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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,gig,holding,Manchester,2,Academy2,play,Songs From,Under The Floorboards,songs,tour,post-punk,new wave,live,music,concert,memorabilia,John McGeoch,guitar effects,British,show,RIP,flanger,guitar effect,chorus,with,notes,Howard Devoto,song,Noko guitar,Peter Petersen Affection Place,Tim Petersen bass,Max Formula,drums,Dave Tomlinson,compositions,ephemera,revival
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJD0D1 - Post-gig paper setlist from Dave Formula & Noko's Play Songs From Under The Floorboards tour, photographed at Manchester Academy 2 on Saturday 23 May 2026. The sheet is held by fans stock-photo/gotonysmith-After.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>after the concert and lists Magazine songs including The Thin Air, Back to Nature, Give Me Everything, Sweetheart Contract, Motorcade, The Great Beautician in the Sky, Feed the Enemy, Rhythm of Cruelty, Cut-Out Shapes, Thank You, Model Worker, Permafrost, Parade, Floorboards, The Light Pours Out of Me, Twenty Years Ago, Definitive Gaze and Shot By Both Sides. Handwritten stage notes refer to guitar settings such as flanger, chorus off and chorus on, a useful detail for fans of Magazine's sound and the late John McGeoch, whose inventive guitar playing helped define the band's post-punk style. Event listings describe the 2026 tour as Dave Formula on keys and Noko on guitar presenting material from Magazine's classic back catalogue, with Peter Petersen of French new wave band Affection Place on vocals, Tim Petersen on bass and Max Formula on drums. The image records the working document of a live show rather than the performance itself, capturing the running order, musical cues, fan interest and physical evidence of a Manchester gig. It can illustrate post-punk history, Magazine, setlist collecting, live music memorabilia, Manchester Academy, concert culture, art rock, new wave, guitar effects, cult audiences and heritage tours. The visible date, venue and title make it useful for editorial archive use. For stock buyers, the photograph offers a strong close-up of authentic music ephemera, linking Magazine's late 1970s influence with a 2026 reinterpretation of the songbook by key former members and collaborators. It also speaks to the enduring appeal of songs associated with Howard Devoto, Dave Formula, Noko and John McGeoch, and to the way live audiences preserve paper traces of concerts after the stage lights have gone down.
University of Manchester Students' Union, Oxford Road, Manchester, England, UK, M13 9PR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,255A0605,Elbow Play Street,Levenshulme,Elbow,Play,Street,Manchester,Greater,England,local,urban,heritage,tourism,community,editorial,architecture,social,history
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E9AP1W - Elbow Play Street , Levenshulme, photographed in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK. The photograph is suitable for editorial coverage of local places, public life, architecture, tourism, community identity, social history and the changing character of towns and cities. The image clearly records the visible subject, signage, branding, architecture, object or activity associated with Elbow Play Street , Levenshulme. It provides useful documentary context for news, features, travel, social history and contemporary editorial coverage. Details visible in the scene help identify the place or subject and show how it appears in everyday use, making the photograph useful for stories about local identity, economic and social change, public services, transport, leisure, heritage, tourism, community life and the built environment. The photograph can also support retrospective or comparative coverage where the survival, redevelopment, reuse or changing role of the location or object is relevant.
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A8932,Rangers,Ibrox,Glasgow,football,stadium,Scotland,RFC,building,offices,club,sport,supporters,architecture,blue,RangersFC,Rangers FC,soccer,Premier League,league,team,teams,Old firm,Protestant teams,1872,Gers,Light Blues,ground,Unionist,community,culture,Shankill,road,Andrew Cavenagh,49ers,Enterprises,classic,fines,behind,closed,doors,play,players,crest
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FA7X4Y - . Rangers FC stadium building and offices at Ibrox in Glasgow. Photographed on 17 August 2025. The recorded location is Ibrox, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Rangers FC stadium building at Ibrox in Glasgow, with club branding across the blue and red exterior. The photograph records part of the operational and administrative side of the stadium complex away from the pitch. It provides editorial context for Rangers, Scottish football, stadium facilities, club business, supporter services, sporting infrastructure and the wider built environment surrounding Ibrox. Looking at sports tourism, the longer history is that british sports venues often have histories extending far beyond their current appearance, with rebuilt stands, sponsorship names and safety standards reflecting the professionalisation and commercial growth of spectator sport. In 2026, sports tourism remains relevant because sporting imagery has relevance beyond results, illustrating club identity, fan culture, major-event economics, venue investment and the role of sport in local regeneration. Other useful descriptive phrases include football club, supporters, matchday, sporting heritage, professional sport, football history, major event, supporter culture, stadium architecture, sports memorabilia, 255A8932, RFC, and architecture. The background to sports memorabilia is that sporting grounds, club colours and event memorabilia become part of local identity as generations of supporters associate particular streets, gates and stands with matchday ritual
Stadium architecture and branding also change repeatedly as clubs modernise facilities. Within the history of supporters, football and major sporting events leave a rich material record through flags, tickets, souvenirs, programmes and venue signage
International tournaments in particular can turn everyday objects into historical evidence of national sporting culture.
Ibrox, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A8948,Rangers,Ibrox,Glasgow,football,stadium,Scotland,RFC,Main,Stand,architecture,brick,sport,club,heritage,supporters,RangersFC,Rangers FC,soccer,Premier League,league,team,teams,Old firm,Protestant teams,1872,Gers,Light Blues,ground,Unionist,community,culture,Shankill,road,Andrew Cavenagh,49ers,Enterprises,classic,fines,behind,closed,doors,play,players,crest
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FA7X89 - . Rangers FC Main Stand frontage at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow. Photographed on 17 August 2025. The recorded location is Ibrox, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Frontage of the historic red-brick Rangers FC Main Stand at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow. The monumental stadium architecture, club name and entrance details are clearly visible, recording one of the most recognisable football grounds in Scotland. The image provides editorial context for Rangers, Scottish football, stadium heritage, matchday culture, sporting architecture, club identity and the long history of Ibrox as the home of Rangers FC. Within the history of sporting heritage, british sports venues often have histories extending far beyond their current appearance, with rebuilt stands, sponsorship names and safety standards reflecting the professionalisation and commercial growth of spectator sport. Against the 2026 backdrop for sporting heritage, sporting imagery has relevance beyond results, illustrating club identity, fan culture, major-event economics, venue investment and the role of sport in local regeneration. Associated subject terminology includes football club, supporters, professional sport, football history, major event, sports tourism, supporter culture, sports memorabilia, 255A8948, and RFC. In relation to professional sport, historical context shows that sporting grounds, club colours and event memorabilia become part of local identity as generations of supporters associate particular streets, gates and stands with matchday ritual
Stadium architecture and branding also change repeatedly as clubs modernise facilities. For the story of sports tourism, it is useful to note that football and major sporting events leave a rich material record through flags, tickets, souvenirs, programmes and venue signage
International tournaments in particular can turn everyday objects into historical evidence of national sporting culture.
Ibrox, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A8950,Rangers,Ibrox,1971,memorial,football,Glasgow,Scotland,disaster,supporters,statue,remembrance,RFC,stadium,history,RangersFC,Rangers FC,soccer,Premier League,league,team,teams,Old firm,Protestant teams,1872,Gers,Light Blues,ground,Unionist,community,culture,Shankill,road,Andrew Cavenagh,49ers,Enterprises,classic,fines,behind,closed,doors,play,players
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FA7X8K - . Rangers Ibrox memorial figure for the 1971 football stadium disaster. Photographed on 17 August 2025. The recorded location is Ibrox, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. The sculpture stands against the red-brick stadium wall, linking the club's present-day home with a major event in its history. The photograph is appropriate for respectful editorial use concerning football safety, Rangers heritage, supporters, stadium disasters, memorials and the commemoration of those who died. The background to matchday is that football and major sporting events leave a rich material record through flags, tickets, souvenirs, programmes and venue signage
International tournaments in particular can turn everyday objects into historical evidence of national sporting culture. Within the history of churchyard, ecclesiastical buildings are both active places of worship and repositories of local evidence
Churchyard monuments, carved stone, stained glass and plaques provide material for genealogy, architectural history, religious practice and remembrance. In relation to household object, historical context shows that everyday objects often become better historical evidence with age because packaging, typography, materials and branding change more rapidly than their basic function
Souvenirs, games and household items can therefore date consumer culture very precisely. Current 2026 context around matchday is that professional sport remains closely tied to broadcast rights, tourism, sponsorship and stadium redevelopment, while supporter experience, policing, ticket prices and transport continue to shape matchday debate. Against the 2026 backdrop for churchyard, historic places of worship remain important not only for faith but also for tourism, music, community use and local identity
Images of interiors, memorials and churchyards can support stories about conservation, heritage skills and the continuing reuse of sacred buildings.
Ibrox, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A8973,Rangers,Ibrox,Glasgow,football,stadium,Scotland,RFC,stand,entrance,sport,club,supporters,architecture,blue,RangersFC,Rangers FC,soccer,Premier League,league,team,teams,Old firm,Protestant teams,1872,Gers,Light Blues,ground,Unionist,community,culture,Shankill,road,Andrew Cavenagh,49ers,Enterprises,classic,fines,behind,closed,doors,play,players,transfer window
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FA7XA0 - . Main entrance to the Rangers Ibrox stand in Glasgow, Scotland. Photographed on 17 August 2025. The recorded location is Ibrox, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Main entrance area of a Rangers FC stand at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, with large club branding across the blue stadium frontage. In relation to stadium architecture, historical context shows that football and major sporting events leave a rich material record through flags, tickets, souvenirs, programmes and venue signage
International tournaments in particular can turn everyday objects into historical evidence of national sporting culture. As of 2026, the position for stadium architecture is that professional sport remains closely tied to broadcast rights, tourism, sponsorship and stadium redevelopment, while supporter experience, policing, ticket prices and transport continue to shape matchday debate. Further editorial search language includes football club, supporters, fan culture, sporting heritage, club identity, sports venue, football history, major event, sports tourism, supporter culture, sports memorabilia, 255A8973, and RFC. For the story of stadium, it is useful to note that sporting grounds, club colours and event memorabilia become part of local identity as generations of supporters associate particular streets, gates and stands with matchday ritual
Stadium architecture and branding also evolution repeatedly as clubs modernise facilities. The historical setting for matchday is that football and major sporting events leave a rich material record through flags, tickets, souvenirs, programmes and venue signage
International tournaments in particular can turn everyday objects into historical evidence of national sporting culture. In the 2026 discussion of matchday, sporting imagery has relevance beyond results, illustrating club identity, fan culture, major-event economics, venue investment and the role of sport in local regeneration.
Ibrox, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,BB3 ODB,BB3,Extra,M65,J4,Lancs,England,UK,FOBTs,slots,18,eighteen,inside,door,restricted,restriction,addiction,at,age,limit,limits,for,entering,and,play,playing,free,spins,casino,arcades,commission,review,addicts,act review,financially vulnerable,levy,ombudsman
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RXHHAG - Blackburn with Darwen services is a service station located off J4 on the M65 motorway in Lancashire, England which opened in 2002 and is operated by Extra. It has a petrol station operated by Shell as well as a Travelodge hotel and many places to get food and drink, such as a McDonald's, Costa and Greggs
April 2023 - Gambling addicts will die because of delay to reforms, government warned
Affordability checks and slot machine stake limits welcomed but experts call proposals a ˜missed opportunity'
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published a 268-page white paper laying out a shake-up of existing regulations, which date from before smartphones put access to 24-hour casino games and sports betting in every pocket.
The content of the proposals, which have already been delayed on at least four occasions, met with broad support from MPs and campaigners but drew criticism for shying away from curbs on advertising.
Kay Wadsworth, with a photograph of her daughter Kimberly, at her home in West Yorkshire.
˜There will be more people dying': mother whose daughter took own life criticises gambling white paper
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The proposed reforms include:
- A mandatory levy on industry revenues.
- Tougher affordability checks to prevent huge losses.
- Online slot machine stakes capped at between £2 and £15.
- Curbing free spin and bonus offers.
- Measures to slow down online casino games.
- More resources for the Gambling Commission.
- Plans for a gambling ombudsman.
Blackburn with Darwen Services - Extra M65 J4, Lancs, England, BB3 ODB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,Northern Ireland,NI,Limavady,Ireland,oppressive,child,children,boredom,football,outdoor,activities,activity,estate,estates,CCTV,sign,signs,housing estate,signage,rules,public housing,surveillance sign,local authority,rule,housing,UKhousing,play,playing,urban,environment,estate management,community safety,housing rules,public space regulation,children playing restrictions,neighbourhood control
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RBN9F0 - This image shows two classic official signs mounted on a high brick wall within a UK council housing estate: a yellow warning sign indicating CCTV in operation and a white sign stating No ball games . Together, the signs reflect common approaches used by local authorities and housing providers to manage behaviour, safety, and perceived antisocial activity in shared residential spaces.
CCTV signage has become a familiar feature across social housing estates, parks, and communal areas, intended both as a deterrent and as part of wider community safety and evidence-gathering measures. The accompanying No ball games sign illustrates long-standing estate rules aimed at preventing damage, noise nuisance, and conflict in areas close to homes, particularly where space is limited.
The pairing of surveillance warnings with behavioural restrictions highlights the tension often present in estate design and management between creating safe environments and limiting informal play or social activity. Such signage is frequently cited in debates around children's rights to play, urban design, and the lived experience of residents in public housing.
Photographed in daylight with clear legible text, the image works well as editorial material illustrating UK social housing policy in practice, local authority enforcement, community regulation, and the visual language of control and safety within urban residential environments.
Council housing estate, United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Guildford,Surrey,England,UK,garden,gardens,Almac Bisley Brass Band,Almac,Bisley,history,historic,heritage,play,GU1,Sunday,in,the,Grounds,GU1 3SY,local,community,Bisley and Woking,Woking,Bisley Village Hall,members,entertaining,entertainment,free,Bandstand,Band stand,Victorian,traditional,ironwork,cast iron
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RPCFNG - Taken on 18 Jun 2023, this photograph shows Almac Bisley Brass Band, playing on a Sunday in the Castle Grounds Bandstand, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK, GU1 3SY. The location is Castle Grounds, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK, GU1 3SY. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains visible signage, colour, materials, location clues and everyday street detail that make the image more specific than a generic stock photograph. A brass band in a public bandstand evokes Victorian and Edwardian traditions of free municipal music, parks, civic pride and community performance. It can be used in editorial features, business reports, local-history writing, travel guides, public-policy explainers, educational material and SEO-led stock-photo searches needing a specific real-world image. 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 bandstands, bandstand, Almac Bisley, Brass, Band, playing, plays, Castle, musicians, music, Guildford, Surrey, 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.
Castle Grounds, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK, GU1 3SY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,night,owls,owl,cards,free,spins,freespin,freespins,casino,slots,open,play,gamble,commission,review,harm,high st,high street,access,WA1,1-2,England,UK,WA1 2AN,gaming,danger,dangers,Novomatic,chain,venue,Luxury Leisure,Greentube group,street,outlet,outlets,UK Gambling Commission,decline
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RX181X - Novomatic is an international gambling company based in Austria, founded by Johann Graf in 1980.
Novomatic operates about 2,000 casinos and other gaming facilities in about 50 countries, many of them under the Admiral Casino brand. It also offers online gambling, and produces slot machines and other technology for the gaming industry. As of 2021, it has about 21,000 employees and annual revenue of €1.8 billion.
Novomatic operates Admiral Casino in the United Kingdom, a brand that includes a licensed online casino, as well as a chain of more than 200 gambling venues in the UK operated by Luxury Leisure. Its online casino includes slots, jackpot games, roulette, blackjack, table games, and live casino. Luxury Leisure is owned by Greentube Alderney Limited, part of the Greentube group, which in turn is owned by Novomatic
In 2014, Novomatic acquired Luxury Leisure, which operated seaside amusement arcades and other venues. In June 2016, Novomatic bought the UK gambling company Talarius, which operated the Quicksilver high street gambling outlets, from the Tatts Group. These retail gambling arcades were combined and rebranded as Admiral
In 2018, Greentube Alderney launched the Admiral-branded online casino, AdmiralCasino.co.uk
Admiral Casino is licensed to operate a remote gaming business in the United Kingdom from the UK Gambling Commission. Admiral Casino is licensed and regulated by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) (GCB).
1-2 Union St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2AN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,GB,Great Britain,Merseyside,2023,city,L1,pun,play,on,words,10,Bold St,Liverpool,L1 4DS,Eurovision2023,Visit Liverpool,visitliverpool,Liverpool.Com,branding,branded,promotions,promoted,promo,publicity,signposts,signposting,visitor,guide,cities,party,parties
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R1MFD8 - . Be Bold, art in Bold Street about Eurovision song contest, city centre Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 4DS. Photographed on 12 May 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 10 Bold St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 4DS, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Merseyside, pun, play, words, Bold St, Liverpool, L1 4DS, Eurovision2023, Visit Liverpool, visitliverpool, Liverpool.Com, branding, 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 branded, promotions, promoted, promo, publicity, signposts, broadening discoverability while remaining tied to the supplied subject information.
10 Bold St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 4DS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,06/05/2023,6th May 2023,sign,in,buy,a,Tesco,shop,store,Lincoln,city,retail,celebration,excitement,the,Charles,boredom,ignore,ignoring,ignored,crown,royal family,royals,royalty,ordinary,people,20,UK,guaranteed,win,games,to,play,money,wealth,millionaire,it could be you
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PNM3X2 - . National Lottery 20 UK millionaires guaranteed - Lets celebrate the kings coronation, 6th May 2023, signs in a Tesco store, Lincoln city centre. Photographed on 16 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 High street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK, LN1, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include 06/05/2023, 6th May 2023, sign, buy, Tesco, shop, store, Lincoln, retail, celebration, excitement, Charles, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The wording and graphic design are important parts of the image, preserving contemporary language, typography, branding or campaigning material that may later disappear or change. 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. Prominent wording, signage, posters, logos or other graphic material gives the photograph additional documentary value because it records how an organisation, campaign, business or place communicated with the public at that moment. Text and branding visible in a streetscape can be especially useful for editorial comparison after rebranding, closure, redevelopment or policy change. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison.
High street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK, LN1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,city,centre,tourism,tourist,attraction,L1,L1 9BH,5-11,Merseyside,exterior,of,the,play,plays,productions,entrance,Roger McGough,Adrian Henri,scene,charity,Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust Limited,new design,redevelopment,redeveloped,facade,façade,outside,landmark,sign,Stirling prize,red
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PJW6RM - The Everyman Theatre stands at the north end of Hope Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It was founded in 1964, in Hope Hall (once a chapel, then a cinema), in an area of Liverpool noted for its bohemian environment and political edge, and quickly built a reputation for ground-breaking work. The Everyman was completely rebuilt between 2011 and 2014
The building was constructed as Hope Hall, a dissenters' chapel built in 1837. In 1841 it became a church dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist. This became a public concert hall in 1853. In 1912 the hall was turned into Hope Hall Cinema, which continued serving this purpose until it closed in 1963. Prior to its closure the hall had become a meeting place for local artists, poets, folk musicians, and sculptors, including Arthur Dooley, Roger McGough, and Adrian Henri, forming what became known as the Liverpool Scene. This group decided that the building would be suitable for use as a theatre and in September 1964 the Everyman Theatre was opened by Martin Jenkins, Peter James and Terry Hands
In July 2011 the theatre closed to be completely rebuilt. The last major production was Macbeth, starring David Morrissey and Julia Ford, which closed on 11 June. This was followed by performances from Roger McGough and Brian Patten, and by the local pop band Deaf School. The final closure event took place on 2 July. From 28 July contents of the theatre, including seats and benches from the theatre, and pillars from the original Hope Hall, were available for purchase by auction.
The Everyman reopened in February 2014.[8] In October 2014, the Stirling Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects for the best British building of the year was awarded to Haworth Tompkins for their work on the new Everyman
5-11 Hope Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 9BH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,dart-throwing,sport,match,competition,tournament,championship,bar,pub,dart,game,games,blue dart,scores,scoring,in,the,bullseye,Winmau,Diamond,Pub dartboard,throwers,arrows,tungsten,dartsmith,butt,Bully,Jim Bowen,matches,tournaments,pubs,pastimes,pastime,play,played
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M95ND2 - Darts or dart-throwing is a competitive sport in which two or more players bare-handedly throw small sharp-pointed missiles known as darts at a round target known as a dartboard
The standard numbered point system is attributed to Lancashire carpenter Brian Gamlin, who devised it in 1896 to penalise inaccuracy, though this is disputed. Many configurations have been used, varying by time and location. In particular, the Yorkshire and Manchester Log End boards differ from the standard board in that they have no triple, only double and bullseye. The Manchester board is smaller than the standard, with a playing area of only 25 cm (9.8 in) across, with double and bull areas measuring just 4 mm (0.16 in). The London Fives board is another variation, with only 12 equal segments, with the doubles and trebles being a quarter of an inch (6.35 mm) wide.
Mathematically, removing the rotational symmetry by placing the 20 at the top, there are 19!, or 121,645,100,408,832,000 possible dartboards. Many different layouts would penalise a player more than the current setup
however, the current setup actually does the job rather efficiently. There have been several mathematical papers published that consider the optimal dartboard.
Before World War I, pubs in the United Kingdom had dartboards made from solid blocks of wood, usually elm. But darts pocked the surface of elm such that it was common for a hole to develop around the treble twenty. The other problem was that elm wood needed periodic soaking to keep the wood soft.
In 1935, chemist Ted Leggatt and pub owner Frank Dabbs began using the century plant, a type of agave, to make dartboards. Small bundles of sisal fibres of the same length were bundled together. The bundles were then compressed into a disk and bound with a metal ring. This new dartboard was an instant success. It was more durable and required little maintenance. Furthermore, darts did little or no damage to the board
they simply parted the packed fibres whe
England, United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Stockport,Cheshire,England,UK,locks,playing,guitar,accordion,woman,man,duo,canal,lock flight,SK6 5LD,SK6,on,the,of the,tow,path,waterway,union,flag,union jack,British,Peak Forest,informal,band,folk,musios,sat,sitting,play
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M4CACW - . This authentic period view of Peak Forest canal, lock flight, Marple, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK, SK6 5LD in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The scene records Musicians on the towpath of the Peak Forest canal, lock flight, Marple, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK, SK6 5LD. The broader subject matter reaches into community identity, historical comparison, canal infrastructure, industrial waterway history, everyday life, towpath landscape, managed navigation, waterborne transport, archival record, period detail, changing streetscape, heritage boating, navigation engineering, and changing land use. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with volunteering, biodiversity and the cost of keeping ageing locks and canal structures operational. Small period details of equipment and working practice at Peak Forest canal, lock flight, Marple, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK, SK6 5LD may become more significant with time, particularly following altered transport patterns. The photograph additionally reflects canal heritage, regional identity, documentary photography, public realm, inland boating, place identity, before-and-after reference, and working waterway. The recorded references to flight, canal, Marple, Forest, and Stockport preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The wider setting at Peak Forest canal, lock flight, Marple, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK, SK6 5LD matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Another useful connection is volunteering and how navigation heritage coexists with modern flood and environmental management as part of the longer story of Peak Forest canal, lock flight, Marple, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK, SK6 5LD.
Peak Forest canal, lock flight, Marple, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK, SK6 5LD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,gate,gates,crest,independent,co-educational,M3,England,UK,M3 1SB,of,Music,history,historic,heritage,stone,Chetham,educate,education,musical,talent,play,playing,instrument,instruments,ancient,old,oldest,arches,stonework,entrances,landmark,buildings,building
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYTBTB - . Made at Long Millgate, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1SB in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The image documents Chetham's School of Music, Chets, gateway, Long Millgate, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1SB. Further facets of the scene include urban regeneration, social history, urban fabric, historic townscape, archival record, fan tourism, commercial redevelopment, changing streetscape, public-realm investment, contemporary social history, historical comparison, tribute venue, architectural character, and public realm. The wider contemporary story combines housing pressure, adaptive reuse and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with night-time economy, music tourism and the enduring commercial appeal of Beatles imagery. Small period details of signage and branding at Long Millgate, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1SB may become more significant with time, particularly following different community use. The location also brings in local history, cultural nostalgia, changing land use, local music culture, mixed-use redevelopment, documentary photography, popular-music heritage, and community identity. References to gateway, Chetham's, Music, Manchester, and Chets give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. By fixing the subject within Long Millgate, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1SB, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The scene further reflects housing pressure and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space when considered against later change at Long Millgate, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1SB.
Long Millgate, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1SB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNN59F - . Photographed at Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG 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 image documents Ye Olde Wyche Theatre building from 1919, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG. The image also relates to heritage asset, conservation interest, place identity, historic townscape, built heritage, conservation architecture, social history, architectural detail, period architecture, local history, adaptive reuse, cityscape history, before-and-after reference, and contemporary social history. For current editorial use, planning control and embodied carbon provide additional context, especially through how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change. As a dated visual record of Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG, the frame retains street furniture and boundaries, making it especially useful if closure or conversion subsequently changes the scene. Other useful contextual ideas include local character, visual archive, changing land use, archival record, documentary photography, historical comparison, period building, and urban fabric. Details involving building, Nantwich, Wyche, and Theatre make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. A further contemporary connection is planning control and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change within the specific setting of Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG. The wider significance includes adaptive reuse and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character as part of the longer story of Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG.
Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5DG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M07AGR - Established in 1990 The Hereford Big Band is now in its 27th year and going from strength to strength.
Hereford Big Band rehearses weekly throughout the year on a Thursday evening at the Lads Club on Widemarsh Common, Hereford HR4 9NA and are a committed group of musicians who enjoy what they do. - more info at http://www.herefordbigband.co.uk/about/
Hereford cathedral, summer 2022, City Centre, Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2PR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,Soho,London,WC2H 9NZ,sign,neon,70,theatre,theatres,play,St Martins Theatre,the,Agatha Christie,longest,running,production,St Martins,daytime,outside,exterior,summer,sunny,heritage,traditional,classic,vintage,buildings,walking tour,tours,famous,site,sites
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJGB43 - . Recorded at West Street, London, England, UK, WC2H 9NZ 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 St Martins Theatre, the Agatha Christie Mousetrap 70th year, West End theatre, West Street, London, England, UK, WC2H 9NZ. The wider scene also brings together everyday life, queer urban culture, queer social space, inclusive night-time venue, Pride culture, regional identity, everyday street life, inclusive hospitality, LGBTQ nightlife, social landscape, community safe space, gay bar culture, period detail, and social history. Today's relevance is strengthened by gentrification, commercial rents and the continuing question of the loss of queer venues through rising rents and redevelopment. From a 2025-onward perspective, street safety and commercial change are closely linked to this subject, alongside the relationship between public space and local social life. Small period details of local activity and public use at West Street, London, England, UK, WC2H 9NZ may become more significant with time, particularly following altered transport patterns. The surrounding story also includes gay hospitality, queer London, visual archive, changing streetscape, contemporary city life, changing land use, street-level documentary, and local character. Elements such as Theatre, Martins, Agatha, Mousetrap, and Christie add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. For West Street, London, England, UK, WC2H 9NZ, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Its period value extends to gentrification and the loss of queer venues through rising rents and redevelopment in a form that can be compared with future views of West Street, London, England, UK, WC2H 9NZ.
West Street, London, England, UK, WC2H 9NZ
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,SE1,21 New Globe Walk,Southwark,England,UK,SE1 9DT,theater,venue,plays,play,21,New Globe Walk,new,playwright,modern,tourist,attraction,tourism,English,Sam Wanamaker,Michelle Terry,trust,centre,stage,wood,wooden,recreation,model,openair,open air,history,historic,Macbeth
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKBPJY - Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames. The original theatre was built in 1599, destroyed by the fire in 1613, rebuilt in 1614, and then demolished in 1644. The modern Globe Theatre is an academic approximation based on available evidence of the 1599 and 1614 buildings. It is considered quite realistic, though modern safety requirements mean that it accommodates only 1,400 spectators compared to the original theatre's 3,000.
The modern Shakespeare's Globe was founded by the actor and director Sam Wanamaker, and built about 230 metres (750 ft) from the site of the original theatre in the historic open-air style. It opened to the public in 1997, with a production of Henry V. The site also includes the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, an indoor theatre which opened in January 2014. This is a smaller, candle-lit space based on historic plans for an indoor playhouse of Jacobean era London (possibly Blackfriars Theatre). The Sackler Studios, an educational and rehearsal studio complex, is situated just around the corner from the main site.
Michelle Terry currently serves as artistic director. She is the second actor-manager in charge of the organisation, following Mark Rylance, the founding artistic director.
The building itself is constructed entirely of English oak, with mortise and tenon joints and is, in this sense, an authentic 16th-century timber-framed building as no structural steel was used. The seats are simple benches (though cushions can be hired for performances) and the Globe has the first and only thatched roof permitted in London since the Great Fire of 1666. The modern thatch is well protected by fire retardants, and sprinklers on the roof ensure further protection against fire
21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, Southwark, London, England, UK, SE1 9DT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,CC,GCC,WA4,people,chairs,camping chair,pitch,field,play,playing,two,spectators,spectator,watch,watching,supporting,Grappenhall,village,Cricket Club,Grappers,Grappers.com,3rd XI,vs,Ashley CC,Ashley,Cheshire,4th XI,batting,score,bowl,bowling,26/06/2022,match
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JF24KT - . Made at Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ER 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. At the centre of the view is Two spectators watch Grappenhall Cricket Club - 3rd XI vs Ashley CC, Cheshire - 4th XI Cricket Club, Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, WA4 3ER. The image also relates to pedestrian environment, visual archive, contemporary social history, local history, urban social history, urban change, local character, street-level documentary, social history, documentary photography, everyday life, archival record, place identity, and changing streetscape. The wider contemporary story combines footfall, local identity and how ordinary street scenes become valuable records as businesses and infrastructure change. Future viewers can use this scene from Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ER to compare commercial use and occupation with whatever follows after changed technology. Further associations within the scene are community identity, before-and-after reference, contemporary city life, everyday street life, regional identity, community life, period detail, and social landscape. Elements such as spectators, Grappenhall, Ashley, Broad, and watch add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. Around Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ER, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The scene further reflects footfall and the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments as part of the longer story of Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ER. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2JF24KT.
Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ER
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K41M1F - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 in 2019, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The scene records The Gathering, perform in Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, for St Patricks Day, March 2019. The wider scene also brings together St Patrick's Day tradition, local character, documentary photography, Irish heritage, community remembrance, visual archive, Irish-British history, community identity, diaspora celebration, everyday life, Irish diaspora, public commemoration, Irish cultural identity, and civic procession. Today's relevance is strengthened by migration, cultural celebration and the continuing question of how Irish cultural events connect migration history with contemporary civic life. The archival value lies partly in recording equipment and working practice around Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 before new construction alters the character of the place. The wider setting retains connections with period detail, before-and-after reference, regional identity, historical comparison, social history, changing land use, place identity, and Irish social history. References to Golden, March, perform, Patricks, and Gathering give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The scene further reflects migration and how Irish cultural events connect migration history with contemporary civic life within the real-world context of Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1. The period view preserves details of everyday use as part of Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1's history.
Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K41M1P - . Photographed at Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 in 2019, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The image documents The Gathering, perform in Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, for St Patricks Day, March 2019. The image also relates to Irish community culture, St Patrick's Day tradition, visual archive, community identity, social history, public realm, before-and-after reference, period detail, diaspora celebration, Irish-British history, documentary photography, Irish social history, changing streetscape, and historical comparison. For current editorial use, public remembrance and cross-community relations provide additional context, especially through the role of annual parades in maintaining community identity. For later comparison, the photograph preserves lettering, decoration and surface detail at Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1, details that may look very different after redevelopment. The location also brings in archival record, local history, changing land use, community remembrance, place identity, local character, everyday life, and regional identity. Elements such as perform, Patricks, March, Square, and Golden add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The wider setting at Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The image also provides a reference for public remembrance and the role of annual parades in maintaining community identity within the real-world context of Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1. The record includes details of everyday use for later comparison. Image 2K41M1P also remains a dated record of Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1.
Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFK658 - American Son Broadway Play
Kerry Washington (Scandal , Race) returns to the Broadway stage alongside Steven Pasquale (American Crime Story, Junk), Eugene Lee (Gem of the Ocean), and Jeremy Jordan (Supergirl, Newsies), in the riveting new play, AMERICAN SON.
Marking the Broadway debut of playwright Christopher Demos-Brown and directed by Tony Award® winner Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun, Fences), AMERICAN SON is a gripping tale about who we are as a nation, and how we deal with family relationships, love, loss, and identity.
Kerry Washington Kendra
Kerry Washington is a versatile and fearless performer who continues to astound with the depth of her talent. A native of the Bronx, New York, Washington has received high acclaim for her work in film, television and theater. Her portrayal of crisis-manager Olivia Pope on the hit Shonda Rhimes show Scandal, which aired its series finale in April 2018, has earned her numerous accolades including Golden Globe®, Emmy® and Screen Actors Guild® nominations for Best Actress as well as an NAACP Image Award for Best Actress. In 2016, Washington launched her production company, Simpson Street, whose first project, HBO's Confirmation , earned Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for its portrayal of Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearings and the sexual accusations against him by Anita Hill (portrayed by Washington). Film credits include Save the Last Dance, Lift (for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination), Mr. & Mrs. Smith, I Think I Love My Wife, She Hate Me, Miracle at St. Anna, Lakeview Terrace, The Details, A Thousand Words, Mother and Child, Django Unchained, Peeples and Cars 3. Washington is active in many social and political causes. She served on the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities during the Obama Administration.
Booth Theatre 222 West 45th Street New York, NY 10036, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PBRY2P - Grappenhall Cricket Club played its first game in 1881 on a ground in Bellhouse Lane. The club moved to its current home of Broad Lane in 1892 with a new clubhouse. There have been several new clubhouses built on the existing site with the most recent developments coming in the late 1980's with significant improvements to the facilities in 2011.
In the early days the club played a number of friendly matches. Grappers then played regular fixtures up to the 2nd World War. In 1939, before war broke out, Grappers were founder members of the North Cheshire League but the league was stopped at the start of the war and was never resumed.
From the 1960's onwards GCC were members of the Manchester Association which was the prelude to the clubs most successful period.
The 70's & 80's “ the golden years
In 1981, after a couple of good seasons following promotion to the top division in the late 70's, the 1st XI won the top flight for the first time. One of Grappenhall's best teams, it included some famous Grappers names such as Duncan Martindale, Rick Houghton, Chris Ashton, Neil Titchard, Jim Green, Nick Sharp and a young Neil Fairbrother, only a few years before he headed off for big things with Lancashire and England.
In 1982, the 1st XI went one better, this time winning the league and cup double with the HC Cup Final being one of a number of appearances the club mate at Old Trafford in the 80's.
The double was repeated in 1987 with another appearance at Old Trafford, this time with the team including another future Lancashire star and future Grappers captain in Steve Titchard. In the same season, the 2nd XI also tasted success by winning the Worthington Cup.
There were a number of other cup successes for the club during this period for the different senior and junior teams, with many a memorable game taking place and the tales still being regaled today.
In 1992, the club were in their last season in Manchester Association before a move to the CCCL
41 Broad Ln, Warrington WA4 3ER, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Outside the Young Vic Theatre,London Southwark,England,UK,art,arts,theatre,play,plays,neon,pub,bar,Outside,the,winner,of,5,Tony,awards,London,Southwark,south,cut,south bank,performing arts,venue,space,Frank Dunlop,The Cut,SE1 8LZ,SE1,Young Vic Company,young audiences,young audience
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JHB6XE - The Young Vic Theatre is a performing arts venue located on The Cut, near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth.
The Young Vic was established by Frank Dunlop in 1970. Kwame Kwei-Armah has been Artistic Director since February 2018, succeeding David Lan.
History
In the period after World War II, a Young Vic Company was formed in 1946 by director George Devine as an offshoot of the Old Vic Theatre School for the purpose of performing classic plays for audiences aged nine to fifteen.
This was discontinued in 1948 when Devine and the entire faculty resigned from the Old Vic, but in 1969 Frank Dunlop became founder-director of The Young Vic theatre with Scapino, his free adaptation of Molière's The Cheats of Scapin, presented at the new venue as a National Theatre production, opening on 11 September 1970 and starring Jim Dale in the title role with designs by Carl Toms (decor) and Maria Björnson (costumes).
Initially part of the National Theatre, the Young Vic Theatre became an independent body in 1974.
In the words of Laurence Olivier, then director of the National Theatre: Here we think to develop plays for young audiences, an experimental workshop for authors, actors and producers. The aim was to create an accessible theatre which offered high quality at low cost in an informal environment. The aim was to appeal to young audiences, but this time not specifically to children.
66, The Cut, Southwark, London, England, UK, SE1 8LZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RM252Y - The Opera House in Quay Street, Manchester, England, is a 1,920-seater commercial touring theatre that plays host to touring musicals, ballet, concerts and a Christmas pantomime. It is a Grade II listed building. The Opera House is one of the main theatres in Manchester, England. The Opera House and its sister theatre the Palace Theatre, Manchester on Oxford Street are operated by the same parent company, Ambassador Theatre Group.
The theatre opened as the New Theatre in 1912, renamed the New Queen's Theatre in 1915 and as the Opera House in 1920 when it came under the wing of John Hart and his associates of United Theatres Ltd. In 1931 it was bought by, and prospered under, Howard & Wyndham Ltd which had been formed at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow in 1895 by Michael Simons. The group`s managing director A Stewart Cruikshank, headquartered at the group's headquarters in the King's Theatre, Edinburgh was joined on the board by Charles B Cochrane who now became a visiting producer at the Opera House, premiering numerous musicals and revues. The theatre staged the full range of plays, musicals, opera, and pantomime.
It closed in 1979 and for five years was a bingo hall. The Palace Trust acquired it in 1984 and returned it to a theatre. In 1990 it was acquired by Apollo Leisure and staged large-scale musicals.
The theatre has a rectangular plan and is built of stuccoed brick with a slate roof. Its symmetrical fifteen-bay facade is in the Classical style with a five-bay centre with fluted Ionic columns. Above the three central bays is a relief of a horse-drawn chariot within a semi-circular arch. The gable has a moulded cornice on brackets. The entrance canopy is a 20th-century addition.
The auditorium has two curved cantilevered balconies with large overhangs each holding 500 seats. Either side of the stage are stacked boxes between pairs of fluted Corinthian columns. The high proscenium arch is decorated with a circular medallion flanked by gryphons.
3 Quay St, Manchester, North west England, UK, M3 3HP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4EGCH - . A grounded documentary photograph made at 10 Crown Street, Warrington WA1 2AE in 2016, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The principal subject is ClueHQ,The Live Escape Game,Warrington,Cheshire, England. The locality and subject together evoke changing land use, conservation architecture, heritage asset, contemporary social history, conservation interest, historic townscape, historical comparison, urban fabric, visual archive, heritage landmark, period architecture, historic streetscape, architectural detail, and regional identity. The modern context includes continuing discussion of tourism, planning control and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change. Future viewers can use this scene from 10 Crown Street, Warrington WA1 2AE to compare landscape treatment and surrounding development with whatever follows after altered transport patterns. A second descriptive layer includes cityscape history, documentary photography, archival record, adaptive reuse, period detail, changing streetscape, built heritage, and local history. Details involving Escape and ClueHQ make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within 10 Crown Street, Warrington WA1 2AE, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The image also provides a reference for tourism and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change without losing the local specificity of 10 Crown Street, Warrington WA1 2AE. Another useful connection is adaptive reuse and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change in a form that can be compared with future views of 10 Crown Street, Warrington WA1 2AE. The photograph keeps part of the area's social history as a date-specific reference.
10 Crown Street, Warrington WA1 2AE
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4EDX9 - . This location-specific image from St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The location is represented through Royal Exchange Closing Prices, Royal Exchange Theatre,Manchester,England,UK. The frame also records themes of heritage interpretation, historic artefact, social-history object, historic material culture, period craftsmanship, archival record, documentary photography, before-and-after reference, local history, regional identity, antique object, decorative metalwork, museum object, and material culture. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with object conservation, craftsmanship and how museums turn individual objects into wider stories about place and people. For later comparison, the photograph preserves landscape treatment and surrounding development at St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK, details that may look very different after new ownership. A second descriptive layer includes changing streetscape, public realm, local-history evidence, contemporary social history, place identity, historic inscription, commemorative object, and local character. References to Exchange, Closing, Theatre, Royal, and Manchester give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. A later view of St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. A further contemporary connection is object conservation and how museums turn individual objects into wider stories about place and people when considered against later change at St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK. It also preserves a point of historical comparison within the wider story of St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK.
St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H552FP - Southwark Cathedral or The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark, London, lies on the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge. It is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark. It has been a place of Christian worship for more than 1,000 years, but a cathedral only since the creation of the diocese of Southwark in 1905.
Between 1106 and 1538 it was the church of an Augustinian priory, Southwark Priory, dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Following the dissolution of the monasteries, it became a parish church, with the new dedication of St Saviour's. The church was in the diocese of Winchester until 1877, when the parish of St Saviour's, along with other South London parishes, was transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The present building retains the basic form of the Gothic structure built between 1220 and 1420, although the nave is a late 19th-century reconstruction.
There is a large stained glass window dedicated to William Shakespeare, depicting scenes from his plays, at the base of which is an alabaster statue representing the playwright reclining, holding a quill.
London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H552M5 - Southwark Cathedral or The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark, London, lies on the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge. It is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark. It has been a place of Christian worship for more than 1,000 years, but a cathedral only since the creation of the diocese of Southwark in 1905.
Between 1106 and 1538 it was the church of an Augustinian priory, Southwark Priory, dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Following the dissolution of the monasteries, it became a parish church, with the new dedication of St Saviour's. The church was in the diocese of Winchester until 1877, when the parish of St Saviour's, along with other South London parishes, was transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The present building retains the basic form of the Gothic structure built between 1220 and 1420, although the nave is a late 19th-century reconstruction.
There is a large stained glass window dedicated to William Shakespeare, depicting scenes from his plays, at the base of which is an alabaster statue representing the playwright reclining, holding a quill.
London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA
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Keywords: Scotland,UK,at,night,blue,hour,bluehour,art,arts,Aberdeenshire,culture,plays,ballet,performing,arts,fund,funding,success,failure,shot,nightshot,evening,Scotland,UK,at,tripod,purple,evening,Rosemount,Viaduct,Scotland,AB25,1GL,AB251GL,His Majestys Theatre,His Majesties Theatre,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,United,Kingdom,GB,English,British,interesting,unique,center,oil,arts,centre,play,performance,performances,building,victorian,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,United Kingdom,Great Britain,great pictures of,great photos of,His Majestys,Aberdeen City,His Majestys Theatre,Aberdeen City Centre
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GMA9A1 - . This scene at Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 1GL in 2016 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The principal subject is His Majestys Theatre, Aberdeen City Centre, Scotland, UK at night. The surrounding context encompasses customer footfall, everyday life, community identity, changing streetscape, archival record, place identity, independent retail, social history, period detail, specialist shop, local history, small business, retail property, and bricks-and-mortar retail. For current editorial use, town-centre regeneration and commercial rents provide additional context, especially through the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets. The archival value lies partly in recording building condition and alterations around Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 1GL before conservation work alters the character of the place. A second descriptive layer includes local enterprise, high-street commerce, commercial frontage, town-centre trading, specialist retailer, local character, before-and-after reference, and visual archive. Details involving Theatre, Centre, Aberdeen, night, and Majestys make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The wider setting at Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 1GL matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The location additionally provides evidence of town-centre regeneration and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses without losing the local specificity of Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 1GL. A further contemporary connection is commercial rents and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses in a form that can be compared with future views of Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 1GL.
Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 1GL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GMAA62 - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 1GL in 2016, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. At the centre of the view is His Majestys Theatre, Aberdeen City Centre, Scotland, UK at night. The setting additionally reflects local character, customer footfall, documentary photography, local enterprise, historical comparison, commercial frontage, changing land use, specialist retailer, bricks-and-mortar retail, changing streetscape, street-level business, retail property, town-centre trading, and before-and-after reference. Today's relevance is strengthened by commercial rents, consumer spending and the continuing question of how commercial property costs affect small retailers. For later comparison, the photograph preserves street furniture and boundaries at Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 1GL, details that may look very different after redevelopment. The location also brings in place identity, shopfront economy, specialist shop, small business, period detail, contemporary social history, archival record, and regional identity. Elements such as night, Centre, Majestys, Aberdeen, and Theatre add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 1GL may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The location additionally provides evidence of commercial rents and how commercial property costs affect small retailers as part of the longer story of Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 1GL. A further contemporary connection is commercial rents and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses when considered against later change at Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 1GL.
Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 1GL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED8PRD - . Scenes outside The Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre for the production of Wicked, Scotland, UK. Photographed at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The photograph was taken on 27 December 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Scenes, outside, Edinburgh, Playhouse, Theatre, Wicked, production, Arts, movement and entertainment, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image is relevant to architecture, the built environment, urban heritage, streetscape and the way historic and modern buildings contribute to a sense of place. It can illustrate editorial coverage of architectural detail, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, tourism, civic identity and changing uses of older properties. Facades, windows, entrances, masonry, decorative elements, signage and neighbouring structures provide documentary evidence of the building's appearance and setting. The dated view also gives the photograph archive value for future comparison if the property is restored, altered, rebranded, repurposed or redeveloped. Search themes include architecture, historic buildings, facades, interiors, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, heritage, streetscape and urban change. A precise location image is useful for comparing later restoration, alteration, redevelopment, rebranding or changes in the use of the building. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED8PRE - . Scenes outside The Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre for the production of Wicked, Scotland, UK. Photographed at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The photograph was taken on 27 December 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Scenes, outside, Edinburgh, Playhouse, Theatre, Wicked, production, Arts, movement and entertainment, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image is relevant to architecture, the built environment, urban heritage, streetscape and the way historic and modern buildings contribute to a sense of place. It can illustrate editorial coverage of architectural detail, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, tourism, civic identity and changing uses of older properties. Facades, windows, entrances, masonry, decorative elements, signage and neighbouring structures provide documentary evidence of the building's appearance and setting. The dated view also gives the photograph archive value for future comparison if the property is restored, altered, rebranded, repurposed or redeveloped. Search themes include architecture, historic buildings, facades, interiors, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, heritage, streetscape and urban change. A precise location image is useful for comparing later restoration, alteration, redevelopment, rebranding or changes in the use of the building. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED9D41 - . Scenes outside The Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre for the production of Wicked, Scotland, UK. Photographed at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The photograph was taken on 27 December 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Scenes, outside, Edinburgh, Playhouse, Theatre, Wicked, production, Arts, movement and entertainment, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image is relevant to architecture, the built environment, urban heritage, streetscape and the way historic and modern buildings contribute to a sense of place. It can illustrate editorial coverage of architectural detail, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, tourism, civic identity and changing uses of older properties. Facades, windows, entrances, masonry, decorative elements, signage and neighbouring structures provide documentary evidence of the building's appearance and setting. The dated view also gives the photograph archive value for future comparison if the property is restored, altered, rebranded, repurposed or redeveloped. Search themes include architecture, historic buildings, facades, interiors, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, heritage, streetscape and urban change. A precise location image is useful for comparing later restoration, alteration, redevelopment, rebranding or changes in the use of the building. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED9D42 - . Scenes outside The Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre for the production of Wicked, Scotland, UK. Photographed at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The photograph was taken on 27 December 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Scenes, outside, Edinburgh, Playhouse, Theatre, Wicked, production, Arts, movement and entertainment, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image is relevant to architecture, the built environment, urban heritage, streetscape and the way historic and modern buildings contribute to a sense of place. It can illustrate editorial coverage of architectural detail, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, tourism, civic identity and changing uses of older properties. Facades, windows, entrances, masonry, decorative elements, signage and neighbouring structures provide documentary evidence of the building's appearance and setting. The dated view also gives the photograph archive value for future comparison if the property is restored, altered, rebranded, repurposed or redeveloped. Search themes include architecture, historic buildings, facades, interiors, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, heritage, streetscape and urban change. A precise location image is useful for comparing later restoration, alteration, redevelopment, rebranding or changes in the use of the building. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED9DN2 - . Shrek at The palace theatre Oxford Rd Manchester at dusk - Shrek-Tacular. Photographed at Oxford Road, Manchester, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 06 December 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The low-light or evening setting is part of the subject, bringing illuminated signs, windows and street lighting into the documentary character of the scene. Signage, lettering, logos, numbers or other visible information form an important part of the record, helping identify the subject and capture contemporary branding or public messaging. The scene is closely associated with Shrek, palace, theatre, Oxford, Manchester, Shrek-Tacular, The Palace, Road, night and nightshot, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph has strong editorial relevance to public events, festivals, performances, celebrations and the temporary activity that changes the character of a familiar place. It can support coverage of festivals, street entertainment, performers, audiences, tourism, cultural events, city-centre activity and the economic and social impact of organised public gatherings. Costume, temporary signs, crowds, performance areas, street furniture and the surrounding architecture can all help establish the event in a specific place and period. Because events are temporary, a dated documentary photograph has particular archive value, preserving details that disappear as soon as the programme, performers and public activity move on. Search themes include festivals, street performance, live entertainment, cultural events, tourism, crowds, city-centre activity, temporary public space and event heritage. The dated view is valuable for identifying how a particular event, performer or festival presence looked in that year.
Oxford Road, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DRH8CC - . Meredith Sheldon aka Alamar supporting Johnny Marr at Manchester academy Gig 12/10/2013. Photographed at Manchester Uni Academy, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 12 October 2013. The image metadata records 1 person in the frame. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Meredith, Sheldon, aka, Alamar, supporting, Johnny, Marr, guitarist, songwriter and 12/10/2013, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The subject has strong relevance to education, school life, pupils, students, classmates, learning and the rituals that mark transitions between stages of childhood and young adulthood. It can support editorial features about schools, the end of term, friendship, uniforms, memories, examinations, moving to a new school, student identity and the social traditions that develop around education. Handwriting, names, clothing, classroom or school-related details can provide authentic visual evidence of personal experience rather than a staged educational concept. The photograph can therefore work for both contemporary education stories and longer-term social-history coverage of how pupils commemorate school years and friendships. Search themes include education, school life, pupils, classmates, school leavers, uniforms, end-of-term traditions, childhood memories and transitions between stages of education. Personal marks, handwriting, clothing or school-related objects give the subject a human documentary quality that is useful for social-history as well as education coverage. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph.
Manchester Uni Academy, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DA629K - . Salford Quays, Manchester Ship Canal Dock side. Photographed on 16 June 2013. The recorded location is Salford Quays, Manchester, England, UK. Salford Quays occupies the former Manchester Docks, once the inland terminus of the Manchester Ship Canal. After the docks closed in 1982, large-scale regeneration transformed derelict wharves into housing, offices, cultural venues and eventually MediaCity. Salford City Council now describes the Quays as one of Europe's most successful waterfront regeneration projects, and in 2026 further growth is planned around new homes, technology, culture and improved public space. In the longer view, working locks, bridges and canal-side buildings reveal the engineering system that underpinned industrial Britain
Many former commercial waterways have been restored for recreation and heritage use, creating a distinctive mixture of historic infrastructure, contemporary development and linear green space. In historical terms, ports and vessels are central to Britain's maritime history, linking coastal communities and inland industry with fishing, trade, passenger travel and international shipping
Harbours, docks and working craft also reflect changing technology, from traditional fishing fleets to high-speed workboats and modern freight logistics. Current 2026 relevance comes from the fact that britain's historic waterways remain important for recreation, tourism, biodiversity and industrial heritage, while ageing locks, embankments and bridges require continuing maintenance
Urban canal corridors are also increasingly used for walking, cycling and waterside regeneration. During 2026, modern maritime policy increasingly combines freight efficiency with lower-carbon shipping and port investment
Photographs of working vessels and harbours can illustrate the continuity between traditional maritime trades and now's logistics, offshore and passenger sectors.
Salford Quays, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYKF - The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II was a multinational celebration throughout 2012 marking the 60th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the thrones of seven countries upon the death of her father, King George VI, on 6 February 1952.
She is today queen regnant of 16 sovereign states, 12 of which were British colonies or Dominions at the start of her reign. Queen Victoria, Elizabeth's great-great-grandmother, is the only other monarch in the histories of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a few other Commonwealth realms to have celebrated a Diamond Jubilee, which she did in 1897.
Many parks and spaces were renamed to celebrate this event, across the UK and the Commonwealth.
Euclid Avenue, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA4 2PL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H2TETP - This documentary stock photograph shows Dusk at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, Southwark, London, England, UK, SE1 9DT. The image is centred on Shakespeare's Globe and Bankside, giving it strong editorial value for stories about London, architecture, tourism, heritage, public realm, night photography and the way the capital presents itself beside the River Thames. The caption and visible treatment indicate low light, dusk or evening atmosphere, so the photograph can be used as a real city scene rather than a generic skyline. The wider context includes the reconstructed Globe Theatre, Bankside performance culture, Shakespeare tourism and the South Bank visitor economy. These are subjects with broad stock-photo demand because they connect recognisable landmarks with themes of history, culture, faith, finance, theatre, regeneration, transport, walking routes and visitor spending. The image can support articles about City of London working life, South Bank tourism, Bankside leisure, London at dusk, cathedral heritage, riverside views, public spaces, cultural venues, urban planning, commercial property and the continuing pull of landmark architecture in news and travel publishing. For SEO and Alamy search, useful composite phrases include London dusk skyline, St Pauls Cathedral evening view, River Thames panorama, Bankside cultural quarter, Shakespeare Globe Theatre exterior, Millennium Bridge London, City of London landmark and Southwark riverside tourism. If the image is black and white, the monochrome style adds a more timeless, architectural feel
if it is in colour, the low-light sky and urban illumination add atmosphere and practical editorial appeal. Its value lies in combining a recognisable subject with a specific viewpoint and mood, suitable for guidebooks, blogs, newspapers, magazines, education, heritage, planning, religion, theatre, travel and city-break content.
21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, Southwark, London, England, UK, SE1 9DT,
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H2TF03 - This documentary stock photograph shows Dusk at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, Southwark, London, England, UK, SE1 9DT. The image is centred on Shakespeare's Globe and Bankside, giving it strong editorial value for stories about London, architecture, tourism, heritage, public realm, night photography and the way the capital presents itself beside the River Thames. The caption and visible treatment indicate low light, dusk or evening atmosphere, so the photograph can be used as a real city scene rather than a generic skyline. The wider context includes the reconstructed Globe Theatre, Bankside performance culture, Shakespeare tourism and the South Bank visitor economy. These are subjects with broad stock-photo demand because they connect recognisable landmarks with themes of history, culture, faith, finance, theatre, regeneration, transport, walking routes and visitor spending. The image can support articles about City of London working life, South Bank tourism, Bankside leisure, London at dusk, cathedral heritage, riverside views, public spaces, cultural venues, urban planning, commercial property and the continuing pull of landmark architecture in news and travel publishing. For SEO and Alamy search, useful composite phrases include London dusk skyline, St Pauls Cathedral evening view, River Thames panorama, Bankside cultural quarter, Shakespeare Globe Theatre exterior, Millennium Bridge London, City of London landmark and Southwark riverside tourism. If the image is black and white, the monochrome style adds a more timeless, architectural feel
if it is in colour, the low-light sky and urban illumination add atmosphere and practical editorial appeal. Its value lies in combining a recognisable subject with a specific viewpoint and mood, suitable for guidebooks, blogs, newspapers, magazines, education, heritage, planning, religion, theatre, travel and city-break content.
21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, Southwark, London, England, UK, SE1 9DT,
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H2TF47 - This documentary stock photograph shows Dusk at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, Southwark, London, England, UK, SE1 9DT. The image is centred on Shakespeare's Globe and Bankside, giving it strong editorial value for stories about London, architecture, tourism, heritage, public realm, night photography and the way the capital presents itself beside the River Thames. The caption and visible treatment indicate low light, dusk or evening atmosphere, so the photograph can be used as a real city scene rather than a generic skyline. The wider context includes the reconstructed Globe Theatre, Bankside performance culture, Shakespeare tourism and the South Bank visitor economy. These are subjects with broad stock-photo demand because they connect recognisable landmarks with themes of history, culture, faith, finance, theatre, regeneration, transport, walking routes and visitor spending. The image can support articles about City of London working life, South Bank tourism, Bankside leisure, London at dusk, cathedral heritage, riverside views, public spaces, cultural venues, urban planning, commercial property and the continuing pull of landmark architecture in news and travel publishing. For SEO and Alamy search, useful composite phrases include London dusk skyline, St Pauls Cathedral evening view, River Thames panorama, Bankside cultural quarter, Shakespeare Globe Theatre exterior, Millennium Bridge London, City of London landmark and Southwark riverside tourism. If the image is black and white, the monochrome style adds a more timeless, architectural feel
if it is in colour, the low-light sky and urban illumination add atmosphere and practical editorial appeal. Its value lies in combining a recognisable subject with a specific viewpoint and mood, suitable for guidebooks, blogs, newspapers, magazines, education, heritage, planning, religion, theatre, travel and city-break content.
21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, Southwark, London, England, UK, SE1 9DT,
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H2TF77 - This documentary stock photograph shows Dusk at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, Southwark, London, England, UK, SE1 9DT. The image is centred on Shakespeare's Globe and Bankside, giving it strong editorial value for stories about London, architecture, tourism, heritage, public realm, night photography and the way the capital presents itself beside the River Thames. The caption and visible treatment indicate low light, dusk or evening atmosphere, so the photograph can be used as a real city scene rather than a generic skyline. The wider context includes the reconstructed Globe Theatre, Bankside performance culture, Shakespeare tourism and the South Bank visitor economy. These are subjects with broad stock-photo demand because they connect recognisable landmarks with themes of history, culture, faith, finance, theatre, regeneration, transport, walking routes and visitor spending. The image can support articles about City of London working life, South Bank tourism, Bankside leisure, London at dusk, cathedral heritage, riverside views, public spaces, cultural venues, urban planning, commercial property and the continuing pull of landmark architecture in news and travel publishing. For SEO and Alamy search, useful composite phrases include London dusk skyline, St Pauls Cathedral evening view, River Thames panorama, Bankside cultural quarter, Shakespeare Globe Theatre exterior, Millennium Bridge London, City of London landmark and Southwark riverside tourism. If the image is black and white, the monochrome style adds a more timeless, architectural feel
if it is in colour, the low-light sky and urban illumination add atmosphere and practical editorial appeal. Its value lies in combining a recognisable subject with a specific viewpoint and mood, suitable for guidebooks, blogs, newspapers, magazines, education, heritage, planning, religion, theatre, travel and city-break content.
21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, Southwark, London, England, UK, SE1 9DT,
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6002902103 - 'Blondie - Call Me- ob=av2n\' rel=\'nofollow\'>Play this track here.
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Blondie is an American rock band, founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave and punk scenes of the mid-1970s at CBGB's in New York.
Their first two albums contained strong elements of these genres, and although successful in the United Kingdom and Australia, Blondie was regarded as an underground band in the United States until the release of Parallel Lines in 1978. Over the next three years, the band achieved several hit singles and became noted for its eclectic mix of musical styles incorporating elements of disco, pop, rap, and reggae, while retaining a basic style as a New Wave band.
Blondie broke up after the release of their sixth studio album The Hunter in 1982. Debbie Harry continued to pursue a solo career with varied results after taking a few years off to care for partner Chris Stein, who was diagnosed with pemphigus, a rare autoimmune disease of the skin.
The band reformed in 1997, achieving renewed success and a number one single in the United Kingdom with 'Maria' in 1999. The group toured and performed throughout the world during the following years, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Blondie has sold 40 million records worldwide and is still active today, with a new album, Panic of Girls, released 30 May 2011 in the UK.
Prostitution itself is legal in the UK: a person can buy sexual services and working as a private prostitute or outcall escort is legal \u2013 but many related activities are not. This includes kerb crawling, pimping, keeping a brothel, advertising the services of call girls by placing cards (\u201ctart cards\u201d) in phone boxes, like these here and having sex in public. The laws apply to both male and female prostitutes and male and female clients.
Under the Street Offences Act 1959, it is illegal for a prostitute to wait for or solicit business in a street or public place, effectively making street prostitution illegal. Although assistance should be given to assist offenders in finding a route out of prostitution, prostitutes may be punished. Usually first or second time offenders will be cautioned, third and fourth time offenders are usually arrested and charged and on the fifth offence an anti-social behaviour order may be issued on conviction.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HE18EK - The Grand Opera House is a theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed by the most prolific theatre architect of the period, Frank Matcham. It opened on 23 December 1895.
According to the Theatres Trust, the magnificent auditorium is probably the best surviving example in the United Kingdom of the oriental style applied to theatre architecture.
The building has been damaged by bombs on several occasions, usually when the nearby Europa Hotel had been targeted. It was badly damaged by bomb blasts in 1991 and 1993. The theatre continued, however, to host musicals, plays, pantomimes and live music.
2-4 Great Victoria St, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK BT2 7HR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HE18ER - The Grand Opera House is a theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed by the most prolific theatre architect of the period, Frank Matcham. It opened on 23 December 1895.
According to the Theatres Trust, the magnificent auditorium is probably the best surviving example in the United Kingdom of the oriental style applied to theatre architecture.
The building has been damaged by bombs on several occasions, usually when the nearby Europa Hotel had been targeted. It was badly damaged by bomb blasts in 1991 and 1993. The theatre continued, however, to host musicals, plays, pantomimes and live music.
2-4 Great Victoria St, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK BT2 7HR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BEW1FA - 1916: The birth of Scandalli F.lli
The Scandalli Brothers was born in Camerano in 1916 , when Silvio Scandalli ( 1889 -1977) with his brothers Henry and Albino, began making accordions in a small home workshop, and then sell them in nearby Loreto , place of pilgrimage for many believers. It was in 1923 one of the first sales contracts with which the Scandalli brothers undertook to build 25 barrel organs per year for the Belgian Giuseppe Fieres of Mont-Saint-Amand-lez-Gan . In 1930 the Scandalli Brothersit had grown to open a new factory which had a hundred workers and a production of 10 accordions daily [1] .
Photo of a Scandalli from the first half of the 1900s preserved in the International Accordion Museum of Camerano
In those years when the mechanics of the instrument was in continuous development and renewal, the company's research activity was very important, testified by the numerous projects presented at the Patent Office in Milan : the first, from 1924 , bore the title of Improvement in mechanical key devices to combine several voices in accord in bellows accordions , while in 1932 a system was invented that allowed to dismantle the part of the mechanical control organs of both the bass and the chords [1] . In the following years, then, Silvio Scandalli decided to include a small research and patent department in the company.
Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Crouchley Ln,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,WA13 0AT,RFC,rugby,Saturday,26 February 2011,match,game,at,Lymm Rugby Club,verses,vs,final score,28-17,play,playing,26 Feb 2011,player,team,team member,hooker,leap,for,the,ball,six nations,grassroots,popular,popularity
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K43PB5 - . This location-specific image from Lymm RFC ,Crouchley Ln, Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA13 0AT in 2011 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The scene records Saturday, 26 February 2011, National League 3 North, match at Lymm Rugby Club RFC, Penrith RUFC v Lymm, final score 28-17. The surrounding context encompasses supporter culture, visual archive, place identity, fan community, historical comparison, stadium architecture, club identity, before-and-after reference, everyday life, local history, changing streetscape, public realm, football heritage, and regional identity. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into club ownership and supporter engagement, not least because of the economic and social effect of match days on surrounding districts. For later comparison, the photograph preserves transport arrangements and footfall at Lymm RFC ,Crouchley Ln, Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA13 0AT, details that may look very different after redevelopment. The location also brings in professional sport, match-day economy, football tourism, changing land use, archival record, stadium district, spectator sport, and club history. Elements such as Rugby, 28-17, Penrith, score, and match add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of Lymm RFC ,Crouchley Ln, Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA13 0AT may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The setting also helps illustrate club ownership and the archival value of club lettering and branding as grounds evolve when considered against later change at Lymm RFC ,Crouchley Ln, Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA13 0AT. The scene captures evidence of changing use for later comparison.
Lymm RFC ,Crouchley Ln, Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA13 0AT
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Keywords: tony,smith,manchester,tonysmith,lomo,hipstamatic,hipstermatic,iphone,story,play,text,words,salford,droylesden,clayton,ashton,under,lyne,AUL,England,UK,GB,Great,britain,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5389847988 - 'A tale in 12 fragments - 01/12 \u2013 Two Up, Two Down.
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01/12 \u2013 Two Up, Two Down
The over-crowding was eased by the relative safety of the cobbled streets. Neighbours stuck together, with the odd moonlight flit, your extended family no more than eight streets away. My terrace could never be listed, not unique enough. While in my street it would not be pebble dashed or rendered, it may be painted.
My uncle Arthur fell foul of a coat of cheap red paint, obtained through a contact at \u2018Direct Works\u2019 at number 26. Closer to pillar-box than brick red, it was hard to swallow as a true blue, paid up \u2018City season ticket owner. Still he had the last laugh. His outside loo became his winter wine chiller.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4734798535 - ''This Is Turin' has been described as a 'UK extreme metal band' from Cheshire. They announced they were signing to Rising Records late last year with an album in the pipeline.
Stalwarts may remember Daz from his early seminal hard/grind-core band Fall-out. Daz and the new line up have gone from strength to strength and while his hair has become less, the quality material (and the tat2's) have become more.
The band were on top form tonight. The set included 23:1, (the) Nameless, Carpe Diem, The Flood, Mothers Milk (a love song? LOL?), To Your Knees, Lilly and Eradicated. Castro finished off the set and it was good to see that the 'Winnington wall of death' is not dead.
The line up was Daz on Vox, Hayden &
Davey on Guitars, Danni on Bass and Ed on percussion.
Keep it up Daz, Cheshire music needs you lads :-)
There are song samples and all kinds on their MySpace page at www.myspace.com/thisisturinuk including some demo trax to check out. Upcoming gigs take them to Birmingham, Colwyn Bay, wakefield, Manchester and Bridgend. So no excuse not to catch them if death metal (with 'with 50% added extra Tech with libberal smatterings of ambient and a sprinkling of pure unconcentrated blackened epic death... Hmm, there might be some grind and classical in there!'
(unquote) is your bag.
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Keywords: Cheshire,Northwich,cuddington,bowling,sport,club,summer,green,grass,play,player,playing,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4662183553 - 'Often the premise of the back of working mens clubs in Britain (and many other countries), Bowls is a game in which the goal is to roll slightly asymmetric balls, called bowls, so that they stop close to a smaller\u2014normally white\u2014bowl called the 'jack' or 'kitty'. It is related to french boules and goes back to the 13th century. These days in pubs across the land, ex-sunday league pub footballers, quite often go out to grass on the crown green.
Bowls, can be either flat- or crown-green, is usually played outdoors, tradionally on grass and synthetic surfaces. To escape british winter, flat-green bowls can also be played indoors on synthetic surfaces. When national and international matches are televised, this is usually the surface used. Around \u00a3100,000 in prizes are available in annual competition and has been watched by up to 3 million viewers on the BBC.
The world's oldest surviving bowling green is said to be the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299. The worlds longest surviving bowler may be much older, maybe the sport keeps them young (!).
Bowling has a colourful history and was banned in the time of Richard II, when it was thought it may deminsh archery, important for battle. By a further act of 1541 - which was not repealed until 1845 - artificers, labourers, apprentices, servants and the like were forbidden to play bowls at any time except Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence. It was further enjoined that any one playing bowls outside his own garden or orchard was liable to a penalty of 6s. 8d., while those possessed of lands of the yearly value of \u00a3100 might obtain licences to play on their own private greens.
Many British pubs today are named 'The Bowling Green' and indeed, have a well manicured one to the rear.
In 1864 William Wallace Mitchell (1803-1884), a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his 'Manual of Bowls Playing' following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game. Young Mitchell was only 11 when he played on Kilmarnock Bowling green, the oldest club in Scotland, instituted in 1740.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RWN - . Made at Park Rd, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW8 4EB in 2010, 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 defining feature is Title Of Injustice band, playing live 23/04/2010, Winnington Rec, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK - Banned! gig. The photograph also reflects housing quality, community identity, housing stock, public realm, documentary photography, community housing, performance culture, place identity, estate environment, before-and-after reference, changing streetscape, social history, historic context, and contemporary social history. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes heritage alongside regional culture, with particular attention to the archival value of recording bands and venues before they disappear. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with repairs, damp and mould and the pressure to provide safe and affordable homes. Looking back from the mid-2020s, the photograph anchors the relationship between the subject and its surroundings within the setting of Park Rd, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW8 4EB. A second layer of the scene includes housing affordability, housing provision, archival record, regional identity, place-making, visual archive, local character, and neighbourhood regeneration. Elements such as Winnington, playing, Title, Northwich, and Banned add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. Around Park Rd, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW8 4EB, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The scene further reflects heritage and the way music contributes to a city's identity within the real-world context of Park Rd, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW8 4EB.
Park Rd, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW8 4EB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RXD - . Made at Park Rd, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW8 4EB in 2010, 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 scene shows Title Of Injustice band, playing live 23/04/2010, Winnington Rec, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK - Banned! gig. Other connected aspects include social history, everyday life, visual archive, residential environment, estate environment, neighbourhood regeneration, local history, music subculture, concert photography, community identity, contemporary social history, housing quality, before-and-after reference, and housing provision. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes venue closures alongside regional culture, with particular attention to the archival value of recording bands and venues before they disappear. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with damp and mould, housing supply and how housing quality affects everyday wellbeing. Looking back from the mid-2020s, the scene keeps a record of local appearance, occupation, access and public activity in the immediate surroundings of Park Rd, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW8 4EB. The photograph additionally reflects documentary photography, venue culture, archival record, place-making, independent music, place identity, regional identity, and built environment. The combination of Title, Northwich, playing, Injustice, and Banned anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The surrounding context at Park Rd, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW8 4EB matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The scene further reflects venue closures and the way music contributes to a city's identity as part of the longer story of Park Rd, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW8 4EB.
Park Rd, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW8 4EB
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Keywords: arms,atlas,armsofatlas,live,gig,stage,rock,metal,indie,northwich,cheshire,england,uk,banned!,network,winnington,rec,park,hotpix,hotpixuk,tonysmith,tony,smith,guitar,guitarist,music,makers,musicians,play,players,front,men,cool,sexy,dude,rocker,head,metalhead,person,people,portrait,image,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,light,stream,lightstream,Bannedinnortwich,bannedinnorthwich
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4413772644 - 'Leicester band Arms of Atlas (with LeCarla) supporting Exhibit A at Winnington Rec', Northwich Cheshire. This is a Banned! Network gig.
A brilliant gig and the image here captures how they played (kick ass) on the night. Standout track was the cover of backstreets Back.
The setlist was:
Hour of the Night (after a nice intro..)
My Alibi (*)
Too Late
Backstreets Back
Kashmir (nice cover of the Led Zep classic)
Anybody Out There
Pull The Plug (*)
Sound of Your Nightmare.
The crowd were baying for more and a couple more tracks could have been slipped in before Adie pulled the plug. If you see them playing or supporting near you, give them a look!
Tracks marked (*) where on their mySpace last time I looked, click on www.myspace.com/armsofatlasuk and checkout a sample.
Here, Moko take it to the max www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3828200368/
(2010 week 8)
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Keywords: Cardif,Cardiff,rugby,stadium,2000,Millenium,pitch,capital,city,national,flags,waterfront,blue,sky,HotpixOrgUK,365days,building,architecture,sport,wales,welsh,UK,GB,britain,cymru,gymru,stadia,sign,art,country,HDR,high dynamic range,wide,superwide,sporting,action,play,players,staidum,tonysmith,tony,smith,interesting,place,places,sigma,wide angle lens,buildings,built,hotpix!,#tonysmithhotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4084290896 - 'The Millennium Stadium (Stadiwm y Mileniwm) is the national stadium of Wales, located in the capital, Cardiff. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and the Wales national football team but is also host to many other large scale events, such as Wales Rally Great Britain stage of the World Rally Championship, Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain, boxing and many music concerts (including sons of Wales the Manic Street Preachers).
Around the stadium are mosaics of all the world's rugby playing nations, the image above features Cymru which is surrounded by tiles of notable players.
Another Prince of Wales here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3805649308/
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Keywords: bike,bikes,cycle,cycles,Racing,Manchester,Velodrome,commonwealth,games,hotpixuk,hotpix,tonysmith,tony,smith,city,sport,sporting,action,play,players
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3874780587 - 'Manchester Velodrome is an indoor cycle-racing track (or velodrome) in Manchester, in NW England. It opened in September 1994 and is the United Kingdom's leading indoor Olympic-standard track. Today it is home to the UK National Cycling Centre, and the headquarters of British Cycling, the national governing body. It is open to the public.
It hosted the track cycling in the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and the UCI world championships in 1996, 2000 and 2008.
The track has a reputation for speed. By 30 March 2008, more than 15 world records had been set there, including Chris Boardman's 1996 and 2000 hour records and the 4000 metre team pursuit record set by the Great Britain men's team at the 2008 World Championships.
The track is 250 metres long. Its bankings reach 42 degrees in the middle. The track is as steep at the top as it is on the black (racing) line. On 21 May 2007 the velodrome closed to be re-surfaced. The old track was relaid with Siberian pine. It reopened on 16 July 2007, and is now considered smoother to ride.
On 2th July 2009 cycling fans Kraftwerk performed at the Manchester Velodrome as part of the 2009 Manchester International Festival. During the performance of the song Tour de France, four members of the British Olympic Cycling Team entered the velodrome and cycled circuits to great appreciation from the audience.
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Keywords: Grappers,CC,Grappenhall,Cricket,Team,draw,PoyntonCC,Poynton,1stXI,Grappenhall Village,Cheshire,England,UK,village,Warrington,A50,A56,365days,sport,sporting,action,play,players,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3834521347 - 'He bowls, he bats, its a six.
Summer cricket in an english village green. Grappenhall, Warrington Cheshire, England, UK.
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Keywords: Clive,score,scoring,Grappenhall,ExServicemens,bowling,club,Ex,Servicemens,Grappenhall Village,Cheshire,England,UK,village,Warrington,A50,A56,365days,sport,games,entertainment,fun,drink,drinking,booze,sporting,action,play,players,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3835313268 - 'More Sport, cricket on the green at Grappenhall, Cheshire, UK www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3812187297/
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Keywords: Stockport,Red,Haze,RedHaze,alternative,clothing,erotic,erotism,bondage,stud,studs,belts,leather,latex,straps,tight,glove,gloves,black,room,shadow,white,BW,toned,girl,woman,studded,play,plaything,fetish,bound,strapped,strap,belt,belted,rubber,dripping,boddice,bodice,bodise,dominant,dominate,dominator,dominatrix,mono,monochrome,sex,sexy,porn,porno,lady,girlie,pretty,fetishist,cool,person,people,portrait,image,tonysmith,tony,smith,dark,disturbia,HOT PIX,sensual,hotpicks,\u5973\u6027\u30e1\u30b9\u306e\u5973\u6027\u306e\u5973\u306e\u5b50,\u592b\u4eba\u5973\u6027\u5987\u5973\u5973\u5b69,racy,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3812252249 - 'Alternative clothing photoshoot for Redhaze alternative clothing in Stockport. Great materials latex, lace, leather and studs.
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Keywords: Manchester,UK,england,english,building,buildings,listed,purple,c Manchester,colours,stained,glass,city,centre,beautiful,architecture,interior,inside,theatre,theater,culture,play,plays,performance,performances,Royal Exchange,Royal exchange manchester,Manchester Royal exchange,town,lancs,lancashire,cotton,king,photo,image,photograph,print,SuperShot,wide,angle,wideangle,lens,sigma,12-24mm,10-20mm,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4631607472 - 'When I am in Manchester, I usually take a short cut through this fabulous place, which you can do unless a performance is in progress. Many moons ago I used to go to meetings of the junior chamber of commerce here, in one of the side rooms. On this day it was spookily deserted. I stopped to check a text message while my camera with on my shoulder and below me a solitary man, dressed in black crossed the room without sound.
It has a great feeling of history (the last trading values still remain on the trading board for cotton etc) from 1968 and is very modern with its central circular 'pod' of a theatre at its heart. Its great to see events here and I have seen Shakespeare plays as well as the veritable John Shuttleworth (AKA Jilted John).
The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed Victorian building bounded by St Ann\u2019s Square, Market Street and Cross Street. The complex includes the Royal Exchange Theatre, and the Royal Exchange shopping centre.
The current building is the last of several buildings on the site used for commodities exchange, primarily but not exclusively of cotton and textiles.
The first exchange was built near to the present site in 1792. The first exchange was replaced by a second, larger, exchange that was constructed between 1806 and 1809. The second exchange was enlarged between 1847 and 1849. The second exchange was in turn replaced, by a third exchange by 'Mills &
Murgatroyd', constructed between 1867 and 1874. The building was then extended and modified by 'Bradshaw Gass &
Hope' between 1914 and 1931 to form the largest trading room in England. Thus was the importance of Manchester at this time.
The theatre's unique design was conceived by Richard Negri of Wimbledon School of Art, and was intended to create an unusually vivid and immediate relationship between actors and audiences. As the floor of the Exchange would not be able to take the great weight of the theatre and its audience, the module is suspended from four columns that also carry the hall's central dome. Only the stage area and ground-level seating rest on the floor of the hall itself.
The theatre can seat up to 700 people on three levels, making it the largest theatre in the round in Britain. There are 400 seats at ground level in a raked configuration, above which lie two galleries, each with 150 seats set in two rows. Every seat has a clear view of the stage.
Repairs after the IRA bombing adjacent in Corporation Street took over two years to complete and cost \u00a332 million, a sum provided by the National Lottery.
The Royal Exchange building and the theatre itself are reputed to be haunted. One of the ghosts is reputed to be that of the actor and founding artistic director, James Maxwell. Another is that of a maternal Victorian lady, well dressed and with 'a passion for drink'.
In 2006, the building was the subject of a paranormal investigation by the Most Haunted programme on Living TV.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3355914373 - 'Howard Devoto formed Magazine in the city of Manchester right after he left Buzzcocks. In early 1977 he met guitarist John McGeoch, then an art student, and they began writing songs, some of which would appear on the critically acclaimed 'Real Life' album. John McGeoch was the only original member to miss the reunion. He died in 2004 and was replaced by Noko on the tour, who had played with Devoto in the band Luxuria.
the fabulous Barry Adamson was on bass guitar. I have enjoyed his solo stuff for many years, including his 'Moss Side Story' and his soundtrack for David Lynch's 'Lost Highway'. The compilation 'The Murky World of Barry Adamson' is a good introduction to his music post mid-1980's.
Another reunion here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3481341434/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3355920547 - 'Ipso facto on stage supporting Mmagazine on teh reunion tour
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3356735418 - 'Manchester musician Howard Devoto, ex Buzzcocks, ex Magazine and ex Luxuria (et Noko ). Here shown at the UK reunion tour 2009.
Howard Devoto was born Howard Trafford 15/03/1952 in Scunthorpe. He began his career as the front man for the Manchester punk band Buzzcocks. He left early on to form Magazine, one of the first post-punk bands and who influenced the whole post 1977 scene. After Magazine, he went solo. After Magazine split in 1981 Devoto spent two years putting together a solo album with former Magazine keyboard player Dave Formula (the guy who precipitated the 2009 reunion). Though reception of Jerky Versions of the Dream was mixed, the single 'Rainy Season' was consistently picked as a stand-out track. Later, formed indie band Luxuria with Noko.
For most of the 1990s, Devoto was little involved in music, earning his living by working for a photo agency.
In 2001, Devoto teamed up for the first time in twenty-five years with Buzzcocks Pete Shelley and released the much-anticipated Buzzkunst under the name ShelleyDevoto.
In 2002, Devoto had a small part in the movie 24 Hour Party People, a film about Manchester's Factory Records. In his brief cameo appearance, Devoto appears as a janitor cleaning a men's toilet while actor Martin Hancock (who bears no major resemblance to Devoto) portrays Devoto having a tryst with the wife of promoter/journalist Tony Wilson. The real-life Devoto breaks the fourth wall by addressing the camera and stating in dead pan, 'I definitely don't remember this happening'.
In February 2009 Magazine reformed as shown, with former Luxuria guitarist Noko replacing the deceased John McGeoch on guitar.
On July 9, 2009, Devoto was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bolton for his contribution to music.
Another reunion in 2009, the Comsat Angels (the Yorkshire Joy Division) www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4051548558/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3356739276 - 'Magazine manchester academy Setlist
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3077779605 - 'The Datsuns, setlist from live gig at the Night and Day, Manchester 26/10/2008
A shot from the gig here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3078611270/in/set-72157617...
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4327803699 - 'Always good to hear a bit of retro rock and roll.
Most often you might hear it in (what my old dad might have called) a WM (Working Mens) Social Club. It might be after some bingo (a la Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights).
At this social club bar on the edge of St Helens the Wigan Wildkats were too loud and the MC (Compaire) had them turn the amplifiers down a couple of times.
Checkout this live shot, taken Halloween 2008 in Liverpool www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3077807669/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M95NCG - Darts or dart-throwing is a competitive sport in which two or more players bare-handedly throw small sharp-pointed missiles known as darts at a round target known as a dartboard
The standard numbered point system is attributed to Lancashire carpenter Brian Gamlin, who devised it in 1896 to penalise inaccuracy, though this is disputed. Many configurations have been used, varying by time and location. In particular, the Yorkshire and Manchester Log End boards differ from the standard board in that they have no triple, only double and bullseye. The Manchester board is smaller than the standard, with a playing area of only 25 cm (9.8 in) across, with double and bull areas measuring just 4 mm (0.16 in). The London Fives board is another variation, with only 12 equal segments, with the doubles and trebles being a quarter of an inch (6.35 mm) wide.
Mathematically, removing the rotational symmetry by placing the 20 at the top, there are 19!, or 121,645,100,408,832,000 possible dartboards. Many different layouts would penalise a player more than the current setup
however, the current setup actually does the job rather efficiently. There have been several mathematical papers published that consider the optimal dartboard.
Before World War I, pubs in the United Kingdom had dartboards made from solid blocks of wood, usually elm. But darts pocked the surface of elm such that it was common for a hole to develop around the treble twenty. The other problem was that elm wood needed periodic soaking to keep the wood soft.
In 1935, chemist Ted Leggatt and pub owner Frank Dabbs began using the century plant, a type of agave, to make dartboards. Small bundles of sisal fibres of the same length were bundled together. The bundles were then compressed into a disk and bound with a metal ring. This new dartboard was an instant success. It was more durable and required little maintenance. Furthermore, darts did little or no damage to the board
they simply parted the packed fibres whe
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DN6N7C - The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed building in Manchester, England. It is located in the city centre on the land bounded by St Ann's Square, Exchange Street, Market Street, Cross Street and Old Bank Street. The complex includes the Royal Exchange Theatre and the Royal Exchange Shopping Centre.
The Royal Exchange was heavily damaged in the Manchester Blitz and in the 1996 Manchester bombing. The current building is the last of several buildings on the site used for commodities exchange, primarily but not exclusively of cotton and textiles.
The cotton industry in Lancashire was served by the Manchester Royal Exchange which traded in spun yarn and finished goods throughout the world including Africa while the Liverpool Cotton Exchange traded in imported raw cotton. In the 18th century the trade was part of part the slave trade in which African slaves were transported to America where the cotton was grown and then exported to Liverpool where the raw cotton was sold.[2]
The first exchange opened in 1729 but closed by the end of the century. As the cotton industry boomed, the need for a new exchange was recognized. Thomas Harrison designed the new exchange of 1809 at the junction of Market Street and Exchange Street.[2] The expanding cotton industry required a larger building and its extension was completed in 1849. The second exchange was replaced, by a third exchange by Mills & Murgatroyd, constructed between 1867 and 1874. It was extended and modified by Bradshaw Gass & Hope between 1914 and 1931 to form the largest trading hall in England.
The trading hall had three domes and was double the size of the current hall. The colonnade parallel to Cross Street marked the its centre. On trading days merchants and brokers struck deals which supported the jobs of tens of thousands of textile workers in Manchester and the surrounding towns. Manchester's cotton dealers and manufactureres trading from the Royal Exchange earned the city the name, Cottonopolis
Exchange St, Manchester, England, UK
