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  • Visitors copy the pose of Discoblus, the 2nd century AD Roman copy of Myron's 450-440BC original sculpture, on 28th February 2017, in London, England. It was discovered, minus its original head, in 1791 in Hadrian's villa at Tivoli, near Rome.
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  • The new Shard tower rises high above London next to new housing and the spire of St George the Martyr church at Marshalsea, on 28th November 2016, in Borough, Southwark, England.
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  • Beneath tall columns and pillars is the altar and crucifix in the central nave of Alcobaca Monastery (Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaca), on 16th July, at Alcobaca, Portugal. The monastery was completed in 1223 for the Cistercian order and added to further by King Dinnis (Dennis) who built the main cloister and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Austere architecture is in keeping with the Cistercian regard for simplicity. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Wide architecture of a typical Tyrolean barn in Pransasores, a Dolomites hamlet in south Tyrol, Italy.
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  • Detail of a Cunard White Star line luggage label.
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  • Musical instrument shop has moved from Denmark Street in London's famous Tin Pan Alley, a result of lease issues and rent hikes.
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  • City Hall in the modern city of London and the ancient temple Teotihuacan in Mexico. The giant ad for Mexican tourism is a riverside poster by the offices of London's mayor. The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast size of its monuments – in particular, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, laid out on geometric and symbolic principles. As one of the most powerful cultural centres in Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan extended its cultural and artistic influence throughout the region, and even beyond.
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  • A glam rock David Bowie tribute band perform the entire 'Ziggy Stardust' album at a private party in Wales.
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  • Bank of England on the left and neo-classical architecture of Cornhill Exchange, City of London.
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  • An image of 'Leda and the Swan' in the gardens of 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • An original Victorian shopping arcade in the seaside resort town of Great Yarmouth on the English east coast. Daylight floods in through overhead skylight roof glass  as shoppers walk past local ladies fashion displays seen behind beautiful curved windows, in the style of late 19th century. Tiles flooring acts as a pavement to resembled an upper-class covered street to keep visitors dry from frequent coastal showers. The shops are local too - without branded chains occupying the site and forcing hardship on local businesses.
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  • Macanese Chinese workers trim garden grass outside the old Portuguese-era Leal Senado Library, Macau, China.
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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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  • A young boy sits on the grass after falling from his tricycle on a summer's day in the family garden in the early nineteen sixties.
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  • Elderly couplerest on a Cambridge wall as a younger, Asian man and European woman eat food.
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  • Family of father and children crossing the Borgo degli Albizi in Florence..
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  • A tourists takes a photo in front of defaced renaissance paintings in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. behind her is the reproduction of a renaissance painting that now adorns a construction hoarding screen. Someone has drawn a moustache and cannabis joint in the mouth of a religious character.
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  • Tourist stands overlooking city of Florence on Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile) in Florence..She has climbed 414 steps up 84.7 meters (277.9 ft) high Gioto's Belltower (or campanile) of Duomo Cathedral. .The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white and has an elaborate 19th century Gothic Revival facade by Emilio De Fabris. The cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. The three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site .
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  • From a slightly raised viewpoint we are looking up Bishopsgate Street in the oldest area of Britain's capital, the Square Mile in the City of London. As traffic is at a standstill when lights are red, pedestrians to and fro across the scene, blurring as they negotiate crossings and traffic islands mid-way across this old Roman and medieval highway that travels north-south in what is now the city's financial district. Buses can be seen in the far distance too adding to the general bustle of a busy metropolis. The highway tends to zigzag into the distance and with the foreshortening of a long lens, appears to have a compressed perspective.
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  • In the shadow of 1 Canada Square, the iconic Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands stands as an icon for Thatcherite Britain when the good times, prosperity and economic upturns seemed unshakeable. Four work colleagues stand under a hot lunchtime sun during a summer heatwave. In their shirtsleeves the men each hold pints of refreshing lager, all having removed their dark jackets to enjoy the company of a flirtatious female who appears to be flirting with an older male companion. The sky is blue and the five are care-free to any future economic uncertainty.
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  • 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.
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  • Local 1990s kids on bikes watch an event on Venice Beach, on 18th May 1996, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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  • A female worker carries plastic goods on a traditional pole through the centre of Shenzhen, on 10th August 1994, in Shenzhen, China.
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  • A pet dog sits on the step of a pub at 10 Lady Street, in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. By the late 15th century, the town was among the richest in the British Isles, paying more in taxation than considerably larger towns such as York and Lincoln. Several merchant families emerged, the most successful of which was the Spring family.  The wool trade was already present by the 13th century, steadily expanding as demand grew. By the 1470s Suffolk produced more cloth than any other county.
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  • Hours before it was removed by its owner, the Canal and River Trust charity, the statue of slave merchant, Robert Milligan stands covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of London's Docklands Museum on West India Quay, once the world's longest warehouse paid for by slavery profits, on 9th June 2020, in London, England. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligan's and other statues of British slavery profiteers, have become a focus of protest.
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  • Hours before it was removed by its owner, the Canal and River Trust charity, the statue of slave merchant, Robert Milligan stands covered by Black Lives Matter activists outside the Museum of London's Docklands Museum on West India Quay, once the world's longest warehouse paid for by slavery profits, on 9th June 2020, in London, England. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in the US and UK Black Lives Matter groups, who are calling for the removal of statues and street names with links to the slave trade, Milligan's and other statues of British slavery profiteers, have become a focus of protest.
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  • Young girls enjoy the beach on the seafront at Southend, on 29th July 2002, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • Portrait of an elderly man living in rural France, on 11th November 1990, in Etaples, France.
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  • The Irish peace campaigner, Susan McHugh at a local play park, on 16th May 1993, in Dublin, Ireland. Susan McHugh is an Irish peace campaigner who organised rallies in Dublin for peace in Northern Ireland and against the IRA following the bombing in Warrington on March 20, 1992.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, children play in Marx Engels Platz on an East Berlin shopping precinct roof built during the Communist DDR-era, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany. Marx-Engels-Forum was a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin. It was named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as founders of the Communist movement. The park was created by authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986
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  • Among autumn leaves are the names of fallen WW2 Polish air crew at the Polish War Memorial, on 6th November 2019, in South Ruislip, Northolt, London, England. The Polish War Memorial is in memory of airmen from Poland who served in the Royal Air Force as part of the Polish contribution to World War II. The memorial was designed by Mieczyslaw Lubelski, who had been interned in a forced labour camp during the war. It is constructed from Portland stone with bronze lettering and a bronze eagle, the symbol of the Polish Air Force. The original intention was to record the names of all those Polish airmen who lost their lives while serving during WW2 (a total of 2,408) but there was not enough space for this and, as a compromise, the names of the 1,241 who died in operational sorties are there instead.
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  • In memory of fallen WW2 Polish Air Force crews, are the front gates of Polish War Memorial, on 6th November 2019, in South Ruislip, Northolt, London, England. The Polish War Memorial is in memory of airmen from Poland who served in the Royal Air Force as part of the Polish contribution to World War II. The memorial was designed by Mieczyslaw Lubelski, who had been interned in a forced labour camp during the war. It is constructed from Portland stone with bronze lettering and a bronze eagle, the symbol of the Polish Air Force. The original intention was to record the names of all those Polish airmen who lost their lives while serving during WW2 (a total of 2,408) but there was not enough space for this and, as a compromise, the names of the 1,241 who died in operational sorties are there instead.
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  • With new apartment architecture above them, Londoners use the underpass steps leading into the Old Street station in Shoreditch, on 5th November 2019, in London, England.
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  • A man walks past old doorway architecture in central Krakow, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • The National Trust's Gertrude Jekyll walled garden on Holy Island, on 27th June 2019, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • Lindisfarne National trust Castle on Holy Island, on 27th June 2019, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was re-established.
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  • A small shop sign in evening sunshine on Holy Island, on 27th June 2019, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • After being closed indefinitely to all traffic due to structural faults, pedestrians walk across Hammersmith Bridge, on 11th April 2019, in west London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's ben left with no choice but to shut the bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. The government has said that between 2015 and 2021 its is providing £11bn of support to the 132-year-old bridge.
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  • After being closed indefinitely to all traffic due to structural faults, pedestrians walk across Hammersmith Bridge, on 11th April 2019, in west London, England. Safety checks revealed "critical faults" and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has said it's ben left with no choice but to shut the bridge until refurbishment costs could be met. The government has said that between 2015 and 2021 its is providing £11bn of support to the 132-year-old bridge.
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  • A 1964 Empress Bentley and a 1954 Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn are parked in Smith Square, a small square behind the Houses of Parliament, before collecting their VIP passengers - barristers who are being sworn in as QCs (aka Silks in legal vernacular), on 11th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • Aerial landscape of the Port of Ramsgate, a closed but once busy ferry terminal, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a 'Brexit Port' by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UK's exit from the EU. Britain's Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
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  • The closed lift on West Cliff Promenade that overlooks the Port of Ramsgate, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a 'Brexit Port' by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UK's exit from the EU. Britain's Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
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  • An elderly 1990s man looks out over his city, alongside a church, on 21st March 1994, in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A chair and note welcomes visitors to St. Michael and All Angels church, asking them to close the door after them, on 10th September 2018, in Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
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  • The rooftops of Sydenham houses and in the distance, the tall buildings of London Docklands, on 23rd July 2018, in London, England.
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  • An old public telephone kiosk in the central Slovenian rural town of Kamnik, on 25th June 2018, in Kamnik, Slovenia.
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  • Last-century architecture of a large Slovenian house, on 23rd June 2018, in Celje, Slovenia.
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  • The memorial to Elizabeth Pepys, wife of 17th century London diarist, Samuel Pepys in St Olave's Church on the corner of Seething Lane in the City of London, on 30th May 2018, in London, England.
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  • Admirers of suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcett's statue, the first woman to appear among an all-male Parliament Square, on 9th May 2018, in London, England. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE was a British feminist, intellectual, political leader, activist and writer. She is primarily known for her work as a campaigner for women's suffrage
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  • Admirers of suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcett's statue, the first woman to appear among an all-male Parliament Square, on 9th May 2018, in London, England. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE was a British feminist, intellectual, political leader, activist and writer. She is primarily known for her work as a campaigner for women's suffrage
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  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states (such as the Baltics) and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated fascism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
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  • A hats market stall at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
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  • Ageing and ramshackle architecture at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
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  • An elderly Apache lady patient receives specialist care from a dedicated air ambulance service for Arizona's Native Americans, on 25th August 1998, at Phoenix Native American reservation Hospital, Arizona, USA.
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  • A young girl plays 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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  • A detail of a priest's Alb (outer garment) after Mass was held held in a local rural Catholic church, on 15th October 1997, in Neubourg, Normandy, France
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  • Detail of a peeling and faded pub sign feating its Saturday night entertainment in a Northumbrian town, on 26th September 2017, in Alnwick, Northumberland, England.
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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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  • The WW1 war memorial with the Latin Pro Patria inscription on the main Le Promenade street, on 22nd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Pro Patria is a line from the Roman lyrical poet Horace's Odes, translated as: "It is sweet and proper to die for the fatherland." 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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  • Visitors admire Discoblus, the 2nd century AD Roman copy of Myron's 450-440BC original sculpture, on 28th February 2017, in London, England. It was discovered, minus its original head, in 1791 in Hadrian's villa at Tivoli, near Rome.
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  • An image of a guardsman and a money exchange list that once displayed foreign currencies and their values, on 3rd February 2017, in London, England.
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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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  • Statue figures outside the Faculty of Medecine, Praca da Porta Ferrea, Coimbra University, Portugal.
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  • The Piscina-Praia Paraiso lido pool (1932) in the spa resort of Curia, Portugal.
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  • Faded grandeur in a mansion hotel garden at the spa resort of Luso, Portugal.
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  • Faded grandeur in a mansion hotel garden at the spa resort of Luso, Portugal.
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  • The Exodus chapel in al-Bagawat Coptic necropolis, the remains of mud brick Christian tombs in the 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 detail of a faded Kit-Kat chocolate poster outside the ancient Egyptian remains of Karnak in modern Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • Detail of a Sumo wrestler, printed on a curtain in 'So', a sushi restaurant in central London.
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  • 19th century derelict building ordered for demolition by Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch, Manhattan, New York City.<br />
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From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014).
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  • A young boy of about 5 years-old sits in the family back garden in the early 1960s. The small lad sits with an embarrassed expression on his face, a brick wall behind him with summer garden plants growing nearby. The boy has blonde hair and a striped t-shirt and was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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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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  • Elderly ladies wave union jack flags and enjoy an afternoon of nostalgia in their local east end pub in east London, remembering the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. 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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  • CCTV cameras watch 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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  • Yellow tractor stored undercover in a smallholding shed during spring beofre another year's usage.
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  • A young boy waters shrubs with a toy watering can in the family garden on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties.
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  • Disused wooden piles at Salen Pier, Salen, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Salen (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Sàilean) is a settlement on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. It is on the east coast of the island, on the Sound of Mull, approximately halfway between Craignure and Tobermory. The full name of the settlement is 'Sàilean Dubh Chaluim Chille' (the black little bay of St Columba).
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  • An assortment of properties are displayed in a Sevenoaks estate agent's high street window.
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  • The reflections of renaissance statues of Hercules and David are seen reflected in builder's van parked adjecent to the Piazza della Signoria in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. A 16th century portrait of a medieval nobleman or official rises above the vehicle and a yellow compressor is seen behind. Top left is the Uffizi art gallery that houses many national treasures but this is a scene of an urban dystopia where construction forever interferes with the cultural idyll that visitors from around the world come to see. The white marble sculpture Hercules and Cacus is to the right of the entrance of the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy. The Hercules and Cacus is a work by the Florentine artist Baccio Bandinelli (1525-1534) and the David is Michelangelo's replica, now also in the Uffizi.
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  • Woman passes road island in Florence's Via de Bardi on south bank of city, near Ponte Vecchio.
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  • Tourists stand opposite Brunelleschi's Dome on Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile) in Florence..They have climbed 414 steps up 84.7 meters (277.9 ft) high Gioto's Belltower (or campanile) of Duomo Cathedral. .The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white and has an elaborate 19th century Gothic Revival facade by Emilio De Fabris. The cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. The three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site .
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  • The veteran Picture Post photographer Grace Robertson is seen at her home in East Sussex. Robertson was born in 1930 and worked under editor (Sir) Tom Hopkinson on the prominent photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957. It is considered a pioneering example of photojournalism and was an immediate success, selling 1,600,000 copies a week after only six months. It has been called the Life magazine of the United Kingdom. Grace is married to Thurston Hopkins, another esteemed photojournalist from the days of classic magazine photo-reportage.
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  • Construction fencing among the historical Victorian headstones of Bunhill Fields cemetery in the City of London.
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  • Two shipbuilders chat beneath the heavy lifting cranes at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the two men in the foreground and those behind, wear bright yellow hard hats, protecting them from steel edges and rusting machinery. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
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  • A little boy wearing a blue jump suit stands on the pavement outside his house holding the handlebars of a favourite matching blue coloured tricycle. He looks upwards towards the viewer slightly bemused about having his picture taken by his father who looks down from a standing position. Meanwhile, the boys sister towers above him dressed in a bright red coat and clean white gloves and short white socks. Alongside her is a friend also wearing gloves and a knee-length skirt but we see only their lower bodies and not their faces so they are unrecognisable - an older sibling and a girl friend. It is the summer of 1960 and while the red is vibrant, the blues and greens are more muted in this Kodachrome film which has a wonderful magenta colour cast in the mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look
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  • 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.
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  • Social distancing hazard tape is on historical  flagstones in the nave of St. Michael's C of E church, during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 13th August 2020, in Beccles, Suffolk, England.
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  • The street sign for the Suffolk wool town of Clare in rural Suffolk, on 10th July 2020, in Clare, Suffolk, England. During the medieval period Clare became a prosperous town based on cloth making. The wool trade was already present by the 13th century, steadily expanding as demand grew. 3000 local fleeces were sold from Clare Manor alone in 1345. By the 1470s Suffolk produced more cloth than any other county.
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  • Medieval houses and Give Way traffic lines on the road on Water Lane, wool town, Lavenham, on 9th July 2020, in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. By the late 15th century, the town was among the richest in the British Isles, paying more in taxation than considerably larger towns such as York and Lincoln. Several merchant families emerged, the most successful of which was the Spring family. Heavy traffic is a problem now for small villages dissected by A and B-Roads throughout rural Britain. became a prosperous town based on cloth making. The wool trade was already present by the 13th century, steadily expanding as demand grew. By the 1470s Suffolk produced more cloth than any other county.
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  • Medieval houses and Give Way traffic lines on the road on Water Lane, wool town, Lavenham, on 9th July 2020, in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. By the late 15th century, the town was among the richest in the British Isles, paying more in taxation than considerably larger towns such as York and Lincoln. Several merchant families emerged, the most successful of which was the Spring family. Heavy traffic is a problem now for small villages dissected by A and B-Roads throughout rural Britain. became a prosperous town based on cloth making. The wool trade was already present by the 13th century, steadily expanding as demand grew. By the 1470s Suffolk produced more cloth than any other county.
    suffolk-09-09-07-2020.jpg
  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation with his roadmap for the coming weeks and months during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, is the inscription ‘The Health of the People is the Highest Law’ - a quote translated from the Latin, of Roman philosopher Cicero's ‘De Legibus’ speech: “Salus populi suprema lex esto." The quote is above the main doorway of Walworth Clinic on Walworth Road in south London, a 1937 Grade II listed Art Deco building whose concept predated the establishment of the National Health Service, on 11th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • Summer scenes in the peeling window of the 'Age Concern' charity, showing an event in the London suburb of Swanley in which Winter Olympic Skeleton medallist Lizzie Yarnold paraded her medal around Kent towns in 2018, on 3rd February 2020, in London, England.
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  • A young boy looks out from a parked car to watch a passing Scottish pipe band, on 18th August 1993, in Campbeltown, Scotland, UK.
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  • Months after the Millennium, a theatre group perform outside the London Aquarium on the Southbank and beneath a burning flame and the Millennium Wheel (later to be renamed The London Eye), on 6th April 2000, on the Southbank, London, England.
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  • Businessmen sit in urban City sunshine during their lunch hour spent in Broadgate Circle, an Eighties development of offices and trading institutions, on 16th June 1994, in London, England.
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  • An urban landscape of closed businesses in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. In March 2015, the Museum of London revealed plans to vacate its Barbican site and move into the General Market Building. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
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  • An architectural detail of a closed butcher business in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. In March 2015, the Museum of London revealed plans to vacate its Barbican site and move into the General Market Building. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-30-20-11-2019.jpg
  • Londoners use the underpass steps leading into the Old Street station in Shoreditch, on 4th November 2019, in London, England.
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