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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,PSV,licence,226776,Oct,1965,MXX340,bus,single,decker,deck,tax,disk,65,taxed,vehicles,history,historic,vehicle,West Bromwich,Corporation,Transport,West Midlands,England,UK,B71 1AR,B71,Vehicle Excise Duty,VED,displayed,road,disks,tax disk,taxdisk,tax disks
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2N8KM2Y - Vehicle Excise Duty (VED
also known as vehicle tax, car tax, and more controversially as road tax, and formerly as a tax disc) is an annual tax that is levied as an excise duty and which must be paid for most types of powered vehicles which are to be used (or parked) on public roads in the United Kingdom. Registered vehicles that are not being used or parked on public roads and which have been taxed since 31 January 1998, must be covered by a Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN) to avoid VED. In 2016, VED generated approximately £6 billion for the Exchequer.
A vehicle tax was first introduced in Britain in 1888. In 1920, an excise duty was introduced that was specifically applied to motor vehicles
initially it was hypothecated (ring-fenced or earmarked) for road construction and paid directly into a special Road Fund. After 1937, this reservation of vehicle revenue for roads was ended, and instead the revenue was paid into the Consolidated Fund the general pot of money held by government. Since then, maintenance of the UK road network has been funded out of general taxation, of which VED is a part
West Bromwich, West Midlands, England, UK, B71 1AR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,rail,railway,train,trains,history,historic,device,simple,work,man,safety,GWR,Disconnected Workman,Disc,disk,vitreous,enamel,reminder,collar,signal,signalbox,box,Reminder,Badge,Great Western Railway,Disconnected,Workman,railwayman,signalman,prevent possible injury
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JWGTD6 - GWR DISCONNECTED WORKMAN Enamel Signal Lever Reminder Great Western Railway WORKMAN DISCONNECTED Signal Box Lever Reminder Badge A vitreous enamel reminder collar to be placed on a Signal Box lever when maintenance work is being carried out. It measures 3 inches diameter. The following is an extract from the Great Western Railway General Appendix to the Rule Book dated 1936: BADGES FOR PLACING OVER LEVERS IN LOCKING FRAMES Reversible metal badges with the words Disconnected and Workman respectively are provided in Signal-boxes for attaching to any lever when disconnected to act as a reminder to the Signalman and thus prevent possible injury to himself by his pulling it over in the usual way, or to indicate to the Signalman that workmen are engaged at the point or signal operated by that lever. Before moving this lever the Signalman must inform the workmen, when in close proximity to the box, that he is about to do so, but when they are engaged beyond speaking distance the Signalman must, before moving the lever right over, give two or three small movements to indicate to the workmen that the lever is about to be reversed. The Signal Department man will be responsible for placing the badges on the levers
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,welsh,Wales,NP4,Blaenafon,Torfaen,Pontypool,Cymru,UK,NP4 9XP,instruction,red,yellow,copper disks,disk,disc,south,western,division,for,men,miners,mine,going,underground,system,process,hang copper disc round your neck and retain it all,times,BW,monochrome,colliery,safety,safe,working,mining
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAGDAK - . This authentic period view of Blaenafon, Torfaen, Pontypool, South Wales, Cymru, UK, , NP4 9XP in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. At the centre of the view is Old authorisation Discs for Men going underground - instruction envelopes, emergency organisation. The subject also carries associations with changing streetscape, social landscape, community identity, street-level documentary, city-centre activity, visual archive, local story.htm Target=_Blank>history, urban social history, local character, social history, before-and-after reference, place identity, period detail, and community life. From a 2025-onward perspective, footfall and commercial change are closely linked to this subject, alongside the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments. Future viewers can use this scene from Blaenafon, Torfaen, Pontypool, South Wales, Cymru, UK, , NP4 9XP to compare equipment and working practice with whatever follows after altered transport patterns. Other useful contextual ideas include public realm, documentary photography, regional identity, contemporary city life, contemporary social history, archival record, everyday street life, and everyday life. The recorded references to organisation, going, authorisation, envelopes, and Discs preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of Blaenafon, Torfaen, Pontypool, South Wales, Cymru, UK, , NP4 9XP may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes footfall and the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments as part of the longer story of Blaenafon, Torfaen, Pontypool, South Wales, Cymru, UK, , NP4 9XP. The view records period character as part of Blaenafon, Torfaen, Pontypool, South Wales, Cymru, UK, , NP4 9XP's history.
Blaenafon, Torfaen, Pontypool, South Wales, Cymru, UK, , NP4 9XP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,4 speed,16,33,45,78,rpm,spin,rotating,spinning,tone,arm,playing,a 12,album,1960,four,speed,music,tracks,track,compact,vacuum,valves,pick up,cartridge,stylus,Garrard,deck,vintage,classic,speeds,78rpm,disk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XN98 - The Garrard Engineering and Manufacturing Company of Swindon, Wiltshire, was a British company that was famous for producing high-quality gramophone turntables. It was formed by the jewellers Garrard & Co in 1915. The company was sold to Plessey, an electronics conglomerate, in 1960. During the period 1976-1978, Garrard developed demonstrators of the novel video disc technology. Although the team recognised the future potential of this data storage technology, Plessey chose not to invest. After several years in decline, Garrard was sold by Plessey to Gradiente Electronics of Brazil in 1979 and series production was moved to Brazil (Manaus). The remaining Garrard research and development operation in Swindon was reduced to a skeleton operation until completely shut down in 1992. Then, Gradiente licensed the Garrard name to Terence O'Sullivan, who operated as Loricraft Audio, in 1997.
Between 1992 and 1997, the Garrard brand name was licensed to other companies in the US, which imported electronic items built by different, unrelated Far Eastern manufacturers. These included Garrard branded cassette decks, CD players, stereo receivers, portable radio/cassette players, portable Walkman type cassette players, serial-port printer cables, universal TV/audio remote controls, and other miscellany, including turntables that had no connection with any original Garrard design.
In 2018, Cadence Audio SA, who also own the British turntable and tonearm manufacturer SME Limited, took ownership of the Garrard brand and registered trademarks when they purchased Loricraft Audio Ltd. The business was restructured to run under the name of Garrard Turntables UK Ltd.
England, UK
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,turntable,WA1,town centre,Owner,Legh St,Cheshire,England,WA1 1UG,retail,music,independent,shop,store,stores,Lizard Inc,records,vinyl,7inch,playing a single,playing music,single,vinyls,disk,enthusiasts,Specialising in,pre-owned,vinyl emporium,emporium,record shops,Record Label,Racks of lovely vinyl,Racks,lovely vinyl,comeback of vinyl,vinyl comeback,Steven Davidson,Steve
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFF94 - . An on-location image from Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG in 2019, useful both for the specific subject shown and for the evidence it retains about local identity, design, use and everyday life. The principal point of reference is Owner,Lizard Inc Records,Independent Record Shop,Legh St, Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK, WA1 1UG,playing a single. The locality and subject together evoke music heritage, commercial streetscape, retail property, documentary photography, live music, music subculture, changing streetscape, performance culture, everyday life, visual archive, contemporary social history, regional identity, shopfront economy, and period detail. For contemporary context, changing footfall and online shopping are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about music tourism, audience behaviour and the fragility of local music scenes. As the area changes, the image retains local appearance, occupation, access and public activity at Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG. The photograph additionally reflects bricks-and-mortar retail, grassroots gig, cultural identity, local trading, historical comparison, town-centre economy, historic context, and changing land use. The recorded references to Records, Independent, Warrington, single, and playing preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. A further contemporary connection is changing footfall and how high streets adapt when traditional retail contracts within the specific setting of Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG.
Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,turntable,WA1,town centre,Owner,Legh St,Cheshire,England,WA1 1UG,retail,music,independent,shop,store,stores,Lizard Inc,records,vinyl,7inch,playing a single,playing music,single,vinyls,disk,enthusiasts,Specialising in,pre-owned,vinyl emporium,emporium,record shops,Record Label,Racks of lovely vinyl,Racks,lovely vinyl,comeback of vinyl,vinyl comeback,Steven Davidson,Steve
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFF95 - . A dated documentary view of Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG in 2019, recording the subject as it appeared at that point rather than as a generic stock illustration. The main subject is Owner,Lizard Inc Records,Independent Record Shop,Legh St, Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK, WA1 1UG,playing a single. The setting also relates to high-street commerce, cultural identity, archival record, venue culture, place identity, retail property, commercial frontage, social history, local trading, music subculture, urban commerce, live music, everyday life, and regional music scene. Today's wider story includes changing footfall, commercial rents and the practical question of the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres. For contemporary context, independent promotion and music tourism are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the role of small venues in developing performers. As the area changes, the view leaves evidence of small features of identity that written records may overlook at the recorded site in Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG. Other useful associations include shopfront economy, local character, public realm, documentary photography, retail vacancy, independent trading, regional identity, and performance culture. The combination of Record, single, playing, Records, and Lizard anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The wider significance includes changing footfall and the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres within the real-world context of Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG. The record includes a local visual benchmark for future local research.
Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,turntable,WA1,Owner,Legh St,Cheshire,England,WA1 1UG,retail,independent,shop,store,stores,Lizard Inc,records,vinyl,7inch,playing a single,playing music,single,vinyls,disk,enthusiasts,Specialising in,pre-owned,vinyl emporium,emporium,record shops,Record Label,Racks of lovely vinyl,Racks,lovely vinyl,comeback of vinyl,vinyl comeback,Steven Davidson,Steve,pano,panorama,wide shot
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFF9Y - . An authentic period view of Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG in 2019, showing a subject whose value extends beyond the immediate scene into local history and changing social context. At the centre of the frame is Pano,Panorama,Owner,Lizard Inc Records.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Records,Independent Record Shop,Legh St, Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK, WA1 1UG,playing a single. The image connects the immediate subject with contemporary social history, nightlife culture, independent trading, local character, historic context, before-and-after reference, visual archive, live music, grassroots gig, music heritage, social history, regional identity, archival record, and everyday life. The subject remains useful for current coverage of online shopping and town-centre regeneration, not least because of the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names. Today's wider story includes audience behaviour, grassroots venues and the practical question of the way music contributes to a city's identity. From an archival perspective, the photograph anchors period details that may disappear after redevelopment or refurbishment as seen at Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG. The setting also brings in public realm, retail property, changing streetscape, retail vacancy, customer footfall, concert photography, historical comparison, and community identity. The combination of Record, Records, Lizard, Independent, and Warrington anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. Another strand within the photograph is online shopping and how high streets adapt when traditional retail contracts without losing the local specificity of Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG. The period view preserves a local visual benchmark for later comparison.
Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Cheshire,GB,town,town centre,Legh St,WA1 1UG,shop,store,singles,duvet,sleeping bag,belongings,underclass,UniversalCredit,Universal Credit,sleeping rough,sleeping,rough,Rough sleeping,Sleeping in a doorway,red sleeping bag,door,entrance,public building,lovely vinyl,comeback of vinyl,emporium,record shops,pre-owned,vinyl emporium,disk,vinyls,single,records,vinyl
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG9A56 - . An editorial view places on record a moment within Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG, in a 2019 record. The source caption identifies Lizard Inc Records, independent records shop, Legh St, Warrington, UK, WA1 1UG. The physical and social setting additionally connects with consumer retail, heritage asset, period architecture, retail decline and renewal, bricks-and-mortar retail, consumer spending, architectural heritage, built heritage, historic fabric, architectural character, local landmark, and period property. Current debate around commercial property often combines vacant premises, hybrid working and the practical challenge of heritage-led regeneration. In the mid-2020s, local landmarks is increasingly discussed through planning control and redevelopment pressure, with attention turning to heritage-led regeneration. The photograph fixes Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed. The broader context includes commercial streetscape, local trading, retail vacancy, conservation architecture, shopfront economy, town-centre trading. The scene is further associated with Record Shop, independent Record Shop, LizardInc, Vinyl, LP, North West England. Other relevant facets include independent retail, shopping habits, heritage streetscape, customer footfall, townscape identity, shopping district, traditional building, retail property, urban conservation, and chain-store economy. The wider contemporary story of independent trading now includes operating costs alongside shifts in leisure spending, while policy and investment increasingly consider stronger local footfall. It remains a grounded period reference to Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG, its use, appearance and changing local context.
Legh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1UG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,vintage motorcycle,vintage,old,motorbike,motocycle,motor bike,motor cycle,road,tax,duty,disk,March 77,Scott,Scott Shipley,tax disk march 1977,blue,Vintage Motorbike,Vintage Motorbike with taxdisk,Vintage Motorbike with tax disk,MAR77 tax disk,MAR77 taxdisk,DVLA,Mar1977,engine,machine,engines,bike,bikes,licenced,licence,77,1970s,historic,history
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PCTA8B - . A carefully observed scene preserves the everyday reality of England, Great Britain , UK, in a photograph originating in 2018. The frame is associated with Vintage Motorbike with March 1977 (MAR77) DVLA tax duty disk. Further features of the subject include traditional building, roadside commerce, vehicle access, architectural detail, road connectivity, transport corridor, highway services, architectural character, urban conservation, urban mobility, local transport, and motorway travel. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, place and memory also connects with redevelopment, the passage of time and efforts aimed at preservation of everyday detail. The wider contemporary story of period streetscapes now includes planning control alongside conservation of original fabric, while policy and investment increasingly consider keeping older buildings useful. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at England, Great Britain , UK, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves. The view also records themes involving historic environment, road safety, historic townscape, highway infrastructure, historic built environment, motor traffic. Other local associations include CVY948, tax disk, road duty, taxdisk, road tax duty disk, Scott of Shipley. Further aspects present in the subject include urban fabric, architectural heritage, traffic management, period architecture, adaptive reuse, built heritage, strategic road network, surface transport, local landmark, and roadside environment. Modern coverage of social history frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of redevelopment, business turnover and preservation of everyday detail. For future comparison, the scene preserves community life, physical infrastructure, commercial identity, local continuity, and signage and branding at this precise location.
England, Great Britain , UK
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Keywords: recording,RPM,78RPM,Vinyl,record,sold,by,willmotts,Wilmotts,Norwich,black,box,needle,HMV,his,masters,voice,label,red,hismastersvoice,Moonlight,Serenade,song,Glen,Miller,and,his,orchestra,speed,of,rotation,phono,phonograph,portable,audio,recording,format,Thomas,Edison,disc,disk,gotonysmith,gramaphone,gramofone,gramafone,English,England,UK,GB,great,Britain,walkman,early,formats,discs,disks,discs,recorded,sound,windup,handle,wound,woundup,spiral,groove,drive,system,the,needle,and,stylus,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DEJNDD - The phonograph, record player, or gramophone (from the Greek: gramma, letter and phōnē, voice), is a device introduced in 1877 for the recording and reproduction of sound recordings. The recordings played on such a device consist of waveforms that are engraved onto a rotating cylinder or disc. As the cylinder or disc rotates, a stylus or needle traces the waveforms and vibrates to reproduce the recorded sound waves.
The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors had produced devices that could record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound. His phonograph originally recorded sound onto a tinfoil sheet phonograph cylinder, and could both record and reproduce sounds.
Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory made several improvements in the 1880s, including the use of wax-coated cardboard cylinders, and a cutting stylus that moved from side to side in a zig zag pattern across the record. At the turn of the 20th century, Emile Berliner initiated the transition from phonograph cylinders to gramophone records: flat, double-sided discs with a spiral groove running from the periphery to near the center.
Other improvements were made throughout the years, including modifications to the turntable and its drive system, the needle and stylus, and the sound and equalization systems.
The gramophone record was one of the dominant audio recording formats throughout much of the 20th century. From the mid-1980s, phonograph use declined sharply because of the rise of the Compact Disc and other digital recording formats. While no longer mass market items, modest numbers of phonographs and phonograph records continue to be produced in the second decade of the 21st century.
England, UK
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Keywords: recording,RPM,78RPM,Vinyl,record,sold,by,willmotts,Wilmotts,Norwich,black,box,needle,HMV,his,masters,voice,label,red,hismastersvoice,Moonlight,Serenade,song,Glen,Miller,and,his,orchestra,speed,of,rotation,phono,phonograph,portable,audio,recording,format,Thomas,Edison,disc,disk,gotonysmith,gramaphone,gramofone,gramafone,English,England,UK,GB,great,Britain,walkman,early,formats,discs,disks,discs,recorded,sound,windup,handle,wound,woundup,spiral,groove,drive,system,the,needle,and,stylus
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DEJNHK - Portable wind-up gramophone record player is displayed on a wooden tabletop in England, United Kingdom. The black suitcase-style machine is shown with its hinged lid open, a record positioned on the turntable and the curved metal tonearm resting over the playing surface. A detachable hand crank projects from the side of the case, while additional records and a brown paper sleeve lie nearby.
This type of mechanical gramophone required no mains electricity. The user wound an internal spring motor using the external handle, placed the needle into the groove and allowed the rotating disc to transmit vibrations through the soundbox. These were acoustically amplified through an internal horn or sound chamber contained inside the portable case. The compact construction made suitcase gramophones suitable for moving between rooms, taking on holidays, using outdoors or providing entertainment at social gatherings.
The disc shown is described as a 78 rpm record. Historic records made for machines of this kind were generally manufactured from a comparatively brittle shellac-based compound rather than the flexible vinyl material associated with later long-playing records. The term vinyl is nevertheless often used informally for older circular records, although shellac record is the more historically accurate description.
Portable gramophones became familiar household entertainment devices during the first half of the twentieth century, before electrically amplified radiograms, record players and modern audio systems became widespread. They allowed recorded songs, orchestral performances, dance music, comedy and spoken-word material to be enjoyed away from concert halls and theatres.
The photograph records the physical and mechanical character of early consumer sound technology, including the winding handle, turntable, needle assembly, chrome tonearm, circular soundbox, record label and protective carrying case. It is suitable for themes involving recorded music history
England, UK
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Keywords: tony,smith,tonysmith,thatitguy,number,12,twelve,no12,numbertwelve,number12,uk,tax,disk,DVLA,expires,1212,dec,december,december12,december2012,2012,square,hipstamatic,iphone,shot,image,app
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7308954394 - 'View this whole set here. If you do Twitter add me here.
The word 'twelve' is the largest number with a single-morpheme name in English. Etymology suggests that 'twelve' (similar to 'eleven') arises from the Germanic compound twalif 'two-leftover', so a literal translation would yield 'two remaining [after having ten taken]'. This compound meaning may have been transparent to speakers of Old English, but the modern form 'twelve' is quite opaque. Only the remaining tw- hints that twelve and two are related.
A group of twelve things is called a duodecad. The ordinal adjective is duodenary, twelfth. The adjective referring to a group consisting of twelve things is duodecuple.
The number twelve is often used as a sales unit in trade, and is often referred to as a dozen. Twelve dozen are known as a gross. (Note that there are thirteen items in a baker's dozen.). the expression 'baker's dozen' dates to the 13th century in one of the earliest English statutes, instituted during the reign of Henry III (1216\u20131272), called the Assize of Bread and Ale. Bakers who were found to have shortchanged customers (some variations say that they would sell hollow bread) could be subject to severe punishment. To guard against the punishment of losing a hand to an axe, a baker would give 13 for the price of 12, to be certain of not being known as a cheat. Specifically, the practice of baking 13 items for an intended dozen was insurance against 'short measure', on the basis that one of the 13 could be lost, eaten, burnt, or ruined in some way, leaving the baker with the original legal dozen. The practice can be seen in the guild codes of the Worshipful Company of Bakers in London.
Force 12 on the Beaufort wind force scale corresponds to the maximum wind speed of a hurricane. The duodenum (from Latin duodecim, 'twelve') is the first part of the small intestine, that is about twelve inches (30 cm) long. More precisely, this section of the intestine was measured not in inches but in fingerwidths. In fact, in German the name of the duodenum is Zw\u00f6lffingerdarm and in Dutch the name is twaalfvingerige darm, both meaning 'twelve-finger bowel'.
The importance of 12 in Judaism and Christianity can be found in the Bible. The biblical Jacob had 12 sons, who were the progenitors of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, while the New Testament describes twelve apostles of Jesus
when Judas Iscariot was disgraced, a meeting was held (Acts) to add Matthias to complete the number twelve once more. (Today, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.). In Orthodox Judaism, 12 also signifies the age a girl matures (bat mitzvah)
In Twelver Shi'a Islam, there are twelve Imams, legitimate successors of the prophet Muhammad. These twelve early leaders of Islam are\u2014Ali, Hasan, Husayn, and nine of Husayn's descendants. The Chinese use a 12 year cycle for time-reckoning called Earthly Branches.
The band 'The Number 12 Looks Like You' tried to start 'Mathcore' and as you might have guesed - failed!
Checkout Twelve noon will never be the same again...
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - tone@Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4234549401 - 'I was listening to this on my iPod yesterday and thought how apt it was given the strange wintery weather we have had of late. Check it out here.
The image I took from my ipod (like the MP3 sound I was getting) was no match for the real thing, a genuine 12' 45rpm single of the B5.
I saw them live in 1980 and they were more memorable than the headline band they supported.
Of course they were produced by the great but mis-guided Martin Hannet, who no doubt helped them achieve their unique Reggae-Punk sound.
I would recommend any music fan to checkout 'Who Killed Martin Hannett?: The Story of Factory Records' Musical Magician' or the excellent CD 'Zero: A Martin Hannett Story 1979-1991'
However do avoid 'In the Studio With Martin Hannett' - you will be dissapointed, sorely.
He was a big user of narcotics and drink, and this was to eventually hasten his death at the age of 41. Just before he died he had ballooned to 26 stone (364 pounds) and his coffin could not fit in the ground.
He was the total musical pioneer, always searching to create his own unique sound.
Of many 'Martin Hannett' Stories, one favourite is about when he once fell asleep over the mixing desk, his gigantic belly spreading and pushing the faders across the board, so that the sound went berserk -- the band stopped playing, and woke him up telling him that the levels were all over the place. 'Bollocks,' he replied, 'that's the best you've sounded all f---ing day.'
Interesting too that producer on this cut is Chris Nagle, also later involved with Clayton lads Gabrielle\u2019s Wish and Jane Weaver's Kill Laura - www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3809868192/
If you can find a download of it checkout '1965-1980/In Dub by Basement 5'
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC 07092182899',
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Keywords: Plumley,Cheshire,England,UK,radio,telescope,countryside,A556,black,white,toned,tinted,mono,monochrome,disk,sky,365days,hotpix.org.uk,www.hotpix.org.uk,B/W,this photo rocks,HDR,high dynamic range,interesting,place,places,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4158591360 - 'Scanning the heavens and deep space for pulsars, black holes and possibly little green (wo)men. Perhaps Jodrell Banks little brother.
If there is trouble out in space heading our way, it may well find it.
Or it may be monitoring our every move, every conversation, logging every transaction we make...
Located off the Chester A556 expressway on the way to Knutsford, Cheshire, England UK.
Black and White image slightly blue toned.
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4103275419 - 'The first autumn frost greeted me this morning.
Now where did I put that scraper........
Dont forget how good summer was www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3735036134/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HGC7RX - . A grounded documentary photograph made at the recorded location in 2009, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The defining feature is Selfridges,Birmingham Bullring,West Midlands, England, UK. The setting additionally reflects public transport stop, changing land use, visual archive, before-and-after reference, bus infrastructure, bus route infrastructure, local mobility, roadside transit, public transport information, social story.htm Target=_Blank>history, local bus network, street-side transport, documentary photography, and public realm. Today's relevance is strengthened by reliability, integrated transport and the continuing question of the challenge of maintaining reliable services outside dense city centres. The image fixes materials and architectural details within the recorded location at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against altered transport patterns. Further associations within the scene are contemporary social history, local history, roadside stop, place identity, regional identity, everyday life, surface public transport, and changing streetscape. References to Bullring, Midlands, Selfridges, and Birmingham give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The strongest archival anchor in this row is the subject itself, Selfridges,Birmingham Bullring,West Midlands, England, UK
image HGC7RX records it at a defined point for future comparison and research. Its period value extends to reliability and the challenge of maintaining reliable services outside dense city centres as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The location additionally provides evidence of bus service funding and how local bus services affect access to work, education and healthcare when considered against later change at the recorded location. The period view preserves part of the area's social history for later comparison.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RMJ3BN - . This descriptive scene documents the physical context of Soho, London, UK, as photographed in 2018. The image record centres upon Neon sign, at a record shop, vinyl disks, SoHo, London, South East England, UK. The photograph carries associations with city-centre economy, commercial streetscape, retail vacancy, storefront culture, consumer retail, retail property, shopping district, shopfront economy, commercial frontage, town-centre trading, high-street commerce, and consumer spending. For present-day editorial use, physical shops can also illustrate debates about hybrid working and operating costs, particularly where these affect adaptable commercial space. Small period details preserved at Soho, London, UK may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage. The view also records themes involving chain-store economy, bricks-and-mortar retail, local trading, retail decline and renewal, independent retail, urban commerce. The scene is further associated with green orange neon, records sign, lighted, neon lights, vinyl shop. Other relevant facets include shopping habits, and customer footfall. In the mid-2020s, retail streets is increasingly discussed through brand consolidation and vacant premises, with attention turning to mixed-use town centres. For future comparison, the scene preserves regional identity, the condition of buildings, public-realm details, patterns of everyday use, and local business activity as an authentic period reference. Viewed retrospectively, the photograph can reveal public activity, period design, changes of use, the appearance of the built environment, and local character at this precise location. That gives this view of Soho, London, UK continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison.
Soho, London, UK
