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  • Match officials at a Cartier polo tournament in Windsor Great Park, London. As time ticks on during the chukka, a scorer in a long white coat stands watching another as he checks his watch and listens to a transistor radio. We see that one team of the Prince Philip Trophy is Pendell Polo stables from Reading, England who have scored 3 points. Polo - from pulu in Hindi - referring to the wooden ball which was used, was adopted by the sport in its slow spread to the west. The first polo club was established in the town of Silchar in Assam, India, in 1834. It is also  called "The Sport of Kings" and is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team.
    polo_score-18-08-1993.jpg
  • Pilot of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team checks timings of forthcoming airshow display in team coach.
    Red_Arrows506_RBA.jpg
  • Cabin crew hostess checks her watch at the bottom of steps a Qatar Airways Boeing 787 at the Farnborough Air Show, UK.
    qatar_78703-09-07-2012.jpg
  • A young woman dashes through woodland after reaaching a checkpoint during an orienteering race.
    orienteering-12-07-1990.jpg
  • Squadron Leader Spike Jepson, leader of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team memorises manoeuvres.
    Red_Arrows295_RBA.jpg
  • Teenage Nepali boys await the start of a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They have to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    doko_gurkhas-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Crowds gather at some water during the annual Carriagedriving trials at the Windsor Great Park Equestrian Club. As one spectator lies across the grass, reading a national newspaper, a competitor negotiates a water feature on the Windsor course. Carriage driving is a form of competitive horse driving in harness in which larger two or four wheeled carriages (often restored antiques) are pulled by a single horse, a pair, tandem or a four-in-hand team. The Windsor Park Equestrian Club is situated among the 5,000 acres of the Windsor Great Park which in turn is part of the 14,000 acre Windsor Estate spanning two counties, Surrey and Berkshire.
    windsor_event-13-05-1995.jpg
  • From a high viewpoint on Snow Hill, we see the green  'Long Walk' in the Royal Estate's Windsor Great Park. We look down the 3-mile straight road into the distance towards Windsor Castle in the summer shinshine during the equestrian 3-Day Event held annually on Her Majesty the Queens's property. Half-way down the lush avenue of Elm trees there are some horses and their riders either warming up before competition, or galloping across the landscape on a round against the clock. A few spectators have stopped to watch this part of the course but others are elsewhere at the dramatic water jumps. The Long Walk was commenced by Charles II from 1680-1685 by planting a double avenue of elm trees. The central carriage road was added by Queen Anne in 1710. Windsor Castle was begun in the 11th century by William the Conqueror as it afforded a good defensive point over the River Thames. A vast area of Windsor Forest to the south of the castle became reserved by the King for personal hunting and also to supply the castle with wood, deer, boar and fish. Windsor Great Park (locally referred to simply as the Great Park) is a large deer park and Crown Estate of 5,000 acres, to the south of the town of Windsor on the border of Berkshire and Surrey in England. The park was, for many centuries, the private hunting ground of Windsor Castle and dates primarily from the mid-13th century. Now largely open to the public, the parkland is a popular recreation area for residents of the western London suburbs.
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  • An physical education instructor tests an army recruit for concussion after a bout of Milling, a test of aggression that  recruits must pass before qualifying as a paratrooper in the Para Regiment of the British Army, on 23rd July 1996, at Aldershot, England. The controversial Milling tradition unique to the Paras is a test for young men to prove they have a killer spirit by a timed gloved one-to-one boxing fight. Within that time, they have to punch as fiercely as possible, often resulting in blooded noses and temporary concussion.
    milling_paras-23-07-1996.jpg
  • The musician with the 80s band The Police, Sting supports the charity Sport Aid's running event in London's Hyde Park, on 25th May 1986, in London, England. Sport Aid (also known as Sports Aid) was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in various sports, and culminating in the Race Against Time, a 10 km fun run held simultaneously in 89 countries. Timed to coincide with a UNICEF development conference in New York City, Sport Aid raised $37m for Live Aid and UNICEF. A second lower-key Sport Aid was held in 1988. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    sting_sportaid-25-05-1986.jpg
  • Portrait of a young girl holding her First Prize winning pony at a gymkhana meeting, on 2nd July 1995, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the United Kingdom and east coast of the United States, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending
    first_prize_pony-02-07-1995.jpg
  • English musician, Sting appears at the first Sport Aid event ("Run the World") in May 1986 at London's Hyde Park England. Sport Aid  was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in various sports, and culminating in the Race Against Time, a 10 km fun run held simultaneously in 89 countries.[1] Timed to coincide with a UNICEF development conference in New York City, Sport Aid raised $37m for Live Aid and UNICEF.
    sting-01-05-1986.jpg
  • Two young 1990s girls stand with their beloved ponies at a gymkhana in, on 17th September 1999, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    pony_girls-17-09-1999.jpg
  • A young girl sits on her pony, waiting for the beginning of her race at a local gymkhana, on 17th September 1999, in Cheltenham, England. Wearing a smart herringbone patterned jacket, regulation jodhpurs and holding a crop to encourage the horse to perform a series of trick and races, she sits calmly awaiting the next event. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
    pony_rider-17-09-1999.jpg
  • Venezuelan Tomas Aurelio Gil Martinez races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial01-01-08-2012.jpg
  • The enticing shop window of Doughnut Time on Old Street in Shoreditch and near Old Street roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England. Doughnut Time is the creation of Austrlian entrepreneur Damian Griffiths, and has rapidly become an Australian success story with over 23 locations.
    shoreditch_donuts-03-06-03-2018.jpg
  • A cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial09-01-08-2012.jpg
  • New Zealand's Jack Bauer races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial07-01-08-2012.jpg
  • The enticing shop window of Doughnut Time on Old Street in Shoreditch and near Old Street roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England. Doughnut Time is the creation of Austrlian entrepreneur Damian Griffiths, and has rapidly become an Australian success story with over 23 locations.
    shoreditch_donuts-13-06-03-2018.jpg
  • The new artwork entitled 'I Want My Time With You' by British (Britpop) artist Tracy Emin hangs over the main concourse at St. Pancras Station, on 10th April 2018, in London, England. In the sixth year of the Terrace Wires Commission - and in celebration of the 150th anniversary of St Pancras International and the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts, at one of London's mainline station, the London hub for Eurostar - the 20 metre-long greeting to commuters reads 'I Want My Time With You' and Emin thinks that arriving by train and being met by a lover as they put their arms around them, is very romantic." The Brexit-opposing artist also said she wanted to make "a statement that reaches out to everybody from Europe arriving in to London".
    st_pancras-20-10-04-2018.jpg
  • A businessman reads The Times newspaper in the early 90s when the News International title was a broadsheet - before it went to a tabloid format. The headline refers to a British Rail axing of 5,000 jobs, dated Friday 20th November 1992 when it cost just 45 pence. The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register (it became The Times on 1 January 1788). The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly owned by the News Corporation group headed by Rupert Murdoch.
    times_newspaper02-20-11-1992.jpg
  • A cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial08-01-08-2012.jpg
  • A Dutch cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial13-01-08-2012.jpg
  • The enticing shop window of Doughnut Time on Old Street in Shoreditch and near Old Street roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England. Doughnut Time is the creation of Austrlian entrepreneur Damian Griffiths, and has rapidly become an Australian success story with over 23 locations.
    shoreditch_donuts-02-06-03-2018.jpg
  • The new artwork entitled 'I Want My Time With You' by British (Britpop) artist Tracy Emin hangs over the main concourse at St. Pancras Station, on 10th April 2018, in London, England. In the sixth year of the Terrace Wires Commission - and in celebration of the 150th anniversary of St Pancras International and the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts, at one of London's mainline station, the London hub for Eurostar - the 20 metre-long greeting to commuters reads 'I Want My Time With You' and Emin thinks that arriving by train and being met by a lover as they put their arms around them, is very romantic." The Brexit-opposing artist also said she wanted to make "a statement that reaches out to everybody from Europe arriving in to London".
    st_pancras-19-10-04-2018.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewed for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009. Here, we see the car in a garage/studio before the auction and sale in Paris. In 2008 the Bugatti Type 57S with chassis number 57502 built in 1937 with the Atalante coachwork for Earl Howe was discovered in a private garage in Newcastle upon Tyne, having been stored untouched for 48 years and known about only by a select few people. It was auctioned in February 2009 at the Retromobile motor show in Paris, France, fetching EUR3.4 million (US$4.6 million), becoming one of the highest valued cars in automotive history, owing much to its extremely low mileage, original condition and ownership pedigree.
    bugatti06-09-01_2009.jpg
  • The enticing shop window of Doughnut Time on Old Street in Shoreditch and near Old Street roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England. Doughnut Time is the creation of Austrlian entrepreneur Damian Griffiths, and has rapidly become an Australian success story with over 23 locations.
    shoreditch_donuts-07-06-03-2018.jpg
  • A departures information board at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 is viewed by passengers who stands motionless to read the details of flight departure times to echo that of a Vodafone advertisement containing a tourist on a beach, a generic scene of a person on holiday taking advantage of low mobile phone charges in mainland Europe.  A finger from an unseen traveller points to a flight time and to ladies stand gazing up at the check-in guide that helps tell which is the check-in zone of this 400 metre-long terminal that has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ..
    heathrow_airport1649-24-08-2009.jpg
  • Passing bus and passenger inside with beletia beacon and current time of three o'clock in bus station at Heathrow's terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport801-22-07-2009.jpg
  • The new artwork entitled 'I Want My Time With You' by British (Britpop) artist Tracy Emin hangs over the main concourse at St. Pancras Station, on 10th April 2018, in London, England. In the sixth year of the Terrace Wires Commission - and in celebration of the 150th anniversary of St Pancras International and the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts, at one of London's mainline station, the London hub for Eurostar - the 20 metre-long greeting to commuters reads 'I Want My Time With You' and Emin thinks that arriving by train and being met by a lover as they put their arms around them, is very romantic." The Brexit-opposing artist also said she wanted to make "a statement that reaches out to everybody from Europe arriving in to London".
    st_pancras-12-10-04-2018.jpg
  • The enticing shop window of Doughnut Time on Old Street in Shoreditch and near Old Street roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England. Doughnut Time is the creation of Austrlian entrepreneur Damian Griffiths, and has rapidly become an Australian success story with over 23 locations.
    shoreditch_donuts-09-06-03-2018.jpg
  • Team GB cyclist Bradley Wiggins races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won Wiggins, 42 seconds ahead of German Tony Martin.
    olympic_time_trial15-01-08-2012.jpg
  • On both sides of the railway track, thousands of commuters desperate to get home after a long day at work in central London, line the platforms to we see from an aerial perspective. But the rail workers' union has called for industrial action and there are no trains yet for these passengers to board for north or southbound services. Sensibly away from the edges, people are standing up to six-deep in anticipation of a ride home as the exodus to the suburbs hits its peak time. 37 per cent of workers in the capital used rail or underground travel as their main form of transport to work, according to regional and local statistics compiled by the Office for National Statistics.
    rail_strike-21-06-1989.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009.
    bugatti06-09-01_2009.jpg
  • The construction hoarding of a watch and a notice for parking times outside the new Richard Mille shop in Bond Street, on 19th February 2019, in London, England.
    watch_time-02-19-02-2019.jpg
  • On a rainy night in Soho, tables set up for social distancing on Frith Street remain vacant at a time when recently re-opened bars and restaurants are desperate for customer business during the coronavirus pandemic, on 27th August 2020, in London, England.
    soho_night04-27-08-2020.jpg
  • "Eye Contact." A mother peers over the bath to keep watch over her five month-old baby daughter who is lying on a matt, holding a towel to her face. The infant has had her own time in the water and the mum has taken the opportunity to bathe too. They both look into each other's eyes in a picture of love, trust and joy. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella12-20-04-1995.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009. Unrestored door panel before restoration by the eventual auction owner.
    bugatti21-09-01_2009.jpg
  • The day after its catastrophic blaze, firefighters continue to assess fire damage from their ladders, to the Queen's official residence at Windsor Castle, on 20th November 1992, in London, England. The most northerly corner of this old building that caught fire in a private chapel on the first floor of the north-east wing. Spreading quickly, damaging St George's Hall, which is often used for banquets. In all, one hundred rooms were damaged in the fire and intense public debate was sparked about whether the taxpayer should foot the repair bill, as the castle is owned by the British Government and not the Royal Family. But the Queen agreed to meet 70% of the costs, and opened Buckingham Palace to the public to generate extra funds. The £40m restoration took five years. Windsor is the largest inhabited castle in the world and partly dates to the time of the Norman King William the Conquerer.
    windsor_fire-20-11-1992.jpg
  • A single yacht sails in good time across the path of a P&O cross-channel ferry as it approaches Dover Harbour from France, on 16th September 1995, in Dover, Kent, England.
    ferry_yacht-16-09-1995.jpg
  • A Londoner dashes homeward over London Bridge in the rain as the day darkens in the City of London, the heart of the capital's financial district. There is still several hundred yards to go before he reaches LondonBridge mainline rail station and he checks his watch to see if he can make his chosen train in time. In the distance we see the Victorian Tower Bridge, the HMS Belfast warship and the river Thames below.
    city_people08-20-03-1993.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009. Detail of the horse hair leather seats before restoration by the eventual auction owner.
    bugatti19-09-01_2009.jpg
  • On a rainy night in Soho, Londoners use a pedestrianised Old Compton Street at a time when recently re-opened bars and restaurants are desperate for customer business during the coronavirus pandemic, on 27th August 2020, in London, England.
    soho_night02-27-08-2020.jpg
  • On a rainy night in Soho, tables set up for social distancing outside Bar Italia on Frith Street remain vacant at a time when recently re-opened bars and restaurants are desperate for customer business during the coronavirus pandemic, on 27th August 2020, in London, England.
    soho_night20-27-08-2020.jpg
  • On a rainy night in Soho, tables set up for social distancing on Berwick Street remain vacant at a time when recently re-opened bars and restaurants are desperate for customer business during the coronavirus pandemic, on 27th August 2020, in London, England.
    soho_night15-27-08-2020.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewed for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009. Here, we see a detail of the steering wheel and dashboard while in a garage/studio before the auction and sale in Paris. In 2008 the Bugatti Type 57S with chassis number 57502 built in 1937 with the Atalante coachwork for Earl Howe was discovered in a private garage in Newcastle upon Tyne, having been stored untouched for 48 years and known about only by a select few people. It was auctioned in February 2009 at the Retromobile motor show in Paris, France, fetching EUR3.4 million (US$4.6 million), becoming one of the highest valued cars in automotive history, owing much to its extremely low mileage, original condition and ownership pedigree.
    bugatti14-09-01_2009.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009.
    bugatti03-09-01_2009.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009. The calssic Bugatti engine block, manifold and supercharger.
    bugatti23-09-01_2009.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009. Phoenix Green Garage Studio owner and vintage car restorer Nick Benwell (L) with auctioneers Bonhams International Managing Director Motor car Department, James Knight.
    bugatti09-09-01_2009.jpg
  • On a rainy night in Soho, tables set up for social distancing on Frith Street remain vacant at a time when recently re-opened bars and restaurants are desperate for customer business during the coronavirus pandemic, on 27th August 2020, in London, England.
    soho_night06-27-08-2020.jpg
  • On a rainy night in Soho, security man 'H'  wears a bright red facial covering outside a business at a time when recently re-opened bars and restaurants are desperate for customer business during the coronavirus pandemic, on 27th August 2020, in London, England.
    soho_night09-27-08-2020.jpg
  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over the opening times in the window of a former Christian CD, books and software shop in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses118-28-04-2009.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009.
    bugatti08-09-01_2009.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009.
    bugatti05-09-01_2009.jpg
  • On a rainy night in Soho, Londoners use a pedestrianised Old Compton Street at a time when recently re-opened bars and restaurants are desperate for customer business during the coronavirus pandemic, on 27th August 2020, in London, England.
    soho_night03-27-08-2020.jpg
  • On a rainy night in Soho, tables set up on Old Compton Street for social distancing remain vacant at a time when recently re-opened bars and restaurants are desperate for customer business during the coronavirus pandemic, on 27th August 2020, in London, England.
    soho_night17-27-08-2020.jpg
  • The lights from a jet airliner trail themselves during a long, hand-held time exposure above London skies.
    night_sky03-12-08-2010.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows572_RBA.jpg
  • "Losing the hair I was born with." We look over the darkened shoulder of a mother as she cuts her baby daughter's hair, at home, for the first time. Sitting in her high-chair, the child watches with fascination as the scissors snip away at the tufts of thick, dark hair the girl has had from birth. The experience is clearly enchanting her and she looks with her mouth open, captivated by this strange instrument that she feels trimming her head. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella13-20-04-1995.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009. Detail of the horse hair leather seats before restoration by the eventual auction owner.
    bugatti20-09-01_2009.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009.
    bugatti18-09-01_2009.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009.
    bugatti16-09-01_2009.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009. Phoenix Green Garage Studio owner and vintage car restorer Nick Benwell (L) with auctioneers Bonhams International Managing Director of the Motor Car Department, James Knight (R).
    bugatti13-09-01_2009.jpg
  • Found in a garage where it had been stored virtually untouched for 50 years, this 1937 Bugatti Type 57s Atalante sports car is previewd for the first time before a Bonhams auction in Paris on February 7th 2009. A parked Mini Cooper outside Phoenix Green Garage Studio belonging to enthusiast and vintage car restorer Nick Benwell.
    bugatti02-09-01_2009.jpg
  • Times Square ads, Manhattan. Patriotic Americana - After 9/11. Advertising bllboard hoardings and American flags in Times Square, NYC. In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. Flags and ads adorn a construction site in Times Square...
    These Colors Dont Run07 RBA.jpg
  • During the Coronavirus lockdown, a time when residents in the UK are asked to stay at home, semi-detatched period homes from the Edwardian era, are lit in evening sunlight with a rare commercial airliner passing overhead, leaving its vapour trail in a blue sky, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-31-20-05-2020.jpg
  • Pro-EU Remainers celebrate EU membership by singing Ode To Joy during their 'party like there's no tomorrow' for one last time outside parliament, one day before Brexit Day (the date of 31st January 2020, when the UK legally exits the European Union), in Parliament Square, Westminster, on 30th January 2020, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-20-30-01-2020.jpg
  • A protester wearing a Robert Maxwell t-shirt stands outside the entrance of Mirror Group Newspapers at a time when its pension fund was found to have been stolen by its tycoon owner, Robert Maxwell from former employees, on 9th June 1992, in London, England.
    robber_bob-30-04-1991.jpg
  • A close-up detail of the ruins of the Altar at the Aedes Genii Augusti temple at Pompeii. Roman citizens seen on a relief at the side of the forum in the ancient city of Pompei. Being built or renovated around the time of the volcanic eruption in 79 AD, this detail is from the white marble altar depicting the sacrifice of a bull and we see the scene depicting a marketplace where Romans of the empire buy and sell their wares.
    pompeii_relief-12-06-2003.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we look sideways towards other pilots diving downwards as they their machines after a loop, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows738_RBA.jpg
  • One day before Brexit Day (the date of 31st January 2020, when the UK legally exits the European Union), a pro-EU Remainer stands outside parliament alongside a Latin pun referring to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Queen's 'annus horribilis' (her 1992, a year of disaster fire at Windsor Castle and royal scandal). Remainers chose to celebrate the UK's membership with the EU for one last time for 'A party like there's no tomorrow' outside parliament, in Parliament Square, Westminster, on 30th January 2020, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-10-30-01-2020.jpg
  • Pro-EU Remainers celebrate EU membership with cupcakes during their 'party like there's no tomorrow' for one last time outside parliament, one day before Brexit Day (the date of 31st January 2020, when the UK legally exits the European Union), in Parliament Square, Westminster, on 30th January 2020, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-06-30-01-2020.jpg
  • Pro-EU Remainers celebrate EU membership with 'A party like there's no tomorrow' for one last time outside parliament, one day before Brexit Day (the date of 31st January 2020, when the UK legally exits the European Union), in Parliament Square, Westminster, on 30th January 2020, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-02-30-01-2020.jpg
  • A mother of 42 years of age holds her 1 year-old son among heather in country field during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing in naturally-growing heather in afternoon sunshine, the mum and the young child are looking at plants, her polka dot dress seems to be the fashion in this picture recorded on a film camera by the child's father, an amateur photographer in 1960. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A mother and adolescent boy sip soft drinks while on a daytrip to Malaga on the Costa del Sol, southern Spain. Wearing a floppy hat and a matching floral blue dress, the mother takes sips from her Coke bottle at an outside street kiosk outside the bullfighting ring in the centre of town. The 70s saw an explosion of UK tourism to the Spanish costas, providing middle and working class with affordable holidays, a few hours flying time from Britain.
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  • Exterior of 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Erich Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
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  • Pro-EU Remainers celebrate EU membership by singing Ode To Joy during their 'party like there's no tomorrow' for one last time outside parliament, one day before Brexit Day (the date of 31st January 2020, when the UK legally exits the European Union), in Parliament Square, Westminster, on 30th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • Pro-EU Remainers celebrate EU membership with 'A party like there's no tomorrow' for one last time outside parliament, one day before Brexit Day (the date of 31st January 2020, when the UK legally exits the European Union), in Parliament Square, Westminster, on 30th January 2020, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-04-30-01-2020.jpg
  • A wide aerial view of the European Parliament's new headquarters of the EU and an administrative home to the Members of European Parliament (MEPs), at the time of its opening, on 16th October 1993, in Brussels, Belgium.
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  • A mother and adolescent watch the bullfighting while on a daytrip to Malaga on the Costa del Sol, southern Spain. While the boy looks amused, his mother looks nervous at the spectacle below in the bullfighting ring in the centre of town. The 70s saw an explosion of UK tourism to the Spanish costas, providing middle and working class with affordable holidays, a few hours flying time from Britain.
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  • A pair of awkwardly splayed legs disappear into the cold, murky waters of the Serpentine Lake in London's Hyde Park. Having just dived head-first off a platform that juts out into the lake, the person is half in and half out and the splash is frozen in time. He or she is in incopetent diver with such ungainly plunge into the waters. It is otherwise a quiet moment. The water is largely undisturbed apart from the dive and buoy markers float to for a boundary line to keep rowing boats and bathers apart. This bathing area is where the normally busy Serpentine Swimming Club have the use of this Royal lake known as Lansbury's Lido. It is now normally open only in the summer, but one traditional event occurs each year on New Year's Day, when the ice is broken and brave bathers dive into the cold waters of the lake. The Serpentine will be used for the swimming leg of the triathlon at the London 2012 Olympics. The Serpentine gets its name from its supposedly snakelike, curving shape. It was formed in 1730 when Queen Caroline, wife of George II, ordered the damming of the River Westbourne and other natural ponds in Hyde Park. ..
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  • One day before Brexit Day (the date of 31st January 2020, when the UK legally exits the European Union), a pro-EU Remainer stands outside parliament alongside a Latin pun referring to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Queen's 'annus horribilis' (her 1992, a year of disaster fire at Windsor Castle and royal scandal). Remainers chose to celebrate the UK's membership with the EU for one last time for 'A party like there's no tomorrow' outside parliament, in Parliament Square, Westminster, on 30th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • The runners and riders for the 5th and 6th races during a horseracing meeting at the British-built Kolkata racecourse, on 18th November 1996, in Kolkata, India. The race course was built in 1820 and is maintained by the Royal Calcutta Turf Club (RCTC), founded in 1847 in Calcutta, British India (now Kolkata, India) and became the premier horse racing organisation in India during the British Raj. At one time it was the governing body for almost all courses in the sub-continent, defining and applying the rules that governed the sport. During its heyday the races it organised were among the most important social events of the calendar, opened by the Viceroy of India. During the 1930s the Calcutta Derby Sweeps, organised by the club, was the largest sweepstake in the world. It is still an exclusive private club and still operates the Kolkata Race Course.
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  • A lady passes the European Union flag while Pro-EU Remainers celebrate EU membership with 'A party like there's no tomorrow' for one last time outside parliament, one day before Brexit Day (the date of 31st January 2020, when the UK legally exits the European Union), in Parliament Square, Westminster, on 30th January 2020, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-16-30-01-2020.jpg
  • Banking slowly left over the agricultural Lincolnshire countryside are the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, who have commenced an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. They turn at a gentle angle trailing white organic smoke  before reforming in front of a local crowd at the airfield and working through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. Their objective is to appear perfectly spaced from a ground perspective. Freshly-ploughed English fields with properties, roads and hedgerows are seen below. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • A Metropolitan Police diver surfaces beneath the murky waters of the River Thames in front of the tall buildings of the City of London, on 13th June 1993, in London, England. Blowing bubbles, he exhales through his oxygenated mask and looks through the Plexiglass to the viewer. The Underwater and Confined Space Search Team (UCSST), are part of the Marine Support Unit and based at Wapping. They also carry out searches in canals, ponds, lakes and reservoirs. It was set up as a full time unit in 1964. One of their most distressing jobs, however, is recovering bodies from the River. On average over 50 people lose their lives in the Thames each year and about 80% of these are by suicide (usually by jumping off one of the many bridges that cross the Thames). After a body is recovered from the River it is taken to the mortuary at Wapping Police Station for identification.
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  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows685_RBA.jpg
  • Ending France's Bastille Day parade, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, leave a trail of smoke over the pyramid peak of the Louvre art museum in the centre of Paris. Leaving vapour trails of red, white and blue smoke to mark the 100th anniversary of the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale. They were chosen by the French authorities to close the fly-pasts. British armed forces paraded in the historic parade for the first time. Under blue skies on a perfect summer day, the squadron lined up in their classic fly-past 'V-shape' called 'Big Battle', following the straight line of the Champs Elysees then eastwards over the Parisian suburbs. Personnel from four British military units were present and French Air Force jets performed their own fly-past to open the parade, while the British Hawk jets of the Red Arrows had the honour of completing it. .
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  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team before an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows739_RBA.jpg
  • ID papers for an anonymous secret agent from Cottbus, Germany, an exhibit in 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. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. 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. The Stasi Museum is a 22-hectare complex of research  and memorial centre concerning the political system of the former East Germany. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
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  • Canterbury 21/3/2013 - The Anglican Church Times is handed out as VIP guests from all religions, denominations and faiths arrive before the enthronement of the Church of England's 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, ex-oil executive and former Bishop of Durham the Right Reverend Justin Welby. Welby (57) follows a long Anglican heritage since Benedictine monk Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury in 597AD Prince Charles and Prime Minister David Cameron joined 2,000 VIP guests to Canterbury Cathedral, the oldest church in England which has attracted pilgrims since Thomas a Becket was murdered in the Cathedral in 1170.
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  • The office of Major General Hans Carlsohn, 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. Carlsohn was personal assistant to Mielke then director of the Minister's secretariat. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
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  • Lenin bust in preserved office of former Minister in charge of GDR secret police chief, Erich Mielke - 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, 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. After the fall of the socialist state, Mielke was sentenced to 6 years in prison and died in 2000, aged 92. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
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  • Peeled paint and security at the entrance of the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. Hohenschönhausen was a very important part of the Socialist GDR's (German Democratic Republic) system of political and artistic oppression. Although torture (including Chinese water torture) and physical violence were commonly employed at Hohenschönhausen (especially in the 1950s), psychological intimidation was the main method of political repression and techniques including sleep deprivation, total isolation, threats to friends and family members. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. 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. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
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  • 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
  • Secretariat offices for the staff to Erich Mielke, 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, Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
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  • Ageing 80s technology of the Thames Barrier on the River Thames near Woolwich in east London. As daylight fades to become a purple hue, we see the waters of the Thames flowing on the tide. Operational in 1982, the Thames Barrier is one of the largest movable flood barriers in the world, managed by the UK's Environment Agency. The barrier spans 520 metres across the River Thames near Woolwich, and it protects 125 square kilometres of central London from flooding caused by tidal surges.  The barrier has closed over 80 times since the year 2000 with ‘at least 800,000 homes and businesses have protected from tidal surges.
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  • Secretariat offices for the staff to Erich Mielke, 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, 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_museum19-07-04-2013.jpg
  • The conference room where the heads of the GDR secret police met with district administrators, 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_museum33-07-04-2013.jpg
  • Secretariat offices for the staff to Erich Mielke, 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, 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_museum17-07-04-2013.jpg
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