As memorial events across the country are held to mark to the centenary of the start of the First World War, a series of composite images has been released highlighting how a number of key sites look 100 years later. (Click images to expand)
A "male" MKIV tank is pictured outside the Bank of England in London during the Lord Mayor's show in November 1917 (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
British soldiers inspect a captured German plane in the Horse Guards Parade in London in November 1915 (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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Wounded soldiers play football outside Blenheim Palace in Woodstock in 1916 (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Serbian soldiers march in the Lord Mayor's show outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London during the last days of the war in November 1918 (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Wounded soldiers and cadets meet outside the Royal Albert Hall in London on Empire Day in May 1918 (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Injured Indian soldiers of the British Army are treated at Brighton's Royal Pavilion, which was converted into a military hospital in 1915 (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Street children dressed as soldiers with paper hats and canes as guns stand to attention in Trafalgar Square in London in November 1914 (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
German prisoners of war on their way to Southend Pier accompanied by British guards in 1914 (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Australian soldiers pose outside the Australian Bank on New Broad Street in London in June 1917 (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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