across the width of the roof’s surface, a traditional thatcher lays water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage in afternoon sun, on 16th August 1993, in Suffolk, England. He uses a Shearing Hook to lay the straw into the outer weathering coat of the roof’s slope. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10–15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates.
    thatcher_roof-16-08-1993.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    terry_waite-19-11-1991.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_head01-11-10-1990.jpg
  • WHile awaiting their applications for political asylum to be processed, three Sri Lankan Tamil families stand for a portrait in a North London play park, on 16th January 1986, in London, England. The Tamils are from the Indian Ocean island where the civil war there is ongoing and where the Buddhist government have been persecuted by the Singhalese majority. The families have recently arrived in Britain and are temporarily housed in council flats in Chalk Farm in North London.
    tamil_refugees-16-01-1986.jpg
  • The four tabloid titles 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.
    tabloid_newspapers-14-05-1991.jpg
  • 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.
    soldier_training-05-08-1996.jpg
  • The rack and pinion narrow guage mountain railway nearing the summit of Mount Snowdon, the highest point in England, on 14th June 1992, in Llanberis, Wales, UK. The rack and pinion system used is that patented by the Swiss engineer Dr Roman Abt. The railway uses double rack rails, fastened to steel sleepers between the running rails. Each locomotive is equipped with toothed pinions (cogwheels), which engage the rack and provide all the traction necessary to scale the steepest inclines. On the way down, the rack and pinion system also acts as a brake.
    snowdon_railway-14-06-1992.jpg
  • 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.
    sixties_kuwait-20-03-1968.jpg
  • An French elderly lady bends down to find the right shoes for herself among dozens of other pairs in all styles and sizes strewn on the ground in the weekly market, on 11th May 1990, in Calais, France.
    shoe_market-11-05-1990.jpg
  • A family enjoy a hot day in their beach hut on the seafront at Southend, on 29th July 2002, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    seaside_people-29-07-2002_1.jpg
  • Middle-aged and elderly visitors eat ice-cream cones on the seafront of Great Yarmouth, on 25th May 1992, in Great Yarmouth, England.
    seaside_people-25-05-1992.jpg
  • 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.
    seaside_people-21-08-1992.jpg
  • 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.
    seaside_people-21-08-1992_2.jpg
  • 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.
    seaside_people-21-08-1992_1.jpg
  • As the surf splashes around him, a young man stands on iron railings and wipes his face, on 20th October 1990, in Bournemouth, England.
    seaside_people-20-10-1990_2.jpg
  • A lady peers down into the viewfinder of a vintage film camera whilst holidaying on the pier at Bournemouth seaside resort, on 20th October 1990, in Bournemouth, England.
    seaside_people-20-10-1990_1.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
  • As an older daughter plays in the surf, a young girl hugs her mother while on holiday in the southern English seaside resort of Paignton, on 19th July 1993, in Paignton, England.
    seaside_people-19-07-1993_1.jpg
  • A baby enjoys the sandy beach with his parents at Minehead, on 12th August 1993, in Minehead, England.
    seaside_people-12-08-1993.jpg
  • 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.
    seaside_people-12-06-1992.jpg
  • Firefighters assess charred remains damage of the Savoy Theatre fire, on 14th February 1990, in London, England. While the theatre was being renovated in February 1990, a fire gutted the building, except for the stage and backstage areas.
    savoy_fire-14-02-1990.jpg
  • Members of the British Royal Family appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Queen's annual Trooping the Colour ceremony, on 15th June 1991, in London, England. Present are the Queen and the Queen Mother; the Duke of Edinburgh; Princess Margaret; Prince Charles and Diana Princess of Wales and Prince Andrew.
    royal_family-15-06-1991.jpg
  • 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
  • As a bus conductor asks for their fares, a Chelsea Pensioner reaches for change alongside another veteran soldier and an elderly lady, on a Routemaster bus, on 22nd November 1997, in London, England.
    routemaster-22-11-1997.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.
    rome_people05-03-11-1999.jpg
  • 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
  • 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.
    rome_people01-03-11-1999.jpg
  • City of London office workers dodge the rain under umbrellas in a darkening street, on 22nd March 1993, in London, England.
    rain_people-22-03-1993.jpg
  • As the flames of a fire strted deliberately burns in the background, police officer listens to his radio during disturbances about the Poll Tax, the controversial property tax imposed by Margaret Thatcher's government and which ultimately brought about her downfall weeks later, on 20th October 1990, in London, England.
    riot_police-01-04-1990.jpg
  • A business lady reads a 1992 edition of the Evening Standard whose headline reports on the 15% load rate after two days when Prime Minister John Major fought the Pound Crisis, in the City of London (the capital's financial district, aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 18th September 1992, in London, England. Black Wednesday occurred in the United Kingdom on 16 September 1992, when John Major's Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after it was unable to keep the pound above its agreed lower limit in the ERM.
    pound_crisis-18-09-1992.jpg
  • 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
  • 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.
    poll_tax_afternoon03-01-04-1990.jpg
  • 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.
    poll_tax_afternoon02-01-04-1990.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.
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  • A Metropolitan Police diver surfaces beneath the murky waters of the River Thames in front of the tall buildings of the City of London, on 13th June 1993, in London, England. Blowing bubbles, he exhales through his oxygenated mask and looks through the Plexiglass to the viewer. The Underwater and Confined Space Search Team (UCSST), are part of the Marine Support Unit and based at Wapping. They also carry out searches in canals, ponds, lakes and reservoirs. It was set up as a full time unit in 1964. One of their most distressing jobs, however, is recovering bodies from the River. On average over 50 people lose their lives in the Thames each year and about 80% of these are by suicide (usually by jumping off one of the many bridges that cross the Thames). After a body is recovered from the River it is taken to the mortuary at Wapping Police Station for identification.
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  • A young boy looks out from a parked car to watch a passing Scottish pipe band, on 18th August 1993, in Campbeltown, Scotland, UK.
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  • Two friends watch lipstick technique as a lady applies a layer to her lips while holding her cocktail before entering a party held in a marquee at the Royal Navy Air Station Culdrose, on 14th May 1998, at Culdrose, Devon, England.
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  • A portrait of a young man with a face painted with the English flag and the letters THFC (Tottenham Hotspur Football Club), a north London club, a effort he has made during an outdoor party celebrating the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995, in London, England. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
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  • Rain-soaked opera fans sit on wet grass before the perfoamance by Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti during the free Party in the Park concert to celebrate his 30 years in opera, on 30th July 1991 in London's Hyde Park, on 30th July 1991, in London, England. A crowd of 100,000 stood in the rain to watch Pavarotti perform 20 arias by Verdi, Puccini, Bizet and Wagner. VIPs the Princess of Wales, Prime Minister John Major and Michael Caine were soaked in heavy rain along with everyone else sitting on the grass cowering beneath tarpaulins. Pavarotti helped bring an otherwise high-brow artform to the ordinary Man after the BBC used his rendition of Nessun Dorma to theme their World Cup TV coverage.
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  • An elderly woman reads a copy of a tabloid newspaper, on 16th June 1989, in London, England.
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  • 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.
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  • Using a map of the middle-eastern Gulf region, Major General Alex Harley, Director of Operations during the Gulf War, briefs the media at the Ministery of Defence, on 10th August 1990, in London, England. General Sir Alexander George Hamilton Harley, KBE, CB (born 1941) is now a retired British Army officer and former Adjutant-General to the Forces.
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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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  • As a couple inspect the menu on the sidewalk, a waiter attends to customers at an outdoor restaurant and bar on Ocean Drive,  on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA
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  • 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 businessman makes a cash withdrawal from an ATM at a time when the pension fund of Mirror Group Newspapers by its tycoon owner, Robert Maxwell was found to have been stolen from former employees, on 9th June 1992, in London, England.
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  • The news that media tycoon Robert maxwell had drowned in the sea is reported in the Sun newspaper, on 6th November 1991, in London, England. In 1991, Maxwell's body was discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean, having fallen overboard from his yacht.
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  • A fire rescue boar passes forensic investigators and police officers looking over the wreckage of The Marchioness pleasure boat, on 20th August 1998, river Thames in London, England. The Marchioness disaster resulted in a fatal collision between two vessels on the River Thames in London on 20 August 1989, which resulted in the drowning of 51 people. The pleasure steamer Marchioness sank after being pushed under by the dredger Bowbelle, late at night close to Cannon Street Railway Bridge.
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  • As a competitor stays warm under a black bin liner in the sun, another runner rubs his calf muscles before the mass start of the London Marathon in Greenwich Park, on 21st April 1991, in London, England.
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  • An elderly couple plan their next journey with the help of local map and guidebook before arriving at the French port of Cherbourg while on board the Seacat service from Portsmouth, on 18th June 1990, Portsmouth, UK.
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  • A market trader takes a mid-day sleep in the middle of the road, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
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  • A child clings to the back of her mother's pouch while shopping at a street market in this highly-populated south-east 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_people04-10-08-1994.jpg
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