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  • A middle'-aged while in her back garden during the 1980s. It is a close-up detail of the lady's face that shows the lines and wrinkles of a long life, her silver hair swept in a side parting. She sits in summer sunshine in her back garden with a worried look on her face.
    80s_family01-20-10-1986.jpg
  • An old City of London street sign for Poultry EC2 beneath a rusting police bylaws sign on a late 1980s brick wall. Before the older signage was replaced in the mid-1990s for more modern architecture, these signs will have disappeared or available through vintage auctions. Poultry is a short street in the City of London. It is an eastern continuation of Cheapside, between Old Jewry and Mansion House Street, near Bank junction. It takes its name, like other medieval roads nearby such as Milk Street and Bread Street, from the various produce once sold at Cheapside, meaning "market-place" in Old English. The street gave its name to a prison, Poultry Compter, once located there.
    city_sign-12-04-1989.jpg
  • The shadows of people and the steps of 1980s architecture of 1, London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-71-10-10-2018.jpg
  • Emergency fire muster station point on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. Illustrious is the second of three Invincible-class light aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and is affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". She is the oldest ship in the Royal Navy's active fleet , expected  to be  withdrawn from service in 2014 (after 32 years' service).
    navy_open_day29-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Two very posh Belgian ladies window shop in one of Belgium's smartest chocolatiers in the famous Galleries de la Reine in central Brussels. Wearing fur coats and warm hats, they epitomise wealth and prosperity in late 1980s Europe. Golden packaging is seen in this wonderful display where individual chocolates and shaped hearts and cakes show their exclusive values.
    chocolate_window-20-12-1989.jpg
  • Canary Wharf tower is seen from below at street level in London Docklands, England. The sun glints off one corner of the highly-reflective surface of the building underexposing the mottled sky to make the scene gloomy and slightly threatening. It also looks aspirational for any corpoiration to have its headquarters in this iconic skyscraper tower. It thrusts itself in from the bottom left corner into the centre of the picture with imposing dominance as if pointing towards Heaven like a church spire. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
    RB-0032.jpg
  • Corporate offices perspective in the City of London. Seen from a distance, away from this location on the northern boundary of the old part of London, we see the steel structure built in the 1980s at the height of Thatcher's building boom, the Broadgate development within the ancient boundary of the capital's Square Mile, it's financial district founded by the Romans in AD43.
    broadgate_offices01-04-03-2014.jpg
  • 1980s Sri Lankan schoolgirls in clean white uniforms and visiting the ancient city of Polonnaruwa, stand alongside the Shiva Devale temple, on 12th Arpil 1980, at Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. Shiva Devale No 2 is the oldest structure in Polonnaruwa and dates from the brief Chola period, when the Indian invaders established the city. Built in the 11th century, this Hindu temple built entirely of stone. Within in the sanctum is a stone carved lingam or phallus, a symbol of Hindu god Diva. In front of the temple is the Nandi bull, God Shiva’s vehicle. Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka’s splendid medieval capital was established as the first city of the land in the 11th Century, A.D. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    polonnaruwa_girls-12-04-1980.jpg
  • Seen from behind, two young boys tag the inside the 1980s carriage of a 1990s London Underground train, on 8th November 1989, in London, England. in 1980s London, graffiti was a persistent problem that costs the transport company network up to £3 million a year to remove. If caught, juvenile delinquents like usually escaped with only a caution because of their age - although older ones were prosecuted. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    graffiti_boys-08-11-1989.jpg
  • The shadows of people and the steps of 1980s architecture of 1, London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-64-10-10-2018.jpg
  • The shadows of people and the steps of 1980s architecture of 1, London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-63-10-10-2018.jpg
  • Emergency fire muster station point on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. Illustrious is the second of three Invincible-class light aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and is affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". She is the oldest ship in the Royal Navy's active fleet , expected  to be  withdrawn from service in 2014 (after 32 years' service).
    navy_open_day33-11-05-2013.jpg
  • The ship's bell on the top deck on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. Illustrious is the second of three Invincible-class light aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and is affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". She is the oldest ship in the Royal Navy's active fleet , expected  to be  withdrawn from service in 2014 (after 32 years' service).
    navy_open_day28-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Locked doors on the top deck on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. Illustrious is the second of three Invincible-class light aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and is affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". She is the oldest ship in the Royal Navy's active fleet , expected  to be  withdrawn from service in 2014 (after 32 years' service).
    navy_open_day26-11-05-2013.jpg
  • The shadows of people and the steps of 1980s architecture of 1, London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-62-10-10-2018.jpg
  • Emergency fire muster station point on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. Illustrious is the second of three Invincible-class light aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and is affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". She is the oldest ship in the Royal Navy's active fleet , expected  to be  withdrawn from service in 2014 (after 32 years' service).
    navy_open_day30-11-05-2013.jpg
  • An aerial view of the 1980s options trading floor at the London Stock Exchange. We look down from a high vantagepoint on to the traders as they go about their business. Three years after the so-called Big Bang in 1986 , this location at the old Stock Exchange Tower  became redundant with the advent of the Big Bang, which deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities as it enabled an increased use of computerised systems that allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading. Thus, in 2004, the House moved to a brand new headquarters in Paternoster Square, close to St Paul's Cathedral.
    trading_floor05-20-04-1989.jpg
  • Active trading inside the London Stock Exchange in the City of London during the late-eighties. We see an aerial view of the 1980s-era options trading floor, looking  down from a high vantagepoint on to the traders as they go about their business. Three years after the so-called Big Bang in 1986 , this location at the old Stock Exchange Tower  became redundant with the advent of the Big Bang, which deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities as it enabled an increased use of computerised systems that allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading. Thus, in 2004, the House moved to a brand new headquarters in Paternoster Square, close to St Paul's Cathedral.
    stock_exchange02-02-05-1989.jpg
  • A couple climb the steps at 1, London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-70-10-10-2018.jpg
  • A portrait of street market traders, on 16th April 1980, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
    colombo_men-12-04-1980.jpg
  • The shadow of a cyclist who has just carried his bike up the steps of 1, London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-66-10-10-2018.jpg
  • The memorial to WPC Yvonne Fletcher in St. James's Square, on 29th April 2019, in London, England. WPC Yvonne Fletcher, a Metropolitan Police officer, was shot and killed by an unknown gunman on 17 April 1984, during a protest outside the Libyan embassy on St James's Square, London. Her death resulted in an eleven-day siege of the embassy, at the end of which those inside were expelled from the country and the United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Libya.
    yvonne_fletcher-04-29-04-2019.jpg
  • Queues of Londoners line up to gain a ride on a bus during a strike day of underground tube unions. Thousands are 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.
    strike_commuters01-21-06-1989.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 young child is surrounded by adults as they visit the trade stand of an unnamed manufacturer of a smart bomb that occupies a prominent space at their stand at the Farnborough air show - an expo for the aviation and defence industries. A primitive plastic chain protects the million Pound armament from visitors touching although the bomb will be a non-operational model. A TV screen demonstrates the deadly nature of the guided munition that are typically mounted under the wings of fighter jets - in the days before pilotless drone aircraft.
    child_bomb01-01-07-1988.jpg
  • Fire fighters attend to the broken fuselage of a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 series jet airliner which lies on an embankment of the M1 motorway at Kegworth, near East Midlands Airport, on 9th January 1989, in Leicestershire, England. On the night of 8th January 1989, flight 92 crashed due to the shutting down of the wrong, malfunctioning engine. Attempting an emergency landing, 47 people died and 74 people, including seven members of the flight crew, sustained serious injuries. The aircraft's tail snapped upright at ninety degrees and here were most of the passenger fatalities. The devastation was hampered by woodland and the fire fighters are attempting to rescue survivors or extract those killed in this air disaster that proved one of Britain's worst.
    kegworth_crash-08-01-1989.jpg
  • The memorial to WPC Yvonne Fletcher in St. James's Square, on 29th April 2019, in London, England. WPC Yvonne Fletcher, a Metropolitan Police officer, was shot and killed by an unknown gunman on 17 April 1984, during a protest outside the Libyan embassy on St James's Square, London. Her death resulted in an eleven-day siege of the embassy, at the end of which those inside were expelled from the country and the United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Libya.
    yvonne_fletcher-03-29-04-2019.jpg
  • Two businessmen descend the steps at the southern end of London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-61-10-10-2018.jpg
  • An exterior of Europe's very first completely Unleaded petrol station, seen in 1989 on Park Road, NW8 London. Customers' cars able to use this newly-introduced fuel such as this Volvo, Volkswagen Golf and Saab could use this station to use the commercially-available cleaner fuel.
    unleaded_fuel01-12-10-1989.jpg
  • Abandoned aerosol spray cans lie in soil after a graffiti gang's overnight vandalism visit in Notting Hill, West London.  We see the cans having been emptied of their contents, in the soil next to the wall that has been covered with tags and graffiti art, the drawings of which have been sketched on a sheet of paper.
    graffiti_art04-08-11-1989.jpg
  • The new Channel Tunnel rail terminal under construction in the Kent countryside at Folkestone in 1989. A workman walks over part of the structure that will in the future, take the Eurostar and Shuttle trains through this portal underneath the town of Folkestone and on beneath the English Channel to the French coast. The technique is known as cut and cover. Eleven tunnel boring machines cut through chalk marl to construct two rail tunnels and a service tunnel. Tunnelling commenced in 1988, and the tunnel began operating in 1994. In 1985 prices, the total construction cost was £4.650 billion (equivalent to £11 billion today), an 80% cost overrun. At the peak of construction 15,000 people were employed with daily expenditure over £3 million. Ten workers were killed during construction between 1987 and 1993, most in the first few months of boring.
    eurotunnel_construction01-15-04-1989.jpg
  • A Chinese army portable mobile missile launcher demonstrated by a mannequin at the UK's bi-annual Farnborough air show, England. Wearing goggles and helmet and a generic uniform, the model points the launcher into the air to simulate it being fired at a moving target, an example of 80s warfare technology.
    chinese_missile-20-07-1989.jpg
  • Among headstones and graves, two local children play in the unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). Along with their pet Labrador dog who enjoys joining in on the fun, the children are playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society.
    wales_cemetery01-15-06-1986.jpg
  • The shadow of a cyclist who has just carried his bike up the steps of 1, London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-68-10-10-2018.jpg
  • Ageing 80s technology of the Thames Barrier on the River Thames near Woolwich in east London. As daylight fades to become a purple hue, we see the waters of the Thames flowing on the tide. Operational in 1982, the Thames Barrier is one of the largest movable flood barriers in the world, managed by the UK's Environment Agency. The barrier spans 520 metres across the River Thames near Woolwich, and it protects 125 square kilometres of central London from flooding caused by tidal surges.  The barrier has closed over 80 times since the year 2000 with ‘at least 800,000 homes and businesses have protected from tidal surges.
    thames_barrier-12-04-1989.jpg
  • An elderly lady walks past the intimidating backdrop of tagged walls of Plaistow, an east London station after the crime of defacement and criminal damage to London Underground property has been committed by persons unknown - a persistent problem that costs the transport company network up to £3 million a year to remove. If caught, juvenile delinquents may escape with only a caution because of their age but older ones are prosecuted, though some times after leaving many thousands of tags across their neighbourhood.
    graffiti_tagging04-08-11-1989.jpg
  • Locals walk over the exposed stone walls of the once-thriving village of Ashopton that now lies at the bottom of Ladybower reservoir, Derbyshire, England. Remains of the village were revealed during the drought of 1989 the levels of water dropped from the country's reservoirs as rainfall failed in the heatwave while demand peaked in the cities such as Sheffield. The villages of Derwent & Ashopton were submerged when the valley was flooded, between 1943 & 1945, amid much controversy. Derwent church tower was left standing at first, but demolished in 1947 for safety reasons. The remains of the buildings are still visible when the water is very low, as it was in 1989.
    drought_reservoir-12-08-1989.jpg
  • Gathered beneath the outer walls of the 15th century Church of St John the Baptist, a flock of Anglican pilgrims ready for a procession through the ancient Christian and pagan town of Glastonbury. Banners from their parish churches show illustrations for their Saints such as St Andrew and St Mark while an angel looks down on another. A young choir boy looks down at his feet, a middle-aged Church of England vicar holds his banner and a much younger member of a congregation stands with a polished silver cross. Glastonbury is notable for myths and legends about Joseph of Arimathea, the Holy Grail and King Arthur and in Arthurian literature Glastonbury is identified with the legendary island of Avalon. Medieval monks at the abbey even claimed to have found the graves of Arthur and Guinevere and the place is also said to be the centre of several ley lines.
    anglican_pilgrims-29-06-1985.jpg
  • It is 1985 and a farmer walks along a line of long, combustible straw and with a pitchfork and smouldering straw, sets fire to the organic material in an Essex field, southern England. It is late summer and the harvested corn has left behind short stubble which the farmer sets ablaze. This now restricted practice of destroying cereal straw and stubble by flame was stopped by the introduction of The Crop Residues (Burning) Regulations of 1993 which now restricts farmers on burning crop materials, including residues of oilseed rape, field beans and peas, except in very limited circumstances, e.g. for disease control where a plant health order has been served. The burning of straw and stubble also deprives the soil of valuable organic material and releases greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. ..
    stubble_burning08-18-1985.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
  • Beneath Christian posters, three elderly ladies pass the time of day at the Salvation Army's drop-in centre in Newport, Wales
    newport_women-02-18-01-2010.jpg
  • People climb the steps at 1, London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-69-10-10-2018.jpg
  • A 'Bodil' passive eavesdropping transmitter from Bulgaria powered by a phone line, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Erich Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum37-07-04-2013.jpg
  • It is tea 4 o'clock and time for cream tea at the Westbury hotel in central London. Served by a waiter who pours from a silver pot into china cups, three ladies enjoy the afternoon after a day's shopping in nearby shopping streets. The decor is classically dark English wood and the tablecloth is crisply white with a scones with jam and sponges.
    tea_time-01-05-1989.jpg
  • A Migoyan technician covers a Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter jet as it makes its first ever display appearance to a western air show audience. The Mikoyan MiG-29 or "Fulcrum" is a fourth-generation jet fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union for an air superiority role. Developed in the 1970s by the Mikoyan design bureau, it entered service with the Soviet Air Force in 1983, and remains in use by the Russian Air Force as well as in many other nations.
    soviet_aircraft02-11-07-1988.jpg
  • A London youth is busy tagging on windows of a 90s London underground tube train, during an overland section of the capital's rail system near Ladbroke Grove in 1989.
    graffiti_tagging01-08-11-1989.jpg
  • Holidaymakers at Butlins in Minehead, emerge into a dull afternoon after a session in the Sunsplash swimming pool. Butlins and other camp businesses went into decline when the masses preferred Spanish vacations but have since been revived as travel costs have again soared and holidays at home are once again popular.
    burlins_holiday01-16-08-1986.jpg
  • The new Channel Tunnel rail terminal under construction in the Kent countryside at Folkestone in 1989.
    channel_tunnel4-15-04-1989.jpg
  • Two local children squeeze through railings of the  unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). The kids have walked their dog through this field filled with old headstones and graves, playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society. .
    wales_cemetery02-15-06-1986.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
  • Conservative Party delegates rally before Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's closong speech at the 1989 Conservative Party Conference, on 13th October 1989, in Blackpool, 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_crowd-13-10-1989.jpg
  • Masked protesters of western leaders Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher kiss at a 1986 demonstration by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) against the hosting by the UK of US nuclear cruise missiles on British soil. Amid a chaotic scene of protest and intimidating police presence, the two unidentified people touch lips outside the US embassy (background) in London’s Grosvenor Square. In the Cold War era, both world leaders Reagan and Thatcher symbolised the special relationship between the US and the UK, who shared a common ideology for conquering the threats of Communist domination. Their answer was for the proliferation of atomic arsenals in order to maintain world stability and public protest was ever-present outside US interests and especially at the many RAF air bases that were leased to the US Air Force from where bombers flew.
    cnd_thatcher-19-04-1986.jpg
  • A young man strides past the wall and name of the London Stock Exchange in the City of London. Walking fast past this financial institution, we see the young man's shadow on the wall beneath the name on the exterior wall. Three years after the so-called Big Bang in 1986 , this location at the old Stock Exchange Tower  became redundant with the advent of the Big Bang, which deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities as it enabled an increased use of computerised systems that allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading. Thus, in 2004, the House moved to a brand new headquarters in Paternoster Square, close to St Paul's Cathedral.
    stock_exchange01-02-05-1989.jpg
  • Volunteer Guardian Angels patrol the London underground in central London, an experiment in anti-crime in late-80s London. Patrolling the capital's transport system, an Angel stands over two elderly ladies in a dark-lit carriage. 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 organization of unarmed citizen crime patrollers. The Guardian Angels organization was founded February 13, 1979 in New York City by Curtis Sliwa and has 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_angels01-27-01-1989.jpg
  • A masked youth is seen after spraying graffiti art on to a wall in the Notting Hill area of West London, England.
    graffiti_art03-08-11-1989.jpg
  • Viewed from a low angle, an unidentified youth is seen spraying graffiti art on to a wall in the Notting Hill area of West London, England. We see his partially-obscured face lit from behind with a strong amount of flash which throws a well-defined shadow of his hand holding a spray can. It is a chilly night and the boy's breath is seen against the frosty night air. His graffiti art has taken him some hours to spray on this white wall and shows a glossy finish. The picture is anonymous because of the young man's face is unseen and generic, because we don't see where the wall might be located.
    graffiti_art01-08-11-1989.jpg
  • Led by Red Coats, children chase pirates during their stay at the regenerated Butlins holiday centre at Minehead.
    butlins4-16-08-1986.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
  • An elderly woman reads a copy of a tabloid newspaper, on 16th June 1989, in London, England.
    newspaper_woman-16-06-1989.jpg
  • The tails of a The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Fulcrum) fighter jet and an Antonov An-124 Ruslan transporter are seen visiting the 1988 Farnborough Air Show. The insignia of the era, a red star and hammer and sickle are clearly seen on the aircraft, just over a year before the collapse of Communism with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Mikoyan MiG-29 or "Fulcrum" is a fourth-generation jet fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union for an air superiority role. Developed in the 1970s by the Mikoyan design bureau, it entered service with the Soviet Air Force in 1983, and remains in use by the Russian Air Force as well as in many other nations.
    soviet_aircraft01-11-07-1988.jpg
  • Volunteer Guardian Angels patrol the London underground in central London, an experiment in anti-crime in late-80s London. Three members of the Angels mess about at street level, outside a London underground station. 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 organization of unarmed citizen crime patrollers. The Guardian Angels organization was founded February 13, 1979 in New York City by Curtis Sliwa and has 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_angels02-27-01-1989.jpg
  • A housewife poses in her undecorated home surrounded by material possessions bought with a credit card during the must-have economy
    credit_cards1-20-07-1988.jpg
  • A wide dusk landscape of the development in the City of London, known as Broadgate is a vast estate of corporate buildings developed in the Thatcher years, sitting astride the redeveloped Liverpool Street mainline station. Broadgate is a large, 32-acre (13 ha) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and the Blackstone Group and managed by Broadgate Estates. The original developer was Rosehaugh: it was built by a Bovis / Tarmac Construction joint venture and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s. The modern and mainly-pedestrianised development is located on the original site of Broad Street station (closed in 1986) and beside and above the railway approaches into Liverpool Street station.
    broadgate_night01-21-06-1993.jpg
  • The industrial Sellafield nuclear reprocessing glows on the skyline in the darkness of the Cumbrian countryside
    sellafield_landscape-01-18-01-2010.jpg
  • The memorial to WPC Yvonne Fletcher in St. James's Square, on 29th April 2019, in London, England. WPC Yvonne Fletcher, a Metropolitan Police officer, was shot and killed by an unknown gunman on 17 April 1984, during a protest outside the Libyan embassy on St James's Square, London. Her death resulted in an eleven-day siege of the embassy, at the end of which those inside were expelled from the country and the United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Libya.
    yvonne_fletcher-02-29-04-2019.jpg
  • At the famous Butlins holiday camp in the Somerset town of Minehead, a poolside lifeguard overlooks the main  pool from an overhead bridge. Behind him a monorail transports holidaymakers around the resort. Wearing the large letter B for Butlins on his red vest, the young lad sucks on his whistle held between his lips and prominently, the words 'Made in England' have been tattooed on his left shoulder - as if a statement for his patriotic ideals but also for those of Butlins - an institution for the British working classes who after the war had the opportunity to spend their summers at special resorts in seaside towns that provided entertainment and fun. Butlins and other camp businesses went into decline when the masses preferred Spanish vacations but have since been revived as travel costs have again soared and holidays at home are once again popular.
    butlins_pool08-16-1986.jpg
  • 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 London Underground employee wipes hard to remove the tagging left behind by permanent marker pens on London Transport property in 1989.
    graffiti_tagging02-08-11-1989.jpg
  • Holidaymakers shelter from typical summer rain during their stay at the regenerated Butlins holiday centre at Minehead.
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  • A portrait of a tattooed Kayan man, sitting cross-legged in his traditional longhouse, located on the Metah River, 14th March 1982, in Sarawak, East Malayasia Borneo. The population of the Kayan ethnic group may be around 27,000. They are part of a larger grouping of people, settled mainly along the middle reaches of the Baram, Bintulu, and Rajang rivers in Sarawak, Malaysia and referred collectively as the Orang Ulu, or upriver people. Like some other Dayak people, they are known for being fierce warriors, former headhunters, adept in Upland rice cultivation, and having extensive tattoos and stretched earlobes amongst both sexes.
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  • Clearing old buildings, redevelopment on Southend-on-sea's High Street which will eventually become The Glades shopping centre.
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  • An operatic diva sings open-mouthed accompanied by a Welsh male voice choir during a rehearsal at St Paul's church, Newport
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  • Two businessmen descend the steps at the southern end of London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • Discarded leftovers of picnic food and drink on the grass during the annual Chelsea Flower Show, the annual event held by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in London. Plates of shellfish and puddings plus bottles and corks from champagne and Bucks Fizz, for example, are seen on the catering tays on a patch of grass near show pavilions.
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  • A Newspaper seller displays copies of the London tabloid aimed at commuters The Evening Standard, on sale here at Monument underground station. On this day, the headline is about the tube and rail strike that inconvenienced thousands of Londoners on 21st June 1989. Passengers who might have descended into the subterranean tunnels of this Victorian transport system, purchase their favoured paper containing all the news of the industrial action.
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  • Queues of Londoners line up to gain a ride on a bus during a strike day of underground tube unions. Thousands are 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 middle-aged man walks beneath the sign of the London Stock Exchange at their old premises known as the Tower.  The gent looks hunched as if with all the troubles of the world on his shoulders, a pessimistic view on the world. He makes a sorrowful figure with such a strong presence against the wall shadow. Three years after the so-called Big Bang in 1986, this location at the old Stock Exchange Tower became redundant with the advent of the Big Bang, which deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities as it enabled an increased use of computerised systems that allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading. Thus, in 2004, the House moved to a brand new headquarters in Paternoster Square, close to St Paul's Cathedral.
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  • High up on the buttresses of Westminster Abbey in central London during the mid-90s, new white Portland and Caen stone replaces the blackened materials of old - discoloured after a hundred years of pollution from the capital's industrial revolution and traffic fumes. Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English, later British and later still (and currently) monarchs of the Commonwealth realms. The abbey is a Royal Peculiar and briefly held the status of a cathedral from 1540 to 1550.
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  • An unidentified youth is seen climbing over a high security fence into a derelict basketball court in the Notting Hill area of West London, England. Half-way over the wire netting, the young man has put his right leg over the top to haul himself over the high barrier. In the distance we see the graffiti left by other kids, sprayed on to the concrete walls of the former sports place. This is an inner-city environment where lawless youth crime is prevalent.
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  • A young girl drinks fresh water from a water tanker, provided by Thames Water during the southern England drought of 1989. During the heatwave that saw reservoirs depleted and in the south west, dry up altogether..A hosepipe ban and in some areas, tap water failed too so tankers stationed in affected areas so locals could fill up for essential use. Tourism increased as people visited tourist areas e.g. beaches at the weekends and took holidays in the UK rather than travelling abroad for the sun
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  • As the community fill up their water butts and buckets, a young girl drinks fresh water from a cup supplied by a water tanker, provided by Thames Water during the southern England drought of 1989. During the heatwave that saw reservoirs depleted and in the south west, dry up altogether. A hosepipe ban and in some areas, tap water failed too so tankers stationed in affected areas so locals could fill up for essential use. Tourism increased as people visited tourist areas e.g. beaches at the weekends and took holidays in the UK rather than travelling abroad for the sun
    community_drought01-21-07-1989.jpg
  • Young woman withdraws cash from her local London branch of the Abbey National Building Society in 1989. With her finger almost touching the keypad, the lady and her companion are withdrawing cash from this hole in the wall after investing their funds in this branch of Britain's building society. Abbey National plc was a UK-based bank and former building society, which latterly traded under the Abbey brand name. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Spanish Santander Group in 2004, and was combined with the savings business of the former Bradford & Bingley in January 2010 to form Santander UK plc. Before the takeover, it was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
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  • A portrait of two butchers standing in the window of R Allen & Co, Mayfair, London, the oldest and finest butchers in the capital. It is dawn one morning and joints of lamb and pork hang from hooks in the window while rabbits are on the canopy rail outside the shop at 117, Mount Street and built in 1887.
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  • Original wrought iron features are rusting in the old lido (now demolished) that was a main attraction for generations in Minehead.
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  • Man in street uses his modern mobile phone to type or text with Spielberg's Back to the Future 25th anniversary movie poster
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  • With the companionship of a pet dog, an elderly gentleman reminisces about the good old days with a life-long buddy at Alexandra Terrace, in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). Together they lean against a stone wall of a road above and look down the hill of their street they may have lived all their lives. In the distance, a younger generation of young girls play at the far end. The men might once have been working men, old coal miners like many folk in this community whose  population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach..
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  • Smoke has been discovered in the basement of a shop in Market Street, Newport town centre, south Wales. We look down into a dark hole where two fire fighters - one of which is a senior officer, with two stripes on his helmet - have gone down a ladder to find the source of the smoke while wearing breathing apparatus (BA) as a precaution.  While looking up they discuss the possibilities of a seat of fire elsewhere so they talk to their colleagues who crouch over the open floor of the business who dialled 999 for the fire brigade to attend this incident. It is 1984 and the firemens' equipment looks dated, during an era when uniform material was not of a high fire-retardant specification and nor were their helmets which went through important design changes.
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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 Muslim gentleman stands outside the Met Police's Aliens Registration Office in Holborn where the languages of six foreign nations are written on its board, on 13th February 1987, in London, England.
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  • The memorial tree in memory of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in St. James's Square, on 29th April 2019, in London, England. WPC Yvonne Fletcher, a Metropolitan Police officer, was shot and killed by an unknown gunman on 17 April 1984, during a protest outside the Libyan embassy on St James's Square, London. Her death resulted in an eleven-day siege of the embassy, at the end of which those inside were expelled from the country and the United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Libya.
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  • After a shopping trip, two ladies check the time on their watches before catching their train from Newport station, 1985
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  • The shadow of a cyclist who has just carried his bike up the steps of 1, London Bridge in Southwark, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • A car drives slowly past wild New Forest ponies which occupy the highway in Lyndhurst, in the heart of Britain's oldest royal National Park. As part of the 1217 Charter of the Forest (carta de foresta), the horses - a specific breed to this small area of southern England - are allowed to walk along the road unhindered. Common rights survive today in the New Forest and are still protected by law.
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  • Queues of Londoners line up to gain a ride on a bus during a strike day of underground tube unions. Thousands are 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.
    strike_commuters03-21-06-1989.jpg
  • A London youth is busy tagging on windows of a 90s London underground tube train, during an overland section of the capital's rail system near Ladbroke Grove in 1989.
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  • A sleeping Brit holidaymaker lies on the pavement outside the Exmoor Bar in the Butlins holiday camp at Minehead, Devon. A lady also sleeps with head propped up on an elbow with empty pint glasses on the bench. Butlins and other camp businesses went into decline when the masses preferred Spanish vacations but have since been revived as travel costs have again soared and holidays at home are once again popular.
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  • The new Channel Tunnel rail terminal under construction in the Kent countryside at Folkestone in 1989.
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  • The tall office buildings of Number One London Bridge with a reflected construction crane in a few glass windows.
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  • The veteran BBC broadcaster Richard Baker (same name as the photographer of this picture) is seen in a Radio 3 studio in Langham Place, in central London. With glasses at hand and programme notes on his console with microphones pointing to his face, Baker is looking to camera with a pair of old-fashioned earphones around his neck. Richard Baker OBE (born 1925) started at the BBC as an announcer and presented many classical music programmes on both television  and radio, including for many years the annual live broadcast from the Last Night of the Proms but he's best known as a newsreader for the BBC News from 1954 to 1982 and the long-running Your Hundred Best Tunes for BBC Radio 2 on Sunday nights.
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  • Still in the era of being able to smoke inside public places, an elderly gentleman extinguishes his match by waving it in the air to blow out the flame, exhaling and listening to a fellow-drinker in a Newport pub in south Wales. Clouds of smoke can be seen as they waft against the back light that filters through the windows of this smoky bar in the town centre. Pints of bitter are on the table in front of them and ash trays with used butts. The scene is of an industrial town's pub for working men where language is sharp and there is talk of realities of hard lives.
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