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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Merseyside,England,UK,L2 3YL,L2,city,centre,late,Georgian,town hall,civic,Grade I listed,building,Grade II listed,clock,monument,Admiral Nelson,Horatio Nelson,public,square,sculpture,neoclassical,port,civic history,maritime,naval,history,buildings,historic,conservation,municipal,power,British Empire,merchant,commercial Liverpool,UNESCO heritage debate,tourism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2P6JH9E - Liverpool Town Hall is seen from stock-photo/gotonysmith-Exchange.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Exchange Flags in Liverpool city centre, with the Nelson Monument standing in the foreground of the square. The photograph shows the grand late Georgian civic building in warm light, with its classical stone frontage, arched windows, columns, sculptural roofline and clock-topped dome set behind the bronze memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson. Exchange Flags is one of Liverpool's most important historic public spaces, closely linked with the city's commercial, maritime, civic and municipal history. The Nelson Monument was unveiled in 1813 and is a Grade II* listed memorial
it was designed by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, with sculpture by Richard Westmacott, and is recognised as Liverpool's first major public sculpture. Liverpool Town Hall, also listed at the highest Grade I level, dates mainly from the mid to late eighteenth century and remains one of the city's finest civic buildings, associated with mayors, council ceremonies, public events, merchants, trade, port history and the development of Liverpool as a major world city. The image is useful for editorial coverage of Liverpool architecture, Georgian civic design, heritage tourism, British municipal history, listed buildings, city centre regeneration, maritime power, naval memory, public sculpture and debates about monuments, empire, slavery, trade and civic identity. The Nelson Monument includes dramatic bronze figures and relief panels, reflecting nineteenth-century commemoration of naval victory, while also carrying uncomfortable historical associations with imperial power and Liverpool's wider trading past. The clear blue sky, decorative street lighting, empty square and formal architecture make this a clean travel, heritage and urban stock image, suitable for stories about Liverpool city breaks, Merseyside tourism, Exchange Flags, historic conservation, civic pride, architecture trails, walking tours and the layered history of one of England's great port cities.
Exchange Flags, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 3YL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB6PET - SeventyEight 78 A doorway in Seel St Liverpool, England UK
Seel Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 4BH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RM9ATC - This documentary stock photograph shows Lee Brothers, Borough Market, Potato Merchants sign (established 1875), Southwark, London, South East England, UK,. The Southwark and Borough Market context gives the image strong value for editorial use on London's food trades, market history, wholesale merchants, Victorian and Edwardian commercial architecture, preserved signage and the changing economy around Borough High Street. The subject records readable signage, making it useful not just as a location view but as evidence of old trading names and the way past food and drink businesses remain visible on building fabric. Borough Market is one of London's best-known food destinations, yet the surrounding streets still carry traces of hop factors, potato merchants, warehouse offices and businesses connected with beer, produce, transport and wholesale supply. That makes the image relevant to stories about urban heritage, adaptive reuse, retail gentrification, food culture, market tourism, pub history, brewing supply chains, London property and the transformation of working commercial districts into visitor attractions. Buyers could use it for features on Southwark local history, Borough Market tourism, historic shopfront lettering, architectural conservation, artisan food, market regulation, high street change and the survival of old trade names in a modern city. Search-friendly composite terms include Borough Market heritage signage, Southwark food trade history, London wholesale market architecture, historic merchant building, hop factors office, potato merchant sign and urban regeneration around Borough High Street. The photograph works because it carries specific place identity and commercial memory in one frame, useful for articles, guidebooks, blogs, council heritage material, business commentary and museum-style interpretation.
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Keywords: glasgow,merchant,city,bar,barmen,babbitty,bowsters,babbittybowsters,real,ale,pub,man,barman,eye,patch,eyepatch,pint,serving,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,favourite,pubs,public,houses,HOT PIX
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3813065342 - 'Every time I am up in Glagow I make a point of getting over to Babbities. Lovely food, cullen Skink, Stovies and all that, real ales, genuine atmosphere.
I go for the guest real ale rather than the Belhaven 70/- bitter though!
And talking of atmosphere, check out a pub from one of Glasgows spiritual sister cities www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3804831303/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3520381638 - 'Glasgow's, John Street at night. Just after a shower while I was on my way to Babbity Bowsters , light reflecting off the wet pavement. A lovely bit of the city. For more on this vibrant part of toun visit www.glasgowmerchantcity.net/
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The Merchant City is a district of the city of Glasgow. The area was first formed during the 18th century to house the wealthy merchant 'tobacco lords' who prospered shipping, amongst other things, tobacco, sugar and tea to the Clyde and fabricated goods to the Americas at this time many classical villas were built in the area. The name 'Merchant City' was coined during 1980's 'Glasgows Smiles Better' regeneration. Historically the area was called 'the tron' or 'cross' or simply by most Glaswegians 'the toun' or 'the town'. An annual Merchant City Festival takes place around the last week of September attracting tens of thousands to the area with a multi-arts programme.
If you visit the Merchant city don't miss the best pint and Cullen Skink in toun www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3813065342/
Checkout more w=33062170@N08\'>Scotland from my photostream.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HD9C - Leith is a suburb of Edinburgh where it meets the sea. It lies on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, Lothian, Scotland UK. Leith had electric street lighting from 1890, and electric trams from 1905 (only Blackpool was earlier in the UK). the trams are returning at great cost and more changes have improved teh Leith waterfront in recent years.
The Malmaison Hotel, beside the entrance to Leith Docks, at the Shore, Leith, shown here was formerly a sailors' home. The Sailors' Home used to provide accommodation for sailors whose ships were in port. The Home contained comfortable rooms for each rank, a canteen, a low cost clothing shop, recreational rooms and a chapel.
It was an innovation in social care at a time when many workers lived in overcrowded slums. The angel in the stonework above the door was an emblem for the seamen's mission. Much investment has been made to improve the area from The City of Edinburgh District Council, Forth Ports Authority and the Water of Leith Conservation Trust.
The statue to the left is of Sandy Irvine Robertson OBE, wine merchant, charity promoter, founder of Scottish Business Achievement Awards, once wrote of as one of those people who made life worth living. A bear of a man, standing six and a half feet tall, he had a heart the size of Scotland. He was mischievous, often outrageous, but never unkind, and those of us privileged to have known his friendship will be eternally grateful for it. Praise indeed.
Leith is known for its port and red wine imports and I assume he was linked to 'Irvine Robertson Wines' who are located just up the road. After his premature death (Born: 11 August, 1942, in Stirling Died: 20 June, 1999, aged 56), his friends commissioned a bronze statue on the waterfront at Leith. It was sculpted by Lucy Poett. She studied under Cubilt Bevis at The Heatherley School of Art in London and with the late Scott Sutherland RSA in Dundee.
Leith Shore, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK EH6 6QW
