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  • Old technology on RAF jet fuel bowser that serves the Hawks of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team at their home base of RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. Operated by Squadron ground crew whose duties include keeping the team's aircraft and vehicles up and running perform the vital job of using this ageing equipment. Using such technology, the team have since 1965 flown over 4,000 such shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows080_RBA.jpg
  • A young trader in currencies leans back in his chair on the currency trading floor of Barclays Bank in the City of London, England, UK. Easing back during the stress of a day when the money markets have been volatile, this young man has the responsibilities of millions of Pounds Sterling to trade and value. He has old technology at his disposal, in the decade when technology made a big impression on the workplace but before the arrival of the internet and e-mail. Communication was therefore slow and unreliable although banks like Barclays who traded money across the world were skilled in migrating information across time-zones.
    city_banker07-16-1998.jpg
  • In the heat and dust of the arid Sonoran desert are the remains of a Boeing 747 cockpit at the storage facility at Mojave, California. The wiring of the now-extinct flight engineer's console is a jumble of old technology. Either by age or cooling economy airliners are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. Elsewhere, assorted aircraft wrecks sit abandoned in the scrub minus their bellies, legs or wings like dying birds. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903..
    aviation_corbis43-15-08-1998.jpg
  • A detailed view of a Mark 1 Hawk jet belonging to 'Synchro Leader' of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. We see the flight controls and instrument panels looking grubby and worn with grey paint rubbed or flaking off. This version of the BAE Systems Hawk is low-tech without computers nor fly-by-wire technology it is one of the most user-friendly modern jets to fly and serves as a first step trainer for pilots to accumulate fast-jet flying hours and who are destined for the most sophisticated of fast military fighters in the future. Their aerobatic displays demands that their workhorse machine must have phenomenal turning circle ability and rate of climb. The team's aircraft are in some cases over 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent engineering overhauls needed..
    Red_Arrows689_RBA.jpg
  • Coils of undeveloped, generic 35mm film emulsion, an antiquated analogue technology replaced by the digital camera pixel
    film_emulsion01-09-04-2010.jpg
  • Seen from St Catherine's Church in the old city of Gdansk, Poland, the famously sprawling shipyard is seen from across the city's old housing and trees. Once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard09-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Old weathered loudspeakers stand overlooking a old launchpad at the European Space Agency's Kourou facility in French Guiana.
    esa_guiana10214-08-2007.jpg
  • Military jet fighter engines awaiting recycling for scrap value in arid desert at Davis Monthan facility, Tucson, Arizona.  A landscape of old technology, the relics of former wars and air supremacy now reduced to aluminium and sprayed IDs. Jet pipes and power plants, the energy to get multi-million aircraft into the air to attack or defend territory and culture. These retired aircraft engines whose air frames are too old for flight are being stored then recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total at this repository for old military fighter and bomber aircraft.
    jet_engines-15-08-1998.jpg
  • A Chinese exile is interviewed by a radio journalist opposite his embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. Using old technology consisting of a tape recorder and analogue microphone, the reporter records the words of an activist, his words being broadcast, potentially across the world. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
    tiananmen_london02-05-06-1989.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of a Boeing 747 airliner at the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world's retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_graveyard02-16-03-2008-15-0...jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of a Boeing airliner sat the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world's retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_graveyard04-16-03-2008-15-0...jpg
  • RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station high on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Before their demolition by Ministry of Defence contractors this early attack warning Cold War facility, consisted of three 40-metre-diameter 'golfballs' or geodesic domes (radomes) containing mechanically steered radar. They became a local tourist attraction and coach tours drove past the site listening to the interference on radios emitted by the radomes. They have since been replaced by the current tetrahedron ('pyramid') structure and is still a secret location. Its Motto is "Vigilamus" ("We are watching"). It is now a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS)...
    RB_104-05-05-1994.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
  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
    esa_guiana18215-08-2007.jpg
  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
    esa_guiana17915-08-2007.jpg
  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
    esa_guiana17415-08-2007.jpg
  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
    esa_guiana17215-08-2007.jpg
  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
    esa_guiana16815-08-2007.jpg
  • Detail of an exposed junction box and analogue electricity meter on an industrial estate in West Ham substation, Canning Town
    electricity262-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station high on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Before their demolition by Ministry of Defence contractors this early attack warning Cold War facility, consisted of three 40-metre-diameter 'golfballs' or geodesic domes (radomes) containing mechanically steered radar. They became a local tourist attraction and coach tours drove past the site listening to the interference on radios emitted by the radomes. They have since been replaced by the current tetrahedron ('pyramid') structure and is still a secret location. Its Motto is "Vigilamus" ("We are watching"). It is now a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS)...
    RB_105-05-05-1994.jpg
  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
    esa_guiana18515-08-2007.jpg
  • Stopwatch in the cockpit of a Red Arrows BAE Systems Hawk jet aircraft.
    Red_Arrows690_RBA.jpg
  • With orange sparks falling away below, a shipbuilder welds while standing on a scaffolding gantry on the hull of a large German ferry at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the worker wears a protective hood on his head. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard11-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Two shipbuilders chat beneath the heavy lifting cranes at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the two men in the foreground and those behind, wear bright yellow hard hats, protecting them from steel edges and rusting machinery. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard07-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Aerial view through scaffolding of the of the Gdansk shipyard, from a high gantry overlooking ships, Gdansk, Poland.
    gdansk_shipyard06-03-09-2007.jpg
  • A detail of a sign on a film rental shop, mis-spelled by a wrongly-used apostrophe, on 25th January 2018, in London, England.
    videos_sign-01-25-01-2018.jpg
  • Someone's confidential information and personal data stored on floppy and Zip discs is dumped in a skip (dumpster) on south London street. The digital media may not be readable by modern PC computers but the confidential information may still be taken by those intent on stealing identities for fraudulent purposes. The owner of these discs has nonetheless recklessly tipped them in a now rain soaked box and left them to be seen or taken by passes-by. Lying with building rubbish and household waste, the data is scattered and visible.
    personal_data06-24-02-2011.jpg
  • Someone's confidential information and personal data stored on floppy and Zip discs is dumped in a skip (dumpster) on south London street. The digital media may not be readable by modern PC computers but the confidential information may still be taken by those intent on stealing identities for fraudulent purposes. The owner of these discs has nonetheless recklessly tipped them in a now rain soaked box and left them to be seen or taken by passes-by. Lying with building rubbish and household waste, the data is scattered and visible.
    personal_data04-24-02-2011.jpg
  • Someone's confidential information and personal data stored on floppy and Zip discs is dumped in a skip (dumpster) on south London street. The digital media may not be readable by modern PC computers but the confidential information may still be taken by those intent on stealing identities for fraudulent purposes. The owner of these discs has nonetheless recklessly tipped them in a now rain soaked box and left them to be seen or taken by passes-by. Lying with building rubbish and household waste, the data is scattered and visible.
    personal_data03-24-02-2011.jpg
  • Someone's confidential information and personal data stored on floppy and Zip discs is dumped in a skip (dumpster) on south London street. The digital media may not be readable by modern PC computers but the confidential information may still be taken by those intent on stealing identities for fraudulent purposes. The owner of these discs has nonetheless recklessly tipped them in a now rain soaked box and left them to be seen or taken by passes-by. Lying with building rubbish and household waste, the data is scattered and visible.
    personal_data02-24-02-2011.jpg
  • Someone's confidential information and personal data stored on floppy and Zip discs is dumped in a skip (dumpster) on south London street. The digital media may not be readable by modern PC computers but the confidential information may still be taken by those intent on stealing identities for fraudulent purposes. The owner of these discs has nonetheless recklessly tipped them in a now rain soaked box and left them to be seen or taken by passes-by. Lying with building rubbish and household waste, the data is scattered and visible.
    personal_data01-24-02-2011.jpg
  • It is morning in Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India and on the streets around the Writers' Building, a busy fruit market is in full swing. Against the wall however, a dying skill is being shown: A man sits with his back to the bustle of the street and is hand-typing letters for those unable to write their own correspondence with his own battered typewriter. Working as a freelance typist, the man transcribes the hand-written words for a customer before the days of home PC or laptop. The Writers' Building (Mahakaran in Bengali) is the secretariat building of the State Government of West Bengal in India. The Writers' Building originally served as the office for writers of the British East India Company, hence the name. Designed by Thomas Lyon in 1780, it received its impressive Corinthian façade, an example of the Neo-Renaissance style, in 1889.
    kolkata01-18-11-1996.jpg
  • 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.
    80s_firemen-29-11-1984.jpg
  • A shipbuilder wearing a face mask, leans through the incomplete window belonging to the superstructure of a large German ferry at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work. His overalls are torn from jagged steel edges and his skin is dirty. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today the city of Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard04-03-09-2007.jpg
  • The shadows of rusting industrial pipes and gate valves on a abandoned factory site now on wasteland in Northfleet Thames Gateway
    river_business263-10-09-2007.jpg
  • The shadows of rusting industrial pipes and gate valves on a abandoned factory site now on wasteland in Northfleet Thames Gateway
    river_business259-10-09-2007.jpg
  • A detail of a sign on a film rental shop, mis-spelled by a wrongly-used apostrophe, on 25th January 2018, in London, England.
    videos_sign-02-25-01-2018.jpg
  • A businessman makes a call on his mobile phone at the top of steps outside a building housing tech businesses on Old Street roundabout aka Silicon Roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England.
    old_street-03-06-03-2018.jpg
  • A businessman makes a call on his mobile phone at the top of steps outside a building housing tech businesses on Old Street roundabout aka Silicon Roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England.
    old_street-04-06-03-2018.jpg
  • A businessman makes a call on his mobile phone at the top of steps outside a building housing tech businesses on Old Street roundabout aka Silicon Roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England.
    old_street-02-06-03-2018.jpg
  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Oscilloscopes bought for scrap.One of Charles Bell's items for auction, Oscilloscopes and other electronics were bought for scrap. Assorted oscilloscopes and electronic gadgetry that Charles Bell amassed over the years. Items like these were partly responsible for many innovative technology that NASA wanted developing for the space programme including fibre optics that Charles Bell invented. Rather than preserving it for technology museums where it truly belonged, it has been bought as scrap, never to be seen again and other electronics were bought for scrap.
    Nasa11 RBA.jpg
  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the trading floor of Barclays de Zoete Wedd in the City of London, the capital's financial centre. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets.  .Employees talk on handsets or stare at their data near large keyboards and hard drives and deep monitors were state of the art technology in the early 1990s.
    trading_floor03-20-04-1993.jpg
  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the trading floor of The Chemical Bank in the City of London, the capital's financial centre. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets. Large keyboards and hard drives and deep monitors were state of the art technology in the early 1990s.
    trading_floor04-20-04-1993.jpg
  • A detailed view of a Mark 1 Hawk jet belonging to 'Synchro Leader' of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. We see the flight controls and instrument panels looking grubby and worn with grey paint rubbed or flaking off. This version of the BAE Systems Hawk is low-tech without computers nor fly-by-wire technology it is one of the most user-friendly modern jets to fly and serves as a first step trainer for pilots to accumulate fast-jet flying hours and who are destined for the most sophisticated of fast military fighters in the future. Their aerobatic displays demands that their workhorse machine must have phenominal turning circle ability and rate of climb. The team's aircraft are in some cases over 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent engineering overhauls needed. .
    Red_Arrows769_RBA.jpg
  • Standing on weathered concrete at an old launchpad from a bygone age, space tourists stop to photograph the current Ariane 5 launchpad while on a tour of the European Space Agency at Kourou, French Guiana. They are mostly Japanese, representing their B-SAT communications satellite which is to be sent into orbit later that night alongside a US-made Hughes Corporation and Lockheed Martin technology. An American NASA space technician walks past the four Japanese as they hold cameras that record their souvenirs of a memorable day at this space facility deep in the South American rainforest. The orange bags carried by all are gas masks. Should the out of sight rocket booster explode or leak liguid propellant, dangerous fumes might overcome the visitors.
    esa_guiana09114-08-2007.jpg
  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the currency trading floor of National Westminster Bank PLC in the City of London, the capital's financial centre. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets. A lady employee stares at her data near a large keyboard and hard drives and deep monitors were state of the art technology in the early 1990s.
    trading_floor01-20-05-1992.jpg
  • A Nepali lady sits on corrugated iron alongside a giant satellite dish on the roof of her home' in a suburb of Kathmandu, Nepal. We see the sunny street below in the background and other rooftops of scattered aerials, roughly-made brick walls. She has hung her colourful (colorful) clothes washing out to dry on a line and on the structure's bowl-like shape that points towards space and signals from the outside world. It was designed to receive television signals from Nepal's main TV station is Nepal Television (NTV) whose programmes are mostly serials from Pakistan and Hindi films. Nepalis however, search the wider-world for their news digest and western culture, especially during governmental crackdown and censorship during the democracy protest disturbances of 2006. King Gyanendra imposed severe media restrictions after assuming direct control of the country the previous year. The scene is of new technology in the backdrop of a poor, third world country who freedoms of expression and experience of western democracy has been tested in recent years.
    RB-0161.jpg
  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle stands looking up at the viewer for a portrait in the courtyard of his dairy farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Mr Eberle wears a woolen hat and blue workman's overalls. He looks a proud but tired and weathered gentleman in his latter years and appears to be an experienced Alpine farmer and we can see a heap of manure over his shoulder and an old fashioned scythe for mowing long grass, leaning against a barn wall. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer01-08-02-1990.jpg
  • A detailed view of a Mark 1 Hawk jet belonging to 'Synchro Leader' of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. We see the flight controls and instrument panels looking grubby and worn with grey paint rubbed or flaking off. This version of the BAE Systems Hawk is low-tech without computers nor fly-by-wire technology it is one of the most user-friendly modern jets to fly and serves as a first step trainer for pilots to accumulate fast-jet flying hours and who are destined for the most sophisticated of fast military fighters in the future. Their aerobatic displays demands that their workhorse machine must have phenomenal turning circle ability and rate of climb. The team's aircraft are in some cases over 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent engineering overhauls needed..
    Red_Arrows688_RBA.jpg
  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle works in the courtyard of his dairy and goat farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein, on 8th February 1990, in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer03-08-02-1990.jpg
  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle works in the courtyard of his dairy and goat farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein, on 8th February 1990, in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer02-08-02-1990.jpg
  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle stands looking up at the viewer for a portrait in the courtyard of his dairy farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Mr Eberle wears a woolen hat and blue workman's overalls. He looks a proud but tired and weathered gentleman in his latter years and appears to be an experienced Alpine farmer and we can see a heap of manure over his shoulder and an old fashioned scythe for mowing long grass, leaning against a barn wall. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer02-08-02-1990.jpg
  • A detailed view of a Mark 1 Hawk jet belonging to 'Synchro Leader' of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. We see the flight controls and instrument panels looking grubby and worn with grey paint rubbed or flaking off. This version of the BAE Systems Hawk is low-tech without computers nor fly-by-wire technology it is one of the most user-friendly modern jets to fly and serves as a first step trainer for pilots to accumulate fast-jet flying hours and who are destined for the most sophisticated of fast military fighters in the future. Their aerobatic displays demands that their workhorse machine must have phenomenal turning circle ability and rate of climb. The team's aircraft are in some cases over 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent engineering overhauls needed..
    Red_Arrows691_RBA.jpg
  • Statue of King Dinis with the exteriors of the Department of Mathematics on the left, and the Faculty of Science and Technology to the right, on Largo D. Dinis in Coimbra University, on 17th July, at Coimbra, Portugal. King Dinis founded a university in 1290 and transferred it to Coimbra in 1537 where theology, medicine and law were mostly studied. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_coimbra-08-17-07-2016.jpg
  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle stands looking up at the viewer for a portrait in the courtyard of his dairy farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Mr Eberle wears a woolen hat and blue workman's overalls. He looks a proud but tired and weathered gentleman in his latter years and appears to be an experienced Alpine farmer and we can see a heap of manure over his shoulder and an old fashioned scythe for mowing long grass, leaning against a barn wall. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    RB-0018.jpg
  • Seen from the air at dawn, dozens of F-4 Phantom fighters from the Cold War-era are laid out in grids across the arid desert at Davis-Monthan Air Forbe Base near Tucson Arizona. These retired aircraft whose air frames are too old for flight are being stored then recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total at this repository for old military fighter and bomber aircraft. They sit in neat rows in low light, their shadowy wings are blue in colour but their fuselage are stripped of markings, being taped up against the dust. This is a scene of once-great flying machines relegated to sad scrap, long-after the Soviet Union's own demise when western armies fought a war of propaganda. .
    davis_monthan01-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • An old 'Dumb Terminal' or desktop video display terminal (VDT) awaits bids during a NASA space junk auction on Merrit Island, Florida - part of a sale of space paraphernalia belonging to NASA enginer Charlie Bell, on 10th March 2003, on Merrit Island, Florida, USA. This was common design theme from the 1970s: a rounded plastic shell that housed a monochrome CRT screen and integrated keyboard. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    NASA_junk02-10-03-2003.jpg
  • Rather than holding a conversation between themselves, three customers all use their phones inside a Soho cafe on Old Brompton Street, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
    soho_people-01-05-03-2018.jpg
  • Old and unused public telephones in a narrow street in the San Marco district of Venice, Italy.
    venice_104-23-07-2015.jpg
  • Solar panels on the roof of a Dolomites farm's barn roof in the old rural hamlet of Aireië, near Wengen-La Val, in south Tyrol, Italy.
    italy_dolomites32-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Solar panels on the roof of a Dolomites farm's barn roof in the old rural hamlet of Aireië, near Wengen-La Val, in south Tyrol, Italy.
    italy_dolomites30-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Solar panels on the roof of a Dolomites farm's barn roof in the old rural hamlet of Aireië, near Wengen-La Val, in south Tyrol, Italy.
    italy_dolomites27-19-07-2015.jpg
  • A 'Bodil' passive eavesdropping transmitter from Bulgaria powered by a phone line, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Erich Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    berlin_stasi_museum37-07-04-2013.jpg
  • Stored old airliners sit in mid-day heat of arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value
    mojave_jets01-15-08-1998.jpg
  • A passenger looks bored awaiting the departure of his flight from the old French capital's Orly International Airport at Orly.
    esa_guiana02313-08-2007.jpg
  • Stored old airliners sit in mid-day heat of arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
    aviation_graveyard03-16-03-2008.jpg
  • Solar panels on the roof of a Dolomites farm's barn roof in the old rural hamlet of Aireië, near Wengen-La Val, in south Tyrol, Italy.
    italy_dolomites31-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Solar panels on the roof of a Dolomites farm's barn roof in the old rural hamlet of Aireië, near Wengen-La Val, in south Tyrol, Italy.
    italy_dolomites28-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Engineer airframe specialist Junior Technician Barry Pritchard of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, forms part of the team's highly-skilled group of support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1. Here J/Tech Pritchard straddles the fuselage of  the Hawk jet aircraft performing a Ram Air Turbine (RAT) jack change in the squadron hangar. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. The team's aircraft are in some cases 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent overhauls needed. In these shelters were housed the Lancaster bombers 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. The Red Arrows nearby offices as their administrative nerve-centre for the 90-plus displays they perform a year. .
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  • Taking telephone orders near rocket painting at the Délice restaurant in the old quarter of Kourou, French Guiana..
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  • As winter fog lifts, the waters of the River Thames clear to reveal an eerie landscape of river life and industrial architecture at Gravesend, Kent England. It is late-morning and in the hazy distance tall old cranes that once lifted cargo from the holds of ships - before the development of containerization - rise from the waters on the south bank opposte the new Tilbury Docks. On its surface, a seagull dips to catch a fish. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury Docks (Europe's only specialist short-sea terminal, handling 120,000 containers each year.) remain a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
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  • A classic, K-series red British Telecom (BT) pay phone box that is still in use sits surrounded by undergrowth near the harbour at Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Amid a mass of green foliage, the freshly-painted red kiosk stands as an iconic piece of architecture that has graced Britain's towns and villages for 70-odd years. These K-series kiosks were largely designed in 1936 by the renowned designer Giles Gilbert Scott. With the increasing use of mobile phones the static phone boxes are still used in remote areas of the UK where mobile service is still patchy and in major towns and cities, their presence is becoming rarer. In rural regions however, the British red phone box is still a delight to see and use.
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  • A traditional red telephone box is seen on Denmark Hill, South London covered in fresh snow from overnight snowfall. Pedestrians walk past next to Ruskin Park, SE24.  These K-series kiosks were designed in 1936 by the renowned designer Giles Gilbert Scott. With the increasing use of mobile phones the static phone boxes are still used in remote areas of the UK where mobile service is still patchy and in major towns and cities, their presence is becoming rarer. In rural regions however, the British red phone box is still a delight to see and use.
    london_snow54-02-02_2009.jpg
  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Apollo astronaut walkway structure..Charles Bell's collection of cumbersome rockets, gantries, fuel tanks and browsers lay overgrown in what had become a snake-infested wilderness. One of the Apollo gantries or walkways that the astronauts would have ambled along with their oxygen packs towards the waiting capsule. They now sit rusting awaiting scrap dealers.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Chemical suits. NASA chemical suits hang on their rack at the space junk auction. Hanging Scape Suits before the auction. Confusingly, these are not space suits as worn by astronauts but chemical protection suits for those working with chemicals and liquid oxygen on the giant gantries that stood alongside the rockets. They were sold for $60 each and now appear on e-bay.com.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Nasa Jumble Sale.An unidentified rocket and its engine assembly lies in the wasteland of Charles Bell's yard. An eccentric rocket scientist, he was part of the NASA space programme since the 1950's collected treasures and redundent equipment from the earliest days of space travel.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Atlas rocket.A 90ft US Air Force Atlas rocket lies on its transporter, its wafer-thin skin still intact after years of storage. Rocket scientist Charles Bell, paid $10 for it though it is estimated that it cost $10m to build. It had been standing at Patrick Air Force Base at Cape Canaveral until a storm blew a tree into it. It is estimated these rockets cost around $10m to build at the time though they were bought at auction for $10,000.
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  • US Air airliner cabin floor and magazine in arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
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  • Airliner and jet engines in mid-day heat of arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
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  • Airliner parts in mid-day heat of arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
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  • Pensioner Jim Burrows cuts leaks by his shed overlooked by a giant eletricity pylon at Leys Road allotments, East London.
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  • The phone kiosk and postal box still in service and good working order on the Green at Hartest, on 10th July 2020, in Hartest, Suffolk, England.
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  • Veteran actor and political activist, Vanessa Redgrave CBE (left), shows phone footage to Labour MP, Diane Abbott, at a protest for the child refugee charity, Safe Passage, in Parliament Square Westminster, on 20th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • Veteran actor and political activist, Vanessa Redgrave CBE, shows phone footage to Alf Dubbs (left) at a protest for the child refugee charity, Safe Passage, in Parliament Square Westminster, on 20th January 2020, in London, England. Alfred Dubs, Baron Dubs is a British Labour politician and former Member of Parliament.
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  • The rusting remains of a NASA Mercury Project-era spacecraft instrument panel awaits bids during a NASA space junk auction on Merrit Island, Florida - part of a sale of space paraphernalia belonging to NASA enginer Charlie Bell, on 10th March 2003, on Merrit Island, Florida, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A detail of the bomb-aimer's window in the nose of a Victor bomber from the nuclear Cold War V-bomber era. The Handley Page Victor was a British jet-powered strategic bomber, developed and produced by the Handley Page Aircraft Company and served during the Cold War. It was the third and final of the V-bombers operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF)
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  • A detail of an ill-fated Comet airliner door now confined to the ground at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, England. Peeling paint and a make-shift padlock shows this museum piece's age and exposure to the outside elements. A year after entering commercial service the Comets began suffering problems, with three of them breaking up during mid-flight in well-publicised accidents. This was later found to be due to catastrophic metal fatigue, not well understood at the time, in the airframes. The Comet was withdrawn from service and extensively tested to discover the cause; the first incident had been incorrectly blamed on adverse weather.
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  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the currency trading floor of National Westminster Bank PLC in London
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  • Tourist uses camera to record details of a medieval fresco by the Italian artist Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli.
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  • Francis Rossi (left) and Rick Parfitt (right) of Status Quo face an auditorium, with their backs to the viewer  while sitting on the edge of their stage after a sound check in l'Aeronef in Lille, France during their 2007 European Tour. Rossi adjusts his thin pony tail that he has sported since his early days in rock and roll. Parfitt and Rossi are the two original members of the band, having met as school boys in the early 60s. Their distinctive three-chord guitar riff has made them a household name with hits like: Rockin' All Over the World and Sweet Caroline; selling 118 million albums. Over their 40 years of performing, QUO have played over 6000 live shows to an audience of 25 million people and travelling four million miles and spent 23 years away from home..
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  • Before they were all replaced as working modes of public transport, a conductor sells a ticket wgile travelling along a London road, as part of a two-man crew of a number 88 red London Rotemaster bus, England UK. A parked car is seen through the open ledge of the bes' rear, blurred in the back ground and a lady passengers sits patiently as the bus speeds on its journey along its route through the capital. The man holds two fingers up to a foreign tourist to make sure they want two tickets for their destination. The conductor is the last human link with friendly public travel in London. He is usually a friendly face to accompany unsure travellers, often helping them reach their stop and answering questions about the journey with good humour and kindness. Their removal in favour of single driver crews meant that bus travel became more intimidating...
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  • An elderly lady uses a 1970s model of Kodak Instamatic film camera whilst visiting an English country garden. With her eye pressed to the viewfinder, this amateur photographer is a pensioner on a day trip to the country and she takes a snapshot to record the beautiful view of flower beds and neatly-trimmed lawns. The Instamatic was a series of inexpensive, easy-to-load 126 and 110 cameras made by Kodak from 1963 and it was immensely successful, introducing a generation to low-cost photography and helping the growth of the contemporary photographic family album. More than 50 million Instamatic cameras were produced between 1963 and 1970. Kodak even gave away a considerable number in a joint promotion with Scott paper towels in the early 1970s in order to generate a large number of new photographers and stimulate lasting demand for its film business.
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  • Tourists lunge over the original 4th century start/finish line in the stadium at Olympia. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet - or Stadion - from which we get the word 'stadium. On the grassy bank in the background is where the seating once accommodated the many sporting pilgrims who travelled to this place from all over Greece during agreed warfare truces in the weeks of the Olympic festival. The 29th Olympics came home to Greece in 2004 and 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..
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  • A tourist crouches on the original 4th century marble starting line at ancient Olympia's athletics track where both ancient Greeks and Romans held their games. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers before competition. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet, or 'Stadion,' from which we get the word 'Stadium'. Olympic spectators suffered dehydration due to to extreme heat. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and at the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, 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.
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  • Fallen Ionic and Doric columns lay in the undergrowth at Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and in the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery here. These fluted columns that date to about 400BC that now lie in the shade were originally piled on top of each other to construct - among other buildings too - the Temple of Zeus. There, the athletes made offerings to Nike, the Goddess of Victory before going out to compete in the many sports. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now.
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  • B-52 Cold War bombers of the US Air Force lie abandoned at Davis-Monthan aircraft graveyard awaiting recycling for scrap..
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  • A traditional red telephone box is seen on Denmark Hill, South London covered in fresh snow from overnight snowfall. Pedestrians walk past next to Ruskin Park, SE24.  These K-series kiosks were designed in 1936 by the renowned designer Giles Gilbert Scott. With the increasing use of mobile phones the static phone boxes are still used in remote areas of the UK where mobile service is still patchy and in major towns and cities, their presence is becoming rarer. In rural regions however, the British red phone box is still a delight to see and use.
    london_snow54-02-02_2009.jpg
  • Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi of  Status Quo relax in canteen while on the road during European tour in Lille, France. .
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  • Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi of  Status Quo relax in canteen while on the road during European tour in Lille, France. .
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  • Francis Rossi and of Status Quo sit on the stage after their sound check while on European tour at L'Aeronef in Lille, France.
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