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Passers by highlight the scale of the stricken Transocean Winner rig topside, which ran aground in heavy seas on the Isle of Lewis in 2016 after the line between the rig and its tug broke.

Prince Charles – now King Charles III – views the impact of illegal logging in the Harapan Rainforest, Indonesia, 2008.

Prince Charles – now King Charles III – views the impact of illegal logging in the Harapan Rainforest, Indonesia, 2008.

1970: Prince Charles stands beneath the peak of Yr Wydffa – known also as Snowdon – the highest point in the Principality of Wales, whose title he held until the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022.

Prince Charles, age 22, addresses The Countryside in 1970 Committee for Wales at Bangor University, North Wales. His speech that day underlined Charles's interest and advocacy for the environment – and set out views that have since become prophetic in climate change.

David Attenborough is surrounded by Christmas Island crabs during filming for BBC's The Trials of Life. The trilogy of BBC series were at the time, according to producer Mike Gunton, the three volumes of Attenborough's life's work. "I remember when he finished the last one, he said, ‘that’s it – I’m done. I’m retiring,’ remembers Gunton. “And that was 31 years ago.”

Extraordinary Objects gallery curator Carla Nizzola cleans 'Ed', a 68 million- year-old skull of an Edmontonsaurus dinosaur that forms part of the Connor Brothers' exhibition in Cambridge.

The location of the British Interplanetary Society in central London. Founded in 1933 it is the world's oldest organisation devoted “to initiating, promoting and disseminating new concepts and technical information about space flight and astronautics.”

The Sex Pistols sign a record deal, 1977. Manager Malcolm McLaren (second from right) orchestrated stunts such as this for maximum publicity and affront to institutions such as the monarchy. It's no accident the contract was signed in front of Buckingham Palace, nor that the record God Save the Queen was released to coincide with the Queen's silver jubilee. The band themselves denied the record was timed as such.

A Lancaster bomber drops poppies over the Mall during the VJ Day 50th Anniversary celebrations in 1995. This year, a Lancaster will once again be part of the official flypast celebrations for Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee.