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  • A tourist coach parked in central London shows an old steam train and carriages. The stencilled writing on the ground makes for a humerous landscape in the borough of Westminster. It is a scene about the golden age of steam travel - an era of smoke and soot when the locomotive ruled he country's rail network - and that of the modern era of road transportation. This tourist coach is parked near the famous buildings of Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, allowing visitors to disembark and leave again soon after their tour of the area.
    coaches_bus02-09-09-2015.jpg
  • A young child beneath large screen images showing childhood of a bygone era in Britain's history, on display at London's Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank. The child totters and explores, helping this young person to be stimulated with her surroundings, The images of children and families are seen backlit against outside light, an exhibition of Britain's past, celebrating the 70th anniversary weekend of VE Day, when Britons remembered the end of WW2, an age of austerity, rationing and hardship but when childhood was still an era of innocence.
    southbank_child02-07-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A family stand at railings watching shipping on the River Thames at Gravesend during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing at some railings, the two women and the young boy are looking out towards the River Thames at the Kent town just a few miles outside London. Here is shipping that is taking cargo to the capital in an era when the river still a main artery for goods brought from across the world into London. The picture was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family06-13-08-1962_1.jpg
  • A Ford Anglia is parked in an empty road and homegrown beds of dahlias grow in the front garden of a council house in the early 1960s. Looking through the clean window we see net curtains (drapes) and in the foreground are the flowers showing a prospering post-war era. The car is the only one parked in the road at a time when car ownership was still to become popular among the working and middle-classes is estates like this. The colours are brilliantly reproduced and recorded by Kodachrome film by an amateur photographer in 1963. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family02-20-04-1963_1.jpg
  • A tourist coach parked in central London shows an old steam train and carriages. The stencilled writing on the ground makes for a humerous landscape in the borough of Westminster. It is a scene about the golden age of steam travel - an era of smoke and soot when the locomotive ruled he country's rail network - and that of the modern era of road transportation. This tourist coach is parked near the famous buildings of Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, allowing visitors to disembark and leave again soon after their tour of the area.
    coaches_bus01-09-09-2015.jpg
  • A young child beneath large screen images showing childhood of a bygone era in Britain's history, on display at London's Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank. A young mother shows her child what she can come and explore, helping the young person be stimulated with her surroundings, The images of children and families are seen backlit against outside light, an exhibition of Britain's past, celebrating the 70th anniversary weekend of VE Day, when Britons remembered the end of WW2, an age of austerity, rationing and hardship but when childhood was still an era of innocence.
    southbank_child01-07-05-2015_1.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_1.jpg
  • Lying horizontal in a Budapest scrap yard are two Communist-era statues that were toppled along with the fall of the Hungarian Socialist state in March 1990. In the foreground is the statue of the once-hated Hungarian local Communist Ferenc Munnich who participated in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then a member of the ‘Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government’, the Workers’ Militia and then defence minister and earning himself the Order of Lenin in 1967. After Hungary’s transition to a democracy, he has been dumped horizontally on a wooden frame, sliced off its original plinth at the feet and painted red, awaiting its fate. In fact this statue is now located in the theme park called Szoborpark (Statue Park) in the south of the city where he shares a political tourist landscape of 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
    communist_statue-13-06-1990_1.jpg
  • Real remembrance wreaths on the ground at the foot of a black and white vintage era photograph that shows the Cenotaph, currently hiding the real monument being renovated in London's Whitehall. In a landscape of false perspective and confusing juxtapositions between reality and the reproduction of the picture, we see the famous war memorial in central London. The London Cenotaph was originally a temporary structure erected for a peace parade following the end of World War I, but following an outpouring of national sentiment it was replaced by a permanent structure and designated the United Kingdom's official war memorial. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the permanent structure was built from Portland stone between 1919 and 1920. 'Cenotaph' derives from the Greek kenotaphion (empty tomb).
    cenotaph_landscape04-10-06-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Real remembrance wreaths on the ground at the foot of a black and white vintage era photograph that shows the Cenotaph, currently hiding the real monument being renovated in London's Whitehall. In a landscape of false perspective and confusing juxtapositions between reality and the reproduction of the picture, we see the famous war memorial in central London. The London Cenotaph was originally a temporary structure erected for a peace parade following the end of World War I, but following an outpouring of national sentiment it was replaced by a permanent structure and designated the United Kingdom's official war memorial. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the permanent structure was built from Portland stone between 1919 and 1920. 'Cenotaph' derives from the Greek kenotaphion (empty tomb).
    cenotaph_landscape01-10-06-2013_1_1.jpg
  • An EU flag and the Prussian Eagle sit side-by-side, on 16th May 2000, in Frankfurt, Germany. The EU flag hangs limply alongside the old German world Prussian eagle near the balcony of Frankfurts Rathaus or Town hall in historic Romerberg Square. The yellow stars formed into a circle of the European Union member states lie on a background of blue but the bronze green eagle harks back to a previous era of German politics and culture. The state of Prussia developed from the State of the Teutonic Order. The original flag of the Teutonic Knights had been a black cross on a white flag. Emperor Frederick II in 1229 granted them the right to use the black Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire.[citation needed] This Prussian Eagle remained the coats of arms of the successive Prussian states until 1947.
    EU_germany-16-05-2000.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.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_5.jpg
  • Weeks before his defeat in the 1997 election, British Prime Minister, John Major speaks at a Conservative party election rally on 29th April 1997, in London England. Major went on to lose to Labours Tony Blair which spelled the era of Tory rule under Margaret Thatcher and then Major.
    john_major31-29-04-1997.jpg
  • Toy doll thrown away and lying face down in a housing estate in Vauxhall in London, England, United Kingdom. The naked doll has an atmosphere of despair and desperation about it, and looks much like an old scene from a past era.
    20160530_toy doll_B.jpg
  • Modern architecture and older era architecture in Manhattan, New York City. High-rise buildings are mostly corporate offices though some apartments in this, one of the world's great megacities. They occupy addresses along Broadway - a mixture of modernity and 19th century architecture can be seen in detail.
    tim_lynch424-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • A lady Metro Bank worker and foyer featuring a vintage photo of City traffic seen through a front window. The modern-day Metro Bank offices with the backdrop of a vintage street scene, plus contemporary traffic in reflected city. Picking up her paperwork, the lady is about to temporarily leave her desk. In the background is a street scene of a bygone era, with early buses and charabancs. Incongruously the modern world is shown with today's society walking the same London streets and a ubiquitous white van. Metro Bank is Britain’s first new High Street bank in over 100 years.
    metro_bank01-21-02-2014.jpg
  • Two ladies pick plants in a field on the outskirts of Brussels in the 1970s. It is overcast but their smiles are bright as the women stand for their portrait picture, taken on a film camera in 1973. Standing in ankle-deep grass in this meadow on the outskirts of the Belbian capital, they look happy with their collection of wildlife. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    70s_family06-13-09-1973_1.jpg
  • 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_1.jpg
  • Homegrown beds of dahlias grow in the front garden of a council house in the early 1960s. The flowers are fine specimens of this species. Prospering, tall and healthy in summer sunshine in this front garden in Southend-in-Sea in Essex, England, their reds are brilliantly reproduced and recorded by Kodachrome film by an amateur photographer in 1963. Net curtains (drapes) can be seen in the windows and the green grass is clipped and mown to reflect the obsessive nature of the resident and plant grower. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family01-20-04-1963_1.jpg
  • The tails of a The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Fulcrum) fighter jet and an Antonov An-124 Ruslan transporter are seen visiting the 1988 Farnborough Air Show. The insignia of the era, a red star and hammer and sickle are clearly seen on the aircraft, just over a year before the collapse of Communism with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Mikoyan MiG-29 or "Fulcrum" is a fourth-generation jet fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union for an air superiority role. Developed in the 1970s by the Mikoyan design bureau, it entered service with the Soviet Air Force in 1983, and remains in use by the Russian Air Force as well as in many other nations.
    soviet_aircraft01-11-07-1988_1_1.jpg
  • Fading, graduated light of the arid Sonoran desert shows the remains of airliners at the storage facility at Mojave, California, their silhouettes forming a line of aviation's by-gone era. Because of age or a cooling economy they are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis41-15-08-1998_1.jpg
  • Schoolchildren of many ages and ethnic backgrounds spend their morning break-time in their school playground in inner-city London. Faces of a variety of skin colours and expressions look to the viewer as the kids delight in having their picture taken. Their cheeky, mischievous grins make us smile as we remember our own pre-technology childhoods, an era before computers took our natural sense of outdoor fun away.
    schoolchildren-12-06-1990.jpg
  • 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.
    pub_smokers-25-01-1986.jpg
  • A couple of mixed-race have put their heads through the apertures made in a painting that depicts Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, on the Palace Pier at Brighton, on the south coast of England. The faces peep through this traditional attraction that few can resist, even in the 21st century. The man’s face looks disturbingly incongruous in the place where the Prince Consort’s white German character would be. There is a message here of a changing multi-cultural British society where these friends or partners are from other ethnic backgrounds and where mixed-marriages are now commonplace, as opposed to the Victorian era when attitudes to racism and race-relations were vastly different.
    palace_pier_royals-16-07-1993.jpg
  • An English Electric Lightning supersonic jet fighter aircraft of the Cold War era sits in an industrial wasteland on the side of the A1 motorway in England. Parked in a take-off attitude, the wreck is now covered with graffiti though once the forefront of Britain's nuclear deterrent. The Lightning was noted for its great speed, the only all-British Mach 2 fighter aircraft and was the first aircraft in the world capable of supercruise. The Lightning was renowned for its capabilities as an interceptor; pilots commonly described it as "being saddled to a skyrocket"
    lightning01-10-01-2003.jpg
  • Looking as if from a past era, two ladies examine shoes at a 1986 jumble sale in the south Wales town of Abergavenney, Monmouthshire. Both are holding right-foot shoes that might suit them at this charity event held by the local Lions club, whose volunteers help the elderly and the disadvantaged within their community. We see some of the clothing piled up on trestle tables but the ladies’ attention is just on their finds which are within their price range, having to survive on meagre pensions.
    jumble_sale01-15-06-1986_1.jpg
  • Stained glass images of important historic medieval figures from the City of London's history, seen in the Guildhall. From over the centuries of London history, these figures were the city fathers, those who controlled on Britain's trade and maintained its position as a major trading port - from earliest medieval times to the modern era. The Guildhall is a building in the City of London, off Gresham and Basinghall streets, in the wards of Bassishaw and Cheap. It has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London and its Corporation.
    guildhall_glass03-23-09-2012_1.jpg
  • With smartphone in hand, a woman walks beneath a poster for the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters in Eldon Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district - and a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, a bygone gentlemanly tradition. when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat.
    gentlemen_poster03-14-03-2013_1.jpg
  • 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.
    cornhill_exchange02-15-06-1992_1.jpg
  • A trader from the LIFFE futures exchange takes a break in the street during a weekday lunchtime. Alongside him on another bench is a homeless man in the City of London in a scene of wealth with prosperity versus the fate of poverty and loss. Wearing the orange jacket of this once thriving financial instutution, we see a scene of wealth and prosperity, from an era of growth during the industrial revolution to the arrogance and self-indulgence during the government of John Major - a political inheritance from Margaret Thatcher. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    city_trader-16-03-1993_2_1.jpg
  • Two young businessmen stand outside a City of London pub with pint glasses on the window ledge, ignoring a warning sign telling drinkers that it's illegal to do so outside, a bylaw of the 1990s era.
    city_lunchtime05-20-05-1993_1.jpg
  • Fine examples of early 19th century Georgian Regency terraced housing on the Camberwell New Road, south London. A cyclist passes-by on his way north towards the Oval. Clean brickwork and window pedament arches show the pre-Victorian era building style. Camberwell New Road is part of the A202. It goes from Camberwell to Kennington Oval. It was a turnpike road authorized by Act of Parliament in 1818, just after the construction in 1816 of the first Vauxhall Bridge, which it leads to, thus providing a second route from Camberwell to central London. Camberwell New Road is the longest Georgian Road in England.
    camberwell_housing02-27-03-2012_1.jpg
  • During the Coronavirus lockdown, a time when residents in the UK are asked to stay at home, semi-detatched period homes from the Edwardian era, are lit in evening sunlight with a rare commercial airliner passing overhead, leaving its vapour trail in a blue sky, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-31-20-05-2020.jpg
  • Volunteer member of the Guardian Angels patrol the London underground in central London, an experiment in anti-crime in late-80s London, on 27th January 1989, in London, England. The Angels are under the supervision of the organisations creator Curtis Sliwa, who started the band of youths to help make New York a safer place, - and in Londons case in an era before CCTV made travel less secure. The Guardian Angels is a non-profit international volunteer organisation of unarmed citizen crime patrollers. The Guardian Angels organisation was founded February 13, 1979 with chapters in 15 countries and 144 cities around the world. Sliwa originally created the organization to combat widespread violence and crime on the New York City Subways.
    guardian_angels-27-01-1989.jpg
  • A City of London Police officer based at Bishopsgate station, flicks through a card index system during a nineties pre-digital era, on 16th June 1993, in London, England.
    city34-16-06-1994.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, pro-Communist Germans carrying Soviet and DDR flags march in Berlin, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_4.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, riot police tower over a young German girl outside Berlin Cathedral, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_3.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, German youths against Isolationism gather outside Berlin Cathedral, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_2.jpg
  • Two modern Polish women cross the road in front of a mural depicting a more traditional era in the Jewish Kazimierz district of Krakow, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-337-23-09-2019.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state German Democratic Republic, a brown coal delivery man stops to shovel his polluting fossil fuel into local cellars, on 15th June 1990, in Aue, Saxony. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008.
    GDR_coleman-15-06-1990.jpg
  • Reflected light from a nearby plate glass building, illuminates older era architecture and a city tram on Dukelskych hrdinu street, Holesovice district, Prague 7, on 19th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
    prague-119-19-03-2018.jpg
  • Reflected light from a nearby plate glass building, illuminates older era architecture on Dukelskych hrdinu street, Holesovice district, Prague 7, on 19th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
    prague-115-19-03-2018.jpg
  • Rubbish and litter in the 1990s blocks the waterways of a canal, on 10th September 1994, in Stratford, east London, England. Algae and household pollution lies on the surface of the waters dug by navvies of the Victorian era when canals around Britain helped supply the industrial revolution with the raw ingredients to power the furnaces, mills and wharves of the transport age. This is a small outlet of the River Lea where the future 2012 Olympic Park would eventually be built - the waters once again freed from 20th century dereliction.
    river_pollution-10-09-1994.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.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_6.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.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_4.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-01-04-01-2017.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-02-04-01-2017.jpg
  • Weeks before his defeat in the 1997 election, British Prime Minister, John Major speaks at a Conservative party election rally on 29th April 1997, in London England. Major went on to lose to Labours Tony Blair which spelled the era of Tory rule under Margaret Thatcher and then Major.
    john_major32-29-04-1997.jpg
  • Weeks before his defeat in the 1997 election, British Prime Minister, John Major speaks at a Conservative party election rally on 29th April 1997, in London England. Major went on to lose to Labours Tony Blair which spelled the era of Tory rule under Margaret Thatcher and then Major.
    john_major29-29-04-1997.jpg
  • Toy doll thrown away and lying face down in a housing estate in Vauxhall in London, England, United Kingdom. The naked doll has an atmosphere of despair and desperation about it, and looks much like an old scene from a past era.
    20160530_toy doll_C.jpg
  • Toy doll thrown away and lying face down in a housing estate in Vauxhall in London, England, United Kingdom. The naked doll has an atmosphere of despair and desperation about it, and looks much like an old scene from a past era.
    20160530_toy doll_A.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.
    charing_cross_bookshop01-18-03-2015_...jpg
  • A detail of an old family photo taken on 35mm transparency slide from the 1960s. We see the photo from another era, backlit against the bight light of a photography lightbox used to view this type of photographic material. So as not to add confusion, Kodak has printed the words 'View from this Side' so that it may be viewed the right way round. In the picture is a mother leading her young son away from wild animals in London zoo, England.
    transparency_lightbox10-21-01-2014.jpg
  • A lady Metro Bank worker and foyer featuring a vintage photo of City traffic seen through a front window. The modern-day Metro Bank offices with the backdrop of a vintage street scene, plus contemporary traffic in reflected city. Picking up her paperwork, the lady is about to temporarily leave her desk. In the background is a street scene of a bygone era, with early buses and charabancs. Incongruously the modern world is shown with today's society walking the same London streets and a ubiquitous white van. Metro Bank is Britain’s first new High Street bank in over 100 years.
    metro_bank01-21-02-2014.jpg
  • Old apartment and iron balcony architecture in Lisbon's old Arabic Alfama district. Murals of classical Portuguese figures adorn the plaster walls next to crumbling windows and balconies which have the look of vintage from a former era in Lisbon's capital. Alfama is the oldest district of Lisbon, spreading on the slope between the Castle of Lisbon and the Tejo river. Its name comes from the Arabic Al-hamma, meaning fountains or baths. It contains many important historical attractions, with many Fado bars and restaurants.
    alfama_architecture-21-03-1994_1.jpg
  • Teenage epat football players listen to their PE teacher during a half-time pep talk during their match at the British School of Brussels in 1975. The players are dressed in red and looking tired on the football field, taken by one of the boy's fathers, an amateur photographer. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    70s_family09-19-04-1974_1.jpg
  • Portrait of parents and their young son standing at Zaventem Brussels airport in the 1970s. Dressed for winter and holding a holiday flight bag with the emblem of their tour to Mexico, the trio stand outside the terminal building of Brussels Zaventem airport in 1970. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    70s_family08-20-06-1970_1.jpg
  • A portrait of family standing in the doorway of a detached home in the 1970s. Two brothers dressed in identical red shirts point upwards and their sister points in another direction while their grandmother stands next to the childrens' uncle in the doorway of this detached home in Kent. The man wears the height of 70s fashion - a 3-piece suit (with waistcoat) with flared trousers and a  brown shirt. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    70s_family07-19-04-1973_1.jpg
  • A young couple stand with the backdrop of Welsh mountains and hills in the background in the 1970s. Helping her husband to light his cigarette in a breeze, the woman's coat is blowing in the wind, so high up in the mountains have they stopped during a daytrip to the north Welsh hills. Rolling misty mountains are in the distance as bad weather appears to be approaching. It was taken on a film camera by the man's father, an amateur photographer in 1973. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    70s_family05-13-09-1973_1.jpg
  • A portrait of a teenage boy of about 16 years-old with Welsh mountains and hills in the background in the 1970s. With a rolling valley, a lake, a farmhouse and misty hills in the distance, the landscape is a peaceful scene of an otherwise wild countryside in north Wales. The boy and his family are on a daytrip to the Welsh hills. It was taken on a film camera by the youth's father, an amateur photographer in 1973. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    70s_family04-13-09-1973_1.jpg
  • Friends and family portrait with Welsh hills in the background in the 1970s. With an evergreen forest behind them, we see two couples accompanied by the mother of the man whose arms are draped over his wife's and his mother's shoulder. It was taken on a film camera by an amateur photographer in 1973. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    70s_family03-13-09-1973_1.jpg
  • 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.
    70s_family02-13-09-1973_1.jpg
  • A lady smiles in a portrait near dodgem cars at the seaside during summer time in the early 1960s. The happy woman smiles to the film camera in a portrait on Southend Pier and recorded on a film camera by a relative, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family16-20-08-1962_1.jpg
  • A portrait of a mother and teenage son in a public park during summer time in the early 1960s. The portrait has been recorded on a film camera by an amateur photographer in 1961. The young man stands with his arm on his mum's shoulder in this public park in Essex. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family15-15-03-1961_1.jpg
  • Family and friends sit on a rocking horse in a playground during summer time in the early 1960s. The portrait has been recorded on a film camera by the boy at the front's father, an amateur photographer in 1961. A man is holding on tight to a black and white pet sheepdog and two mothers chat on the right of the picture in this public park in Essex. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family14-15-03-1961_1.jpg
  • A mother of 42 years of age holds her 1 year-old son among heather in country field during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing in naturally-growing heather in afternoon sunshine, the mum and the young child are looking at plants, her polka dot dress seems to be the fashion in this picture recorded on a film camera by the child's father, an amateur photographer in 1960. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family12-28-08-1960_1.jpg
  • A mother and two teenage girls stand among heather in country field during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing in the naturally-growing heather in afternoon sunshine, the women and the young child are looking at the plants that they've just picked to show the youngster. Polka dots seem to be the fashion in this picture recorded on a film camera by the child's father, an amateur photographer in 1960. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A young woman holds the hand of her 5 year-old brother during a visit to London zoo in the early 1960s. Looking closely at a tame llama that has been hitched up to a harness and about to pull children for a short ride around the enclosures of London's zoo in Regents Park. It was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964.The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A mother holds the hand of her 5 year-old son during a visit to London zoo in the early 1960s. Looking frightened and upset, the small lad walks hand in hand with his mum, away from where there are scary wild animals in cages but still a frightening experience to a little person. The mother is smartly-dresed for the family day out to the capital and its zoo in Regents Park. It was was recorded on film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A young boy of about 5 years-old stands on a seaside bridge as an older man walks past in the early 1960s. Seen from a low angle, we look up at the small boy standing on some steps of a bridge on the seafront at Southend-on-Sea in Essex, recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A family walk along a town's side street during summer time in the early 1960s. A small boy is accompanied by his older sister who points at something in the distance, his mother wearing pearls behind and a family friend who holds his hand as the walk towards the town's new shopping precinct. The picture was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family05-13-08-1962_1.jpg
  • A young boy of about 5 years-old sits in the family back garden in the early 1960s. The small lad sits with an embarrassed expression on his face, a brick wall behind him with summer garden plants growing nearby. The boy has blonde hair and a striped t-shirt and was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • Two 1960s housewives and mothers stand in sunshine on the front porch of their council house. The two women stand smiling for a portrait by an amateur photographer in 1963. Alongside them is a hanging basket of flowers that is suspended in the porch. This post-war image whows a confidence and prosperity among the working class and the ladies wear bright, white clothing that is well-washed and laundered at a time when a growing disposable income was an asset to families being offered domestic products to help improve their everyday lives. The picture was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family03-20-04-1963_1.jpg
  • Clothing hanging on a washing line in a Pimlico housing estate in London. Reflecting a bygone era when the residents of inner-city tenements and housing estates hung out their washing on wash days (usually Mondays in the UK), relying on honesty and the community spirit to ensure their safety. Today we see this rarely apart from courtyards like this in west London. The walls are made fromclassic London stock bricks but the colours of a vibrant 21st century Britain are seen strung along the line.
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  • A detail of the bomb-aimer's window in the nose of a Victor bomber from the nuclear Cold War V-bomber era. The Handley Page Victor was a British jet-powered strategic bomber, developed and produced by the Handley Page Aircraft Company and served during the Cold War. It was the third and final of the V-bombers operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF)
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  • Two men smoke cigarettes in a London restaurant in the era of public, indoor smoking. The two friends have finished their long lunch and sit back to enjoy the after meal experience of inhaling the smoke, their faces showing the pleasures of an otherwise addiction to the tobacco filled cigarette. This is the upside though and The smoking ban came into effect  in England on 1st July 2007; in Scotland on 26 March 2006; in Wales on 2 April 2007 and in Northern Ireland on 30 April 2007. But publicans and breweries reported a drop in sales to the smoking ban, their lowest level since the 1930s.
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  • Two mothers and neighbours gossip with arms folded outside their houses on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties. Wearing aprons popular for working mums in this era of early 1960s, and one seemingly pregnant, the two women talk about families and children and their lives at the beginning of a new decade. This row of houses is in the Essex suburb of Westcliff, Southend and a proud gardener has grown a colourful bed of dahlias in the front. The picture was recorded on Kodachrome (Kodak) film in about 1961.
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  • A middle-age mother and father with a teenage son pose for a photo outside their house in a Belgian suburb in the early 70s. Standing rather awkwardly in the street of modern cobbles, the three family members are ready to leave for a day out somewhere and we see their house's window on the left with its shutters lowered. The mother and wife wears white gloves, the husband and father wears a trilby hat - in the way people wore headwear in that bygone era.
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  • An older uncle with his two nephews sit on tropical grass in the family African garden in 1970. This amateur family souvenir portrait is a snapshot taken decades before the advent of the digital photograph, preserving the quality of a bygone era. The garden is in the African town of Blantyre in Malawi where this expatriate family lived. This decade is shown with the shorts sandals of seventies childhood.
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  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show an instruction mural for guarding prison camps seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier standing at the barbed wire of a generic Gulag holding his AK-47 weapon and dressed in fur hat and uniform from that era. Perhaps those training here were eventually to guard political prisoners though it is a reminder of a fallen ideology. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer.
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  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow02-16-06_1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as a reminder of Soviet discipline, the picture shows soldiers marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow01-16-06_1990.jpg
  • A fashion conscious male with a small girl statue credited to the 19th century Florence-born artist Raffaello Romanelli. In afternoon sunlight, the young man walks near the corner of Albermarle Street and Piccadilly, London W1, Westminster. His sense of style and confidence shows in the way he strides along the street surrounded by other Londoners whereas the classical statuette looks on, admiring the passers-by, her bare breast and wearing the stylish jewellery of the era.
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  • Standing on the roadside are three British traffic policemen. It is snowing in the depths of winter and the three officers are watching on-coming traffic as it negotiates safe routes downhill in South London. Wearing yellow jackets of the early 1990s we see the traces of snow that fell across the scene in diagonal blurs. Cars of the era drive along roads that have succumbed to the snowfall, seemingly unsalted or treated with anti-snow grit. In the background a couple walk carefully on hazardous pavements.
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  • Setting sun with jogger in Ruskin Park in the borough of Lambeth, south London. Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) is a beautiful green space in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. The jogger paces past the image as the sun sets against period homes of the Edwardian era, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
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  • Setting sun with jogger in Ruskin Park in the borough of Lambeth, south London. Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) is a beautiful green space in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. The jogger paces past the image as the sun sets against period homes of the Edwardian era, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
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  • A modern-day Metro Bank offices with the backdrop of a vintage street scene, plus contemporary traffic in reflected city. Two businessmen sit in their bank office that is seen from the street, one is speaking the phone while his colleague shows interest outside the frame. In the background is a street scene of a bygone era, with carts and some kind of wheeled tram that has an upper-deck. Incongruously the modern world is shown with today's society walking the same London streets and a ubiquitous white van. Metro Bank is Britain’s first new High Street bank in over 100 years.
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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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  • American casualties lie under headstones at the WW2 Madingley American Cemetery, located in the English countryside, Cambridgeshire. 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_cemetery02-05-10-2000_1.jpg
  • American casualties lie under headstones at the WW2 Madingley American Cemetery, located in the English countryside, Cambridgeshire. 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_1.jpg
  • A detail of an ornate Victorian brass letter box plate. Seen in close-up, the single and plural word 'Letters' is printed in upper-case capitals on the flap that one must lift to insert postal mail from the outside of this heavy, glossy black doors in the seaside town of Lowestoft in Suffolk, England. The brass plate sits in its fitted slot and has been carefully polished these last decades to ensure it still looks as handsome as it might have some time in the Victorian era when brass door knockers and other elaborate fittings were fixed to houses, showing true quality craftsmanship - a factor largely ignored in the mass-produced products of today.
    letter_box06-12-1992_1.jpg
  • A Hungarian man stands in an open phone booth to make a call using a landline in a Budapest street. The word Telefon is overhead and this cold-war era technology is in use in 1990. According to Thomas Edison, "Tivadar Puskas was the first person to suggest the idea of a telephone exchange". Puskás's idea finally became a reality in 1877 in Boston. It was then that the Hungarian word "hallom" "I hear you" was used for the first time in a telephone conversation when, on hearing the voice of the person at the other end of the line, Puskás shouted "hallom". This cannot be confirmed by any original documents, however it has passed into Hungarian modern folklore. Hallom was shortened to Hello.
    hungary_payphone-13-06-1990_1.jpg
  • The stern of Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory at Portsmouth. We look up at the rear of Britain's most famous warship from the Napoleonic war era and see the windows of Nelson's cabins and rooms - the location where the battle of Trafalgar was planned and where Nelson died on that day in 1805. Victory took Nelson's body to England where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 6 January 1806.<br />
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. After Trafalgar, she served as a harbour ship, moved in 1922  to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She is the flagship of the First Sea Lord and is the oldest naval ship still in commission
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  • Stained glass images of important historic medieval figures from the City of London's history, seen in the Guildhall. From over the centuries of London history, these figures were the city fathers, those who controlled on Britain's trade and maintained its position as a major trading port - from earliest medieval times to the modern era. The Guildhall is a building in the City of London, off Gresham and Basinghall streets, in the wards of Bassishaw and Cheap. It has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London and its Corporation.
    guildhall_glass04-23-09-2012_1.jpg
  • Two of the esteemed veteran photojournalists from the era of the weekly Picture Post magazine, Grace Robertson and Thurston Hopkins are is seen at the front gate of their home in East Sussex. Robertson was born in 1930 and Hopkins in 1913 and both worked under editor (Sir) Tom Hopkinson on the prominent photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957. It is considered a pioneering example of photojournalism and was an immediate success, selling 1,600,000 copies a week after only six months. It has been called the Life magazine of the United Kingdom.
    grace_robertson01-24-10-1989_1.jpg
  • As if separated by many decades, we see an older generation beach guard from a bygone era and a much younger lifeguard, both resting on the seafront of the posh Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea, England. If simply comparing the colour schemes of the past, to the modern day, we might guess that in the gentleman on the right’s day, people wore more formal blues, with collar and tie and polished shoes on the hottest day - reminiscent of Victorian times when pomp and tradition rather than practicalities were important . Nowadays, complimentary reds and yellows adorn the uniform of the lad trained in water injuries and life-saving. He is barefoot and sits comfortably against the sea defence wall in peak cap and t-shirt. This is a scene describing the generation gap, of youth versus experience - the classic English seaside holiday.
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  • The EU flag hangs limply alongside the old German world Prussian eagle near the balcony of Frankfurt's Rathaus or Town hall in historic Romerberg Square. The yellow stars formed into a circle of the European Union member states lie on a background of blue but the bronze green eagle harks back to a previous era of German politics and culture. The state of Prussia developed from the State of the Teutonic Order. The original flag of the Teutonic Knights had been a black cross on a white flag. Emperor Frederick II in 1229 granted them the right to use the black Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire.[citation needed] This "Prussian Eagle" remained the coats of arms of the successive Prussian states until 1947.
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  • An airline flight-engineer occupies his own seat in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 - before the era arrived when technology made his role as a third flight crew member redundant. With a bowl of fresh fruit beside his seat, the male member of the flight-deck crew watches instruments and readings in front of the unseen pilots at the front. Wearing the three stripes designating his rank and seniority within his unspecified airline, the specialist's skills are in engineering systems that maintain efficient flight. When introduced, the Boeing 747-400 model was equipped with a two-crew glass cockpit, which dispensed with the need for a flight engineer - many of whom lost their jobs or retrained as pilots themselves.
    flight_engineer01-07-08-2000_1.jpg
  • A coal delivery man deposits chunks of brown coal into the cellar via a conveyor belt for an elderly lady who stands outside in the bitter cold wearing only a housecoat this grim day. Her slippers can be seen standing among fallen briquettes that have dropped on to the wet cobbled street as the man oversees the delivery from a truck that has backed on to the pavement near a junction. A passing Trabant car rattles up the hill past a mother who pauses to ensure a safe crossing for her baby. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008..
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  • A housewife poses in her still undecorated home surrounded by material possessions bought with a credit card during the must-have economy. Shot in an era of Thatcherite must-have materialism, when the credit economy was a way of life for millions, decades before the recessions and financial crashes of the Noughties, this lady holds up her Visa card and glass of red wine. Surrounded by her purchases bought on credit, she smiles at us with economic confidence.
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