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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Liverpool,Merseyside,England,UK,L1,art,trumpet,music,musician,legacy,jazz,player,artist,artistic,1960,1960s,monochrome,mono,BW,Black & White,Black and White,history,heritage,old,olden,days,years,ago,urban,environment,street,road,lane,lanes,built,architecture
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M475F4 - . This dated editorial view of London Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK in 2019 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. At the centre of the view is Trumpet Player art, London Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. Other connected aspects include street-side transport, local bus network, social history, archival record, historical comparison, regional identity, before-and-after reference, period detail, contemporary social history, roadside transit, local mobility, public-transport wayfinding, local history, and bus infrastructure. Current relevance extends to decarbonisation and local connectivity, particularly through the role of bus stops as the physical interface between passengers and the network. The archival value lies partly in recording landscape treatment and surrounding development around London Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK before changing commercial priorities alters the character of the place. The wider setting retains connections with public realm, transport accessibility, local character, place identity, public transport stop, everyday life, surface public transport, and passenger transport. The recorded references to Liverpool, Player, Trumpet, and Merseyside preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For London Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. A further contemporary connection is decarbonisation and the role of bus stops as the physical interface between passengers and the network in a form that can be compared with future views of London Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. The frame retains period character for later comparison. The scene captures a trace of local identity within the wider story of London Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
London Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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Keywords: City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Victorian,office,offices,warehouse,Watts Bros Manchester,Monochrome,Black and White,mono,Watts Brothers,English Heritage Legacy ID,388270,English Heritage Legacy ID 388270,SJ8498SE,LEVER STREET,698-1/29/206 (South East side),Listing NGR SJ8457498405,Hardware,and,furniture,brothers,M1 1DW,M1,centre,Ancoats,history,historic,Lever Street,Lever St,buildings
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF632 - Hardware and furniture warehouse, now offices. Dated 1898 at
3rd floor
altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with red
sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan at
right-angles to street, with loading bay at rear. Free
Elizabethan style. Basement, 4 storeys and attic, 4 bays, with
plinth, cornice over ground floor, slightly-projected outer
bays with tall shaped gables, and chamfered shafts piercing a
prominent cornice. The ground floor has a large round-headed
doorway to the left, with convex jambs, moulded head and
keystone cartouche lettered 24, and a prominent cornice on
elongated consoles
a mullioned 2-light window to the right
over a basement doorway and 2 altered windows further right.
On the upper floors the 2 centre bays have 3-storey
elliptical-headed arches with 3-light wndows to all floors,
the outer bays have vertical-rectangular windows, with
panelled aprons at 2nd floor and large carved aprons at 3rd
floor lettered respectively 18 and 98. The attic has
3-light mullioned windows in the centre bays and vertical
windows in the gables with ornamental architraves including
oculi in steeply-swept gables finished with small segmental
pediments. The right-hand return wall has 2 bays in matching
style, continued with an 8-window range of white glazed brick,
carried down to 2 storeys at the rear, which has a parallel
loading bay.
Bunsen St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1DW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H8FK35 - . The Mersey Hotel, Widnes West Bank, Cheshire, England, UK. Photographed on 17 September 2016. West Bank Dock was situated on the River Mersey at Widnes. It was built in 1864 to cater for the growing chemical industry. It took over some of the traffic of the Widnes Dock. The dock closed in the 1970. The historical context is that cash, banknotes and banking equipment document the everyday financial system before contactless cards and mobile payments became dominant
Bank buildings, notes, coins, cheques and cash machines also trace the history of regional banking, savings institutions and the changing design of money. Historically, british agriculture has repeatedly adapted to mechanisation, evolving markets and environmental policy
Tractors, fields, cereal crops and allotment vegetables each represent different scales of food production, while also documenting seasonal work and rural landscapes. In historical terms, pub buildings and signs provide a valuable record of the licensed trade, from traditional alehouses and brewery estates to contemporary hospitality businesses
They are also part of the story of changing high streets, nightlife, real ale, cask beer and the survival or reuse of historic premises. The subject remains topical in 2026 because cash is used less often than in previous decades but remains important, particularly for vulnerable consumers and some small businesses
FCA access-to-cash rules require designated banks and building societies to assess local provision and address significant gaps, making images of ATMs, notes and former branches relevant to financial inclusion. In 2026, current agricultural debate combines food production with environmental land management, biodiversity and climate adaptation
Photographs of crops and cultivation therefore have both traditional rural and contemporary sustainability relevance. Relevant long-tail terms include currency, sterling, personal finance, cashpoint, and payment methods.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H8FK59 - . The Mersey Hotel, Widnes West Bank, Cheshire, England, UK. Photographed on 17 September 2016. West Bank Dock was situated on the River Mersey at Widnes. It was built in 1864 to cater for the growing chemical industry. It took over some of the traffic of the Widnes Dock. The dock closed in the 1970. From a heritage perspective, financial objects and premises connect economic history with daily life
Banknotes, coins, savings products, cheques, branch buildings and ATMs show how people stored and accessed money before digital banking reduced the visibility of many traditional banking services. As background, allotments and farms link household self-sufficiency with the commercial food system
Seed varieties, hand cultivation and large-scale mechanised farming provide a visual history of how people grow food and how agricultural practice changes. The wider historical story is that british pubs evolved from inns, taverns and alehouses into licensed social institutions that have long served as meeting places, drinking houses, music venues and landmarks within town and village life
Their architecture, signs, interiors and changing names often preserve layers of local commercial and social history. As of 2026, cash is used less often than in earlier decades but remains significant, particularly for vulnerable consumers and some small businesses
FCA access-to-cash rules require designated banks and building societies to assess local provision and address significant gaps, making images of ATMs, notes and former branches relevant to financial inclusion. Against the 2026 backdrop, current agricultural debate combines food production with environmental land management, biodiversity and climate adaptation
Photographs of crops and cultivation therefore have both traditional rural and contemporary sustainability relevance. Additional high-relevance terminology includes currency, sterling, personal finance, cashpoint, payment methods, and bank branch.
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Keywords: Outside,churchyard,Village,Warrington,Cheshire grave,wall,brick,building,architecture,graveyard,Norman,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,St Wilfrids,Saint Wilfrids,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles,Gropenhale
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY002A - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse.[3] The foundations of this church were discovered during the 1873“74 restoration.[4]
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel.
The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 1873“74 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
Church Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: churchyard,Village,Warrington,Cheshire grave,graves,wall,brick,building,architecture,Norman,Anglican,parish,Christian,black,white,mono,monochrome,St Wilfrids,Saint Wilfrids,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY00RP - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse.[3] The foundations of this church were discovered during the 1873“74 restoration.[4]
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel.
The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 1873“74 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
Church Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: churchyard,Village,Warrington,Cheshire grave,graves,wall,brick,building,architecture,Norman,Anglican,parish,Christian,black,white,mono,monchrome,St Wilfrids,Saint Wilfrids,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY01BP - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse.[3] The foundations of this church were discovered during the 1873“74 restoration.[4]
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel.
The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 1873“74 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
Church Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: fringe,Edinburgh,2012,2012fringe,fringe2012,city,Scotland,festival,festival2012,b/w,black,white,mono,busker,street,shot,tonysmith,hotpix,UK,girls,women,woman,together,suspenders,bra,sexy,knickers,bare,flesh,blond,travel,tourist,scots,scottish,tart,tarty,sex,erotic,cabaret,street scene,street performer,HDR,mono HDR,bandw,extreme,scotia,ecosse,tattoo,august,scenes,capital
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7912932162 - 'View a whole set of Fringe 2012 madness from Edinburgh Scotland here. If you do Twitter add me here.
August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival.
No, not a typical Saturday night on any British high st, but ladies from the Threesome Theatre looking sexy to attract punters like flies to their flyers advertising 'Berlin Cabaret'. It was on 20-25th August 2012 at The Space On The Mile V39 (venue 39, you are due a Deuchars now arent you??).
As the blurb says 'as our emcee takes you on a journey of decadence and ignorance, let the cabaret girls and boys entertain you in our own slice of 1930's Berlin. Threesome theatre spotlights Berlins cabaret from the day the curtain went up in 1901 to the Nazi regime tore it down. Featuring throbbing music, enticing dancing and naughty original songs.
'Shocking, lewd satire wrapped up in a great performance....'
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
File under: street fringe fring2012 fringe2012 comedy show 2012fringe shows actors performers entertainers in Edinburgh dance free artists grainy gritty mono pictures
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Keywords: fringe2012,fringe,2012,Edinburgh,Scotland,High,St,Street,Royal,Mile,portrait,character,man,scary,image,photo,movie,hat,shallow,focus,mr,mrs,clarke,medicine,show,event,B/W,mono,square,HDR,urban,contrast,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8077282685 - 'View a whole set of Fringe 2012 madness from Edinburgh Scotland here. If you do Twitter add me here.
Ailments, snakeoil? This might be the one! August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival. There's no shortage of scaryness and satire here!.
The Mr and Mrs Clark Medicine Show aims to cure your everyday ailments and add a little colour to a bleak looking world. Mr and Mrs Clark intend to diagnose and heal unwell individuals, struggling couples and a despondent community with a creative approach to alternative medicine. They believe they have the power to cure and they aim to convince you. Described as \u2018Unpredictable. Full on. Hilarious\u2019 (South Wales Argus). Medicine Show follows the Clarks\u2019 film noir marriage therapy show, Nine, in engaging and promoting audience interaction. \u2018The Clarks make unique and astonishing performances\u2019 (Volcano Theatre Company). More on this link www.mrandmrsclark.co.uk .
The show was on at Venue 13. You can still catch them if you are quick 1st November - Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Box Office: 02920 636464
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
File under: street fringe sinister make up fring2012 fringe2012 comedy show 2012fringe shows actors performers entertainers in Edinburgh dance free artists grainy gritty mono HDR extreme blank white makeup in the street.
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Keywords: Festival puppet entertainer with a severed head,August High street,Edinburgh Old Town,Lothian,Scotland UK August High street,Edinburgh Old Town,Lothian,smiling,actor,holding,streetfun,fun,monochrome,spectacle,horror,mono,monochrome,fringefestival,EH11QS,EH1,1QS,gotonysmith black and white,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Scotland,attractions,kissing,attraction,Festival puppet entertainer,severed,head,face
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HWP0 - . Festival puppet entertainer with a severed head , August High street, Edinburgh Old Town, Lothian, Scotland UK. Photographed on 22 August 2012. The recorded location is High street, Edinburgh Old Town, Lothian, Scotland UK EH1 1QS. Historically, community circus and street entertainment sit between amateur participation and professional performance, using portable skills such as juggling and puppetry that can be staged in parks, streets or festivals with minimal infrastructure. Looking at the subject's development, older buildings and artefacts provide tangible evidence that written records cannot fully replace
Their wear, construction, signage and setting help researchers understand local history, design, industry and social life across different periods. In historical terms, urban street scenes capture the cumulative effect of planning, architecture, transport, retail and public space
Shopfronts, signs, street furniture and pedestrians can date an image precisely and show how a district changes between periods of investment, decline and regeneration. In 2026, outdoor performance continues to be important to festivals and community events, offering accessible entertainment at a time when arts organisations continue to debate funding, participation and the use of public space. For the 2026 context, heritage remains economically and culturally significant through tourism, education and place-making, while the cost of maintaining historical fabric creates continuing debate about conservation and reuse. The historical context is that festival entertainers add a temporary layer of performance to public space
Their costumes, props and interaction with passers-by often become part of the identity of recurring civic and arts events. In 2026, heritage remains economically and culturally significant through tourism, education and place-making, while the cost of maintaining historic fabric creates continuing debate about conservation and reuse.
High street, Edinburgh Old Town, Lothian, Scotland UK EH1 1QS
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Keywords: sepia,wedding,marriage,tyrone,julia,field,Codsall,Wolves,Wolverhampton,South,Staffordshire,Throwing,Confetti,Tettenhall,white,dress,traditional,mono,b/w,tony,smith,tonysmith,voluntas,hotpix,tonysmithhotpix,thathousingitguy,tonysmiththathousingitguy,city,town,happy,couple,english,country,church,churches,gate,wwedding
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7160855907 - 'Anyone who knows me well, knows that I dont generally do weddings.
They have to be special or be occasions for special people. Suffice to say I spent Saturday photographing one such wedding in Tettenhall, near Wolverhampton and Codsall. I jumped at photographing this one and was honoured to be asked along.
Tyrone, you are a diamond, you have found a brilliant lady in Julia. You will have many happy years together I am sure!
Checkout The Falls take on marriage and two kids..
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Keywords: LBD,LBN,Little,black,dress,number,Caroline,hat,mono,b/w,Tresman,Sandbach,Cheshire,Sepia,toned,TonySmith,Hotpix,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8234745589 - 'View this whole set of portraits here. If you do Twitter add me here.
This is a shot of Caroline, a great lady who I was introduced to when taking some fashion shots last November. A fantastic bundle of fun who probably once you know her better, you could trust your life to.
Here she sports a lovely LBD (Little black dress) and the type of difficult to light hat that photographers hate.
An LBD. A Little Black Number. They say no lady's wardrobe is complete without one. Wearing black might not make those extra pounds disappear, but you can trick the eye into believing they have. Caroline doesn't need slimming effects and is a healthy 8-10.
As a general rule though, dressing from head to toe in a single color will instantly make you look slimmer. This is because wearing one color gives you a straight vertical line to look at and doesn\u2019t emphasize any particular areas. When you wear more than one color, the eye is instantly attracted to where the break occurs, which is usually around the waist.
Black increases that slimming illusion because it does not reflect light. Other colors are affected by light, projecting reflections or casting shadows in areas where your body curves or the material bends and wrinkles. Black, on the other hand, doesn\u2019t have this effect, so any imperfections remain hidden under the clothes. In short, black is a very effective color for hiding bulges, lumps and bumps. White highlights all shadows, making bulges and lumps prominent and causing the exact opposite effect of wearing black.
Beware, the slimming effect of black is somewhat diminished if you wear shiny materials like Lycra, satin or sequins. The shine on the clothes will produce reflections and sometimes shadows, depending on the type of cloth. It\u2019s also important to remember that the slimming illusion of black only works from the back or front. If you stand sideways, the shape of your body becomes evident again
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Keywords: couple,two,people,sepia,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,goth,gothic,clothes,robes,man,woman,gentleman,tony,smith,tonysmith,hotpix,tonysmithhotpix,recognition,MIS,@hotpixUK,ActiveH,housingtechnology
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6488842835 - 'Bauhaus - 'Terror Couple Kill Colonel' - Play this track here.
A band that I am convinced never had the recognician they deserved.
The group consisted of Peter Murphy (vocals), Daniel Ash (guitar), Kevin Haskins (drums) and David J (bass). The band was originally Bauhaus 1919 before they dropped the numerical portion within a year of formation. With their dark and gloomy sound and image, Bauhaus are generally considered the first gothic rock group.
Bauhaus first broke up in 1983. Peter Murphy began a solo career while the other members continued as Tones on Tail and, later, Love and Rockets. Both enjoyed greater commercial success in the United States than Bauhaus had, but disappeared from the charts in their homeland. The band reunited for a 1998 tour and on a more permanent basis in 2005. The group announced plans to disband again following the release of their final album, Go Away White, in 2008.
The band started on the 4AD label and moved quickly to Beggars Banquet, who was their parent. 'Kick in the Eye' was the debut release on the label.
Bauhaus combined a number of influences including punk music, glam rock, and Krautrock\u2014even funk and dub\u2014to create a gloomy and introspective sound which appealed to many fans left disillusioned by the New Wave that arose in the wake of punk's collapse.
Their sound proved influential, inspiring or bringing attention to a whole wave of post-punk groups delving into the intense, gloomy style that would eventually come to be known as gothic rock. Its crucial elements included Peter Murphy's deep and sonorous voice, Daniel Ash's innovative guitar playing and David J's dub-influenced bass.
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\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
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Keywords: woman,girl,lady,tonysmith,warrington,tony,smith,library,book,librarybook,uk,england,b/w,mono,black,white,selective,colour,color,selectivecolor,selectivecolour,hotpix.com,hot pix,how,quit,without,feeling,shit,beat,your,addiction,Libraries and Librarians,save,our,libraries,cuts,stop,public,GB,british,britains,english,libray,libraryTribe,tribes,bookmen,bookwomen,FOGL,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5772288982 - '\u00bfWhats this Library Tribe set all about? Read about it here
With the demise of the CAB (Citizens Advice Bureau), the local library can be the place people turn for advice. This can be for legal matters, health issues or finance.
A well stocked library can help everyone access the information they need. Books may not do the job for you, thats down to the borrower of course.
It would be interesting to see if the person this lady was taking these books out for, benifitted from them 3 weeks later when they were returned/renewed.
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Keywords: tonysmith,warrington,tony,smith,library,book,librarybook,uk,england,b/w,mono,black,white,selective,colour,color,selectivecolor,selectivecolour,hotpix.com,hot pix,Libraries and Librarians,save,our,libraries,cuts,stop,public,GB,british,britains,english,libray,libraryTribe,tribes,bookmen,bookwomen,FOGL,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5756384702 - '\u00bfWhats this Library Tribe set all about? Read about it here
A cracking place for kids books and also those books of trains, ships and machines young lads always love. In my experience too, we ended up going home with the full quota of 8 books.
Books develop a childs imagination. I am convinced reading and writing is aided by having books around and having a diverse library of them on your doorstep. If you are lucky you might get a corner with Lego to fiddle with too.
Dora the Explorer is an American animated television series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh, and Eric Weiner. Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. The show can be found on the Nickelodeon cable television network.
Dora, the main character, is a young 7-year-old latin american girl who embarks on a trip in every episode in order to find something or help somebody. She asks the viewers at home to help her find new ways to reach places with the help of Map. She also teaches viewers Spanish, introducing them to short words and phrases.
Dora is available in many languages as TV series and books. In each country she pairs the native language with English. For example in Russia, the bilingualism is Russian-English. The series is called Dasha-sledopyt ('Dasha the Pathfinder'). Dasha is the children's name of Daria (Darya).
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Keywords: tonysmith,warrington,tony,smith,library,book,librarybook,uk,england,b/w,mono,black,white,selective,colour,color,selectivecolor,selectivecolour,Libraries and Librarians,save,our,libraries,cuts,stop,public,GB,british,britains,english,libray,libraryTribe,tribes,bookmen,bookwomen,FOGL,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6110262938 - '\u00bfWhats this Library Tribe set all about? Read about it here
I had a long chat with this chap. His father had played football with the opposition during the war and that is why he selected this book ( Soccer at War: The Complete Record of British Football and Footballers During the Second World War) on this day.
'Soccer at War' is the compelling account of the national game during this defining moment in history. Rollin reveals how it was that football not only continued to be played and watched, but also grew in popularity and stature. He explains how, while the country fought for freedom, the sport offered morale-boosting appeal to war workers, servicemen, and civilians alike.
It tells of the hundreds of professional footballers who joined up, those who became heroes, and those who did not come back, the enthusiasts who administered the game in their spare time, and the players who turned out for thirty bob a week. The servicemen who went AWOL to play and others who hitch-hiked just to get to a game also find their place in the story, along with the record-breaking goalscoring achievements. Looking further afield to occupied Europe, 'Soccer at War' also exposes the role of football in Hitler's regime.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5266844649 - 'Mr Brownstone - 'Guns n' Roses' - Play this track here.
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Mr Brownstone is a track from the album 'Appetite for Destruction' from 1987. Legend has it that Slash &
Izzy Stradlin wrote the song after lamenting their heroin habits. The line 'I used to do a little, but a little wouldn't do, so the little got more and more. I just keep trying to get a little better, said a little better than before' encapsulates it all.
Mr Brownstone was GnR's first UK double A-side single, but was not released anywhere else in that form. The band was from Hollywood, Los Angeles, California originating in 1985. Led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose, Jr.), the band has released six studio albums so far &
an official live album while going through numerous line-up changes. As of 2010, Rose is the only consistent member of Guns N' Roses.
The debut album, 'Appetite for Destruction', has sold in excess of 28 million copies worldwide and even if you hate rock or metal music, in my opinion you should still probably have a copy. There was a long gap between early work and the much hyped 'Chinese Democracy' album.
On March 26, 2008, 'Dr Pepper' announced a plan to give everyone in America \u2013 except the band's former guitarists Slash and Buckethead \u2013 a free can of Dr Pepper if the band released Chinese Democracy before the end of 2008. Rose added, 'As some of Buckethead's performances are on our album, I'll share my Dr Pepper with him.'
With the announcement from Guns N' Roses regarding a release date in November, Tony Jacobs, Dr Pepper's Vice President of Marketing for Dr. Pepper, announced a free soda coupon campaign for 24 hours on Sunday, November 23, 2008. Due to 'heavy volume' on the server throughout the entire day it was impossible to submit for your free coupon. I cannot say I was gutted, I would rather drink 'Venos' than Dr Pepper myself!
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Castlerigg Stone Circle (alt. Keswick Carles, Carles, Carsles or Castle-rig) near Keswick in England is one of the most visually impressive prehistoric monuments in Britain and is the most visited stone circle in Cumbria, England UK.
Every year, thousands of people make the short journey from Keswick to the plateau of Castlerigg Fell and to Chestnut Hill, on which the monument stands. This plateau forms the raised centre of a natural amphitheatre created by the surrounding fells and from within the circle it is possible to see some of the highest peaks in Cumbria: Helvellyn, Skiddaw, Grasmoor and Blencathra.
The stones are of a local metamorphic slate, set in a flattened circle, measuring 32.6 m (107 ft) at its widest and 29.5 m (97 ft) at its narrowest. The heaviest stone has been estimated to weigh around 16 tons and the tallest stone measures approximately 2.3m high. There is a 3.3m wide gap in its northern edge, which may have been an entrance.
Within the circle, abutting its eastern quadrant, is a roughly rectangular setting of a further 10 stones. The circle was probably constructed around 3200 BC (Late Neolithic/Early Bronze-Age), making it one of the earliest stone circles in Britain and possibly in Europe. It is important to archaeoastronomers who have noted that the sunrise during the Autumn equinox appears over the top of Threlkeld Knott, a hill 3.5 km to the east. Some stones in the circle have been aligned with the midwinter sunrise and various lunar positions.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5179408709 - 'Soldier Soldier - 'Spizz Energi' - Play this track here.
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Spizzenergi was a late 1970s English punk/new wave band led by Kenneth Spiers, known as Spizz. Championed by John Peel, The band changed its name several times using alternate names including Spizzoil and Athletico Spizz 80.
They were the first band to sign to Geoff Travis's Rough Trade Records and the first to top the newly created UK Indie Chart early in 1980. They were perhaps best known for their single 'Where's Captain Kirk?'
SO WHEN I AWOKE FROM THE DANGERS OF SPACE
I LOOKED AND I SAW A FAMILIAR FACE
THE TIME WARP IN SPACE MADE A CHANGE IN ME
FOR I WAS THE CAPTAIN AND THE CAPTAIN WAS ME
After a Siouxsie and the Banshees gig at Birmingham Odeon Cinema Spizz jumped on stage and sang into the microphones, on the back of which was given a recording deal. He was already performing (solo) by 1977. He soon got together with like-minded guitarist Pete Petrol (real name Pete O'Dowd). In 1978 Palmolive, drummer with The Slits, joined what was called Spizzoil for a few gigs.
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In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place
and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch
be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4975207086 - 'History - 'Cast' - Play this track here.
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Cast are an English rock band from Liverpool, formed in 1992 by John Power (vocals, guitar) and Peter Wilkinson (backing vocals, bass) after Power left The La's and Wilkinson's former band Shack had split. Following early line-ups with different guitarists and drummers, Liam 'Skin' Tyson (guitar) and Keith O'Neill (drums) joined Cast in 1993.
Emerging from the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s, Cast signed to Polydor Records and their debut album All Change (1995) became the highest selling album for the label. Further commercial success continued with the albums Mother Nature Calls (1997) and Magic Hour (1999), however the band's fourth album Beetroot (2001) was far less successful which led to the band's split soon after.
Cast are set to reunite for a UK tour in November 2010, although I haven't got a ticket yet. The last time I saw them was at a V festival in warrington on a bill with Pulp and the excellent Elastica.
The 1995 album 'All Change' is probably the one to track down if you fancy hearing some more of this stuff.
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Melrose Abbey is a Gothic-style abbey in Melrose, Scotland. It was founded in 1136 by Cistercian monks, on the request of King David I of Scotland. It was headed by the Abbot or Commendator of Melrose. Today the abbey is maintained by Historic Scotland (open all year
entrance charge). The ruins of Melrose are widely considered among the most beautiful of religious houses in the United Kingdom, being especially notable for a wealth of well-preserved figure-sculpture, and its architecture is considered to be some of the finest in Scotland.
The east end of the abbey was completed in 1146. Other buildings in the complex were added over the next 50 years. The abbey was built in the form of a St. John's cross. A considerable portion of the abbey is now in ruins, though a structure dating from 1590 is maintained as a museum open to the public.
Alexander II and other Scottish kings and nobles are buried at the abbey. The embalmed heart of Robert the Bruce is also said to rest on the abbey's grounds, while the rest of his body is buried in Dunfermline Abbey. In 1812, a stone coffin that some speculated was that of Michael Scot the philosopher and 'wizard', was found in an aisle in the abbey's south chancel.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5167325589 - 'Adolescent sex - 'Japan' - Play this track here.
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An ipod track that I ripped from a red vinyl single from my loft. Japan came out of Catford, South London. They were often associated with the 'New Romantic' movement, but the band were far more sophisticated than this narrow definition.
Band members David Sylvian (Vox), Richard Barbieri (Keyboards), Mick Karn (Bass), Sylvian's brother Steve Jansen (percussion). Later Rob Dean joined playing guitar.
The band debuted on record with the 1978 album 'Adolescent Sex' from which this track was taken. It was followed up with 'Obscure Alternatives'. Both albums sold well in Japan (where the band's name helped them to gain a devoted cult following) and Holland, where the single 'Adolescent Sex' was a Top 30 hit. They also gained some popularity in Canada. Unfortunately in their native UK those albums were largely ignored.
Though influenced by artists such as the New York Dolls, Roxy Music and David Bowie, both albums were widely dismissed by the UK music press as being distinctly outmoded at a time when punk and New Wave bands were in ascendence. The band were managed by Simon Napier-Bell who has also managed The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, London and Wham!. Check out www.simonnapierbell.com for a quick tour of his world or his book 'Black Vinyl, White Powder' a recommended rollercoaster ride through the most interesting 20 years of UK music.
1979's Quiet Life, heralded a significant change towards a more electronic sound. Their final two studio albums, Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980) and Tin Drum (1981), were released on the Virgin label, and continued to expand their audience as the band refined its new sound and, somewhat unintentionally, became associated with the early-1980s New Romantic movement. Tin Drum in particular is critically regarded as one of the most innovative albums of the 1980s, with its startlingly original fusion of occidental and oriental sounds, and peaked just outside the UK Top 10. Its unconventional single 'Ghosts' reached no 5 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Japan's biggest domestic hit.
Japan's last ever performance was on 16 December 1982 in Nagoya, Japan. The band's final Hammersmith concerts were recorded to produce Oil On Canvas, a live album and video released in June 1983. This is a good starting point if you woul dlike to get to know the band. Tell 'em I sent you!
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To avoid controversy over the title, the album was renamed 'Japan' in some countries' Any controversy in this image should be rooted in the mind of the beholder.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4772241526 - 'While editing this image of TonyD taken in Warrington I was listening to an ipod playlist of Curtis Mayfield and Isaac Hayes tracks from the blaxploitation years of the 70's.
Hayes was singer-songwriter, actor, and musician and one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records. There he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s.
In the late 1960s, Hayes became a recording artist, and recorded successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971). He was also the Stax label's premier artist. In addition to his work in pop music, Hayes was a film score composer for motion pictures. His best known work, for the 1971 soul cinema classic film Shaft, earned Hayes an Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first Academy Award received by an African-American in a non-acting category) and two Grammy Awards. He received a third Grammy for the album Black Moses.
Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul and funk musician Curtis Mayfield, released in July 1972 on Curtom Records. It was released as the soundtrack for the blaxploitation film of the same name. Widely considered a classic of 1970s soul and funk music, Super Fly was a nearly immediate hit. Its sales were bolstered by two million-selling singles, 'Freddie's Dead' and the title track. Pusherman is the third killer track on the disk. Super Fly is one of the few soundtracks to out-gross the film it accompanied.
In 1997, Rhino Records released a 25th Anniversary collection of the Super Fly album with a bonus disc of demo versions of songs, radio spots and interviews.
Isaac Hayes died of a stroke in August 2008, aged nearly 66.
He will probably be best remembered when during the late 1990s, Hayes gained new popularity as the voice of Chef animated TV series South Park. Chef was a soul-singing cafeteria worker at the South Park kids' school. A song from the series performed by Chef, 'Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You)', received international radio airplay in 1999. It reached number-one on the UK singles chart. The track also appeared on the album Chef Aid: The South Park Album in 1998.
He left the show however in a row about the South Park episode 'Trapped in the Closet'. This was a satire of Scientology which aired in Nov 2005. In a response the South Park authors stated
'He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.'
The South Park season 10 premiere (aired March 22, 2006) featured 'The Return of Chef', a thinly veiled telling of the affair from Parker and Stone's point of view. Using sound clips from past episodes, it depicts Chef as having been brainwashed and urges viewers (via Kyle talking to the town) to 'remember Chef as the jolly old guy who always broke into song' and not to blame Chef for his defection, but rather, as Kyle stated, 'be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains.'
During the spring of 2008 before his death, Hayes shot scenes for a comedy about soul musicians inspired by the history of Stax Records entitled Soul Men, in which he appears as himself in a supporting role. His voice can be heard in the film in a voice-over role as Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, and Sharon Leal's characters are traveling through Memphis.
Two months after his death, the South Park episode 'The China Probrem' was dedicated to him.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4778116608 - 'Simon Jenkins in his book 'England''s Thousand Best Churches' awards St Wulframs church in Grantham a five star rating, in part for the tower and spire. 'Here is the finest steeple in England', he writes. Constructed in the early 1300s, at 282 ft. the spire is one of the highest in the country on a parish church, dominating the views of the town. The church is built of Lincolnshire limestone, probably from around the Ancaster area.
It has to be said that Grantham is a place with a single real claim to fame. Much like Liverpool was the birthplace of the 1960's icons 'The fab Four', Grantham was birthplace of the scurge of the 1980's 'The Iron Lady'. Heady times. In the UK one of 3 million unemployed, Militant Tendancy (I often drank in the same Liverpool pub as Derek Hatton), pit towns desimated and Arthur Scargil. When he said that over 20,000 mining jobs would go they called him mad. He wasn't mad enough, the final figure was over twice that. However, dont get me on that subject....
But if you pass through this way, this church should be worth a visit. Check out its stunning spire and try to find its hippopotamus head. The church is dedicated to St Wulfram, a 7th century missionary born in about 650 AD near Fontainebleau, south of Paris. A quite popular saint of the time.
He was the son of a Frankish soldier but instead of following in his father''s footsteps, he took Holy Orders. He was Archbishop of Sens in 693. In 700 he became a missionary to the pagan Frisians in what is now northern Germany. He died in 720 and was canonised after numerous miracles had been attributed to him. There is a large collegiate church dedicated to him at Abbeville in northern France .
In pre-Reformation times this church contained a shrine of St. Wulfram. The reliquary was probably housed in the Crypt and at times in the upper chamber of the North Porch. The medieval font c1496 is surmounted by a tall and elaborate fixed cover of 1899 designed by Sir Walter Tapper. Inside the cover are three carved figures depicting Edward the Confessor, St Hugh of Lincoln and St Wulfram.
The Francis Trigge Chained Library is a great treasure of the church, established in 1598 when Reverend Francis Trigge, Rector of Welbourn, gave \u00a3100 for the purchase of books to set up the library. There are 356 separate items including a book printed in Venice in 1472, that is four years before Caxton introduced printing into England. Over 80 volumes are still attached by chain to the shelves, preventing their loan or theft. Unfortunately I missed this on my visit.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4714928394 - 'The Celtic cross is a symbol that combines a cross with a ring surrounding the intersection.
In the Celtic Christian world it was combined with the Christian cross and this design was often used for high crosses. These are free-standing crosses made of stone and often richly decorated.
With the Celtic Revival, the shape, usually decorated with interlace and other motifs from Insular art, became popular for funerary monuments and other uses, and has remained so, spreading well beyond the British Isles.
It is popular in Cornwall where an individual feeling of ancient culture lives on, as can be seen in the Barnoon cemetary here, which overlooks the St Ives surfing beach of Porthmeor.
In Celtic regions of Ireland and later in Great Britain, many free-standing upright crosses or high crosses were erected by Irish monks, beginning at least as early as the 7th century. Some of these 'Celtic' crosses bear inscriptions in runes. There are surviving free-standing crosses in Cornwall (famously St Piran's cross at Perranporth) and Wales, on the island of Iona and in the Hebrides, as well as the many in Ireland. Other stone crosses are found in the former Northumbria and Scotland, and further south in England.
Due to its simplicity as a symboil, in Germany, the Celtic cross was adopted by a prohibited neo-Nazi party (VSBD/PdA) leading to the ban of the symbol.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4584152142 - 'The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582, is an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. It was the fourth university to be established in Scotland, making it one of the ancient universities of the United Kingdom...
The university is consistently placed amongst the best in the world, ranking 20th in the 2009 THES - QS World University Rankings, as well as 17th in the current Global University Ranking. THES - QS World University Rankings has consistently ranked University of Edinburgh as the best university in Scotland, and one of the five best universities in UK.
The university played an important role leading the city of Edinburgh to its reputation as a chief intellectual centre during the Age of Enlightenment, and helped give the city the nickname of the Athens of the north.
Alumni of the university include some of the major figures of modern history. The founding of the University is attributed to Bishop Robert Reid of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, who left the funds on his death in 1558 that ultimately provided the University's endowment. The University was established by a Royal Charter granted by James VI in 1582, becoming the fourth Scottish university at a time when the neighbour neighbour to the south, England, had only two..
The Guardian University Guide 2008 ranked the University of Edinburgh as follows:..7th in the UK overall.1st in the UK for computer science.1st in the UK for physics.1st in the UK for Nursing.2nd in the UK for medicine..A very outstanding achievment and the uni resides in some outstanding architectural monuments, such as Old College as seen here..
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5231735130 - 'Ticket To Ride - 'The Beatles' - Play this track here.
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Heres a track in celebration last week of itunes finally being able to offer the Beatles back catalog for download. On November 16th 17 official Beatles albums were made available for sale on Apple's iTunes Store. Also 13 remastered albums.
Now I must admit I was born slightly too late to appreciate totally the fab four's output. Revolver and Sgt Peppers are in my collection and a number of those singles compilations. No doubt that Lennon &
McCartney were the Morrissey &
Marr of that sixties generation. Before I get barraged with comments, that was just a bit of friendly Manc/Scouse banter!
'Ticket to Ride' is a song by The Beatles from their 1965 album, Help!. It was recorded 15th February 1965 and released two months later. The song lyrics describe a girl 'riding out of the life of the narrator', the inspiration of the title phrase is unclear.
McCartney said it was 'a British Railways ticket to the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight', while Lennon said it described cards indicating a clean bill of health carried by Hamburg prostitutes in the 1960s. The Beatles played in Hamburg early in their musical career, and 'ride/riding' was slang for having sex.
The track has been covered by Sly and Robbie, The Bee Gees and Vanilla Fudge. Red Drawf fans will remember the episode 'Tikka to Ride', in accordance with the theme of curry on which the storyline focuses.
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Early bus operators had two problems to solve. One was that of fare dodgers and the other was the possibility of conductors who might fiddle the takings. Early machines were devised that punched tickets at appropriate stages (&
sounded a bell) then retained the coloured clipping. Hence the name 'Bell Punch' and the reference to lady bus conductors as 'Clippies' (see 'On The Buses').
The Bell Punch Company produced an automated version of their pre-printed ticket system, which they called 'Ultimate'. These used continuous ticket rolls with the values printed on them. Each ticket carried a serial number and a pre-printed value. The machines had several tracks each of which had a lever at the front that ejected a ticket, which was then roughly torn off against a serrated cutter.
The fare stage could be printed in one of three positions on the bottom of the ticket. Each new ticket roll had a piece of adhesive tape (which the conductor had to lick) to join it to the end of the old one, which was supposed to prevent the conductor having to change rolls mid-journey. The system coped better with changing fare structures, but after a while, the machines became unreliable and would jam up. It was not uncommon to see conductors tearing off tickets from the back of the machines at busy times.
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Keywords: sepia,black,white,b/w,mono,monocheromr,man,boy,male,tat,tat2,tattoo,ink,skin,designs,art,pierced,piercing,wales,north,west,convention,exhibition,stand,uk,britain,showcase,interesting,sitting,sit,boots,Tatuada,tatoo,tatto,tats,bodyart,body,dark,disturbia,people,person,persons,persona,interesante,tatouage,color,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,hotpix!,amazing selection of Groups!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4475562999 - 'Some excellent arm and leg tattoos (artist unknown) from the Marchweil Tattoo Convention in Wales, near Wrexham.
Selective Colour of Black and White Image.
Have a look at some of my other tattoo images on Flickr - w=33062170@N08\'>www.flickr.com/search/?q=Tattoo&
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Keywords: rick,dave,face,science,fiction,cool,people,image,tattoo,tat2,musician,muso,b/w,black,white,mono,sepia,hat,headset,eyes,hotpix,hotpixuk,tonysmith,tony,smith,male,men,boys,lads,couple,two,pair,movie,film,set,Tatuada,tatoo,tatto,tats,ink,bodyart,body,art,dark,disturbia,Hotpicks,hotpics,interesting,person,persons,persona,interesante,tatouage,retro,tony smith photography,tdktony,tdk,tdktonysmith
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4446315490 - 'You Give Me Friction
But I Dig Friction
You Know I'm Crazy About Friction
Warrington artists and musicians Rick Hagan and Crazy Dave. They would not look out of place in a science fiction space opera.
They could be on a distant planet, or maybe just popped out of Sigourney Weaver's air conditioning duct (or maybe the Spar on Thelwall New Road). I remember reading a few Edward E (Doc) Smith books in my wasted youth, from his Skylark and Lensman series. Rick or Dave could drop out of any of these, straight off the page.
In the Mos Eisley Cantina watering hole maybe you might find them in a booth, Rick with a mug of white tea (as he doesn't normally drink) and Dave with a two bottles (double round) of Colt 45s with Lando.
More classic sepia and black and white www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3828011848/
Have a look at some of my other cool people images on Flickr -
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Keywords: pirates,life,for,me,tattoo,manchester,female,girl,lady,tat2,convention,expo,2010,march,6th,gmex,england,uk,breast,chest,tats,festival,tonysmith,tony,smith,Tatuada,tatoo,tatto,ink,bodyart,body,art,attractive,big,hot,erotic,erotica,fetish,sexy,nice,b/w,mono,monochromr,black,white,selective,colour,color,colores,dark,disturbia,interesting,people,person,persons,persona,interesante,tatouage,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,HOT PIX,tony smith photography,tdktony,tdk,tdktonysmith
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4490135858 - 'A brilliant arm and shoulder tattoo, artist unknown. Seen at the Manchester Tattoo expo / convention at GMEX.
The design of a lady pirate has her smoking a pipe and sitting on some barrels of rum. She has a pirates hat on.
Have a look at some of my other tattoo images on Flickr - w=33062170@N08\'>www.flickr.com/search/?q=Tattoo&
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Keywords: rob,roy,macgregor,macgreger,mcgregor,brave,heart,braveheart,scotland,grave,balquidder,balquider,kirk,church,yard,kirkyard,heritage,b/w,black,white,selective,color,coloured,mono,monochrome,dramatic,tourist,where,visit,hdr,dark,disturbia,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,graves,tomb,tombs,cemetario,cemetary,cemetery,interesting,place,places,building,buildings,built,architecture,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,art,arty,sex,sexy,wide,angle,wideangle,lens,sigma,12-24mm,10-20mm,edinbrugh,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4393241074 - 'The grave of Rob Roy MacGregor, who died 28th December 1734 aged 70 is within the grounds of Balquhidder church looking over Loch Voil.
The stone over Rob Roy's grave reads 'MacGregor Despite Them' The MacGregor clan was the only clan in history to be 'proscribed' - that is, it became illegal to be a MacGregor, on three separate occasions. To survive, clan members took on other names, many of which their descendants still use today.
The Graves of Rob Roy and Helen/Mary MacGregor and their sons Coll and Robert are also interred there.
In the kirkyard of Balquhidder's Parish Church, the ruins of the Old Church it replaced can be clearly seen up the hill behind Rob Roy's grave. Its situated on the lower slopes of the north side of Balquhidder Glen. It reflects the continuation of a tradition of worship in the glen that goes back 4000 years or more. The Celts believed this to be a 'thin place' where the spiritual world and the earthly world came close together. To the south is a spur of Ben Ledi ('the hill of God') and traces of a Neolithic temple dating back to 1800 BC have been found in the glen.
A graveyard stone describes how the MacLarens were attacked by the MacGregors of Glen Dochart. 18 MacLaren families resident in Balquhidder were murdered in the Glen before settling on their land. At the time the MacGregors largely evaded responsibility for what would today be called an act of genocide. But it was one of the factors later held against them (the more immediate being their slaying of several hundred members of Clan Colquhoun at the Battle of Glen Fruin on 7 February 1603) when the entire Clan MacGregor was outlawed by James VI in April 1603. These were very bloody times. It became a capital offence even to carry the name MacGregor.
Standing Stones further west in Lewis www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3828011848/
(2010 week 7)
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Keywords: ronson,zippo,disposable,lighter,gas,black,white,mono,monochrome,b/w,micro,extreme,macro,extrememacro,tubes,extention,extension,bellows,close,up,closeup,small,sepia,toned,stillife,stilllife,still,life,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4365286573 - 'Its like a large rock crusher, although its purpose is only to generate sparks and light your tabs.
Olympus OM 20mm Macro lens
Another firey image here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4083459935/
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Keywords: Bell,Telephone,Manufacturing,Company,co,phone,black,white,old,1920,1930,dial,rotary,Antwerp,belgian,Belgium,Alcatel,Lucent,selective,colour,color,toned,sepia,mono,monochrome,stuff,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4390394677 - 'An old black telephone from franco-belgium approx 1930's in an old contracts office.
The Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company, was a former company in Antwerp (Belgium), now part of Alcatel-Lucent. This one is still in working order remarkably, although obviously misses the modern function ssuch as redial and pager etc.
RTT was the Belgian state telephone provider, who had a monopoly.
Another mono sepia shot here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3813002518/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC 07092182899',
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Keywords: b/w,black,white,pocket,watch,gold,old,roman,numerals,timetable,time,africa,accra,ghana,sepia,toned,mono,monchrome,second,hand,hour,antique,this photo rocks,clocks,horloge,reloj,orologio,Taktgeber,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,stillife,stilllife,still,life,stuff,history,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4325867361 - '13:25 Wheres the hell that bus to Accra?
Here, a view of a broken time machine www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3809668752/
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Keywords: winsford,market,hall,egg,stall,john,man,walrus,beatles,civic,cheshire,merseyside,estate,council,housing,rsl,uk,britain,gb,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,sepia,liverpool,mersey,over,spill,1960,1960s,paul,ringo,george,fab,four,4,lennon,mccartney,this photo rocks,van,men,hat,hotpix!,tony smith photography,tdktony,tdk,tony,tdktonysmith
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4320700068 - 'John is the egg man on Winsford town market. Mondays, Thursdays &
Saturday. Believe me, his eggs are the best!
A friemd called Jane, now resident on the Wirral who I know through photography, although shamefully I have not seen for ages, used to live in \\Winsford (overspill estate for scousers as it was) and she swore she saw the Beatles at the civic hall in her youth. I wish she did as I will never now have the chance.
Did she hear these lyrics sung by the fab four?........
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
Mister City Policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I'm crying.
Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo.
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Keywords: Betsy,Tattoo,tat2,tatoo,tato,arm,coloured,sepia,black,white,BW,mono,monchrome,ink,skin,selective,color,colour,drinker,drinking,man,tribal,tribel,inkintheskin,s1500,fuji,fujifilm,tatuaje,\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0430,T\u00e4towierung,tatouage,tatoegering,\u7d0b\u8eab\u82b1\u523a,partial,mixed,this photo rocks,Tatuada,tatto,tats,bodyart,body,art,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4271674913 - 'A traditional tattoo (on quite a hairy arm).
Was it a lover, daughter, mother, who was Betsy?
Seen on a drinker in the Anvil Inn, Pimperne, Blandford Forum, Dorset.
More tattoos from the dark and light sides here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3805002961/
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Keywords: Lymm,Weekend,Dickins,Dickens,Dickensian,saturday,2009,Sunday,12/12/2009,2009-12-12,12th,December,Cheshire,Village,England,Sepia,UK,GB,Britain,bowler,hat,symbol,chain,ceremonial,names,council,members,Warrington,BW,black,white,Black and White,Monochrome,Festival,parade,character,mono,tonysmith,tony,smith,old,stuff,HOT PIX,retro,flickr,hive,mind,FHM,hotpicks,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4180005920 - 'Interesting old chap in victorian costume spotted in Lymm, Cheshire UK at the Dickensian weekend event. He wears a bowler hat and the old Lymm high council ceremonial chain. It is engraved with names from council leaders. the central section has the garbs symbols of the crest of Cheshire.
A shot of the Lymm Cross at night with its Christmas Tree here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4164402348/
Another Lymm sepia portrait here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3812187873/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: BW,Black,white,monochrome,fog,mist,northwich,cheshire,england,water,barge,barges,sepia,toned,Lostock,Gralam,Trent,Mersey,canal,bridge,orchard,boatyard,boatbuilders,british,waterways,tree,foggy,mono,HDR,high dynamic range,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4182533330 - 'A shot taken from the old canal bridge crossing the trent and mersey canal to Orchard boatyard south of Lostock.
It was cold and misty all day and gave a really delicate feel.
Another toned image here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3813002518/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Poole,Dorset,England,UK,night,shot,dusk,BW,Customs,House,Old,nightshot,nightshots,GB,Great,Britain,waterfront,bar,cafe,anchor,Paradise,Street,St,hotpix,hotpixuk,tdk,tony,tdktony,black,white,sepia,toned,mono,monochrome,tripod,tripod shot,long,exposure,long exposure,365days,HDR,high dynamic range,tonysmith,smith,noche,nuit,#tonysmithhotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4050685287 - 'A grade II listed building the Poole Customs House was built in 1814 and is now a rather nice restaurant and bar.
The old customs house on the quay was featured in the 1986 BBC drama, 'The Collectors' with Poole set as the fictional Dorset town of Wrelling. thankfully, there are no plans as yet to release the series on DVD.
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: high,rise,highrise,housing,flats,blocks,concrete,bad,architectur high,architectural,design,UK,estates,england,old,crime,tony,smith,tonysmith,hotpix,hot,pix,picks,pics,hotpics,b/w,mono,black,white,toned,colour,selective,cool,tonesmith,tone,#tonysmithhotpix,#tonysmithotpix,towerblock,tower,block
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4980395604 - 'Tenement Funster - 'Queen' - Play this track here.
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
A cracking track that took me back to my schooldays, turned up in todays shuffle on my iPod.
'Tenement Funster' is Roger Taylor's song on the Sheer Heart Attack album. He sang the lead vocals. Backing track consisted of Taylor's drums, Mercury's piano, Deacon's bass and May's Red Special guitar. It's a typical Taylor track about youth and rebellion. It also includes echo effects with May's guitar, like in 'Brighton Rock'. The last couple of guitar notes overlap into 'Flick Of The Wrist'. The original working title for the song was 'Tin Dreams'.
Sheer Heart Attack is the third album by British rock group Queen, released November 1974. It was produced by Queen and Roy Thomas Baker for EMI in the United Kingdom, and Elektra in the US.
The album launched the band to mainstream popularity both in the UK and internationally and at a time when I was at secondary school. My school bag had a big 'Queen' and 'Led Zep' logo scrawled on it. Due to a lack of cash (or bigger brothers) in my house, my school friends and older brothers often supplied the vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, on loan.
The first single, 'Killer Queen' reached #2 in the British charts and provided Queen with their first US Top 20 hit. Sheer Heart Attack was also the first Queen album to hit the US Top 20, peaking at #12 in 1975. Digressing from the progressive themes featured on their first two albums, Sheer Heart Attack featured more conventional rock tracks and marked a step towards the classic Queen sound.
In recent years, it has been listed by multiple publications as one of the band's best works and I would recommend it as a starting point to listen to some of the legacy of early queen.
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Many tower blocks were built in the UK after the Second World War. The first residential tower block, 'The Lawn' was constructed in Harlow, Essex in 1951
it is now a Grade II listed building. In many cases Tower Blocks were seen as a 'quick-fix' to cure problems caused by crumbling and unsanitary 19th century dwellings or to replace buildings destroyed by German aerial bombing. Initially, they were welcomed, and their excellent views made them popular living places.
Later, as the buildings themselves deteriorated, they grew a reputation for being undesirable low cost housing, and many tower blocks saw rising crime levels, increasing their unpopularity. One response to this was the great increase in the number of housing estates built, which in turn brings its own problems. In the UK, tower blocks particularly lost popularity after the partial collapse of Ronan Point in 1968.
Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, is believed to contain the highest concentration of tower blocks in the UK - examples include the Hutchensontown C blocks in the Gorbals, the 20-storey blocks in Sighthill, and the 31-storey Red Road flats in the city's north east. However, on the whole, London has the largest number of high-rise residential buildings in the UK
Greater Manchester had more than its fair share of tower blocks, one of the worst examples being in Hulme. In Hulme, a new and (at the time) innovative design for deck access and tower living was attempted. This consisted of curved rows of low-rise flats with deck access far above the streets was created, known as the 'Crescents' (which were, with unintentional irony, architecturally based on terraced housing in Bath).
In this arrangement, motor vehicles remained on ground level with pedestrians on concrete walkways overhead, above the smoke and fumes of the street. People living in these new flats were rehoused from decaying Victorian slums which lacked electricity, running water, bathrooms or indoor toilets, and were mostly overcrowded.
The names of the 'Crescents' harked back to the Georgian era, being named after architects of that time: Robert Adam Crescent, Charles Barry Crescent, William Kent Crescent and John Nash Crescent, together with Hawksmoor Close (a small straight block of similar design attached to Charles Barry Crescent). At the time, the 'Crescents' won several design awards, and introduced technologies such as underfloor heating to the masses.
They were also popular because they were some of the first council homes in Manchester to have central heating. The development even had some notable first occupants, such as Nico and Alain Delon.
This is an old shot of mine, but thankfully a lot of this system built housing has now been replaced or renovated in Manchester. The local city council and its housing associations like City South HA that covers Hulme are on track for a high proportion of dwellings to meet Decent Homes standard by this years target.
This was a three shot panorama shot in infra-red.
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Keywords: walk,this,way,white,black,road,pavement,symbol,sign,cross,here,tarmac,365days,BW,Monochrome,mono,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4009240346 - 'One of those helpful pavement paintings.
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Keywords: Full,Moon,Cheshire,warrington,UK,England,clouds,dusk,365days,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,tonysmith,tony,smith,noche,nuit,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4002155861 - 'An excuse to use my new 200-500mm Tamron lens, a spectacular full moon in a clear-ish sky.
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Keywords: Coffee,Cup,Italian,Buscuit,hotpixuk,hotpix,tonysmith,tony,smith,drink,drinks,costa,starbucks,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,stillife,stilllife,still,life,retro
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3874780255 - '(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Danny,Trish,Manchester,Town,hall,albert,square,hotpixuk,hotpix,tonysmith,tony,smith,face,head,faces,toned,mono,monochrome,b/w,black,white,blue,wedding,marriage,flowers,ceremony,dress,suit,window,shadow,victorian,building,tdktony,nature,natural,history,world,life,You are not complete until you'r married, then you are finished!,tony smith photography,tdk,tdktonysmith,wwedding
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3875567348 - 'A wedding image in blue toned black and white monochrome within the great neogothic town hall in Manchester, which is a designated site for marriage ceremonies.
Designed by architect Alfred Waterhouse in 1877 as a town hall for a prosperous emerging city, the building features imposing murals by the artist Ford Madox Brown depicting important events in the history of the city. The Town Hall was rated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building in 1952 and the Town Hall Extension, completed in 1938, was Grade II* listed in 1974.
The choice of Albert Square as location was influenced by a desire to provide a central, accessible, but relatively quiet site in a respectable district, close to Manchester's banks and municipal offices, next to a large open area, suitable for the display of a fine building.
The foundation stone of the new Town Hall was laid on 26th October 1868 by the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Robert Neill. The Town Hall was opened by Lord Mayor Abel Heywood, on 13 September 1877, after Queen Victoria's snubbed the city and refusal to attend the opening.
As you enter on the floor is a mosaic depicting the bee, the symbol of Manchester's being a hive of industry during the 19th century. The bee also used be on the Boddingtons beer logo. A history going back to 1778 was ended when last family chairman Ewart Boddington sold the Strangeways brewery and the Boddingtons brand to Whitbread for \u00a350.7 million. In May 2000, the Whitbread Beer Company was acquired by brewing conglomerate Interbrew. In 2004 brewing was moved from the original site next to Manchester's main victorian prison. Cask Boddingtons is still brewed in Manchester however, at teh former Kestral Lager brewary at Moss Side.
Reasuringly the town hall tower is still topped by a golden cotton seed ball, the original source of the city's wealth. That will not go the way of Strangeways brewery.
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Keywords: Tony,Saxaphone,hot,BW,monochrome,toned,black,rasta,man,male,playing,jacket,chair,sexy,white,mono,sex,cool,person,people,portrait,image,negro,negra,soul,soulman,tonysmith,smith,HOT PIX,hotpicks,hotpix.com,coolsex,altfashion,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3805821298 - 'More musician action here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3828200538/
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Keywords: Hair design students Padgate College,Warrington,Cheshire,UK,England,hair,design,padgate,college,peacock,extensions,BW,monochrome,sudents,students,university,NVQ,course,baeuty,beautician,black,white,mono,this photo rocks,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3809053351 - 'Hair design students from Padgate College / Collegiate, Warrington, Cheshire, UK, England.
A new \u00a327 million campus on Winwick Road is now complete with real life, up to date industrial specification, workshops and classrooms to provide a vibrant and stimulating environment for students (goes the blub...). It certainly is a big improvement.
Another example of hair photography here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3874778799/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC
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Keywords: Zoomtang,Lead,singer,Banned,network,gig,Northwich,Winnington,cheshire,UK,England,unsigned,Rossendale,Lancs,Lancashire,music,bands,gigs,stage,musician,performer,rock,indie,player,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,tonysmith,tony,smith,hot pix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3812466803 - 'Here in a loud sisters (Be loud , be proud) tee shirt.
Lead female vocal of zoomtang, Rossendale based north west UK indie band. Taken here at a DAN (Development of the arts in Northwich Cheshire) BANNED! Network gig at Winnington Rec. this was used in the cover of the Banned fanzine produced by Nick Hughes and Paul.
More female vocal here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3827402423/in/set-72157621...
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Bible,Philippians,Rosary,monochrome,BW,black,white,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,mono,this photo rocks,stillife,stilllife,still,life,hotpix!,hotpix.rocketmail.com,hotpixuk.rocketmail.com,contact.tony.smith.gmail.com,tony.smith.gmail.com,tonys@miscs.com,tony.smith@mis-ams.com
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3813002518 - 'The holy book, the bible open at the Philippians with spanish wooden rosary beads from Guatemala, South / Central America.
Taken in an old colonial church.
I have these beads hanging from my car rear view mirror.
Sepia toned monochrome Black and White.
Check out the approchable choice here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4163897698/
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Keywords: Radcliffe Camera,Oxford Kodak IR HIE Film tonysmith tony smith hotpix,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,west,midlands,england,uk,britain,GB,europe,english,tonysmith,tony,smith,old,stuff,interesting,place,places,rad cam,rad,cam,oxfordshire,city,univ,uni,university,learning,learned,fujifilm,hotpix!,#tonysmithhotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3813066464 - 'taken using a tripod and Hoya R72 filter
These are my 2008-2015 images, view my most recent images at @HotpixUK-2019 - www.flickr.com/people/167831053@N02/ including my second 365 one a day project
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Blackpool,Pleasure,Beach,IR,Hoya,R72,Donkey,donkeys,clouds,sky,UK,England,gb,great,britain,lancashire,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpix!,#tonysmithhotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3813283166 - 'Blackpool, Lancashire, North West England, UK.
An interesting (but pretty useless) piece of info that might benefit you one day in a pub quiz, Blackpool folk are called Sandgrown'uns.
Infra Red Film from Kodak (HIE) has been used here. This film used to have to be loaded, unloaded and developed in absolute darkness. Results could be rewarding though as this shot on a hot summers day shows. Blue sky becomes inky black, warm skin glows. Foliage comes up like snow.
To get something similar with any summer shot with blue sky and green grass, in Photoshop try the following:
Image>
Adjustments>
Channel Mixer>
Set Red=-70, Green=+200, Blue=-30
Another Infra-Red www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3813282382/
These are my 2008-2015 images, view my most recent images at HotpixUK-2019 - www.flickr.com/people/167831053@N02/ including my second 365 one a day project
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: man,playing,chess,bw,monochrome,black,white,bogo,indian,bogoindian,opening,Warrington,grappenhall,club,chess club,GYCA,bellhouse,lane,cheshire,village,UK,richard,kempton,ace,firework,fire,works,photographer,photography,Grappenhall Village,England,A50,A56,mono,this photo rocks,tonysmith,tony,smith,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,HOT PIX
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3827213793 - 'Richard Kempton playing the chess match of his life.
Suffering here from a very vicious set move opening.
Grappenhall Chess Club, GYCA ( Grappenhall Youth and Community Centre ), Bellhouse lane, Warrington, England UK.
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Drummer,Lee,Alone,Maine,Road,Manchester,manchestercity,city,music,bands,gigs,gig,stage,musician,performer,unsigned,rock,indie,player,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,oldham,failsworth,band,failsworth band,musicians,musos,rockers,banned!,north,west,moss,side,man,tonysmith,tony,smith,hot pix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3827403523 - 'A great gig at Manchester City's old ground.
More live music and musicians here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4409614624/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Geoff,Ugli,Fruit,Uglifruit,live,stage,Northwich,banned,network,vocal,vovcalist,vocals,DAN,development,arts,music,bands,gigs,gig,musician,performer,unsigned,rock,indie,player,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,kodak,tmax,400,tmax400,tonysmith,tony,smith,hot pix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3828200198 - 'Banned! rock and indie band gig at Winnington rec, Northwich, Cheshire UK.
Here lead singer Geoff captivates the audience in a sea of fogger smoke on stage. A nice atmospheric grainy monochrome (Black &
White Kodak Tmax 400 ) shot.
Depon Eye live at Winnington www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3710771999/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Andrew,Andy,Earnshaw,Drummer,Earthwood,Rick,Hagan,Rock,band,Metal,music,musician,bands,gigs,gig,stage,performer,unsigned,indie,player,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,tonysmith,tony,smith,hot pix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3828200538 - 'More rock gigs here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3809817434/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Band,Baby,Suicide,BabySuicide,music,bands,gigs,gig,stage,musician,performer,unsigned,rock,indie,player,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,live,manchester,manc,guitarist,sunglasses,portrait,sexy,lady,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,hot pix,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3828201110 - 'Manchester indie band, Baby Suicide- outdoor photo shoot with sunglasses. Shot near Deansgate railway station. Fake polaroid edge.
More Rock musicians, this time originating in New York USA - www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3710708657/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Hotpix,tony,smith,tonysmith,tonysmithhotpix,guitarist,guitars,stage,live,concert,film,grain,black,white,noise,sepia,mono,monochrome,B/W,gig,gigs,music,band,bands,musicians,musician,performing,playing,#tonysmithotpix,MIS,@hotpixUK,ActiveH,housingtechnology
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5164712933 - 'The Rocker - 'Thin Lizzy' - Play this track here.
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
A track from the late great Phil Lynott. I heard this live finishing up a set at the Manchester Apollo in 1979 I think, December time.
The band often used to finish up with this track in celebration of a guy called Ted Carroll. He had brought the band to London from Dublin in the early 70's and he ran a Saturday record stall called 'Rock On' on Golborne Road, Off Ladbroke Grove market.
Carroll was involved with early Chiswick label artists and the founders of Stiff records (motto 'If it aint Stiff, it aint worth a f**k). Thus was instrumental in producing and pressing a great many of the 70's vinyls in my loft. He never was involved in a Thin Lizzy release however, Decca and Phongram were the bands labels, with the former involved with the band releasing an album of Deep Purple covers.
Thin Lizzy's leader, Lynott was composer or co-composer of almost all their songs. He was one of the few black men to achieve commercial success in hard rock, and was certainly the first black Irishman to do so. As well as being multiracial, the band drew their members not only from both sides of the Irish border but also from both the Catholic and Protestant communities.
For a great introduction to Thin Lizzy, the live album 'Live and Dangerous' is your only option. There is some disagreement over just how much of the album is actually recorded live. Producer Tony Visconti claimed that the only parts that weren't overdubbed were the drums and the audience. However Brian Robertson has refuted this, saying that he had refused Lynott's request to re-record a guitar solo, and that the only overdubs were backing vocals and some guitar parts by Gorham. He added, 'It's just not true. The only reason we said that it was recorded all over was obviously for tax reasons... so everything that Visconti claims is boll**ks.
Listen for yourself and make your own mind up :-)
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The Fender Cyclone was discontinued in 2007.
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Keywords: Salt Van,lion salt works,Marston,Northwich,Cheshire,salt,wagon,van,village,rail,railway,track,tracks,wood,buffers,railroad,road,old,decaying,texture,textured,transport,rusting,rusted,black,white,sepia,toned,monochrome,preservation,lion,works,UK,GB,britain,England,wich,town,towns,tourist,attraction,hotpix,hotpixuk,tonysmith,tony,smith,wooden,this photo rocks,B/W,mono,HDR,high dynamic range,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3538129767 - 'Abandoned wooden salt waggon on its original rails. Now showing its age. I arrived seconds before a massive downpour of rain. The Lion Salt Works is the last remaining open pan saltworks in Cheshire, England. It closed as a works in 1986 and is now preserved as a museum. The works is situated in Marston, near Northwich surrounded by salt flashes.
The museum failed to secure funding in the restoration TV show in 2004, however In March 2008 it was announced that the Heritage Lottery Fund had made an award of \u00a34.96m towards the \u00a37m total cost of the restoration project. so we might be seeing it in its former glory soon.
This area was the start of industrial mining of salt and saline processing for the soda ash and other industries that have developed in the area. The site is recognised as an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. The pub over the road, The Salt Barge is a nice place to stop for a pint.
These are my 2008-2015 images, view my most recent images at HotpixUK-2019 - www.flickr.com/people/167831053@N02/ including my second 365 one a day project
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Magazine reunion gig Manchester academy 1,20090214 14-03-2009,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,music,musician,gig,stage,live,performer,player,event,signed,band,lighting,anbiant,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,couples,pairs,two,persons,buzzcocks,magazine,Luxuria,HD,Devoto,Howard,light,pours,out,me,manchester,academy,night,city,punk,rock,legend,legendary,playing,play,tour,reunion,shot,by,both,sides,tonysmith,tony,smith,HOT PIX,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3355914373 - 'Howard Devoto formed Magazine in the city of Manchester right after he left Buzzcocks. In early 1977 he met guitarist John McGeoch, then an art student, and they began writing songs, some of which would appear on the critically acclaimed 'Real Life' album. John McGeoch was the only original member to miss the reunion. He died in 2004 and was replaced by Noko on the tour, who had played with Devoto in the band Luxuria.
the fabulous Barry Adamson was on bass guitar. I have enjoyed his solo stuff for many years, including his 'Moss Side Story' and his soundtrack for David Lynch's 'Lost Highway'. The compilation 'The Murky World of Barry Adamson' is a good introduction to his music post mid-1980's.
Another reunion here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3481341434/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Alison,Goldfrapp,AlisonGoldfrapp,Liverpool,live,tour,2008,Mountford,Hall,university,Students,union,switch,off,flash,noflash,31102008,20081031,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,music,musician,gig,stage,performer,player,event,signed,band,lighting,anbiant,ambiant,electronic,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,tonysmith,tony,smith,merseyside,hotpix!,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3077807567 - 'Goldfrapp live at the Mountford Hall, Liverpool 31/10/2008 Halloween
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: TheFall,The,Fall,Liverpool,Nation,courtyard,TheNation,MTV,music,week,30/10/2008,2008,tour,markesmith,mark,e,smith,hotpix,tonysmith,tony,hotpixuk,Live,stage,band,punk,alternative,imperial,wax,solvent,imperialwaxsolvent,album,cover,black,white,mono,50,year,old,man,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,musician,gig,performer,player,event,signed,lighting,anbiant,B/W,monochrome,merseyside,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3077851821 - 'Mark E Smith &
The Fall, Liverpool live at The Nation Courtyard 30/10/2008. Imperial Wax Solvent tour.
I'm a 50 year old man......
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3077852217/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3078683718/
Another shot here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3078683718/in/photostream/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: TheFall,The,Fall,Liverpool,Nation,courtyard,TheNation,MTV,music,week,30/10/2008,2008,tour,markesmith,mark,e,smith,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,musician,gig,stage,live,performer,player,event,signed,band,lighting,anbiant,indie,Rock,postpunk,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,manchester,punk,leather,jacket,imperial,solvent,marke,elana,rowche,rumble,theme,from,sparta,FC,city,town,cool,person,people,portrait,image,merseyside,hotpicks
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3077852217 - 'Mark e Smith &
The Fall, Liverpool live at The Nation Courtyard 30/10/2008. Imperial Wax Solvent tour.
More Fall Shots:
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3077851821/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3078683718/
Audioweb live in Oldham www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4140004999/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Lymm,Cross,IR,R72,Filter,infrared,infra,red,tonysmith,tony,smith,tdktony,hotpix,hotpixuk,village,cheshire,lymmvillage,england,UK,GB,A56,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,fujifilm
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3874265366 - '(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC.
The infra-red effect occurs in the Fuji S7000 camera as a result of the Hoya R72 Infra red filter fitted on the front of the lens, using the adapter. The local independent shops of the village can be seen behind the cross.
The summer trees come up as light blue under the filter.
Used as part of the Warrington District Camera Club photographic treasure hunt around Lymm Village, Warrington, Cheshire, UK.
More Lymm here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4009559626/
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Keywords: Mechelle,Ivy,Northwich,Goth,hotpixuk,hotpix,tonysmith,tony,smith,face,head,faces,velvet,blur,blurred,lace,b/w,black,white,portrait,monochrome,sepia,mono,cool,person,people,image,gothic,gothess,gothy,gothing,babes,lady,female,girl,woman,retro,hotpicks,muchacha,femenina,de,la,mujer,se\u00f1ora,\u5973\u6027\u30e1\u30b9\u306e\u5973\u6027\u306e\u5973\u306e\u5b50,\u592b\u4eba\u5973\u6027\u5987\u5973\u5973\u5b69,fille,f\u00e9minine,femme,dame,tony smith photography,tdktony,tdk,tdktonysmith
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3875567222 - 'Mechelle in velvet and lace on location in Northwich, Cheshire UK. Her hair is up and scrunched.
Black and white printed with fine paper between enlarger and multigrade paper.
More goths www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3875567112/in/photostream/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Warrington,night,Shelter,stairs,cheshire,winter,November,December,January,February,1995,tex,gary,job,centre,jobless,plus,jobcentre,jobcentreplus,homeless,home,less,homelessness,street,on the street,manchester,north,west,england,uk,GB,black,white,BW,Monochrome,TMax,400,TMAX400,TonySmith,Tony,smith,ACIH,LRPS,ActiveH,Housing,System,HMS,MIS,MIS-AMS,nightshelter,director,managing,CIH,Chartered,Institute,mono,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4138761861 - 'Do these stairs look like yours at home?
Lacking a banister, but with a ragged carpet, these are the stairs to the Warrington voluntary winter night shelter.
Hidden in an anymous building, in the path of a new road &
ear-marked for demolition, volunteers make up beds and prepare food for the homeless.
The door at the bottom is locked with heavy bolts to protect people inside &
out.
Next in this series www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4139530794/
(c) Hotpics / HotpicsUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: big,issue,big issue,newspaper,homeless,home,less,homelessness,street,on the street,manchester,north,west,england,uk,GB,black,white,BW,Monochrome,TMax,400,TMAX400,TonySmith,Tony,smith,ACIH,LRPS,ActiveH,Housing,System,HMS,MIS,MIS-AMS,nightshelter,director,managing,CIH,Chartered,Institute,mono,city,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4139427744 - 'Do you ever buy the 'Big Issue'?
Do you ever wonder about the vendor?
Ever look them in the eye? Wonder where they live? How your 90p or a pound helps?
Back in 1995 where I lived in Warrington, the local county council would not authorise its sale. Therefore nobody saw anyone selling it on the streets. Easy for everyone to assume there is no homelessness problem.
Next in the series www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4138713709/
More about 'The Big Issue'...
The Big Issue is a street newspaper published in eight countries
it is written by professional journalists and sold by homeless individuals. It was founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991. The Big Issue is one of the UK's leading social businesses and exists to offer homeless people the opportunity to earn a legitimate income, thereby helping them to reintegrate into mainstream society. It is also the world's most widely circulated street newspaper.
To become a vendor, one must be homeless or vulnerably housed or marginalised in some way. The Big Issue recognises, however, that for many people, being housed is only the first stage in getting off the streets
therefore, The Big Issue Foundation exists to support vendors in gaining control of their lives by tackling the various issues which lead to homelessness.
The Big Issue has been described as one of the most successful street newspapers worldwide, selling over 300,000 copies a week and listed as the third-favourite newspaper of young British people (age 15 to 24) in 2001.
There are 5 localised editions of the magazine sold throughout the United Kingdom and vendors buy The Big Issue for 85p[7] and sell it for \u00a31.70. The magazine is also produced and sold in Australia, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Japan, Namibia, Kenya, Malawi and Taiwan. All vendors receive training, sign a code of conduct] and can be identified by badges which include their photo and vendor number
These are my 2008-2015 images, view my most recent images at HotpixUK-2019 - www.flickr.com/people/167831053@N02/ including my second 365 one a day project
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Paul,Warrington,night,Shelter,cheshire,winter,November,December,January,February,1995,tex,gary,job,centre,jobless,plus,jobcentre,jobcentreplus,homeless,home,less,homelessness,street,on the street,manchester,north,west,england,uk,GB,black,white,BW,Monochrome,TMax,400,TMAX400,TonySmith,Tony,smith,ACIH,LRPS,ActiveH,Housing,System,HMS,MIS,MIS-AMS,nightshelter,director,managing,CIH,Chartered,Institute,mono,sex,sexy,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4139497166 - 'Paul sleeps outside when he can. It's too 'silent' inside. Too disturbingly quiet to sleep.
He has mental health problems, but doesn't always take his medication.
Paul swings from deep joy to deep depression.
Next in this series www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4139504058/
(c) Hotpics / HotpicsUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Ted,edward,Warrington,night,Shelter,stairs,cheshire,winter,November,December,January,February,1995,tex,gary,job,centre,jobless,plus,jobcentre,jobcentreplus,homeless,home,less,homelessness,street,on the street,manchester,north,west,england,uk,GB,black,white,BW,Monochrome,TMax,400,TMAX400,town,TonySmith,Tony,smith,ACIH,LRPS,ActiveH,Housing,System,HMS,MIS,MIS-AMS,nightshelter,director,managing,CIH,Chartered,Institute,mono,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4139530794 - 'Referrals for the homeless and rough sleepers are done at the Warrington YMCA in Winmarle St and the details on each evenings occupants are collected here.
They detail a variety of problems, not least dyslexia and difficulties with plain English.
Ted, donates his time willingly. He is a reformed alcoholic and sees echoes of his own past in the shelter.
Behind him is the Warrington Night Shelter Information Board, in front of him the register of Homeless and rough sleeper people booked in tonight.
View the whole night shelter project here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/sets/72157622888049236/
Next in this series www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4139545052/
(c) Hotpics / HotpicsUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
Description
Keywords: David,christian,dentist,medical,help,Warrington,night,Shelter,stairs,cheshire,winter,November,December,January,February,1995,tex,gary,job,centre,jobless,plus,jobcentre,jobcentreplus,homeless,home,less,homelessness,street,on the street,manchester,north,west,england,uk,GB,black,white,BW,Monochrome,TMax,400,TMAX400,town,TonySmith,Tony,smith,ACIH,LRPS,ActiveH,Housing,System,HMS,MIS,MIS-AMS,nightshelter,dental,filling,drill,drilling,chair,dentist chair,good,samaritan,gum,disease,CIH,Chartered,Institute,mono,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4139545052 - 'David is a rarity at the night shelter.
Outside is his 5 series BMW in electric blue. By day he is a successful dentist in Widnes. He is also a christian (with a small 'c') and see's helping out in the shelter, preparing food, looking at rotted teeth, a way to put something back.
'Medics are rarely seen around the homeless, they are rarely the 'Good Samaritan' '
Next in this series www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4138790305/
(c) Hotpics / HotpicsUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC
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Description
Keywords: Volunteer,Volunters,volunteers,tea,drinking,church,helpers,helper,Warrington,night,Shelter,stairs,cheshire,winter,November,December,January,February,1995,tex,gary,job,centre,jobless,plus,jobcentre,jobcentreplus,homeless,home,less,homelessness,street,on the street,manchester,north,west,england,uk,GB,black,white,BW,Monochrome,TMax,400,TMAX400,town,35,mm,35mm,relaxing,TonySmith,Tony,smith,ACIH,LRPS,ActiveH,Housing,System,HMS,MIS,MIS-AMS,nightshelter,director,managing,CIH,Chartered,Institute,mono,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4139564234 - 'Tea &
coffee are also laid on.
As they start to relax the chatter starts. I am asked to explain why I am taking pictures in the room. Whether I can spare a pound. Whether I might want to swap my tour T-Shirt for a plain one from someone elses back.
Several people here are on the run from court, wives and husbands and don't want their images recorded. That's ok with me, if they believe or not that I will respect their wishes.
Next in this series www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4139569372/
(c) Hotpics / HotpicsUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: St,Ives,South,Cornwall,in,mono,England,United,Kingdom,Cemetery,Cemetary,view,of,the,sea,cloud,clouds,atlantic,celtic,cross,goth,gothic,Cornish,Gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,moody,mood,drama,Celtic cross,Celtix,crosses,Barnoon Church,and,&,Graveyard,graveyards,seaside
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HTH0 - . Barnoon Church and Graveyard , St Ives South Cornwall in mono , England UK. The recorded location is Barnoon Cemetery, St Ives, Cornwall, England UK. The Gothic. In historical terms, parish churches and cathedrals are among Britain's richest sources of architectural and social history
Medieval fabric, Victorian restoration, monuments, stained glass, organs, altars and inscriptions can coexist in a single building, reflecting generations of worship and local patronage. The historical context is that historic inscriptions provide unusually direct documentary evidence
Names, dates, dedications and symbolic imagery can connect a present-day location with former residents, workers, congregations or wartime casualties, making the object relevant to both genealogy and wider social history. The historical context is that tourism images record not just destinations but changing habits of leisure: seaside holidays, city breaks, heritage visits, package travel and resort culture have all developed with transport, disposable income and mass tourism. During 2026, historic places of worship remain important not only for faith but also for conservation, tourism, music, community use and local identity
Their maintenance illustrates the continuing challenge of caring for ageing heritage buildings while keeping them accessible and relevant. The subject remains topical in 2026 because interest in local history, genealogy and the conservation of memorials remains strong, while weathering, redevelopment and vandalism can threaten smaller monuments and inscriptions
Detailed photographs help preserve lettering, names and physical condition before further weathering or alteration. During 2026, memorials continue to play an active role in public history, supporting remembrance, genealogy, education and heritage tourism
Images can also record inscriptions before erosion or redevelopment alters the physical object.
Barnoon Cemetery, St Ives, Cornwall, England UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HD4W - A traditional British electric milkfloat vehicle
Milk deliveries frequently occur in the morning and it is not uncommon for milkmen to deliver products other than milk such as eggs, cream, cheese, butter, yogurt or soft drinks. Originally, milk needed to be delivered to houses daily since the lack of good refrigeration meant it would quickly spoil. The near-ubiquity of refrigerators in homes in the developed world, as well as improved packaging, has decreased the need for frequent milk delivery over the past half-century and made the trade shrink in many localities sometimes to just 3 days a week and disappear totally in others. Additionally, milk delivery incurs a small cost on the price of dairy products that is increasingly difficult to justify and leaves delivered milk in a position where it is vulnerable to theft.
Because of the relatively small power output from its electric motor, a milk float travels fairly slowly, usually around 10 to 16 miles per hour (16 to 26 km/h) although some have been modified to do up to 80 mph (130 km/h). Operators often exit their vehicle before they have completely stopped to speed up deliveries
milk floats generally have sliding doors that can be left open when moving, or may have no doors at all. They are very quiet, suiting operations in residential areas during the early hours of the morning or during the night.
Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK
