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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A1540,Magistrates Court,Oldham,A627,road sign,Ashton-under-Lyne,Tameside,bailiff,bailiffs,charge,charges
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FBX5B8 -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A8993,The Cracks,Oldham St Manchester,Cracks,Oldham,St,Manchester,Greater,heritage,historic,history,architecture,civic,local,museum,conservation
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EE4M0F - . The Cracks, Oldham St Manchester, Manchester, England, UK. Photographed on 30 April 2026. The recorded location is Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK. The historical setting for public library is that public libraries expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as part of civic education, later adding computers, events and digital services while retaining their role as shared community space. In the 2026 discussion of public library, libraries and museums continue to operate as community hubs, visitor attractions and sources of digital access, while funding pressures encourage partnerships, volunteering and new uses for historic buildings. Additional high-relevance terminology includes archive, collections, reading room, local history, heritage attraction, public history, museum display, archive research, library service, cultural institution, historical records, 255A8993, heritage, history, architecture, local, and conservation. Seen through local history, the earlier context is that libraries, museums and archives developed as civic institutions for preserving knowledge, objects and local records
Reading rooms, catalogues and display cases reveal how public access to information changed before digitisation transformed research. For museum display, the historical context is that museums turn objects into interpreted history, while archives preserve documents that may have little value until researchers connect them with people, buildings or events
Interiors therefore record both collections and changing curatorial practice. Looking at cultural institution, the longer history is that public libraries expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as part of civic education, later adding computers, events and digital services while retaining their role as shared community space. A further layer of meaning comes from archive, collections and reading room.
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,history,historic,heritage,Victoria Station,rail,inside,interior,stations,tiled,tile,tilin,diagrams,Victoria Station Approach,Manchester,M3 1WY,M3,Chorley,Bolton,Oldham,Bury,Rochdale,red,black,lines,rails,route,routes,Bacup,Darwen,Ashton,Stalybridge,Wigan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RXX27J - Taken on 25 Sep 2023, this photograph shows Victorian Manchester railways map, Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY. The location is Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains platform, concourse or service signage details that place the railway scene in a real working transport environment. Manchester Victoria has long been part of the city's railway geography, with historic route maps and ticket-window details showing how rail travel has shaped Greater Manchester and the wider north west. It could support features on pubs, beer, leisure, nightlife, tourism, heritage streets, local economies, independent hospitality and the pressures facing town-centre venues. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include Manchester, city, centre, railway, Victoria, station, Lancashire and Yorkshire, diagram, maps, map, history, historic, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes. Because the subject is clearly labelled or visually distinctive, it can also work well in search-led usage where the buyer needs immediate recognition at small web-preview size. Further SEO-friendly usage could include local services, town-centre change, heritage branding, Britis.
Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,in,concept,letter,letters,on,a,name,region,clean,air,pollution,particulates,NOX,Nitrous Oxides,cleaner,Nitrous Oxide,charges,zone,city,area,district,Greater Manchester,GM,Manchester,Salford,Stockport,Oldham,Andy Burnham,mayor,congestion charge,Greater Manchester Clean Air Plan,Clean Air Plan,roads,emissions standards,public health,Tory,Conservative
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RXHHF4 - Like many areas across the country, Greater Manchester has illegal levels of air pollution on some local roads. Poor air quality affects everyone's health, particularly the most vulnerable people in society. That includes deprived communities, children, elderly people and those with chronic conditions like asthma, heart disease, stroke and some cancers. It contributes to nearly 1,200 premature deaths in Greater Manchester every year.
We're committed to cleaning up the air our residents breathe. We plan to do this in a way that encourages a change to cleaner vehicles without putting jobs, livelihoods and businesses at risk.
Why no Clean Air Zone?
You might have seen signs for a Clean Air Zone on our roads. That's because our first Clean Air Plan included plans for a Greater Manchester-wide category C charging Clean Air Zone.
But following the pandemic, government agreed that this charging Clean Air Zone would NOT be introduced on 30 May 2022.
That's because the pandemic resulted in significant vehicle supply chain issues, rising vehicle prices, and a cost-of-living crisis. The original Clean Air Plan was no longer the right solution and could have caused significant financial hardship.
At the same time, it would not have met the government's legal direction (issued before the pandemic) to tackle harmful nitrogen dioxide on local roads by 2024.
Our new investment-led plan does not include a charging-Clean Air Zone.
Manchester, England, UK, M1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,British,English,cardingmachine,textile,textiles,manufacturing,factory,spinning,fibre,fibers,engineering,mechanical,belt,pulleys,rollers,drums,Lancs,PlattBrothers,Oldham,Bolton,Blackburn,Burnley,Preston,northwestengland,britishindustry,heritage,historic,museum,preserved,victorian,edwardian,steamage,powertransmission,lineshaft,beltdrive
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R55JBG - The large central drum is the main carding cylinder, which rotates at speed.
The multiple small pulleys around the side are part of the belt-driven transmission, typical of Lancashire mills using line-shaft power from overhead shafts.
The wooden casing (often polished hardwood) is characteristic of British carding engines, both for protection and to reduce lint escape.
Surrounding rollers and covers would have worked with:
the licker-in (to open raw cotton),
worker and stripper rollers (to disentangle fibres),
and the doffer (to remove the aligned fibre web).
What it did in the cotton process
This machine sat early in the cotton production line:
Raw cotton arrived compressed and dirty
It was opened and cleaned (blow room machinery)
Carding engine aligned the fibres into a continuous web
The web was condensed into sliver, ready for drawing and spinning
Without carding, spinning simply did not work properly.
Why it's so Lancashire
Carding engines were ubiquitous in Lancashire mills (Oldham, Bolton, Blackburn, Burnley, Preston).
British makers such as Platt Brothers of Oldham dominated this machinery worldwide.
The heavy iron castings, belt drives, and polished woodwork are textbook North-West England mill engineering.
Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,patent,PICKS,counter,cotton weaving,England,UK,manufacturing,manufacture,George Orme,of,Oldham,OL1,Lancashire,OL1 1HD,Greater Manchester,meter,meters,check,checker,device,devices,cotton industry,gauge,gauges,count,fitted,to,a,weaving,machine,Orme,Ormes,Ltd,engineer,engineers,Cottonopolis,thread
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PMF2WY - . George Orme of Oldham, Ormes patent PICKS counter, cotton weaving machines, Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK. Photographed on 6 April 2023, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK, OL1 1HD, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include patent, PICKS, counter, cotton weaving, manufacturing, manufacture, George Orme, Oldham, OL1, Lancashire, OL1 1HD, Greater Manchester, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. Industrial subject matter gives the image strong relevance to manufacturing, engineering, energy, utilities, machinery, skilled work and Britain's industrial heritage. The photograph can support stories about technological change, preservation, infrastructure, deindustrialisation, redevelopment and the reuse of former working sites for culture, housing, tourism or new commercial purposes. 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.
Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK, OL1 1HD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,patent,PICKS,counter,cotton weaving,England,UK,manufacturing,manufacture,George Orme,of,Oldham,OL1,Lancashire,OL1 1HD,Greater Manchester,meter,meters,check,checker,device,devices,cotton industry,gauge,gauges,count,fitted,to,a,weaving,machine,Orme,Ormes,Ltd,engineer,engineers,thread
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PMF2X0 - . George Orme of Oldham, Ormes patent PICKS counter, cotton weaving machines, Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK. Photographed on 6 April 2023, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK, OL1 1HD, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include patent, PICKS, counter, cotton weaving, manufacturing, manufacture, George Orme, Oldham, OL1, Lancashire, OL1 1HD, Greater Manchester, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. Industrial subject matter gives the image strong relevance to manufacturing, engineering, energy, utilities, machinery, skilled work and Britain's industrial heritage. The photograph can support stories about technological change, preservation, infrastructure, deindustrialisation, redevelopment and the reuse of former working sites for culture, housing, tourism or new commercial purposes. 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.
Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK, OL1 1HD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,transport,2,number,two,cream,white,and,old,livery,history,historic,timetable,route,Greater Manchester,GM buses,vehicle,GMbus,GMbuses,routes,Oldham,heritage,No2 No,buses,public,transportation,town,city,centre,estate,estates,council,housing,area,district,districts
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K7R69D - . A grounded documentary photograph made at 14 Huddersfield Rd, Newhey, Rochdale, England, OL16 3QF in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The image documents Old red and white bus, service 2, Chadderton, Royton, Newhey, Greater Manchester, historic vehicle. Other connected aspects include bus infrastructure, everyday life, public-transport wayfinding, archival record, changing streetscape, documentary photography, social history, passenger information, community identity, local mobility, period detail, passenger transport, changing land use, and transport accessibility. The modern context includes continuing discussion of decarbonisation, passenger information and the importance of buses for access to work, education and healthcare. Small period details of lettering, decoration and surface detail at 14 Huddersfield Rd, Newhey, Rochdale, England, OL16 3QF may become more significant with time, particularly following redevelopment. A second descriptive layer includes local bus network, place identity, surface public transport, visual archive, historical comparison, local history, regional identity, and bus route infrastructure. References to vehicle, Newhey, Royton, Chadderton, and Manchester give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around 14 Huddersfield Rd, Newhey, Rochdale, England, OL16 3QF, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. Another strand within the photograph is decarbonisation and the importance of buses for access to work, education and healthcare within the real-world context of 14 Huddersfield Rd, Newhey, Rochdale, England, OL16 3QF. The photograph keeps part of the area's social history as a date-specific reference. The record includes details of everyday use for later comparison.
14 Huddersfield Rd, Newhey, Rochdale, England, OL16 3QF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,lines,route,map,diagram,services,Bolton,Bury,Oldham,Accrington,Victoria,railway,station,tile,tiled,British Rail,map of Lancashire and Yorkshire,map of Lancashire & Yorkshire,Madchester,line,rail,railways,stations,towns,villages,mapped,tiles,Lancs,Yorks,BR,steam,steam trains,ornate,heritage tourism,rail connections,Victorian,rail travel nostalgia
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JY56CT - Detail of the historic glazed-tile route map inside Manchester Victoria railway station in Manchester city centre, Greater Manchester, England. The image shows part of the former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway network rendered in bold red and black lines across a grid of white ceramic tiles. Visible destinations include Manchester, Bolton, Wigan, Oldham, Rochdale, Burnley, Blackburn, Accrington, Chorley, Darwen, Preston, Halifax, Stockport, Ashton, Ramsbottom, Bacup, Todmorden and Hebden Bridge, together with smaller stations and junctions that once formed an extensive regional railway system.
The map dates from the Edwardian rebuilding of Manchester Victoria around 1904 and reflects the importance of the station as a principal hub and administrative centre of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Its coloured routes, station circles and carefully lettered place names provide a striking example of early twentieth-century railway cartography, public information design and decorative station architecture. The surviving mural is both a historical diagram and a substantial piece of transport heritage, recording rail connections across industrial Lancashire, Yorkshire and the towns that later became Greater Manchester.
The close view emphasises the handmade tiled surface, aged grout lines, route intersections and dense concentration of railway lines around Manchester. It also illustrates how railways linked major manufacturing centres, market towns and communities during the expansion of industrial northern England. Preserved within a modern interchange used by National Rail and Metrolink passengers, the map offers a visible connection between contemporary travel and the region's railway past. Photographed indoors under station lighting, the scene has an archival documentary character suitable for editorial subjects including railway history, Manchester heritage, historic mapping, station restoration, public transport, industrial archaeology and tourism.
Victoria Railway Station, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,spelt,out,map,in,unable,to,pay,bills,gas,electricity,dual-fuel,prices,increasing,UK,household,business,dying,cold,winter,struggle,struggling,help,government,Britain,North West,Liverpool,Manchester,Oldham,Blackburn,Burnley,Bury,Bolton,Preston,council
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JREC1D - . An on-location photograph from North West England, UK in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The principal subject is Map showing Northwest England, with words Fuel Poverty spelled out. More than half of UK households across Britain will choose to eat or heat. Other connected aspects include commercial redevelopment, architectural character, before-and-after reference, heritage-led regeneration, local history, period detail, public realm, public-realm investment, adaptive reuse, local character, everyday life, visual archive, place-making, and historical comparison. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with housing pressure, heritage conservation and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. The archival value lies partly in recording public access and movement around North West England, UK before conservation work alters the character of the place. Further associations within the scene are regional identity, archival record, period architecture, civic architecture, built heritage, social history, urban regeneration, and historic townscape. Details involving Poverty, households, choose, Northwest, and across make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For North West England, UK, 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 housing pressure and how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity without losing the local specificity of North West England, UK. A further contemporary connection is commercial viability and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space in a form that can be compared with future views of North West England, UK.
North West England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,coal board,equipment,technical,Oldham,Miner,charger,mine,Blaenavon,Torfaen,Wales,UK,south,control,meter,meters,lead,acid,power,mining,lamp,lamps,battery,ammeter,pit,room,working,Cymru,lead acid,charging,batteries,cell,cells,traditional
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAXT8W - . Recorded at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK 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 subject captured here is Oldham Manchester Miner charger, Lead-Acid, lamps on charge, at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK. The frame also records themes of social history, everyday life, local history, industrial archaeology, manufacturing heritage, industrial transport, place identity, industrial artefact, factory heritage, historic freight equipment, engineering history, contemporary social history, period detail, and changing land use. The modern context includes continuing discussion of brownfield redevelopment, embodied carbon and how surviving industrial objects become evidence of vanished working practices. The image fixes materials and architectural details within Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against new construction. Further associations within the scene are heavy-industry heritage, working-industry history, manufacturing landscape, community identity, before-and-after reference, documentary photography, production infrastructure, and industrial material culture. Details involving charge, Lead-Acid, Blaenavon, Wales, and Miner make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Another useful connection is brownfield redevelopment and the growing value of industrial heritage for tourism and local identity when considered against later change at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK. The scene further reflects manufacturing decline and how surviving industrial objects become evidence of vanished working practices without losing the local specificity of Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK.
Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ798T - From the Ben Robinson interview,Afflecks Palace In Pieces Once More
SELF-made Manchester mosaicist Mark Kennedy has had seven mosaic art pieces installed on Tib Street along the wall of Affleck's Palace. The colourful and cracked pieces feature the likes of Eric Cantona, Colin Bell, Karl Marx, Morrissey, Ian Brown, Emmeline Pankhurst, Bet Lynch and many other 'legends' associated with Manchester.
In total Kennedy has spent almost 20 years crafting the two sets of mosaics amongst other on-going work. The theme on Affleck's is Manchester heroes, with a nod given the shopping bazaar's rock'n'roll past. Thus among the great figures of Manchester depicted there are musicians, actors, media and radical politicians.
He also couldn't help including something from his own Manchester memories of Tib Street.
When I was a little kid I used to go to Tib Street all the time to get my ferrets and buy mice from a little pet shop and that's where we all used to go. Next door was Tib Street Joke Shop that used to sell masks and stink bombs so there's one piece that represents all that.
You have to have a closer look at some of the new mosaics to fully appreciate them with some of them holding a few hidden surprises. Kennedy's take on Joy Division's classic Unknown Pleasures album cover features several tiny coloured tile fragments to set it apart from the now iconic original.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ798W - From the Ben Robinson interview,Afflecks Palace In Pieces Once More
SELF-made Manchester mosaicist Mark Kennedy has had seven mosaic art pieces installed on Tib Street along the wall of Affleck's Palace. The colourful and cracked pieces feature the likes of Eric Cantona, Colin Bell, Karl Marx, Morrissey, Ian Brown, Emmeline Pankhurst, Bet Lynch and many other 'legends' associated with Manchester.
In total Kennedy has spent almost 20 years crafting the two sets of mosaics amongst other on-going work. The theme on Affleck's is Manchester heroes, with a nod given the shopping bazaar's rock'n'roll past. Thus among the great figures of Manchester depicted there are musicians, actors, media and radical politicians.
He also couldn't help including something from his own Manchester memories of Tib Street.
When I was a little kid I used to go to Tib Street all the time to get my ferrets and buy mice from a little pet shop and that's where we all used to go. Next door was Tib Street Joke Shop that used to sell masks and stink bombs so there's one piece that represents all that.
You have to have a closer look at some of the new mosaics to fully appreciate them with some of them holding a few hidden surprises. Kennedy's take on Joy Division's classic Unknown Pleasures album cover features several tiny coloured tile fragments to set it apart from the now iconic original.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ7998 - From the Ben Robinson interview,Afflecks Palace In Pieces Once More
SELF-made Manchester mosaicist Mark Kennedy has had seven mosaic art pieces installed on Tib Street along the wall of Affleck's Palace. The colourful and cracked pieces feature the likes of Eric Cantona, Colin Bell, Karl Marx, Morrissey, Ian Brown, Emmeline Pankhurst, Bet Lynch and many other 'legends' associated with Manchester.
In total Kennedy has spent almost 20 years crafting the two sets of mosaics amongst other on-going work. The theme on Affleck's is Manchester heroes, with a nod given the shopping bazaar's rock'n'roll past. Thus among the great figures of Manchester depicted there are musicians, actors, media and radical politicians.
He also couldn't help including something from his own Manchester memories of Tib Street.
When I was a little kid I used to go to Tib Street all the time to get my ferrets and buy mice from a little pet shop and that's where we all used to go. Next door was Tib Street Joke Shop that used to sell masks and stink bombs so there's one piece that represents all that.
You have to have a closer look at some of the new mosaics to fully appreciate them with some of them holding a few hidden surprises. Kennedy's take on Joy Division's classic Unknown Pleasures album cover features several tiny coloured tile fragments to set it apart from the now iconic original.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ79A2 - From the Ben Robinson interview,Afflecks Palace In Pieces Once More
SELF-made Manchester mosaicist Mark Kennedy has had seven mosaic art pieces installed on Tib Street along the wall of Affleck's Palace. The colourful and cracked pieces feature the likes of Eric Cantona, Colin Bell, Karl Marx, Morrissey, Ian Brown, Emmeline Pankhurst, Bet Lynch and many other 'legends' associated with Manchester.
In total Kennedy has spent almost 20 years crafting the two sets of mosaics amongst other on-going work. The theme on Affleck's is Manchester heroes, with a nod given the shopping bazaar's rock'n'roll past. Thus among the great figures of Manchester depicted there are musicians, actors, media and radical politicians.
He also couldn't help including something from his own Manchester memories of Tib Street.
When I was a little kid I used to go to Tib Street all the time to get my ferrets and buy mice from a little pet shop and that's where we all used to go. Next door was Tib Street Joke Shop that used to sell masks and stink bombs so there's one piece that represents all that.
You have to have a closer look at some of the new mosaics to fully appreciate them with some of them holding a few hidden surprises. Kennedy's take on Joy Division's classic Unknown Pleasures album cover features several tiny coloured tile fragments to set it apart from the now iconic original.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ79A3 - From the Ben Robinson interview,Afflecks Palace In Pieces Once More
SELF-made Manchester mosaicist Mark Kennedy has had seven mosaic art pieces installed on Tib Street along the wall of Affleck's Palace. The colourful and cracked pieces feature the likes of Eric Cantona, Colin Bell, Karl Marx, Morrissey, Ian Brown, Emmeline Pankhurst, Bet Lynch and many other 'legends' associated with Manchester.
In total Kennedy has spent almost 20 years crafting the two sets of mosaics amongst other on-going work. The theme on Affleck's is Manchester heroes, with a nod given the shopping bazaar's rock'n'roll past. Thus among the great figures of Manchester depicted there are musicians, actors, media and radical politicians.
He also couldn't help including something from his own Manchester memories of Tib Street.
When I was a little kid I used to go to Tib Street all the time to get my ferrets and buy mice from a little pet shop and that's where we all used to go. Next door was Tib Street Joke Shop that used to sell masks and stink bombs so there's one piece that represents all that.
You have to have a closer look at some of the new mosaics to fully appreciate them with some of them holding a few hidden surprises. Kennedy's take on Joy Division's classic Unknown Pleasures album cover features several tiny coloured tile fragments to set it apart from the now iconic original.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ79A4 - From the Ben Robinson interview,Afflecks Palace In Pieces Once More
SELF-made Manchester mosaicist Mark Kennedy has had seven mosaic art pieces installed on Tib Street along the wall of Affleck's Palace. The colourful and cracked pieces feature the likes of Eric Cantona, Colin Bell, Karl Marx, Morrissey, Ian Brown, Emmeline Pankhurst, Bet Lynch and many other 'legends' associated with Manchester.
In total Kennedy has spent almost 20 years crafting the two sets of mosaics amongst other on-going work. The theme on Affleck's is Manchester heroes, with a nod given the shopping bazaar's rock'n'roll past. Thus among the great figures of Manchester depicted there are musicians, actors, media and radical politicians.
He also couldn't help including something from his own Manchester memories of Tib Street.
When I was a little kid I used to go to Tib Street all the time to get my ferrets and buy mice from a little pet shop and that's where we all used to go. Next door was Tib Street Joke Shop that used to sell masks and stink bombs so there's one piece that represents all that.
You have to have a closer look at some of the new mosaics to fully appreciate them with some of them holding a few hidden surprises. Kennedy's take on Joy Division's classic Unknown Pleasures album cover features several tiny coloured tile fragments to set it apart from the now iconic original.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ79A5 - Afflecks (formerly Affleck's Palace) is an indoor market in Manchester, England, in the city's Northern Quarter on the junction of Church Street/Tib Street and Dale Street with Oldham Street. Dozens of independent stalls, small shops and boutiques operate in the one building. The building was once occupied by a department store called Affleck and Brown as a store and office space, hence the name.
Affleck's Palace first opened in 1981 by James and Elaine Walsh with an ethos of offering a safe environment for entrepreneurs to start out with affordable rent and no long term contracts. Unit holders operated under a licence agreement which allowed them to pay for space on a week by week basis. The atmosphere and colourful maze-like layout led to Affleck's becoming a mecca for alternative culture. The establishment was able to bounce back from two building fires and overcame many obstacles.
During the 1990s 'Madchester Summer of Love' period “ when local bands like the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets were at the height of their popularity
Affleck's Palace was a fashionable spot to get oversized flared jeans and tie dyed T-shirts and 'Eastern Bloc' was a popular record shop as it dealt in all the latest underground dance tunes of the time.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ79A6 - Afflecks (formerly Affleck's Palace) is an indoor market in Manchester, England, in the city's Northern Quarter on the junction of Church Street/Tib Street and Dale Street with Oldham Street. Dozens of independent stalls, small shops and boutiques operate in the one building. The building was once occupied by a department store called Affleck and Brown as a store and office space, hence the name.
Affleck's Palace first opened in 1981 by James and Elaine Walsh with an ethos of offering a safe environment for entrepreneurs to start out with affordable rent and no long term contracts. Unit holders operated under a licence agreement which allowed them to pay for space on a week by week basis. The atmosphere and colourful maze-like layout led to Affleck's becoming a mecca for alternative culture. The establishment was able to bounce back from two building fires and overcame many obstacles.
During the 1990s 'Madchester Summer of Love' period “ when local bands like the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets were at the height of their popularity
Affleck's Palace was a fashionable spot to get oversized flared jeans and tie dyed T-shirts and 'Eastern Bloc' was a popular record shop as it dealt in all the latest underground dance tunes of the time.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Keywords: testing,equipment,test,dial,dials,meters,cabinet,automobile,test department,Co,Company,Octopus,Testing,Oldham,Armature,needle,needles,test team,1950s,1960s,Ampmetre,Amp Metre,current,measure current,measuring current,measuring,GoTonySmith,mad professors,lab,professor,physics,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,measure,measurement,of voltage,amperes
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGMWGC - . Made at Great Britain, UK in 2014, this photograph records a real place and subject in context, allowing later viewers to compare what has survived, changed, closed, moved or been replaced. The image documents Octopus Testing Oldham Armature Mfg Co instruments, testing kit,dials and meters,Amperes,Amps, Ampmeter, Amp Metre. Another layer of the scene includes public realm, historic frontage, adaptive reuse, community identity, everyday life, local history, historic townscape, urban fabric, conservation architecture, period streetscape, historic commercial architecture, changing land use, social history, and visual archive. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about adaptive reuse, embodied carbon and the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. For place-based research, the frame records signage, materials, design and everyday use within Great Britain, UK. Further connections include local character, documentary photography, historic context, cityscape history, period building, built heritage, archival record, and architectural detailing. The combination of Metre, instruments, meters, Octopus, and Oldham anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around Great Britain, UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The location additionally provides evidence of adaptive reuse and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity when considered against later change at Great Britain, UK. A further contemporary connection is heritage conservation and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity without losing the local specificity of Great Britain, UK. The wider significance includes maintenance costs and reusing existing buildings rather than demolishing them in a form that can be compared with future views of Great Britain, UK.
Great Britain, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGMWH2 - . Recorded at Great Britain, UK in 2014, the image fixes a particular place, use and appearance for later comparison as buildings, businesses, signs and public activity change. The location is represented through Octopus Testing Oldham Armature Mfg Co instruments, testing kit,dials and meters,volts,voltmeter, RPM. The frame also contains themes of architectural detailing, visual archive, community identity, historic townscape, archival record, public realm, cityscape history, heritage asset, historical comparison, historic frontage, traditional masonry, heritage landmark, built heritage, and local character. Today's wider story includes maintenance costs, redevelopment pressure and the practical question of the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. For local-history research, the frame preserves local appearance, occupation, access and public activity at the recorded site in Great Britain, UK. A second layer of the scene includes historic commercial architecture, adaptive reuse, changing streetscape, place identity, regional identity, before-and-after reference, social history, and everyday life. References to voltmeter, Armature, dials, meters, and Oldham help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. The period setting at Great Britain, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The wider significance includes maintenance costs and the contrast between preservation and redevelopment as part of the longer story of Great Britain, UK. Another strand within the photograph is energy retrofit and the contrast between preservation and redevelopment when considered against later change at Great Britain, UK. The image also provides a reference for embodied carbon and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity without losing the local specificity of Great Britain, UK.
Great Britain, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64K8M - . Metrolink Manchester tram Rochdale via Oldham, on a rainy evening, in Market Street, near Primark, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1 1PW. Photographed on 2 November 2013, this autumn 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 Market Street, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1 1PW, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Market St, Manchester, Lancashire, M1 1PW, rain, tram, rainy, evening, shopping, Rochdale, via, Oldham, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The retail context supports editorial themes around high streets, shopping centres, consumer behaviour, independent and chain businesses, store branding, commercial property, hospitality and the changing economics of town and city centres. Shopfronts, promotional material, prices, signage and surrounding public space can become valuable historical evidence as businesses close, rebrand, relocate or adapt to online competition and changing consumer demand. Transport context makes the photograph useful for stories about rail travel, passenger journeys, stations and interchanges, public transport investment, regional connectivity and the everyday experience of moving through the UK rail network. Railway architecture, passenger facilities, route identity, signage and operational infrastructure are important documentary themes, particularly as stations and services are modernised or altered over time. The transport setting gives the image wider relevance to mobility, infrastructure, roads and public transport, travel behaviour, local connectivity, logistics and the relationship between vehicles and the built environment.
Market Street, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1 1PW
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Keywords: Peterhook,peter,hook,hooky,JD,joy,division,New,Order,neworder,thecastle,castle,music,venue,Oldham,lancs,gig,stage,shot,live,tour,England,UK,warm,up,warmup,small,crowd,bass,player,musicians,artists,mancunian,M60,10th,aniversary,tenth,celebration,union,street,st,38,OL1,1dl,MIS,@hotpixUK,ActiveH,housingtechnology
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6357454651 - 'A cold evening in Oldham, with the town centre being dug up, a classic back catalog from the early JD &
Warsaw days. What more could you ask for? A special warm up for a unique tour.
Well I saw Joy Division a couple of times, the same number of times I have been to see the memoral to Ian Curtis in Macclesfield. You can be forgiven for expecting a lot.
I have got to say, Hooky and The Light made a good job of it. The Castle reminded me of the Russell Club in Hulme, it just needed lower ceilings. Down to about 7'.
Rowetta was here too. The EP containing unreleased Joy Division track \u2018Pictures In My Mind\u2019, \u2018Atmosphere\u2019 plus Rowetta\u2019s versions of \u2018New Dawn Fades\u2019 and \u2018Insight\u2019 are worth a download, see www.fac51thehacienda.com/node/2088
Everything sounded raw, stripped down. Particularly the Closer album tracks, the young folks will only know them with the Hannett gloss of polished production.
Hooky's voice is slightly rough and Mancunian too. He needed some pages of his lyric book. Theres no robotic dancing either, and not so much bass playing. He leaves much to Jack, although rips into it as an axe-man when he gets in the mood. Breaks a string too on the Eccleshall Viking 1 (in Red with Cream Binding), so then it becomes more of a prop.
Rowetta's 'Atmosphere' was a highlight for me. Maybe all along that track needed female vocals.
Overall Hooky did good. He wrote this stuff, its in his soul. Thats why he wants to tour and share it, he is certainly not doing for the cash!
Setlist on the night included:
No Love Lost
Leaders of men
Glass
Digital
Disorder
Day of the lords
Candidate
Insight
New dawn Fades
She's Lost Control
Shadowplay
Wilderness
Interzone
I remember nothing
Encore-
Atmosphere
These days
Ice Age
Novelty
Isolation
24 Hours
Transmission
Love Will Tear Us Apart
The tour proper starts shortly, try to catch them at one of the following dates.
November 2011
Friday 18th The Lowry, Salford
Saturday 19th The Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 23rd Reading3, Tel Aviv
Friday 25th Gagarin 205, Athens
Saturday 26th Eightball Live, Thessaloniki
Wednesday 30th Amager Bio, Copenhagen
December 2011
Thursday 1st Train, Aarhus
Friday 9th Orion, Rome
Saturday 10th Estragon, Bologna
Sunday 11th Deposito Giordani, Pordenone
Tuesday 20th Effenar, Eindhoven
Wednesday 21st Oosterpoort, Groningen
Thursday 22nd Melkweg, Amsterdam
April 2012
Thursday 12th Palace Theatre, Melbourne
Friday 13th Tivoli, Brisbane
Saturday 14th Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Monday 16th HQ Theatre, Adelaide
Interestingly, Amsterdam and Eindhoven feature. Places very much steeped in Joy Division legend and history.
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Keywords: Alone,Bon,Jovi,BonJovi,Man,City,maine,road,manchester,stadium,kippax,music,bands,gigs,gig,stage,musician,performer,unsigned,rock,indie,player,oldham,failsworth,band,failsworth band,musicians,musos,rockers,banned!,north,west,moss,side,tonysmith,tony,smith,hot pix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3828200958 - 'Here at Manchester City's old football ground at Maine Road in 1996.
They were supporting Jon Bon Jovi together with Ricky Martin and Skunk Anansie. Alone are from Failsworth, North manchester, UK.
Other Manchester musical sons here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4140004999/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAW07 - . Shudehill, Manchester , city, centre, skyline towards Crowne Plaza hotel, and Oldham, England, UK, M4 2AF. Photographed on 10 June 2009, 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 Shudehill, Manchester, England, UK, M4 2AF, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Greater Manchester, buildings, building, architecture, M4 2AF, Oldham, Northern Powerhouse, cities, modern, June, busy, cars, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. Architecturally, the scene records the form, materials, scale and public-facing character of the built environment, making it useful for coverage of design, planning, conservation, development and urban identity. The image has value for architectural and place-based research because buildings and interiors can be refurbished, repurposed, demolished or substantially altered, while streets and public spaces also evolve. The wider panoramic composition places the principal subject within its surrounding streetscape or landscape, giving additional context about scale, neighbouring buildings, public space and the relationship between different landmarks. This broad view is particularly useful for cityscape, regeneration, tourism and planning stories because it records several elements of the location together rather than isolating a single detail. 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.
Shudehill, Manchester, England, UK, M4 2AF
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Keywords: Audio,Web,Audioweb,Oldham,Manchester,band,gig,live,stage,vocalist,vocal,vocals,Martin,Sugar,Merchant,SupaJamma,Stereokill,music,musician,performer,player,event,signed,group,lighting,anbiant,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4140004999 - 'Martin 'Sugar' Merchant of audioweb at the Werneth music festival Oldham.
The band split up in 1999 after two top 40 singles
the excellent 'Policeman Skank...(The Story Of My Life)' from the Fireworks City album and a cover of The Clash's Bankrobber.
Bassist McCann now plays with Badly Drawn Boy, Maxi has drummed for Ian Brown since 2001, File has been working with singer-songwriter Finley Quaye, while Merchant's new Manchester band SupaJamma are releasing their debut 'Rock 'n' Soul' EP in December 2009 on Stereokill Recordings.
More live music www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3078572654/in/set-72157617...
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ7990 - From the Ben Robinson interview,Afflecks Palace In Pieces Once More
SELF-made Manchester mosaicist Mark Kennedy has had seven mosaic art pieces installed on Tib Street along the wall of Affleck's Palace. The colourful and cracked pieces feature the likes of Eric Cantona, Colin Bell, Karl Marx, Morrissey, Ian Brown, Emmeline Pankhurst, Bet Lynch and many other 'legends' associated with Manchester.
In total Kennedy has spent almost 20 years crafting the two sets of mosaics amongst other on-going work. The theme on Affleck's is Manchester heroes, with a nod given the shopping bazaar's rock'n'roll past. Thus among the great figures of Manchester depicted there are musicians, actors, media and radical politicians.
He also couldn't help including something from his own Manchester memories of Tib Street.
When I was a little kid I used to go to Tib Street all the time to get my ferrets and buy mice from a little pet shop and that's where we all used to go. Next door was Tib Street Joke Shop that used to sell masks and stink bombs so there's one piece that represents all that.
You have to have a closer look at some of the new mosaics to fully appreciate them with some of them holding a few hidden surprises. Kennedy's take on Joy Division's classic Unknown Pleasures album cover features several tiny coloured tile fragments to set it apart from the now iconic original.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK M4 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMX8F - View of the Northern Quarter of Manchester City Centre from eight floors up, near the CIS building.
The image shows Shudehill, High Street, bus/tram interchange, looking towards high street and the Arndale shopping centre. The Manchester wheel is visible as is the Piccadilly area, including hotel and commercial offices.
The Northern Quarter (N4[1] or NQ[2]) is an area of Manchester City Centre, England, generally marked out between Piccadilly, Victoria and Ancoats, and centred around Oldham Street, just off Piccadilly Gardens.
A centre of alternative and bohemian culture, the area is usually considered to be contained within Newton Street (borders with Piccadilly Basin), Great Ancoats Street (borders with Ancoats), Back Piccadilly (borders with Piccadilly Gardens) and Swan Street/High Street (borders with Shudehill/Arndale). Popular streets include Oldham Street, Tib Street, Newton Street, Lever Street, Dale Street, Hilton Street and Thomas Street.
The Northern Quarter is part of a larger area of Greater Manchester that is on a tentative list of nominated sites for UNESCO World Heritage Site Status, a position held since 1999.
Shudehill/Swan Street, Manchester City Centre, GMC, Lancashire, NorthWest England, UK
