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  • As crowds of supporters and protesters line the Mall in central London, Chinese leader Xi Jinping starts off his state visit to Britain. There is much attached to Anglo-Sino relations and this series of trade and diplomatic events is of great importance to the UK government in terms of new business and investment. Protesters however, voiced their distaste at human rights issues for dissenters and of the occupation of Tibet.
    xi_jinping_visit43-20-10-2015.jpg
  • As crowds of supporters and protesters line the Mall in central London, Chinese leader Xi Jinping starts off his state visit to Britain. There is much attached to Anglo-Sino relations and this series of trade and diplomatic events is of great importance to the UK government in terms of new business and investment. Protesters however, voiced their distaste at human rights issues for dissenters and of the occupation of Tibet.
    xi_jinping_visit39-20-10-2015.jpg
  • As crowds of supporters and protesters line the Mall in central London, Chinese leader Xi Jinping starts off his state visit to Britain. There is much attached to Anglo-Sino relations and this series of trade and diplomatic events is of great importance to the UK government in terms of new business and investment. Protesters however, voiced their distaste at human rights issues for dissenters and of the occupation of Tibet.
    xi_jinping_visit13-20-10-2015.jpg
  • As crowds of supporters and protesters line the Mall in central London, Chinese leader Xi Jinping starts off his state visit to Britain. There is much attached to Anglo-Sino relations and this series of trade and diplomatic events is of great importance to the UK government in terms of new business and investment. Protesters however, voiced their distaste at human rights issues for dissenters and of the occupation of Tibet.
    xi_jinping_visit28-20-10-2015.jpg
  • As crowds of supporters and protesters line the Mall in central London, Chinese leader Xi Jinping starts off his state visit to Britain. There is much attached to Anglo-Sino relations and this series of trade and diplomatic events is of great importance to the UK government in terms of new business and investment. Protesters however, voiced their distaste at human rights issues for dissenters and of the occupation of Tibet.
    xi_jinping_visit25-20-10-2015.jpg
  • As crowds of supporters and protesters line the Mall in central London, Chinese leader Xi Jinping starts off his state visit to Britain. There is much attached to Anglo-Sino relations and this series of trade and diplomatic events is of great importance to the UK government in terms of new business and investment. Protesters however, voiced their distaste at human rights issues for dissenters and of the occupation of Tibet.
    xi_jinping_visit42-20-10-2015.jpg
  • As crowds of supporters and protesters line the Mall in central London, Chinese leader Xi Jinping starts off his state visit to Britain. There is much attached to Anglo-Sino relations and this series of trade and diplomatic events is of great importance to the UK government in terms of new business and investment. Protesters however, voiced their distaste at human rights issues for dissenters and of the occupation of Tibet.
    xi_jinping_visit27-20-10-2015.jpg
  • British and Russian flags displayed beneath the image of a Migoyan jet fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Russia's deputy prime minister told his country's defence delegates to withdraw from the Farnborough International Airshow and return home after being snubbed by the British government over the Ukraine conflict. Dmitry Rogozin, who heads Russia's defence sector as deputy prime minister, said: "I recommend our delegation to wind up its participation in the show and return home."
    farnborough_air_show64-14-07-2014.jpg
  • The Chinese and British national flags hanging together in a City of London sidestreet.
    chinese_british_flags-04-15-08-2016.jpg
  • Masked protesters of western leaders Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher kiss at a 1986 demonstration by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) against the hosting by the UK of US nuclear cruise missiles on British soil. Amid a chaotic scene of protest and intimidating police presence, the two unidentified people touch lips outside the US embassy (background) in London’s Grosvenor Square. In the Cold War era, both world leaders Reagan and Thatcher symbolised the special relationship between the US and the UK, who shared a common ideology for conquering the threats of Communist domination. Their answer was for the proliferation of atomic arsenals in order to maintain world stability and public protest was ever-present outside US interests and especially at the many RAF air bases that were leased to the US Air Force from where bombers flew.
    cnd_thatcher-19-04-1986.jpg
  • The Chinese and British national flags hanging together in a City of London sidestreet.
    chinese_british_flags-03-15-08-2016.jpg
  • The Chinese and British national flags hanging together in a City of London sidestreet.
    chinese_british_flags-06-15-08-2016.jpg
  • The Chinese and British national flags hanging together in a City of London sidestreet.
    chinese_british_flags-09-15-08-2016.jpg
  • The Chinese and British national flags hanging together in a City of London sidestreet.
    chinese_british_flags-01-15-08-2016.jpg
  • An Anglo-French cyclist flies the British Union Jack and French French Tricolour flags on his handelars as he cycles through south London, at Elephant And Castle, on 3rd May 2018, in London, UK.
    anglo_french_cyclist-01-03-05-2018.jpg
  • British and French customs officials shake hands during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side. As proof of Anglo-french relations between the two European states, an Entente Cordiale exists in this theatrical joke about bureaucracy between France and Britain. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
    anglo_french_90s-01-12-1990.jpg
  • With a Union jack flag behind, British Prime Minister, John Major during the joint press conference with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, during the Anglo-German summit on 11th November 1992 at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire, England.
    john_major21-11-11-1992.jpg
  • British Prime Minister, John Major during the joint press conference with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, during the Anglo-German summit on 11th November 1992 at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire, England.
    john_major23-11-11-1992.jpg
  • British Prime Minister, John Major and Chancellor Helmut Kohl after the joint press conference with Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, during the Anglo-German summit on 11th November 1992 at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire, England.
    john_major26-11-11-1992.jpg
  • German Chancellor Helmut Kohl during the joint press conference during the Anglo-German summit on 11th November 1992 at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire, England.
    helmut_kohl-11-11-1992.jpg
  • With a Union jack flag behind, British Prime Minister, John Major during the joint press conference with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, during the Anglo-German summit on 11th November 1992 at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire, England.
    john_major22-11-11-1992.jpg
  • With the British and German flags behind, British Prime Minister, John Major and Chancellor Helmut Kohl during the joint press conference during the Anglo-German summit on 11th November 1992 at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire, England.
    john_major24-11-11-1992.jpg
  • Anglo-American flags with helicopter and stealth jet fighters in the hospitality chalet of Lockheed Martin at the Farnborough Airshow.
    farnborough_airshow49-21-07-2010.jpg
  • During the official visit by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Chinese nationals show support to a Beijing-London political and economic relationship, by holding flags in the street outside the Ministry of Defence  on Whitehall, Westminster, London.
    china_protest04-17-06-2014.jpg
  • During the official visit by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Chinese nationals show support to a Beijing-London political and economic relationship, by holding flags in the street outside the Ministry of Defence  on Whitehall, Westminster, London.
    china_protest01-17-06-2014.jpg
  • During the official visit by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Chinese nationals show support to a Beijing-London political and economic relationship, by holding flags in the street outside the Ministry of Defence  on Whitehall, Westminster, London.
    china_protest02-17-06-2014.jpg
  • During the official visit by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Chinese nationals show support to a Beijing-London political and economic relationship, by holding flags in the street outside the Ministry of Defence  on Whitehall, Westminster, London.
    china_protest06-17-06-2014.jpg
  • During the official visit by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Chinese nationals show support to a Beijing-London political and economic relationship, by holding flags in the street outside the Ministry of Defence  on Whitehall, Westminster, London.
    china_protest03-17-06-2014.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest03-24-10-2020.jpg
  • As a red London bus passes-by, a pair of legs walk past an American Stars and Stripes flag bandana lying on the wet pavement in the City of London, the UK capital's financial district, on 17th August 2020, in the City of London, England.
    US_bandana08-17-08-2020.jpg
  • As a red London bus passes-by, a pair of legs walk past an American Stars and Stripes flag bandana lying on the wet pavement in the City of London, the UK capital's financial district, on 17th August 2020, in the City of London, England.
    US_bandana06-17-08-2020.jpg
  • Pro-EU Remain protesters march to 'Stop the Coup' in Whitehall, near Downing Street, at the end of a week that saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson ask Queen Elizabeth for permission to suspend (prorogue) the British Parliament during the final stages of his Brexit negotiations with the European Union, in Brussels, on 31st August 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    Stop_the_coup_protest-11-31-08-2019.jpg
  • An Evening Standard newspaper vendor pulls his stand with yesterday's headline for the previous day's West End final edition, about US President Trump's controversial comments about Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of Brexit, and the leaked messages of British ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch (who resigned the next day), in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 10th July 2019, in London England.
    city_people-23-10-07-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs from Horseguards in Whitehall, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-44-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs from Horseguards in Whitehall, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-42-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs on Whitehall with the figure of Lord Nelson on the top of his column in Trafalgar Square, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-34-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, The US Stars and Stripes hangs next to British Union Jack flags down the Mall and opposite Buckingham Palace, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-20-03-06-2019.jpg
  • The Bank of China is reflected in the roof of a parked limousine, on 14th September 2017, in the City of London, England.
    bank-of_china-01-14-09-2017.jpg
  • Beyond Chinese TV media images, a red sun sinks behind late cloud in the west, a glowing red sky illuminates Hong Kong's harbour, this scene is symbolic of the decline of empire, the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) two years after this picture was taken, often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight of that day signified the end of British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. From this famous ferry terminal that protrudes out into the busy waters of this colony's harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood in the days before China ceded its territory to the British for 155 years until the 1997 deadline.
    star_ferry07-31-1997.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest07-24-10-2020.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest06-24-10-2020.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest01-24-10-2020.jpg
  • After a rain shower, an American Stars and Stripes flag bandana lies on the wet pavement in the City of London, the UK capital's financial district, on 17th August 2020, in the City of London, England.
    US_bandana01-17-08-2020.jpg
  • After a rain shower, an American Stars and Stripes flag bandana lies on the wet pavement in the City of London, the UK capital's financial district, on 17th August 2020, in the City of London, England.
    US_bandana04-17-08-2020.jpg
  • As a red London bus passes-by, a pair of legs walk past an American Stars and Stripes flag bandana lying on the wet pavement in the City of London, the UK capital's financial district, on 17th August 2020, in the City of London, England.
    US_bandana07-17-08-2020.jpg
  • On the day French President Emmanuel Macron visits London to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's famous wartime broadcast calling French citizens to arms against Nazi occupiers, the British Royal Air Force's Red Arrows aerobatic team lead their French aviation counterparts, La Patrouille de France, over Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, on 18th June 2020, in London, England.
    red_arrows-02-18-06-2020.jpg
  • On the day French President Emmanuel Macron visits London to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's famous wartime broadcast calling French citizens to arms against Nazi occupiers, the British Royal Air Force's Red Arrows aerobatic team lead their French aviation counterparts, La Patrouille de France, over Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, on 18th June 2020, in London, England.
    red_arrows-01-18-06-2020.jpg
  • A portrait of both British and French customs officials during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, England. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
    customs_women-01-12-1990.jpg
  • Pro-EU Remain protesters march to 'Stop the Coup' in Whitehall, near Downing Street, at the end of a week that saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson ask Queen Elizabeth for permission to suspend (prorogue) the British Parliament during the final stages of his Brexit negotiations with the European Union, in Brussels, on 31st August 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    Stop_the_coup_protest-01-31-08-2019.jpg
  • Days before the new leader of the Conservative Party and next Prime Minister of the UK is elected by its members (and expected to be Boris Johnson), the last weekend of Theresa May's unsuccessful Brexit from the European Union saw a March for Change protest with pro-EU Remainers marching through the capital demanding an end to Brexit and a No to a Johnson PM, on 20th July 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-47-20-07-2019.jpg
  • Days before the new leader of the Conservative Party and next Prime Minister of the UK is elected by its members (and expected to be Boris Johnson), the last weekend of Theresa May's unsuccessful Brexit from the European Union saw a March for Change protest with pro-EU Remainers marching through the capital demanding an end to Brexit and a No to a Johnson PM, on 20th July 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-27-20-07-2019.jpg
  • An Evening Standard newspaper vendor pulls his stand with yesterday's headline for the previous day's West End final edition, about US President Trump's controversial comments about Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of Brexit, and the leaked messages of British ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch (who resigned the next day), in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 10th July 2019, in London England.
    city_people-24-10-07-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, an American flag is next to a London tour booth on Whitehall, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-56-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs from Horseguards in Whitehall, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-43-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs on Whitehall with the figure of Lord Nelson on the top of his column in Trafalgar Square, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-41-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs on Whitehall with the figure of Lord Nelson on the top of his column in Trafalgar Square, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-40-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs on Whitehall with the figure of Lord Nelson on the top of his column in Trafalgar Square, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-37-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs on Whitehall with the figure of Lord Nelson on the top of his column in Trafalgar Square, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-36-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs on Whitehall with the figure of Lord Nelson on the top of his column in Trafalgar Square, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-35-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, The US Stars and Stripes hangs next to British Union Jack flags down the Mall and opposite Buckingham Palace, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-19-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, The US Stars and Stripes flag hangs next to the Royal Standard flag on the roof of Buckingham Palace, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-15-03-06-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, The US Stars and Stripes flag hangs next to the Royal Standard flag on the roof of Buckingham Palace, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
    trump_visit-13-03-06-2019.jpg
  • A 1997 cap is worn on the night of the Handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
    hong_kong_handover-30-06-1997_8.jpg
  • The Bank of China is reflected in the roof of a parked limousine, on 14th September 2017, in the City of London, England.
    bank-of_china-05-14-09-2017.jpg
  • The Bank of China is reflected in the roof of a parked limousine, on 14th September 2017, in the City of London, England.
    bank-of_china-03-14-09-2017.jpg
  • The Bank of China is reflected in the roof of a parked limousine, on 14th September 2017, in the City of London, England.
    bank-of_china-02-14-09-2017.jpg
  • Soon to arrive in the English port of Portsmouth from Cherbourg, the first of its routes, we see the SeaCat leaving its watery wake in the English Channel. Hoverspeed Great Britain is a 74 metre long, ocean-going catamaran built in 1990 by Incat for the UK company Hoverspeed. It is powered by four 20RK270 marine engines with a 7080 kW at 100% Maximum Continuous Rating (MCR). The engines were built at the Newton-le-Willows site which at the time was part of the Alstom group. Since then it has been bought by MAN B&W Germany and the site was closed and production transferred to nearby Mirrlees Blackstone site. Hoverspeed, formed in 1981 by the merger of Seaspeed and Hoverlloyd, was a ferry and hovercraft company that operated on the English Channel from 1981 until 2005.
    seacat_sea-18-06-1990.jpg
  • The Sir Christopher, an SR.N4 Hovercraft arriving at Ramsgate from the French coast. The SR.N4 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 4) hovercraft was a large passenger and vehicle carrying hovercraft  built by the British Hovercraft Corporation  (BHC). Work on the SR.N4 began in 1965 and the first trials took place in early 1968. The SR.N4 was the largest hovercraft built to that date, designed to carry 254 passengers in two cabins besides a two-lane automobile bay which held up to 30 cars. Cars were driven from a bow ramp just forward of the cockpit / wheelhouse.  The SR.N4's operated services across the English Channel between 1968 and 2000, when the Channel Tunnel made their service unprofitable.
    hovercraft_sea-11-05-1990.jpg
  • A Concorde supersonic airliner registration G-BOAB flies overhead during its service for British Airways - en-route for a foreign destination. The delta-winged jet was first flown in 1969, entering commercial service in 1976 for 27 years until the disastrous in Paris ended its viability. Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner or supersonic transport (SST). With a program cost of £1.3 billion and a unit cost of £23 million in 1977.
    concorde-11-07-1988.jpg
  • Soon to arrive in the English port of Portsmouth from Cherbourg, the first of its routes, we see the SeaCat leaving its watery wake in the English Channel. Hoverspeed Great Britain is a 74 metre long, ocean-going catamaran built in 1990 by Incat for the UK company Hoverspeed. It is powered by four 20RK270 marine engines with a 7080 kW at 100% Maximum Continuous Rating (MCR). The engines were built at the Newton-le-Willows site which at the time was part of the Alstom group. Since then it has been bought by MAN B&W Germany and the site was closed and production transferred to nearby Mirrlees Blackstone site. Hoverspeed, formed in 1981 by the merger of Seaspeed and Hoverlloyd, was a ferry and hovercraft company that operated on the English Channel from 1981 until 2005.
    seacat_at_sea-18-06-1990.jpg
  • In heavy monsoonal rain, crowds gather at the stroke of midnight beneath umbrellas to witness the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. From the on the roof of Ocean Terminal shopping mall, the skyline is filled with fireworks but the glowing red comes from giant advertising lettering behind the viewer on the top floor of the building which protrudes out into Hong Kong harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory.  Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
    RB-0084.jpg
  • In light monsoonal rain, a lone pedestrian is seen from a high viewpoint, crossing a zebra crossing with a yellow grid box junction to his right in Central Hong Kong on the last day of British rule. The junction is empty and without any traffic but the word 'Look' is stencilled in white letters for the benefit of unwary pedestrians. An umbrella used by the unrecognisable person is a colour match with the painted striped road markings, identical to the British highway traffic code. The transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" occurred at midnight on June 30, 1997, signifying the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
    RB-0083.jpg
  • On the eve of transfer of law in Hong Kong from the UK to China, construction workers in Central Hong Kong carry on their tasks during a monsoonal rain shower on the last day of British rule. Some are dressed in yellow waterproof coats and hard hats, we see a British-style sign warning drivers of Men at Work resembling a man holding an umbrella. Lastly, on the right another man on a wall, also holding an brolley. In the foreground a car park sign states that the space is full in red letters and a local authority sign saying "Working for a better environment" is written in Chinese and English lettering. The transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China, referred to as "The Handover" occurred at midnight on June 30, 1997, signifying the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China.
    hong_kong01.jpg
  • A theatrical joke about bureaucracy between French and British comedians at an event to mark the opening of the Channel Tunnel produces this quirky scene where each country's officials are seated at a long table, dressed in British flags, to symbolise the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age. Wearing smart uniforms, French immigration police and Gendarmes sit among British customs and immigration officials who, rather comically wear yellow hard hats because Health and Safety laws make the wearing of protective headgear compulsory on construction sites. A frontier control point notice stands for the benefit of viewers who might otherwise be guessing what is going on.
    eurotunnel12-01-1990.jpg
  • Seen from a low angle at the side of the track, near where grass and daisies grow, a speeding Eurostar TGV train hurtles towards the viewer, blurring as it comes towards us. This is the Kent countryside, otherwise known as the fertile Garden of England, and the route for high-speed trains that ply back and forth between western Europe and London St Pancras. This international passenger service was made possible by the completion of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 operating eighteen-carriage Class 373 trains which run at up to 300 kilometres per hour (186 mph) on a network of high-speed lines. Eurostar is operated by the national railway companies of France and Belguim, SNCF and SNCB, and by Eurostar (UK) Ltd (EUKL), a subsidiary of London and Continental Railways (LCR) which in turn also owns the high-speed infrastructure and stations on the British side.
    eurostar_speed-25-05-1995.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest08-24-10-2020.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest05-24-10-2020.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest04-24-10-2020.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest02-24-10-2020.jpg
  • Pairs of legs walk past an American Stars and Stripes flag bandana lies on the wet pavement in the City of London, the UK capital's financial district, on 17th August 2020, in the City of London, England.
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  • After a rain shower, an American Stars and Stripes flag bandana lies on the wet pavement opposite the high wouter wall of the Bank of England in the City of London, the UK capital's financial district, on 17th August 2020, in the City of London, England.
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  • Days before the new leader of the Conservative Party and next Prime Minister of the UK is elected by its members (and expected to be Boris Johnson), the last weekend of Theresa May's unsuccessful Brexit from the European Union saw a March for Change protest with pro-EU Remainers marching through the capital demanding an end to Brexit and a No to a Johnson PM, on 20th July 2019, in London, England.
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  • Days before the new leader of the Conservative Party and next Prime Minister of the UK is elected by its members (and expected to be Boris Johnson), the last weekend of Theresa May's unsuccessful Brexit from the European Union saw a March for Change protest with pro-EU Remainers marching through the capital demanding an end to Brexit and a No to a Johnson PM, on 20th July 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-28-20-07-2019.jpg
  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, an American flag is next to a London tour booth on Whitehall, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
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  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, an American flag is next to a London tour booth on Whitehall, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
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  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs from Horseguards in Whitehall, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
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  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs from Horseguards in Whitehall, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
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  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs on Whitehall with the figure of Lord Nelson on the top of his column in Trafalgar Square, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
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  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, the US Stars and Stripes flag hangs on Whitehall with the figure of Lord Nelson on the top of his column in Trafalgar Square, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
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  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, The US Stars and Stripes hangs next to British Union Jack flags down the Mall and opposite Buckingham Palace, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
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  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, The US Stars and Stripes hangs next to British Union Jack flags down the Mall and opposite Buckingham Palace, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
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  • On US President Donald Trump's first day of a controversial three-day state visit to the UK by the 45th American President, The US Stars and Stripes flag hangs next to the Royal Standard flag on the roof of Buckingham Palace, on 3rd June 2019, in London England.
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  • 1990s British customs and immigration officials and a French Gendarme await the arrival of the first people to have crossed from France to the British mainland on the occasion of the Channel Tunnel bores breaking through, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, Kent England.
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  • The Bank of China is reflected in the roof of a parked limousine, on 14th September 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • In heavy monsoonal rain, crowds gather beneath umbrellas on the roof of Ocean Terminal to witness the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. A cruise liner is moored s small distance away but the glowing red comes from giant advertising lettering on the top floor of the shopping mall which protrudes out into Hong Kong harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory.  Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • Construction workers in Central Hong Kong carry on working during a monsoonal rain shower on the last day of British rule.
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  • The battlefield memorial inside the walled Hougoumont Farm, to the soldiers of Napoleon's Grande Armee, killed at Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exterior of the Chapel at the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-50-25-03-2017.jpg
  • The battlefield memorial inside the walled Hougoumont Farm, to the soldiers of Napoleon's Grande Armee, killed at Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-42-25-03-2017.jpg
  • Interior of the Chapel at the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-39-25-03-2017.jpg
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