Street scenes

Fairground, Mitcham, London: Alf StewartÔÇÖs boxing booth with some of the boxers in the foreground sitting on the steps

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Street fountain (sabil), Damascus

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Madrasa, kanquah and mausoleum of Sultan al-Zahir Barquq, Bayn al-Qasrayn quarter, Cairo

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Kingsway at Holborn Station, London

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Metropolitan Police Constable on point duty, Victoria, London

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Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, showing the procession of the Gold State Coach from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace, London

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NOTES: Elizabeth ascended the throne upon the death of her father, King George VI, on 6 February 1952 and was crowned Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. Sir Hugh Casson was the consulting architect for the coronation decorations.

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II: crowds watching the Royal procession from the Ritz, Piccadilly, London

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Casson, Sir Hugh Maxwell (1910-1999)

NOTES: Elizabeth ascended the throne upon the death of her father, King George VI, on 6 February 1952 and was crowned Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. Sir Hugh Casson was the consulting architect for the coronation decorations.

Street vendors of bread rings, possibly in Turkey

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Floral arch celebrating Queen Victoria's 80th birthday, castle Hill, Windsor

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Nutt, Alfred Young (1847-1924)

Chiesa del Redentore, Dorsoduro, Venice, seen from the Canale della Giudecca

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Palladio, Andrea (1508-1580)

Children in the Kasbah, Tunis

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Market Square, Town Centre, Basildon, Essex

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Basildon Development Corporation. Department of Architecture & Planning

NOTES: Basildon, created from the conglomeration of four small villages, namely Pitsea, Laindon, Basildon and Vange, was designated a new town in 1948, together with the other London orbital developments of Stevenage, Harlow, Hemel Hempstead and Bracknell. The development of the New Towns, built after World War II to ease overcrowding in London, was overseen by Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin (1888-1972), the Minister for Town and Country Planning from 1945 to 1950.