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  • Young adolescent couples kiss and cuddle in a dark corner of a Gatecrashers' Ball in London, England. Three boys and girls dressed in formal evening-wear have been consuming alcohol during the evening and are groping and snogging. The Gatecrasher Ball was an eighties phenomenon conceived by Edward Ormus Sharington Davenport whose parties catered for Public School students. Labled as excessive and out of control events, Davenport charged <br />
£14 a ticket, for often 3,000 kids although he was later fined for tax evasion.
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  • Active trading inside the London Stock Exchange in the City of London during the late-eighties. We see an aerial view of the 1980s-era options trading floor, looking  down from a high vantagepoint on to the traders as they go about their business. Three years after the so-called Big Bang in 1986 , this location at the old Stock Exchange Tower  became redundant with the advent of the Big Bang, which deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities as it enabled an increased use of computerised systems that allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading. Thus, in 2004, the House moved to a brand new headquarters in Paternoster Square, close to St Paul's Cathedral.
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  • Actor Glenda jackson adresses a Womens Environmental Network WEN rally in Covent Garden in the late-eighties, London, England. Jackson went on to serve as Member of Parliament<br />
for Hampstead and Highgate 1992–2010.
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  • An elderly woman reads a copy of a tabloid newspaper, on 16th June 1989, in London, England.
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  • 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.
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  • A middle-aged husband serves a plate of meat to his wife from the family home-made BBQ in the back garden on a summers afternoon, in June 1989, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
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  • Seen from behind, two young boys tag the inside the 1980s carriage of a 1990s London Underground train, on 8th November 1989, in London, England. in 1980s London, graffiti was a persistent problem that costs the transport company network up to £3 million a year to remove. If caught, juvenile delinquents like usually escaped with only a caution because of their age - although older ones were prosecuted.
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  • Seen from an aerial perspective during a rail strike in the 90s, on both sides of the railway track, thousands of commuters desperate to get home after a long day at work in central London, on 22nd June 1993, in London, England.
    train_strike-21-06-1989.jpg
  • Conservative Party delegates rally before Prime Minister Margaret Thatchers closong speech at the 1989 Conservative Party Conference, on 13th October 1989, in Blackpool, England. Prime Minister of the day, John Major went on to win the election weeks later and was the fourth consecutive victory for the Tory Party although it was its last outright win until 2015 after Labours 1997 win for Tony Blair.
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  • WHile awaiting their applications for political asylum to be processed, three Sri Lankan Tamil families stand for a portrait in a North London play park, on 16th January 1986, in London, England. The Tamils are from the Indian Ocean island where the civil war there is ongoing and where the Buddhist government have been persecuted by the Singhalese majority. The families have recently arrived in Britain and are temporarily housed in council flats in Chalk Farm in North London.
    tamil_refugees-16-01-1986.jpg
  • The musician with the 80s band The Police, Sting supports the charity Sport Aids running event in Londons Hyde Park, on 25th May 1986, in London, England. Sport Aid also known as Sports Aid was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in various sports, and culminating in the Race Against Time, a 10 km fun run held simultaneously in 89 countries. Timed to coincide with a UNICEF development conference in New York City, Sport Aid raised $37m for Live Aid and UNICEF. A second lower-key Sport Aid was held in 1988.
    sting_sportaid-25-05-1986.jpg
  • As queues of Londoners line up to gain a ride on a bus during a one-day strike by underground tube unions, a lady with head covered in a scarf reads a newspaper at Victoria Station, on 8th May 1989, in London, England. More than 3,000 British Rail employees launched an unofficial overtime ban, walking out in protest at the end of their eight-hour shifts. Thousands were disrupted at Victoria station in central London, on their way to their inner-city destinations. The buses have a maximum capacity and too few seats for the commuters waiting patiently in line.
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  • Angry residents from Kent march over the river Thames and past Parliament to protest over the planned high-speed TGV-style rail link from London to the south-east coast, on 5th August 1989, in London, England. Locals from the Darenth Valley in rural Kent, against the forthcoming Channel Tunnel rail link organised their own campaign to reverse decisions by British Rail to cut a new rail link through their community. British Rail announced that 150mph TGV trains would travel through their rural Kent countryside, forcing residents to sell their homes within a 240 metre corridor to the rail line, at great loss while splitting up the community.
    rail_link_protest01-05-08-1989.jpg
  • Reflected in a mirror, women shop for clothes at a stall in the covered market in Newport, on 29th November 1985, in Newport, Wales, UK.
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  • A portrait of a tattooed Kayan man, sitting cross-legged in his traditional longhouse, located on the Metah River, 14th March 1982, in Sarawak, East Malayasia Borneo. The population of the Kayan ethnic group may be around 27,000. They are part of a larger grouping of people, settled mainly along the middle reaches of the Baram, Bintulu, and Rajang rivers in Sarawak, Malaysia and referred collectively as the Orang Ulu, or upriver people. Like some other Dayak people, they are known for being fierce warriors, former headhunters, adept in Upland rice cultivation, and having extensive tattoos and stretched earlobes amongst both sexes.
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  • A Muslim gentleman stands outside the Met Polices Aliens Registration Office in Holborn where the languages of six foreign nations are written on its board, on 13th February 1987, in London, England.
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  • A portrait of street market traders, on 16th April 1980, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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  • A detail of home-made posters by residents from Kent over the planned high-speed TGV-style rail link from London to the south-east coast, on 5th August 1989, in London, England. Locals from the Darenth Valley in rural Kent, against the forthcoming Channel Tunnel rail link organised their own campaign to reverse decisions by British Rail to cut a new rail link through their community. British Rail announced that 150mph TGV trains would travel through their rural Kent countryside, forcing residents to sell their homes within a 240 metre corridor to the rail line, at great loss while splitting up the community.
    rail_link_protest02-05-08-1989.jpg
  • Fire fighters attend to the broken fuselage of a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 series jet airliner which lies on an embankment of the M1 motorway at Kegworth, near East Midlands Airport, on 9th January 1989, in Leicestershire, England. On the night of 8th January 1989, flight 92 crashed due to the shutting down of the wrong, malfunctioning engine. Attempting an emergency landing, 47 people died and 74 people, including seven members of the flight crew, sustained serious injuries. The aircrafts tail snapped upright at ninety degrees and here were most of the passenger fatalities. The devastation was hampered by woodland and the fire fighters are attempting to rescue survivors or extract those killed in this air disaster that proved one of Britains worst.
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  • Cranes and lifting equipment raise wreckage from a train carriage after the Clapham rail disaster at Wandsworth, on 12th December 1988, in London, England.
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  • With Chinese characters of a nearby business behind, a market trader carries a heavy sack of produce while a local barber snips at the hair of a customer in a Malaysian kampung, a river village within Bako National Park, one of Southeast Asia’s smallest national parks, 37km ride from Kuching on the Rajang River, on 14th March 1982, in Bako Kampung, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.
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  • 1980s Sri Lankan schoolgirls in clean white uniforms and visiting the ancient city of Polonnaruwa, stand alongside the Shiva Devale temple, on 12th Arpil 1980, at Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. Shiva Devale No 2 is the oldest structure in Polonnaruwa and dates from the brief Chola period, when the Indian invaders established the city. Built in the 11th century, this Hindu temple built entirely of stone. Within in the sanctum is a stone carved lingam or phallus, a symbol of Hindu god Diva. In front of the temple is the Nandi bull, God Shiva’s vehicle. Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka’s splendid medieval capital was established as the first city of the land in the 11th Century, A.D.
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  • Emergency fire muster station point on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. Illustrious is the second of three Invincible-class light aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and is affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". She is the oldest ship in the Royal Navy's active fleet , expected  to be  withdrawn from service in 2014 (after 32 years' service).
    navy_open_day30-11-05-2013.jpg
  • A car drives slowly past wild New Forest ponies which occupy the highway in Lyndhurst, in the heart of Britain's oldest royal National Park. As part of the 1217 Charter of the Forest (carta de foresta), the horses - a specific breed to this small area of southern England - are allowed to walk along the road unhindered. Common rights survive today in the New Forest and are still protected by law.
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  • The veteran BBC broadcaster Richard Baker (same name as the photographer of this picture) is seen in a Radio 3 studio in Langham Place, in central London. With glasses at hand and programme notes on his console with microphones pointing to his face, Baker is looking to camera with a pair of old-fashioned earphones around his neck. Richard Baker OBE (born 1925) started at the BBC as an announcer and presented many classical music programmes on both television  and radio, including for many years the annual live broadcast from the Last Night of the Proms but he’s best known as a newsreader for the BBC News from 1954 to 1982 and the long-running Your Hundred Best Tunes for BBC Radio 2 on Sunday nights.
    richard_baker-17-02-1986.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 portrait of international astrology and writer, Marjorie Orr in the summer of 1989, in London England. Orr was originally a BBC documentary producer with a philosophy degree and an interest in science but is now a media astrologer writing columns for newspapers and magazines in five continents and broadcasting on television and radio.
    marjorie_orr-01-06-1989.jpg
  • It’s a free for all as elderly pensioners sift through piles of clothing left outside a community hall at a 1986 jumble sale in the south Wales town of Abergavenney, Monmouthshire. Some hold up items of clothing and others are happy to stand back and watch while some young children descend some steps of this Victorian-era building during a charity event held by the local Lions club, whose volunteers help the elderly and the disadvantaged within their community. Property has been donated and the old folks’ attention is on their finds which are within their price range, having to survive on meagre pensions.
    jumble_sale02-15-06-1986_1.jpg
  • A portrait of British environmentalist, Jonathon Porritt while head of Friends of the Earth, in the summer of 1989, London UK. Porritts first book, Seeing Green, was published in 1984 when he also gave up teaching to become Director of Friends of the Earth in Britain, a post he held until 1990.Jonathon Espie Porritt, CBE b1950 is a British environmentalist and writer, known for his advocacy of the Green Party of England and Wales.
    jonathan_porritt-01-06-1986.jpg
  • A portrait of ceramicist Janice Tchalenko at home in April 1987 at her home in south London, UK. Janice Tchalenko 1942- was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. She is a ceramic artist best known for her success in translating decorative studio pottery into designs for batch and large-scale production.
    janice_tchalenko-01-04-1987.jpg
  • A formal portrait of English journalist David Thomas, after his appointment as the new editor of Punch Magazine, in February 1989, London England. Thomas was Young Journalist of the Year at the age of 24, became a magazine editor at 25 and was the youngest editor in the 150-year history of Punch magazine at 29. Since 1992 he has worked as a freelance author and journalist. He now writes fiction under his own name and as Tom Cain and, as of February 2015, David Churchill.
    david_thomas01-01-06-1989.jpg
  • From Cheriton Hill, we see the new Channel Tunnel rail terminal under construction in the Kent countryside at Cheriton, Folkestone in 1989. The tunnel now carries high-speed Eurostar passenger trains, Eurotunnel Shuttle roll-on/roll-off vehicle transport. The terminals sites are at Cheriton (Folkestone in the United Kingdom) and Coquelles (Calais in France). The terminals are unique facilities designed to transfer vehicles from the motorway onto trains at a rate of 700 cars and 113 heavy vehicles per hour.
    channel_tunnel3-15-04-1989_1.jpg
  • Nigerian evangelist, Rev. Benson Idahosa places his hand on the head of a Born-again Christian during a Christian rally at Butlins Bible Week during Easter in 1986 at Minehead, England. Benson Andrew Idahosa 1938 -1998 was a Charismatic Pentecostal preacher, and founder of the Church of God Mission International with headquarters in Benin City, Nigeria.
    benson_idahosa-01-06-1989.jpg
  • Thames riverside residential and office properties at Canary Wharf in London Docklands, on 16th September 2021, in London, England. Canary Wharf was once a thriving Victorian cargo dock but after Thames shipping declined from the 1960s, its derelict areas were redeveloped in the 19080 by Margaret Thatchers Docklands Development Corporation created one of the UK’s main financial centres, now home to the European Headquarters of numerous major banks including Barclays, Credit Suisse and HSBC.
    docklands_properties-06-16-09-2021.jpg
  • Fading flowers on the memorial to the murdered WPC Yvonne Fletcher in St. Jamess Square, on 29th April 2019, in London, England. WPC Yvonne Fletcher, a Metropolitan Police officer, was shot and killed by an unknown gunman on 17 April 1984, during a protest outside the Libyan embassy on St Jamess Square, London. Her death resulted in an eleven-day siege of the embassy, at the end of which those inside were expelled from the country and the United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Libya.
    yvonne_fletcher-04-29-04-2019.jpg
  • A formal portrait of English fashion designer, Zandra Rhodes in the summer of 1989 at her Grafton Street boutique, central London England. Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, DBE RDI b1940 studied first at Medway and then at the Royal College of Art in London. Her major area of study was printed textile design.
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  • The memorial tree in memory of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in St. Jamess Square, on 29th April 2019, in London, England. WPC Yvonne Fletcher, a Metropolitan Police officer, was shot and killed by an unknown gunman on 17 April 1984, during a protest outside the Libyan embassy on St Jamess Square, London. Her death resulted in an eleven-day siege of the embassy, at the end of which those inside were expelled from the country and the United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Libya.
    yvonne_fletcher-01-29-04-2019.jpg
  • With the companionship of a pet dog, an elderly gentleman reminisces about the good old days with a life-long buddy at Alexandra Terrace, in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). Together they lean against a stone wall of a road above and look down the hill of their street they may have lived all their lives. In the distance, a younger generation of young girls play at the far end. The men might once have been working men, old coal miners like many folk in this community whose  population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach..
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  • Two local children squeeze through railings of the  unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). The kids have walked their dog through this field filled with old headstones and graves, playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society.
    wales_cemetery02-15-06-1986_1_1.jpg
  • Among headstones and graves, two local children play in the unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). Along with their pet Labrador dog who enjoys joining in on the fun, the children are playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society.
    wales_cemetery01-15-06-1986_1_1.jpg
  • Conservative MP, Virginia Bottomley fills a car with unleaded fuel during Lead free Petrol Week in September 1989, London England. Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC, DL née Garnett, 1948 is a British Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of Parliament MP in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005 and raised to the peerage in 2005.
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  • Ageing 80s technology of the Thames Barrier on the River Thames near Woolwich in east London. As daylight fades to become a purple hue, we see the waters of the Thames flowing on the tide. Operational in 1982, the Thames Barrier is one of the largest movable flood barriers in the world, managed by the UK's Environment Agency. The barrier spans 520 metres across the River Thames near Woolwich, and it protects 125 square kilometres of central London from flooding caused by tidal surges.  The barrier has closed over 80 times since the year 2000 with ‘at least 800,000 homes and businesses have protected from tidal surges.
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  • English musician, Sting appears at the first Sport Aid event Run the World in May 1986 at Londons Hyde Park England. Sport Aid  was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in various sports, and culminating in the Race Against Time, a 10 km fun run held simultaneously in 89 countries.[1] Timed to coincide with a UNICEF development conference in New York City, Sport Aid raised $37m for Live Aid and UNICEF.
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  • A portrait of English singer and musician, Roger Daltrey relaxing at the waters edge at the trout farm he developed, in the summer of 1989, near Burwash, England. Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE b1944 is an English singer-songwriter and actor. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Daltrey came to prominence in the mid-1960s as the founder and lead singer of the English rock band The Who, which released fourteen singles that entered the Top 10 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
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  • A portrait of British senior civil servant, Sir Robin Butler while practicing putting in the summer of 1989, at the Civil Service College at Sunningdale, England. Butler had a high-profile career in the civil service from 1961 to 1998, serving as Private Secretary to five Prime Ministers. He was Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service from 1988 to 1998. Frederick Edward Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, KG, GCB, CVO, PC b1938 is a retired British civil servant, now sitting in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
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  • Locked doors on the top deck on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. Illustrious is the second of three Invincible-class light aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and is affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". She is the oldest ship in the Royal Navy's active fleet , expected  to be  withdrawn from service in 2014 (after 32 years' service).
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  • The ship's bell on the top deck on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. Illustrious is the second of three Invincible-class light aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and is affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". She is the oldest ship in the Royal Navy's active fleet , expected  to be  withdrawn from service in 2014 (after 32 years' service).
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  • 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.
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  • A curious young girl looks at the musician, Jazzy B during a Mayors Christmas lights event in Brixton town hall in December 1989, London England.
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  • Junior Health Minister and Conservative MP, Edwina Currie at an alcohol awareness initiative in 1988 in London, England.
    edwina_currie-01-06-1988.jpg
  • A formal portrait of English journalist David Thomas, after his appointment as the new editor of Punch Magazine, in February 1989, London England. Thomas was Young Journalist of the Year at the age of 24, became a magazine editor at 25 and was the youngest editor in the 150-year history of Punch magazine at 29. Since 1992 he has worked as a freelance author and journalist. He now writes fiction under his own name and as Tom Cain and, as of February 2015, David Churchill.
    david_thomas02-01-06-1989.jpg
  • 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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  • 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.
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  • From Cheriton Hill, we see the new Channel Tunnel rail terminal under construction in the Kent countryside at Cheriton, Folkestone in 1989. The tunnel now carries high-speed Eurostar passenger trains, Eurotunnel Shuttle roll-on/roll-off vehicle transport. The terminals sites are at Cheriton (Folkestone in the United Kingdom) and Coquelles (Calais in France). The terminals are unique facilities designed to transfer vehicles from the motorway onto trains at a rate of 700 cars and 113 heavy vehicles per hour.
    channel_tunnel4-15-04-1989_1.jpg
  • Holidaymakers shelter from typical English summer rain during their stay at the regenerated Butlins holiday centre at Minehead. Outside a large sign saying Wessex Cafe, a reference to our Saxon past, a mother struggles to hold a wriggling child while an older woman holds her holiday bag on the wet pavement. Butlins is an institution for the British working classes who after the war had the opportunity to spend their summers at special resorts in seaside towns that provided entertainment and fun. Butlins and other camp businesses went into decline when the masses preferred Spanish vacations but have since been revived as travel costs have again soared and holidays at home are once again popular.
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  • Cahrismatic American evangelist, Billy Graham preaches with open hands to British Christians during Mission 89, a series of evangelical revival rallies, on 14th June 1989 in London, England. Graham b1918 is an Evangelical Christian who has been a spiritual adviser to several U.S. presidents including George W Bush with Time Magazine calling him .. the nations spiritual counselor. He is number seven on Gallups list of admired people for the 20th century and member of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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  • Smoke has been discovered in the basement of a shop in Market Street, Newport town centre, south Wales. We look down into a dark hole where two fire fighters – one of which is a senior officer, with two stripes on his helmet - have gone down a ladder to find the source of the smoke while wearing breathing apparatus (BA) as a precaution.  While looking up they discuss the possibilities of a seat of fire elsewhere so they talk to their colleagues who crouch over the open floor of the business who dialled 999 for the fire brigade to attend this incident. It is 1984 and the firemens’ equipment looks dated, during an era when uniform material was not of a high fire-retardant specification and nor were their helmets which went through important design changes.
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  • A formal portrait of English fashion designer, Zandra Rhodes in the summer of 1989 at her Grafton Street boutique, central London England. Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, DBE RDI b1940 studied first at Medway and then at the Royal College of Art in London. Her major area of study was printed textile design.
    zandra_rhodes02-01-06-1989.jpg
  • A young man strides past the wall and name of the London Stock Exchange in the City of London. Walking fast past this financial institution, we see the young man's shadow on the wall beneath the name on the exterior wall. Three years after the so-called Big Bang in 1986 , this location at the old Stock Exchange Tower  became redundant with the advent of the Big Bang, which deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities as it enabled an increased use of computerised systems that allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading. Thus, in 2004, the House moved to a brand new headquarters in Paternoster Square, close to St Paul's Cathedral.
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  • Veteran political BBC TV Broadcasters, Peter Snow And Sir Robin Day listen to speeches during the 1989 Labour Conference in September 1989 in Brighton, England.
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  • A portrait of Irish media personality, Miriam OCallaghan while working as a producer on the BBC show, Kilroy in the summer of 1989, in London England. OCallaghan b1960 is an Irish television current affairs presenter with RTÉ.
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  • Discarded leftovers of picnic food and drink on the grass during the annual Chelsea Flower Show, the annual event held by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in London. Plates of shellfish and puddings plus bottles and corks from champagne and Bucks Fizz, for example, are seen on the catering tays on a patch of grass near show pavilions.
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  • A portrait of botanist, Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance while head of the Botanical Gardens at Kew in the summer of 1988, in Kews Palm House, London England. Prance worked from 1963 at The New York Botanical Garden, initially as a research assistant and, on his departure in 1988, as Director of the Institute of Economic Botany and Senior Vice-President for Science. Much of his career at the New York Botanical Garden was spent conducting extensive fieldwork in the Amazon region of Brazil. He was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1988 to 1999.
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  • US politician Casper Winberger listens to speeches while a guest  at the Conservative party conference on 12th October 1989 in Blackpool, England. Caspar Willard Cap Weinberger b1917 was an American politician and businessman. As a prominent Republican, he served in a variety of prominent state and federal positions for three decades, including Chairman of the California Republican Party, 1962–68. Most notably he was Secretary of Defense under Republican President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1987.
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  • At the famous Butlins holiday camp in the Somerset town of Minehead, a poolside lifeguard overlooks the main  pool from an overhead bridge. Behind him a monorail transports holidaymakers around the resort. Wearing the large letter B for Butlins on his red vest, the young lad sucks on his whistle held between his lips and prominently, the words 'Made in England' have been tattooed on his left shoulder - as if a statement for his patriotic ideals but also for those of Butlins - an institution for the British working classes who after the war had the opportunity to spend their summers at special resorts in seaside towns that provided entertainment and fun. Butlins and other camp businesses went into decline when the masses preferred Spanish vacations but have since been revived as travel costs have again soared and holidays at home are once again popular.
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  • A 'Bodil' passive eavesdropping transmitter from Bulgaria powered by a phone line, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Erich Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy.
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  • A portrait of eccentric English travel writer, Arthur Eperon in the summer of 1989, in Horsmonden, England. Eperon wrote books and travel articles, introducing hundreds of thousands of British readers to a hidden France of scenic and gastronomic delights, burgeoning their need for informed and entertaining guidance on “abroad”.
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  • Gathered beneath the outer walls of the 15th century Church of St John the Baptist, a flock of Anglican pilgrims ready for a procession through the ancient Christian and pagan town of Glastonbury. Banners from their parish churches show illustrations for their Saints such as St Andrew and St Mark while an angel looks down on another. A young choir boy looks down at his feet, a middle-aged Church of England vicar holds his banner and a much younger member of a congregation stands with a polished silver cross. Glastonbury is notable for myths and legends about Joseph of Arimathea, the Holy Grail and King Arthur and in Arthurian literature Glastonbury is identified with the legendary island of Avalon. Medieval monks at the abbey even claimed to have found the graves of Arthur and Guinevere and the place is also said to be the centre of several ley lines.
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  • A middle'-aged while in her back garden during the 1980s. It is a close-up detail of the lady's face that shows the lines and wrinkles of a long life, her silver hair swept in a side parting. She sits in summer sunshine in her back garden with a worried look on her face.
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  • An elderly man in his eighties sleeps horizontally in spring sunshine, on a sun lounger in his rear garden on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England.
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  • Businessmen sit in urban City sunshine during their lunch hour spent in Broadgate Circle, an Eighties development of offices and trading institutions, on 16th June 1994, in London, England.
    city19-16-06-1994.jpg
  • Londoners cross southbound over London Bridge during the evening rush hour. A young businessman walks past <br />
a city map pillar and the wall of some Eighties architecture at Number One, London Bridge. Commuters stride alongside others walking out of the City of London. There has been a crossing over the Thames here since the Romans first forded the river in the early 1st Century with subsequent medieval and Victorian stone bridges becoming an important thoroughfare from the City on the north bank, to Southwark on the south where transport hubs such as the mainline station gets commuters to the suburbs and satellite towns.
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  • Londoners cross southbound over London Bridge during the evening rush hour. A young woman wears bright, stylish, clothing, a personal fashion statement on this trendy lady. Passing a city map pillar and the wall of <br />
some Eighties architecture at Number One, London Bridge. Commuters stride alongside others walking out of the City of London. There has been a crossing over the Thames here since the Romans first forded the river in the early 1st Century with subsequent medieval and Victorian stone bridges becoming an important thoroughfare from the City on the north bank, to Southwark on the south where transport hubs such as the mainline station gets commuters to the suburbs and satellite towns.
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  • From a low angle we see, waving a cheery hello to a friend, a rather plump resident of the posh Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea holds on to her oversized sunglasses, her cushion and a portable transistor radio – all of which she has been using whilst on the sea front that we see in the distance behind her round body. Wearing ‘Tory blue’ (the colour favoured by the Margaret Thatcher during the eighties) the lady has her straw hat tied under the folds of fat of an ample chin and appears to be calling an English Coo-ee! call to the out-of-sight acquaintance.
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  • Members of the public walk beneath eighties architecture number 1 London Bridge, on 2nd September 2021, in London, England. One London Bridge 1986 was designed by the John S. Bonnington Partnership on the south side of the London Bridge in London. It is a 13-story office space consisting of clad sections of pink granite and stainless steel. The distinctive front of the building is cut out of the corner with a skylight cut out at the top.
    london_bridge-02-02-11-2021.jpg
  • Falun Gong permanent protest opposite the Chinese Embassy on Portland Place, London.Peacefully protest in meditation 24/7 since 2002. A very spiritual demonstration against an oppressive regime. Flun gong claim the following: On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong. Over the last nine years, 3,168 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives, many tortured to death; 75 of them were people in their eighties, and the youngest was only 8 months old. Thousands of practitioners are currently jailed and being tortured in forced labour camps, detention centres and prisons. The CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
    20100522falun gong protestA.jpg
  • Members of Falun Gong or Falun Dafa meditating on Gerrard Street in central London, UK. Falun gong claim the following: On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong. Over the last nine years, 3,168 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives, many tortured to death; 75 of them were people in their eighties, and the youngest was only 8 months old. Thousands of practitioners are currently jailed and being tortured in forced labour camps, detention centres and prisons. The CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
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  • Anthony Eyton, RA. A contemporary British painter in his studio, London, United Kingdom. Eyton was born in Teddington, Middlesex, UK 17 May 1923 and is a figurative painter working in what could be termed the post-Impressionist tradition. He has exhibited extensively throughout Britain at leading galleries such as the Royal Academy, the Tate Gallery, the South London Gallery, the Hayward Gallery and the Imperial War Museum. He has won many awards, including the John Moores Prize in 1972. He was elected an Associate Royal Academician A.R.A in 1976, a full member in 1986 and a Senior R.A. in 1998. Among his many significant commissions was the 1994 invitation by the Tate Gallery to work in the Bankside Power Station prior to it becoming Tate Modern. Based in London, England he has continued to work and exhibit into his eighties. Examples of Eytons painting are held in major public and private collections throughout the world.
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  • Demolition site by contractor Erith at the northern end of London Bridge, City of London. Looking down from a high position on London Bridge, we see the width of this former office building site that is now a heap of rubble, contrte and twisted metal being cleared for a future redevelopment. Heavy machinery by contractor Erith is op[erating to clear the site before the new architecture replaces the eighties design. Walkways have been placed for safety and scaffolding supports weakened structures.
    demolition_site02-21-04-2015_1.jpg
  • An aerial view of city of London businessmen (and one lady) using the opportunity for business lunches at three tables outside in the city complex known as Broadgate Circle, an eighties development of offices and trading institutions. The three tables each have crisp white table cloths, cutlery and plates and green bottles of Perrier mineral water, rather than alcohol.
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  • Seven City Businessmen stand drinking and smoking outside The Crispin, a pub in Broadgate, an Eighties development in the City of London, on 16th June 1993.
    city_drinkers-16-06-1993.jpg
  • Portrait of English couturier Joe Casely Hayford in his Shoreditch studio. With racks of his new collection consisting of shirts and with his staff busily preparing for yet more clothes, Joe leans on the rack wearing a hat. From the early eighties Joe styled and designed the stage clothing for many seminal bands such as The Clash and U2 whilst simultaneously working on his eponymous brand for men and women. His wide and varied career has included being the first designer to collaborate with Top Shop in 1993. He was Creative Director of Gieves & Hawkes whose new collection was launched on the runway in Paris for Men’s Fashion Week, creating a precedent for a heritage Savile Row brand, credited as a major step in bringing the illustrious company into the 21st century. Appointed an OBE for services to the fashion industry 2007.
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  • Members of the public walk beneath eighties architecture number 1 London Bridge, on 2nd September 2021, in London, England. One London Bridge 1986 was designed by the John S. Bonnington Partnership on the south side of the London Bridge in London. It is a 13-story office space consisting of clad sections of pink granite and stainless steel. The distinctive front of the building is cut out of the corner with a skylight cut out at the top.
    london_bridge-07-02-11-2021.jpg
  • Falun Gong permanent protest opposite the Chinese Embassy on Portland Place, London.Peacefully protest in meditation 24/7 since 2002. A very spiritual demonstration against an oppressive regime. Flun gong claim the following: On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong. Over the last nine years, 3,168 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives, many tortured to death; 75 of them were people in their eighties, and the youngest was only 8 months old. Thousands of practitioners are currently jailed and being tortured in forced labour camps, detention centres and prisons. The CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
    20100522falun gong protestC.jpg
  • Falun Gong permanent protest opposite the Chinese Embassy on Portland Place, London.Peacefully protest in meditation 24/7 since 2002. A very spiritual demonstration against an oppressive regime. Flun gong claim the following: On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong. Over the last nine years, 3,168 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives, many tortured to death; 75 of them were people in their eighties, and the youngest was only 8 months old. Thousands of practitioners are currently jailed and being tortured in forced labour camps, detention centres and prisons. The CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
    20100522falun gong protestD.jpg
  • Falun Gong permanent protest opposite the Chinese Embassy on Portland Place, London.Peacefully protest in meditation 24/7 since 2002. A very spiritual demonstration against an oppressive regime. Flun gong claim the following: On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong. Over the last nine years, 3,168 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives, many tortured to death; 75 of them were people in their eighties, and the youngest was only 8 months old. Thousands of practitioners are currently jailed and being tortured in forced labour camps, detention centres and prisons. The CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
    20100522falun gong protestB.jpg
  • Members of Falun Gong or Falun Dafa meditating on Gerrard Street in central London, UK. Falun gong claim the following: On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong. Over the last nine years, 3,168 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives, many tortured to death; 75 of them were people in their eighties, and the youngest was only 8 months old. Thousands of practitioners are currently jailed and being tortured in forced labour camps, detention centres and prisons. The CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
    20151212_falun gong_A.jpg
  • Eighties office architecture and the steel rivets from one of Tower Bridges steel suspension anchor girders, on 14th December 2017, in the City of London, England.
    tower_bridge-03-14-12-2017.jpg
  • An English caucasian lady smiles at something of interest to the viewer's right. She is a wrinkled female in her sixties, a healthy person with her own original teeth and whose untidy hair is greying and whose skin is slightly tanned under a summer sun. She wears a blue shirt with a wide collar, fashionable in the 1980s (eighties) and has a bemused, attentive expression as if entertained by something of humour out of frame. This is someone's mother and grandmother, at an age when her hard-working life is nearly over and her pension is hopefully covering her everyday needs.
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  • Demolition site by contractor Erith at the northern end of London Bridge, City of London. Looking down from a high position on London Bridge, we see the width of this former office building site that is now a heap of rubble, contrte and twisted metal being cleared for a future redevelopment. Heavy machinery by contractor Erith is op[erating to clear the site before the new architecture replaces the eighties design. Walkways have been placed for safety and scaffolding supports weakened structures.
    demolition_site01-21-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A shop window display says ‘2020 the Nightmare before Christmas’ on 6th of December 2020, Hackney, London, United Kingdom. The words are a play on a Christmas film from the eighties, called ‘Nightmare before Christmas’ and is meant to make light hearted fun of the horrible year of 2020.  A child passing by with its father spots the skeleton man on the window.
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  • Balcombe, West Sussex. Site of Cuadrilla drilling. Demonstration against fracking 18.08.2013. Protester wearing Katherine Hammett silk t shirt , from the eighties, saying 'Save the World' and with two Nepali ex Gurkha security guards behind the fence.
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  • A local family discuss ideas and directions while walking uphill towards the houses of a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England.
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  • A local family walk uphill towards the houses of a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England.
    nailsea_family-15-21-04-2019.jpg
  • A local family discuss ideas and directions while walking uphill towards the houses of a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England.
    nailsea_family-12-21-04-2019.jpg
  • Humayan Beria works at Arianna TV Studios, as a comedian, writer and producer.He is the star behind some of Afghanistan’s biggest comedy shows. Fahim Sadozi, Head of Programming says, “There was no TV in Taliban times, but eighty per cent of the country now watches television”. <br />
Arianna are also working on an Afghan version of ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’.. Contestants win 1 million (Afghani equivalent to 20,000 US dollars). There are also Afghan versions of Oprah, Dragons Den and Pop Idol.
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  • The Murad Khane Primary School was registered by the Ministry of Education in February 2008 following several months as a literacy centre. The school Principal is Seyyid Nasir Siddidqian. He manages a staff of five who teach courses to eighty-seven children between the ages of four and fourteen, all from Murad Khane.  A further eighty children attend supplementary classes in addition to the Ministry of Education curriculum.  The residents of Murad khane  are enjoying improved conditions thanks to charity Turquoise Mountain. Turquoise Mountain  is a charity set up by Rory Stewart. He was asked personally by Prince Charles to take on the task of rebuilding the ancient heart of Kabul. His charity using local labour and the goodwill of the community is substantially into the task and has also set up a school training Afghans in traditional crafts. The area had literally been turned into a rubbish dump, now though using ancient skills the buildings are being restored to their former glory, Stewart is hopeful that he can contribute significantly to the local economy.
    afghan21_10_045_1.jpg
  • The Murad Khane Primary School was registered by the Ministry of Education in February 2008 following several months as a literacy centre. The school Principal is Seyyid Nasir Siddidqian. He manages a staff of five who teach courses to eighty-seven children between the ages of four and fourteen, all from Murad Khane.  A further eighty children attend supplementary classes in addition to the Ministry of Education curriculum.  The residents of Murad khane  are enjoying improved conditions thanks to charity Turquoise Mountain. Turquoise Mountain  is a charity set up by Rory Stewart. He was asked personally by Prince Charles to take on the task of rebuilding the ancient heart of Kabul. His charity using local labour and the goodwill of the community is substantially into the task and has also set up a school training Afghans in traditional crafts. The area had literally been turned into a rubbish dump, now though using ancient skills the buildings are being restored to their former glory, Stewart is hopeful that he can contribute significantly to the local economy.
    afghan21_10_046_1.jpg
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