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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_1834,Mastercharge,phone,recharge,station,Silverstone Circuit,event,Northamptonshire,England,UK,mobile,charging,visitors,devices,safety,security,app,QR,codes,festival,infrastructure,smartphones,digital,connectivity,portable,power,commercial,services,Silverstone,woodlands
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F0K35H - . Mastercharge phone recharge station at a Silverstone Circuit event in Northamptonshire, England, UK. Photographed on 2 July 2026. The recorded location is Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire NN12 8TN, England, UK. The mobile charging unit carries large RECHARGE HERE branding and invites visitors to recharge devices for safety and security, with app-store information and QR codes visible on the side. Temporary event structures and visitors can be seen around the unit in bright outdoor conditions. Silverstone Circuit occupies a former Second World War RAF airfield and hosted the first Formula One World Championship race in 1950. It remains the home of the British Grand Prix and one of the UK's most important motorsport venues, combining historic track heritage with continually upgraded spectator, hospitality and safety infrastructure. The historical setting for motorsport engineering is that silverstone occupies a former Second World War RAF airfield and hosted the first Formula One World Championship race in 1950
The circuit evolved from perimeter roads into a purpose-built international motorsport venue with repeatedly altered layouts and spectator facilities. Seen through signalling, the earlier context is that rail transport links engineering history with everyday mobility
The network evolved through private railway companies, grouping, nationalisation, British Rail and later privatisation, leaving successive layers of architecture, liveries, ticketing equipment and operating practice. In the 2026 discussion of motorsport engineering, silverstone continues to be the home of the British Grand Prix and a major year-round motorsport destination, while trackside hotels, hospitality and residential developments show how the circuit economy has expanded beyond race-day grandstands. The wider story encompasses safety, security, app, codes, festival, infrastructure, and smartphones.
Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire NN12 8TN, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,382IMG_1401,Colas,Rail,HST,power,car,43257,maintenance,infrastructure,service,England,transport,railway,train,station,passengers,travel
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F9CW55 - . Colas Rail HST power car 43257 in maintenance or infrastructure service, England, UK. Photographed on 17 April 2025. In relation to passenger railway, historical context shows that rail transport links engineering history with everyday mobility
The network evolved through private railway companies, grouping, nationalisation, British Rail and later privatisation, leaving successive layers of architecture, liveries, ticketing equipment and operating practice. For the story of road safety, it is useful to note that motoring services increasingly expanded from mechanical breakdowns to batteries, tyres, diagnostics and recovery as cars became more electronically complex. As of 2026, the position for passenger railway is that rail policy is especially topical because the Railways Bill is progressing with the intention of establishing Great British Railways as the publicly owned directing mind for track, stations, timetables and passenger services
Older operator branding and station scenes therefore gain added historical context during another major restructuring of the industry. For present-day road safety, 2026 is significant because road safety remains a major policy concern , while modern vehicles add sophisticated driver-assistance systems without eliminating collisions or the need for recovery services. Further stock-photo/gotonysmith-Editorial.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>editorial search language includes railway station, platform, rolling stock, train service, public transport, rail infrastructure, station architecture, rail heritage, commuter travel, inter-city rail, signalling, roadside assistance, breakdown van, vehicle recovery, car accident, and AA. Relevant synonyms and subject phrases include vehicle breakdown, EV breakdown, recovery vehicle, traffic incident, motor vehicle, car crash, emergency roadside, 382IMG_1401, train, passengers, and travel. The subject also connects railway station, platform and rolling stock within the same editorial theme.
England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,9th,July,2023,car,exit,racing,formula 1,at,Stowe,and,Vale,corner,corners,Silverstone,8th,Dane,Danish,Denmark,power,unit,problem,problems,Jan,Haas Formula LLC,leaves,exits,climbs,out,of,his,gets,stopped,stops
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RBRAT8 - Kevin Jan Magnussen (born 5 October 1992) is a Danish racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Haas F1 Team.
He is the son of four-time Le Mans winner and former Formula One driver Jan Magnussen. Kevin Magnussen came up through McLaren Formula One team's Young Driver Programme and drove for McLaren in the 2014 Formula One World Championship, before a stint with Renault in 2016. Magnussen drove for Haas from 2017 until the end of the 2020 season. In 2022, Magnussen rejoined Haas on a multi-year deal.
Haas Formula LLC, competing as MoneyGram Haas F1 Team, is an American-licensed Formula One racing team established by NASCAR Cup Series team co-owner Gene Haas in April 2014. The team originally intended to make its debut at the start of the 2015 season but later elected to postpone their entry until the 2016 season. The team principal is Guenther Steiner.
The team is headquartered in Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States 31 mi (50 km) from Charlotte alongside sister team and NASCAR entrant Stewart-Haas Racing, though the two teams are separate entities. The team also established a forward base in Banbury, England, to turn cars around between races during the European part of the calendar
Haas signed a title sponsorship deal with MoneyGram for the 2023 season onwards.
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team announced a new partnership with Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG), ahead of the 2023 FIA Formula 1 World Championship. The Chipotle Mexican Grill logo will feature on both the nose and side of the VF-23, racesuits of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team drivers Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hülkenberg and team apparel.
Nico Hülkenberg's Formula One return was announced prior to the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and will partner Magnussen for the 2023 season. Early 2023, Haas announced that Pietro Fittipaldi would remain as the official test and reserve driver for 2023. The two-time grand prix starter will work with the only American team competing in the FIA Formula 1
Stow Corner Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, UK, NN12 8TL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,9th,July,2023,car,exit,racing,formula 1,at,Stowe,and,Vale,corner,corners,Silverstone,8th,Dane,Danish,Denmark,power,unit,problem,problems,Jan,Haas Formula LLC,leaves,exits,climbs,out,of,his,gets,stopped,stops
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RBRAWM - Kevin Jan Magnussen (born 5 October 1992) is a Danish racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Haas F1 Team.
He is the son of four-time Le Mans winner and former Formula One driver Jan Magnussen. Kevin Magnussen came up through McLaren Formula One team's Young Driver Programme and drove for McLaren in the 2014 Formula One World Championship, before a stint with Renault in 2016. Magnussen drove for Haas from 2017 until the end of the 2020 season. In 2022, Magnussen rejoined Haas on a multi-year deal.
Haas Formula LLC, competing as MoneyGram Haas F1 Team, is an American-licensed Formula One racing team established by NASCAR Cup Series team co-owner Gene Haas in April 2014. The team originally intended to make its debut at the start of the 2015 season but later elected to postpone their entry until the 2016 season. The team principal is Guenther Steiner.
The team is headquartered in Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States 31 mi (50 km) from Charlotte alongside sister team and NASCAR entrant Stewart-Haas Racing, though the two teams are separate entities. The team also established a forward base in Banbury, England, to turn cars around between races during the European part of the calendar
Haas signed a title sponsorship deal with MoneyGram for the 2023 season onwards.
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team announced a new partnership with Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG), ahead of the 2023 FIA Formula 1 World Championship. The Chipotle Mexican Grill logo will feature on both the nose and side of the VF-23, racesuits of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team drivers Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hülkenberg and team apparel.
Nico Hülkenberg's Formula One return was announced prior to the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and will partner Magnussen for the 2023 season. Early 2023, Haas announced that Pietro Fittipaldi would remain as the official test and reserve driver for 2023. The two-time grand prix starter will work with the only American team competing in the FIA Formula 1
Stow Corner Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, UK, NN12 8TL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,9th,July,2023,car,exit,racing,formula 1,at,Stowe,and,Vale,corner,corners,Silverstone,8th,Dane,Danish,Denmark,power,unit,problem,problems,Jan,Haas Formula LLC,escorted,away,off,marshal,walks,walking,driver,into,the,circuit
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RBRAWW - Kevin Jan Magnussen (born 5 October 1992) is a Danish racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Haas F1 Team.
He is the son of four-time Le Mans winner and former Formula One driver Jan Magnussen. Kevin Magnussen came up through McLaren Formula One team's Young Driver Programme and drove for McLaren in the 2014 Formula One World Championship, before a stint with Renault in 2016. Magnussen drove for Haas from 2017 until the end of the 2020 season. In 2022, Magnussen rejoined Haas on a multi-year deal.
Haas Formula LLC, competing as MoneyGram Haas F1 Team, is an American-licensed Formula One racing team established by NASCAR Cup Series team co-owner Gene Haas in April 2014. The team originally intended to make its debut at the start of the 2015 season but later elected to postpone their entry until the 2016 season. The team principal is Guenther Steiner.
The team is headquartered in Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States 31 mi (50 km) from Charlotte alongside sister team and NASCAR entrant Stewart-Haas Racing, though the two teams are separate entities. The team also established a forward base in Banbury, England, to turn cars around between races during the European part of the calendar
Haas signed a title sponsorship deal with MoneyGram for the 2023 season onwards.
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team announced a new partnership with Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG), ahead of the 2023 FIA Formula 1 World Championship. The Chipotle Mexican Grill logo will feature on both the nose and side of the VF-23, racesuits of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team drivers Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hülkenberg and team apparel.
Nico Hülkenberg's Formula One return was announced prior to the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and will partner Magnussen for the 2023 season. Early 2023, Haas announced that Pietro Fittipaldi would remain as the official test and reserve driver for 2023. The two-time grand prix starter will work with the only American team competing in the FIA Formula 1
Stow Corner Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, UK, NN12 8TL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Northern Ireland,Ireland UK,sunny,blue,sky,skies,centre,charge,point,charging,EV,electric,vehicle,vehicles,a vehicle,car,at,wire,connect,plugin,hybrid,Ultra Low Emission Vehicle,or,ULEVs,ULEV,BT57 8QB,BT57,network,power,source,station,points,Charge Point
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RC3CGN - . NIdirect e-car chargepoint at Main St, Bushmills, county Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, BT57 8QB. Photographed on 22 June 2023. The recorded location is Main Street, Bushmills, Northern Ireland, BT57 8QB. The electric vehicle (EV) publicly-accessible charge point network in Northern Ireland is operated on a commercial basis, with the majority of charge points owned by the Electricity Supply Board (ESB). The historical context is that public electric-vehicle charging developed from a small number of early demonstration networks into national infrastructure as battery cars became mainstream
Older charging posts record the first phase of transition away from petrol and diesel, including differing networks, connectors, branding and payment systems. The historical context is that everyday journeys depend on an evolving network of vehicles, stops, stations and roads
Buses, cars, ferries and trams can become historical subjects within a few years as operators rebrand, fleets are replaced and infrastructure is rebuilt. The historical context is that cars and garage equipment are part of twentieth-century material culture
Imported American models, British registrations, oil-company branding and automated car washes each represent different aspects of the expanding motoring economy. The subject remains topical in 2026 because public charging is established transport infrastructure across the UK, with Department for Transport statistics tracking rapid expansion month by month
Coverage, reliability, pricing and access remain significant issues, particularly in rural areas and for drivers without off-street parking. The subject remains topical in 2026 because transport is undergoing a gradual shift towards lower-emission vehicles, better public-transport integration and active travel
Earlier buses, cars and infrastructure therefore help illustrate both continuity and technological transition.
Main Street, Bushmills, Northern Ireland, BT57 8QB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,M40,J10,junction,ten,10,OX27 7RD,Oxfordshire,England,UK,vehicle,car,charge,area,charging,at,point,plug,plugged,in,connected,machine,free,vacant,dusk,evening,night,EV,electric,fast,high,power,station,green,technology,Sustainable Energy Limited,Ecotricity,supply,transition
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PGAYMJ - Gridserve Sustainable Energy Limited is a British company founded in 2017 to develop, own and operate critical infrastructure for sustainable energy production. Gridserve opened the UK's first all-electric car charging forecourt in 2020, and plans to open over 100 more over the following five years to charge electric vehicles with 100% renewable energy, supporting the UK's transition to carbon neutrality.
Acts as a vendor and comparison site for the leasing of electric vehicles with Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions, with 100 trees planted for every car leased. Leased EV customers have the full cost of charging at Gridserve electric forecourts covered.
Installs and operates a network of electric charging hubs and home chargers. A £1bn UK-wide investment is planned to build over 100 public charging stations.
operates photovoltaic power stations, also known as solar farms, supplying renewable electricity to the National Grid. The solar modules are bifacial, allowing them to harvest energy from both sides of the panel. Land at Clay Hill, Bedfordshire serves as one of the UK's first subsidy-free solar farms, coming online in 2017 and comprising 10MW of solar PV and 6MW of energy storage. A solar farm was also constructed by GRIDSERVE for Warrington Borough Council at a site near Easingwold, York
In advance of the UK mandatory phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles by 2030[8] and anticipated mass adoption of electric vehicles, Gridserve is developing a countrywide network of customer-focused forecourts that provide ultra-fast electric vehicle charging services and associated retail. Revenue and profitability are designed to derive from electricity grid balancing services and the provision of solar energy generation. However, the company pointedly does not call them service stations
the planned forecourts are intended to serve local communities, like petrol stations do, rather than serving passing trade on motorways. Facilities include convenience stores, office 'pods'etc
Cherwell Valley Moto services, M40 J10, A43, Oxfordshire, England, UK, OX27 7RD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,power,station,energy,industry,sunset,closed,fossil fuel,fuelled,going,green,climate change,global warming,demise,of,replace,replaced,obsolete,tower,winter,trees,end,closing,closure,finished,finish,redeveloped,demolished,brownfield,brown,field,WA5,heat dome,heatwave
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NCX1FE - Cooling towers, chimney and industrial structures of the former Fiddler's Ferry Power Station appear in silhouette beneath a vivid pink and red evening sky near Warrington in Cheshire. Bare tree branches frame the dramatic skyline, creating an atmospheric image of Britain's coal-powered industrial past and the environmental consequences of burning fossil fuels.
Fiddler's Ferry entered full commercial operation in 1973 and became one of North West England's most recognisable landmarks. The coal-fired station had a generating capacity of approximately 2,000 megawatts and once produced enough electricity to supply around two million homes. Operated latterly by SSE Thermal, it ceased generation and officially closed in March 2020 after almost 50 years. SSE sold the site in 2022 to Peel NRE, which is progressing a long-term regeneration of the extensive former industrial estate. Demolition and decommissioning work continues, with the remaining cooling towers and principal generating structures scheduled for removal as the land is prepared for new employment and residential development.
The photograph also provides a powerful editorial concept for climate change, greenhouse-gas pollution and the transition away from coal. Fiddler's Ferry cannot individually be described as causing one particular weather event, but decades of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired generation contributed to the cumulative atmospheric greenhouse-gas concentrations driving global warming. Human-induced climate change is making severe heatwaves more frequent and intense.
This context was highlighted during the exceptional June 2026 heatwave and persistent European blocking pattern, widely described as a heat dome or omega block. Britain provisionally reached 36.7°C at Merryfield in Somerset on 25 June, breaking the national June temperature record for a second consecutive day, while intense heat across Europe affected health, agriculture, infrastructure and labour productivity. The image
Widnes Road, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,midlands,England,UK,one,ex-London,Transport,GS,type,buses,bus,London,via,destination,borough,antique,electric,to,Hackney,overhead,wire,wires,power,supply,blue,liveries,livery,1960,1960s,public,towns,Black Country,history,historic,cable,cables
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NAWGPD - . This scene at Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK in 2023 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The scene records Antique trolley bus, MXX340 Guy, to Birmingham, Dudley, via West Bromwich - one ex-London Transport GS type buses. The surrounding context encompasses archival record, public realm, visual archive, transport accessibility, bus infrastructure, historical comparison, local bus network, local character, place identity, surface public transport, contemporary social history, passenger information, bus route infrastructure, and period detail. From a 2025-onward perspective, accessibility and service frequency are closely linked to this subject, alongside the challenge of maintaining reliable local services. As a dated visual record of Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK, the frame retains signage and branding, making it especially useful if redevelopment subsequently changes the scene. Other useful contextual ideas include before-and-after reference, changing streetscape, regional identity, changing land use, passenger transport, local mobility, public-transport wayfinding, and roadside transit. Details involving ex-London, MXX340, Transport, Antique, and trolley make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. Another useful connection is accessibility and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing without losing the local specificity of Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK. The scene further reflects integrated transport and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing in a form that can be compared with future views of Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK.
Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Merseyside,England,UK,L2 3YL,L2,city,centre,late,Georgian,town hall,civic,Grade I listed,building,Grade II listed,clock,monument,Admiral Nelson,Horatio Nelson,public,square,sculpture,neoclassical,port,civic history,maritime,naval,history,buildings,historic,conservation,municipal,power,British Empire,merchant,commercial Liverpool,UNESCO heritage debate,tourism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2P6JH9E - Liverpool Town Hall is seen from stock-photo/gotonysmith-Exchange.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Exchange Flags in Liverpool city centre, with the Nelson Monument standing in the foreground of the square. The photograph shows the grand late Georgian civic building in warm light, with its classical stone frontage, arched windows, columns, sculptural roofline and clock-topped dome set behind the bronze memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson. Exchange Flags is one of Liverpool's most important historic public spaces, closely linked with the city's commercial, maritime, civic and municipal history. The Nelson Monument was unveiled in 1813 and is a Grade II* listed memorial
it was designed by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, with sculpture by Richard Westmacott, and is recognised as Liverpool's first major public sculpture. Liverpool Town Hall, also listed at the highest Grade I level, dates mainly from the mid to late eighteenth century and remains one of the city's finest civic buildings, associated with mayors, council ceremonies, public events, merchants, trade, port history and the development of Liverpool as a major world city. The image is useful for editorial coverage of Liverpool architecture, Georgian civic design, heritage tourism, British municipal history, listed buildings, city centre regeneration, maritime power, naval memory, public sculpture and debates about monuments, empire, slavery, trade and civic identity. The Nelson Monument includes dramatic bronze figures and relief panels, reflecting nineteenth-century commemoration of naval victory, while also carrying uncomfortable historical associations with imperial power and Liverpool's wider trading past. The clear blue sky, decorative street lighting, empty square and formal architecture make this a clean travel, heritage and urban stock image, suitable for stories about Liverpool city breaks, Merseyside tourism, Exchange Flags, historic conservation, civic pride, architecture trails, walking tours and the layered history of one of England's great port cities.
Exchange Flags, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 3YL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,British,Britain,Cheshire,WA2 7NE,parking,at,car,retail,food,store,superstore,profit,profits,margin,retailer,retailers,power,shopping,sign,inflation,CEO,24h,24 hour,supermarkets,shops,large,superstores,chain,branch,chains,logo
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R15NE8 - . Parking at Tesco Extra, Warrington, Winwick Rd, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 7NE. Photographed on 15 January 2023, this winter image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Winwick Rd, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 7NE, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Cheshire, WA2 7NE, parking, car, retail, food, store, superstore, profit, profits, margin, retailer, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene. The photograph can also support future before-and-after use if the building, business, service, streetscape, transport operation or public space is later altered, redeveloped, rebranded or closed. For search and editorial use, the image is relevant to the named location, local identity, contemporary Britain, regional tourism, urban life, community activity and the changing appearance of towns and cities. Additional relevant search concepts include retailers, power, shopping, sign, inflation, CEO, broadening discoverability while remaining tied to the supplied subject information. The scene contributes a specific, place-based record rather than a generic illustration.
Winwick Rd, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 7NE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,south,Cheshire,England,UK,church,Grappenhall Village,South Warrington,grave,yard,cemetery,bronze,green,Verdigris,solar,power,powered,clock,time,gnomon,point,pointer,horological,device,sun,dial,sunlight,bright,history,historical,historic,style,single point,nodus,decorative,decoration,printed,Gropenhale
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K7NBNM - A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a flat plate (the dial) and a gnomon, which casts a shadow onto the dial. As the Sun appears to move through the sky, the shadow aligns with different hour-lines, which are marked on the dial to indicate the time of day. The style is the time-telling edge of the gnomon, though a single point or nodus may be used. The gnomon casts a broad shadow
the shadow of the style shows the time. The gnomon may be a rod, wire, or elaborately decorated metal casting. The style must be parallel to the axis of the Earth's rotation for the sundial to be accurate throughout the year. The style's angle from horizontal is equal to the sundial's geographical latitude.
The term sundial can refer to any device that uses the Sun's altitude or azimuth (or both) to show the time. Sundials are valued as decorative objects, metaphors, and objects of intrigue and mathematical study.
The passing of time can be observed by placing a stick in the sand or a nail in a board and placing markers at the edge of a shadow or outlining a shadow at intervals. It is common for inexpensive, mass-produced decorative sundials to have incorrectly aligned gnomons, shadow lengths, and hour-lines, which cannot be adjusted to tell correct time
Church Lane, Grappenhall Village, South Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,CH65,canal,centre,waterway,national,Cheshire,England,UK,CH65 4FW,historic,steam,power,the,pump,house,water,NWM,giant,boiler,boilers,pumphouse,5517,Tinker,Shenton,limited,maker,Tameside,works,James Shenton,Richard Shenton,George James Tinker,Furnace Street,Flowery Field,Manchester,engineers,boiler makers
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1YKX3 - Tinker, Shenton and Company, based at Hyde Boiler Works, Hyde, Cheshire (now in Tameside), England, were a firm of boilermakers, founded in 1872. The firm was at that date incorporated as a Limited Company by James Shenton, Richard Shenton and George James Tinker.
Initially based at a workshop on John Street, Hyde, the firm soon moved to Hyde Boiler Works on Furnace Street in the Flowery Field area, from where they operated until the closure of the firm in 1928.
One of the pair of Tinker, Shenton & Co boilers at Queen Street Mill
Tinker, Shenton and Company manufactured Lancashire and Cornish steam boilers. Well-preserved examples of their Lancashire boilers exist at both the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum and the Queen Street Mill Textile Museum in Burnley, Lancashire, which has a pair.
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Rd, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,CH65,waterway,Ellesmere Port,canal,and,listed,heritage,visitor,attraction,civil engineer,Thomas Telford,steam,pumping,engines,powered,The pump house,history,historic,olden days,the,past,pastimes,Victorian,buildings,building,architecture,style,industrial,works,industry,power,canals,waterways
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M7B - . Ellesmere Port, canal basin pumphouse and chimney, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW. Photographed on 14 September 2022. The recorded location is South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW. The Pump House contains the mighty steam driven pumping engines which supplied the power for hydraulic cranes and capstans throughout the dock at Ellesmere Port. The canal basin at Ellesmere Port developed from the late eighteenth-century Netherpool port associated with the Ellesmere Canal and the wider Shropshire Union network. It became a trans-shipment point where canal cargo could meet Mersey and estuary traffic. The surviving docks, workshops, pumphouse and other structures later formed the National Waterways Museum, preserving one of Britain's most important collections of inland-waterway buildings and historic boats. In historical terms, working locks, bridges and canal-side buildings reveal the engineering system that underpinned industrial Britain
Many former commercial waterways have been restored for recreation and heritage use, creating a distinctive mixture of historic infrastructure, modern development and linear green space. In the longer view, ports and vessels are central to Britain's maritime history, linking coastal communities and inland industry with fishing, trade, passenger travel and international shipping
Harbours, docks and working craft also reflect changing technology, from traditional fishing fleets to high-speed workboats and modern freight logistics. Historically, factories, mills, engines and workshops record the technologies and labour that powered Britain's industrial expansion
Their machinery, inscriptions and specialist buildings are valuable evidence of engineering practice, working conditions, regional industries and the later shift from heavy industry to heritage, housing or new commercial uses. Additional natural-language search terms include inland waterway, navigation, lock chamber, and lock gates.
South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,CH65,waterway,Ellesmere Port,canal,and,listed,heritage,visitor,attraction,civil engineer,Thomas Telford,steam,pumping,engines,powered,The pump house,history,historic,olden days,the,past,pastimes,Victorian,buildings,building,architecture,style,industrial,works,industry,power,canals,waterways
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M7G - . Ellesmere Port, canal basin pumphouse and chimney, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW. Photographed on 14 September 2022. The recorded location is National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW. The Pump House contains the mighty steam driven pumping engines which supplied the power for hydraulic cranes and capstans throughout the dock at Ellesmere Port. The canal basin at Ellesmere Port developed from the late eighteenth-century Netherpool port associated with the Ellesmere Canal and the wider Shropshire Union network. It became a trans-shipment point where canal cargo could meet Mersey and estuary traffic. The surviving docks, workshops, pumphouse and other structures later formed the National Waterways Museum, preserving one of Britain's most important collections of inland-waterway buildings and historic boats. Historically, canal infrastructure is a legacy of the Industrial Revolution, when navigable waterways linked mines, mills, factories and ports
The same lock chambers, bridges and towpaths now support leisure cruising, cycling, walking, wildlife corridors and redevelopment, while retaining evidence of their freight-carrying past. The historical context is that harbours and shipping routes have long shaped British coastal and riverside towns
Fishing, cargo handling, ferry services, shipbuilding and port engineering created distinctive working landscapes that increasingly coexist with tourism, leisure craft and waterfront regeneration. The wider historical story is that industrial buildings and machinery preserve the material history of manufacturing Britain: steam power, engineering, mining, textiles, ceramics and mass production transformed both the economy and the physical character of towns
Surviving equipment is now studied as industrial archaeology and often conserved within museums or regenerated sites. Additional discoverability terms include inland waterway, navigation, and lock gates.
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,station,train,trains,Paxman,Diesel,loco,power,car,VP185,43081,BR,British Rail,British,railways,group,TOC,at,Heritage,centre,CW1,8000,engine,built,livery,Crewe Railway Age,systems,locos,locomotive,brand,branding
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JX2TW6 - The British Rail Class 43 (HST) is the TOPS classification used for the InterCity 125 High Speed Train (formerly Classes 253 and 254) power cars, built by British Rail Engineering Limited from 1975 to 1982, and in service in the UK since 1976.
The class is officially the fastest diesel locomotive in the world, with an absolute maximum speed of 148.5 mph (239.0 km/h), and a regular service speed of 125 mph (201 km/h). The record run was led by 43102 (43302) and trailed by 43159
In the early 1970s, the British Railways Board made the decision to replace its main-line express diesel traction. Financial limitations were tight, so mass electrification was not possible. As a result, a new generation of high-speed diesel trains had to be developed.
Angel stock-photo/gotonysmith-Trains.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Trains donated 43018 to Crewe Heritage Centre following its use as a spares donor for Abellio ScotRail. Porterbrook also donated 43081, the 8,000th locomotive built at Crewe, to the museum in 2021. Porterbrook donated 43048 and 43089 to the 125 Group. Both moved to the group when their lease ended with East Midlands Railway. The group later purchased 43044 from Porterbrook in 2021, with 43159 being donated in June that year
Porterbrook is a British rolling stock company (ROSCO), created as part of the privatisation of British Rail. Together with Angel Trains and Eversholt Rail Group, it is one of the three original ROSCOs.
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,England,UK,British,London,freezing,conditions,cold,effect,on,poor,poorer,people,users,climbing,increasing,outside,comfort,zone,Rishi Sunak,enough is enough,campaign,blue,icy,dark,days,snow,sustained,period,of,Thermometer,cooking,heating,power,cuts,blackout,blackouts
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JPF7MD - . A grounded documentary photograph made at England, UK in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The location is represented through Effects on domestic households, increasing energy costs and onset of colder winter weather, UK. The wider scene also brings together historic townscape, before-and-after reference, local character, period detail, architectural detail, adaptive reuse, regional identity, visual archive, built heritage, changing streetscape, local history, historic streetscape, archival record, and historical comparison. The wider contemporary story combines planning control, maintenance and the value of architectural landmarks to local identity and tourism. Small period details of commercial use and occupation at England, UK may become more significant with time, particularly following different community use. The surrounding story also includes period building, place identity, heritage landmark, social history, urban fabric, contemporary social history, conservation architecture, and changing land use. The recorded references to onset, costs, winter, households, and domestic preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The scene further reflects planning control and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change when considered against later change at England, UK. Its period value extends to adaptive reuse and the value of architectural landmarks to local identity and tourism without losing the local specificity of England, UK. The location additionally provides evidence of adaptive reuse and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character in a form that can be compared with future views of England, UK.
England, UK
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,and,&,volt,health and safety,hazard,health,danger,dangerous,safety,hazards,be,careful,HT,high,tension,electrics,power,supply,signs,signage,wall,attention,alert,alerts,warning,warnings,caution,energy,security,cupboard,installation,industrial,label,in,English
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JP5T1H - . This scene at England, Great Britain , UK in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The main point of reference is Beware High Voltage sign - Electrical health and safety hazard, written in English. The locality and subject together evoke community noticeboard, public realm, terror attack aftermath, civic response, archival record, orientation signage, community resilience, street furniture, memorial context, transport stop marker, security-conscious public realm, regional identity, public security, and public information signage. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with community resilience, victim remembrance and the continuing importance of proportionate security around crowded places. The modern context includes continuing discussion of maintenance, transport information and the importance of clear wayfinding in public and transport environments. Small period details of transport arrangements and footfall at England, Great Britain , UK may become more significant with time, particularly following redevelopment. The surrounding story also includes local character, historical comparison, community identity, navigation aid, city-centre security, before-and-after reference, public-facing notice, and local history. References to Electrical, hazard, Beware, English, and safety give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. A later view of England, Great Britain , UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Another useful connection is community resilience and the continuing importance of proportionate security around crowded places without losing the local specificity of England, Great Britain , UK. It also preserves a local visual benchmark before later change alters the scene.
England, Great Britain , UK
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Keywords: Typical,back garden,line,washing,dry,with,in,the,warm,hot,summer,sunshine,breezy,and,breeze,rather,than,wasting,paying,for,electricity,fuel,power,in a,avoiding,energy,cost,costs,usage,ways,to,on,wash day,avoid,expensive,expense,rising,bills,Save Money,GoTonySmith
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNG94F - . Photographed at UK in 2022, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The principal subject is Typical back garden washing line, with clothes drying in the warm sunshine and breeze, rather than wasting electricity in tumble dryer. The subject also carries associations with social history, historical comparison, conservation interest, period building, heritage asset, cityscape history, period architecture, adaptive reuse, historic streetscape, architectural character, archival record, community identity, local character, and built heritage. For current editorial use, embodied carbon and tourism provide additional context, especially through the value of architectural landmarks to local identity and tourism. The image fixes transport arrangements and footfall within UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against later reinterpretation. The wider setting retains connections with documentary photography, heritage landmark, changing land use, everyday life, changing streetscape, regional identity, visual archive, and architectural detail. Elements such as electricity, dryer, wasting, rather, and washing add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. For UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another strand within the photograph is embodied carbon and the value of architectural landmarks to local identity and tourism in a form that can be compared with future views of UK. The setting also helps illustrate tourism and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change within the real-world context of UK. The image also provides a reference for energy retrofit and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change within the specific setting of UK.
UK
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Keywords: Typical,back garden,line,washing,dry,with,in,the,warm,hot,summer,sunshine,breezy,and,breeze,than,wasting,paying,for,electricity,fuel,power,in a,avoiding,energy,costs,usage,ways,to,save,money,on,wash day,avoid,expensive,expense,rising,bills,pole,GoTonySmith
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNG94J - . This location-specific image from England, UK in 2022 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The image documents Typical back garden washing line, with clothes drying in the warm sunshine and breeze, rather than wasting electricity in tumble dryer. Further facets of the scene include conservation interest, built heritage, period architecture, visual archive, historic streetscape, regional identity, contemporary social history, public realm, urban fabric, changing streetscape, before-and-after reference, adaptive reuse, documentary photography, and archival record. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into redevelopment pressure and maintenance, not least because of how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change. For later comparison, the photograph preserves local activity and public use at England, UK, details that may look very different after replacement signage. A second descriptive layer includes local character, architectural character, everyday life, architectural detail, local history, place identity, period building, and community identity. Elements such as dryer, rather, tumble, Typical, and washing add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of England, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Its period value extends to redevelopment pressure and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change when considered against later change at England, UK. The location additionally provides evidence of energy retrofit and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character without losing the local specificity of England, UK. The scene captures a trace of local identity for future local research.
England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,RBKC,England,UK,Royal Borough,of,Kensington,Chelsea,sign,council,the Royal Borough,&,and,mains,supply,problem,issue,this,fault,has,been,with,the,power,company,W11 3HT,lamp,post,lamppost,lamp post,out of order,out of use,notice
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M0KWKR - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Portobello Road, towards Ladbrook Grove, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 3HT in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The defining feature is Streetlight issue, This light is not functioning, Portobello Road, towards Ladbrook Grove, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 3HT. The broader subject matter reaches into Thames city view, changing streetscape, historical comparison, metropolitan identity, capital-city heritage, community identity, city branding, social history, local character, archival record, historic London streetscape, place identity, public realm, and changing land use. Today's relevance is strengthened by urban mobility, tourism and the continuing question of the mix of working city infrastructure with heritage tourism. The image fixes street furniture and boundaries within Portobello Road, towards Ladbrook Grove, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 3HT at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against redevelopment. The photograph additionally reflects Westminster landmark, before-and-after reference, regional identity, visual archive, documentary photography, contemporary social history, London cityscape, and iconic London transport. The combination of Notting, Streetlight, light, towards, and issue anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. For Portobello Road, towards Ladbrook Grove, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 3HT, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The wider significance includes urban mobility and how familiar London symbols function as global shorthand for Britain in a form that can be compared with future views of Portobello Road, towards Ladbrook Grove, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 3HT.
Portobello Road, towards Ladbrook Grove, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 3HT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,England,UK,BigBen,clock,tower,HOC,HOL,Houses,square,British,GB,Great,Britain,seat,power,time,face,iconic,London Bus,icons,icon,flags,flag,red,SW1,commonwealth,Victorian,gothic,bong,bongs,stand,rank,taxis,Kemi Badenoch,Robert Jenrick,Keir Starmer,Nigel Farage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M0MBAA - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England, UK, SW1A 0AA in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The defining feature is Big Ben clock and houses of parliament, taxi stand, British seat of government, Westminster, London, England, UK, SW1A 0AA. Another layer of the photograph includes everyday life, iconic London transport, inland navigation, before-and-after reference, contemporary social history, London cityscape, historical comparison, local character, regional identity, changing streetscape, canal heritage, place identity, Thames city view, and local history. The modern context includes continuing discussion of biodiversity, maintenance funding and the role of canals as blue-green corridors for people and wildlife. For current editorial use, housing pressure and urban mobility provide additional context, especially through the pressure of visitor economies and housing costs on central neighbourhoods. For later comparison, the photograph preserves transport arrangements and footfall at Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England, UK, SW1A 0AA, details that may look very different after altered transport patterns. The subject also sits alongside heritage boating, capital landmark imagery, documentary photography, managed navigation, heritage tourism, changing land use, lock flight, and community identity. Elements such as British, parliament, Westminster, stand, and government add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The wider setting at Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England, UK, SW1A 0AA matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The photograph keeps evidence of changing use for future local research.
Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England, UK, SW1A 0AA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,England,UK,BigBen,clock,tower,HOC,Houses,British,GB,Great,Britain,seat,power,time,face,iconic,London Bus,icons,icon,red,SW1,commonwealth,Victorian,gothic,bong,evening,Elizabeth Tower,Houses of Parliament clock,London landmark,iconic London clock,British parliament tower,timekeeping symbol,Kier Starmer,Andy Burnham,Labour leader,Prime Minister
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M0MBAT - This image shows the Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster in London, England, featuring the iconic clock faces often referred to collectively as Big Ben. Strictly, Big Ben is the nickname of the Great Bell housed within the tower, while the structure itself has officially been known as the Elizabeth Tower since 2012, renamed in honour of Queen Elizabeth II. The close-up view highlights the ornate Gothic Revival detailing and the distinctive clock face that has become one of the most recognisable symbols of the United Kingdom.
The tower was completed in 1859 as part of Charles Barry's redesign of the Palace of Westminster, with architectural detailing by Augustus Pugin. Rising over 96 metres above the Thames, the Elizabeth Tower has played a central role in British public life, with its clock and chimes marking time for Parliament and the nation. The clock mechanism is renowned for its accuracy and durability, remaining operational through wars, political change, and extensive restoration.
The image conveys themes of British heritage, governance, architecture, and national identity. It is suitable for editorial and commercial use relating to London landmarks, political institutions, historic architecture, travel and tourism, timekeeping, and the visual identity of the United Kingdom.
Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England, UK, SW1A 0AA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,powerline,Cheshire,powerlines,tension,DNO,England,overhead pylon,distribution,UK,Altrincham,pylons,pylon,North West,limited,output,energy demand,national,grid,GB,transmission,cable,power,distributing,cables,generated,delays,domestic,limit,Greater Manchester,WA16,load,standby,demand,delay
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH5D34 - . Made at Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The photograph centres on Electricity high voltage distribution overhead pylon, Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ. The locality and subject together evoke historical comparison, street-level documentary, period detail, pedestrian environment, changing streetscape, regional identity, urban change, everyday life, urban social history, social history, place identity, changing land use, townscape record, and public realm. The wider contemporary story combines street safety, local identity and the relationship between public space and local social life. The archival value lies partly in recording public access and movement around Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ before different community use alters the character of the place. The subject also sits alongside before-and-after reference, community identity, local character, visual archive, contemporary city life, social landscape, archival record, and everyday street life. Elements such as voltage, overhead, Electricity, pylon, and distribution add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. For Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The wider significance includes street safety and the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments as part of the longer story of Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ. Another strand within the photograph is commercial change and how ordinary street scenes become valuable records as businesses and infrastructure change when considered against later change at Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ.
Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,North West,substation,Altrincham,Greater Manchester,England,UK,WA16,load,standby,limit,limited,fence,gas,coal,solar,wind,clean,output,domestic,energy demand,demand,national grid,cable,cables,sub-station,switchgear,transmission,GB,British,distributing,power,generated,national,grid,queue,delay,delays
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH5D8H - The National Grid is Great Britain's electricity transmission network, distributing the electrical power generated in England, Scotland, and Wales, and transferring energy between Great Britain and Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway. Most data comes from the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System and is updated at five minute intervals. Solar data comes from Sheffield Solar and is updated at half hour intervals. - live info at https://grid.iamkate.com/
Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,pylons,powerline,overhead pylon,Altrincham,Cheshire,England,UK,powerlines,DNO,distribution,tension,pylon,cables,cable,transmission,distributing,power,GB,British,generated,national,grid,delay,delays,energy demand,demand,domestic,output,load,standby,limit,limited,WA16,Greater Manchester,North West
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH5D8M - . An on-location photograph from Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The scene records Electricity high voltage distribution overhead pylon, Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ. The locality and subject together evoke archival record, local history, changing streetscape, public realm, townscape record, changing land use, before-and-after reference, regional identity, community identity, pedestrian environment, period detail, local identity, everyday life, and documentary photography. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with street safety, commercial change and the relationship between public space and local social life. The image fixes building condition and alterations within Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against different community use. The location also brings in contemporary social history, local character, social history, historical comparison, everyday street life, social landscape, urban change, and visual archive. Details involving Altrincham, Electricity, distribution, voltage, and pylon make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The location additionally provides evidence of street safety and the relationship between public space and local social life as part of the longer story of Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK. A further contemporary connection is street safety and the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments when considered against later change at Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK. It also preserves a trace of local identity for later comparison.
Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,pylons,powerline,overhead pylon,Altrincham,Cheshire,England,UK,powerlines,DNO,distribution,tension,pylon,cables,cable,transmission,distributing,power,GB,British,generated,national,grid,delay,delays,energy demand,demand,domestic,output,load,standby,limit,limited,WA16,Greater Manchester,North West
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH5D8R - . This scene at Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The photograph centres on Electricity high voltage distribution overhead pylon, Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ. Further facets of the scene include community identity, social landscape, pedestrian environment, contemporary social history, documentary photography, historical comparison, contemporary city life, everyday life, regional identity, social history, changing streetscape, archival record, period detail, and townscape record. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into local identity and commercial change, not least because of the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments. As a dated visual record of Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ, the frame retains equipment and working practice, making it especially useful if redevelopment subsequently changes the scene. The photograph additionally reflects visual archive, city-centre activity, public realm, street-level documentary, local history, urban change, changing land use, and place identity. Details involving distribution, Altrincham, pylon, Electricity, and overhead make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. A later view of Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Another useful connection is local identity and the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments without losing the local specificity of Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ. The scene captures evidence of changing use for later comparison. The period view preserves evidence of earlier appearance within the wider story of Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ.
Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK, WA14 5GJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,liquid,inflation,cost of living,crisis,struggles,England,Wales,Scotland,earnings,salary,flag,UK,GB,coin,coins,pound,STLG,spending,power,bank of England,cost of living crisis,Sterling pound notes,BOE,pound coin,steeper,bills,costs,savings,civil disobedience,UK cost of living crisis,real wages,fiscal,disruption,rising cost of living,living wage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG0P77 - The UK cost of living crisis is a period starting in 2021 in which prices for essential goods in the United Kingdom began increasing faster than household income, resulting in a fall in real income. This is caused in part by a rise in inflation in the UK. While all in the UK are affected by rising prices, the impact has been felt most by those with low income. The UK government has responded in various ways, such as by making provision for a £650 grant for each of the UK's lower income households.
Both global and local factors have contributed to the UK's cost of living crisis. According to Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, about 80% of the causes driving the cost of living crisis are global. These include the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, an ongoing chip shortage, an energy crisis in 20212022, a supply chain crisis in 20212022 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The UK was reported to be among the worst affected among the world's advanced economies. In 2021, the UK's inflation was less than that of the US, but high US inflation was not generally experienced as a cost of living crisis due to the stimulus cheques that had been distributed to American households. Though in 2022 the cost of living crisis was also reported as being a global phenomenon, having impacts that include those living in the US, across Europe, and as risking an apocalyptic impact for those in the developing world.
Causes unique to the UK include labour shortages related to foreign workers leaving due to Brexit, and additional taxes on households. Factors that have worsened the crisis since 1 April 2022 include Ofgem increasing the household energy price cap by 54%, an increase in National Insurance, and a rise in Council Tax. Household income, whether from wages or benefits, has not generally kept pace with rising prices. In April 2022, UK real wages fell by 4.5%, the sharpest fall since records began back in 2001
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_cost_of_living_crisis
Threadneedle St, London, England, UK, EC2R 8AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,liquid,inflation,cost of living,crisis,struggles,England,Wales,Scotland,earnings,salary,flag,UK,GB,coin,coins,pound,STLG,spending,power,bank of England,cost of living crisis,Sterling pound notes,BOE,pound coin,steeper,bills,costs,savings,civil disobedience,UK cost of living crisis,real wages,fiscal,disruption,rising cost of living,living wage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG21X3 - The UK cost of living crisis is a period starting in 2021 in which prices for essential goods in the United Kingdom began increasing faster than household income, resulting in a fall in real income. This is caused in part by a rise in inflation in the UK. While all in the UK are affected by rising prices, the impact has been felt most by those with low income. The UK government has responded in various ways, such as by making provision for a £650 grant for each of the UK's lower income households.
Both global and local factors have contributed to the UK's cost of living crisis. According to Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, about 80% of the causes driving the cost of living crisis are global. These include the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, an ongoing chip shortage, an energy crisis in 20212022, a supply chain crisis in 20212022 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The UK was reported to be among the worst affected among the world's advanced economies. In 2021, the UK's inflation was less than that of the US, but high US inflation was not generally experienced as a cost of living crisis due to the stimulus cheques that had been distributed to American households. Though in 2022 the cost of living crisis was also reported as being a global phenomenon, having impacts that include those living in the US, across Europe, and as risking an apocalyptic impact for those in the developing world.
Causes unique to the UK include labour shortages related to foreign workers leaving due to Brexit, and additional taxes on households. Factors that have worsened the crisis since 1 April 2022 include Ofgem increasing the household energy price cap by 54%, an increase in National Insurance, and a rise in Council Tax. Household income, whether from wages or benefits, has not generally kept pace with rising prices. In April 2022, UK real wages fell by 4.5%, the sharpest fall since records began back in 2001
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_cost_of_living_crisis
Threadneedle St, London, England, UK, EC2R 8AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,liquid,inflation,cost of living,crisis,struggles,England,Wales,Scotland,earnings,salary,flag,UK,GB,coin,coins,pound,STLG,spending,power,bank of England,cost of living crisis,Sterling pound notes,BOE,pound coin,steeper,bills,costs,savings,civil disobedience,UK cost of living crisis,real wages,fiscal,disruption,rising cost of living,living wage,laundering
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG21X4 - The UK cost of living crisis is a period starting in 2021 in which prices for essential goods in the United Kingdom began increasing faster than household income, resulting in a fall in real income. This is caused in part by a rise in inflation in the UK. While all in the UK are affected by rising prices, the impact has been felt most by those with low income. The UK government has responded in various ways, such as by making provision for a £650 grant for each of the UK's lower income households.
Both global and local factors have contributed to the UK's cost of living crisis. According to Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, about 80% of the causes driving the cost of living crisis are global. These include the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, an ongoing chip shortage, an energy crisis in 20212022, a supply chain crisis in 20212022 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The UK was reported to be among the worst affected among the world's advanced economies. In 2021, the UK's inflation was less than that of the US, but high US inflation was not generally experienced as a cost of living crisis due to the stimulus cheques that had been distributed to American households. Though in 2022 the cost of living crisis was also reported as being a global phenomenon, having impacts that include those living in the US, across Europe, and as risking an apocalyptic impact for those in the developing world.
Causes unique to the UK include labour shortages related to foreign workers leaving due to Brexit, and additional taxes on households. Factors that have worsened the crisis since 1 April 2022 include Ofgem increasing the household energy price cap by 54%, an increase in National Insurance, and a rise in Council Tax. Household income, whether from wages or benefits, has not generally kept pace with rising prices. In April 2022, UK real wages fell by 4.5%, the sharpest fall since records began back in 2001
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_cost_of_living_crisis
Threadneedle St, London, England, UK, EC2R 8AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,liquid,inflation,cost of living,crisis,struggles,England,Wales,Scotland,earnings,salary,flag,UK,GB,coin,coins,pound,STLG,spending,power,bank of England,cost of living crisis,Sterling pound notes,BOE,pound coin,steeper,bills,costs,savings,civil disobedience,UK cost of living crisis,real wages,fiscal,disruption,rising cost of living,living wage,hotpix.org.uk,nest egg
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG21X8 - The UK cost of living crisis is a period starting in 2021 in which prices for essential goods in the United Kingdom began increasing faster than household income, resulting in a fall in real income. This is caused in part by a rise in inflation in the UK. While all in the UK are affected by rising prices, the impact has been felt most by those with low income. The UK government has responded in various ways, such as by making provision for a £650 grant for each of the UK's lower income households.
Both global and local factors have contributed to the UK's cost of living crisis. According to Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, about 80% of the causes driving the cost of living crisis are global. These include the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, an ongoing chip shortage, an energy crisis in 20212022, a supply chain crisis in 20212022 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The UK was reported to be among the worst affected among the world's advanced economies. In 2021, the UK's inflation was less than that of the US, but high US inflation was not generally experienced as a cost of living crisis due to the stimulus cheques that had been distributed to American households. Though in 2022 the cost of living crisis was also reported as being a global phenomenon, having impacts that include those living in the US, across Europe, and as risking an apocalyptic impact for those in the developing world.
Causes unique to the UK include labour shortages related to foreign workers leaving due to Brexit, and additional taxes on households. Factors that have worsened the crisis since 1 April 2022 include Ofgem increasing the household energy price cap by 54%, an increase in National Insurance, and a rise in Council Tax. Household income, whether from wages or benefits, has not generally kept pace with rising prices. In April 2022, UK real wages fell by 4.5%, the sharpest fall since records began back in 2001
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_cost_of_living_crisis
Threadneedle St, London, England, UK, EC2R 8AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,liquid,inflation,cost of living,crisis,struggles,England,Wales,Scotland,earnings,salary,flag,UK,GB,coin,coins,pound,STLG,spending,power,bank of England,cost of living crisis,Sterling pound notes,BOE,pound coin,steeper,bills,costs,savings,civil disobedience,UK cost of living crisis,real wages,fiscal,disruption,rising cost of living,living wage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG21XA - The UK cost of living crisis is a period starting in 2021 in which prices for essential goods in the United Kingdom began increasing faster than household income, resulting in a fall in real income. This is caused in part by a rise in inflation in the UK. While all in the UK are affected by rising prices, the impact has been felt most by those with low income. The UK government has responded in various ways, such as by making provision for a £650 grant for each of the UK's lower income households.
Both global and local factors have contributed to the UK's cost of living crisis. According to Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, about 80% of the causes driving the cost of living crisis are global. These include the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, an ongoing chip shortage, an energy crisis in 20212022, a supply chain crisis in 20212022 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The UK was reported to be among the worst affected among the world's advanced economies. In 2021, the UK's inflation was less than that of the US, but high US inflation was not generally experienced as a cost of living crisis due to the stimulus cheques that had been distributed to American households. Though in 2022 the cost of living crisis was also reported as being a global phenomenon, having impacts that include those living in the US, across Europe, and as risking an apocalyptic impact for those in the developing world.
Causes unique to the UK include labour shortages related to foreign workers leaving due to Brexit, and additional taxes on households. Factors that have worsened the crisis since 1 April 2022 include Ofgem increasing the household energy price cap by 54%, an increase in National Insurance, and a rise in Council Tax. Household income, whether from wages or benefits, has not generally kept pace with rising prices. In April 2022, UK real wages fell by 4.5%, the sharpest fall since records began back in 2001
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_cost_of_living_crisis
Threadneedle St, London, England, UK, EC2R 8AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,liquid,inflation,cost of living,crisis,struggles,England,Wales,Scotland,earnings,salary,flag,UK,GB,coin,coins,pound,STLG,spending,power,bank of England,cost of living crisis,Sterling pound notes,BOE,pound coin,steeper,bills,costs,savings,civil disobedience,UK cost of living crisis,real wages,fiscal,disruption,rising cost of living,living wage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG21XC - The UK cost of living crisis is a period starting in 2021 in which prices for essential goods in the United Kingdom began increasing faster than household income, resulting in a fall in real income. This is caused in part by a rise in inflation in the UK. While all in the UK are affected by rising prices, the impact has been felt most by those with low income. The UK government has responded in various ways, such as by making provision for a £650 grant for each of the UK's lower income households.
Both global and local factors have contributed to the UK's cost of living crisis. According to Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, about 80% of the causes driving the cost of living crisis are global. These include the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, an ongoing chip shortage, an energy crisis in 20212022, a supply chain crisis in 20212022 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The UK was reported to be among the worst affected among the world's advanced economies. In 2021, the UK's inflation was less than that of the US, but high US inflation was not generally experienced as a cost of living crisis due to the stimulus cheques that had been distributed to American households. Though in 2022 the cost of living crisis was also reported as being a global phenomenon, having impacts that include those living in the US, across Europe, and as risking an apocalyptic impact for those in the developing world.
Causes unique to the UK include labour shortages related to foreign workers leaving due to Brexit, and additional taxes on households. Factors that have worsened the crisis since 1 April 2022 include Ofgem increasing the household energy price cap by 54%, an increase in National Insurance, and a rise in Council Tax. Household income, whether from wages or benefits, has not generally kept pace with rising prices. In April 2022, UK real wages fell by 4.5%, the sharpest fall since records began back in 2001
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_cost_of_living_crisis
Threadneedle St, London, England, UK, EC2R 8AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Unite Students,flat,flats,M1,Uni,University,at dusk,Manchester,England,UK,M1 6FU,new,from,platform,empty,course,platforms,lines,power,night,evening,dusk,station,transport,public transport,concourse,travel,travelling,alone,lonely,all,Manchester Oxford Road,Station
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG5JME - . This scene at Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The image documents Unite Students accommodation, from Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU. Further facets of the scene include documentary photography, station environment, rail infrastructure, regional rail, freight wagon, before-and-after reference, railway heritage, historical comparison, social landscape, social history, rail transport, community identity, contemporary social history, and regional identity. For current editorial use, public ownership and decarbonisation provide additional context, especially through the balance between railway heritage and network modernisation. Current relevance extends to public-realm change and community use, particularly through how regeneration alters the character of familiar places. The archival value lies partly in recording materials and architectural details around Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU before altered transport patterns alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include urban change, community life, townscape record, period detail, local character, visual archive, passenger railway, and rail mobility. The recorded references to Manchester, Station, Unite, Students, and accommodation preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The record includes a local visual benchmark as a date-specific reference. The frame retains a point of historical comparison for later comparison.
Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warrington,Cheshire,block,social housing,housing,socialhousing,energy crisis,renewable energy,costs,cost,inflation,tenents,residents,people,struggling,to pay bill,increasing,bills,fuel poverty,Chiltern Place,estate,units,homes,GGHT,project,solar panel,WBC,Warrington Borough Council,scheme,sheltered,save,savings,reducing,incentives,clean,electricity,power
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JB87CM - Council approves £5.25m solar panel scheme
News
A council has approved a £5.25m scheme to provide solar panels on 1,500 homes and three sheltered housing schemes.
Council approves £5.25m solar panel scheme
Warrington Borough Council has partnered with Golden Gates Housing Trust to install the panels, which it hopes will save tenants £233 annually on energy bills.
The scheme follows the installation of 623 panels in July 2011, with the funding coming from the council's capital programme.
Russ Bowden, executive board member for corporate resources and assignments at Warrington council said: There is a cost of living crisis across the country and this scheme is one of those win win opportunities.
People have been facing substantial increases in energy bills over the last few years and this project will help to reduce the cost of these energy bills.'
Chiltern Place, Warringon , Cheshire, England, WA2 9SZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,working,housing,site,engined,vehicle,on,a building,for,new homes,a,building,new,homes,yellow,stage,V,5,five,cab,moody,sky,unit,power,system,reduced,reducing,emission,emissions,eco,green,exhaust aftertreatment system,NIMBY,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAGGFA - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Grappenhall Heys, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The defining feature is JCB Stage V engined vehicle, on a building site, for new homes, Grappenhall Heys, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. A broader reading of the photograph includes contemporary social history, local character, development pipeline, historical comparison, townscape record, pedestrian environment, development site, local history, social landscape, changing streetscape, urban change, community identity, building works, and site transformation. The modern context includes continuing discussion of building safety, construction costs and how temporary building sites mark a visible stage of long-term land-use change. For current editorial use, regeneration and community use provide additional context, especially through how regeneration alters the character of familiar places. For later comparison, the photograph preserves commercial use and occupation at Grappenhall Heys, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, details that may look very different after different community use. The subject also sits alongside care-sector construction, construction phase, site redevelopment, street-level documentary, local identity, changing land use, place identity, and property development. References to building, Grappenhall, homes, Stage, and engined give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For Grappenhall Heys, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The photograph keeps period character for later comparison. The record includes a trace of local identity within the wider story of Grappenhall Heys, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK.
Grappenhall Heys, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,coal board,equipment,technical,Oldham,Miner,charger,mine,Blaenavon,Torfaen,Wales,UK,south,control,meter,meters,lead,acid,power,mining,lamp,lamps,battery,ammeter,pit,room,working,Cymru,lead acid,charging,batteries,cell,cells,traditional
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAXT8W - . Recorded at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The subject captured here is Oldham Manchester Miner charger, Lead-Acid, lamps on charge, at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK. The frame also records themes of social history, everyday life, local history, industrial archaeology, manufacturing heritage, industrial transport, place identity, industrial artefact, factory heritage, historic freight equipment, engineering history, contemporary social history, period detail, and changing land use. The modern context includes continuing discussion of brownfield redevelopment, embodied carbon and how surviving industrial objects become evidence of vanished working practices. The image fixes materials and architectural details within Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against new construction. Further associations within the scene are heavy-industry heritage, working-industry history, manufacturing landscape, community identity, before-and-after reference, documentary photography, production infrastructure, and industrial material culture. Details involving charge, Lead-Acid, Blaenavon, Wales, and Miner make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Another useful connection is brownfield redevelopment and the growing value of industrial heritage for tourism and local identity when considered against later change at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK. The scene further reflects manufacturing decline and how surviving industrial objects become evidence of vanished working practices without losing the local specificity of Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK.
Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@hotpixUK,Hotpixuk,England,UK,power,station,CEGB,moth,balled,back,in,use,Coal Fired powerstation,Cheshire,cooling tower,cooling towers,dirty,fossil,summer,fields,rape,eco,ecological,nett,zero,netzero,old fashioned,fossil fuels,coal,Powergen,Central Electricity Generating Board,SSE,SSE Thermal,River Mersey,on,coal-fired,power station,icon
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDJ3XP - Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a decommissioned coal fired power station located in Warrington, Cheshire, North-West England. Opened in 1971, the station had a generating capacity of 1,989 megawatts and took water from the River Mersey. After privatisation in 1990 the station was operated by various companies, and from 2004 by SSE Thermal. The power station closed on 31 March 2020.
With its eight 114-metre (374 ft) high cooling towers and 200-metre (660 ft) high chimney the station is a prominent local landmark and can be seen from as far away as the Peak District and the Pennines
An application to build Fiddler's Ferry Power Station was proposed in 1962.It was built by the Cleveland Bridge Company between 1964 and 1971, and came into full operation in 1973.There are eight cooling towers arranged in two groups of four located to the north and south of the main building. There is a single chimney located to the east of the main building. One of the station's cooling towers collapsed in high winds on 13 January 1984 and was rebuilt. When it was built, the station mainly burned coal mined in the South Yorkshire Coalfield and transported across the Pennines on the Manchester-Sheffield-Wath electric railway. Later the coal was imported.
Between 2006 and 2008 Fiddlers Ferry was fitted with Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) plant to reduce the emissions of sulphur by 94%, meeting the European Large Combustion Plant Directive. In 2010, the station was being considered for the installation of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) equipment. This would reduce the station's emissions of nitrogen oxides, to meet the requirements of the Industrial Emissions (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) Directive. The SCR technology would replace the Separated Over Fire Air (SOFA) technology which was used in the station. The SCR equipment was not fitted due to uncertainty over the future of the plant.
The station was built by the Central Electricity Generating Board CEGB
Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, Widnes Rd, Cuerdley,Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@hotpixUK,Hotpixuk,England,UK,power,station,back,in,use,Coal Fired powerstation,Cheshire,cooling tower,summer,fields,rape,eco,ecological,nett,zero,netzero,old fashioned,fossil fuels,coal,Powergen,Central Electricity Generating Board,SSE,SSE Thermal,River Mersey,on,coal-fired,power station,iconic,moth balled,can we say no to coal,fossil fuel,climate change,Energy crisis,gas prices,return to fossil fuels
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDJ3YD - Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a decommissioned coal fired power station located in Warrington, Cheshire, North-West England. Opened in 1971, the station had a generating capacity of 1,989 megawatts and took water from the River Mersey. After privatisation in 1990 the station was operated by various companies, and from 2004 by SSE Thermal. The power station closed on 31 March 2020.
With its eight 114-metre (374 ft) high cooling towers and 200-metre (660 ft) high chimney the station is a prominent local landmark and can be seen from as far away as the Peak District and the Pennines
An application to build Fiddler's Ferry Power Station was proposed in 1962.It was built by the Cleveland Bridge Company between 1964 and 1971, and came into full operation in 1973.There are eight cooling towers arranged in two groups of four located to the north and south of the main building. There is a single chimney located to the east of the main building. One of the station's cooling towers collapsed in high winds on 13 January 1984 and was rebuilt. When it was built, the station mainly burned coal mined in the South Yorkshire Coalfield and transported across the Pennines on the Manchester-Sheffield-Wath electric railway. Later the coal was imported.
Between 2006 and 2008 Fiddlers Ferry was fitted with Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) plant to reduce the emissions of sulphur by 94%, meeting the European Large Combustion Plant Directive. In 2010, the station was being considered for the installation of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) equipment. This would reduce the station's emissions of nitrogen oxides, to meet the requirements of the Industrial Emissions (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) Directive. The SCR technology would replace the Separated Over Fire Air (SOFA) technology which was used in the station. The SCR equipment was not fitted due to uncertainty over the future of the plant.
The station was built by the Central Electricity Generating Board CEGB
Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, Widnes Rd, Cuerdley,Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@hotpixUK,Hotpixuk,England,UK,power,station,CEGB,back,in,use,Coal Fired powerstation,Cheshire,cooling tower,cooling towers,dirty,summer,fields,eco,netzero,old fashioned,fossil fuels,coal,Powergen,Central Electricity Generating Board,SSE,SSE Thermal,River Mersey,on,coal-fired,power station,eight towers,demolition,Cuerdley,decommissioning,energy prices,electricity production,cheaper,COP26
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDJ3YG - Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a decommissioned coal fired power station located in Warrington, Cheshire, North-West England. Opened in 1971, the station had a generating capacity of 1,989 megawatts and took water from the River Mersey. After privatisation in 1990 the station was operated by various companies, and from 2004 by SSE Thermal. The power station closed on 31 March 2020.
With its eight 114-metre (374 ft) high cooling towers and 200-metre (660 ft) high chimney the station is a prominent local landmark and can be seen from as far away as the Peak District and the Pennines
An application to build Fiddler's Ferry Power Station was proposed in 1962.It was built by the Cleveland Bridge Company between 1964 and 1971, and came into full operation in 1973.There are eight cooling towers arranged in two groups of four located to the north and south of the main building. There is a single chimney located to the east of the main building. One of the station's cooling towers collapsed in high winds on 13 January 1984 and was rebuilt. When it was built, the station mainly burned coal mined in the South Yorkshire Coalfield and transported across the Pennines on the Manchester-Sheffield-Wath electric railway. Later the coal was imported.
Between 2006 and 2008 Fiddlers Ferry was fitted with Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) plant to reduce the emissions of sulphur by 94%, meeting the European Large Combustion Plant Directive. In 2010, the station was being considered for the installation of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) equipment. This would reduce the station's emissions of nitrogen oxides, to meet the requirements of the Industrial Emissions (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) Directive. The SCR technology would replace the Separated Over Fire Air (SOFA) technology which was used in the station. The SCR equipment was not fitted due to uncertainty over the future of the plant.
The station was built by the Central Electricity Generating Board CEGB
Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, Widnes Rd, Cuerdley,Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@hotpixUK,Hotpixuk,England,UK,power,station,CEGB,back,in,use,Coal Fired powerstation,Cheshire,cooling tower,cooling towers,dirty,fossil,fuel,summer,fields,rape,eco,ecological,nett,zero,netzero,old fashioned,fossil fuels,coal,Powergen,Central Electricity Generating Board,SSE,SSE Thermal,River Mersey,on,coal-fired,power station,demolition,Cuerdley
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDJ3YN - Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a decommissioned coal fired power station located in Warrington, Cheshire, North-West England. Opened in 1971, the station had a generating capacity of 1,989 megawatts and took water from the River Mersey. After privatisation in 1990 the station was operated by various companies, and from 2004 by SSE Thermal. The power station closed on 31 March 2020.
With its eight 114-metre (374 ft) high cooling towers and 200-metre (660 ft) high chimney the station is a prominent local landmark and can be seen from as far away as the Peak District and the Pennines
An application to build Fiddler's Ferry Power Station was proposed in 1962.It was built by the Cleveland Bridge Company between 1964 and 1971, and came into full operation in 1973.There are eight cooling towers arranged in two groups of four located to the north and south of the main building. There is a single chimney located to the east of the main building. One of the station's cooling towers collapsed in high winds on 13 January 1984 and was rebuilt. When it was built, the station mainly burned coal mined in the South Yorkshire Coalfield and transported across the Pennines on the Manchester-Sheffield-Wath electric railway. Later the coal was imported.
Between 2006 and 2008 Fiddlers Ferry was fitted with Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) plant to reduce the emissions of sulphur by 94%, meeting the European Large Combustion Plant Directive. In 2010, the station was being considered for the installation of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) equipment. This would reduce the station's emissions of nitrogen oxides, to meet the requirements of the Industrial Emissions (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) Directive. The SCR technology would replace the Separated Over Fire Air (SOFA) technology which was used in the station. The SCR equipment was not fitted due to uncertainty over the future of the plant.
The station was built by the Central Electricity Generating Board CEGB
Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, Widnes Rd, Cuerdley,Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@hotpixUK,Hotpixuk,England,UK,power,station,CEGB,back,in,use,Coal Fired powerstation,Cheshire,cooling tower,cooling towers,dirty,fossil,fuel,summer,fields,ecological,nett,zero,netzero,old fashioned,fossil fuels,coal,Powergen,Central Electricity Generating Board,SSE,SSE Thermal,River Mersey,on,coal-fired,power station,energy crisis,russian war,energy insecurity,fidlers ferry
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDJ3YY - Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a decommissioned coal fired power station located in Warrington, Cheshire, North-West England. Opened in 1971, the station had a generating capacity of 1,989 megawatts and took water from the River Mersey. After privatisation in 1990 the station was operated by various companies, and from 2004 by SSE Thermal. The power station closed on 31 March 2020.
With its eight 114-metre (374 ft) high cooling towers and 200-metre (660 ft) high chimney the station is a prominent local landmark and can be seen from as far away as the Peak District and the Pennines
An application to build Fiddler's Ferry Power Station was proposed in 1962.It was built by the Cleveland Bridge Company between 1964 and 1971, and came into full operation in 1973.There are eight cooling towers arranged in two groups of four located to the north and south of the main building. There is a single chimney located to the east of the main building. One of the station's cooling towers collapsed in high winds on 13 January 1984 and was rebuilt. When it was built, the station mainly burned coal mined in the South Yorkshire Coalfield and transported across the Pennines on the Manchester-Sheffield-Wath electric railway. Later the coal was imported.
Between 2006 and 2008 Fiddlers Ferry was fitted with Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) plant to reduce the emissions of sulphur by 94%, meeting the European Large Combustion Plant Directive. In 2010, the station was being considered for the installation of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) equipment. This would reduce the station's emissions of nitrogen oxides, to meet the requirements of the Industrial Emissions (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) Directive. The SCR technology would replace the Separated Over Fire Air (SOFA) technology which was used in the station. The SCR equipment was not fitted due to uncertainty over the future of the plant.
The station was built by the Central Electricity Generating Board CEGB
Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, Widnes Rd, Cuerdley,Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@hotpixUK,Hotpixuk,England,UK,power,station,CEGB,moth,balled,back,in,use,Coal Fired powerstation,Cheshire,cooling towers,dirty,fossil,fuel,summer,fields,rape,eco,ecological,nett,zero,netzero,old fashioned,fossil fuels,coal,Powergen,Central Electricity Generating Board,SSE,SSE Thermal,River Mersey,on,coal-fired,power station,net zero emissions,energy markets
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDJ40D - Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a decommissioned coal fired power station located in Warrington, Cheshire, North-West England. Opened in 1971, the station had a generating capacity of 1,989 megawatts and took water from the River Mersey. After privatisation in 1990 the station was operated by various companies, and from 2004 by SSE Thermal. The power station closed on 31 March 2020.
With its eight 114-metre (374 ft) high cooling towers and 200-metre (660 ft) high chimney the station is a prominent local landmark and can be seen from as far away as the Peak District and the Pennines
An application to build Fiddler's Ferry Power Station was proposed in 1962.It was built by the Cleveland Bridge Company between 1964 and 1971, and came into full operation in 1973.There are eight cooling towers arranged in two groups of four located to the north and south of the main building. There is a single chimney located to the east of the main building. One of the station's cooling towers collapsed in high winds on 13 January 1984 and was rebuilt. When it was built, the station mainly burned coal mined in the South Yorkshire Coalfield and transported across the Pennines on the Manchester-Sheffield-Wath electric railway. Later the coal was imported.
Between 2006 and 2008 Fiddlers Ferry was fitted with Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) plant to reduce the emissions of sulphur by 94%, meeting the European Large Combustion Plant Directive. In 2010, the station was being considered for the installation of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) equipment. This would reduce the station's emissions of nitrogen oxides, to meet the requirements of the Industrial Emissions (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) Directive. The SCR technology would replace the Separated Over Fire Air (SOFA) technology which was used in the station. The SCR equipment was not fitted due to uncertainty over the future of the plant.
The station was built by the Central Electricity Generating Board CEGB
Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, Widnes Rd, Cuerdley,Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 2UT
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Keywords: Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,power,plant,Woolston Weir,Hydro,water,project,gate,H20 Power Generation,three Archimedes screw turbines,turbines,fish pass,Czech company Hydropol,Czech,company,technology,green,carbon free,carbonfree,electricity generation,Woolston Eyes,Woolston,works traffic,only,SSSI,CZ,WA1,hydro,market,building,construction
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2E018GP - Woolston Weir Hydro project underway at last
long-awaited hydro-electric power installation planned at Woolston Weir since 2013 is finally getting under way.
The scheme which complements the Environment Agency flood defences is being undertaken by Czech company Hydropol and work has begun clearing the site for the arrival of the equipment starting this week.
This renewable energy electricity source will provide sufficient power for 380 typical UK homes and will effectively save in the region of 750 Tonnes of CO2 per year.
The installation will comprise of three Archimedes screw design turbines which are fish friendly. There will also be an improved and brand new fish pass allowing salmon, coarse fish and eels to pass through unharmed.
Locally available national grid connections means there is no need for pylons and there is sufficient separation from residential properties to ensure no operational noise pollution.
It is situated on the opposite bank of the river from Woolston Eyes so poses no threat to any of the wildlife on the local SSSI.
Main construction is planned between August 2020 and January 2021 with turbine delivery in early 2021 and project completion around April 2021.
Woolston, Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK, WA1 4LU
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUk,town hall,townhall,City Council,Glasgow City Council,inside,interior,Scottish architect,Victorian style,1888,George Square,G2,successful,civic,local,political,power,powerful,city,second city,of empire,British Empire,wealth,coat of arms,reception hall,tiling,mosaic tiling,Here is the fish that never swam,Here is the bell that never rang,Here is the tree that never grew,door,Here is the bird that never flew,Victorian,style
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFFH4 - The need for a new city chambers had been apparent since the 18th century, with the old Tolbooth at Glasgow Cross becoming insufficient for the purposes of civic government in a growing town with greater political responsibilities. In 1814, the Tolbooth was sold with the exception of the steeple, which still remains and the council chambers moved to Jail Square in the Saltmarket, near Glasgow Green. Subsequent moves were made to Wilson Street and Ingram Street. In the early 1880s, City Architect John Carrick was asked to identify a suitable site for a purpose built City Council Chambers. Carrick identified the east side of George Square, which was then bought.
Following a design competition, the building was designed by the Scottish architect William Young in the Victorian style and construction started in 1882. The building was inaugurated by Queen Victoria in August 1888 and the first council meeting held within the chambers took place in October 1889. An extension connected by pairs of archways across John Street was completed in 1912 and Exchange House in George Street was completed in the mid-1980s
82 George Square, Glasgow,Strathclyde,Scotland,UK, G2 1DU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,services,Lower Wick,panorama,Gloucestershire,Motorway services,GL11 6DD,Dursley,Waitrose at Michaelwood Services,M5 services,M5 motorway,electric charging point,GL11,green,electricity,solar,wind,power,renewable,renewables,low,lower,carbon,footprint,climate change,Tariff,Michaelwood services,sunshine,WelcomeBreak,motorway services,service,breaks,bench,benches,take,blue sky,break,table
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWKW - . This scene at Michaelwood Services M5, Gloucestershire, South West England, UK in 2018 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The frame specifically shows Waitrose at Michaelwood Services, M5 services,M5 motorway,electric charging point, GL11 , Dursley. The subject also carries associations with period detail, documentary photography, changing streetscape, public realm, conservation interest, before-and-after reference, heritage landmark, adaptive reuse, urban fabric, visual archive, architectural detail, period building, place identity, and cityscape history. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with redevelopment pressure, adaptive reuse and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character. The archival value lies partly in recording street furniture and boundaries around Michaelwood Services M5, Gloucestershire, South West England, UK before refurbishment alters the character of the place. The subject also sits alongside built heritage, architectural character, social history, historical comparison, historic streetscape, everyday life, archival record, and historic townscape. Elements such as electric, motorway, Dursley, Waitrose, and point add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within Michaelwood Services M5, Gloucestershire, South West England, UK, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The wider significance includes redevelopment pressure and the value of architectural landmarks to local identity and tourism within the specific setting of Michaelwood Services M5, Gloucestershire, South West England, UK. It also preserves evidence of changing use within the wider story of Michaelwood Services M5, Gloucestershire, South West England, UK.
Michaelwood Services M5, Gloucestershire, South West England, UK
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Keywords: eco,bin,waste,Flower,dandelion,red,red bins,art,urban art,lips,face,blond,blond girl,recycling,recycle,Glasgow City Council,GoTonySmith,Scottish,collections,wheelie bins,wheeliebins,woman,female,green,economy,backstreet,blows,a,into,wind,turbines,turbine,generating,generates,power,electricity,wheelie,bins,greenwashing,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HKHWG4 - . Made at Glasgow, Scotland, GB, United Kingdom in 2017, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The subject captured here is Graffiti in Glasgow backstreet, blond woman blows a dandelion, into wind turbines, generating green power, near wheelie bins. Further facets of the scene include community identity, changing land use, community art, street-level design, public art, changing streetscape, documentary photography, graffiti heritage, place identity, everyday life, contemporary social history, stencil art, social history, and street creativity. The wider contemporary story combines temporary works, gentrification and how regeneration can both promote and displace informal urban art. For later comparison, the photograph preserves materials and architectural details at Glasgow, Scotland, GB, United Kingdom, details that may look very different after replacement signage. The subject also sits alongside historical comparison, regional identity, visual street culture, temporary artwork, before-and-after reference, urban graphics, local history, and mural culture. The recorded references to woman, wheelie, backstreet, Glasgow, and power preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Glasgow, Scotland, GB, United Kingdom, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Its period value extends to temporary works and how regeneration can both promote and displace informal urban art within the real-world context of Glasgow, Scotland, GB, United Kingdom. The location additionally provides evidence of public art and how regeneration can both promote and displace informal urban art within the specific setting of Glasgow, Scotland, GB, United Kingdom.
Glasgow, Scotland, GB, United Kingdom
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Keywords: Class,Coach,seat,mandatory,ticket,table,window,aisle,power,socket,Trans,Pennine,std,standard,first,class,Warrington,B35,BR,UK,GB,on,a,York,Scarborough,Liverpool,Trans-pennine Express,British Rail,British Railways,Train reservation,seat reservation,on a,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,carriage,line,main,railroad,reservation,reserved,ticket,travel,operating,co,company,TOC,book,booked,booking,quiet,coach,compulsory,optional,Journey,advance,find,my,children,child,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Train Operating Company,Train seat,Train Seat Reservations,Seat Booking,Seat preferences,Quiet coach,Advance Reservation,Seat position,Direction of travel,Quiet Coach,reservation ticket,Find My Seat,Reservations for children
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy G9BJB9 - . This dated editorial view of York, Yorkshire, England, UK in 2016 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The defining feature is Transpennine Express Reservation,on train to York from Liverpool,England,UK. A broader reading of the photograph includes local character, changing land use, changing streetscape, passenger railway, public realm, integrated transport, public transport network, archival record, station environment, transport interchange, visual archive, contemporary social history, urban rail transport, and rail mobility. The wider contemporary story combines integrated transport, reliability and the role of public transport in reducing congestion and emissions. For later comparison, the photograph preserves building condition and alterations at York, Yorkshire, England, UK, details that may look very different after refurbishment. The wider setting retains connections with railway branding, rail modernisation, before-and-after reference, commuter travel, rail corridor, rail infrastructure, local history, and regional rail. Details involving Reservation, train, Liverpool, Transpennine, and Express make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at York, Yorkshire, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The image also provides a reference for integrated transport and the role of public transport in reducing congestion and emissions within the specific setting of York, Yorkshire, England, UK. Another useful connection is public ownership and the reshaping of Britain's passenger railway in the mid-2020s as part of the longer story of York, Yorkshire, England, UK. The image fixes a trace of local identity before later change alters the scene.
York, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: Class,Coach,seat,mandatory,ticket,table,window,aisle,power,socket,Trans,Pennine,std,standard,first,class,Warrington,B35,BR,UK,GB,on,a,York,Scarborough,Liverpool,Trans-pennine Express,British Rail,British Railways,Train reservation,seat reservation,on a,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,carriage,line,main,railroad,reservation,reserved,ticket,travel,operating,co,company,TOC,book,booked,booking,quiet,coach,compulsory,optional,Journey,advance,find,my,children,child,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Train Operating Company,Train seat,Train Seat Reservations,Seat Booking,Seat preferences,Quiet coach,Advance Reservation,Seat position,Direction of travel,Quiet Coach,reservation ticket,Find My Seat,Reservations for children
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy G9BJGJ - . This location-specific image from York, Yorkshire, England, UK in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The photograph centres on Transpennine Express Reservation,on train to York from Liverpool,England,UK. The broader subject matter reaches into rail modernisation, local character, changing land use, historical comparison, place identity, rail mobility, period detail, archival record, local history, station environment, contemporary social history, railway branding, passenger railway, and public transport network. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with public ownership, decarbonisation and the archival value of railway branding and infrastructure as operators change. Future viewers can use this scene from York, Yorkshire, England, UK to compare period objects and surrounding context with whatever follows after new construction. The location also brings in commuter travel, transport interchange, community identity, everyday life, before-and-after reference, documentary photography, trackside heritage, and mass transit. References to train, Liverpool, Reservation, Transpennine, and Express give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. A later view of York, Yorkshire, England, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. A further contemporary connection is public ownership and the archival value of railway branding and infrastructure as operators change within the real-world context of York, Yorkshire, England, UK. The wider significance includes public ownership and the reshaping of Britain's passenger railway in the mid-2020s within the specific setting of York, Yorkshire, England, UK. It also preserves a trace of local identity as part of York, Yorkshire, England, UK's history.
York, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: City,triode,capitals,cities,dial,illuminated,life,news,radio,talk,drama,station,stations,still,tube,tune,valve,war,wartime,wireless,pentode,program,old,fashioned,oldfashioned,radiogram,frequencies,frequency,brown,Berlin,Touluse,Budapest,GoTonySmith,broadcast,brussels,button,communicate,communication,country,countrys,dial,electric,electrical,electricity,electromagnetic,energy,entertainment,frequency,gramaphone,illuminated,illumination,light,listen,listening,london,long,medium,message,power,prague,radio,radiogram,radiowave,receive,receiver,scottish,short,sound,transmit,tune,tuner,uk,valve,wave,wavelength,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCX4 - . Recorded at the recorded location in 2015, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The scene records Valve radio vintage wireless station guide cities. The broader subject matter reaches into archival record, contemporary social history, social history, rail modernisation, railway branding, local history, urban rail transport, integrated transport, trackside heritage, passenger railway, rail corridor, public transport network, mass transit, and period detail. The wider contemporary story combines integrated transport, decarbonisation and the reshaping of Britain's passenger railway in the mid-2020s. The image fixes period objects and surrounding context within the recorded location at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against new ownership. Other useful contextual ideas include visual archive, community identity, before-and-after reference, changing streetscape, transport interchange, documentary photography, historical comparison, and changing land use. The combination of vintage, wireless, station, cities, and Valve anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around the recorded location, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. A further contemporary connection is integrated transport and the reshaping of Britain's passenger railway in the mid-2020s as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The wider significance includes integrated transport and the archival value of railway branding and infrastructure as operators change when considered against later change at the recorded location. Another strand within the photograph is rail reform and the archival value of railway branding and infrastructure as operators change without losing the local specificity of the recorded location.
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Keywords: City,triode,capitals,cities,dial,illuminated,life,news,radio,talk,drama,station,stations,still,tube,tune,valve,war,wartime,wireless,pentode,program,old,fashioned,oldfashioned,radiogram,frequencies,frequency,brown,Berlin,Touluse,Budapest,GoTonySmith,broadcast,brussels,button,communicate,communication,country,countrys,dial,electric,electrical,electricity,electromagnetic,energy,entertainment,frequency,gramaphone,illuminated,illumination,light,listen,listening,london,long,medium,message,power,prague,radio,radiogram,radiowave,receive,receiver,scottish,short,sound,transmit,tune,tuner,uk,valve,wave,wavelength,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCX7 - . A grounded documentary photograph made at the recorded location in 2015, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The defining feature is Valve radio vintage wireless station guide cities. Other connected aspects include railway branding, documentary photography, local history, place identity, transport interchange, rail corridor, social history, local character, historical comparison, regional rail, public realm, station environment, rail modernisation, and regional identity. The modern context includes continuing discussion of decarbonisation, integrated transport and how rail stations anchor city-centre mobility and regeneration. The image fixes commercial use and occupation within the recorded location at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against new construction. The wider setting retains connections with period detail, community identity, passenger railway, changing streetscape, visual archive, rail mobility, trackside heritage, and commuter travel. The recorded references to vintage, radio, cities, guide, and Valve preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The dated record from the recorded location makes the broader context more tangible. The image also provides a reference for decarbonisation and how rail stations anchor city-centre mobility and regeneration in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. Another useful connection is public ownership and the archival value of railway branding and infrastructure as operators change within the real-world context of the recorded location. The scene further reflects decarbonisation and the role of public transport in reducing congestion and emissions within the specific setting of the recorded location. Image F7DCX7 also preserves another period-specific detail for later comparison.
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Keywords: Highway Services M40,Warwickshire,England,UK,service,station,green,energy,company,based,in,Stroud,Gloucestershire,wind,power,windmill,Welcome,Break,Motorway,point,high,IEC,62196,32amp,3-phase,socket,fast-charging,at,RoadChef,sites,areas,free,charge,Evance,electricity,Nemesis,GoTonySmith,United,Kingdom,English,IEC62196,site,fast,charging,area,Greenbird
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ECW4GX - . Ecotricity electric car charging station Warwick Services M40, Warwickshire, stock-photo/gotonysmith-England.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>England UK. Photographed at Warwick Services, M40, Warwickshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 19 December 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Ecotricity, electric, car, charging, station, Warwick, Highway Services M40, Warwickshire, service and green, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The scene has strong relevance to railway travel, public transport, passenger infrastructure and the everyday operation of Britain's rail network. It can illustrate editorial stories about stations, train journeys, commuting, regional connectivity, rail investment, rolling stock, freight, signals, platforms, accessibility and the relationship between railways and the places they serve. Visible railway furniture, signs, tracks, platforms, trains, signals or station buildings help place the photograph firmly in the practical environment experienced by passengers and railway staff. As a dated documentary image it also offers a useful record of transport infrastructure, branding and passenger facilities at the time the photograph was made. Search themes include British rail travel, railway stations, passenger journeys, tracks, platforms, signals, rolling stock, freight, regional connectivity and transport infrastructure. The scene is particularly useful for illustrating how railway facilities, signs and operational surroundings looked at a known point in time. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph.
Warwick Services, M40, Warwickshire, England, UK
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Keywords: outside,exterior,Xmas,decorations,decoration,illuminated,illuminations,Santa,Sleigh,at,night,dusk,in,the,dark,bright,taste,chav,chavy,low,class,cheap,excess,wasted,power,electric,electricity,waste,low,efficiency,bah,humbug,love,hate,relationship,gaudiness,gaudy,outdoor,GoTonySmith England,Scotland,English,Scottish,welsh bahhumbug love-hate artful DIYer DIY ioBridge IO-204 module,an Arduino Wave Kit,an,Arduino,Duemilanove,board,solid,state,relays,relay,in,Witney,Oxen,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ECW52X - . Christmas lights being overdone on a house. Photographed at Witney, Oxfordshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 18 December 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The low-light or evening setting is part of the subject, bringing illuminated signs, windows and street lighting into the documentary character of the scene. The scene is closely associated with Christmas, lights, overdone, bad, outside, exterior, Xmas, decorations, decoration and illuminated, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is a documentary record of an identifiable subject and location, useful for editorial, archive, travel, local-history and social-history picture research. It can support features about everyday life, place, public space, local identity, tourism, consumer behaviour and the changing appearance of towns, cities and communities. Visible objects, signs, buildings and environmental details provide contextual clues that make the image useful beyond its immediate subject. As a dated stock photograph it also offers a reference point for later comparison, especially where businesses, streets, public services or local surroundings subsequently change. Search themes include documentary photography, local history, everyday life, place, public space, travel, community identity, social history and changing surroundings. Its specificity makes it more useful than a generic concept image when an editor needs a recognisable real-world subject and setting. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. The view is firmly rooted in a real location rather than a constructed studio setting.
Witney, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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Keywords: outside,exterior,Xmas,decorations,decoration,illuminated,illuminations,Santa,Sleigh,at,night,dusk,in,the,dark,bright,taste,chav,chavy,low,class,cheap,excess,wasted,power,electric,electricity,waste,low,efficiency,bah,humbug,love,hate,relationship,gaudiness,gaudy,outdoor,GoTonySmith England,Scotland,English,Scottish,welsh bahhumbug love-hate artful DIYer DIY ioBridge IO-204 module,an Arduino Wave Kit,an,Arduino,Duemilanove,board,solid,state,relays,relay,in,Witney,Oxen,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ECW52Y - . Christmas lights being overdone on a house. Photographed at Witney, Oxfordshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 18 December 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The low-light or evening setting is part of the subject, bringing illuminated signs, windows and street lighting into the documentary character of the scene. The scene is closely associated with Christmas, lights, overdone, bad, outside, exterior, Xmas, decorations, decoration and illuminated, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is a documentary record of an identifiable subject and location, useful for editorial, archive, travel, local-history and social-history picture research. It can support features about everyday life, place, public space, local identity, tourism, consumer behaviour and the changing appearance of towns, cities and communities. Visible objects, signs, buildings and environmental details provide contextual clues that make the image useful beyond its immediate subject. As a dated stock photograph it also offers a reference point for later comparison, especially where businesses, streets, public services or local surroundings subsequently change. Search themes include documentary photography, local history, everyday life, place, public space, travel, community identity, social history and changing surroundings. Its specificity makes it more useful than a generic concept image when an editor needs a recognisable real-world subject and setting. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. The view is firmly rooted in a real location rather than a constructed studio setting.
Witney, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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Keywords: Sep,field,fields,rural,borders,decides,votes,ballot,vote,Scottish,Field,September,2014,Scotland,UK,debate,result,Scots,opinion,bettertogether,bright,sunshine,passion,Nothanks,publicity,Scottish,SNP,independance party,independence,indyref,referendum,2nd,second,Brexit,#Brexit,hotpixuk,@hotpixuk,indyref,indyref,Alastair,Darling,Alex,Salmon,Salmond,powers,power,for,holyrood,Edinburgh,City,of,Glasgow City,of,Edinburgh Fife North,Lanarkshire South,Lanarkshire Aberdeenshire Highland City,of,Aberdeen West,Lothian Renfrewshire Falkirk Dumfries,and,Galloway Perth,and,Kinross City,of,Dundee North,Ayrshire East,Ayrshire Scottish,Borders South,Ayrshire Angus East,Dunbartonshire East,Lothian West,Dunbartonshire Stirling East,Renfrewshire Argyll,and,Bute Moray Midlothian Inverclyde Clackmannanshire Na,h-Eileanan,Siar,(Western,Isles) Shetland,Islands Orkney,Islands,CNES
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB6B - . No Thanks Purple Better Together banner in a Scottish Field September 2014. Photographed on 24 August 2014. The recorded location is West Linton, Borders, Scotland, UK. No Thanks is the slogan of the Better Together Campaign, urging people to stay in the UK as part of a united Britain. Vote will take place in September 2014. GoTonySmith. The signs date from the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign, when voters were asked whether Scotland should become an independent country. The unionist Better Together campaign promoted a No vote, while Yes Scotland and local activists campaigned for independence. On 18 September 2014 Scotland voted 55.3% No to 44.7% Yes. More than a decade later the constitutional question remains part of Scottish politics, giving these rural campaign signs continuing historical and political relevance. In historical terms, campaign imagery captures politics at street level, where national debates become posters, banners, marches and handwritten slogans
Such material often disappears immediately after an election or referendum, making contemporary images especially useful to historians. In the longer view, allotments and farms link household self-sufficiency with the commercial food system
Seed varieties, hand cultivation and large-scale mechanised farming provide a visual history of how people grow food and how agricultural practice changes. In historical terms, rural and botanical images document the seasonal cycles of the British landscape, from spring flowers and nesting wildlife to summer crops, autumn foliage and winter frost
They can also record changing land management, farming practice and the relationship between cultivated and wild species. During 2026, seen from 2026, earlier campaign material provides a clear historical benchmark for later political arguments
The physical poster or banner captures not only a policy position but the visual language and grassroots campaigning methods of its moment.
West Linton, Borders, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: Sep,field,fields,rural,borders,decides,votes,ballot,vote,Scottish,Field,September,2014,Scotland,UK,debate,result,Scots,opinion,bettertogether,bright,sunshine,passion,Nothanks,publicity,Scottish,SNP,independance party,independence,indyref,referendum,2nd,second,Brexit,#Brexit,hotpixuk,@hotpixuk,indyref,indyref,Alastair,Darling,Alex,Salmon,Salmond,powers,power,for,holyrood,Edinburgh,City,of,Glasgow City,of,Edinburgh Fife North,Lanarkshire South,Lanarkshire Aberdeenshire Highland City,of,Aberdeen West,Lothian Renfrewshire Falkirk Dumfries,and,Galloway Perth,and,Kinross City,of,Dundee North,Ayrshire East,Ayrshire Scottish,Borders South,Ayrshire Angus East,Dunbartonshire East,Lothian West,Dunbartonshire Stirling East,Renfrewshire Argyll,and,Bute Moray Midlothian Inverclyde Clackmannanshire Na,h-Eileanan,Siar,(Western,Isles) Shetland,Islands Orkney,Islands,CNES
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB6D - . No Thanks Purple Better Together banner in a Scottish Field September 2014. Photographed on 24 August 2014. The recorded location is West Linton, Borders, Scotland, UK. No Thanks is the slogan of the Better Together Campaign, urging people to stay in the UK as part of a united Britain. Vote will take place in September 2014. GoTonySmith. The signs date from the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign, when voters were asked whether Scotland should become an independent country. The unionist Better Together campaign promoted a No vote, while Yes Scotland and local activists campaigned for independence. On 18 September 2014 Scotland voted 55.3% No to 44.7% Yes. More than a decade later the constitutional question remains part of Scottish politics, giving these rural campaign signs continuing historical and political relevance. In the longer view, political signs, demonstrations and campaign material are highly time-specific forms of visual evidence
Slogans, posters and banners record the language, branding and issues of a particular contest, and can gain historical significance long after the immediate vote or protest has ended. In historical terms, british agriculture has repeatedly adapted to mechanisation, changing markets and environmental policy
Tractors, fields, cereal crops and allotment vegetables each represent different scales of food production, while also documenting seasonal work and rural landscapes. In the longer view, nature photography can serve both aesthetic and documentary purposes, preserving details of species, flowering seasons, weather and land use
Repeated images of the same places also become useful evidence of environmental change over time. Current 2026 relevance comes from the fact that seen from 2026, older campaign material provides a clear historical benchmark for later political arguments
The physical poster or banner captures not only a policy position but the visual language and grassroots campaigning.
West Linton, Borders, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: Sep,field,fields,rural,borders,decides,votes,ballot,vote,Scottish,Field,September,2014,Scotland,UK,debate,result,Scots,opinion,bettertogether,bright,sunshine,passion,Nothanks,publicity,Coulter,Mill,Village,Scottish,Borders,Scotland,UK A702 M75 A9 A1 sign,indyref,indyref,Alastair,Darling,Alex,Salmon,Salmond,powers,power,for,holyrood,Edinburgh,City,of,Glasgow City,of,Edinburgh Fife North,Lanarkshire South,Lanarkshire Aberdeenshire Highland City,of,Aberdeen West,Lothian Renfrewshire Falkirk Dumfries,and,Galloway Perth,and,Kinross City,of,Dundee North,Ayrshire East,Ayrshire Scottish,Borders South,Ayrshire Angus East,Dunbartonshire East,Lothian West,Dunbartonshire Stirling East,Renfrewshire Argyll,and,Bute Moray Midlothian Inverclyde Clackmannanshire Na,h-Eileanan,Siar,(Western,Isles) Shetland,Islands Orkney,Islands,CNES,Scottish,SNP,independance party,independence,indyref,referendum,2nd,second,Brexit,#Brexit,hotpixuk,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB6F - . No Thanks Purple Better Together banner in a Scottish Field September 2014. Photographed on 24 August 2014. The recorded location is Coulter Village, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK. No Thanks is the slogan of the Better Together Campaign, urging people to stay in the UK as part of a united Britain. Vote will take place in September 2014. GoTonySmith. The signs date from the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign, when voters were asked whether Scotland should become an independent country. The unionist Better Together campaign promoted a No vote, while Yes Scotland and local activists campaigned for independence. On 18 September 2014 Scotland voted 55.3% No to 44.7% Yes. More than a decade later the constitutional question remains part of Scottish politics, giving these rural campaign signs continuing historical and political relevance. The historical context is that public protest and electoral campaigning form part of democratic culture, documenting how people express support, opposition and identity outside formal institutions
The wording of signs can preserve the tone of a debate more directly than later summaries. Historically, farming and allotment imagery records the practical work behind food production, from ploughing and arable crops to small-scale vegetable growing
Allotments expanded strongly during periods of food shortage and remain an important part of British urban and suburban gardening culture. The historical context is that fields, flowers, trees and wildlife provide a visual record of season, habitat and countryside management
Agricultural crops sit alongside wild plants, insects and birds, illustrating the overlap between food production, biodiversity and recreation. The subject remains topical in 2026 because political photographs from earlier campaigns can be used comparatively, showing how parties, issues and constitutional debates have shifted
They are particularly useful when the underlying subject, such as.
Coulter Village, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: Sep,field,fields,rural,borders,decides,votes,ballot,vote,Scottish,Field,September,2014,Scotland,UK,debate,result,Scots,opinion,bettertogether,bright,sunshine,passion,Nothanks,publicity,indyref,indyref,Alastair,Darling,Alex,Salmon,Salmond,powers,power,for,holyrood,Edinburgh,City,of,Glasgow City,of,Edinburgh Fife North,Lanarkshire South,Lanarkshire Aberdeenshire Highland City,of,Aberdeen West,Lothian Renfrewshire Falkirk Dumfries,and,Galloway Perth,and,Kinross City,of,Dundee North,Ayrshire East,Ayrshire Scottish,Borders South,Ayrshire Angus East,Dunbartonshire East,Lothian West,Dunbartonshire Stirling East,Renfrewshire Argyll,and,Bute Moray Midlothian Inverclyde Clackmannanshire Na,h-Eileanan,Siar,(Western,Isles) Shetland,Islands Orkney,Islands,CNES
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB6H - . No Thanks Purple Better Together banner in a Scottish Field September 2014. Photographed on 24 August 2014. The recorded location is Coulter Village, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK. No Thanks is the slogan of the Better Together Campaign, urging people to stay in the UK as part of a united Britain. Vote will take place in September 2014. GoTonySmith. The signs date from the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign, when voters were asked whether Scotland should become an independent country. The unionist Better Together campaign promoted a No vote, while Yes Scotland and local activists campaigned for independence. On 18 September 2014 Scotland voted 55.3% No to 44.7% Yes. More than a decade later the constitutional question remains part of Scottish politics, giving these rural campaign signs continuing historical and political relevance. Looking at the subject's development, campaign imagery captures politics at street level, where national debates become posters, banners, marches and handwritten slogans
Such material often disappears immediately after an election or referendum, making contemporary photographs especially useful to historians. The wider historical story is that allotments and farms link household self-sufficiency with the commercial food system
Seed varieties, hand cultivation and large-scale mechanised farming offer a visual history of how people grow food and how agricultural practice changes. Looking at the subject's development, rural and botanical images document the seasonal cycles of the British landscape, from spring flowers and nesting wildlife to summer crops, autumn foliage and winter frost
They can also record evolving land management, farming practice and the relationship between cultivated and wild species. For the 2026 context, seen from 2026, older campaign material provides a clear historical benchmark for later political arguments
The physical poster or banner captures not only a policy position but the.
Coulter Village, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB6J - . No Thanks Purple Better Together banner in a Scottish Field September 2014. Photographed on 24 August 2014. The recorded location is Coulter Village, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK. No Thanks is the slogan of the Better Together Campaign, urging people to stay in the UK as part of a united Britain. Vote will take place in September 2014. GoTonySmith. The signs date from the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign, when voters were asked whether Scotland should become an independent country. The unionist Better Together campaign promoted a No vote, while Yes Scotland and local activists campaigned for independence. On 18 September 2014 Scotland voted 55.3% No to 44.7% Yes. More than a decade later the constitutional question remains part of Scottish politics, giving these rural campaign signs continuing historical and political relevance. In historical terms, public protest and electoral campaigning form part of democratic culture, documenting how people express support, opposition and identity outside formal institutions
The wording of signs can preserve the tone of a debate more directly than later summaries. In the longer view, farming and allotment imagery records the practical work behind food production, from ploughing and arable crops to small-scale vegetable growing
Allotments expanded strongly during periods of food shortage and remain an important part of British urban and suburban gardening culture. In historical terms, fields, flowers, trees and wildlife provide a visual record of season, habitat and countryside management
Agricultural crops sit alongside wild plants, insects and birds, illustrating the overlap between food production, biodiversity and recreation. During 2026, seen from 2026, earlier campaign material provides a clear historical benchmark for later political arguments
The physical poster or banner captures not only a policy position but the visual language and grassroots campaigning methods of its moment.
Coulter Village, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGMNY6 - . Recorded at Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1 in 2014, the image fixes a particular place, use and appearance for later comparison as buildings, businesses, signs and public activity change. The view centres on Rusty riveted steel steam engine locomotive boiler, in scrapyard. The image connects the immediate subject with rail modernisation, place identity, station environment, commuter travel, community identity, railway heritage, local history, historic manufacturing, industrial archaeology, labour history, manufacturing heritage, traditional building materials, historical comparison, and contemporary social history. Today's wider story includes public ownership, reliability and the practical question of making rail simpler and more dependable. For contemporary context, embodied carbon and factory closures are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the reuse or loss of former production sites. For later comparison, the scene fixes local appearance, occupation, access and public activity around Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1. A second layer of the scene includes engineering heritage, public transport network, factory history, visual archive, local character, archival record, regional rail, and historic context. References to riveted, locomotive, boiler, steel, and engine help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. The surrounding context at Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1 matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The wider significance includes public ownership and linking trains more effectively with other transport when considered against later change at Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1. Another strand within the photograph is manufacturing history and recording industries that shaped northern towns without losing the local specificity of Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1.
Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8624810895 - 'New Order - 'Sunrise' - Play this track here.
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I've been waiting to hear your voice for too long now
One way conversations do not work somehow
Tell me how does one get your soul in touch with the one above
When one way conversations pay a price for the use of love
I tried so hard last night you would not talk to me
I live with the fear of the few with the gift
And I know what's going to be...
Sunrise was a track from Lowlife, the third New Order album. Released in May 1985 by Factory Records, Low-Life is considered to be among New Order's strongest work, displaying the moment in which the band completed its transformation from post-punk hold-overs to dance rock pioneers. The album shows New Order's increased incorporation of synthesizers and samplers, while still preserving the rock aspects of their earlier work.
The album's artwork is the only New Order release to feature photographs of the band members on its cover. By default, drummer/keyboardist Stephen Morris is on the front cover, but it actually features four photographs inside the case and a semi-transparent piece of paper with the band's name on. Owners can choose which band member is seen through the sleeve.
The original Factory release (Japan and UK) CD versions of this album are mastered with pre-emphasis.
The album was preceded by the release of the full-length version of 'The Perfect Kiss' as a single (only an edited version appears on the album). John Robie's remix of 'Sub-culture' was also released as a 12' single. Both of these extended versions eventually were included on 1987's Substance.
Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a coal fired power station located in Cuerdley, Cheshire in North West England, which is capable of co-firing biomass. It is situated on the north bank of the River Mersey between the towns of Widnes and Warrington. Opened in 1971, the station has a generating capacity of 1,989 megawatts (MW). Since the privatisation of the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1990, the station has been operated by various companies. Since 2004, Scottish and Southern Energy plc have operated the station.
With its eight 114-metre (374 ft) high cooling towers and 200-metre (660 ft) high chimney the station is a prominent landmark and can be seen from as far away as the Peak District and the Pennines. rather than a sunrise, this is a sunset as locals will notice.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF223B - . Snowy winter Cheshire power lines at sunset. Photographed on 9 January 2010. The recorded location is Antrobus / Great Budworth, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. Snowy winter Cheshire power lines Sunset . A snowy winter sunset / sunrise behind receding electrical high voltage power lines in North West England , United Kingdom UK. Looking at the subject's development, landscape photographs record more than scenery: buildings, vegetation, weather, transport and land use combine to show how a place appeared at a specific moment
Repeated views can later become valuable evidence of development, environmental change and shifting patterns of use. For the 2026 context, landscape imagery is increasingly used alongside discussion of climate, resilience, tourism and development
Older panoramas can show how skylines, waterfronts and vegetation have changed over a comparatively short period. The wider historical story is that panoramic and atmospheric views place individual landmarks within their wider setting
Light, season and weather affect how architecture and landscape are perceived, while distant development can provide clues to the changing form of a town or coastline. Historically, seasonal and low-light photography can emphasise the relationship between natural conditions and the built environment
Dusk, snow, mist or dramatic cloud often reveal lighting, silhouettes and reflective surfaces that are less apparent in ordinary daylight. In historical terms, landscape photographs record more than scenery: buildings, vegetation, weather, transport and land use combine to show how a place appeared at a particular moment
Repeated views can later become valuable evidence of development, environmental change and shifting patterns of use. In 2026, current interest in climate and place-making gives atmospheric landscape photographs added documentary value, particularly where weather, coastlines or urban development are prominent.
Antrobus / Great Budworth, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy G9BJF7 - . This authentic period view of York, Yorkshire, England, UK in 2016 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The scene records Transpennine Express Reservation,on train to York from Liverpool,England,UK. The subject also carries associations with period detail, contemporary social history, changing land use, rail modernisation, everyday life, rail mobility, visual archive, commuter travel, integrated transport, regional rail, railway branding, local character, public realm, and local history. From a 2025-onward perspective, fares and accessibility are closely linked to this subject, alongside the archival value of railway branding and infrastructure as operators change. As a dated visual record of York, Yorkshire, England, UK, the frame retains building condition and alterations, making it especially useful if redevelopment subsequently changes the scene. Further associations within the scene are urban rail transport, regional identity, place identity, passenger railway, rail infrastructure, mass transit, before-and-after reference, and rail corridor. Elements such as train, Liverpool, Express, Reservation, and Transpennine add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of York, Yorkshire, England, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. A further contemporary connection is fares and the archival value of railway branding and infrastructure as operators change as part of the longer story of York, Yorkshire, England, UK. The wider significance includes integrated transport and the role of public transport in reducing congestion and emissions when considered against later change at York, Yorkshire, England, UK. The view records period character for future local research.
York, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RBRAX0 - Kevin Jan Magnussen (born 5 October 1992) is a Danish racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Haas F1 Team.
He is the son of four-time Le Mans winner and former Formula One driver Jan Magnussen. Kevin Magnussen came up through McLaren Formula One team's Young Driver Programme and drove for McLaren in the 2014 Formula One World Championship, before a stint with Renault in 2016. Magnussen drove for Haas from 2017 until the end of the 2020 season. In 2022, Magnussen rejoined Haas on a multi-year deal.
Haas Formula LLC, competing as MoneyGram Haas F1 Team, is an American-licensed Formula One racing team established by NASCAR Cup Series team co-owner Gene Haas in April 2014. The team originally intended to make its debut at the start of the 2015 season but later elected to postpone their entry until the 2016 season. The team principal is Guenther Steiner.
The team is headquartered in Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States 31 mi (50 km) from Charlotte alongside sister team and NASCAR entrant Stewart-Haas Racing, though the two teams are separate entities. The team also established a forward base in Banbury, England, to turn cars around between races during the European part of the calendar
Haas signed a title sponsorship deal with MoneyGram for the 2023 season onwards.
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team announced a new partnership with Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG), ahead of the 2023 FIA Formula 1 World Championship. The Chipotle Mexican Grill logo will feature on both the nose and side of the VF-23, racesuits of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team drivers Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hülkenberg and team apparel.
Nico Hülkenberg's Formula One return was announced prior to the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and will partner Magnussen for the 2023 season. Early 2023, Haas announced that Pietro Fittipaldi would remain as the official test and reserve driver for 2023. The two-time grand prix starter will work with the only American team competing in the FIA Formula 1
Stow Corner Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, UK, NN12 8TL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFFH8 - The need for a new city chambers had been apparent since the 18th century, with the old Tolbooth at Glasgow Cross becoming insufficient for the purposes of civic government in a growing town with greater political responsibilities. In 1814, the Tolbooth was sold with the exception of the steeple, which still remains and the council chambers moved to Jail Square in the Saltmarket, near Glasgow Green. Subsequent moves were made to Wilson Street and Ingram Street. In the early 1880s, City Architect John Carrick was asked to identify a suitable site for a purpose built City Council Chambers. Carrick identified the east side of George Square, which was then bought.
Following a design competition, the building was designed by the Scottish architect William Young in the Victorian style and construction started in 1882. The building was inaugurated by Queen Victoria in August 1888 and the first council meeting held within the chambers took place in October 1889. An extension connected by pairs of archways across John Street was completed in 1912 and Exchange House in George Street was completed in the mid-1980s
82 George Square, Glasgow,Strathclyde,Scotland,UK, G2 1DU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFFHA - The need for a new city chambers had been apparent since the 18th century, with the old Tolbooth at Glasgow Cross becoming insufficient for the purposes of civic government in a growing town with greater political responsibilities. In 1814, the Tolbooth was sold with the exception of the steeple, which still remains and the council chambers moved to Jail Square in the Saltmarket, near Glasgow Green. Subsequent moves were made to Wilson Street and Ingram Street. In the early 1880s, City Architect John Carrick was asked to identify a suitable site for a purpose built City Council Chambers. Carrick identified the east side of George Square, which was then bought.
Following a design competition, the building was designed by the Scottish architect William Young in the Victorian style and construction started in 1882. The building was inaugurated by Queen Victoria in August 1888 and the first council meeting held within the chambers took place in October 1889. An extension connected by pairs of archways across John Street was completed in 1912 and Exchange House in George Street was completed in the mid-1980s
82 George Square, Glasgow,Strathclyde,Scotland,UK, G2 1DU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG21X7 - The UK cost of living crisis is a period starting in 2021 in which prices for essential goods in the United Kingdom began increasing faster than household income, resulting in a fall in real income. This is caused in part by a rise in inflation in the UK. While all in the UK are affected by rising prices, the impact has been felt most by those with low income. The UK government has responded in various ways, such as by making provision for a £650 grant for each of the UK's lower income households.
Both global and local factors have contributed to the UK's cost of living crisis. According to Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, about 80% of the causes driving the cost of living crisis are global. These include the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, an ongoing chip shortage, an energy crisis in 20212022, a supply chain crisis in 20212022 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The UK was reported to be among the worst affected among the world's advanced economies. In 2021, the UK's inflation was less than that of the US, but high US inflation was not generally experienced as a cost of living crisis due to the stimulus cheques that had been distributed to American households. Though in 2022 the cost of living crisis was also reported as being a global phenomenon, having impacts that include those living in the US, across Europe, and as risking an apocalyptic impact for those in the developing world.
Causes unique to the UK include labour shortages related to foreign workers leaving due to Brexit, and additional taxes on households. Factors that have worsened the crisis since 1 April 2022 include Ofgem increasing the household energy price cap by 54%, an increase in National Insurance, and a rise in Council Tax. Household income, whether from wages or benefits, has not generally kept pace with rising prices. In April 2022, UK real wages fell by 4.5%, the sharpest fall since records began back in 2001
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_cost_of_living_crisis
Threadneedle St, London, England, UK, EC2R 8AH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG21XE - The UK cost of living crisis is a period starting in 2021 in which prices for essential goods in the United Kingdom began increasing faster than household income, resulting in a fall in real income. This is caused in part by a rise in inflation in the UK. While all in the UK are affected by rising prices, the impact has been felt most by those with low income. The UK government has responded in various ways, such as by making provision for a £650 grant for each of the UK's lower income households.
Both global and local factors have contributed to the UK's cost of living crisis. According to Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, about 80% of the causes driving the cost of living crisis are global. These include the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, an ongoing chip shortage, an energy crisis in 20212022, a supply chain crisis in 20212022 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The UK was reported to be among the worst affected among the world's advanced economies. In 2021, the UK's inflation was less than that of the US, but high US inflation was not generally experienced as a cost of living crisis due to the stimulus cheques that had been distributed to American households. Though in 2022 the cost of living crisis was also reported as being a global phenomenon, having impacts that include those living in the US, across Europe, and as risking an apocalyptic impact for those in the developing world.
Causes unique to the UK include labour shortages related to foreign workers leaving due to Brexit, and additional taxes on households. Factors that have worsened the crisis since 1 April 2022 include Ofgem increasing the household energy price cap by 54%, an increase in National Insurance, and a rise in Council Tax. Household income, whether from wages or benefits, has not generally kept pace with rising prices. In April 2022, UK real wages fell by 4.5%, the sharpest fall since records began back in 2001
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_cost_of_living_crisis
Threadneedle St, London, England, UK, EC2R 8AH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF1355 - Saddam Hussein playing cards where Saddam is the Ace of spades - Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards
During the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency developed a set of playing cards to help troops identify the most-wanted members of President Saddam Hussein's government, mostly high-ranking members of the Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party or members of the Revolutionary Command Council
among them were some of Hussein's family members. The cards were officially named the personality identification playing cards. As of 2021, all but 4 of the 52 most wanted have been either killed or captured, eleven of whom have been released.
Each card contains the wanted person's address and, if available, the job performed by that individual. The highest-ranking cards, starting with the aces and kings, were used for the people at the top of the most-wanted list. The ace of spades is Saddam Hussein, the aces of clubs and hearts are his sons Qusay and Uday respectively, and the ace of diamonds is Saddam's presidential secretary Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti. This strict correspondence to the order of the most-wanted list was not carried through the entire deck, but sometime later in 2003, the list itself was renumbered to conform (almost) to the deck of cards. The card backs feature camouflage reminiscent of that seen on the Desert Camouflage Uniform.
According to US Navy Lieutenant commander Jim Brooks, a spokesman for the Defense Intelligence Agency, such playing cards have been used as far back as the American Civil War and again in World War IIArmy Air Corps decks printed with the silhouettes of German and Japanese fighter aircraft fetch hundreds of dollars todayand in the Korean War. Troops often play cards to pass the time, and seeing the names, faces and titles of the wanted Iraqis during their games will help soldiers and Marines in case they run into the wanted individuals in the field.
Bagdad , Iraq
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ECW52W - Photo shows Christmas lights being overdone on a British house - Festive celebrations in December for Xmas. The photograph is useful for Christmas, Hogmanay, festive leisure, winter tourism, night-time economy and family entertainment themes. Seasonal images like this can work for travel, shopping, hospitality, energy use, household celebration, public events and wider stories about how towns and cities create atmosphere during darker months. The supplied workbook does not give a precise location, so the image should be treated as a concept or documentary subject unless the location can be verified separately. The image is strongly seasonal, with winter or Christmas context visible or implied by the caption. It should work for editorial buyers needing authentic, non-staged British or travel imagery for news, magazine, blog, local government, heritage, housing, transport, tourism, retail, public policy or social commentary use. The caption should be checked against the visible photograph before upload so that any readable signs, weather, time of day and people context are accurately reflected without overstating facts not shown in the image. The strongest sales value is the combination of named subject, real location and everyday documentary style, giving picture editors a flexible image that can sit alongside features, opinion pieces, explainers, historical retrospectives and local news. Search relevance is helped by including concise place names, visible brand or wording, functional subject terms, and wider editorial concepts such as public realm, consumer behaviour, heritage, travel, leisure and community life where they genuinely match the picture.
Witney, Oxfordshire, England, UK
