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  • Fading sign advertising Kodak films attached to fading architecture in new colonial quarter of Kourou in French Guiana
    esa_guiana25716-08-2007.jpg
  • After being walked on for many months, a detail of fading stencilling asking passing pedestrians to maintain a social distance during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th September, in Soho, London, England. New restrictions are being re-introduced by the government after a sudden climb in the Covid infection rate, a predicted 'second spike'.
    social_distance02-23-09-2020.jpg
  • After being walked on for many months, a detail of fading stencilling asking passing pedestrians to maintain a social distance during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th September, in Soho, London, England. New restrictions are being re-introduced by the government after a sudden climb in the Covid infection rate, a predicted 'second spike'.
    social_distance01-23-09-2020.jpg
  • Fading bunting strung along the wall of a local church side entrance in south London.
    church_bunting01-24-09-2015.jpg
  • The word NO EXIT fading on a south London housing estate road surface.
    no_exit02-27-04-2015.jpg
  • The word NO fading on a south London housing estate road surface.
    no_exit01-27-04-2015.jpg
  • Fading garage lettering including French car manufacturer Renault, on 21st May 2017, in Fabrezan, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    lagrasse_france-07-21-05-2017.jpg
  • Fading bunting strung along the wall of a local church side entrance in south London.
    church_bunting02-24-09-2015.jpg
  • A life belt hangs on a cross-shaped post, all painted a vivid red as the sun sinks down below the horizon and beyond the historic Bamburgh Castle, in Northumberland, northern England. Lit with a strong off-camera flash we see the slightly blurred device, invented for saving lives at sea, with a ghostly corona around its form, against a fading blue sky. The rope dangles near the ground, around which the grasses of the dunes blow in a faint breeze. Only the foreground is lit by the flash and the distant castle building and shoreline. We see such equipment and imagine safety and rescue and also jeopardy and hazards at sea. Supplied for those taking risks and making stupid decisions makes these items essential on coastal areas.
    england_beach05-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • Old century advertising for a former dentist business fading on a brick wall in east Dulwich, south London.
    old_advertising01-05-11-2015.jpg
  • As the number of UK Coronavirus cases rose to over 8,000, it was announced that thousands of 15-minute home tests could be made available within days to those self-isolating with symptoms. Fading chalk writing is written on the pavement outside a now closed general store business selling gloves and masks in Camberwell, south London, on 25th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Walworth-26-25-03-2020.jpg
  • In the Villa of the Vettii in Pompeii we see a fresco in the lararium where a shrine to Roman guardian spirits of the household was situated. Family members performed daily rituals here to guarantee their protection by these domestic spirits. The first two characters are the deeply venerated 'lares' (presumed sons of Mercury and Lara) depicted as two young men in dancing postures, holding drinking horns that guaranteed prosperity. In the centre is the 'genius'. She is another guardian and fertility spirit ensuring the family line (gens) would continue and she wears the 'toga praetexta', bordered in purple, the garment of high-ranking Roman magistrates. Painted before the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in AD79, these frescoes have been uncovered from metre-layers of volcanic ash and pumice but are now fading from moisture and cracked plaster...
    pompeii01-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • Fading newspaper has been hanged across a window of a closed clothing alteration business, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_business90-20-03_2009.jpg
  • Fading newspaper has been hanged across a window of a closed clothing alteration business, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_business91-20-03_2009.jpg
  • A detail of a scratched and faded poster showing a couple, in the window of a local supermarket in Orpington High Street, on 5th February 2020, in London, England.
    orpington_journey-05-05-02-2020.jpg
  • Detail of a faded sign alerting those who have landed in a North Sea town harbour, of the laws for bringing in animals from abroad, on 26th September 2017, in Craster, Northumberland, England.
    craster-01-26-09-2017.jpg
  • The detail of faded example illustration on the exterior of a design kitchen business, on 31st March 2019, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable-08-31-03-2019.jpg
  • Faded fashions in the window of D.E. Hughes, on 12th September 2018, in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    dolgellau_fashions-04-12-09-2018.jpg
  • Faded fashions in the window of D.E. Hughes, on 12th September 2018, in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    dolgellau_fashions-01-12-09-2018.jpg
  • Detail of a peeling and faded pub sign feating its Saturday night entertainment in a Northumbrian town, on 26th September 2017, in Alnwick, Northumberland, England.
    alnwick-07-26-09-2017.jpg
  • Detail of a memorial with the faded image of a child on an untended grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loire.
    civray_cemetery13-09-07-2014.jpg
  • Faded fashions in the window of D.E. Hughes, on 12th September 2018, in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    dolgellau_fashions-02-12-09-2018.jpg
  • The detail of faded example illustrations on the exterior of a design kitchen business, on 31st March 2019, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable-07-31-03-2019.jpg
  • Faded fashions in the window of D.E. Hughes, on 12th September 2018, in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    dolgellau_fashions-03-12-09-2018.jpg
  • Looking upwards towards a memorial that commemorates the dead from the First World War of 1914-18 between the converging pillars of the Cornhill Exchange building and beyond, to the famous Bank of England in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. It is early evening as the ambient light fades while artificial illumination becomes the dominant light-source. With such a wide-angle perspective the bank and its architecture looks powerful and influential in the UK's economy. The dark pillars contrasting with the colourful (colorful) light emitted from this established Bank makes for a scene of stability and strength against the pity and tragedy of a past conflict that claimed millions of lives.
    bank_triangle01-04-20-1997.jpg
  • As blue light fades on a bitterly cold winter's evening, the barrier of an Austrian level-crossing has been lowered to stop traffic and allow a high-speed ICE-T train to continue on its route through, near Salzburg, Austria, Europe. OBB, the Austrian Federal Railways operate a network of 5,683 km makes them the by far largest railway-company in this country. Heavy snow has fallen in this region of the Alps and deposits have settled on the fences and the glowing red stop traffic light, signalling for motorists to halt at this dangerous road-crossing location. So fast is this mode of transport, it blurs past this cold, desolate spot where only one nearby house is next to the trackside. (From a story about travelling through 6 European countries by coach in 7 days).
    RB_048-23-12-1994.jpg
  • Now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland in Seething, Norfolk England, this wall mural was once one of the barracks housing 3,000 young World War 2 bomber crews so was probably painted by a young aspiring artist and aviator with the 448th Bomb Group, a fleet of bombers based in England from November 1943 to July 1945. The picture depicts a confrontation between US Air Force B-24 Liberators, a P-51 Mustang and probably a German Dornier. There are hairline cracks in the plaster but the yellow hue of the hand-painted wall is largely intact despite damp conditions in the shed. There are however, other artistic details now faded. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural use.
    WW2_bomber_base06-05-10-2000.jpg
  • With faint traces of an evening metor shower in the sky, a wide exterior view of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building in West London. Created by the Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners). As the last light of the day fades and a departing aircraft's lights streak across the sky, the brightness of terminal lights shine through massive panes of window glass. At a cost of £4.3 billion, the 400m long T5 is the largest free-standing building in the UK with the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. The Terminal 5 public inquiry was the longest in UK history, lasting four years from 1995 to 1999. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ......
    heathrow_airport1083-11-08-2009.jpg
  • An wide exterior view of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building in West London. Created by the Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners). As the last light of the day fades, the brightness of terminal lights shine through massive panes of window glass. At a cost of £4.3 billion, the 400m long T5 is the largest free-standing building in the UK with the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. The Terminal 5 public inquiry was the longest in UK history, lasting four years from 1995 to 1999. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
    heathrow_airport1082-11-08-2009.jpg
  • As evening light fades, bright light from the electricity-hungry Canary Wharf docklands development is supplied by the voltage from electricity cables and supporting struts at an east London sub-station, England. A network of 110 miles of cables have stretched across 542 'L6' pylons across England's Kent countryside, from the coal-fired power station at Dungeness to this location, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of London's high supply demands. Insatiable appetites for energy means electricity is now an expensive commodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity278-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • As evening light fades, bright light from the electricity-hungry Canary Wharf docklands development is supplied by the voltage from electricity cables and supporting struts at an east London sub-station, England. A network of 110 miles of cables have stretched across 542 'L6' pylons across England's Kent countryside, from the coal-fired power station at Dungeness to this location, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of London's high supply demands. Insatiable appetites for energy means electricity is now an expensive commodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity280-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • As evening light fades, bright light from the electricity-hungry Canary Wharf docklands development is supplied by the voltage from electricity cables and supporting struts at an east London sub-station, England. A network of 110 miles of cables have stretched across 542 'L6' pylons across England's Kent countryside, from the coal-fired power station at Dungeness to this location, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of London's high supply demands. Insatiable appetites for energy means electricity is now an expensive commodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity283-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • Ice cream cones on the wall of a beach cafe, on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    barmouth_cones-01-13-09-2018.jpg
  • sunblest_ruin01-30-09-2014.jpg
  • Peeling billboard poster sheets near 2012 Olympic Park construction site in Stratford.
    stratford_olympics02-08-10-2010.jpg
  • Diagonal lines and angular patterns with peeling paintwork on seaside huts, on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    barmouth_walkway-01-13-09-2018.jpg
  • A broken and peeling sign warning in both the English and Welsh languages, of no parking  on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    barmouth_parking-01-13-09-2018.jpg
  • Dereliction of a closed hotel, on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    barmouth_dereliction-02-13-09-2018.jpg
  • Dereliction of a closed hotel, on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    barmouth_dereliction-01-13-09-2018.jpg
  • Detail of a girl dancer and stains from a damp window outside a closed Indian restaurant and take-away.
    indian_restaurant01-07-01-2016.jpg
  • Dystopian landscape in peeling billboard advertising sheets near 2012 Olympic Park construction site in Stratford.
    stratford_olympics01-08-10-2010.jpg
  • Detail of a girl dancer and stains from a damp window outside a closed Indian restaurant and take-away.
    indian_restaurant02-07-01-2016.jpg
  • A tall Shell sign seems to echo the palm tree landscape alongside the A 92 motorway near Paradas.
    shell_trees-1-17-April-2011.jpg
  • Rusted corrugated iron in abandoned livestock farm pens in Glen Bauchor, Newtonmore, Scotland.
    newtonmore04-02-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Peeling billboard poster sheets near 2012 Olympic Park construction site in Stratford.
    stratford_olympics03-08-10-2010.jpg
  • A detail of old advertising for a cigarette brand from decades ago called Will's whose product was 'Goldflake', on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was founded in 1786 and was the first UK company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco along with John Player & Sons.
    whitstable_shops05-19-07-2020.jpg
  • An exterior dusk view of a British Airways airliner parked at a gate at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building  ..
    heathrow_airport1077-11-08-2009.jpg
  • Detail of an old Coca-Cola mural on a wall at the weekly market at Qurna, a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt28-01-03-2016.jpg
  • Painted lettering from a staff shop (stores) at the former WW2 Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was the home of the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadron of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base13-05-10-2000.jpg
  • WW2 emblem painting at the former Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was a former airfield located around 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Bungay and home  to the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadrons of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base09-05-10-2000.jpg
  • Maldivian crewmen arrive home late after a day's yellow fin tuna fishing aboard a dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean
    maldives344-14-11-2007.jpg
  • Signpost in Kourou, named after English gravity scientist, Sir Isaac Newton in French Guiana, home of ESA's Spaceport.
    esa_guiana34416-08-2007.jpg
  • Barbara Christie sits reading in her conservatory of Swordale House overlooking Beinn Na Caillich nr Broadford, Isle of Skye.
    9999-RPB59-christies_house15-27-09-2...jpg
  • A detail of old advertising for a cigarette brand from decades ago called Will's whose product was 'Goldflake', on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was founded in 1786 and was the first UK company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco along with John Player & Sons.
    whitstable_shops06-19-07-2020.jpg
  • A cock struts under the detail of an old Coca-Cola mural on a wall at the weekly market at Qurna, a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt29-01-03-2016.jpg
  • WW2 wall map mural showing American states at the former Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was the home of the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadron of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base11-05-10-2000.jpg
  • Wall mural showing WW2 bombing targets in what is now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland at Seething, Norfolk England. Seething is a former Royal Air Force station, assigned to the 448th Bombardment Group (Heavy) flying B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. The group enered combat on 22 December 1943, and until April 1945 served primarily as a strategic bombardment organization, hitting such targets as aircraft factories in Gotha, ball-bearing plants in Berlin, an airfield at Hanau, U-boat facilities at Kiel, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, synthetic oil refineries at Politz, aircraft engine plants at Rostock, marshalling yards at Cologne, and a Buzz-bomb assembly plant at Fallersleben. Some of these buildings are in a reasonable condition, although they are derelict and overgrown.
    WW2_bomber_base07-05-10-2000.jpg
  • A wall mural of WW2 bombers crossing the sky at the former RAF Hethel air for base in Norfolk, England. Built during 1942 for use by the Americans and was transferred to the USAAF from 14 September 1943 though to 12 June 1945. Hethel served as headquarters for the 2nd Combat Bombardment Wing of the 2nd Bombardment Division. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign.  Strategic objectives in France, the Low Countries, and Germany included targets such as shipbuilding yards at Vegesack, industrial areas of Berlin, oil facilities at Merseburg, factories at Münster, railroad yards at Sangerhausen, and V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base03-05-10-2000.jpg
  • Red pilots' flying suits of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, left drying on washing line.
    Red_Arrows486_RBA.jpg
  • As darkness approaches, a queue of campervans and other vehicles queue up at the first checkpoint in the Port of Dover's Eastern Docks, the holidaymakers' first step to travelling across the English Channel to France or Belgium. beneath the famous white cliffs of Dover, that symbol of England's edge that is seen from the sea as one leaves or approaches the English shores. It is dusk and the flood lights have started illuminating the busy port roads and ramps, the red rear tail lights from a truck cross the picture's foreground and the signs - with graphics of busses, cars  and arrows that tell drivers in which lane to line-up glow yellow. Dover has long been one of the World's premier seaports, with centuries of maritime heritage, presented with a Royal Charter in 1606.
    RB_047-06-08-1994.jpg
  • Elderly lady patient recovering in bed in the surgical ward of the Royal London Hospital Whitechapel
    NHS_ward08-07-06-1998.jpg
  • Seen from the inside looking outwards, we see one of the giant 38 ton 'torso nodes' of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 roof structure. Developed by Arup to design the geometry of abutment steel, this engineering challenge needed to help support 50 ton rafters to made T5 the largest free-standing building in the UK. In the centre is the torso that sits on top of two feet with the wings splaying out to the window. The main architecture was created by the Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners) and opened in 2008 after a cost of £4.3 billion. Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport872-22-07-2009.jpg
  • Early evening exterior of glass walls and glowing architecture of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, seen from departures level
    heathrow_airport869-22-07-2009.jpg
  • An exterior dusk view of a British Airways airliner parked at a gate at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building  ..
    heathrow_airport1080-11-08-2009.jpg
  • An exterior dusk view of a British Airways airliner parked at a gate at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building  ..
    heathrow_airport1079-11-08-2009.jpg
  • An exterior dusk view Terminal 5 building and a taxiway sign for pilots to navigate around complicated Heathrow Airport.
    heathrow_airport1076-11-08-2009.jpg
  • An exterior dusk view of the Heathrow terminal 5 hotel Sofitel showing wasteground still to be developed.
    heathrow_airport1256-15-08-2009.jpg
  • An exterior dusk view Terminal 5 building and a taxiway sign for pilots to navigate around complicated Heathrow Airport.
    heathrow_airport1074-11-08-2009.jpg
  • In late evening light, fountain spray drifts across Trafalgar Square  beneath Nelson's Column.
    london_time38-03-09-2008.jpg
  • As traffic blurs past, silhouetted pedestrians stand beneath trees and Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square .
    london_time37-03-09-2008.jpg
  • A Sri Lankan Airlines cargo inspector checks an aircraft container of tuna fish on a harbour quay before loading.
    maldives422-15-11-2007.jpg
  • Aged warning sign and spotlight at a side entrance of the European Space Agency's Spaceport at Malmanoury Creek French Guiana
    esa_guiana31416-08-2007.jpg
  • Peeling mural of golf club trolley on the side of green container parked near the European Space Agency's Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana25216-08-2007.jpg
  • Barbara Christie sits reading in her conservatory of Swordale House overlooking Beinn Na Caillich nr Broadford, Isle of Skye.
    9999-RPB59-christies_house20-27-09-2...jpg
  • A solo teenage player takes a shot at the net on a basketball court at the Cyprea Marine Foods (CMF) processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives in the Indian Ocean. It is dusk near the equator and soon dark. The landscape is barren except for some young trees on the waterfront where two people are walking in the cool tropical air. Seen in the last, darkening light of day, the player leaps upwards and his arm stays where his ball left his hand to roll around the ring. The man is enjoying some leisure time at the end of his working day, possibly an employee of CMF who handle newly-caught tuna fish for export to the EU and the UK's supermarket food industry.
    maldives162-12-11-2007.jpg
  • Barbara Christie, 58, sits alone in her conservatory at Swordale House overlooking Beinn Na Caillich (The Hill of the Old Woman) mountain. It is nearly dark at this northern latitude and it looks cosy inside this house with its warm and inviting lights. Barbara's father built this family home and she has lived in this house all her life apart from when studying in Edinburgh many years ago. It sits on a tiny road near Broadford on the Isle of Skye, beneath the magnificent hill whose myth goes back to a Norse Princess saga. Barbara sits in the more recent addition to the house, a conservatory that she enjoys sitting and reading away from her Summer Bed and Breakfast guests. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
    9999-RPB59-christies_house05-27-09-2...jpg
  • In an otherwise empty City of London financial district, whose workforce are largely still working from home during the second (Autumn) spike Coronavirus pandemic, the menu of a City pub is slowly being erased on a chalkboard on Fleet Street, on 5th October 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_menu01-05-10-2020.jpg
  • A detail of old advertising for a cigarette brand from decades ago called Will's whose product was 'Flag Empire Blend', on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was founded in 1786 and was the first UK company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco along with John Player & Sons.
    whitstable_shops04-19-07-2020.jpg
  • A cock struts under the detail of an old Coca-Cola mural on a wall at the weekly market at Qurna, a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt27-01-03-2016.jpg
  • Dystopian detail of three torn English flags above the window of a closed retailer in central London.
    england_dystopia01-10-12-2014.jpg
  • Boating and nightlife of the Passeo Maritime and harbour seen at dusk from Palma's Catalina area.
    mallorca01-21-06-2001.jpg
  • WW2 wall map mural showing American states at the former Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was the home of the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadron of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base10-05-10-2000.jpg
  • A wall mural of WW2 bombers crossing the sky and wreck of a Rolls-Royce at the former RAF Hethel air for base in Norfolk, England. Built during 1942 for use by the Americans and was transferred to the USAAF from 14 September 1943 though to 12 June 1945. Hethel served as headquarters for the 2nd Combat Bombardment Wing of the 2nd Bombardment Division. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign.  Strategic objectives in France, the Low Countries, and Germany included targets such as shipbuilding yards at Vegesack, industrial areas of Berlin, oil facilities at Merseburg, factories at Münster, railroad yards at Sangerhausen, and V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base02-05-10-2000.jpg
  • Architectural landscape of a missile silo door 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.
    greenham_common06-19-03-2003.jpg
  • A night view of the green Yorkshire Moors countryside looking down from a nearby hill to the top secret intelligence-gathering base of RAF Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. One sees the lights of passing traffic past  surreal-looking white radomes in the shape of golf balls - each containing a satellite dish - that are dotted across the science-fiction landscape. Many of these are used for signals interception from communications satellites and are commonly thought to be part of ECHELON, a highly secretive world-wide signals intelligence and analysis network. Other parts of this notorious  site are thought to be used by the Space Based Infrared System employed by the US National Missile Defence program. The base has attracted significant levels of protest from anti-nuclear and pacifist groups.
    RB_107-18-05-2001.jpg
  • Seen from the outside in early evening, the glass walls and glowing architecture of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, the largest free-standing building in the UK. Created by the Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners) and opened in 2008 after a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
    heathrow_airport868-22-07-2009.jpg
  • An exterior view of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building in West London. Created by the Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners). A lit airfield navigation taxiway sign shows the route number and code for pilots to find their way around the confusing network of taxiways and there are 1 million square metres of new apron and taxiway pavement for T5. At a cost of £4.3 billion, the 400m long T5 is the largest free-standing building in the UK with the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. The Terminal 5 public inquiry was the longest in UK history, lasting four years from 1995 to 1999. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
    heathrow_airport1073-11-08-2009.jpg
  • Reflected in the windows of hotel chain Sofitel, a blurred climbing aircraft takes-off from Heathrow airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport864-22-07-2009.jpg
  • One of Arup's 'torso nodes' help support 50 ton tusk rafters to made Heathrow airport's T5 largest free-standing building in UK
    heathrow_airport842-22-07-2009.jpg
  • An exterior view of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building in West London. Created by the Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners). A British Airways airliner is parked at its Arrival/Departure gate in front of the bright lights that shine through huge window panes of glass. At a cost of £4.3 billion, the 400m long T5 is the largest free-standing building in the UK with the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. The Terminal 5 public inquiry was the longest in UK history, lasting four years from 1995 to 1999. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
    heathrow_airport1081-11-08-2009.jpg
  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Cape Canaveral sign post, Merritt Island.The entry sign to the City of Capa Canaveral, once known as Cape Kennedy, the home to NASA and America's manned-space race. The sign declaring Capa Canaveral on Merritt Island, Florida. Here for 40 years the US space programme has been sending men, chimps and missiles into space. Merritt Island is also home to the space junk auction, alot of the NASA workforce and also the Kennedy Space Center. This is known as the Space Coast.
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  • Romantic couple walk back late to their idyllic  holiday island resort of Soneva Gili in the Kaafu Atoll, Maldives. .
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  • Satellite dishes in a ghetto housing estate in town of Kourou in French Guiana, home of the European Space Agency's Spaceport.
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  • Technology of the electricity substation at South Bromley, seen with rubbish in the Pylon Industrial Estate. .
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  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, a peeling and damaged illustration on the Southbank shows Londoners out enjoying full social lives before the lockdown, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
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  • Personal underwaer clothing hangs from string against a wall of peeling plaster, on 21st March 1994, in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Detail of an old Coca-Cola mural on a wall at the weekly market at Qurna, a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • A wall mural painting of a sexy woman at the former WW2 Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was the home of the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadron of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
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  • WW2 emblem painting at the former Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was a former airfield located around 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Bungay and home  to the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadrons of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
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  • Red glowing sun reflected off the glossy facade of Canary Wharf tower next to electricity pylons.
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