Category Archives: Historic

“Changing of the Guard”

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The front and Back of "Changing of the Guard" at Horseguard Parade.

Some images during our latest "Hidden Westminster Tour"

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Duke of Cumberland Statute in Cavendish Square

Cavendish Square is located just off Oxford Street - a small idyicll tree lined square where you can escape from the hustle and bustle of shoppers but here nestling in the middle is a statute of the Duke of Cumberland youngest son of George II. He is generally best remembered for his role in putting…
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Lord Snowdon Fashion Photographer at the NPG

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The Black and White Image (is of leading British Fashion Designers in the 1970’s)

“This photograph  of leading designers originally taken for British Vogue but not published in the magazine.

Tony Armstrong Jones saw clothes in situation, what is known as a “sitting” became where he was concerned a running, a standing, a jumping – April 1973.

In the picture includes Mary Quant, Ossie Clark, Zandra Rhodes, Bill Gibb, John Butan, Christopher McDonnell, Gina Frantini and Thea Porter.

Thames flotilla to celebrate the life of Sir Winston Churchill

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Fifty years on from his death and 75 years since his “finest hour”, a series of events are being held to honour the life and legacy of Sir Winston Churchill, Britain’s former prime minster and its wartime leader.

The Havergore, which carried his coffin, was joined by a small flotilla of boats as they retraced Churchlll’s final journey down the river 50 years ago.

A watchful eye the bronze statue by Ivor Robert-Jones, installed in 1973, shows ~Churchill as powerful, stocky, gigue in a naval overcoat leaning informally on a stick and gazing somewhat defiantly, towards the House of Parliament and Big Ben.