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Keywords: Gotonysmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,poster,for the,Book now,June,2026,Scotland Time To Dream banner,Edinburgh bar window,Scotland football marketing,World Cup 2026 pub sign,Scottish FA crest,Tartan Army advertising,beer campaign Scotland,yellow football banner,pub window display,Scotland World Cup return,football beer branding,Scottish national team,tournament pub promotion,lager advertising,FIFA World Cup 2026,Scotland fans,Scottish football culture,Tennents sponsorship,sports alcohol marketing,pub trade Scotland,football viewing venues,summer beer sales,Scotland 1998 absence,World Cup fever,national pride campaign,hospitality advertising,fan optimism,tournament merchandise,Edinburgh hospitality,match day drinking,drinks brand,responsible drinking message
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EW4FW0 - Yellow Scotland Time To Dream banner displayed in the window of an Edinburgh bar during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, using Tennent's-style beer branding, the red T logo and the Scottish FA crest to connect lager promotion with national football excitement. The banner is photographed through glass, with street and building reflections visible across the window, giving the image a clear city hospitality setting rather than a staged advertising shot. The wording Time To Dream reflects the mood around Scotland's return to the men's World Cup after a long absence from the finals since France 1998, a moment that created a strong commercial opportunity for pubs, breweries, supermarkets and drinks brands across Scotland. The image is useful for editorial stories about football marketing, alcohol advertising, pub trade, Tartan Army culture, Scottish national identity, sports sponsorship, beer sales and the way major tournaments are used to drive hospitality spending. The yellow, blue and red colours make the window sign visually prominent, while the visible responsible drinking strapline reinforces that this is a regulated alcohol promotion in a public bar environment. Edinburgh pubs and bars became part of the wider World Cup atmosphere in 2026, with venues using flags, banners, branded point-of-sale material and match-day offers to attract supporters watching games on screens. This photograph can support coverage of Scotland at World Cup 2026, Tennent's Lager campaigns, the emotional pull of tournament football, national optimism, commercial branding around sport and the blending of fan culture with alcohol retail. It also has relevance for features on consumer behaviour, summer drinking, urban nightlife, high street hospitality, pub windows as advertising space and the economic impact of international football on bars and licensed premises in Scotland.
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,poster,comms,office,work,employee,well being,Health and Safety,week,Scottish,initiative,mental health,helplines,helpline,proactive,help,message,staff welfare,info,information,service,contacts,anti stigma,awareness,suicide,prevention,resources,public sector,talk to someone,emotional support,sign,workplace counselling awareness,Samaritans telephone number,Breathing Space Scotland,Welfare Rights Advice,Alcoholics Anonymous contact,NHS 24,help line
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F12E8P - Dundee City Council workplace poster asks Are you OK? and encourages employees experiencing emotional distress, anxiety, low mood or other mental health concerns to speak to someone and seek help early. Produced for the council's sixth annual Health and Safety Week, the notice uses large cream lettering against an angular blue and turquoise background to make its supportive message immediately visible in a staff workplace or public-sector building.
The poster states that people can talk to a colleague and lists several confidential sources of advice and assistance. Visible contacts include Workplace Chaplaincy, Samaritans, Breathing Space, Welfare Rights Advice, Alcoholics Anonymous, Dundee Community Chaplaincy, Childline Scotland and NHS 24. A blue strip near the bottom carries the message End mental health discrimination , reinforcing the wider aim of reducing stigma and making conversations about wellbeing a normal part of working life.
This practical signposting approach reflects proactive workplace mental health support rather than waiting until somebody reaches crisis point. Clear telephone numbers and recognisable services give staff immediate routes to listening support, financial and welfare advice, addiction assistance and urgent healthcare guidance. The question-led design also reminds colleagues and managers to notice changes in behaviour, ask sensitively whether somebody is coping and create space for an honest answer.
The photograph documents a local-authority employee wellbeing initiative in Dundee, Scotland, and is suitable for editorial coverage of occupational health, workforce welfare, psychological safety, suicide prevention, stress, anxiety, public-sector employment, staff absence, counselling, peer support and anti-stigma campaigns. The poster's direct message is that help is available and that seeking support is a positive, practical response rather than a sign of weakness.
Dundee House, 50 North Lindsay Street, Dundee, DD1 1QE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,placards,Makerfield needs Reform,Robert Kenyon,working class vote,culture war Britain,political realignment,6am-2am,Reform campaign board,poster,by-election,Red Wall politics,post-Brexit Britain,anti-establishment politics,Reform candidate,local democracy,by-election signage,constituency battle,neighbourhood retail,migration debate,border control,populist messaging,real opposition,ready for government,former Labour area,voter disillusionment,political,banner,election,campaign,Manchester,North West England,Brexit,stop the boats,flags,council,Reform flag,ReformUK flags
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EME6K8 - June 2026, this landscape documentary photograph shows a household displaying both a Reform UK campaign flag and a Union flag outside a brick-built home on a council estate in Hindley, within the Makerfield constituency in Greater Manchester, England. The light blue Reform UK flag stands prominently in the foreground beside the front garden and footpath, while a Union flag can be seen further back near neighbouring housing, creating a layered visual record of visible political allegiance and national symbolism in an everyday residential setting. The image is useful for editorial coverage of the Makerfield by-election, local campaigning, doorstep politics, electoral behaviour, populist and right-wing political messaging, and the ways national political identities are expressed in working-class communities and post-industrial towns in North West England. Its strength lies in the ordinary street context: semi-detached housing, wheelie bins, front gardens and estate railings make the politics feel rooted in lived neighbourhood space rather than in a party conference hall or media photo call. The scene can illustrate stories about Reform UK support on housing estates, the use of flags as political signals, the growing visibility of nationalist and protest-vote sentiment, and the contest for former Labour-leaning areas during a closely watched parliamentary by-election. It also has wider relevance for features on British identity, local democracy, constituency politics, social change, class realignment and the visual language of modern campaigning. For picture buyers, the combination of readable party branding, a recognisable national flag, domestic architecture and clear geographical context makes the image suitable for news, political analysis, sociology, current affairs and commentary on the shifting electoral landscape in Greater Manchester.
Hindley, Makerfield constituancy, Greater Manchester
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,placards,Makerfield needs Reform,Robert Kenyon,working class vote,culture war Britain,political realignment,6am-2am,Reform campaign board,poster,by-election,Red Wall politics,post-Brexit Britain,anti-establishment politics,Reform candidate,local democracy,by-election signage,constituency battle,neighbourhood retail,migration debate,border control,populist messaging,real opposition,ready for government,former Labour area,voter disillusionment,political,banner,election,campaign,Manchester,North West England,Brexit,stop the boats,flags,council,Reform flag,ReformUK flags
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EME6KB - June 2026, this documentary photograph shows a household displaying both a Reform UK campaign flag and a Union flag outside a brick-built home on a council estate in Hindley, within the Makerfield constituency in Greater Manchester, England. The light blue Reform UK flag stands prominently in the foreground beside the front garden and footpath, while a Union flag can be seen further back near neighbouring housing, creating a layered visual record of visible political allegiance and national symbolism in an everyday residential setting. The image is useful for editorial coverage of the Makerfield by-election, local campaigning, doorstep politics, electoral behaviour, populist and right-wing political messaging, and the ways national political identities are expressed in working-class communities and post-industrial towns in North West England. Its strength lies in the ordinary street context: semi-detached housing, wheelie bins, front gardens and estate railings make the politics feel rooted in lived neighbourhood space rather than in a party conference hall or media photo call. The scene can illustrate stories about Reform UK support on housing estates, the use of flags as political signals, the growing visibility of nationalist and protest-vote sentiment, and the contest for former Labour-leaning areas during a closely watched parliamentary by-election. It also has wider relevance for features on British identity, local democracy, constituency politics, social change, class realignment and the visual language of modern campaigning. For picture buyers, the combination of readable party branding, a recognisable national flag, domestic architecture and clear geographical context makes the image suitable for news, political analysis, sociology, current affairs and commentary on the shifting electoral landscape in Greater Manchester.
Hindley, Makerfield constituancy, Greater Manchester
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,placards,Makerfield needs Reform,Robert Kenyon,working class vote,culture war Britain,political realignment,6am-2am,Reform campaign board,poster,by-election,Red Wall politics,post-Brexit Britain,anti-establishment politics,Reform candidate,local democracy,by-election signage,constituency battle,neighbourhood retail,migration debate,border control,populist messaging,real opposition,ready for government,former Labour area,voter disillusionment,political,banner,election,campaign,Manchester,North West England,Brexit,stop the boats,flags,council,Reform flag,ReformUK flags
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EME6MX - Reform UK flag and arrow sign in a Hindley Green garden showing support for Rob Kenyon in the Makerfield by-election.. Residential garden in Hindley Green, Wigan, Greater Manchester, openly displaying Reform UK campaign material during the Makerfield by-election campaign. A pale blue Reform flag flies from a wooden pole above a circular Reform UK sign with a bold right-pointing arrow. The user-supplied wording identifies the display as support for Rob Kenyon, the Reform UK candidate in the Makerfield by-election. The political material is placed in an ordinary domestic setting, with red brick houses, garden fencing, shrubs, roses, a pavement and a quiet residential street visible behind it. The image is useful for editorial coverage of Reform UK, Rob Kenyon, the Makerfield by-election, political support in residential neighbourhoods, garden campaign displays, local democracy, doorstep politics, voter identity and street-level election campaigning. The blue flag and arrow sign provide clear campaign branding and create a strong visual message of direction, allegiance and public support. Unlike formal campaign rallies or party press events, the scene shows politics embedded in everyday household surroundings, where gardens, fences and frontages become part of the public campaign landscape. It could support articles about the visibility of Reform UK in northern communities, voter mood in Hindley Green, political competition in Wigan borough, the use of simple bold symbols in election communication, and the way residents signal party support during a contested by-election. The combination of flag, arrow sign, ordinary homes and garden planting gives the photograph strong stock-photo value for features on British elections, public opinion, populist politics, local campaign publicity, neighbourhood political expression, working-class residential areas
Hindley, Makerfield constituancy, Greater Manchester
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,placards,Makerfield needs Reform,Robert Kenyon,working class vote,culture war Britain,political realignment,6am-2am,Reform campaign board,poster,by-election,Red Wall politics,post-Brexit Britain,anti-establishment politics,Reform candidate,local democracy,by-election signage,constituency battle,high street politics,neighbourhood retail,border control,populist messaging,real opposition,ready for government,voter disillusionment,political,banner,election,campaign,Manchester,North West England,Brexit,stop the boats,flags,council,Im voting Rob Kenyon,St Georges flag,Union Jack
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EME6N4 - Large Reform UK campaign placard & St George flag, for Rob Kenyon displayed above a residential garden in Hindley, an area within the Makerfield parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester, England. The bright blue sign carries the wording I'm voting Rob Kenyon and 18th June , alongside a candidate photograph and Reform UK branding, partly framed by garden trees and the roofline of a nearby house. The image records the street-level visibility of Reform UK during a closely watched by-election in a former Labour stronghold, where the party promoted Kenyon as a local candidate and tradesman rather than a career politician. Reform UK and several media reports described Kenyon as a plumber, and that framing was central to the party's attempt to present him as a simpleton local working-class challenger to Andy Burnham. The photograph is useful for editorial coverage of by-election campaigning, voter allegiance, right-wing populism, northern English politics, constituency-level political identity and the contest for support in post-industrial towns around Wigan. Its value is in the domestic setting: the placard is not shown at a rally, but in a garden above ordinary housing, making the campaign message part of the visual language of a neighbourhood. The scene can illustrate stories about Reform UK's appeal on housing estates, political branding in local streets, anti-establishment messaging, voter disillusionment, party competition on the right and the challenge to Labour in areas that historically returned Labour MPs. It also works as a broader image of contemporary British politics, where candidate posters, simple slogans and claims of local authenticity are used to build trust with residents. The picture should be used with clear editorial context, as Reform UK's campaign, like much hard-right and populist politics in Britain, has generated controversy over immigration rhetoric, online comments and culture-war positioning
Hindley, Makerfield constituancy, Greater Manchester
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,placards,Makerfield needs Reform,Robert Kenyon,working class vote,culture war Britain,political realignment,6am-2am,Reform campaign board,poster,by-election,Red Wall politics,northern voters,post-Brexit Britain,anti-establishment politics,Reform candidate,local democracy,by-election signage,constituency battle,high street politics,neighbourhood retail,border control,populist messaging,real opposition,ready for government,former Labour area,voter disillusionment,political,banner,election,campaign,Manchester,North West England,Brexit,stop the boats,flags,council,Im voting Rob Kenyon
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EME6N6 - Large Reform UK campaign placard for Rob Kenyon displayed above a residential home garden in Hindley, an area within the Makerfield parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester, England. The bright blue sign carries the wording I'm voting Rob Kenyon and 18th June , alongside a candidate photograph and Reform UK branding, partly framed by garden trees and the roofline of a nearby house. The image records the street-level visibility of Reform UK during a closely watched by-election in a former Labour stronghold, where the party promoted Kenyon as a local candidate and tradesman rather than a career politician. Reform UK and several media reports described Kenyon as a plumber, and that framing was central to the party's attempt to present him as a simpleton local working-class challenger to Andy Burnham. The photograph is useful for editorial coverage of by-election campaigning, voter allegiance, right-wing populism, northern English politics, constituency-level political identity and the contest for support in post-industrial towns around Wigan. Its value is in the domestic setting: the placard is not shown at a rally, but in a garden above ordinary housing, making the campaign message part of the visual language of a neighbourhood. The scene can illustrate stories about Reform UK's appeal on housing estates, political branding in local streets, anti-establishment messaging, voter disillusionment, party competition on the right and the challenge to Labour in areas that historically returned Labour MPs. It also works as a broader image of contemporary British politics, where candidate posters, simple slogans and claims of local authenticity are used to build trust with residents. The picture should be used with clear editorial context, as Reform UK's campaign, like much hard-right and populist politics in Britain, has generated controversy over immigration rhetoric, online comments and culture-war positioning
Hindley, Makerfield constituancy, Greater Manchester
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,campaigning,red wall,Labour Party,Andy For Us,Burnham,Labour,red,redwall,NW,North West,campaign,Ashton in Makerfield,Wigan,Greater Manchester,England,UK politics,political,posters,poster,election,Westminster,PM,prime minister,socialist,socialism,politics,elect,current metro mayor for Manchester City Region,advertising,slogan,voter,appeal,campaign trail,political change,Leftwing,Left wing,red political
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EME6NC - A giant red Vote Andy For Us political campaign banner fixed to the gable end of a residential building off Atherton Road in Hindley Green, Wigan, Greater Manchester, during the Makerfield by-election campaign. The large vertical banner dominates the pebble-dashed wall, using bold white and yellow capital letters and a stylised cartoon portrait to create a highly visible piece of election publicity. The surrounding details, including the small upper window, satellite dish, chimney stacks, TV aerial and plain side wall, place the campaign material in an ordinary northern residential setting rather than a formal political event. The image is useful for editorial coverage of local election campaigning, political advertising, public displays of support, candidate branding, neighbourhood democracy, street-level politics and the visual language of by-election campaigns. The strong red colour of the banner contrasts with the muted wall and pale sky, making the campaign message the clear focus of the frame. It could support articles about the Makerfield by-election, Andy Burnham's campaign presence, Labour-style campaign graphics, political messaging in working-class neighbourhoods, and how houses, walls and everyday streets become part of the wider campaign environment. The image also has value for broader stories about British democracy, voter identity, constituency politics, northern England, Wigan borough, residential campaign signs, public opinion and the use of simple, bold visual design to communicate political support in local communities.
Atherton Road, Hindley, Makerfield constituancy, Greater Manchester
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,campaigning,red wall,Labour Party,Andy For Us,Burnham,Labour,red,redwall,NW,North West,campaign,Ashton in Makerfield,Wigan,Greater Manchester,England,UK politics,political,posters,poster,election,Westminster,PM,prime minister,reset,of,socialist,socialism,politics,elect,current metro mayor for Manchester City Region,advertising,slogan,voter,appeal,campaign trail,political change,Large red Vote Andy For Us signs line a residential
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EME6NG - Vote Andy For Us campaign placards on Atherton Road in Hindley Green during the Makerfield by-election campaign. The nearest sign dominates the right side of the frame, fixed high above a dense green hedge beside a residential property, with another matching poster visible further along the pavement. The design uses bold white and yellow capital lettering and a stylised cartoon portrait, creating a simple, high-impact campaign message that can be read clearly from the road and footpath. The scene includes a typical local street setting with terraced and semi-detached homes, front garden walls, hedges, a lamppost, overhead wires, parked vehicles, a wheeled bin, a pedestrian walking a small dog and a pale cloudy sky. The image is useful for editorial coverage of constituency campaigning, neighbourhood politics, public election displays, campaign graphics, doorstep democracy, voter identity, local political mood and the visual language of British by-elections. The repeated posters show how campaign material can form a visible trail through an ordinary residential area, turning gardens, boundary walls and pavements into part of the political landscape. The picture has strong stock-photo value for stories about the Makerfield by-election, Andy Burnham campaign publicity, Labour-style red campaign branding, political support in northern communities, Wigan borough street scenes, Greater Manchester politics, local democracy, household political expression and the use of bold graphic design to attract attention in everyday places. The hedge, brick garden walls and receding street add useful context, showing the posters not as isolated objects but as part of a lived-in neighbourhood where election messages sit alongside normal daily routines.
Atherton Rd,Hindley, Makerfield constituancy, Greater Manchester
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,campaigning,red wall,Labour Party,Andy For Us,Burnham,Labour,red,redwall,North West,campaign,Ashton in Makerfield,Wigan,Greater Manchester,England,UK politics,political,posters,poster,election,Westminster,PM,prime minister,of,socialist,socialism,politics,current metro mayor for Manchester City Region,slogan,appeal,campaign trail,political change,placards,Josh Simmons,Keir Starmer,King of The North,number 10,left leaning
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EME6P3 - Vote Andy For Us placard stock-photo/gotonysmith-Posters.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>posters on Atherton Road, Hindley, during the Makerfield June 2026 by-election campaign. Clutch of red Vote Andy For Us placard posters on Atherton Road in Hindley, in the Makerfield area, during the June 2026 by-election campaign. Two matching signs are visible, each mounted on timber posts and featuring a cartoon-style portrait of Andy Burnham with bold white and yellow capital lettering on a bright red background. The nearest placard dominates the right side of the frame, while a second sign further down the pavement helps create a repeated campaign trail through the street. The image is set in an everyday residential environment with hedges, brick houses, a pavement, a lamppost, overhead wires and a cloudy sky, giving it a strong sense of neighbourhood politics and street-level campaigning rather than a stage-managed rally or formal political event. The supplied wording identifies the scene as being on Atherton Road, Hindley, in the Makerfield ward, and describes the June 2026 by-election as having been caused by Josh Simmons resigning his seat to give Andy Burnham a shot at Prime Minister Keir Starmer's job. As a stock image, this photograph is useful for editorial themes including local democracy, constituency campaigning, public political display, campaign branding, neighbourhood voter appeal, British election imagery, repeated roadside posters, northern England political street scenes and the visual language of by-election messaging. The simple slogan Vote Andy For Us is central to the image, presenting a direct call to voters in a highly visible and easy-to-read format. The repeated boards, ordinary homes and street setting give the picture added value for stories about how political messaging is embedded in everyday communities and how pavements, hedges and frontages become part of the campaign
Hindley, Makerfield constituancy, Greater Manchester
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Reform UK,local campaign material,grassroots politics,ReformUK,housing,estate,party branding,placards,Makerfield needs Reform,culture war Britain,Reform campaign board,poster,Red Wall politics,northern voters,post-Brexit Britain,anti-establishment politics,Reform candidate,local democracy,by-election signage,constituency battle,high street politics,neighbourhood retail,border control,populist messaging,real opposition,former Labour area,voter disillusionment,political,banner,election,campaign,Manchester,North West England,Brexit,stop the boats,council,Norfolk Close Hindley Wigan WN2 4JS
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EMY4DB - Large Reform UK campaign placard for Rob Kenyon displayed above a residential garden in Hindley, an area within the Makerfield parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester, England. The bright blue sign carries the wording I'm voting Rob Kenyon and 18th June , alongside a candidate photograph and Reform UK branding, partly framed by garden trees and the roofline of a nearby house. The image records the street-level visibility of Reform UK during a closely watched by-election in a former Labour stronghold, where the party promoted Kenyon as a local candidate and tradesman rather than a career politician. Reform UK and several media reports described Kenyon as a plumber, and that framing was central to the party's attempt to present him as a simpleton local working-class challenger to Andy Burnham. The photograph is useful for editorial coverage of by-election campaigning, voter allegiance, right-wing populism, northern English politics, constituency-level political identity and the contest for support in post-industrial towns around Wigan. Its value is in the domestic setting: the placard is not shown at a rally, but in a garden above ordinary housing, making the campaign message part of the visual language of a neighbourhood. The scene can illustrate stories about Reform UK's appeal on housing estates, political branding in local streets, anti-establishment messaging, voter disillusionment, party competition on the right and the challenge to Labour in areas that historically returned Labour MPs. It also works as a broader image of contemporary British politics, where candidate posters, simple slogans and claims of local authenticity are used to build trust with residents. The picture should be used with clear editorial context, as Reform UK's campaign, like much hard-right and populist politics in Britain, has generated controversy over immigration rhetoric, online comments and culture-war positioning
Norfolk Close, Hindley, Wigan WN2 4JS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,walking day,fairs,rides,town,centre tradition,council cuts,local controversy,social history,community pride,funfair,poster,advert,Silcocks Fun Fairs,June 2026,July 2026,faith event,community event,fairground,WBC,Borough,council,shortfall,savings,local authority budget pressure,civic tradition,semi-religious tradition,faith procession,community heritage,family entertainment,travelling funfair,amusement rides,fairground culture,local festival,summer fair,community resilience,local politics,advertising
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EMY4NK - Colourful Warrington & Padgate Walking Days fair poster advertising Silcock's Fun Fairs in June and July 2026. The poster promotes free-entry funfairs at Bennett's Recreation Ground in Padgate from Friday 19 to Sunday 21 June, and at Victoria Park in Warrington from Friday 3 to Sunday 5 July. Bright fairground graphics show rides, lights, a Ferris wheel and smiling visitors, linking the commercial fairground side of the event with a much older local tradition. The user-supplied description places the image in the context of local controversy over Warrington Borough Council funding pressures and savings, with Walking Day described as a semi-religious town tradition. Warrington Borough Council has stated that, because of significant financial pressures, it is no longer able to fund and organise Warrington Walking Day directly, while also recognising its value as a faith event with long-standing community significance. The council helped establish a Walking Day Representative Group, and a 2026 heritage event was planned as a bridge to the future. This image is useful for editorial coverage of Warrington Walking Day, Padgate Walking Day fairs, local authority budget cuts, council savings, community heritage, faith traditions, public events, funfairs, family entertainment, working-class town culture and the tension between civic tradition and public finance. It can also illustrate stories about how historic local customs adapt when councils face budget shortfalls, and how commercial amusement fairs continue to advertise around familiar community dates. The poster's bold typography, Free Entry badge, Silcock's branding and listed venues give it strong stock-photo value for features on Warrington identity, Cheshire town life, public realm notices, fairground culture, local controversy, council funding pressures, heritage events and the survival of community traditions in changing economic conditions.
Warrington, Cheshire, WA1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,poster,tourism,attractions,railway,rail,travel,Viaduct,River Mersey,train,community,trains,Greater Manchester,advertising,vintage,artwork,British railways,BR,Nicky Thompson,destination marketing,domestic tourism,sustainable,rail-based,day trip,public transport,classic graphic design,golden age,regional,destination,cultural attractions,urban,regeneration,historic engineering,local identity,car-free,nostalgic,illustration,community engagement
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EMY4FF - Visit Stockport railway poster promotes a day out in the Greater Manchester town using the Mid Cheshire Line. Designed in the tradition of classic twentieth-century railway advertising, the artwork shows a train crossing Stockport's brick viaduct above the River Mersey. A heron stands beside the water, with swallows or swifts flying overhead, woodland, riverside vegetation, industrial buildings and the townscape completing the stylised scene. The printed message reads STOCKPORT and Meander the Mid Cheshire Line and enjoy marvellous days out , alongside the Northern and Mid Cheshire Community Rail Partnership identities.
The poster forms part of the Marvellous Days Out campaign commissioned by the Mid Cheshire Community Rail Partnership. The railway poster series was created by artist and designer Nicky Thompson of Chester-based Lemondrop Creative to evoke the golden age of British rail travel while encouraging visitors to explore communities and attractions along the route. Stockport is a calling point for Mid Cheshire Line services linking Manchester with Altrincham, Knutsford, Northwich and Chester.
Stockport Viaduct is the central landmark in the design. Built for the Manchester and Birmingham Railway in 1839 and 1840, the Grade II* listed structure spans the Mersey valley and remains one of Britain's most imposing early railway engineering works. Stockport Council records 27 arches and approximately 11 million bricks. The town's attractions include the Hat Works museum, historic Market Place and Underbanks, Staircase House, Stockport Plaza and the extensive Second World War air-raid shelters cut into sandstone beneath the centre.
Displayed against a red brick wall, this poster is useful for editorial themes including domestic tourism, rail-based days out, community rail promotion, sustainable travel, railway heritage, destination marketing, British graphic design, public transport advertising and the revival of vintage travel-art styles
Stockport railway station, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, SK3 9HZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,6am-2am,Reform campaign board,poster,by-election,Red Wall politics,northern voters,post-Brexit Britain,protest vote,anti-establishment politics,Reform candidate,local democracy,by-election signage,constituency battle,party branding,high street politics,neighbourhood retail,late night shop,migration debate,border control,populist messaging,real opposition,ready for government,former Labour area,voter disillusionment,local campaign material,grassroots politics,political,banner,election,campaign,Manchester,North West England,local shops,convenience store,off-licence,Brexit,stop the boats
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EKDAJ1 - A blue Makerfield Needs Reform campaign board mounted in a hedge beside a local convenience store and off-licence in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester. The shop signs in the background advertise an off-licence open from 6am to 2am, giving the picture a strong everyday high-street and neighbourhood retail setting rather than a staged Westminster political scene. The image is useful for editorial coverage of Reform UK campaigning, the Makerfield by-election, Rob Kenyon or Robert Kenyon, Brexit politics, immigration messaging, stop the boats rhetoric, right-wing populism, anti-establishment campaigning and the way national political arguments appear in ordinary northern communities. Robert Francis Kenyon is listed by Wigan Council as a Reform UK councillor for Bryn with Ashton-in-Makerfield North, and election records also show him as Reform UK's candidate for the Makerfield parliamentary by-election. Makerfield has been a historically Labour-held constituency, but recent reporting has described voter frustration, local disillusionment and Reform UK pressure in the area. The visible mix of hedge, campaign board, off-licence, convenience retail and residential-edge townscape makes the photograph suitable for articles about local democracy, working-class voters, Red Wall politics, post-Brexit realignment, high-street decline, community change, party branding, opposition politics and Britain's polarised debate on migration and borders. Care is needed with captioning: the image records Reform UK campaign material in a public street setting, but it does not by itself prove the views of any named shopkeeper, resident or passer-by. The sunny daylight, shallow depth of field and readable signage make the placard stand out as a clear editorial visual for UK politics, northern by-elections, populist campaigning, convenience-store neighbourhoods and the practical reality of electioneering away from national media stages.
100 Bolton Rd, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan WN4 8AD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Rob Kenyon,Robert Kenyon,window,leaflet,poster,political,politics,racist,terraced,home,cuts,benefits,house,grab,rail,older,old,residents,resident,voter,doorstep,Wigan,Greater Manchester,North West England,Reform,Party,right-wing,populism,populist politics,far-right politics,anti-immigration politics,stop the boats,Andy Burnham,pensioner,vote,working class,red wall
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EKDAJ6 - This documentary street photograph shows the front of an older red-brick terraced house in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester, with a white mobility grab rail beside the door and a blue Reform UK poster displayed in the lace-curtained front window. The readable slogan, Makerfield needs Reform , makes the image useful for editorial stories about local politics, older homeowners, ageing housing stock, doorstep campaigning, populist messaging and the continuing volatility of former Labour strongholds in the North West of England. Ashton-in-Makerfield is within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and forms part of the Makerfield parliamentary constituency, an area historically associated with Labour voting, working-class communities, home ownership, terraced streets and post-industrial Lancashire identity. The photograph is tightly framed around domestic details: stained-glass panels, brickwork, a house number, net curtains, the low window opening, the door handle and the grab rail, giving it strong relevance for stories linking housing, disability adaptations, social care, ageing in place, pensioner voters, local identity and the politics of everyday streets. Reform UK is widely described as a right-wing populist party, with immigration, border control and stop the boats themes central to its political offer, so the window poster also gives the picture wider use for coverage of anti-immigration campaigning, protest voting, political disaffection, culture-war politics, electoral realignment and far-right or hard-right influence in British public debate. The overcast daylight and close residential composition give the image a plain, unsentimental news-documentary feel, suitable for articles on the cost of living, NHS pressure, local council services, housing conditions, mobility aids, voter anger, social division, doorstep politics and the way national political arguments appear in ordinary neighbourhood windows.
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK. WN4
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,poster,banner,Manchester mayor,city,up north,grim,British politics,Labour movement,political campaigning,voter mobilisation,Red Wall politics,Labour heartland,campaign volunteers,town politics,Wigan borough,community politics,National Lottery Community Fund,civic participation,grassroots politics,political change,town centre campaigning,Labour government,political communication,election strategy,canvassing base,campaign hub,local party office,Labour Party,Labour campaign centre,Labour campaign HQ,Labour banner,Labour poster,election campaign,local by-election,local candidates,vote Andy for us,voter disillusionment
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EKDAJK - Large yellow and red Labour Campaign Centre banner fixed to black metal railings in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester. A smaller pink National Lottery Community Fund banner is visible to the left, giving the scene a community-centre or locally funded venue context as well as a political campaign setting. The image is useful for editorial coverage of Labour Party campaigning, local by-elections, constituency organisation, political volunteers, doorstep canvassing, Red Wall politics, northern voter mobilisation and the continuing battle for working-class support in towns across Greater Manchester and the wider North West of England. Ashton-in-Makerfield sits within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and the Makerfield parliamentary constituency, an area long associated with Labour politics, industrial heritage, former mining communities, terraced streets, commuter links and changing electoral pressures. The banner's bold typography, high-visibility colours and temporary outdoor placement make the image a strong visual shorthand for campaign headquarters, local party infrastructure, election day operations, canvassing bases and party efforts to project organisation and momentum. Keir Starmer is Labour leader and Prime Minister, while Andy Burnham is the Mayor of Greater Manchester, giving the image broader relevance for stories about the Labour government, Greater Manchester politics, mayoral influence, party strategy, northern devolution, local campaigning and political change up north. It could also support features on public trust, voter fatigue, left-of-centre politics, party branding, community venues used for campaigns, civic participation and the sometimes grim, practical reality of electioneering away from Westminster. The overcast daylight, grass verge, railings and functional banner design give the photograph a plain news-documentary feel, suitable for articles on UK democracy, by-election battles, Labour campaign organisation, local government, natio
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK WN4
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Manchester,Oxford Road,communist,publicity,poster,Are you a communist,revolution,political,student,politics,street,protest,Marxism,Karl Marx,socialism,left wing politics,radical,recruitment,youth,slogans,get organised,war,urban,pasted,ideas,campaign,leftwaffe,left,leftist,anti-capitalist,activist,messaging,campus,public noticeboard,flyposting,graffiti background,fringe
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJ121P - Two Revolutionary Communist Party street posters are shown pasted to a worn, graffiti-marked wall on Oxford Road in Manchester, one of the city's busiest student and university corridors. The image records contemporary political campaigning, left-wing recruitment and street-level activist messaging in a prominent urban public space. The posters use bold red, black and white graphics, QR codes and provocative slogans including Are you a communist? , Then get organised! , Join the fight for revolution! and Wipe out the Epstein class! to attract attention from passers-by, especially students, young workers and politically engaged pedestrians. One poster features an image of Karl Marx, while the other uses a collage-style portrait and class-war language to frame the appeal. Oxford Road is closely associated with the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, the Royal Northern College of Music, hospitals, cultural venues and student accommodation, making it a logical location for political flyposting aimed at a young audience. The Revolutionary Communist Party describes itself as the British section of the Revolutionary Communist International, and its own material uses similar get organised recruitment language aimed at workers and youth. The photograph is useful for editorial themes including student politics, Marxism, socialism, communist campaigning, British radical politics, political recruitment, protest culture, flyposting, youth activism, public propaganda, urban documentary photography and political messaging in the North West of England. The bright daylight and visible hard shadows suggest a clear or partly sunny day, with the rough painted background, torn paper edges and street grime adding texture and context. This is an editorial documentary image of political posters and public wall messaging in Manchester rather than an endorsement of the slogans or organisation shown.
Oxford Road, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK, M13
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,synth-pop,music,culture,machine,electro pioneers,robotic,aesthetic,space age,design,futuristic,poster,art,electronic,gig,live,performance,concept,live music,promotion,creative,city,branding,skyline,drone,footage,illustration,visual music culture,monochrome,urban,backdrop,glowing cyan figures,cult band imagery,Manchester Cathedral,digital artwork,flying saucer,UFO,synthesiser players
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJD09F - The four four Kraftwerk band electronic musicians behind synthesiser consoles in glowing cyan outline against a monochrome Manchester cityscape. The background centres on Manchester Cathedral, with surrounding buildings and skyline behind it, while a large flying saucer hovers above the left side of the scene. The result is a retro-futurist concert image that links Manchester architecture with science-fiction imagery and the machine-age visual language long associated with Kraftwerk. The user's title places the concept around the group's 22 May 2026 performance at the O2 Apollo Manchester in Ardwick, turning the picture into a stylised tribute rather than a literal record.
The design works because it fuses several recognisable ideas at once. Manchester Cathedral anchors the composition in a real landmark, with its medieval tower and Gothic form set against modern offices, apartments and arenas in the background. The cyan figures and keyboard stands echo electronic stage performance, minimalism, robotics and precision, while the UFO adds a playful layer of space-age fantasy that suits Kraftwerk's reputation for futurism, technology and spectacle. The black-and-white aerial view behind the figures gives the piece a documentary base, but the neon outlines and saucer push it firmly into photomontage and conceptual illustration.
This gives the image strong editorial and commercial stock value for features on Kraftwerk, electronic music, synth-pop, digital art, concert promotion, Manchester live venues, city identity, creative tourism and music-inspired graphic design. It can illustrate articles on the O2 Apollo, Manchester Cathedral, retro-modern aesthetics, multimedia performance and the continuing influence of German electronic pioneers on visual culture. The artwork feels both local and imagined: a recognisable Manchester skyline reworked into an otherworldly performance scene where architecture, machines and pop mythology meet.
O2 Apollo Manchester, Stockport Road, Ardwick Green, Manchester, England, UK, M12 6AP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,The Man-Machine,22 May,electronic,music,synth-pop,krautrock,live,concert,poster,art,digital,montage,over,venue,retro futurism,futuristic,science fiction,German,band,Dusseldorf,city,artwork,show,graphic,electronic pioneers,music image,gig,history,heritage,illustration,conceptual,neon,figures,four,members,post-industrial culture,visual music culture
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJD09M - A stylised digital montage inspired by Kraftwerk's performance at O2 Apollo Manchester on 22 May 2026. The background features the distinctive curved facade of the Apollo at Ardwick Green, Manchester, while a large flying saucer hovers above the entrance in a deliberate visual reference to ˜Spacelab', the celebrated track from Kraftwerk's 1978 album The Man-Machine. In front of the venue stand four glowing electronic figures in the group's familiar performance formation, rendered in neon-like turquoise lines that echo the clean, technological aesthetic long associated with Kraftwerk's stage design and visual identity. The image was made in daylight but treated in a dramatic monochrome and cyan palette, creating a retro-futurist mood that suits the band's pioneering electronic legacy. Official venue listings confirm that Kraftwerk played O2 Apollo Manchester on Friday 22 May 2026 as part of their UK tour, giving the picture clear documentary relevance as well as graphic impact. The Apollo, on Stockport Road at Ardwick Green, is one of Manchester's best-known music stock-photo/gotonysmith-Venues.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>venues and adds local resonance to an image that links German electronic modernism with the city's own rich musical history. This artwork is useful for editorial pieces on Kraftwerk, electronic music, synth-pop, krautrock, live concerts, visual stage design, retro futurism, music heritage and Manchester gigs. It can also support features on The Man-Machine, classic album culture, science-fiction imagery in popular music and the enduring influence of tracks such as ˜Spacelab'. For stock image buyers, the value lies in the combination of a recognisable Manchester landmark, a named international act, strong futuristic symbolism and a clear concert date. The result works as a striking conceptual illustration of Kraftwerk's machine-age aesthetic arriving at one of the North West's iconic live venues. It also evokes cold-war futurism and space-age pop graphics.
O2 Apollo,Stockport Road, Ardwick Green, Manchester, England, UK, M12 6AP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,town,centre,poster,placard,group,conspirasists,climate misinformation,no climate crisis,anti net zero,digital ID,BritCard,Say No,To,Digital ID,street,protest,public,campaigning,realm,civic,space,fringe,politics,political,messaging,climate change,denial,there is no,climate crisis,deny,debate,anti surveillance,digital identity,identity cards,privacy concerns,biometric,data
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EE4MAD - Conspiracy placards displayed in Warrington town centre near Golden Square shopping centre show messages opposing BritCard digital ID and net zero, alongside a large claim that There is no climate crisis . The scene records how online-influenced narratives about identity systems, climate policy, government control and surveillance can appear in ordinary public spaces used by Saturday shoppers, families and pedestrians. The boards use bold warning language, simplified graphics and emotive claims about biometric data, personal freedom, public spending and the cost of net zero, making the image relevant to editorial coverage of misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy culture, political protest and public trust. The climate message should be treated cautiously as misinformation, not as a balanced scientific position: the Met Office states that there is overwhelming evidence that climate change is affecting the health of the planet and the wellbeing of billions of people. The digital ID message is also politically charged, mixing genuine civil liberties concerns with stronger claims about coercion and control. UK government material presents digital ID as a way to prove identity and access services, while parliamentary and public debate continues around privacy, compulsion, exclusion and data governance. This documentary photograph can illustrate climate denial, anti-net-zero campaigns, identity-card opposition, culture war politics, fringe street campaigning, public communication, information disorder, distrust in institutions and the movement of internet narratives into local civic life. The Warrington retail setting contrasts routine shopping with contested political messaging. The weather appears dry and overcast or shaded, with grey paving and street furniture giving the image a plain public-realm context. The photograph should be captioned as a record of conspiracy and misinformation material being displayed, not as endorsement of the claims.
Conspiracy placards in Warrington town centre oppose digital ID and net zero while claiming there is
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,years,century,movement,trade,union,unions,industrial,action,solidarity,collective,Manchester,Tib Street,Northern Quarter,red,black,poster,BUILDHOLLYWOOD,street,political,protest,campaign,public,history,British,class,TUC,coal,miners,wage,cuts,longer,hours,radical,political communication,Peterloo,legacy,placard design
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EENGKH - Street advertising poster on Tib Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, photographed on an urban wall with graffiti and a BUILDHOLLYWOOD poster frame. The design uses bold red, black and white graphic lettering, picket placard motifs and trade union branding to promote the 100 year anniversary of one of Britain's most important labour disputes. The General Strike began in May 1926 after the Trades Union Congress called action in support of coal miners resisting wage cuts and longer hours, becoming a defining moment in the history of organised labour, industrial relations, class politics and workers' rights in the UK. Manchester is a particularly resonant setting for this image, with its long associations with trade unionism, Chartism, co-operation, radical publishing, the labour movement, the Peterloo legacy and working-class political history. The image may be useful for editorial features on the General Strike centenary, labour history, protest culture, industrial action, union organisation, public history campaigns, poster art, political communication, street media, outdoor advertising, Manchester heritage and Northern Quarter street culture. The visible design references mass mobilisation, collective action and solidarity, while the surrounding graffiti and city-centre setting place the commemoration in a contemporary urban landscape. The photograph has a documentary feel, with overcast or shaded daylight and muted street tones contrasting with the vivid red poster graphics. It can illustrate debates about strike action, public sector disputes, union rights, pay, working conditions, political memory, social history education and the continuing relevance of 1926 to modern Britain. The poster also connects to 2026 centenary events and exhibitions exploring a century of strikes, solidarity and democratic protest.
General Strike centenary poster on Tib Street, Manchester, marking 100 years since the 1926 workers'
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Man Club,mens,killer,7pm,prevention,poster,nearest,group,join,the,conversation,awareness,support,bloke,blokes,masculine,charity,peer,talking,wellbeing,campaign,public,health,depression,anxiety,emotional,stigma,therapy,community,non clinical,voluntary,sector,UK,workplace,staff,signposting,men in crisis
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ECEEB7 - A framed ANDYSMANCLUB poster promotes male mental health support, suicide prevention and the direct message that it is okay to talk. The black, white and yellow design uses bold typography, a hand gesture graphic and clear meeting information to encourage men to attend peer support groups on Monday evenings. The poster highlights the serious public health issue of male suicide and presents talking, listening and shared experience as practical ways to challenge stigma. It is a strong editorial image for stories about men's mental health, suicide prevention, depression, anxiety, loneliness, emotional wellbeing, peer support, community groups, charitable outreach and the barriers that can stop men seeking help. ANDYSMANCLUB began after the death of Andrew Roberts and has grown into a volunteer-led UK charity offering non-clinical spaces where men aged 18 and above can speak openly without judgement. The image is commercially useful for illustrating mental health awareness campaigns, workplace wellbeing, public health messaging, social prescribing, community resilience, third sector support, masculinity, stigma, crisis prevention and the importance of early conversation before problems become overwhelming. The poster's visible wording, including #ANDYSMANCLUB, #ITSOKAYTOTALK, meeting times and social media details, makes it clearly identifiable and relevant to current debates about suicide risk, underfunded support services, the pressure on men to keep quiet and the need for accessible, local, informal support. The picture also works as a documentary record of charity publicity in everyday public spaces, where a simple notice can signpost people towards help, solidarity and a first step through the door. Its stark monochrome design and urgent headline create an effective visual shorthand for the continuing need to normalise men talking about mental health.
ANDYSMANCLUB workplace poster promoting male mental health support, suicide prevention and the #ItsO
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,mens,men,poster,suicide,prevention,pub,toilet,gents,awareness,checking in,support your mates,male,wellbeing,depression,anxiety,social connection,charity,QR code,pub wellbeing campaign,hospitality venues,bar toilets,male suicide prevention,emotional support,peer support,talking to friends,friendship support,loneliness prevention,crisis support,wellbeing messaging,donation appeal,public health messaging,awareness poster,social responsibility,pub culture,community support,health communication,stigma reduction
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ENAP4R - Two bright yellow CALM mental health posters displayed in a pub gents toilet, using beer glass imagery and pub-friendly language to encourage men and friends to check in with one another. The left poster carries the headline Cheers to Checking In and says CALM and Stonegate have joined forces to celebrate getting together with mates, sharing good times and recognising when someone may be struggling. The right poster reads Help CALM be there for everyone whose glass feels half empty and explains that Campaign Against Living Miserably is a suicide prevention charity that supports anyone struggling to stay in the game for another day. The setting is important because the message appears in a male social space where some people may feel more able to notice a friend's low mood, loneliness, anxiety, depression, money worries or change in behaviour. The visible text, pint glass graphics, QR code and donation message make the image suitable for editorial use around suicide prevention, men's mental health, peer support, pub culture, charity awareness, hospitality venues, social connection and public health communication. Stonegate Group announced a two-year partnership with CALM in 2026, with CALM messaging appearing across pubs, bars and venues through in-venue signage and digital screens. The photograph can support stories about how charities reach people outside clinical settings, how informal conversations can reduce isolation, and how pubs can be used as community spaces for awareness campaigns. It also has relevance for workplace wellbeing, hospitality social responsibility, fundraising, mental health stigma, early intervention, support for mates, and the idea that asking a simple question in an everyday setting may help someone feel less alone. The image should be handled sensitively, avoiding sensational language, and framed around support, prevention, hope and practical human connection.
United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,benefits,young,children,families,childcare,poster,banner,Cheshire,WA4,nursery,recruitment,early years,job,30 hours,£2000,Labour,government,supporting,staff,staffing,fee,fees,affordability,capacity,funding,education,training,local,Ofsted,branding,pay,sector,kidsplanetdaynurseries,preschool,worker,workers,Universal Credit
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E8PW0E - A roadside Kids Planet Day Nurseries recruitment banner in Appleton Thorn, Warrington, Cheshire, promoting early years childcare careers with the slogan Careers that are out of this world . The blue outdoor sign, fixed to railings beside a brick pavement and greenery, advertises nursery jobs at a private day nursery and includes the Kids Planet branding, website and Recruiting now message. The image is commercially useful for editorial coverage of childcare, nursery staffing, early years education, recruitment shortages, working parents and the cost of childcare in England. Kids Planet Appleton Thorn is listed by Ofsted at Thorn House, Green Lane, Appleton, Warrington, WA4 5NS, and the operator describes the nursery as set in the heart of Appleton Thorn with traditional building features and outdoor space. The photograph links a local Cheshire nursery setting with wider national debates about funded childcare places, Tax-Free Childcare, nursery capacity, childcare affordability and the pressure on providers to recruit and retain qualified early years staff. In England, eligible working parents may be able to receive funded childcare support, including 30 hours a week for children aged 9 months to 4 years, while Tax-Free Childcare can help eligible families pay approved providers. The word free is often used politically and in media coverage, but funded childcare is more precise because eligibility rules, provider charges, consumables, hours and local availability can all affect what parents actually pay. The overcast daylight, damp-looking paving and green roadside setting give the image an everyday suburban feel, making it suitable for news, policy, education, family finance and labour market stories. It can illustrate nursery recruitment campaigns, childcare benefits, government support, parental employment, local jobs, early years workforce pressures, private nursery provision and the practical reality behind childcare promises.
Kids Planet recruitment banner -in Appleton Thorn, Warrington, promoting nursery careers and early y
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,England,Wales,Scotland,election,Scottish,English,Welsh,parliament,green,left,left wing,leftwing,the,poster,sign,signs,change,local,UK,grassroots,campaigning,residential,success,garden,street,doorstep,advertising,signage,surge,Zack Polanski,polling,boost,disillusioned Labour,voters,tactical,Palestine politics,disillusionment
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EBGJMW - Vote Green campaign placard is fixed to a wooden post outside a red brick terraced house in a British residential street, creating a topical editorial image for UK council election coverage. The photograph shows grassroots Green Party campaigning at street level, with a second Vote Green sign visible further along the road, suggesting neighbourhood support and local doorstep politics rather than a staged party press event. The image is useful for stories about the Green Party of England and Wales, local elections, voter choice, protest voting, climate politics, environmental policy, tactical voting, progressive politics and changing party loyalties in urban and suburban communities. It can also illustrate the rise of Green campaigning under leader Zack Polanski, whose leadership has been associated with sharper left-wing messaging, stronger stock-photo/gotonysmith-Polling.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>polling visibility and increased attention from Labour, Liberal Democrat, Conservative and Reform UK opponents. The scene works well for coverage of local council contests, ward campaigns, candidate leaflets, garden posters, political signage, door-to-door canvassing and the contest for disillusioned Labour voters. It also suits more critical editorial use around campaign controversies, candidate vetting, accusations from rival parties, debates over antisemitism, policing comments, Palestine-related campaigning, public confidence, party discipline and the practical challenge of translating national polling into council seats. The wet road, plain terraced housing, overcast light and ordinary street setting give the image a documentary feel, emphasising everyday democratic participation, household political expression and the way national political arguments become visible in small local streets during an election campaign. It has strong stock value for newspapers, magazines, political blogs, polling analysis, civic education and features about fragmentation in British politics beyond the traditional two-party contest.
Vote Green election poster in a UK terraced street as Green Party campaigning rises under Zack Polan
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,product,products,onboard,train,poster,travel,womens,passenger,information,railway,assistance,care,menstrual,health,public,transport,initiative,free,pads,rail passenger support,travel assistance,period poverty awareness,women travellers,train operator campaign,UK rail travel,customer information poster,onboard facilities,health support,Menstrual Hygiene Day,discreet support,transport equality,rail industry,notice,railway carriage,sanitary products,passenger welfare,West Coast Main Line
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E93466 - Close view of an Avanti West Coast onboard passenger information poster promoting free period care on trains as part of the operator's Package for a Friend scheme. The red notice explains that if a passenger's period arrives unexpectedly, help is available onboard, with customers able to ask staff for a pad in the shop or request a Package for a Friend for a more private and discreet handover. The image is useful for editorial coverage of women's health, menstrual care, period dignity, inclusive travel, passenger welfare, public transport support initiatives and the wider role of transport operators in responding to real everyday needs. Avanti West Coast announced the scheme in 2025, saying customers could access free pads via onboard shop staff or through Click and Collect for discreet pickup. The poster also carries Package for a Friend branding, linking it to a broader rail industry initiative around menstrual equality and practical passenger support. This makes the photograph relevant for news, magazines, health features, transport policy coverage, equality and inclusion reporting, customer service case studies and rail industry commentary. Visually, the strong red design and bold white lettering create a clear, informative documentary image of modern onboard signage, while the wording gives specific context around unexpected periods, privacy and access to free sanitary products during a journey. Suitable themes include women travellers, train operator services, public information campaigns, travel reassurance, period poverty awareness, transport accessibility and practical measures to make rail travel more inclusive and less stressful for passengers. The image also works as a record of changing expectations in customer care on Britain's railways, where health, dignity and discreet support are becoming more visible parts of the onboard experience.
Avanti West Coast poster promoting free period care onboard trains through its Package for a Friend
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,Granada,TV,from,radio,Timperleys,will,cut,the,ribbon,aquatics,hotline,hot-line,1988,head,poster,0619691909,Frank Sidebottom poster,British comedy poster,Manchester cultural history,alternative comedy UK,vintage event poster,hand drawn poster,outsider art UK,Greater Manchester culture,1980s British comedy,surreal humour,cult comedy character,DIY graphic design,photocopied poster,underground culture UK,British eccentricity,northern humour,community event poster,fish ponds opening,local radio promotion,Radio Timperley
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3CPAX84 - This image shows an original hand drawn and photocopied poster from 1988 advertising an appearance by Frank Sidebottom, the surreal comic creation of Chris Sievey. The poster announces that Frank Sidebottom would cut the ribbon for the official opening of the Timperley Aquatics water garden on 2 April 1988, at 10.30am GMT, with a live appearance lasting five minutes.
The artwork features Frank Sidebottom's instantly recognisable wide eyed papier mache head, rendered in a deliberately naïve black and white illustration style. Surrounding text and drawings, including fish motifs and playful handwritten lettering, reflect the DIY, low budget aesthetic that defined Sievey's work and the wider British alternative comedy scene of the 1980s.
The poster references Radio Timperley and includes local contact details, reinforcing the strong connection between Frank Sidebottom and community level events in south Manchester. Rather than mainstream venues, Sievey frequently performed at small local openings, shops, and civic events, using absurdity and deadpan humour to parody celebrity culture and public ceremonies.
As a piece of ephemera, the poster offers a valuable snapshot of grassroots British cultural history. It illustrates how alternative comedy, outsider art, and local radio intersected in late twentieth century Manchester, and why Frank Sidebottom became a lasting cult figure associated with Timperley, Greater Manchester, and northern English eccentricity.
Timperley, Sale, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: Gotonysmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,MIF25,dance,music,poster,Juliet Ellis,festival,contemporary,performance,display,outdoor,advertising,Shudehill,Shudehill tram stop,Manchester,city,centre,Northern Quarter,NQ4,cultural,public,events,urban,marketing,UK,visitor,economy,creative,industries,scene,Dream Differently,international,artists,biennial,regeneration,tourism,funding,promotion
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E3P7N6 - Manchester International Festival 2025 stock-photo/gotonysmith-Posters.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>posters are displayed beside a graffiti-covered fence near Shudehill tram stop in Manchester city centre, advertising contemporary art, theatre, performance and cultural events. The visible MIF25 posters promote Juliet Ellis's A Symphony of Flesh and Bones at Aviva Studios, Liberation, Germaine Kruip's A Possibility and An Inheritance, with the distinctive Manchester International Festival branding repeated across the outdoor advertising panels. Factory International says MIF25 ran from 3 to 20 July 2025, taking over Aviva Studios and spreading across the city with artists and audiences from around the world, under the festival theme Dream Differently. The image is commercially useful for stories about Manchester arts and culture, festival marketing, outdoor posters, public art, theatre promotion, contemporary performance, city-centre advertising and the role of major festivals in shaping urban identity. The Shudehill location adds strong Manchester context, linking the festival's cultural programme with public transport, the Northern Quarter, tram passengers, commuters, visitors and everyday city movement. The rough brick wall, metal poster frames, graffiti, chain-link fence and changing urban backdrop contrast with the polished MIF branding, creating a useful visual of how cultural messages appear in real streets rather than only inside galleries or theatres. It can illustrate creative industries, cultural regeneration, visitor economy, public realm, arts funding, event tourism, poster design, city branding and the continuing role of printed advertising in a digital age. As a documentary stock image, it records MIF25 at street level, where international art, local audiences, transport infrastructure and Manchester's gritty visual culture meet in one public-facing display.
Manchester International Festival 2025 posters near Shudehill tram stop, advertising contemporary ar
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,urban,city,centre,Ireland,poster,affordable,crisis,on,street,banner,housing,at the,Dail,17/06/2025,sign,signs,protests,public demonstration,housing crisis,Dáil Éireann,political protest,social housing,cost of living crisis,urban protest,Dublin housing crisis,June 2025,protest sign,political activism,public campaign,housing shortage,homelessness,social justice,city streets,civic protest,public policy,Ireland politics,grassroots movement,street signage,urban issues,public awareness campaigns
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3BKDJH6 - A close-up view of a housing protest poster attached to a street pole in Dublin city centre, Ireland, photographed in June 2025. The poster advertises a planned demonstration at Dáil Éireann and describes the housing situation as an emergency, reflecting widespread public concern over housing supply, affordability, and homelessness in Ireland.
The sign features bold red and yellow typography designed for high visibility in an urban environment and references organised protest activity involving speeches, music, and public participation. Such posters are a common feature of Dublin's streetscape during periods of heightened political debate and social mobilisation.
Ireland has experienced sustained pressure on housing availability in recent years, particularly in major cities such as Dublin, leading to regular protests, policy discussions, and public campaigns focused on housing provision and reform. Temporary street posters like this document how political messaging is communicated at ground level in public spaces.
This image is suitable for editorial use illustrating housing protests, urban political activism, social policy debates, cost of living issues, public demonstrations in Ireland, and contemporary civic life in European capital cities.
Dublin city centre, Dublin, Ireland
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Southern,Republic,poster,All out,for,housing,march,at,the,on,lamp post,street,in,Dublin,city,centre,June,2025,IE,sunny,day,emergency,Parnell Square,D01 ET35,D01,response,to,Irish,activism,Love Ireland,Hate Racism,Antiracism,anti-racism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3BR178F - This carefully observed stock photograph records Protest posters on lamp post, in Dublin June summer 2025, Ireland, IE - Parnell Square, D01 ET35. The row metadata places the subject at Parnell Square, D01 ET35, Dublin, Ireland, IE. The spreadsheet date indicates 17 June 2025, so the picture can also work as a time-specific archive record. Plainly, the image is useful because it shows Ireland, Irish, Raise The Roof, Save Our Neutrality, Housing Protest, summer, lamppost, protest, with search-relevant terms including Ireland, Irish, Raise The Roof, Save Our Neutrality, Housing Protest, summer, lamppost, protest, Dail, posters, Southern, Republic, poster, All out. Housing-related imagery is in constant demand because it helps explain affordability, regulation, landlord services, resident pressure, repairs, asset management and the cost of living in a concrete visual way. Dublin is both a historic capital and a modern European city, where tourism, housing pressure, transport, politics, culture and the River Liffey all shape how the city is understood in contemporary reporting. The subject has particular value for social housing, resident services, asset management, repairs, rent pressure, leasehold reform, regulation and housing-policy reporting, especially where buyers need a grounded image rather than a generic housing-stock cliché. It would suit editorial features, local news reporting, public policy articles, web explainers, travel pieces and business commentary where a real place or recognisable everyday subject is needed rather than a staged studio concept. Historically and socially, this kind of image can help connect past and present: older streets, civic institutions, transport systems, shops, signs, political messages or public services are not frozen museum pieces, but part of how people understand modern life, local identity and economic change.
Parnell Square, D01 ET35, Dublin, Ireland, IE
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2X2CG2W - This image shows a large, colourful LEEDS sign mounted within the interior of Leeds railway station in West Yorkshire, England. The sign uses bold lettering across a series of bright, patterned panels, creating a distinctive visual identity that clearly announces the city to arriving and departing passengers. Positioned above the station concourse area, the sign forms part of the station's wayfinding and branding, reinforcing Leeds as a major regional destination.
Leeds railway station is one of the busiest stations outside London and a key transport hub in the north of England. Serving the East Coast Main Line and numerous regional routes, it provides vital connections between Leeds, London, Manchester, Sheffield, York, the North East, and Scotland. The station plays a central role in daily commuter travel as well as long-distance intercity services, reflecting Leeds' importance as a commercial, financial, cultural, and educational centre.
The modern interior setting, combined with contemporary graphic design, reflects ongoing investment in passenger experience and urban transport infrastructure. This image is suitable for editorial and commercial use relating to rail travel, public transport, city identity, tourism, urban regeneration, and the role of major railway stations as gateways to UK cities.
New Station Street, Leeds, England, LS1 4DY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Yorkshire,LS2,city,centre,LS2 7HN,traditional,classic,retail,cheap,value,history,historic,heritage,facade,façade,English,building,buildings,architecture,ornate,shops,shop,Vicar St,Vicar Street,theres so much,to see,taste,and,do,Year of Culture,sign,banner,poster
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T2845D - Taken on 07 Oct 2023, this photograph shows Leeds city Kirkgate markets, Leeds Kirkgate Market, Kirkgate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS2 7HN. The location is Kirkgate, Leeds, England, LS2 7HN. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains ornate Victorian market architecture, signage, stall fronts and the texture of a working city centre shopping hall. Leeds Kirkgate Market is one of the city's great Victorian retail landmarks and is closely associated with the birth of Marks and Spencer, after Michael Marks began trading his Penny Bazaar in Leeds in 1884. That background gives the scene wider value for stories on independent markets, national chains with local origins, urban heritage, shopping habits and the tension between traditional retail and modern redevelopment. It would suit editorial use on shopping, retail change, independent traders, high-street survival, tourism, local economies, consumer habits and the visual identity of British town and city centres. 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 Leeds, Leeds Kirkgate Market, Kirkgate, market, Victorian, markets, shopping, stalls, stall, front, Yorkshire, LS2, 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.
Kirkgate, Leeds, England, LS2 7HN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T2845F - Taken on 07 Oct 2023, this photograph shows Leeds city Kirkgate markets, Leeds Kirkgate Market, Kirkgate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS2 7HN. The location is Kirkgate, Leeds, England, LS2 7HN. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains ornate Victorian market architecture, signage, stall fronts and the texture of a working city centre shopping hall. Leeds Kirkgate Market is one of the city's great Victorian retail landmarks and is closely associated with the birth of Marks and Spencer, after Michael Marks began trading his Penny Bazaar in Leeds in 1884. That background gives the scene wider value for stories on independent markets, national chains with local origins, urban heritage, shopping habits and the tension between traditional retail and modern redevelopment. It would suit editorial use on shopping, retail change, independent traders, high-street survival, tourism, local economies, consumer habits and the visual identity of British town and city centres. 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 Leeds, Leeds Kirkgate Market, Kirkgate, market, Victorian, markets, shopping, stalls, stall, front, Yorkshire, LS2, 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.
Kirkgate, Leeds, England, LS2 7HN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T2845G - Taken on 07 Oct 2023, this photograph shows Leeds city Kirkgate markets, Leeds Kirkgate Market, Kirkgate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS2 7HN. The location is Kirkgate, Leeds, England, LS2 7HN. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains ornate Victorian market architecture, signage, stall fronts and the texture of a working city centre shopping hall. Leeds Kirkgate Market is one of the city's great Victorian retail landmarks and is closely associated with the birth of Marks and Spencer, after Michael Marks began trading his Penny Bazaar in Leeds in 1884. That background gives the scene wider value for stories on independent markets, national chains with local origins, urban heritage, shopping habits and the tension between traditional retail and modern redevelopment. It would suit editorial use on shopping, retail change, independent traders, high-street survival, tourism, local economies, consumer habits and the visual identity of British town and city centres. 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 Leeds, Leeds Kirkgate Market, Kirkgate, market, Victorian, markets, shopping, stalls, stall, front, Yorkshire, LS2, 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.
Kirkgate, Leeds, England, LS2 7HN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,site,railway station,Central Birmingham,West Midlands,England,UK,B4 7XG,Rishi Sunak,cancellation,cancelled,to,Manchester,Leeds,HS2,high speed,two,works,at,construction,train,trains,infrastructure,project,rest of,announcement,Levelling Up,Tory party conference,poster,green,issues,small,path,pathway,oil,prices,fossil fuels,Iran war
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T00PEF - High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-stock-photo/gotonysmith-Speed.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>speed railway line and network of passenger train services in England. It will consist of a new railway line between the West Midlands and London, with a branch to Birmingham, and a network of train services that will use the new line and existing conventional track to reach their destinations in the Midlands, Northern England, and Scotland. HS2 will be Britain's second purpose-built high-speed line, the first being High Speed 1, which connects London to the Channel Tunnel. The majority of the project is planned to be completed between 2029 and 2033. A 2019 review of the project, as then planned, estimated that it would cost up to £87 billion
however, this is estimated to have risen to approximately £100 billion in 2023.
The new line will run between London Euston railway station and Fradley in southern Staffordshire, with stations at Old Oak Common, in northwest London, and Birmingham Interchange, near Solihull. There will be spurs to a planned station in central Birmingham and a junction with the West Coast Main Line (WCML) at Handsacre, near Lichfield. The rolling stock will run at a maximum speed of 360 km/h (225 mph) and will operate on both HS2 track and existing conventional track
On 4 October 2023 the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that Phase 2 would be abandoned and that responsibility for the Euston connection would be removed from HS2 Ltd
Curzon St, new HS2 railway station, Central Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B4 7XG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,site,railway station,West Midlands,England,UK,B4 7XG,Rishi Sunak,cancellation,cancelled,to,Manchester,Leeds,HS2,high speed,two,works,at,construction,train,trains,infrastructure,project,rest of,announcement,poster,building,we are building,railway,high,speed,path,pathway,fence,fenced,off
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T00PEK - High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-stock-photo/gotonysmith-Speed.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>speed railway line and network of passenger train services in England. It will consist of a new railway line between the West Midlands and London, with a branch to Birmingham, and a network of train services that will use the new line and existing conventional track to reach their destinations in the Midlands, Northern England, and Scotland. HS2 will be Britain's second purpose-built high-speed line, the first being High Speed 1, which connects London to the Channel Tunnel. The majority of the project is planned to be completed between 2029 and 2033. A 2019 review of the project, as then planned, estimated that it would cost up to £87 billion
however, this is estimated to have risen to approximately £100 billion in 2023.
The new line will run between London Euston railway station and Fradley in southern Staffordshire, with stations at Old Oak Common, in northwest London, and Birmingham Interchange, near Solihull. There will be spurs to a planned station in central Birmingham and a junction with the West Coast Main Line (WCML) at Handsacre, near Lichfield. The rolling stock will run at a maximum speed of 360 km/h (225 mph) and will operate on both HS2 track and existing conventional track
On 4 October 2023 the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that Phase 2 would be abandoned and that responsibility for the Euston connection would be removed from HS2 Ltd
Curzon St, new HS2 railway station, Central Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B4 7XG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,site,railway station,Central Birmingham,West Midlands,England,UK,B4 7XG,Rishi Sunak,cancellation,cancelled,to,Leeds,HS2,high speed,works,construction,rail,line,railway,leg,scrapped,train,trains,infrastructure,project,rest of,announcement,Levelling Up,poster,London,slogan,U-turn,rail capacity,investment,debate,broken promise,irony
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T00PER - Old HS2 High Speed Two advertising hoarding at Birmingham Curzon Street reading Live in Birmingham, Work in Manchester, Play in London , photographed in stock-photo/gotonysmith-Central.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Central Birmingham before the project's northern leg to Manchester was cancelled. The slogan now has strong editorial value as an unintended white elephant image, contrasting the original promise of fast intercity connectivity between Birmingham, Manchester and London with the later political decision to cut back HS2 to a London to West Midlands railway. The sign stands beside the Curzon Street station site in Birmingham city centre, close to the Grade I listed former London and Birmingham Railway terminus on New Canal Street, a location already rich in railway history and regeneration symbolism. This image is useful for searches about HS2, High Speed Two, HS2 cancellation, Manchester leg cancelled, northern leg cancellation, Birmingham to Manchester, Curzon Street, Eastside regeneration, transport policy, major project failure, public spending, cost overruns, rail capacity, levelling up, northern powerhouse, regional inequality, West Coast Main Line, government U-turn, infrastructure governance and value for money. The wording is especially powerful because it captures a promise of joined-up economic geography, where people might live in Birmingham, work in Manchester and play in London, but the later cancellation makes the message look optimistic, dated and politically awkward. The photograph can illustrate news, reports, blogs, political commentary, transport features, planning debate, construction industry analysis, public accountability, Midlands and northern rail investment, station-led growth and the risk that major infrastructure branding outlives the project it promoted. The plain pavement, blue hoarding, HS2 branding, overcast sky and lack of people give the image a clean documentary feel, suitable for stock buyers needing a sharp visual metaphor for cancelled rail ambition, broken connectivity promises a
Curzon St, new HS2 railway station, Central Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B4 7XG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RY1R39 - In 2023 it is the 1100th anniversary of Thelwall being declared a ˜city'. There is to be an open meeting on Wednesday 30thNovember for local groups and individuals to gather interest and ideas, and set up an organising committee. The meeting will take place at the Royal British Legion, doors opening at 7pm for the meeting to start at 7.30. Representatives and individual members of all village organisations will be very welcome.
In 2023 it is the 1100th anniversary of Thelwall being declared a ˜city'. There is to be an open meeting on Wednesday 30thNovember for local groups and individuals to gather interest and ideas, and set up an organising committee. The meeting will take place at the Royal British Legion, doors opening at 7pm for the meeting to start at 7.30. Representatives and individual members of all village organisations will be very welcome.
We've been looking back at the way the village came together to celebrate 1000 years in 1923 and 1050 years in 1973. In 1923, Thelwall's celebrations helped to fund a new war memorial (Bell Lane), dedicated in 1925. So successful was the event that the pub was drunk dry and the caterers ran out of food and drinks. In May 1973, Thelwall Youth and Community Association organised Festival 1050 “ a four day event with a folk festival, a piano recital by Stephen Hough, an arts and crafts exhibition in the school and a procession that saw Miss Thelwall (Carol Moss) brought across the Manchester Ship Canal by the ferry boat where she was met by the Thelwall Rose Queen (Julie Lager) to a fanfare. They then joined a procession of vintage cars round the village.
If you have any memorabilia, photos, films or memories from these events, we would like to hear from you. You can email thelwallhistorygroup@gmail.com
Bell Ln, Thelwall village, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2SU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RWDK0X - The Floral Hall Ballroomwas in Marine Parade West,Morecambe, Lancashire and opened in 1938. The Floral Hall complex included the 2,200-seat Floral Hall, the 1,500-seat Empire Theatre and the 935-seat Arcadian Theatre plus a cafe and dance hall. It was converted to a bingo hall around 1980.
Marine Parade West, Morecambe , Lancashire, England,UK, LA4 6AQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,WA8,Cheshire,England,UK,WA8 6UE,business,businesses,retail,stall,stalls,colourful,bright,town,centre,the,indoor,indoors,interior,value,shopping,cheap,shop,shops,in,a,traditional,wall,poster,banner,banners,inflation,reduced,footfall
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RX186G - Taken on 26 Jul 2023, this photograph shows Promoting the Indoor market, Bradley Way, Widnes, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA8 6UE. The location is Bradley Way, Widnes, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA8 6UE. 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. Widnes Market belongs to the long tradition of north-west market towns trying to keep affordable shopping, local traders and community footfall alive alongside supermarkets and online retail. It would suit editorial use on shopping, retail change, independent traders, high-street survival, tourism, local economies, consumer habits and the visual identity of British town and city centres. 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 Widnes Market, markets, Widnes, Halton, Bradley Way, market, successful, promoting, success, promotion, WA8, Cheshire, 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.
Bradley Way, Widnes, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA8 6UE
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RC6H5W -
St George's Place, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1JJ
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2 Bank St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2AS
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R9J0E4 - The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is a registered trade union[2] in the United Kingdom for those in the profession of nursing. It was founded in 1916, receiving its royal charter in 1928. Queen Elizabeth II was the patron until her death in 2022. The majority of members are registered nurses
however student nurses and healthcare assistants are also members. There is also a category of membership, at a reduced cost, for retired people.
The RCN describes its mission as representing nurses and nursing, promoting excellence in practice and shaping health policies. It has a network of stewards, safety representatives and union learning representatives as well as advice services for members. Services include a main library in London, and regional libraries. The RCN Institute provides courses for nurses.
History
The College of Nursing Ltd was founded on 27 March 1916, with 34 members, as a professional organisation for trained nurses
In 2018, after a pay agreement was not clearly explained to the membership, the Chief Executive and General Secretary Janet Davies resigned and Dame Donna Kinnair was appointed in an acting capacity. She was confirmed in the role in April 2019. A motion of no confidence in the RCN Council was called shortly afterwards and passed in September 2018 with 78% of votes, but on a turnout when only 3.7% of the membership voted. As well as the Chief Executive and General Secretary, the Director of Member Relations had previously resigned. Twelve of the 17 council members resigned, 10 of them standing for re-election in the subsequent election.
In 2019, the RCN's first strike ” limited to Northern Ireland, over staffing and pay issues”took place
In 2022, the RCN held a strike ballot over pay, held separately across NHS trusts and boards. Its members went on strike as part of the 2022“2023 National Health Service strikes. The RCN commented that from 2010 (the start of the government's austerity programme) to 2022, pay for nurses had fallen by 20%
45-51 Crumlin Rd, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, BT14 6AB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R9J0J1 - A key worker, critical worker or essential worker is a public-sector or private-sector employee who is considered to provide an essential service. The term has been used[when?] in the United Kingdom in the context of workers who may find it difficult to buy property in the area where they work. The term was also used by the UK government during announcements regarding school shutdowns invoked in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to indicate parents whose occupations entitled them to continue sending their children to schools which were otherwise shut down by government policy, as well as teachers and LSAs at those schools.
A key worker is a public sector or private sector employee who is considered to provide an essential service.
Key workers jobs that cannot be done remotely:-
Energy. Many of the jobs in this field, which includes mining and oil extraction, cannot be done remotely.
First responders. These are the people communities depend on in emergencies, such as paramedics, firefighters and police.
Education and child care. Making sure children can grow academically even during a pandemic means vaccinating teachers, their support staff, and daycare employees.
Agriculture and food production. Many of the outbreaks at the onset of the pandemic were in meatpacking facilities and other food-processing plants.
Critical retail. (i.e. grocery stores, hardware stores, auto mechanics etc.). Keeping supermarket employees safe makes it possible for others to stay fed while restaurants are temporarily shut down.
Critical trades. (i.e. construction workers, electricians, plumbers, etc.)
Manufacturing. These jobs (producing goods) cannot be done remotely.
Corrections workers. Prisons are the types of closed facilities where the coronavirus can spread quickly.
Postal Service workers. This group makes sure vital packages get delivered, along with providing other key services.
Public transit workers.
96-98 High St, Belfast , Northern Ireland, UK, BT1 2AG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RC3CDJ - Unionist boycott ˜will not alter police reform' - more at https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30021664.html
Police reform in Northern Ireland will not be altered if unionists boycott the board overseeing the changes, the British Government insisted today.
A Northern Ireland Office spokesman rejected claims from the anti-Good Friday Agreement Democratic Unionists that unionists could secure a better policing plan if they united and opposed the current proposals.
As the Rev Ian Paisley's party met at Stormont to consider its response to the Government's plan, the NIO said the package was ''non-negotiable''.
''The Government's position was spelt out very clearly by the Secretary of State on Tuesday,'' a spokesman said.
''The implementation plan is non-negotiable. No rethink will take place. This is the plan.''
The NIO spokesman was responding to DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson's claim that if David Trimble's Ulster Unionists agreed to join them in withholding support for the plan, the reforms could not go ahead.
Signalling his party would not take its seats on the Policing Board if the UUP did not nominate representatives, he claimed: ˜˜At the meeting we held recently with John Reid, he indicated the Government could not proceed with the plan if he could not get, on the one hand the support of either the SDLP, Sinn Fein or both, and on the other, the UUP, DUP or both.
˜˜That was the criteria operated the last time around. The Government's plans were stopped because neither the SDLP nor Sinn Fein would support it and as a result the reforms were made much more acceptable to nationalists in the SDLP.
˜˜The logical argument, therefore, is if unionists do not support this implementation plan, then it cannot succeed. The Government will have to amend it to make it more acceptable to unionists and go back to negotiations.
108 Main St, Bushmills, Northern Ireland, UK, BT57 8QD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RCC5PC - This image shows a vintage advertising poster produced by the Cooperative Wholesale Society to promote Penguin umbrellas, a specialist product sold through cooperative retail outlets across Britain. The poster features a humorous illustrated scene of people sheltering beneath umbrellas, accompanied by the slogan It never rains in Manchester “ but you'll see penguins , playing on the city's reputation for wet weather and dry northern wit.
The Cooperative Wholesale Society, commonly known as CWS, was the manufacturing and wholesale arm of the British cooperative movement, supplying goods to local Co-op stores nationwide. Advertising material such as this poster combined practical product promotion with humour and strong graphic identity, helping distinguish cooperative goods from private retailers during the mid twentieth century.
The illustration style, limited colour palette, and bold typography are characteristic of postwar British commercial art, reflecting a period when posters were a primary means of mass communication. The use of penguins as a visual motif reinforced brand recognition for Penguin umbrellas while appealing to family audiences and everyday consumers.
Closely associated with Manchester and the wider Lancashire cooperative tradition, this poster also reflects the cultural values of the movement, including accessibility, shared ownership, and trust in everyday essentials. The image is well suited for editorial use covering British social history, cooperative retailing, vintage advertising, graphic design, and the cultural identity of northern England.
Toad Lane, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK OL12 0NU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R5PP30 - A Socialist Appeal communist recruitment poster is shown pasted to a dark public wall in Lancaster, Lancashire, using stark red, black and white typography and a graphic image of Karl Marx pointing directly at the viewer. The bold slogan reads Are you a Communist? followed by Then get organised , with a QR code and web address at the bottom. The poster is part of a wider Marxist recruitment campaign aimed at workers, young people and students, using direct confrontational language and a visual style reminiscent of early twentieth-century political and military recruitment posters. In a university city such as Lancaster, this kind of flyposting is especially associated with student politics, campus activism, youth campaigning and public debate around socialism, capitalism, class politics and the radical left. The image is useful for editorial themes including contemporary British politics, communist organising, Socialist Appeal, RCP-linked campaigning, Marxist activism, protest culture, political communication, urban flyposting, student recruitment, ideological messaging and radical political movements in northern England. The close crop makes the poster the dominant subject, while the rough, dark wall surface gives documentary texture and clearly places the message in a public street environment rather than a formal meeting or indoor campaign setting. The bright daylight and clean visibility suggest a clear daytime street photograph, with no weather detail strongly visible beyond even natural light. The design deliberately reduces the message to a simple question and call to action, creating a high-impact political advert for passers-by. This is an editorial documentary photograph of a political poster in public space, recording visible campaign material and street-level political messaging in Lancaster, rather than an endorsement of the organisation, ideology or slogan shown. It may be relevant to news, education and feature uses covering student activism.
Lancaster, Lancs, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64TKC -
Chapel St, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK, LA1 1NZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,city,centre,Merseyside,England,UK,sunny,blue sky,the,gallery,tourist,arts,collections,National Museums,L3 8EL,L3,William Brown Street,exhibition,poster,at,John Moores,Painting Prize,painting,prize,prizes,call,for,entries,artists,entrants,entry,JM,biennial,award,festival,of,visual art,modern art
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R6AHY6 - The John Moores Painting Prize is a biennial award to the best contemporary painting, submission is open to the public. The prize is named for Sir John Moores, noted philanthropist, who established the award in 1957. The winning work and short-listed pieces are exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery as part of the Liverpool Biennial festival of visual art
First winners:
1957 Jack Smith - Creation and Crucifixion
1959 Patrick Heron - Black Painting - Red, Brown and Olive : July 1959
1961 Henry Mundy - Cluster
1963 Roger Hilton - March 1963
1965 Michael Tyzack - Alesso 'B'
1967 David Hockney - Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool
Recent winners:
2010 Keith Coventry - Spectrum Jesus
2012 Sarah Pickstone - Stevie Smith and the Willow
2014 Rose Wylie - PV Windows and Floorboards
2016 Michael Simpson - Squint (19)
2018 Jacqui Hallum - King and Queen of Wands
2021 Kathryn Maple - The Common
William Brown St, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L3 8EL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RADRXK -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R8T9GA -
Euston station, Camden ,London, UK, NW1 2RT
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R0X33R - Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, but their musical approach has changed over the years. Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. Deep Purple (together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath) have been referred to as the unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies. They were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as the globe's loudest band for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide
Current line up:
Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan
Don Airey, Simon McBride
Laszlo Papp Arena, Budapest, Hungary
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,UK,poster,for,beer,friday,12th,May,12/05/2023,retrobeats,30+,true reflections,the,olde,Barn,Bellhouse lane,WA4,Bellhouse Ln,Warrington,WA4 2SG,advert,Bellhouse,club,bar,pub,beer festivals,beers,festivals,music,entertainment,many,ale,ales,British,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PR599D -
Grappenhall Youth & Community Centre, Bellhouse Ln, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, Uk,
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GGHT,flats,improvements,site,Kingsway House,Cheshire,social,refurbishment,contractor,high,rise,highrise,contractors,at,housing,England,group,HMS,south,Torus,WA4,north west,improvement,cladding,refurb,creating,greener,flat,WA4 1QT,poster,Latchford,Warrington,UK,detail,of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PNM3W2 -
Kingsway House, Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1QT
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Kingsway House, Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1QT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Merseyside,England,UK,L1,city,centre,Warrington,Central,station,Cheshire,and,&,safety,health,limits,scooter,scooters,sign,on,platform,of,platforms,rail,in,trains,ban,banned,WA2 7TD,WA2,danger,dangers,poster,recent incidents,faulty,batteries,fire,fires,Lithium
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PJHNTB - Framed Northern railway safety poster is mounted on a brick wall at a station in the United Kingdom. The prominent message, E-scooters are not permitted , appears in large white lettering against a blue background, accompanied by a red prohibition symbol over an illustrated electric scooter. Smaller wording explains that, for safety reasons, e-scooters and hoverboards cannot be brought onto Northern trains or into Northern stations.
The notice is designed to be immediately understood by passengers, commuters and visitors. Its strong blue, white and red colour scheme, simple pictogram and direct wording communicate a transport restriction intended to prevent potentially hazardous powered devices from entering the rail environment. The poster is relevant to public safety campaigns, railway regulations, passenger behaviour, micromobility, urban transport policy and the debate around the safe use of privately owned e-scooters.
Northern confirms that e-scooters and most other powered transport devices are not permitted on its trains or within its stations. The operator identifies concerns about fires involving batteries as the reason for the restriction. UK government guidance similarly addresses the management of lithium battery fire risks where e-cycles and e-scooters are carried on public transport.
Beyond battery hazards, the image can illustrate wider concerns surrounding electric scooters, including collisions, pavement riding, pedestrian safety, antisocial use, regulation and accident prevention. No scooter or passenger is shown, so the editorial emphasis remains on the official warning itself and the railway company's effort to inform the public. The exact station cannot be identified from the visible details in the photograph
Warrington Central station, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PKA5JD - Why do a sleepout in the Cathedral?
The Whitechapel Centre is Liverpool's leading homeless charity, helping those living without a home. Liverpool Cathedral is a vibrant, active place that helps the people of the city in many ways through schools, family workshops, foodbanks and community markets, volunteering, or just being a safe place to keep warm. Together, we are working really hard to make sure everyone in Liverpool can have a place to call home and live to their full potential. Unfortunately, more and more people need our help each year.
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We know that many people want to help those they see sleeping on the streets or who are struggling but it can be difficult to know the best way to help. By taking part in the Cathedral Sleepout and raising as much money as possible, you'll enable us to give people food, find them a home and teach them new skills.
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The Cathedral Sleepout is a very rare opportunity to sleep inside the fantastic Liverpool Cathedral. The Sleepout doesn't compare to sleeping outside on the streets, but we want to help people understand how difficult it might be when you don't have a place to go.
Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, St James Mt, Church of England Cathedral of the Diocese of Liverpool,
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PHEKDJ - Talk to Us
The annual awareness campaign is back this July
24 July (24/7) is Samaritans Awareness Day, because we're here to listen 24/7. On this date and throughout July, we'll be running our awareness-raising campaign Talk to Us, to remind people that we're here for anyone who needs someone to listen.
Every year in July, Samaritans branches in the UK and Republic of Ireland hold local events to raise awareness that Samaritans are here to listen to anyone who's struggling to cope, at any time of the day or night.
Whatever you're going through, call us free any time, from any phone, on 116 123
More about the Samaritans at https://www.samaritans.org/
Cantilever bridge, Latchford, Manchester Ship Canal, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2BU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PFAAAD - The Fall Extricate tour opened 01/03/1990 at Poole arts centre, closing 26/03/1990 at the Top rank Brighton - Cog Sinister
Extricate is the 12th album by post-punk band the Fall. It was made immediately after bandleader Mark E. Smith divorced guitarist Brix Smith. Brix's departure helped define the sound of this album: her background vocals and relatively pop-oriented guitar, which had become mainstays of The Fall, are noticeably absent in this release. In one of the more unusual events in the group's career, she was replaced by founding former member Martin Bramah, who had previously left the group in 1979 to form his own group Blue Orchids.
Lead-off single Telephone Thing could have been seen as a nod to the Manchester scene of the time as the sound is quite similar to the dance-influenced music that was being released by Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses in 1989. However, its origins were in Smith's previous collaboration with Coldcut on their track I'm in Deep, which, in turn, led to Coldcut producing the track and Black Monk Theme Part II, one of two tracks by 60s garage band The Monks to be covered on the album (the other being Black Monk Theme “ The Fall retitled both tracks). Elsewhere, Bramah, appearing on his first Fall album since Live at the Witch Trials adds a distinctly raw, even rockabilly sound to some of the songs. However, the album's best-known track was one of the least typical of the group's catalogue: Bill Is Dead, a slow-paced tender love song which topped John Peel's Festive Fifty that year, the only occasion in the DJ's lifetime when his favourite band would do so. Although originally conceived by Smith and Craig Scanlon as a parody of The Smiths, Smith changed lyrical tack when he decided Scanlon's music deserved better, delivering a highly personal lyric. However, at Smith's insistence, it was not released as a single.
The critical reception to Extricate was largely positive
The Hacienda, Factory Records FAC51, 11-13 Whitworth Street West, Manchester, England, UK, M1 5DD
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England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NWJYXW -
Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NWJYY9 -
Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NAWF37 -
Britain , UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MKF77X - Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton, England in 1976 by singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto. They are regarded as a seminal influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, and pop punk. They achieved commercial success with singles that fused pop craftsmanship with rapid-fire punk energy. These singles were collected on Singles Going Steady, an acclaimed compilation album described by music journalist and critic, Ned Raggett, as a punk masterpiece.
Devoto and Shelley chose the name Buzzcocks after reading the headline, It's the Buzz, Cock!, in a review of the TV series Rock Follies in Time Out magazine. The buzz is the excitement of playing on stage
cock is northern English slang meaning friend. They thought it captured the excitement of the nascent punk scene, as well as having humorous sexual connotations following Pete Shelley's time working in a Bolton adult shop.
Devoto left the band in 1977, after which Pete Shelley became the principal singer-songwriter. After releasing three albums, as well as Singles Going Steady, the band broke up in 1981 following a dispute with their then-record label, but reunited in 1989, since releasing six more albums. Shelley died in 2018,[9] but the band has remained active. Steve Diggle, the guitarist and co-founder of the band, is now singer. They added a new guitarist Mani Perazzoli. They are still touring.
Their first UA Buzzcocks single, Orgasm Addict, was a playful examination of compulsive sexuality that was, and remains, uncommonly bold. The BBC refused to play the song, and the single did not sell well. Later, more ambiguous songs staked out a territory defined by Shelley's bisexuality and punk's aversion to serious examination of human sexuality. The next single, What Do I Get? reached the UK top 50 chart. Lipstick, the B-side to Promises, shared the same ascending progression of note
Wigan, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, WN1 1BH
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Wigan, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, WN1 1BH
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Seel Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 4BH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M4K880 -
4th Floor ,Silverstream House, 45 Fitzroy Street, London, England, UK, W1T 6EB
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Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1Y84F - The basic verb phrase carry on means to continue doing something, but here, it specifically means to persevere and is often associated a British stiff upper lip.
According the UK's official History of Government blog, the British Ministry of Information developed a series of three posters in 1939 to rally and reassure its populace as World War II ramped up. The third, and now iconic, poster flashed Keep Calm and Carry On in white, capital letters underneath an image of a crown on a bright, grabbingly red background. Who, exactly, coined the slogan is unclear. The other two posters featured equally comforting slogans: Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution
Will Bring Us Victory and Freedom is in Peril
Defend it with all Your Might.
The British government printed nearly 2.5 million copies, reserving them to boost morale in case of a particularly bad German bombing. It never did display the posters, and most were recycled in 1940 during a wartime paper shortage.
The Keep Calm and Carry On poster languished in number and obscurity until Stuart Manley discovered a copy in 2000 tucked away in a box of old books for his bookshop, Barter Books, in Alnwick, England. His wife and co-owner, Mary, framed and displayed the poster. Patrons fell in love with it, and the booksellers printed tens of thousands of copies over the decade.
The poster skyrocketed in popularity after the 2008 recession, explained Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jon Henley in 2009 for The Guardian. Social psychologist Alain Samson observed for Henley that [t]he words are also particularly positive, reassuring, in a period of uncertainty, anxiety, even perhaps of cynicism.
Since then, keep calm and carry on exploded as a meme. Everyone from crafters to tweeters have riffed on the slogan. Variations typically follow the template Keep Calm and X: Keep Calm and Drink Tea or Drink Beer, swapping out the crown icon for a teacup or pint glass
United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1Y84N - The basic verb phrase carry on means to continue doing something, but here, it specifically means to persevere and is often associated a British stiff upper lip.
According the UK's official History of Government blog, the British Ministry of Information developed a series of three posters in 1939 to rally and reassure its populace as World War II ramped up. The third, and now iconic, poster flashed Keep Calm and Carry On in white, capital letters underneath an image of a crown on a bright, grabbingly red background. Who, exactly, coined the slogan is unclear. The other two posters featured equally comforting slogans: Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution
Will Bring Us Victory and Freedom is in Peril
Defend it with all Your Might.
The British government printed nearly 2.5 million copies, reserving them to boost morale in case of a particularly bad German bombing. It never did display the posters, and most were recycled in 1940 during a wartime paper shortage.
The Keep Calm and Carry On poster languished in number and obscurity until Stuart Manley discovered a copy in 2000 tucked away in a box of old books for his bookshop, Barter Books, in Alnwick, England. His wife and co-owner, Mary, framed and displayed the poster. Patrons fell in love with it, and the booksellers printed tens of thousands of copies over the decade.
The poster skyrocketed in popularity after the 2008 recession, explained Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jon Henley in 2009 for The Guardian. Social psychologist Alain Samson observed for Henley that [t]he words are also particularly positive, reassuring, in a period of uncertainty, anxiety, even perhaps of cynicism.
Since then, keep calm and carry on exploded as a meme. Everyone from crafters to tweeters have riffed on the slogan. Variations typically follow the template Keep Calm and X: Keep Calm and Drink Tea or Drink Beer, swapping out the crown icon for a teacup or pint glass
United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0KPGX - Penny Lane is a road in the south Liverpool suburb of Mossley Hill. The name also applies to the area surrounding its junction with Smithdown Road and Allerton Road, and to the roundabout at Smithdown Place that was the location for a major bus terminus, originally an important tram junction of Liverpool Corporation Tramways. The roundabout was a frequent stopping place for John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison during their years as schoolchildren and students. Bus journeys via Penny Lane and the area itself subsequently became familiar elements in the early years of the Lennon“McCartney songwriting partnership. In 2009, McCartney reflected:
Penny Lane was kind of nostalgic, but it was really [about] a place that John and I knew ... I'd get a bus to his house and I'd have to change at Penny Lane, or the same with him to me, so we often hung out at that terminus, like a roundabout. It was a place that we both knew, and so we both knew the things that turned up in the story.
Lennon's original lyrics for In My Life had included a reference to Penny Lane. Soon after the Beatles recorded In My Life in October 1965, McCartney mentioned to an interviewer that he wanted to write a song about Penny Lane. A year later, he was spurred to write the song once presented with Lennon's Strawberry Fields Forever. McCartney also cited Dylan Thomas's nostalgic poem Fern Hill as an inspiration for Penny Lane. Lennon co-wrote the lyrics with McCartney. He recalled in a 1970 interview: The bank was there, and that was where the trams sheds were and people waiting and the inspector stood there, the fire engines were down there. It was reliving childhood
Penny Lane, Moseley Hill, South Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 1DE
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0KPHB - Penny Lane is a road in the south Liverpool suburb of Mossley Hill. The name also applies to the area surrounding its junction with Smithdown Road and Allerton Road, and to the roundabout at Smithdown Place that was the location for a major bus terminus, originally an important tram junction of Liverpool Corporation Tramways. The roundabout was a frequent stopping place for John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison during their years as schoolchildren and students. Bus journeys via Penny Lane and the area itself subsequently became familiar elements in the early years of the Lennon“McCartney songwriting partnership. In 2009, McCartney reflected:
Penny Lane was kind of nostalgic, but it was really [about] a place that John and I knew ... I'd get a bus to his house and I'd have to change at Penny Lane, or the same with him to me, so we often hung out at that terminus, like a roundabout. It was a place that we both knew, and so we both knew the things that turned up in the story.
Lennon's original lyrics for In My Life had included a reference to Penny Lane. Soon after the Beatles recorded In My Life in October 1965, McCartney mentioned to an interviewer that he wanted to write a song about Penny Lane. A year later, he was spurred to write the song once presented with Lennon's Strawberry Fields Forever. McCartney also cited Dylan Thomas's nostalgic poem Fern Hill as an inspiration for Penny Lane. Lennon co-wrote the lyrics with McCartney. He recalled in a 1970 interview: The bank was there, and that was where the trams sheds were and people waiting and the inspector stood there, the fire engines were down there. It was reliving childhood
Penny Lane, Moseley Hill, South Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 1DE
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0KPKW - Penny Lane is a road in the south Liverpool suburb of Mossley Hill. The name also applies to the area surrounding its junction with Smithdown Road and Allerton Road, and to the roundabout at Smithdown Place that was the location for a major bus terminus, originally an important tram junction of Liverpool Corporation Tramways. The roundabout was a frequent stopping place for John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison during their years as schoolchildren and students. Bus journeys via Penny Lane and the area itself subsequently became familiar elements in the early years of the Lennon“McCartney songwriting partnership. In 2009, McCartney reflected:
Penny Lane was kind of nostalgic, but it was really [about] a place that John and I knew ... I'd get a bus to his house and I'd have to change at Penny Lane, or the same with him to me, so we often hung out at that terminus, like a roundabout. It was a place that we both knew, and so we both knew the things that turned up in the story.
Lennon's original lyrics for In My Life had included a reference to Penny Lane. Soon after the Beatles recorded In My Life in October 1965, McCartney mentioned to an interviewer that he wanted to write a song about Penny Lane. A year later, he was spurred to write the song once presented with Lennon's Strawberry Fields Forever. McCartney also cited Dylan Thomas's nostalgic poem Fern Hill as an inspiration for Penny Lane. Lennon co-wrote the lyrics with McCartney. He recalled in a 1970 interview: The bank was there, and that was where the trams sheds were and people waiting and the inspector stood there, the fire engines were down there. It was reliving childhood
Penny Lane, Moseley Hill, South Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 1DE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,pennylane,gift,fab four,souvenirs,fab4,fab 4,shot,Merseyside,L18 1DE,Inside,interior,souvenir,the,store,shops,stores,gift shop,tourists,inside,museum,cards,poster,posters,Wings,solo,members,tour,tours,book,books,shelves
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0KPP2 - Penny Lane is a road in the south Liverpool suburb of Mossley Hill. The name also applies to the area surrounding its junction with Smithdown Road and Allerton Road, and to the roundabout at Smithdown Place that was the location for a major bus terminus, originally an important tram junction of Liverpool Corporation Tramways. The roundabout was a frequent stopping place for John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison during their years as schoolchildren and students. Bus journeys via Penny Lane and the area itself subsequently became familiar elements in the early years of the Lennon“McCartney songwriting partnership. In 2009, McCartney reflected:
Penny Lane was kind of nostalgic, but it was really [about] a place that John and I knew ... I'd get a bus to his house and I'd have to change at Penny Lane, or the same with him to me, so we often hung out at that terminus, like a roundabout. It was a place that we both knew, and so we both knew the things that turned up in the story.
Lennon's original lyrics for In My Life had included a reference to Penny Lane. Soon after the Beatles recorded In My Life in October 1965, McCartney mentioned to an interviewer that he wanted to write a song about Penny Lane. A year later, he was spurred to write the song once presented with Lennon's Strawberry Fields Forever. McCartney also cited Dylan Thomas's nostalgic poem Fern Hill as an inspiration for Penny Lane. Lennon co-wrote the lyrics with McCartney. He recalled in a 1970 interview: The bank was there, and that was where the trams sheds were and people waiting and the inspector stood there, the fire engines were down there. It was reliving childhood
Penny Lane, Moseley Hill, South Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 1DE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,station,train,trains,kids,travel,transport club,voucher,vouchers,stickers,card,member,£2,application,forms,1980s,1908,promotion,promotional,poster,RailRiders,promoting,cheap,cheaper,trans,5,14,years,year old,year olds,history,heritage,historic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JX2T5X -
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,station,train,trains,APT,BREL,WCML,West Coast mainline,370006,Crewe,APT-P,Crewe Heritage Centre,your,poster,seats,seating,1st,2nd,standard,class,office,second class,comfort,passenger,passengers,information,InterCity,InterCityAPT,boarding pass,HST,high,speed,prototype,prototypes
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JX2T8T - The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was a tilting high speed train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s, for use on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). The WCML contained many curves, and the APT pioneered the concept of active tilting to address these, a feature that has since been copied on designs around the world. The experimental APT-E achieved a new British railway speed record on 10 August 1975 when it reached 152.3 miles per hour (245.1 km/h), only to be bested by the service prototype APT-P at 162.2 miles per hour (261.0 km/h) in December 1979, a record that stood until September 2006.
Development of the service prototypes dragged on, and by the late 1970s the design had been under construction for a decade and the trains were still not ready for service. The election of Margaret Thatcher brought matters to a head and she alluded to funding cuts for the project. Facing the possibility of cancellation, BR management decided to put the prototypes into service, with the first runs along the London-Glasgow route taking place in December 1981. The result was a media circus when every problem large or small received front-page coverage and the entire project derided as an example of BR's incompetence. The trains were withdrawn from service again by the end of the month, to the great amusement of the press.
In spite of the APT's troubled history, the design was highly influential and directly inspired other high speed trains such as the Pendolino. The considerable work on electrification that was carried out hand-in-hand with APT was put to good use with newer non-tilting designs like the British Rail Class 91. The APT's tilt system was returned to the WCML on the British Rail Class 390, based on the Fiat Ferroviaria tilting train design and built by Alstom.
Crewe Heritage Centre, Vernon Way,Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB
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Keywords: GotonySmith,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,A,Kingly,Drink,king,label,logo,non-Alcoholic,red,Cheerio,drink,celebrate,Duckworths - King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to celebrate,Duckworth,George,VI,queen,Elizabeth,card,cardboard,royal,royalty,beverage,pub,brewery,showcard,crowned,crown,monarchy,couple,two,persons,drinking,ad,advert,poster
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTJ9BH -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,poster,banner,art,artwork,The Unfurlings,the,unfurling,unfurlings,banners,for,hope,and,change,created,by,dementia,Bradford,West Yorkshire,England,UK,Yorkshire,2022,Photography,memory,creativity,camera,2017,SLR,Dementia,blue,mills,creation,flag,flags,artworks,colourful,colour
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTNA1B - Let us celebrate the gradual opening
Of a banner taking its place in the world
A long unravelling and a fine unwinding,
Like a flower unwrapping itself from itself,
A parcel of thinking softly untying
Or an origami of ideas hugely unfolding
As, caught by the breeze, image and language
Spread their twin messages into the air.
Ian McMillan
Saltaire village,Bradford,West Yorkshire,England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,poster,banner,art,artwork,The Unfurlings,the,unfurlings,banners,for,hope,and,change,created,by,dementia,Bradford,West Yorkshire,England,UK,Yorkshire,2022,green,red,white rose,Dementia,creation,flag,flags,artworks,colourful,colour,celebrating,celebration
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTNA1D - Let us celebrate the gradual opening
Of a banner taking its place in the world
A long unravelling and a fine unwinding,
Like a flower unwrapping itself from itself,
A parcel of thinking softly untying
Or an origami of ideas hugely unfolding
As, caught by the breeze, image and language
Spread their twin messages into the air.
Ian McMillan
Saltaire village,Bradford,West Yorkshire,England, UK
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,poster,banner,art,artwork,The Unfurlings,the,unfurling,unfurlings,banners,for,hope,and,change,created,by,dementia,Bradford,West Yorkshire,England,UK,Yorkshire,2022,red,Dementia,creation,flag,flags,artworks,colourful,colour,celebrating,celebration,empowerment,esta,2017
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTNA1E - Let us celebrate the gradual opening
Of a banner taking its place in the world
A long unravelling and a fine unwinding,
Like a flower unwrapping itself from itself,
A parcel of thinking softly untying
Or an origami of ideas hugely unfolding
As, caught by the breeze, image and language
Spread their twin messages into the air.
Ian McMillan
Saltaire village,Bradford,West Yorkshire,England, UK
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,poster,banner,art,artwork,The Unfurlings,the,unfurling,unfurlings,banners,for,hope,and,change,created,by,dementia,Bradford,West Yorkshire,England,UK,Yorkshire,2022,2015,yellow,Dementia,creation,flag,flags,artworks,colourful,colour,celebrating,celebration
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTNA1G - Let us celebrate the gradual opening
Of a banner taking its place in the world
A long unravelling and a fine unwinding,
Like a flower unwrapping itself from itself,
A parcel of thinking softly untying
Or an origami of ideas hugely unfolding
As, caught by the breeze, image and language
Spread their twin messages into the air.
Ian McMillan
Saltaire village,Bradford,West Yorkshire,England, UK
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,poster,banner,art,artwork,The Unfurlings,the,unfurling,unfurlings,banners,for,hope,and,change,created,by,dementia,Bradford,West Yorkshire,England,UK,Yorkshire,2022,standing,together,growing,a,the new seasiders,pathfinders,Swale,Creating a dementia friendly community,East Kent Forget-Me-Nots,white,Dementia
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTNA1M - Let us celebrate the gradual opening
Of a banner taking its place in the world
A long unravelling and a fine unwinding,
Like a flower unwrapping itself from itself,
A parcel of thinking softly untying
Or an origami of ideas hugely unfolding
As, caught by the breeze, image and language
Spread their twin messages into the air.
Ian McMillan
Saltaire village,Bradford,West Yorkshire,England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,BR,showing,1950s using British railways,England,UK,holiday,destination,info,Britain,transport,nationalised,network,infrastructure,English,train,trains,Great Britain,trips,rail,1950s,Wales,United Kingdom,GB,British,poster,posters,system,systems,route,routes,specials,excursions,excursion,visit,tourism,tourists,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JR5WAR -
England, United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Wales,welsh,BR,transport,travel,by,train,excursion,excursions,journey,journeys,travelling,Cornwall,England,English,SW,Cornish,holiday,holidays,the,for,west,town,beach,sea,village,rail,railway,family,woman,lady,mother,child,fisherman,British Railways,poster,advert
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRA4HF -
Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Wales,welsh,BR,British Rail,British Railways,transport,travel,journeys,journey,train,excursions,travelling,English,England,railway,rail,town,poster,advert,to,Woodside,and,Central,June,1952,timetable,for,timings,times,Arthog,Penmeanpool,Dolgelley,Bala,llangollen,Trevor,Carrog,Corwen
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRA4HJ -
Liverpool, city,centre, Merseyside, England,UK, L1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Wales,welsh,cheap holiday runabout rail tickets in a 80 mile radius,cheap,rail,ticket,tickets,in,a,mile,radius,BR,poster,advert,advertisement,maroon,Tuesday,9th,July,Sunday,14th,reduced,fare,fares,first,second,class,May,1962,Great,Britain,GB,steam,railways,Cymru
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRA4HY -
Shrewsbury, England, Great Britain
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,CH1,bar,interior,inside,of,the,Albion,real,ale,Park Street,Chester,union jack,union,conflict,British,advert,poster,film,movie,services,armed,character,WWII,posters,wars,adverts,WWI,jingo,jingoistic,classic,boozer,interir,going,back,in,time,timeless
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMWGM3 -
Park Street, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1RQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,CH1,bar,interior,inside,of,the,Albion,real,ale,Park Street,Chester,posters,film,poster,WWI,WWII,movie,advert,adverts,character,British,wars,armed,services,conflict,union,union jack,jingo,jingoistic,classic,boozer,interir,going,back,in,time,timeless
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMWGN9 -
Park Street, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1RQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Women of Britain say Go,army,GB,Great Britain,UK,WWI,privates,the,jolly,Chester,Cheshire,England,CH1 1AB,CAMRA,unique,time,capsule,internal,Women of Britain,say,go,isnt,all work,recruitment,join,up,into,the forces,poster,advert,advertisement,advertisements,painting,painted,illustration,illustrations
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JN1G5A -
Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1AB
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Gloucestershire,Cotswold,Cotswolds,England,UK,pillar box,rural,villages,countryside,GL6,sticker,poster,slow down,sign,warning,safety,drive,safely,20,mph,slow,down,GL6 7EB,lowering,less,low,speeds,speeding,wreck less,driving,drivers,20mph,Bo,Rishi Sunak,policy,restrict measures,restricting measures
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JM9P2W -
Eastcombe village, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL6 7EB
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,Gloucestershire,Cotswold,Cotswolds,England,UK,pillar box,rural,villages,countryside,GL6,sticker,poster,slow down,sign,warning,safety,drive,safely,20,mph,slow,down,GL6 7EB,lowering,less,low,speeds,speeding,wreck less,driving,drivers,20mph,Bo,Rishi Sunak,policy,restrict measures,restricting measures,speed limit zones
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JM9P32 -
Eastcombe village, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL6 7EB
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Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,beer,beers,ale,ales,real ale,Dont forget to ask for,craft,brewery,in,England,tower,Victorian,by,the,Hook Norton,co,company,ask,for,Hook Norton Beer,brewed,dont,do not,forget,to,red,advert,wheat,grain,poster,ad,1849,Hooky,old,mild,bitter,Banbury
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JPB8XR - Hook Norton Brewery is a regional brewery in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England, several miles outside the Cotswold Hills. Founded in 1849, the brewing plant is a traditional Victorian 'tower' brewery in which all the stages of the brewing process flow logically from floor to floor
mashing at the top, boiling in the middle, fermentation and racking at the bottom. Until 2006, the brewing process was powered by steam. Beer is still delivered in the village by horse-drawn dray.
History
The brewery was founded in 1849 in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire and was designed as a 'tower' brewery in which all the stages of the brewing process flow logically from floor to floor. Until 2006, the brewing process was powered by steam. However, the historic Victorian steam engine (dating from 1899) is still in the brewery. It is run weekly for visitors.
Beer is also still delivered in the village by horse-drawn dray
Brewery Ln, Hook Norton, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK, OX15 5NY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,England,UK,Herefordshire,alcohol,drinking,fermentation,alcoholism,alcoholics,Fred and Percy,company,Co,&,Heineken group,HP Bulmer,drink,for,board,promotion,metal,steel,poster,advertising,advert,marketing,of,apples,alcoholic,history,red,cidre,cider,Credenhill,bottle,bottles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JPDJB2 - Bulmers cider is one of a number of brands owned by British cider maker H. P. Bulmer of Hereford. It is one of the biggest selling British bottled cider brands in the UK because it has the highest concentration of apples, with a number of variants including Bulmers Original & Pear. It should not be confused with Bulmers Irish Cider, sold outside the Republic of Ireland as Magners.
History
Fred and Percy Bulmer grew the apples at their family orchard at Credenhill in Herefordshire which would be later used to make the cider for which they became known. Production was initially at Ryelands Street in Hereford, the original buildings, including cider cellars survives today as the Cider Museum and King Offa Distillery. Production moved to the current Plough Lane site in the late 1970s. Today HP Bulmer makes 65% of the UK's five hundred million litres of cider sold annually, and the bulk of the UK's cider exports. From 1937 to 1949, Bulmers operated with Wm. Magners of Clonmel, expanding into Irish distribution markets. From 1949 Magners withdrew from this partnership but retained rights to trade under the name HP Bulmer Ltd in Ireland.
In 2003, the Hereford-based firm was bought for £278 million by Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) with the loss of some 200 jobs initially. In 2008, S&N were bought for £7.8 billion by the Carlsberg and Heineken groups. Bulmers now only survives as a brand name and subsidiary of the Dutch Heineken group, with operations in Hereford scaled back to focus mainly on the production of cider.
During spring 2006, the company relaunched Bulmers Original in the UK, aimed at the served over ice market, which had grown in popularity over the past few years. Bulmers Original is a 4.5% ABV cider, primarily sold in pint bottles (568 ml). In November 2007, Bulmers pear cider was launched
Hereford city , Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,England,UK,Herefordshire,alcohol,fermentation,alcoholism,alcoholics,an,apple,apples,cider,cidre,red,glass,of,alcoholic,history,marketing,advert,advertising,promotion,metal,steel,poster,board,for,drink,HP Bulmer,&,Co,company,Heineken group,Fred and Percy,Credenhill,drinking
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JPDJC2 - Bulmers cider is one of a number of brands owned by British cider maker H. P. Bulmer of Hereford. It is one of the biggest selling British bottled cider brands in the UK because it has the highest concentration of apples, with a number of variants including Bulmers Original & Pear. It should not be confused with Bulmers Irish Cider, sold outside the Republic of Ireland as Magners.
History
Fred and Percy Bulmer grew the apples at their family orchard at Credenhill in Herefordshire which would be later used to make the cider for which they became known. Production was initially at Ryelands Street in Hereford, the original buildings, including cider cellars survives today as the Cider Museum and King Offa Distillery. Production moved to the current Plough Lane site in the late 1970s. Today HP Bulmer makes 65% of the UK's five hundred million litres of cider sold annually, and the bulk of the UK's cider exports. From 1937 to 1949, Bulmers operated with Wm. Magners of Clonmel, expanding into Irish distribution markets. From 1949 Magners withdrew from this partnership but retained rights to trade under the name HP Bulmer Ltd in Ireland.
In 2003, the Hereford-based firm was bought for £278 million by Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) with the loss of some 200 jobs initially. In 2008, S&N were bought for £7.8 billion by the Carlsberg and Heineken groups. Bulmers now only survives as a brand name and subsidiary of the Dutch Heineken group, with operations in Hereford scaled back to focus mainly on the production of cider.
During spring 2006, the company relaunched Bulmers Original in the UK, aimed at the served over ice market, which had grown in popularity over the past few years. Bulmers Original is a 4.5% ABV cider, primarily sold in pint bottles (568 ml). In November 2007, Bulmers pear cider was launched
Hereford city , Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,England,UK,Herefordshire,alcohol,drinking,fermentation,alcoholism,alcoholics,factory,cask,bottles,loss,rough,care,take care,costs,thousands,of,pounds,each,year,careless,carelessness,accuracy,working,worker,rules,regulations,drinks,drink,industry,poster,rule,on,wall
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JPDJDC -
Hereford city centre , Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,WA5,120,Cheshire,England,UK,WA5 1TZ,front,outside,exterior,British,period,crime,drama,television,TV,series,created,by,Steven Knight,Birmingham,gang,flatcap,flat cap,Tommy Shelby,1910,1910s,fan,fans,showing,shows,displaying,displays,a,posters,poster
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJKNF9 - Peaky Blinders is a British period crime drama television series created by Steven Knight. Set in Birmingham, it follows the exploits of the Peaky Blinders crime gang in the direct aftermath of the First World War. The fictional gang is loosely based on a real urban youth gang of the same name who were active in the city from the 1880s to the 1910s
Peaky Blinders is a crime drama centred on a family of mixed Irish Traveller and Romani origins based in Birmingham, England, starting in 1919, several months after the end of the First World War. It centres on the Peaky Blinders street gang and their ambitious, cunning crime boss Tommy Shelby (Murphy). The gang comes to the attention of Major Chester Campbell (Neill), a detective chief inspector in the Royal Irish Constabulary sent over by Winston Churchill from Belfast, where he had been sent to clean up the city of the Irish Republican Army flying columns, the Communist Party of Great Britain, street gangs, and common criminals. Winston Churchill (played by Andy Nyman in series 1 and Richard McCabe in series 2) charges him with suppressing disorder and uprising in Birmingham and recovering a stolen cache of arms meant to be shipped to Libya. The first series concludes on 3 December 1919”Black Star Day, the event where the Peaky Blinders plan to take over Billy Kimber's betting pitches at the Worcester Races.
120, Lovely Lane, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 1TZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,tragedy,72,for the,North,Royal Borough,of,Latimer Road,Kensington,Socialhousing,social,housing,KC,TMO,memorial,2017,W11,enquiry,justice,forever,never forgotten,cladding,scandal,building regulations,failure,socialhousing,council,panel,green,poster,London,guilty,Met Police,CPS,gross negligence,prosecution
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJG0D4 - On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, at 00:54 BST. 72 people died, including two who later died in hospital, with more than 70 others being injured and 223 people escaping. It was the deadliest structural fire in the United Kingdom since the 1988 Piper Alpha oil-platform disaster and the worst UK residential fire since World War II.
The fire was started by an electrical fault in a refrigerator on the fourth floor. It spread rapidly up the building's exterior, bringing fire and smoke to all the residential floors. This was due to the building's new cladding and the external insulation, since the air gap between them enabled the stack effect. The fire burned for about 60 hours before finally being extinguished. More than 250 London Fire Brigade firefighters and 70 fire engines from stations across London were involved in efforts to control the fire and rescue residents. More than 100 London Ambulance Service crews on at least 20 ambulances attended the scene, joined by specialist paramedics from the Ambulance Service's Hazardous Area Response Team. The Metropolitan Police and London's Air Ambulance also assisted the rescue effort.
Five years after 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire, which broke out on June 14, 2017, the UK government has announced plans to ban the type of cladding used to cover the external walls of the North Kensington high-rise. These revised building regulations are to be put into effect in December 2022.
The inquiry into the disaster concluded, in its first report in 2019, that this cladding “ polyethylene-filled aluminium composite panels, to be specific “ was responsible for the fire spreading so quickly..
Grenfell Road, Kensington and Chelsea,London,England,UK, W11 1TQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,RBKC,England,UK,Royal Borough,of,Kensington,Chelsea,Barcelona,Football,ImpossibleIsNothing,campaign,poster,womens,soccer,football,Womens,Euro,world cup,NH,NottingHill,NottingHills,Notting Hills,history,historic,famous,popular,tourist,tourism,attractions,markets,weekend,Saturday,Sunday
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M0KX4A -
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,future,is,open,advert,poster,for,MSc,degree,degrees,course,and,other,courses,university,remote,online,Uni,promo,promotion,adverts,all,ages,student,students,learning,institution,British,English,exam,exams,railway station,posters,billboards,new term,academic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K148WF -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Society,LTD,WA7,33,Halton,Cheshire,England,UK,WA7 1HU,beer,panorama,wide,view,pano,inside,interior,bar,pub,the tap,tap,art,posters,atmosphere,taproom,tap rooms,room,venue,venues,to,hire,poster,space,art space,bars
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33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,England,UK,BL1,in,iron,man,male,VinFast,World,Championship,full,distance,full-distance,race,finish,line,finishline,union,flag,union jack,GB,Great Britain,British,North West,English,venue,NW,NorthWest,Bolton England,competition,tournament,competitions,tournaments,banners,poster,posters
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0WRKY - The North is Calling You Home
Dubbed one of the UK's friendliest towns, Bolton is the home of England's only full-distance IRONMAN. This race is known for its iconic spectator support, incredible North West English bike course scenery, and impressive finish line in the heart of the town centre.
2023 VinFast IRONMAN World Championship Qualification Slots
The 2023 IRONMAN UK offers Age Group Qualifying slots to the VinFast IRONMAN World Championship.
Bolton, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, BL1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Southport,Lancs,Lancashire,Merseyside,seaside,coast,town,England,UK,classic,beer,beers,ale,ales,Cambridge Walks,PR8,Sefton Council,advert,poster,posters,craft,brew,brews,brewed,tasty,taste,the,logo,brand,brands,drinks,drinking,culture
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Tap and Bottle, Cambridge Walks ,Southport, Sefton, Lancs, England, Uk , PR8 1EN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,June,2022,games,summer,WA4 2SU,local,community,communities,event,events,South Warrington,Thelwall,Rose Queen,poster,posters,rose,queen,queens,cost,ticket,tickets,history,historic,heritage,annual,regular,repeats,each,repeating
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Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JC4129 -
Altrincham, Cheshire, North West England, England, UK, WA14 1SA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JC412A - Colourful railway travel poster promotes Knutsford as a destination on the Mid Cheshire Line, using the slogan Meander the Mid Cheshire Line and enjoy marvellous days out . The framed artwork is mounted against red brick and combines a stylised Cheshire townscape with bunting, flowers, traditional shopfronts, a Union flag, a hanging sign and a bird in the foreground. Its bold cream, red, green and blue palette deliberately recalls classic twentieth-century British railway advertising, presenting rail travel as an enjoyable way to explore an attractive historic market town.
The design is part of the Marvellous Days Out campaign associated with the Mid Cheshire Community Rail Partnership. The poster artwork was created by Chester artist Nicky Thompson, whose illustrated series celebrates destinations along the railway between Manchester, Stockport, Altrincham, Knutsford, Northwich, Delamere and Chester. The Knutsford image encourages leisure passengers, families, walkers and day trippers to arrive by train and discover the town's independent shops, cafés, Georgian buildings, heritage attractions and welcoming streets.
Knutsford railway station is on the Manchester to Chester route via Altrincham. From the station, visitors can walk through the town centre towards the King Street entrance to Tatton Park. The historic estate includes a neo-classical mansion, landscaped gardens, a working farm, the Tudor Old Hall and around 1,000 acres of deer park. The poster therefore connects sustainable public transport with local tourism, heritage, countryside access and car-free days out.
This documentary image is suitable for editorial coverage of community rail partnerships, railway destination marketing, regional tourism, public transport promotion, British poster design, visitor attractions, Cheshire travel, station art and campaigns encouraging people to explore towns and landscapes by train
Tatton, Knutsford, Cheshire, North West England, England, UK, WA16 6SG
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Marston, Lostock Gralam, Cheshire, North West England, England, UK, CW9 6ES
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South Wales, UK
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25 Westgate St, Cardiff , Cymru, UK, CF10 1DD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3T3CA -
Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2DCE9NR -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADR2FR -
1 Wilson Patten St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1PG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE44D - Hindi cinema, often known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The term is a portmanteau of Bombay and Hollywood. The industry is related to Cinema of South India and other Indian film industries, making up Indian Cinema”the world's largest by number of feature films produced.
In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, with Bollywood as its largest filmmaker, producing 364 Hindi films the same year. Bollywood represents 43 percent of Indian net box-office revenue
Tamil and Telugu cinema represent 36 percent, and the remaining regional cinema constituted 21 percent in 2014. Bollywood is one of the largest centres of film production in the world. In 2001 ticket sales, Indian cinema (including Bollywood) reportedly sold an estimated 3.6 billion tickets worldwide, compared to Hollywood's 2.6 billion tickets sold. Bollywood films tend to use vernacular Hindustani, mutually intelligible by people who self-identify as speaking either Hindi or Urdu, and modern Bollywood movies increasingly incorporate elements of Hinglish
AA Films
Fox Star Studios
Eros International
Reliance Big Pictures
UTV Motion Pictures
Yash Raj Films
Dharma Productions
Red Chillies Entertainment
Tips Music Films
Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Excel Entertainment
Zee Studios
Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G1 3SL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AE026H -
Shoreditch,East End,London,England,UK,E1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AE0276 - In London, art is all around you. This is particularly true in the streets of East London's trendsetting Shoreditch, which are emblazoned with creative street art all year round.
Brick Lane,Shoreditch,East End,London,England,UK, E1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AERR9Y - The St George's Tron Church, in Glasgow, Scotland, is a Church of Scotland church in the city centre, located in Nelson Mandela Place, previously known as St George's Place, fronting Buchanan Street at West George Street, along from Queen Street Station. It should not be confused with the 17th-century Tron Church, which lies to the south-west on Trongate and was redeveloped in the 1980s as the Tron Theatre. Located right on the busiest shopping street in Scotland (Buchanan Street), the building is a significant presence, and the oldest in the area. It stands as a terminating vista for West George Street.
The church opened in 1808, originally as St. George's Parish Church, with the original congregation originating from the Wynd Church in the Merchant City near to the Trongate. In 1815 Thomas Chalmers, later to be the leader of the evangelical party in the disruption of 1843, became minister of the church
The building, which was commissioned by the City Fathers was designed by William Stark, was opened in 1808, originally as St. George's Parish Church
163 Buchanan St, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G1 2JX
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Keywords: HotpixUk,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,England,English,Birmingham,West Midlands,city Centre,Snowhill,B3 1EU,sign,poster,food,craft beer,ales,India,Indian,brewery,signs,fresh,to order,old,fashioned,famous,street,foods,snacks,snack,Fat Naan,Naan,naans,bread,wrap,wraps,kitchen,cafe,café,wall
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAT31F - Indian Brewery Snowhill
Arch 16 Livery Street, Birmingham, B3 1EU.
An offering second to none and unique to its own. Diffrent, innovative and awesome. Indian Street Food and Craft Beer, the official outlet for our very own Birmingham brewed beers including Birmingham Lager on tap.
Arch 16 Livery Street, Birmingham, B3 1EU.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAT343 -
Hartshead Moor Services, Bradford, Yorkshire, England
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,poster,advert,advertorial,England,Cheshire,UK,housemaid,operation,medical,newspaper,article,from,1920s,1920,ad,for,bile,beans,laxative,and,tonic,laxatives,effect,fictitious chemist,known as,cure,Charles Fordes Bile Beans for Biliousness,cascara,rhubarb,liquorice,menthol,fraud,Bile Bean Manufacturing Company
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG40BY - Bile Beans was a laxative and tonic first marketed in the 1890s. The product supposedly contained substances extracted from a hitherto unknown vegetable source by a fictitious chemist known as Charles Forde. In the early years Bile Beans were marketed as Charles Forde's Bile Beans for Biliousness, and sales relied heavily on newspaper advertisements. Among other cure-all claims, Bile Beans promised to disperse unwanted fat and purify and enrich the blood.
Although the manufacturer claimed that the formula for Bile Beans was based on a vegetable source known only to Aboriginal Australians, its actual ingredients, which included cascara, rhubarb, liquorice and menthol, were commonly found in pharmacies of the period. A court case initiated in Scotland in 1905 found that the Bile Bean Manufacturing Company's business was based on a fraud and conducted fraudulently, but Bile Beans continued to be sold until the 1980s nevertheless.
Formulation and manufacture
Charles Edward Fulford (1870“1906) and Ernest Albert Gilbert (1875“1905) first sold Bile Beans in Australia in late 1897, marketed as Gould's Bile Beans. Fulford was a Canadian who had travelled to Australia to sell Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People for his uncle, George Taylor Fulford.
Fulford and Gilbert established the Bile Bean Manufacturing Company in Leeds, England, in 1899. It was claimed that the formula for Bile Beans was created by an Australian scientist Charles Forde in 1898, based on research he had conducted on a vegetable source known only to Aboriginal Australians. In reality, Charles Forde did not exist
the name was used as an alias for Charles Fulford, who had no scientific training
Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: Republic of Ireland,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eire,Ireland,support,final,match,poster,on,side,of Glynns,pub,the,bar,Wellington House,Upper,Dublin 1,D01 V6X5,oneils,Ath Cliath,sport,sports,shirt,blue,ales & porter,supporting,local,team,teams,gable-end,gable,end,Dubs,nickname,Irish,blues
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84JFB -
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Milner Street, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,England,UK,Did you know,passenger,commuters,poster,cheapest,train tickets,Liverpool transport,transport,franchise,TOC,Lime Street,Lime St,Merseyrail poster,advert,promotion,subway,underground,Liverpool subway,Merseyside,North West England,cheap,travel,public,city,centre,yellow,MerseyTravel,Mersey Travel,Liverpool,L1 1JD,L1
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Lime Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1JD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7KXJ - Manchester Mayfield is a former railway station in Manchester, England, on the south side of Fairfield Street next to Manchester Piccadilly Station. Opened in 1910, Mayfield was constructed as a four-platform relief station adjacent to Piccadilly to alleviate overcrowding. In 1960, the station was closed to passengers and in 1986 it was permanently closed to all services.
After years of abandonment and many proposed development schemes, the station roof was dismantled in February 2013. The site was used for Manchester International Festival in July 2013.
Manchester Mayfield railway station and the surrounding 6.2-acre (25,000 m2) site is the property of London and Continental Railways, the residual government-owned corporation and former partner in Eurostar.
Fairfield street, Piccadilly, Manchester, North West England, UK , M1 2QF
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Keywords: Manchester City Centre,Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,Railway,sign,Fairfield St,Mayfield,history,brick,station,scheme,proposed,development,schemes,poster,posters,property,London and Continental Railways,London & Continental Railways,LNWR,London Midland,Goods Station,disused,Square One development,Square One,Prime Suspect drug dealers haunt
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7KXX - Manchester Mayfield is a former railway station in Manchester, England, on the south side of Fairfield Street next to Manchester Piccadilly Station. Opened in 1910, Mayfield was constructed as a four-platform relief station adjacent to Piccadilly to alleviate overcrowding. In 1960, the station was closed to passengers and in 1986 it was permanently closed to all services.
After years of abandonment and many proposed development schemes, the station roof was dismantled in February 2013. The site was used for Manchester International Festival in July 2013.
Manchester Mayfield railway station and the surrounding 6.2-acre (25,000 m2) site is the property of London and Continental Railways, the residual government-owned corporation and former partner in Eurostar.
Fairfield street, Piccadilly, Manchester, North West England, UK , M1 2QF
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Keywords: Manchester City Centre,Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,Railway,sign,Fairfield St,Mayfield,history,brick,station,scheme,proposed,development,schemes,poster,posters,property,London and Continental Railways,London & Continental Railways,LNWR,London Midland,Goods Station,disused,Square One development,Square One,Prime Suspect drug dealers haunt
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7KY2 - Manchester Mayfield is a former railway station in Manchester, England, on the south side of Fairfield Street next to Manchester Piccadilly Station. Opened in 1910, Mayfield was constructed as a four-platform relief station adjacent to Piccadilly to alleviate overcrowding. In 1960, the station was closed to passengers and in 1986 it was permanently closed to all services.
After years of abandonment and many proposed development schemes, the station roof was dismantled in February 2013. The site was used for Manchester International Festival in July 2013.
Manchester Mayfield railway station and the surrounding 6.2-acre (25,000 m2) site is the property of London and Continental Railways, the residual government-owned corporation and former partner in Eurostar.
Fairfield street, Piccadilly, Manchester, North West England, UK , M1 2QF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7KY9 - Manchester Mayfield is a former railway station in Manchester, England, on the south side of Fairfield Street next to Manchester Piccadilly Station. Opened in 1910, Mayfield was constructed as a four-platform relief station adjacent to Piccadilly to alleviate overcrowding. In 1960, the station was closed to passengers and in 1986 it was permanently closed to all services.
After years of abandonment and many proposed development schemes, the station roof was dismantled in February 2013. The site was used for Manchester International Festival in July 2013.
Manchester Mayfield railway station and the surrounding 6.2-acre (25,000 m2) site is the property of London and Continental Railways, the residual government-owned corporation and former partner in Eurostar.
Fairfield street, Piccadilly, Manchester, North West England, UK , M1 2QF
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Keywords: Manchester City Centre,Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,Railway,sign,Fairfield St,Mayfield,history,brick,station,scheme,proposed,development,schemes,poster,posters,property,London and Continental Railways,London & Continental Railways,LNWR,London Midland,Goods Station,disused,Square One development,Square One,Prime Suspect drug dealers haunt
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7KYC - Manchester Mayfield is a former railway station in Manchester, England, on the south side of Fairfield Street next to Manchester Piccadilly Station. Opened in 1910, Mayfield was constructed as a four-platform relief station adjacent to Piccadilly to alleviate overcrowding. In 1960, the station was closed to passengers and in 1986 it was permanently closed to all services.
After years of abandonment and many proposed development schemes, the station roof was dismantled in February 2013. The site was used for Manchester International Festival in July 2013.
Manchester Mayfield railway station and the surrounding 6.2-acre (25,000 m2) site is the property of London and Continental Railways, the residual government-owned corporation and former partner in Eurostar.
Fairfield street, Piccadilly, Manchester, North West England, UK , M1 2QF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7KYM - Manchester Mayfield is a former railway station in Manchester, England, on the south side of Fairfield Street next to Manchester Piccadilly Station. Opened in 1910, Mayfield was constructed as a four-platform relief station adjacent to Piccadilly to alleviate overcrowding. In 1960, the station was closed to passengers and in 1986 it was permanently closed to all services.
After years of abandonment and many proposed development schemes, the station roof was dismantled in February 2013. The site was used for Manchester International Festival in July 2013.
Manchester Mayfield railway station and the surrounding 6.2-acre (25,000 m2) site is the property of London and Continental Railways, the residual government-owned corporation and former partner in Eurostar.
Fairfield street, Piccadilly, Manchester, North West England, UK , M1 2QF
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Keywords: Manchester City Centre,Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,Railway,sign,Fairfield St,Mayfield,history,brick,station,scheme,proposed,development,schemes,poster,posters,property,London and Continental Railways,London & Continental Railways,LNWR,London Midland,Goods Station,disused,Square One development,Square One,Prime Suspect drug dealers haunt
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7KYY - Manchester Mayfield is a former railway station in Manchester, England, on the south side of Fairfield Street next to Manchester Piccadilly Station. Opened in 1910, Mayfield was constructed as a four-platform relief station adjacent to Piccadilly to alleviate overcrowding. In 1960, the station was closed to passengers and in 1986 it was permanently closed to all services.
After years of abandonment and many proposed development schemes, the station roof was dismantled in February 2013. The site was used for Manchester International Festival in July 2013.
Manchester Mayfield railway station and the surrounding 6.2-acre (25,000 m2) site is the property of London and Continental Railways, the residual government-owned corporation and former partner in Eurostar.
Fairfield street, Piccadilly, Manchester, North West England, UK , M1 2QF
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Keywords: Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,fingers,hands,bar,pub,Gore Street,Piccadilly,Piccadilly Manchester,local,CAMRA,real ale,beers,Real Ales,cask ale,gable end,6th day,on the 6th day,God Created Man,Madchester,tasty food,menu,brick wall,sign,poster
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12 Gore St, Manchester, UK, M1 3AQ
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Manchester Northern Quarter, England, UK, M1 1JW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG9A35 - Viola Beach were an English indie rock group, formed in Warrington, Cheshire, in 2013. The band's final line-up consisted of Kris Leonard (guitar and vocals), River Reeves (guitar), Tomas Lowe (bass guitar), and Jack Dakin (drums). All four, along with their manager Craig Tarry, died when their car fell from a bridge in Södertälje, Sweden on 13 February 2016.
In the week following the crash, their single Boys That Sing entered the UK Singles Chart at number 80 and their previous single Swings & Waterslides entered at number 11, following a public campaign to boost sales.[6] In the same week, Swings & Waterslides also entered at number three on the sales-only chart (which excludes streaming data) and Boys That Sing entered at number 27 on the same chart. On 29 July 2016, the self-titled album was released. It reached number one on the album chart on 5 August 2016
Winmarleigh St, Warrington, WA1 1NB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,Cheshire,GB,town,town centre,Warrington Wire,Warrington Wolves,Wolves,Wire,Rugby,League,Rugby League,Our Town,is,Primrose and Blue,poster,yellow,The Wire,the Wolves,North West,27,Old Market Place,Warrington,WA1 1QB,Primrose & Blue,posters,centre,sport,sports,team,pride
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27 Old Market Place, Warrington, Cheshire, England, WA1 1QB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,Warrington,Cheshire,GB,town,town centre,Contactless Cards,safe,easy,pay,payments,banking,Halifax,advert,poster,billboard,Halifax Visa Card Problems,Problem,Problems,The safe and easy way to pay,risks,PIN,spending limit,cash at risk,cashless society,going cashless,The People Who Give You Extra,tap,Theft,using,transactions,dodgy,brand,Lloyds,end of the Halifax brand
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG9AAF - Large outdoor billboard in Warrington, Cheshire, carrying a Halifax contactless payments advert. The design is dominated by blue tones and the word CONTACTLESS in large white capitals, with the strapline The Safe and Easy Way To Pay, a pictured Halifax Visa card, the contactless payment symbol and the Halifax logo with the slogan the people who give you extra. The hoarding promotes the convenience of tap-and-go card spending and reflects the mainstream push by UK banks to normalise cashless payments on the high street.
The image has additional editorial interest because Lloyds Banking Group announced on 1 July 2026 that the Halifax brand will change to Lloyds. The group said Halifax would stop opening new accounts, customers would begin moving to the Lloyds app over time and Halifax branches would be rebranded to Lloyds, with the physical branch network continuing under the Lloyds name. The move marks the retirement of one of Britain's best-known retail banking names, originally founded in 1853 as the Halifax Permanent Benefit Building Society and later part of HBOS plc before becoming part of Lloyds Banking Group.
As a result, surviving Halifax advertising, branch signs and brand assets now carry added documentary value as records of a disappearing high street identity. This roadside advert in Warrington captures the visual language of the Halifax brand in its familiar blue livery, linking themes of banking, personal finance, consumer payments, corporate rebranding, financial-sector consolidation and the changing character of the British high street. Set against an overcast sky and photographed as a large-format roadside panel, the image also illustrates outdoor advertising, everyday card use and the visual presence that major banking brands once maintained across town and city environments
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3194126979 - 'Truly inspirational
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBJ9RN - Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination of Long Island on the Coney Island Channel, which is part of the Lower Bay in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Coney Island was formerly the westernmost of the Outer Barrier islands on Long Island's southern shore, but in the early 20th century it became connected to the rest of Long Island by land fill. The residential portion of the peninsula is a community of 60,000 people in its western part, with Sea Gate to its west, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east, the Lower Bay to the south, and Gravesend to the north.
Coney Island was originally part of the colonial town of Gravesend. By the mid-19th century, it became a seaside resort, and by the late 19th century, amusement parks were also built at the location. The attractions reached a historical peak during the first half of the 20th century, declining in popularity after World War II and following years of neglect. The area was revitalized with the opening of the MCU Park in 2001 and several amusement rides in the 2010s.
Stillwell Ave, Coney Island, Brooklyn,New York, NY, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBJ9RT - Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination of Long Island on the Coney Island Channel, which is part of the Lower Bay in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Coney Island was formerly the westernmost of the Outer Barrier islands on Long Island's southern shore, but in the early 20th century it became connected to the rest of Long Island by land fill. The residential portion of the peninsula is a community of 60,000 people in its western part, with Sea Gate to its west, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east, the Lower Bay to the south, and Gravesend to the north.
Coney Island was originally part of the colonial town of Gravesend. By the mid-19th century, it became a seaside resort, and by the late 19th century, amusement parks were also built at the location. The attractions reached a historical peak during the first half of the 20th century, declining in popularity after World War II and following years of neglect. The area was revitalized with the opening of the MCU Park in 2001 and several amusement rides in the 2010s.
Stillwell Ave, Coney Island, Brooklyn,New York, NY, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBJ9T1 - Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination of Long Island on the Coney Island Channel, which is part of the Lower Bay in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Coney Island was formerly the westernmost of the Outer Barrier islands on Long Island's southern shore, but in the early 20th century it became connected to the rest of Long Island by land fill. The residential portion of the peninsula is a community of 60,000 people in its western part, with Sea Gate to its west, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east, the Lower Bay to the south, and Gravesend to the north.
Coney Island was originally part of the colonial town of Gravesend. By the mid-19th century, it became a seaside resort, and by the late 19th century, amusement parks were also built at the location. The attractions reached a historical peak during the first half of the 20th century, declining in popularity after World War II and following years of neglect. The area was revitalized with the opening of the MCU Park in 2001 and several amusement rides in the 2010s.
Stillwell Ave, Coney Island, Brooklyn,New York, NY, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBJ9T6 - Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination of Long Island on the Coney Island Channel, which is part of the Lower Bay in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Coney Island was formerly the westernmost of the Outer Barrier islands on Long Island's southern shore, but in the early 20th century it became connected to the rest of Long Island by land fill. The residential portion of the peninsula is a community of 60,000 people in its western part, with Sea Gate to its west, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east, the Lower Bay to the south, and Gravesend to the north.
Coney Island was originally part of the colonial town of Gravesend. By the mid-19th century, it became a seaside resort, and by the late 19th century, amusement parks were also built at the location. The attractions reached a historical peak during the first half of the 20th century, declining in popularity after World War II and following years of neglect. The area was revitalized with the opening of the MCU Park in 2001 and several amusement rides in the 2010s.
Stillwell Ave, Coney Island, Brooklyn,New York, NY, USA
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120 Ingram St, Glasgow G1 1EJ, UK
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533, Falls Rd, Andersonstown, Belfast , Northern Ireland, UK, BT11 9AA
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Princess Street, Manchester, Lancs, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED9DN8 - Roadchef was founded in July 1973 by Lindley Catering Investments and Galleon World Travel. The company was originally family owned but in November 1995 was sold to a management team and its most recent change of ownership was to the Israeli Delek Group.
Over the years Roadchef have acquired a portfolio of 20 sites. A large expansion occurred in 1998 when Roadchef agreed to purchase Blue Boar Group and Take A Break for £80 million and thus proceeded to integrate these acquisitions into an enlarged Roadchef Group. At the time, Blue Boar was the fourth largest operator of motorway services areas in the UK with three operational sites and one development site.
The acquired Watford Gap site was the first motorway service area to be opened in the UK in 1959 and is one of the UK's best known sites. A few years ago (according to Google Finance), Roadchef Motorways was one of the largest Motorway Services Area (MSA) operators in the UK, with 21 sites representing 24% of the market and serving some 60 million visitors each year.
Gloucestershire, England, UK
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Moorgate, London, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGMNXA - The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was a tilting high speed train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s, for use on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). The WCML contained many curves, and the APT pioneered the concept of active tilting to address these, a feature that has since been copied on designs around the world. The experimental APT-E achieved a new British railway speed record on 10 August 1975 when it reached 152.3 miles per hour (245.1 km/h), only to be bested by the service prototype APT-P at 162.2 miles per hour (261.0 km/h) in December 1979, a record that stood for 23 years.
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DJ7B6G - Selectively coloured image of a scantily clad lady on a poster distracting commuters
A63 Bypass, Leeds, Yorkshire England UK
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![iPod Shuffle2 - My Generation [Old and the young in Holborn, London] 8374667100 London,England,High,Holborn,art,poster,old,lady,woman,walking,stick,age,older,getting,getting older,aging,ipod,shuffle,tony,smith,street,uk,scarf,shopping,bag,grey,hair,contrast,oldandyoung,paradox](https://live.staticflickr.com/8234/8374667100_6d0945a0ea_o.jpg/)
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8374667100 - 'The Zimmers - 'My Generation' - Play this track here.
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'My Generation' is a song by the British rock group The Who, which became a hit and one of their most recognisable songs. The song was named the 11th greatest song by Rolling Stone on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and 13th on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Songs of Rock &
Roll.
It's also part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and is inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for 'historical, artistic and significant' value. In 2009 it was named the 37th Greatest Hard Rock Song by VH1.
The song was released as a single on 5 November 1965, reaching No. 2 in the UK, the Who's highest charting single in the UK and No. 74 in America. 'My Generation' also appeared on The Who's 1965 debut album, My Generation (The Who Sings My Generation in the United States), and in greatly extended form on their live album Live at Leeds (1970). The Who re-recorded the song for the Ready Steady Who! EP in 1966, but this version was only released in 1995 on the remastered version of the A Quick One album.
The main difference between this version and the original is that instead of the hail of feedback which ends the original, the band play a chaotic rendition of Edward Elgar's 'Land of Hope and Glory'. In the album's liner notes the song is credited to both Townshend and Elgar. A music video featuring a montage of live performance clips has been played on music stations.
The Zimmers was a British band, thought to have the oldest members of any band in the world. The oldest member (Buster Martin) claimed to have been born in 1906, although some sources indicate he was born in 1913 \u2013 he died in 2011. The former lead singer Alf Carretta died on 29 June 2010, aged 93. The group takes its name from the Zimmer frame (walker).
The band was created as a feature in a BBC Television documentary, which was first broadcast on 28 May 2007. The feature of forming the band and recording a single was intended to give a voice to the feelings of isolation and imprisonment suffered by the elderly. The Zimmers' logo is a parody of The Beatles' logo, as is the image of them walking across Abbey Road.
The Zimmers released their first single, a cover of The Who's 'My Generation', reaching no 26 in the UK Singles Chart, on 28 May 2007. The song was produced by Mike Hedges, the video shot by Geoff Wonfor, and it was recorded in the Beatles Studio 2 at Abbey Road.
On 7 April 2012, the band performed the Beastie Boys' '(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)' on Britain's Got Talent.
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(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6A5 - This documentary stock photograph shows Girl Grafitti on a Berlin wall,street,art,Germany. The image records Berlin Mitte street art and graffiti, making it useful for editorial features on urban art, alternative tourism, wall culture, counterculture, gentrification, visual satire and layered public space. Berlin is a city where ordinary street details often carry heavy layers of history, from Prussian and imperial architecture to the Weimar period, Nazi rule, wartime destruction, division, the DDR, reunification, tourism, gentrification and contemporary creative culture. The caption and visible subject detail provide a specific point of entry into that wider story rather than a generic German city view. Buyers could use the photograph for articles about Berlin travel, Cold War memory, street art, museum interpretation, urban nightlife, river sightseeing, architecture, souvenir culture, public transport, pedestrian design or the way history is repackaged in modern tourism. Search-friendly composite terms include Berlin Mitte street art, DDR surveillance display, Berlin Fernsehturm skyline, River Spree pleasure boat, Ampelmann crossing light, Berliner Dom interior, Berlin urban culture and German capital tourism. If the subject is graffiti, it can illustrate the city as a living wall of political humour, youth culture, commercial branding and layered paste-ups. If it is heritage or church architecture, it can support more formal travel, culture, history and education uses. If it is a boat, toy or street sign, it gives editors an accessible human-scale route into a large city story. The documentary style keeps the image credible for web, magazine, guidebook, education, museum, travel, urban policy, politics, design, consumer and social commentary use. Its strength for Alamy search is the mix of precise caption wording and broader Berlin themes, allowing it to be found for both narrow subject searches and wider editorial needs.
Mitte,DircksenStr,Berlin,Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6A6 - This documentary stock photograph shows Girl Grafitti on a Berlin wall,street,art,Germany - I have to go to Paris in pink. The image records Berlin Mitte street art and graffiti, making it useful for editorial features on urban art, alternative tourism, wall culture, counterculture, gentrification, visual satire and layered public space. Berlin is a city where ordinary street details often carry heavy layers of history, from Prussian and imperial architecture to the Weimar period, Nazi rule, wartime destruction, division, the DDR, reunification, tourism, gentrification and contemporary creative culture. The caption and visible subject detail provide a specific point of entry into that wider story rather than a generic German city view. Buyers could use the photograph for articles about Berlin travel, Cold War memory, street art, museum interpretation, urban nightlife, river sightseeing, architecture, souvenir culture, public transport, pedestrian design or the way history is repackaged in modern tourism. Search-friendly composite terms include Berlin Mitte street art, DDR surveillance display, Berlin Fernsehturm skyline, River Spree pleasure boat, Ampelmann crossing light, Berliner Dom interior, Berlin urban culture and German capital tourism. If the subject is graffiti, it can illustrate the city as a living wall of political humour, youth culture, commercial branding and layered paste-ups. If it is heritage or church architecture, it can support more formal travel, culture, history and education uses. If it is a boat, toy or street sign, it gives editors an accessible human-scale route into a large city story. The documentary style keeps the image credible for web, magazine, guidebook, education, museum, travel, urban policy, politics, design, consumer and social commentary use. Its strength for Alamy search is the mix of precise caption wording and broader Berlin themes, allowing it to be found for both narrow subject searches and wider.
Mitte,DircksenStr,Berlin,Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6A8 - This documentary stock photograph shows Berlin Mitte,Street art on walls,Germany. The image records Berlin Mitte street art and graffiti, making it useful for editorial features on urban art, alternative tourism, wall culture, counterculture, gentrification, visual satire and layered public space. Berlin is a city where ordinary street details often carry heavy layers of history, from Prussian and imperial architecture to the Weimar period, Nazi rule, wartime destruction, division, the DDR, reunification, tourism, gentrification and contemporary creative culture. The caption and visible subject detail provide a specific point of entry into that wider story rather than a generic German city view. Buyers could use the photograph for articles about Berlin travel, Cold War memory, street art, museum interpretation, urban nightlife, river sightseeing, architecture, souvenir culture, public transport, pedestrian design or the way history is repackaged in modern tourism. Search-friendly composite terms include Berlin Mitte street art, DDR surveillance display, Berlin Fernsehturm skyline, River Spree pleasure boat, Ampelmann crossing light, Berliner Dom interior, Berlin urban culture and German capital tourism. If the subject is graffiti, it can illustrate the city as a living wall of political humour, youth culture, commercial branding and layered paste-ups. If it is heritage or church architecture, it can support more formal travel, culture, history and education uses. If it is a boat, toy or street sign, it gives editors an accessible human-scale route into a large city story. The documentary style keeps the image credible for web, magazine, guidebook, education, museum, travel, urban policy, politics, design, consumer and social commentary use. Its strength for Alamy search is the mix of precise caption wording and broader Berlin themes, allowing it to be found for both narrow subject searches and wider editorial needs.
Mitte,DircksenStr,Berlin,Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6W8 - This documentary stock photograph shows Berlin Mitte,Street art on walls,Germany Ein-und Ausfahrt sign sprayed with graffiti. The image records Berlin Mitte street art and graffiti, making it useful for editorial features on urban art, alternative tourism, wall culture, counterculture, gentrification, visual satire and layered public space. Berlin is a city where ordinary street details often carry heavy layers of history, from Prussian and imperial architecture to the Weimar period, Nazi rule, wartime destruction, division, the DDR, reunification, tourism, gentrification and contemporary creative culture. The caption and visible subject detail provide a specific point of entry into that wider story rather than a generic German city view. Buyers could use the photograph for articles about Berlin travel, Cold War memory, street art, museum interpretation, urban nightlife, river sightseeing, architecture, souvenir culture, public transport, pedestrian design or the way history is repackaged in modern tourism. Search-friendly composite terms include Berlin Mitte street art, DDR surveillance display, Berlin Fernsehturm skyline, River Spree pleasure boat, Ampelmann crossing light, Berliner Dom interior, Berlin urban culture and German capital tourism. If the subject is graffiti, it can illustrate the city as a living wall of political humour, youth culture, commercial branding and layered paste-ups. If it is heritage or church architecture, it can support more formal travel, culture, history and education uses. If it is a boat, toy or street sign, it gives editors an accessible human-scale route into a large city story. The documentary style keeps the image credible for web, magazine, guidebook, education, museum, travel, urban policy, politics, design, consumer and social commentary use. Its strength for Alamy search is the mix of precise caption wording and broader Berlin themes, allowing it to be found for both narrow subject searches and wider.
Mitte,DircksenStr,Berlin,Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6WA - This documentary stock photograph shows Berlin Mitte,Street art on walls,Germany - Man climbing from a window,6. The image records Berlin Mitte street art and graffiti, making it useful for editorial features on urban art, alternative tourism, wall culture, counterculture, gentrification, visual satire and layered public space. Berlin is a city where ordinary street details often carry heavy layers of history, from Prussian and imperial architecture to the Weimar period, Nazi rule, wartime destruction, division, the DDR, reunification, tourism, gentrification and contemporary creative culture. The caption and visible subject detail provide a specific point of entry into that wider story rather than a generic German city view. Buyers could use the photograph for articles about Berlin travel, Cold War memory, street art, museum interpretation, urban nightlife, river sightseeing, architecture, souvenir culture, public transport, pedestrian design or the way history is repackaged in modern tourism. Search-friendly composite terms include Berlin Mitte street art, DDR surveillance display, Berlin Fernsehturm skyline, River Spree pleasure boat, Ampelmann crossing light, Berliner Dom interior, Berlin urban culture and German capital tourism. If the subject is graffiti, it can illustrate the city as a living wall of political humour, youth culture, commercial branding and layered paste-ups. If it is heritage or church architecture, it can support more formal travel, culture, history and education uses. If it is a boat, toy or street sign, it gives editors an accessible human-scale route into a large city story. The documentary style keeps the image credible for web, magazine, guidebook, education, museum, travel, urban policy, politics, design, consumer and social commentary use. Its strength for Alamy search is the mix of precise caption wording and broader Berlin themes, allowing it to be found for both narrow subject searches and wider editorial.
Mitte,DircksenStr,Berlin,Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6WC - This documentary stock photograph shows Berlin Mitte,Street art on walls,Germany - Girl in a shawl. The image records Berlin Mitte street art and graffiti, making it useful for editorial features on urban art, alternative tourism, wall culture, counterculture, gentrification, visual satire and layered public space. Berlin is a city where ordinary street details often carry heavy layers of history, from Prussian and imperial architecture to the Weimar period, Nazi rule, wartime destruction, division, the DDR, reunification, tourism, gentrification and contemporary creative culture. The caption and visible subject detail provide a specific point of entry into that wider story rather than a generic German city view. Buyers could use the photograph for articles about Berlin travel, Cold War memory, street art, museum interpretation, urban nightlife, river sightseeing, architecture, souvenir culture, public transport, pedestrian design or the way history is repackaged in modern tourism. Search-friendly composite terms include Berlin Mitte street art, DDR surveillance display, Berlin Fernsehturm skyline, River Spree pleasure boat, Ampelmann crossing light, Berliner Dom interior, Berlin urban culture and German capital tourism. If the subject is graffiti, it can illustrate the city as a living wall of political humour, youth culture, commercial branding and layered paste-ups. If it is heritage or church architecture, it can support more formal travel, culture, history and education uses. If it is a boat, toy or street sign, it gives editors an accessible human-scale route into a large city story. The documentary style keeps the image credible for web, magazine, guidebook, education, museum, travel, urban policy, politics, design, consumer and social commentary use. Its strength for Alamy search is the mix of precise caption wording and broader Berlin themes, allowing it to be found for both narrow subject searches and wider editorial needs.
Mitte,DircksenStr,Berlin,Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6WD - This documentary stock photograph shows Berlin Mitte,Street art on walls,Germany- Man with three eyes. The image records Berlin Mitte street art and graffiti, making it useful for editorial features on urban art, alternative tourism, wall culture, counterculture, gentrification, visual satire and layered public space. Berlin is a city where ordinary street details often carry heavy layers of history, from Prussian and imperial architecture to the Weimar period, Nazi rule, wartime destruction, division, the DDR, reunification, tourism, gentrification and contemporary creative culture. The caption and visible subject detail provide a specific point of entry into that wider story rather than a generic German city view. Buyers could use the photograph for articles about Berlin travel, Cold War memory, street art, museum interpretation, urban nightlife, river sightseeing, architecture, souvenir culture, public transport, pedestrian design or the way history is repackaged in modern tourism. Search-friendly composite terms include Berlin Mitte street art, DDR surveillance display, Berlin Fernsehturm skyline, River Spree pleasure boat, Ampelmann crossing light, Berliner Dom interior, Berlin urban culture and German capital tourism. If the subject is graffiti, it can illustrate the city as a living wall of political humour, youth culture, commercial branding and layered paste-ups. If it is heritage or church architecture, it can support more formal travel, culture, history and education uses. If it is a boat, toy or street sign, it gives editors an accessible human-scale route into a large city story. The documentary style keeps the image credible for web, magazine, guidebook, education, museum, travel, urban policy, politics, design, consumer and social commentary use. Its strength for Alamy search is the mix of precise caption wording and broader Berlin themes, allowing it to be found for both narrow subject searches and wider editorial needs.
Mitte,DircksenStr,Berlin,Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6X1 - This documentary stock photograph shows Berlin Mitte,Street art on walls,Germany - Ronald McDonald with gasmask. The image records Berlin Mitte street art and graffiti, making it useful for editorial features on urban art, alternative tourism, wall culture, counterculture, gentrification, visual satire and layered public space. Berlin is a city where ordinary street details often carry heavy layers of history, from Prussian and imperial architecture to the Weimar period, Nazi rule, wartime destruction, division, the DDR, reunification, tourism, gentrification and contemporary creative culture. The caption and visible subject detail provide a specific point of entry into that wider story rather than a generic German city view. Buyers could use the photograph for articles about Berlin travel, Cold War memory, street art, museum interpretation, urban nightlife, river sightseeing, architecture, souvenir culture, public transport, pedestrian design or the way history is repackaged in modern tourism. Search-friendly composite terms include Berlin Mitte street art, DDR surveillance display, Berlin Fernsehturm skyline, River Spree pleasure boat, Ampelmann crossing light, Berliner Dom interior, Berlin urban culture and German capital tourism. If the subject is graffiti, it can illustrate the city as a living wall of political humour, youth culture, commercial branding and layered paste-ups. If it is heritage or church architecture, it can support more formal travel, culture, history and education uses. If it is a boat, toy or street sign, it gives editors an accessible human-scale route into a large city story. The documentary style keeps the image credible for web, magazine, guidebook, education, museum, travel, urban policy, politics, design, consumer and social commentary use. Its strength for Alamy search is the mix of precise caption wording and broader Berlin themes, allowing it to be found for both narrow subject searches and wider editorial.
Mitte,DircksenStr,Berlin,Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6X6 - This documentary stock photograph shows Girl Grafitti on a Berlin wall,street,art,Germany,have to wash off the city colors. The image records Berlin Mitte street art and graffiti, making it useful for editorial features on urban art, alternative tourism, wall culture, counterculture, gentrification, visual satire and layered public space. Berlin is a city where ordinary street details often carry heavy layers of history, from Prussian and imperial architecture to the Weimar period, Nazi rule, wartime destruction, division, the DDR, reunification, tourism, gentrification and contemporary creative culture. The caption and visible subject detail provide a specific point of entry into that wider story rather than a generic German city view. Buyers could use the photograph for articles about Berlin travel, Cold War memory, street art, museum interpretation, urban nightlife, river sightseeing, architecture, souvenir culture, public transport, pedestrian design or the way history is repackaged in modern tourism. Search-friendly composite terms include Berlin Mitte street art, DDR surveillance display, Berlin Fernsehturm skyline, River Spree pleasure boat, Ampelmann crossing light, Berliner Dom interior, Berlin urban culture and German capital tourism. If the subject is graffiti, it can illustrate the city as a living wall of political humour, youth culture, commercial branding and layered paste-ups. If it is heritage or church architecture, it can support more formal travel, culture, history and education uses. If it is a boat, toy or street sign, it gives editors an accessible human-scale route into a large city story. The documentary style keeps the image credible for web, magazine, guidebook, education, museum, travel, urban policy, politics, design, consumer and social commentary use. Its strength for Alamy search is the mix of precise caption wording and broader Berlin themes, allowing it to be found for both narrow subject searches and wider.
Mitte,DircksenStr,Berlin,Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6X9 - This documentary stock photograph shows Girl Grafitti on a Berlin wall,street,art,Germany. The image records Berlin street or city detail, making it useful for editorial features on Berlin tourism, urban culture, German history and everyday city identity. Berlin is a city where ordinary street details often carry heavy layers of history, from Prussian and imperial architecture to the Weimar period, Nazi rule, wartime destruction, division, the DDR, reunification, tourism, gentrification and contemporary creative culture. The caption and visible subject detail provide a specific point of entry into that wider story rather than a generic German city view. Buyers could use the photograph for articles about Berlin travel, Cold War memory, street art, museum interpretation, urban nightlife, river sightseeing, architecture, souvenir culture, public transport, pedestrian design or the way history is repackaged in modern tourism. Search-friendly composite terms include Berlin Mitte street art, DDR surveillance display, Berlin Fernsehturm skyline, River Spree pleasure boat, Ampelmann crossing light, Berliner Dom interior, Berlin urban culture and German capital tourism. If the subject is graffiti, it can illustrate the city as a living wall of political humour, youth culture, commercial branding and layered paste-ups. If it is heritage or church architecture, it can support more formal travel, culture, history and education uses. If it is a boat, toy or street sign, it gives editors an accessible human-scale route into a large city story. The documentary style keeps the image credible for web, magazine, guidebook, education, museum, travel, urban policy, politics, design, consumer and social commentary use. Its strength for Alamy search is the mix of precise caption wording and broader Berlin themes, allowing it to be found for both narrow subject searches and wider editorial needs.
Mitte,DircksenStr,Berlin,Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6XP - This documentary stock photograph shows Berlin Mitte,Street art on walls,Germany- Girl sits crosslegged on table What Color Has The Love?. The image records Berlin Mitte street art and graffiti, making it useful for editorial features on urban art, alternative tourism, wall culture, counterculture, gentrification, visual satire and layered public space. Berlin is a city where ordinary street details often carry heavy layers of history, from Prussian and imperial architecture to the Weimar period, Nazi rule, wartime destruction, division, the DDR, reunification, tourism, gentrification and contemporary creative culture. The caption and visible subject detail provide a specific point of entry into that wider story rather than a generic German city view. Buyers could use the photograph for articles about Berlin travel, Cold War memory, street art, museum interpretation, urban nightlife, river sightseeing, architecture, souvenir culture, public transport, pedestrian design or the way history is repackaged in modern tourism. Search-friendly composite terms include Berlin Mitte street art, DDR surveillance display, Berlin Fernsehturm skyline, River Spree pleasure boat, Ampelmann crossing light, Berliner Dom interior, Berlin urban culture and German capital tourism. If the subject is graffiti, it can illustrate the city as a living wall of political humour, youth culture, commercial branding and layered paste-ups. If it is heritage or church architecture, it can support more formal travel, culture, history and education uses. If it is a boat, toy or street sign, it gives editors an accessible human-scale route into a large city story. The documentary style keeps the image credible for web, magazine, guidebook, education, museum, travel, urban policy, politics, design, consumer and social commentary use. Its strength for Alamy search is the mix of precise caption wording and broader Berlin themes, allowing it to be found for both narrow subject.
Mitte,DircksenStr,Berlin,Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6XT - This documentary stock photograph shows Berlin Mitte,Street art on walls,Germany- Drinking beer from a bottle,eating. The image records Berlin Mitte street art and graffiti, making it useful for editorial features on urban art, alternative tourism, wall culture, counterculture, gentrification, visual satire and layered public space. Berlin is a city where ordinary street details often carry heavy layers of history, from Prussian and imperial architecture to the Weimar period, Nazi rule, wartime destruction, division, the DDR, reunification, tourism, gentrification and contemporary creative culture. The caption and visible subject detail provide a specific point of entry into that wider story rather than a generic German city view. Buyers could use the photograph for articles about Berlin travel, Cold War memory, street art, museum interpretation, urban nightlife, river sightseeing, architecture, souvenir culture, public transport, pedestrian design or the way history is repackaged in modern tourism. Search-friendly composite terms include Berlin Mitte street art, DDR surveillance display, Berlin Fernsehturm skyline, River Spree pleasure boat, Ampelmann crossing light, Berliner Dom interior, Berlin urban culture and German capital tourism. If the subject is graffiti, it can illustrate the city as a living wall of political humour, youth culture, commercial branding and layered paste-ups. If it is heritage or church architecture, it can support more formal travel, culture, history and education uses. If it is a boat, toy or street sign, it gives editors an accessible human-scale route into a large city story. The documentary style keeps the image credible for web, magazine, guidebook, education, museum, travel, urban policy, politics, design, consumer and social commentary use. Its strength for Alamy search is the mix of precise caption wording and broader Berlin themes, allowing it to be found for both narrow subject searches and wider.
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Victoria Railway Station, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5583243728 - 'My sex - 'Ultravox' - Play this track here..
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
My sex is invested in suburban photographs, Skyscraper shadows on a car crash overpass....'
Ultravox! is the first studio album from the band Ultravox, which at the time was properly eponymous before the band dropped the Neu!-inspired exclamation mark from their name. It contained this track and was released on Island Records February 1977. It was recorded at Island Studios in Hammersmith in the autumn of 1976 and produced by the band and Steve Lillywhite, with studio assistance from the great Brian Eno.
This band was effectively led by two different individuals in its career, two frontmen who, curiously, never played together in the band at the same time. From 1974 until 1979, the frontman and main driving force behind Ultravox was John Foxx who left the band to embark on an influential solo career that continues to this day. Some time following Foxx's departure, with the three remaining members in a hiatus, Midge Ure took over as lead singer, guitarist, and frontman.
I am a great fan of the first incarnation, before the mid 1980s New Romantic makeover. Tracks like this, 'The Wild, The Beautiful and the Damned' and 'Sat'day Night in the City of the Dead' were championed by the late great John Peel, on his 10pm BBC radio 1 show.
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This fresh-faced beauty fronting the M&
S (Marks &
Spencer) lingerie campaign I think is French model Noemie Lenoir.
She probably brightens up a good few journeys to work, with her billboards and other advertising posters.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF7D94 - Panorama of Euston tube Station, Euston Square, Camden, London, UK
Euston tube Station, Euston Square, Camden, London, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF7DAE - Size does matter poster at M5 Frankly services petrol fuel area
M5 Frankley service Area, West Midlands, England , UK
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Trafford Wharf Road, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RPY - A polling place or polling station is where voters cast their ballots in elections.
The phrase polling station is also used in American English and in British English, although polling place is the building and polling station is the specific room (or part of a room) where voters cast their votes. A polling place can contain one or more polling stations.
Since elections generally take place over a one- or two-day span on a periodic basis, often annual or longer, polling places are usually located in facilities used for other purposes, such as schools, churches, sports halls, local government offices, or even private homes, and may each serve a similar number of people. The area may be known as a ward, precinct, polling district or constituency. The polling place is staffed by officials (who may be called election judges, returning officers or other titles) who monitor the voting procedures and assist voters with the election process. Scrutineers (or poll-watchers) are independent or partisan observers who attend the poll to ensure the impartiality of the process.
The word poll means scalp or head. When votes were taken by gathering people together and counting heads, the place where this was done (sometimes an open field) was called the polls
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4576383706 - 'The suggestion is that after the May 2010 election, Britain will have lots of spare cash for all those things we aspire to spend on, such as new cancer drugs and such. With all the main parties hiding the details on what will be cut to tackle the current deficit, it is unlikely whoever gets in, there will be much left over for essential stuff like this. Most people realise it is charities, university research labs and big pharma who actuallly find these drugs, not central government. Maybe in the big Tory idea of 'everyone doing it for themselves', we should all be looking for these drugs ourselves? I read one satirical piece that suggested in this mode if we could not find a satisfactory hospital consultant the inferrence was that we should get a mirror and our own scalpal &
have a go.
It will be interesting to see what the reality is when the votes are counted and the job of dealing with that deficit starts. That could be like the colour shift in this image, a different kind of drug, a bad acid trip!
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RPM - George Gideon Oliver Osborne CH (born Gideon Oliver Osborne
23 May 1971) is a British newspaper editor and former Conservative Party politician, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from June 2001 until he stood down on 3 May 2017. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2016. He has been editor of the London Evening Standard since May 2017 and chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP) since September 2016.
Osborne worked briefly as a freelancer for The Daily Telegraph before joining the Conservative Research Department in 1994 and becoming head of its political section. He went on to be a special adviser to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street as well as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign, before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.
Osborne was elected as MP for Tatton in 2001, becoming the youngest Conservative member of the House of Commons.
As Chancellor, Osborne pursued austerity policies aimed at reducing the budget deficit and launched the Northern Powerhouse initiative. After the Conservatives won an overall majority in the 2015 general election, Cameron reappointed him Chancellor in his second government and gave him the additional title of First Secretary of State. During the premiership of David Cameron, George Osborne was widely viewed as a potential future Leader of the Conservative Party
one Conservative MP suggested that the closeness of his relationship with Cameron meant that the two effectively shared power during the duration of the Cameron Government.
Following the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union and Cameron's consequent resignation, Osborne was sacked by newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May, & returned to the backbenches. He became editor of the Evening Standard
Pickmere, Knutsford, Tatton ward, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RPR - George Gideon Oliver Osborne CH (born Gideon Oliver Osborne
23 May 1971) is a British newspaper editor and former Conservative Party politician, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from June 2001 until he stood down on 3 May 2017. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2016. He has been editor of the London Evening Standard since May 2017 and chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP) since September 2016.
Osborne worked briefly as a freelancer for The Daily Telegraph before joining the Conservative Research Department in 1994 and becoming head of its political section. He went on to be a special adviser to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street as well as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign, before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.
Osborne was elected as MP for Tatton in 2001, becoming the youngest Conservative member of the House of Commons.
As Chancellor, Osborne pursued austerity policies aimed at reducing the budget deficit and launched the Northern Powerhouse initiative. After the Conservatives won an overall majority in the 2015 general election, Cameron reappointed him Chancellor in his second government and gave him the additional title of First Secretary of State. During the premiership of David Cameron, George Osborne was widely viewed as a potential future Leader of the Conservative Party
one Conservative MP suggested that the closeness of his relationship with Cameron meant that the two effectively shared power during the duration of the Cameron Government.
Following the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union and Cameron's consequent resignation, Osborne was sacked by newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May, & returned to the backbenches. He became editor of the Evening Standard
Pickmere, Knutsford, Tatton ward, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4573001216 - 'I have seen those shots with cameroon (sic cameron shurely?) as Elvis, but I was amazed to see Mr George Osbourne defaced looking like Adolf Hitler of the would be new World order while driving home through the edges of knutsford. possibly a bit severe, I dont think Adolf had the wealth of George, however by the same ruling chances are the Conservatives will be making some severe cuts, not suggesting we invade Poland or anything as european as that.
George is heir to the Osborne baronetcy (of Ballentaylor in the County of Waterford, Ireland). This makes him a part of what is known in Ireland as the Ascendancy, the old Anglo-Irish aristocracy. His father, Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet, is co-founder of the fabric and wallpapers designers, Osborne &
Little. Osborne's wealth is estimated at \u00a34.3m by the New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2009/10/oxford-universit... . He is also reported to be next in line to inherit a substantial share of Osborne &
Little, his father's luxury wall\u00adpaper company, which is thought to be worth over \u00a31 billion. so he would fit well in one of Britains safest Tory seats here in Tatton. Hopefully he would look to the needs of his constituents lower down the social ladder, customers of Cheshire Peaks &
Plains Housing Trust, Contour Homes or Great Places Housing Group as well as the more affluent.
After achieving an upper 2nd class degree at Magdalen College at Oxford University and being a member of the Bullingdon Club, a private dining club of Oxford University students (which was 'infamous for riotous behaviour' and was open only to sons of aristocratic families and the wealthy. Osborne's friends David Cameron and Nat Rothschild were also members of the club), he tried to persue a career as a journalist, but then moved to a vacent position at Conservative Central Office. he cut his teeth on the Prime Minister's Questions team for the various Conservative incumbent leaders Hague, Howard and cameron. Indeed, Osbourne and Cameron are godfathers to each other's children, so this may make his position safer.
The graffitti is interesting as it suggests a Europe leaning overtone, one that tories would rarther hide under the carpet for the moment. How palitable would a referendum on leaving the EU? Marginal if that.
Having said that, its looking more like a hung or balanced parliament might be imminent. We in Britain could be heading for Cleggagedden, whatever that means. Personally, I would like the best of all worlds if possible. The best of the free market and the social conscience with a respect for the environment and each other. If I see that with proportional representation or a (well) 'hung parliament' then so it must be.
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Knutsford road, Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RXG - Unison, stylised as UNISON, is the largest trade union in the United Kingdom with almost 1.4 million members.
The union was formed in 1993 when three public sector trade unions, the National and Local Government Officers Association (NALGO), the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) and the Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) merged.
UNISON's current general secretary is Dave Prentis. He was elected on 28 February 2000 and took up the post on 1 January 2001.
Members of UNISON are typically from industries within the public sector and generally cover both full-time and part-time support and administrative staff. The majority of people joining UNISON are workers within sectors such as local government, education, the National Health Service Registered Nurses, NHS Managers and Clinical Support Workers. The union also admits ancillary staff such as Health Care Assistants and Assistant Practitioners, including Allied Health Professionals. Probation services, police services, utilities (such as gas, electricity and water), and transport. These 'Service Groups' all have their own national and regional democratic structures within UNISON's constitution.
As a trade union, UNISON provides support to members on work related issues, including protection and representation at work, help with pay and conditions of service and legal advice. Each company or organisation will usually be represented by a particular UNISON branch and members within that organisation elect volunteer stewards to represent them. The stewards receive training in workplace issues and are then able to co-ordinate and represent members both on an individual basis and collectively
Witton Street, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF240R - Defaced Apr 2010 Election Poster for George Gideon Osbourne now elected MP and Conservative Chancellor for Tatton Ward, Cheshire.
Located in a farmers field it had been shot at, stickers added and generally defaced.
Pickmere, Knutsford, Cheshire North west England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HD8W - We wont get on our knees Dont raise our fees - Student protest in Warrington at the town hall , golden gates, Cheshire , England UK
Sankey St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA1 1XZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMX42 - A poster of a London red telephone box with a 13 amp British plug leading from it.
Glasgow Airport, Glasgow, Strathclyde Scotland UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HGC823 -
Woody Bay Station, North Devon, South West England, UK, EX31 4RA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Andy For Us,Burnham,Labour,red,redwall,NW,North West,campaign,Wigan,Greater Manchester,England,UK politics,political,posters,poster,election,new,Westminster,PM,prime minister,Manchesterism,reset,of,socialist,socialism,politics,current metro mayor for Manchester City Region,Andrew Murray Burnham,roadside,advertising,slogan,voter,political change,King of The North,number 10,give them hope back,Kier Starmer
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EKP05W - Street photograph shows a bright red Vote Andy For Us campaign poster fixed to a wooden stake beside a hedge on a roadside in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, Greater Manchester. The image records a moment in the Makerfield by-election campaign, with the slogan, portrait-style graphic and repeated poster in the background creating a strong visual shorthand for Labour politics, local campaigning, mayoral profile and speculation about national leadership. Andy Burnham is presented here through a simplified illustrated face rather than a conventional candidate photograph, giving the poster the feel of modern political branding, social media graphics and northern civic identity. The roadside setting, parked cars, telegraph poles, suburban shops and passing traffic place the message in an ordinary town-centre environment rather than a staged press event. It could illustrate features on parliamentary by-elections, Labour Party renewal, Greater Manchester devolution, metro mayors, the politics of the North West, voter mood, campaign messaging, political posters, street-level democracy and the way local elections can become a proxy for national debate. The wording Andy For Us also carries a distinctly personal and regional appeal, suggesting representation, local loyalty and the idea of a politician rooted in Greater Manchester rather than Westminster. The sky is partly cloudy with evening or late afternoon light, and the shallow depth of field draws attention to the poster while keeping the wider road visible as context. For editors, the picture has value as a recognisable record of a politically charged campaign in a former Lancashire industrial area now within the Wigan borough and the Greater Manchester political landscape. It can support news, opinion, local democracy, social history, electoral analysis, Labour leadership, northern identity, public trust, political communication and UK constitutional devolution themes.
Makerfield, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, WN4 8UA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,placards,Makerfield needs Reform,Robert Kenyon,working class vote,culture war Britain,political realignment,6am-2am,Reform campaign board,poster,by-election,Red Wall politics,northern voters,post-Brexit Britain,anti-establishment politics,Reform candidate,local democracy,by-election signage,constituency battle,high street politics,neighbourhood retail,border control,populist messaging,real opposition,former Labour area,voter disillusionment,political,banner,election,campaign,Manchester,North West England,Brexit,stop the boats,flags,council,Im voting Rob Kenyon,purvy plumber
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EME6N1 - Large Reform UK campaign placard for Rob Kenyon displayed above a residential garden in Hindley Green, an area within the Makerfield parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester, England. The bright blue sign carries the wording I'm voting Rob Kenyon and 18th June , alongside a candidate photograph and Reform UK branding, partly framed by garden trees and the roofline of a nearby house. The image records the street-level visibility of Reform UK during a closely watched by-election in a former Labour stronghold, where the party promoted Kenyon as a local candidate and tradesman rather than a career politician. Reform UK and several media reports described Kenyon as a plumber, and that framing was central to the party's attempt to present him as a simpleton local working-class challenger to Andy Burnham. The photograph is useful for editorial coverage of by-election campaigning, voter allegiance, right-wing populism, northern English politics, constituency-level political identity and the contest for support in post-industrial towns around Wigan. Its value is in the domestic setting: the placard is not shown at a rally, but in a garden above ordinary housing, making the campaign message part of the visual language of a neighbourhood. The scene can illustrate stories about Reform UK's appeal on housing estates, political branding in local streets, anti-establishment messaging, voter disillusionment, party competition on the right and the challenge to Labour in areas that historically returned Labour MPs. It also works as a broader image of contemporary British politics, where candidate posters, simple slogans and claims of local authenticity are used to build trust with residents. The picture should be used with clear editorial context, as Reform UK's campaign, like much hard-right and populist politics in Britain, has generated controversy over immigration rhetoric, online comments and culture-war positioning
Hindley, Makerfield constituancy, Greater Manchester
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EME6NA - Giant red Vote Andy For Us Andy Burnham campaign banner fixed to the gable end of a traditional northern terrace house in the Makerfield constituency, Wigan, Greater Manchester, during the June 2026 by-election campaign. A white van is parked in the foreground, adding a strong white van voter and working-class street politics element to the image, while the rough ground, plain gable wall, small window, satellite dish, chimney stacks and domestic setting root the picture firmly in an ordinary residential neighbourhood. The large banner uses bold white and yellow block lettering with a stylised cartoon portrait of Burnham, making the house itself part of the campaign landscape. The image is useful for editorial coverage of Labour campaigning, Andy Burnham's attempted return to Westminster, northern England politics, by-election strategy, working-class voters, Greater Manchester devolution, political branding, candidate publicity and the changing electoral map in former Labour heartlands. Makerfield attracted national attention because Burnham, then Mayor of Greater Manchester, was standing for Labour in a seat where Reform UK had become a serious challenger. The House of Commons Library noted that Burnham could stand while serving as mayor, but would be disqualified from the mayoralty if elected as an MP, giving the contest wider constitutional and political significance. The presence of the white van, the oversized gable-end poster and the modest housing backdrop make the photograph especially relevant for stories about Labour trying to reconnect with working-class communities, voter identity, public displays of party support, doorstep democracy and the visual language of UK by-elections. The image could also support features on campaign communication, northern town politics, populist pressure on Labour, Wigan borough communities and the use of homes, gardens and street furniture as informal election advertising space.
Hindley, Makerfield constituancy, Greater Manchester
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,night time,economy,Oxford Street,musicals,musical,show,frontage,venue,nightlife,city,centre,entertainment,foyer,tour,touring,live,stage,advertising,poster,publicity,illuminated,art,arts,performing,performance,England,UK,northwest,north west,show night,family entertainment,live entertainment,cinema to stage,1980s nostalgia,80s film adaptation,heritage,tourism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EFEG25 - Palace Theatre Manchester on Oxford Street photographed at dusk, with the façade lit in warm orange light and a large vertical poster advertising The Karate Kid: The Musical. The theatre frontage, marquee lighting, pavement posters, parked car, bicycles and evening street scene place the image firmly in Manchester's busy Oxford Road cultural corridor. The show poster refers to the stage musical based on the well-known 1984 film, using the familiar Karate Kid branding and martial arts imagery to promote a live theatre production. The Palace Theatre is one of Manchester's major commercial theatres, located at 97 Oxford Street, close to Manchester Oxford Road railway station, St Peter's Square and the city centre entertainment district. The venue dates from the late nineteenth century and has been part of Manchester's theatre and performance life since 1891, making it useful for stories about theatre heritage, touring musicals, regional arts, live entertainment, night-time economy and city centre culture. The evening light and illuminated sign give the photograph atmosphere, showing how theatre buildings contribute to urban nightscapes and destination streets. The image is suitable for editorial use on The Karate Kid musical, Manchester theatre, Palace Theatre listings, family entertainment, live stage productions, musical theatre tours, cinema-to-stage adaptations, nostalgia entertainment, Oxford Street, city breaks, cultural tourism and the continuing appeal of classic 1980s film properties. Visible text includes Palace Theatre , The Karate Kid , The Musical , The iconic 80s movie and Spectacular new musical , making the photograph especially searchable for picture buyers looking for a current theatre frontage and show advertising. The dark sky, warm architectural lighting and active street-level details provide a clear dusk context, with the theatre shown as both a heritage venue and a modern live entertainment destination in central Manchester.
Palace Theatre Manchester at dusk advertising The Karate Kid: The Musical on Oxford Street. - Palace
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AE0272 - A red climate protest poster reading I Want a Hot Date, Not a Hot Planet appears among layers of street art, paste-ups, stickers and torn advertising on Brick Lane in Spitalfields, east London. The witty slogan turns the language of dating into a warning about global heating, making the image suitable for coverage of climate activism, youth culture, environmental protest and extreme weather.
The artwork gained added editorial relevance during the exceptional European heatwave of June 2026. Britain set a new June temperature record of 36.7°C at Merryfield in Somerset on 25 June, one day after Gosport reached 36.1°C and broke a record dating from 1957 and 1976. Across western Europe, temperatures exceeded 40°C, France experienced its hottest national day since measurements began, and Switzerland also broke its June record. The persistent high-pressure pattern was widely described as a heat dome and more precisely as an Omega block, trapping hot air over large parts of the continent.
Scientists said the severity of the event would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change. Analysis reported that comparable heat was about 3.5°C hotter than the 1976 event and that extreme night-time temperatures had become around 100 times more likely than two decades earlier. Public-health warnings, tropical nights, transport disruption, school closures, water demand and heat stress made the consequences visible beyond weather reporting.
Brick Lane is internationally associated with changing street art, political graphics and creative expression. The rough, repeatedly pasted surface surrounding the poster includes vivid red, pink, blue and black imagery, giving the photograph the appearance of an informal outdoor gallery. The image connects a humorous environmental slogan with the urgent news context of record-breaking heat, rising temperatures, climate emergency, carbon emissions and demands for stronger action to limit global warming
Climate protest poster art on Brick Lane reads ""I want a hot date, not a hot planet"" , amid stencils
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JN1G5J - John Player & Sons, most often known simply as Player's, was a tobacco and cigarette manufacturer based in Nottingham, England. In 1901, the company merged with other companies to form The Imperial Tobacco Company to face competition from US manufacturers. The company also released several series of association football trading cards in the 1930s under the Player's brand.
Nowadays the brands Player and John Player Special are owned and commercialised by Imperial Brands.
History
In March 1820, William Wright set up a small tobacco factory in Craigshill, Livingston, West Lothian. This business expanded and earned Wright a comfortable fortune. John Player bought the business in 1877. He had the Castle Tobacco Factories built in Radford, Nottingham, just west of the city centre. He had three large factory blocks built, but initially only one was used to process and pack tobacco. The other two blocks were loaned out to lace manufacturers until the business had expanded enough to use the additional space.
John Player died in December 1884 and for the next nine years, the business was run by a small group of family friends until W G and J D Player were ready to take over the firm in 1893. The business became a private limited company in 1895, with a share capital of £200,000.
The business was run later by Player's sons John Dane Player and William Goodacre Player.
In 1901, in response to competitive threats from the US, Player's merged with the Imperial Tobacco Group. The largest constituent of Imperial Tobacco was W. D. & H. O. Wills and the new group was run from Wills' head office in Bristol. Player's retained its own identity with cigarette brands such as Navy Cut, No. 9, John Player Special, and Gold Leaf
loose tobacco brands such as No Name
and its distinctive logo of a smoking sailor in a navy-cut cap.
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,site,railway station,Central Birmingham,West Midlands,England,UK,B4 7XG,Rishi Sunak,cancellation,cancelled,to,Manchester,Leeds,HS2,high speed,two,works,at,construction,promotion,rail,line,railway,leg,scrapped,train,trains,infrastructure,project,rest of,announcement,Levelling Up,poster
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T00PET - High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-stock-photo/gotonysmith-Speed.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>speed railway line and network of passenger train services in England. It will consist of a new railway line between the West Midlands and London, with a branch to Birmingham, and a network of train services that will use the new line and existing conventional track to reach their destinations in the Midlands, Northern England, and Scotland. HS2 will be Britain's second purpose-built high-speed line, the first being High Speed 1, which connects London to the Channel Tunnel. The majority of the project is planned to be completed between 2029 and 2033. A 2019 review of the project, as then planned, estimated that it would cost up to £87 billion
however, this is estimated to have risen to approximately £100 billion in 2023.
The new line will run between London Euston railway station and Fradley in southern Staffordshire, with stations at Old Oak Common, in northwest London, and Birmingham Interchange, near Solihull. There will be spurs to a planned station in central Birmingham and a junction with the West Coast Main Line (WCML) at Handsacre, near Lichfield. The rolling stock will run at a maximum speed of 360 km/h (225 mph) and will operate on both HS2 track and existing conventional track
On 4 October 2023 the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that Phase 2 would be abandoned and that responsibility for the Euston connection would be removed from HS2 Ltd
Curzon St, new HS2 railway station, Central Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B4 7XG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,poster,from,May,June,1963,Town Hall,Ballroom,yellow,red,of,the,stars,Beatles,fab four,and,Wales,UK,Newport,band,bands,music,Cross Street,Abergavenny,South Wales,NP7 5HD,NP7,A girl of the month,dance,dances,Music for dancing and romancing,Keep Alive,with,Rock Twist,Jive,Eddie Tattersall,MMCF,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFER1P -
Town Hall, Cross Street, Abergavenny, South Wales, Wales, UK, NP7 5HD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,county,tourist,attraction,attractions,day,days,out,poster,Northern,rail,train,railway,travel,trip,trips,northwest,north west,ad,advert,use,service,services,your,visit,town,towns,Mid line,Mid-Cheshire,enjoy,marvellous,marvellousDaysOut,campaign,CW9,BR,British Rail,Anderton Boat Lift,Mid Cheshire Line
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JC412D - Framed vintage-style destination poster promoting Northwich and the Mid Cheshire Line is displayed against a red-brick wall. The colourful illustrated design draws on the visual language of classic British railway advertising, using simplified shapes, strong lettering and a restrained heritage colour palette to present Northwich as a destination for rail travel, waterways and industrial history.
The word NORTHWICH appears prominently in red beneath an imagined waterside landscape. The central feature is the distinctive Anderton Boat Lift, represented above a tranquil green-blue waterway with a narrowboat approaching in the foreground. Trees, canal banks and open countryside surround the structure, while a mallard duck and white butterflies introduce wildlife and leisure themes. Small figures on the towpath help communicate walking, recreation and days out beside the water.
Text beneath the place name describes Northwich as Meander the Mid Cheshire Line and enjoy marvellous days out . Northern and Marvellous Days Out branding appears along the bottom. The official Mid Cheshire Line poster collection identifies the Northwich design as featuring the Anderton Boat Lift.
The Anderton Boat Lift is a major example of Victorian waterway engineering near Northwich. Designed to move boats between the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal, it opened in 1875 and overcomes a vertical difference of approximately 50 feet. Following closure because of corrosion, the structure reopened after a major restoration completed in 2002.
The poster combines railway tourism, canal heritage, local wildlife and nostalgic graphic design to advertise Northwich as an accessible Cheshire visitor destination
Northwich, Cheshire, North West England, England, UK, CW9 6FW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GGHT,creating,greener,flat,flats,refurb,cladding,improvements,improvement,north west,site,poster,WA4 1QT,WA4,Kingsway House,Latchford,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,Torus,social,housing,group,refurbishment,at,HMS,contractor,contractors,south,high,rise,highrise
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Kingsway House, Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1QT
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBJ9RP - Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination of Long Island on the Coney Island Channel, which is part of the Lower Bay in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Coney Island was formerly the westernmost of the Outer Barrier islands on Long Island's southern shore, but in the early 20th century it became connected to the rest of Long Island by land fill. The residential portion of the peninsula is a community of 60,000 people in its western part, with Sea Gate to its west, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east, the Lower Bay to the south, and Gravesend to the north.
Coney Island was originally part of the colonial town of Gravesend. By the mid-19th century, it became a seaside resort, and by the late 19th century, amusement parks were also built at the location. The attractions reached a historical peak during the first half of the 20th century, declining in popularity after World War II and following years of neglect. The area was revitalized with the opening of the MCU Park in 2001 and several amusement rides in the 2010s.
Stillwell Ave, Coney Island, Brooklyn,New York, NY, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,NW,North West,UK,England,centre,city,L1,St Georges Pl,Liverpool,Merseyside,L1 1JJ,at,Music,the,groups,poster,words,2023,building,architecture,history,heritage,listed,grade,Neoclassical,Victorian,Grade I,concert hall,William Brown Street,conservation area,architect,Harvey Lonsdale Elmes,John Weightman,Robert Rawlinson
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St George's Place, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1JJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,showing,1950s,nationalised,network,rail,trips,transport,infrastructure,Great Britain,Britain,England,UK,English,train,trains,destination,BR,1950s using British railways,info,Wales,United Kingdom,GB,British,poster,posters,history,historic,heritage,old,olden,times,system,systems,route,routes
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England, United Kingdom
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Backwell, Bristol, England, UK
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45-51 Crumlin Rd, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, BT14 6AB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F0G6W3 - In Western culture, the finger, or the middle finger (as in giving someone the (middle) finger, the bird or flipping someone off) is an obscene hand gesture. The gesture communicates moderate to extreme contempt, and is roughly equivalent in meaning to fuck me, fuck you, shove it up your ass/arse, up yours or go fuck yourself. It is performed by showing the back of a hand that has only the middle finger extended upwards, though in some locales, the thumb is extended. Extending the finger is considered a symbol of contempt in several cultures, especially in the Western world. Many cultures use similar gestures to display their disrespect, although others use it to express pointing without intentional disrespect. The gesture is usually used to express contempt but can also be used humorously or playfully.
The gesture dates back to ancient Greece and it was also used in ancient Rome. Historically, it represented the phallus. In the early 1800s, it gained increasing recognition as a sign of disrespect and was used by music artists (notably more common among actors, celebrities, athletes and politicians
most still view the gesture as obscene). The index finger and ring finger besides the middle finger in more contemporary periods has been likened to represent the testes.
In July 2022 UK Tory MP,Andrea Jenkyns for Morley and Outwood,who gave protesters the middle finger made parliamentary under-secretary of state minister at the Department for Education. More at https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/09/tory-mp-who-gave-protesters-middle-finger-made-education-minister-16970615/
Mitte,DircksenStr,Berlin,Germany
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Winnington Rec, Park Road, Northwich,Cheshire, CW8 4EB
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Warrington Bank Quay, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE457 - Hindi cinema, often known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The term is a portmanteau of Bombay and Hollywood. The industry is related to Cinema of South India and other Indian film industries, making up Indian Cinema”the world's largest by number of feature films produced.
In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, with Bollywood as its largest filmmaker, producing 364 Hindi films the same year. Bollywood represents 43 percent of Indian net box-office revenue
Tamil and Telugu cinema represent 36 percent, and the remaining regional cinema constituted 21 percent in 2014. Bollywood is one of the largest centres of film production in the world. In 2001 ticket sales, Indian cinema (including Bollywood) reportedly sold an estimated 3.6 billion tickets worldwide, compared to Hollywood's 2.6 billion tickets sold. Bollywood films tend to use vernacular Hindustani, mutually intelligible by people who self-identify as speaking either Hindi or Urdu, and modern Bollywood movies increasingly incorporate elements of Hinglish
AA Films
Fox Star Studios
Eros International
Reliance Big Pictures
UTV Motion Pictures
Yash Raj Films
Dharma Productions
Red Chillies Entertainment
Tips Music Films
Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Excel Entertainment
Zee Studios - Cinema of India consists of films produced in India, where more than 1800 movies are produced annually. Major centres of film production in the country include Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, New Delhi, Amritsar, Kochi, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack, and Guwahati. For a number of years the Indian film industry has ranked first in the world in terms of annual film output. In terms of box office it ranked third in 2019, with total gross of around US$2.7 billion.
Indian cinema is composed of various language film industries. In 2019, the Hindi film industry represented 44% of box office revenue, followed by the Tamil and the Telugu
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy JH6749 - Brexit: What is the Northern Ireland Protocol?
Northern Ireland Protocol - agreed with the European Union (EU) in 2019 - has been a source of tension since it came into force at the start of 2021.
Special trading arrangements were needed for Northern Ireland after the UK voted for Brexit in 2016. This is because it's the only part of the UK with a land border with an EU country - the Republic of Ireland.
Before Brexit, it was easy to transport goods across this border because both sides had the same EU trade rules. No checks or paperwork were necessary.
After Brexit, a new system was needed because the EU has strict food rules and requires border checks when certain goods - such as milk and eggs - arrive from non-EU countries.
UK and the EU agreed that protecting the 1998 Northern Ireland peace deal - the Good Friday Agreement - was an absolute priority. So, both sides signed the Northern Ireland Protocol as part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, which is now part of international law.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says the Protocol has caused problems which had not been expected when the agreement was signed.
The government now wants to ditch parts of the deal.
It wants to create red lanes and green lanes for goods imported from Britain into Northern Ireland.
read more at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-53724381
Derry City, Ireland, EU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGPNPH - Poster - cat,military information, Don't let the cat out of the bag, Silence Means Security gives a direct editorial record of a recognisable subject, with location, signage, architecture or everyday behaviour carrying much of the meaning. The wartime Don't let the cat out of the bag poster uses humour and domestic imagery to communicate the serious message that careless talk could endanger military operations. It works for stories about propaganda, home-front morale, information security, poster design, wartime Britain, censorship and the long history of public campaigns asking citizens to manage risk. The location wording gives the subject enough geographic context for local and regional editorial use while avoiding a generic studio feel. Relevant editorial themes include signage, street sign, commercial sign and public notice, with each theme rooted in the visible subject, place or activity. For buyers, the strength lies in the combination of a named subject, a lived-in setting and enough visual specificity to carry stories about how places are used, remembered, funded, visited or contested.
French Ln, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 8BL
