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Keywords: evening,nighttime,economy,Gotonysmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,city,centre,visitors,tourist,production,blue hour,sky,musical,theatre,frontage,Manchester,UK,venue,West End touring production,Richard OBrien musical,Rocky Horror fans,Time Warp,Frank N Furter,live performance advertising,LGBTQ cult classic,night time street photography,illuminated facade,theatre marquee,urban entertainment,arts and culture,British musical theatre,city landmark,show poster display,tickets,ticketed,performance,live,Oxford Street,night
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EW7CCX - Palace Theatre Manchester on Oxford Street at dusk, illuminated with bright pink exterior lighting and advertising for The Rocky Horror Show. The theatre frontage shows large digital and poster displays promoting the production, including visible wording for the Final Tour Stop and the famous Rocky Horror title. The blue evening sky, lit signage, passing cars, pedestrians and nearby traffic signals create a lively city centre theatre scene in Manchester's Oxford Road area.
The image captures the visual energy of a major touring stage musical arriving at one of Manchester's best-known performance venues. The Rocky Horror Show is a long-running cult musical strongly associated with audience participation, flamboyant costumes, gothic comedy, science fiction pastiche and songs such as Time Warp. The production has become a fixture of UK theatre culture, often attracting both regular musical theatre audiences and dedicated fans of the Rocky Horror world. The vivid magenta and purple lighting on the theatre exterior reflects the show's theatrical, camp and late-night identity, making the frontage stand out against the darker blue sky.
The Palace Theatre is one of Manchester's principal theatres and stands on Oxford Street close to Manchester Oxford Road railway station. It opened in 1891 and remains a major receiving house for touring musicals, comedy, ballet, opera and live performance. The building sits beside another notable Manchester landmark, the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel, formerly the Refuge Assurance Building, whose clock tower is visible in the background. This gives the image wider editorial value for themes including Manchester nightlife, UK touring theatre, musical theatre advertising, city centre culture, historic entertainment venues, Oxford Street architecture and evening urban street scenes.
Visible elements include the Palace Theatre name on the facade, Rocky Horror Show posters, theatre canopy signage, pink uplighting, cars, cyclists, pedestrians etc
97 Oxford Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,centre,sunset,evening,twin,cities,skyline,urban panorama,city,tower,towers,Castlefield,Deansgate,skyscrapers,high-rise,buildings,expansion,development,city centre,living,new,Manchester,post-industrial,urban,landscape,railway corridor,road infrastructure,change,evolution,King of the North,Andy Burnham,property,vibrant,Greater Manchester,growth,modern,urban density,planning and development
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EFHREB - Elevated view looking west from the Liverpool Road and Castlefield side of Manchester towards Salford at dusk, with the city's changing skyline spread beneath a dramatic evening sky. The photograph shows a broad urban panorama of roads, railway corridors, low-rise industrial and commercial buildings, trees, apartment blocks and tall towers, including the modern high-rise development around Deansgate, Castlefield and the neighbouring Salford edge of the city centre. The warm light on the horizon and layered cloud give the scene an atmospheric late-day quality, while the street grid and transport infrastructure below emphasise Manchester's dense urban fabric. Liverpool Road is strongly associated with the city's railway and industrial history, including the former Liverpool Road station, now part of the Science and Industry Museum area, close to Castlefield's canals, warehouses and viaducts. The view works as a useful contrast between the older industrial city and the new Manchester of residential towers, regeneration, urban living, offices, hotels, transport links and expanding city-centre development. It is suitable for editorial use on Manchester regeneration, Salford city growth, city centre living, high-rise apartments, planning, transport infrastructure, post-industrial redevelopment, northern city economies, urban density, housing, architecture and skyline change. The image also has value for travel and location features, showing Manchester as a large regional city with historic infrastructure, new investment and strong visual links between Deansgate, Castlefield, Liverpool Road, Salford and the western approach to the centre. The cloudy dusk sky, soft sunset colour and high viewpoint create a strong cityscape image for stories about modern Manchester, Greater Manchester growth, urban change, development pressure, rail and road corridors, commercial districts and the continuing transformation of former industrial land into mixed-use neighbourhoods.
Manchester skyline looking west from Liverpool Road towards Salford at dusk, with new towers and cit
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Albert Sq,Albert Square,John Bright,statue,Manchester,city,centre,255A8970,Greater Manchester,England,UK,statesman,reformer,politician,Victorian,history,public,sculpture,heritage,monument,landmark,political,reform,free,trade,civic,nineteenth-century,summer,blue,sky
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EKD7HB - John Bright statue in Manchester city centre, Greater Manchester, England, UK. The white stone figure stands on a tall pedestal against a deep blue sky, commemorating the nineteenth-century British statesman, reformer and prominent campaigner associated with Manchester and the Anti-Corn Law League. The photograph is suitable for editorial coverage of John Bright, Manchester history, political reform, public sculpture, Victorian Britain, statues, civic heritage and city-centre landmarks. Bright was closely connected with the campaign for free trade and parliamentary reform and became one of the best-known radical politicians of his era. The strong upward viewpoint and clear summer light emphasise the monument's form and create a useful heritage image for stories about political history, public memorials, nineteenth-century Manchester and notable figures commemorated in the city's civic spaces.
Manchester city centre, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A9160,Manchester,Selfridges,department,store,retail,shopping,architecture,city,centre
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E54RKJ - . Selfridges department store exterior in Manchester city centre. Photographed on 21 March 2026. The recorded location is Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK. The historical setting for local services is that commercial premises are part of everyday local history
Even businesses without national fame can become important reference points for residents and researchers once ownership changes or redevelopment alters the street. Seen through urban commerce, the earlier context is that markets and shops are direct records of changing consumer life
Trader names, fascias, product displays and market-hall directories can date a town-centre scene precisely and preserve independent businesses that may later close or relocate. In the 2026 discussion of local services, independent and high-street businesses continue to face pressure from costs, online competition and changing consumer habits, while councils increasingly treat local commerce, food and leisure as part of town-centre regeneration. The 2026 relevance of urban commerce comes from the fact that high streets continue to change rapidly , with vacancies, redevelopment and food-led destinations altering the balance between retail and leisure
Earlier photographs of traders and shopfronts provide useful evidence of business turnover and changing commercial character. Additional high-relevance terminology includes local business, town centre, local economy, business signage, commercial history, small business, business premises, community asset, retail premises, independent retailer, market hall, consumer culture, commercial property, and shopping district. Other strongly related concepts include retail history, market trader, 255A9160, shopping, and architecture. In 2026, town centre remains relevant because current interest in community assets and place-making gives photographs of individual businesses added significance when premises close, rebrand or are converted to new uses.
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A9168,Manchester,Metrolink,tram,Corn,Exchange,transport,city,centre,street,urban
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E54RMM - . Metrolink tram passing Manchester Corn Exchange in the city centre. Photographed on 21 March 2026. The recorded location is Manchester, Greater Manchester, stock-photo/gotonysmith-England.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>England, UK. For the story of local connectivity, it is useful to note that urban buses and local transport connect residential areas with town centres, employment, hospitals and stations
Their routes provide a practical map of how communities function and how transport policy changes over time. The historical setting for ticketing is that stations are both functional transport interchanges and pieces of civic architecture
Their canopies, footbridges, booking halls, signal boxes and signage reveal how passenger expectations and railway technology changed from steam-era operation to today's increasingly digital network. For present-day local connectivity, 2026 is significant because bus reliability, affordability and network coverage remain important , particularly for people without cars and for access to employment, education and healthcare. In the 2026 discussion of ticketing, rail policy is especially topical because the Railways Bill is progressing with the intention of establishing Great British Railways as the publicly owned directing mind for track, stations, timetables and passenger services
Earlier operator branding and station scenes therefore gain added historical context during another major restructuring of the industry. Additional discoverability terms include public transport, bus service, local bus, transport network, integrated transport, urban mobility, passenger transport, active travel, bus route, transport accessibility, sustainable transport, commuter travel, public service, and rail transport. Related search language includes passenger railway, railway station, platform, rolling stock, train service, rail infrastructure, station architecture, rail heritage, inter-city rail, signalling, and 255A9168.
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,England,lighting,Manchester,Daily Express,Building,office,glass,landmark,landmarks,buildings,city,centre,history,heritage,historic,newspaper,newspapers,outside,facade,art deco,art-deco,exterior,August,Gt Ancoats St,summer,adaptive,reuse,redevelopment,reflections,reflection,mirror,effect,urban,life,M4 5AD,M4
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3CGCJW3 - A wide-angle view of the Express Building on Great Ancoats Street in Manchester city centre, photographed in August 2025 during a period of bright summer weather. Clear blue skies and strong sunlight create striking reflections across the building's glass curtain wall, producing changing patterns of light that emphasise its geometric design.
Completed in the late 1930s as the northern headquarters of the Daily Express newspaper, the building is one of Manchester's most distinctive examples of interwar modernist architecture, often described as having strong Art Deco influences. Its use of glass, steel and clean horizontal lines represented a confident, forward-looking image of mass media and modern communication during the pre-war period.
Today, the Express Building has been repurposed as office accommodation, forming part of the wider regeneration of Great Ancoats Street and the eastern edge of Manchester city centre. The presence of pedestrians at street level highlights its continued role in everyday urban life, while the reflective façade mirrors the surrounding city, visually linking past and present.
The image captures how historic modernist architecture responds dynamically to summer light, and how Manchester's media heritage buildings have been adapted to contemporary use. It is well suited for editorial use covering architecture, urban regeneration, adaptive reuse, city-centre life, and the evolving relationship between light, material and the modern cityscape.
9 Great Ancoats Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 5AD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,255A2680,Homelessness,tents,Lincoln Square,Manchester,city,centre,England,UK,statue,modern,office,buildings,rough,sleeping,housing,crisis,poverty,temporary,shelter,inequality,public,space,welfare,support,services,urban,social,exclusion,accommodation,Andy Burnham,tackling,tackle,homelessness,eradicate,house,street
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EM1WC2 - Homelessness tents in Lincoln Square, Manchester city centre, England, UK, beside a statue and modern office buildings. A cluster of brightly coloured small tents occupies the paved public space around the monument, creating a stark contrast with the polished commercial architecture behind. The photograph provides a strong editorial illustration of rough sleeping, temporary shelter and visible homelessness within one of Britain's largest and wealthiest city centres. It is suitable for coverage of homelessness, rough sleeping, housing crisis, temporary accommodation, poverty, cost-of-living pressures, social exclusion, public space, Manchester housing policy, local government, support services and urban inequality. The tents and prominent civic setting show how housing insecurity can become highly visible in regenerated commercial districts, raising questions about welfare provision, affordable housing, mental health support, outreach services and the use of public spaces. The vivid tent colours make the human impact difficult to overlook against the formal stone and glass surroundings.
Lincoln Square, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Manchester,city,centre,England,UK,Man,blue,blues,English,FA,silver,gold,football,soccer,display,two,three,2,3,lion,and,a,crown,the,third,Urbis Building,Cathedral Gardens,Todd Street,M4 3BG,cup,cups,champion,champions
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RXX27X - Taken on 25 Sep 2023, this photograph shows UK English Premier League trophy, two lions and a crown (the third lion) replica at the National Football Museum, Manchester, M4 3BG. The location is Urbis Building, Cathedral Gardens, Todd St, Manchester , England, UK, M4 3BG. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains visible signage, colour, materials, location clues and everyday street detail that make the image more specific than a generic stock photograph. The Maine Road season-ticket reference points to Manchester City before the Premier League era, when the Kippax was central to matchday identity and football support was documented through simple paper tickets. The Premier League trophy is an instantly recognisable symbol of modern English football, sports broadcasting, global club branding and the commercialisation of the national game. It can support articles on architecture, faith, heritage conservation, public art, tourism, local identity and the way historic or modern buildings remain active in daily city life. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include Manchester City, MCFC, football, club, Premier League, English Premier League trophy, trophy, trophies, lions, Manchester, city, centre, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names a.
Urbis Building, Cathedral Gardens, Todd St, Manchester , England, UK, M4 3BG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,pub,bar,2 Wakefield St,Manchester,England,UK,M1 5NE,The Salisbury,overdoing,it,drinking,festive,alcohol,misuse,abuse,too much,city,centre,to,drink,more,gin,vodka,whisky,rum,brandy,sign,suggesting,offering,Christmas,drinkers,for,just,£1.50,dangerous drinking
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M69C9G - Simple tips for cutting down
Make a plan
Before you start drinking, set a limit on how much you're going to drink.
Set a budget
Only take a fixed amount of money to spend on alcohol.
Let them know
If you let your friends and family know you're cutting down and it's important to you, you could get support from them.
Take it a day at a time
Cut back a little each day. That way, every day you do is a success.
Make it a smaller one
You can still enjoy a drink, but go for smaller sizes. Try bottled beer instead of pints, or a small glass of wine instead of a large one.
Have a lower-strength drink
Cut down the alcohol by swapping strong beers or wines for ones with a lower strength (ABV in %). You'll find this information on the bottle.
Stay hydrated
Have a glass of water before you have alcohol and alternate alcoholic drinks with water or other non-alcoholic drinks.
Take a break
Have several drink-free days each week.
2 Wakefield St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 5NE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,city centre,England,UK,M60 7RA,M60,city,centre,Manchester,Centre,line,minibus,mini-bus,integrated,to,orange,white,buses,GM,Greater Manchester,service,services,Seddon Midi,bus,Madchester,the,Bee,network,travel transportation,history,1970,1980,1970s,1980s,old
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M4K85B - Until 1992, upon leaving either Manchester Piccadilly or Victoria stations you'd be met by this - a line of little 'Centreline' buses waiting to take passengers from one station to the other across the city centre via the shopping and office districts.
Manchester was the site of the first passenger railway in the world - the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830. But the haphazard way railways were planned and competed in the Victoria age meant that there was little coordination and there were three separate major stations in the city with no effective links between north and south. London Road (later Piccadilly) served the south, while Victoria served the north. The third, Central, closed in 1969 and for a while became a semi-derelict car park before its wonderful transformation into an exhibition centre.
So to connect the two stations, SELNEC and ten GMT ran a 'Centreline' service running at frequent intervals, with a flat fare to speed boarding. Some of the route was in narrow streets so these little Seddon 'Midi' buses were bought, built in Oldham. They were perfect for the job operationally but they were not popular with their drivers or the garage staff as they were difficult to maintain, noisy inside and with most of their weight at the front they could skid in wet or icy weather. But they did their job day in, day out for many years, buzzing around the city streets and usually full.
The Seddon's lasted twelve years, a very good age for lightly-built buses, until replaced by new Dennis buses in 1986. Then in 1992 Metrolink at last provide a rail-borne link across the city centre between the two main stations. The raison d'etre for Centreline was gone and the service ended.
Most of the Seddon's were scrapped but one or two still exist including number 1722, which is fully restored and on display at the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester.
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Keywords: Manchester,city,centre,Greater,England,UK,M1 1EG,Northern Quarter gable end,in,a,red,dress,tribute,to,all,that,stand against injustice,Suffragette,Stevenson Square,project,paint,painted,painting,wall,gable-end,gable,end,people,figure,figures,portrait,portraits,float,floating,hover,hovering,levitate
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD2N0 - Serenity is a large mural by street art duo SNIK at the back of the Greater Manchester Police Museum & Archives. It is a tribute to all women that stand against injustice. Over 100 years ago the Suffragettes gathered around the corner in Stevenson Square in a stance for equality so it is fitting that this mural is located just off the square on Little Lever Street.
This piece was organised by the Cities of Hope project.
Little Lever Street, Northern Quarter gable end, NQ4, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1EG
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Keywords: Manchester,city,centre,Greater,England,UK,Northern Quarter,M1 1JF,M1,Akse_P19,Akse,P19,of,Ste_Wing,project,art,graffiti,street art,streetart,free,tattoo,hand,covering,covers,eye,Crew,paint,painted,painting,wall,gable-end,gable,end,people,figure,figures,portrait,portraits
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD2N4 - . An identifiable period record of Stephenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1JF in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The image documents Stevenson Square / Little Lever St, Akse_P19 portrait of Ste_Wing, , Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1JF. The wider scene also brings together adaptive reuse, period architecture, civic architecture, public-realm investment, mixed-use redevelopment, public realm, regional identity, local history, social history, architectural character, everyday life, visual archive, built heritage, and period detail. Today's relevance is strengthened by housing pressure, planning and the continuing question of how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. Small period details of local activity and public use at Stephenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1JF may become more significant with time, particularly following later reinterpretation. The subject also sits alongside contemporary social history, community identity, changing land use, commercial redevelopment, urban regeneration, urban fabric, place-making, and historic townscape. The recorded references to Quarter, Little, Square, portrait, and Lever preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of Stephenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1JF may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes housing pressure and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space when considered against later change at Stephenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1JF. The period view preserves part of the area's social history as a date-specific reference.
Stephenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1JF
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Keywords: Manchester,city,centre,Greater,England,UK,NQ4,shutters,with,an,old,painting,&,256,Ketzo,No Appointment Necessary,Northern Quarter,M1 1JF,Hilton St,M1,Stephenson Square,Stevenson Square,Stevenson Sq,Mancunian,Mancunians,culture,fashioned,1980,1980s,buses,SELNEC,brown,orange,corber,corners,no,appointments,needed,necessary,shops
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD2N9 - . Recorded at Hilton St, Northern Quarter, Manchester , England, UK, M1 1JF in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The image documents Shutters with an old Orange & Brown SELNEC bus, The Corner Barber Shop, Hilton St, Northern Quarter, Manchester , England, UK, M1 1JF. The subject also carries associations with period architecture, mixed-use redevelopment, regional identity, visual archive, commercial streetscape, urban regeneration, architectural character, historical comparison, period detail, changing streetscape, changing land use, contemporary social history, built heritage, and before-and-after reference. Today's relevance is strengthened by commercial viability, planning and the continuing question of how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity. From a 2025-onward perspective, brand consolidation and changing footfall are closely linked to this subject, alongside the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names. Small period details of transport arrangements and footfall at Hilton St, Northern Quarter, Manchester , England, UK, M1 1JF may become more significant with time, particularly following redevelopment. The surrounding story also includes adaptive reuse, customer footfall, place-making, heritage-led regeneration, documentary photography, historic townscape, public-realm investment, and commercial redevelopment. References to Corner, Manchester, Orange, Hilton, and Northern give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around Hilton St, Northern Quarter, Manchester , England, UK, M1 1JF, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The period view preserves a point of historical comparison as a date-specific reference.
Hilton St, Northern Quarter, Manchester , England, UK, M1 1JF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,Manchester,city,centre,Union St,art,gable,end,fiction,England,UK,M4 1PE,and,of,street,building,buildings,architecture,telephone exchange,BT,Openreach,arts,urban,decoration,decorated,streets,scene,Manc,Manchester City centre,Mancunian,trendy,funky,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR7W - . Photographed at Church St and junction of Union St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PE in 2022, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The defining feature is Church St and junction of Union St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PE. Another layer of the photograph includes community identity, heritage worship space, Christian iconography, religious heritage, documentary photography, everyday life, urban regeneration, local history, mixed-use redevelopment, public realm, changing land use, sacred decoration, liturgical art, and sacred architecture. For current editorial use, adaptive reuse and commercial viability provide additional context, especially through the value of reusing existing buildings rather than wholesale demolition. Current relevance extends to visitor tourism and accessibility, particularly through the role of parish churches in local identity and genealogy. Small period details of equipment and working practice at Church St and junction of Union St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PE may become more significant with time, particularly following new construction. Other useful contextual ideas include changing streetscape, local character, historic townscape, public-realm investment, period architecture, parish church heritage, historical comparison, and archival record. Elements such as Quarter, junction, Church, Union, and Northern add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within Church St and junction of Union St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PE, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. Image 2JYYR7W also remains a dated record of Church St and junction of Union St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PE.
Church St and junction of Union St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,M4,Manchester,England,UK,M4 3AH,indoor market,city,centre,retail,shop,store,stalls,wall,art,streetart,street,food,eat,eating,bee,youth,cityscape,skyline,markets,small,retailers,community,urban,welcoming,bargain,bargains,welcome,people,cartoon,cartoons,trader,traders
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR80 - . An identifiable period record of 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The subject captured here is Manchester Arndale centre, indoor market food court wall, 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH. Another layer of the photograph includes consumer retail, retail property, town-centre economy, archival record, architectural character, street-level business, community identity, built heritage, social history, heritage-led regeneration, commercial frontage, place-making, visual archive, and place identity. Current relevance extends to business rates and commercial rents, particularly through how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into public-realm investment and heritage conservation, not least because of how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. Small period details of lettering, decoration and surface detail at 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH may become more significant with time, particularly following new ownership. Other useful contextual ideas include urban regeneration, historic townscape, regional identity, changing land use, commercial streetscape, everyday life, urban fabric, and changing streetscape. References to indoor, Manchester, centre, Arndale, and court give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The image also provides a reference for business rates and how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets within the real-world context of 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH.
49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,M4,Manchester,England,UK,M4 3AH,indoor market,city,centre,retail,shop,store,stalls,vegetables,fruit,and,&,veg,stall,in,the,fruits,greens,vegetarian,eggs,seasonal,markets,small,retailers,community,urban,welcoming,bargain,bargains
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR81 - . This authentic period view of 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The scene records Manchester Arndale centre, Strawberry Garden fruit & veg stall in the indoor market, 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH. Other connected aspects include mixed-use redevelopment, commercial streetscape, regional identity, mixed-use town centre, public-realm investment, period architecture, archival record, place identity, heritage-led regeneration, place-making, adaptive reuse, high-street commerce, shopfront economy, and local enterprise. For current editorial use, commercial rents and store closures provide additional context, especially through how physical retail adapts to online competition. Current relevance extends to construction costs and town-centre regeneration, particularly through the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. The archival value lies partly in recording period objects and surrounding context around 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH before later reinterpretation alters the character of the place. The surrounding story also includes architectural character, contemporary social history, historic townscape, civic architecture, historical comparison, town-centre renewal, visual archive, and bricks-and-mortar retail. References to fruit, Strawberry, stall, Arndale, and centre give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. A further contemporary connection is commercial rents and how physical retail adapts to online competition within the real-world context of 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH.
49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,M4,Manchester,England,UK,M4 3AH,indoor market,city,centre,retail,shop,store,stalls,food,court,foodcourt,shared,eating,dining,area,in,the,customers,people,crowds,crowded,families,family,markets,small,retailers,community,urban,welcoming,bargain,bargains,trader,traders
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR82 - . Recorded at 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The image documents Manchester Arndale centre Deli,& food court in the indoor market, 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH. The broader subject matter reaches into destination shopping, place identity, community identity, place-making, independent trading, changing land use, everyday life, contemporary social history, consumer retail, historic townscape, public-realm investment, street-level business, visual archive, and public realm. Today's relevance is strengthened by brand consolidation, commercial rents and the continuing question of the role of markets and independent shops in keeping town centres active. From a 2025-onward perspective, housing pressure and heritage conservation are closely linked to this subject, alongside how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity. Small period details of transport arrangements and footfall at 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH may become more significant with time, particularly following closure or conversion. The location also brings in mixed-use redevelopment, civic architecture, customer footfall, architectural character, historical comparison, urban regeneration, before-and-after reference, and adaptive reuse. The recorded references to Manchester, Arndale, centre, indoor, and court preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another strand within the photograph is brand consolidation and how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets within the specific setting of 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH.
49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Oxford Road Manchester,at night,at,Manchester,victorian,building,dusk,M1 6FU,M1,evening,night time,nightime,cityscape,skyline,tall,old,history,historic,insurance,offices,hotel,hotels,office,university,buildings,block,blocks,city,centre,Oxford Rd,lit,illuminated,tower
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG5JM2 - . An identifiable period record of Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU in 2022, retaining the practical detail and local context that distinguish a documentary photograph from a generic illustration. At the centre of the view is Manchester victorian Kimpton hotel refuge building at dusk, Oxford Road Manchester , at night, England, UK,. Other connected aspects include architectural character, community identity, place identity, period streetscape, historical comparison, customer-facing service, night-time economy, conservation architecture, historic frontage, traditional structure, local character, changing streetscape, independent food retail, and local history. Current relevance extends to embodied carbon and energy retrofit, particularly through the value of distinctive buildings and street furniture to local identity. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into hospitality costs and changing dining habits, not least because of the resilience of customer-facing businesses in a high-cost economy. As a dated visual record of Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU, the frame retains signage and branding, making it especially useful if altered transport patterns subsequently changes the scene. The wider setting retains connections with period building, visitor economy, historic townscape, historic streetscape, everyday life, social history, visual archive, and food-and-drink business. Details involving night, Oxford, Kimpton, building, and hotel make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The image also provides a reference for embodied carbon and the tension between conservation and redevelopment in a form that can be compared with future views of Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU.
Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Manchester,City,centre,NW,North West,England,UK,architecture,city,glazed,Terracotta,ceramic,ceramics,frieze,literature,great,golden,age,16 Peter St,M60 2DS,M60,painting,by,Titian,&,and,Millais,history,historic,heritage,old,Victorian,Georgian,buildings
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGJAR2 - . An identifiable period record of 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS in 2022, retaining the practical detail and local context that distinguish a documentary photograph from a generic illustration. The scene records Midland Hotel Manchester Glazed Terracotta ceramic frieze, painting, by Titian and Millais, 16 Peter St, Manchester, M60 2DS. Other connected aspects include everyday life, before-and-after reference, rail infrastructure, community identity, station environment, local landmark, rail mobility, rolling stock, place identity, built heritage, period detail, passenger railway, conservation architecture, and public transport network. Current relevance extends to energy retrofit and maintenance, particularly through keeping older structures useful without erasing their character. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into public ownership and rail reform, not least because of how historic rolling stock documents the industrial railway. The image fixes equipment and working practice within 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against refurbishment. The wider setting retains connections with transport interchange, rail corridor, heritage landmark, changing streetscape, documentary photography, visual archive, traditional structure, and historical comparison. The combination of Midland, frieze, Hotel, ceramic, and Peter anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The image also provides a reference for energy retrofit and how historic fabric can be retained while places adapt to modern use within the real-world context of 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS. The frame retains a local visual benchmark before later change alters the scene.
16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Manchester,City,centre,NW,North West,England,UK,architecture,city,glazed,Terracotta,ceramic,ceramics,frieze,literature,great,golden,age,16 Peter St,M60 2DS,M60,represented,by,Palladio,&,and,Wren,history,historic,heritage,old,Victorian,Georgian
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGJAR6 - . An identifiable period record of 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS in 2022, retaining the practical detail and local context that distinguish a documentary photograph from a generic illustration. The subject captured here is Midland Hotel Manchester Glazed Terracotta ceramic frieze, architecture Palladio and Wren, 16 Peter St, Manchester ,M60 2DS. The locality and subject together evoke heritage landmark, rail transport, regional rail, passenger railway, archival record, conservation architecture, industrial railway heritage, local history, community identity, built heritage, traditional structure, train operations, documentary photography, and visual archive. Today's relevance is strengthened by energy retrofit, planning control and the continuing question of the tension between conservation and redevelopment. From a 2025-onward perspective, fares and decarbonisation are closely linked to this subject, alongside the role of stations and trains in lower-carbon mobility. Small period details of materials and architectural details at 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS may become more significant with time, particularly following different community use. The subject also sits alongside social history, trackside history, urban fabric, architectural character, changing streetscape, place identity, rail corridor, and period streetscape. The combination of Terracotta, Glazed, Manchester, Peter, and Midland anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. By fixing the subject within 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The wider significance includes energy retrofit and the tension between conservation and redevelopment as part of the longer story of 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS. Image 2JGJAR6 also remains a dated record of 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS.
16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Manchester,City,centre,NW,North West,England,UK,architecture,city,glazed,Terracotta,ceramic,ceramics,frieze,literature,great,golden,age,16 Peter St,M60 2DS,M60,Michaelangelo,&,and,Flaxman,sculpture,history,historic,heritage,old,Victorian,Georgian,brown,tiling,tiles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGJAR8 - . This dated documentary view of 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. At the centre of the view is Midland Hotel Manchester Glazed Terracotta ceramic frieze, sculpture Michaelangelo & Flaxman, 16 Peter St, Manchester, M60 2DS. The locality and subject together evoke place identity, rail infrastructure, regional identity, architectural character, local landmark, passenger railway, rail mobility, urban fabric, historical comparison, public realm, period streetscape, historic frontage, regional rail, and before-and-after reference. The modern context includes continuing discussion of local identity, maintenance and how historic fabric can be retained while places adapt to modern use. For current editorial use, decarbonisation and station investment provide additional context, especially through the balance between railway heritage and network modernisation. The image fixes building condition and alterations within 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against new construction. The wider setting retains connections with changing streetscape, conservation interest, traditional structure, conservation architecture, rail corridor, industrial railway heritage, transport interchange, and visual archive. Elements such as Hotel, Peter, Manchester, frieze, and ceramic add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The image also provides a reference for local identity and how historic fabric can be retained while places adapt to modern use without losing the local specificity of 16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS.
16 Peter St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,North West,UK,city,centre,NW,China,community,arch,M1,46,Manchester,M1 4FH,history,heritage,Asia,link,links,Hong Kong,HK,historical,landmark,built,paifang,architectural,Manchester Chinatown Community Group,the,Imperial Chinese Archway,decoration,ceramics,lacquer,paint,gold leaf.
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGJEEJ - One of Chinatown's most noticeable landmarks is the archway on Faulkner Street. The paifang, underneath which road traffic passes, was specially built in China and shipped over in three containers. Construction commenced over Christmas 1986 and was completed by Easter 1987, a year after the city of Manchester was twinned with Wuhan. The structure was a gift from Manchester City Council to the Chinese community, and is adorned with dragons and phoenixes.
After many years exposed to the elements, the arch required restoration work to be undertaken
netting was wrapped around a part of the structure to prevent further tiles from dislodging. The Manchester Chinatown Community Group undertook a series of charity events, including a dry land dragon boat race in June 2012. In early 2013 the archway was repaired by Manchester and Cheshire Construction Company. It is the only one in Europe and regarded as more decorative than the one in San Francisco. Designed and built by a team of engineers from Peking, it is decorated with ceramics, lacquer, paint and gold leaf.
46 Faulkner St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 4FH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,North West,UK,city,centre,NW,China,community,arch,M1,46,Manchester,M1 4FH,history,heritage,Asia,link,links,Hong Kong,HK,historical,landmark,built,paifang,architectural,Manchester Chinatown Community Group,the,Imperial Chinese Archway,decoration,ceramics,lacquer,paint,gold leaf.
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGJEET - One of Chinatown's most noticeable landmarks is the archway on Faulkner Street. The paifang, underneath which road traffic passes, was specially built in China and shipped over in three containers. Construction commenced over Christmas 1986 and was completed by Easter 1987, a year after the city of Manchester was twinned with Wuhan. The structure was a gift from Manchester City Council to the Chinese community, and is adorned with dragons and phoenixes.
After many years exposed to the elements, the arch required restoration work to be undertaken
netting was wrapped around a part of the structure to prevent further tiles from dislodging. The Manchester Chinatown Community Group undertook a series of charity events, including a dry land dragon boat race in June 2012. In early 2013 the archway was repaired by Manchester and Cheshire Construction Company. It is the only one in Europe and regarded as more decorative than the one in San Francisco. Designed and built by a team of engineers from Peking, it is decorated with ceramics, lacquer, paint and gold leaf.
46 Faulkner St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 4FH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,North West,UK,city,centre,NW,China,community,Super-market,red,blue,electric,Chinese,food,foods,special,specialties,ingredient,ingredients,M1,58-60,George Street,Manchester,M1 4HF,town,Asian,Asia,superstore,store,shop,traditional,late night,night,shelves
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGJEEX - . Neon signs in Manchester Chinatown, Hang Won Hong Super-market, 58-60 George St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 4HF. Photographed on 29 June 2022. Supermarket specialising in Asian ingredients and meals, selling fresh/frozen food and sauces.
Service options: In-store shopping · In-store pick-up · Delivery. Looking at the subject's development, shops and markets are a visible record of changing consumer life, from family businesses and specialist traders to chain stores, department stores and regenerated market halls
Fascias, signs and shopfronts can date a street scene as clearly as architecture or vehicles. Looking at the subject's development, town and city centres are continually rewritten by new structures, transport schemes and changing commercial uses
Photographs preserve the everyday fabric between major landmarks, including underpasses, arcades, back streets and small businesses that may disappear during redevelopment. As background, ephemeral design is especially valuable to social historians because it was created for immediate use rather than posterity
A ticket, label or novelty card can reveal contemporary humour, branding, consumer habits and printing style in a compact object. For the 2026 context, high streets continue to change rapidly as retailers respond to online competition, costs and changing footfall
Government support for community assets and town-centre renewal gives photographs of independent shops, markets and former businesses added relevance to stories about regeneration and community economies. For the 2026 context, urban regeneration in England continues to focus on town-centre renewal, housing, public realm and reuse of vacant commercial property
Earlier street scenes provide valuable before-and-after evidence of these changes and of the businesses or structures lost along the way. Relevant synonyms and subject phrases include retail premises, local business, independent retailer, town centre, and consumer culture.
58-60 George St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 4HF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,North West,UK,city,centre,NW,link,tram,Ashton,under,lyne,tramstop,people,trams,lightrail,light,rail,network,integrated,public,transport,yellow,2,St Peters Square,Manchester,M2 3DF,M2,tramway,tramways,route,routes,commuters,passengers,busy,crowd,crowded
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGJEF8 - . Photographed at 2 St Peter's Square, Manchester, England, UK, M2 3DF in 2022, this detailed editorial image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The principal subject is Ashton-under-Lyne via Piccadilly Manchester Metrolink tram 3139 , at St Peters Square Manchester, England, UK. The surrounding context encompasses historical comparison, everyday life, visual archive, city-centre activity, social landscape, period detail, pedestrian environment, changing streetscape, local character, contemporary city life, rail mobility, everyday street life, local identity, and rolling stock. From a 2025-onward perspective, accessibility and rail reform are closely linked to this subject, alongside the role of stations and trains in lower-carbon mobility. The wider contemporary story combines footfall, commercial change and the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments. Small period details of transport arrangements and footfall at 2 St Peter's Square, Manchester, England, UK, M2 3DF may become more significant with time, particularly following changing commercial priorities. The surrounding story also includes industrial railway heritage, archival record, rail infrastructure, public realm, freight wagon, before-and-after reference, trackside history, and community identity. The recorded references to Metrolink, Manchester, Piccadilly, Square, and Ashton-under-Lyne preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of 2 St Peter's Square, Manchester, England, UK, M2 3DF may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The image also provides a reference for accessibility and the continuing importance of rail to regional connectivity in a form that can be compared with future views of 2 St Peter's Square, Manchester, England, UK, M2 3DF.
2 St Peter's Square, Manchester, England, UK, M2 3DF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,North West,UK,City,centre,NW,North west,M1,Locks,M1 5LH,Castlefields,pano,Panorama,of,Manchester,flat,accommodation,block,skyline,Metrolink,tram,at,trams,public,transport,Hilton,property,flats,hotels hotel,tramlines,rail,rails,WeLoveMCR
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGM7DA - . This dated documentary view of Deansgate Castlefield, Manchester, 2 Whitworth St W, Deansgate, Locks, Manchester, England, UK, M1 in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The photograph centres on Metrolink tram at Deansgate Castlefield, Manchester, 2 Whitworth St W, Deansgate, Locks, Manchester, England, UK, M1 5LH. The surrounding context encompasses passenger railway, everyday street life, documentary photography, station environment, railway heritage, industrial railway heritage, local identity, place identity, train operations, regional rail, public realm, city-centre activity, social landscape, and social history. The modern context includes continuing discussion of decarbonisation, public ownership and the role of stations and trains in lower-carbon mobility. For current editorial use, street safety and footfall provide additional context, especially through the relationship between public space and local social life. Small period details of signage and branding at Deansgate Castlefield, Manchester, 2 Whitworth St W, Deansgate, Locks, Manchester, England, UK, M1 may become more significant with time, particularly following refurbishment. The surrounding story also includes public transport network, rail mobility, everyday life, pedestrian environment, street-level documentary, transport interchange, historical comparison, and contemporary city life. Details involving Whitworth, Metrolink, Locks, Castlefield, and Deansgate make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at Deansgate Castlefield, Manchester, 2 Whitworth St W, Deansgate, Locks, Manchester, England, UK, M1 helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2JGM7DA.
Deansgate Castlefield, Manchester, 2 Whitworth St W, Deansgate, Locks, Manchester, England, UK, M1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,council,civic,crest,motto,Lancs,County Council crest,stained,glass,window,Manchester,In council wisdom,Manchester Central library Stained Glass Window,Window,Arms,blue,white,red roses,emblem,history,historic,when,part,of Lancashire,colourful,windows,Mancunian,city,cities,centre,libraries,building,interior,inside
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE3T3 - Official blazon
Arms : Gules three Piles two issuant from the chief and one in base Or each charged with a Rose of the field barbed and seeded proper.
Crest : On a Wreath of the Colours a Lion passant guardant proper charged on the body with a Mascle Gules and resting the dexter forepaw on an Escocheon of the above said Arms.
Supporters : On either side a Lion proper gorged with a Collar Vair pendent therefrom an Escocheon of the following Arms viz. Gules three Piles two issuant from the chief and one in base Or each charged with a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper.
Motto: 'IN CONCILIO CONSILIUM' - In council is wisdom
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on August 31, 1903, the supporters were granted on October 26, 1903.
The arms are quite simple, showing the famous red rose of Lancaster in a distinctive design. The red rose appears in most Lancashire towns and districts.
The crest and supporters are derived from the arms of the Ferrers family, earls of Derby. The lions, mascule and vair pattern all feature in tha arms of the family who have been prominent land owners in the county.
The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,entrance ceiling,crests,Manchester,St Peters Square,M13,crest,arms,symbols,of,the,city,centre,history,historic,building,architecture,Central,Library,libraries,free,ornate,gold,1929,Manchesters,inside,interior,logo,UK,M2 5PD,England,M2,AD,over,city crest
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE3YF - . Manchester Central Library - City crest from entrance ceiling,arms and crests of the Duchy of Lancaster, the See of York, the See of Manchester. Photographed on 3 December 2019. The recorded location is The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP. In the longer view, historic library buildings and everyday service scenes document changing ideas about public education and access to knowledge
Even small branches can play an important social role beyond book lending. The wider historical story is that interiors preserve details that exterior photographs cannot show: furniture, fittings, decorative finishes and room layouts reveal how buildings were actually used
Such features are often altered during refurbishment even when the outside continues to be unchanged. Current 2026 relevance comes from the fact that libraries continue to evolve as community hubs offering digital access, study, events and support alongside books
Funding pressures and volunteer involvement continue to be important issues, making older images useful for examining changes in local public services. In the present 2026 context, adaptive reuse often changes internal layouts dramatically, so photographs of earlier rooms and fittings have particular conservation and design value. In historical terms, public libraries developed as major civic institutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, combining books, education and free access to information
Their buildings and services often reflect municipal pride, while later community-run models reveal changing patterns of local-government provision. From a heritage perspective, libraries have continually adapted from reading rooms and reference collections to computers, events, study spaces and digital services
Interior details and staffing images show how the public library functions as both an information service and a community place.
The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,M2,Manchester M2 5PD,Xmas,decorations,history,Christmas,outside,Christmas hat,on a,Santa,hat,cap,MCR,Manchester,city,centre,Central Library,library,St Peters,Peter,square,Sq,seasonal,decorated,golden,sparkle,sparkly,historic,exterior,display,displays,art,arts,artistic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADR2B5 - . A grounded documentary photograph made at St Peter's Square, Manchester,England,UK, M2 5PD in 2019, preserving the main subject alongside smaller details that may become more historically useful with time. The view centres on Christmas hat on a MCR,Christmas decorations,outside Manchester Central Library,St Peter's Square, Manchester M2 5PD. A broader reading of the scene brings in social history, archival record, architectural character, visual archive, heritage landmark, before-and-after reference, built heritage, changing streetscape, period detail, place identity, everyday life, historical comparison, historic commercial architecture, and local history. For contemporary context, energy retrofit and planning control are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. Looking back from the mid-2020s, the photograph anchors small features of identity that written records may overlook in the immediate surroundings of St Peter's Square, Manchester,England,UK, M2 5PD. The surrounding context also covers regional identity, historic townscape, adaptive reuse, period building, traditional masonry, conservation interest, architectural detailing, and cityscape history. References to decorations, Central, outside, Peter's, and Square help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. The surrounding context at St Peter's Square, Manchester,England,UK, M2 5PD matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. A further contemporary connection is energy retrofit and the contrast between preservation and redevelopment when considered against later change at St Peter's Square, Manchester,England,UK, M2 5PD. The image fixes evidence of earlier appearance as part of St Peter's Square, Manchester,England,UK, M2 5PD's history.
St Peter's Square, Manchester,England,UK, M2 5PD
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Keywords: Manchester City Centre,Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,Piccadilly,Station,Rail,Terminal,Manchester Piccadilly,Manchester Piccadilly Station,Network Rail,NetworkRail,Entrance,door,doorway,gate,M1 2QF,M1,rail station,centre,travel,gates,entrance,interchange,refurbished,Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road Capacity Scheme,London road
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M0D - Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England. Opened as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-east of Manchester city centre, it hosts long-distance intercity and cross-country services to national destinations including London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bristol and Southampton
regional services to destinations in Northern England including Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and York
and local commuter services around Greater Manchester. It is one of 19 major stations managed by Network Rail. The station has 14 platforms, twelve terminal and two through platforms. Piccadilly is also a major interchange with the Metrolink light rail system with two tram platforms in its undercroft.
Piccadilly is the busiest station in the Manchester station group with nearly 28 million passenger entries and exits between April 2017 and March 2018, (the other major stations in Manchester are Oxford Road and Victoria). It is the fourth busiest station in the United Kingdom outside London. The station hosts services from six train operating companies. It is the second busiest interchange station outside London, with almost 3.8 million passengers changing trains annually.
Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, Piccadilly Station was refurbished, taking five years and costing £100 million (in 2002), it was the most expensive improvement on the UK rail network at the time. Further improvements and expansion plans have been mooted. In October 2016, a Transport and Works Act application was submitted for the construction of two platforms as part of the Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road Capacity Scheme. As of 2018, this application has not been approved by the government. To allow the station to accommodate high speed services under High Speed 2 proposals, five platforms would be required and the Metrolink station would be reconfigured.
Piccadilly, Manchester, UK, M1 2QF
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Keywords: Manchester City Centre,Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,streets,Piccadilly,Station,Rail,Terminal,Manchester Piccadilly,Manchester Piccadilly Station,Network Rail,NetworkRail,Entrance,doorway,gate,M1 2QF,M1,rail station,centre,travel,gates,entrance,interchange,refurbished,Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road Capacity Scheme,London road,workers,strike,RMT union,Madchester
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M0T - Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England. Opened as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-east of Manchester city centre, it hosts long-distance intercity and cross-country services to national destinations including London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bristol and Southampton
regional services to destinations in Northern England including Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and York
and local commuter services around Greater Manchester. It is one of 19 major stations managed by Network Rail. The station has 14 platforms, twelve terminal and two through platforms. Piccadilly is also a major interchange with the Metrolink light rail system with two tram platforms in its undercroft.
Piccadilly is the busiest station in the Manchester station group with nearly 28 million passenger entries and exits between April 2017 and March 2018, (the other major stations in Manchester are Oxford Road and Victoria). It is the fourth busiest station in the United Kingdom outside London. The station hosts services from six train operating companies. It is the second busiest interchange station outside London, with almost 3.8 million passengers changing trains annually.
Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, Piccadilly Station was refurbished, taking five years and costing £100 million (in 2002), it was the most expensive improvement on the UK rail network at the time. Further improvements and expansion plans have been mooted. In October 2016, a Transport and Works Act application was submitted for the construction of two platforms as part of the Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road Capacity Scheme. As of 2018, this application has not been approved by the government. To allow the station to accommodate high speed services under High Speed 2 proposals, five platforms would be required and the Metrolink station would be reconfigured.
Piccadilly, Manchester, UK, M1 2QF
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Keywords: Manchester,City Centre,city,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,shopping,faces,art,artist,grafitti,shutter,shutters,graffiti on shutters,closed,derelict,M1 2BA,M1,down,run,rundown,problem,eyesore,centre,City,Centre,problem with,urban,tourism,tourists,Buy Images Of,Stock Images,tour,Britain,Hip-Hop
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M57 - . A grounded editorial photograph captures the working environment around the recorded location, as recorded during 2019. The location is represented through Derelict shop, The Barrow Boys Shop, Paton Street, Piccadilly, Northern Quarter, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 2BA. Further features of the subject include urban artwork, city artwork, town-centre trading, consumer spending, illustrated hoarding, community expression, local trading, shopfront economy, visual placemaking, independent retail, urban graphics, and commercial frontage. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, commercial property also connects with vacant premises, operating costs and efforts aimed at adaptable commercial space. The wider contemporary story of public art now includes graffiti versus commissioned work alongside public-realm investment, while policy and investment increasingly consider community-led design. Because this is a time-specific record of the recorded location, later comparison can reveal changes in signage, ownership, land use, transport, street furniture, building condition and the way the public uses the surrounding space, specifically in relation to Derelict shop. The broader context includes local identity, shopping habits, consumer retail, chain-store economy, contemporary mural, street-level design. Further aspects present in the subject include retail vacancy, graphic intervention, commercial streetscape, creative regeneration, customer footfall, creative streetscape, mural culture, city-centre economy, retail property, and storefront culture. Modern coverage of physical shops frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of hybrid working, online shopping and mixed-use town centres. That gives this view of the recorded location continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison, specifically in relation to Derelict shop. The location view retains the location's physical context for future editorial context.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Community,Village,Sackville Park,memorial,bench,apple,Manchester,City,centre,cast,bronze,Father of,Computer Science,Mathematician,Logician,Victim,of Prejudice,Lancs,Lancashire,metal,Enigma,wartime,WWII,codebreaker,gay,AI,Artificial Intelligence,ChatGPT,test,the,tourist,tourism,attraction,M1
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF5JR - Turing has been honoured in various ways in Manchester, the city where he worked towards the end of his life. In 1994, a stretch of the A6010 road (the Manchester city intermediate ring road) was named Alan Turing Way. A bridge carrying this road was widened, and carries the name Alan Turing Bridge. A statue of Turing was unveiled in Manchester on 23 June 2001 in Sackville Park, between the University of Manchester building on Whitworth Street and Canal Street. The memorial statue depicts the father of computer science sitting on a bench at a central position in the park. Turing is shown holding an apple. The cast bronze bench carries in relief the text 'Alan Mathison Turing 1912“1954', and the motto 'Founder of Computer Science' as it could appear if encoded by an Enigma machine: 'IEKYF ROMSI ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ'. However, the meaning of the coded message is disputed, as the 'u' in 'computer' matches up with the 'u' in 'ADXUO'. As a letter encoded by an enigma machine can not appear as itself, the actual message behind the code is uncertain.[207]
Turing memorial statue plaque in Sackville Park, Manchester
A plaque at the statue's feet reads 'Father of computer science, mathematician, logician, wartime codebreaker, victim of prejudice'. There is also a Bertrand Russell quotation: Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty”a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. The sculptor buried his own old Amstrad computer under the plinth as a tribute to the godfather of all modern computers - The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Park in Manchester, England, is in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Turing is believed to have committed suicide in 1954 two years after being convicted of gross indecency (i.e. homosexual acts). As such he is as much a gay icon as an icon of computing, and it is no coincidence that this memorial is situated near Canal Street, Manchester's gay village.
Alan Turing Memorial, Sackville Park, Fairfield St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3HB
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,M1,North West,art,artist,street art,street artist,mural,Arena Bomb,Arena bombing,arts,street,centre,spray paint,expression,decorated,decoration,M1 1DN,PC,ex,public conveniences,toilet,canvas,outside,square,exterior,pink,cyan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF66B - . An editorial view documents the setting around Stevenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 1DN, as photographed in 2019. The supplied image information identifies #OutHouseMcr Bee, Stevenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 1DN. Further features of the subject include community art, creative regeneration, illustrated hoarding, urban visual culture, art-led regeneration, city artwork, mural culture, graphic intervention, contemporary mural, public realm art, temporary artwork, and local identity. Current debate around street-level design often combines youth culture, graffiti versus commissioned work and the practical challenge of art integrated with regeneration. Because this is a time-specific record of Stevenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 1DN, later comparison can reveal changes in signage, ownership, land use, transport, street furniture, building condition and the way the public uses the surrounding space. The resulting scene connects with visual placemaking, public art, creative streetscape, street creativity, community expression, street-level design. Further recorded details include NorthernQuarter, Manchester Bee Symbol, Bee Symbol, open air gallery. The scene also carries the language of urban artwork, and urban graphics. The wider contemporary story of visual placemaking now includes regeneration alongside temporary installations, while policy and investment increasingly consider creative reuse of redevelopment sites. For future comparison, the scene preserves the appearance of the built environment, public activity, period design, local character, and changes of use at this precise location. Viewed retrospectively, the photograph can reveal community life, local continuity, physical infrastructure, signage and branding, and commercial identity within the surrounding area.
Stevenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 1DN
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Keywords: Manchester,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Motley AtoZ,AZ street art,The Revolution will not be televised,Motley,AtoZ,AZ,street art,streetart,artist,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,on wall,on a wall,wall art,Street Atlas,blue,red,motley,creator,cover,A-Z cover,arts,street,centre,spray paint,expression,open air gallery,decorated,decoration,map,maps,book cover
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF696 - The A“Z (pronounced Ay to Zed), or in full the Geographers' A“Z Street Atlas, is a name given to any one of a range of atlases of streets in the United Kingdom currently produced by Geographers' A“Z Map Company Limited. Its first atlas, of London, was originally compiled in the 1930s by Phyllis Pearsall. The company she founded now publishes street maps of many cities and towns in the UK.
Until relatively recently, maps produced by the Geographers' (A“Z) Map Company did not include a publication date. Some clues to dating include:
their first map was published in 1936
the only maps produced by them during WW2 (1939“1945) were war maps of Europe
until 1962, the Published By address was 24 Grays Inn Road, Holborn, London
from 1962 to 1992, the Published By address was Sevenoaks, Kent
from 1992 onwards, the Published By address is Borough Green, Kent
in 1972, the company name was changed from Geographers' Map Company to Geographers' A“Z Map Company.
About Motley creator:
Hailing from and currently residing in Manchester. I'm incredibly passionate about my city. The hope is that I can do my part to make it an interesting place to live.
Besides being best known for my street art, I enjoy working with the best possible medium to execute an idea. In true Motley fashion. Meaning mismatched and irregular. My work is less rooted in a common visual style and more based on the independent reaction to what inspired me in the first place.
I take inspiration from many sources. Elements of public space such as advertisements and signage are of particular interest. Given that street art is technically illegal, I'm fascinated by the visual elements of the street that are permitted.
My dream job would either be mayor of Manchester or Ikea bookshelf instructions designer.
Oldham St, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: Manchester,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Motley AtoZ,AZ street art,The Revolution will not be televised,Motley,AtoZ,AZ,street art,streetart,artist,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,on wall,on a wall,wall art,Street Atlas,blue,red,motley,creator,cover,A-Z cover,arts,street,centre,spray paint,expression,open air gallery,decorated,decoration,map,maps,book cover
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF698 - The A“Z (pronounced Ay to Zed), or in full the Geographers' A“Z Street Atlas, is a name given to any one of a range of atlases of streets in the United Kingdom currently produced by Geographers' A“Z Map Company Limited. Its first atlas, of London, was originally compiled in the 1930s by Phyllis Pearsall. The company she founded now publishes street maps of many cities and towns in the UK.
Until relatively recently, maps produced by the Geographers' (A“Z) Map Company did not include a publication date. Some clues to dating include:
their first map was published in 1936
the only maps produced by them during WW2 (1939“1945) were war maps of Europe
until 1962, the Published By address was 24 Grays Inn Road, Holborn, London
from 1962 to 1992, the Published By address was Sevenoaks, Kent
from 1992 onwards, the Published By address is Borough Green, Kent
in 1972, the company name was changed from Geographers' Map Company to Geographers' A“Z Map Company.
About Motley creator:
Hailing from and currently residing in Manchester. I'm incredibly passionate about my city. The hope is that I can do my part to make it an interesting place to live.
Besides being best known for my street art, I enjoy working with the best possible medium to execute an idea. In true Motley fashion. Meaning mismatched and irregular. My work is less rooted in a common visual style and more based on the independent reaction to what inspired me in the first place.
I take inspiration from many sources. Elements of public space such as advertisements and signage are of particular interest. Given that street art is technically illegal, I'm fascinated by the visual elements of the street that are permitted.
My dream job would either be mayor of Manchester or Ikea bookshelf instructions designer.
Oldham St, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,manchester,city centre,NQ4,brick wall,NQ,bottle art,art,artist,gable,end,Cross Keys St,Manchester NQ4,M4 5ET,M4,Esher,Art,Cross Keys Street,Manchester,North West,history,historic gable,gable-end,of,a,city,centre,MC Esher,graphic,in,the,style,graffiti trail
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98JK - . A contemporary documentary view depicts the working environment around Cross Keys St, Manchester NQ4, North West England, UK, M4 5ET, in an image captured in 2019. The described feature is Esher Art bottle, Cross Keys St, Manchester NQ4, North West England, UK, M4 5ET. The wider setting includes rail transport, transport interchange, rail modernisation, contemporary mural, mural culture, street-level design, commuter transport, passenger railway, community expression, mass transit, heritage streetscape, and historic environment. Current debate around train travel often combines town-centre connectivity, fares and affordability and the practical challenge of more dependable regional connections. In the mid-2020s, creative hoardings is increasingly discussed through regeneration and youth culture, with attention turning to creative reuse of redevelopment sites. For present-day editorial use, older urban fabric can also illustrate debates about redevelopment pressure and adaptive reuse, particularly where these affect lower-carbon reuse rather than demolition. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at Cross Keys St, Manchester NQ4, North West England, UK, M4 5ET, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves. The view also records themes involving local landmark, period property, passenger connectivity, visual placemaking, station environment, trackside infrastructure. The scene is further associated with gableend, urban artwork, artwork, bottle on a brick wall, bottle brick wall, Northern Quarter. Other relevant facets include art-led regeneration, local identity, city artwork, intercity travel, public realm art, rail mobility, historic fabric, rail corridor, graphic intervention, and temporary artwork. The record also holds the surrounding streetscape as part of the area's social history.
Cross Keys St, Manchester NQ4, North West England, UK, M4 5ET
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Keywords: Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,Unison,union,at,TUC,Pride in our work,Pride in our public services
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWAP - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,Divercity,at,woman,walker,village
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWH3 - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,We are enough,I am enough,at,trans rights,village
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWH8 - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,GreatPlaces,Housing Group,Houseproud,socialhousing,social housing
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWX8 - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,LGBT+,Lib Dems,at,Liberal Democrats,party,woke,LGBTLD
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAX0E - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,woke,DIY,Wickes,Lets do it with pride,truck
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAX0N - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,Scouts,at,the,woke,Scouts Pride
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAX2P - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,Calico,housing group,Burnley,at,woke
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAX30 - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,Mermaids,at,transgender,youth,Lauren Stoner
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAX39 - Mermaids is a British charity and advocacy organisation that supports gender variant and transgender youth. It also provides inclusion and diversity training. Mermaids was founded in 1995 by a group of parents of gender nonconforming children and became a charitable incorporated organisation in 2015.
History
Formation and leadership
Mermaids was founded in 1995 by a group of parents of gender nonconforming children, originally acting as a small helpline. It aims to provide support for transgender youths up to 20 years of age. Mermaids became a Charitable incorporated organisation in 2015.
Susie Green was the chief executive from January 2016 until 25 November 2022 when she resigned. Previously she worked as an IT manager at the Citizens Advice Bureau in Leeds. Green was a trustee of Mermaids for four years from 2011. Her daughter is one of the youngest individuals in the UK to have transitioned surgically.
Lauren Stoner is interim chief executive since December 2022.
Lobbying the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service
In the years from 2000, Mermaids alongside another campaign group, GIRES (Gender Identity Research and Education Society), lobbied clinicians at the NHS Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) for early interventions on children
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RM252W - Meet the Makers, Discover the History, Experience Craft & Design
Here at Manchester Craft & Design our aim is to make contemporary visual art, craft and design accessible for all. Our former Victorian fishmarket building is situated at the heart of Manchester's creative Northern Quarter and houses some of the region's most talented artists, designers and makers. See them at work creating textiles, jewellery, ceramics, prints, fine art, sculpture and more
discover their stories, hear about their materials and processes, or learn a new skill yourself by taking part in a workshop. And don't miss our exciting programme of free contemporary craft exhibitions and events and our on-site café bar which serves delicious homemade fayre.
17 Oak St, Manchester, North West England, UK, M4 5JD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4EDPF - Castlefield is an inner city conservation area of Manchester in North West England. The conservation area which bears its name is bounded by the River Irwell, Quay Street, Deansgate and the Chester Road.
It was the site of the Roman era fort of Mamucium or Mancunium which gave its name to Manchester. It was the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, the world's first industrial canal built in 1764, with the oldest canal warehouse opening in 1779. The world's first passenger railway terminated here in 1830, at Liverpool Road railway station and the first railway warehouse opened here in 1831.
Castlefield Basin,Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ791C - . This location-specific image from Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The main point of reference is Northern Quarter Art in Stevenson Square Manchester, UK - Wall Graffiti August2016 OUTHOUSEMCR. The frame also records themes of street-level design, public-realm art, graffiti heritage, visual archive, before-and-after reference, community identity, period detail, contemporary mural, visual street culture, local history, temporary artwork, changing streetscape, urban artwork, and urban graphics. For current editorial use, public art and local identity provide additional context, especially through how temporary street art becomes an important visual archive. The image fixes landscape treatment and surrounding development within Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against closure or conversion. The surrounding story also includes creative district, local character, everyday life, changing land use, public realm, mural culture, contemporary social history, and regional identity. Elements such as August2016, Stevenson, Graffiti, OUTHOUSEMCR, and Manchester add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is public art and the blurred line between commissioned public art and unsanctioned graffiti as part of the longer story of Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK. The wider significance includes graffiti policy and the blurred line between commissioned public art and unsanctioned graffiti when considered against later change at Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK.
Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ791D - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK in 2016, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The frame specifically shows Northern Quarter Art in Stevenson Square Manchester, UK - Wall Graffiti August2016 OUTHOUSEMCR. A broader reading of the photograph includes period detail, urban artwork, social history, urban graphics, community identity, changing land use, place identity, public realm, everyday life, local history, archival record, public-realm art, mural culture, and creative district. The wider contemporary story combines gentrification, tourism and how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time. Future viewers can use this scene from Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK to compare public access and movement with whatever follows after redevelopment. Other useful contextual ideas include historical comparison, changing streetscape, visual archive, creative placemaking, before-and-after reference, contemporary mural, public art, and street-level design. Elements such as Quarter, Stevenson, Manchester, August2016, and Graffiti add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The location additionally provides evidence of gentrification and how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time without losing the local specificity of Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK. A further contemporary connection is creative industries and the role of murals in defining creative neighbourhoods in a form that can be compared with future views of Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK.
Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ791E - . Photographed at Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK in 2016, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The subject captured here is Northern Quarter Art in Stevenson Square Manchester, UK - Wall Graffiti August2016 OUTHOUSEMCR. Further facets of the scene include public art, changing streetscape, public realm, archival record, community identity, creative district, creative placemaking, before-and-after reference, visual street culture, graffiti heritage, urban artwork, place identity, documentary photography, and street-level design. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into local identity and public art, not least because of the blurred line between commissioned public art and unsanctioned graffiti. For later comparison, the photograph preserves equipment and working practice at Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK, details that may look very different after replacement signage. The photograph additionally reflects period detail, street creativity, contemporary social history, historical comparison, visual archive, local character, public-realm art, and regional identity. Details involving Manchester, Square, Stevenson, August2016, and Graffiti make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The scene further reflects local identity and how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time when considered against later change at Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK. Its period value extends to local identity and the blurred line between commissioned public art and unsanctioned graffiti without losing the local specificity of Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK.
Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: art,bowie,face,faces,David,paint,arts,media,paint,painting,Manchester,city,centre,Wall,Graffiti,August2016,August,2016,OUTHOUSEMCR,culture,historic,history,industry,industrial,tourist,tourism,travel,David Bowie,Wall Graffiti,Northern Quarter,Stevenson,Square,Art World,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,United,Kingdom,GB,English,British,ArtWorld,Artist,city,centre,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,United Kingdom,Great Britain
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ791F - . This location-specific image from Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The photograph centres on Northern Quarter Art in Stevenson Square Manchester, UK - Wall Graffiti August2016 OUTHOUSEMCR. Further facets of the scene include creative placemaking, everyday life, changing streetscape, historical comparison, visual street culture, contemporary mural, temporary artwork, local character, urban graphics, social history, local history, public-realm art, visual archive, and street creativity. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with tourism, creative industries and the blurred line between commissioned public art and unsanctioned graffiti. The archival value lies partly in recording commercial use and occupation around Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK before new construction alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include archival record, public realm, urban artwork, changing land use, period detail, regional identity, community identity, and place identity. References to Stevenson, Manchester, August2016, Quarter, and Northern give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The scene further reflects tourism and the blurred line between commissioned public art and unsanctioned graffiti without losing the local specificity of Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK. Its period value extends to creative industries and the blurred line between commissioned public art and unsanctioned graffiti in a form that can be compared with future views of Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK.
Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: art,bowie,face,faces,David,paint,arts,media,paint,painting,Manchester,city,centre,Wall,Graffiti,August2016,August,2016,OUTHOUSEMCR,culture,historic,history,industry,industrial,tourist,tourism,travel,#outhousemcr,smile,face,David Bowie,Wall Graffiti,Northern Quarter,Stevenson,Square,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,United,Kingdom,GB,English,British,laugh,city,centre,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,United Kingdom,Great Britain
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ791G - . An on-location photograph from Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK in 2016, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The defining feature is Northern Quarter Art in Stevenson Square Manchester, UK - Wall Graffiti August2016 OUTHOUSEMCR. The broader subject matter reaches into local character, social history, historical comparison, contemporary mural, documentary photography, creative district, street-level design, mural culture, regional identity, temporary artwork, contemporary social history, community identity, everyday life, and changing streetscape. For current editorial use, regeneration and temporary works provide additional context, especially through how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time. Future viewers can use this scene from Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK to compare signage and branding with whatever follows after new construction. The photograph additionally reflects visual archive, archival record, public art, before-and-after reference, street creativity, changing land use, place identity, and urban graphics. The recorded references to Manchester, Square, Graffiti, August2016, and Northern preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another useful connection is regeneration and how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time as part of the longer story of Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK. The scene further reflects public art and the role of murals in defining creative neighbourhoods when considered against later change at Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK.
Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ791K - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK in 2016, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The frame specifically shows Northern Quarter Art in Stevenson Square Manchester, UK - Wall Graffiti August2016 OUTHOUSEMCR. The frame also records themes of contemporary social history, before-and-after reference, graffiti heritage, historical comparison, street creativity, documentary photography, local character, public art, contemporary mural, place identity, local history, public-realm art, mural culture, and creative placemaking. Today's relevance is strengthened by graffiti policy, temporary works and the continuing question of how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time. For later comparison, the photograph preserves public access and movement at Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK, details that may look very different after new ownership. Other useful contextual ideas include regional identity, urban artwork, archival record, visual street culture, changing land use, street-level design, urban graphics, and everyday life. Details involving Quarter, August2016, Square, Graffiti, and Northern make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The wider setting at Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. A further contemporary connection is graffiti policy and how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time within the specific setting of Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK. The wider significance includes public art and the role of murals in defining creative neighbourhoods as part of the longer story of Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK.
Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ799A - From the Ben Robinson interview,Afflecks Palace In Pieces Once More
SELF-made Manchester mosaicist Mark Kennedy has had seven mosaic art pieces installed on Tib Street along the wall of Affleck's Palace. The colourful and cracked pieces feature the likes of Eric Cantona, Colin Bell, Karl Marx, Morrissey, Ian Brown, Emmeline Pankhurst, Bet Lynch and many other 'legends' associated with Manchester.
In total Kennedy has spent almost 20 years crafting the two sets of mosaics amongst other on-going work. The theme on Affleck's is Manchester heroes, with a nod given the shopping bazaar's rock'n'roll past. Thus among the great figures of Manchester depicted there are musicians, actors, media and radical politicians.
He also couldn't help including something from his own Manchester memories of Tib Street.
When I was a little kid I used to go to Tib Street all the time to get my ferrets and buy mice from a little pet shop and that's where we all used to go. Next door was Tib Street Joke Shop that used to sell masks and stink bombs so there's one piece that represents all that.
You have to have a closer look at some of the new mosaics to fully appreciate them with some of them holding a few hidden surprises. Kennedy's take on Joy Division's classic Unknown Pleasures album cover features several tiny coloured tile fragments to set it apart from the now iconic original.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ799C - From the Ben Robinson interview,Afflecks Palace In Pieces Once More
SELF-made Manchester mosaicist Mark Kennedy has had seven mosaic art pieces installed on Tib Street along the wall of Affleck's Palace. The colourful and cracked pieces feature the likes of Eric Cantona, Colin Bell, Karl Marx, Morrissey, Ian Brown, Emmeline Pankhurst, Bet Lynch and many other 'legends' associated with Manchester.
In total Kennedy has spent almost 20 years crafting the two sets of mosaics amongst other on-going work. The theme on Affleck's is Manchester heroes, with a nod given the shopping bazaar's rock'n'roll past. Thus among the great figures of Manchester depicted there are musicians, actors, media and radical politicians.
He also couldn't help including something from his own Manchester memories of Tib Street.
When I was a little kid I used to go to Tib Street all the time to get my ferrets and buy mice from a little pet shop and that's where we all used to go. Next door was Tib Street Joke Shop that used to sell masks and stink bombs so there's one piece that represents all that.
You have to have a closer look at some of the new mosaics to fully appreciate them with some of them holding a few hidden surprises. Kennedy's take on Joy Division's classic Unknown Pleasures album cover features several tiny coloured tile fragments to set it apart from the now iconic original.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ799X - From the Ben Robinson interview,Afflecks Palace In Pieces Once More
SELF-made Manchester mosaicist Mark Kennedy has had seven mosaic art pieces installed on Tib Street along the wall of Affleck's Palace. The colourful and cracked pieces feature the likes of Eric Cantona, Colin Bell, Karl Marx, Morrissey, Ian Brown, Emmeline Pankhurst, Bet Lynch and many other 'legends' associated with Manchester.
In total Kennedy has spent almost 20 years crafting the two sets of mosaics amongst other on-going work. The theme on Affleck's is Manchester heroes, with a nod given the shopping bazaar's rock'n'roll past. Thus among the great figures of Manchester depicted there are musicians, actors, media and radical politicians.
He also couldn't help including something from his own Manchester memories of Tib Street.
When I was a little kid I used to go to Tib Street all the time to get my ferrets and buy mice from a little pet shop and that's where we all used to go. Next door was Tib Street Joke Shop that used to sell masks and stink bombs so there's one piece that represents all that.
You have to have a closer look at some of the new mosaics to fully appreciate them with some of them holding a few hidden surprises. Kennedy's take on Joy Division's classic Unknown Pleasures album cover features several tiny coloured tile fragments to set it apart from the now iconic original.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Keywords: Jewellers,Jeweller,dusk,evening,dark,neon,sign,colorful,colourful,asian,pakistan,afghan,gold,silver,bangles,ring,rings,Manchester,City,Centre,England at Night bright,Gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Afghanistan,top,india,Top Jewellers,on,the,Rusholme,Manc,Asia,Asian,Pakistan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6HY50 - . Top Indian Jewellers on the Rusholme Curry Mile, Manchester City Centre, England at Night. Photographed at Rusholme, Manchester, United Kingdom. The photograph was taken on 17 November 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The low-light or evening setting is part of the subject, bringing illuminated signs, windows and street lighting into the documentary character of the scene. Signage, lettering, logos, numbers or other visible information form an important part of the record, helping identify the subject and capture contemporary branding or public messaging. The scene is closely associated with Top, Indian, Jewelers, Rusholme, Curry, Mile, Pakistani, Jewellers, Jeweller and dusk, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph gives particular emphasis to signage, lettering, public information, branding or graphic communication in a real-world setting. It can support editorial features about wayfinding, advertising, local identity, warnings, public information, business branding, typography, street design and the visual language of towns and cities. Words, symbols, colours, materials and the physical setting of the sign provide useful documentary detail for researchers interested in how information was presented at the time. Because signs and branding are frequently replaced, repainted or removed, the image also has useful archive and social-history value. Search themes include signs, lettering, typography, advertising, wayfinding, public information, warnings, branding, street graphics and local identity. Because signs are frequently replaced or repainted, a clear dated photograph of wording or graphics can acquire strong archive and social-history value.
Rusholme, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Keywords: Jewellers,Jeweller,dusk,evening,dark,neon,sign,colorful,colourful,asian,pakistan,afghan,gold,silver,bangles,ring,rings,Manchester,City,Centre,England at Night bright,Gotonysmith,illuminated,Afghanistan,top,india,Top Jewellers,on,the,Rusholme,Manc,Asia,Asian,Pakistan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6HY52 - . Top Indian Jewellers on the Rusholme Curry Mile, Manchester City Centre, England at Night. Photographed at Rusholme, Manchester, United Kingdom. The photograph was taken on 17 November 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The low-light or evening setting is part of the subject, bringing illuminated signs, windows and street lighting into the documentary character of the scene. Signage, lettering, logos, numbers or other visible information form an important part of the record, helping identify the subject and capture contemporary branding or public messaging. The scene is closely associated with Top, Indian, Jewelers, Rusholme, Curry, Mile, Pakistani, Jewellers, Jeweller and dusk, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph gives particular emphasis to signage, lettering, public information, branding or graphic communication in a real-world setting. It can support editorial features about wayfinding, advertising, local identity, warnings, public information, business branding, typography, street design and the visual language of towns and cities. Words, symbols, colours, materials and the physical setting of the sign provide useful documentary detail for researchers interested in how information was presented at the time. Because signs and branding are frequently replaced, repainted or removed, the image also has useful archive and social-history value. Search themes include signs, lettering, typography, advertising, wayfinding, public information, warnings, branding, street graphics and local identity. Because signs are frequently replaced or repainted, a clear dated photograph of wording or graphics can acquire strong archive and social-history value.
Rusholme, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Keywords: tram,corridor,England,UK,transport,mass,transit,town,hall,townhall,buildings,Moseley,St,street,central,city,centre,network,central,hub,during,building,work,works,improvements,2013,improvement,Gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,colours,supporting,Manchester,business,sunny,blue sky,skies
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DN6MRP - . Moseley St Manchester stock-photo/gotonysmith-Location.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>location of new tram corridor England UK. Photographed at Moseley St, Manchester, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 24 September 2013. The image metadata records 2 people in the frame. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Metrolink, Portland, Manchester, location, Portland street, rainbow, businesses, tram, corridor and transport, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The scene has strong relevance to railway travel, public transport, passenger infrastructure and the everyday operation of Britain's rail network. It can illustrate editorial stories about stations, train journeys, commuting, regional connectivity, rail investment, rolling stock, freight, signals, platforms, accessibility and the relationship between railways and the places they serve. Visible railway furniture, signs, tracks, platforms, trains, signals or station buildings help place the photograph firmly in the practical environment experienced by passengers and railway staff. As a dated documentary image it also offers a useful record of transport infrastructure, branding and passenger facilities at the time the photograph was made. Search themes include British rail travel, railway stations, passenger journeys, tracks, platforms, signals, rolling stock, freight, regional connectivity and transport infrastructure. The scene is particularly useful for illustrating how railway facilities, signs and operational surroundings looked at a known point in time. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph.
Moseley St, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: performance,performances,Hallé,orchestra,Halle,primary,concert,venue,for,the,canal,music,Central,Development,Corporation,in,Manchester,city,centre,England,UK,dance,event,events,architecture,building,tourist,tourism,tours,venue,venues,culture,M2,3WS,M23WS,wide,angle,shot,wideshot,Gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DN6MTH - The Bridgewater Hall is an international concert venue in Manchester city centre, England. It cost around £42 million to build and currently hosts over 250 performances a year.
The hall is home to the The Hallé orchestra, the UK's oldest extant symphony orchestra, and is the primary concert venue for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. The building sits on a bed of 280 springs, which help reduce external noise.
The venue is named after the Third Duke of Bridgewater who commissioned the eponymous Bridgewater Canal that crosses Manchester, although the hall is situated on a specially constructed arm of the Rochdale Canal.
The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Manchester, England, UK M2 3WS
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DN6N2Y - Manchester Central Convention Complex (commonly known as Manchester Central or GMEX (Greater Manchester Exhibition Centre)) is an exhibition and conference centre converted from the former Manchester Central railway station in Manchester, England. The building has a distinctive arched roof with a span of 64 metres (210 ft) “ the second-largest railway station roof span in the United Kingdom, and was granted Grade II* listed building status in 1963.
After 89 years as a railway terminus, it closed to passengers in May 1969. It was renovated as an exhibition centre formerly known as the G-Mex Centre in 1982 and was Manchester's primary music concert venue until the construction of the Manchester Arena. After renovation the venue reverted to its former name Manchester Central in 2007.
In 2020, the complex became a temporary field hospital for non-critical coronavirus patients,[8] part of a network of temporary NHS Nightingale Hospitals.
16, Peter Street, Manchester, England, UK, M60 2DS
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DN6N97 - . James Moorhouse Statue Manchester Cathedral England UK. Photographed at Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX. The photograph was taken on 24 September 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with James, Moorhouse, Statue, Manchester, Cathedral, Englan, statues, Melbourne, and a chancellor of the University of Melbourne of and bishop, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The subject has strong relevance to education, school life, pupils, students, classmates, learning and the rituals that mark transitions between stages of childhood and young adulthood. It can support editorial features about schools, the end of term, friendship, uniforms, memories, examinations, moving to a new school, student identity and the social traditions that develop around education. Handwriting, names, clothing, classroom or school-related details can provide authentic visual evidence of personal experience rather than a staged educational concept. The photograph can therefore work for both contemporary education stories and longer-term social-history coverage of how pupils commemorate school years and friendships. Search themes include education, school life, pupils, classmates, school leavers, uniforms, end-of-term traditions, childhood memories and transitions between stages of education. Personal marks, handwriting, clothing or school-related objects give the subject a human documentary quality that is useful for social-history as well as education coverage. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph.
Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5089525963 - 'Macho City - 'Steve Miller' - Play this track here.
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
The Steve Miller Band is a US rock band formed in 1967 in San Francisco. Familiar tracks include 'The Joker', 'Jet Airliner' and the 1982 hit 'Abracadabra'. This is one of my favourite tracks however, very clever lyrics. El Salvador &
Afghanistan ('ask those people about the macho plan...') are name checked in the song reflecting some cynicism of US foreign policy at the time, early 1980's.
The album 'Circle of love' contains a 16 minutes version of this track (taking up the whole of a side of vinyl. Hear it here.
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The Beetham Tower, completed 2007 is a landmark 47-storey residential skyscraper in Manchester city centre, England. Certain a macho statement for the city and at 168 metres is the highest outside of London.
It consists of a (four star) Hilton Hotel up to level 23 and apartments from level 25 up to the triplex penthouse on level 47. The tower lies on Deansgate and has two postal addresses, with the apartments falling under 301 Deansgate and the hotel under 303 Deansgate.
The architect, Ian Simpson, bought and resides in the top floor penthouse, which is the highest living space in Britain. It cost him \u00a33 million. The residence occupies the top two storeys of the building and apparently features a semi-indoors garden containing 21 four-metre high olive, lemon and oak trees, shipped from Italy, and placed before the roof was built.
During the installation of the glass and steel 'blade' architectural feature on the roof, a strange noise problem emerged. People reported that the building 'whistles' (more like an intermittent hum) in windy weather. The sound is close to standard musical C (approximately 262 Hertz)
some say it is like a 'UFO landing' in sci-fi films. The noise also affected the production of local soap opera, Coronation Street with producers having to create extra background noise as the tower is close to the show's set.
A evacuation occurred in September 2007 when a fire was suspected. BBC Report here. Fortunately it did not become a real life towering inferno.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5776599387 - 'Just along from Manchester Chinatowns expansive arch in Faulkner St lies The New hong Kong Cantonese. Its been a landmark in town for many decades and it was one of the first city centre places I ate in. The first chinese I ate in was the Tak Fook in Reddish (Hyde Rd end). A cracker of an understated place, which did a unique 9 course banquette. I must get back to it one day!
The establishment is one of the original Chinese restaurants around which modern Chinatown in Manchester has grown. It began life almost thirty years ago as the plain 'Hong Kong' restaurant, establishing the link with Hong Kong by being one of the first Chinese restaurants in Manchester city centre to serve authentic Cantonese cuisine. Since then the restaurant has been extensively modified and upgraded and so re-named The New Hong Kong.
Manchester's first Chinese restaurant, Ping Hong, opened in the area in 1948, on the eve of a Chinese immigration wave that would commence during the 1950s. Manchester, being neither a port city nor a capital city, such as Liverpool and London, respectively, did not have a significant Chinese population, reaching only about 2000.
However, after World War II, there were severe labour shortages, and in response, the government passed the British Nationality Act 1948, which allowed easier access into the country. Additionally, Hong Kong's rapid urbanisation meant that many farmers and traditional residents' homes were being destroyed by the urban sprawl, so many decided to migrate.
The area's beginnings are rooted in the restaurant business, as many Chinese restaurants surfaced soon after the immigration boom. By the 1970s other Chinese businesses began to emerge, such as medicine shops, Chinese supermarkets, as well as financial and legal services, all serving the employees of the expanding number of Chinese restaurants in the area. There was even a Hong Kong government office and a branch of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation during the 1970s
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3809823828 - 'View from the original car park (now additional shopping).
The Lowry named after the early 20th-Century painter, L.S. Lowry, known for this paintings of industrial scenes in North-West England, particularly Manchester, Salford and Lancashire in general.
The architecture was esigned by Michael Wilford and Buro Happold and it was built in modern expressionist style at a cost in 1999 of around \u00a3120million. It was opened in 2000. The aerofoil canopy at the entrance is clad with perforated steel and as shown here is illuminated from the inside at night
People forget that Salford is a twin city with Manchester (once part of Salfordshire - i kid you not!). Highlights include the Lowry (pictured), Strangeways (prison and title of the Smiths last album, 'Strangeways here we come') and Salfords lads club. Salford is also birthplace of John Cooper Clarke, punk poet.
A scene from a Salford sub-post office here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3813000140/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGM7DE - . This dated documentary view of Windmill St, Manchester, England, UK, M2 3GX in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The photograph centres on Savills stand at Housing2022,CIH Housing event,conference and exhibition held at Manchester Central (GMEX),in partnership with Ocean Media, England,UK. The image also relates to community life, local identity, town-centre economy, shopfront economy, period detail, brand-led retail, retail chain, local history, townscape record, place identity, community identity, archival record, regional identity, and before-and-after reference. Today's relevance is strengthened by changing footfall, commercial rents and the continuing question of how consumer spending patterns reshape commercial streets. From a 2025-onward perspective, street safety and transport are closely linked to this subject, alongside how regeneration alters the character of familiar places. The image fixes commercial use and occupation within Windmill St, Manchester, England, UK, M2 3GX at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changed technology. The subject also sits alongside historical comparison, destination retail, consumer retail, commercial streetscape, urban change, pedestrian environment, shopping district, and retail property. References to Central, Manchester, event, stand, and Savills give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The period setting at Windmill St, Manchester, England, UK, M2 3GX helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The wider significance includes changing footfall and the role of large retailers in town-centre and edge-of-centre economies when considered against later change at Windmill St, Manchester, England, UK, M2 3GX. The period view preserves evidence of earlier appearance for later comparison.
Windmill St, Manchester, England, UK, M2 3GX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ791M - . This location-specific image from Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The location is represented through Northern Quarter Art in Stevenson Square Manchester, UK - Wall Graffiti August 2016 by AKSE OUTHOUSEMCR. The wider scene also brings together community identity, contemporary mural, place identity, everyday life, temporary artwork, documentary photography, creative placemaking, visual archive, public-realm art, graffiti heritage, mural culture, changing land use, historical comparison, and period detail. From a 2025-onward perspective, regeneration and local identity are closely linked to this subject, alongside how temporary street art becomes an important visual archive. The archival value lies partly in recording local activity and public use around Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK before later reinterpretation alters the character of the place. The surrounding story also includes changing streetscape, before-and-after reference, urban artwork, creative district, street creativity, local history, street-level design, and local character. The combination of Stevenson, Square, Northern, Manchester, and Quarter anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. For Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. A further contemporary connection is regeneration and the blurred line between commissioned public art and unsanctioned graffiti when considered against later change at Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK. The wider significance includes temporary works and how temporary street art becomes an important visual archive without losing the local specificity of Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK.
Stevenson Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ799J - From the Ben Robinson interview,Afflecks Palace In Pieces Once More
SELF-made Manchester mosaicist Mark Kennedy has had seven mosaic art pieces installed on Tib Street along the wall of Affleck's Palace. The colourful and cracked pieces feature the likes of Eric Cantona, Colin Bell, Karl Marx, Morrissey, Ian Brown, Emmeline Pankhurst, Bet Lynch and many other 'legends' associated with Manchester.
In total Kennedy has spent almost 20 years crafting the two sets of mosaics amongst other on-going work. The theme on Affleck's is Manchester heroes, with a nod given the shopping bazaar's rock'n'roll past. Thus among the great figures of Manchester depicted there are musicians, actors, media and radical politicians.
He also couldn't help including something from his own Manchester memories of Tib Street.
When I was a little kid I used to go to Tib Street all the time to get my ferrets and buy mice from a little pet shop and that's where we all used to go. Next door was Tib Street Joke Shop that used to sell masks and stink bombs so there's one piece that represents all that.
You have to have a closer look at some of the new mosaics to fully appreciate them with some of them holding a few hidden surprises. Kennedy's take on Joy Division's classic Unknown Pleasures album cover features several tiny coloured tile fragments to set it apart from the now iconic original.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6HY57 - Northern Rail, often referred to as Northern, is a British train operating company owned by Serco-Abellio operating the Northern Rail franchise.
Northern runs a mix of commuter rural and some longer-distance services around Cheshire, County Durham, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Northumberland, Teesside, Tyne and Wear and Yorkshire.
Northern's services also extend to the north Midland counties of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Staffordshire. Most services are supported by passenger transport executives. Of all the Train Operating Companies in the UK, Northern Rail operates the most stations
Warrington Station, NW England, UK
