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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@Hotpixuk,255A0031,V&A Dundee,interior,timber-clad,walls,staircase,seating,Dundee,Scotland,UK,museum,wooden,ceiling,glass,architecture,contemporary,design,tourism,public,building,visitor,facilities,regeneration,landmark,Scottish,materials,modern
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ERK5W1 - . V&A Dundee interior with timber-clad walls, staircase and seating in Dundee, Scotland, UK. Photographed on 10 June 2026. The recorded location is V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ, Scotland, UK. The image highlights the museum's distinctive layered wooden surfaces, long angular ceiling lines and glass balustrades, with a quiet seating area positioned beside the main circulation route. The contemporary architecture creates strong diagonal forms and a warm contrast between timber and pale structural surfaces. The uncluttered composition focuses attention on materials, spatial design and the character of the museum interior. V&A Dundee opened in 2018 as Scotland's first dedicated design museum and the first V&A museum outside London. Designed by Kengo Kuma and inspired by Scotland's east-coast cliffs, it became a centrepiece of Dundee's waterfront regeneration beside the restored RRS Discovery. For the story of public history, it is useful to note that museums turn objects into interpreted past, while archives preserve documents that may have little value until researchers connect them with people, buildings or events
Interiors therefore record both collections and changing curatorial practice. The historical setting for townscape is that the built environment is continually reused
Warehouses become apartments, stations become event spaces and commercial premises acquire new occupants, making older photographs particularly useful for tracing regeneration, demolition, conservation and adaptive reuse. For present-day public history, 2026 is significant because digitisation has changed research but has not removed the need for physical archives and collections. institutions increasingly combine online access with conservation of original material and renewed interest in local past. Its associated themes also include V&A Dundee, interior, timber-clad, walls, staircase, and seating.
V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,IMG_0144,Leeds Art Gallery,interior,glazed,roof,paintings,sculpture,Leeds,England,UK,gallery,art,museum,architecture,exhibition,visual,arts,collection,tourism,heritage,cultural,attraction,ceiling,red,walls,visitors,historic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ERX6G0 - . Leeds Art Gallery interior beneath a glazed roof with paintings and sculpture in Leeds, England, UK. Photographed on 16 May 2026. The recorded location is Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA, West Yorkshire, England, UK. The upward-looking composition emphasises the decorative roof lantern and high ceiling above red gallery walls filled with framed artworks, while visitors and a freestanding sculpture are visible below. The unusual vertical perspective gives particular emphasis to the historic gallery architecture as well as the art displayed within the room. For the story of artwork, it is useful to note that street art and murals are especially valuable as temporary cultural evidence because they may be painted over or lost during redevelopment
Photographs preserve both the artwork and its relationship with the surrounding neighbourhood. The historical setting for museum display is that libraries, museums and archives developed as civic institutions for preserving knowledge, objects and local records
Reading rooms, catalogues and display cases reveal how public access to information changed before digitisation transformed research. For present-day artwork, 2026 is significant because contemporary street art continues to blur the line between unofficial expression, commissioned mural and tourist attraction
Images are therefore relevant to urban culture, creative industries, heritage interpretation and place-making. In the 2026 discussion of museum display, libraries and museums continue to operate as community hubs, visitor attractions and sources of digital access, while funding pressures encourage partnerships, volunteering and new uses for historic buildings. Useful alternative terminology includes public art, statue, cultural identity, visual culture, community art, memorial art, public realm, cultural landmark, public library, collections, local history, heritage attraction, public history, archive research, and library service.
Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_0144,Leeds Art Gallery,interior,glazed,roof,paintings,sculpture,Leeds,England,UK,gallery,art,museum,architecture,exhibition,visual,arts,collection,tourism,heritage,cultural,attraction,ceiling,red,walls,visitors,historic,tourist,travel,attarction,half-term
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ETN50R - . Leeds Art Gallery interior beneath a glazed roof with paintings and sculpture in Leeds, England, UK. Photographed on 16 May 2026. The recorded location is Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA, West Yorkshire, England, UK. The upward-looking composition emphasises the decorative roof lantern and high ceiling above red gallery walls filled with framed artworks, while visitors and a freestanding sculpture are visible below. The unusual vertical perspective gives particular emphasis to the historic gallery architecture as well as the art displayed within the room. For urban culture, the historical context is that public art turns streets and buildings into records of local culture
Murals, statues and memorial sculpture can commemorate people and events, celebrate industry, respond to politics or simply enliven public space, while materials and style often identify a particular era. Looking at archive research, the longer history is that museums turn objects into interpreted past, while archives preserve documents that may have little value until researchers connect them with people, buildings or events
Interiors therefore record both collections and changing curatorial practice. For urban culture, the 2026 context is that public art is closely connected with regeneration, tourism, identity and debate about representation
Murals and sculptures can become visitor landmarks while also prompting discussion about whose past is visible in public space. In 2026, archive research remains relevant because digitisation has changed research but has not removed the need for physical archives and collections. institutions increasingly combine online access with conservation of original material and renewed interest in local past. Related search language includes street art, cultural identity, visual culture, community art, place-making, memorial art, creative industries, public realm, cultural landmark, public library, reading room, and local history.
Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_0142,Leeds Art Gallery,interior,visitors,paintings,sculpture,Leeds,West,Yorkshire,England,UK,gallery,art,museum,exhibition,culture,heritage,tourism,collection,framed,artworks,wooden,floor,ceiling,visual,arts,public,attraction,halfterm,half-term,activity,tourist
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ETN5R3 - . Leeds Art Gallery interior with visitors, paintings and sculpture in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. Photographed on 16 May 2026. The recorded location is Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA, West Yorkshire, England, UK. The gallery room has richly coloured red walls hung with framed artworks, while a freestanding sculpture occupies the polished wooden floor beneath a high glazed ceiling. Visitors move through the exhibition space viewing the collection. The strong architectural detailing and dense salon-style display give the room a distinctive historic gallery character. For the story of place-making, it is useful to note that monuments and civic artworks are part of the visual history of place
Their subjects reveal whom a community chose to celebrate, while later reinterpretation or controversy can change the meaning of an apparently permanent object. The historical setting for visitor attraction is that public libraries expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as part of civic education, later adding computers, events and digital services while retaining their role as shared community space. For present-day place-making, 2026 is significant because contemporary street art continues to blur the line between unofficial expression, commissioned mural and tourist attraction
Images are therefore relevant to urban culture, creative industries, heritage interpretation and place-making. In the 2026 discussion of visitor attraction, libraries and museums continue to operate as community hubs, visitor attractions and sources of digital access, while funding pressures encourage partnerships, volunteering and new uses for historic buildings. Additional discoverability terms include public art, statue, cultural identity, visual culture, community art, memorial art, public realm, cultural landmark, archive, public library, collections, reading room, local history, heritage attraction, public history, and museum display.
Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_1890,Piccadilly Arcade,Birmingham New Street,Birmingham,West Midlands,England,UK,interior,shopping,arcade,retail,independent,heritage,historic,ceiling,architecture,city-centre,tourism,shopfronts,pedestrian
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EFEG0X - . Piccadilly Arcade interior off Birmingham New Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK. Photographed on 2 October 2023. The recorded location is Piccadilly Arcade, New Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK. The covered shopping passage features ornate painted ceiling panels, decorative gold detailing, patterned floors and independent shops lining both sides. The richly decorated ceiling and traditional shopfronts distinguish the arcade from modern enclosed shopping centres and create a strong visual for stories about heritage conservation, specialist retailers, historic commercial buildings, pedestrian shopping and the character of Birmingham's smaller city-centre arcades. For the story of streetscape, it is useful to note that buildings are often the most durable evidence of former institutions and businesses
Brickwork, stonework, windows, entrances and signs can survive changes of ownership or use, allowing photography to document architectural style as well as the evolution of a street or district. For present-day streetscape, 2026 is significant because current planning debates place growing emphasis on housing delivery, retrofit, accessibility and the reuse of brownfield sites
Architectural photographs therefore connect design history with present-day questions about regeneration, sustainability and urban density. Additional discoverability terms include built environment, architectural detail, historic building, facade, urban design, adaptive reuse, heritage building, construction, property, townscape, cityscape, architectural history, building conservation, IMG_1890, architecture, and tourism. Seen through townscape, the earlier context is that buildings are often the most durable evidence of former institutions and businesses
Brickwork, stonework, windows, entrances and signs can survive changes of ownership or use, allowing photography to document architectural style as well as the evolution of a street or district.
Piccadilly Arcade, New Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PK2AE1 - Lady Chapel
The oldest and perhaps most beautiful part of the Cathedral, the Lady Chapel offers its own organ, much-admired lantern lights, its own private entrance as well as some of the most beautiful stained glass in the Cathedral.
This intimate chapel has wonderful acoustics and is ideally suited to smaller recitals, film showings, theatrical performances and lectures, seating up to 200 guests. It also provides a pre-event reception space for those hiring the Well “ combined with a call to dinner by our world-famous organ, and a candle-lit walk across the main floor, it's a start to the evening no guest will forget!
Celebrating a special wedding anniversary? Why not have a wedding blessing or a renewal of vows in this most beautiful Chapel and complete your special day with a champagne reception and dinner in the Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Suite. (Minimum numbers apply).
Weddings may also be held in the Lady Chapel but are subject to very strict criteria and to Archbishop of Canterbury's licence limitations and conditions
St James' Mount, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 7AZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PK2AFW - Lady Chapel
The oldest and perhaps most beautiful part of the Cathedral, the Lady Chapel offers its own organ, much-admired lantern lights, its own private entrance as well as some of the most beautiful stained glass in the Cathedral.
This intimate chapel has wonderful acoustics and is ideally suited to smaller recitals, film showings, theatrical performances and lectures, seating up to 200 guests. It also provides a pre-event reception space for those hiring the Well “ combined with a call to dinner by our world-famous organ, and a candle-lit walk across the main floor, it's a start to the evening no guest will forget!
Celebrating a special wedding anniversary? Why not have a wedding blessing or a renewal of vows in this most beautiful Chapel and complete your special day with a champagne reception and dinner in the Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Suite. (Minimum numbers apply).
Weddings may also be held in the Lady Chapel but are subject to very strict criteria and to Archbishop of Canterbury's licence limitations and conditions
St James' Mount, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 7AZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,English,England,Merseyside,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions,UK,L1 7AZ,L1,CofE,architecture,history,historic,religious,religion,interior,inside,embellishment,Giles Gilbert Scott,protestant,chapel,chapels,room,building,detail,vault,vaults,vaulted,ceiling,lantern lights,protestants,gold,golden
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PK2AH8 - Lady Chapel
The oldest and perhaps most beautiful part of the Cathedral, the Lady Chapel offers its own organ, much-admired lantern lights, its own private entrance as well as some of the most beautiful stained glass in the Cathedral.
This intimate chapel has wonderful acoustics and is ideally suited to smaller recitals, film showings, theatrical performances and lectures, seating up to 200 guests. It also provides a pre-event reception space for those hiring the Well “ combined with a call to dinner by our world-famous organ, and a candle-lit walk across the main floor, it's a start to the evening no guest will forget!
Celebrating a special wedding anniversary? Why not have a wedding blessing or a renewal of vows in this most beautiful Chapel and complete your special day with a champagne reception and dinner in the Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Suite. (Minimum numbers apply).
Weddings may also be held in the Lady Chapel but are subject to very strict criteria and to Archbishop of Canterbury's licence limitations and conditions
St James' Mount, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 7AZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PK2AJ8 - Lady Chapel
The oldest and perhaps most beautiful part of the Cathedral, the Lady Chapel offers its own organ, much-admired lantern lights, its own private entrance as well as some of the most beautiful stained glass in the Cathedral.
This intimate chapel has wonderful acoustics and is ideally suited to smaller recitals, film showings, theatrical performances and lectures, seating up to 200 guests. It also provides a pre-event reception space for those hiring the Well “ combined with a call to dinner by our world-famous organ, and a candle-lit walk across the main floor, it's a start to the evening no guest will forget!
Celebrating a special wedding anniversary? Why not have a wedding blessing or a renewal of vows in this most beautiful Chapel and complete your special day with a champagne reception and dinner in the Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Suite. (Minimum numbers apply).
Weddings may also be held in the Lady Chapel but are subject to very strict criteria and to Archbishop of Canterbury's licence limitations and conditions
St James' Mount, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 7AZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,city,centre,West Midlands,England,UK,WV1,WV1 1TY,inside,interior,of,Episcopal,dark,wood,screens,carving,carvings,carved,wooden,history,historic,artisan,Midlands,Wolverhampton city,city centre,religion,Anglican,heritage,Victorian dark,religious,internal,architecture,tall,towering,ceiling
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M6GBBN - . Recorded at Lich Gates, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY 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 frame specifically shows Interior carved screens, of St Peter's Collegiate Episcopal Church, Lich Gates, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY. The image also relates to visual archive, contemporary social history, conservation architecture, heritage landmark, local history, social history, historic streetscape, historical comparison, documentary photography, urban fabric, period detail, changing land use, before-and-after reference, and community identity. The modern context includes continuing discussion of maintenance, planning control and the balance between conservation and modern commercial use. The archival value lies partly in recording commercial use and occupation around Lich Gates, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY before new ownership alters the character of the place. The photograph additionally reflects period architecture, architectural detailing, regional identity, everyday life, local character, adaptive reuse, built heritage, and traditional materials. Elements such as Midlands, Church, carved, Gates, and Peter's add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within Lich Gates, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. Another useful connection is maintenance and how historic fabric can support regeneration rather than demolition in a form that can be compared with future views of Lich Gates, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY. The photograph keeps evidence of changing use as part of Lich Gates, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY's history.
Lich Gates, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,city,centre,West Midlands,England,UK,church,Lich Gate,Wolverhampton,WV1 1TY,WV1,pipe,pipes,inside,interior,instrument,musical,grand,ornate,history,historic,Midlands,Wolverhampton city,city centre,religion,Anglican,heritage,Victorian dark,religious,internal,architecture,tall,towering,ceiling
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M6GBNA - . This dated editorial view of Lich Gate, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The frame specifically shows Organ pipes, St Peters Collegiate Church, Lich Gate, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY. The image also relates to heritage asset, architectural detailing, period building, historic smoking culture, conservation architecture, smoking-related advertising, public realm, archival record, vintage tobacco branding, tobacco retail history, period architecture, built heritage, everyday life, and smoking ephemera. Today's relevance is strengthened by embodied carbon, maintenance and the continuing question of the balance between conservation and modern commercial use. From a 2025-onward perspective, smoking decline and nicotine policy are closely linked to this subject, alongside the value of old tobacco signs as records of changing consumer culture. For later comparison, the photograph preserves period objects and surrounding context at Lich Gate, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY, details that may look very different after new ownership. A second descriptive layer includes mid-century tobacco trade, place identity, cigar advertising, urban fabric, contemporary social history, adaptive reuse, historic streetscape, and period detail. References to pipes, Wolverhampton, Peters, Collegiate, and Church give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around Lich Gate, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The setting also helps illustrate embodied carbon and the balance between conservation and modern commercial use without losing the local specificity of Lich Gate, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY.
Lich Gate, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, WV1 1TY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lancs,England,UK,97,Lancashire,inside,the,Winter,gardens,complex,theatre,ballroom,and,facilities,live shows,cabaret,bar,bars,entrance,hall,ceiling,path,paths,event,people,venue,canopy,roof,conferences,conference,indoor,indoors,interior
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRG8XN - The Winter Gardens is a large entertainment complex in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which includes a theatre, ballroom and conference facilities. Opened in 1878, it is a Grade II* listed building, operated by Blackpool Entertainment Company Limited on behalf of Blackpool Council, which purchased the property from Leisure Parcs Ltd as part of a £40 million deal in 2010.
The Winter Gardens has hosted the annual Trades Union Congress, the Conservative Party Conference, Labour Party Conference, and the twice-annual Liberal Democrat Conference. The venue's owners claim that every Prime Minister since World War II has addressed an audience at the venue.
It has also hosted the Blackpool Dance Festival since its inception in 1920, and the World Matchplay darts tournament since 1994. The annual dance competitions Miss Dance of Great Britain and Dance Master UK are hosted there annually.
The Winter Gardens is in Blackpool's town centre, about 250 metres from the sea front. The complex occupies most of its block, a roughly square footprint with sides about 200 metres in length. The two north-facing corners of the block are not taken up by the Gardens buildings themselves, however, but by shops and restaurants. The northwest corner is completely separated by a road serving the stage door of the theatres. The west face also accommodates a few small shops with the same architectural styling as the main building. The complex is bounded by roads on all sides “ Church Street, Leopold Grove, Adelaide Street and Coronation Street
97 Church St, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 1HL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Cheshire,inside,interior,retail,shop,store,stall,CW5 5DG,flag,British,for,the,queen,Elizabeth,queens,celebrate,jubilee,2022,town,historic,heritage,Victorian,successful,markets,local,food,foods,stalls,roof,ceiling,flags,United Kingdom,trader,traders
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNN5A8 - . Made at Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG 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 scene records Interior of Nantwich Market, Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG, flags for the queens jubilee 2022. The frame also records themes of visual archive, retail property, local enterprise, specialist retailer, period detail, contemporary social history, everyday life, shopfront economy, national flag display, community identity, national emblem, national symbolism, archival record, and changing land use. The modern context includes continuing discussion of national identity, cultural identity and how national flags can signal celebration, sport, identity or political sentiment depending on context. For current editorial use, store closures and commercial rents provide additional context, especially through how consumer spending and property costs shape local commercial streets. For later comparison, the photograph preserves lettering, decoration and surface detail at Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG, details that may look very different after altered transport patterns. The subject also sits alongside local trading, before-and-after reference, bricks-and-mortar retail, high-street commerce, small business, independent retail, local character, and public expression of identity. The combination of Nantwich, jubilee, Interior, Market, and queens anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The wider setting at Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The photograph keeps a local visual benchmark as a date-specific reference.
Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNN5AB - . Photographed at Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG in 2022, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The defining feature is Interior of Nantwich Market, Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG, flags for the queens jubilee 2022. The wider scene also brings together commercial streetscape, patriotic symbolism, English identity, national emblem, social history, place identity, contemporary social history, small business, shopfront economy, residential flag display, changing land use, documentary photography, historical comparison, and period detail. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with social division, political symbolism and the distinction between everyday patriotism and more contentious uses of national imagery. The modern context includes continuing discussion of town-centre regeneration, store closures and the role of small retailers in maintaining active town centres. Future viewers can use this scene from Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG to compare commercial use and occupation with whatever follows after replacement signage. The photograph additionally reflects before-and-after reference, changing streetscape, regional identity, civic identity, town-centre economy, street-level symbolism, retail property, and community identity. Elements such as queens, Nantwich, Interior, Market, and jubilee add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. It also preserves evidence of changing use as part of Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG's history.
Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAT341 - Chiltern Railways is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that has operated the Chiltern Railways franchise since July 1996. It operates commuter/regional rail passenger services from its central London terminus at London Marylebone along the M40 corridor to destinations in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, as well as long-distance services to the West Midlands along two routes. Services on the Chiltern Main Line run from London to Birmingham Snow Hill, Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford, with some peak-hour services extended to Kidderminster.
Chiltern Railways also runs trains on the London to Aylesbury Line to Aylesbury (some of which continue on to Aylesbury Vale Parkway), and on the Princes Risborough to Aylesbury and Oxford to Bicester branch lines.
Birmingham Moor Street station Queensway Birmingham West Midlands, B4 7UL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAT342 - Chiltern Railways is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that has operated the Chiltern Railways franchise since July 1996. It operates commuter/regional rail passenger services from its central London terminus at London Marylebone along the M40 corridor to destinations in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, as well as long-distance services to the West Midlands along two routes. Services on the Chiltern Main Line run from London to Birmingham Snow Hill, Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford, with some peak-hour services extended to Kidderminster.
Chiltern Railways also runs trains on the London to Aylesbury Line to Aylesbury (some of which continue on to Aylesbury Vale Parkway), and on the Princes Risborough to Aylesbury and Oxford to Bicester branch lines.
Birmingham Moor Street station Queensway Birmingham West Midlands, B4 7UL
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,England,UK,Merseyside,book,books,readers,reading,libraries,English,inside,interior,Victorian,building,Frederick,Hugh,hall,city,centre,design,William,Brown,Street,history,historic,buildings,shelves,shelf,light,lighting,ceiling,Britain,great,dome,Architecture,librarians,L3,L38EW
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGPHAA - The library is located in several adjoining historic buildings on William Brown Street. Its first building was the William Brown Library and Museum building which was completed in 1860 to the designs of John Weightman Surveyor to Liverpool Corporation, (not to be confused with his near contemporary John Grey Weightman)[1] and which it has always shared with the city's museum, now known as World Museum Liverpool. The library was then extended further to the right with the addition in 1879 of the Picton Reading Room and to the rear with the Hornby Library in 1906. All three of these are Grade II* listed buildings and are built in a classical style similar to other buildings on the street.
Liverpool Central Library during rebuild
Interior view of the library prior to its 2013 refurbishment
Previous to the creation of this public library was England's first subscription library (1758-1942), latterly known as The Lyceum, Liverpool, but often referred to as the Liverpool Library.
750,000 people visited the museum in 2017. In 2018, the library won The Bookseller's Library of the Year Award
1840 William Brown St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England UK, L3 8EW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGPHAF - The library is located in several adjoining historic buildings on William Brown Street. Its first building was the William Brown Library and Museum building which was completed in 1860 to the designs of John Weightman Surveyor to Liverpool Corporation, (not to be confused with his near contemporary John Grey Weightman)[1] and which it has always shared with the city's museum, now known as World Museum Liverpool. The library was then extended further to the right with the addition in 1879 of the Picton Reading Room and to the rear with the Hornby Library in 1906. All three of these are Grade II* listed buildings and are built in a classical style similar to other buildings on the street.
Liverpool Central Library during rebuild
Interior view of the library prior to its 2013 refurbishment
Previous to the creation of this public library was England's first subscription library (1758-1942), latterly known as The Lyceum, Liverpool, but often referred to as the Liverpool Library.
750,000 people visited the museum in 2017. In 2018, the library won The Bookseller's Library of the Year Award
1840 William Brown St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England UK, L3 8EW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HEJ6M8 - The Black Friar Pub. Post-1903 work by Herbert Fuller-Clark (b.1869, d. after 1912). Original building 1875. Remodelled in several stages beginning 1903, 1914, and 1925. 174 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4. Individual sculptures by Nathaniel Hitch, Frederick Callcott, Henry Poole, and Farmer and Brindley. According to Philip Ward-Jackson,
Hitch was responsible for the stonework grotesques on the exterior, and for a considerable amount of similar work in wood in the interior. Callcott created the pattern for the larger copper relief scenes, representing the day to day activities of the friars. . . . It seems probable that Callcott went on working on those reliefs until shortly before his death in 1925, when the rather more prestigious Henry Poole took over, to produce the relief work in the Small Saloon Bar. One of Callcott's frieze-like panels, entitled Saturday Afternoon, was to be repeated on the screen wall, separating the Luncheon Bar from the Small Saloon Bar, although it looks quite different in its new form, because the figures are much more widely spaced out, and the coloured marbles in the second rendering give it more depth.
Of these artists, Hitch (1841-1935), deserves to be better known. Following an apprenticeship to Farmer and Brindley, he had a very long and distinguished career as a sculptor: his work can be found at Cardiff Castle, suggesting that he was probably a member of William Burges's workforce there, and also in many churches and cathedrals including Truro Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. He was particularly associated with the architects W. D. Caröe and J. L. Pearson.
It is worth noting that the popular London Encyclopaedia disagrees about the dates and artists involved here, stating simply that the building was erected in 1875, the ground floor being remodelled in 1905 by H. Fuller Clark. The outside is covered with mosaics and carved figures by Henry Poole (1903).
174 Queen Victoria Street, Blackfriars, London, England
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDJPK3 - The Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library are two grade II* listed buildings on William Brown Street, Liverpool, England which now form part of the Liverpool Central Library.
Chairman of the William Brown Library and Museum Sir James Picton laid the foundation stone of the Picton Reading Room in 1875. It was designed by Cornelius Sherlock, and modelled after the British Museum Reading Room, and was the first electrically lit library in the UK.
It was completed in 1879. The front is semicircular with Corinthian columns, and the shape was chosen by the architect to cover the change in the axis of the row of buildings at this point. The Hornby Reading Room (named after Hugh Frederick Hornby) by Thomas Shelmerdine was added in 1906. It stands behind the older building and the interior is decorated in the Edwardian Imperial style
William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK L3 8EW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDJPKD - The Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library are two grade II* listed buildings on William Brown Street, Liverpool, England which now form part of the Liverpool Central Library.
Chairman of the William Brown Library and Museum Sir James Picton laid the foundation stone of the Picton Reading Room in 1875. It was designed by Cornelius Sherlock, and modelled after the British Museum Reading Room, and was the first electrically lit library in the UK.
It was completed in 1879. The front is semicircular with Corinthian columns, and the shape was chosen by the architect to cover the change in the axis of the row of buildings at this point. The Hornby Reading Room (named after Hugh Frederick Hornby) by Thomas Shelmerdine was added in 1906. It stands behind the older building and the interior is decorated in the Edwardian Imperial style
William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK L3 8EW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0NMG - Walton, St John Evangelist Church interior outside Warrington Cheshire
St John's the Evangelist's Church, Warrington is in Walton, Warrington, Cheshire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. It was built as a private estate church towards the end of the 19th century but is now an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAT2T2 - The City Chambers or Municipal Buildings in Glasgow, Scotland, has functioned as the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since 1996, and of preceding forms of municipal government in the city since 1889, located on the eastern side of the city's George Square. An eminent example of Victorian civic architecture, the building was constructed between 1882 and 1888 to a competition winning design by Scottish architect William Young. a native of Paisley.
Inaugurated in August 1888 by Queen Victoria, the first council meeting was held within the chambers in October 1889. The building originally had an area of 5,016 m2 (53,990 sq ft). In 1923, an extension to the east side of the building in John Street was opened and in 1984 Exchange House in George Street was completed, increasing the size of the City Chambers complex to some 14,000 m2
George Square, Glasgow, Scotland,UK, G2 1AL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDJNYY - The Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library are two grade II* listed buildings on William Brown Street, Liverpool, England which now form part of the Liverpool Central Library.
Chairman of the William Brown Library and Museum Sir James Picton laid the foundation stone of the Picton Reading Room in 1875. It was designed by Cornelius Sherlock, and modelled after the British Museum Reading Room, and was the first electrically lit library in the UK.
It was completed in 1879. The front is semicircular with Corinthian columns, and the shape was chosen by the architect to cover the change in the axis of the row of buildings at this point. The Hornby Reading Room (named after Hugh Frederick Hornby) by Thomas Shelmerdine was added in 1906. It stands behind the older building and the interior is decorated in the Edwardian Imperial style
William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK L3 8EW
