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  • Riot police officers stand firm nearTrafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • Riot police officers stand firm in Trafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot09-31-03-1990.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. We see debris 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.
    city_london10-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A detail of a crashed Ford car whose grill and bonnet has been crushed after a head-on collision, on 3rd February 2020, in London, England
    ford_crash-01-03-02-2020.jpg
  • City workers look through corrugates sheeting at damage caused by the IRA Bishopsgate bomb in the City of London. ..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 two on-lookers stop to crane their necks upwards to view the damage to the tall HSBC building. With both their hands up to shield the sun from their faces, the men stand aghast at the amount of devastation to their working landscape. 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.
    corrugated_men01-26-04-1993.jpg
  • A young boy wearing his school uniform looks traumatised standing next to a burned-out shell of a saloon car that was set alight by vandals beneath the infamous Divis flats of the Catholic Lower Falls Road, West Belfast. He wears a red jumper which contrasts the blue graffiti paint on the wall behind him and the charred ground at his feet. He is alone, a young boy experiencing childhood through the traumas of a violent world Divis Tower was a flashpoint area during the height of the Troubles. 9 year-old Patrick Rooney a child of a similar age to this lad, was the first child killed in the Troubles, was killed in the tower during the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969,
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  • On a partially-demolished building, a mural of the ancient  Goddess Nike remains chipped and scraped on an old restaurant wall. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers at the Temple of Zeus before competition but this site is in the heart of the modern town of Olympia that has grown up around the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
    greek_olympiad001-20-10_2003.jpg
  • Gathered on the Docklands Light Railway track, a group of police investigators and health and safety experts stand beneath the devastation and wreckage caused by the IRA's docklands bomb on 10th February 1996. Office windows have been blown out and shattered glass lies everywhere making these workplaces unusable for many months afterwards. We see the men under the tall buildings looking tiny in comparison to the chaotic aftermath of this enormous explosion the day before. The bombing marked the end of a 17-month IRA ceasefire during which Irish, British and American leaders worked for a political solution to the troubles in Northern Ireland. 2 people were killed in the half-tonne lorry bomb blast which caused an estimated £85 million damage.
    docklands_bomb_team-11-02-1996.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
  • 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 two on-lookers stop to crane their necks upwards to view the damage to the tall HSBC building. With both their hands up to shield the sun from their faces, the men stand aghast at the amount of devastation to their working landscape. 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.
    city_gents_bishopsgate-26-04-1993.jpg
  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Three police officers wearing helmets and riot shields brace themselves for further violence as angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • A detail of a crashed Ford car whose grill and bonnet has been crushed after a head-on collision, on 3rd February 2020, in London, England. According to the Dept. of Transport, 13,420 Britons were killed or seriously injured by road accidents  in 2018/19.
    ford_crash-02-03-02-2020.jpg
  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole near London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    poll_tax_riot08-31-03-1990.jpg
  • Riot police officers stand firm in Trafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    poll_tax_riot10-31-03-1990.jpg
  • 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.
    bomb_damage-26-04-1993.jpg
  • 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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  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    RB-0091.jpg
  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    RB-0091.jpg
  • Local Peckham shoppers stop to read the spontaneous messages of love on the Poundland peace wall after the London riots. In response to the violence and destruction that took place the week before, communities reacted with anger in a way rarely seen in a large UK city these days. The messages vary in their sentiment but generally echo a sense of disgust at the looting and rioting with brief notes of co-operation, advice and communal encouragement. Walls like these have sprung up in other locations where destruction was widespread and locals lost their convenience stores, sports shops and even homes.
    post_it_peckham9-18-August-2011.jpg
  • Local Peckham shoppers pass-by the spontaneous messages of love on the Poundland peace wall after the London riots. In response to the violence and destruction that took place the week before, communities reacted with anger in a way rarely seen in a large UK city these days. The messages vary in their sentiment but generally echo a sense of disgust at the looting and rioting with brief notes of co-operation, advice and communal encouragement. Walls like these have sprung up in other locations where destruction was widespread and locals lost their convenience stores, sports shops and even homes.
    post_it_peckham6-18-August-2011.jpg
  • A local Peckham mother stops to read the spontaneous messages of love on the Poundland peace wall after the London riots. In response to the violence and destruction that took place the week before, communities reacted with anger in a way rarely seen in a large UK city these days. The messages vary in their sentiment but generally echo a sense of disgust at the looting and rioting with brief notes of co-operation, advice and communal encouragement. Walls like these have sprung up in other locations where destruction was widespread and locals lost their convenience stores, sports shops and even homes.
    post_it_peckham5-18-August-2011.jpg
  • A detail of post-it notes left on the looted Poundland shop (store) in Rye Lane, Peckham after the London riots of August 2011. In response to the violence and destruction that took place the week before, communities reacted with anger in a way rarely seen in a large UK city these days. The messages vary in their sentiment but generally echo a sense of disgust at the looting and rioting with brief notes of co-operation, advice and communal encouragement. Walls like these have sprung up in other locations where destruction was widespread and locals lost their convenience stores, sports shops and even homes.
    post_it_peckham4-18-August-2011.jpg
  • A detail of post-it notes left on the looted Poundland shop (store) in Rye Lane, Peckham after the London riots of August 2011. In response to the violence and destruction that took place the week before, communities reacted with anger in a way rarely seen in a large UK city these days. The messages vary in their sentiment but generally echo a sense of disgust at the looting and rioting with brief notes of co-operation, advice and communal encouragement. Walls like these have sprung up in other locations where destruction was widespread and locals lost their convenience stores, sports shops and even homes.
    post_it_peckham3-18-August-2011.jpg
  • A detail of post-it notes left on the looted Poundland shop (store) in Rye Lane, Peckham after the London riots of August 2011. In response to the violence and destruction that took place the week before, communities reacted with anger in a way rarely seen in a large UK city these days. The messages vary in their sentiment but generally echo a sense of disgust at the looting and rioting with brief notes of co-operation, advice and communal encouragement. Walls like these have sprung up in other locations where destruction was widespread and locals lost their convenience stores, sports shops and even homes.
    post_it_peckham2-18-August-2011.jpg
  • Local Peckham shoppers stop to read the spontaneous messages of love on the Poundland peace wall after the London riots. In response to the violence and destruction that took place the week before, communities reacted with anger in a way rarely seen in a large UK city these days. The messages vary in their sentiment but generally echo a sense of disgust at the looting and rioting with brief notes of co-operation, advice and communal encouragement. Walls like these have sprung up in other locations where destruction was widespread and locals lost their convenience stores, sports shops and even homes.
    post_it_peckham10-18-August-2011.jpg
  • Local Peckham shoppers pass-by the spontaneous messages of love on the Poundland peace wall after the London riots. In response to the violence and destruction that took place the week before, communities reacted with anger in a way rarely seen in a large UK city these days. The messages vary in their sentiment but generally echo a sense of disgust at the looting and rioting with brief notes of co-operation, advice and communal encouragement. Walls like these have sprung up in other locations where destruction was widespread and locals lost their convenience stores, sports shops and even homes.
    post_it_peckham7-18-August-2011.jpg
  • A detail of post-it notes left on the looted Poundland shop (store) in Rye Lane, Peckham after the London riots of August 2011. In response to the violence and destruction that took place the week before, communities reacted with anger in a way rarely seen in a large UK city these days. The messages vary in their sentiment but generally echo a sense of disgust at the looting and rioting with brief notes of co-operation, advice and communal encouragement. Walls like these have sprung up in other locations where destruction was widespread and locals lost their convenience stores, sports shops and even homes.
    post_it_peckham1-18-August-2011.jpg
  • A young 1990s boy looks over the Upper New York Bay during the short Staten Island ferry crossing towards Manhattan where the Twin Towers rise above the skyline before their destruction 2 years later, on 31st July 1998, in New York, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    new_york_immigration-31-07-1998.jpg
  • Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_4.jpg
  • Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_5.jpg
  • A low, wide landscape of dereliction and poverty during the early 1990s in the city of Liverpool, England. The Catholic cathedral rises high in the distance over near-empty streets where bricks and refuse litter the pavements and empty buildings await destruction - the impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
    liverpool_dereliction05-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A wide landscape of dereliction and poverty during the early 1990s in the city of Liverpool, England. The Liver building is seen in the far distance as a symbol of the city centre beyond an empty street up which a solitary man walks his dog. Empty buildings await destruction after the terraced housing has long been razed to the ground in the 1960s - the impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
    liverpool_dereliction03-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A low, wide landscape of dereliction and poverty during the early 1990s in the city of Liverpool, England. The Catholic cathedral rises high in the distance over near-empty streets where bricks and refuse litter the pavements and empty buildings await destruction - the impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
    liverpool_dereliction02-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A seller of flowers stands looking down a street in the Polish capital, Warsaw. Holding a single bouquet, the elderly man has located himself on the corner of Zapiecek Street (Zapiecek means place behind the stove) awaiting a buyer. With his hand on one hip, he has laid more yellow and red flowers that he has probably grown himself and is trying to make a meagre living from. But there are few people on this street this early in the oldest part of Warsaw and the walls appear to be damp, with discoloured plaster after decades of decay under a Communist government. Old paving slabs on the pavement and a cobbled road give a sense of history and wartime destruction for these streets saw many atrocities during the German occupation in WW2. This is a scene of pessimism and poverty yet with a small degree of hope in the fresh flowers.
    krakow_street-20-07-1990.jpg
  • Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_6.jpg
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