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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R5PNY2 - This image shows a row of leather-bound volumes titled The Popular Encyclopedia or Conversations Lexicon, a historic general reference work designed to provide structured knowledge across a wide range of subjects. The ornate gold-embossed spines and decorative bindings reflect 19th-century book production and publishing craftsmanship, when encyclopaedias were central to formal education and private libraries.
Works such as The Popular Encyclopedia or Conversations Lexicon were intended to make learning accessible through alphabetically organised articles and explanatory essays, serving households, schools, and scholars before the advent of digital information. The visual emphasis on uniform bindings and typographic detail evokes themes of scholarship, authority, literacy, and the preservation of knowledge.
The image is suitable for editorial and commercial use relating to education history, publishing heritage, libraries, antiques, academic learning, and the evolution of reference materials, as well as conceptual illustrations of knowledge, research, and intellectual tradition
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KA3T15 - Stagecoach Gold is a luxury bus sub-brand used by various Stagecoach bus subsidiaries in the United Kingdom.
Stagecoach Gold (originally Goldline) was launched in 2007 and was designed to attract more middle-class passengers to choose bus travel as a method of transport as well as to reward passengers on some busy and popular routes.
Stagecoach West currently runs the most Stagecoach Gold routes, nine, as of August 2022. Stagecoach South Wales owns the largest number of Stagecoach Gold branded vehicles with 76 in its fleet as of November 2019
The Goldline brand was introduced to try to win more middle-class motorists to bus services. It was initially trialled in two areas, Perth and Warwick from November 2007, both on routes which received kick-start funding from the government to help establish the routes. Stagecoach East Scotland invested ?300,000 to demonstrate the idea to politicians.
Goldline routes have a luxury specification. Buses have hand-stitched leather seats, metallic paint, special flooring and free WiFi. Drivers wear special uniform and there is a Goldline customer charter
In February 2009 the service was expanded to Aldershot and in September 2009 to Cheltenham and Gloucester on route 94. At this stage the brand name changed from Goldline to Stagecoach Gold, as well as the introduction of a new livery with brighter swoops added, as opposed to the previous gold and blue only livery. The reason behind the name change was that Translink had the rights to the Goldline name, using it on their Ulsterbus coach services, and Stagecoach had to pay Translink a royalty
As of 2016, all brand new Stagecoach buses, including non-gold vehicles, come equipped with high back leather seats, USB charging facilities and many with free onboard Wi-Fi. Subsequently, this means that many of Stagecoach's new non-gold vehicles are now at the same specification as the Gold branded vehicles. As a result, some non-gold routes now have higher specification vehicles
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JC75R4 - The Ricoh Company, Ltd. ( Kabushiki-gaisha Rik ) is a Japanese multinational imaging and electronics company. It was founded by the now-defunct commercial division of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken) known as the Riken Concern, on 6 February 1936 as Riken Sensitized Paper (Riken Kankshi). Ricoh's headquarters are located in Ota, Tokyo
The origin of watchmaking at Ricoh comes from Takano, a clock manufacturer established in 1899, and a second company, founded in 1913. The company produced metal clocks before the war, and was merged into one company in 1924. It was incorporated in 1938 as Takano Seimitsu Kogyo Co., shortly after switching to weapons manufacturing.
1960s and 1970s: Ricoh made wrist watches for both the Japanese domestic market and international markets, briefly entering into a partnership with Hamilton Watch Company, for the creation of the Ricoh Hamilton Electric watch
On May 8, 1962, Takano was taken over by the larger Ricoh company. Takano became Ricoh Watch Ltd. in 1963 and the watches were re-branded as Ricoh from late 1962 onward. Ricoh was founded in 1936 as Riken Kankoshi Co. Ltd., a producer of optics and was successful in cameras and industrial equipment.
The joint venture with Hamilton (which owned a 60% stake) continued, with American movements assembled and cased in Japan for the domestic market there. The movement, Ricoh Cal. 555E, was the same as the Standard Time Cal. 130E or Hamilton Cal. 505. Sales were poor in Japan, with most taking place on US military bases where Seiko was not as strong a competitor. The venture ended in 1965, with some leftover stock sold under the Hamilton Vantage brand in the United States.
Ricoh launched an automatic watch of their own in October 1962. Known as the Dynamic, it had a 33 jewel movement with instantaneous day and date change. After initial quality issues, which resulted in large-scale returns, the movement was perfected and remained in production until the 1990s.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWMD - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of ?3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PBRY2P - Grappenhall Cricket Club played its first game in 1881 on a ground in Bellhouse Lane. The club moved to its current home of Broad Lane in 1892 with a new clubhouse. There have been several new clubhouses built on the existing site with the most recent developments coming in the late 1980's with significant improvements to the facilities in 2011.
In the early days the club played a number of friendly matches. Grappers then played regular fixtures up to the 2nd World War. In 1939, before war broke out, Grappers were founder members of the North Cheshire League but the league was stopped at the start of the war and was never resumed.
From the 1960's onwards GCC were members of the Manchester Association which was the prelude to the clubs most successful period.
The 70's & 80's ? the golden years
In 1981, after a couple of good seasons following promotion to the top division in the late 70's, the 1st XI won the top flight for the first time. One of Grappenhall's best teams, it included some famous Grappers names such as Duncan Martindale, Rick Houghton, Chris Ashton, Neil Titchard, Jim Green, Nick Sharp and a young Neil Fairbrother, only a few years before he headed off for big things with Lancashire and England.
In 1982, the 1st XI went one better, this time winning the league and cup double with the HC Cup Final being one of a number of appearances the club mate at Old Trafford in the 80's.
The double was repeated in 1987 with another appearance at Old Trafford, this time with the team including another future Lancashire star and future Grappers captain in Steve Titchard. In the same season, the 2nd XI also tasted success by winning the Worthington Cup.
There were a number of other cup successes for the club during this period for the different senior and junior teams, with many a memorable game taking place and the tales still being regaled today.
In 1992, the club were in their last season in Manchester Association before a move to the CCCL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MM9A0R - The leather subculture denotes practices and styles of dress organized around sexual activities that involve leather garments, such as leather jackets, vests, boots, chaps, harnesses, or other items. Wearing leather garments is one way that participants in this culture self-consciously distinguish themselves from mainstream sexual cultures. Many people associate leather culture with BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sado/Masochism, also called SM or S&M) practices and its many subcultures. But for others, wearing black leather clothing is an erotic fashion that expresses heightened masculinity or the appropriation of sexual power
love of motorcycles, motorcycle clubs and independence
and/or engagement in sexual kink or leather fetishism.[1]
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7N8B3 - Munich Oktoberfest
Only beer conforming to the Reinheitsgebot, and brewed within the city limits of Munich, can be served at the Munich Oktoberfest. Beers meeting these criteria are designated Oktoberfest Beer. Veteran bartenders take a mere 1.5 seconds to fill up a litre stein.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7N8C8 - Munich Oktoberfest
Only beer conforming to the Reinheitsgebot, and brewed within the city limits of Munich, can be served at the Munich Oktoberfest. Beers meeting these criteria are designated Oktoberfest Beer. Veteran bartenders take a mere 1.5 seconds to fill up a litre stein.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7N8HC - Munich Oktoberfest
Only beer conforming to the Reinheitsgebot, and brewed within the city limits of Munich, can be served at the Munich Oktoberfest. Beers meeting these criteria are designated Oktoberfest Beer. Veteran bartenders take a mere 1.5 seconds to fill up a litre stein.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7N95R - Munich Oktoberfest
Only beer conforming to the Reinheitsgebot, and brewed within the city limits of Munich, can be served at the Munich Oktoberfest. Beers meeting these criteria are designated Oktoberfest Beer. Veteran bartenders take a mere 1.5 seconds to fill up a litre stein.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F89PTF - The Industrial Revolution changed Walsall from a village of 2,000 people in the 16th century to a town of over 86,000 in approximately 200 years. The town manufactured a wide range of products including saddles, chains, buckles and plated ware. Nearby, limestone quarrying provided the town with much prosperity.
Walsall is usually remembered as the centre of an extensive leatherworking industry, but in reality there was much more. It used to be known as ?The town of a hundred trades', which included all kinds of metalworking, tube making, iron and brass founding, electrical engineering, car and motor scooter making, chain making, lock making, and much more.
Walsall became a wealthy Black Country town because of its many industries that flourished, thanks to the hard-working, and skilled labour force.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED35F - The sporran (/??sp?r?n/
Scottish Gaelic for purse), a traditional part of male Scottish Highland dress, is a pouch that performs the same function as pockets on the pocketless kilt. Made of leather or fur, the ornamentation of the sporran is chosen to complement the formality of dress worn with it. The sporran is worn on a leather strap or chain, conventionally positioned in front of the groin of the wearer.
Since the traditional kilt does not have pockets, the sporran serves as a wallet and container for any other necessary personal items. It is essentially a survival of the common European medieval belt-pouch, superseded elsewhere as clothing came to have pockets, but continuing in the Scottish Highlands because of the lack of these accessories in traditional dress. The sporran hangs below the belt buckle
and much effort is made to match their style and design. The kilt belt buckle can be very ornate, and contain similar motifs to the sporran cantle and the Sgian Dubh. Early sporrans would have been worn suspended from the belt on one or other of the hips, rather than hung from a separate strap in front of the wearer.
When driving a car, dancing, playing drums, or engaging in any activity where a heavy pouch might encumber the wearer, the sporran can be turned around the waist to let it hang on the hip in a more casual position
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED35Y - The sporran (/??sp?r?n/
Scottish Gaelic for purse), a traditional part of male Scottish Highland dress, is a pouch that performs the same function as pockets on the pocketless kilt. Made of leather or fur, the ornamentation of the sporran is chosen to complement the formality of dress worn with it. The sporran is worn on a leather strap or chain, conventionally positioned in front of the groin of the wearer.
Since the traditional kilt does not have pockets, the sporran serves as a wallet and container for any other necessary personal items. It is essentially a survival of the common European medieval belt-pouch, superseded elsewhere as clothing came to have pockets, but continuing in the Scottish Highlands because of the lack of these accessories in traditional dress. The sporran hangs below the belt buckle
and much effort is made to match their style and design. The kilt belt buckle can be very ornate, and contain similar motifs to the sporran cantle and the Sgian Dubh. Early sporrans would have been worn suspended from the belt on one or other of the hips, rather than hung from a separate strap in front of the wearer.
When driving a car, dancing, playing drums, or engaging in any activity where a heavy pouch might encumber the wearer, the sporran can be turned around the waist to let it hang on the hip in a more casual position
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HWBM - Old suitcases on a GWR English railway platform (Winchcombe Gloucestershire) England
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6300558004 - 'Guns 'n' Roses - Black Leather - Play this track here.
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This classic GnR track is from The Spaghetti Incident. The album was the fifth and is unique for the band, consisting entirely of cover versions, mostly of punk and glam rock songs of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This was the last Guns N' Roses album to feature lead guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum.
The title is an inside joke referring to a food fight between Axl Rose and Steven Adler involving spaghetti. Much was made of this food fight during Adler's resolution lawsuit with the band in 1993, in which Adler's attorney referred to it as 'the Spaghetti Incident'. The meaning was explained by drummer Matt Sorum in a 1994 interview with Much Music and confirmed by Slash in his autobiography, 'Slash'.
The album has seen mixed reviews since its release. Rolling Stone magazine gave the album a 3.5 out of 5 stars. Allmusic said 'As punk albums go, The Spaghetti Incident? lacks righteous anger and rage. As Guns N' Roses albums go, it's a complete delight, returning to the ferocious, hard-rocking days of Appetite for Destruction'.
Always nice to see some leather with lace.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8395105582 - 'Tony Iommi - 'Laughing Man: In the Devil Mask' - Play this track here.
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Anthony Frank 'Tony' Iommi (born 19 February 1948) is an English guitarist and songwriter, best known as the founding member of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, its sole continual member through multiple personnel changes. This track is from from his excellent 2000 solo album 'Iommi'. A 'Brummy' from Handsworth, he has a star on the Birmingham walk of fame.
This shot was taken on a Whitby goth weekend, when more than usual the streets are filled with characters a mix of goth, steampunk, new romantic and may other creative styles. I was there for afew hours with Freddie Bernard. The alley is named after Thomas Argument.
Arguments Yard on Church Street leading up to Whitby Abbey is a well known local feature, once owned by the Arguments. Unlike the name suggests it is not a place to meet for a quarrel! It is named after our relative Thomas Argument who built a cottage on Church Street with its back garden running down to the harbour. To raise some more income he built five more cottages in the garden area which he then rented out. In 1871
The census return shows the tenants for 1b were Esther Knaggs (49) Charwoman and her son John (17) a Jet Ornament Maker, hence the link with both family business interests. Although Arguments Yard does not have public access, many of the little alleyways are well worth exploring if ever you visit Whitby.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5679030451 - 'This is a joiner panorama from the 'Coles Miller Dream Machines' biker meet on Poole Quay, Dorset.
For some years, between April and September each Tuesday evening is 'Motorbike Night'. Coles Miller are soliciters and are now 'sponsoring' the event.
From 6pm, the Quay is closed to all traffic, which lets everyone wander around and look at the various machines. Owners, many well heeled, plus the odd Satans Slave and Hells Angel are keen to show off their pride &
joy.
On this tuesday evening there must have been 1000 to 1500 bikes. A panorama joiner in a Hockney style is probably the only way to show the size of the spectacle.
This has been formed from over 20 images and the original size is 15115x7115 pixels.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5448702321 - 'A tale in 12 fragments - 12/12 Watch my bark.
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12/12 Watch my bark
That's how it stayed.
I never lost my punk roots. Punk will never die!
If you see me, say hello. My bark is not as bad as my bite 8-) (honest!)
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4945519383 - 'Hell Bent For Leather - 'Judas Priest' - Play this track here.
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One of Birmingham's best, Judas Priest often I feel get the raw end of the stick when compared in heavy metal terms to the likes of Led Zeppelin, Metalica &
Kiss. dating back to 1968, the band consist of founder vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton, KK. Downing, and bassist Ian Hill. Drummers have come and gone over the years. They have sold over 35 million albums worldwide.
I saw them two nights running at the Manchester Apollo in 1980 or 1981, supported probably by Budgie or Magnum. On one of the nights Halford came on with his big motorbike on stage and it toppled over on to him. It didn't affect the show however, it was still a cracking gig.
Judas Priest are also known for being revolutionaries in heavy metal fashion. Rob Halford thus began incorporating a macho image of what today is known as hardcore metal/biker/S&
M style into his look as early as 1978 (to coincide with the release of their album Killing Machine), and the rest of the band followed. The look was apparently sourced from S&
M boutiques that Halford visited while on tour.
It became a mainstay in heavy metal
soon, several other bands, particularly of the NWOBHM and early black metal movements, began incorporating Halford's fashion into their look as well. This sparked a revival in metal in the early '80s, and catapulted them to fame, in both the mainstream and underground. Even in the present, it is not uncommon to find metal artists sporting such a look at concerts.
In 1998, Halford came out as gay publicly on an interview with MTV News.
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This shot was taken at the showery Manchester Pride 2010.
The first 'gay pride' event in Manchester was held in 1990. EuroPride was hosted in Manchester in 2003, and Since 2004 the title 'Manchester Pride' has been adopted. It is one of the longest running in the country and attracts thousands of visitors to the city's Gay Village, which centres around Canal Street, each year. The event comprises a Pride march, and several days of various arts, music and cultural events all over the city as well as a festival during the August bank holiday weekend within the gay village itself.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4772241526 - 'While editing this image of TonyD taken in Warrington I was listening to an ipod playlist of Curtis Mayfield and Isaac Hayes tracks from the blaxploitation years of the 70's.
Hayes was singer-songwriter, actor, and musician and one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records. There he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s.
In the late 1960s, Hayes became a recording artist, and recorded successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971). He was also the Stax label's premier artist. In addition to his work in pop music, Hayes was a film score composer for motion pictures. His best known work, for the 1971 soul cinema classic film Shaft, earned Hayes an Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first Academy Award received by an African-American in a non-acting category) and two Grammy Awards. He received a third Grammy for the album Black Moses.
Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul and funk musician Curtis Mayfield, released in July 1972 on Curtom Records. It was released as the soundtrack for the blaxploitation film of the same name. Widely considered a classic of 1970s soul and funk music, Super Fly was a nearly immediate hit. Its sales were bolstered by two million-selling singles, 'Freddie's Dead' and the title track. Pusherman is the third killer track on the disk. Super Fly is one of the few soundtracks to out-gross the film it accompanied.
In 1997, Rhino Records released a 25th Anniversary collection of the Super Fly album with a bonus disc of demo versions of songs, radio spots and interviews.
Isaac Hayes died of a stroke in August 2008, aged nearly 66.
He will probably be best remembered when during the late 1990s, Hayes gained new popularity as the voice of Chef animated TV series South Park. Chef was a soul-singing cafeteria worker at the South Park kids' school. A song from the series performed by Chef, 'Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You)', received international radio airplay in 1999. It reached number-one on the UK singles chart. The track also appeared on the album Chef Aid: The South Park Album in 1998.
He left the show however in a row about the South Park episode 'Trapped in the Closet'. This was a satire of Scientology which aired in Nov 2005. In a response the South Park authors stated
'He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.'
The South Park season 10 premiere (aired March 22, 2006) featured 'The Return of Chef', a thinly veiled telling of the affair from Parker and Stone's point of view. Using sound clips from past episodes, it depicts Chef as having been brainwashed and urges viewers (via Kyle talking to the town) to 'remember Chef as the jolly old guy who always broke into song' and not to blame Chef for his defection, but rather, as Kyle stated, 'be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains.'
During the spring of 2008 before his death, Hayes shot scenes for a comedy about soul musicians inspired by the history of Stax Records entitled Soul Men, in which he appears as himself in a supporting role. His voice can be heard in the film in a voice-over role as Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, and Sharon Leal's characters are traveling through Memphis.
Two months after his death, the South Park episode 'The China Probrem' was dedicated to him.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4677730879 - 'Even old cars need to stop at the services sometimes. This one seen on the M74 Annandale Water on the way to a rally in Inverness. The owner was under the bonnet making adjustments with a spanner in readiness for another 230 miles of motoring.
Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on my birthday, 18th January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley (known as W.O. Bentley or just 'W.O.').
Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the most famous being the Bentley BR1 as used in later versions of the Sopwith Camel. Since 1998, the company has been owned by the Volkswagen Group of Germany and is located in Crewe, south Cheshire.
Before World War I, W.O. Bentley had been in partnership with his brother H.M. Bentley selling French DFP cars, but he had always wanted to design and build his own range of cars bearing his name. In August 1919, Bentley Motors Ltd. was registered, and a chassis with dummy engine was exhibited at the London Motor Show in October of that year.
It was on a visit to the DFP factory in 1913 that W.O. noticed an aluminium paperweight, and had the inspired idea of using the lightweight metal instead of cast iron to make engine pistons. The first Bentley aluminium pistons went into service in aero engines for the Sopwith Camel during the Great War.
A group of wealthy British motorists known as the 'Bentley Boys' (Woolf Barnato, Sir Henry Birkin, steeplechaser George Duller, aviator Glen Kidston, automotive journalist S.C.H. 'Sammy' Davis, and Dr. Dudley Benjafield among them) kept the marque's reputation for high performance alive. Thanks to the dedication to serious racing of this group, the company, located at Cricklewood, north London, was noted for its four consecutive victories at the 24 hours of Le Mans from 1927 to 1930. Their greatest competitor at the time, Bugatti\u2014whose lightweight, elegant, but fragile creations contrasted with the Bentley's rugged reliability and durability\u2014referred to them as 'the world's fastest lorries'.
The one pictured here looks like a 1929 model, possibly 3-6 litre engine.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4624975289 - 'Whats your favourite colour on the roulette wheel?
Roulette is a casino game named after a French diminutive for 'little wheel'. In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number or a range of numbers, the colors red or black, or whether the number is odd or even.
A legend tells Fran\u00e7ois Blanc supposedly bargained with the devil to obtain the secrets of roulette. The legend is based on the fact that the sum of all the numbers on the roulette wheel (from 1 to 36) is 666, which is the 'Number of the Beast'.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4544077808 - 'Arthur's sword in Welsh legend is known as Caledfwlch. Its used by Arthur's warrior Llenlleawg the Irishman to kill the Irish king Diwrnach while stealing his magical cauldron. In Cornish the word Calesvol is used in literature to describe it and appears to have either come from the Welsh name or be an early pre-celtic word for it. At any rate the legend in various forms can be found in many northern european cultures.
Excalibur is by no means the only weapon associated with Arthur, nor the only sword, but the one that gets all the publicity.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson described it in 'The Passing of Arthur' ('Morte d'Arthur') in these words:
There drew he forth the brand Excalibur,
And o\u2019er him, drawing it, the winter moon,
Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth
And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt:
For all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks,
Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work
Of subtlest jewellery.
The Lady of the Lake is the name of several related characters in the different legends and interpretations. The Scotsman Walter Scott transported the legend to Loch Katrine, near Callander in central Scotland. In more recent times she appears as a character in the Spamalot musical and on Richie Blackmore's Rainbow 'Long Live Rock and Roll' album from the late 1970's.
With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth
A shadow has covered the light
Then a beam in the shade from a slivery blade
Has shattered the edge of the night
Ahhh... takes me back to my mis-spent youth!
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4407631870 - 'Taking a NY taxi yellow cab up town, Bob checks his hillbilly palm pilot....
Some nice extreme piercings and tats.
An old shot, sadly the noise abatement society have led to the demise of CBGB's at 315 Bowery. I dont know who should be more ashamed. The club originally opened by Billy Kristal closed in October 2006. The final concert was performed quite appropriately by Patti Smith on 15/10/2006.
A lot of my favourite bands cut their teeth there and I remember having early cassette tape bootlegs from CBGB's. My faves were the Ramones, Tom Verlaine &
Television, Patti Smith Group, The Dead Boys (I came across Sonic Reducer on 12' last week- which prompted me to dig this out), Richard Hell &
The Voidoids, The Cramps, Blondie and those darlings Talking Heads.
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Keywords: punx,punk,rock,rockers,music,mohawk,mo,hawk,mohechan,spiky,red,hair,pins,safety,leather,top,shaved,tattoo,tat2,pierce,piercings,england,britain,cheshire,stockport,yellow,sexy,fetish,eye,liner,eyeliner,brinnington,extreme,haircut,hairdo,Tatuaje,\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0430,T\u00e4towierung,tatouage,tatoegering,\u7d0b\u8eab\u82b1\u523a,tatoo,cool,person,people,portrait,image,tonysmith,tony,smith,Tatuada,tatto,tats,ink,bodyart,body,art,dark,disturbia,interesting,persons,persona,interesante,arty,sex,HOT PIX,retro,sensual,hotpicks,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4393545884 - 'Chad and Shez, punk philosophers, keeping the feeling of 1977 alive in Stockport.
Manchester was the biggest place outside London on the Punk music scene. The Buzzcocks (I still have my Spiral Scratch EP somewhere in the loft) , Magazine, Joy Division, The Frantic Elevators, Slaughter &
The Dogs, Ed Banger &
The Nosebleeds(whose lineup included Vini Reilly of DC), The Fall and The Drones all characters on the scene, The biggest was not even a musician, the late Tony Wilson. (RIP 10th August 2007, aged 57, Withington, Manchester, England). As with everything else in the Manchester Factory empire, Tony Wilson's coffin was also given a Factory catalogue number - FAC 501.
I have memories of my old mum, coming home from catholic church on Sunday talking about that scruffy 'Tony Wilson' turning with 'dodgy shoes'. This was when he lived in Charlesworth with Lindsay Reade. In his youth he lived in affluent Marple, Stockport Cheshire.
I was lucky enought to photograph Chad &
Shez at their punk wedding. One of my most enjoyable days out ever. Brilliant people and family.
On another punx session www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4331017264/
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Keywords: Old signwriting on university buildings at 12 Nicholson Square,Edinburgh City,Lothians,Scotland,UK,gotonysmith,sign,writing,writting,street,dramatic,ghost,12,and,14,Nicolson,Square,are,lovely,old,buildings,in,the,old,town,of,Edinburgh,with,distinctive,old,faded,painted,sign,remnants,in,red.,12,and,14,Nicolson,Square,are,lovely,old,buildings,in,the,old,town,of,Edinburgh,with,distinctive,old,faded,painted,sign,remnants,in,red.,The,square,originally,contained,the,properties,of,Sir,James,Nicolson,back,pre-1800.,Older,maps,reveal,this,at,that,time,to,probably,be,the,extent,of,the,city.,Nearby,Cabbagehall,and,Turnip,Fields,would,have,once,produced,food,but,were,built,over,as,the,metropolis,expanded.,Nicholas,Martinot,looks,to,have,been,a,prominent,manufacturer,of,baskets,and,importer,of,other,goods,from,1890,or,so,onwards.,The,text,on,the,faded,paint,advertise,Rugs,Mats,walking Sticks,Hardware and Woodenware.,gotonysmith,Edinburg,Fancy Leathergoods,Basket Manufacture,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF1333 - Old signwriting on university buildings at 12 Nicholson Square, Edinburgh City, Lothians, Scotland , UK
12 and 14 Nicolson Square are lovely old buildings in the old town of Edinburgh with distinctive old faded painted sign remnants in red.
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Keywords: Michelle,polaroid,rebate,hotpixuk,hotpix,tonysmith,tony,smith,face,head,faces,portrait,goth,gothic,shot,headshot,female,she,is,pretty,fetish,leather,lace,bodice,black,white,northwich,cheshire,UK,british,britain,sexy,women,woman,girl,lady,B/W,mono,monochrome,sex,porn,porno,girlie,this photo rocks,erotic,fetishist,cool,person,people,image,gothess,gothy,gothing,babes,hotpicks,muchacha,femenina,de,la,mujer,se\u00f1ora,\u5973\u6027\u30e1\u30b9\u306e\u5973\u6027\u306e\u5973\u306e\u5b50,\u592b\u4eba\u5973\u6027\u5987\u5973\u5973\u5b69,fille,f\u00e9minine,femme,dame,tony smith photography,tdktony,tdk,tdktonysmith
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3874777801 - 'Polaroid of gothic Mechelle in leather top
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: tattoo,pair,black,white,dark,side,woman,lady,girl,man,male,female,light,tattoos,tattood,tattooed,pierced,piercing,leather,leatherman,tatoo,tatto,tat2,ink,skin,tattwo,tatuaje,\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0430,T\u00e4towierung,tatouage,tatoegering,\u7d0b\u8eab\u82b1\u523a,equality,fetish,fashion,clothing,clothes,sex,sexy,porn,porno,girlie,this photo rocks,erotic,pretty,fetishist,Marchweil,North,wales,inkintheskin,party,hotel,cool,person,people,portrait,image,tonysmith,tony,smith,Tatuada,tats,bodyart,body,art,HOT PIX,sensual,hotpicks,\u5973\u6027\u30e1\u30b9\u306e\u5973\u6027\u306e\u5973\u306e\u5b50,\u592b\u4eba\u5973\u6027\u5987\u5973\u5973\u5b69,tony smith photography,tdktony,tdk,tdktonysmith
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3805002961 - 'A woman in white and a man in black leather, both with tattoos. They are both opposite, but form a one harmonious whole.
Yin and yang describes how apparently disjunct or opposing forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn. Like male and female, war and peace.
He sits in his leather trousers, hands forming a shape of a house, a happy home, while his german iron cross suggests possible violence to come
Another tattoo here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3711773981/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Leather,Scottish,Balls,antique,collectors,items,football,cricket,rugby,leatherballs,wembley,casey,casy,medicine,ball,hearts,1956,gold,golden,imperial,edinburgh,scotland,UK,GB,britain,shop,shopping,Edinburghe,rot-rosso-rouge-rood,selctive,colour,color,colores,sport,sporting,action,play,players,tonysmith,tony,smith,stillife,stilllife,still,life,edinbrugh,hotpix!,Edinburg,#tonysmithhotpix,edimburgh
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3812249269 - 'A variety of leather balls for all types of sports in an antique shop window in Edinburgh, Scotland. Road out to Loanhead.
The red leather english cricket ball is where the eye is drawn to. Below it is a leather hand stitched Hearts (Heart of Midlothian) 1956 soccer football. Hearts is one of the two major city teams in the east of Scotland together with Hibs (Hibernian).
The leather Hearts ball celebrates the Heart of Midlothian 1956 team, who won the Scottish Cup by defeating Glasgow Celtic 3-1 at Hampden Park. In the same year they also finished League runners-up. This included Hearts legends Freedie Glidden (Captain), Alex Young, Conn, Bauld and Wardhaugh. Programmes from this year are a great find if rumminging around in the cities antique and curio shops.
Another Scottish legend www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3828011848/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Stockport,Red,Haze,RedHaze,alternative,clothing,erotic,erotism,bondage,stud,studs,belts,leather,latex,straps,tight,glove,gloves,black,room,shadow,white,BW,toned,girl,woman,studded,play,plaything,fetish,bound,strapped,strap,belt,belted,rubber,dripping,boddice,bodice,bodise,dominant,dominate,dominator,dominatrix,mono,monochrome,sex,sexy,porn,porno,lady,girlie,pretty,fetishist,cool,person,people,portrait,image,tonysmith,tony,smith,dark,disturbia,HOT PIX,sensual,hotpicks,\u5973\u6027\u30e1\u30b9\u306e\u5973\u6027\u306e\u5973\u306e\u5b50,\u592b\u4eba\u5973\u6027\u5987\u5973\u5973\u5b69,racy,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3812252249 - 'Alternative clothing photoshoot for Redhaze alternative clothing in Stockport. Great materials latex, lace, leather and studs.
More alternative stuff here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3875568806/
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m=tags\' target=\'_blank\'>pix like this from my photostream.
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Keywords: Manchester,Mardi,Gras,August,bank,holiday,Canal,street,Napoleons,gay,pride,fancy,dress,costumes,rembrandt,Canalstreet,quarter,gayquarter,Tranies,tg,tgirl,crossdresser,crossdressing,transvestite,Transgendered,boots,wigs,High,heels,Knee,Length,make,up,stockings,leather,transliving,panties,View,Bar,Sparkle,Tranny,TV,pencil,skirt,unlimited photos,TS,bisexual,sexual,exotic,nightlife,night,life,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,Queer,pink,homosexual,proud,out,coming,stonewall,Tatuaje,\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0430,T\u00e4towierung,tatouage,tatoegering,\u7d0b\u8eab\u82b1\u523a,tatoo,tgirls,couple,pair,two
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3813064826 - 'Two revellers at the Gayfest Mardi Gras, August bank holiday along Canal street, Manchester after dark. Note the super erotic pierced nipples on the right. Great costumes of silver and embroidery.
Pride is a celebration of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, TV, TS and all transgender life.
More Manchester events www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3356737726/
A shot of Tim and Carlos and their tattoos and piercings here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3808854783/
A collection of Manchester Mardigras shots can be found at:
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318905746/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318167727/in/photostream/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318020799/in/photostream/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3813064826/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: sarah,goth,gothiv,grave,yard,graveyard,stone,gravestone,church,burial,ground,lime,limestone,white,black,sepia,stockings,leather,legs,tat2,tattoo,lips,eyes,flowers,tonysmith,hotpix,wirral,merseyside,liverpool,new,brighton,lady,erotic,female,UK,GB,England,north,sexy,west,mono,monochrome,b/w,tatuajes,tatoo,tony,smith,Tatuada,tatto,tats,ink,bodyart,body,art,dark,disturbia,graves,tomb,tombs,cemetario,cemetary,cemetery,interesting,people,person,persons,persona,interesante,tatouage,arty,retro,gothic
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4457926905 - 'Sarah in Wallasey.cemetery, Rake lane.
Many of its monuments and statues are connected with big maritime disasters of the early twentieth century. These include the Titanic, Lusitania and the Empress of Ireland. Other associations with the sea are the Liverpool pilot boat disasters of 1917 and 1939 and the loss of the submarine 'Thetis'.
It is a super place for draping yourself around a limestone angel and well worth a train trip from Chester or east from Liverpool.
There is an email address for it. Note that you cannot actually contact the dead, but friends of the cemetery who could probably tell you more if you have relatives buried here (friends@wallaseycemetery.co.uk).
More of my gothic images in my photostream-
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m=tags .
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Keywords: TheFall,The,Fall,Liverpool,Nation,courtyard,TheNation,MTV,music,week,30/10/2008,2008,tour,markesmith,mark,e,smith,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,musician,gig,stage,live,performer,player,event,signed,band,lighting,anbiant,indie,Rock,postpunk,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,manchester,punk,leather,jacket,imperial,solvent,marke,elana,rowche,rumble,theme,from,sparta,FC,city,town,cool,person,people,portrait,image,merseyside,hotpicks
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3077852217 - 'Mark e Smith &
The Fall, Liverpool live at The Nation Courtyard 30/10/2008. Imperial Wax Solvent tour.
More Fall Shots:
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3077851821/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3078683718/
Audioweb live in Oldham www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4140004999/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: TheFall,The,Fall,Liverpool,Nation,courtyard,TheNation,MTV,music,week,30/10/2008,2008,tour,markesmith,mark,e,smith,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,musician,gig,stage,live,performer,player,event,signed,band,lighting,anbiant,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,manchester,indie,punk,leather,jacket,imperial,solvent,marke,elana,rowche,rumble,theme,from,sparta,FC,tonysmith,tony,HOT PIX,merseyside,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3078683718 - 'Mark e Smith &
The Fall, Liverpool live at The Nation Courtyard 30/10/2008
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3077852217/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3077851821/
And here Magazine from the 2009 reunion tour www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3356735418/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Manchester,Mardi,Gras,collector,pierced,tattoo,tattood,tattoos,tat2,leather,erotic,studs,socialist,alliance,tin,collection,deansgate,england,UK,gay,fest,gayfest,festival,august,bank,holiday,fish,net,fishnet,big,chest,breasts,show,showing,dirty,woman,women,wimmin,femme,lesbian,transgender,transexual,sexual,bi,trans,transvestite,ladyboy,lady,boy,gtreater,mancunia,mancunian,nw,britain,rocks,bare,nipple,slightly,pornographic,rude,porno,fithy,Queer,pink,homosexual,proud,out,coming,stonewall,tatoo,city,tatouage,pride,manchesterpride,racy
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4318167727 - 'A charity collector in the main carnival parade collecting for the Mardi Gras festival charities. The gayfest carnival finishes in Canal Street.
A collection of Manchester Mardigras shots can be found at:
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318905746/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318167727/in/photostream/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318020799/in/photostream/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3813064826/
More piercings and tatoos www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4407631870/
Have a look at some of my other Manchester images on Flickr - w=33062170@N08\'>www.flickr.com/search/?q=Manchester&
w=33062170@N08 .
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Keywords: tony,smith,hotpix,Manchester,england,uk,northwest,north,west,gayfest,gay,fest,mardigras,naked,boy,boys,men,TV,girl,tvgirl,tvgirls,carnival,festival,b/w,mono,black,white,sepia,pride,europe,sixpack,six,pack,eight,eightpack,throb,throbbing,lump,front,bottom,cute,male,males,leather,lace,studs,studded,stud,muffin,I,better,stop,now!,hotpix.com,#tonysmith,#tonysmithhotpix,#tonysmithotpix,LGBT
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5622525135 - 'Boys &
Girls - 'Blur' - Play this track here. If the link is broken, comment with an alternative..
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
*** By Request ***
Streets like a jungle......
'Boys and girls' was the lead single from the 'Park Life' album. It was Blur's first top 5 UK hit and most successful single until 'Country House' reached number 1 the following year. The single was seen as a comeback for the band, who had had a lean commercial period for a couple of years. The song surpassed the band's previous commercial peak 'There's No Other Way' by three spots on the UK Singles Chart.
The video, directed by 10cc's Kevin Godley, featured Blur performing the song against a bluescreen backdrop of documentary footage people on 18-30 package holidays. Godley branded the video as 'Page 3 rubbish' while Blur found it 'perfect'. The front cover of the single was taken from a pack of Durex condoms.
In 1994, the song was named single of the year by NME and Melody Maker in the UK. It was also nominated for best song at the MTV Europe Music Awards. Everyone should own at least one Blur album, my choice would be the 'Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur'. Track it down, tell 'em I sent you.
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Manchester has a wealth of LGBT culture and activities. The sitcom drama 'Queer as folk' was set in the Canal St area of the city. 20th century broadcaster and social commentator Brian Redhead once said 'Manchester ... is the capital, in every sense, of the North of England, where the modern world was born. The people know their geography is without equal. Their history is their response to it'. Whilst Ian Brown of the Stone Roses has previously said that 'Manchester has everything except a beach' (er.. top man, bob-on!).
Manchester has claimed to have the UK's largest gay population outside of London. Gay Village, centred on the Canal Street area, is home to numerous shops, restaurants, bars and clubs. On the last weekend in August it hosts the Manchester Pride Festival (previously known as Mardi Gras and Gayfest).
Manchester's gay culture was brought to mainstream attention on television series Queer as Folk and Coronation Street. It is also the birthplace of several gay rights organisations including the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, Queer Youth Alliance, The Lesbian &
Gay Foundation.
Manchester has its own gay sports teams, Village Manchester FC (soccer), Northern Wave (swimming) and Village Spartans (Rugby) which take part in Manchester's annual Pride Games. In the 1990s Manchester City Council gave support to the establishment of a gay centre and employed four lesbians and gay men to help implement their equal opportunity policy. Their work continued in spite of Section 28 and the City Council actively supported the Mardi Gras and other gay events.
The year round gay and lesbian heritage trail exhibits Manchester's gay history. In 2003, Manchester played host city to the annual Europride festival. The Lesbian &
Gay Foundation, Britain's biggest gay charity, is based on Richmond Street in the city centre. Manchester Metropolitan University has been named the most gay friendly university in the UK.
One of these weekends, hop on a Richard Branson Virgin Train and feel welcome to come check us out!
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Keywords: hipsta,tony,smith,hipstamatic,tonysmith,hotpix,tonysmithhotpix,hot,pix,pics,picks,hotpics,hotpicks,girl,woman,sexy,long,blond,hair,tats,tat,slim,leopard,print,skin,tatoo,tattoo,star,studs,studded,leather,belt,back,iron,metal,rivit,rivet,rivets,manchester,convention,gmex,central,2011,march,2010,2012,tony smith photography,racy,tdktony,tdk,tdktonysmith,hotpix.com
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5421019151 - 'A tale in 12 fragments - 09/12 - \u00bfte gusta?.
\u00bfWhats A story in 12 Fragments all about? Read about it here
09/12 - \u00bfte gusta?
It was the star tattoo on her arm that first caught his gaze, then the long blond hair. The station was quite empty for what was usually the busy evening rush hour from work.
'\u00bfte gusta?\u201d, she startled him after noticing him staring. \u201cDisculpe, excuse me\u201d he said in an embarrassed English accent. For someone usually very confident he could feel his face going red. It wasn\u2019t the warm breeze blowing through Cordoba station this time either.
He missed his train that evening. And the next, and the next....
He realised he had reached one of life\u2019s encrucijada\u2019s. It felt good.
\u00bfWhats A Story in 12 Fragments all about? Read about it here
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUk,town hall,townhall,City Council,Glasgow City Council,inside,interior,Scottish architect,William Young,Victorian style,1888,George Square,G2,successful,civic,local,political,power,powerful,city,second city,of empire,British Empire,wealth,council chamber,debates,discussion,Glasgow City Council debating chambers,seats,history,council,debate,leather bound,dark,austere
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFFG9 - The need for a new city chambers had been apparent since the 18th century, with the old Tolbooth at Glasgow Cross becoming insufficient for the purposes of civic government in a growing town with greater political responsibilities. In 1814, the Tolbooth was sold ? with the exception of the steeple, which still remains ? and the council chambers moved to Jail Square in the Saltmarket, near Glasgow Green. Subsequent moves were made to Wilson Street and Ingram Street. In the early 1880s, City Architect John Carrick was asked to identify a suitable site for a purpose built City Council Chambers. Carrick identified the east side of George Square, which was then bought.
Following a design competition, the building was designed by the Scottish architect William Young in the Victorian style and construction started in 1882. The building was inaugurated by Queen Victoria in August 1888 and the first council meeting held within the chambers took place in October 1889. An extension connected by pairs of archways across John Street was completed in 1912 and Exchange House in George Street was completed in the mid-1980s
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Keywords: manufacture,manufacturing,making,saddle,thread,cotton,threads,west Midlands,England,UK,Black,Country,Motorised Sewing,machine in a workshop,leather workshop,Black Country,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,England,GB,British,problem,with,problem with,issue with,nationalism,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HG6TAT -
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Keywords: Heritage,History,historic,craft,industry,horse,leather,manufacture,making,last,sign,labour,fashioned,heritage,museum,town,hundred,British,Great,Britain,GB,Walsall Made,English Riding Saddle,The Stables,old fashioned,Leather Museum,Town of a hundred trades,GoTonySmith,crafted,crafts,craftsmen,made,maker,makers,manufacturing,old,order,pride,products,quality,rack,ready,Black,Country,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Black Country,Walsall Black Country
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F89PHY - The Industrial Revolution changed Walsall from a village of 2,000 people in the 16th century to a town of over 86,000 in approximately 200 years. The town manufactured a wide range of products including saddles, chains, buckles and plated ware. Nearby, limestone quarrying provided the town with much prosperity.
Walsall is usually remembered as the centre of an extensive leatherworking industry, but in reality there was much more. It used to be known as ?The town of a hundred trades', which included all kinds of metalworking, tube making, iron and brass founding, electrical engineering, car and motor scooter making, chain making, lock making, and much more.
Walsall became a wealthy Black Country town because of its many industries that flourished, thanks to the hard-working, and skilled labour force.
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Keywords: Walsall,town,centre,center,West,Midlands,Near,Birmingham,Staffordshire,Black,Country,conurbation,Metropolitan,of,administrative,ward,Diamond,saint,company,PCV,drivers,Willenhall,Black,Country,Black Country,NX,Aldridge,saddlers,leather,GoTonySmith,West Midlands,Brum,Brownhills,WS1 1LG,WS1,stand,D,stops,single decker
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4MPX -
