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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,AFC,Racecourse Ground,club,stadium,Macron,stand,Mold Road,Welsh,football,stadia,stadiums,ground,footy,exterior,historic,history,journey,Welcome to Wrexham,world,worlds,oldest,international,Hollywood,owners,owned,by,culture,tourism,Wales,soccer,sponsorship,Cold Brew Coffee,English,Football League,matchday destination,urban sports venue,Red Dragons
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EG4BKY - Mold Road frontage and Macron Stand at STōK Cae Ras, the historic home football ground of Wrexham AFC in Wrexham, North Wales. Traditionally known as the Racecourse Ground and in Welsh as Cae Ras, the stadium stands close to Wrexham General railway station and forms one of the city's most recognisable sporting landmarks.
The photograph shows the curved exterior of the Macron Stand, with its silver cladding, red brick sections, glazed office frontage and prominent Macron sportswear branding. Red and white signs identify the stadium as STōK Cae Ras, reflecting the naming-rights agreement with the STōK Cold Brew Coffee brand. Turnstiles, entrance doors and club facilities are visible along the otherwise quiet Mold Road frontage, with an empty carriageway in the foreground and broken white clouds across a bright blue sky.
Wrexham AFC has played at the ground since the club's formation in 1864, apart from a short period during the nineteenth century. The stadium is recognised as the world's oldest international football ground still in continuous use. It hosted Wales' first home international fixture, against Scotland, on 5 March 1877, establishing its important place within Welsh and international football history.
The ground's profile has increased substantially following the acquisition of Wrexham AFC by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney and the success of the documentary television series Welcome to Wrexham. This has attracted international visitors and football tourists to the city, while renewed investment has supported wider stadium improvements and redevelopment of the Kop end.
The image records the public-facing architecture of a traditional British football ground that combines nineteenth-century sporting heritage with modern commercial sponsorship, media attention and the continuing growth of Wrexham AFC.
STōK Cae Ras, Mold Road, Wrexham, Wales, LL11 2AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,history,bar,counter,city,centre,Five Points,beer,traditional,English,public house,drinking venue,ornate,licensed premises,polished brass,beer engines,West Yorkshire,hostelry,oldest inn in Leeds,Grade II star listed building,CAMRA historic interior,British brewing culture,preserved nineteenth century decor,independent craft brewery taps,architectural conservation,Yorkshire hospitality landmark,classic tavern atmosphere,cask-conditioned drinks,urban alehouse tourism,authentic period fittings,Five Points XPA,Railway Porter,Theakston Old Peculier,Timothy Taylor Landlord,Champions Club Weekend emblem,Very Heart of Leeds,Briggate,alleyway
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJ11YJ - Richly decorated bar interior of Whitelock's Ale House, formerly the Turk's Head, hidden within Turk's Head Yard off Briggate in Leeds city centre. The photograph shows the historic serving counter with polished copper, brass fittings, traditional hand-pulled beer engines, glass shelving, mirrors, bottles and period pub memorabilia. Pump clips include Five Points XPA and Railway Porter from the independent Five Points Brewing Company in Hackney, London, alongside Theakston Old Peculier and Timothy Taylor Landlord.
Above the bar, a black and white scarf carries the words The Very Heart of Leeds , recalling the description associated with poet and architectural conservationist John Betjeman. The crowded arrangement of reflective metalwork, glassware, dark timber and brewery branding gives the room the distinctive visual character of a traditional British real ale pub. An ornate Champions Club Weekend Landlord emblem is also visible beside the bar equipment.
Whitelock's first opened as the Turk's Head in 1715 and is widely recognised as the oldest surviving public house in Leeds. John Lupton Whitelock became licensee in 1867, and the Whitelock family later purchased and extensively refurbished the premises. Much of the elaborate decorative scheme dates from the late nineteenth century, including the long marble and copper-topped counter, etched mirrors, timber fittings, stained glass and ceramic tiling.
The building was upgraded to Grade II* listed status in 2022 as an exceptionally well-preserved example of an upmarket Victorian luncheon bar. Its protected interior remains an important part of Leeds' architectural, brewing and social heritage. Located within a narrow historic yard beside Briggate, Whitelock's continues to serve cask-conditioned ales, craft beer and food in surroundings closely associated with generations of drinkers, writers, performers, journalists and visitors.
The scene documents pub preservation, real ale culture, Victorian craftsmanship
Whitelock's Ale House, 6""8 Turk's Head Yard, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, LS1 6HB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Black Pudding,classic,original,Chadwick,stall,shop,retail,pudding,history,heritage,historic,famous,award,winning,Bury black pudding,Chadwicks,Bury Black Puddings,Bury Market,stalls,Bury,Market,Hall,traditional,blood,black,artisan,English,England,Lancashire,food,foods,Greater Manchester,market food,British regional cuisine,famous black pudding
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3CJDPN3 - A freestanding sign promoting Chadwick's Original Bury Black Puddings at Bury Market Hall in Greater Manchester. The sign advertises both hot and cold black pudding, reflecting the everyday, practical nature of market food retail and the enduring popularity of this traditional Lancashire product.
Bury is nationally synonymous with black pudding, a food deeply rooted in northern English working-class food culture and historic meat-processing traditions. Chadwick's is one of the best-known traders at Bury Market, with a reputation built over decades among local shoppers and visitors alike. The straightforward, functional signage reinforces the stall's emphasis on tradition, familiarity and quality rather than novelty.
The image was taken indoors under artificial market-hall lighting, typical of year-round trading conditions, and captures a small but culturally significant detail of British food heritage. It is well suited for editorial use illustrating regional identity, traditional British cuisine, historic markets, local economies and the persistence of everyday food traditions in modern England.
Bury Market Hall, Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK , BL9 0BJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,north,town,centre,Norfolk,parish,church,exterior,evening,light,historic,history,facade,tower,clock,English,Saturday,Market Place,building,stone,large,outside,evening sun,on,tourism attraction,historic market town,medieval architecture England,place of worship,religion,faith,listed,townscape,churchyard,approach,sacred,notable,fine,sunlit
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F39YWT - King's Lynn Minster, historically known as the Priory and Parish Church of St Margaret, photographed in warm evening light in the centre of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. The low-angle exterior view shows the imposing west front, twin towers, large traceried windows, Gothic arches, clock face, pinnacles and weathered stonework beneath a dramatic mixture of blue sky and grey cloud.
Although sometimes informally described as King's Lynn Cathedral, the building is not a cathedral. It is a major Church of England parish church and received the honorary title of King's Lynn Minster in 2011. Its grand scale reflects the medieval prosperity and importance of King's Lynn as a port and trading town linked with the Hanseatic League and the River Great Ouse.
The church was founded in the early twelfth century and retains elements representing several periods of rebuilding, alteration and restoration. Its architecture includes Norman origins together with later Gothic and Perpendicular features. The substantial west towers dominate Saturday Market Place and form one of the most distinctive landmarks in the historic town centre. Large windows with elaborate stone tracery admit light into the nave, while buttresses, battlements and slender pinnacles contribute to the building's vertical appearance.
Warm evening sunlight falls across the pale masonry, bringing out variations in the aged stone and contrasting with the darker clouds behind. Railings, a church notice and a narrow pathway are visible in the foreground, placing the historic building within its present-day urban and community setting.
The image is suitable for editorial subjects involving King's Lynn, Norfolk tourism, medieval churches, English ecclesiastical architecture, historic market towns, Christian worship, conservation, East Anglian heritage and notable British parish churches. It also documents the architectural character of a prominent place of worship that has served the local community for centuries
King's Lynn Minster, Saturday Market Place, King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, UK, PE30 5DQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Yorkshire,history,historic,heritage,facade,façade,English,building,buildings,architecture,ornate,shops,shop,churches,West Yorkshire,England,UK,LS1 6HW,the,autumn,Fall,tree,trees,people,crowd,crowds,sunny,blue sky,blue skies,St Georges Church,icon,iconic,skyline
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T2843N - Holy Trinity Church lies on Boar Lane in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in the Parish of Leeds St George in the Diocese of Leeds. It was built in 17227, though its steeple dates from 1839. Holy Trinity is in the evangelical church tradition of the Church of England.
History and architecture
A 1714 proposal that a new church should be erected in central Leeds foundered for lack of subscribers, but, in 1722, Lady Elizabeth Hastings of Ledston, backed by leading merchants, revived the project, and the foundation stone of Holy Trinity was laid on 27 August 1722.
The architect of the church was for some time believed to be William Halfpenny. However, it has subsequently been discovered that his designs for the church, for which he was paid £1 11s 6d on 8 May 1723, were never executed, and that the architect was William Etty of York. A letter from William Cookson to Ralph Thoresby dated 15 May 1723, enclosed a draught, the south front of our new church
it was drawn by Mr. Etty of York, who has also made us a wooden modell for our workmen to go by. Etty had been paid nineteen guineas in April of the same year for the model, which survived into the nineteenth century.
The west tower in Halfpenny's design was topped by a square, open colonnade with an obelisk-shaped spire. Etty did not envisage a spire, but a wooden one was later added by an unknown hand. Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Vicar of Whalley, Lancashire, in his Loidis and Elmete (1816), remarked of this spire: unquestionably one instance among many of private interference, by which the better judgment of real architects is often overruled, and for which they are unjustly considered as responsible. When the spire blew down in 1839, it was replaced by a taller stone steeple of three diminishing stages (architect: Robert Dennis Chantrell).
In 2020 a major refurbishment of the building was completed and will soon be home to a midweek ministry for city centre
Boar Ln, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS1 6HW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,England,UK,outside,visitor,visitors,the,in,GB,attractions,tourism,theft,artefacts,buildings,architect,architecture,grand,human,history,historic,column,columns,front,English,wide,angle,Great Russell Street,WC1B 3DG,WC1B,tour,landmark,public,Bloomsbury
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T35C2R - The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. The British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge.
In 2022 the museum received 4,097,253 visitors, an increase of 209 per cent from 2021. It ranked third in the list of most-visited art museums in the world.
The museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the Anglo-Irish physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. It first opened to the public in 1759, in Montagu House, on the site of the current building. The museum's expansion over the following 250 years was largely a result of British colonisation and resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, or independent spin-offs, the first being the Natural History Museum in 1881. The right to ownership of some of its most well-known acquisitions, notably the Greek Elgin Marbles and the Egyptian Rosetta Stone, is subject to long-term disputes and repatriation claims.
In 1973, the British Library Act 1972 detached the library department from the British Museum, but it continued to host the now separated British Library in the same Reading Room and building as the museum until 1997. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all national museums in the UK it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions
Great Russell St, London, England, WC1B 3DG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,England,UK,A3214,SW1W 9TR,9TR,at,English,signs,wall,walls,City of Westminster,city,of,Westminster,centre,signage,British,history,historic,heritage,royal,royalty,classic,traditional,queen,king,residence,home,tourist,tourism,attraction,famous
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T35BXG - This contemporary British and Irish stock photograph captures Sign at Buckingham Palace Rd, City of Westminster, London, England, UK, SW1W 9TR. The row metadata places the subject at Buckingham Palace Road, City of Westminster, London, England, UK, SW1W 9TR. The spreadsheet date indicates 06 September 2023, so the picture can also work as a time-specific archive record. Plainly, the image is useful because it shows Buckingham Palace, road, SW1W, SW1, sign, tourism, tourist, attraction, with search-relevant terms including Buckingham Palace, road, Rd, SW1W, SW1, sign, tourism, tourist, attraction, palace, London, England, UK, A3214. The value lies in the combination of place, object, wording and context, giving editors something specific and grounded rather than generic filler imagery. London details are useful because the city layers national politics, migration, commerce, tourism, neighbourhood change and local high streets. East End, Westminster and Holborn subjects can all carry wider meaning beyond their immediate street address. The subject has broad editorial value because it shows an everyday detail that can be used to explain wider themes such as local identity, public services, consumer culture, changing towns, regional economies and contemporary life. Because it is grounded in a named location and practical subject matter, it is useful for search-led editorial use, regional storytelling, business-to-business presentations, policy briefings and stock-photo buyers wanting evidence from the real world. Historically and socially, this kind of image can help connect past and present: older streets, civic institutions, transport systems, shops, signs, political messages or public services are not frozen museum pieces, but part of how people understand modern life, local identity and economic change.
Buckingham Palace Road, City of Westminster, London, England, UK, SW1W 9TR
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Keywords: town,centre,WA1,Cheshire,England,English,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,WA1 2TL,evening,sunset,dusk,Anglican,history,historic,tower,towers,churches,spires,1354,1696,attractive,attraction,tourist,tourism,Church of England,CofE,view,through,trees,distinctive,feature,Ring of Bells,pub,bar
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RHH6HB - . St Elphin's parish Church & Ring of Bells pub, evening sunset, Church Street, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2TL. Photographed on 15 August 2023. Among parish churches, it is the third tallest in England. But nothing survives above ground of the original building (a Saxon wooden church), and only the chancel and crypt remain from its successor, the first stone building, which was built in 1354. Shelled and badly damaged by the Parliamentary forces in the Civil War of the 17th century, the tower of that church had to be rebuilt in 1696, and the nave was rebuilt in l770. The south aisle was added in the early 19th century, and the whole building was restored between 1859 and 1867, when the present distinctive spire was added. Inside, galleries in the aisles contain pews with doors, and some of the stained glass is by AWN Pugin. The background to architectural conservation is that parish churches and cathedrals are among Britain's richest sources of architectural and social history
Medieval fabric, later chapels, organs, altars, monuments and inscriptions can coexist within a single building, revealing generations of craftsmanship and changing liturgy. Within the history of town centre, place-based photography helps document the relationship between named locations and the people or businesses associated with them, especially where formal architectural records are limited. In relation to licensed premises, historical context shows that british pubs developed from inns, taverns and alehouses into licensed social institutions that have long served as meeting places, music venues and landmarks
Names, brewery signs, etched glass, tiled interiors and evolving fascias can preserve local history even when ownership or use changes. Current 2026 context around architectural conservation is that many historic churches face the practical challenge of maintaining listed fabric while remaining active community buildings, visitor attractions and venues for.
Church Street, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2TL
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Keywords: town,centre,WA1,Cheshire,England,English,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,WA1 2TL,evening,sunset,dusk,Anglican,history,historic,tower,towers,churches,spires,1354,1696,attractive,attraction,tourist,tourism,Church of England,CofE,view,through,trees,distinctive,feature,unique,special
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RHH6HG - . St Elphin's parish Church, evening sunset, Church Street, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2TL. Photographed on 15 August 2023. Among parish churches, it is the third tallest in England. But nothing survives above ground of the original building (a Saxon wooden church), and only the chancel and crypt remain from its successor, the first stone building, which was built in 1354. Shelled and badly damaged by the Parliamentary forces in the Civil War of the 17th century, the tower of that church had to be rebuilt in 1696, and the nave was rebuilt in l770. The south aisle was added in the early 19th century, and the whole building was restored between 1859 and 1867, when the present distinctive spire was added. Inside, galleries in the aisles contain pews with doors, and some of the stained glass is by AWN Pugin. Looking at place of worship, the longer history is that churches combine worship with architecture, local memory and centuries of community past
Stonework, stained glass, memorials, furnishings and churchyards often record successive periods of rebuilding, Victorian restoration, local benefactors and family past. The background to historic comparison is that town and neighbourhood photographs record the accumulation of ordinary change: road layouts, shop names, signage, public art and building uses
Their value increases when compared over decades because apparently minor details can become the clearest evidence of transformation. Within the history of agriculture, irrigation and crop management became increasingly mechanised during the twentieth century, allowing farmers to control water and improve yields but also increasing attention to resource use and environmental impact. In 2026, place of worship remains relevant because historic places of worship remain important not only for faith but also for tourism, music, community use and local identity
Images of interiors, memorials and churchyards can support stories about conservation.
Church Street, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2TL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,Merseyside,1578""1623,English,village,Hale village,Halton,L24 4WB,L24,centre,buildings,architecture,tourism,history,historic,John,Middleton,man,Whiston Rural District,the,a,giant,at,nine,feet,three,inches,tall,story,bodyguard,sheriff of Lancashire,dyede,1623,St Marys,Church,St Mary
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RG8YPW - Hale is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England with a population of 1,800. The village is north of the River Mersey, and just to the east of the boundary with Merseyside. It is 2+1⁄2 miles east of Speke in Liverpool, and 4 miles south-west of Widnes. The nearby village of Halebank is to the north-east.
Historically part of Lancashire, until 1 April 1974 the area formed part of the Whiston Rural District.
The population of the parish is stable with a population of 1,898 (2001 census), 1,841 (2011 census) and 1,800 (2021 census).
John Middleton (15781623), the Childe of Hale, was reputed to be nine feet, three inches tall, or 2.8 m. His cottage and grave are located in the village. Just outside St Mary's Church was a wooden carving of the Childe Of Hale that is said to have been life-sized. It was replaced in 2013 by a 3-metre bronze statue by sculptor Diane Gorvin
Middleton was born in the village of Hale, near Liverpool. According to contemporary accounts and his epitaph, he grew to the height of 9 feet 3 inches (2.82 m) and slept with his feet hanging out the window of his house.
Because of his size the landlord and sheriff of Lancashire, Gilbert Ireland, hired him as a bodyguard. When King James I stopped by in 1617 to knight Ireland he heard about Middleton and invited both of them to the court, which they accepted in 1620. Middleton beat the King's champion in wrestling and in doing so broke the man's thumb. He received £20, a large amount of money in those times. Jealous of his wealth, Middleton's companions mugged him or swindled him out of his money while he was returning to Hale. Middleton died impoverished in 1623. He was buried in the cemetery of St Mary's Church in Hale. The epitaph reads, Here lyeth the bodie of John Middleton the Childe of Hale. Nine feet three. Borne 1578 Dyede 1623. He is likely one of the tallest people in history. If these height markings are accurate, he would surpass Robert Wadlow's stature
Hale village, Halton , Merseyside, England, UK, L24 4WB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,Merseyside,1578""1623,English,village,Hale village,Halton,L24 4WB,L24,centre,buildings,architecture,tourism,history,historic,John,Middleton,man,Whiston Rural District,the,a,giant,at,nine,feet,three,inches,tall,story,bodyguard,sheriff of Lancashire,legend,home,house,plaque
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RG8YTA - Hale is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England with a population of 1,800. The village is north of the River Mersey, and just to the east of the boundary with Merseyside. It is 2+1⁄2 miles east of Speke in Liverpool, and 4 miles south-west of Widnes. The nearby village of Halebank is to the north-east.
Historically part of Lancashire, until 1 April 1974 the area formed part of the Whiston Rural District.
The population of the parish is stable with a population of 1,898 (2001 census), 1,841 (2011 census) and 1,800 (2021 census).
John Middleton (15781623), the Childe of Hale, was reputed to be nine feet, three inches tall, or 2.8 m. His cottage and grave are located in the village. Just outside St Mary's Church was a wooden carving of the Childe Of Hale that is said to have been life-sized. It was replaced in 2013 by a 3-metre bronze statue by sculptor Diane Gorvin
Middleton was born in the village of Hale, near Liverpool. According to contemporary accounts and his epitaph, he grew to the height of 9 feet 3 inches (2.82 m) and slept with his feet hanging out the window of his house.
Because of his size the landlord and sheriff of Lancashire, Gilbert Ireland, hired him as a bodyguard. When King James I stopped by in 1617 to knight Ireland he heard about Middleton and invited both of them to the court, which they accepted in 1620. Middleton beat the King's champion in wrestling and in doing so broke the man's thumb. He received £20, a large amount of money in those times. Jealous of his wealth, Middleton's companions mugged him or swindled him out of his money while he was returning to Hale. Middleton died impoverished in 1623. He was buried in the cemetery of St Mary's Church in Hale. The epitaph reads, Here lyeth the bodie of John Middleton the Childe of Hale. Nine feet three. Borne 1578 Dyede 1623. He is likely one of the tallest people in history. If these height markings are accurate, he would surpass Robert Wadlow's stature
Hale village, Halton , Merseyside, England, UK, L24 4WB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,market,centre,civil,parish,in,Herefordshire,England,UK,HR9 5HD,HR9,aged 88,88 years,old,history,historic,landmark,heritage,outside,front,exterior,timber,framed,listed,building,timber framed,buildings,the,and,architecture,commemorating,1560,English,philanthropist,row,terrace
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ3EJ - John Kyrle (22 May 1637 7 November 1724), known as the Man of Ross, was an English philanthropist, remembered for his time in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.
Born in the parish of Dymock, Gloucestershire, he was the son of Walter Kyrle, a barrister and MP. The family had lived at Ross for many generations
John Kyrle was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, matriculating in 1654
From his early twenties he adopted a frugal lifestyle and instead of utilising his wealth for himself, he sought to invest in the greater good of his locality and community that lived there.
In everything that concerned the welfare of the small town of Ross in which he lived he took a lively interest
in the education of the children and in improving and embellishing the town. He planted trees in and around the town, with two or three workmen to assist with the manual work. He delighted in mediating between those who had quarrelled and in preventing costly lawsuits between prominent townspeople. He was generous to the poor and spent all he had in good works.
The building is Late C16 or early C17. 3 storeys and cellar with large projecting wing at rear. North front of Nos 34 and 35 is timber framed with fairly close set studding. No 36 is cement rendered above 1st floor 2nd storey projects on mould bressummer with carved brackets. Enriched moulded beam and similar brackets under eaves which formerly supported a series of gables. 9 sash windows. On the front is a panel with the head of John Kyrle in relief and below Died November 7 1722, aged 88. Interior has original ceiling beams and panelling. Roof with double collar beam trusses, 2 C17 doors with the date 1689 and the arms of Kyrle in punctured decoration.
34 High Street, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR9 5HD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,market,centre,civil,parish,in,Herefordshire,England,UK,HR9 5HD,HR9,aged 88,88 years,old,history,historic,landmark,heritage,outside,front,exterior,timber,framed,listed,building,timber framed,buildings,the,and,architecture,commemorating,1560,English,philanthropist,row,terrace
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ3EP - John Kyrle (22 May 1637 7 November 1724), known as the Man of Ross, was an English philanthropist, remembered for his time in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.
Born in the parish of Dymock, Gloucestershire, he was the son of Walter Kyrle, a barrister and MP. The family had lived at Ross for many generations
John Kyrle was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, matriculating in 1654
From his early twenties he adopted a frugal lifestyle and instead of utilising his wealth for himself, he sought to invest in the greater good of his locality and community that lived there.
In everything that concerned the welfare of the small town of Ross in which he lived he took a lively interest
in the education of the children and in improving and embellishing the town. He planted trees in and around the town, with two or three workmen to assist with the manual work. He delighted in mediating between those who had quarrelled and in preventing costly lawsuits between prominent townspeople. He was generous to the poor and spent all he had in good works.
The building is Late C16 or early C17. 3 storeys and cellar with large projecting wing at rear. North front of Nos 34 and 35 is timber framed with fairly close set studding. No 36 is cement rendered above 1st floor 2nd storey projects on mould bressummer with carved brackets. Enriched moulded beam and similar brackets under eaves which formerly supported a series of gables. 9 sash windows. On the front is a panel with the head of John Kyrle in relief and below Died November 7 1722, aged 88. Interior has original ceiling beams and panelling. Roof with double collar beam trusses, 2 C17 doors with the date 1689 and the arms of Kyrle in punctured decoration.
34 High Street, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR9 5HD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cymru,UK,city,centre,CF10,green,CF10 1EP,art,on,in,English,history,historic,heritage,rail,railways,British,sign,signs,signage,gorsaf,circle,graphic,graphics,public,Cardiff Central mosaic,trades,peopld,figures,workers,passengers,commuters,major,largest
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFEPWM - . Art in English on Cardiff Central Station entrance, Central Square, Cardiff , Wales, UK, CF10 1EP. Photographed on 1 August 2023. A large mosaic featuring the name of 'Cardiff Central' Railway Station' and a selection of the people and trades who were connected with this major railway station in Cardiff, and the largest station in Wales. Cardiff Central's bilingual public-art mosaics were created by artist Rob Turner in 2003. Cardiff Council's public-art register describes them as depicting the different people who worked at and used the station across the previous century. The Welsh and English versions link railway heritage with the bilingual identity of modern Wales, while the station itself remains the country's busiest and most important main-line hub, connecting South Wales with London, the Midlands and western Britain. Looking at the subject's development, britain's railways reshaped towns, industry and passenger travel from the nineteenth century onwards, creating a dense network of stations, goods yards, signalling infrastructure and long-distance routes
Surviving buildings, signs and operating equipment now document both railway heritage and continuing public transport. In the longer view, town and city centres are continually rewritten by new buildings, 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. For the 2026 context, rail policy is especially topical: the Railways Bill is progressing through Parliament and is intended to establish Great British Railways as the publicly owned directing mind for track, stations, timetables and passenger services
Older branded trains and station scenes therefore gain additional documentary value during another major restructuring of the industry. Associated keywords and synonyms include rail transport, passenger railway, and platform.
Central Square, Cardiff , Wales, UK, CF10 1EP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Merseyside,England,UK,WA10 1QF,Saint Helens,classic,green,English,British,WJ,Birchall,Burchalls,Butchers,Butcher,closed,steak,pork,beef,meat,fresh,meat products,product,products,council,outside,door,doorway,history,historic,terrace,terraced,street,24 Westfield St,24 Westfield Street,shops
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RAP3B0 - St Helens is a large town in Merseyside, England. It is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of St Helens which covers a larger area around the town.
The town had a population of 102,629 at the 2011 Census, the wider borough around 183,200 at the 2021 Census.
It is 6 miles (10 kilometres) north of the River Mersey, in the south-west part of historic Lancashire. The town was formerly within the historic county's ancient hundred of West Derby as a small settlement in the township of Windle. By the mid 1700s, it had become larger than Windle and (by 1838) it was formally made responsible for the administration of Windle and the three other townships of Eccleston, Parr and Sutton. In 1868, it was incorporated as a town with a municipal borough. The borough later became a county borough in 1887 and replaced by a metropolitan borough with an expanded administrative responsibility for nearby towns and villages in 1974.
Coal mining and glassmaking were the significant sectors that caused growth into a town during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. Glass producer Pilkington is the town's only remaining large industrial employer
previously, it was home to Beechams, the Gamble Alkali Works, Ravenhead glass. United Glass Bottles, Triplex, Daglish Foundry They were also other sectors: sail making and other cotton and linen work which lasted until the mid-19th century
brewing (Greenall's brewery)
copper smelting as well as pits for salt, lime and alkali extraction
24 Westfield St, St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK, WA10 1QF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NBWGEC - J. S. Fry & Sons, Ltd., better known as Fry's, was a British chocolate company owned by Joseph Storrs Fry and his family. Beginning in Bristol in the 18th century, the business went through several changes of name and ownership, becoming J. S. Fry & Sons in 1822. In 1847, Fry's produced the first solid chocolate bar. The company also created the first filled chocolate sweet, Cream Sticks, in 1853. Fry is most famous for Fry's Chocolate Cream, the first mass-produced chocolate bar, which was launched in 1866, and Fry's Turkish Delight, launched in 1914.
Fry, alongside Cadbury and Rowntree's, was one of the big three British confectionery manufacturers throughout much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and all three companies were founded by Quakers. The company became a division of Cadbury in the early twentieth century. The division's Somerdale Factory near Bristol was closed after the 2010 takeover of Cadbury's by Kraft Foods Inc
Black Country, West Midlands, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M8A - . This location-specific image from Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B1 in 2022 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The image documents Embossed Birmingham in rusting cast iron. The wider scene also brings together place identity, public realm, public-realm investment, archival record, regional identity, historic townscape, visual archive, built heritage, everyday life, urban fabric, before-and-after reference, historical comparison, contemporary social history, and local character. For current editorial use, planning and public-realm investment provide additional context, especially through how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity. For later comparison, the photograph preserves signage and branding at Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B1, details that may look very different after new construction. A second descriptive layer includes architectural character, urban regeneration, adaptive reuse, period detail, changing land use, mixed-use redevelopment, town-centre renewal, and local history. Elements such as Birmingham, rusting, and Embossed add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. Around Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B1, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The image also provides a reference for planning and how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity as part of the longer story of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B1. Another useful connection is town-centre regeneration and how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity when considered against later change at Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B1.
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5N2 - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Union St, Stroud, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HF in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The defining feature is The Swan Inn, Union St, Stroud, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HF. A broader reading of the photograph includes documentary photography, independent retail, local trading, community identity, visual archive, period detail, small business, everyday life, street-level business, commercial streetscape, public realm, retail property, changing land use, and high-street commerce. Current relevance extends to town-centre regeneration and consumer spending, particularly through how consumer spending and property costs shape local commercial streets. For later comparison, the photograph preserves public access and movement at Union St, Stroud, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HF, details that may look very different after new construction. The location also brings in town-centre economy, commercial frontage, regional identity, place identity, contemporary social history, changing streetscape, shopfront economy, and specialist retailer. Elements such as Gloucestershire, Stroud, Cotswolds, and Union add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within Union St, Stroud, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HF, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. Another strand within the photograph is town-centre regeneration and how consumer spending and property costs shape local commercial streets when considered against later change at Union St, Stroud, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HF. The frame retains part of the area's social history as a date-specific reference.
Union St, Stroud, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5R4 - The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Stroud Urban District Council, is a Grade II* listed building.
Following the granting of a charter to hold markets in 1594, the lord of the manor at Over Lypiatt, John Throckmorton, decided to commission a market hall
the new building was designed in the neoclassical style and completed in 1596. The original design involved a symmetrical main frontage with four bays facing onto the Market Place
it was arcaded on the ground floor to allow markets to be held
an assembly room with a large oriel window was established on the first floor.
The building was first used for municipal purposes as a meeting place for the local vestry in the early 19th century. It was extended to a design by Francis Niblett to accommodate the county court in 1851 and, after becoming the offices of the local board of health, it was remodelled in the gothic style with a large gable containing mullion windows erected above the two central bays in 1856. In order to improve the stability of the building, large buttresses, flanking the two central bays, were installed on the front of the building in 1890. After significant population growth, partly associated with the number of dye works in the town, the area became an urban district with the town hall as its headquarters in 1894.
Following an increase in the responsibilities of the council, civic leaders acquired the former offices of the Gloucester Banking Company in the High Street in 1930
the High Street building was converted for municipal use and was subsequently referred to as the Council Chambers. Although most council officers and their departments moved to the new Council Chambers in the High Street, some departments, including the technical services department, remained in the old building. The old town hall remained in municipal use even after the enlarged Stroud District Council was formed
The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNBY8A - Chipping Campden is a market town in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. (Chipping is from Old English cēping, 'market', 'market-place'
the same element is found in other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (now High) Wycombe.)
A wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants, most notably William Greville (d.1401). The High Street is lined with buildings built from locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of vernacular architecture. Much of the town centre is a conservation area which has helped to preserve the original buildings. The town is an end point of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile long-distance footpath.
Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olympic Games since 1612.
Chipping Camden, Cotswolds, Cotswold, Oxfordshire, England, UK, GL55 6AA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cotswold,Oxfordshire,England,UK,GL55 6AA,tourist,tourism,attractions,stone,historic,district,at,English,Traditional,summer,blue sky,gate,gateway,arch,gates,gatehouse,lodge,wool,town,history,stonework,ornate,heritage,Gloucestershire,sunny,blue skies,British,famous,popular,Harry and Megan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNBY8B - Chipping Campden is a market town in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. (Chipping is from Old English cēping, 'market', 'market-place'
the same element is found in other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (now High) Wycombe.)
A wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants, most notably William Greville (d.1401). The High Street is lined with buildings built from locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of vernacular architecture. Much of the town centre is a conservation area which has helped to preserve the original buildings. The town is an end point of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile long-distance footpath.
Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olympic Games since 1612.
Chipping Camden, Cotswolds, Cotswold, Oxfordshire, England, UK, GL55 6AA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNBY8E - The grand early perpendicular Cotswold wool church, Church of St James, with its medieval altar frontals (c. 1500), cope (c. 1400), and 17th century monuments includes a monument to silk merchant Sir Baptist Hicks and his family. As well, the Grade I listed Church of St James includes a plaque to William Grevel, described as the flower of the wool merchants of all England. His home, the Grade I listed Grevel's House, was built c. 1380. It is not open to visitors. Chipping Campden is a market town in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. (Chipping is from Old English cēping, 'market', 'market-place'
the same element is found in other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (now High) Wycombe.)
A wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants, most notably William Greville (d.1401). The High Street is lined with buildings built from locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of vernacular architecture. Much of the town centre is a conservation area which has helped to preserve the original buildings. The town is an end point of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile long-distance footpath.
Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olympic Games since 1612.
Chipping Camden, Cotswolds, Cotswold, Oxfordshire, England, UK, GL55 6AA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cotswold,Oxfordshire,England,UK,GL55 6AA,historic,history,stone,listed,building,town,parish,grand,early,stained glass,at,stained,coloured,glass,panel,panels,market hall,market,marketplace,architectural,English,architecture,classic,traditional,window,windows,local,scene,scenes
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNBY8F - The grand early perpendicular Cotswold wool church, Church of St James, with its medieval altar frontals (c. 1500), cope (c. 1400), and 17th century monuments includes a monument to silk merchant Sir Baptist Hicks and his family. As well, the Grade I listed Church of St James includes a plaque to William Grevel, described as the flower of the wool merchants of all England. His home, the Grade I listed Grevel's House, was built c. 1380. It is not open to visitors. Chipping Campden is a market town in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. (Chipping is from Old English cēping, 'market', 'market-place'
the same element is found in other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (now High) Wycombe.)
A wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants, most notably William Greville (d.1401). The High Street is lined with buildings built from locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of vernacular architecture. Much of the town centre is a conservation area which has helped to preserve the original buildings. The town is an end point of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile long-distance footpath.
Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olympic Games since 1612.
Chipping Camden, Cotswolds, Cotswold, Oxfordshire, England, UK, GL55 6AA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M07AGX - Court Cupboard, dedicated to Charles Brookes dated 1638, it came from the Old Manor House, in owen Street, Hereford, but may have been made in Yorkshire.
Carved panel shows an armourer working on a helmet
From the Black and White House Museum, Hereford
Hereford city centre , Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K16ATY - . This location-specific image from Camden, London, England, UK, NW1 8NH in 2022 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The frame specifically shows Camden Town Underground station, Camden, London, England, UK, NW1 8NH. The image also relates to architectural character, rail infrastructure, place-making, mechanical signalling, trackside history, changing streetscape, social history, working railway heritage, before-and-after reference, town-centre renewal, historical comparison, rail operations, local history, and archival record. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with planning, construction costs and how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity. The modern context includes continuing discussion of decarbonisation, heritage conservation and the contrast between mechanical railway systems and digital signalling. For later comparison, the photograph preserves public access and movement at Camden, London, England, UK, NW1 8NH, details that may look very different after changing commercial priorities. Other useful contextual ideas include heritage-led regeneration, industrial railway, adaptive reuse, station environment, built heritage, period detail, everyday life, and urban regeneration. The recorded references to London, station, Underground, and Camden preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of Camden, London, England, UK, NW1 8NH may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Another useful connection is planning and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space in a form that can be compared with future views of Camden, London, England, UK, NW1 8NH. It also preserves evidence of changing use before later change alters the scene.
Camden, London, England, UK, NW1 8NH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,City Centre,North west England,UK,Manchester,library,Central library,Stained Glass,window,Shakespeare,Windows,City,Bard,art,literature,SJ8397,Shakespeare Window,scenes,M2,English,playwright,poet,actor,Englands national Poet,Stratford-upon-Avon,Stratford,Shakespeare Hall,Manchester Central Library Shakespeare Hall,history,historic,scene,people,writers,writer
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE3AF - Shakespeare Window, Manchester Central Library
Above the front door of the library is stained glass Shakespeare window. It was designed by Robert Anning Bell and depicts William Shakespeare and scenes from his plays. It was given to the library by Mrs Rosa Grindon, in memory of her husband, the famous Manchester botanist, Leo Grindon.
Inside Central Library
The main entrance hall gets its name from the huge stained glass window above the front door. The window was designed by the Arts & Crafts artist, Robert Anning Bell RA (1863-1933) and includes a portrait of William Shakespeare and scenes from many of his plays. It was given to the library by Mrs Rosa Grindon, in memory of her husband, the famous Manchester botanist, Leo Grindon.
The two other stained glass windows and the magnificent heraldic decorations were all designed by George Kruger Gray (1880-1943). On the ceiling are the arms and crests of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lancashire County Council and the Sees of York, Manchester and the City of Manchester . Around the walls are those of Manchester Grammar School, Manchester University, the Manchester Regiment, Humphrey Chetham, the Overseers of the Township, England, St George and St Mary (the patron saint of Manchester).
St Peter's Square, Manchester,Greater Manchester, England,UK, M2 5PD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE3CF - Shakespeare Window, Manchester Central Library
Above the front door of the library is stained glass Shakespeare window. It was designed by Robert Anning Bell and depicts William Shakespeare and scenes from his plays. It was given to the library by Mrs Rosa Grindon, in memory of her husband, the famous Manchester botanist, Leo Grindon.
Inside Central Library
The main entrance hall gets its name from the huge stained glass window above the front door. The window was designed by the Arts & Crafts artist, Robert Anning Bell RA (1863-1933) and includes a portrait of William Shakespeare and scenes from many of his plays. It was given to the library by Mrs Rosa Grindon, in memory of her husband, the famous Manchester botanist, Leo Grindon.
The two other stained glass windows and the magnificent heraldic decorations were all designed by George Kruger Gray (1880-1943). On the ceiling are the arms and crests of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lancashire County Council and the Sees of York, Manchester and the City of Manchester . Around the walls are those of Manchester Grammar School, Manchester University, the Manchester Regiment, Humphrey Chetham, the Overseers of the Township, England, St George and St Mary (the patron saint of Manchester).
St Peter's Square, Manchester,Greater Manchester, England,UK, M2 5PD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ABY977 - The Ship Pub, 11 Talbot Court, London EC3V 0BP. 1873. According to the brass information plaque on the building exterior, The ship lies in Talbot Court. Previously a coaching inn, the Talbot, stood in this court, but it was destroyed in the great fire of London in 1660. A talbot' is an extinct breed of dog, usually white with long drooping ears and large jaws. It was much favoured in England for tracking and hunting.
11 Talbot Court, City of London, Greater London,South east,England,UK, EC3V 0BP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBAPR3 - . A close documentary record records the character of Grappenhall Rd, Warrington, Cheshire, UK, WA4 2AF, in an image captured in 2019. The supplied image information identifies Traditional & historic Blue Police Station Lamp, Stockton Heath Police Station, South Warrington, Cheshire, North West England, UK, WA4 2AF. Related ideas embodied by the location include historic environment, road connectivity, intercity travel, heritage streetscape, traffic management, strategic road network, offender management, historic townscape, transport corridor, legal system, commuter transport, and penal system. In the mid-2020s, integrated public transport is increasingly discussed through public ownership and town-centre connectivity, with attention turning to renewed station districts. For present-day editorial use, place and memory can also illustrate debates about altered public space and redevelopment, particularly where these affect preservation of everyday detail. Modern coverage of public safety frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of reoffending, staffing and better maintained justice estates. The date and location give the photograph archival strength: future views of Grappenhall Rd, Warrington, Cheshire, UK, WA4 2AF may show different businesses, branding, services, architecture, traffic patterns or redevelopment, allowing clear before-and-after comparison. The view also records themes involving local landmark, townscape identity, road transport, heritage asset, custodial estate, historic fabric. Further recorded details include blue lamp, Stockton Heath Village, Grappenhall Rd, village. The same setting also brings together law enforcement, custody infrastructure, urban fabric, court and custody, train travel, highway infrastructure, conservation architecture, local transport, adaptive reuse, and urban conservation. It also preserves details of public use within the wider local story.
Grappenhall Rd, Warrington, Cheshire, UK, WA4 2AF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,England,Regent St,Birmingham,UK,offices,factory,brick building,history,historic,rail,railings,1927,Frederick Street,Frederick St,Badges,Medals,medal,Insignia,Regalia,Ceremonial Swords,sporting gods,trophies,trophy,factories,Brum,English Midlands,B1 3HQ,B1,English,British,Regent street,makers,manufacturers,manufacturer
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTDH - . A grounded editorial photograph documents the character of Regent St, Birmingham, English Midlands, UK, B1 3HQ, in a time-specific record from 2018. The principal recorded subject is Thomas Fattorini factory, Birmingham Jewellery quarter, Regent St, Birmingham, English Midlands, UK, B1 3HQ. Other closely connected aspects of the subject are adaptive reuse, heritage streetscape, architectural detail, conservation interest, architectural character, historic fabric, historic townscape, period property, architectural heritage, local landmark, traditional building, and urban fabric. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, older urban fabric also connects with vacancy, redevelopment pressure and efforts aimed at lower-carbon reuse rather than demolition. Small period details preserved at Regent St, Birmingham, English Midlands, UK, B1 3HQ may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage. Beyond the immediate subject, the setting involves period architecture, heritage asset, conservation architecture, historic environment, built heritage, historic built environment. Further recorded details include Brum. The same setting also brings together urban conservation, and townscape identity. Modern coverage of local landmarks frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of conservation of original fabric, planning control and preserving local character. Viewed retrospectively, the photograph can reveal transport patterns, ownership or occupation, architecture and streetscape, public access, and neighbourhood identity as an authentic period reference. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of the condition of buildings, local business activity, patterns of everyday use, public-realm details, and regional identity at this precise location.
Regent St, Birmingham, English Midlands, UK, B1 3HQ
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Keywords: Office,space,history,historic,architecture,building,city,centre,ave,L2,grade,listed,II,building,Grayson,Ould,granite,brick,stone,arched,entrance,Corinthian,pilasters,Ionic,Queen Insurance,Queen Insurance Buildings,Queen Avenue,Castle st,Grade II,Grayson and Ould,Grayson & Ould,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,Ionic,half-columns,half,columns,lamp,lamps,Victorian,gaslamp,gas,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4HM7R - An office building designed by Grayson and Ould. It is in brick with stone dressings, a granite ground floor, and a slate Mansard roof. The building has four storeys, and is five bays wide. In the ground floor, two of the bays form an arched entrance to Queen Avenue. In the first floor, between the windows, are Corinthian pilasters, and between the windows in the second floor are Ionic half-columns. On the front of the building are friezes, and at the top are dormers
Queen Insurance Buildings, Queen Avenue, Liverpool L2 4TZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4HM81 - An office building designed by Grayson and Ould. It is in brick with stone dressings, a granite ground floor, and a slate Mansard roof. The building has four storeys, and is five bays wide. In the ground floor, two of the bays form an arched entrance to Queen Avenue. In the first floor, between the windows, are Corinthian pilasters, and between the windows in the second floor are Ionic half-columns. On the front of the building are friezes, and at the top are dormers
Queen Insurance Buildings, Queen Avenue, Liverpool L2 4TZ
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Keywords: Tithebarn,St,street,building,history,historic,railway,terminus,stone,office,space,offices,moorfields,Merseyrail,architect,Beeching,Axe,closed,Exchange Station,Liverpool Exchange railway station,Liverpool Exchange station,John Hawkshaw,Liverpool Tithebarn Street,Tithebarn Street Station,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,Merseyrail,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4HMJ9 - Liverpool Exchange railway station was a railway station located in the city centre of Liverpool, England. Of the four terminal stations in Liverpool's city centre, Exchange station was the only station not accessed via a tunnel.
The station was badly damaged during World War II and lost a large proportion of the trainshed roof, which was never rebuilt, remaining an iron frame. The station's long distance services were switched to Liverpool Lime Street in the 1960s, and, as a terminus, the station became redundant in the late 1970s, when its remaining local services switched to the newly opened Merseyrail tunnels under Liverpool city centre. It was closed in 1977, being replaced by the new Moorfields underground station nearby.
Station construction and opening
Tithebarn Street as it was between opening in 1850 and reconstruction in 188688
The grandly-appointed station opened on 13 May 1850, replacing an earlier temporary station at Great Howard Street further north up the track. The station was designed by John Hawkshaw. The station had two names because the joint owners could not agree on a name. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) named the station Liverpool Exchange Station with the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) naming the station Liverpool Tithebarn Street.
On 13 August 1859, the LYR absorbed the ELR, from which date the name of the station was Liverpool Exchange.[2][3] From 1 October 1850 trains of the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway (LCSR) began to run into Exchange/Tithebarn Street station with three companies using the terminus. The LCSR became part of the LYR on 14 June 1855. By 13 August 1859 the LYR had absorbed the other two companies using the terminus leaving only one operator.
The station was the terminus of the ELR's line to Preston, the LYR's route to Bolton and the LCSR routes to Crosby and Southport.
Tithebarn St, Liverpool, England, UK L2 2QP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H5521P - John Gower (c. 1330 October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer.
He is remembered primarily for three major works, the Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis, three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively, which are united by common moral and political themes.
His tomb is in Southwark Cathedral, London, with the following inscription:
This is the tomb of John Gower (d. 1408). Poet Laureate to Richard II and to Henry IV. Gower has been called the first English poet because, when most literary people wrote in French or Latin, he wrote also in English. He had a house and chapel within the precincts of the Augustinian Priory, (St. Mary Overie), to the north of this Cathedral Church. He left money for the founding of a chantry chapel in which he was buried. This chapel which stood on the north side of the nave was destroyed but the present tomb stands on or near the site on which it was originally built. The head of the effigy rests on three books. Gower wrote Vox Clamantis in Latin, Speculum Meditantis in French and Confessio Amantis in English
Southwark,London Bridge,London,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY085J - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
Church Lane, Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England, WA4 3EP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ791A - Stevenson Square was built as a speculative development in the 1780s, originally planned as a middle class residential area. Its developer William Stevenson bought land on the north-east edge of the growing Georgian town and laid out a grid of streets around a rectangular square.
The residential aspect of the suburb was not a success and by the early 19th Century the area was being developed with cotton warehouses and mills. This caused a decline in the social status of the area and by the end of the 19th Century, the area was densely developed with commercial buildings alongside workers' housing.
In 1893 the site of Sevendale House was crossed by Bennett Street and occupied by a mixture of houses and small warehouses with inner yards. By the 1890s the success of the cotton trade led to much larger warehouses being built on amalgamated plots, changing the urban grain and scale of the area.
Sevendale House was built as a trade warehouse for I.J. & G.Cooper Ltd in 1903-6 and designed by Manchester architect John Bowden. The footprint of Sevendale House occupies a double urban block with principal elevations fronting Dale Street, Lever Street and Stevenson Square.
The warehouse was considered to be innovative at the time, with a steel-frame, concrete floors and internal lightwell.
7 Dale St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1JA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJBNHX - . Made at the recorded location in 2016, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The frame specifically shows A & H Reich, Cotton Goods etc, Handkerchiefs etc, brass company plaque, Manchester Cotton Goods, City Centre, Manchester, North west England, UK. The broader subject matter reaches into local remembrance, place-based commemoration, regional music heritage, club-music history, public realm, place identity, commemorative plaque, music memorial, local character, DJ culture, contemporary social history, changing land use, regional identity, and period detail. Today's relevance is strengthened by commemoration, music heritage and the continuing question of the importance of documenting club and dance-music history. As a dated visual record of the recorded location, the frame retains local activity and public use, making it especially useful if redevelopment subsequently changes the scene. Further associations within the scene are everyday life, historical comparison, community tribute, changing streetscape, community identity, before-and-after reference, archival record, and visual archive. References to brass, Reich, Centre, Goods, and Manchester give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The wider setting at the recorded location matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Another useful connection is commemoration and how memorials preserve figures from regional music scenes outside formal institutions as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The scene further reflects grassroots culture and how memorials preserve figures from regional music scenes outside formal institutions when considered against later change at the recorded location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy G9BJTJ - York railway station is the main-line railway station serving the city of York in North Yorkshire, England. It lies on Britain's East Coast Main Line (ECML), 188.5 miles (303 km) from London. Originally it was part of the North Eastern Railway.
Despite the small size of the city, York is one of the most important railway stations on the British railway network because of its role as a key railway junction approximately halfway between London, the capital of England, and Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is few miles north of the point where the Cross Country and TransPennine Express routes via Leeds leave/join the ECML connecting Scotland and the North East with southern England, the North West and the Midlands. The junction was historically a major site for rolling stock manufacture, maintenance and repair.
York Railway Station, Station Rd, York, UK, YO24 1AY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7YMH0 - Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that currently competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.
Manchester United have won 20 league titles, the most of any English club, 11 FA Cups, four League Cups and a record 20 FA Community Shields. The club has also won three European Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. In 199899, the club became the first in the history of English football to achieve the treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League.
The 1958 Munich air disaster claimed the lives of eight players. In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United became the first English football club to win the European Cup. Alex Ferguson won 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League titles, 5 FA Cups and 2 UEFA Champions Leagues, between 1986 and 2013, when he announced his retirement. Louis van Gaal is the club's current manager after Ferguson's successor David Moyes was sacked after only 10 months in charge.
Sir Matt Busby Way, Manchester, England, United Kingdom, M16 0RA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7YMKF - Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that currently competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.
Manchester United have won 20 league titles, the most of any English club, 11 FA Cups, four League Cups and a record 20 FA Community Shields. The club has also won three European Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. In 199899, the club became the first in the history of English football to achieve the treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League.
The 1958 Munich air disaster claimed the lives of eight players. In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United became the first English football club to win the European Cup. Alex Ferguson won 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League titles, 5 FA Cups and 2 UEFA Champions Leagues, between 1986 and 2013, when he announced his retirement. Louis van Gaal is the club's current manager after Ferguson's successor David Moyes was sacked after only 10 months in charge.
Sir Matt Busby Way, Manchester, England, United Kingdom, M16 0RA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7YN7F - Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that currently competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.
Manchester United have won 20 league titles, the most of any English club, 11 FA Cups, four League Cups and a record 20 FA Community Shields. The club has also won three European Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. In 199899, the club became the first in the history of English football to achieve the treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League.
The 1958 Munich air disaster claimed the lives of eight players. In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United became the first English football club to win the European Cup. Alex Ferguson won 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League titles, 5 FA Cups and 2 UEFA Champions Leagues, between 1986 and 2013, when he announced his retirement. Louis van Gaal is the club's current manager after Ferguson's successor David Moyes was sacked after only 10 months in charge.
Sir Matt Busby Way, Manchester, England, United Kingdom, M16 0RA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EY7XEK - . Grove Inn Pub, Back Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire,England,UK - Looking up. Photographed at Back Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS11 5PL. The photograph was taken on 22 July 2015. 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 upward-looking viewpoint gives extra emphasis to height, upper-storey detail and architectural features that are less prominent from a conventional eye-level view. 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 Pub, Leeds, Grove Inn, Back Row, West Yorkshire, Magnet, Ales, John, Smiths and ale, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. Beyond the immediate subject, the scene is relevant to British pub culture, licensed premises, real ale, beer tourism and the continuing social role of the traditional public house. For picture buyers, the photograph can support editorial features about pubs and bars, hospitality, independent and managed venues, drinking culture, local heritage, city and town centres, leisure spending and the changing British high street. Details such as brewery branding, pub signage, entrances, windows, bar fittings, beer pumps or period architecture can provide useful visual evidence of how licensed premises present themselves to customers. The image also works as a record of everyday social history, documenting a familiar type of British hospitality venue at a particular moment in time rather than presenting an idealised studio view. Search themes naturally include British pub heritage, real ale and beer culture, licensed premises, hospitality, public houses, local drinking traditions and the role of pubs within town and city life.
Back Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS11 5PL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EY7XEM - . Grove Inn Pub, Back Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire,England,UK. Photographed at Back Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS11 5PL. The photograph was taken on 22 July 2015. 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 Pub, Leeds, Grove Inn, Back Row, West Yorkshire, Magnet, Ales, John, Smiths and ale, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. Beyond the immediate subject, the scene is relevant to British pub culture, licensed premises, real ale, beer tourism and the continuing social role of the traditional public house. For picture buyers, the photograph can support editorial features about pubs and bars, hospitality, independent and managed venues, drinking culture, local heritage, city and town centres, leisure spending and the changing British high street. Details such as brewery branding, pub signage, entrances, windows, bar fittings, beer pumps or period architecture can provide useful visual evidence of how licensed premises present themselves to customers. The image also works as a record of everyday social history, documenting a familiar type of British hospitality venue at a particular moment in time rather than presenting an idealised studio view. Search themes naturally include British pub heritage, real ale and beer culture, licensed premises, hospitality, public houses, local drinking traditions and the role of pubs within town and city life. Where brewery names, pumps, windows, pub signs or period fittings are present, they add useful detail for features on brewing history, hospitality branding and traditional licensed interiors or exteriors. This particular view is catalogued under Alamy image reference EY7XEM, distinguishing it from other photographs of the same or related subject.
Back Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS11 5PL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EY7XER - . Grove Inn Pub, Back Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire,England,UK. Photographed at Back Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS11 5PL. The photograph was taken on 22 July 2015. 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 Pub, Leeds, Grove Inn, Back Row, West Yorkshire, Magnet, Ales, John, Smiths and ale, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is relevant to homes, residential streets, domestic architecture and the everyday details that shape the appearance of British housing. It can support editorial features about housing, addresses, front doors, neighbourhood identity, home ownership, renting, property condition, postal delivery, security and suburban or urban streets. Doors, windows, numbers, letterboxes, gardens, walls and other domestic details can provide a recognisable visual shorthand for home and residence without relying on a staged interior. As a dated record, the image can also be useful for local history and later comparison as properties are altered, refurbished or redeveloped. Search themes include housing, homes, front doors, addresses, letterboxes, house numbers, residential streets, property, neighbourhoods, renting and home ownership. Small domestic details can become useful archive evidence when properties are refurbished, altered, renumbered or redeveloped. 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. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Back Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS11 5PL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EY7XET - . Grove Inn Pub, Back Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire,England,UK at dusk. Photographed at Back Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS11 5PL. The photograph was taken on 22 July 2015. 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. The scene is closely associated with Pub, Leeds, Grove Inn, Back Row, West Yorkshire, Magnet, Ales, John, Smiths and ale, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. Beyond the immediate subject, the scene is relevant to British pub culture, licensed premises, real ale, beer tourism and the continuing social role of the traditional public house. For picture buyers, the photograph can support editorial features about pubs and bars, hospitality, independent and managed venues, drinking culture, local heritage, city and town centres, leisure spending and the changing British high street. Details such as brewery branding, pub signage, entrances, windows, bar fittings, beer pumps or period architecture can provide useful visual evidence of how licensed premises present themselves to customers. The image also works as a record of everyday social history, documenting a familiar type of British hospitality venue at a particular moment in time rather than presenting an idealised studio view. Search themes naturally include British pub heritage, real ale and beer culture, licensed premises, hospitality, public houses, local drinking traditions and the role of pubs within town and city life. 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.
Back Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS11 5PL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EY5KEX - . The Lord Rodney pub, Winwick Rd, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA2 7DH - an ex-festival ale house. Photographed on 16 July 2015. The recorded location is 67 Winwick Rd, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA2 7DH. It used to be the Tetley Brewery Tap, From a real ale haven to a grubby, keg, dingy hole. In historical terms, public houses form a distinctive part of British social history, combining licensed drinking, hospitality and community life
Older pubs can reveal changing fashions in brewing, tied houses, coaching routes, urban development and leisure, while modern bars show how the licensed trade continues to adapt. As background, the modern real-ale movement helped preserve traditional cask-conditioned beer and encouraged a new generation of independent breweries
Pump clips and branded labels became an significant part of how drinkers identify constantly changing beers at the bar. The historical context is that architecture records the priorities of the period in which a building was designed: materials, ornament, scale and planning can reveal changing technologies, social status and commercial use
Later alterations and changes of tenant add further layers, so a single façade can embody several phases of local history. During 2026, pub survival is a live issue, with government support including a 15% business-rates relief for eligible pubs and live-music venues in England during 2026/27, alongside wider debate about closures, property costs and the value of pubs as community assets. Against the 2026 backdrop, beer culture combines traditional cask ale with craft brewing, cans, keg products and lower-alcohol choices
Photographs of older handpumps and brewery equipment help trace that evolution. For the 2026 context, beer culture combines traditional cask ale with craft brewing, cans, keg products and lower-alcohol choices
Photographs of older handpumps and brewery equipment help trace that evolution.
67 Winwick Rd, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA2 7DH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ECW526 - The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary dates from at least 1074. The original church was demolished and completely rebuilt, but both the chancel and the bell tower of the present building contain small amounts of re-used Norman stonework.
The present Early English Gothic chancel was built late in the 12th or early in the 13th century. The tower has a saddleback roof and may have been built in the 13th or 14th century. The present nave was built in 1793 and has a west gallery that was added in 1834.
St. Mary's is now part of the Cherwell Valley Benefice along with five other ecclesiastical parishes: Fritwell, Lower Heyford, Somerton, Souldern and Upper Heyford.
Here is shown, middle window on south side of nave
built in 1792, blocked for many years and then restored with a new stained glass window early in the 21st century.
Ardley, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ECW528 - The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary dates from at least 1074. The original church was demolished and completely rebuilt, but both the chancel and the bell tower of the present building contain small amounts of re-used Norman stonework.
The present Early English Gothic chancel was built late in the 12th or early in the 13th century. The tower has a saddleback roof and may have been built in the 13th or 14th century. The present nave was built in 1793 and has a west gallery that was added in 1834.
St. Mary's is now part of the Cherwell Valley Benefice along with five other ecclesiastical parishes: Fritwell, Lower Heyford, Somerton, Souldern and Upper Heyford.
Here is shown, middle window on south side of nave
built in 1792, blocked for many years and then restored with a new stained glass window early in the 21st century.
Ardley, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED9DKH - Lichfield Cathedral is situated in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. It is the only medieval English cathedral with three spires. The Diocese of Lichfield covers all of Staffordshire, much of Shropshire and part of the Black Country and West Midlands. The present bishop is the Right Reverend Jonathan Gledhill, the 98th Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
The cathedral is dedicated to St Chad and Saint Mary. Its internal length is 113 metres (370 feet), and the breadth of the nave is 21m (68'). The central spire is 77m (252') high and the western spires are about 58m (190').
The stone is sandstone and came from a quarry on the south side of Lichfield. The walls of the nave lean outwards slightly, due to the weight of stone used in the ceiling vaulting
some 200300 tons of which was removed during renovation work to prevent the walls leaning further.
Lichfield Cathedral, The Close, Lichfield , Staffordshire, England, UK, WS13 7LD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED9DKK - Lichfield Cathedral is situated in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. It is the only medieval English cathedral with three spires. The Diocese of Lichfield covers all of Staffordshire, much of Shropshire and part of the Black Country and West Midlands. The present bishop is the Right Reverend Jonathan Gledhill, the 98th Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
The cathedral is dedicated to St Chad and Saint Mary. Its internal length is 113 metres (370 feet), and the breadth of the nave is 21m (68'). The central spire is 77m (252') high and the western spires are about 58m (190').
The stone is sandstone and came from a quarry on the south side of Lichfield. The walls of the nave lean outwards slightly, due to the weight of stone used in the ceiling vaulting
some 200300 tons of which was removed during renovation work to prevent the walls leaning further.
Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKNP - John Howard, the eighteenth century prison reformer once lodged on this site. The tablet was erected on 31st December 1906 by the Warrington Society. The unveiling ceremony took place in May 1907, on the anniversary of the publication of Howard's work, 'The State of the Prisons in England and Wales'. Mayor Griffith pulled back the green curtain, and addressing those who had gathered for the ceremony, saying that although there had been many memorials to John Howard, he did not think there were any to beat this in beauty or appropriateness, because he was in a way a Warrington man.
John Howard (1726-1790). John Howard became famous for the 'State of Prisons in England and Wales', which was written and published in Warrington in 1777 at Egres Press in Horsemarket Street. He was born in Hackney and the fortune left to him by his father in 1742 allowed him to travel. In 1756, the year after the death of his wife, he travelled to Lisbon. He was captured by a French Privateer and taken to Brest Prison. A short captivity left a lasting impression of the bad treatment given to prisoners of war. He married for a second time and moved to Cardington, near Bedfordshire, where he became the High-Sheriff. He recognised that many prisoners were being held unfairly in prison without being tried and even when they had been found innocent, until family and friends bribed the jailers to let them out. He began a series of tours around Great Britain and Ireland investigating the conditions of prisoners. He wrote about what he observed and made recommendation. As a result of these actions, two laws were passed in 1774, one providing a fixed salary for jailers, the other enforcing cleanliness. Much of the remainder of his life was spent touring the prisons on the mainland and the continent. He visited Warrington many times during his life, for many months at a time. In 1774 he was visiting the northern countries to re-invigorate his prison studies.
Howard Buildings, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DCYPN5 - . Grand Oriental Hotel, Columbo,Ceylon,Luggage and old luggage labels, cases boxes. Photographed at Lacock, Chippenham, England, UK, SN15 2LG. The photograph was taken on 08 August 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 Lacock, Luggage and old luggage labels, cases boxes, old luggage labels, Luggage, case, boxes, cases, Grand Hotel Gibraltar and Grand Oriental Hotel, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image is relevant to architecture, the built environment, urban heritage, streetscape and the way historic and modern buildings contribute to a sense of place. It can illustrate editorial coverage of architectural detail, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, tourism, civic identity and changing uses of older properties. Facades, windows, entrances, masonry, decorative elements, signage and neighbouring structures provide documentary evidence of the building's appearance and setting. The dated view also gives the photograph archive value for future comparison if the property is restored, altered, rebranded, repurposed or redeveloped. Search themes include architecture, historic buildings, facades, interiors, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, heritage, streetscape and urban change. A precise location image is useful for comparing later restoration, alteration, redevelopment, rebranding or changes in the use of the building. 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. This particular view is catalogued under Alamy image reference DCYPN5, distinguishing it from other photographs of the same or related subject.
Lacock, Chippenham, England, UK, SN15 2LG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDE67A - . St Andrews Church, Brympton D'Evercy, Odcombe, Near Yeovil, Somerset, South West England,. The photograph was taken on 06 August 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 Brympton dEvercy, St Andrews Church, Odcombe, wedding venue, medieval manor house, medieval manor, Brympton, brympton house, Somerset and South West England, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is relevant to religious heritage, places of worship, ecclesiastical architecture, local history, faith communities and the conservation of historic buildings. It can illustrate editorial features about churches and cathedrals, worship, monuments, memorials, stained glass, church interiors, architectural detail, tourism, listed buildings and the role of historic religious sites within towns and cities. Stonework, inscriptions, furnishings, windows, towers, memorials and other surviving details can provide useful evidence for architectural and heritage-focused picture research. As a documentary location image it also records the condition, presentation and setting of the site at a particular point in time. Search themes include religious heritage, churches, cathedrals, worship, monuments, memorials, ecclesiastical architecture, conservation, tourism and local history. Architectural and decorative details can also be useful to researchers studying the fabric, furnishings and changing presentation of historic places of worship. 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. The view is firmly rooted in a real location rather than a constructed studio setting.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DBHR18 - . This scene at Uttoxeter Rd, Stoke-on-Trent,England, UK, ST3 1PQ in 2013 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The subject captured here is Gladstone Pottery Office, Longton,Stoke-On-Trent. The subject also carries associations with public-transport wayfinding, public realm, local character, community identity, bus route infrastructure, documentary photography, archival record, public transport stop, local history, bus infrastructure, social history, period detail, local bus network, and passenger transport. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with decarbonisation, local connectivity and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing. Small period details of equipment and working practice at Uttoxeter Rd, Stoke-on-Trent,England, UK, ST3 1PQ may become more significant with time, particularly following changed technology. The surrounding story also includes contemporary social history, street-side transport, changing streetscape, surface public transport, historical comparison, passenger information, place identity, and transport accessibility. Details involving Longton, Gladstone, Pottery, Stoke-On-Trent, and Office make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For Uttoxeter Rd, Stoke-on-Trent,England, UK, ST3 1PQ, 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 decarbonisation and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing when considered against later change at Uttoxeter Rd, Stoke-on-Trent,England, UK, ST3 1PQ. Another useful connection is service frequency and the challenge of maintaining reliable local services without losing the local specificity of Uttoxeter Rd, Stoke-on-Trent,England, UK, ST3 1PQ.
Uttoxeter Rd, Stoke-on-Trent,England, UK, ST3 1PQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB6P44 - The Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library are two grade II* listed buildings on William Brown Street, Liverpool, England which now form part of the Liverpool Central Library. The Scheirwater Lloyd clock sits over the entrance to the Hornby library from the Picton Reading Room.
Chairman of the William Brown Library and Museum Sir James Picton laid the foundation stone of the Picton Reading Room in 1875. It was designed by Cornelius Sherlock, and modelled after the British Museum Reading Room, and was the first electrically lit library in the UK.
It was completed in 1879. The front is semicircular with Corinthian columns, and the shape was chosen by the architect to cover the change in the axis of the row of buildings at this point. The Hornby Reading Room (named after Hugh Frederick Hornby) by Thomas Shelmerdine was added in 1906. It stands behind the older building and the interior is decorated in the Edwardian Imperial style
Liverpool Central Library, Liverpool, England, UK L3 8EW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB6PJ9 - . This dated editorial view of William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK, L3 8EW in 2013 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The image documents Liverpool Picton Library, revolving door, Merseyside, North west England, UK. The surrounding context encompasses before-and-after reference, contemporary social history, place-based commemoration, cultural memory, archival record, DJ culture, changing land use, everyday life, social history, music-scene memorial, local remembrance, regional identity, memorial culture, and popular-music heritage. Current relevance extends to local history and venue closures, particularly through how memorials preserve figures from regional music scenes outside formal institutions. Future viewers can use this scene from William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK, L3 8EW to compare building condition and alterations with whatever follows after changed technology. The photograph additionally reflects place identity, changing streetscape, period detail, regional music heritage, public realm, music memorial, historical comparison, and visual archive. Details involving Library, Picton, Liverpool, Merseyside, and revolving make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK, L3 8EW, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. A further contemporary connection is local history and the importance of documenting club and dance-music history when considered against later change at William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK, L3 8EW. The wider significance includes nightlife history and how public plaques turn personal remembrance into shared cultural memory without losing the local specificity of William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK, L3 8EW.
William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK, L3 8EW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDJNPK - Brympton d'Evercy (also known as Brympton House) is a manor house near Yeovil in the county of Somerset, England. It has been called the most beautiful house in England, a country noted for fine country houses. In 1927 the British magazine Country Life published a set of three articles on the house, in which Christopher Hussey, near the start of his 50-year career as an architectural authority and documenter of British country houses, described Brympton d'Evercy as the most incomparable house in Britain, the one which created the greatest impression and summarises so exquisitely English country life qualities. His articles remain the only detailed account of the house, which in its long history has belonged to six families: the D'Evercys, the Stourtons, the Sydenhams, the Fanes, the Weeks (19922008), and the Glossop family in 2008. Building was begun by the D'Evercy family about 1220 and proceeded slowly into the 18th century. For 750 years it remained little known or recorded. For a few years after the Second World War it held a boys' school, before being reclaimed by its owners as a private house. This it remains, although it is occasionally hired out as a location for filming or a hospitality event.
Brympton d'Evercy from the south around 1722 by Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff.
The house is part of a complex consisting of the mansion, its stables and other outbuildings, the parish church and a puzzling building known as the Priest House. Little remains of the original D'Evercy manor built between 1220 and 1325, as the present house has evolved on the same site.
Brympton d'Evercy was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Brunetone, meaning brown enclosure, from the Old English brun and tun.
The village of Brympton is larger today than at any time in its history. Until the 20th century, it barely qualified as a village, having been deserted in the 14th century. It consisted only of a few cottages scattered along the long drive to the secluded mansion.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDJNRR - Brympton d'Evercy (also known as Brympton House) is a manor house near Yeovil in the county of Somerset, England. It has been called the most beautiful house in England, a country noted for fine country houses. In 1927 the British magazine Country Life published a set of three articles on the house, in which Christopher Hussey, near the start of his 50-year career as an architectural authority and documenter of British country houses, described Brympton d'Evercy as the most incomparable house in Britain, the one which created the greatest impression and summarises so exquisitely English country life qualities. His articles remain the only detailed account of the house, which in its long history has belonged to six families: the D'Evercys, the Stourtons, the Sydenhams, the Fanes, the Weeks (19922008), and the Glossop family in 2008. Building was begun by the D'Evercy family about 1220 and proceeded slowly into the 18th century. For 750 years it remained little known or recorded. For a few years after the Second World War it held a boys' school, before being reclaimed by its owners as a private house. This it remains, although it is occasionally hired out as a location for filming or a hospitality event.
Brympton d'Evercy from the south around 1722 by Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff.
The house is part of a complex consisting of the mansion, its stables and other outbuildings, the parish church and a puzzling building known as the Priest House. Little remains of the original D'Evercy manor built between 1220 and 1325, as the present house has evolved on the same site.
Brympton d'Evercy was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Brunetone, meaning brown enclosure, from the Old English brun and tun.
The village of Brympton is larger today than at any time in its history. Until the 20th century, it barely qualified as a village, having been deserted in the 14th century. It consisted only of a few cottages scattered along the long drive to the secluded mansion.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BKC2C5 - . An authentic period record of Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ, retaining the practical visual detail that later redevelopment, rebranding or altered use can remove. The location is represented through Ashton Under Lyne,Dukinfield, Bridge,Tollls , List of Tolls, greater Manchester, GMC, Manchester,England,Uk. The setting additionally reflects waterside infrastructure, local character, visual archive, lock-side environment, documentary photography, urban change, riparian setting, boating network, social landscape, changing streetscape, parliamentary correspondence, waterborne travel, historic transport corridor, and place identity. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about ageing locks and bridges, waterside regeneration and the long transition from freight route to leisure and heritage asset. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with public spending, constituency representation and preserving campaign language that can quickly date. As a dated visual record of Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ, the frame retains commercial identity and local use, making it useful if new construction subsequently changes the scene. The photograph additionally reflects contemporary history, political campaigning, navigation engineering, community identity, democratic accountability, constituency politics, managed navigation, and inland navigation. The recorded references to Tollls, Bridge, Under, Dukinfield, and Ashton preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. For Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which small changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The image adds a further period reference to the visual history of Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ.
Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BKC2C7 - . An authentic period record of Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ, retaining the practical visual detail that later redevelopment, rebranding or altered use can remove. The photograph centres on Ashton Under Lyne,Dukinfield, Bridge,Tollls , List of Tolls, greater Manchester, GMC, Manchester,England,Uk. The locality and subject together evoke local history, managed navigation, public administration, inland navigation, contemporary history, local character, place identity, archival record, public realm, river transport, changing streetscape, urban change, constituency politics, and historic transport corridor. In the mid-2020s, heritage conservation and waterside regeneration keep this subject current, particularly through balancing leisure use with engineering and environmental needs. For contemporary context, Westminster politics and political accountability are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes preserving campaign language that can quickly date. The archival value lies partly in recording ownership and occupation around Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ before different community use alters the character of the place. A second layer of the scene includes towpath landscape, blue-green infrastructure, social landscape, historical comparison, community identity, democratic accountability, visual archive, and electoral messaging. The recorded references to Under, Tollls, Ashton, greater, and Bridge preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. A later view of Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ and the changing story of the subject shown.
Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PP0NK7 - . Victorian urinals, John Rylands Research Institute and Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, England, UK, M3 3EH. Photographed on 22 May 2010, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is John Rylands Research Institute and Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, England, UK, M3 3EH, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include John Rylands Library, Research Institute, John Rylands Research Institute and Library, M3 3EH, Deansgate, gentlemen, fashioned, toilets, WCs, sink, sinks, marble, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. Architecturally, the scene records the form, materials, scale and public-facing character of the built environment, making it useful for coverage of design, planning, conservation, development and urban identity. The image has value for architectural and place-based research because buildings and interiors can be refurbished, repurposed, demolished or substantially altered, while streets and public spaces also evolve. The heritage dimension gives the photograph relevance to local history, conservation, collective memory, historic buildings and objects, civic identity and the ways in which earlier generations are represented in today's public realm. As a contemporary record of a historic subject, it can illustrate preservation, interpretation, restoration, tourism and debates about how cultural and industrial heritage is maintained and reused. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. The scene contributes a specific, place-based record rather than a generic illustration.
John Rylands Research Institute and Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, England, UK, M3 3EH
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4468213250 - 'Rehearsal with conductor Jeremy Jackman prior to the candlelight concert by the English Baroque Choir. St Martins is in the north east corner of Trafalgar Square, central London. The patron saint is Martin of Tours.
It is a classic church, a bit of peace from the noise and traffic of Westminster. Its pretty much rectangular with Corinthian style columns. As can be seen here, the ceiling is lovely and provides a warm glow inside. The large window at the altar has an interesting distortion.
There was a lot of work done between 2006-2008 to renovate different parts of the structure. The new East Window installed above the altar at St Martin in the Fields was one element. Designed by Shirazeh Houshiary, in collaboration with architect Pip Horne. This window replacing the old window (following World War II bomb damage) marked the final stage of the church's Renewal Project on 28 April 2008.
Donations are always welcome however and I noticed it is still possible to sponsor a pane of glass and 'Give light to St Martin's'. It offers social care services to London's Chinese community and homeless people.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HCR0 - . This location-specific image from Great Britain, UK in 2009 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The frame specifically shows Old lady's expired British subject passport photograph. The surrounding context encompasses postal graphic design, paper communication, community identity, visual archive, commemorative issue, used postage stamp, documentary photography, everyday life, regional identity, changing land use, public realm, philatelic material, historic postage, and postal history. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with collecting, graphic design and the collector interest created by discontinued currencies, states and designs. For later comparison, the photograph preserves lettering, decoration and surface detail at Great Britain, UK, details that may look very different after new construction. The surrounding story also includes before-and-after reference, collectable stamp, postal artefact, social history, local character, postal ephemera, mail history, and contemporary social history. Details involving British, subject, photograph, passport, and expired make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around Great Britain, UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The image also provides a reference for collecting and the collector interest created by discontinued currencies, states and designs without losing the local specificity of Great Britain, UK. Another useful connection is collecting and the contrast between physical postal culture and digital communication in a form that can be compared with future views of Great Britain, UK. It also preserves evidence of earlier appearance within the wider story of Great Britain, UK.
Great Britain, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HCKK - Manchester cathedral interior NW England UK
Manchester Cathedral is a medieval church in Manchester, England seat of the Bishop of Manchester. Its official name is the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George in Manchester and is located on Victoria Street in the city centre.
Although extensively refaced, restored and extended in the Victorian period, and then again following severe bomb damage in the 20th century, the main body of the cathedral largely derives from the wardenship of James Stanley (warden 14851506), and is in the Perpendicular Gothic style.
Stanley was also primarily responsible for commissioning the spectacular late medieval wooden furnishings, including the pulpitum, the choir stalls and the nave roof supported by angels with gilded instruments. It is one of fifteen Grade I listed buildings in Manchester. Since 2005 the Dean of the Cathedral has been the Very Reverend Rogers Govender.
Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F80G8P - In association football, the United Trinity or the Holy Trinity refers to the Manchester United trio of George Best, Denis Law, and Bobby Charlton, who helped United become the first ever English club team to win the European Cup in 1968.
Charlton was a member of the Busby Babes, a group of talented young players brought through the club's academy by the eponymous manager Matt Busby and his assistant Jimmy Murphy, as well as club scout Joe Armstrong, who discovered Charlton in 1953, and Best in 1961, amongst others. Law arrived at the club from Italian team Torino for a club record £115,000 in 1962, having previously played for Huddersfield Town and rivals Manchester City.
Charlton made his debut on 6 October 1956, scoring twice in a 42 win against Charlton Athletic. Law made his debut on 18 August 1962, scoring in a 22 with West Bromwich Albion. Although Best made debut against West Bromwich Albion on 14 September 1963, it wouldn't be until the reverse fixture on 18 January 1964 when all three would feature in the same starting line-up
a 41 victory in which all three scored, with Law scoring two of them
Sir Matt Busby way, Old Trafford, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PCB4GR - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Grappenhall Lane, Appleton Thorn Village, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 4QX in 2023, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The image documents Spring at the Thorn Inn, Greene King hostelry, at Grappenhall Lane, Appleton Thorn Village, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 4QX. The subject also carries associations with place identity, documentary photography, pub heritage, community drinking venue, changing streetscape, period detail, local character, traditional ale house, changing land use, hospitality economy, visitor hospitality, regional identity, social history, and contemporary social history. The modern context includes continuing discussion of beer duty, changing drinking habits and the survival of pubs as both businesses and informal community spaces. The archival value lies partly in recording period objects and surrounding context around Grappenhall Lane, Appleton Thorn Village, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 4QX before altered transport patterns alters the character of the place. The photograph additionally reflects local social venue, historic hostelry, night-time economy, cask-beer tradition, before-and-after reference, licensed trade, everyday life, and visual archive. Details involving Greene, Village, Spring, Grappenhall, and Appleton make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. A later view of Grappenhall Lane, Appleton Thorn Village, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 4QX may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes beer duty and the survival of pubs as both businesses and informal community spaces when considered against later change at Grappenhall Lane, Appleton Thorn Village, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 4QX.
Grappenhall Lane, Appleton Thorn Village, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 4QX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BEW1CD - Crewe Heritage Centre is a railway museum located in Crewe, England. Managed by the Crewe Heritage Trust, the museum is located between the railway station and the town centre
the site was the location of the 'Old Works' which was demolished in the early 1980s.
History
The centre was established in the old London, Midland and Scottish Railway yard, which was once part of Crewe Works, between the junction to Chester and the West Coast Main Line. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, on 24 July 1987. It was renamed in 1992 as Crewe Railway Age by the owning registered charity but, after the management of the centre was taken over by a new group of volunteers, the museum returned to its original name of Crewe Heritage Centre in early 2008.
Exhibits
The centre has a series of exhibits, ranging from the only surviving APT-P train, miniature railways, three open signal boxes (Crewe Station A, Crewe North Junction and Exeter West) and a varied collection of standard gauge steam, diesel and electric locomotives, as well as occasional visiting locomotives. The Main Exhibition Hall features many artefacts and exhibits associated with Crewe, from its locomotive and carriage construction to its famous junction railway station. Brake Van rides are available to the public during special events.
Advanced Passenger Train
APT No.370 003/006 at Crewe Heritage Centre
Built by British Rail (BR) the 1970s and 1980s, this Class 370 Advanced Passenger Train (APT) is the only surviving APT set. Numbered 370 003/006, it is open at all times with an occasional cafe run from the original buffet car (selected days only). The APT-P museum can be found inside one of the carriages, with photographs on display from the APT project
Cheshire,England, UK, CW1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKNE - Thieves stolen a metal plaque erected in memory of two young boys who were killed in an IRA bomb attack in Warrington, Cheshire.
Tim Parry, who was 12, and Johnathan Ball, aged three, died in 1993 when two bombs detonated in the town centre injuring 54 people. The A3 size plaque is thought to have a scrap metal value of no more than £30.
16 Bridge Street, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2QW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F15PC4 - British 17p used and postmarked stamp - seventeen pence is a useful documentary subject because it fixes a recognisable place, object or activity in its real setting rather than presenting it as a staged illustration. The scene records a specific piece of everyday place-based detail, the sort of subject that often says more about local identity, work, leisure, transport or consumption than a polished landmark view would. Its value is in the recognisable setting, readable clues and documentary directness, making it useful for editorial coverage of changing streets, public services, heritage, retail habits and ordinary life in Britain and beyond. The location wording gives the subject enough geographic context for local and regional editorial use while avoiding a generic studio feel. Relevant editorial themes include postage stamp, philately, postal history and collectable stamp, with each theme rooted in the visible subject, place or activity. It would suit newspaper, magazine, web, council, transport, heritage, housing, retail, travel or social-commentary use where a believable, unpolished view of real life is more valuable than a generic illustration.
United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C9E2TE - The Parr Hall is the only surviving professional concert hall venue in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building
The Parr Hall and Pyramid Arts Centre are located in the Cultural quarter of Warrington town centre, in Palmyra Square.
Parr Hall was designed by the local architect William Owen in 1895.
Originally it was built for the people of Warrington by Joseph Parr. Warrington Musical Society gave the first concert.
The hall has hosted concerts and organ recitals from leading orchestras and cathedral organists over the years.
The Rolling Stones performed at the venue on 25 November 1963, The Moody Blues on 1 March 1965 and The Who on 22 March and 11 October 1965 and on 14 June 1965 The Yardbirds. The band James - having sold out concerts at much larger venues - played the Parr Hall on 20 December 1991 to record a promotional video. Other notable artist such as Feeder, The Courteeners, Beady Eye, Arctic Monkeys, and Shane Filan of Westlife have played at the venue, and Jools Holland is a regular performer.
Parr Hall Palmyra Square South Warrington,Cheshire,England, WA1 1BL
