Thatcher and Churchill's funerals compared – in pictures

Girls huddle under blankets the night before Churchill's funeral in January 1965
Photograph: B Anthony Stewart/National Geographic via Getty Images

People gather as they wait to pay their last respects to Margaret Thatcher during her ceremonial funeral Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

Press photographers in position for the funeral of Winston Churchill Photograph: PA

Photographers' ladders in place prior to the funeral service of Thatcher at St Paul's Cathedral Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA

Big Ben looms on the skyline as Churchill's funeral passes along Whitehall
Photograph: James P Blair/National Geographic via Getty Images

The hearse carrying the coffin of Thatcher travels along Whitehall on its way to her funeral service Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

Crowds cram the pavements in silent farewell as the gun-carriage bearing the coffin of Churchill is drawn by naval ratings up Ludgate Hill to St Paul's Cathedral for the funeral service Photograph: PA

A gun carriage pulled by six horses of the King's Troops, Royal Horse Artillery bears the coffin of Thatcher as it travels up Ludgate Hill a few yards from St Paul's Cathedral Photograph: Kerim Okten/EPA

Sailors draw a gun carriage carrying the coffin of Churchill down Fleet Street on its way to St Paul's Cathedral Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

The coffin containing Thatcher's body is carried on the gun carriage of the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery along Fleet Street Photograph: Brian Harris/Rex Features

The coffin and mourners entering St Paul's Cathedral for Churchill's funeral Photograph: PA

The coffin bearing Thatcher's body arrives at St Paul's Cathedral Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Mourners line the pavement to view Churchill's funeral procession Photograph: Joe Scherschel/National Geographic/Getty Images

People taking photos as Thatcher's funeral procession approaches Fleet Street Photograph: Antonio Olmos for the Guardian