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  • 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 detail of a sign on a film rental shop, mis-spelled by a wrongly-used apostrophe, on 25th January 2018, in London, England.
    videos_sign-02-25-01-2018.jpg
  • A 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.
    city_people-16-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Gentlemen fans of cricket enjoy drinks and a day out during e test match at the Oval, on 21st August 1999, at the Oval ground, south London, England.
    cricket_people-21-08-1999.jpg
  • A mother crosses the road towards Loyalist colours painted on the streets in a Protestant area of Belfast, on 7th June 1995, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
    belfast-07-06-1995_5.jpg
  • Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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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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  • The Victorian letter posting box outside the local shop and post office in the Northumbrian village of Blanchland, on 29th September 2017, in Blanchland, Northumberland, England. Blanchland is a village in Northumberland, England, on the County Durham boundary. The population of the Civil Parish at the 2011 census was 135. Blanchland was formed out of the medieval Blanchland Abbey property by Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew, the Bishop of Durham, 1674-1722. It is a conservation village, largely built of stone from the remains of the 12th-century Abbey. It features picturesque houses, set against a backdrop of deep woods and open moors. Set beside the river in a wooded section of the Derwent valley, Blanchland is an attractive small village in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
    blanchland-08-29-09-2017.jpg
  • 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.
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  • With the dome of St Paul's Cathedral the south suspension chains of Tower Bridge in the distance, privately-owned boats of many kinds sit in the low-tide mud on the Thames river at the a river community Tower Bridge Moorings, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
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  • 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.
    gopro_statue-01-03-08-2017.jpg
  • 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.
    lagrasse_france-109-26-05-2017.jpg
  • 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.
    lagrasse_france-64-24-05-2017.jpg
  • A former south London pub once called The British Queen dating to the Victorian era but now closed and awaiting sale, on 4th January, London borough of Southwark, England. British pubs have been closing at a rate of 27 a week, says the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra). There were 52,750 pubs at the end of last year, down from 54,194 in December 2014.
    closed_pub-03-04-01-2017.jpg
  • Curved walkway at one entrance to the soon to be demolished Shopping Centre (right) at Elephant & Castle, south London.
    elephant_and_castle-16-01-09-2016.jpg
  • 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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  • The exterior of Alcobaca Monastery, Portugal.
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  • 1950s architecture of a closed highway service station in Curia, Portugal.
    portugal_curia-01-17-07-2016.jpg
  • The rural station building at the rural Hungarian village of Porva-Csesznek, Veszprem, Hungary.
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  • Rural station in the village of Bakonygyirot, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
    hungary_station-02-25-06-2016.jpg
  • Rural station in the village of Bakonygyirot, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
    hungary_station-01-25-06-2016.jpg
  • A blue tarpaulin covers and protects a yellow classic Morris Minor car, parked in a south London street.
    morris_minor01-14-04-2016.jpg
  • A quirky landscape of a modern-day street cafe's pharaonic illustrations and in the background, the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III.
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  • Local traffic in the main square opposite the ancient Egyptian Luxor Temple, Nile Valley, Egypt, seen from a first storey cafe.
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  • Old and unused public telephones in a narrow street in the San Marco district of Venice, Italy.
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  • The church of Santa Berbura, founded and built by iron miners in 1490, in the Dolomites near La Val in Alta Badia, south Tyrol, 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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  • Bank of England  seen through rising pillars and columns of Cornhill Exchange, City of London.
    cornhill_architecture01-08-09-2014.jpg
  • A corporation of London street cleaning hose with contactor Amey and a pillar of the Bank of England.
    city_cleaner03-13-08-2014.jpg
  • 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.
    da_vinci01-07-07-2014.jpg
  • 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 mother holds her 3 year-old son during summer time in the early 1960s. Looking up from a low angle, see see the mother and her young son in sunlight, made dark by underexposure of the film, recorded on a camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The mast and rigging of a small boat can be seen behind so they must be at the seaside, near from where they live in Southend-on-Sea in Essex. The sky is a deep blue and the shapes on their heads almost merge with the background. It 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.
    60s_family10-12-07-1962.jpg
  • 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.
    90s_dereliction-08-08-1991.jpg
  • Set among idyllic fields of corn, the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France - once the location of fierce  first world war battle.
    WW1_cemetery02-20-08-2003.jpg
  • WW2 Madingley American Cemetery is located in the heart of the Cambridgeshire countryside. Set in over thirty acres of beautifully maintained gardens and lawns, the cemetery contains the bodies of 3812 war dead from the world war two era. Every State of the Union is represented here. In addition inscribed on the Tablets Of The Missing are the names of over 8000 American service men who lost their lives during the war but whose bodies were never recovered. The majority of those buried here were crew members of British based aircraft, however the bodies of some of those killed in North Africa, Normandy, the North Atlantic and various other places are also buried here.
    maddingly_cemetery01-05-10-2000.jpg
  • A glowing crucifix faces out to the English Channel (in French, La Manche) at what was known during the WW2 D-Day landings on 6th June 1944, as Juno Beach at  Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, France.
    juno_beach01-20-08-2003.jpg
  • 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.
    greenham_common10-19-03-2003.jpg
  • 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.
    flight_engineer01-07-08-2000.jpg
  • 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.
    bowie_brixton13-18-06-2013.jpg
  • 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
    commuter_era01-10-06-2013.jpg
  • 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_green31-01-05-2013.jpg
  • 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_green18-01-05-2013.jpg
  • 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_green07-01-05-2013.jpg
  • The German national Die Zeit newspaper displays a picture of Adolf Hitler on their front page, a feature about Stern Magazine's controversial Hitler Diaries scandal, 30 years ago.
    hitler_headline01-04-04-2013.jpg
  • 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.
    berlin_stasi_museum40-07-04-2013.jpg
  • A remembrance for British commandos imprisoned in the special prison block of the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet 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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  • Stained glass showing families encarcerated in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet 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.
    berlin_sachsenhausen03-06-04-2013.jpg
  • The memorial to lost firefighters during the Blitz bombing era of ww2, beneath the Wren-designed dome of St. Paul's Cathedral.
    st_Paul's_blitz02-18-02-2013.jpg
  • High above the streets of London's Holborn, we see the sign for the Olde Cock Tavern, one of the city's old inns from the 16th century. Ye Olde Cock Tavern is a public house on London's Fleet Street. Originally built before the 17th century, it was rebuilt, including the interior (which is thought to include work by carver Grinling Gibbons) on the other side of the road in the 1880s when a branch of the Bank of England was built where it stood. However, in the 1990s a fire broke out and destroyed many of the original ornaments, and the building has since gone through a restoration using photographs. It has been frequented by Samuel Pepys, Alfred Tennyson and Charles Dickens
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  • A detail of the English oak timbers used to construct the open-theatre know as Shakespeare's Glob on London's southbank. Recreating the Tudor playhouse, 20th century builders, techniques used in the reconstruction of the theatre were painstakingly accurate. 'Green' oak was cut and fashioned according to 16th-century practice and assembled in two-dimensional bays on the Bankside site; oak laths and staves support lime plaster mixed according to a contemporary recipe and the walls are covered in a white lime wash. An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree"), of which about 600 species exist. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus. ..
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  • An old man holds a young child near their home in the central region of the Himalayan mountain kingdom of Nepal. We see the dark skin of this working man in a foothill dwelling near the town of Gorkha where the British army traditionally find young men for the Gurkha regiment (as thay have done since 1857). The prospects for the child may mean it will in future try to seek work in the cities like Kathmandu rather than face a lifetime's struggle in local agriculture. Their supplies and contact with the outside world comes up from tracks of boulders and stone along which either men or yaks carry up food for basic survival and luxury goods.
    nepali_family02-12-12-1997.jpg
  • 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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  • We are looking up from below at a Latin inscription describing the era of Elizabethan rule, a classic neo-Romanesque architecture of the Royal Exchange building in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. At the top of Doric and Ionic columns with their ornate stonework, powerfully strong lintels cross, bearing the load of fine artistry and carvings which feature the design by Sir William Tite in 1842-1844 and opened in 1844 by Queen Victoria whose name is written in Latin (Victoriae R). It's the third building of the kind erected on the same site. The first Exchange erected in 1564-70 by sir Thomas Gresham but was destroyed in the great fire of 1666. It's successor, by Jarman, was also burned down in 1838. The present building is grade 1 listed and cost about £150,000.
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  • City workers carry office possessions including trays and files that were damaged by the IRA bomb that devastated the City of London's Bishopsgate area in 1993. Allowed to return to their desks to recover their data and working paperwork, they walk through the ancient streets en route to new emergency office elsewhere in the capital. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Repair costs reached approx £350 million. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church.
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  • A woman employee works at a computer at Allen-Bradley Automation in Milton Keynes, England UK. The factory worker wears blue company overalls and types on the keyboard and a computer that has an industrial screen filter. A variety of electronics equipment is seen in the background. Allen-Bradley is the brand-name of a line of Factory Automation Equipment manufactured by Rockwell Automation (NYSE ROK). The company was initially founded as the Compression Rheostat Company by Dr. Stanton Allen and Lynde Bradley with an initial investment of $1,000 in 1903.
    90s_electronics-20-09-1994.jpg
  • Tourists pose for photos beneath the golden gates of the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen - sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers - were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s.
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  • The tomb of Étienne-Gaspard Robertson in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763-1837), often known by the stage name of "Robertson", was a prominent Belgian stage magician and influential developer of phantasmagoria. He was described by Charles Dickens as "an honourable and well-educated showman". Alongside his pioneering work on projection techniques for his shows Robert was also a physics lecturer and a keen balloonist at a time of great development in aviation..
    pere_lachaise15-19-08-2012.jpg
  • Celebrated grave for the Dublin-born playright and known homosexual, Oscar Wilde in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. 19th century Irish playwright and wit Oscar Wilde once quipped: "One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation." He died in Paris at only 46, impoverished and broken down from years of being villified by Victorian society. He was buried at Père Lachaise with a modest tomb, but a memorial was later erected. Today the monument is covered in lipstick marks left by ardent visitors..
    pere_lachaise02-19-08-2012.jpg
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
    olympic_cycling47-28-07-2012.jpg
  • Yellow tractor stored undercover in a smallholding shed during spring beofre another year's usage.
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  • A teenage girl smiles in summer sunshine while sitting on a seafront deckchair in the early nineteen sixties.
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  • Original soldier sentry statues that adorn the wall of an old building at the regenerated Butlins holiday centre at Minehead.
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  • Detail of stone bridge at Kinlochspelve, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
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  • Old stone cross at the old church at Kilninian Church. The old church at Kilninian (built 1755, ten years after the Jacobite Rising)  but the site of worship with medieval tombstones dating from the 14th century, Kilninian, Isle of Mull, Scotland. church is one of the oldest, and until very recently, still used for worship.   Possibly standing on the site of an earlier medieval church, it first appears in the records of 1561, where it is stated that the parsonage of 'Keilnoening' had formerly belonged to the Abbot of Iona, one-third of the revenues going to the Bishop of the Isles as was customary in the diocese. Iona Abbey would have appointed a minister for the church at a stipend lower than the tithes. It is uncertain whether the church was dedicated to St Ninian, the apostle of Galloway, or to a local saint of the Early Christian period'.   It is also believed to have been once known as the Chapel of the Nine Maidens and in Gaelic  'Cill Naoi Nighean', although another possible name was The Church of the Holy Maidens - 'Cill Naoimh Nighean...(http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/mull/kilninianchurch/index.html)
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  • An artist is incongruously enclosed in roadworks barriers at the busy junction of Piccadilly Circus in London's West End. Painting with an easel and applying careful brush strokes amid the noise and chaos of this busy traffic junction in the capital. A young man walks past barely noticing the artist as he strides through the heart of London's west end. But on the youth's t-shirt is a modern interpretation (wearing glasses and apparently spitting liquid into a cup) of Hans Memling's "Portrait of a Man with a Coin of the Emperor Nero (Bernardo Bembo)" German-born artist Jan van Mimnelinghe (Hans Memling, c. 1435-94) was well known all over Europe. During his lifetime, he painted commissions not only for the Burgundian Dukes, but also for patrons in Germany, Austria, Venice, Florence and London.
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  • The veteran BBC broadcaster Richard Baker (same name as the photographer of this picture) is seen in a Radio 3 studio in Langham Place, in central London. With glasses at hand and programme notes on his console with microphones pointing to his face, Baker is looking to camera with a pair of old-fashioned earphones around his neck. Richard Baker OBE (born 1925) started at the BBC as an announcer and presented many classical music programmes on both television  and radio, including for many years the annual live broadcast from the Last Night of the Proms but he's best known as a newsreader for the BBC News from 1954 to 1982 and the long-running Your Hundred Best Tunes for BBC Radio 2 on Sunday nights.
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  • Aerial landscape of old Arab Albaicin quarter and surrounding barrios of Moorish city of Granada.
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  • Padlocked green doors of market stallholder.
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  • Among medieval statues, a guitarist and street busker perform for passing tourists in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. Dressed in white to echo the medieval figures of city officials that stand in porticos of the main Uffizi building, a man will hug any visitor who wishes to have their photo taken alongside, for the price of a few Euros. Meanwhile, to his right, the musician plays classical songs on his acoustic instrument where its sound travels around this street corner, his notes rebounding from the solid stone walls and pillars.
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  • Modern Italian mother and child and Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545...Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Her face is still familiar to many because of her solemn and distant portraits by Agnolo Bronzino. She provided the Medici with the Pitti Palace  and seven sons to ensure male succession and four daughters to connect the Medici with noble and ruling houses in Italy. She was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while traveling to Pisa.
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  • Rooftops and housing in early evening of city of Florence seen from Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile). Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 367,569 inhabitants (1,500,000 in the metropolitan area). The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • Still in the era of being able to smoke inside public places, an elderly gentleman extinguishes his match by waving it in the air to blow out the flame, exhaling and listening to a fellow-drinker in a Newport pub in south Wales. Clouds of smoke can be seen as they waft against the back light that filters through the windows of this smoky bar in the town centre. Pints of bitter are on the table in front of them and ash trays with used butts. The scene is of an industrial town's pub for working men where language is sharp and there is talk of realities of hard lives.
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  • It's a free for all as elderly pensioners sift through piles of clothing left outside a community hall at a 1986 jumble sale in the south Wales town of Abergavenney, Monmouthshire. Some hold up items of clothing and others are happy to stand back and watch while some young children descend some steps of this Victorian-era building during a charity event held by the local Lions club, whose volunteers help the elderly and the disadvantaged within their community. Property has been donated and the old folks' attention is on their finds which are within their price range, having to survive on meagre pensions.
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  • A detail of a second world war Canadian veteran's chest, festooned with gleaming military campaign medals that symbolise an era of conflict, warfare and especially of survival. Seen as a close-up of polished silver, gold and zinc-alloy, we see only the upper body minus the face of this old soldier whose campaigns include the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944 because at the bottom of his rack of fine insignia is a badge denoting the Normandy Veterans Association. Elsewhere, a medal is worn for service in Palestine. The unseen gentleman wears a Canadian pin at the top and the contribution of his fellow-countrymen as members of the British Commonwealth is recognised in battlefield cemeteries around the world. But on this day, the 11th November, old soldiers like him march past London's Cenotaph to remember friends who did not return from war.
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  • The four great chimneys of the Grade II listed Battersea Power Station rise to become one of South London's most notorious landmarks. In the foreground on Battersea Park Road is construction hoardings that yew hedges that act as an incongruous background with a bent phone box, recently damaged in a collision, and a bus stop at which a passenger awaits the next bus. Once a coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames, near Battersea in London, Battersea A Power Station was built first in the 1930s, with Battersea B Power Station to its east in the 1950s. The two stations were built to an identical design, providing the well known, four chimney layout. The station was decommissioned from generating electricity in 1983. The was used in The Beatles' 1965 movie Help! and on the cover of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals.
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  • Queen Elizabeth II makes her way down the Mall with Prince Phillip for a Golden (50th anniversary) Jubilee...http://www.londononline.co.uk/monarchy/Royal_State_Coach/
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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. Seen beneath the opened bonnet are the pink coloured spare spark plugs.
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  • Evening drinkers in the traditionally Victorian Salisbury pub on St Martin's Lane in the West End's Theatreland.
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  • Evening drinkers in the traditionally Victorian Salisbury pub on St Martin's Lane in the West End's Theatreland.
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  • Tourists kiss and hug below the Grade 1 listed Victoria Memorial sculpture opposite Buckingham Palace.
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  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
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  • Economy class seats in mid-day heat of arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
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  • Stored old airliners sit in mid-day heat of arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
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  • Terraced period properties on the northern side of Cadogan Square, SW!, on 24th July 2020, in London, England. Cadogan Square (1888) sometimes referred to as 'Cadogan Gardens' is in Knightsbridge, west London and named after Earl Cadogan. Whilst it is mainly a residential area, some of the properties are used for diplomatic and educational purposes.
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  • A detail of old advertising for a cigarette brand from decades ago called Will's whose product was 'Goldflake', on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was founded in 1786 and was the first UK company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco along with John Player & Sons.
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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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  • 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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  • A For Sale sign stands outside the main door of River House, a building in the wool town of Kersey, being sold by the Savills and Winkworth estate agents (both seen on reverse sides of the placard)  that opens on to the street in on 9th July 2020, in Kersey, Suffolk, England. River House is a 15th century Elizabethan town house, on the market for £1.2m though is currently in a derelict state.  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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  • A medieval house is on sale by the Savills estate agent, on 9th July 2020, in wool town 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. Lavenham 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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  • Schoolchildren and mothers walk in the rain past the medieval Little Hall  in Lavenham, on 9th July 2020, in wool town Lavenham, Suffolk, England. Little Hall is a late 14th Century hall house on the main square, its story mirrors the history of Lavenham over the centuries. First built in the 1390s as a family house and workplace, it was enlarged, improved and modernised in the mid 1550s, and greatly extended later. By the 1700s it was giving homes to six families and was restored in the 1920s/30s. 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 architecture of houses along the High Street of 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. 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 architecture of houses along the High Street of 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. 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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  • British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's political career of 11 years ends emotionally by being driven through the gates of Downing Street after being deposed in a leadership challenge, alongside husband and lifelong confidente, Dennis, on 28th November 1990 in London, England.
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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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