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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_1310,Grappenhall Ex-Servicemens Club,World Cup,live,football,poster,Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,televised,matches,drinks,bar,family,beer,offers,membership,social,club,sports,broadcasting,community,venue,promotion,licensed,hospitality,leisure,2026,fever,footy
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ETN5H3 - . Grappenhall Ex-Servicemen's Club World Cup 2026 fever live football poster in Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. Photographed on 15 June 2026. The large promotional sign advertises televised World Cup matches, discounted drinks, bar snacks, family areas, beer offers and club membership, illustrating how social clubs use major sporting events to attract visitors and members. The colourful board stands beside outdoor seating and club grounds. For stadium architecture, the historical context is that football and major sporting events leave a rich material record through flags, tickets, souvenirs, programmes and venue signage
International tournaments in particular can turn everyday objects into historical evidence of national sporting culture. Looking at place identity, the longer history is that 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. The background to bar trade is 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. For stadium architecture, the 2026 context is that professional sport remains closely tied to broadcast rights, tourism, sponsorship and stadium redevelopment, while supporter experience, policing, ticket prices and transport continue to shape matchday debate. In 2026, place identity remains relevant because current place-making policy increasingly emphasises distinctive local identity rather than generic development, so small landmarks and community businesses can become important parts of how an area is represented. Further relevant search phrases include football club, supporters, fan culture, sporting heritage, and club identity.
Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,food & drink,May,community,event,sunny,17th May 2026,Cheshire,Warrington Food and Drink Festival,Warrington Town Hall,Bank Park,Sankey Street,festival,crowd,outdoor event,town,centre,outdoor seating,family,day out,families,tourist,attraction,regeneration,visitor economy,local economy,hospitality sector,independent traders,food stalls,drink stalls,street food,artisan producers,community groups,weekend leisure,outdoor dining,public event,cultural programming,festival marquee
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EG4B7X - Family crowds enjoying Warrington Food & Drink Festival in bright sunshine on Sunday 17 May 2026, photographed on the lawn at Bank Park and the grounds of Warrington Town Hall, Cheshire. The image shows visitors of mixed ages sitting and gathering around outdoor benches and tables, with a white marquee, catering points, traders and event stalls spread across the grass in front of the red-brick Georgian Town Hall. Blue sky, scattered cloud and fresh spring foliage help convey the relaxed, open-air atmosphere of a successful town-centre festival. The picture is highly suitable for editorial use on food festivals, family leisure, community events, public space, outdoor hospitality, civic venues, tourism, placemaking and local economic activity.
Official listings for the 2026 festival said it returned to Bank Park and the grounds of Warrington Town Hall on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 May, bringing together around 80 traders alongside demonstrations, music and family entertainment. That wider context makes this photograph especially useful for features on Warrington as a Cheshire tourist draw, as well as stories about alternative stallholders, independent retailers, artisan producers, food and drink businesses, community organisations and town-centre regeneration. Rather than focusing on one stall, the image captures the overall feel of the event, with people socialising, eating, drinking and enjoying a spring day in a historic civic setting, creating a vivid family day out image with strong town-centre footfall.
Warrington Town Hall, originally built in 1750 as Bank Hall for merchant Thomas Patten and later acquired by the council, adds heritage value to the scene. Designed by James Gibbs and long associated with Warrington's civic identity, the building helps anchor the festival within the town's historic core. The result is a commercially useful editorial image linking culture, heritage, hospitality and public life in contemporary Warrington.
Sunny Warrington food festival scene with families, artisan stalls and outdoor seating before histor
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EGWM71 - Poster for Return to Wrex-Slam , a family friendly Basix Pro Wrestling event advertised in Wrexham, Wales. The colourful promotional flyer shows wrestlers posing around bold black, green and white wrestling-style graphics, with the Basix Pro Wrestling 20th anniversary logo, QR code ticketing, event branding and venue details for Hightown Community Resource stock-photo/gotonysmith-Centre.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Centre on Fusilier Way, Wrexham. The poster promotes a Saturday 13 June 2026 show with doors at 4pm and first bell at 4.30pm, positioning the event as live sports entertainment for adults, children and families. TicketSource lists BPW: Return to Wrex-Slam! at Hightown Community Resource Centre, Wrexham, LL13 7YF, while Basix Pro Wrestling's own social promotion gives the same event name, date, venue and show timing. The photograph is useful for editorial coverage of Welsh independent wrestling, grassroots sports entertainment, family events, local leisure, community centre performances, Wrexham city centre advertising, fan culture and the continuing appeal of live wrestling outside the major televised promotions. Reflections in the window glass, creases in the poster and the shop-window setting give the image a real documentary street feel rather than a clean publicity graphic. It can illustrate stories about local event promotion, QR code ticketing, small entertainment businesses, community venues, affordable weekend activities, children's entertainment, Welsh pop culture and independent wrestling in towns and cities across the UK. The poster's strong typography, dramatic wrestler portraits, family friendly wording and Wrex-Slam title make it visually clear and commercially useful for stock searches connected with pro wrestling, live shows, sports posters, Wrexham events and North Wales community entertainment.
Hightown Community Resource Centre, Fusilier Way, Wrexham, LL13 7YF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,HMRC,allowance,advertisement,Thelwall,places,nursery,day,with,Universal Credit,UK,costs,affordability,free,fees,funded,portal,scheme,code,30 hours,working,family,support,benefits,cost of living,capacity,increases,cost,early years,entitlement,vacancies,availability,parents returning to work,preschool care,child development,private,policy,government
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EENG7T - A Holyrood Nurseries Warrington outdoor banner advertising childcare spaces available, photographed beside grass and a red brick nursery building in the Thelwall and Grappenhall area of Warrington, Cheshire. The green sign carries the Holyrood Nurseries and Thrive Childcare and Education branding, the website thrivechildcare.com and the local telephone number 01925 496955, with a smiling child pictured on the right-hand side. This image is commercially useful for editorial coverage of nursery provision, early years education, childcare vacancies, working parents, family finances and childcare affordability in England. Holyrood Warrington is listed by Thrive Childcare at 237 Thelwall New Road, Grappenhall, Warrington, WA4 2XT, making the photograph relevant to local childcare services in south Warrington and policy stories. The words Childcare Spaces Available connect directly with debates about nursery capacity, funded childcare hours, staff availability, parental work choices and the difficulty of finding places close to home. Government support can include Tax-Free Childcare, where eligible families can receive a top-up worth up to £2,000 a year per child, and Universal Credit childcare support, which can meet up to 85% of eligible costs. These schemes are often presented as help for working families, but the real impact depends on eligibility, provider charges, wraparound costs, opening hours and whether a nursery place is actually available. The photograph can illustrate Labour Government childcare policy, childcare portals, free or funded childcare codes, Tax-Free Childcare accounts, Universal Credit support, early years entitlements, nursery fees, cost of living pressure, parents returning to work and children's services. The low warm sunlight, grass foreground and suburban brick building give the image a clear local documentary feel, while the prominent banner makes it suitable for news, policy, education, business and family finance use.
Holyrood Nurseries childcare places banner in Thelwall, Warrington, advertising nursery spaces and c
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Yorkshire,England,UK,town,centre,HG1,family,and,student,deals,films,profits,loss,Harrogate town centre,North Yorkshire,HG1 5LB,the,art deco,artdeco,building,architecture,historic,heritage,original,entertainment,urban,Streamlined Moderne,style,Harry Weedon,chain,architect,East Parade,Station Avenue,1936,fin
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RH8AFD - Odeon Cinema Harrogate, North Yorkshire
East Parade, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 5LB
Designed by: Harry Weedon and W Calder Robson
Built: 1936
Standing on the corner of East Parade and Station Avenue in the North Yorkshire town of Harrogate is arguably one of Britain's finest Modernist cinema buildings. Today, the building survives as part of the Odeon cinema chain after eight decades of continuous use as a working cinema.
The Odeon company traces its history back to 1930 when the firm established by Oscar Deutsch (1893-1941) opened its first cinema bearing the Odeon name, at Perry Barr in Birmingham, on 4 August 1930. The company saw its greatest period of expansion during the 1930s, as the increasing popularity of cinema-going allowed Deutsch to open in excess of 250 cinemas prior to the Second World War.
Like the majority of Odeon's cinemas, the Odeon Harrogate was built in the Streamlined Moderne style and was a product of the Weedon Partnership. Harry Weedon (1887-1970) became involved with the Odeon chain in 1934 and his company produced designs for some of the finest buildings of the period.
The dominant feature of the Odeon Harrogate's design is a central brown-brick tower, with a projecting, taller 'fin' clad in biscuit-coloured faience tiles. At the top of the fin 'cinema' is spelt out in slender, sans-serif lettering. The tower is set in front of the main auditorium, of which the uppermost section is visible behind the tower. The top section is broken with projecting bands of darker brown brick, and the bands continue down the face of the tower on its southern face.
The northern range of the cinema (to the left when viewed face-on) comprises a five-bay, four-storey block clad in the same biscuit-coloured faience, save for the base of the building, which is clad in black faience. The faience tiles are rectangular and are set in pairs horizontally, with thin joints between the paired tiles, and thicker, more prominent horizontal joints
E Parade, Harrogate, HG1 5LB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Scotland,Edinburgh,EH6,port,of,Leith,Lothian,UK,EH6 6JJ,OT,at,moor,moored,up,HM,docks,craft,marine,travel,voyage,ship,harbour,harbourside,dockyard,shopping,centre,prow,ships,Great Britain,British,royals,flags,in,boat,family,Leithers
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RE0X9N - Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia, also known as the Royal Yacht Britannia, is the former royal yacht of the British monarchy. She was in service from 1954 until 1997. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893. During her 43-year career, the yacht travelled more than a million nautical miles around the world to more than 600 ports in 135 countries. Now retired from royal service, Britannia is permanently berthed at Ocean Terminal, Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland, where it is a visitor attraction with over 300,000 visits each year.
Construction
HMY Britannia was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 April 1953, and commissioned on 11 January 1954. The ship was designed with three masts: a 133-foot (41 m) foremast, a 139-foot (42 m) mainmast, and a 118-foot (36 m) mizzenmast. The top aerial on the foremast and the top 20 feet (6.1 m) of the mainmast were hinged to allow the ship to pass under bridges.
Britannia was designed to be converted into a hospital ship in time of war, although this capability was never used. In the event of nuclear war, it was intended for the Queen and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to take refuge aboard Britannia off the north-west coast of Scotland
Ocean Terminal, Leith, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, UK, EH6 6JJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,Scotland,OT,Shopping,centre,berthed,dock,tourist,attraction,EH6,port,of,Leith,Lothian,EH6 6JJ,at,moor,moored,up,HM,docks,craft,marine,travel,voyage,ship,harbour,harbourside,dockyard,shopping,prow,ships,Great Britain,British,in,boat,family
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RECE2B - Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia, also known as the Royal Yacht Britannia, is the former royal yacht of the British monarchy. She was in service from 1954 until 1997. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893. During her 43-year career, the yacht travelled more than a million nautical miles around the world to more than 600 ports in 135 countries. Now retired from royal service, Britannia is permanently berthed at Ocean Terminal, Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland, where it is a visitor attraction with over 300,000 visits each year.
Construction
HMY Britannia was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 April 1953, and commissioned on 11 January 1954. The ship was designed with three masts: a 133-foot (41 m) foremast, a 139-foot (42 m) mainmast, and a 118-foot (36 m) mizzenmast. The top aerial on the foremast and the top 20 feet (6.1 m) of the mainmast were hinged to allow the ship to pass under bridges.
Britannia was designed to be converted into a hospital ship in time of war, although this capability was never used. In the event of nuclear war, it was intended for the Queen and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to take refuge aboard Britannia off the north-west coast of Scotland
Ocean Terminal, Leith, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, UK, EH6 6JJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,BW,seeker,family,familes,single,men,person,beds,WA4 2LD,WA4,hotels,immigrant,Sure Collection,Knutsford Old Road,Grappenhall,Cheshire,England,into,the,Home Office,policy,plan,migrant,crisis,migrants,temporary,accommodation,angry,local,community,legal options,WBC,borough council,refugees,staff,welfare,small boats,Labour
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDKG4J - Rainy, overcast view of the Warrington Fir Grove Hotel on Knutsford Old Road, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, with its large turquoise roadside sign advertising wedding and conference suites, restaurant and bar, and the hotel building and parked cars beyond. The hotel became the focus of a local political dispute in November 2022 after the Home Office planned to use it to accommodate families seeking asylum. Warrington South Conservative MP Andy Carter said he would raise the decision in Parliament and criticised the Home Office over consultation with residents and local services. Warrington Borough Council also opposed the decision and explored possible legal and planning options, although King's Counsel advised that an immediate challenge was unlikely to succeed. Contemporary reporting said the hotel had 54 rooms and a maximum planned occupancy of 79 guests. The episode became part of the wider national argument over asylum accommodation, hotel costs, irregular migration and small-boat crossings of the English Channel. By 2026 the Labour government had reduced the asylum-hotel population and closed a proportion of hotels, while committing to end hotel use during the Parliament. However, claims that Labour had already drastically reduced small-boat arrivals need qualification: official year-ending March 2026 figures recorded 39,271 small-boat arrivals, 3% higher than the previous year, although arrivals began falling later and April to June 2026 were substantially lower year on year. Reform UK's 2026 Operation Fortress policy proposes Royal Navy-led interception of small boats and returning those aboard to France or Belgium, alongside a much tougher approach to inadmissibility and removal. The contrasting approaches make sites such as Fir Grove a useful documentary image for changing British debates over asylum, borders, public spending, local consultation and immigration policy.
Knutsford Old Road, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2LD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDKG4R - Angry MP aims to raise Fir Grove Hotel asylum seekers decision in parliament - more at https://www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/2022/11/05/angry-mp-aims-to-raise-fir-grove-hotel-asylum-seekers-decision-in-parliament/
An angry Warrington South MP Andy Carter says he is going to raise the Home Office decision to allow asylum seekers at the Fir Grove Hotel at Grappenhall in parliament in the coming week.
Mr Carter yesterday held a number of meetings to understand the legal options available to Warrington Borough Council, which also opposes the decision.
He said: I held a number of meetings yesterday to understand the legal options available to the Council in terms of challenging decisions taken by the owners of the hotel and to gain more information from the Home Office and their plans for this site.
In discussions with Home Office officials, I have been advised that the cohort planned for accommodation this site will be families with children. Prior to arriving in Warrington the refugees will have been processed at centres elsewhere. The hotel has 54 rooms and a maximum occupancy of 79 guests in total.
The advice received from Kings Counsel was that an immediate legal challenge to this decision to use this site for Asylum Seekers would be unlikely to succeed, not least due the incredibly short timescales before the asylum seekers arrive in Warrington and the location of the owners of the site. Other local authorities are however pursuing legal routes related to planning legislation and a change of use requirements, which I am monitoring.
Knutsford Old Road, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2LD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDKG4Y - Warrington South MP Andy Carter on Fir Grove asylum plan - more at https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/23107891.warrington-south-mp-andy-carter-fir-grove-asylum-plan/
OPENING an asylum centre at a Warrington hotel without consulting residents was 'simply not acceptable'.
Warrington South MP Andy Carter raised his concerns in the House of Commons on Monday afternoon during an urgent debate on the migrant crisis.
He was among a large number of MPs grilling immigration minister Robert Jenrick on the fall out of the problems at the Manston Migrant Centre in Kent.
Thousands of migrants have been placed in temporary accomodation since then to relieve the pressure Parliament was told.
Mr Carter said on Thursday he was notified by the Home Office that the Fir Grove hotel in his Warrington South constituency would 'become an asylum centre the following day' and said no talks were held with the council.
He added: It's in the middle of a residential area, less than 200 yards from a primary school.
I'm sure (Mr Jenrick) would agree with me that it's simply not acceptable for the Home Office to steamroll ahead on a decision like this without the necessary consultation with local residents.
After Conservative former minister Paul Maynard raised concerns about the use of a hotel in his Blackpool North and Cleveleys constituency, Mr Jenrick said: I appreciate that Blackpool is one of those areas that has borne a disproportionate burden from this issue for a long time.
So if there is a way we can ensure that individuals are dispersed from Blackpool more swiftly than other parts of the country, then I'd be happy to look into that.
Mr Jenrick added 'deterrence' has to be part of the UK's approach, suggesting good-quality hotels could act as a 'pull factor' for people thinking of crossing the Channel.
The population at the Manston Migrant Processing Centre is back below 1,600 with 'over 2,300 people being placed in onward accommodation', Mr Jenrick said.
Knutsford Old Road, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2LD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K30HBD - George Formby, OBE (born George Hoy Booth
26 May 1904 “ 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the United Kingdom's highest-paid entertainer.
Born in Wigan, Lancashire, he was the son of George Formby Sr, from whom he later took his stage name. After an early career as a stable boy and jockey, Formby took to the music hall stage after the early death of his father in 1921. His early performances were taken exclusively from his father's act, including the same songs, jokes and characters. In 1923 he made two career-changing decisions “ he purchased a ukulele, and married Beryl Ingham, a fellow performer who became his manager and transformed his act. She insisted that he appear on stage formally dressed, and introduced the ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the late 1930s and 1940s, and became the UK's most popular entertainer during those decades. The media historian Brian McFarlane writes that on film, Formby portrayed gormless Lancastrian innocents who would win through against some form of villainy, gaining the affection of an attractive middle-class girl in the process.
Warrington cemetery, Manchester Road, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K30HDB - George Formby, OBE (born George Hoy Booth
26 May 1904 “ 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the United Kingdom's highest-paid entertainer.
Born in Wigan, Lancashire, he was the son of George Formby Sr, from whom he later took his stage name. After an early career as a stable boy and jockey, Formby took to the music hall stage after the early death of his father in 1921. His early performances were taken exclusively from his father's act, including the same songs, jokes and characters. In 1923 he made two career-changing decisions “ he purchased a ukulele, and married Beryl Ingham, a fellow performer who became his manager and transformed his act. She insisted that he appear on stage formally dressed, and introduced the ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the late 1930s and 1940s, and became the UK's most popular entertainer during those decades. The media historian Brian McFarlane writes that on film, Formby portrayed gormless Lancastrian innocents who would win through against some form of villainy, gaining the affection of an attractive middle-class girl in the process.
Warrington cemetery, Manchester Road, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K30HDF - George Formby, OBE (born George Hoy Booth
26 May 1904 “ 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the United Kingdom's highest-paid entertainer.
Born in Wigan, Lancashire, he was the son of George Formby Sr, from whom he later took his stage name. After an early career as a stable boy and jockey, Formby took to the music hall stage after the early death of his father in 1921. His early performances were taken exclusively from his father's act, including the same songs, jokes and characters. In 1923 he made two career-changing decisions “ he purchased a ukulele, and married Beryl Ingham, a fellow performer who became his manager and transformed his act. She insisted that he appear on stage formally dressed, and introduced the ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the late 1930s and 1940s, and became the UK's most popular entertainer during those decades. The media historian Brian McFarlane writes that on film, Formby portrayed gormless Lancastrian innocents who would win through against some form of villainy, gaining the affection of an attractive middle-class girl in the process.
Warrington cemetery, Manchester Road, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K30HDM - George Formby, OBE (born George Hoy Booth
26 May 1904 “ 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the United Kingdom's highest-paid entertainer.
Born in Wigan, Lancashire, he was the son of George Formby Sr, from whom he later took his stage name. After an early career as a stable boy and jockey, Formby took to the music hall stage after the early death of his father in 1921. His early performances were taken exclusively from his father's act, including the same songs, jokes and characters. In 1923 he made two career-changing decisions “ he purchased a ukulele, and married Beryl Ingham, a fellow performer who became his manager and transformed his act. She insisted that he appear on stage formally dressed, and introduced the ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the late 1930s and 1940s, and became the UK's most popular entertainer during those decades. The media historian Brian McFarlane writes that on film, Formby portrayed gormless Lancastrian innocents who would win through against some form of villainy, gaining the affection of an attractive middle-class girl in the process.
Warrington cemetery, Manchester Road, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JXNFXH - . An on-stock-photo/gotonysmith-Location.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>location photograph from the recorded location in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The subject captured here is Crewe outdoor market, in Hill Street, Cheshire, England, UK, CW1. The wider scene also brings together shopfront economy, freight wagon, contemporary social history, local character, mechanical signalling, before-and-after reference, archival record, community identity, changing land use, station environment, commercial streetscape, bricks-and-mortar retail, everyday life, and regional identity. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with network modernisation, signalling technology and the importance of preserving signal boxes and rolling stock as industrial heritage. The modern context includes continuing discussion of commercial rents, online shopping and how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets. The image fixes equipment and working practice within the recorded location at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against closure or conversion. The subject also sits alongside retail property, rail operations, historical comparison, changing streetscape, commercial frontage, railway heritage, rail infrastructure, and public realm. References to market, outdoor, and Crewe 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. Its period value extends to network modernisation and the importance of preserving signal boxes and rolling stock as industrial heritage within the real-world context of the recorded location. The location additionally provides evidence of consumer spending and how physical retail adapts to online competition within the specific setting of the recorded location.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,M4,Manchester,England,UK,M4 3AH,indoor market,city,centre,retail,shop,store,stalls,food,court,foodcourt,shared,eating,dining,area,in,the,customers,people,crowds,crowded,families,family,markets,small,retailers,community,urban,welcoming,bargain,bargains,trader,traders
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR82 - . Recorded at 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The image documents Manchester Arndale centre Deli,& food court in the indoor market, 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH. The broader subject matter reaches into destination shopping, place identity, community identity, place-making, independent trading, changing land use, everyday life, contemporary social history, consumer retail, historic townscape, public-realm investment, street-level business, visual archive, and public realm. Today's relevance is strengthened by brand consolidation, commercial rents and the continuing question of the role of markets and independent shops in keeping town centres active. From a 2025-onward perspective, housing pressure and heritage conservation are closely linked to this subject, alongside how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity. Small period details of transport arrangements and footfall at 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH may become more significant with time, particularly following closure or conversion. The location also brings in mixed-use redevelopment, civic architecture, customer footfall, architectural character, historical comparison, urban regeneration, before-and-after reference, and adaptive reuse. The recorded references to Manchester, Arndale, centre, indoor, and court preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another strand within the photograph is brand consolidation and how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets within the specific setting of 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH.
49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Wales,welsh,BR,transport,travel,by,train,excursion,excursions,journey,journeys,travelling,Cornwall,England,English,SW,Cornish,holiday,holidays,the,for,west,town,beach,sea,village,rail,railway,family,woman,lady,mother,child,fisherman,British Railways,poster,advert
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRA4HF - . Recorded at Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The scene records British Railways poster - Penzance, the centre for west Cornwall, South West England, UK. The wider scene also brings together roadside transit, everyday life, local bus network, bus route infrastructure, documentary photography, rail infrastructure, historic rolling stock, place identity, transport accessibility, street-side transport, station environment, rail operations, before-and-after reference, and rail corridor. Today's relevance is strengthened by network modernisation, railway preservation and the continuing question of the importance of preserving signal boxes and rolling stock as industrial heritage. From a 2025-onward perspective, service frequency and bus funding are closely linked to this subject, alongside the importance of bus stops as the physical interface with public transport. The image fixes public access and movement within Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against redevelopment. The location also brings in contemporary social history, changing land use, rail transport history, freight wagon, bus infrastructure, signal-box architecture, mechanical signalling, and working railway heritage. References to British, centre, Cornwall, Penzance, and Railways give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Its period value extends to network modernisation and how Crewe's identity remains tied to railway engineering and operations within the specific setting of Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK. The period view preserves evidence of earlier appearance before later change alters the scene.
Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,canals,boat,barge,narrowboat,waterway,transport,Vale of Llangollen,Trevor,Llangollen,Wales,UK,Vale of Llangollen Canal,canal,the,CR,47756,at,traditional,family,maroon,Cymru,network,networks,narrowboats,history,heritage,leisure,Outdoors,canalboattrust,barges,waterways,houseboat,narrow,business,historic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRAJ11 - . Photographed at Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP in 2022, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The principal subject is The Frederick William CR 47756 traditional barge at Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP. Other connected aspects include waterborne freight, inland navigation, heritage boating, contemporary social history, local history, working waterway, passenger transport, roadside transit, bus route infrastructure, public realm, historical comparison, surface public transport, towpath landscape, and local character. For current editorial use, industrial heritage and volunteering provide additional context, especially through the value of canals as both historic infrastructure and blue-green corridors. Current relevance extends to service frequency and decarbonisation, particularly through the importance of bus stops as the physical interface with public transport. The archival value lies partly in recording landscape treatment and surrounding development around Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP before altered transport patterns alters the character of the place. The subject also sits alongside local mobility, navigation engineering, boat museum collection, bus infrastructure, transport accessibility, archival record, industrial waterway history, and inland transport history. The recorded references to Trevor, barge, 47756, William, and Llangollen preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. By fixing the subject within Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The record includes a point of historical comparison as a date-specific reference.
Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,canals,boat,barge,narrowboat,waterway,transport,Vale of Llangollen,Trevor,Llangollen,Wales,UK,Vale of Llangollen Canal,canal,the,CR,47756,at,traditional,family,open,Bascule,bridge,tilt,tilting,passing,through,balance scale,drawbridge,or,a,lifting,footbridge,counterweight,maroon,Cymru
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRAJ17 - A bascule bridge (also referred to as a drawbridge or a lifting bridge) is a moveable bridge with a counterweight that continuously balances a span, or leaf, throughout its upward swing to provide clearance for boat traffic. It may be single- or double-leafed.
The name comes from the French term for balance scale, which employs the same principle. Bascule bridges are the most common type of movable span because they open quickly and require relatively little energy to operate, while providing the possibility for unlimited vertical clearance for marine traffic.
There are three types of bascule bridge and the counterweights to the span may be located above or below the bridge deck.
The fixed-trunnion (sometimes a Chicago bascule) rotates around a large axle that raises the span(s). The Chicago bascule name derives from the location where it is widely used, and is a refinement by Joseph Strauss of the fixed-trunnion.
The rolling lift trunnion (sometimes a Scherzer rolling lift), raises the span by rolling on a track resembling a rocking-chair base. The Scherzer rolling lift is a refinement patented in 1893 by American engineer William Donald Scherzer.
The rarer Rall type combines rolling lift with longitudinal motion on trunnions when opening.[4] It was patented (1901) by Theodor Rall. One of the few surviving examples is the Broadway Bridge (1913), in Portland, Oregon
Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lancs,Lancashire,and,the,along,shore,beach,amusements,machine,gamble,gambling,summer,holiday,holidaymakers,busy,blue,sky,skies,arcade,pirate-themed,games,rides,casino,Family-friendly,indoor,fun park,Buccaneer,Family,pub,Restaurant,Kids Eat Free,FY1 5DW,Peggys,snack,bar
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRJ9W1 - . Made at The Golden Mile, Central promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 5DW in 2022, 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 Coral island entertainment and amusement centre, the Golden Mile, Central promenade, Blackpool seaside resort, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 5DW. The frame also records themes of changing streetscape, night-time economy, casual dining, social history, arable farming, public realm, farm produce, summer fieldwork, community identity, historical comparison, place identity, changing land use, cereal crop, and barley cultivation. Today's relevance is strengthened by hospitality costs, staffing pressure and the continuing question of the survival of local venues as social meeting places. From a 2025-onward perspective, agricultural policy and farm costs are closely linked to this subject, alongside the relationship between rural landscapes and national food security. Future viewers can use this scene from The Golden Mile, Central promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 5DW to compare signage and branding with whatever follows after refurbishment. The subject also sits alongside field crop, grain quality, street-level dining, archival record, documentary photography, British agriculture, agricultural landscape, and visual archive. Elements such as amusement, Golden, promenade, resort, and centre add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The wider setting at The Golden Mile, Central promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 5DW matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The period view preserves period character as part of The Golden Mile, Central promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 5DW's history.
The Golden Mile, Central promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 5DW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lancs,UK,fun,family,Pats,ten,pence,10p,165,FY1 5BE,tower,behind,gamble,gambling,gateway,family fun,amusement,seaside,prom,pastime,pastimes,families,resort,vacation,vacations,town,centre,sunny,blue skies,blue sky,coastal,charm,charms,diversions,Scott Benton
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRM3K7 - . A grounded documentary photograph made at 165 The Promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 5BE in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The principal subject is Pats 10p prize bingo, with tower behind, 165 The Promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 5BE. The subject also carries associations with historic townscape, local history, period architecture, contemporary social history, architectural character, public realm, adaptive reuse, public-realm investment, regional identity, civic architecture, social history, everyday life, changing streetscape, and changing land use. The modern context includes continuing discussion of heritage conservation, construction costs and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. For later comparison, the photograph preserves materials and architectural details at 165 The Promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 5BE, details that may look very different after altered transport patterns. The wider setting retains connections with historical comparison, mixed-use redevelopment, before-and-after reference, urban fabric, period detail, heritage-led regeneration, town-centre renewal, and visual archive. The combination of prize, bingo, Lancashire, tower, and Blackpool anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The wider setting at 165 The Promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 5BE matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The scene further reflects heritage conservation and how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity when considered against later change at 165 The Promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 5BE. The photograph keeps a local visual benchmark for future local research.
165 The Promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 5BE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Gloucestershire,centre,England,UK,GL5,shops,stores,shopping,incline,around,wander,main,CEX,Clarks,café,family,wheelchair,disabled,demise,return,of,the,Superdrug,bunting,flag,flags,history,historic,retail,urban,clean,shoppers,people,sunny,blue,skies,sky
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5N5 - . A grounded documentary photograph made at High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The subject captured here is High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS. A broader reading of the photograph includes commercial streetscape, visual archive, shopfront economy, social history, place identity, archival record, documentary photography, high-street commerce, period detail, independent retail, small business, local character, local history, and commercial frontage. The wider contemporary story combines footfall, store closures and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding. Small period details of transport arrangements and footfall at High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS may become more significant with time, particularly following new ownership. The wider setting retains connections with before-and-after reference, regional identity, changing land use, changing streetscape, retail property, local trading, everyday life, and customer footfall. Elements such as Gloucestershire and Stroud add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. For High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The scene further reflects footfall and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding when considered against later change at High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS. Its period value extends to commercial rents and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding without losing the local specificity of High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS.
High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Gloucestershire,centre,England,UK,GL5,shops,stores,shopping,incline,around,wander,main,CEX,Clarks,café,family,wheelchair,disabled,demise,return,of,the,history,historic,retail,urban,clean,shoppers,people,sunny,blue,skies,sky
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5N9 - . Recorded at High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The subject captured here is High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS. The setting additionally reflects local trading, community identity, public realm, archival record, before-and-after reference, documentary photography, social history, independent retail, changing streetscape, commercial streetscape, local enterprise, customer footfall, changing land use, and street-level business. The modern context includes continuing discussion of consumer spending, commercial rents and the role of small retailers in maintaining active town centres. For later comparison, the photograph preserves commercial use and occupation at High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS, details that may look very different after redevelopment. The photograph additionally reflects visual archive, regional identity, town-centre economy, shopfront economy, high-street commerce, place identity, contemporary social history, and retail property. The combination of Stroud and Gloucestershire anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. Another strand within the photograph is consumer spending and the role of small retailers in maintaining active town centres without losing the local specificity of High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS. The setting also helps illustrate commercial rents and the role of small retailers in maintaining active town centres in a form that can be compared with future views of High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS.
High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,Welcome,To,NHS,WA4,Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4 2NW,Springfield,Ave,medical,clinic,surgery,Foundation Trust,reproductive,health,family,planning,WHH,Warrington & Halton Hospitals,Gropenhale,clinics,clinc,region,regional,signage,this,way,contraception,facility,unit,centre
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJGB4H - . Photographed at Springfield Avenue,Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4 2NW in 2022, this detailed editorial image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The defining feature is Sign to Welcome To Grappenhall Clinic,Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Springfield Avenue, Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4 2NW. The wider scene also brings together changing streetscape, public-facing notice, visual archive, local information board, contemporary social history, local character, navigation aid, healthcare provision, place identity, healthcare workforce, public information signage, clinical services, patient access, and public realm. From a 2025-onward perspective, hospital capacity and waiting lists are closely linked to this subject, alongside how physical estates and clear wayfinding affect patient experience. The wider contemporary story combines local identity, inclusive design and the way signage becomes part of local visual identity. For later comparison, the photograph preserves building condition and alterations at Springfield Avenue,Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4 2NW, details that may look very different after replacement signage. A second descriptive layer includes documentary photography, instructional sign, everyday life, hospital estate, directional marker, archival record, visitor guidance, and community noticeboard. The recorded references to Community, Grappenhall, Springfield, Trust, and Welcome preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The wider setting at Springfield Avenue,Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4 2NW matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The view records part of the area's social history as part of Springfield Avenue,Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4 2NW's history.
Springfield Avenue,Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4 2NW
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,warm,blue,sky,skies,England,UK,flag,flags,at,old,British,English,traditional,ices,lolly,lollies,cone,cones,99,99s,ice creams,vans,fashioned,old-fashioned,vehicle,Comma,classic,treat,treats,sunny,blue sky,blue skies,family,group,small,queue
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKC2GD - . This authentic period view of Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London, England, UK in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The image documents Ruby Violet, Hand made ice cream van, at Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London, England, UK. The frame also records themes of mixed-use redevelopment, changing land use, historical comparison, urban regeneration, city-centre placemaking, period detail, local history, post-industrial redevelopment, former industrial land, heritage-led renewal, local character, labour history, adaptive reuse, and changing streetscape. For current editorial use, mixed-use development and transport-led growth provide additional context, especially through the balance between preserving industrial character and creating high-value urban destinations. Current relevance extends to brownfield redevelopment and industrial tourism, particularly through how surviving industrial objects become evidence of vanished working practices. Small period details of local activity and public use at Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London, England, UK may become more significant with time, particularly following redevelopment. The wider setting retains connections with industrial archaeology, manufacturing landscape, everyday life, social history, industrial artefact, documentary photography, working-industry history, and contemporary cityscape. References to Cross, Kings, cream, Drops, and Violet give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The wider setting at Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London, England, UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The record includes evidence of earlier appearance as part of Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London, England, UK's history.
Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,tailor,suit,suits,clothing,menswear,taste,retail,historic,Logo,Montague,shop,store,brand,retailer,empty shop,in,Runcorn,Halton,Runcorn town,Cheshire,England,UK,entrance,mosaic,door,green,Montague Burton the Tailor of Taste Ltd,family,lobby,lobbies,floor,floors,Let Burton Dress You,terracotta,Middleton Fireclay Co. of Leeds,WA7,Meshe David Osinsky
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JHB6PN - Born Meshe David Osinsky and a Lithuanian Jew in Kurkliai, Kaunas province, he came alone to the UK in 1900 to escape the Russian pogroms. He was well-educated, having studied in a yeshiva,[1] but arrived unable to speak English
In 1901, he was staying in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. He started as a peddler, then set up as a general outfitter in Chesterfield in 1903 selling readymade suits bought from a wholesaler.[2][3] Following his marriage to Sophie Marks in 1909 the name of the company was changed from M. Burton to Burton & Burton. On the birth of twin boys in (1917) he gave his name as Montague Maurice Burton.
He died while speaking after a dinner in Leeds on 21 September 1952. The funeral was at the Harrogate Synagogue (some sources say Chapeltown) and he was interred at Gildersome.
˜The Tailor of Taste'
When Montague Burton became a limited company in 1917, it was registered as ˜Montague Burton the Tailor of Taste Ltd'. The slogan, as part of Burton's name, formed part of firm's logo, appearing on fascias, parapets, floors, and even on ventilation grilles.
Tiles and Mosaics
The entrance lobbies of many Burton shops had mosaic floors in the early-to-mid 20th century, and Burton was no exception. These sometimes included the popular Burton slogan: ˜Let Burton Dress You'. This also appears in a black and red glazed terracotta panel on the side elevation of the branch in Abergavenny (1937). Burton's terracotta was usually supplied by the Middleton Fireclay Co. of Leeds
18 Church St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire,England, UK, WA7 1LX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,site,at,Woodlands,tents,and,vehicle,pitch,pitches,place,places,weekend,F1,union,jack,flag,flags,flying,campsite,tent,getting,your,up,family,British,van,cars,vehicles,field,farmer,farm,person,putting,sites,nylon
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG21XR - . This authentic period view of Silverstone Woodlands , Northamptonshire, England, UK in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The scene records Camping site at Silverstone Woodlands, tents and vehicle pitch, Silverstone Woodlands , Northamptonshire, England, UK. Further facets of the scene include site redevelopment, social history, local history, visual archive, commercial construction, public realm, site transformation, building programme, development site, before-and-after reference, construction project, everyday life, care-sector construction, and changing streetscape. For current editorial use, care demand and construction costs provide additional context, especially through the importance of safe, well-managed construction in established communities. Small period details of transport arrangements and footfall at Silverstone Woodlands , Northamptonshire, England, UK may become more significant with time, particularly following redevelopment. The surrounding story also includes historical comparison, new-build scheme, contemporary social history, changing land use, local character, documentary photography, building works, and residential development. Details involving Northamptonshire, Camping, vehicle, tents, and Woodlands make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The wider setting at Silverstone Woodlands , Northamptonshire, England, UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The location additionally provides evidence of care demand and how temporary building sites mark a visible stage of long-term land-use change in a form that can be compared with future views of Silverstone Woodlands , Northamptonshire, England, UK. The record includes a trace of local identity before later change alters the scene.
Silverstone Woodlands , Northamptonshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,summer,waterway,water,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4 2YG,at,the,navigation,bank,towpath,canals,North West,English,British,barge,barges,narrowboat,leisure,rural,hire,tourist,boating,boats,narrowboats,family,hired,sail,cruise,cruising,day,dayboat,Stanny Lunt,bridge,under,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JEKRCC - . An identifiable period record of Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2YG in 2022, retaining the practical detail and local context that distinguish a documentary photograph from a generic illustration. The main point of reference is Bridgewater Canal at Stanny Lunt bridge, Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2YG. The setting additionally reflects river transport, working waterway, changing streetscape, documentary photography, before-and-after reference, local character, contemporary social history, regional identity, community identity, marine mobility, contemporary city life, riverfront regeneration, social landscape, and changing land use. Today's relevance is strengthened by climate adaptation, waterway maintenance and the continuing question of the need to balance navigation, ecology and flood resilience. From a 2025-onward perspective, footfall and regeneration are closely linked to this subject, alongside how regeneration alters the character of familiar places. The archival value lies partly in recording street furniture and boundaries around Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2YG before replacement signage alters the character of the place. The surrounding story also includes city-centre activity, inland navigation, historical comparison, urban change, everyday life, canal heritage, visual archive, and river crossing. References to Stanny, Canal, Bridgewater, bridge, and Grappenhall give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2YG, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The period view preserves period character as a date-specific reference. The view records a trace of local identity for later comparison.
Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2YG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,Cheshire,England,UK,Anglican,church,graveyard,graves,grave,yard,listed,grade II,village,villages,Greenall,family,sandstone,religion,christian,WA4,London Road,history,heritage,architecture,religious,Anglicans,tower,towers,monument,monuments,stone,stonework,clock,clocktowers,clocktower
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JEKR44 - St Thomas' Church is in Stockton Heath, to the south of Warrington, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The present church was built in 1868 on the site of a former church that had been erected in 1838. It was designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley, the main benefactor being Sir Gilbert Greenall
It is constructed in pinkish-red sandstone with Westmorland slate roofs. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave with a south aisle under a parallel ridged roof, a south porch, a north transept, a north vestry, a two-bay chancel and a west tower. The tower is in four stages with an octagonal southeast turret and an embattled parapet.
The chancel is decorated with richly coloured patterned tilework and the reredos is of marble and embossed patterned tiles. The organ was built around 1880 by Young and Sons and rebuilt in 1963 by Rushworth and Dreaper of Liverpool
London Road, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire,England,UK, WA4 6HJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,Cheshire,England,UK,Anglican,church,graveyard,graves,grave,yard,listed,grade II,village,villages,Greenall,family,sandstone,religion,christian,WA4,London Road,history,heritage,architecture,religious,Anglicans,tower,towers,monument,monuments,stone,stonework,clock,clocktowers,clocktower
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JEKR7E - St Thomas' Church is in Stockton Heath, to the south of Warrington, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The present church was built in 1868 on the site of a former church that had been erected in 1838. It was designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley, the main benefactor being Sir Gilbert Greenall
It is constructed in pinkish-red sandstone with Westmorland slate roofs. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave with a south aisle under a parallel ridged roof, a south porch, a north transept, a north vestry, a two-bay chancel and a west tower. The tower is in four stages with an octagonal southeast turret and an embattled parapet.
The chancel is decorated with richly coloured patterned tilework and the reredos is of marble and embossed patterned tiles. The organ was built around 1880 by Young and Sons and rebuilt in 1963 by Rushworth and Dreaper of Liverpool
London Road, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire,England,UK, WA4 6HJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JEKR7X - William Brittain Roberts' gravestone restored - more at https://freemasonrymatters.co.uk/index.php/william-brittain-roberts-gravestone-restored/
9th December 2017
In October 2016, Vic Charlesworth, Curator of the Warrington Masonic Museum, became aware of the existence of a Mason's grave in the cemetery at St Thomas Church, Stockton Heath, Warrington. Vic visited the grave and discovered that the memorial and gravestones were in a very poor condition
Vic asked Caroline Crook, Archivist at Warrington Masonic Museum, to research the history of William Brittain Roberts, the Mason buried in that grave, and she discovered that William was born in London, worked in Liverpool for a time, where his son was born, and then became head brewer for Greenall Whitley, living in Stockton Heath at Wilderspool House.
At the time of his death in 1909, William lived at Bleak House in Lymm, a village neighbouring Warrington. His only son, Victor George, a medical student, married May Houghton in 1914. Victor was killed in action, in the First World War, in 1918. They had no children and therefore no direct descendants. William's wife, Hilda Marian Roberts, passed away in 1936.
William was initiated into Royal Victoria Lodge No 1013 in Liverpool, on 6 February 1884, resigning in 1890. He later joined Merchants' Lodge No 241, Liverpool, (1886-92 and 1905-07), Lodge of Lights No 148, Warrington, (1887-1909) and Lathom Lodge No 2229, Southport, (1904-1909). In 1903 William was a founder member and the first senior warden of Lodge of Friendship No 2963.
Vic applied to the West Lancashire Freemasons' Charity Communities Grants Committee requesting funding to enable William's memorial and gravestone to be renovated and a grant was made earlier this year. The restoration work has now been completed and is, once again, a fitting tribute to a loyal Mason.
William's memorial is very close to the main entrance to St Thomas's Church
St Thomas church, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6HJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,wine,bottle,bottles,WA1,WA4,Plastic,glass,paper,tins,steel,aluminium,home,domestic,material,materials,to,be,recycled,separated,recycle,for,Cheshire,England,UK,Warrington,borough,council,local,waste,refuse,household,cost,costs,open,lid,full,family
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDRN4F - . Photographed at Warrington Borough Council, Cheshire, England, UK in 2022, this detailed editorial image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The main point of reference is Mixed recycling - Blue home bin of materials to be recycled, Warrington Borough Council, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 - Plastic,glass,paper,tins,steel. The setting additionally reflects historical comparison, social landscape, city-centre activity, documentary photography, contemporary social history, contemporary city life, urban social history, local history, local character, archival record, period detail, urban change, street-level documentary, and pedestrian environment. For current editorial use, local identity and public-realm change provide additional context, especially through the relationship between public space and local social life. As a dated visual record of Warrington Borough Council, Cheshire, England, UK, the frame retains building condition and alterations, making it especially useful if refurbishment subsequently changes the scene. Further associations within the scene are everyday life, community identity, before-and-after reference, visual archive, changing land use, place identity, townscape record, and public realm. Elements such as Council, materials, steel, paper, and Mixed add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Warrington Borough Council, Cheshire, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The wider significance includes local identity and how ordinary street scenes become valuable records as businesses and infrastructure change without losing the local specificity of Warrington Borough Council, Cheshire, England, UK. The record includes a point of historical comparison as a date-specific reference.
Warrington Borough Council, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,SCARS,Fiddlers Ferry lock,Fiddlers Ferry Marina,Fiddlers Ferry Boatyard,Fidlers Ferry,Yacht Haven,Fidlers Ferry Sailing Club,swans,swan,cygnet,WA5 2UJ,WA5,west,western,Merseyside,water,waterway,wild,bird,birds,life,bird life,birdlife,family,families,group,of,the,fowl,canal,disused,haven
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2CB00E5 - . This carefully observed view of Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ fixes a specific place, use and moment for later historical comparison. The view specifically shows Swans with young Cygnets, at Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven,boatyard, summer, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ. Further connections within the scene include riparian setting, historic transport corridor, archival record, lock-side environment, managed navigation, social landscape, local history, regional identity, before-and-after reference, everyday Britain, contemporary history, towpath landscape, documentary photography, and place identity. The present-day relevance extends to waterway maintenance and towpath access, while a wider concern is balancing leisure use with engineering and environmental needs. Future viewers can use this scene from Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ to compare materials and construction with whatever follows after altered transport patterns. The surrounding context includes industrial waterway history, community identity, public realm, local character, boating network, blue-green infrastructure, canal heritage, and urban change. References to Swans, Ferry, young, Fiddlers, and Cygnets give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to the named subject. A later view of Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Its period value extends to waterway maintenance and the value of canals and rivers as blue-green corridors within the specific setting of Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ. This gives Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ another specific visual benchmark for later local, social or physical change.
Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,SCARS,Fiddlers Ferry lock,Fiddlers Ferry Marina,Fiddlers Ferry Boatyard,Fidlers Ferry,Yacht Haven,Fidlers Ferry Sailing Club,swans,swan,cygnet,WA5 2UJ,WA5,west,western,Merseyside,water,waterway,wild,bird,birds,life,bird life,birdlife,family,families,group,of,the,fowl,canal,disused,haven
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2CB00E8 - . This scene at Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ documents an everyday subject with wider connections to local identity, social history and changing patterns of use. The scene records Swans with young Cygnets, at Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven,boatyard, summer, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ. The photograph also carries associations with towpath landscape, visual archive, inland navigation, historical comparison, place identity, riparian setting, industrial waterway history, waterborne travel, changing streetscape, boating network, local character, waterside infrastructure, lock-side environment, and public realm. The present-day relevance extends to waterway maintenance and flood resilience, while a wider concern is the value of canals and rivers as blue-green corridors. The photograph fixes ownership and occupation within Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against replacement signage. The surrounding context includes archival record, built environment, community identity, before-and-after reference, managed navigation, regional identity, local history, and contemporary history. References to young, summer, Ferry, haven, and Swans give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to the named subject. The surrounding context at Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The wider significance includes waterway maintenance and the long transition from freight route to leisure and heritage asset without losing the local specificity of Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ. The location retains evidence of continuity and change for retrospective editorial use.
Fiddlers Ferry yacht haven, Penketh, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,tablet erected by the Warrington Society,town centre,blue,gold,black,Site of the residence,Anna Laetitla Aikin,Warrington Academy,Anna Laetitia Barbauld,WA1,memorial,plaque,history,historic,heritage,town,centre,Anna,Laetitla,Aikin Atkins,family,tablet,erected,by,for,the,Warrington,Society,1911,painted
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C5R390 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld née Aikin
20 June 1743 “ 9 March 1825[1]) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature.
A woman of letters who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career at a time when women rarely wrote professionally. She was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and an innovative writer of works for children
her primers provided a model for more than a century. Her essays showed it was possible for a woman to be publicly engaged in politics
other women authors such as Elizabeth Benger emulated her.Barbauld's literary career spanned numerous periods in British literary history: her work promoted the values of the Enlightenment and of sensibility, while her poetry made a founding contribution to the development of British Romanticism.[4] Barbauld was also a literary critic. Her anthology of 18th-century novels helped to establish the canon as it is known today.
Barbauld's career as a poet ended abruptly in 1812, with the publication of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, which criticised Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars. She was shocked by the vicious reviews it received and published nothing else in her lifetime. Her reputation was further damaged when many of the Romantic poets she had inspired in the heyday of the French Revolution turned against her in their later, more conservative years. Barbauld was remembered only as a pedantic children's writer in the 19th century, and largely forgotten in the 20th, until the rise of feminist literary criticism in the 1980s renewed interest in her works and restored her place in literary history
6 Dial St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2NX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,store,retail,out of town,JunctionNINE,Retail Park,WA2,Warrington,WA2 8TW,UK,shopping,Cheshire,England,parking,larger,wider,wide,bay,space,for,kids,car park,family,with,baby,babies,parent,parents,married,marriage,partners,civil partnership,relationship,unit,vehicle,car,pram,buggy
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG41WN - . This authentic period view of JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW in 2019 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The image documents Larger parking space outside a store, for parents with children, JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW. Other connected aspects include historic signage, local history, commercial signage, commercial frontage, place identity, local character, visual merchandising, commercial streetscape, town-centre economy, independent retail, customer footfall, small-business culture, everyday life, and public information notice. For current editorial use, brand consolidation and online shopping provide additional context, especially through how physical shops adapt to online competition. Current relevance extends to retail change and branding, particularly through the speed at which branding and promotional styles change. Small period details of transport arrangements and footfall at JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW may become more significant with time, particularly following conservation work. The wider setting retains connections with public-facing notice, regional identity, documentary photography, contemporary social history, bricks-and-mortar business, brand display, street-level marketing, and visual archive. The recorded references to space, parents, outside, JunctionNINE, and Larger preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The record includes details of everyday use for later comparison. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2MG41WN.
JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Pint,of,Somerset,farm,Cider,cyder,crafted,over,four generations,family,makers,glasses,cheeky,drink,orange,ciders,England,Myrtle Farm,Sandford,North Somerset,UK,BS25 5RA,BS25,Time Stops,oak vats,table,beermat,dripmat,drip,mat,family business,apple,apples,brewing,full glass,pint,pot
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XNA1 - The Thatchers company was founded by William Thatcher in 1904. His son Stanley Thatcher, born in 1910, began selling draught cider to pubs in Somerset and the company's presence in the area grew. The company is still family owned and employs around 200 people. In 1992 Martin took over from his father, John Thatcher, as managing director.
It has 500 acres of its own orchard, as well as using apples from other growers in the area. Alongside its bush orchards, Thatchers has pioneered a method of growing its apple trees in a hedgerow style. Trained on wires, this enables easier harvesting and also helps to ensure the fruit has the optimum combination of sunlight and rain. It has also led to the development of a new bespoke harvester. At the height of season, Thatchers can press 500 tonnes of apples per day. Thatchers also maintains an exhibition orchard in which over 458 different varieties of apple tree are grown. Many of the traditional ciders produced at Myrtle Farm are matured in 100-year-old oak vats, which gives the cider a distinctive taste.
In addition to its cider production, Myrtle Farm is the UK's biggest processor of blackcurrants, dealing with 90 per cent of the UK's total crop, which it processes on behalf of Ribena.
Thatchers Cider is available in many sports clubs and events across the South West. They are involved with teams including Winscombe R.F.C., Bath Rugby, Somerset County Cricket Club, Bristol Rugby, Bristol City, Yeovil Town, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Bristol Rovers, Plymouth Argyle F.C, Exeter City and Torquay United.
Thatchers are also involved in many local events and festivals including: Glastonbury Festival, Royal Bath and West Show, Bristol International Balloon Fiesta and Cambridge Folk Festival.
Thatcher's lost their ongoing cider sponsorship of the Glastonbury festival in 2019 to Mallets cider
Myrtle Farm, Sandford, North Somerset,England, UK, BS25 5RA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,street food,food,inside,interior,Merseyside,City Centre,diners,dining,eating,table,tables,window,windows,design,french,Bold St,54 Bold St,UK,L1 4ER,Lebanese,Lebanon,Restaurant,Bold Street,family,cold mezze,hot mezze,mezze,dip,grill,halal,fresh ingredients,fresh,ingredients,Arabic food culture,Arabic food,culture,Loose Change
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PCTA02 - . This contextual photograph depicts the setting around 54 Bold St, Liverpool, UK, L1 4ER, in a documentary image made in 2018. The principal recorded subject is Bakchich Lebanese Restaurant, 54 Bold St, Liverpool, UK, L1 4ER. The wider setting includes hospitality employment, restaurant sector, tourist accommodation, leisure hospitality, visitor economy, customer service, leisure venue, hospitality premises, hospitality trade, catering trade, service economy, and local tourism. Modern coverage of local dining frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of delivery-platform competition, seasonality and resilient local hospitality. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at 54 Bold St, Liverpool, UK, L1 4ER, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves. The surrounding context also touches on destination economy, food service, consumer leisure, visitor destination, tourism economy, local dining. Associated details include North African, Middle eastern, menu, middle east, cafe, family eating. A second layer of description includes , and food-and-drink business. For present-day editorial use, local dining can also illustrate debates about staffing and changing visitor patterns, particularly where these affect resilient local hospitality. In historical comparison, the image can help trace local business activity, patterns of everyday use, regional identity, public-realm details, and the condition of buildings at this precise location. The lasting documentary value lies in its record of public activity, period design, the appearance of the built environment, changes of use, and local character within the surrounding area. That gives this view of 54 Bold St, Liverpool, UK, L1 4ER continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison. The photograph preserves local character for future researchers.
54 Bold St, Liverpool, UK, L1 4ER
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,street food,food,inside,interior,Merseyside,City Centre,diners,dining,eating,table,tables,window,windows,design,french,Bold St,54 Bold St,UK,L1 4ER,Lebanese,Lebanon,Restaurant,Bold Street,family,cold mezze,hot mezze,mezze,dip,grill,halal,fresh ingredients,fresh,ingredients,Arabic food culture,Arabic food,culture,Loose Change
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PCTA03 - . A grounded editorial photograph captures the setting around 54 Bold St, Liverpool, UK, L1 4ER, in this period view from 2018. The described feature is Bakchich Lebanese Restaurant, 54 Bold St, Liverpool, UK, L1 4ER. Related ideas embodied by the location include hospitality trade, hospitality employment, local dining, hospitality premises, tourist accommodation, catering trade, leisure venue, food-and-drink business, tourism economy, leisure hospitality, local tourism, and customer service. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, customer-facing businesses also connects with food and energy costs, delivery-platform competition and efforts aimed at distinctive visitor experiences. The date and location give the photograph archival strength: future views of 54 Bold St, Liverpool, UK, L1 4ER may show different businesses, branding, services, architecture, traffic patterns or redevelopment, allowing clear before-and-after comparison. The resulting scene connects with food service, visitor destination, restaurant sector, consumer leisure, destination economy, visitor economy. The scene is further associated with North African, Middle eastern, menu, middle east, cafe, family eating. Further aspects present in the subject include , and service economy. Modern coverage of hospitality businesses frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of commercial rents, food and energy costs and sustainable tourism. The lasting documentary value lies in its record of patterns of everyday use, the condition of buildings, public-realm details, regional identity, and local business activity as an authentic period reference. For future comparison, the scene preserves the appearance of the built environment, changes of use, local character, public activity, and period design at this precise location. That gives this view of 54 Bold St, Liverpool, UK, L1 4ER continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison.
54 Bold St, Liverpool, UK, L1 4ER
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Keywords: wideshot,angle,in summer,Scotland,UK,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,flight,103,bomb,terrorist,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,New York,GoTonySmith,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,flight,103,bomb,terrorist,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,Cemetery,news,Cultural,understanding,remembering,innocent,transatlantic,Frankfurt,Detroit,Libyan,Libya,Colonel Muammar Gaddafi,civil,case,compensation,terrorism,PA103,30,30years,years,Syracuse,University,SU,family,collections,Story,Archive,Archives,40,35,Timeline,saga,disaster,air,Scholars,program,programs,remembrance,Clipper Maid of the Seas,N739PA,Boeing,727,plane,aircraft,Scotland,UK,United Kingdom,GB,Great Britain,resting,place,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,New York,al megrahi,30 Years
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1J6MN - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Keywords: wideshot,angle,in summer,Scotland,UK,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,flight,103,bomb,terrorist,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,New York,GoTonySmith,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,flight,103,bomb,terrorist,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,Cemetery,news,Cultural,understanding,remembering,innocent,transatlantic,Frankfurt,Detroit,Libyan,Libya,Colonel Muammar Gaddafi,civil,case,compensation,terrorism,PA103,30,30years,years,Syracuse,University,SU,family,collections,Story,Archive,Archives,40,35,Timeline,saga,disaster,air,Scholars,program,programs,remembrance,Clipper Maid of the Seas,N739PA,Boeing,727,plane,aircraft,Scotland,UK,United Kingdom,GB,Great Britain,resting,place,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,New York,al megrahi,30 Years
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1J6YD - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Keywords: wideshot,angle,in summer,Scotland,UK,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,flight,103,bomb,terrorist,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,New York,GoTonySmith,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,flight,103,bomb,terrorist,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,Cemetery,news,Cultural,understanding,remembering,innocent,transatlantic,Frankfurt,Detroit,Libyan,Libya,Colonel Muammar Gaddafi,civil,case,compensation,terrorism,PA103,30,30years,years,Syracuse,University,SU,family,collections,Story,Archive,Archives,40,35,Timeline,saga,disaster,air,Scholars,program,programs,remembrance,Clipper Maid of the Seas,N739PA,Boeing,727,plane,aircraft,Scotland,UK,United Kingdom,GB,Great Britain,resting,place,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,New York,al megrahi,30 Years
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1J782 - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Keywords: Ellen Bernstein Atkinson of Jewish religion,Scotland,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Memorial,Remembrance,Scotland,Pan,Am,flight,103,terrorist,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,New York,GoTonySmith,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Memorial,Scotland,Pan,Am,flight,103,terrorist,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,Cemetery,news,Cultural,understanding,remembering,innocent,transatlantic,Frankfurt,Detroit,Libyan,Libya,Colonel Muammar Gaddafi,civil,case,compensation,terrorism,PA103,30,30years,years,Syracuse,University,SU,family,collections,Story,Archive,Archives,40,35,Timeline,saga,disaster,air,Scholars,program,programs,remembrance,Clipper Maid of the Seas,N739PA,Boeing,727,plane,aircraft,Scotland,UK,United Kingdom,GB,Great Britain,resting,place,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,New York,al megrahi,30 Years
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1J8AW - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1JAA2 - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Keywords: David Akerstrom,Scotland,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Memorial,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,103,bomb,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,Cemetery,news,New York,GoTonySmith,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Memorial,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,103,bomb,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,Cemetery,news,Cultural,understanding,remembering,innocent,transatlantic,Frankfurt,Detroit,Libyan,Libya,Colonel Muammar Gaddafi,civil,case,compensation,terrorism,PA103,30,30years,years,Syracuse,University,SU,family,collections,Story,Archive,Archives,40,35,Timeline,saga,disaster,air,Scholars,program,programs,remembrance,Clipper Maid of the Seas,N739PA,Boeing,727,plane,aircraft,Scotland,UK,United Kingdom,GB,Great Britain,resting,place,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,New York,al megrahi,30 Years
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1JB4E - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Keywords: Visitors Remembering,Scotland,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Memorial,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,terrorist,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,New York,GoTonySmith,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Memorial,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,PanAm,flight,103,bomb,bombing,terrorist,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,Cemetery,news,Cultural,understanding,innocent,transatlantic,Detroit,Libyan,Libya,Colonel Muammar Gaddafi,civil,case,compensation,terrorism,PA103,30,30years,years,Syracuse,University,SU,family,collections,Story,Archive,Archives,40,35,Timeline,saga,disaster,air,Scholars,program,programs,remembrance,N739PA,Boeing,727,plane,aircraft,Scotland,UK,United Kingdom,GB,Great Britain,resting,place,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,New York,al megrahi,30 Years
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1JB6A - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1JB6M - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Keywords: Visitors Remembering,Scotland,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Memorial,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,flight,103,bomb,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,Cemetery,new,New York,GoTonySmith,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Memorial,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,flight,103,bomb,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,Cemetery,news,Cultural,understanding,remembering,innocent,transatlantic,Frankfurt,Detroit,Libyan,Libya,Colonel Muammar Gaddafi,civil,case,compensation,terrorism,PA103,30,30years,years,Syracuse,University,SU,family,collections,Story,Archive,Archives,40,35,Timeline,saga,disaster,air,Scholars,program,programs,remembrance,Clipper Maid of the Seas,N739PA,Boeing,727,plane,aircraft,Scotland,UK,United Kingdom,GB,Great Britain,resting,place,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,New York,al megrahi,30 Years
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1JB6N - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1JB6P - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1JB6R - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Keywords: Close-up,Scotland,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Memorial,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,103,bomb,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,Cemetery,news,Cultural,u,New York,GoTonySmith,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Lockerbie,Memorial,Scotland,Victims,Pan,Am,103,bomb,December,1988,attack,crash,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,Cemetery,news,Cultural,understanding,remembering,innocent,transatlantic,Frankfurt,Detroit,Libyan,Libya,Colonel Muammar Gaddafi,civil,case,compensation,terrorism,PA103,30,30years,years,Syracuse,University,SU,family,collections,Story,Archive,Archives,40,35,Timeline,saga,disaster,air,Scholars,program,programs,remembrance,Clipper Maid of the Seas,N739PA,Boeing,727,plane,aircraft,Scotland,UK,United Kingdom,GB,Great Britain,resting,place,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,New York,al megrahi,30 Years
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1JB6W - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Keywords: Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Memorial,Scotland,Pan,Am,flight,103,bomb,terrorist,December,1988,attack,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,news,Cultural,understanding,New York,GoTonySmith,Lodge,Visitors,Centre,DLVC,Trust,Memorial,Scotland,Pan,Am,flight,103,bomb,terrorist,December,1988,attack,dead,site,21/12/1988,270,victims,Scottish,Town,conspiracy,blast,Tundergarth,Room,garden,of,Dryfesdale,news,Cultural,understanding,innocent,transatlantic,Frankfurt,Detroit,Libyan,Colonel Muammar Gaddafi,civil,case,compensation,terrorism,30,30years,years,Syracuse,University,SU,family,collections,Story,Archive,Archives,40,35,Timeline,saga,disaster,air,Scholars,program,programs,remembrance,Clipper Maid of the Seas,N739PA,Boeing,727,plane,aircraft,Scotland,UK,United Kingdom,GB,Great Britain,resting,place,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,New York,al megrahi,30 Years
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F1JB6X - Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.
Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, DG11 1HZ
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Keywords: Billy,Island,boat,trip,trips,at,Seahouses,NE,England,Northumberland,Seals,Seal,Golden,gate,Longstone,Lighthouse,Serenity,StCuthbert,St,Cuthbert,shed,ticket,office,offices,tourist,tourism,11am,departure,travel,GB,great,britain,british,maritine,seaside,town,towns,family,fish,Gotonysmith,fishing,hobby,ticket,tickets
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB60 - . Tickets being sold from Serenity sheds at Seahouses, for Farne Island trips, NE England, UK. Photographed at Seahouses, NE England, UK. The photograph was taken on 08 August 2014. The image metadata records 2 people in the frame. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Ticket, sheds, Farne, Island, Trips, Seahouses, tour, Shiel, Islands and Billy, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is a documentary record of an identifiable subject and location, useful for editorial, archive, travel, local-history and social-history picture research. It can support features about everyday life, place, public space, local identity, tourism, consumer behaviour and the changing appearance of towns, cities and communities. Visible objects, signs, buildings and environmental details provide contextual clues that make the image useful beyond its immediate subject. As a dated stock photograph it also offers a reference point for later comparison, especially where businesses, streets, public services or local surroundings subsequently change. Search themes include documentary photography, local history, everyday life, place, public space, travel, community identity, social history and changing surroundings. Its specificity makes it more useful than a generic concept image when an editor needs a recognisable real-world subject and setting. 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.
Seahouses, NE England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB61 - . Billy Shiel boat Tickets being sold from sheds at Seahouses, for Farne Island trips, NE England, UK. Photographed at Seahouses, NE England, UK. The photograph was taken on 08 August 2014. 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 Ticket, sheds, Farne, Island, Trips, Seahouses, Shiel, Islands, Northumberland and Billy, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is a documentary record of an identifiable subject and location, useful for editorial, archive, travel, local-history and social-history picture research. It can support features about everyday life, place, public space, local identity, tourism, consumer behaviour and the changing appearance of towns, cities and communities. Visible objects, signs, buildings and environmental details provide contextual clues that make the image useful beyond its immediate subject. As a dated stock photograph it also offers a reference point for later comparison, especially where businesses, streets, public services or local surroundings subsequently change. Search themes include documentary photography, local history, everyday life, place, public space, travel, community identity, social history and changing surroundings. Its specificity makes it more useful than a generic concept image when an editor needs a recognisable real-world subject and setting. 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.
Seahouses, NE England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB62 - . Tickets being sold from Golden Gate Boat sheds at Seahouses, for Farne Island trips, NE England, UK. Photographed at Seahouses, NE England, UK. The photograph was taken on 08 August 2014. 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 Ticket, sheds, Farne, Island, Trips, Seahouses, tour, Shiel, Islands and Billy, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is a documentary record of an identifiable subject and location, useful for editorial, archive, travel, local-history and social-history picture research. It can support features about everyday life, place, public space, local identity, tourism, consumer behaviour and the changing appearance of towns, cities and communities. Visible objects, signs, buildings and environmental details provide contextual clues that make the image useful beyond its immediate subject. As a dated stock photograph it also offers a reference point for later comparison, especially where businesses, streets, public services or local surroundings subsequently change. Search themes include documentary photography, local history, everyday life, place, public space, travel, community identity, social history and changing surroundings. Its specificity makes it more useful than a generic concept image when an editor needs a recognisable real-world subject and setting. 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.
Seahouses, NE England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB63 - . St Cuthbert boat Tickets being sold from sheds at Seahouses, for Farne Island trips, NE England, UK. Photographed at Seahouses, NE England, UK. The photograph was taken on 08 August 2014. 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 Ticket, sheds, Farne, Island, Trips, Seahouses, Northumberland, StCuthbert, Billy and Shiel, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is a documentary record of an identifiable subject and location, useful for editorial, archive, travel, local-history and social-history picture research. It can support features about everyday life, place, public space, local identity, tourism, consumer behaviour and the changing appearance of towns, cities and communities. Visible objects, signs, buildings and environmental details provide contextual clues that make the image useful beyond its immediate subject. As a dated stock photograph it also offers a reference point for later comparison, especially where businesses, streets, public services or local surroundings subsequently change. Search themes include documentary photography, local history, everyday life, place, public space, travel, community identity, social history and changing surroundings. Its specificity makes it more useful than a generic concept image when an editor needs a recognisable real-world subject and setting. 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.
Seahouses, NE England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DJ7B12 - Harrods is an upmarket department store located in Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods, and to Harrods Buenos Aires, sold by Harrods in 1922 and closed as of 2011, with plans announced to reopen in 2013.
The store occupies a 5-acre (20,000 m2) site and has over one million square feet (90,000 m2) of selling space in over 330 departments making it the biggest department store in Europe.
The Harrods motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique”All Things for All People, Everywhere. Several of its departments, including the seasonal Christmas department and the Food Halls, are world famous.
87-135 Brompton Road Knightsbridge London, SW1X 7XL, United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKNH - 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.
Bridge Street, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DCYP1A - . A prayer request board with notes, in a church entrance Winchcombe Cotswolds England UK. Photographed on 9 August 2013. The recorded location is Winchcombe, Cheltenham, England, UK. The historical context is that churches combine worship with architecture, local memory and centuries of community history
Their stonework, stained glass, memorials, furnishings and churchyards often record successive periods of rebuilding, changing liturgy, local benefactors, war remembrance and family history. The subject remains topical in 2026 because many historic churches face the practical challenge of maintaining listed fabric while remaining active community buildings, visitor attractions and venues for worship, music and local events
Images of their interiors and memorials therefore serve architectural, heritage and social-history uses. Historically, parish churches and cathedrals are among Britain's richest sources of architectural and social history
Medieval fabric, Victorian restoration, monuments, stained glass, organs, altars and inscriptions can coexist in a single building, reflecting generations of worship and local patronage. In historical terms, ecclesiastical buildings are both active places of worship and repositories of local history
Architectural details, memorials and churchyard monuments provide evidence for religious practice, craftsmanship, community identity, genealogy and the changing use of sacred space. From a heritage perspective, churches combine worship with architecture, local memory and centuries of community history
Their stonework, stained glass, memorials, furnishings and churchyards often record successive periods of rebuilding, changing liturgy, local benefactors, war remembrance and family history. Relevant alternative phrases include ecclesiastical architecture, Christian heritage, sacred art, religious symbolism, church interior, place of worship, architectural conservation, faith community, and historic fabric.
Winchcombe, Cheltenham, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DCYE31 - . This location-specific image from England, Great Britain , UK in 2013 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The scene records Suburban bathroom, with fish shower curtain, bath, pedestal sink wash hand basin. Other connected aspects include changing streetscape, retail property, local character, everyday life, independent retail, documentary photography, archival record, bricks-and-mortar retail, local story.htm Target=_Blank>history, social history, regional identity, place identity, specialist retailer, and town-centre trading. From a 2025-onward perspective, store closures and town-centre regeneration are closely linked to this subject, alongside the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets. As a dated visual record of England, Great Britain , UK, the frame retains equipment and working practice, making it especially useful if closure or conversion subsequently changes the scene. The wider setting retains connections with customer footfall, specialist shop, before-and-after reference, changing land use, local enterprise, small business, commercial frontage, and community identity. Details involving Suburban, curtain, bathroom, shower, and basin make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at England, Great Britain , UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is store closures and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets within the specific setting of England, Great Britain , UK. The wider significance includes store closures and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy as part of the longer story of England, Great Britain , UK. The view records part of the area's social history for later comparison.
England, Great Britain , UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,GB,Southend,Seaside,town,Essex,South East England,classic,Southend-on-Sea,Southend on Sea,southeastern,English,english seaside,resort,Last Resort,seaside resort,Southend-on-Sea Borough Council,Borough,Council,Shakedown,Great London Rideout,seafront,grill,Southend-on-Sea SS1 2EN,fish,chips,burgers,family,cafe,restaurant,Las Vegas Grill Fish and Chips,takeaway,carry out,Fast food,British,Diner
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RM9AWE - This documentary stock photograph shows Las Vegas Grill, Southend, seafood, 46 Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea SS1 2EN. The scene belongs to the Southend-on-Sea seafront and beachfront leisure strip, a classic Essex seaside setting where amusement arcades, fish and chip shops, pubs, bowling, family attractions and day-trip promenades sit close together. The image is especially useful because it records clear documentary detail, not a generic tourist board view, so it can illustrate real trading frontage, local colour, shop signs, coastal leisure and the everyday economy of a British resort town. Southend has long depended on visitors arriving for the pier, beach, amusements and evening hospitality, and images like this help explain how traditional seaside places continue to balance nostalgia with modern retail, food, drink and entertainment uses. Editorial buyers could use it for stories about coastal regeneration, seaside tourism, amusement arcades, family holidays, local business survival, seasonal employment, consumer spending, waterfront redevelopment, heritage leisure and the social history of British day trips. It also works for commentary on how resort towns present themselves visually, with bright signs, familiar names, glass-fronted arcades, food offers and a dense mixture of leisure uses competing for passing footfall. For SEO and stock search, relevant composite terms include Southend seafront amusement arcade, Essex seaside tourism, British beachfront entertainment, family coastal day out, traditional seaside economy, high street leisure frontage and UK resort town regeneration. The value is in the combination of place-specific caption wording, visible subject matter and practical editorial usefulness. It could support news, magazine, web, travel, council, planning, business, heritage, nostalgia, tourism, consumer affairs and local economy content where a real coastal street scene is needed rather than a polished stock illustration.
46 Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea, Essex,UK, SS1 2EN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RM9AWF - This documentary stock photograph shows Las Vegas Grill, Southend, seafood, 46 Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea SS1 2EN. The scene belongs to the Southend-on-Sea seafront and beachfront leisure strip, a classic Essex seaside setting where amusement arcades, fish and chip shops, pubs, bowling, family attractions and day-trip promenades sit close together. The image is especially useful because it records readable signage, not a generic tourist board view, so it can illustrate real trading frontage, local colour, shop signs, coastal leisure and the everyday economy of a British resort town. Southend has long depended on visitors arriving for the pier, beach, amusements and evening hospitality, and images like this help explain how traditional seaside places continue to balance nostalgia with modern retail, food, drink and entertainment uses. Editorial buyers could use it for stories about coastal regeneration, seaside tourism, amusement arcades, family holidays, local business survival, seasonal employment, consumer spending, waterfront redevelopment, heritage leisure and the social history of British day trips. It also works for commentary on how resort towns present themselves visually, with bright signs, familiar names, glass-fronted arcades, food offers and a dense mixture of leisure uses competing for passing footfall. For SEO and stock search, relevant composite terms include Southend seafront amusement arcade, Essex seaside tourism, British beachfront entertainment, family coastal day out, traditional seaside economy, high street leisure frontage and UK resort town regeneration. The value is in the combination of place-specific caption wording, visible subject matter and practical editorial usefulness. It could support news, magazine, web, travel, council, planning, business, heritage, nostalgia, tourism, consumer affairs and local economy content where a real coastal street scene is needed rather than a polished stock illustration.
46 Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea, Essex,UK, SS1 2EN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Pub,pubs,chain,group,Cheshire,England,UK,old,Wilderspool Causeway,land,Dusk,evening,History,historic,building,heritage,Offices,apartments,illuminated,history,buildings,architecture,evenings,brewing,brewery,brew house,Greenall,Greenalls,family,Thomas,office,offices,complex
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K43PM3 - . Recorded at Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK in 2011, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The main point of reference is Old Wilderspool Greenall Whitley brewery site, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, at dusk. The image also relates to place identity, local enterprise, small business, town-centre trading, changing streetscape, social history, customer footfall, specialist retailer, local character, before-and-after reference, historical comparison, commercial frontage, changing land use, and public realm. Today's relevance is strengthened by footfall, town-centre regeneration and the continuing question of the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy. Small period details of landscape treatment and surrounding development at Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK may become more significant with time, particularly following changed technology. The subject also sits alongside independent retail, visual archive, documentary photography, community identity, street-level business, regional identity, everyday life, and archival record. The recorded references to Whitley, Greenall, brewery, and Wilderspool preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The location additionally provides evidence of footfall and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy when considered against later change at Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. A further contemporary connection is consumer spending and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy without losing the local specificity of Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. The period view preserves details of everyday use as a date-specific reference.
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4369329964 - 'This is a spot I have passed quite a few times and out of the corner of my eye spotted flowers or a marker of some sort. Today I thought I would stop and contemplate for a short while, maybe be thankful for my own existence. Good therapy once every so often, to bring us down to earth.
We often forget behind our car of air-bags, crumple zones etc. that we are still mortal, hurtling along as if the road was a motorway (although it is six miles distant) in a little four wheeled tin can. On a motorbike its even more perilous, no crumple zones, only your leathers and crash helmet to protect you.
Kevin Pickstock was a keen biker and only 40 when he died. He was from Rudheath, barely a mile up the road from the bend at the Hartford road junction of the A556 bypass. A June summers evening that changed the lives of all his family, his two sons and many friends. It was not the first accident or fatality here.
There are still no safety measures on the road here, no 30mph zone, no calming, no Gatso camera.
I certainly make the effort to take it just a bit slower, when I pass these flowers now.
A lighter shot from Northwich, Cheshire England UK here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3959757223/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0NBN - . Teasal at Marbury country park Northwich flower with bokeh background. Photographed on 27 October 2009. The recorded location is Marbury country park, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK. As background, close botanical photographs record shape, colour, surface and season in a way that wider landscape images cannot
Familiar plants such as snowdrops and teasels also carry cultural associations with the changing year, gardens and countryside. The historical context is that fields, flowers, trees and wildlife provide a visual record of season, habitat and countryside management
Agricultural crops sit alongside wild plants, insects and birds, illustrating the overlap between food production, biodiversity and recreation. Against the 2026 backdrop, current interest in biodiversity and climate gives seasonal flower and foliage photographs documentary value beyond their visual appeal, particularly where flowering or autumn colour can be compared over time. The subject remains topical in 2026 because biodiversity recovery, climate resilience and land management remain major UK environmental themes
Photographs of crops, wildflowers, insects and seasonal vegetation can therefore support coverage of pollinators, farming, habitat restoration and the effects of increasingly variable weather. From a heritage perspective, flowers and foliage provide precise seasonal markers
Snowdrops are associated with late winter and early spring, while seed heads and autumn leaves show later stages of the plant cycle
dew, frost and backlighting can further emphasise structure. Looking at the subject's development, plant details are useful both aesthetically and scientifically, showing petals, leaves, seed heads and moisture at a particular stage of growth
Repeated seasonal photography can also provide a simple record of phenology. Relevant synonyms and subject phrases include seasonal plant, nature detail, macro photography, spring flower, plant life, and natural texture.
Marbury country park, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH5AME - 2003 Iraqi Most Wanted playing cards laid on a detailed printed map of Iraq, with Baghdad, Karbala, Al Hillah and nearby road and place names visible. The right-hand card shows Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, president of Iraq, as the ace of spades. The left-hand card shows Uday Saddam Husayn, listed as National Assembly Member, Olympic Chairman and Saddam Fedayeen Chief, as the ace of hearts. The image provides a direct visual link between military intelligence, battlefield recognition, the United States-led coalition invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the wider search for senior figures from Saddam Hussein's regime. The cards were part of the now widely recognised Iraq Most Wanted deck, a practical identification aid used by coalition personnel and later a powerful symbol of Operation Iraqi Freedom, regime collapse, occupation, contested intelligence and the political aftermath of the war. Set against the map, the playing cards become more than simple military ephemera: they work as a compact documentary image about war planning, geography, propaganda, leadership targeting, dictatorship, Ba'ath Party power structures, and the way conflict turns names, faces and places into public symbols. The clean studio composition and readable card text make it useful for newspapers, magazines, books, educational material, museum displays and online features exploring the Iraq War, the fall of Saddam Hussein, the role of Uday Hussein, US and British military involvement, postwar instability, Middle East geopolitics, high-value target lists, military collectibles and the long legacy of the 2003 invasion. The warm map colours, road markings and city labels add geographic context, while the two aces give the photograph a strong graphic quality suited to stories about power, pursuit, intelligence, memory and the transformation of recent war into archive history.
Baghdad, Iraq
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Keywords: GoTonysmith,@HotpixUK,Trafford,Cheshire,town,centre,shopping,retail,similar to Borough Market London,Greater Manchester,Manchester,North West England,UK,shop,shoppers,stall,happy shoppers,food,cheese,meat,vegetables,drink,food court,bar,drinks,diners,dining,destination,market house coffee,coffee,market house,markethouse,busy,families,family,family destination,ambiance,atmospheric,nice atmosphere,Alty
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P307GD - Photo shows Altrincham successful retail town market (similar to Borough Market), Trafford Council, Greater Manchester, North West England, UK. The image is commercially useful for stories about high streets, independent traders, market halls, shopping habits, visitor footfall, town centre regeneration and local economies. Retail and market photographs with readable frontage, product display or a recognisable location help illustrate how everyday spending, tourism and small business activity are changing across Britain. The supplied location evidence places the subject at or near Manchester, Altrincham, England, UK, which adds value for buyers searching by town, city, region or postcode. Season and footfall can be inferred only from the image, while the retail or market subject is explicit in the supplied caption. It should work for editorial buyers needing authentic, non-staged British or travel imagery for news, magazine, blog, local government, heritage, housing, transport, tourism, retail, public policy or social commentary use. The caption should be checked against the visible photograph before upload so that any readable signs, weather, time of day and people context are accurately reflected without overstating facts not shown in the image. The strongest sales value is the combination of named subject, real location and everyday documentary style, giving picture editors a flexible image that can sit alongside features, opinion pieces, explainers, historical retrospectives and local news. Search relevance is helped by including concise place names, visible brand or wording, functional subject terms, and wider editorial concepts such as public realm, consumer behaviour, heritage, travel, leisure and community life where they genuinely match the picture.
12 Greenwood St, Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JHB6PT - Born Meshe David Osinsky and a Lithuanian Jew in Kurkliai, Kaunas province, he came alone to the UK in 1900 to escape the Russian pogroms. He was well-educated, having studied in a yeshiva,[1] but arrived unable to speak English
In 1901, he was staying in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. He started as a peddler, then set up as a general outfitter in Chesterfield in 1903 selling readymade suits bought from a wholesaler.[2][3] Following his marriage to Sophie Marks in 1909 the name of the company was changed from M. Burton to Burton & Burton. On the birth of twin boys in (1917) he gave his name as Montague Maurice Burton.
He died while speaking after a dinner in Leeds on 21 September 1952. The funeral was at the Harrogate Synagogue (some sources say Chapeltown) and he was interred at Gildersome.
˜The Tailor of Taste'
When Montague Burton became a limited company in 1917, it was registered as ˜Montague Burton the Tailor of Taste Ltd'. The slogan, as part of Burton's name, formed part of firm's logo, appearing on fascias, parapets, floors, and even on ventilation grilles.
Tiles and Mosaics
The entrance lobbies of many Burton shops had mosaic floors in the early-to-mid 20th century, and Burton was no exception. These sometimes included the popular Burton slogan: ˜Let Burton Dress You'. This also appears in a black and red glazed terracotta panel on the side elevation of the branch in Abergavenny (1937). Burton's terracotta was usually supplied by the Middleton Fireclay Co. of Leeds
18 Church St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire,England, UK, WA7 1LX
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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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Keywords: GoTonysmith,@HotpixUK,Trafford,Cheshire,town,centre,shopping,retail,similar to Borough Market London,Greater Manchester,Manchester,North West England,UK,shop,shoppers,stall,happy shoppers,food,cheese,meat,vegetables,drink,food court,bar,drinks,diners,dining,destination,people,crowd,crowded,evening,daytime,busy,all ages,family,families,historic market,packed,popular
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P307GH - Altrincham successful retail town market (similar to Borough Market), Trafford Council, Greater Manchester, North West England, UK works as a grounded stock photograph because the subject is specific, legible and connected to wider social, economic or cultural themes. Altrincham Market has become a frequently cited example of town-centre revival, using food, independent traders and a social market-hall atmosphere to pull people back into a traditional retail centre. The scene supports coverage of high-street regeneration, market-led placemaking, hospitality, local enterprise, weekend leisure and the search for alternatives to chain-store decline. The location detail, Manchester, Altrincham, Borough Market, strengthens searches for regional features, travel pages, local-history pieces and news use where a named place matters. Relevant editorial themes include indoor market, retail market, independent traders and food hall, with each theme rooted in the visible subject, place or activity. The scene has practical value for features needing authentic British or international street-level evidence, especially where policy, culture, business, tourism or social change is easier to explain through one clear example.
12 Greenwood St, Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14, UK
