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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpicUK,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,IMG_4784,Avanti,West,Coast,train,outside,Coventry,railway,station,Midlands,WCML
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E6T4N5 - . Avanti West Coast train outside Coventry railway station, Coventry, England, UK. Photographed on 4 February 2025. The recorded location is Coventry railway station, Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. The modern station frontage and passenger train illustrate inter-city rail services through Coventry. Seen through platform, the earlier context is that railways transformed British towns from the nineteenth century onwards, concentrating passenger movement around stations while creating new suburbs, goods yards and industrial connections
Station buildings, platforms, signals and rolling stock can date a transport scene as clearly as surrounding architecture. For shoreline, the historical context is that britain's coasts became increasingly accessible for leisure with railways, holidays and later long-distance walking routes
Beaches also retain industrial, military and artistic traces alongside their recreational role. The 2026 relevance of platform comes from the fact that rail reform, fares, accessibility and passenger information remain central issues as government develops the Great British Railways model
Photographs of stations, trains and earlier operating equipment can illustrate both current public transport and the rapid disappearance of previous brands and systems. For shoreline, the 2026 context is that coastal access, erosion, water quality and climate resilience remain important issues around Britain
Long-distance walking routes increase visitor use while local authorities continue to manage safety and environmental pressures. Relevant synonyms and subject phrases include rail transport, passenger railway, train service, rail infrastructure, station architecture, rail heritage, commuter travel, signalling, ticketing, coastal path, sea safety, coastal landscape, beach warning, public access, and coastal tourism. Alternative search wording includes long-distance path, seaside, @HotpicUK, IMG_4784, and WCML.
Coventry railway station, Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E6T4N7 - . Copper Towers Vita Student development on Warwick Road, Coventry CV1 2EZ, England, UK. Photographed on 4 February 2025. The tall red-toned modern buildings provide purpose-built student accommodation close to Coventry railway station and the city centre. The historical setting for graduates is that school and university imagery documents the social history of education: buildings, uniforms, ceremonies and signs reveal how institutions present identity and how access to learning has changed. Seen through housing estate, the earlier context is that housing photographs document changing ideas about density, tenure, architecture and neighbourhood design
Tower blocks, suburban estates, converted industrial buildings and private apartment schemes each represent different responses to demand for homes in particular periods. In the 2026 discussion of graduates, universities face continuing pressure around funding, international recruitment, student living costs and the value of degrees, while graduation remains an important public ritual marking educational achievement. The 2026 relevance of housing estate comes from the fact that debate about housing focuses not only on numbers but also energy performance, building safety, infrastructure and the balance between social, affordable and market homes
Development photographs can illustrate how those policies translate into physical change. Additional high-relevance terminology includes higher education, students, campus, academic life, college, student experience, research, university building, degree ceremony, education sector, residential development, apartments, flats, social housing, affordable housing, regeneration, and property. Other strongly related concepts include housing supply, residential architecture, urban housing, planning, @HotpicUK, and IMG_4791. A further layer of meaning comes from higher education, students and campus.
Warwick Road, Coventry CV1 2EZ, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJYRCN - Paramount are launching their new streaming platform, Paramount+, with a series of consumer-led installations, pop-ups and activations inspired by popular film and tv shows, called ˜Summit of Stars' from Monday 20 June to Sunday 17 July. Working in partnership with Heart of London and Westminster City Council, the activations will aim to draw visitors to the Piccadilly and Leicester Square area so higher levels of footfall are expected.
We invite you read the summary of activation set-up below:
Sunday 19 June
A Halo themed aircraft installation will take place in Piccadilly Circus from 11:00pm until approximately 02:00am. The derig will take place on Sunday 17 July from 11:00pm- 05:00am.This is set for completion by Wednesday 20 July.
Monday 20 June
Official launch of ˜Summit of Stars' including the Paramount+ walk of Stars, an arial display of the West End. An augmented reality trail which is inclusive of Vinyl displays on Cranbourn, Bear and Coventry Streets.
Wednesday 22 June
The Paramount+ pop-up will be located in the old GAP store, underneath the Piccadilly Lights until Sunday 3 July. The event is open to the public. To reserve tickets, click here.
Thursday 23 June
A family-friendly Sponge Bob Square Pants themed pop-up will be installed in Leicester Square Gardens from 06:00am. There are no street closures.
For further information, please contact mark.williams@heartoflondonbid.co.uk.
SOHO, London, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4521877662 - 'St Michael's Cathedral was built after the destruction of the former during world war II during extreme German Luftwaffe bombing raids on the 14th November 1940. The intensity of this city's destruction was termed 'Coventry-isation' by Hitler.
It is to the external viewer quite concrete-y, yet a fine celebration of 20th century modernist architecture. The new cathedral was designed by Basil Spence (Knighted for this work) and Arup, constructed by John Laing. It is also a Grade I listed building. Remains of the old cathedral still sit beside it. A competition was held in 1950 to find an architect for the new Cathedral, over 200 designs were submitted. The foundation stone of the new cathedral was laid by Queen Elizabeth II on 23rd March 1956. Actual consecration was over 6 years later on the 25th May 1962.
Its design provoked much discussion, much like the new modernist catholic cathedral in Liverpool. A large tapestry of Christ dominates the altar area. the baptistery consists of a ceiling high mosaic of 195 panes of stained glass. The Great West Window, which looks out on the remains of the old cathedral is known as the Screen of Saints and Angels, engraved directly onto the screen in expressionist style by the New Zealand artist John Hutton.
The ceiling is an innovative and complicated construction. There are multiple pyramids of Canadian Spruce slats. Panels above each of which is movable so if needed the acoustic properties of the cathedral can be adjusted for paticular events. Around the nave walls are tablets of stone (the 'tablets of the word') with inscriptions. These are by Ralph Beyer. Inscriptions are uneven deliberately to try to reflect early Christian inscriptions.
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Keywords: bus,tickets,selective,colour,color,mono,tony,smith,hotpix,tonysm bus,tonysmith,tonysmithhotpix,hot,pix,pics,picks,hotpics,UK,england,leicester,city,transport,coventry,warcs,warwickshire,history,historic,ColorPhotoAward,#tonysmithotpix,public,service,omnibus
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5231735130 - 'Ticket To Ride - 'The Beatles' - Play this track here.
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
Heres a track in celebration last week of itunes finally being able to offer the Beatles back catalog for download. On November 16th 17 official Beatles albums were made available for sale on Apple's iTunes Store. Also 13 remastered albums.
Now I must admit I was born slightly too late to appreciate totally the fab four's output. Revolver and Sgt Peppers are in my collection and a number of those singles compilations. No doubt that Lennon &
McCartney were the Morrissey &
Marr of that sixties generation. Before I get barraged with comments, that was just a bit of friendly Manc/Scouse banter!
'Ticket to Ride' is a song by The Beatles from their 1965 album, Help!. It was recorded 15th February 1965 and released two months later. The song lyrics describe a girl 'riding out of the life of the narrator', the inspiration of the title phrase is unclear.
McCartney said it was 'a British Railways ticket to the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight', while Lennon said it described cards indicating a clean bill of health carried by Hamburg prostitutes in the 1960s. The Beatles played in Hamburg early in their musical career, and 'ride/riding' was slang for having sex.
The track has been covered by Sly and Robbie, The Bee Gees and Vanilla Fudge. Red Drawf fans will remember the episode 'Tikka to Ride', in accordance with the theme of curry on which the storyline focuses.
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Early bus operators had two problems to solve. One was that of fare dodgers and the other was the possibility of conductors who might fiddle the takings. Early machines were devised that punched tickets at appropriate stages (&
sounded a bell) then retained the coloured clipping. Hence the name 'Bell Punch' and the reference to lady bus conductors as 'Clippies' (see 'On The Buses').
The Bell Punch Company produced an automated version of their pre-printed ticket system, which they called 'Ultimate'. These used continuous ticket rolls with the values printed on them. Each ticket carried a serial number and a pre-printed value. The machines had several tracks each of which had a lever at the front that ejected a ticket, which was then roughly torn off against a serrated cutter.
The fare stage could be printed in one of three positions on the bottom of the ticket. Each new ticket roll had a piece of adhesive tape (which the conductor had to lick) to join it to the end of the old one, which was supposed to prevent the conductor having to change rolls mid-journey. The system coped better with changing fare structures, but after a while, the machines became unreliable and would jam up. It was not uncommon to see conductors tearing off tickets from the back of the machines at busy times.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4476871247 - 'A man happy in his van in a layby on the A46 between M6 junction two and Coventry.
I have been a regular customer of Ron (of Ron Snax, Outside catering available 01827-706191) for some time. The mis-spelt pricelist notwithstanding (Turkcy), he does a cracking job. \u00a32.40 buys you a bagette the size of two fists, packed with fried goodness. My only gripe is that he doesn't do black pudding, but that has never stopped me calling there. His litre of steaming tea or coffee also blows Costa away.
Rons does barms and soft bagettes. It always amazes me how short a distance you need to travel, for bread names to change so dramatically. It could be a bread-cake, teacake (obviously without fruit), a sub, barm, breadbun, cob, stotty, scone, buttery, flour cake or muffin. Using the wrong one can lead to a lot of confusion. Any more bread styles you know from across Britain, please leave a comment and let me know.
The old 'Greasy Spoon' in my opinion gets an unfair press. Wikipedia defines it as:
'Greasy spoon is a colloquial or slang term used in Britain, Ireland and North America for small, especially cheap, archetypal working class restaurants or diners. The name 'greasy spoon' is used to imply a less-than-rigorous approach to hygiene and dishwashing, and appears in use in the early 20th century'.
There have been a few stories, mainly hoaxes based on ficticious EU reports about eating habits of long distance drivers and their health. As any truck driver knows, the greatest hazard is infact 'Truck drivers testicle' caused by vibrations encountered over time from sitting over the tractor unit engine.
Thankfully, Rons position appears safe, although he did tell me that a new rating system is apparently coming in. So look out for his star rating, next time you are on the A46. Tell him HotpixUK sent you!
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4467466811 - 'This brilliant statue of horses in a fountain, from 1992 can be found just along from Piccadilly Circus heading towards Trafalgar Square at Haymarket. Another one of those things that I have passed many times and never got around to taking a snap. Anyway, I did manage to this evening. Rudy Weller's 'Horses of Helios'. Two are depicted, randomly choose from Pyrois, Eos, Aethon, and Phleyon, named in the legend. If you know which two they are, please leave a comment.
Helios was of course the Greek god of the sun and the four horses were his mythical transport.
In this shot I am looking back towards Piccadilly Circus and Ripleys 'Believe it or not'. Still very busy with rush hour office workers and Italian tourists making the most of the strong Euro.
(2010 week 11)
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4103283717 - 'Is there anybody there?
David Traynor welcomes you to his demonstration of spirit mediumship. In truth I had encountered a few spirits myself that night and my concentration woul dhave been compromised.
View on black and that eye follows you around the room.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGMWGG - RAC stock-photo/gotonysmith-Limited.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Limited (The RAC) is a British automotive services company headquartered in Walsall, West Midlands. Its principal services are roadside assistance and general insurance, and its subsidiaries include RAC Motoring Services Ltd, RAC Financial Services Ltd and RAC Insurance Limited.
The RAC emerged as the Associate Section of the Royal Automobile Club founded at the turn of the 20th century, and it was incorporated as R.A.C. Motoring Services Ltd. in 1978. It was sold by the members of the Royal Automobile Club to Lex Service in April 1999, which subsequently renamed itself RAC plc. In March 2005, RAC plc was acquired by Aviva and therefore delisted.
Aviva then sold the RAC to the Carlyle Group in June 2011. Although Carlyle had originally planned a stock market flotation for the RAC, in September 2014, Carlyle agreed to sell almost half its stake to Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Limited. In December 2015, Carlyle agreed to sell its remaining stake to CVC Capital Partners in a transaction valuing the RAC at £1.4 billion
Coventry, Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, UK
