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  • Young adolescent couples kiss and cuddle in a dark corner of a Gatecrashers' Ball in London, England. Three boys and girls dressed in formal evening-wear have been consuming alcohol during the evening and are groping and snogging. The Gatecrasher Ball was an eighties phenomenon conceived by Edward Ormus Sharington Davenport whose parties catered for Public School students. Labled as excessive and out of control events, Davenport charged .£14 a ticket, for often 3,000 kids although he was later fined for tax evasion. .
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  • Actor Glenda jackson adresses a Womens' Environmental Network (WEN) rally in Covent Garden in the late-eighties, London, England. Jackson went on to serve as Member of Parliament<br />
for Hampstead and Highgate (1992–2010).
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  • 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.
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  • A middle-aged husband serves a plate of meat to his wife from the family home-made BBQ in the back garden on a summer's afternoon, in June 1989, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
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  • An elderly woman reads a copy of a tabloid newspaper, on 16th June 1989, in London, England.
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  • 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.
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  • A detail of home-made posters by residents from Kent over the planned high-speed (TGV-style) rail link from London to the south-east coast, on 5th August 1989, in London, England. Locals from the Darenth Valley in rural Kent, against the forthcoming Channel Tunnel rail link organised their own campaign to reverse decisions by British Rail to cut a new rail link through their community. British Rail announced that 150mph TGV trains would travel through their rural Kent countryside, forcing residents to sell their homes within a 240 metre corridor to the rail line, at great loss while splitting up the community.
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  • With Chinese characters of a nearby business behind, a market trader carries a heavy sack of produce while a local barber snips at the hair of a customer in a Malaysian kampung, a river village within Bako National Park, one of Southeast Asia’s smallest national parks, 37km ride from Kuching on the Rajang River, on 14th March 1982, in Bako Kampung, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.
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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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • A portrait of street market traders, on 16th April 1980, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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  • 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)
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  • 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.
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  • Reflected in a mirror, women shop for clothes at a stall in the covered market in Newport, on 29th November 1985, in Newport, Wales, UK.
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  • Cranes and lifting equipment raise wreckage from a train carriage after the Clapham rail disaster at Wandsworth, on 12th December 1988, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • The musician with the 80s band The Police, Sting supports the charity Sport Aid's running event in London's Hyde Park, on 25th May 1986, in London, England. Sport Aid (also known as Sports Aid) was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in various sports, and culminating in the Race Against Time, a 10 km fun run held simultaneously in 89 countries. Timed to coincide with a UNICEF development conference in New York City, Sport Aid raised $37m for Live Aid and UNICEF. A second lower-key Sport Aid was held in 1988. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Angry residents from Kent march over the river Thames and past Parliament to protest over the planned high-speed (TGV-style) rail link from London to the south-east coast, on 5th August 1989, in London, England. Locals from the Darenth Valley in rural Kent, against the forthcoming Channel Tunnel rail link organised their own campaign to reverse decisions by British Rail to cut a new rail link through their community. British Rail announced that 150mph TGV trains would travel through their rural Kent countryside, forcing residents to sell their homes within a 240 metre corridor to the rail line, at great loss while splitting up the community. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    rail_link_protest01-05-08-1989.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)
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  • US politician Casper Winberger listens to speeches while a guest  at the Conservative party conference on 12th October 1989 in Blackpool, England. Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger (b1917) was an American politician and businessman. As a prominent Republican, he served in a variety of prominent state and federal positions for three decades, including Chairman of the California Republican Party, 1962–68. Most notably he was Secretary of Defense under Republican President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1987.
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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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  • 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.
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  • A portrait of eccentric English travel writer, Arthur Eperon in the summer of 1989, in Horsmonden, England. Eperon wrote books and travel articles, introducing hundreds of thousands of British readers to a hidden France of scenic and gastronomic delights, burgeoning their need for informed and entertaining guidance on “abroad”.
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  • Charismatic American evangelist, Billy Graham preaches with open hands to British Christians during Mission 89, a series of evangelical revival rallies, on 14th June 1989 in London, England. Graham (b1918) is an Evangelical Christian who has been a spiritual adviser to several U.S. presidents including George W Bush with Time Magazine calling him ".. the nation's spiritual counselor." He is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century and member of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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  • A formal portrait of English journalist David Thomas, after his appointment as the new editor of Punch Magazine, in February 1989, London England. Thomas was Young Journalist of the Year at the age of 24, became a magazine editor at 25 and was the youngest editor in the 150-year history of Punch magazine at 29. Since 1992 he has worked as a freelance author and journalist. He now writes fiction under his own name and as Tom Cain and, as of February 2015, David Churchill.
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  • A portrait of botanist, Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance while head of the Botanical Gardens at Kew in the summer of 1988, in Kew's Palm House, London England. Prance worked from 1963 at The New York Botanical Garden, initially as a research assistant and, on his departure in 1988, as Director of the Institute of Economic Botany and Senior Vice-President for Science. Much of his career at the New York Botanical Garden was spent conducting extensive fieldwork in the Amazon region of Brazil. He was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1988 to 1999.
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  • A portrait of ceramicist Janice Tchalenko at home in April 1987 at her home in south London, UK. Janice Tchalenko (1942-) was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. She is a ceramic artist best known for her success in translating decorative studio pottery into designs for batch and large-scale production.
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  • Veteran political BBC TV Broadcasters, Peter Snow And Sir Robin Day listen to speeches during the 1989 Labour Conference in September 1989 in Brighton, England.
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  • English musician, Sting appears at the first Sport Aid event ("Run the World") in May 1986 at London's Hyde Park England. Sport Aid  was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in various sports, and culminating in the Race Against Time, a 10 km fun run held simultaneously in 89 countries.[1] Timed to coincide with a UNICEF development conference in New York City, Sport Aid raised $37m for Live Aid and UNICEF.
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  • 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
  • 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).
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  • Holidaymakers shelter from typical summer rain during their stay at the regenerated Butlins holiday centre at Minehead.
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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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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 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.
    yvonne_fletcher-01-29-04-2019.jpg
  • The industrial Sellafield nuclear reprocessing glows on the skyline in the darkness of the Cumbrian countryside
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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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  • Beneath Christian posters, three elderly ladies pass the time of day at the Salvation Army's drop-in centre in Newport, Wales
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  • City workers walk beneath the girders of Thatcherite architecture, on 16th February 2017, at Broadgate in the City of London, England.
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  • Junior Health Minister and Conservative MP, Edwina Currie at an alcohol awareness initiative in 1988 in London, England.
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  • A curious young girl looks at the musician, Jazzy B during a Mayor's Christmas lights event in Brixton town hall in December 1989, London England.
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  • A portrait of British environmentalist, Jonathon Porritt while head of Friends of the Earth, in the summer of 1989, London UK. Porritt's first book, Seeing Green, was published in 1984 when he also gave up teaching to become Director of Friends of the Earth in Britain, a post he held until 1990.Jonathon Espie Porritt, CBE (b1950) is a British environmentalist and writer, known for his advocacy of the Green Party of England and Wales.
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  • A portrait of international astrology and writer, Marjorie Orr in the summer of 1989, in London England. Orr was originally a BBC documentary producer with a philosophy degree and an interest in science but is now a media astrologer writing columns for newspapers and magazines in five continents and broadcasting on television and radio.
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  • A portrait of English singer and musician, Roger Daltrey relaxing at the water's edge at the trout farm he developed, in the summer of 1989, near Burwash, England. Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (b1944) is an English singer-songwriter and actor. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Daltrey came to prominence in the mid-1960s as the founder and lead singer of the English rock band The Who, which released fourteen singles that entered the Top 10 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
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  • A portrait of British senior civil servant, Sir Robin Butler while practicing putting in the summer of 1989, at the Civil Service College at Sunningdale, England. Butler had a high-profile career in the civil service from 1961 to 1998, serving as Private Secretary to five Prime Ministers. He was Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service from 1988 to 1998. Frederick Edward Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, KG, GCB, CVO, PC (b1938) is a retired British civil servant, now sitting in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
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  • Conservative MP, Virginia Bottomley fills a car with unleaded fuel during Lead free Petrol Week in September 1989, London England. Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC, DL (née Garnett, 1948) is a British Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005 and raised to the peerage in 2005.
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  • A formal portrait of English fashion designer, Zandra Rhodes in the summer of 1989 at her Grafton Street boutique, central London England. Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, DBE RDI (b1940 studied first at Medway and then at the Royal College of Art in London. Her major area of study was printed textile design.
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  • A formal portrait of English fashion designer, Zandra Rhodes in the summer of 1989 at her Grafton Street boutique, central London England. Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, DBE RDI (b1940 studied first at Medway and then at the Royal College of Art in London. Her major area of study was printed textile design.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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).
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  • 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
  • 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.
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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 new Channel Tunnel rail terminal under construction in the Kent countryside at Folkestone in 1989.
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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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  • 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. .
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  • Looking as if from a past era, two ladies examine shoes at a 1986 jumble sale in the south Wales town of Abergavenney, Monmouthshire. Both are holding right-foot shoes that might suit them at this charity event held by the local Lions club, whose volunteers help the elderly and the disadvantaged within their community. We see some of the clothing piled up on trestle tables but the ladies' attention is just on their finds which are within their price range, having to survive on meagre pensions.
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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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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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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  • Nigerian evangelist, Rev. Benson Idahosa places his hand on the head of a Born-again Christian during a Christian rally at Butlins Bible Week during Easter in 1986 at Minehead, England. Benson Andrew Idahosa (1938 -1998) was a Charismatic Pentecostal preacher, and founder of the Church of God Mission International with headquarters in Benin City, Nigeria.
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  • A formal portrait of English journalist David Thomas, after his appointment as the new editor of Punch Magazine, in February 1989, London England. Thomas was Young Journalist of the Year at the age of 24, became a magazine editor at 25 and was the youngest editor in the 150-year history of Punch magazine at 29. Since 1992 he has worked as a freelance author and journalist. He now writes fiction under his own name and as Tom Cain and, as of February 2015, David Churchill.
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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.
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  • 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).
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  • 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).
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  • Led by Red Coats, children chase pirates during their stay at the regenerated Butlins holiday centre at Minehead.
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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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  • It's a free for all as elderly pensioners sift through piles of clothing left outside a community hall at a 1986 jumble sale in the south Wales town of Abergavenney, Monmouthshire. Some hold up items of clothing and others are happy to stand back and watch while some young children descend some steps of this Victorian-era building during a charity event held by the local Lions club, whose volunteers help the elderly and the disadvantaged within their community. Property has been donated and the old folks' attention is on their finds which are within their price range, having to survive on meagre pensions.
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  • A portrait of Irish media personality, Miriam O'Callaghan while working as a producer on the BBC show, Kilroy in the summer of 1989, in London England. O'Callaghan (b1960) is an Irish television current affairs presenter with RTÉ.
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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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  • A housewife poses in her undecorated home surrounded by material possessions bought with a credit card during the must-have economy
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  • An elderly man in his eighties sleeps horizontally in spring sunshine, on a sun lounger in his rear garden on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England
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  • Businessmen sit in urban City sunshine during their lunch hour spent in Broadgate Circle, an Eighties development of offices and trading institutions, on 16th June 1994, in London, England.
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  • 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.
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  • Eighties office architecture and the steel rivets from one of Tower Bridge's steel suspension anchor girders, on 14th December 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • The Sense of Light, 2001 by the artist Christopher Le Brun RA (Royal Academy) in situ installed at the United Reform Church, Camberwell. The Sense of Sight is a bronze relief, an edition of 3. Christopher Mark Le Brun was born in Portsmouth in 1951. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (DFA) in London from 1970-74 and at Chelsea School of Art (MA) from 1974-75. Le Brun has exhibited in many significant surveys of international art, including Nuova Immagine, Milan 1981, Zeitgeist Berlin 1982, Avant-garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles 1987 Contemporary Voices, Museum of Modern Art New York 2005 and Watercolour Tate Britain 2011. From 1987-88 he received the D.A.A.D. award from the German government, living and working in Berlin for a year. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1996 and in 2000 became the Academy's first Professor of Drawing. Le Brun is a former trustee of the Tate, the National Gallery, and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. He is currently a trustee of the Prince's Drawing School. In 2010 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the University of the Arts London. in 2011 he was elected President of the Royal Academy.
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  • The Sense of Light, 2001 by the artist Christopher Le Brun RA (Royal Academy) in situ installed at the United Reform Church, Camberwell. The Sense of Sight is a bronze relief, an edition of 3. Christopher Mark Le Brun was born in Portsmouth in 1951. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (DFA) in London from 1970-74 and at Chelsea School of Art (MA) from 1974-75. Le Brun has exhibited in many significant surveys of international art, including Nuova Immagine, Milan 1981, Zeitgeist Berlin 1982, Avant-garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles 1987 Contemporary Voices, Museum of Modern Art New York 2005 and Watercolour Tate Britain 2011. From 1987-88 he received the D.A.A.D. award from the German government, living and working in Berlin for a year. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1996 and in 2000 became the Academy's first Professor of Drawing. Le Brun is a former trustee of the Tate, the National Gallery, and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. He is currently a trustee of the Prince's Drawing School. In 2010 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the University of the Arts London. in 2011 he was elected President of the Royal Academy.
    le_brun_art01-01-02-2012.jpg
  • Eighties office architecture and the steel rivets from one of Tower Bridge's steel suspension anchor girders, on 14th December 2017, in the City of London, England.
    tower_bridge-03-14-12-2017.jpg
  • An aerial view of city of London businessmen (and one lady) using the opportunity for business lunches at three tables outside in the city complex known as Broadgate Circle, an eighties development of offices and trading institutions. The three tables each have crisp white table cloths, cutlery and plates and green bottles of Perrier mineral water, rather than alcohol.
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  • The designer and couturier Joe Casely Hayford in his Shoreditch studio in 1997. ..From the early eighties Joe styled and designed the stage clothing for many seminal bands such as The Clash and U2 whilst simultaneously working on his eponymous brand for men and women. His wide and varied career has included being the first designer to collaborate with Top Shop in 1993. from 2005-2008 Joe Casely-Hayford was Creative Director of Gieves & Hawkes, during which time he contributed to the re-positioning of the 200 year old Savile Row house. In January 2006 his new Gieves collection was launched on the runway in Paris for Men's Fashion Week, creating a precedent for a heritage Savile Row brand, and credited as a major step in bringing the illustrious company into the 21st century.  Joe Casely-Hayford was appointed an OBE - Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the fashion industry, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, published on 16 June 2007.
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  • An English caucasian lady smiles at something of interest to the viewer's right. She is a wrinkled female in her sixties, a healthy person with her own original teeth and whose untidy hair is greying and whose skin is slightly tanned under a summer sun. She wears a blue shirt with a wide collar, fashionable in the 1980s (eighties) and has a bemused, attentive expression as if entertained by something of humour out of frame. This is someone's mother and grandmother, at an age when her hard-working life is nearly over and her pension is hopefully covering her everyday needs.
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  • From a low angle we see, waving a cheery hello to a friend, a rather plump resident of the posh Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea holds on to her oversized sunglasses, her cushion and a portable transistor radio - all of which she has been using whilst on the sea front that we see in the distance behind her round body. Wearing 'Tory blue' (the colour favoured by the Margaret Thatcher during the eighties) the lady has her straw hat tied under the folds of fat of an ample chin and appears to be calling an English Coo-ee! call to the out-of-sight acquaintance.
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  • A local house and boundary fence on a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England
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  • An elderly man walks uphill towards the houses of a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England
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  • A local family discuss ideas and directions while walking uphill towards the houses of a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England
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  • A local family discuss ideas and directions while walking uphill towards the houses of a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England
    nailsea_family-12-21-04-2019.jpg
  • A local house and pruned or dead tree on the street corner of a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England
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  • A local family walk uphill towards the houses of a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England
    nailsea_family-15-21-04-2019.jpg
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