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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A0032,Murdoch is Bad News,Murdoch,Bad,News,boycott,banner,opposing,The Sun,The,Sun,News of the World,of,World,The Times,Times,Sunday Times,Sunday,Peoples History Museum,Peoples,History,Museum,Manchester,UK,Rupert,newspaper,press,media,Wapping,union,trade,industrial
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F4BGDY - Murdoch is Bad News boycott banner opposing The Sun, News of the World, The Times and Sunday Times, displayed at People's History Museum in Manchester, UK. The long horizontal campaign banner urges the public not to buy newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch and News International, reflecting the bitter industrial conflict surrounding the move of newspaper production to Wapping in east London during the 1980s. The dispute became a major confrontation between News International and print unions, with mass picketing, dismissals and arguments over new technology, union power and changing newspaper production methods. Boycott material targeted the company's major newspaper titles as supporters sought economic pressure through consumer action. This photograph is useful for editorial coverage of the Wapping dispute, Rupert Murdoch, British newspaper history, press ownership, trade unions, industrial relations, boycotts, media power, Thatcher-era labour conflict, political campaigning and protest material preserved in museum collections.
People's History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A0037,Ruperts Reward,Ruperts,Reward,poster,trade,union,protest,Peoples History Museum,Manchester,England,UK,newspaper,newspapers,workers,press,media,ownership,jobs,sack,profit,industrial,relations,labour,campaign,campaigning,solidarity,boycott,politics,political,graphic,history,Rupert Murdock,News International,1970s,1980s,protests
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F4BGE2 - Rupert's Reward anti-newspaper ownership trade union protest poster displayed at People's History Museum in Manchester, England, UK. The black and white political graphic uses caricature, newspaper references and the slogan The Sack to attack newspaper management and job losses, with wording referring to trade unionists, newspaper workers, millions in profit and solidarity. The design reflects the highly confrontational style of campaigning associated with disputes over press ownership, new technology, union recognition and newspaper production. It provides strong editorial imagery for British media history, print unions, labour relations, redundancies, industrial conflict, political posters, press power, boycott campaigns and the role of visual propaganda in workplace disputes. Displayed within the national museum of democracy, the poster illustrates how campaign graphics recorded the tensions between employers, organised labour and changing technology in the newspaper industry.
People's History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A0094,Clarion Cafe,Clarion,Cafe,stained-glass,window,socialist,movement,Peoples History Museum,Peoples,History,Museum,Manchester,England,UK,socialism,labour,politics,newspaper,Robert,Blatchford,heritage,historic,radical,glass,display,culture,working-class,campaigning,publishing,clubs,cycling,ILP
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F4BGGY - Clarion Cafe stained-glass window linked to the socialist Clarion movement, displayed at People's History Museum in Manchester, England, UK. The glowing decorative glass carries the word Clarion and recalls the network of clubs, cafés, cycling organisations and social activities that developed around Robert Blatchford's socialist newspaper The Clarion. Manchester's Clarion Cafe opened on Market Street in the early twentieth century and became a meeting place associated with socialist culture, fellowship, discussion and recreation. Surviving decorative material connected with the movement offers a vivid visual link to a period when political newspapers could support extensive social networks as well as campaigning and publishing. This photograph is useful for editorial coverage of British socialism, labour history, radical newspapers, Manchester political heritage, stained glass, social clubs, working-class history, museum displays and the history of political movements using culture and leisure to build communities.
People's History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,IMG_1437,Newspaper,front,page,about,Brexit,Boris,Johnson,United,Kingdom,politics,political,government,media,history
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F9CW57 - . Newspaper front page about Brexit and Boris Johnson, United Kingdom. Photographed on 20 June 2026. For the story of protest, it is useful to note that political photographs gain meaning over time as candidates, parties and constitutional debates evolution
A routine campaign scene can later become evidence of a turning point, an unsuccessful candidacy or a movement that developed further. The historical setting for stamp is that printed and graphic ephemera are highly effective dating evidence
Tickets, stamps, posters, comics, manuals and vouchers combine wording, typography, colour and branding in forms that are often discarded after use. For present-day protest, 2026 is significant because digital campaigning dominates much modern politics, but physical posters, rallies and street demonstrations remain visually important
Their presence highlights the continuing role of public space in democratic expression. In the 2026 discussion of stamp, much ticketing, advertising and personal communication is digital, making older printed ephemera increasingly distinctive evidence of pre-digital consumer life. Useful alternative terminology includes political campaign, election, campaign sign, public opinion, political history, civic participation, activism, referendum, party politics, local politics, public rally, political communication, graphic design, print history, and consumer culture. Further relevant search phrases include paper artefact, retro design, visual communication, collectable, design history, IMG_1437, government, media, and history. Seen through activism, the earlier context is that election material, protest signs and campaign imagery preserve the language of politics as it was presented to voters at the time
Posters, slogans and public meetings can reveal local issues and political identities more directly than later summaries. Its wider context brings together political campaign, election and campaign sign.
United Kingdom
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,SW,trans rights protest,transgender rights,protest sign,Liverpool protest,demonstration sign,LGBT rights protest,socialist protest,street protest,campaign placard,Trans,LBGT,LGBTQ,protest,movement,activism,protest politics,grassroots activism,civil rights campaign,equality protest,gender identity rights,political demonstration,left wing politics,campaign messaging,protest photography,editorial politics image,human rights protest,activist signage,UK street protest,public demonstration,identity politics,campaign literature,newspaper,socialistworker.co.uk,city centre,Wales,Welsh
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E91EFX - Editorial close-up of a handheld Socialist Worker placard reading Trans Rights Now, photographed at a protest in Liverpool, England. The sign uses the blue, pink and white colours associated with trans visibility and liberation messaging, and is presented as a strong, direct piece of campaign communication within a public demonstration setting. This image is useful for editorial themes around transgender rights, LGBT activism, grassroots protest, civil rights campaigning, left wing politics, public dissent, equality movements and the role of placards and slogans in modern street politics. The clear wording and recognisable Socialist Worker branding give the photograph additional value for stories about socialist participation in UK protest movements, coalition activism, campaign organising and responses to political or media hostility towards trans people. Because the composition is tight and message-led, the image works particularly well for newspapers, magazines, online features and opinion pieces needing a concise visual shorthand for trans rights mobilisation rather than a broad crowd scene. It is also commercially useful for searches linked to protest signage, activism photography, political communication, campaign materials, gender identity debate, human rights, demonstration culture and contemporary British street politics. The Liverpool reference adds regional relevance for coverage of Merseyside activism and North West England protest culture, while the polished graphic design of the placard makes the image visually striking and immediately legible in thumbnail search results. The picture can illustrate discussions of solidarity, inclusion, public campaigning, social movements, freedom of expression and the continuing use of simple printed placards as one of the most effective tools of political messaging. It has a documentary, real-world character rather than a staged studio feel, which strengthens its editorial value for current affairs, social issues.
Socialist Worker ""˜Trans Rights Now' placard at a protest in Liverpool, England, UK - The Ternary, Ol
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A9036,Oban,Times,newspaper,media,Scotland,Argyll,press,journalism,local,news,sign,publishing,town,building
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FA7XAP - . Oban Times newspaper name on a town centre building in Oban. Photographed on 17 August 2025. The recorded location is Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK. Oban Times newspaper lettering on a building in the centre of Oban, Scotland. The close view records the visible presence of local journalism and regional news media within the town. The Oban Times is associated with coverage of Oban, Argyll and the west coast, so the image can illustrate local newspapers, community reporting, regional publishing, media history, high-street premises and the role of local press in rural and island-connected communities. Oban grew around a sheltered bay on Scotland's west coast and expanded in the nineteenth century with steamship traffic and the arrival of the railway in 1880. It remains a major gateway to the Inner Hebrides, with CalMac ferries, rail and road connections concentrated around the waterfront. Tourism, seafood, island travel and maritime services all contribute to the town's modern economy. In relation to notice, historical context shows that temporary and permanent notices are valuable social-past evidence because they capture the rules and assumptions of a particular moment, from parking and access to opening times, safety and public-service instructions. For the story of consumer culture, it is useful to note that printed and graphic ephemera are highly effective dating evidence
Tickets, stamps, posters, comics, manuals and vouchers combine wording, typography, colour and branding in forms that are often discarded after use. As of 2026, the position for notice is that digital maps and smartphone navigation are ubiquitous, but physical signage remains essential for safety, accessibility, legal restrictions and visitors without reliable connectivity. For present-day consumer culture, 2026 is significant because physical comics, manuals and vouchers now coexist with apps, e-books and online instructions
Their material form has growing relevance to.
Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,IMG_5413,DC,Thomson,Courier,Dundee,Scotland,entrance,publishing,newspaper,media,Albert,Square,office,heritage,press,Buildings
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E5TC0H - Entrance to DC Thomson Courier Buildings at Albert Square, Dundee, Scotland, UK. The photograph is a contemporary editorial record of the subject and its surroundings at Courier Buildings, 2 Albert Square, Dundee, DD1 9QJ, Scotland, UK. Visible signage, lettering, architecture, street furniture, transport infrastructure, public art, commercial branding or landscape details are retained where present, giving the image value both as a description of the immediate scene and as a reference for how the place looked at the time of photography. The entrance records the long-established Dundee base of publisher DC Thomson. The company is deeply embedded in the city's identity through newspaper publishing and globally recognised comic titles, making the building an important landmark in Scottish media, journalism and popular culture. The image has wider editorial relevance for local history, heritage, tourism, transport, retail, planning, regeneration, business and social change where those themes apply to the subject. It can support news and feature coverage as well as retrospective comparison if the building, business, artwork, service, route or streetscape is altered, redeveloped, rebranded, closed or otherwise changes in future. The composition also preserves small visual details that are easily lost over time, including materials, signs, logos, road or rail features, shopfront treatment, public-realm design and the relationship of the subject to neighbouring buildings or open space. This makes the photograph useful not only as a straightforward location image but also as a documentary record of everyday urban and cultural life.
Courier Buildings, 2 Albert Square, Dundee, DD1 9QJ, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,IMG_5422,DC,Thomson,Courier,Building,Dundee,Scotland,newspaper,publishing,media,Meadowside,Albert,Square,historic,architecture,press,and
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E5TC0M - Historic DC Thomson Courier Building on Meadowside and Albert Square, Dundee, Scotland, UK. The photograph is a contemporary editorial record of the subject and its surroundings at Courier Buildings, Albert Square, Dundee, DD1 9QJ, Scotland, UK. Visible signage, lettering, architecture, street furniture, transport infrastructure, public art, commercial branding or landscape details are retained where present, giving the image value both as a description of the immediate scene and as a reference for how the place looked at the time of photography. The substantial red sandstone Courier Building is closely associated with Dundee publisher DC Thomson, famous for newspapers and magazines including The Courier and for comics such as The Beano and The Dandy. The earlier Courier building at Meadowside opened in the early 20th century and remains one of the city's most recognisable media-industry landmarks. The image has wider editorial relevance for local history, heritage, tourism, transport, retail, planning, regeneration, business and social change where those themes apply to the subject. It can support news and feature coverage as well as retrospective comparison if the building, business, artwork, service, route or streetscape is altered, redeveloped, rebranded, closed or otherwise changes in future. The composition also preserves small visual details that are easily lost over time, including materials, signs, logos, road or rail features, shopfront treatment, public-realm design and the relationship of the subject to neighbouring buildings or open space. This makes the photograph useful not only as a straightforward location image but also as a documentary record of everyday urban and cultural life.
Courier Buildings, Albert Square, Dundee, DD1 9QJ, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,historic,DH9,DH9 0RG,with British union flag,the,biggest & best,tabloid,newspaper,media,print,paper,papers,iron,for,popular,People,1950,1950s,blue,red,white,British,English,Sunday People newspaper sign,The People newspaper sign,vintage newspaper sign,enamel newspaper sign,rusting enamel sign,British newspaper history,Union flag sign,newspaper advertising sign,historic press sign,weathered metal sign
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RY696F - This image shows a heavily weathered enamel advertising sign for The Sunday People newspaper, a long-running British Sunday tabloid. The sign features prominent typography, a Union flag motif, and historic promotional text referencing Saturday's News & Sport, reflecting mid-twentieth-century newspaper marketing aimed at a mass readership. Extensive rusting, peeling enamel, and surface corrosion indicate prolonged outdoor exposure and age.
Enamel signs such as this were once a common feature of streets, newsagents, railway stations, and industrial buildings across Britain, serving as durable advertising for popular newspapers and consumer brands. The Sunday People, first published in 1881, positioned itself as a widely read working-class paper, combining news, sport, and human-interest stories, and became part of the fabric of British popular culture throughout the twentieth century.
The deteriorated condition of the sign adds strong visual interest, highlighting themes of industrial decline, nostalgia, and the changing nature of print media. The Union flag imagery reinforces associations with national identity and British popular press history. This image is suitable for editorial and commercial use relating to newspaper history, British media, vintage advertising, urban decay, heritage signage, nostalgia, and cultural studies of twentieth-century Britain.
Stanley, Tyne and Wear, Tyneside, England, UK, DH9 0RG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Merseyside,England,UK,pubs,bar,bars,L1,off Hope Street,L1 9BB,at,The Sun,newspaper,The Truth,96,dead,13th,April,1989,disaster,hatred,lie,lies,the,Crack,Cracke,blue,DontBuyTheSun,British,tabloid,scouser,scousers,News Group Newspapers,Rupert Murdock,Scum,boycott,boycotts,LFC
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RJCCAG - At the end of the decade, The Sun's coverage of the Hillsborough football stadium stock-photo/gotonysmith-Disaster.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>disaster, in which 97 people died as a result of their injuries, proved to be, as the paper later admitted, the most terrible blunder in its history.
Three days after the accident, editor Kelvin MacKenzie published an editorial which accused people of scapegoating the police, saying that the disaster occurred because thousands of fans, many without tickets tried to get into the ground just before kick-off “ either by forcing their way in or by blackmailing the police into opening the gates. The next day, under a front-page headline The Truth, the paper falsely accused Liverpool fans of theft and of urinating on and attacking police officers and emergency services. Conservative Member of Parliament Irvine Patnick was quoted as claiming that a group of Liverpool supporters told a police officer that they would have sex with a dead female victim
Widespread boycotts of the newspaper throughout Merseyside followed immediately and continue to this day. Boycotts include both customers refusing to purchase it, and retailers refusing to stock it. The Financial Times reported in 2019 that Merseyside sales were estimated to drop from 55,000 per day to 12,000 per day, an 80% decrease. Chris Horrie estimated in 2014 that the tabloid's owners had lost £15 million per month since the disaster, in 1989 prices. Sales also declined to a lesser degree in neighbouring parts of Cheshire and Lancashire. It was revealed in a documentary called Alexei Sayle's Liverpool, aired in September 2008, that many Liverpudlians will not even take the newspaper for free, and those who do may simply burn or tear it up. Local people often refer to the newspaper as The Scum, with campaigners believing it limited their fight for justice
Rice St, off Hope St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 9BB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,centre,NI,Northern Ireland,Irish,Ireland,UK,BT48,19,Derry,BT48 6JJ,local,media,DN,newspaper,editorial,office,at,the,independently,owned,regional,group,offices,print,title,titles,Press Council of Ireland,news,story,picture,investigative,journalism,journalists,newsdesk,iconicnews.ie,iconicnews,local community
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGHXAR - . DN , Derry Now, Derry News newspaper editorial office at 19 Carlisle Rd, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK, BT48 6JJ. Photographed on 20 June 2023, this summer image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is 19 Carlisle Rd, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK, BT48 6JJ, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Northern Ireland, Irish, Ireland, BT48, Derry, BT48 6JJ, local, media, newspaper, editorial, office, independently, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene. The photograph can also support future before-and-after use if the building, business, service, streetscape, transport operation or public space is later altered, redeveloped, rebranded or closed. For search and editorial use, the image is relevant to the named location, local identity, contemporary Britain, regional tourism, urban life, community activity and the changing appearance of towns and cities. Additional relevant search concepts include owned, regional, group, offices, print, title, broadening discoverability while remaining tied to the supplied subject information.
19 Carlisle Rd, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK, BT48 6JJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Wales,UK,United Kingdom,recycling truck,recycle,green,Bro Morgannwg,yn ailgylchu,your,our,Welsh,card,cardboard,glass,steel,cans,aluminium,plastic,plastics,paper,newspaper,newspapers,vehicle,recycling,for,council,Vale Of Glamorgan,recycles,Britain,British,The Alps,Alps,depot,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K6D45X - . An identifiable period record of Vale Of Glamorgan Council, Barry, South Wales, UK in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The frame specifically shows Vale Of Glamorgan Council vehicle, recycling truck - glass, paper , plastic. A broader reading of the photograph includes hospitality economy, visual archive, licensed hospitality, period detail, social history, place identity, traditional pub, night-time economy, local social venue, local character, licensed trade, historic hostelry, everyday life, and before-and-after reference. Current relevance extends to consumer spending and tourism, particularly through the value of historic pubs to tourism and local identity. For later comparison, the photograph preserves commercial use and occupation at Vale Of Glamorgan Council, Barry, South Wales, UK, details that may look very different after replacement signage. Further associations within the scene are visitor hospitality, historical comparison, real-ale culture, cask-beer tradition, regional identity, contemporary social history, community identity, and local history. References to Council, glass, recycling, vehicle, and Glamorgan give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The wider setting at Vale Of Glamorgan Council, Barry, South Wales, UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The location additionally provides evidence of consumer spending and the value of historic pubs to tourism and local identity without losing the local specificity of Vale Of Glamorgan Council, Barry, South Wales, UK. A further contemporary connection is business rates and the survival of pubs as both businesses and informal community spaces in a form that can be compared with future views of Vale Of Glamorgan Council, Barry, South Wales, UK.
Vale Of Glamorgan Council, Barry, South Wales, UK
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Keywords: Wolverhampton,West Midlands,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,WV1,51-53 Queen Street,West midlands,WV1 1ES,media,print,office,newspaper,printer,local,journalists,news,express,star,clock,time,Midlands,print media,papers,local newspapers,local newspaper,daily,decline,of,reporting,reporter,investigative,reports,deadline,deadlines,Shropshire Star,Midland News Association,mna,travel poster
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K546Y9 - . This authentic period view of 51-53 Queen Street, Wolverhampton, West midlands, England, UK, WV1 1ES in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The main point of reference is Express and Star offices & clock, west Midlands paper, 51-53 Queen Street, Wolverhampton, West midlands, England, UK, WV1 1ES. The subject also carries associations with managed navigation, changing land use, archival record, canal infrastructure, visual archive, canal heritage, working waterway, community identity, navigation engineering, inland navigation, changing streetscape, everyday life, documentary photography, and heritage boating. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into climate adaptation and heritage conservation, not least because of the transition of industrial waterways toward leisure and heritage use. The archival value lies partly in recording public access and movement around 51-53 Queen Street, Wolverhampton, West midlands, England, UK, WV1 1ES before conservation work alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include historical comparison, before-and-after reference, period detail, regional identity, blue-green corridor, towpath landscape, place identity, and public realm. Details involving Express, Queen, Wolverhampton, clock, and offices make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around 51-53 Queen Street, Wolverhampton, West midlands, England, UK, WV1 1ES, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. A further contemporary connection is climate adaptation and the transition of industrial waterways toward leisure and heritage use without losing the local specificity of 51-53 Queen Street, Wolverhampton, West midlands, England, UK, WV1 1ES.
51-53 Queen Street, Wolverhampton, West midlands, England, UK, WV1 1ES
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Keywords: Wolverhampton,West Midlands,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,WV1,51-53 Queen Street,West midlands,WV1 1ES,media,print,office,newspaper,printer,local,journalists,news,express,star,local newspaper,print media,papers,local newspapers,Shropshire Star,Midland News Association,mna,history,historic,frontage,front,exterior,outside,stone,columns,offices
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K546YA - The Express & Star is a regional evening newspaper in Britain. Founded in 1889, it is based in Wolverhampton, England, and covers the West Midlands county and Staffordshire.
Currently edited by Martin Wright, the Express & Star publishes six editions a week between Monday and Saturday. In 2007 the newspaper had a daily circulation of 174,989 by June 2014 it was 73,473, then 55,373 in 2016, 38,690 in 2019 and by 2021 was 19,683.
In 2022 figures from JICREG (Joint industry Currency for Regional Media Research) show that 17,973 papers are printed each day and there are 51,403 readers. Online expressandstar.com has 1.64 million monthly unique users with 8.9 million monthly page views.
The Express & Star features a mixture of regional and national news and has a strong following for its sports coverage of association football, particularly local teams Wolverhampton Wanderers, Walsall, and West Bromwich Albion.
The Express & Star is one of the few independent newspapers still operating in the UK, having been under the continuous ownership of the Graham family almost since its inception. It is owned by the Midland News Association (MNA), which also owns the Shropshire Star newspaper.
51-53 Queen Street, Wolverhampton, West midlands, England, UK, WV1 1ES
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Keywords: Wolverhampton,West Midlands,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,WV1,51-53 Queen Street,West midlands,WV1 1ES,media,print,office,newspaper,printer,local,journalists,news,express,star,local newspaper,print media,papers,local newspapers,Shropshire Star,Midland News Association,mna,history,historic,frontage,front,exterior,outside,stone,columns,offices
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K546YB - The Express & Star is a regional evening newspaper in Britain. Founded in 1889, it is based in Wolverhampton, England, and covers the West Midlands county and Staffordshire.
Currently edited by Martin Wright, the Express & Star publishes six editions a week between Monday and Saturday. In 2007 the newspaper had a daily circulation of 174,989 by June 2014 it was 73,473, then 55,373 in 2016, 38,690 in 2019 and by 2021 was 19,683.
In 2022 figures from JICREG (Joint industry Currency for Regional Media Research) show that 17,973 papers are printed each day and there are 51,403 readers. Online expressandstar.com has 1.64 million monthly unique users with 8.9 million monthly page views.
The Express & Star features a mixture of regional and national news and has a strong following for its sports coverage of association football, particularly local teams Wolverhampton Wanderers, Walsall, and West Bromwich Albion.
The Express & Star is one of the few independent newspapers still operating in the UK, having been under the continuous ownership of the Graham family almost since its inception. It is owned by the Midland News Association (MNA), which also owns the Shropshire Star newspaper.
51-53 Queen Street, Wolverhampton, West midlands, England, UK, WV1 1ES
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,1914 headline,headlines,with,UK,1914-18,British,newspaper,daily,ship,sunk,reports,reported,paper,print,printed,page,front,report,on,a,table,kitchen,public,reading,reader,history,historic,reportage,journalism,media,pages,from,the,Daily News,Reader
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M4E - . Photographed at the recorded location in 2022, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The scene records Daily News and Leader, 1914 headline,Great Britain at war with Germany, on a kitchen table. The image also relates to public realm, mixed-use redevelopment, documentary photography, commercial redevelopment, period architecture, local character, historical comparison, changing land use, community identity, regional identity, place identity, town-centre renewal, built heritage, and everyday life. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into adaptive reuse and town-centre regeneration, not least because of the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. Future viewers can use this scene from the recorded location to compare building condition and alterations with whatever follows after new construction. The photograph additionally reflects heritage-led regeneration, local history, architectural character, archival record, public-realm investment, period detail, civic architecture, and place-making. The recorded references to table, Leader, kitchen, Germany, and Daily preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of the recorded location may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes adaptive reuse and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. Another strand within the photograph is commercial viability and the value of reusing existing buildings rather than wholesale demolition in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. The scene captures evidence of earlier appearance within the wider story of the recorded location.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,1914 headline,headlines,with,UK,1914-18,British,newspaper,daily,ship,sunk,reports,reported,paper,print,printed,page,front,report,on,a,table,kitchen,public,reading,reader,history,historic,reportage,journalism,media,pages,from,the,Daily News,Reader
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M4F - . This scene at the recorded location in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The frame specifically shows Daily News and Leader, 1914 headline,Great Britain at war with Germany, on a kitchen table. The broader subject matter reaches into before-and-after reference, urban fabric, changing streetscape, community identity, period detail, public realm, heritage-led regeneration, archival record, regional identity, public-realm investment, period architecture, historic townscape, built heritage, and architectural character. For current editorial use, heritage conservation and planning provide additional context, especially through the value of reusing existing buildings rather than wholesale demolition. The archival value lies partly in recording local activity and public use around the recorded location before refurbishment alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include social history, adaptive reuse, visual archive, place identity, local history, documentary photography, historical comparison, and changing land use. References to Daily, Leader, kitchen, table, and Germany give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The wider setting at the recorded location matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Another strand within the photograph is heritage conservation and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space when considered against later change at the recorded location. The setting also helps illustrate heritage conservation and how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. The record includes a point of historical comparison for future local research.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,1914 headline,headlines,with,UK,1914-18,British,newspaper,daily,ship,sunk,reports,reported,paper,print,printed,page,front,report,on,a,table,kitchen,public,reading,reader,history,historic,reportage,journalism,media,pages,from,the,Daily News,Reader
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M50 - . Made at the recorded location in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The location is represented through Daily News and Leader, 1914 headline,Great Britain at war with Germany, on a kitchen table. The frame also records themes of urban fabric, before-and-after reference, everyday life, community identity, contemporary social history, regional identity, visual archive, local history, mixed-use redevelopment, local character, architectural character, place identity, place-making, and historical comparison. Current relevance extends to construction costs and housing pressure, particularly through the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. The archival value lies partly in recording transport arrangements and footfall around the recorded location before later reinterpretation alters the character of the place. The photograph additionally reflects archival record, period detail, built heritage, civic architecture, heritage-led regeneration, historic townscape, public-realm investment, and documentary photography. Elements such as headline, Leader, kitchen, table, and Daily add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within the recorded location, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The location additionally provides evidence of construction costs and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. A further contemporary connection is planning and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,RBKC,England,UK,Royal Borough,of,Kensington,Chelsea,The,Sunday,paper,news,the,world,enquiry,newspaper,newspapers,newsagent,newsagents,journalism,journalist,red top,tabloid,2011,News International,Milly Dowler,Rebekah Brooks,Neil Wallis,Clive Goodman,Andy Coulson,News of the screws,junk shop,junk shops
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M0KWRJ - The News of the World was a weekly national red top tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations. It was originally established as a broadsheet by John Browne Bell, who identified crime, sensation and vice as the themes that would sell most copies. The Bells sold to Henry Lascelles Carr in 1891
in 1969 it was bought from the Carrs by Rupert Murdoch's media firm News Limited. Reorganised into News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation, the newspaper was transformed into a tabloid in 1984 and became the Sunday sister paper of The Sun
The News of the World concentrated in particular on celebrity scoops, gossip and populist news. Its somewhat prurient focus on sex scandals gained it the nickname Screws of the World. In its last decade it had a reputation for exposing celebrities' drug use, sexual peccadilloes, or criminal acts, by using insiders and journalists in disguise to provide video or photographic evidence, and covert phone hacking in ongoing police investigations
From 2006, allegations of phone hacking began to engulf the newspaper. These culminated in the revelation on 4 July 2011 that, nearly a decade earlier, a private investigator hired by the newspaper had intercepted the voicemail of missing British teenager Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered.
Amid a public backlash and the withdrawal of advertising, News International announced the closure of the newspaper on 7 July 2011. The scandal deepened when the paper was alleged to have hacked into the phones of families of British service personnel killed in action
United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,city centre,Merseyside,England,UK,Levelling up,Northern Powerhouse,L2 2BP,L2,67 Moorfields,Liverpool,windows,bar,bars,pubs,Liverpools,in,the,Lion,tavern,Inn,classic,etched,glass,newspaper,papers,room,history,heritage,inside,gold,letters,lettering,ornate
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDDRCT - . An on-location photograph from 67 Moorfields, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2BP in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The scene records Liverpool's Lion Tavern pub in Moorfields, News Room etched glass, city centre, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2BP. Further facets of the scene include visual archive, restaurant culture, heritage asset, visitor economy, local history, changing land use, leisure spending, local character, historic townscape, architectural character, independent food retail, everyday life, changing streetscape, and documentary photography. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into local identity and heritage conservation, not least because of keeping older structures useful without erasing their character. Today's relevance is strengthened by food inflation, commercial rents and the continuing question of how food and drink help define neighbourhood identity. Small period details of equipment and working practice at 67 Moorfields, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2BP may become more significant with time, particularly following replacement signage. The subject also sits alongside local dining scene, heritage landmark, historic frontage, conservation architecture, built heritage, food tourism, historical comparison, and traditional structure. The recorded references to centre, Liverpool's, glass, etched, and Tavern preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of 67 Moorfields, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2BP may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes local identity and keeping older structures useful without erasing their character without losing the local specificity of 67 Moorfields, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2BP.
67 Moorfields, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2BP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,recycle,going,green,mix,mixture,not sorted,plastic,newspaper,newspapers,paper,cartons,glass,jar,jars,bottles,botle,material,materials,etc,effort,making,an,motivated,clean,Warrington,Borough,Council,service,services,WBC,Cheshire,more,recycling,waste,plastics
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JC40XT - . An on-location photograph from Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1NN in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The main point of reference is Typical blue wheelie bin recycling mix, plastic, paper, cartons, glass bottles etc. The subject also carries associations with street-level documentary, townscape record, everyday life, visual archive, community life, changing streetscape, social landscape, city-centre activity, documentary photography, urban change, contemporary city life, period detail, local identity, and historical comparison. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into transport and regeneration, not least because of how regeneration alters the character of familiar places. For later comparison, the photograph preserves signage and branding at Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1NN, details that may look very different after altered transport patterns. The photograph additionally reflects archival record, regional identity, community identity, pedestrian environment, local character, urban social history, local history, and public realm. Elements such as recycling, plastic, paper, cartons, and glass add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1NN helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The location additionally provides evidence of transport and how regeneration alters the character of familiar places as part of the longer story of Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1NN. A further contemporary connection is transport and how regeneration alters the character of familiar places when considered against later change at Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1NN.
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1NN
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,evening paper,James Hedderwick,T L Watson,Dutch Renaissance style,building,sign,logo,lit,illuminated,Stewart Fair,pap,G1,media,newspaper,newspapers,Saint Vincent Place,Saint Vincents Pl,St Vincent Pl,pub,pubs,bar,bars,restaurant,night,evening,night life,culture,window,door,doorway,entrance,history,historic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ABJGFE - The Evening Citizen, was an evening version of the Glasgow Citizen (a daily newspaper founded in 1842) and was first published in August 1864. Founded by James Hedderwick, a University of London dropout, the publication became one of Glasgow's most successful newspapers. The newspaper moved to our address on St Vincent Place in 1889, in a specially commission building designed to accommodate the offices and printing presses.
The building itself is of architectural significance, it took four years to build and was the first red sandstone building in the city at the time. It was designed by T L Watson in Dutch Renaissance style with 6 asymmetric bays. The elaborate stone carvings were by James Hendry who was a draftsman to Watson at the time. It was also one of the first buildings in the city to be fully electric, with the newspaper quick to link to the Waterloo Street power station built in 1892. It is listed Category A in Scotland.
Hedderwick's success allowed him to move on to establish other evening newspapers throughout the UK, most notably the London Echo. The Citizen comprised of a daily edition, an evening edition and a weekly supplement. In 1881, Hedderwick was granted an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow. We opened as The Citizen in September 2017 and have become a new part of the history of Glasgow.
24 St Vincent Place Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G1 2EU
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,WHSmith,WH.Smith,newsagent,store,shop,retail,unit,FoodToGo,Meal Deal,Meal deals,railway station,station,Queensway Birmingham West Midlands,England,B4,Queensway,Birmingham,West Midlands,magazine,news,newspaper,sweets,snack,Smiths,kiosk,railway,outlet,decline,£280m loss,shut,coronavirus pandemic hits sales,hit,travel,outlets,redundancy,TGJones
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ABJGJ7 - . Recorded at Moor street,Queensway Birmingham West Midlands,England,UK, B4 7UL in 2019, the image fixes a particular place, use and appearance for later comparison as buildings, businesses, signs and public activity change. The photograph records WH Smith,newsagent shop,retail unit,Food To Go,Moor street station,Queensway, Birmingham, West Midlands,England,UK, B4 7UL. The scene additionally carries associations with regional rail, national food identity, traditional cuisine, railway branding, contemporary social history, comfort food, commuter travel, everyday life, regional food culture, festive eating, local history, historical comparison, place identity, and historic context. Today's wider story includes rail reform, reliability and the practical question of making rail simpler and more dependable. For contemporary context, cultural identity and food prices are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the tourism and cultural value of distinctive local cuisine. As a documentary source, the photograph preserves local appearance, occupation, access and public activity within the setting of Moor street,Queensway Birmingham West Midlands,England,UK, B4 7UL. Other useful associations include rail transport, period detail, railway heritage, before-and-after reference, traditional recipe, regional speciality, trackside infrastructure, and changing land use. References to Smith, newsagent, Birmingham, retail, and Midlands help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. A later view of Moor street,Queensway Birmingham West Midlands,England,UK, B4 7UL may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes rail reform and linking trains more effectively with other transport as part of the longer story of Moor street,Queensway Birmingham West Midlands,England,UK, B4 7UL.
Moor street,Queensway Birmingham West Midlands,England,UK, B4 7UL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,poster,advert,advertorial,England,Cheshire,UK,housemaid,operation,medical,newspaper,article,from,1920s,1920,ad,for,bile,beans,laxative,and,tonic,laxatives,effect,fictitious chemist,known as,cure,Charles Fordes Bile Beans for Biliousness,cascara,rhubarb,liquorice,menthol,fraud,Bile Bean Manufacturing Company
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG40BY - Bile Beans was a laxative and tonic first marketed in the 1890s. The product supposedly contained substances extracted from a hitherto unknown vegetable source by a fictitious chemist known as Charles Forde. In the early years Bile Beans were marketed as Charles Forde's Bile Beans for Biliousness, and sales relied heavily on newspaper advertisements. Among other cure-all claims, Bile Beans promised to disperse unwanted fat and purify and enrich the blood.
Although the manufacturer claimed that the formula for Bile Beans was based on a vegetable source known only to Aboriginal Australians, its actual ingredients, which included cascara, rhubarb, liquorice and menthol, were commonly found in pharmacies of the period. A court case initiated in Scotland in 1905 found that the Bile Bean Manufacturing Company's business was based on a fraud and conducted fraudulently, but Bile Beans continued to be sold until the 1980s nevertheless.
Formulation and manufacture
Charles Edward Fulford (1870“1906) and Ernest Albert Gilbert (1875“1905) first sold Bile Beans in Australia in late 1897, marketed as Gould's Bile Beans. Fulford was a Canadian who had travelled to Australia to sell Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People for his uncle, George Taylor Fulford.
Fulford and Gilbert established the Bile Bean Manufacturing Company in Leeds, England, in 1899. It was claimed that the formula for Bile Beans was created by an Australian scientist Charles Forde in 1898, based on research he had conducted on a vegetable source known only to Aboriginal Australians. In reality, Charles Forde did not exist
the name was used as an alias for Charles Fulford, who had no scientific training
Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,British,Great Britain,pub,bar,News,newspaper,Brexit,reading,Wetherspoon bar,Tim Martin,ale,pint,pint of bitter,pint of beer,Circle Of Deceit,EU debate,Wetherspoons,Neverspoons,spoons,chain,Wetherspoon News,Wetherspoon,English,boozer,read,in-house,in,house,magazine,magazines,readers,loud,phones,ban Tim Martin,Aug 2026
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C9E2PP - . A location-based documentary photograph from Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP, useful both for its immediate subject and for the smaller period details around it. The location is represented through WetherspoonNews Magazine and a Pint of bitter,in a Wetherspoon pub,supporting Brexit. The photograph also carries associations with historical comparison, customer-facing hospitality, night-time economy, social landscape, traditional ale house, government policy, local character, community hostelry, civic debate, democratic accountability, before-and-after reference, party-political communication, public policy, and Westminster politics. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes hospitality operating costs alongside business rates, with particular attention to the survival of community meeting places. The subject remains useful for current coverage of constituency representation and government priorities, not least because of comparing earlier political promises with later policy. The archival value lies partly in recording ownership and occupation around Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP before later redevelopment alters the character of the place. The subject also sits alongside public realm, neighbourhood pub, constituency politics, beer-led venue, archival record, built environment, community social space, and licensed premises. Details involving WetherspoonNews, Wetherspoon, supporting, bitter, and Brexit make the image more specific than a generic illustration and strengthen its local or historical value. For Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which small changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The scene remains tied to Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP, image reference 2C9E2PP.
Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Doncaster,South Yorkshire,South,Yorkshire,England,UK,DN2,pasta,risotto,winner,Doncaster Free Press Winner,Free Press Winner,Free Press,Pizza,classic Mediterranean dishes,Mediterranean dishes,Italy,Italian food,cooking,itailian cooking,Donny,unit,units,store,outside,food,cuisine,FreePress,award,winning,joint,Doncaster restaurant scene,restaurants,newspaper,certificate,bar,Mediterranean
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P8DCW5 - . This scene at 11 Bennetthorpe, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK, DN2 6AA in 2018 forms part of the visual story.htm Target=_Blank>history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The frame specifically shows Vivo Italian restaurant, FreePress winner, 11 Bennetthorpe, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK, DN2 6AA - Doncaster Free Press Winner. Another layer of the photograph includes changing streetscape, documentary photography, public realm, bricks-and-mortar retail, street-level business, place identity, historical comparison, before-and-after reference, shopfront economy, town-centre economy, independent retail, local trading, commercial frontage, and visual archive. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with independent business, consumer spending and the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy. The archival value lies partly in recording street furniture and boundaries around 11 Bennetthorpe, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK, DN2 6AA before different community use alters the character of the place. The subject also sits alongside small business, contemporary social history, local character, local enterprise, retail property, everyday life, social history, and community identity. The combination of FreePress, Doncaster, Yorkshire, winner, and restaurant anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around 11 Bennetthorpe, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK, DN2 6AA, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The scene further reflects independent business and how consumer spending and property costs shape local commercial streets as part of the longer story of 11 Bennetthorpe, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK, DN2 6AA. It also preserves a point of historical comparison as part of 11 Bennetthorpe, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK, DN2 6AA's history.
11 Bennetthorpe, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK, DN2 6AA
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Keywords: traditional,stone,gold,letters,City,Scotland,UK,Scots,Scottish,newspapers,press,baron,office,offices,Edinburgh Evening News,Cockburn Street,Cockburn,St,Street,baronial,style,baronial style,Scots,Peddie,Kinnear,JR,John Richie,Gotonysmith,barons,papers,print,daily,newspaper
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4M1M - The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper published from Edinburgh. It was a broadsheet until 16 August 2004. The Scotsman Publications Ltd also issues the Edinburgh Evening News and the Herald & Post series of free newspapers in Edinburgh, Fife, and West Lothian.
As of 2014, it had an audited print circulation of 27,208, down from 35,949 in 2012 (Jan - Aug average) and 42,581 in August 2011. Scotsman.com websites, including the news site, job site, property site, mobile site and others have an average of 119,672 visitors a day.
In 1860 they obtained this purpose built office on Cockburn Street in Edinburgh designed in the Scots baronial style by the architects Peddie & Kinnear.
This backed onto their original offices on the Royal Mile. The building bears the initials JR for John Ritchie the founder of the company. In 1902 they moved to huge new offices at the top of the street, facing onto North Bridge, designed by Dunn & Findlay (Findlay being the son of the then owner).
This huge building had taken three years to build and also had connected printworks on Market Street (now the City Art Centre). The printworks connected below road level direct to Waverley Station in a highly efficient production line.
Cockburn Street, Edinburgh Old Town, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: Bridgefoot,Bridge foot,Bridge-foot,famous,historic,history,Warrington Academy,Warrington,Academy,Guardian,Newspaper,Guardian Newspaper,Cheshire,England,UK,Oliver Cromwell,military,political,figure,famous,town,WBC,borough,council,independent,puritan,religious,men,man,tourist,attraction,GoTonySmith,United,Kingdom,United Kingdom,GB,great,Britain,Great Britain,army,cheshire,civil,English Civil war,dawa,england,English,leader,lord,model,new,oliver,parliament,protector,statue,war,Member of Parliament,Parliament,MP,member,New Model Army,new,model,army,monument,outside,palace,of,Westminster,Palace of Westminster,Cromwells,troops,Cromwells Troops,public statues of Cromwell,public,statues,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED9ETG - Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 “ 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
The Academy, a dissenters' institute where Joseph Priestley once taught. After being moved from their original location, the building now houses the offices of the local newspaper The Warrington Guardian. A statue of Oliver Cromwell stands in front.
Bridge-foot, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: Bridgefoot,Bridge foot,Bridge-foot,famous,historic,history,Warrington Academy,Warrington,Academy,Guardian,Newspaper,Guardian Newspaper,Cheshire,England,UK,Oliver Cromwell,military,political,figure,famous,town,WBC,borough,council,independent,puritan,religious,men,man,tourist,attraction,GoTonySmith,United,Kingdom,United Kingdom,GB,great,Britain,Great Britain,army,cheshire,civil,English Civil war,dawa,england,English,leader,lord,model,new,oliver,parliament,protector,statue,war,Member of Parliament,Parliament,MP,member,New Model Army,new,model,army,monument,outside,palace,of,Westminster,Palace of Westminster,Cromwells,troops,Cromwells Troops,public statues of Cromwell,public,statues,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED9ETH - Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 “ 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
The Academy, a dissenters' institute where Joseph Priestley once taught. After being moved from their original location, the building now houses the offices of the local newspaper The Warrington Guardian. A statue of Oliver Cromwell stands in front.
Bridge-foot, Warrington,Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GB,united,Kingdom,great,britain,leaves,leaf,entrance,plaque,famous,building,guardian,newspaper,offices,town,city,regional,windows,columns,Harris,Manchester,College,Oxford,cradle,of,Unitarianism,by,Arthur,Aikin,Brodribb,Lancashire,gotonysmith,the,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,history,historic,buildings,Guardian,office
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DJ7B9X - Warrington Academy, active as a teaching establishment from 1756 to 1782, was a prominent dissenting academy, that is, a school or college set up by those who dissented from the state church in England. It was located in Warrington (then part of Lancashire, now within Cheshire), effectively moved to Manchester where Manchester New College was its successor institution, and led in time to the formation of Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
Warrington Academy, 138 Bridge Street, WARRINGTON, WA1 2RU
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Keywords: newspaper,headlines,tabloid,paper,press,media,evening,news,#edinburghartfestival,#eaf,#kennywatson,art,installation,exhibition,Scotland,UK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,papers,headline,2013,Edinburgh,city,centre,print,printing,sex,sells,knife,crime
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKP5 - . Kenny Watson exhibition 169 Rose St Edinburgh The Days and Fascia exhibition,Scotland,UK - 2013. Photographed on 31 August 2013. The recorded location is 169 Rose St,Edinburgh,UK. The Days and Fascia - Kenny Watson. Watson presents two works for the festival that combine techniques and materials from street art and fine art, creating overwhelming visual effects from found texts. From a heritage perspective, museums and heritage attractions turn surviving objects and places into interpreted public history
Displays, reconstructed rooms and preserved machinery can place everyday artefacts within broader stories of work, domestic life, conflict, design and technological change. The historical context is that popular destinations are shaped by repeated waves of visitors, transport investment and changing ideas of leisure
Beaches, resorts, historic streets and attractions can therefore be read as both travel imagery and social history. As of 2026, museums and heritage sites continue to balance conservation with accessibility, education, digital interpretation and the cost of maintaining buildings and collections
Earlier exhibition images can therefore record displays that have since been changed or reinterpreted. The subject remains topical in 2026 because contemporary tourism is shaped by strong demand for city breaks and leisure travel alongside concerns about sustainability, crowding and the environmental cost of transport
Earlier destination images provide useful comparison with today's visitor economy. As background, heritage collections preserve material that might otherwise be dispersed or destroyed
Museums use objects, labels, reconstructed settings and historical buildings to explain both exceptional events and ordinary life, making photographs of exhibits useful records of interpretation as well as the object itself. Relevant long-tail terms include historic object, visitor attraction, museum display, heritage education, and cultural tourism.
169 Rose St,Edinburgh,UK
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Keywords: newspaper,headlines,tabloid,paper,press,media,evening,news,#edinburghartfestival,#eaf,#kennywatson,art,installation,exhibition,Scotland,UK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,papers,headline,2013,Edinburgh,city,centre,print,printing,sex,sells,knife,crime
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKP9 - . Kenny Watson exhibition 169 Rose St Edinburgh The Days and Fascia exhibition,Scotland,UK - 2013. Photographed on 31 August 2013. The recorded location is 169 Rose St,Edinburgh,UK. The Days and Fascia - Kenny Watson. Watson presents two works for the festival that combine techniques and materials from street art and fine art, creating overwhelming visual effects from found texts. In historical terms, visitor attractions based on historic houses, industrial sites and specialist collections combine conservation with education
Exhibits can change over time, so photographs also document how institutions presented their collections at a particular date. Looking at the subject's development, 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, heritage attractions increasingly combine physical collections with digital interpretation and events, but the authenticity of original objects and settings remains central to their appeal. For the 2026 context, tourism remains a major part of the UK and European service economy, but destinations continue to balance visitor numbers with resident needs, transport capacity, climate pressures and the maintenance of historic places. In the longer view, museums and heritage attractions turn surviving objects and places into interpreted public history
Displays, reconstructed rooms and preserved machinery can place everyday artefacts within broader stories of work, domestic life, conflict, design and technological change. Current 2026 relevance comes from the fact that museums and heritage sites continue to balance conservation with accessibility, education, digital interpretation and the cost of maintaining buildings and collections
Older exhibition photographs can therefore record displays that have since been changed or reinterpreted.
169 Rose St,Edinburgh,UK
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Keywords: newspaper,headlines,tabloid,paper,press,media,evening,news,#edinburghartfestival,#eaf,#kennywatson,art,installation,exhibition,Scotland,UK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,papers,headline,2013,Edinburgh,city,centre,print,printing,sex,sells,knife,crime
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKPD - . Kenny Watson exhibition 169 Rose St Edinburgh The Days and Fascia exhibition,Scotland,UK - 2013. Photographed on 31 August 2013. The recorded location is 169 Rose St,Edinburgh,UK. The Days and Fascia - Kenny Watson. Watson presents two works for the festival that combine techniques and materials from street art and fine art, creating overwhelming visual effects from found texts. Historically, heritage collections preserve material that might otherwise be dispersed or destroyed
Museums use objects, labels, reconstructed settings and historic structures to explain both exceptional events and ordinary life, making photographs of exhibits useful records of interpretation as well as the object itself. From a heritage perspective, travel photography documents the visitor economy as well as scenery, showing how historic places, coastlines and resort facilities are packaged, experienced and adapted for tourists over time. In 2026, museums and heritage sites continue to balance conservation with accessibility, education, digital interpretation and the cost of maintaining structures and collections
Older exhibition photographs can therefore record displays that have since been changed or reinterpreted. As of 2026, contemporary tourism is shaped by strong demand for city breaks and leisure travel alongside concerns about sustainability, crowding and the environmental cost of transport
Older destination photographs provide useful comparison with today's visitor economy. The historical context is that visitor attractions based on historic houses, industrial sites and specialist collections combine conservation with education
Exhibits can change over time, so photographs also document how institutions presented their collections at a particular date. Additional high-relevance terminology includes heritage attraction, historic object, public history, museum display, artefact, heritage education, cultural tourism, preservation, and historic collection.
169 Rose St,Edinburgh,UK
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Keywords: newspaper,headlines,tabloid,paper,press,media,evening,news,#edinburghartfestival,#eaf,#kennywatson,art,installation,exhibition,Scotland,UK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,papers,headline,2013,Edinburgh,city,centre,print,printing,sex,sells,knife,crime
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKPG - . Kenny Watson exhibition 169 Rose St Edinburgh The Days and Fascia exhibition,Scotland,UK - 2013. Photographed on 31 August 2013. The recorded location is 169 Rose St,Edinburgh,UK. The Days and Fascia - Kenny Watson. Watson presents two works for the festival that combine techniques and materials from street art and fine art, creating overwhelming visual effects from found texts. The wider historical story is that museums and heritage attractions turn surviving objects and places into interpreted public history
Displays, reconstructed rooms and preserved machinery can place everyday artefacts within broader stories of work, domestic life, conflict, design and technological change. In historical terms, popular destinations are shaped by repeated waves of visitors, transport investment and changing ideas of leisure
Beaches, resorts, historic streets and attractions can therefore be read as both travel imagery and social history. In the present 2026 context, heritage attractions increasingly combine physical collections with digital interpretation and events, but the authenticity of original objects and settings remains central to their appeal. During 2026, tourism remains a major part of the UK and European service economy, but destinations continue to balance visitor numbers with resident needs, transport capacity, climate pressures and the maintenance of historic places. Looking at the subject's development, heritage collections preserve material that might otherwise be dispersed or destroyed
Museums use objects, labels, reconstructed settings and historic buildings to explain both exceptional events and ordinary life, making photographs of exhibits useful records of interpretation as well as the object itself. The subject remains topical in 2026 because heritage attractions increasingly combine physical collections with digital interpretation and events, but the authenticity of original objects and settings remains central to their appeal.
169 Rose St,Edinburgh,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEM0 - Warrington Academy, active as a teaching establishment from 1756 to 1782, was a prominent dissenting academy, that is, a school or college set up by those who dissented from the state church in England.
It was located in Warrington (then part of Lancashire, now within Cheshire), effectively moved to Manchester where Manchester New College was its successor institution, and led in time to the formation of Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
138 Bridge Street, Warrington, England, UK WA1 2RU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BPCNHH - . This period photograph records 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY as an identifiable real-world setting rather than a generic illustration. The photograph centres on Beers,Real Ales,ELR,East Lancs Railway, East Lancashire Railway Bury station, greater Manchester,England,UK. Beyond the immediate subject, the image contains elements of station environment, rail corridor, rail modernisation, passenger connectivity, railway branding, mass transit, everyday Britain, documentary photography, period detail, historical comparison, visual archive, passenger railway, rail mobility, and public transport network. For contemporary context, decarbonisation and rail reform are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes preserving railway heritage while modernising the network. The archival value lies partly in recording equipment and working practice around 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY before changed technology alters the character of the place. The setting also brings in rail transport, transport interchange, place identity, public realm, social landscape, local history, regional identity, and regional rail. The recorded references to station, Railway, Lancashire, Manchester, and Lancs preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. The surrounding context at 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Another useful connection is decarbonisation and making passenger rail simpler and more dependable when considered against later change at 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY and the changing story of the subject shown.
23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HE7MCB - The Belfast Telegraph is a daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Independent News & Media.
It was first published as the Belfast Evening Telegraph on 1 September 1870 by brothers William and George Baird. Its first edition cost half a penny and ran to four pages covering the Franco-Prussian war and local news.
The evening edition of the newspaper was originally called the Sixth Late, and Sixth Late Tele was a familiar cry made by vendors in Belfast City Centre in the past.
Its competitors are The News Letter and The Irish News but the local editions of the London-based red tops are also competitors, selling at a cheaper price than the 'Tele'.
The Belfast Telegraph was entirely broadsheet until 19 February 2005, when the Saturday morning edition was introduced and all Saturday editions were converted to compact. The weekday morning Compact Edition, launched on 22 March 2005, struggled to replicate the evening newspaper's success. Its editorial content has been much more tabloid, with a greater entertainment story count than the evening paper. Much prominence is given to English-based sport, and some general features and columns are shared with The Independent and Irish Independent.
The paper now publishes two editions daily, Belfast Telegraph final edition and the North West Telegraph which is distributed in Derry.
Belfast Telegraph House,33 Clarendon Road,Belfast, Northern Ireland,UK
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Keywords: tobacco,cigars,tobacconist,confectionary,news,paper,shop,newspaper,papershop,local,corner,cornershop,latchford,warrington,south,Indian,india,cheshire,england,UK,britain,english,decline,europe,small,shops,stores,people,Asian,man,fella,counter,grappenhall,interesting,person,persons,persona,interesante,sex,sexy,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4545016881 - 'Khan, my friendly local traditional newsagent and tobaconist. He is quite a walk away just over the swing bridge in Latchford village and I sometimes see him on the only day that I occasionally buy a paper, Saturday. It\u2019s usually one with lots of supplements I buy with a bit of a TV and events review guide in it.
Thinking back over ten years or more I used to have three paper shops within 10 minutes walk
two on Knutsford road and Old cantankerous Malcolm Sissins in Lindi Avenue. In fact on originally looking for a house in the area I encountered 'Sissons' on the parade of shops that included a tiny sub-post office, hair salon (Flair, which is currently on the market www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-27655238.h... and small part time doctors surgery.
I walked into his newsagents which was full of untidy piles of paper and often out of date confectionary and he sold me a chocolate bar. On asking where I might buy a sandwich round here, he suggested 'shop next door'. On walking out and into the next door along, Malcolm appeared at the counter and said 'Hello, how can I help?'. A bit surreal to say the least.
Malcolm did have a big toy grotto and fishing supplies section at the back which customers were only allowed to visit on an escorted basis. After moving into Lindi Avenue myself and having regular papers from the shop did I learn some of the eccentricities. As Malcolm got even older he would only open half the shop at once, forcing customers to leave and re-enter by the street, although there was a passage between. School children (of which there could be many from the local primary) would be admitted one at a time. Late payment for delivered papers would incur an instant fine, while his reputation as being a difficult boss made it difficult to get and keep decent paper boys and girls. His biggest crime (noticed by Colin a yorkshireman, a good friend who shamefully I have not seen for yonks since he moved up near Durham) was when buying his boiled sweets loose from jars, Malcolm actually weighed the paper bag too!
Sadly, cantankerous though he was, he is now just a memory as an estimated ten UK local newsagents go under each week. Suburban supermarkets and coffee shops (Starbucks even selling daily papers now in some places) are picking away at their trade. Khan now has a Co-Op over the road, now selling papers too. In a daily Telegraph article, Starbucks denied it had any part to play in the decline in newsagents. A spokesman said: \u201cWe\u2019re wholly committed to enhancing each of our customers\u2019 unique Starbucks experiences and the availability of a daily national newspaper adds to that overall experience.\u201d
Although I might use the ATM cash machine in the co-op, I always get my paper at Khan's. That\u2019s where I have my 'Newspaper shop Experience'.
Oh and if you have any tales or experiences from the Sisson era, please leave a comment
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Keywords: Clio,chinese,newspaper,mandarin,warm,projection,hotpixuk,hotpix,tonysmith,tony,smith,face,head,faces,slide,projector,china,lady,female,girl,asia,asian,east,eastern,yellow,sex,sexy,porn,porno,woman,girlie,this photo rocks,erotic,pretty,fetish,fetishist,model,long,fingers,cool,person,people,portrait,image,abstract,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,acutance,consulting,acutanceconsulting
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3874778425 - 'Clio with deep brown eyes, long fingers, red lips and nails.
Slide projection on to torn newspaper
Image from Walton graveyard here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3875568806/in/set-72157621...
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Keywords: HAMISRecorder,HAMIS,recorder,ActiveH,ActiveHRecorder,Christmas,satire,humour,mumor,funny,newspaper,MIS,Active,Management,Systems
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8351240052 - 'Its the time to be jolly, but that esteemed organ 'The HAMIS Recorder' will not be published this year.
Maybe some wag will take it over, I just don't know.
Back copiesof the spoof newspaper always available, just email me to grab any of those historic copies if you were a staff member of MIS Active Management Systems, during those exciting times.
Thanks to Tony Bourne, Faiz, Mark Pocock, Richard Chambers, Glen Lewis, Andy Bannaghan, Paul Johns, Nigel Maddock,Dave Staples, Graham Hall, Ellen Stubbs, Julian Heywood, Dave Evans, Glyn Fitzsimmons, Anthony arblaster, Souperman, Flesh Gordon and others for making it so easy to fill it up every Christmas!
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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.
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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
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3C4CY34 - This carefully observed stock photograph records The Irish Catholic newspaper, Bishop warns against rise of the far-right, in Ireland. The row metadata places the subject at The Irish Catholic newspaper, Bishop warns against rise of the far-right, in Ireland. The spreadsheet date indicates 19 July 2025, so the picture can also work as a time-specific archive record. Plainly, the image is useful because it shows Ireland, Irish, Catholics, rightwing, wing, right, fascists, rise of the far-right, with search-relevant terms including Ireland, Irish, Catholics, rightwing, wing, right, fascists, rise of the far-right, rise, far, Southern, Republic, unrest, religion. The value lies in the combination of place, object, wording and context, giving editors something specific and grounded rather than generic filler imagery. Dublin is both a historic capital and a modern European city, where tourism, housing pressure, transport, politics, culture and the River Liffey all shape how the city is understood in contemporary reporting. The image can support political and civic reporting where the point is not just party branding or protest imagery, but the way public debate appears in streets, media, posters, campaign signs and everyday visual culture. The image can work as a lead picture, a supporting cutaway, a contextual inset or a visual metaphor for wider stories about place, services, consumer behaviour, heritage, transport, culture and public life. Historically and socially, this kind of image can help connect past and present: older streets, civic institutions, transport systems, shops, signs, political messages or public services are not frozen museum pieces, but part of how people understand modern life, local identity and economic change. For SEO and stock-photo discovery, the description deliberately supports searches around the named location, documentary photography.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PJW6YE - Coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster by the British tabloid The Sun led to the newspaper's decline in Liverpool and the broader Merseyside region, with organised boycotts against it. The disaster occurred at a football match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Ninety-seven Liverpool supporters were crushed to death, and several hundred others were injured, due to negligence by the South Yorkshire Police. On 19 April 1989, four days after the incident, The Sun published a front-page story with the headline The Truth containing a number of falsehoods alleging that Liverpool supporters were responsible for the accident.
Though other newspapers reported stories critical of the fans, The Sun's repetition of unreliable claims as fact and position on the incident in the aftermath of the event led to outrage amongst Liverpudlians. From 1993 to 2012, editor Kelvin MacKenzie, who was in charge of many of the publication decisions, gave conflicting comments on whether he was sorry for the front-page story and said that his mistake was in trusting a Conservative Member of Parliament”Irvine Patnick, who was quoted in the piece. The Sun issued apologies in 2004, after Wayne Rooney was criticised for giving exclusive interviews to the paper, in 2012, under the headline The Real Truth, and in 2016, on a page 8“9 story in the aftermath of a second governmental inquest that concluded fans were unlawfully killed in the disaster.
After a protest in Kirkby in which women burned copies of the newspaper, The Sun (referred to as The S*n or The Scum) was widely boycotted in Merseyside. Sales have been estimated to have dropped from 55,000 per day in the region to 12,000 in 2019. Campaigns against the newspaper including Total Eclipse of the Sun and Shun the Sun first aimed to decrease purchases of the tabloid, and then supply of it by retailers. Journalists from the paper have been denied access to interviews at Liverpool and Everton grounds. Chris Horrie estimated in 2014
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRFFAT - . Photographed at Deansgate, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 1BN in 2022, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The location is represented through Equality has no gender, David Bowie, 1947-2016, 01606, red telephone box, blue telephone box, Deansgate, Blackpool , Lancs, England, FY1 1BN. The setting additionally reflects place identity, documentary photography, heritage-led regeneration, period architecture, social history, public-realm investment, regional identity, commercial redevelopment, historical comparison, changing streetscape, historic townscape, built heritage, place-making, and local character. For current editorial use, adaptive reuse and public-realm investment provide additional context, especially through how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. For later comparison, the photograph preserves landscape treatment and surrounding development at Deansgate, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 1BN, details that may look very different after conservation work. Other useful contextual ideas include before-and-after reference, public realm, changing land use, everyday life, period detail, visual archive, civic architecture, and local history. The combination of 01606, Deansgate, Blackpool, telephone, and Bowie anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around Deansgate, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 1BN, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The image also provides a reference for adaptive reuse and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres within the specific setting of Deansgate, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 1BN. The record includes a point of historical comparison for later comparison.
Deansgate, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 1BN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K244FJ - . Recorded at the recorded location in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The main point of reference is Daily News & Reader, Great Britain at war with Germany, old newspaper headline, Reported sinking of British ship, 05/08/1914. The surrounding context encompasses before-and-after reference, adaptive reuse, regional identity, place-making, commercial redevelopment, archival record, public-realm investment, community identity, visual archive, mixed-use redevelopment, urban fabric, social history, historic townscape, and period detail. Today's relevance is strengthened by heritage conservation, town-centre regeneration and the continuing question of how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. The archival value lies partly in recording equipment and working practice around the recorded location before altered transport patterns alters the character of the place. Further associations within the scene are documentary photography, built heritage, changing land use, local character, changing streetscape, place identity, period architecture, and local history. The combination of Reader, newspaper, sinking, headline, and Germany anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. For the recorded location, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence of heritage conservation and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres within the real-world context of the recorded location. A further contemporary connection is town-centre regeneration and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space within the specific setting of the recorded location.
