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  • As traffic zooms past, the art installation called 'House' stands alone on a now-empty and house-less East London street, on 2nd December 1993, in London, England. The contours of the structure have been inverted to reveal an inside-out version of the original building. It is a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house completed in autumn 1993 and exhibited at the location of the original property -- 193 Grove Road -- in East London (all the houses in the street had earlier been knocked down by the council). Created by the artist Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) this is her best-known sculpture. It won her the Turner Prize (the first woman to do so) for best young British artist in 1993 before being controversially demolished by the council in January 1994.
    whiteread's_house-02-12-1993.jpg
  • A detail of a banker's desk photogrpahed in 1993, with computer screens and a large keyboard and calculator plus a packet of Rothmans cigarettes and lighter, on 22nd June 1993, in London, England.
    city03-22-06-1993.jpg
  • A police officer looks over stormy waves wich crash over the super-structure and funnel of the Liberian-registered MV Braer oil tanker, spilling 84,700 tonnes of crude oil into the North Sea, on 7th January 1993, in Quendale Bay, Shetland, Scotland, UK. It sits below its water-line with crude oil leaking from its ruptured tanks after running ground in hurricane force winds, beaching itself on these rocks in Quendale Bay, west of Sunburgh Head, the Shetland Islands, Scotland. In fast-fading light, this ecological disaster occurred in a beautiful region of Great Britain affecting much native wildlife although the Gulfaks oil the Braer was carrying is lighter therefore more biodegradable and able to disperse better than other North Sea crude.
    brear_shetland-07-01-1993.jpg
  • Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy and his former partner Jill Morrell sign copies of their book 'Some Other Rainbow' in the summer of 1993, London England.
    mccarthy_morrell-01-06-1993.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
  • In Europe's largest currency trading floor at National Westminster Bank, a 1990s female banker works at her computer at  in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th May 1993, in London, England.
    90s_banker-20-05-1993.jpg
  • A portrait of French economist and civil servant, Jacques Attali after an event with the European Bank For Reconstruction & Development, on 1st April 1993 in London, UK. Attali is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant, who served as a counselor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991 and was the first head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1991-1993.
    jacques_attali02-01-04-1993.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
  • A recuperating Muslim community Imam prays at the bedside of a patient who is staying on the Phyllis Friend surgical ward, Royal London Hospital, on 23rd June 1993, in Whitechapel, London England. The Royal London is one of London's oldest hospitals, having been founded in 1740 and is a major teaching hospital in Whitechapel, East London. It is part of the Barts and the London NHS Trust, alongside St Bartholomew's Hospital ("Barts"), which is a couple of miles away. Because of the cultural profile of East London, patients tend to be from many faiths, speaking many languages. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    muslim_patient-23-06-1993.jpg
  • A griffin statue marks the southern boundary between Southwark on the south side and the City of London beyond on the bridge, on 22nd June 1993, in London, England. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City of London is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
    city01-22-06-1993.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
  • An elderly couple choose between green or yellow watering cans from the choices on offer at a B&Q DIY superstore, on 13th April 1993, in Macclesfield, England.
    B&Q_shoppers-13-04-1993.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
  • A formal portrait of the renowned British mountaineer, adventurer, lecturer and writer, Sir Chris Bonnington on 5th February 1993 at his home called Badger Hill, Wigton, Cumbria, England. Bonnigton is best known for his 1975 expedition to conquer Mount Everest though he was formerly an army officer in the Royal Tank Regiment before making mountaineering and the writing of these sometimes tragic outcomes a career.
    chris_bonnington02-05-02-1993.jpg
  • A 1990s lady sits with her pet poodle on a sea wall reading the Sunday Express magazine that features Princess of Wales on the cover, on 19th July 1993, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
    poodle_woman-21-08-1993.jpg
  • An Anglican vicar shares a joke with a patient whose leg is in plaster, in a ward of the London Hospital, Whitechapel, on 23rd June 1993, in London, England.
    nhs_hospital-23-06-1993_4.jpg
  • A 1990s businesswoman in the City of London, the capital's financial district, puts one shoe for a shoeshine in Leadenhall Market, on 15th April 1993, City of London, England.
    city_shoeshine-15-04-1993.jpg
  • Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat speaks during an event in the summer of 1993 in London, UK. Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa (1929 – 2004) was a Palestinian leader and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and leader of the Fatah political party and former paramilitary group, which he founded in 1959.
    yasser_arafat02-01-06-1993.jpg
  • 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.
    police_diver-13-06-1993.jpg
  • A young couple enjoy each other's company during an evening at Coates Wine Bar on London Wall in the City of London, on 22nd June 1993, in London, England.
    city06-22-06-1993.jpg
  • A 1990s tired office worker has forty winks at lunchtime in Broadgate in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_lunchtime-20-06-1993.jpg
  • Two young 1990s city workers drink pints of beer outside a pub in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th May 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    city_drinks-20-05-1993.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
  • 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 lady sharing a City of London park bench with two other workers, reads a copy of a newspaper during her lunch hour, on 22nd June 1993, in London, England.
    newspaper_lady-22-03-1993.jpg
  • Seven City Businessmen stand drinking and smoking outside The Crispin, a pub in Broadgate, an Eighties development in the City of London, on 16th June 1993.
    city_drinkers-16-06-1993.jpg
  • The Irish peace campaigner, Susan McHugh at home, 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_1.jpg
  • A 1990s banker speaks on the phone and in front of his computer, on the trading floor of credit Lyonnais in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th May 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_bank-20-05-1993.jpg
  • A police officer looks over stormy waves wich crash over the super-structure and funnel of the Liberian-registered MV Braer oil tanker, spilling 84,700 tonnes of crude oil into the North Sea, on 7th January 1993, in Quendale Bay, Shetland, Scotland, UK. It sits below its water-line with crude oil leaking from its ruptured tanks after running ground in hurricane force winds, beaching itself on these rocks in Quendale Bay, west of Sunburgh Head, the Shetland Islands, Scotland. In fast-fading light, this ecological disaster occurred in a beautiful region of Great Britain affecting much native wildlife although the Gulfaks oil the Braer was carrying is lighter therefore more biodegradable and able to disperse better than other North Sea crude.
    braer_shetland-07-01-1993.jpg
  • 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
  • A portrait of a masked NHS technician, in the London Hospital, Whitechapel, on 23rd June 1993, in London, England.
    nhs_hospital-23-06-1993_3.jpg
  • A portrait of French economist and civil servant, Jacques Attali after an event with the European Bank For Reconstruction & Development, on 1st April 1993 in London, UK. Attali is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant, who served as a counselor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991 and was the first head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1991-1993.
    jacques_attali01-01-04-1993.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    city17-26-04-1993.jpg
  • 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.
    city16-26-04-1993.jpg
  • City workers look at the damage to buildings caused by the IRA Bishopsgate bomb in the City of London, on 26th April 1993, in London, England. 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 three on-lookers stop to view damage to the tall HSBC building. 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 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. repair costs reached approx £350 million.
    city15-26-04-1993.jpg
  • 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.
    ascot_train-21-06-1993.jpg
  • A group of 1990s work colleagues drink outside in summer sunshine, beneath the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_drinkers-20-06-1993.jpg
  • The floral memorial shrine in memory of two young victims killed by an IRA bomb in the centre of Warrington, Cheshire, England, on 27th February 1993, in Warrington, England. Two small bombs exploded in litter bins outside a Boots store and a McDonald's restaurant, killing two children and injuring many other people. Although a warning or warnings had been sent, the area was not evacuated in time. Both attacks were perpetrated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene, while his babysitter survived. The second victim, 12-year-old Tim Parry, who received the full force of the blast, was gravely wounded but died weeks later.
    warrington_bombing-27-02-1993.jpg
  • The floral memorial shrine in memory of two young victims killed by an IRA bomb in the centre of Warrington, Cheshire, England, on 27th February 1993, in Warrington, England. Two small bombs exploded in litter bins outside a Boots store and a McDonald's restaurant, killing two children and injuring many other people. Although a warning or warnings had been sent, the area was not evacuated in time. Both attacks were perpetrated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene, while his babysitter survived. The second victim, 12-year-old Tim Parry, who received the full force of the blast, was gravely wounded but died weeks later.
    warrington_bombing-27-02-1993_1.jpg
  • Before the area was completely redeveloped with a pleasure fairground, 1990s sunbathers stretch out on bare grass on the seafront that still shows its heyday landscape, on 2nd August 1993, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    southend_landscape-02-08-1993.jpg
  • A young boy looks carefully at the many saucy postcards on sale outside a seaside shop, on 19th July 1993, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. Telling jokes to send back to friends and family, they using cartoon characters of buxom women, hen-pecked husbands or sexually-frustrated young men, the humour is bawdy and cheeky - the epitome of seaside holiday kitsch. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by Bamforths (founded 1870) and despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly tacky, postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. In the 1950s, Bamforth postcards were among the most popular of the 18 million items purchased at British resorts.
    saucy_postcards-21-08-1993.jpg
  • An A&E nurse supports the head of an emergency patient wearing a head brace in the London Hospital, Whitechapel, on 23rd June 1993, in London, England.
    nhs_hospital-23-06-1993.jpg
  • A mother holds her baby staying in intensive care, in the London Hospital, Whitechapel, on 23rd June 1993, in London, England.
    nhs_hospital-23-06-1993_2.jpg
  • Three laughing ladies hold up their sticks of rock beneath a seaside character on the seafront at Blackpool, on 18th July 1993, Blackpool, Lancashire, England. In 1887, sugar-boiling factory owner Ben Bullock bought some plain stick candy band had the idea of putting ‘Blackpool Rock’ through the centre of the rock. Now a major industry in the holiday season in Britain and many seaside towns have their versions with their own names running through the rock. Modern seaside rock is thicker, about 1 inch, and more solid than the original form. Its sugar content is nowadays a reason not to buy as much, the adverse effects on teeth from sugar and colouring by the confectionary industry being a main reason for its decline.
    blackpool_rock_ladies-18-07-1993.jpg
  • A formal portrait of the renowned British mountaineer, adventurer, lecturer and writer, Sir Chris Bonnington on 5th February 1993 at his home called Badger Hill, Wigton, Cumbria, England. Bonnigton is best known for his 1975 expedition to conquer Mount Everest though he was formerly an army officer in the Royal Tank Regiment before making mountaineering and the writing of these sometimes tragic outcomes a career.
    chris_bonnington01-05-02-1993.jpg
  • Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat speaks during an event in the summer of 1993 in London, UK. Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa (1929 – 2004) was a Palestinian leader and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and leader of the Fatah political party and former paramilitary group, which he founded in 1959.
    yasser_arafat01-01-06-1993.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
  • A baby enjoys the sandy beach with his parents at Minehead, on 12th August 1993, in Minehead, England.
    seaside_people-12-08-1993.jpg
  • While under general anaesthetic, a patient's mouth is held open during a straightforward tooth-extraction prodecure in Barts Hospital, on 23rd June 1993, in London, England.
    nhs_hospital-23-06-1993_1.jpg
  • A formal portrait of the renowned British mountaineer, adventurer, lecturer and writer, Sir Chris Bonnington on 5th February 1993 at his home called Badger Hill, Wigton, Cumbria, England. Bonnigton is best known for his 1975 expedition to conquer Mount Everest though he was formerly an army officer in the Royal Tank Regiment before making mountaineering and the writing of these sometimes tragic outcomes a career.
    chris_bonnington03-05-02-1993.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.
    city34-16-06-1994.jpg
  • A businessman uses a BT public phone and makes notes with a ring-bound Filofax organiser, a pre-digital diary and appointments system used by professionals, on 16th June 1993, in Liverpool Street Station, London, England.
    city33-16-06-1994.jpg
  • A senior nursing Sister and a junior nurse work in a 1990s ward at the Royal London, Whitechapel, on 23rd June 2018, in east London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    NHS_nurses-23-06-1993.jpg
  • 1990s rush-hour commuters cross London Bridge from Southwark on the south bank to the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 18th February 1992, in London, England.
    90s_commuters-20-11-1993.jpg
  • Two 1990s office workers sunbathe on grass during their lunchtime, on the grass in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1992, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_sunbathing-20-06-1993.jpg
  • A 1990s Pharmacist makes up perscriptions in the Royal London, Whitechapel, on 23rd June 2018, in east London, England. <br />
(Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    NHS_pharmicist-23-06-1993.jpg
  • Screaming Lord Sutch holds up a megaphone to the gates of Downing Street in the run-up to the 1992 elections, on 11th March, in London UK. David Edward Sutch (10 November 1940 – 16 June 1999), also known as 3rd Earl of Harrow, or simply Screaming Lord Sutch, was an English musician. He was the founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and served as its leader from 1983 to 1999, during which time he stood in numerous parliamentary elections. He holds the record for losing more than 40 elections in which he stood. Suffering from depression he committed suicide 1999.
    lord_sutch-11-03-1992.jpg
  • Young dancing tories at the annual Party Conference of 1993 at Blackpool during premiership of Prime Minister John Major
    tory_party02-09-10-1993.jpg
  • A wide aerial view of the European Parliament's new headquarters of the EU and an administrative home to the Members of European Parliament (MEPs), at the time of its opening, on 16th October 1993, in Brussels, Belgium.
    european_parliament-16-10-1993.jpg
  • Locals gather to pay their respects to a growing mound of a floral memorial in memory of two people killed by an IRA bomb in the centre of Warrington, Cheshire, England. On 20 March 1993 the explosion by Irish republican terrorists in Bridge Street in the town centre precinct. Two small bombs exploded in litter bins outside a Boots store and a McDonald's restaurant, killing two children and injuring many other people. Although a warning or warnings had been sent, the area was not evacuated in time. Both attacks were perpetrated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene, while his babysitter survived. The second victim, 12-year-old Tim Parry, who received the full force of the blast, was gravely wounded but died weeks later.
    warrington_memorial-27-02-1993.jpg
  • Ninety year-old Mrs Irene Spurling sits with fingers crossed looking to camera with a mild look of mild bemusement. She is actually familiar with celebrity, having been the secretary to the Australian operatic singer Dame Nellie Melba between 1919-1921. She travelled with the diva in the latter years of her singing career, and in 1993 lived in a nursing home in Winchester, Hampshire England. Irene has clear blue eyes, brushed silver hair and seemingly gnarled, arthritic hands and still wears her wedding ring. Despite her years, she is still active and interested in her surroundings.
    elderly_face04-18-1993.jpg
  • As if about to be crunched underfoot, shattered glass from the windows of offices in the historic City of London side-street, stickers and notices for Access (Mastercard) and American Express (Amex) credit cards lie on the disaster-strewn pavement (sidewalk). This is some of the debris lying about after the huge Bishopsgate bomb on 24th April 1993, London's most expensive terrorist atrocity during the Provisional Irish Republican Army's (IRA) sustained bombings on the British mainland. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 sq m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million and was possibly the IRA's most successful military tactic since the start of what was called the Troubles from 1969 onwards.
    credit_crunch01-24-04-1993.jpg
  • 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. 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.
    bomb_damage02-26-04-1993.jpg
  • The flags of EU member states above speaking delegates in the European Parliament's new headquarters of the EU and an administrative home to the Members of European Parliament (MEPs), at the time of its opening, on 16th October 1993, in Brussels, Belgium.
    european_parliament-16-10-1993_2.jpg
  • A wide aerial view of the European Parliament's new headquarters of the EU and an administrative home to the Members of European Parliament (MEPs), at the time of its opening, on 16th October 1993, in Brussels, Belgium.
    european_parliament-16-10-1993_1.jpg
  • A business portrait of Etienne Francois Jacques Davignon, Viscount Davignon on 8th July 1993, in Brussels, Belgium. Davignon is a Belgian politician, businessman, and former vice-president of the European Commission.
    etienne_davignon-08-07-1993.jpg
  • A passer-by admires workmanship of the Queen Mother's Memorial Gates at the western entrance to Hyde Park in central London. The Queen Mother Gates - officially known as the 'Queen Elizabeth Gate' - lead into The Carriage Road in Hyde Park from Park Lane and are located to the rear of Apsley House at Hyde Park Corner. The Queen Mother Gates where opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 6 July 1993. They where built by money raised by a number of benefactors and public donors under the patronage of HRH Prince Michael of Kent to honour Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The six gates, railings and lamps are made from forged stainless steel and bronze to designs by the noted metal artist / sculptor Giusseppe Lund.
    memorial_gates03-03-06-1993.jpg
  • The still-semi derelect Butler's Wharf, 19th century Thameside warehouses, before its renovation and redevelopment later that decade, on 11th September 1993, on the River Thames, London, England.
    butlers_wharf-11-09-1993.jpg
  • A detail of the Queen Mother's Memorial Gates at the western entrance to Hyde Park in central London. The Queen Mother Gates - officially known as the 'Queen Elizabeth Gate' - lead into The Carriage Road in Hyde Park from Park Lane and are located to the rear of Apsley House at Hyde Park Corner. The Queen Mother Gates where opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 6 July 1993. They where built by money raised by a number of benefactors and public donors under the patronage of HRH Prince Michael of Kent to honour Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The six gates, railings and lamps are made from forged stainless steel and bronze to designs by the noted metal artist / sculptor Giusseppe Lund.
    memorial_gates01-03-06-1993.jpg
  • Two ladies admire workmanship of the Queen Mother's Memorial Gates at the western entrance to Hyde Park in central London. The Queen Mother Gates - officially known as the 'Queen Elizabeth Gate' - lead into The Carriage Road in Hyde Park from Park Lane and are located to the rear of Apsley House at Hyde Park Corner. The Queen Mother Gates where opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 6 July 1993. They where built by money raised by a number of benefactors and public donors under the patronage of HRH Prince Michael of Kent to honour Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The six gates, railings and lamps are made from forged stainless steel and bronze to designs by the noted metal artist / sculptor Giusseppe Lund.
    memorial_gates02-03-06-1993.jpg
  • It is precisely 8am on a weekday morning in 1993 when ordinarily, commuters would be filling this station concourse at Liverpool Street in central London and train services arriving and departing every minute throughout the day. There are however, no rail journeys this day because a national rail strike has been called by the rail unions. The information board is blank, displaying neither trains or platforms. The cancellations have disrupted thousands of commuter journeys both to and from the capital.
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  • City workers carry office possessions including trays and files that were damaged by the IRA bomb that devastated the City of London's Bishopsgate area in 1993. 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.
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  • Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, an optometrist's business remains open (like the eye illustration at the frontage) but it is boarded up with plywood with the words Open as Usual painted by hand. Debris has been swept up on the pavement awaiting collection but the scene is otherwise as it should. But one person was killed when the one-ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church on 24th April 1993. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office and retail 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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  • Sisters Esther and Bella Freud are seen together. Both are daughters of the artist Lucian Freud and the great granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. Novelist Esther Freud (left) trained as an actress, appearing in and writing TV and theatre productions and named one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists 2' by Granta magazine in 1993. Her debut novel, Hideous Kinky (1992) was followed by Peerless Flats (1993), Esther lives in London and Southwold, Suffolk. Her most recent novel is Love Falls (2007). Bella Freud (right) is known for her womens' fashion label, though she is currently focussing on knitwear, producing beautiful collections of sweaters in limited numbers each season. For Autumn/ Winter 2005 Bella's knitwear range has expanded to include menswear for the first time ever with a capsule collection of four sweater designs for men.
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  • As traffic zooms past, the art installation called 'House' stands alone on a now-empty and house-less East London street. Oddly, the contours of the structure have been inverted to reveal an inside-out version of the original building. It is a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house completed in autumn 1993 and exhibited at the location of the original property -- 193 Grove Road -- in East London (all the houses in the street had earlier been knocked down by the council). Created by the artist Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) this is her best-known sculpture. It won her the Turner Prize (the first woman to do so) for best young British artist in 1993. Here we see 'House' next to a lamp post which throws down it's light on a winter evening, before it was controversially demolished by the council in January 1994.
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  • Detail of names of victims at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
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  • Distorted by fish-eye lens, names of victims at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
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  • Distorted by fish-eye lens, names of victims at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
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  • Names of victims at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
    9_11_memorial03-25-05-2014.jpg
  • Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is seated against a gold leaf backdrop of Islamic texts in a reception room of his palace in central Khartoum. Al Bashir is head of the National Congress Party and has been in power since October 1993.
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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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  • Distorted by fish-eye lens, names of victims at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
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  • Names of victims at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
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  • Architectural landscape of missile silo doors entrance at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
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  • A secure fence deters young children from entering and playing in the new (but as yet unused) playground in the experimental community village of Poundbury, Dorset, England. The new swings and mini-roundabout can be seen through the wire in the foreground while the safe surfaces of wood-chip ensures the little ones are protected from falls on to hard surfaces. Poundbury is the visionary model village that Charles, Prince of Wales sought to develop in 1993 as a successful and pioneering town near Dorchester, built on land owned by his own Duchy of Cornwall, challenging otherwise poor post-war trends in town planning and to some extent following the New Urbanism concept from the US except that the design influences are European.
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  • St George's Day flags fly during the lunchtime of 23rd April, England's national day. Christian worship has probably been offered at this location at the church of St. Botolph's without Bishopsgate since Roman times. The original Saxon church, the foundations of which were discovered when the present church was erected, is first mentioned as 'Sancti Botolfi Extra Bishopesgate' in 1212.St. Botolph without Bishopsgate may have survived the Great Fire of London unscathed, and only lost one window in the Second World War, but on 24 April 1993 was one of the many buildings to be damaged by an IRA bomb.
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  • Lunchtime sun for City of London office workers in the grounds of St. Botolph’s without Bishopsgate church. <br />
Christian worship has probably been offered at this location at the church of St. Botolph’s without Bishopsgate since Roman times. The original Saxon church, the foundations of which were discovered when the present church was erected, is first mentioned as ‘Sancti Botolfi Extra Bishopesgate’ in 1212. St. Botolph without Bishopsgate may have survived the Great Fire of London unscathed, and only lost one window in the Second World War, but on 24 April 1993 was one of the many buildings to be damaged by an IRA bomb.
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  • Detail of names of victims at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
    9_11_memorial09-25-05-2014.jpg
  • Distorted by fish-eye lens, names of victims at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
    9_11_memorial08-25-05-2014.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.
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  • A traditional band of Morris Men dance outside the ancient Christian church of St. Botolph's without Bishopsgate in the City of London on St George's Day. Wearing white uniforms they jig their traditional dance, a form of English folk dance accompanied by accordion and pipes. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers. Implements such as sticks, swords, and handkerchiefs may also be wielded by the dancers. In a small number of dances for one or two men, steps are performed near and across a pair of clay tobacco pipes laid across each other on the floor. English records of Morris dancing date back to 1448. The church may have survived the Great Fire of London unscathed, and only lost one window in the Second World War, but on 24 April 1993 was one of the many buildings to be damaged by an IRA bomb.
    st_georges_day14-23-04-2009.jpg
  • Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is seated against a gold leaf backdrop of Islamic texts in a reception room of his palace in central Khartoum. Al Bashir is head of the National Congress Party and has been in power since October 1993.
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  • Copies of former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's memoirs, ready for sale in a Costco warehouse around June 1993 in London England. The Downing Street Years covered Thatcher's premiership from 1979 to 1990 before she was deposed after a leadership challenge. The book was accompanied by a four-part BBC television series of the same name.
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  • Visitors wearing identical shirts peer into plate glass window at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
    9_11_memorial15-25-05-2014.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. ..
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  • The massive IRA bomb in Bishopsgate Street in the heart of the City of London destroyed a substantial number of businesses and disrupted a major part of London's financial hub. In the days after the attack on 24th April 1993, we see the pictorial evacuation of smiling faces in a portrait of Pret a Manger staff, the sandwich and lunch chain (from the French 'Ready to Eat'). The image was hung above the premises and construction workers wearing hard hats transport the picture, like hundreds of other nearby businesses whose workers carried away company property, for temporary safe storage. This store was also badly damaged and had to be transferred to another location. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. It is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area.
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