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A combo of images shows people recording the last bell bong of Big Ben housed inside Elizabeth Tower in London on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 and the same view except this time an empty scene take on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. When Associated Press photographer Frank Augstein moved to London in 2015, what struck him most was the crowds. In years of covering political dramas, moments of celebration and tragedy and major sporting events, Augstein's photographs have captured the city's ceaseless movement: Pedestrians swarming over the Millennium footbridge spanning the River Thames. Travelers from the U.K. and continental Europe thronging St. Pancras railway station. Commuters following London transit etiquette by carefully ignoring one another on a crowded Tube train, or waiting patiently in a snaking bus queue. Augstein revisited those sites in recent days after Britain âÄ” like other countries around the world âÄ” went into effective lockdown to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)