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  • Ageing architecture at outdoor market in the Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
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  • Irish ploughman Tom Nixon leads Shire horses Nobby and Heath as they plough an on-going heritage wheat-growing area in Ruskin Park, a public green space in the borough of Southwark, on 9th February 2018, in London, England. The Friends of Ruskin Park are again growing heritage wheat and crops together with the Friends of Brixton Windmill and Brockwell Bake Association. Shire horses are descended from the medieval warhorse but are a breed under threat. Operation Centaur, which maintains the last working herd of Shires in London is dedicated to the protection and survival of the breed. It is an organization set up to promote the relevance of the horse as a contemporary working animal in partnership with humans. This takes the form of heritage skills in conservation and agriculture, transportation, discovery, learning and therapy.
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  • Irish ploughman Tom Nixon leads Shire horses Nobby and Heath as they plough an on-going heritage wheat-growing area in Ruskin Park, a public green space in the borough of Southwark, on 9th February 2018, in London, England. The Friends of Ruskin Park are again growing heritage wheat and crops together with the Friends of Brixton Windmill and Brockwell Bake Association. Shire horses are descended from the medieval warhorse but are a breed under threat. Operation Centaur, which maintains the last working herd of Shires in London is dedicated to the protection and survival of the breed. It is an organization set up to promote the relevance of the horse as a contemporary working animal in partnership with humans. This takes the form of heritage skills in conservation and agriculture, transportation, discovery, learning and therapy.
    ruskin_shires-27-09-02-2018.jpg
  • Irish ploughman Tom Nixon leads Shire horses Nobby and Heath as they plough an on-going heritage wheat-growing area in Ruskin Park, a public green space in the borough of Southwark, on 9th February 2018, in London, England. The Friends of Ruskin Park are again growing heritage wheat and crops together with the Friends of Brixton Windmill and Brockwell Bake Association. Shire horses are descended from the medieval warhorse but are a breed under threat. Operation Centaur, which maintains the last working herd of Shires in London is dedicated to the protection and survival of the breed. It is an organization set up to promote the relevance of the horse as a contemporary working animal in partnership with humans. This takes the form of heritage skills in conservation and agriculture, transportation, discovery, learning and therapy.
    ruskin_shires-23-09-02-2018.jpg
  • Irish ploughman Tom Nixon leads Shire horses Nobby and Heath as they plough an on-going heritage wheat-growing area in Ruskin Park, a public green space in the borough of Southwark, on 9th February 2018, in London, England. The Friends of Ruskin Park are again growing heritage wheat and crops together with the Friends of Brixton Windmill and Brockwell Bake Association. Shire horses are descended from the medieval warhorse but are a breed under threat. Operation Centaur, which maintains the last working herd of Shires in London is dedicated to the protection and survival of the breed. It is an organization set up to promote the relevance of the horse as a contemporary working animal in partnership with humans. This takes the form of heritage skills in conservation and agriculture, transportation, discovery, learning and therapy.
    ruskin_shires-17-09-02-2018.jpg
  • A taxi cab office advertising airport run fairs beneath a Victorian bridge near Waterloo station, on 30th January 2018, in the south London borough of Southwark, England.
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  • A small man and an imperial figure on the outside of the Natwest Bank on Poultry, on 27th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Two young women hold hands, both hopefuls for a model contest in the Mermaid Theatre, on 21st July 2002, in London, England.
    women_holding-hands-21-07-2002_1.jpg
  • Friends chat near a parking meter and the shadow of street lighting on a city wall, on 11th January 1999, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
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  • Mexican Papantla Flyers perform a pre-Hispanic ritual dedicated to their sun god, a leap from a 90 foot pole, on 15th May 1996, the Tulum ruins, Yucatan, Mexico. Dressed in their native costumes these men lash themselves to this towering pole with a leather bindings and soar off into space backwards and upside down in the ultimate leap of faith. The Papantla Flyers are Totonac Indians performing an ancient fertility ceremony. As they slowly descend to earth, the 13 revolutions made by the four flyers equal the 52-year span of the Aztec century. They represent earth, water, fire and air and the interweaving of these four elements symbolizes the creation of new life. A fifth man is left on top, dancing on this tiny nine-inch platform while simultaneously playing both a pre-Columbian flute and drum.
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  • Children play with Mahjong tiles at a night-club, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. The Macau Special Administrative Region is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover.
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  • Passengers mingle at the Eurostar terminal at London's Waterloo Station in the 1990s before it was moved to St. Pancras, on 16th September 1996, in London, England.
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  • Passengers mingle at the Eurostar terminal at London's Waterloo Station in the 1990s before it was moved to St. Pancras, on 16th September 1996, in London, England.
    eurostar_waterloo-16-09-1995_1.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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  • The Earl Spencer, brother to Diana Princess of Wales, meets the public allowed in to the family ancestral home, Althorp, the year after his sister's death in 1997, on 21st May 1998, in Althorp, Northamptonshire, England.
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  • Visitors to the African Art exhibition entitled "Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa" at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, on 11th October 1995, in London, England. Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa. Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa, curated by five Africans, embraced works by sixty artists, including deeply spiritual works from Sudan and Ethiopia, drawing on Islamic and Christian traditions; large apocalyptic paintings from Uganda, reflecting civil strife and the AIDS epidemic; a mixed media installation from Senegal, featuring suspended mannequins, wire sculptures and banners; and significant works by black and white artists from South Africa, reflecting on the country's past and present.
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  • A long-abandoned agricultural cart lies rotting in Northumbrian woodland, on 25th September 2017, in Rothbury, Northumberland, England.
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  • Tourists wearing rain-proof capes from a tour bus company, take a selfie in front of Tower Bridge, on the riverbank near the Tower of London, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
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  • A cityscape of the City of London in the background with the northern abutment tower of Tower Bridge and the Norman-era Tower of London flying the British Union Jack flag, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
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  • The British Union Jack flag flies from the high-level walkway of the Victorian-era Tower Bridge, near the modern Walkie Talkie building (aka 20 Fenchurch Street), on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    tower_bridge-17-13-09-2017.jpg
  • A classical statue with a GoPro camera taped to one hand stands beneath Corinthian columns of the Main Building at University College London (UCL), on 3rd August 2017, in London, England.
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  • Warm light from an overhead street lamp, illuminates deserted medieval cobbled streets, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • A visiting 1912 Delauney Belleville vintage car visits a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • The Abbey of Sante-Marie D'Orbieu in the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse on the River Orbieu, on 24th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • Patriotic war memorial in Place de la Republique, on 21st May 2017, in Fabrezan, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
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  • Detail of a plaster-rendered village wall, on 25th May, 2017, in Homps, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
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  • A homeless person rests in a sleeping bag next to the statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns, on 4th May 2017, in London, England.
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  • Landscape of the Forresters Pub, a long-standing business featuring 'exotic dancing ladies' on the Eastern Esplanade at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
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  • As a local leans out from a window above and others walk uphill, one of the two cars of the funicular railway climbs the steep gradient of on Rua de Bica de Duarte Belo (Elevador da Bica), on 13th July 2016, in Bairro Alto district, Lisbon, Portugal. The mechanical motor of the elevator was installed in 1890, but the lift only began functioning on 28 June 1892, after a couple of years of tests. The Bica Funicular is a funicular railway line in the civil parish of Misericórdia, in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. It connects the Rua de São Paulo with Calçada do Combro/Rua do Loreto, operated by Carris. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • As a scooter rider on a Vespa edges past, a number 28 tram rumbles along a narrow street in the Portuguese capital, on 13th July 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. The 28 is one of the trams not only used by the people of the capital but also of an increasing number of tourists who ride the entire route from Prazeres cemetery in the west of the city, to Rossio in the centre, after a loop through some of the most amazing streets and landmarks. So crowded is the 28, that older locals often can't sit down, having to stand over younger, inconsiderate tourist families who want a window seat for the entire journey - and back. Notices at termini remind visitors that this is a public service and to consider locals. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • The exterior of Alcobaca Monastery, Portugal.
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  • Statue figures in front of the Faculty of Letters (right), Praca da Porta Ferrea, Coimbra University, Portugal.
    portugal_coimbra-13-17-07-2016.jpg
  • Destinations and 1950s architecture of a closed highway service station in Curia, Portugal.
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  • Rural station in the village of Bakonygyirot, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
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  • Rural station in the village of Bakonygyirot, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
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  • The remains of mud brick Christian tombs at Al-Bagawat Coptic necropolis, al-Kharga, Western Desert, Egypt. Al-Bagawat, (also, El-Bagawat) one of the oldest and best preserved ancient Christian cemeteries in the world, which functioned at the Kharga Oasis in southern-central Egypt from the 3rd to the 7th century AD. Coptic frescoes of the 3rd to the 7th century are found on the walls and there are 263 funerary chapels of which the Chapel of Exodus (5th or 6th century) and Chapel of Peace (of mid 4th century) have frescoes.
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  • A tourist coach parked in central London shows an old steam train and carriages.
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  • Typical wooden doorways in a backstreet courtyard of the modern town of Klausen-Chiusa in south Tyrol, north Italy.
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  • A Clearway sign banning vehicles from parking in front of a typical Alpine barn in Leonhard-St Leonardo, a Dolomites village in south Tyrol, Italy.
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  • Old cigarette dispenser in a high street, Deal Kent.
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  • Wide cityscape of skyscrapers looking across Broadway in Manhattan, New York City.
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  • Young smoking man of today and a lost generation of youth. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
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  • Tribute to the London Regiment's battalions: In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    ww1_memorial08-05-08-2014.jpg
  • The Arch of Germanicus, an ancient Roman arch in Saintes, Charente-Maritime in France. It was built in 18 or 19AD by a rich citizen of the town (then known as Mediolanum Santonum), C. Julius Rufus, and dedicated to the emperor Tiberius, his son Drusus Julius Caesar, and his adoptive son Germanicus. It has two bays and was originally sited over the terminus of the Roman road from Lyon to Saintes. On the proposal of Prosper Mérimée in 1843 it was moved fifteen metres during works on quays along the river, and it was restored in 1851.
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  • Flying machine invention and Last Supper painting at Chateau de Clos Lucé, home to Leonardo da Vinci for the last 3 years of his life and now a celebration of his life and achievements, Amboise, France.
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  • Abandoned farmhouse property in French Indre-et-Loire region, France.
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  • Abandoned farmhouse property in French Indre-et-Loire region, France.
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  • A detail of old family photos taken on 35mm transparency slides from the 1960s.
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  • A portrait of a middle-aged man with Welsh mountains and hills in the background, taken on a film camera by an amateur photographer in the 1970s. Standing with hands on hips, the gentleman wearing a short red top is alone on the hillside during a daytrip to the north Welsh mountains in 1973. With the rolling valley and peaks in cloud in the distance, the scene is a tranquil landscape. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A portrait of family standing in the doorway of a detached home in the 1970s. Two brothers dressed in identical red shirts point upwards and their sister points in another direction while their grandmother stands next to the childrens' uncle in the doorway of this detached home in Kent. The man wears the height of 70s fashion - a 3-piece suit (with waistcoat) with flared trousers and a  brown shirt. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A family walk along a town's side street during summer time in the early 1960s. A small boy is accompanied by his older sister who points at something in the distance, his mother wearing pearls behind and a family friend who holds his hand as the walk towards the town's new shopping precinct. The picture was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A young boy of about 5 years-old stands on a seaside bridge as an older man walks past in the early 1960s. Seen from a low angle, we look up at the small boy standing on some steps of a bridge on the seafront at Southend-on-Sea in Essex, recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A mother holds her 4 year-old son with the family Ford Anglia during summer time in the early 1960s. There are tents behind them in the distance, a summer camping site in Essex. Both doors of the car are open for this portrait, a summer's day in an era of innocence when car ownership was still to become popular among the working and middle-classes is estates like this. The colours are brillianty reproduced and was recorded on a film camera by the child's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family13-28-08-1962.jpg
  • A low, wide landscape of dereliction and poverty on a Toxteth estate during the early 1990s in the city of Liverpool, England. With a crumbling brick wall now fallen on to long grass in the foreground and in the distance, the remains of former homes with gaping holes in roofs, now derelict and awaiting demolition now that all residents have left, their community dispersed to other nearby estates, an impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
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  • Scaled history from the 'Splendid China' model village and modern architecture in the Shenzhen metropolis, China. With a foreground of China's history represented by a classical dynasty constructed in wood and the looming presence of the modern concrete city - the materials separated by thousands of years. We see some of the 50,000 ceramic figures and scenes from a period in Chinese history and further away, a modern corporate building in the metropolis contrasting with ancient, traditional architecture. Splendid China is an attraction at the Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen that has scaled down replicas of China's historical buildings, wonderful scenes and folk customs. The scale models are of a 1:15 with 100 miniaturized landmarks such as The Terracotta Warriors; Great Wall; Forbidden City; Old Summer Palace etc. all laid out according to their geographic locations.
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  • Patriotic Londoners sing wartime songs during 1995 VE Day 50th anniversary celebrations in London. Looking up at the Britons who are singing the words of the national anthem, they wave their small union jack flags in the summer air. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
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  • A man sells fresh oranges from his bicycle in chaotic street in Kathmandu, Nepal. In the heart of the Nepali capital, the busy streets are popular with produce sellers and shoppers as wellas tourists to see the genuine sprawl of Kathmandu, a destination for travellers from around the world. Amid the dark and dirty background, the oranges become a bright addition to this urban landscape. Oranges are grown in places such as Nayagaun Gulmi. Kathmandu is the capital and largest urban agglomerate of Nepal. Its 2011 census shows it has a population of more than 2.5 million inhabitants.
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  • The One Canada Square is seen soon after its completion in the early-1990s. Seen from a low angle inside the dome of Cabot Square shopping mall, we see the tall building rising above us. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape. One Canada Square (often incorrectly called Canary Wharf, after its location) is a skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London. It was the tallest building in the United Kingdom from 1990 to 2010, standing at 235 metres (770 ft) above ground level and containing 50 storeys.
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  • A typical old French house window and shutters with a curious cat in the French town of Gonesse, north of Paris.
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  • Perimeter fence and Mod sign at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
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  • Wall art detail inside a lower-ground control bunker at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use.
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  • An airline flight-engineer occupies his own seat in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 - before the era arrived when technology made his role as a third flight crew member redundant. With a bowl of fresh fruit beside his seat, the male member of the flight-deck crew watches instruments and readings in front of the unseen pilots at the front. Wearing the three stripes designating his rank and seniority within his unspecified airline, the specialist's skills are in engineering systems that maintain efficient flight. When introduced, the Boeing 747-400 model was equipped with a two-crew glass cockpit, which dispensed with the need for a flight engineer - many of whom lost their jobs or retrained as pilots themselves.
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  • Walbrook Roman archeology Minerva Goddess figure and modern woman using her smartphone in the City of London. Walbrook Roman archeology Minerva Goddess figure and modern woman using her smartphone by a construction hoarding in the City of London.
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  • Day 2 of the annual lawn tennis championships and former champion Billie Jean King signs autographs for souvenir hunters at a side entrance of the venue. Billie Jean King is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles, including 12 singles, 16 women's doubles, and 11 mixed doubles titles and winning a record 20 career titles at Wimbledon - six singles, ten women's doubles, and four mixed doubles. The Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world, have been held at the nearby All England Club since 1877.
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  • A Muslim mother and children walk past new mural of iconic musician and singer David Bowie has appeared on the wall of Morleys department store in Brixton, Lambeth, south London. The Bowie face is sourced (by artist James Cochran, aka Jimmy C) from the cover of Bowie's 1973 album Aladdin Sane at the height of his 1970s fame. The pop icon lived at 40 Stansfield Road, Brixton, from his birth in 1947 until 1953. This cover appeared in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, making #277.
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  • Beneath the portraits of scientist Professor John Thomas Daniell and philanthropist Thomas Guy, a London commuter waits for a bus outside King's College London university in the capital's Strand
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  • Emergency fire muster station point on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. Illustrious is the second of three Invincible-class light aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and is affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". She is the oldest ship in the Royal Navy's active fleet , expected  to be  withdrawn from service in 2014 (after 32 years' service).
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  • Members of the Deptford Jack in the Green dance from pub to pub to Greenwich, London to mark the start of spring. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration. After becoming a source of competition between works Guilds. Participants wear traditional green faces and forest foliage, at tradition from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade decorated with garlands and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. Amongst modern "folkies" and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster.
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  • Members of the Deptford Jack in the Green dance from pub to pub to Greenwich, London to mark the start of spring. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration. After becoming a source of competition between works Guilds. Participants wear traditional green faces and forest foliage, at tradition from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade decorated with garlands and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. Amongst modern "folkies" and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster.
    jack-ofthe_green23-01-05-2013.jpg
  • Decor in 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. 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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  • Euros changing hands for bric-a-brac and old possessions, sold at a giant market in Mauerpark - an open space on the site of the old Berlin wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
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  • 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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  • An exhibition panel in the Holocaust museum and memorial, showing only some of the 500 Nazi concentration and labour camps, ghettos and the sites of mass shootings across Europe and Africa during the second world war.
    holocaust_camps01-05-04-2013.jpg
  • Wide landscape and architecture of the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) in Berlin Mitte. The structure is a former city gate, rebuilt in the late 18th century as a neoclassical triumphal arch, and now one of the most well-known landmarks of Germany. It is located west of the city centre of Berlin at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. When the Nazis ascended to power they used the Gate as a party symbol. The Gate only just survived World War II and was one of the damaged structures still standing in the Pariser Platz ruins in 1945 alongside the nearby Reichstag.
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  • Security barbed wire 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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  • The notorious moto in German labour and extermination camps Arbeit Macht Frei ('Work will set you free') in the Nazi and Soviet Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
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  • An incongruous landscape of an imperial-style statue from the days of the Weimar Republic, with modern bikes and a tourist information dispenser at Humboldt Box in Berlin Mitte.  .
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  • Netting protects statues from birds on the roof of Gibson Hall in the capital's Bishopgate Street in the heart of the capital's financial district. Protecting the artworks from local wildlife high up overlooking the bust streets of the capital's oldest area, the netting has been carefully placed across the bodies of classical figures. Gibson Hall (1864 - 5), by John Gibson is a fine example of Victorian, neo-classical banking architecture designed as the HQ of a bank that replaced an earlier neo-Palladian mansion.
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  • A poorly maintained red door with the number 48 of an old Victorian property in the north London district of Kings Cross. This area of north London is a across the road from the mainline station where European visitors arrive on the Eurostar from mainland Europe and the King Cross area is set for more redevelopment so the future for this original architecture is uncertain.
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  • A bright, new blue office chair incongruously left in a street with stained Victorian brickwork of a tunnel, in the London district of Clerkenwell. Set against the poverty of the road arch brick, we see contemporary modern office furniture and a previous 19th century era.
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  • The memorial to lost firefighters during the Blitz bombing era of ww2, beneath the Wren-designed dome of St. Paul's Cathedral.
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  • Businessmen walk past the statue of George Peabody in the heart of the financial City of London. Peabody was a philanthropist, banker and entrepreneur George Peabody (1795 to 1869). The three men each concentrate on their own communications, all separated by a suitable personal space to maintain their privacy. The pavement is a pedestrian area near the Bank of England and adjacent to the 3rd Royal Exchange built in 1842 by Sir William Tite. .
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  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
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  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
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  • Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford, a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB waves to crowds during the Lord Mayor's Show. He is the 685th in the City of London's ancient history. The new Mayor's procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign's representative in the City - London's ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
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  • The white helmets of the Royal Marines who march through the City of London during the annual Lord Mayor's Show. The new Mayor's procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign's representative in the City - London's ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
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  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the currency trading floor of National Westminster Bank PLC in London
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  • 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.
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  • A Post Office employee hauls a cart full of post onto the station platform on the Mail Rail system. The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless underground railway in London, built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices. Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company it operated from 3 December 1927 until 31 May 2003. It ran east-west from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Office at Whitechapel in the east, a distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km). It had eight stations, the largest of which was underneath Mount Pleasant, but by 2003 only three stations remained in use because the sorting offices above the other stations had been relocated.
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  • The SE corner of Connaught Square W2 (on the junction with Seymour Street), the location now said by historians to be the site of the medieval Tyburn gallows. Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch in present-day London. It took its name from the Tyburn or Teo Bourne 'boundary stream', a tributary of the River Thames which is now completely covered over between its source and its outfall into the Thames. For many centuries, the name was synonymous with capital punishment, its having been the principal place for execution of London criminals and convicted traitors and martyrs.
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  • A plaster figure of Jesus draped with plastic beads and a crucifix at a gravestone in a south London cemetery.
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  • CCTV cameras and train schedule show Londoners with the background of Canaletto's 18th century painting of the Lord Mayor's Show regatta at London Bridge railway station. The  30-metre-long work of art is positioned on a temporary wall at the recently-refurbished station entrance. The picture is a reproduction of Canaletto's The Thames on Lord Mayor's Day, Reproduced at this scale commuters and tourists are be able to admire the detail of the famous painting depicting the bustling activity of the Lord Mayor's Show river procession as seen from Bankside before 1752.
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  • The celebrated tomb of Polish-born composerFrédéric François Chopin in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of French-Polish parentage. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music. Chopin was born in ?elazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, Chopin grew up in Warsaw and completed his music education there; he composed many mature works in Warsaw before leaving Poland in 1830 at age 20.
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  • Olympic 2012 banner and Sir Christopher Wren architecture at the old Royal Naval College, Greenwich on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Greenwich Park is hosting the Olympic Equestrian competitions, plus the combined running and shooting event of the Modern Pentathlon. The Old Royal Naval College is the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site in Greenwich, London. The buildings were originally constructed to serve as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, now generally known as Greenwich Hospital, which was designed by Wren, and built between 1696 and 1712.
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  • Watching live TV coverage of Equestrian events, German spectators and other sports fans sit in summer deckchairs at the old Royal Naval College, Greenwich on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Greenwich Park is hosting the Olympic Equestrian competitions, plus the combined running and shooting event of the Modern Pentathlon. The Old Royal Naval College is the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site in Greenwich, London. The buildings were originally constructed to serve as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, now generally known as Greenwich Hospital, which was designed by Christopher Wren, and built between 1696 and 1712.
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  • London lady stands for a souvenir photo on the Olympic rings that stand at the entrance of King Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace on the first day of competition of the London 2012 Olympic 250km mens' road race. Starting from central London and passing the capital's famous landmarks before heading out into rural England to the gruelling Box Hill in the county of Surrey. Local southwest Londoners lined the route hoping for British favourite Mark Cavendish to win Team GB first medal but were eventually disappointed when Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov eventually won gold.
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  • Expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Olympic flags flying on a mini golf putting green in the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Expensive real estate beach hut at 4x4 car at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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