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New Yorks New Elevated Railway This line has not been constructed without considerable

New York's New Elevated Railway
This line has not been constructed without considerable opposition , for many people not only think it unsafe , but object to their horses being terrified by the trains overhead , and are apprehensive of the danger from falling cinders . The lines are pretty well patronised , but whether they will be allowed to develop to any extent is at present doubtful .
1879

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Elephant Eye View Aerial view of the Elephant and Castle new development in Southwark London

Elephant Eye View
Aerial view of the Elephant and Castle new development in Southwark London.
Building identified are the Metropolitan Tabernacle (foreground left) The London School of Printing and Graphic Arts (towered block background left) Entrance to the Bakerloo Underground Station (centre background with boarding alongside) The Northern Line Underground Station (cube block centre right of the central island). One of the two public houses (centre foreground, dark topped building)
Shopping Centre (foreground right) with office block behind. Skyscraper block behind offices is Alexander Fleming House. On the horizon behind chimney is Dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London Road in foreground leads to the Walworth Road
11 April 1967

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Cyclone wrecks Toulon. A cyclone of unprecedented violence devastated Toulon

Cyclone wrecks Toulon.
A cyclone of unprecedented violence devastated Toulon, the great French Mediterranean naval base. Huge trees were torn up by the roots and hundreds of roofs were torn from buildings and carried for great distances before they crashed on the ground.
13 September 1929

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