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  • A departing lover hugs her boyfriend farewell before her long-haul flight in the Departures concourse at. Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. While embracing her young man, she gazes off into the distance amid the otherwise busy airport terminal where the emotions of parting as well as the joys of reunited loved-ones are played out in various parts of aviation hubs around the world. They are both in their own worlds, removed from the noise and confusion of other passengers. Her departure is brief and yet their sadness of being separated is plainly too much to bear. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • The sad face of a clown is seen on a circus poster that is pasted on a high street window in the border town of  Ross-on-Wye, a victim of the UK economic recession.
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  • A single sad bouquet of dying flowers are attached to the fence of a Northumbrian North Sea town harbour, on 25th September 2017, in Amble, Northumberland, England.
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  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, the streets between 66th and 67th Streets, in the heart of Manhattan's Upper East Side, was a point of focus for those with missing relatives who attached thousands of posters to walls with pictures and messages to loved-ones in the hope of being reunited. DNA samples were taken at the nearby Armory so human remains might be identified. Here, the coloured ink from desktop printers prints have streaked after rain soaked the posters leaving a sense of the tragic disappearance of thousands - a haunting detail of the missing and the dead. Emotions were therefore running high and we see the sad, rain-soaked messages, the faces of happy people and their physical descriptions and contacts numbers. In most cases, these people were never seen again..
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  • The detail of two sad bunting Union Jacks on the exterior of a red and white striped wooden beach hut, on 31st March 2019, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
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  • We look down behind an airline passenger who is alone on seating in the departures concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Mourning the death of a mother, the lady sits with a floral tribute to the recently-deceased relative whose name 'Mum' is laid out next to her in pink flowers. On her lap is the organic Soil Association's magazine Living Earth. Perhaps the woman is on her way to a family funeral and is flying from T5 on this sad flight. Amid the otherwise bustling international airport, the woman seeks solace and tries to sleep before her check-in zone opens. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1122-12-08-2009.jpg
  • The sad face of a clown is seen on a circus poster next to a local pub advert that are pasted on a former high street business window in the border town of  Ross-on-Wye, a victim of the UK economic recession.
    closed_businesses101-13-04-2009.jpg
  • A single sad bouquet of dying flowers are attached to the fence of a Northumbrian North Sea town harbour, on 25th September 2017, in Amble, Northumberland, England.
    amble-10-25-09-2017.jpg
  • Children play near a puddle in the town of Nova Huta. In filthy industrial streets, the kids look undernourished in this scene of impoverished, Communist dereliction. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen reflected in the puddle before them. After the war, Stalin decided to build an industrial Communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nowa Huta  - or, the new steel mill. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area..
    nova_huta_puddle01-20-06-1990.jpg
  • Deflated red love balloons and a Valentines Weekend banner on a brick wall in south London.
    sad_valentines01-16-02-2016.jpg
  • Kalthoum Ibrahim Flamid, 45 has lived in the Abu Shouk refugee camp since having to leave her village in Darfur six years ago. The 4 sq km camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. Her husband's whereabouts are unknown and she helps look after her children by running this vegetable stall selling tomatoes and onions.
    sudan185-24-05-2009.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a man and father called Nigel died at Huggin Hill, City of London, England, UK. Were we to ignore this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: ?To Daddy.  Love you always and forever. Your little girl. 24th Dec 1967 - 9th May 2001.? From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
    memorials008-12-05_2001.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes05-06-12-2013.jpg
  • Honeymooners cuddle in front of their Boeing 747-400 that will soon take them on a round-the-world adventure, leaving from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5B. The couple are seen as silhouettes against the natural light of the large plate glass windows. As the aircraft is readied and before the flight's air travellers are called to the departure gate, the young man and woman put their heads imagining what new things they will see as their airliner is about to transport them to experience new cultures and possibly a new life. In the background, we see other jets that are parked in their respective jetties across the main movement area, the apron. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1521-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Departing lovers say their emotional farewells in Departures at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1489-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Kalthoum Ibrahim Flamid, 45 has lived in the Abu Shouk refugee camp since having to leave her village in Darfur six years ago. The 4 sq km camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. Her husband's whereabouts are unknown and she helps look after her children by running this vegetable stall selling tomatoes and onions.
    sudan183-24-05-2009.jpg
  • Emotional scenes on the first anniversary of the Grenfell tower block disaster where local schoolchildren have drawn pictures and messages, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
    grenfell_anniversary-31-14-06-2018.jpg
  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
    civray_cemetery10-09-07-2014.jpg
  • A pink-coloured parasol blows in the wind on a seafront during the winter off-season
    winter_seaside01-14-03-2014.jpg
  • 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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  • Discarded cross with a deceased person's name lying in a communal cemetery bin of a rural village in the Kozjansko Regional Park, on 24th June 2018, in Prevorje, Slovenia.
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  • The WW1 Somme Courcelette cemetery. Courcelette was a major tactical objective in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive of the First World War during which the nearby village was razed. Courcelette is 10 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert, just off the D929 road to Bapaume. The Cemetery, signposted in the village, is approximately 1 kilometre west of the village on the south side of a track (suitable for cars) from the secondary road from Courcelette to Pozieres.
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  • Discarded cross with a deceased person's name lying in a communal cemetery bin of a rural village in the Kozjansko Regional Park, on 24th June 2018, in Prevorje, Slovenia.
    slovenia-313-24-06-2018.jpg
  • Discarded cross with a deceased person's name lying in a communal cemetery bin of a rural village in the Kozjansko Regional Park, on 24th June 2018, in Prevorje, Slovenia.
    slovenia-312-24-06-2018.jpg
  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
    civray_cemetery09-09-07-2014.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes12-06-12-2013.jpg
  • Lone man stands with a lamp post shadow against a grey construction hoarding in central London's Trafalgar Square.
    trafalgar_hoarding09-23-09-2015.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where ?Sarah? died near the A29 in Pulborough, Sussex, England, UK. Were we to ignore this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to there too with touching poems and dedications written by family and loved-ones. One reads: ?A little Angel lent, not given/to be born on earth/and grow in Heaven/We have lost a Princess, but gained an Angel/To take you so soon is tragic we know/but when Jesus calls, you just have to go." From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. We lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on roadsides and cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
    memorials006-05-07_2000.jpg
  • This memorial has been placed where a man called 'Andre,' died at Butterfly Walk, London, England, UK. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "?Did you witness anyone leaving the area with bloodstained clothing?." From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remberences.
    memorials002-24-08_2000.jpg
  • This memorial has been placed where a young man called Michael died beneath the TGV and Eurostar train overpass at Goussainville, France. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: ?Ses amis." From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
    memorials001-27-07_2000.jpg
  • A window display of a high street funeral directors showing patriotic Union Jacks and replica medals of a local man, Second Lieutenant Reginald Cuthbert Chilvers of the Norfolk Regiment, a casualty in 1917 during WW1, on 7th November 2019, in Surbiton, London, England
    surbiton_journey-10-07-11-2019.jpg
  • A pink-coloured parasol blows in the wind on a seafront during the winter off-season
    winter_seaside02-14-03-2014.jpg
  • A departing lover hugs her boyfriend farewell before her long-haul flight in the Departures concourse at Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1486-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Emotional scenes on the first anniversary of the Grenfell tower block disaster where local schoolchildren have drawn pictures and messages, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
    grenfell_anniversary-32-14-06-2018.jpg
  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
    civray_cemetery07-09-07-2014.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes25-06-12-2013.jpg
  • Remains of WW1 shell craters and German trenches at the Beaumont-Hamel battlefield memorial, France. The site is dedicated Newfoundland forces members who were killed during World War I. The 74-acre (300,000 m2) preserved battlefield park encompasses the grounds over which the Newfoundland Regiment made their unsuccessful attack on 1 July 1916 during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. During the First World War, Beaumont-Hamel was very close to the front lines of the conflict and saw heavy combat, especially during the Battle of the Somme which was the largest Allied offensive of the entire war. Beaumont-Hamel is a commune in the Somme department in Picardy in northern France.
    WW1_battlefield03-20-08-2003.jpg
  • Honeymooners kiss before their round-the-world adventure departing from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5B
    heathrow_airport1525-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Discarded cross with a deceased person's name lying in a communal cemetery bin of a rural village in the Kozjansko Regional Park, on 24th June 2018, in Prevorje, Slovenia.
    slovenia-311-24-06-2018.jpg
  • Wreaths and flowers on a grave for dad and Grandad in a London cemetery.
    cemetery_grave02-25-02-2014.jpg
  • The mud and soil of a grave for Grandad in a London cemetery.
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  • A stone angel and branches of a tree in winter, in a London cemetery.
    cemetery_angel02-25-02-2014.jpg
  • Two women gaze at the names of war dead at the Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
    WW1_thiepval04-20-08-2003.jpg
  • Kalthoum Ibrahim Flamid, 45 has lived in the Abu Shouk refugee camp since having to leave her village in Darfur six years ago. The 4 sq km camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. Her husband's whereabouts are unknown and she helps look after her children by running this vegetable stall selling tomatoes and onions.
    sudan180-24-05-2009.jpg
  • Twelve days after the devastating fire that killed an unspecified number of people is the torn poster of a young girl called Jessica Urbano, missing from Grenfell tower block which remains a crime scene, on 26th June 2017, in the London borough of Kensington & Chelsea, England.
    grenfell_tower-10-26-06-2017.jpg
  • Dystopian detail of three torn English flags above the window of a closed retailer in central London.
    england_dystopia01-10-12-2014.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes24-06-12-2013.jpg
  • Departing lovers say their emotional farewells in Departures at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport1491-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Kalthoum Ibrahim Flamid, 45 has lived in the Abu Shouk refugee camp since having to leave her village in Darfur six years ago. The 4 sq km camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. Her husband's whereabouts are unknown and she helps look after her children by running this vegetable stall selling tomatoes and onions.
    sudan184-24-05-2009.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a youth called ?Indian? died on Warner Road, Camberwell, London, England. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to die too with touching poems written by family and loved-ones: ?Yo Crucial/Wherever you are you are great.? From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances
    memorials020-21-08_2001.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a young man called ?Franklyn? died on the Prince of Wales Road, London, England. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to die too with touching poems written by family and loved-ones: ?I will neva 4get U, love U enough will miss U loads/What hope for dead loved ones (From a left copy of The Watchtower).' From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
    memorials016-21-08_2001.jpg
  • This memorial has been placed where a young man called 'Clinton' died on the A1206 Manchester Road, London, England, UK. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "Your body is soft, not like street, Clinton." From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances.
    memorials007-10-06_2002.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a fictitious TV character called Victor Meldrew was filmed being killed at Shawford Station, Hants, England, UK. If we drove past where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "We don't want to win a million, we want Victor back!" From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remberences.
    memorials005-21-11_2000.jpg
  • The names of local men killed during WW1, in a rural Slovenian village church, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • A shrine of flowers and compassionate messages continue to grow ten days after the terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market, on 12th June 2017 in London, England. Near the southern-most boundary of the City of London opposite to the attack location, Londoners and visitors to the capital leave their emotional and defiant poems and personal messages on post-it notes.
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  • A shrine of flowers and compassionate messages continue to grow ten days after the terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market, on 12th June 2017 in London, England. Near the southern-most boundary of the City of London opposite to the attack location, Londoners and visitors to the capital leave their emotional and defiant poems and personal messages on post-it notes.
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  • The first world war memorial beneath the columns and pillars of Royal Exchange, City of London.
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  • Visitors pay respects to the war dead from the first world war at the Sir Edward Lutyens designed Thiepval memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world ? there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme. A total of 700,000 troops were killed on the Western Front, of whom 300,000 have no known grave..
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  • The inscription 'In Memoriam' is written at the base of a statue artwork located in the Victorian cemetery at Nunhead in south London, on 1st march 2020, in London, England. Nunhead is of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London, its 52-acre site near Peckham is the final resting place for many members of Victorian society: From music hall artists, inventors, WW1, and soldiers who survived the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar.
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  • The many wreaths at the Centotaph left 2 two days after  Remembrance Sunday, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
    cenotaph_wreaths-15-13-11-2018.jpg
  • Green heart-shaped balloons during the memorial service for the Grenfell fire on the first anniversary of the tower block disaster, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
    grenfell_anniversary-50-14-06-2018.jpg
  • Relatives of a father killed in the Grenfell fire on the first anniversary of the tower block disaster, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
    grenfell_anniversary-09-14-06-2018.jpg
  • One week after the terrorist attack in the UK capital, Londoners and visitors to Britain pay their respects to the scene where flower memorials are left on Westminster Bridge (where pedestrians were mown down by a car) and outside the Palace of Westminster where armed police now guard the location where a police officer was killed, on 28th March 2017, London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A young couple admire the Bomber Command War Memorial on 16th March 2017, in Green Park, London, England. The 9-foot (2.7 m) bronze sculpture of seven aircrew, designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson look as though they have just returned from a bombing mission and left their aircraft. The figures represent L-R: Navigator, Flight Engineer, Mid-upper gunner, Pilot, Bomb aimer, Rear gunner and Wireless operator. The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park, London, commemorating the crews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War. The memorial was built to mark the sacrifice of 55,573 aircrew from Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries of the Commonwealth, as well as civilians of all nations killed during raids. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the memorial on 28 June 2012, the year of her Diamond Jubilee.
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  • Bronze statue of soldier commemorating First World War battles on the side of the Royal Artillery war memorial at Hyde Park.
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  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers' Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern (Southwark) end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
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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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  • Two officers on horses with the mounted City Police, patrol beneath the war memorial and columns of Conhill Exchange in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 14th March 2018, in London England.
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  • Londoners and police gather on Westminster Bridge, the scene of the Terrorist attack 7 days ago in which 4 people died and others severely injured, on 29th March 2017, London, England. Hundreds crossed the Thames in a silent vigil to commemorate those who died at 2.40pm when Khalid Masood drove into crowds on the bridge before stabbing a police officer at the nearby Palace of Westminster. The crowds fell silent, many bowing their heads, among them were dozens of young Muslim children and members of the Ahmadiyya community.
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  • One week after the terrorist attack in the UK capital, Londoners and visitors to Britain look at the flower memorials left on Westminster Bridge (where pedestrians were mown down by a car)and outside the Palace of Westminster where armed police now guard the location where a police officer was killed, on 28th March 2017, London, England.
    westminster_terrorism-12-28-03-2017.jpg
  • One week after the September 11th attacks in New York and in Washington DC, two ex-US Ranger veterans visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Constitution Gardens, Washington DC. One helps another to climb up to trace the imprint of their dead friend's name, mentioned with 58,195 other recorded casualties on its polished wall. The average age of those men was 19 in the sixties and seventies. The nation was mourning those killed in the New York and Washington attacks, and the military was about to mobilise once again with many American lives lost. The Vietnam war however, remains a low-point in the nation's history and the old men who survived return to 'find' their buddies which helps them deal with the traumatic loss of their friends and their own youth..
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  • Sheriff Woody Pride, aka Woody, the cowboy character from the Pixar/Disney CGI fantasy film Toy Story, lies forgotten outside a south London charity shop.
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  • Pupils from Woolmer Hill School, Haslemere, Surrey, at the WW1 Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
    WW1_thiepval03-20-08-2003.jpg
  • Honeymooners cuddle in front of a British Airways 747 before their round-the-world adventure from Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1520-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Next to a freshly-dug grave covered with traffic bollards is a recent plot for a boy n Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of Victorian society from the industrial age. During this annual open day, it is an opportunity for the Friends of the cemetery to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young - thereby helping to preserve and conserve this historic site.
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  • A memorial has been placed where two policemen called Tony and Mark died at A2 Shooters Hill, London, England, UK. Were we to ignore this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. Two read: ?Metropolitan Police Memo. With deep regrets/?C? team, Lewisham.? And "May God be with your families at this time.  From Custody.? From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remberences.
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  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers' Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern (Southwark) end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
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  • A memorial wreath in Kongressni Square the day after a ceremony on the country's Independence Day, on 26th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • Local residents on the first anniversary of the Grenfell tower block disaster where local schoolchildren have drawn pictures and messages, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
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  • Childrens' bears and cuddly toys on railings near where the Grenfell fire occured, on the first anniversary of the tower block disaster, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
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  • The war memorial in the churchyard of St Mary's in the Northumbrian village of Blanchland, on 29th September 2017, in Blanchland, Northumberland, England. St. Marys is on the site of the former Abbey and the village got its name from the white habits worn by monks of the Premonstratensian order who founded Blanchland Abbey. Built in the 13th century, the abbey survived until the 16th century when it fell into ruin. Parts of the Abbey survive including St. Mary's Church, which was rebuilt in 1751-52. Blanchland is a village in Northumberland, England, on the County Durham boundary. It is a conservation village, largely built of stone from the remains of the 12th-century Abbey. It features picturesque houses, set against a backdrop of deep woods and open moors. Set beside the river in a wooded section of the Derwent valley, Blanchland is an attractive small village in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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  • The advertising face of a middle-aged lady symbolises compassion and sympathy at the shrine of flowers and compassionate messages ten days after the terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market, on 12th June 2017 in London, England. Near the southern-most boundary of the City of London opposite to the attack location, Londoners and visitors to the capital leave their emotional and defiant poems and personal messages.
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  • A shrine of flowers and compassionate messages continue to grow ten days after the terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market, on 12th June 2017 in London, England. Near the southern-most boundary of the City of London opposite to the attack location, Londoners and visitors to the capital leave their emotional and defiant poems and personal messages on post-it notes.
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  • One week after the terrorist attack in the UK capital, Londoners and visitors to Britain pay their respects to the scene where flower memorials are left on Westminster Bridge (where pedestrians were mown down by a car) and outside the Palace of Westminster where armed police now guard the location where a police officer was killed, on 28th March 2017, London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • The sculpture forming the Bomber Command War Memorial on 16th March 2017, in Green Park, London, England. The 9-foot (2.7 m) bronze sculpture of seven aircrew, designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson look as though they have just returned from a bombing mission and left their aircraft. The figures represent L-R: Navigator, Flight Engineer, Mid-upper gunner, Pilot, Bomb aimer, Rear gunner and Wireless operator. The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park, London, commemorating the crews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War. The memorial was built to mark the sacrifice of 55,573 aircrew from Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries of the Commonwealth, as well as civilians of all nations killed during raids. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the memorial on 28 June 2012, the year of her Diamond Jubilee.
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  • Lunchtime City workers eat lunches beneath the pillars of Royal Exchange during an unusual autumn heatwave on 13th September 2016, in the City of London, England.
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  • Bronze statue of soldier commemorating First World War battles on the side of the Royal Artillery war memorial at Hyde Park.
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  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers' Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern (Southwark) end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-34-02-12-201...jpg
  • Visitors to the Cenotaph in Whitehall pay their respects to those killed in war and conflict, where wreaths were left 2 two days after Remembrance Sunday which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice, on 13th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • The advertising face of a middle-aged lady symbolises compassion and sympathy at the shrine of flowers and compassionate messages ten days after the terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market, on 12th June 2017 in London, England. Near the southern-most boundary of the City of London opposite to the attack location, Londoners and visitors to the capital leave their emotional and defiant poems and personal messages.
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  • Young children read some of 2369 WW1 commonwealth burials and commemorations of war graves at Vis-en-Artois cemetery
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  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers' Hall on London Bridge, a memorial of flowers appeared at the southern (Southwark) end of the bridge where passers-by and commuters walk on their way to work in the City at the opposite side of the river Thames, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
    london_bridge_terrorism-59-02-12-201...jpg
  • On the 10th consecutive day of protests around London by the climate change campaign Extinction Rebellion, a makeshift memorial to those killed in the terorist attacks in Sri Lanka, on 24th April 2019, at Marble Arch, London England.
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  • A young child looks at flowers left near where the Grenfell fire occured, on the first anniversary of the tower block disaster, on 14th June 2018, in London, England. 72 people died when the tower block in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea were killed in what has been called the largest fire since WW2. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom. It caused 72 deaths, out of the 293 people in the building, including 2 who escaped and died in hospital. Over 70 were injured and left traumatised. A 72-second national silence was held at midday, also observed across the country, including at government buildings, Parliament.
    grenfell_anniversary-43-14-06-2018.jpg
  • The advertising face of a middle-aged lady symbolises compassion and sympathy at the shrine of flowers and compassionate messages ten days after the terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market, on 12th June 2017 in London, England. Near the southern-most boundary of the City of London opposite to the attack location, Londoners and visitors to the capital leave their emotional and defiant poems and personal messages.
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  • Armistice wreaths and traffic cones at the Royal Artillery war memorial at Hyde Park Corner.
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  • Farm land and head stones of British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in final stages of WW1 at Vis-en-Artois war grave cemetery
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  • Farm land and head stones of British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in final stages of WW1 at Vis-en-Artois war grave cemetery
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  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
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  • Two pet dogs wearing red coat stand outside a red-themed business in central London
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