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  • Traditionally dressed elderly woman walking along Charing Cross Road in the West End of London, UK. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops, as well as being a part of London which has a vintage atmosphere.
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  • Man carrying a tea urn along Charing Cross Road, London, UK. An unusual street scene in the West End.
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  • Young and old and of many different culturally diverse nationalities, waiting at a bus stop on Charing Cross Road, in the West End of London, England, UK.
    20160123_west end bus stop_B.jpg
  • Passers-by wearing face coverings walk past signs for Commission Free money exchange and mobile phone repairs on Charing Cross Road, on 30th October 2020, in London, England.
    money_exchange01-30-10-2020.jpg
  • An employee of London bookshop retailer, Foyles makes changes to the window of the books and literature retailer on Charing Cross Road, during the Coronavirus pandemic at a time when only some retailers and business are re-opening while office workers still largely work from home, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
    foyles_exterior06-02-09-2020.jpg
  • A young woman wearing a red theme of beret and scarf, walks down Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus in Soho, carrying some Valentines Day roses, and photographs herself with a beaming smile, on 14th February 2020, in London, England.
    valentines_lady-04-14-02-2020.jpg
  • On Charing Cross Road people of different ages and very differently dressed legs pass one another in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Original London Underground sign at Leicester Square tube on the Charing Cross Road. This is the classic signage that has lasted so well.
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  • Sheltered by an umbrella held above her head, a woman signwriter artist paints the text of a West End pubs food menu of pies and fish & chips, outside The Porcupine, a traditional British pub on Charing Cross Road, on 17th February 2020, in London, England.
    sign_painter-01-17-02-2020.jpg
  • Before others step on it, a man stoops to pick-up his dropped iPhone in the street, on 29th August 2019, in Charing Cross Road, London, England.
    west_end_people-03-29-08-2019.jpg
  • Original London Underground sign at Leicester Square tube on the Charing Cross Road. This is the classic signage that has lasted so well.
    20090808underground signB.jpg
  • An employee of London bookshop retailer, Foyles makes changes to the window of the books and literature retailer on Charing Cross Road, during the Coronavirus pandemic at a time when only some retailers and business are re-opening while office workers still largely work from home, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
    foyles_exterior02-02-09-2020.jpg
  • Retired theatre-goers queue outside the Garrick Theatre on Charing Cross Road to see a matinee performance of the hit musical 'Rip It Up', on 22nd May 2019, in London, England
    garrick_theatre-04-22-05-2019.jpg
  • Outlandishly dressed man with a pink wig. Charing Cross Road, London, England, UK.
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  • Woman wearing a skeleton top and cut jeans makes for an interesting skeletal character on Charing Cross Road in London, England, United Kingdom. The cuts in her black jeans mirroring the ribs of the skeleton bones.
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  • Two young women walk past a morale-boosting message written on plyboard of the boarded-up Garrick Arms pub on Charing Cross Road during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 20th August 2020, in London, England. (Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    coronavirus_stay_strong01-20-08-2020.jpg
  • Young and old and of many different culturally diverse nationalities, waiting at a bus stop on Charing Cross Road, in the West End of London, England, UK.
    20160123_west end bus stop_A.jpg
  • A Chinese lady touches a tourism booking office kiosk, opposite the Garrick Theatre currently showing the musical Rip It Up, on 29th April 2019, in London, England.
    garrick_theatre-02-29-04-2019.jpg
  • A woman police officer reports by radio the damage to a smashed traffic and pedestrian light that has been hit by a double-decker London bus and leaving it swinging dangerously in the wind, plus leaving the lights out at this junction with Charing Cross Road, Tottenham Court Road and New Oxford Street, on 11th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • A film industry delivery van and a Belisha beacon on Charing Cross Road, on 24th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    london_rain-23-24-10-2019.jpg
  • Pedestrian and cyclist on rental Boris Bike in a Soho side-street, patterned with purple. During a bust lunchtime in London's Soho many pedestrians and cyclists pass-by a splash of purple that plays across a side street off Charing Cross Road. Produced by reflective coloured panels on an adjacent building - and after a period of light rain in the capital, the vivid rays of colour are a welcome oasis of hues. Motorcycles are parked with mirrors showing the street beyond. A lady walks across the landscape with a cigarette in hand and a male cyclist pedals past on a "Boris bike" - one of the rental bicycles that can be hired for 30-minute journeys across the capital.
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  • Wearing shorts, long socks, slippers and a t-shirt on an otherwise cold autumn afternoon, a male cyclist looks over shoulder before re-joining traffic flow on busy Charing Cross Road in central London. His bike is of a foldaway Brompton-style design, such that can collapse into a small carry-on bundle that can be accommodated on public transport like trains. A London taxi drives past at speed near Leicester Square underground station in the heart of Theatreland.
    london_cyclist01-16-11-2010.jpg
  • People passing through a pool of light along Charing Cross Road in the West End, London, UK. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops, as well as being a part of London which has a vintage atmosphere.
    20151209_charing cross road light_D.jpg
  • People passing through a pool of light along Charing Cross Road in the West End, London, UK. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops, as well as being a part of London which has a vintage atmosphere.
    20151209_charing cross road light_B.jpg
  • People passing through a pool of light along Charing Cross Road in the West End, London, UK. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops, as well as being a part of London which has a vintage atmosphere.
    20151209_charing cross road light_C.jpg
  • People passing through a pool of light along Charing Cross Road in the West End, London, UK. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops, as well as being a part of London which has a vintage atmosphere.
    20151209_charing cross road light_E.jpg
  • People passing through a pool of light along Charing Cross Road in the West End, London, UK. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops, as well as being a part of London which has a vintage atmosphere.
    20151209_charing cross road light_A.jpg
  • People pass rare and second hand book shop window on Charing Cross Road on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops, and is home to many book shops, and more general second-hand and antiquarian shops.
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  • People pass rare and second hand book shop window on Charing Cross Road on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops, and is home to many book shops, and more general second-hand and antiquarian shops.
    20200218_charing cross bookshops_001.jpg
  • People pass rare and second hand book shop window on Charing Cross Road on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops, and is home to many book shops, and more general second-hand and antiquarian shops.
    20200218_charing cross bookshops_002.jpg
  • Second hand book shop window on Charing Cross Road on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops, and is home to many book shops, and more general second-hand and antiquarian shops.
    20200218_charing cross bookshops_006.jpg
  • A visually impaired man with a white cane passes rare and second hand book shop window on Charing Cross Road on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops, and is home to many book shops, and more general second-hand and antiquarian shops.
    20200218_charing cross bookshops_004.jpg
  • Browsing man outside traditional, but disappearing, bookshop on Charing Cross Road. Rising rents and unfavourable leases are forcing such shops away from Charing Cross Road, long known for the new and second-hand book market that have attracted the literate for decades. Soon there will be none here and the character of this street and many like it, will change forever leaving behind a gentrified artificiality. The scene here is of a bygone era of old shops and old way of business.
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  • A visually impaired man with a white cane passes rare and second hand book shop window on Charing Cross Road on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops, and is home to many book shops, and more general second-hand and antiquarian shops.
    20200218_charing cross bookshops_003.jpg
  • Old West End theatre posters uncovered on Charing Cross Road in central London. The layers of past plays and musicals have been revealed during building work to the Garrick Theatre on Charing Cross Road in the heart of the capital's West End and Theatreland. Most prominently is the word 'Last' that may refer to the last night or week's run of a production long-forgotten or perhaps celebrated in the history of London stage. The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster. It opened on 24 April 1889.
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  • A pedestrian walks past an upturned car, a casualty of the Poll Tax riot, on 1st April 1990, in Charing Cross Road, London, England. when angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane, on 1st April 1990, in London, England. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_afternoon01-01-04-1990.jpg
  • The clean-up begins the morning after the Poll Tax riot,  on 1st April 1990, in Charing Cross Road, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot04-01-04-1990.jpg
  • A group of tourists taking part in a silent disco along Charing Cross Road on 19th October 2019, London, United Kingdom. A silent disco or silent rave is an event where people dance to music listened to on wireless headphones. Rather than using a speaker system, music is broadcast via a radio transmitter with the signal being picked up by wireless headphone receivers worn by the participants.
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  • A young commuter woman awaits her bus on a southbound route at a stop on Charing Cross Road in central London. Surrounded by red hues from the bus behind the girl and from lettering from an Angus Steakhouse restaurant, the female is also in a red coat on this November night. She is of Chinese ancestry, a Sino-British family moved to the UK whose spiritual home is nearby Chinatown, across the road. She looks wistful, deep in thought about her homeward journey, while surrounded by the bustle of the capital.
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  • A discarded broken umbrella and a person walking past with a brolley shop bag in Charing Cross Road, central London. Coincidentally, the woman carries a shopping bag for a London branch of Hackett whose logo is a bowler hat and pair of crossed umbrellas, the sign of quality and Britishness. Someone has thrown the item on the ground, partially-collapsed but now forgotten - the remnant of a person's wet day in the capital. Transport continues too and the red London bus edges past in heavy traffic in the borough of Westminster.
    street_umbrella05-09-12-2015_1.jpg
  • Anti capitalists / anarchists go on the rampage through central London on the back of the peaceful TUC protest march. The masked demonstrators ran a twisting route through the capital confusing the police and creating a situation which was very difficult to manage. The protesters attacked banks, shops and hotels, and the police in riot gear fought  face to face with them as they were pelted with ammonia, paint and fireworks loaded with coins. Here HSBC Bank on Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road is being smashed.
    20110326anarchists tuc protestR.jpg
  • Anti capitalists / anarchists go on the rampage through central London on the back of the peaceful TUC protest march. The masked demonstrators ran a twisting route through the capital confusing the police and creating a situation which was very difficult to manage. The protesters attacked banks, shops and hotels, and the police in riot gear fought  face to face with them as they were pelted with ammonia, paint and fireworks loaded with coins. Here HSBC Bank on Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road is being smashed.
    20110326anarchists tuc protestU.jpg
  • The Garrick Theatre and a ticket kiosk on Charing Cross Road remain closed on the day that UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson announced in parliament a major easing of Coronavirus pandemic restrictions on July 4th next week, including the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers in England, on 23rd June 2020, in London, England. The three month two metre social distance will be also reduced to one metre plus but in the last 24hrs, a further 171 have died from Covid, bringing the UK total to 42,927.
    coronavirus_westend-26-23-06-2020.jpg
  • Vintage 7inch records on sale at Ray’s Jazz record shop in Foyles Bookshop on Charing Cross Road on the 23rd March 2018 in Soho London in the United Kingdom.
    RaysJazz-SOHO-7931.jpg
  • Riot police officers stand firm in Trafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot10-31-03-1990.jpg
  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole near Londons Trafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot08-31-03-1990.jpg
  • Michael Wolffes book about Donald Trump, Fire And Fury is featured as a bestseller in the window of Foyles bookshop, on 15th January 2018, on Charing Cross Road, London, England.
    trump_foyles-05-13-01-2018.jpg
  • A couple kiss near police officers in the middle of the Poll Tax riot in the UK capital, on 31st March 1990, in Trafalgar Square, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot03-31-03-1990.jpg
  • A Porsche car burns fiercely outside the theatre where Will Russels Blood Brothers is showing, during the Poll Tax riot in the UK capital, on 31st March 1990, in St. Martins Lane, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot01-31-03-1990.jpg
  • Closed restaurant and bar in London's Charing Cross Road. A striped awning is dirty after years of use on this busy street and the window has been been made opaque with the use of whitewash paint that has dripped down the glass.
    closed_restaurant04-20-11-2014_1.jpg
  • Closed restaurant and bar in London's Charing Cross Road. A striped awning is dirty after years of use on this busy street and the window has been been made opaque with the use of whitewash paint that has dripped down the glass.
    closed_restaurant02-20-11-2014_1.jpg
  • A red London Routemaster bus passes beneath large posters for the Garrick theatre's latest West End play, Twelve Angry Men, on Charing Cross Road. Stopped in traffic, the bus takes passengers on a route through the heart of Theatreland, south towards Trafalgar Square. On the side of the bus is the title of another production, the musical Mormon which is a big hit in the capital. The hybrid NB4L, or the Borismaster, New Routemaster or Boris Bus, is a 21st century replacement of the iconic Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London and is said to be 40 per cent more fuel efficient than conventional diesel buses. The brainchild of London's Conservative mayor Boris Johnson, its funding has been controversial amid massive fare increases in transport.
    london_theatre01-13-02-2014.jpg
  • A woman police officer (WPC) stands with white paint plashed over her uniform during a public protest over the Poll Tax policies of Margaret Thatcher's government in 1990. It is dark and the trouble has been growing throughout the evening when the paint was thrown by unknown protesters. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Thatcher's local authority tax, eventually stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    police_paint01-09-03-1990.jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 13th April 2013. A puppet representation of Margaret Thatcher is paraded along Charing Cross Road to the Margaret Thatcher Death Party in Trafalgar Square, to celebrate the late Prime Minister's passing away.
    20130413thatcher death partyP.jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 13th April 2013. A puppet representation of Margaret Thatcher is paraded along Charing Cross Road to the Margaret Thatcher Death Party in Trafalgar Square, to celebrate the late Prime Minister's passing away.
    20130413thatcher death partyN.jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 13th April 2013. A coffin with the word 'society' in flowers is paraded along Charing Cross Road to the Margaret Thatcher Death Party in Trafalgar Square, to celebrate the late Prime Minister's passing away.
    20130413thatcher death partyI.jpg
  • Anti capitalists / anarchists go on the rampage through central London on the back of the peaceful TUC protest march. The masked demonstrators ran a twisting route through the capital confusing the police and creating a situation which was very difficult to manage. The protesters attacked banks, shops and hotels, and the police in riot gear fought  face to face with them as they were pelted with ammonia, paint and fireworks loaded with coins. Here HSBC Bank on Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road is being smashed.
    20110326anarchists tuc protestP.jpg
  • Exterior of The Manette Cafe in Soho on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Manette Street, which connects Greek Street, Soho to the busy thoroughfare of Charing Cross Road, dates from the late 17th Century when it bore its original name of Rose Street.
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  • Before it erupts into a full-scale riot, families and peaceful protesters against Margaret Thatchers Poll Tax policy, gather in Trafalgar Square, on 31st March 1990, in London, England. London, England. Later that day, angry crowds stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_afternoon02-01-04-1990.jpg
  • Vintage 7inch records on sale at Ray’s Jazz record shop in Foyles Bookshop on Charing Cross Road on the 23rd March 2018 in Soho London in the United Kingdom.
    RaysJazz-SOHO-7931.jpg
  • Riot police officers stand firm nearTrafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot07-31-03-1990.jpg
  • Michael Wolffes book about Donald Trump, Fire And Fury is featured as a bestseller in the window of Foyles bookshop, on 15th January 2018, on Charing Cross Road, London, England.
    trump_foyles-03-13-01-2018.jpg
  • Michael Wolffes book about Donald Trump, Fire And Fury is featured as a bestseller in the window of Foyles bookshop, on 15th January 2018, on Charing Cross Road, London, England.
    trump_foyles-02-13-01-2018.jpg
  • A Porsche car burns fiercely outside the theatre where Will Russels Blood Brothers is showing, during the Poll Tax riot in the UK capital, on 31st March 1990, in St. Martins Lane, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot02-31-03-1990.jpg
  • Electric Gibson guitars in Sunburst and other colours in a music shop window on London's Charing Cross Road. American guitar manufacturer have the reputation of countless musicians around the world who play quality music with a superior instrument. Labels in this window tell us that a 1959 Les Paul; a 1958 Yellow and others are priced at between £3-5000. Their precision engineering and design attracting buyers from around the world to this area of London called Tin Pan Alley - essentially located in London's Denmark Street though now being displaced because of rising lease and rent rates.
    guitars_shop02-06-03-2015_1.jpg
  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • London, UK. Saturday 13th April 2013. A puppet representation of Margaret Thatcher is paraded along Charing Cross Road to the Margaret Thatcher Death Party in Trafalgar Square, to celebrate the late Prime Minister's passing away.
    20130413thatcher death partyQ.jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 13th April 2013. A coffin with the word 'society' in flowers is paraded along Charing Cross Road to the Margaret Thatcher Death Party in Trafalgar Square, to celebrate the late Prime Minister's passing away.
    20130413thatcher death partyK.jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 13th April 2013. A puppet representation of Margaret Thatcher is paraded along Charing Cross Road to the Margaret Thatcher Death Party in Trafalgar Square, to celebrate the late Prime Minister's passing away.
    20130413thatcher death partyJ.jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 13th April 2013. A puppet representation of Margaret Thatcher is paraded along Charing Cross Road to the Margaret Thatcher Death Party in Trafalgar Square, to celebrate the late Prime Minister's passing away.
    20130413thatcher death partyH.jpg
  • Anti capitalists / anarchists go on the rampage through central London on the back of the peaceful TUC protest march. The masked demonstrators ran a twisting route through the capital confusing the police and creating a situation which was very difficult to manage. The protesters attacked banks, shops and hotels, and the police in riot gear fought  face to face with them as they were pelted with ammonia, paint and fireworks loaded with coins. Here HSBC Bank on Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road is being smashed.
    20110326anarchists tuc protestT.jpg
  • Ray’s Jazz record shop in Foyles Bookshop on Charing Cross Road on the 23rd March 2018 in Soho London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Ray’s Jazz record shop in Foyles Bookshop on Charing Cross Road on the 23rd March 2018 in Soho London in the United Kingdom.
    RaysJazz-SOHO-7922.jpg
  • Riot police officers stand firm in Trafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot09-31-03-1990.jpg
  • A discarded broken umbrella and side of a bus in Charing Cross Road, central London. The broken brolly sits upright on the pavement as daily life in the capital carries on around it. Someone has thrown the item on the ground, partially-collapsed but now forgotten - the remnant of a person's wet day in the capital. Transport continues too and the red London bus edges past in heavy traffic in the borough of Westminster.
    street_umbrella02-09-12-2015_1.jpg
  • As a bus driver is about to close the front doors of his vehicle, two commuters face each other on Charing Cross Road in central London. It is getting dark on this winter afternoon and the number 24 red bus is on a regular southerly route through their heart of Theatreland in the West End. The two homeward people are talking to each other, discussing the merits of taking one bus service over another to get home.
    london_bus04-16-11-2010.jpg
  • Anti capitalists / anarchists go on the rampage through central London on the back of the peaceful TUC protest march. The masked demonstrators ran a twisting route through the capital confusing the police and creating a situation which was very difficult to manage. The protesters attacked banks, shops and hotels, and the police in riot gear fought  face to face with them as they were pelted with ammonia, paint and fireworks loaded with coins. Here HSBC Bank on Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road is being smashed.
    20110326anarchists tuc protestQ.jpg
  • Bewildered passrs by walk quickly by as HSBC bank is smashed by protesters. Anti capitalists / anarchists go on the rampage through central London on the back of the peaceful TUC protest march. The masked demonstrators ran a twisting route through the capital confusing the police and creating a situation which was very difficult to manage. The protesters attacked banks, shops and hotels, and the police in riot gear fought  face to face with them as they were pelted with ammonia, paint and fireworks loaded with coins. Here HSBC Bank on Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road is being smashed.
    20110326anarchists tuc protestS.jpg
  • Anti capitalists / anarchists go on the rampage through central London on the back of the peaceful TUC protest march. The masked demonstrators ran a twisting route through the capital confusing the police and creating a situation which was very difficult to manage. The protesters attacked banks, shops and hotels, and the police in riot gear fought  face to face with them as they were pelted with ammonia, paint and fireworks loaded with coins. Here HSBC Bank on Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road is being smashed.
    20110326anarchists tuc protestO.jpg
  • Before it erupts into a full-scale riot, peaceful protesters against Margaret Thatchers Poll Tax policy, gather in Whitehall, on 31st March 1990, in London, England. London, England. Later that day, angry crowds stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_afternoon03-01-04-1990.jpg
  • Before it erupts into a full-scale riot, families protest against Margaret Thatchers Poll Tax policy, on 31st March 1990, in Trafalgar Square, London, England. Subsequently, angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot05-01-04-1990.jpg
  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Three police officers wearing helmets and riot shields brace themselves for further violence as angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • A silhouette of Tintin seen through closed restaurant and bar in London's Charing Cross Road. Printed on tiles in the background, we see the cartoon boy reporter running to yet another adventure, following his dog Snowy (or Milou, in French) whose body are slightly out of view. The Adventures of Tintin is a series of comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi (1907–1983), who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. By the time of the centenary of Hergé's birth in 2007, Tintin had been published in more than 70 languages with sales of more than 200 million copies.
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  • London, UK. Saturday 13th April 2013. A puppet representation of Margaret Thatcher is paraded along Charing Cross Road to the Margaret Thatcher Death Party in Trafalgar Square, to celebrate the late Prime Minister's passing away.
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