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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Johnny Marr,band,bands,music,ghostly,portrait,ive,monochrome,concert,hero,image,double exposure,Mancunian,effect,giant,stage,projection,guitar,performance,icon,atmospheric concert photography,haunting musician portrait,dramatic black and white image,sold out homecoming show,biggest solo headline concert,alternative music heritage,jangle guitar pioneer,career spanning performance,The Smiths songs,Manchester cultural identity,iconic British guitarist,outdoor summer gig,popular music,history,headliner,open air amphitheatre,alternative
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F12DBF - Ghostly monochrome portrait of Johnny Marr fills the stage screen as the Manchester guitarist, singer and songwriter performs below at Castlefield Bowl during Sounds of the City on Thursday 9 July 2026. Marr stands at the microphone playing electric guitar, with his drummer behind him. Stage haze, converging beams and the enlarged face create an atmospheric double image in which the live musician appears almost overshadowed by his projected likeness.
The sold-out homecoming concert was announced as Marr's biggest-ever solo headline show. Support came from Manchester band Everything Everything and Irish post-punk group The Clockworks. His career-spanning performance combined solo recordings, new material and songs associated with The Smiths, the influential Manchester group in which Marr established his reputation through distinctive melodic and jangling guitar arrangements.
The stark black-and-white treatment gives the scene a timeless, cinematic quality. Marr's smaller figure at the foot of the screen contrasts with the monumental, softly focused portrait above, suggesting memory, legacy and the passage of time. The composition can be read as a visual dialogue between the younger musician embedded in popular culture and the established solo artist still performing to his hometown audience.
Castlefield Bowl is an open-air amphitheatre surrounded by canals, railway viaducts and Manchester's former industrial landscape. It is closely associated with the annual Sounds of the City concert series and summer performances. Marr's appearance carried local resonance because his work with The Smiths helped place Manchester independent music on an international stage.
The photograph captures a distinctive concert performance. Its spectral projection, stage smoke and reduced tonal palette turn live music documentation into an evocative portrait of artistic identity, cultural memory and the enduring relationship between Johnny Marr, his songs and Manchester.
Castlefield Bowl, Rice Street, off Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester, England, M3 4JN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F12EAH - Johnny Marr performs at Castlefield Bowl in Manchester on Thursday 9 July 2026, headlining a Sounds of the City concert with support from Everything Everything and The Clockworks. The Manchester-born musician, songwriter and former guitarist of The Smiths is pictured in a close, front-facing performance portrait, singing into a microphone while playing a black and silver Fender Jaguar electric guitar. He wears a pale blue denim-style shirt with turned-back sleeves and a patterned guitar strap, contrasting with his concentrated expression.
Behind Marr, a large LED video screen fills the outdoor stage with a high-contrast monochrome image. Another band member appears partly silhouetted in the background, adding depth without distracting from the headliner. Stage equipment, microphone stands, guitar hardware and concert lighting reinforce the atmosphere of a major summer music event. The tight composition captures Marr's distinctive onstage presence, low-slung guitar stance and continuing association with Manchester's influential indie and alternative-rock tradition.
The Castlefield Bowl appearance was billed as Marr's biggest solo headline show to that point and formed part of the annual Sounds of the City series. The open-air amphitheatre, set among railway viaducts, canals, brickwork and modern city-centre buildings, is one of Manchester's most recognisable urban concert settings. The performance brought Marr back to his home city for a career-spanning set combining solo work, Electronic material and songs associated with The Smiths. The warm July evening, large audience and industrial surroundings gave the event the character of a major Manchester homecoming.
Everything Everything appeared as special guests, while Irish-formed indie-rock band The Clockworks opened the bill. The photograph documents a prominent British guitarist, singer and songwriter before a sold-out outdoor crowd during Manchester's 2026 summer concert season
Castlefield Bowl, Rice Street, off Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester, England, M3 4JN
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Keywords: Gotonysmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,out,of,tram,coming,travelling,Deansgate-Castlefield,tram stop,trams,yellow,lines,centre,tram emerging from cutting,urban,transport,Greater Manchester,public transport,city tram,network,modern light rail,tramway infrastructure,commuter transport,yellow Metrolink vehicle,routes,route,housing,regeneration,skyline,new apartment towers,high-rise residential blocks,British,urban regeneration,Mancunian,high-density living,city-centre apartment market,build-to-rent skyline,northern powerhouse,inner-city infrastructure
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EW4G31 - Yellow Manchester Metrolink tram runs out from the Deansgate-Castlefield area into a cityscape dominated by tall new residential and mixed-use towers, capturing the strong visual contrast between older transport infrastructure and the changing skyline of central Manchester. Shot in bright daylight under a blue sky with scattered cloud, the image looks along the tramway cutting and platforms toward a dense cluster of modern high-rise buildings, while brick retaining walls, railway arches and traditional masonry structures frame the scene on either side.
The photograph works particularly well as an illustration of Manchesterism , the popular shorthand often used for the city's confident wave of redevelopment, vertical expansion and metropolitan identity. In one frame it shows several of the themes associated with modern Manchester: investment in public transport, large-scale apartment development, city-centre living, and the recycling of former industrial or railway land into a more intensive urban landscape. The yellow tram provides an instantly recognisable civic transport element, while the wall of glassy towers behind it suggests the speed and scale of regeneration that has reshaped districts around Deansgate, Castlefield and the southern city centre.
Deansgate-Castlefield has long been an important interchange point on the Metrolink system, linking the city core with wider Greater Manchester destinations. The surrounding area also sits close to key landmarks including the Deansgate rail corridor, Castlefield's canals and viaducts, and major commercial, residential and leisure developments. The resulting composition gives this image strong editorial value for themes including urban change, transport-led regeneration, skyline growth, high-density housing, northern city economies, city branding, public infrastructure and the evolving built environment of twenty-first-century Manchester.
Metrolink stop, Deansgate, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, M3 4LG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,centre,Manc,Mancunian,travel,train,railway,Mid Cheshire Line,train travel,by,rail,community,trains,attractions,Greater Manchester,tourist,British railway,BR,destination,marketing,Nicky Thompson,vintage-style,vintage,sustainable,break,domestic tourism,rail-based day trip,public transport promotion,regional visitor economy,cultural tourism,urban regeneration,car-free tourism,leisure journey,heritage advertising,city destination,railway art,classic transport poster,campaign
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EMY4FC - Colourful railway travel poster promotes Manchester as a destination for a Marvellous Day Out using the Mid Cheshire Line. The stylised design presents the city through canals, narrowboats, bridges, trees and urban architecture, with the tall Beetham Tower dominating the skyline. A red canal boat and a smaller pleasure craft occupy the foreground waterway, while arches, brick buildings and a clock tower evoke Manchester's industrial, civic and transport heritage. The bold word MANCHESTER appears beneath the artwork alongside the invitation to Meander the Mid Cheshire Line and enjoy marvellous days out .
The poster was created by North West artist and designer Nicky Thompson for the Mid Cheshire Community Rail Partnership's Marvellous Days Out campaign. Commissioned from 2017, the series uses a nostalgic graphic style inspired by railway advertising posters of the 1920s and 1930s. The campaign encourages leisure journeys by train between Manchester and Chester through Stockport, Altrincham, Knutsford and Northwich, promoting local attractions, heritage, shopping, culture, walking and car-free tourism.
Manchester Piccadilly is the main Manchester terminus for Mid Cheshire Line services. From the station, visitors can reach the city centre, museums, galleries, theatres, music venues, shops, sporting attractions and Metrolink. The canal imagery also reflects Manchester's historic waterways, which supported industrial growth and now contribute to regeneration, recreation and waterside tourism around areas such as Castlefield.
Displayed against a red brick wall, the framed print is useful for editorial coverage of railway poster art, regional tourism, sustainable transport, community rail, British graphic design, destination marketing, city breaks and the use of nostalgic visual language to encourage modern rail travel. The exact place where this copy was photographed is not established from the image alone and has not been guessed.
Piccadilly Station Approach, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M60 7RA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Oxford Street,theatre,production,dusk,nightlife,nighttime,economy,theatregoers,tickets,musicals,stage,classic,80s,1980,advertising,screen to stage,live,arts,Mancunian,frontage,illuminated,city,centre,culture,Greater Manchester,district,corridor,adaptation,nostalgic,entertainment,family musical,canopy,stage show,West End style,night-time economy,cultural,tourism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EFHT0M - Evening street photograph of the Palace Theatre on stock-photo/gotonysmith-Oxford.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Oxford Street, Manchester, illuminated in warm red and amber light as posters and digital signage advertise The Karate Kid musical. The image shows the theatre frontage after dusk, with the distinctive Art Deco style façade, pavement activity, bicycles, passing pedestrians and the bright canopy wording promoting The iconic 80s movie, a spectacular new musical . The central vertical poster and repeated pavement posters make the production branding clear, including the title The Karate Kid and the familiar wax on reference associated with the 1984 film. This is a commercially useful editorial image for themes around Manchester theatre, touring musicals, live entertainment, audience culture, city centre nightlife, visitor economy, leisure spending, popular culture nostalgia and screen-to-stage adaptations. The Palace Theatre is one of Manchester's major receiving houses, close to Oxford Road station and the Oxford Road Corridor, an area linked with performance venues, universities, hotels, restaurants and evening footfall. The low light, glowing signage and open foreground give a strong sense of pre-show atmosphere, night-time economy and cultural life in central Manchester. The photograph may also illustrate the appeal of classic 1980s cinema properties being revived for contemporary theatre audiences, alongside broader stories about musical theatre tours, ticketed events, city centre cultural venues and landmark theatres in UK regional arts. The visible Palace Theatre name, Karate Kid posters and bold canopy message provide clear editorial context without needing a crowd scene. The image suits articles, features and stock uses covering Manchester arts, theatre marketing, nostalgic movie brands, Oxford Street nightlife, touring stage productions, theatre-going, urban leisure, live performance, entertainment listings, family shows and cultural tourism in Greater Manchester.
97 Oxford St, Manchester, England M1 6FT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,cityscape,skyline,Mancunian,architecture,urban development,city living,apartment towers,city centre regeneration,high-density housing,vertical living,luxury apartments,Manchester property market,urban growth,skyline transformation,post-industrial city,glass architecture,modern residential architecture,real estate investment,placemaking,southern gateway,Deansgate,Castlefield,Mancunian Way,Owen Street,Chester Road,Deansgate-Castlefield,Castlefield Viaduct,railway arches,red brick warehouses,evening light,dramatic sky,golden hour,Andy Burnham,Victorian warehouses,modern towers,cranes on skyline,King of The North
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJ11RD - Manchester city centre looking south towards the rapidly changing skyline around Deansgate Square, Great Jackson Street, Chester Road and Castlefield. The photograph shows a dense cluster of modern glass residential towers rising above older red-brick warehouses, railway arches, commercial blocks, construction cranes and lower city-centre streets, illustrating the dramatic transformation of Manchester's southern gateway. Deansgate Square, formerly known as Owen Street, is the dominant high-rise group in the centre of the image, with four residential towers designed by SimpsonHaugh and developed as one of the most visible symbols of Manchester's recent vertical growth. SimpsonHaugh describes the scheme as delivering 1,508 homes across four towers, with the tallest standing around 200 metres high, making it a major landmark in the city's apartment-led regeneration. Other nearby towers, including Elizabeth Tower, Blade and Three60, contribute to the wider Great Jackson Street high-rise district, where former industrial and edge-of-centre land has been reshaped into a dense residential quarter close to Deansgate, Castlefield, Oxford Road, transport links, offices, bars and cultural venues. The image is useful for editorial coverage of Manchester property development, city living, urban regeneration, skyline change, build-to-rent, luxury apartments, planning policy, high-density housing, construction, real estate investment and the visual impact of tall buildings on historic cityscapes. The warm low light reflecting from the tower facades, mixed cloud and blue sky create a strong golden-hour atmosphere, while the contrast between Victorian industrial brickwork and reflective contemporary architecture captures the city's shift from manufacturing landscape to service, leisure, residential and knowledge economy. The photograph can support stories about population growth, affordability, gentrification, infrastructure pressure, transport demand, placemaking, architectural deb
Deansgate Square, 9 Owen Street, Manchester, M15 4UA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,1928,industrial,style,mill,mills,scene,Northern England,tourist,attraction,city,centre,art,factory,labour,workers,street scene,British modern art,working class,original painting,factory chimney landscape,mill workers,leaving work,clocking out,urban,cultural heritage,Laurence Stephen Lowry,matchstick people,artwork,iconic Northern artist,working class art history,Industrial Revolution legacy,factory life,figurative,naive,Mancunian,social history,northern working life industrial society depiction
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F39YPR - Framed display of Coming Home from the Mill, a 1928 oil-on-panel painting by British artist Laurence Stephen Lowry, photographed on a gallery wall at Manchester Art Gallery in Manchester, England. The artwork depicts an everyday industrial street crowded with men, women and children leaving work, with factories, mill buildings and tall smoking chimneys filling the background. A red and cream horse-drawn cart provides a strong point of colour within the muted urban scene.
Lowry is closely associated with representations of working-class life in Manchester, Salford and the industrial towns of North West England. His distinctive figures, sometimes popularly described as matchstick people, move through streets shaped by mills, factories, terraced housing and heavy industry. Although apparently simple, the crowded composition records social relationships, movement and the routines of people living and working within an industrial community.
Coming Home from the Mill was painted in 1928 using oil on panel and measures approximately 43 by 53.3 centimetres. The grey-white sky is filled with smoke from factory chimneys, while rows of small figures spread across the foreground pavement and roadway. Shops and industrial buildings line the street, and the black horse and coloured cart introduce narrative detail into the scene. The painting is held in the Manchester Art Gallery collection under inventory number 1962.26.
The photograph shows the artwork in its substantial weathered wooden frame, together with its museum information label and the plain gallery wall surrounding it. The angled viewpoint gives a sense of the painting as a physical exhibit rather than a reproduction. The image is suitable for editorial subjects involving L S Lowry, British modern art, Manchester culture, industrial history, working-class life, factory employment, museum collections, social realism, Northern England, urban heritage and twentieth-century painting.
Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK, M2 3JL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PFAAAD - The Fall Extricate tour opened 01/03/1990 at Poole arts centre, closing 26/03/1990 at the Top rank Brighton - Cog Sinister
Extricate is the 12th album by post-punk band the Fall. It was made immediately after bandleader Mark E. Smith divorced guitarist Brix Smith. Brix's departure helped define the sound of this album: her background vocals and relatively pop-oriented guitar, which had become mainstays of The Fall, are noticeably absent in this release. In one of the more unusual events in the group's career, she was replaced by founding former member Martin Bramah, who had previously left the group in 1979 to form his own group Blue Orchids.
Lead-off single Telephone Thing could have been seen as a nod to the Manchester scene of the time as the sound is quite similar to the dance-influenced music that was being released by Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses in 1989. However, its origins were in Smith's previous collaboration with Coldcut on their track I'm in Deep, which, in turn, led to Coldcut producing the track and Black Monk Theme Part II, one of two tracks by 60s garage band The Monks to be covered on the album (the other being Black Monk Theme “ The Fall retitled both tracks). Elsewhere, Bramah, appearing on his first Fall album since Live at the Witch Trials adds a distinctly raw, even rockabilly sound to some of the songs. However, the album's best-known track was one of the least typical of the group's catalogue: Bill Is Dead, a slow-paced tender love song which topped John Peel's Festive Fifty that year, the only occasion in the DJ's lifetime when his favourite band would do so. Although originally conceived by Smith and Craig Scanlon as a parody of The Smiths, Smith changed lyrical tack when he decided Scanlon's music deserved better, delivering a highly personal lyric. However, at Smith's insistence, it was not released as a single.
The critical reception to Extricate was largely positive
The Hacienda, Factory Records FAC51, 11-13 Whitworth Street West, Manchester, England, UK, M1 5DD
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Keywords: gray,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,feet,bee,bees,boot,on,a,grey,boots,in a,York,for,sale,footwear,shoes,shoe,Manc,Mancunian,bee shoes,fashion,foot wear,Yorkshire,England,UK,fashionable,brand,brands,unisex,trend,trendy,insect,insects,symbol,of,Manchester,network,retailers
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KFB175 - . An identifiable period record of York, Yorkshire, England, UK in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The subject captured here is Heavenlyfeet bee boot, bees on a grey Doc Martin boot, in a shop, York. Other connected aspects include visual archive, specialist retailer, everyday life, commercial frontage, small business, place identity, shopfront economy, documentary photography, local character, social history, bricks-and-mortar retail, retail property, contemporary social history, and public realm. The wider contemporary story combines consumer spending, commercial rents and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy. The image fixes lettering, decoration and surface detail within York, Yorkshire, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against later reinterpretation. The photograph additionally reflects high-street commerce, changing streetscape, local history, changing land use, regional identity, community identity, period detail, and customer footfall. The recorded references to Heavenlyfeet and Martin preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at York, Yorkshire, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The setting also helps illustrate consumer spending and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses when considered against later change at York, Yorkshire, England, UK. The image also provides a reference for town-centre regeneration and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses without losing the local specificity of York, Yorkshire, England, UK. The image fixes details of everyday use for future local research. It also preserves evidence of changing use before later change alters the scene.
York, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,display,FutureRoute,to,connection,city,centre,diagrammatic,planned,planning,transport,schematic,stations,station transport,links,England,UK,machine,Mancunian,Transport Plans,urban,PTEs,Picc-Vic,project,tunnel,Transportation Study,Madchester,future,of,Manchester travel,looking,ahead,diagram,diagrams
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M4K85J - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Manchester, England, UK in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The principal subject is SELNEC Futuroute diagrammatic display, planned Manchester station transport links, England, UK. A broader reading of the photograph includes commercial streetscape, retail graphics, period advertising, local history, visual merchandising, small-business culture, changing land use, historical comparison, high-street commerce, street-level marketing, bricks-and-mortar business, local enterprise, archival record, and street-level trading. Today's relevance is strengthened by visual identity, branding and the continuing question of the speed at which branding and promotional styles change. From a 2025-onward perspective, town-centre regeneration and commercial rents are closely linked to this subject, alongside how physical shops adapt to online competition. The image fixes period objects and surrounding context within Manchester, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changed technology. Further associations within the scene are town-centre economy, contemporary social history, independent retail, promotional board, everyday life, period detail, customer footfall, and community identity. References to planned, links, diagrammatic, SELNEC, and Manchester give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around Manchester, England, UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. A further contemporary connection is visual identity and the speed at which branding and promotional styles change within the specific setting of Manchester, England, UK. The period view preserves details of everyday use before later change alters the scene.
Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Derbys,HighPeak,established,Estd,1778,Strangeways,brewery,bitter,ale,cask,keg,beers,sign,outside,grapes,Glossop,High Street,West,north west,Manchester,mancunian,heritage,history,historic,traditional,SK13,High Peak,alcohol,buildings,millstonegrit,central,Glossopian,Glossopians,blue sky,blue skies,decline,brands,Mancunian
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1Y7NW - . An identifiable period record of 305 High St West, Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK,SK13 8EP in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The main point of reference is Boddingtons the cream of Manchester, Estd 1778, at the Grapes Inn, 305 High St West, Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK,SK13 8EP. The surrounding context encompasses commercial streetscape, night-time economy, commercial frontage, local enterprise, everyday life, place identity, street-level dining, community pub, licensed trade, social history, hospitality trade, mixed-use town centre, town-centre economy, and destination shopping. The modern context includes continuing discussion of pub closures, business rates and how branded and independent hospitality compete for changing leisure spending. For current editorial use, consumer spending and town-centre regeneration provide additional context, especially through the role of markets and independent shops in keeping town centres active. As a dated visual record of 305 High St West, Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK,SK13 8EP, the frame retains commercial use and occupation, making it especially useful if later reinterpretation subsequently changes the scene. The location also brings in customer-facing leisure, traditional hostelry, casual dining, archival record, community identity, licensed hospitality, retail property, and bricks-and-mortar retail. Details involving cream, Boddingtons, Derbyshire, Manchester, and Grapes make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around 305 High St West, Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK,SK13 8EP, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The photograph keeps a point of historical comparison before later change alters the scene.
305 High St West, Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK,SK13 8EP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,brewer,brewery,beer,lager,ale,Holts,radium institute,est,JH,Victorian,bitter,cheap,chain,Mancunian,Mancunians,Manc,Mancs,Two Hoots,product,products,history,historic,M3,North West,pub,bar,operator,pubs,well,Christie Hospital,Derby Brewery Arms,brick,arms,Cheetham Hill,heritage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTR41C - Joseph Holt is an English brewer of beer, founded in 1849 and remaining in the same family for six generations. The company is based in Manchester and owns 127 pubs in Greater Manchester and the North West. Its beers are supplied to over 500 locations nationally
Joseph Holt have brewed on their site in the Cheetham area, to the north of Manchester city centre, since 1860. Ale and lager malts are now delivered in bulk loads and stored in silos while speciality malts continue to be delivered in sacks. Between 15 and 500 barrels (4,500 “ 150,000 pints) can be brewed per day, and a hopback is still in use, along with traditional whole leaf hops, to collect and clarify wort after boiling. All ales are top fermented in enclosed square fermenters using the historic Joseph Holt yeast strain, while lagers are fermented and conditioned in modern cylindroconical vessels. Joseph Holt have their own borehole on the brewery site to abstract brewing liquor (water) and are one of only a handful of brewers in the UK still to rack into 36 gallon casks
It has a long-standing relationship with the Christie Hospital and the Holt Radium Institute in Manchester. This dates back to Sir Edward Holt, the great-grandfather of the current Chief Executive who founded the Holt Radium Institute in 1914
Derby Brewery, Empire Street,Cheetham Hill,Manchester,England,UK, M3 1JD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,brewer,brewery,beer,lager,ale,Holts,radium institute,est,JH,Victorian,bitter,cheap,chain,Mancunian,Mancunians,Manc,Mancs,Two Hoots,product,products,history,historic,M3,North West,pub,bar,operator,pubs,well,Christie Hospital,sign,signs
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTR41M - Joseph Holt is an English brewer of beer, founded in 1849 and remaining in the same family for six generations. The company is based in Manchester and owns 127 pubs in Greater Manchester and the North West. Its beers are supplied to over 500 locations nationally
Joseph Holt have brewed on their site in the Cheetham area, to the north of Manchester city centre, since 1860. Ale and lager malts are now delivered in bulk loads and stored in silos while speciality malts continue to be delivered in sacks. Between 15 and 500 barrels (4,500 “ 150,000 pints) can be brewed per day, and a hopback is still in use, along with traditional whole leaf hops, to collect and clarify wort after boiling. All ales are top fermented in enclosed square fermenters using the historic Joseph Holt yeast strain, while lagers are fermented and conditioned in modern cylindroconical vessels. Joseph Holt have their own borehole on the brewery site to abstract brewing liquor (water) and are one of only a handful of brewers in the UK still to rack into 36 gallon casks
It has a long-standing relationship with the Christie Hospital and the Holt Radium Institute in Manchester. This dates back to Sir Edward Holt, the great-grandfather of the current Chief Executive who founded the Holt Radium Institute in 1914
Derby Brewery, Empire Street,Cheetham Hill,Manchester,England,UK, M3 1JD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,brewer,brewery,beer,lager,ale,Holts,radium institute,est,JH,Victorian,bitter,cheap,chain,Mancunian,Mancunians,Manc,Mancs,Two Hoots,product,products,history,historic,M3,North West,pub,bar,operator,pubs,well,Christie Hospital,heritage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTR421 - Joseph Holt is an English brewer of beer, founded in 1849 and remaining in the same family for six generations. The company is based in Manchester and owns 127 pubs in Greater Manchester and the North West. Its beers are supplied to over 500 locations nationally
Joseph Holt have brewed on their site in the Cheetham area, to the north of Manchester city centre, since 1860. Ale and lager malts are now delivered in bulk loads and stored in silos while speciality malts continue to be delivered in sacks. Between 15 and 500 barrels (4,500 “ 150,000 pints) can be brewed per day, and a hopback is still in use, along with traditional whole leaf hops, to collect and clarify wort after boiling. All ales are top fermented in enclosed square fermenters using the historic Joseph Holt yeast strain, while lagers are fermented and conditioned in modern cylindroconical vessels. Joseph Holt have their own borehole on the brewery site to abstract brewing liquor (water) and are one of only a handful of brewers in the UK still to rack into 36 gallon casks
It has a long-standing relationship with the Christie Hospital and the Holt Radium Institute in Manchester. This dates back to Sir Edward Holt, the great-grandfather of the current Chief Executive who founded the Holt Radium Institute in 1914
Derby Brewery, Empire Street,Cheetham Hill,Manchester,England,UK, M3 1JD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,brewer,brewery,beer,lager,ale,Holts,radium institute,est,JH,Victorian,bitter,cheap,chain,Mancunian,Mancunians,Manc,Mancs,Two Hoots,product,products,history,historic,M3,North West,pub,bar,operator,pubs,well,Christie Hospital,heritage,Derby Brewery Arms,brick,arms,Cheetham Hill
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTR426 - Joseph Holt is an English brewer of beer, founded in 1849 and remaining in the same family for six generations. The company is based in Manchester and owns 127 pubs in Greater Manchester and the North West. Its beers are supplied to over 500 locations nationally
Joseph Holt have brewed on their site in the Cheetham area, to the north of Manchester city centre, since 1860. Ale and lager malts are now delivered in bulk loads and stored in silos while speciality malts continue to be delivered in sacks. Between 15 and 500 barrels (4,500 “ 150,000 pints) can be brewed per day, and a hopback is still in use, along with traditional whole leaf hops, to collect and clarify wort after boiling. All ales are top fermented in enclosed square fermenters using the historic Joseph Holt yeast strain, while lagers are fermented and conditioned in modern cylindroconical vessels. Joseph Holt have their own borehole on the brewery site to abstract brewing liquor (water) and are one of only a handful of brewers in the UK still to rack into 36 gallon casks
It has a long-standing relationship with the Christie Hospital and the Holt Radium Institute in Manchester. This dates back to Sir Edward Holt, the great-grandfather of the current Chief Executive who founded the Holt Radium Institute in 1914
Derby Brewery, Empire Street,Cheetham Hill,Manchester,England,UK, M3 1JD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,brewer,brewery,beer,lager,ale,Holts,radium institute,est,JH,Victorian,bitter,cheap,chain,Mancunian,Mancunians,Manc,Mancs,Two Hoots,product,products,history,historic,M3,North West,pub,bar,operator,pubs,well,Christie Hospital,gates,signage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTR42A - Joseph Holt is an English brewer of beer, founded in 1849 and remaining in the same family for six generations. The company is based in Manchester and owns 127 pubs in Greater Manchester and the North West. Its beers are supplied to over 500 locations nationally
Joseph Holt have brewed on their site in the Cheetham area, to the north of Manchester city centre, since 1860. Ale and lager malts are now delivered in bulk loads and stored in silos while speciality malts continue to be delivered in sacks. Between 15 and 500 barrels (4,500 “ 150,000 pints) can be brewed per day, and a hopback is still in use, along with traditional whole leaf hops, to collect and clarify wort after boiling. All ales are top fermented in enclosed square fermenters using the historic Joseph Holt yeast strain, while lagers are fermented and conditioned in modern cylindroconical vessels. Joseph Holt have their own borehole on the brewery site to abstract brewing liquor (water) and are one of only a handful of brewers in the UK still to rack into 36 gallon casks
It has a long-standing relationship with the Christie Hospital and the Holt Radium Institute in Manchester. This dates back to Sir Edward Holt, the great-grandfather of the current Chief Executive who founded the Holt Radium Institute in 1914
Derby Brewery, Empire Street,Cheetham Hill,Manchester,England,UK, M3 1JD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTR42K - Joseph Holt is an English brewer of beer, founded in 1849 and remaining in the same family for six generations. The company is based in Manchester and owns 127 pubs in Greater Manchester and the North West. Its beers are supplied to over 500 locations nationally.
Brewery
Joseph Holt have brewed on their site in the Cheetham area, to the north of Manchester city centre, since 1860.[2] Ale and lager malts are now delivered in bulk loads and stored in silos while speciality malts continue to be delivered in sacks. Between 15 and 500 barrels (4,500 “ 150,000 pints) can be brewed per day, and a hopback is still in use, along with traditional whole leaf hops, to collect and clarify wort after boiling. All ales are top fermented in enclosed square fermenters using the historic Joseph Holt yeast strain, while lagers are fermented and conditioned in modern cylindroconical vessels. Joseph Holt have their own borehole on the brewery site to abstract brewing liquor (water) and are one of only a handful of brewers in the UK still to rack into 36 gallon casks, as well as hogsheads, the largest barrel size, carrying 432 pints (54 imperial gallons, 250 L) and weighing roughly 660 pounds (300 kg) when full.
History
Joseph Holt, the son of a weaver, was born in 1813 in Unsworth, a textile village near Bury. He worked as a carter at Harrison's Strangeways Brewery. In 1849 he married Catherine Parry, who helped finance a small brewery behind a pub on Oak Street, Manchester.
In 1860, he purchased the brewery site on Empire Street, Cheetham. His reputation in Manchester endures
in 2007, readers of the Manchester Evening News voted him People's Champion in the Greatest ever Business Leaders awards. In 1882, by which time he had established a chain of 20 public houses, Joseph passed control of the brewery to his son Edward. Edward Holt was later knighted, served as Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1907 to 1909 and was made a baronet in 1916.
Empire St, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1JA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,Arena entrance,site,of,Manchester Victoria,art,wall,artwork,Love MCR,with,bee,bees,suicide,bombing,bomber,22/05/2017,walkway,corridor,Salman,Ramadan,Abedi,Islamic State,I Love Manchester,I Love MCR,Charity Foundation,Greater Manchester,GM,city,centre,Mancunian,Mancunians,acronym,city region,@IloveMCR,Ariana Grande.,concert,Ariana Grande
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JY55CC - On 22 May 2017, an Islamist extremist suicide bomber detonated a shrapnel-laden homemade bomb as people were leaving the Manchester Arena following a concert by American pop singer Ariana Grande.
Twenty-three people were killed, including the attacker, and 1,017 were injured, many of them children. Several hundred more suffered psychological trauma. The bomber was Salman Ramadan Abedi, a 22-year-old local man of Libyan ancestry. After initial suspicions of a terrorist network, police later said they believed Abedi had largely acted alone, but that others had been aware of his plans. The Islamic State claimed responsibility shortly after the attack.[3] In March 2020, the bomber's brother, Hashem Abedi, was found guilty of 22 counts of murder and attempting to murder 1,017 others, and was sentenced to life in prison.
The incident was the deadliest terrorist attack and the first suicide bombing in the United Kingdom since the 7 July 2005 London bombings
Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,Manchester,Tel,No,65,061-228-1977,door,entrance,entry,doorway,Tel 228 1977,England,UK,abandoned,decayed,No65,city,centre,NQ4 Northern Quarter,backstreet,back street,decay,Manc,Manchester City centre,Mancunian,trendy,funky,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions,history,historic,heritage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR4A - . Made at Manchester, UK, M1 1EH 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 image documents No65 Manchester NQ4 Northern Quarter backstreet shuttered doorway, Tel 228 1977, abandoned factory, England, UK. The setting additionally reflects social history, changing land use, local history, historic townscape, community identity, period architecture, local character, urban fabric, everyday life, built heritage, urban regeneration, archival record, civic architecture, and place-making. Current relevance extends to heritage conservation and adaptive reuse, particularly through how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. Small period details of street furniture and boundaries at Manchester, UK, M1 1EH may become more significant with time, particularly following redevelopment. Other useful contextual ideas include public realm, before-and-after reference, contemporary social history, documentary photography, changing streetscape, public-realm investment, regional identity, and commercial redevelopment. Details involving abandoned, backstreet, Manchester, factory, and shuttered make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at Manchester, UK, M1 1EH helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Its period value extends to heritage conservation and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres within the specific setting of Manchester, UK, M1 1EH. The location additionally provides evidence of housing pressure and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space as part of the longer story of Manchester, UK, M1 1EH.
Manchester, UK, M1 1EH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,shop,store,centre,stalls,music,England,UK,M4 1PW,M4,indoor,NQ4,ice cream,icecream,vegan,diary,1st floor,Manc,Manchester City centre,Mancunian,trendy,funky,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions,Affleck,market,vintage,unit,units,history,historic,heritage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR4B - . This dated editorial view of 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The photograph centres on Gingers Comfort Emporium, 1st floor, Afflecks Palace , 52 Church St, Manchester , England, UK, M4 1PW. The setting additionally reflects public realm, Christian iconography, religious heritage, local history, customer footfall, bricks-and-mortar retail, visual archive, contemporary social history, archival record, town-centre economy, commercial frontage, shopfront economy, place identity, and ecclesiastical art. The wider contemporary story combines business rates, town-centre regeneration and the role of markets and independent shops in keeping town centres active. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with faith communities, heritage conservation and how sacred art preserves religious, artistic and community history. Small period details of signage and branding at 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW may become more significant with time, particularly following different community use. The wider setting retains connections with high-street commerce, everyday life, changing land use, ecclesiastical craftsmanship, sacred decoration, documentary photography, before-and-after reference, and parish church heritage. Details involving Comfort, Gingers, Afflecks, Manchester, and Palace make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The image also provides a reference for business rates and the role of markets and independent shops in keeping town centres active as part of the longer story of 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,shop,store,centre,stalls,music,England,UK,M4 1PW,M4,indoor,NQ4,ice cream,icecream,vegan,diary,1st floor,Afflecks,palace,Manc,Manchester City centre,Mancunian,trendy,funky,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions,Affleck,market,vintage,unit,units,history,historic,heritage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR68 - . This dated editorial view of 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The frame specifically shows Gingers Comfort Emporium, 1st floor, Afflecks Palace , 52 Church St, Manchester , England, UK, M4 1PW. The locality and subject together evoke place identity, local history, everyday life, period detail, church interior, liturgical art, contemporary social history, archival record, independent trading, street-level business, ecclesiastical art, historic church fabric, Christian iconography, and commercial streetscape. The wider contemporary story combines online shopping, consumer spending and how physical retail adapts to online competition. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with faith communities, heritage conservation and how places of worship combine active faith use with heritage and tourism. The image fixes signage and branding within 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against replacement signage. A second descriptive layer includes mixed-use town centre, changing streetscape, documentary photography, retail property, historical comparison, before-and-after reference, local enterprise, and town-centre economy. The recorded references to Afflecks, Gingers, floor, Church, and Comfort preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. A further contemporary connection is online shopping and how physical retail adapts to online competition within the real-world context of 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW. The image fixes details of everyday use as a date-specific reference.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,shop,store,centre,stalls,music,England,UK,M4 1PW,M4,indoor,NQ4,MCRwall,art,Afflecks,palace,Manc,Manchester City centre,Mancunian,trendy,funky,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions,Affleck,market,vintage,unit,units,history,historic,heritage,memorabilia
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR69 - . An on-location photograph from 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The location is represented through Afflecks #MCRwall artwork for sale,Afflecks Palace , 52 Church St, Manchester , England, UK, M4 1PW. The image also relates to visual archive, archival record, social history, ecclesiastical craftsmanship, everyday life, destination shopping, high-street commerce, independent trading, retail property, consumer retail, religious heritage, sacred decoration, community identity, and local enterprise. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into brand consolidation and business rates, not least because of how physical retail adapts to online competition. Today's relevance is strengthened by visitor tourism, church maintenance and the continuing question of the conservation challenge of historic interiors and artwork. Future viewers can use this scene from 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW to compare period objects and surrounding context with whatever follows after new ownership. The photograph additionally reflects local character, bricks-and-mortar retail, commercial streetscape, regional identity, local history, sacred architecture, church interior, and mixed-use town centre. Elements such as artwork, Manchester, Afflecks, Palace, and MCRwall add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. Around 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The wider significance includes brand consolidation and the role of markets and independent shops in keeping town centres active in a form that can be compared with future views of 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR7R - . This scene at 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The frame specifically shows Anticipate the 12th of April, Afflecks poster, 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW. The locality and subject together evoke liturgical art, historic church fabric, heritage-led regeneration, public realm, archival record, local character, changing land use, place-making, community identity, place identity, religious heritage, changing streetscape, sacred architecture, and built heritage. From a 2025-onward perspective, heritage conservation and visitor tourism are closely linked to this subject, alongside the role of parish churches in local identity and genealogy. The wider contemporary story combines housing pressure, heritage conservation and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. The image fixes materials and architectural details within 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changed technology. The subject also sits alongside heritage worship space, urban regeneration, everyday life, ecclesiastical art, urban fabric, contemporary social history, social history, and commercial redevelopment. The recorded references to Anticipate, April, Manchester, poster, and Church preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The scene further reflects heritage conservation and the role of parish churches in local identity and genealogy as part of the longer story of 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR7T - . An identifiable period record of 52 Church St, NQ4, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The frame specifically shows Afflecks Palace, established 1982, 52 Church St, NQ4, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW. The subject also carries associations with changing streetscape, regional identity, place-making, community identity, ecclesiastical art, liturgical art, period architecture, architectural character, local history, historical comparison, parish church heritage, documentary photography, town-centre renewal, and place identity. The modern context includes continuing discussion of visitor tourism, heritage conservation and the role of parish churches in local identity and genealogy. For current editorial use, housing pressure and heritage conservation provide additional context, especially through how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. As a dated visual record of 52 Church St, NQ4, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW, the frame retains landscape treatment and surrounding development, making it especially useful if closure or conversion subsequently changes the scene. A second descriptive layer includes ecclesiastical craftsmanship, urban regeneration, sacred decoration, changing land use, visual archive, everyday life, before-and-after reference, and devotional artwork. Details involving established, Afflecks, Palace, Manchester, and Church make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. A later view of 52 Church St, NQ4, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The photograph keeps period character for future local research. The record includes a trace of local identity before later change alters the scene.
52 Church St, NQ4, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,Manchester,city,centre,Union St,art,gable,end,fiction,England,UK,M4 1PE,and,of,street,building,buildings,architecture,telephone exchange,BT,Openreach,arts,urban,decoration,decorated,streets,scene,Manc,Manchester City centre,Mancunian,trendy,funky,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR7W - . Photographed at Church St and junction of Union St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PE 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 Church St and junction of Union St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PE. Another layer of the photograph includes community identity, heritage worship space, Christian iconography, religious heritage, documentary photography, everyday life, urban regeneration, local history, mixed-use redevelopment, public realm, changing land use, sacred decoration, liturgical art, and sacred architecture. For current editorial use, adaptive reuse and commercial viability provide additional context, especially through the value of reusing existing buildings rather than wholesale demolition. Current relevance extends to visitor tourism and accessibility, particularly through the role of parish churches in local identity and genealogy. Small period details of equipment and working practice at Church St and junction of Union St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PE may become more significant with time, particularly following new construction. Other useful contextual ideas include changing streetscape, local character, historic townscape, public-realm investment, period architecture, parish church heritage, historical comparison, and archival record. Elements such as Quarter, junction, Church, Union, and Northern add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within Church St and junction of Union St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PE, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. Image 2JYYR7W also remains a dated record of Church St and junction of Union St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PE.
Church St and junction of Union St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,M4 2HU,M4,Manchester indoor market fishmonger,shop,Manchester,indoor,Fresh Fish Daily,Arndale Centre,High St. Manchester,England,UK,popular,fresh,fishes,varieties,crowd,crowded,Mancunian,markets,small,retailers,community,urban,welcoming,bargain,bargains,fishmongers stall,fishmongers,stall,stalls,shops,refrigerated,ice,iced,display,sea,freshwater
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR83 - A fishmonger (historically fishwife for female practitioners) is someone who sells raw fish and seafood. Fishmongers can be wholesalers or retailers and are trained at selecting and purchasing, handling, gutting, boning, filleting, displaying, merchandising and selling their product. In some countries modern supermarkets are replacing fishmongers who operate in shops or fish markets.
Arndale Centre, High St. Manchester, England, UK, M4 2HU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,M4 2HU,M4,Manchester indoor market fishmonger,shop,Manchester,indoor,Fresh Fish Daily,Arndale Centre,High St. Manchester,England,UK,popular,fresh,fishes,varieties,Mancunian,markets,small,retailers,community,urban,welcoming,bargain,bargains,fishmongers stall,fishmongers,stall,stalls,shops,refrigerated,ice,iced,display,sea,freshwater,fish markets
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR9W - A fishmonger (historically fishwife for female practitioners) is someone who sells raw fish and seafood. Fishmongers can be wholesalers or retailers and are trained at selecting and purchasing, handling, gutting, boning, filleting, displaying, merchandising and selling their product. In some countries modern supermarkets are replacing fishmongers who operate in shops or fish markets.
Arndale Centre, High St. Manchester, England, UK, M4 2HU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,on,blue,background,unhealthy,fatty food,poor,chips,potatoes,chippy,fish and chips,oil,lard,vegetable,frying,tonight,fast food,restaurant,Manchester,bright,glow,glowing,sign,signage,take out,takeout,business,cafe,diner,dinner,meal,snack,chip butty,M1,Mancunian,crisis
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR9X - . Photographed at Manchester, England, UK, M1 in 2022, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The principal subject is Dirty Fries, yellow neon sign on blue background, fried fatty food, fast food restaurant, Manchester. The wider scene also brings together local character, before-and-after reference, traditional hostelry, licensed trade, changing streetscape, food-and-drink business, neighbourhood drinking venue, local social venue, night-time economy, place identity, contemporary social history, changing land use, social history, and hospitality trade. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with hospitality costs, changing drinking habits and the pressure on customer-facing businesses in a high-cost economy. The image fixes landscape treatment and surrounding development within Manchester, England, UK, M1 at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changing commercial priorities. The subject also sits alongside period detail, customer-facing leisure, local history, licensed hospitality, pub heritage, casual dining, everyday life, and hospitality economy. The combination of Manchester, restaurant, Dirty, fatty, and fried anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. By fixing the subject within Manchester, England, UK, M1, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The image also provides a reference for hospitality costs and the pressure on customer-facing businesses in a high-cost economy within the specific setting of Manchester, England, UK, M1. Another useful connection is pub closures and how branded and independent hospitality compete for changing leisure spending as part of the longer story of Manchester, England, UK, M1. It also preserves evidence of changing use as a date-specific reference.
Manchester, England, UK, M1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0WRJP - . Made at Bolton, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, BL1 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 Newton and Ridley ales van and logo, from Coronation Streets Rovers Return. The image also relates to public realm, community pub, place identity, food-and-drink business, traditional hostelry, visual archive, changing land use, community identity, street-level dining, licensed hospitality, licensed trade, pub heritage, social history, and neighbourhood drinking venue. Current relevance extends to commercial rents and staffing pressure, particularly through how familiar pubs and restaurants shape neighbourhood identity. As a dated visual record of Bolton, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, BL1, the frame retains equipment and working practice, making it especially useful if new ownership subsequently changes the scene. The photograph additionally reflects everyday life, hospitality economy, archival record, customer-facing leisure, before-and-after reference, hospitality trade, night-time economy, and changing streetscape. Elements such as Newton, Ridley, Return, Rovers, and Streets add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of Bolton, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, BL1 may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Another strand within the photograph is commercial rents and the pressure on customer-facing businesses in a high-cost economy as part of the longer story of Bolton, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, BL1. The setting also helps illustrate pub closures and how familiar pubs and restaurants shape neighbourhood identity when considered against later change at Bolton, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, BL1.
Bolton, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, BL1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGM7EB - The Peveril of the Peak, named after Walter Scott's Novel is also a famous pub in central Manchester.
It is also the name of a stagecoach / mailcoach which ued to travel across the Peak District, from Luton to Manchester
Peveril of the Peak (1823) is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, and Woodstock this is one of the English novels in the Waverley novels series, with the main action taking place around 1678 in the Peak District, the Isle of Man, and London, and centring on the Popish Plot.
Plot introduction
Julian Peveril, a Cavalier, is in love with Alice Bridgenorth, a Roundhead's daughter, but both he and his father are accused of involvement with the Popish Plot of 1678.
Most of the story takes place in Derbyshire, London, and on the Isle of Man. The title refers to Peveril Castle in Castleton, Derbyshire.
127 Great Bridgewater St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 5JQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,North West,UK,City,centre,NW,North west,M1,127,M1 5JQ,tile,green,yellow,at,The,Pev,bar,door,entrance,wine,spirit,of,Mancunian,Mancunians,boozer,wines & spirits,traditional,history,popular,stagecoach,mailcoach,coach,novel,Walter Scotts,Walter Scott,cosy,unpretentious
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGM7EC - The Peveril of the Peak, named after Walter Scott's Novel is also a famous pub in central Manchester.
It is also the name of a stagecoach / mailcoach which ued to travel across the Peak District, from Luton to Manchester
Peveril of the Peak (1823) is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, and Woodstock this is one of the English novels in the Waverley novels series, with the main action taking place around 1678 in the Peak District, the Isle of Man, and London, and centring on the Popish Plot.
Plot introduction
Julian Peveril, a Cavalier, is in love with Alice Bridgenorth, a Roundhead's daughter, but both he and his father are accused of involvement with the Popish Plot of 1678.
Most of the story takes place in Derbyshire, London, and on the Isle of Man. The title refers to Peveril Castle in Castleton, Derbyshire.
127 Great Bridgewater St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 5JQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,North West,UK,M16,M16 0LT,and,sons,milk,dairy,Skerton Road,Firswood,Old Trafford,Manchester,history,historic,heritage,old,glass,recycling,reuse,use,again,repeatedly,Roberts,family,dairies,found,dug,up,discarded,thrown,away,Mancunian
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGM7BC - . This authentic period view of Skerton Road ,Firswood, Old Trafford,, Manchester, England, UK in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The defining feature is J Roberts and sons, Firs Farm Dairy, Skerton Road ,Firswood, Old Trafford, glass milk bottle. Another layer of the photograph includes urban fabric, documentary photography, architectural detailing, contemporary social history, historical comparison, historic streetscape, visual archive, conservation interest, period detail, built heritage, traditional structure, community identity, changing streetscape, and conservation architecture. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into local identity and adaptive reuse, not least because of the tension between conservation and redevelopment. Small period details of local activity and public use at Skerton Road ,Firswood, Old Trafford,, Manchester, England, UK may become more significant with time, particularly following changed technology. The subject also sits alongside period streetscape, heritage landmark, period building, architectural character, historic frontage, before-and-after reference, local landmark, and everyday life. The combination of Dairy, bottle, Trafford, Roberts, and Firswood anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The wider setting at Skerton Road ,Firswood, Old Trafford,, Manchester, England, UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The scene further reflects local identity and the value of distinctive buildings and street furniture to local identity in a form that can be compared with future views of Skerton Road ,Firswood, Old Trafford,, Manchester, England, UK. The scene captures evidence of earlier appearance before later change alters the scene.
Skerton Road ,Firswood, Old Trafford,, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R5PNTC - This image shows a row of traditional cask ale hand pumps from Joseph Holt, one of Manchester's best-known historic breweries, displayed on a pub bar in Manchester city centre. The pump clips include well-established Holt beers such as Holt Mild, Holt Bitter, and Two Hoots, reflecting the brewery's long association with north-west England pub culture.
Founded in 1849, Joseph Holt Brewery remains an important part of Manchester's brewing heritage, with its beers commonly found in tied and free houses across the region. The wooden pump handles, branded badges, and polished bar setting evoke the classic British public house interior, closely associated with cask-conditioned real ale and CAMRA-style drinking traditions.
The image is suitable for editorial and commercial use illustrating British pubs, real ale culture, brewing heritage, hospitality interiors, and Manchester social life, and would work well in features on UK beer, traditional pubs, or regional identity.
Manchester city centre, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE3T3 - Official blazon
Arms : Gules three Piles two issuant from the chief and one in base Or each charged with a Rose of the field barbed and seeded proper.
Crest : On a Wreath of the Colours a Lion passant guardant proper charged on the body with a Mascle Gules and resting the dexter forepaw on an Escocheon of the above said Arms.
Supporters : On either side a Lion proper gorged with a Collar Vair pendent therefrom an Escocheon of the following Arms viz. Gules three Piles two issuant from the chief and one in base Or each charged with a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper.
Motto: 'IN CONCILIO CONSILIUM' - In council is wisdom
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on August 31, 1903, the supporters were granted on October 26, 1903.
The arms are quite simple, showing the famous red rose of Lancaster in a distinctive design. The red rose appears in most Lancashire towns and districts.
The crest and supporters are derived from the arms of the Ferrers family, earls of Derby. The lions, mascule and vair pattern all feature in tha arms of the family who have been prominent land owners in the county.
The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADR2BD - The Old Wellington Inn is a half-timbered pub in Manchester city centre, England. It is part of Shambles Square, which was created in 1999, and is near Manchester Cathedral. It is a Grade II listed building
The oldest building of its kind in Manchester, the Old Wellington Inn was built in 1552 next to the market square which led off what is now Market Street, in what was known as the Shambles. In 1554 part of it became a draper's shop, owned by the Byrom family, and the writer John Byrom was born there in 1692. The building had a third storey added to it in the 17th century. In 1830 the building became a licensed public house, known as the Vintners Arms, and later the Kenyon Vaults. By 1865, the ground floor of the building was known as the Wellington Inn, while the upper floors were used by makers of mathematical and optical instruments. Later, in 1897, the upper floors were used as a fishing tackle shop, known as Ye Olde Fyshing Tackle Shoppe.
In the 1970s the Old Shambles was underpinned with a concrete raft and raised by 1.4 metres (55 in) designed by draughtsman Fred Kennedy, to fit in with the development of the Arndale Centre
the Inn was reopened in 1981. It was damaged in the 1996 Manchester bombing, and was reopened in February 1997, with costs of £500,000 paid to repair the damage. However, in preparation for the city's development in the bomb's aftermath, it was decided that the building, alongside its neighbour Sinclair's Oyster Bar, should be dismantled and rebuilt 300 metres (980 ft) towards the cathedral to form Shambles Square. The move was completed by November 1999, when the pub reopened
4 Cathedral Gates Manchester, Greater Manchester,England, UK, M3 1SW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,bar,1552,The Old Welly,Mancunian,Manc,Nicholsons,Nicholson,pubs,M3,half timbered,Manchester,in,beer,yard,outside,area,evening,winter time,Xmas,Christmas,cask ale,ale,CAMRA,Inn,Old Wellington Inn,Shambles Square,Vintners Arms,Kenyon Vaults,history,historic,moved,most,most-moved,buildings,architecture
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADR2BE - The Old Wellington Inn is a half-timbered pub in Manchester city centre, England. It is part of Shambles Square, which was created in 1999, and is near Manchester Cathedral. It is a Grade II listed building
The oldest building of its kind in Manchester, the Old Wellington Inn was built in 1552 next to the market square which led off what is now Market Street, in what was known as the Shambles. In 1554 part of it became a draper's shop, owned by the Byrom family, and the writer John Byrom was born there in 1692. The building had a third storey added to it in the 17th century. In 1830 the building became a licensed public house, known as the Vintners Arms, and later the Kenyon Vaults. By 1865, the ground floor of the building was known as the Wellington Inn, while the upper floors were used by makers of mathematical and optical instruments. Later, in 1897, the upper floors were used as a fishing tackle shop, known as Ye Olde Fyshing Tackle Shoppe.
In the 1970s the Old Shambles was underpinned with a concrete raft and raised by 1.4 metres (55 in) designed by draughtsman Fred Kennedy, to fit in with the development of the Arndale Centre
the Inn was reopened in 1981. It was damaged in the 1996 Manchester bombing, and was reopened in February 1997, with costs of £500,000 paid to repair the damage. However, in preparation for the city's development in the bomb's aftermath, it was decided that the building, alongside its neighbour Sinclair's Oyster Bar, should be dismantled and rebuilt 300 metres (980 ft) towards the cathedral to form Shambles Square. The move was completed by November 1999, when the pub reopened
4 Cathedral Gates Manchester, Greater Manchester,England, UK, M3 1SW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,bar,1552,The Old Welly,Mancunian,Manc,Nicholsons,Nicholson,pubs,M3,half timbered,Manchester,in,beer,yard,outside,area,evening,winter time,Xmas,Christmas,cask ale,ale,CAMRA,Inn,Old Wellington Inn,Shambles Square,Vintners Arms,Kenyon Vaults,history,historic,moved,most,most-moved,buildings,architecture
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADR2BF - The Old Wellington Inn is a half-timbered pub in Manchester city centre, England. It is part of Shambles Square, which was created in 1999, and is near Manchester Cathedral. It is a Grade II listed building
The oldest building of its kind in Manchester, the Old Wellington Inn was built in 1552 next to the market square which led off what is now Market Street, in what was known as the Shambles. In 1554 part of it became a draper's shop, owned by the Byrom family, and the writer John Byrom was born there in 1692. The building had a third storey added to it in the 17th century. In 1830 the building became a licensed public house, known as the Vintners Arms, and later the Kenyon Vaults. By 1865, the ground floor of the building was known as the Wellington Inn, while the upper floors were used by makers of mathematical and optical instruments. Later, in 1897, the upper floors were used as a fishing tackle shop, known as Ye Olde Fyshing Tackle Shoppe.
In the 1970s the Old Shambles was underpinned with a concrete raft and raised by 1.4 metres (55 in) designed by draughtsman Fred Kennedy, to fit in with the development of the Arndale Centre
the Inn was reopened in 1981. It was damaged in the 1996 Manchester bombing, and was reopened in February 1997, with costs of £500,000 paid to repair the damage. However, in preparation for the city's development in the bomb's aftermath, it was decided that the building, alongside its neighbour Sinclair's Oyster Bar, should be dismantled and rebuilt 300 metres (980 ft) towards the cathedral to form Shambles Square. The move was completed by November 1999, when the pub reopened
4 Cathedral Gates Manchester, Greater Manchester,England, UK, M3 1SW
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Keywords: @Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,GoTonySmith,historic,history,Mancs,people,RIP,gravestones,famous,icons,Barlow Moor Rd,Manchester,M21,Barlow Moor Road,municipal cemetery,Chorlton cum Hardy,Chorlton,Withington,artist,painter,grave,Manchester artist,Salford,1 November 1887 ""“ 23 February 1976,1976,Lowry,Lowrys,site,cross,marble,Mottram,Mancunian,artists,memorial,memorials,white,sunny,Stretford
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2DFEYYW - LS Lowry Artist. He was born in Stretford, Manchester,and was educated at the Victoria Park School, but did poorly there. In 1904, he began to work for a firm of accountants. However, his only real interest, since he was a child, had been drawing
so, in the same year, he began to attend night classes at the Manchester Municipal College of Art. In 1910, he joined the Pall Mall Property Company as a rent collector, and remained with them until 1952, by which time he had risen to the post of chief cashier. The fact that he had a nine to five job was never revealed until after his death, as he had a horror of being thought of as an amateur painter. His paintings of industrial scenes achieved extraordinary popularity, to the extent that, in 1967, his painting Children Coming Out Of School (1927) was used by the Royal Mail on a postage stamp. Lowry died of pneumonia at Woods Hospital in Glossop. He never married and is thought never to have had any love affairs. He left his entire estate to a girl named Carol Ann Lowry, who had written him a fan letter because she was pleased to discover that she shared the same name as such a famous painter.
212 Barlow Moor Rd, Manchester,England,UK, M21 7GL
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,GB,City Centre,theatre,St Anns Square,M2,stock,exchange,GoTonySmith,Manchester,city,icon,iconic,manc,mancunian,Thomas Harrison,columns,classical,Edmund Buckley,Bradshaw Gass & Hope,69 Theatre Company,Theatre of the Year,heritage,stonework,productions,landmark,Theater,centre,M2 7DH,plays,Greater Manchester,events,inside,interior
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RPGECA - Thomas Harrison designed the new exchange of 1809 at the junction of Market Street and Exchange Street. Harrison designed the exchange in the Classical style. It had two storeys above a basement and was constructed in Runcorn stone. The cost, £20,000, was paid for in advance by 400 members who bought £50 shares and paid £30 each to buy the site. The semi-circular north façade had fluted Doric columns. The exchange room where business was conducted covered 812 square yards. The ground floor also contained the members' library with more than 15,000 books. The basement housed a newsroom lit by a dome and plate-glass windows, its ceiling was supported by a circle of Ionic pillars spaced 15 feet from the walls. The first-floor dining-room was accessed by a geometrical staircase. The exchange opened to celebrate of the birthday of George III in 1809. It also contained other anterooms and offices.
As the cotton trade continued to expand, larger premises were required and its extension was completed in 1849. The Exchange was run by a committee of notable Manchester industrialists. From 1855 to 1860 the committee was chaired by Edmund Buckley.
The second exchange was replaced by a third designed by Mills & Murgatroyd, constructed between 1867 and 1874. It was extended and modified by Bradshaw Gass & Hope between 1914 and 1931 to form the largest trading hall in England. The trading hall had three domes and was double the size of the current hall. The colonnade parallel to Cross Street marked its centre. On trading days merchants and brokers struck deals which supported the jobs of tens of thousands of textile workers in Manchester and the surrounding towns. Manchester's cotton dealers and manufacturers trading from the Royal Exchange earned the city the name, Cottonopolis
St Anns Square, city centre Manchester, England, UK, M2 7DH
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,GB,City Centre,theatre,St Anns Square,M2,stock,exchange,GoTonySmith,plays,events,icon,iconic,Manchester,Greater Manchester,Thomas Harrison,columns,classical,Edmund Buckley,Bradshaw Gass & Hope,69 Theatre Company,Theatre of the Year,heritage,stonework,productions,landmark,Theater,city,centre,M2 7DH,manc,mancunian,inside,interior,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RPGECF - Thomas Harrison designed the new exchange of 1809 at the junction of Market Street and Exchange Street. Harrison designed the exchange in the Classical style. It had two storeys above a basement and was constructed in Runcorn stone. The cost, £20,000, was paid for in advance by 400 members who bought £50 shares and paid £30 each to buy the site. The semi-circular north façade had fluted Doric columns. The exchange room where business was conducted covered 812 square yards. The ground floor also contained the members' library with more than 15,000 books. The basement housed a newsroom lit by a dome and plate-glass windows, its ceiling was supported by a circle of Ionic pillars spaced 15 feet from the walls. The first-floor dining-room was accessed by a geometrical staircase. The exchange opened to celebrate of the birthday of George III in 1809. It also contained other anterooms and offices.
As the cotton trade continued to expand, larger premises were required and its extension was completed in 1849. The Exchange was run by a committee of notable Manchester industrialists. From 1855 to 1860 the committee was chaired by Edmund Buckley.
The second exchange was replaced by a third designed by Mills & Murgatroyd, constructed between 1867 and 1874. It was extended and modified by Bradshaw Gass & Hope between 1914 and 1931 to form the largest trading hall in England. The trading hall had three domes and was double the size of the current hall. The colonnade parallel to Cross Street marked its centre. On trading days merchants and brokers struck deals which supported the jobs of tens of thousands of textile workers in Manchester and the surrounding towns. Manchester's cotton dealers and manufacturers trading from the Royal Exchange earned the city the name, Cottonopolis
St Anns Square, city centre Manchester, England, UK, M2 7DH
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Keywords: City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,front,shop,retail,music,art,Paton Street,shutter,shutters,painting,artist,grafitti artist,Clamp down,Clamp,down,North West England,LPs,45s,frontage,shops,independent,stores,retailer,Madchester,store,Mancunian,scene
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M2E - . A contemporary documentary view places on record the setting around Paton Street, Northern Quarter, Piccadilly Manchester,UK, M1 2BA, in a time-specific record from 2019. The principal point of reference is Old Records & Vinyl shop, Clampdown Records, Paton Street, Piccadilly, Northern Quarter, Manchester City Centre, North West England, UK. The location also connects commercial frontage, creative regeneration, public interest, city-centre economy, political controversy, shopfront economy, national policy, visual placemaking, high-street commerce, retail decline and renewal, retail property, and policy change. Current debate around commercial property often combines hybrid working, operating costs and the practical challenge of heritage-led regeneration. In the mid-2020s, community artwork is increasingly discussed through community participation and youth culture, with attention turning to art integrated with regeneration. For present-day editorial use, political decision-making can also illustrate debates about infrastructure and local authority finance, particularly where these affect community responses to government decisions. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at Paton Street, Northern Quarter, Piccadilly Manchester,UK, M1 2BA, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves. The resulting scene connects with street creativity, social policy, urban visual culture, commercial streetscape, mural culture, creative streetscape. Other local associations include Record Shop, Clampdown Record Shop, Graffiti, LPs 45s. Other relevant facets include contemporary mural, local trading, bricks-and-mortar retail, chain-store economy, public services, independent retail, political discourse, street-level design, shopping habits, and government policy. The record also holds a stage in local change as evidence of its time.
Paton Street, Northern Quarter, Piccadilly Manchester,UK, M1 2BA
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Keywords: City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,front,shop,retail,music,art,Paton Street,shutter,shutters,painting,artist,grafitti artist,Clamp down,Clamp,down,North West England,LPs,45s,frontage,Madchester,independent,retailer,store,shops,stores,Mancunian,scene
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M55 - . A grounded editorial photograph captures the social and built context of Paton Street, Northern Quarter, Piccadilly Manchester,UK, M1 2BA, in documentary coverage dating from 2019. The described feature is Old Records & Vinyl shop, Clampdown Records, Paton Street, Piccadilly, Northern Quarter, Manchester City Centre, North West England, UK. Other closely connected aspects of the subject are consumer retail, civic administration, public administration, public-sector policy, creative streetscape, public art, democratic accountability, shopping district, consumer spending, graphic intervention, street-level design, and public services. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, commercial property also connects with changing footfall, hybrid working and efforts aimed at bringing empty units back into use. The wider contemporary story of public art now includes local identity alongside community participation, while policy and investment increasingly consider art integrated with regeneration. Current debate around local government often combines housing, local authority finance and the practical challenge of new regulatory requirements. Over time, this view of Paton Street, Northern Quarter, Piccadilly Manchester,UK, M1 2BA can support local-history and planning research by preserving details of appearance, occupation, signage, public access and everyday use that written records may omit. The surrounding context also touches on shopping habits, community debate, town-centre trading, contemporary mural, civic debate, bricks-and-mortar retail. The scene is further associated with Record Shop, Clampdown Record Shop, Graffiti, LPs 45s. Further aspects present in the subject include urban commerce, civic life, urban graphics, retail vacancy, retail property, community expression, government decision-making, public realm art, creative regeneration, and government policy. The location view retains a stage in local change before further change occurs.
Paton Street, Northern Quarter, Piccadilly Manchester,UK, M1 2BA
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Bee,Mcr,Bees,Busy Bee,symbol,art,artist,mural,tribute,The Koffee Pot cafe,Tib Street,22 worker bees,representing,22 people killed,Manchester Arena bombing,graffiti artist Russell Meeham,Qubek,Tib St,worker bees,bomb,graffiti,tragic,Mancunian,The North Will Rise Again,Oldham St,M4 1LE,M4,Madchester
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF68B - This new mural is our Manc tribute to those killed in the Manchester Arena attack.
The huge image of 22 Manchester worker bees has been emblazoned on a wall on the side of the Koffee Pot building in the heart of the Northern Quarter.
Each bee, pictured swarming around a honey heart, represents one of the innocent people killed in the horrific attack.
It has been completed over last weekend by graffiti artist Russell Meeham , also know as ˜Qubek'. As word spread about the work of art taking shape people came past to see what he was doing. When the last bee was competed it drew a round of applause.
Manchester bees mural: Amazing Mancunian tribute to the 22 victims of the terror attack
MEN Bee mural being painted on the side of the Koffee Pot on Oldham Street, Manchester by artist Qubek
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Two days after the attack, Russ painted the old toilet block in Stevenson Square with bees and two hands joined together in a heart.
It prompted the M.E.N to commission him to create the mural.
Working from atop a cherry picker armed with dozens of cans of spray paint and some music, Russ spent two days creating his masterpiece.
Cafe bosses have previously turned down all requests for it to be used for a mural but kindly agreed to this one.
Speaking as he worked on his mammoth tribute Russ said: It's simple but effective, without being too morbid. Everyone will know why we've painted it and it's nice to have been involved in the project.
MEN Bee mural being painted on the side of the Koffee Pot on Oldham Street, Machester by artist Quebek
MEN Bee mural being painted on the side of the Koffee Pot on Oldham Street, Machester by artist Quebek (Image: Manchester Evening News)
I did a piece following the bombing to put a positive message out there to represent the community in Manchester and a tribute to those who lost their lives that wasn't too morbid.
It got people talking and, from what I saw, brightened a lot of people's days.
84-86 Oldham St, Manchester, North West England, UK, M4 1LE
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDATXA - . The Manchester Pride party festival in Bloom Street, celebrating the circus and embracing MCR LGBTQ+ friends, visitors and partners, August 25th 2018. Photographed on 25 August 2018, this summer image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Bloom Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3HZ, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Manchester, M1 3HZ, tourists, ticket, tickets, annual, parties, celebrating, circus, embracing, LGBTQ+, friends, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The music context makes the image useful for editorial coverage of performers, venues, concerts, popular culture, local music heritage, audiences, nightlife and the creative industries. Such scenes can become important cultural records as bands, venues, festivals and city music districts change, linking contemporary entertainment with wider stories about tourism, identity and regeneration. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene. The photograph can also support future before-and-after use if the building, business, service, streetscape, transport operation or public space is later altered, redeveloped, rebranded or closed.
Bloom Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3HZ
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Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,M3 4LZ,M3,City centre,heritage,history,canals,canal basin,Inner city,conservation area,Mancunian,Bridgewater Canal,Urban Heritage Park,canal,Coal Wharf,wharf,water,barge,barge sold and new,Castlefield Manchester,Bridge,bridges,arch,arches,Skyline,Manchester Skyline,Dukes92,Dukes 92,Whitby and Bird,Whitby,bird,Designers,architects
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PEHFK4 - Castlefield is an inner city conservation area of Manchester in North West England. The conservation area which bears its name is bounded by the River Irwell, Quay Street, Deansgate and the Chester Road. It was the site of the Roman era fort of Mamucium or Mancunium which gave its name to Manchester. It was the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, the world's first industrial canal, built in 1764
the oldest canal warehouse opened in 1779. The world's first passenger railway terminated here in 1830, at Liverpool Road railway station[1] and the first railway warehouse opened here in 1831.
Castlefield
Uk manchester castlefield.jpg
Castlefield, Central Manchester
Castlefield is located in Greater ManchesterCastlefieldCastlefield
Castlefield shown within Greater Manchester
OS grid reference
SJ830976
Metropolitan borough
Manchester
Metropolitan county
Greater Manchester
Region
North West
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
MANCHESTER
Postcode district
M3
Dialling code
0161
Police
Greater Manchester
Fire
Greater Manchester
Ambulance
North West
EU Parliament
North West England
List of places UK England Greater Manchester
53.475°N 2.255°W
The Rochdale Canal met the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield in 1805 and in the 1830s they were linked with the Mersey and Irwell Navigation by two short cuts. In 1848 the two viaducts of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway crossed the area and joined each other, two further viaducts and one mainline station Manchester Central railway station followed. It has a tram station, Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop (formerly G-Mex) providing frequent Manchester Metrolink services to Eccles, Bury, Altrincham, Manchester Piccadilly, East Didsbury and Rochdale.
Castlefield was designated a conservation area in 1980 and the United Kingdom's first designated Urban Heritage Park in 1982
Castlefield, Manchester, UK
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Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,M3 4LZ,M3,City centre,heritage,history,canals,canal basin,Inner city,conservation area,Mancunian,Bridgewater Canal,Urban Heritage Park,canal,Coal Wharf,wharf,water,barge,barge sold and new,Castlefield Manchester,Bridge,bridges,arch,arches,Skyline,Manchester Skyline,Dukes92,Dukes 92,rail bridge,bridge,Cast iron,Victorian,Cornbrook,Manchester South Junction & Altrincham Railway,MSJAR,Monochrome,Black & White
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PEHFKM - Castlefield is an inner city conservation area of Manchester in North West England. The conservation area which bears its name is bounded by the River Irwell, Quay Street, Deansgate and the Chester Road. It was the site of the Roman era fort of Mamucium or Mancunium which gave its name to Manchester. It was the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, the world's first industrial canal, built in 1764
the oldest canal warehouse opened in 1779. The world's first passenger railway terminated here in 1830, at Liverpool Road railway station[1] and the first railway warehouse opened here in 1831.
Castlefield
Uk manchester castlefield.jpg
Castlefield, Central Manchester
Castlefield is located in Greater ManchesterCastlefieldCastlefield
Castlefield shown within Greater Manchester
OS grid reference
SJ830976
Metropolitan borough
Manchester
Metropolitan county
Greater Manchester
Region
North West
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
MANCHESTER
Postcode district
M3
Dialling code
0161
Police
Greater Manchester
Fire
Greater Manchester
Ambulance
North West
EU Parliament
North West England
List of places UK England Greater Manchester
53.475°N 2.255°W
The Rochdale Canal met the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield in 1805 and in the 1830s they were linked with the Mersey and Irwell Navigation by two short cuts. In 1848 the two viaducts of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway crossed the area and joined each other, two further viaducts and one mainline station Manchester Central railway station followed. It has a tram station, Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop (formerly G-Mex) providing frequent Manchester Metrolink services to Eccles, Bury, Altrincham, Manchester Piccadilly, East Didsbury and Rochdale.
Castlefield was designated a conservation area in 1980 and the United Kingdom's first designated Urban Heritage Park in 1982
Castlefield, Manchester, UK
Description
Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,M3 4LZ,M3,City centre,heritage,history,canals,canal basin,Inner city,conservation area,Mancunian,Bridgewater Canal,Urban Heritage Park,canal,Coal Wharf,wharf,water,barge,barge sold and new,Castlefield Manchester,Bridge,bridges,arch,arches,Skyline,Manchester Skyline,Dukes92,Dukes 92,rail bridge,bridge,Cast iron,Victorian,Cornbrook,Manchester South Junction & Altrincham Railway,MSJAR,Madchester
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PEHFMR - Castlefield is an inner city conservation area of Manchester in North West England. The conservation area which bears its name is bounded by the River Irwell, Quay Street, Deansgate and the Chester Road. It was the site of the Roman era fort of Mamucium or Mancunium which gave its name to Manchester. It was the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, the world's first industrial canal, built in 1764
the oldest canal warehouse opened in 1779. The world's first passenger railway terminated here in 1830, at Liverpool Road railway station[1] and the first railway warehouse opened here in 1831.
Castlefield
Uk manchester castlefield.jpg
Castlefield, Central Manchester
Castlefield is located in Greater ManchesterCastlefieldCastlefield
Castlefield shown within Greater Manchester
OS grid reference
SJ830976
Metropolitan borough
Manchester
Metropolitan county
Greater Manchester
Region
North West
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
MANCHESTER
Postcode district
M3
Dialling code
0161
Police
Greater Manchester
Fire
Greater Manchester
Ambulance
North West
EU Parliament
North West England
List of places UK England Greater Manchester
53.475°N 2.255°W
The Rochdale Canal met the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield in 1805 and in the 1830s they were linked with the Mersey and Irwell Navigation by two short cuts. In 1848 the two viaducts of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway crossed the area and joined each other, two further viaducts and one mainline station Manchester Central railway station followed. It has a tram station, Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop (formerly G-Mex) providing frequent Manchester Metrolink services to Eccles, Bury, Altrincham, Manchester Piccadilly, East Didsbury and Rochdale.
Castlefield was designated a conservation area in 1980 and the United Kingdom's first designated Urban Heritage Park in 1982
Castlefield, Manchester, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PEHGB6 - Castlefield is an inner city conservation area of Manchester in North West England. The conservation area which bears its name is bounded by the River Irwell, Quay Street, Deansgate and the Chester Road. It was the site of the Roman era fort of Mamucium or Mancunium which gave its name to Manchester. It was the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, the world's first industrial canal, built in 1764
the oldest canal warehouse opened in 1779. The world's first passenger railway terminated here in 1830, at Liverpool Road railway station[1] and the first railway warehouse opened here in 1831.
Castlefield
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Castlefield, Central Manchester
Castlefield is located in Greater ManchesterCastlefieldCastlefield
Castlefield shown within Greater Manchester
OS grid reference
SJ830976
Metropolitan borough
Manchester
Metropolitan county
Greater Manchester
Region
North West
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
MANCHESTER
Postcode district
M3
Dialling code
0161
Police
Greater Manchester
Fire
Greater Manchester
Ambulance
North West
EU Parliament
North West England
List of places UK England Greater Manchester
53.475°N 2.255°W
The Rochdale Canal met the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield in 1805 and in the 1830s they were linked with the Mersey and Irwell Navigation by two short cuts. In 1848 the two viaducts of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway crossed the area and joined each other, two further viaducts and one mainline station Manchester Central railway station followed. It has a tram station, Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop (formerly G-Mex) providing frequent Manchester Metrolink services to Eccles, Bury, Altrincham, Manchester Piccadilly, East Didsbury and Rochdale.
Castlefield was designated a conservation area in 1980 and the United Kingdom's first designated Urban Heritage Park in 1982
Castlefield, Manchester, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy KDTFYF - . Recorded at Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, United Kingdom in 2017, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The defining feature is Manchester Piccadilly City Panorama, England, UK. The surrounding context encompasses local cultural identity, live performance, creative industries, performance venue, local history, regional arts scene, regional identity, documentary photography, period detail, social history, arts destination, place identity, music history, and gallery space. Today's relevance is strengthened by arts funding, cultural tourism and the continuing question of the value of preserving distinctive cultural buildings and creative histories. The image fixes landscape treatment and surrounding development within Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, United Kingdom at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against new construction. The surrounding story also includes everyday life, community identity, visual archive, creative culture, arts heritage, changing streetscape, contemporary social history, and local character. Elements such as Piccadilly, Panorama, and Manchester add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The wider setting at Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, United Kingdom matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The scene further reflects arts funding and the financial pressure faced by many galleries and performance venues as part of the longer story of Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, United Kingdom. Its period value extends to audience access and the role of cultural venues in sustaining city-centre activity when considered against later change at Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, United Kingdom. The period view preserves a point of historical comparison before later change alters the scene.
Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy JND0CM - Boddingtons Brewery was a regional brewery in Manchester, England, which owned pubs throughout the North West. Boddingtons was best known for Boddingtons Bitter (Boddies), a straw-golden, hoppy bitter which was one of the first beers to be packaged in cans containing a widget, giving it a creamy draught-style head.
In the 1990s, the beer was promoted as The Cream of Manchester in a popular advertising campaign credited with raising Manchester's profile. Boddingtons became one of the city's most famous products after Manchester United and Coronation Street.
Whitbread bought Boddingtons Brewery in 1989 and Boddingtons Bitter received an increased marketing budget and nationwide distribution. Boddingtons achieved its peak market share in 1997 and at the time was exported to over forty countries.
Boddingtons beer brands are now owned by the global brewer Anheuser“Busch InBev, which acquired the Whitbread Beer Company in 2000. Strangeways Brewery closed in 2004 and production of pasteurised (keg and can) Boddingtons was moved to Samlesbury in Lancashire. Production of the cask-conditioned beer moved to Hydes Brewery in Moss Side, Manchester, until it was discontinued in 2012, ending the beer's association with the city.
Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HAFM12 - . This scene at the recorded location in 2016 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The defining feature is Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre at Night, England, UK. The setting additionally reflects social history, commercial frontage, before-and-after reference, local enterprise, archival record, local history, small business, specialist retailer, bricks-and-mortar retail, documentary photography, contemporary social history, commercial streetscape, community identity, and visual archive. From a 2025-onward perspective, online shopping and town-centre regeneration are closely linked to this subject, alongside the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy. For later comparison, the photograph preserves transport arrangements and footfall at the recorded location, details that may look very different after new construction. The surrounding story also includes public realm, period detail, high-street commerce, changing streetscape, local trading, historical comparison, retail property, and town-centre economy. The combination of Manchester, Theatre, Royal, Night, and Exchange anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Even without a fuller street location, image HAFM12 preserves the period presentation of Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre at Night, England, UK, giving later viewers a fixed documentary point for comparison. The image also provides a reference for online shopping and the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. Another useful connection is town-centre regeneration and how consumer spending and property costs shape local commercial streets in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. The view records part of the area's social history for future local research.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4EDX9 - . This location-specific image from St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The location is represented through Royal Exchange Closing Prices, Royal Exchange Theatre,Manchester,England,UK. The frame also records themes of heritage interpretation, historic artefact, social-history object, historic material culture, period craftsmanship, archival record, documentary photography, before-and-after reference, local history, regional identity, antique object, decorative metalwork, museum object, and material culture. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with object conservation, craftsmanship and how museums turn individual objects into wider stories about place and people. For later comparison, the photograph preserves landscape treatment and surrounding development at St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK, details that may look very different after new ownership. A second descriptive layer includes changing streetscape, public realm, local-history evidence, contemporary social history, place identity, historic inscription, commemorative object, and local character. References to Exchange, Closing, Theatre, Royal, and Manchester give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. A later view of St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. A further contemporary connection is object conservation and how museums turn individual objects into wider stories about place and people when considered against later change at St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK. It also preserves a point of historical comparison within the wider story of St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK.
St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ795P - . This scene at Brightwell walk, Manchester M4 5JD in 2016 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The scene records Author Anthony Burgess mural art work, with blindfolded child holding gun, Northern Quarter, Brightwell walk, Manchester M4 5JD. The broader subject matter reaches into documentary photography, public realm, graffiti heritage, historical comparison, period detail, creative district, mural culture, creative placemaking, changing land use, local character, everyday life, temporary artwork, urban graphics, and public art. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into local identity and creative industries, not least because of how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time. Future viewers can use this scene from Brightwell walk, Manchester M4 5JD to compare transport arrangements and footfall with whatever follows after replacement signage. Other useful contextual ideas include visual archive, archival record, street-level design, urban artwork, before-and-after reference, public-realm art, regional identity, and place identity. The recorded references to Northern, Brightwell, blindfolded, Burgess, and Author preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Brightwell walk, Manchester M4 5JD, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The setting also helps illustrate local identity and how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time in a form that can be compared with future views of Brightwell walk, Manchester M4 5JD. The image also provides a reference for local identity and how temporary street art becomes an important visual archive within the real-world context of Brightwell walk, Manchester M4 5JD.
Brightwell walk, Manchester M4 5JD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64K8F - Tracks were :
Upstarts,Panic,The Right Thing Right,Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before,Generate! Generate!,Bigmouth Strikes Again,The Messenger,The Crack Up,Say Demesne,Sun and Moon,How Soon Is Now,Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want,
The It-Switch, I Fought the Law, Getting Away With It, There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher, 31 October 1963) is an English musician, songwriter and singer. He first achieved fame as the guitarist and co-songwriter of the Smiths, who were active from 1982 to 1987. He has since performed with numerous other bands and embarked on a solo career.
Born in Manchester, to Irish parents, Marr formed his first band at the age of 13. He was part of several bands with Andy Rourke before forming the Smiths with Morrissey in 1982. The Smiths attained commercial success and were critically acclaimed, with Marr's jangle pop guitar style becoming a distinctive part of the band's sound, but separated in 1987 due to personal differences between Marr and Morrissey. Since then, Marr has been a member of the Pretenders, The The, Electronic, Modest Mouse, and the Cribs, and he has become a prolific session musician, working with names such as Pet Shop Boys, Talking Heads, Bryan Ferry and Hans Zimmer.
Having released an album titled Boomslang in 2003 under the name Johnny Marr and the Healers, Marr released his first solo album, The Messenger, in 2013. His second solo album, Playland, was released in 2014, followed by a third, Call the Comet, in 2018. Marr's autobiography, Set the Boy Free, was published in 2016
Manchester Academy 1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England , UK, M13 9PR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB0KBM - Withy Grove Stores Ltd
Withy Grove Stores Ltd is situated on Withy Grove in Manchester city centre and supplies commercial, industrial and residential clients locally and nationwide with new, second hand and reconditioned safes.
We supply all types and makes of safes for cash, jewellery and fire protection, computer data safes, deposit safes and underfloor safes. We also supply new and second-hand office furniture, filing cabinets etc.
Established in 1850, the firm is still owned and run by the same Manchester family. The Managing Director has over 50 years' experience in the safe business, ensuring clients benefit from our expert knowledge and personal advice.
Withy Grove Stores Ltd is a member of The Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce. they are housed in a fantastic old building
35-39 Withy Grove, Manchester, NW England, United Kingdom M4 2BJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9ATG - . Dusk view over Manchester city centre / Arndale looking south, NW stock-photo/gotonysmith-England.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>England, UK, M4 3AQ. Photographed at Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M4 3AQ. The photograph was taken on 25 June 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The low-light or evening setting is part of the subject, bringing illuminated signs, windows and street lighting into the documentary character of the scene. The scene is closely associated with View, over, Manchester, Arndale, looking, cottonopolis, Northern powerhouse, Manc, Mancunian and tramway, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The scene has strong relevance to railway travel, public transport, passenger infrastructure and the everyday operation of Britain's rail network. It can illustrate editorial stories about stations, train journeys, commuting, regional connectivity, rail investment, rolling stock, freight, signals, platforms, accessibility and the relationship between railways and the places they serve. Visible railway furniture, signs, tracks, platforms, trains, signals or station buildings help place the photograph firmly in the practical environment experienced by passengers and railway staff. As a dated documentary image it also offers a useful record of transport infrastructure, branding and passenger facilities at the time the photograph was made. Search themes include British rail travel, railway stations, passenger journeys, tracks, platforms, signals, rolling stock, freight, regional connectivity and transport infrastructure. The scene is particularly useful for illustrating how railway facilities, signs and operational surroundings looked at a known point in time. The view is firmly rooted in a real location rather than a constructed studio setting.
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M4 3AQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HW77 - . Reflection of a red XXX sex shop sign in a puddle , Tib St Manchester Northern Quarter, Lancashire, England, UK. Photographed on 9 December 2011. The recorded location is Tib St, Manchester Northern Quarter, Lancashire, England UK M4 5SG. The wider historical story is that markets and high-street businesses combine commercial history with everyday social life
Their changing occupiers, branding and uses document local economies, consumer culture, town-centre regeneration and the long shift from traditional retailing towards mixed shopping, food and leisure destinations. In historical terms, signs and notices are ephemeral pieces of design that can become important historical evidence
Lettering, logos, warnings and directions record former businesses, regulations, transport systems and public messages that may disappear long before the surrounding building changes. In the present 2026 context, high streets still change rapidly as retailers respond to online competition, costs and changing footfall
Government support for community assets and town-centre renewal gives photographs of independent shops, markets and former businesses added relevance to stories about regeneration and local economies. During 2026, much public information has moved onto smartphones and digital displays, making earlier fixed signs and printed notices increasingly useful as evidence of how people once navigated places, bought services and followed rules. Looking at the subject's development, shops and markets are a visible record of changing consumer life, from family businesses and specialist traders to chain stores, department stores and regenerated market halls
Fascias, signs and shopfronts can date a street scene as clearly as architecture or vehicles. Useful subject and context terms include retail premises, local business, independent retailer, town centre, commercial property, local economy, shopping district, retail history, business closure, and urban commerce.
Tib St, Manchester Northern Quarter, Lancashire, England UK M4 5SG
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6357454651 - 'A cold evening in Oldham, with the town centre being dug up, a classic back catalog from the early JD &
Warsaw days. What more could you ask for? A special warm up for a unique tour.
Well I saw Joy Division a couple of times, the same number of times I have been to see the memoral to Ian Curtis in Macclesfield. You can be forgiven for expecting a lot.
I have got to say, Hooky and The Light made a good job of it. The Castle reminded me of the Russell Club in Hulme, it just needed lower ceilings. Down to about 7'.
Rowetta was here too. The EP containing unreleased Joy Division track \u2018Pictures In My Mind\u2019, \u2018Atmosphere\u2019 plus Rowetta\u2019s versions of \u2018New Dawn Fades\u2019 and \u2018Insight\u2019 are worth a download, see www.fac51thehacienda.com/node/2088
Everything sounded raw, stripped down. Particularly the Closer album tracks, the young folks will only know them with the Hannett gloss of polished production.
Hooky's voice is slightly rough and Mancunian too. He needed some pages of his lyric book. Theres no robotic dancing either, and not so much bass playing. He leaves much to Jack, although rips into it as an axe-man when he gets in the mood. Breaks a string too on the Eccleshall Viking 1 (in Red with Cream Binding), so then it becomes more of a prop.
Rowetta's 'Atmosphere' was a highlight for me. Maybe all along that track needed female vocals.
Overall Hooky did good. He wrote this stuff, its in his soul. Thats why he wants to tour and share it, he is certainly not doing for the cash!
Setlist on the night included:
No Love Lost
Leaders of men
Glass
Digital
Disorder
Day of the lords
Candidate
Insight
New dawn Fades
She's Lost Control
Shadowplay
Wilderness
Interzone
I remember nothing
Encore-
Atmosphere
These days
Ice Age
Novelty
Isolation
24 Hours
Transmission
Love Will Tear Us Apart
The tour proper starts shortly, try to catch them at one of the following dates.
November 2011
Friday 18th The Lowry, Salford
Saturday 19th The Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 23rd Reading3, Tel Aviv
Friday 25th Gagarin 205, Athens
Saturday 26th Eightball Live, Thessaloniki
Wednesday 30th Amager Bio, Copenhagen
December 2011
Thursday 1st Train, Aarhus
Friday 9th Orion, Rome
Saturday 10th Estragon, Bologna
Sunday 11th Deposito Giordani, Pordenone
Tuesday 20th Effenar, Eindhoven
Wednesday 21st Oosterpoort, Groningen
Thursday 22nd Melkweg, Amsterdam
April 2012
Thursday 12th Palace Theatre, Melbourne
Friday 13th Tivoli, Brisbane
Saturday 14th Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Monday 16th HQ Theatre, Adelaide
Interestingly, Amsterdam and Eindhoven feature. Places very much steeped in Joy Division legend and history.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6099851024 - 'Model 500 - No UFOs - Play this track here.
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About time I featured a slab of Detroit Techno here.
Model 500 &
Infiniti were names used by Juan Atkins. He is widely credited as the originator of techno music, specifically Detroit techno along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. The three, sometimes called the Belleville Three, attended high school together in Belleville, Michigan, near Detroit.
At age sixteen, Atkins heard electronic music for the first time, which would prove to be a life-changing experience. In late-1990s interviews, he recalls the sound of synthesizers as being like 'UFOs landing.' He soon had his first synthesizer and abandoned playing funk bass.
\u201c When I first heard synthesizers dropped on records it was great\u2026 like UFOs landing on records, so I got one.
\u2026It wasn\u2019t any one particular group that turned me on to synthesizers, but 'Flashlight' (Parliament's number one R &
B hit from early 1978) was the first record I heard where maybe 75 percent of the production was electronic.'
The first publicized UFO sightings were usually referred to using the term mystery airships, which were commonly seen and described as such during the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th.
The term foo fighters was used by American fighter pilots during World War II to refer to UFOs.
The first widely publicized U.S. sighting, reported by private pilot Kenneth Arnold in June 1947, gave rise to the popular terms 'flying saucer' and 'flying disc', of which the former is still sometimes used, even though Arnold said the most of the objects he saw were not totally circular and one was crescent-shaped (see Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting for details). In addition, the infamous Roswell UFO Incident occurred at about the same time, which only served to further fuel public interest in the topic.
The term 'UFO' was first suggested in 1952 by Cpt. Edward J. Ruppelt, who headed Project Blue Book, then the USAF's official investigation of UFOs. Ruppelt felt that 'flying saucer' did not reflect the diversity of the sightings. He suggested that UFO should be pronounced as a word \u2013 you-foe. However it is now usually pronounced by forming each letter: U.F.O. His term was quickly adopted by the United States Air Force, which also briefly used 'UFOB'. The Air Force initially defined UFOs as those objects that remain unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators, though today the term UFO is often used for any unexplained sighting regardless of whether it has been investigated.
Because the term UFO is ambiguous \u2013 referring either to any unidentified sighting, or in popular usage to alien spacecraft \u2013 and the public and media ridicule sometimes associated with the topic, some investigators now prefer to use other terms such as unidentified aerial phenomenon (or UAP).
For trivia buffs, the equivalent acronym for UFO in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian is OVNI (Objeto Volador No Identificado, Objeto Voador N\u00e3o Identificado, Objet volant non identifi\u00e9 or Oggetto Volante Non Identificato).
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4933187588 - 'Black And White Town - 'Doves' - Play this track ob=av2n\' rel=\'nofollow\'>here.
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'Some Cities' is Doves 3rd album and is the closest you will find to a Manchester concept album (see also Barry Adamsons Moss Side Story...). This single 'Black and White Town' peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart.
The brothers Williams had spend a couple of decades in the music business, playing in bands and mixing with the Ha\u00e7ienda crowd. After meeting at The Ha\u00e7ienda in 1989, the Williams brothers and Jimi Goodwin formed Sub Sub, releasing their first single 'Space Face' in 1991, and then in 1993 they released 'Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use),' which reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart.
On the Williams twins' birthday in February 1996, the band's Ancoats studio caught fire and burned down, leading the band members to abandon their previous dance-oriented style and start afresh as alternative rock band Doves in 1998.
The band released three EPs in 1998 and 1999 on Casino Records, a subsidiary of Rob Gretton's Rob's Records. debut album Lost Souls in April 2000 was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, which they lost to fellow Mancunian and former collaborator 'Badly Drawn Boy'.
I have seen Doves a few times and I would recommend a look at the 'The Places Between: The Best of Doves' as a starting point if you like what you have heard here.
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Manchester is a city of nudging half a million people in the northwest of England. Its textile heritage still leads to textiles in some places, such as Oz as 'Manchester'. It gained the title of 'the world's first industrialised city'.
As the result of an early-19th century factory building boom, Manchester was transformed from a township into a major mill town, borough and was later granted honorific city status in 1853. It is the third-most visited city in the United Kingdom by foreign visitors and the most visited in England outside London.
Manchester was the host of the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and among its other sporting connections are its two Premier League football teams, Manchester United and Manchester City (who now play in the Eastlads stadium).
This image was shot with a Holga loaded with 35mm B/W Film and shows a view from Shudehill looking towards Corporation st.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PP0N90 - . Ian Curtis 18-5-80 Love Will Tear Us Apart, memorial stone, Macclesfield Crematorium, Cheshire, England, UK. Photographed on 31 May 2010, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Prestbury Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, UK, SK10 3BU, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include 18/05/1980, 18th, May, singer, frontman, memory, anniversary, Control, memorial stone, Macclesfield, Crematorium, Cheshire, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The heritage dimension gives the photograph relevance to local history, conservation, collective memory, historic buildings and objects, civic identity and the ways in which earlier generations are represented in today's public realm. As a contemporary record of a historic subject, it can illustrate preservation, interpretation, restoration, tourism and debates about how cultural and industrial heritage is maintained and reused. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene. The photograph can also support future before-and-after use if the building, business, service, streetscape, transport operation or public space is later altered, redeveloped, rebranded or closed.
Prestbury Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, UK, SK10 3BU
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4653781013 - 'Albert Square is a public square in the centre of Manchester, England. It is dominated by its largest building, Manchester Town Hall Grade I, a Victorian Gothic building by Alfred Waterhouse and previously in the opposite corner by the Square Albert, a Tetleys pub.
Albert Memorial, a monument to Prince Albert, Prince consort of Queen Victoria is in the square. The square, also named after the Prince, was originally laid out to provide a space for this memorial in 1863\u201367. Work on the new town hall began in 1868 and was completed in 1877. On the top of the clock tower is a golden cotton seed, the symbol of teh source of Manchester City and its cottonopolis prosperity.
The creation of the square arose out of a project by Manchester Corporation's Monuments Committee to erect a memorial to Prince Albert who had unexpectedly died of typhoid in 1861. After some initial proposals to create a memorial library, museum or botanical gardens, the committee decided to erect a statue in a decorated canopy. It was originally planned to place the monument in Piccadilly Gardens, but it was felt that its ornate design was not in keeping with the surrounding buildings. In 1863, land was offered by the Corporation which was cleared to make way for a public space.
The project won much public support
the Manchester Bricklayers' Protection Society donated 50,000 bricks towards the construction of the monument, 'as an expression of sympathy towards our beloved Queen'. When construction problems arose (the site was found to be riddled with drains and culverts) and these bricks were used up on the foundations alone, a further public subscription was launched in 1865 and a further \u00a36,249 was raised, in spite of the hardships of the Cotton Famine.
The Memorial is topped with an ornate spire, and on each side a crocketed gable with canopied pinnacles on colonettes. Within the canopies stand symbolic figures representing art, commerce, science and agriculture. Below these stand secondary figures representing particular disciplines
The Four Arts: painting, architecture, music, sculpture
Commerce: the Four Continents
The Four Sciences: chemistry, astronomy, mechanics, mathematics
Agriculture: the Four Seasons.
In the town hall, despite its medieval styling, the building was designed to support the practical technologies of the 19th century. These included gas lighting, and a warm-air heating system, which provided fresh air drawn through ornamental stone air inlets placed below the windows and admitted behind the hot water pipes and 'coils' of rooms. Warmed, fresh air was also fed into the stairwells and through hollow shafts within the spiral staircases in order to ventilate the corridors. The pipes that supplied the gas for the lighting were ingeniously concealed underneath the banister rails of the spiral staircases.
While not quite as grand as the hotel de ville in Brussels or similar buildings in Europe, the town hall in Manchester proclaimed that the city had 'arrived'. A saying capturing this sense of innovation survives today: 'What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow. Although I do not think they were in fact refering to Bez of the Happy Mondays when they coined that :-)
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0ME8 - Dusk night view of Housing developments, blocks of executive flats at Salford Quays, Manchester, North West England, UK.
Imperial Point was the first of the high-rise residential buildings on the Quays: a 16-storey tower built alongside the Lowry Outlet Mall on Pier 8 (Central Wharf) in 2001. Finished in sand-coloured cladding with grey and steel finishes to the roof, service cores and balconies, the lower levels are integrated into the mall.
Sovereign Point is the sister building of Imperial Point, towards the rear of the Lowry Outlet Mall. Completed in 2005, its 20 stories are residential, except for some commercial units at ground level, including Sovereign Food and Wine, the Quays' first grocery store. The tower's design was controversial and regarded as having a poor aesthetic on all but the water-facing elevation and is in stark relief to the neighbouring low-rise Winnipeg Quay.
The NV Buildings were designed by Broadway Maylan and completed between 2004 and 2005. The development consists of three 18-storey residential towers, each 180 feet (55 m) in height. Costing £36 million, they stand in a line overlooking Huron Basin from the waterside of Pier 9 (North Wharf), their curved frontages are designed to represent sails. At night, the buildings are illuminated by green lights atop curved poles, and green flood light to either side. The Type 3 apartment in the NV Buildings won gold for Best Apartment in 2004 What House? awards.
The City Lofts construction began in 2005 and completed in late 2007. The development consists of two linked towers: one 9 stories, the other 19 stories. They are on land adjacent to the bund carrying the Quays road, which separates the Manchester Ship Canal from the cleaned water of the Salford Quays basins. The apartments' interior design was by Conran & Partners. Interest in the development was limited, due to the slump in the housing market, and in July 2008, City Lofts was forced to place all
Salford Quays, Manchester, North West England, UK M50 2AZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HCM5 - The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed building in Manchester, England. It is located in the city centre on the land bounded by St Ann's Square, Exchange Street, Market Street, Cross Street and Old Bank Street. The complex includes the Royal Exchange Theatre and the Royal Exchange Shopping Centre.
The Royal Exchange was heavily damaged in the Manchester Blitz and in the 1996 Manchester bombing. The current building is the last of several buildings on the site used for commodities exchange, primarily but not exclusively of cotton and textiles.
Exchange St, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3356735418 - 'Manchester musician Howard Devoto, ex Buzzcocks, ex Magazine and ex Luxuria (et Noko ). Here shown at the UK reunion tour 2009.
Howard Devoto was born Howard Trafford 15/03/1952 in Scunthorpe. He began his career as the front man for the Manchester punk band Buzzcocks. He left early on to form Magazine, one of the first post-punk bands and who influenced the whole post 1977 scene. After Magazine, he went solo. After Magazine split in 1981 Devoto spent two years putting together a solo album with former Magazine keyboard player Dave Formula (the guy who precipitated the 2009 reunion). Though reception of Jerky Versions of the Dream was mixed, the single 'Rainy Season' was consistently picked as a stand-out track. Later, formed indie band Luxuria with Noko.
For most of the 1990s, Devoto was little involved in music, earning his living by working for a photo agency.
In 2001, Devoto teamed up for the first time in twenty-five years with Buzzcocks Pete Shelley and released the much-anticipated Buzzkunst under the name ShelleyDevoto.
In 2002, Devoto had a small part in the movie 24 Hour Party People, a film about Manchester's Factory Records. In his brief cameo appearance, Devoto appears as a janitor cleaning a men's toilet while actor Martin Hancock (who bears no major resemblance to Devoto) portrays Devoto having a tryst with the wife of promoter/journalist Tony Wilson. The real-life Devoto breaks the fourth wall by addressing the camera and stating in dead pan, 'I definitely don't remember this happening'.
In February 2009 Magazine reformed as shown, with former Luxuria guitarist Noko replacing the deceased John McGeoch on guitar.
On July 9, 2009, Devoto was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bolton for his contribution to music.
Another reunion in 2009, the Comsat Angels (the Yorkshire Joy Division) www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4051548558/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KG3PMF - Customers drink, dine and socialise during a busy evening inside the Marble Arch Inn at 73 Rochdale Road, Manchester, one of the city's best-known historic public houses. Warm artificial light from hanging chandeliers illuminates the long room, while deep red curtains frame the tall windows and groups of patrons occupy tables on both sides of the narrow interior. The scene conveys the lively, relaxed character of a traditional Manchester boozer, with real ale drinkers talking over pints in a convivial setting at dusk.
The elaborate interior is a defining feature of the Grade II listed building. Glazed brick walls, a richly decorated ceramic frieze and the distinctive barrel-vaulted tiled ceiling create an unusually ornate drinking space. Decorative brackets, patterned surfaces, framed pictures, timber fittings and upholstered seating add to the preserved Victorian character. The pub is also renowned for its sloping mosaic floor, which descends towards the bar and forms part of the building's celebrated historic fabric.
Constructed in 1888 to designs by Manchester architects Darbyshire and Smith, the premises originally served as a show-house associated with McKenna's Brewery. The building was formally listed in 1988 in recognition of its architectural and historic interest. Its surviving tiled scheme is regarded as an important example of late nineteenth-century public-house design and helps make the venue a destination for architectural enthusiasts, real ale drinkers and visitors exploring Manchester's pub heritage.
The Marble Arch later became closely associated with Marble Brewery, founded at the rear of the premises in 1997. Brewing subsequently moved to larger facilities in Salford, although the Rochdale Road pub remains the spiritual home and flagship venue for Marble beers. The photograph documents a busy evening within a much-loved independent establishment where preserved Victorian craftsmanship, craft brewing culture, food and everyday Mancunian social
73 Rochdale Rd, Manchester,England,UK, M4 4HY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RXX284 - Early versions of this rattle or ratchet are said to have existed since Biblical times, when it was a type of musical instrument. The rattle consists of a gearwheel and small stiff pieces of wood linked to a handle. Swinging the handle moves the rattle head round, forcing the wood against the gearwheel, creating a series of clicks or rattling sounds. The faster the rotation, the louder the noise.
Between the 1940s and 1960s wooden rattles were a common sight and sound at British football matches, including those held at the Plough Lane stadium of Wimbledon Football Club and the Sandy Lane terraces of Tooting & Mitcham F C. Fans would wave their rattles enthusiastically, sing team anthems and chants, creating a wall of sound designed to cheer on the home team and silence their opponents. Rattles were eventually banned during the 1970s, to prevent them from being used as weapons by football hooligans “ however by this stage they were already falling out of fashion.
Kippax St, Manchester, England, UK, M14 7WE
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DN6N7C - The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed building in Manchester, England. It is located in the city centre on the land bounded by St Ann's Square, Exchange Street, Market Street, Cross Street and Old Bank Street. The complex includes the Royal Exchange Theatre and the Royal Exchange Shopping Centre.
The Royal Exchange was heavily damaged in the Manchester Blitz and in the 1996 Manchester bombing. The current building is the last of several buildings on the site used for commodities exchange, primarily but not exclusively of cotton and textiles.
The cotton industry in Lancashire was served by the Manchester Royal Exchange which traded in spun yarn and finished goods throughout the world including Africa while the Liverpool Cotton Exchange traded in imported raw cotton. In the 18th century the trade was part of part the slave trade in which African slaves were transported to America where the cotton was grown and then exported to Liverpool where the raw cotton was sold.[2]
The first exchange opened in 1729 but closed by the end of the century. As the cotton industry boomed, the need for a new exchange was recognized. Thomas Harrison designed the new exchange of 1809 at the junction of Market Street and Exchange Street.[2] The expanding cotton industry required a larger building and its extension was completed in 1849. The second exchange was replaced, by a third exchange by Mills & Murgatroyd, constructed between 1867 and 1874. It was extended and modified by Bradshaw Gass & Hope between 1914 and 1931 to form the largest trading hall in England.
The trading hall had three domes and was double the size of the current hall. The colonnade parallel to Cross Street marked the its centre. On trading days merchants and brokers struck deals which supported the jobs of tens of thousands of textile workers in Manchester and the surrounding towns. Manchester's cotton dealers and manufactureres trading from the Royal Exchange earned the city the name, Cottonopolis
Exchange St, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PEHFXE - Castlefield is an inner city conservation area of Manchester in North West England. The conservation area which bears its name is bounded by the River Irwell, Quay Street, Deansgate and the Chester Road. It was the site of the Roman era fort of Mamucium or Mancunium which gave its name to Manchester. It was the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, the world's first industrial canal, built in 1764
the oldest canal warehouse opened in 1779. The world's first passenger railway terminated here in 1830, at Liverpool Road railway station[1] and the first railway warehouse opened here in 1831.
Castlefield
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Castlefield, Central Manchester
Castlefield is located in Greater ManchesterCastlefieldCastlefield
Castlefield shown within Greater Manchester
OS grid reference
SJ830976
Metropolitan borough
Manchester
Metropolitan county
Greater Manchester
Region
North West
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
MANCHESTER
Postcode district
M3
Dialling code
0161
Police
Greater Manchester
Fire
Greater Manchester
Ambulance
North West
EU Parliament
North West England
List of places UK England Greater Manchester
53.475°N 2.255°W
The Rochdale Canal met the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield in 1805 and in the 1830s they were linked with the Mersey and Irwell Navigation by two short cuts. In 1848 the two viaducts of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway crossed the area and joined each other, two further viaducts and one mainline station Manchester Central railway station followed. It has a tram station, Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop (formerly G-Mex) providing frequent Manchester Metrolink services to Eccles, Bury, Altrincham, Manchester Piccadilly, East Didsbury and Rochdale.
Castlefield was designated a conservation area in 1980 and the United Kingdom's first designated Urban Heritage Park in 1982
Castlefield, Manchester, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PEHG16 - Castlefield is an inner city conservation area of Manchester in North West England. The conservation area which bears its name is bounded by the River Irwell, Quay Street, Deansgate and the Chester Road. It was the site of the Roman era fort of Mamucium or Mancunium which gave its name to Manchester. It was the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, the world's first industrial canal, built in 1764
the oldest canal warehouse opened in 1779. The world's first passenger railway terminated here in 1830, at Liverpool Road railway station[1] and the first railway warehouse opened here in 1831.
Castlefield
Uk manchester castlefield.jpg
Castlefield, Central Manchester
Castlefield is located in Greater ManchesterCastlefieldCastlefield
Castlefield shown within Greater Manchester
OS grid reference
SJ830976
Metropolitan borough
Manchester
Metropolitan county
Greater Manchester
Region
North West
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
MANCHESTER
Postcode district
M3
Dialling code
0161
Police
Greater Manchester
Fire
Greater Manchester
Ambulance
North West
EU Parliament
North West England
List of places UK England Greater Manchester
53.475°N 2.255°W
The Rochdale Canal met the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield in 1805 and in the 1830s they were linked with the Mersey and Irwell Navigation by two short cuts. In 1848 the two viaducts of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway crossed the area and joined each other, two further viaducts and one mainline station Manchester Central railway station followed. It has a tram station, Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop (formerly G-Mex) providing frequent Manchester Metrolink services to Eccles, Bury, Altrincham, Manchester Piccadilly, East Didsbury and Rochdale.
Castlefield was designated a conservation area in 1980 and the United Kingdom's first designated Urban Heritage Park in 1982
Castlefield, Manchester, UK
