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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,County Durham,history,historic,heritage,J and G Archibald,Limited,Ltd,Durham,city,grid,grids,rust,diamond,covered,services,utility,utilities,DH1 1QG,DH1,cast iron,steel,iron,cities,steelworks,drain,drains,supply,supplies,manhole,water,sewage,waste
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RWMEJN - Taken on 15 Sep 2023, this photograph shows J&G Archibald Ltd grid, Gilesgate Goods Station, Durham City, England, UK, DH1 1QG. The location is Durham City, England, UK, DH1 1QG. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains platform, concourse or service signage details that place the railway scene in a real working transport environment. Barnard Castle is a historic Teesdale market town, with stone streets, independent shops and castle associations that support tourism, heritage trails and local retail photography. It could support features on pubs, beer, leisure, nightlife, tourism, heritage streets, local economies, independent hospitality and the pressures facing town-centre venues. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include Stanhope, Barnard Castle, Gilesgate Goods Station, Gilesgate, Durham City, embossed, diamonds, rusty, rusting, cover, County Durham, history, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes. Because the subject is clearly labelled or visually distinctive, it can also work well in search-led usage where the buyer needs immediate recognition at small web-preview size. Further SEO-friendly usage could include local services, town-centre change,heritage branding, British social history, public infrastruce
Durham City, England, UK, DH1 1QG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,WA4 6LG,Lymm,Manchester,Altrincham,Preston Brook,Frodsham,Chester,embossed,mile post,mile posts,history,historic,heritage,signpost,signposts,traditional,town,towns,villages,village,CCC,Cheshire,County,council,rust,rusting,rusty,letters,lettering,milepost,triangle,triangles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RX17RM - Taken on 09 Sep 2023, this photograph shows Cheshire County Council white metal mile post 1898 - to Lymm, Manchester, Altrincham, at Stockton Heath A49, A56 junction, Warrington, England, UK,. The location is London Rd, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6LG. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains close-up metalwork, embossed lettering, patina, rust and wear that document everyday civic infrastructure. The 1898 Cheshire County Council milepost is a small but valuable piece of roadside heritage, showing pre-satnav wayfinding, cast-metal manufacture and the historic road network around Stockton Heath. It can be used in editorial features, business reports, local-history writing, travel guides, public-policy explainers, educational material and SEO-led stock-photo searches needing a specific real-world image. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include milepost, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, London Road, cast iron, Cheshire County Council, 1898, metal, white, WA4 6LG, Lymm, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes. It has value for both local and national stories, especially where writers need to connect a named place or object with wider economic, social, environmental or cultural change.
London Rd, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6LG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,WA4 6LG,Lymm,Manchester,Altrincham,Preston Brook,Frodsham,Chester,embossed,mile post,mile posts,history,historic,heritage,signpost,signposts,traditional,town,towns,villages,village,CCC,Cheshire,County,council,rust,rusting,rusty,letters,lettering,milepost,triangle,triangles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RX17T0 - Taken on 09 Sep 2023, this photograph shows Cheshire County Council white metal mile post 1898 - to Lymm, Manchester, Altrincham, at Stockton Heath A49, A56 junction, Warrington, England, UK,. The location is London Rd, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6LG. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains close-up metalwork, embossed lettering, patina, rust and wear that document everyday civic infrastructure. The 1898 Cheshire County Council milepost is a small but valuable piece of roadside heritage, showing pre-satnav wayfinding, cast-metal manufacture and the historic road network around Stockton Heath. It can be used in editorial features, business reports, local-history writing, travel guides, public-policy explainers, educational material and SEO-led stock-photo searches needing a specific real-world image. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include milepost, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, London Road, cast iron, Cheshire County Council, 1898, metal, white, WA4 6LG, Lymm, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes. The photograph should appeal to buyers looking for a grounded visual that says more than a studio icon, because it ties the subject to a real street, building, object or public.
London Rd, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6LG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,ER,WA4,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4 6JX,automatic,site,sites,gate,communications,OpenReach,entry,entrance,access,mast,aerial,sign,signs,rust,rusty,rustings,sunny,bright,PSTN,Network,Switch Off,In,2025,public switched,telephone network,fibre,solutions,ADSL,max,21CN WBC,enabled
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RX17T9 - 21CN WBC
This exchange is 21CN WBC enabled
ADSL Max
The Stockton Heath exchange has been enabled for ADSL Max since March 2006
ADSL
The Stockton Heath telephone exchange in Warrington was enabled for ADSL in September 2000
Ofcom Classification
The BT exchange, Stockton Heath is classified by Ofcom as:- Market 3.
PSTN Network Switch Off In 2025
The first stage Openreach propose to facilitate the retirement of their public switched telephone network (PSTN) is to issue 'Stop Sell' dates for specific telephone exchanges. Once a 'Stop Sell' date has passed, communication providers (CP's) will be unable to order any copper based products if a fibre solution is available at the customer's premises. Accepted fibre solutions include FTTP and SOGEA/SOGFast.
Impacted product and services that will be unavailable beyond a 'Stop Sell' date include WLR3 analogue, ISDN 2, ISDN 30, LLU SMPF, SLU SMPF, Narrowband Line Share and Classic products.
Openreach have identified 581 specific 'FTTP Priority Exchanges' that will be the first to receive 'Stop Sell' notices, see below.
Openreach have not identified the Stockton Heath Exchange as a 'FTTP Priority Exchange' and the 'Stop Sell' date will be September 2023.
White St, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6JX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,historic,cast,iron,steel,metal,embossed,labelled,with,autumn,leaf,leaves,street,road,Westminsters,rust,rusty,rusted,old,autumnal,letter,letters,word,words,the,Fall,label,sign,sewage,seat,of,government
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T35C1K - This plain-speaking location image records Historic cast iron embossed grid labelled City of Westminster, with autumn leaves. The row metadata places the subject at Westminster, London, England, UK, SW1. The spreadsheet date indicates 07 September 2023, so the picture can also work as a time-specific archive record. Plainly, the image is useful because it shows City of Westminster, Westminster, city, centre, cast iron, grid, grids, London, with search-relevant terms including City of Westminster, Westminster, city, centre, cast iron, grid, grids, London, history, heritage, England, UK, historic, cast. The arranged lettering gives the image a clear concept-photo role, turning a difficult policy or finance phrase into something immediately legible for readers. London details are useful because the city layers national politics, migration, commerce, tourism, neighbourhood change and local high streets. East End, Westminster and Holborn subjects can all carry wider meaning beyond their immediate street address. Cast iron, mileposts, grids and mining lamps are valuable industrial-history details, linking local manufacture, transport networks, public works, mining safety, municipal identity and the durable material culture still visible in streets today. It has strong value for publishers needing authentic documentary imagery for news pages, blog articles, council reports, social media graphics, presentations, magazine features and local-history explainers. Historically and socially, this kind of image can help connect past and present: older streets, civic institutions, transport systems, shops, signs, political messages or public services are not frozen museum pieces, but part of how people understand modern life, local identity and economic change. For SEO and stock-photo discovery, the description deliberately supports searches around London, documentary photography.
Westminster, London, England, UK, SW1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,centre,High Peak,Derbyshire,England,UK,spa,history,of,SK17 6XN,SK17,Water Street,Needham,made,by,& sons,ltd,Stockport,cast,iron,embossed,grate,grid,manufactured,drain,drains,rust,rusty,rusting,Limited,old,historic,heritage,metal
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RJPXHG - Taken on 20 Aug 2023, this photograph shows Borough of Buxton cast iron embossed grid, made by John Needham & sons ltd, Stockport, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, SK17 6XN. The location is Water Street, Buxton, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, SK17 6XN. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains close-up metalwork, embossed lettering, patina, rust and wear that document everyday civic infrastructure. The cast-iron Buxton grid records the municipal detail of a spa town built around water, streets, drainage and nineteenth-century civic improvement. It can be used in editorial features, business reports, local-history writing, travel guides, public-policy explainers, educational material and SEO-led stock-photo searches needing a specific real-world image. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include Borough, Borough of Buxton, town, Buxton, John Needham, embossed, cast iron, old, blocked, historic, centre, High Peak, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes. The photograph should appeal to buyers looking for a grounded visual that says more than a studio icon, because it ties the subject to a real street, building, object or public setting.
Water Street, Buxton, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, SK17 6XN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,centre,Merseyside,England,UK,tourist,summer,sunny,city centre,L1 4DS,L1,Liverpool Corporation,cast iron grid,cast,iron,steel,grid,grids,covers,rust,rusting,rusty,utility,utilities,pipes,manhole,drains,manholes,street,road,water,waterworks,supply,sewage,Sanatory
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RJAFG8 - Liverpool Corporation Waterworks and its successors have provided a public water supply and sewerage and sewage treatment services to the city of Liverpool, England. In 1625 water was obtained from a single well and delivered by cart, but as the town grew, companies supplied water to homes through pipes. There were two main companies by the 1840s, but the water supply was intermittent, and there was general dissatisfaction with the service. Liverpool Corporation decided that such an important service should be provided by a public body, and sought to take over the water supply companies.
A series of Acts of Parliament were obtained, the first being the Liverpool Sanatory Act 1846, which created three key posts, the Medical Officer of Health, the Inspector of Nuisances, and the Borough Engineer. The latter post was filled by James Newlands, a visionary man who defined the role of the Borough Engineer, to be copied by many other towns and cities. He set about creating large scale maps of Liverpool, building a water-based sewerage system, making provision for bath houses, wash houses, swimming lessons, minimum sizes for rooms, paving and street lighting. The sewage was emptied into the River Mersey for the tides to take away, but he saw this as an interim measure, with a sewage treatment works being required. This part of his vision was not implemented until the 1980s.
city centre, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 4DS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,harbour,Leith,sea,Shore,the,The Shore,(Foundry),Ltd,limited,Scotland,UK,&,rust,grids,grate,cast,iron,steel,manufacturing,industries,old,historic,heritage,metal,EH,EH1,Scottish,makers,maker,British,foundries,Mackenzie,and,Moncur,14 Albany Street,EH1 3QB
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RHP1AP - Taken on 23 Jul 2023, this photograph shows Heavy cast iron grid embossed with Mackenzie & Moncur (Foundry) Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, EH1 3QB. The location is 14 Albany St, Edinburgh, EH1 3QB. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains close-up metalwork, embossed lettering, patina, rust and wear that document everyday civic infrastructure. The Mackenzie and Moncur foundry mark is useful for industrial archaeology, Edinburgh street furniture, cast-iron manufacture and the unnoticed infrastructure underfoot in historic cities. The scene can be used for coastal heritage, fishing industry, working harbours, tourism, Scottish waterfront regeneration, maritime identity and the relationship between old ports and modern leisure. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include Foundry, Mackenzie & Moncur, Mackenzie, Moncur, Edinburgh, rusting, rusty, industry, manufacture, casting, harbour, Leith, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes. It also has a useful contemporary feel, because it shows how long-standing places, policies, products or institutions are encountered by ordinary people in daily life. Further SEO-friendly usage could include local services, town-centre change, heritage branding, British social history
14 Albany St, Edinburgh, EH1 3QB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,NI,Northern Ireland,UK,centre,Titanic,steel,rust,logo,rusty,1,Belfast,County Antrim,BT3 9EP,BT3,iron,metal,signs,words,spelt,culture,docks,exhibit,history,heritage,historic,shipyards,quarter,tourist,attraction,sunny,blue sky,White Star,building,architecture
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ35G - Titanic Belfast is a visitor attraction opened in 2012, a monument to Belfast's maritime heritage on the site of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard in the city's Titanic Quarter where the RMS Titanic was built. It tells the stories of the Titanic, which hit an iceberg and sank during her maiden voyage in 1912, and her sister ships RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic. The building contains more than 12,000 square metres (130,000 sq ft) of floor space, most of which is occupied by a series of galleries, private function rooms and community facilities.
Titanic Belfast is owned by the Maritime Belfast Trust and commercially operated by Titanic Belfast Limited under a 25-year operator agreement which commenced in 2011.
The building is located on Queen's Island, an area of land at the entrance of Belfast Lough which was reclaimed from the water in the mid-19th century. It was used for many years by the shipbuilders Harland and Wolff, who built huge slipways and graving docks to accommodate the simultaneous construction of the Olympic and Titanic. The decline of shipbuilding in Belfast left much of the area derelict. Most of the disused structures on the island were demolished. A number of heritage features were given listed status, including the Olympic and Titanic slipways and graving docks, as well as the iconic Samson and Goliath cranes.
The derelict land was renamed the Titanic Quarter in 2001 and was earmarked for regeneration. Development rights over 185 acres was subsequently bought by Harcourt Developments at a cost of £47 million, with 23 more acres set aside for a science park. The redevelopment plans included houses, hotels and entertainment amenities plus a maritime heritage museum and science centre. In 2005, plans were announced to build a museum dedicated to Titanic to attract tourists to the area, with the aim of completing it by 2012 to mark the centenary of Titanic's maiden voyage and sinking.
1 Olympic Way, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, BT3 9EP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,NI,Northern Ireland,UK,centre,Titanic,steel,rust,logo,rusty,1,Belfast,County Antrim,BT3 9EP,BT3,iron,metal,signs,words,spelt,culture,docks,exhibit,history,heritage,historic,shipyards,quarter,tourist,attraction,sunny,blue sky,White Star,building,architecture
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ36M - Titanic Belfast is a visitor attraction opened in 2012, a monument to Belfast's maritime heritage on the site of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard in the city's Titanic Quarter where the RMS Titanic was built. It tells the stories of the Titanic, which hit an iceberg and sank during her maiden voyage in 1912, and her sister ships RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic. The building contains more than 12,000 square metres (130,000 sq ft) of floor space, most of which is occupied by a series of galleries, private function rooms and community facilities.
Titanic Belfast is owned by the Maritime Belfast Trust and commercially operated by Titanic Belfast Limited under a 25-year operator agreement which commenced in 2011.
The building is located on Queen's Island, an area of land at the entrance of Belfast Lough which was reclaimed from the water in the mid-19th century. It was used for many years by the shipbuilders Harland and Wolff, who built huge slipways and graving docks to accommodate the simultaneous construction of the Olympic and Titanic. The decline of shipbuilding in Belfast left much of the area derelict. Most of the disused structures on the island were demolished. A number of heritage features were given listed status, including the Olympic and Titanic slipways and graving docks, as well as the iconic Samson and Goliath cranes.
The derelict land was renamed the Titanic Quarter in 2001 and was earmarked for regeneration. Development rights over 185 acres was subsequently bought by Harcourt Developments at a cost of £47 million, with 23 more acres set aside for a science park. The redevelopment plans included houses, hotels and entertainment amenities plus a maritime heritage museum and science centre. In 2005, plans were announced to build a museum dedicated to Titanic to attract tourists to the area, with the aim of completing it by 2012 to mark the centenary of Titanic's maiden voyage and sinking.
1 Olympic Way, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, BT3 9EP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,cast iron grid,street ironwork,metal cover,industrial heritage,Victorian ironwork,historic street furniture,urban,detail,details,street furniture,grid,grids,rust,rusty,A C Woodrow and Company,London foundry,cast iron plate,metal grid cover,pavement ironwork,embossed lettering,rusted metal,weathered surface,industrial design,typography in metal,urban archaeology,street texture,abstract texture,close up detail,diamond,Highgate,foundry,ironworks
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RADRR7 - A close-up view of a cast iron street grid bearing the raised lettering A C Woodrow & Co, London. The metal surface shows signs of age and oxidation, with a blue-grey patina and rust tones around the edges, highlighting the durability and long service life of traditional British ironwork.
A C Woodrow & Co was a London-based manufacturer supplying cast iron street furniture and utility covers during a period when local and regional foundries produced much of the infrastructure embedded in British streets. The geometric stud pattern and embossed lettering reflect functional industrial design intended to provide strength, grip, and clear identification.
Photographed tightly to emphasise texture, colour, and typography, the image works both as documentary evidence of historic urban infrastructure and as an abstract study of industrial materials. It is suitable for illustrating themes of Victorian and early-20th-century manufacturing, urban archaeology, street design, and the material history of London.
Urban street surface, Highgate, London, England, United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,British,city,centre,Merseyside,L3 4AF,L3,Royal Albert Dock,Pier Head,Liverpool,port,sail,sailor,sailors,the,dock,docks,America,manhole,cover,at,Tate,art,artwork,Jeon Joonho,News from Nowhere,William Morris,leaves,vine,vines,gallery,covers,rust,rusty,rusting
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R22XM1 - Grid covers
One of these covers was installed over an existing drain at the entrance to Tate Modern in 2019, while another could be found inside the gallery itself. They stood for the thin cover that we place over the dirty and chaotic parts of our world that must exist to allow civilisation to function. The exhibition also demonstrated links between Liverpool and Jeon's home city of Busan in South Korea. Both were powerful ports 100 years ago, but suffered decline in the 20th century, followed by a culture and heritage-fronted resurgence at the 21st century got under way.
The metal grid is embedded in the pavement outside Tate Liverpool at the Albert Dock. It is decorated with intertwining vine-like branches, and in the centre is the phrase My future will reflect a new world. There's a spider's web and a few other things floating round (perhaps berries or pollen grains).
Art at the Dock
The proximity to Tate Liverpool isn't coincidental. This installation is part of a wider collaboration between artists Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, under the banner News from Nowhere'
News From Nowhere is the name of a novel by the very same William Morris I mentioned in the first paragraph. In the novel, the Victorian protagonist is mysteriously catapulted into the 21st century, and his conversations with the futuristic inhabitants act as a satire and comment on the inequalities and rampant industrialisation of Morris's own time (and there lies the connection with the bookshop).
Moon and Jeon's collaboration arose from conversations between the two artists over art's role in the world. They were fed up [with] wasteful art installations and art production. Part of their News From Nowhere collaboration is a piece of video called El Fin del Mondo (End of the World) which reminds us that the future is no yet written, though we in the present are writing it all the time. Therefore, art can have a very important place in deciding the direction of the world as a whole.
Royal Albert Dock, Pier Head, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 4AF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lincolnshire,England,UK,centre,Foster & Co,Lincoln,birthplace,of,the,tank,steel,metal,rust,rusty,&,engineering,engineers,Fosters of Lincoln,1915,WWI,William Foster,William Tritton,engineer,Tritton Road,roundabout,great,war,Ropewalk,Brayford way,7FS,Tritton Rd,LN6 7FS,LN6
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PNA0YH - A memorial to the Lincoln engineers that worked together to invent the tank in Lincoln in 1915.
William Foster & Co. was a Lincoln company in the early 20th century and was instrumental in the invention of the tank - a machine that is said to have cut short World War 1 and saved millions of lives.
This memorial to Foster and the others who helped him - including William Tritton - shows the shape of the early tanks and represents tha teamwork across Lincoln to bring the tank into existence. It is suitable located on the roundabout at the beginning of Tritton Road, named after the local engineer himself.
Tritton Road, Ropewalk, Brayford way roundabout,
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Merseyside,city,centre,England,UK,L1,GB,Great Britain,Scottish,Bristol,tobacco,addiction,addictive,smoking,smoker,tabs,smokes,fags,fag,rust,rusted,Wills,Star,graphic,design,enamel,sign,with,Cigarette,manufacturing,cancer,risk,W.D. & H.O. Wills,smokers,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MA7NNC -
Liverpool, city,centre, Merseyside, England,UK, L1
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Keywords: L1,drain,cover,city,centre,The Beatles,iron,steel,Merseyside,England,UK,L1 2SF,road,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,graphic,in,the,council,of,triangle,trapezoid,history,sewage,sewerage,Beatle city,Beatles City,city centre,metal,rust,old,historic,travel,tourist,tourists,attraction
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M95NN9 -
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 2SF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Merseyside,England,UK,L3 9BP,building,architecture,office,art,artwork,by,Broadbent Studio,Broadbent,Studio,2006,Beetham Organisation,Beetham,Organisation,artist,artists,works,of,faces,life,city,centre,business,district,offices,steel,rust,rusty,rusting,sunny,blue sky,rotating,ring
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MGWK0Y - Connections - Face of Liverpool
NAME : Connections - Face of Liverpool DATE : 2006 CLIENT : Beetham Organisation LOCATION : Liverpool PARTNERS : Landscape Architect: BCA Landscape, Designers: Smiling Wolf, PR Agency: Leapfrog PHOTOGRAPHER : Guy Woodland MANUFACTURE PARTNERS: Main Contractor: Carillion, Timber: Eves Joinery, Concrete: Evans Concrete.
Old Hall St, Llverpool, city, centre, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 9BP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,M20,M30 8GF,steel,town,centre,embossed,street,road,access,manhole,grid,rusty,rust,orange,utility,utilities,EN124,ENI24,BS EN 124,covers grating,gratings,cover,drain,drains,ironwork,ironworks,foundry,foundries,metal,solid,Eccles,Salford
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2P6JGE7 - Under BS EN 124:2015, manhole covers, access covers and gully grates are graded by different loading applications, ranging from class A15 up to F900. Each loading application has a specific meaning and it is very crucial that the right one is selected, otherwise, if the loading is wrong, the covers or gratings will not last and could become dangerous.
Eccles, Salford, England, UK, M30 8GF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,steel,ironwork,works,rust,street,utility,covers,Lancashire,England,UK,M1,cast,city,centre,pavement,urban,GB,Great Britain,Cottonopolis,Mancunian,Mancunians,Madchester,cast iron,iron,embossed,stamp,stamped,rusting,rusted,pattern,patterns,GM,Greater Manchester
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M69CA1 -
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,metal,steel,Lancs,Lancashire,M1,M1 1SH,GM,council,Cottonopolis,manc,Mancunian,Manchester City Region,Greater Manchester City Region,AGMA,devolved,government,devolution,city,cover,drain,drains,utilities,services,rusting,rusty,rust,pattern,foundry,foundries,cast,casting,cast iron
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M6GC3A -
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1 1SH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,UK,Scotland,iron,and,Ltd,limited,access,manhole,named,grid,rust,rusty,services,sewage,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole,Scots,Scot,Scottish,embossed,name,foundry,foundries,maker,cast,steel,metal,Limited,city,centre,EH1,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M3JBRF -
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, EH1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,street grid,York,England,UK,infrastructure,rust,rusty,cast,rust texture,weathered iron,industrial metal,drainage cover,utility infrastructure,pavement detail,street furniture,ageing infrastructure,corrosion,oxidised metal,geometric pattern,square studs,embossed lettering,historic city detail,civil engineering,municipal services,public utilities,urban surface,abstract texture,close up detail,editorial photography,round,square,history,heritage,historic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R59WXW - This image shows a close-up detail of a cast iron street grid set into the pavement in the historic city of York. The surface of the grid is heavily weathered, with visible rust, corrosion, and oxidisation built up over many years of exposure to rain, foot traffic, and seasonal temperature changes.
The grid features a repeating geometric pattern of raised square studs, designed to provide strength, durability, and slip resistance. Iron grids and covers of this type are a common but often overlooked element of urban infrastructure, providing access to drainage systems or underground utilities while forming part of the everyday streetscape.
In historic cities such as York, street furniture like this often dates back decades, sometimes even to earlier phases of municipal development, and reflects the longevity of traditional cast iron engineering. The visible patina and wear give the metal a textured, almost abstract quality, making it of interest not only for documentary and editorial use but also for design-led or texture-focused imagery.
Photographed tightly to emphasise surface detail, colour variation, and material decay, the image works well for editorial coverage of urban infrastructure, industrial heritage, public utilities, and the hidden physical systems that support city life in the UK.
York York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M4MR0K - Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames
it faces the French department of Pas-de-Calais across the Strait of Dover. The county town is Maidstone. It is the fifth most populous county in England, the most populous non-Metropolitan county and the most populous of the home counties.
Kent was one of the first British territories to be settled by Germanic tribes, most notably the Jutes, following the withdrawal of the Romans. Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, the oldest cathedral in England, has been the seat of the Archbishops of Canterbury since the conversion of England to Christianity that began in the 6th century with Saint Augustine. Rochester Cathedral in Medway is England's second-oldest cathedral. Located between London and the Strait of Dover, which separates England from mainland Europe, Kent has been the setting for both conflict and diplomacy, including the Battle of Britain in World War II and the Leeds Castle peace talks of 1978 and 2004.
Kent, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M6YFCM -
Cheltenham town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3K5RP - Taken on 26 Sep 2022, the photograph focuses on Cast iron grid embossed with Grid J-Allen Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England, UK, LS24 8AA. The thumbnail is a close-up of worn cast iron lettering, rust, paint and street texture, making the picture especially useful for searches about small historic details, local manufacturers and surviving public realm objects. Tadcaster is a long-established Yorkshire brewing town on the River Wharfe, and its streets still carry the visual imprint of beer production, coaching routes, stone buildings, flood risk and local trade. For stock photography use, the value is in the precise subject: Cast iron grid embossed with Grid J-Allen Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England, UK, LS24 8AA. It can support articles and publications about cast iron manufacturer, street furniture, urban archaeology, industrial foundry history, drainage detail, public realm, municipal heritage, texture background, local maker mark, engineering history, as well as more specific searches using Tadcaster, Yorkshire, rusted, grid, Cast iron, LS24 8AA, LS24, embossed, J Allen, Allen, North Yorkshire, with, rust, rusty, cast, iron, metal, steel. The composition also gives space for tighter crops, captions, web thumbnails, report illustrations and social media use, while the Alamy reference 2K3K5RP and the row caption help connect the image to a real place rather than a vague concept. The picture can be used by writers covering heritage, conservation, planning, tourism, retail, transport, public services, nostalgia, local identity, architectural survival, industrial change and the way familiar objects or buildings continue to carry meaning in modern Britain. The close-up surface makes the photograph useful as a textured background as well as a local-history record. Raised lettering, rust, paint loss and maker names can support features on foundries, municipal engineer
Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England, UK, LS24 8AA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,cast,iron,steel,metal,manhole,cover,rusting,S60 1AF,Guest,Chrimes,cast iron,grids,grid,street sewage,sanitary cover,Yorkshire,England,UK,Rotheram,Masbrough,engineers,urban,man-hole,covers,drain,drains,worn,rust,rusty,rusted,old,history,historic,heritage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M4W2HH -
Rotherham, South Yorks, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M1MF3F - In 1845 a directory first listed a brass-founding business under Chrime Brothers
Edward, Richard and Peter were the sons of Edward Chrimes senior, a plumber and glazier. In the same year Edward Chrimes junior patented the 'high pressure loose valve screw-down cock', fore runner of the modern domestic tap
His brother Richard returned from London initially on a temporary basis to run the company. He then entered into partnership with John Guest, with the company becoming known as Guest and Chrimes. In 1848 the firm also started making sluice valve bodies cast in one piece, and from 1849 they manufactured patented New York style fire hydrants, which were widely exported.
The first foundry, known as Butter Market Foundry, was situated close to the River Don and the Market Place. In the mid 1850s the firm was awarded a large contract for valve gear and plumbing equipment for the Madrid Water Company in Spain, which necessitated an expansion of manufacturing. A new larger site was purchased beside the River Don and in 1857 the present factory was built on Don Street on a previously open field. The firm now had the facility for casting and machining both brass and iron.
The premises of Guest and Chrimes were listed at Grade II in February 1986. In 1999 the complex closed. All the post-1934 buildings were demolished in the early C21, having gone by 2012. In July 2018 there was a fire in the front, eastern range. Subsequently the whole of the front office range, caretaker's house, eastern extension and part of the angled return were demolished, leaving eight bays attached to the long rear range with the water tower
Read more at https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1192221?section=official-list-entry
Don Street, Rotherham , Yorkshire , England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3J781 - Taken on 23 Sep 2022, this carefully framed image documents Rusty girders, Chester Road swing bridge, MSC Manchester Ship Canal, looking east to Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England,UK,WA4 6EG. The thumbnail shows canal infrastructure, painted boat names, locks, dock water, museum machinery or weathered ironwork, giving the description a strong inland waterways, transport heritage and industrial archaeology focus. The Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1894 and reshaped the economy of Manchester, Salford, Warrington and Ellesmere Port, leaving behind swing bridges, notices, dockside objects, vessels and company signs. For stock photography use, the value is in the precise subject: Rusty girders, Chester Road swing bridge, MSC Manchester Ship Canal, looking east to Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England,UK,WA4 6EG. It can support articles and publications about industrial waterway, transport infrastructure, swing bridge, canal engineering, dockside heritage, ship canal history, rust texture, urban river scene, northern infrastructure, waterfront regeneration, as well as more specific searches using Stockton Heath, Chester Road, rusting, swingbridge, swing, bridge, Peel Ports, crossing, rust, Chester Rd, Warrington, WA4 6NJ, WA4, Cheshire, WA4 6EG, poor, maintenance, Rusty girders. The composition also gives space for tighter crops, captions, web thumbnails, report illustrations and social media use, while the Alamy reference 2K3J781 and the row caption help connect the image to a real place rather than a vague concept. The picture can be used by writers covering heritage, conservation, planning, tourism, retail, transport, public services, nostalgia, local identity, architectural survival, industrial change and the way familiar objects or buildings continue to carry meaning in modern Britain.
Chester Road,Warrington, Cheshire, England,UK,WA4 6EG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1NKA2 -
Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 2HA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1NKA5 -
Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 1AD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1NRHK -
United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1NRHN -
United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1RDEM - Chapel-en-le-Frith (/ˌtʃæpəl ˌɒn lə ˈfrɪθ/) is a town and civil parish in the Borough of High Peak in Derbyshire, England.
It has been dubbed the Capital of the Peak, in reference to the Peak District, historically the upperland areas between the Saxon lands (below the River Trent) and the Vikings lands (which came as far south as Dore, Sheffield).
The town was established by the Normans in the 12th century, originally as a hunting lodge within the Forest of High Peak. This led to the French-derived name Chapel-en-le-Frith (chapel in the forest). (It appears in an English form in a Latin record as 'Chapell in the ffryth', in 1401.) The population at the 2011 census was 8,635
Although most of the area is outside the National Park boundary, the town is in the western part of the Peak District. To the north and south lie the Dark Peak highlands, which are made up of millstone grit and are heather-covered moorlands, rugged and bleak. These include Chinley Churn and South Head with, a little further off, Kinder Scout, which looms above the whole area. To the east is the gentler and more pastoral White Peak, consisting largely of limestone grasslands, nevertheless with spectacular bluffs and the occasional gorge. Combs Moss, a gritstone 'edge', dominates the valley in which Chapel lies from the south and Eccles Pike rises sharply above the town to its west and provides a commanding 360° viewpoint.
Chapel-en-le-frith, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK, SK23 0BA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1WB84 - Whaley Bridge is a town and civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England. It is situated on the River Goyt, 16 miles (26 km) south-east of Manchester, 7 miles (11 km) north of Buxton, 9 miles (14 km) north-east of Macclesfield and 28 miles (45 km) west of Sheffield. It had a population of 6,455 at the 2011 census, including Furness Vale, Horwich End, Bridgemont, Fernilee, Stoneheads and Taxal.
The River Goyt formed the historical boundary between Derbyshire and Cheshire. The present town of Whaley Bridge was divided into smaller towns in both counties. Historical records show that, in 1316, on the Cheshire side there were Taxal, Yeardsley and Whaley
the last two were combined into one district of Yeardsley-cum-Whaley. The Derbyshire side consisted only of Fernilee, which included the villages of Shallcross and Horwich. This side was in the parish of Hope and was part of the Forest of High Peak, while the Cheshire side was part of the Forest of Macclesfield. From 1796, Taxal and Yeardsley were effectively joined in that the Jodrell family was the main landowner in both towns, although the administration of these remained separate until 1936
Whaley Bridge continues to expand as new housing is built, but retains the character of a small town. As the self-styled Gateway to the Goyt, it attracts tourists, mainly walkers, but has not become dominated by the tourist industry, unlike some other local towns and villages. The Peak District Boundary Walk runs through the village
Whaley Bridge, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK, SK23 7AA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M8A -
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M9Y -
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K244B0 - Of a type generically known as Weaver packet, CUDDINGTON was built of steel in 1948 by W. J. Yarwood & Sons, Northwich, Cheshire, for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). She was named after a village near Northwich and carried chemicals, such as soda ash, from the ICI works at Winnington, near Northwich, down the rivers Weaver and Mersey to Liverpool. She carried on working until the 1970s and, in 1979, went to the Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port, where she is still on display. Source: Paul Brown, Historic Ships The Survivors (Amberley, 2010),
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K244B3 - Of a type generically known as Weaver packet, CUDDINGTON was built of steel in 1948 by W. J. Yarwood & Sons, Northwich, Cheshire, for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). She was named after a village near Northwich and carried chemicals, such as soda ash, from the ICI works at Winnington, near Northwich, down the rivers Weaver and Mersey to Liverpool. She carried on working until the 1970s and, in 1979, went to the Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port, where she is still on display. Source: Paul Brown, Historic Ships The Survivors (Amberley, 2010),
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K244B6 -
South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K244B9 - Of a type generically known as Weaver packet, CUDDINGTON was built of steel in 1948 by W. J. Yarwood & Sons, Northwich, Cheshire, for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). She was named after a village near Northwich and carried chemicals, such as soda ash, from the ICI works at Winnington, near Northwich, down the rivers Weaver and Mersey to Liverpool. She carried on working until the 1970s and, in 1979, went to the Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port, where she is still on display. Source: Paul Brown, Historic Ships The Survivors (Amberley, 2010),
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K244BP - Of a type generically known as Weaver packet, CUDDINGTON was built of steel in 1948 by W. J. Yarwood & Sons, Northwich, Cheshire, for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). She was named after a village near Northwich and carried chemicals, such as soda ash, from the ICI works at Winnington, near Northwich, down the rivers Weaver and Mersey to Liverpool. She carried on working until the 1970s and, in 1979, went to the Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port, where she is still on display. Source: Paul Brown, Historic Ships The Survivors (Amberley, 2010),
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K244BW - Of a type generically known as Weaver packet, CUDDINGTON was built of steel in 1948 by W. J. Yarwood & Sons, Northwich, Cheshire, for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). She was named after a village near Northwich and carried chemicals, such as soda ash, from the ICI works at Winnington, near Northwich, down the rivers Weaver and Mersey to Liverpool. She carried on working until the 1970s and, in 1979, went to the Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port, where she is still on display. Source: Paul Brown, Historic Ships The Survivors (Amberley, 2010),
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K2PP49 -
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K2PPCC - Of a type generically known as Weaver packet, CUDDINGTON was built of steel in 1948 by W. J. Yarwood & Sons, Northwich, Cheshire, for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). She was named after a village near Northwich and carried chemicals, such as soda ash, from the ICI works at Winnington, near Northwich, down the rivers Weaver and Mersey to Liverpool. She carried on working until the 1970s and, in 1979, went to the Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port, where she is still on display. Source: Paul Brown, Historic Ships The Survivors (Amberley, 2010),
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K2PPKA - Of a type generically known as Weaver packet, CUDDINGTON was built of steel in 1948 by W. J. Yarwood & Sons, Northwich, Cheshire, for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). She was named after a village near Northwich and carried chemicals, such as soda ash, from the ICI works at Winnington, near Northwich, down the rivers Weaver and Mersey to Liverpool. She carried on working until the 1970s and, in 1979, went to the Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port, where she is still on display. Source: Paul Brown, Historic Ships The Survivors (Amberley, 2010),
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K2PR4R -
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K2PRE9 -
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K2PRNX -
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,National Waterways Museum South Pier Road,Ellesmere Port,Cheshire,England,UK,CH65 4FW,CH65,history,Interior of blacksmiths shop,shaping,canalside works,canal side,inside,Interior,of,blacksmiths,tools,rust,old,tongs,hammer,wheel,Blacksmiths shop,shop,workshop,workshops,tool,forge,forging,shelves,shelf,interior,dirty,dusty
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3082E - A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith). Blacksmiths produce objects such as gates, grilles, railings, light fixtures, furniture, sculpture, tools, agricultural implements, decorative and religious items, cooking utensils, and weapons. There was an historical distinction between the heavy work of the blacksmith and the more delicate operation of a whitesmith, who usually worked in gold, silver, pewter, or the finishing steps of fine steel. The place where a blacksmith works is called variously a smithy, a forge or a blacksmith's shop.
While there are many people who work with metal such as farriers, wheelwrights, and armorers, in former times the blacksmith had a general knowledge of how to make and repair many things, from the most complex of weapons and armor to simple things like nails or lengths of chain.
The black in blacksmith refers to the black firescale[citation needed], a layer of oxides that forms on the surface of the metal during heating. The origin of smith is the Old English word smið meaning blacksmith, originating from the Proto-Germanic *smithaz meaning skilled worker.
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3082H - A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith). Blacksmiths produce objects such as gates, grilles, railings, light fixtures, furniture, sculpture, tools, agricultural implements, decorative and religious items, cooking utensils, and weapons. There was an historical distinction between the heavy work of the blacksmith and the more delicate operation of a whitesmith, who usually worked in gold, silver, pewter, or the finishing steps of fine steel. The place where a blacksmith works is called variously a smithy, a forge or a blacksmith's shop.
While there are many people who work with metal such as farriers, wheelwrights, and armorers, in former times the blacksmith had a general knowledge of how to make and repair many things, from the most complex of weapons and armor to simple things like nails or lengths of chain.
The black in blacksmith refers to the black firescale[citation needed], a layer of oxides that forms on the surface of the metal during heating. The origin of smith is the Old English word smið meaning blacksmith, originating from the Proto-Germanic *smithaz meaning skilled worker.
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3082K - A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith). Blacksmiths produce objects such as gates, grilles, railings, light fixtures, furniture, sculpture, tools, agricultural implements, decorative and religious items, cooking utensils, and weapons. There was an historical distinction between the heavy work of the blacksmith and the more delicate operation of a whitesmith, who usually worked in gold, silver, pewter, or the finishing steps of fine steel. The place where a blacksmith works is called variously a smithy, a forge or a blacksmith's shop.
While there are many people who work with metal such as farriers, wheelwrights, and armorers, in former times the blacksmith had a general knowledge of how to make and repair many things, from the most complex of weapons and armor to simple things like nails or lengths of chain.
The black in blacksmith refers to the black firescale[citation needed], a layer of oxides that forms on the surface of the metal during heating. The origin of smith is the Old English word smið meaning blacksmith, originating from the Proto-Germanic *smithaz meaning skilled worker.
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0PRR9 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JWE11K - The North Western Gas Board was a state-owned utility area gas board providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in the north-west of England.
It was established on 1 May 1949 under the terms of the Gas Act 1948, and dissolved in 1973 when it became a region of the newly formed British Gas Corporation, British Gas North Western, as a result of the Gas Act 1972.
Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2PL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JWGTBY -
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTWGKT -
Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1AB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTWGKY -
Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1AB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTWGP4 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTJYM9 -
Kilmarnock, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTJ9C4 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD3P2 -
Great Britain, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTR44J -
A50, Knutsford Road, Latchford,Warrington,Cheshire,England, UK, WA4
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K11P0W -
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1 1SH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,M29,metal,drain,sewage,sewer,cover,Lancashire,England,UK,M29 8DZ,embossed,a,the,rust,rusty,rusting,Tyldesley grid,cast iron,foundry,foundries,history,historic,ironwork,ironworks,street,road,covers,manhole cover,manhole covers,embossing,market town,in,Metropolitan Borough of Wigan,Borough of Wigan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JREC6F -
Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M29 8DZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,iron,Foundry,UK,sewage,utilities,Wrexham,Welsh,Wales,Cymru,ironworks,ironwork,cast,casting,cast iron,rust,rusty,rusting,embossed,works,factory,business,foundries,rusted,Pentre,Saeson,cover,covers,drain,drains,drainage,supply,water,sewer,sewerage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRAHKE - The Pentresaeson foundry - read more at https://thefireonthehill.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/the-pentresaeson-foundry/
June 20, 2013 in 19th century, Brymbo, Industrial archaeology
Although we might think of Wrexham as a largely industrial town, with the Brymbo district as its economic powerhouse through much of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution in north Wales was actually something of a damp squib. A. H. Dodd's classic text on the subject, first published in the 1920s, explained some of the reasons why: remote sites and poor communications restricted trade to the local area, whereas the coal and iron of south Wales had access to deep-sea ports (giving particularly direct access to the lucrative Irish market). The collieries west of Wrexham, old, smaller-scale workings on shallow seams, were a world away from the deep mines of the Rhondda, and Brymbo's steelworks was unusual in its hilly, land-locked site. By the 1900s many of the area's coal and iron operations had ceased.
The small-scale and localised development of industry in the district led to a distinctive landscape, where a patchwork of agricultural land was intermingled with small collieries, related industries such as brickworks, and villages spreading across former areas of common land. The last of these smaller scale industrial sites survived through to the 1950s, 60s and 70s
in Brymbo, a particularly interesting one lasted until the 1980s. There are now few buildings near Pentresaeson crossroads, and there were never very many, but you can still see one of the main landmarks of the immediate area, the old Taylor Brothers iron foundry and its distinctive chimney, just down the township road to Bwlchgwyn alongside the bed of the former Minera railway line. Back in the 19th century this would have been a good site for a small ironworks, with reliable supplies of coal in the immediate vicinity, a tributary stream of the Gwenfro running nearby and, from the 1840s, the railway giving vital access
Wrexham, North Wales, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRAHPA -
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK, DN1 1AB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JREBP5 -
England, Great Britain , UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRR062 -
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1NN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRR065 -
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1NN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD2G2 -
Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JP0KE7 -
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1NN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JP0KE9 -
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1NN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNHKDX -
Heath Ln, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 4RH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNHKE1 -
Heath Ln, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 4RH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNHKE2 -
Heath Ln, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 4RH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNHKHH -
Heath Ln, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 4RH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNHKHM -
Heath Ln, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 4RH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNN550 -
Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNN551 -
Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMWGM0 -
Foregate Street, Chester City, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1LG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Gloucestershire,centre,England,UK,GL5,Herbert and Young,Glos,grid,embossed,Herbert & Young,Forest of Dean,FOD,town,rust,rusting,pattern,rusty,old,cover,covers,cast,iron,cast iron,metal,History,historic,heritage,Herbert,and,utilities,sewage,water,supply
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5PF -
Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5TE -
Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKMR20 - The Warrington Transporter Bridge (or Bank Quay Transporter Bridge) is a structural steel transporter bridge across the River Mersey in Warrington, Cheshire, England
It was designed by William Henry Hunter and built by Sir William Arrol & Co. The bridge has a span of 200 ft (61 m), is 30 ft (9.1 m) wide, 76 ft (23 m) feet above high water level, with an overall length of 339 ft (103 m) feet and a total height of 89 ft (27 m)
It was constructed in 1915 and fell into disuse in approximately 1964. The bridge was constructed to connect the two parts of the large chemical and soap works of Joseph Crosfield and Sons. It was originally designed to carry rail vehicles up to 18 long tons (18 tonnes) in weight, and was converted for road vehicles in 1940. In 1953, it was further modified to carry loads of up to 30 long tons (30 tonnes)
It was the second of two transporter bridges across the Mersey at Warrington. The first was erected in 1905 slightly to the north of the existing bridge, and was described in The Engineer in 1908. A third transporter bridge over the Mersey was the Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge, built in 1905 and dismantled in 1961
One of 3 remaining such bridges in the UK
The bridge is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and because of its poor condition it is on the Heritage at Risk Register.Bridge is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument
A local group called Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge (FoWTB) was formed in Apr 2015 to act as the independent voice of the bridge. The group is liaising to safeguard the future of the bridge and its industrial heritage status. FoWTB has been featured on the local BBC News programme, North West Tonight and has set up a website for the bridge along with Facebook and Twitter pages. In 2016, the bridge was nominated for the Institution of Civil Engineers North West Heritage Award
More at http://www.warringtontransporterbridge.co.uk/history.html
Bank Quay Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKMR2C - The Warrington Transporter Bridge (or Bank Quay Transporter Bridge) is a structural steel transporter bridge across the River Mersey in Warrington, Cheshire, England
It was designed by William Henry Hunter and built by Sir William Arrol & Co. The bridge has a span of 200 ft (61 m), is 30 ft (9.1 m) wide, 76 ft (23 m) feet above high water level, with an overall length of 339 ft (103 m) feet and a total height of 89 ft (27 m)
It was constructed in 1915 and fell into disuse in approximately 1964. The bridge was constructed to connect the two parts of the large chemical and soap works of Joseph Crosfield and Sons. It was originally designed to carry rail vehicles up to 18 long tons (18 tonnes) in weight, and was converted for road vehicles in 1940. In 1953, it was further modified to carry loads of up to 30 long tons (30 tonnes)
It was the second of two transporter bridges across the Mersey at Warrington. The first was erected in 1905 slightly to the north of the existing bridge, and was described in The Engineer in 1908. A third transporter bridge over the Mersey was the Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge, built in 1905 and dismantled in 1961
One of 3 remaining such bridges in the UK
The bridge is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and because of its poor condition it is on the Heritage at Risk Register.Bridge is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument
A local group called Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge (FoWTB) was formed in Apr 2015 to act as the independent voice of the bridge. The group is liaising to safeguard the future of the bridge and its industrial heritage status. FoWTB has been featured on the local BBC News programme, North West Tonight and has set up a website for the bridge along with Facebook and Twitter pages. In 2016, the bridge was nominated for the Institution of Civil Engineers North West Heritage Award
More at http://www.warringtontransporterbridge.co.uk/history.html
Bank Quay Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Transporter,Bridge,Crosfields,over,the,River Mersey,steel,built by,and Co,Unilever,rust,rusty,history,historic,Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge,FoWTB,Friends,of,Warrington Transporter Bridge,Cheshire,England,UK,industrial,heritage,factory,Crosfield,Joseph Crosfield,and Sons,North West,Heritage Award,industry,historical,relic,relics,bridges,structure
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKMR2R - The Warrington Transporter Bridge (or Bank Quay Transporter Bridge) is a structural steel transporter bridge across the River Mersey in Warrington, Cheshire, England
It was designed by William Henry Hunter and built by Sir William Arrol & Co. The bridge has a span of 200 ft (61 m), is 30 ft (9.1 m) wide, 76 ft (23 m) feet above high water level, with an overall length of 339 ft (103 m) feet and a total height of 89 ft (27 m)
It was constructed in 1915 and fell into disuse in approximately 1964. The bridge was constructed to connect the two parts of the large chemical and soap works of Joseph Crosfield and Sons. It was originally designed to carry rail vehicles up to 18 long tons (18 tonnes) in weight, and was converted for road vehicles in 1940. In 1953, it was further modified to carry loads of up to 30 long tons (30 tonnes)
It was the second of two transporter bridges across the Mersey at Warrington. The first was erected in 1905 slightly to the north of the existing bridge, and was described in The Engineer in 1908. A third transporter bridge over the Mersey was the Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge, built in 1905 and dismantled in 1961
One of 3 remaining such bridges in the UK
The bridge is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and because of its poor condition it is on the Heritage at Risk Register.Bridge is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument
A local group called Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge (FoWTB) was formed in Apr 2015 to act as the independent voice of the bridge. The group is liaising to safeguard the future of the bridge and its industrial heritage status. FoWTB has been featured on the local BBC News programme, North West Tonight and has set up a website for the bridge along with Facebook and Twitter pages. In 2016, the bridge was nominated for the Institution of Civil Engineers North West Heritage Award
More at http://www.warringtontransporterbridge.co.uk/history.html
Bank Quay Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Transporter,Bridge,Crosfields,over,the,River Mersey,steel,built by,and Co,Unilever,rust,rusty,history,historic,Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge,FoWTB,Friends,of,Warrington Transporter Bridge,Cheshire,England,UK,industrial,heritage,factory,Crosfield,Joseph Crosfield,and Sons,North West,Heritage Award,industry,historical,relic,relics,bridges,structure
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKMR4D - The Warrington Transporter Bridge (or Bank Quay Transporter Bridge) is a structural steel transporter bridge across the River Mersey in Warrington, Cheshire, England
It was designed by William Henry Hunter and built by Sir William Arrol & Co. The bridge has a span of 200 ft (61 m), is 30 ft (9.1 m) wide, 76 ft (23 m) feet above high water level, with an overall length of 339 ft (103 m) feet and a total height of 89 ft (27 m)
It was constructed in 1915 and fell into disuse in approximately 1964. The bridge was constructed to connect the two parts of the large chemical and soap works of Joseph Crosfield and Sons. It was originally designed to carry rail vehicles up to 18 long tons (18 tonnes) in weight, and was converted for road vehicles in 1940. In 1953, it was further modified to carry loads of up to 30 long tons (30 tonnes)
It was the second of two transporter bridges across the Mersey at Warrington. The first was erected in 1905 slightly to the north of the existing bridge, and was described in The Engineer in 1908. A third transporter bridge over the Mersey was the Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge, built in 1905 and dismantled in 1961
One of 3 remaining such bridges in the UK
The bridge is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and because of its poor condition it is on the Heritage at Risk Register.Bridge is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument
A local group called Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge (FoWTB) was formed in Apr 2015 to act as the independent voice of the bridge. The group is liaising to safeguard the future of the bridge and its industrial heritage status. FoWTB has been featured on the local BBC News programme, North West Tonight and has set up a website for the bridge along with Facebook and Twitter pages. In 2016, the bridge was nominated for the Institution of Civil Engineers North West Heritage Award
More at http://www.warringtontransporterbridge.co.uk/history.html
Bank Quay Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Transporter,Bridge,Crosfields,over,the,River Mersey,steel,built by,and Co,Unilever,rust,rusty,history,historic,Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge,FoWTB,Friends,of,Warrington Transporter Bridge,Cheshire,England,UK,industrial,heritage,factory,Crosfield,Joseph Crosfield,and Sons,North West,Heritage Award,industry,historical,relic,relics,bridges,structure
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKMR4T - The Warrington Transporter Bridge (or Bank Quay Transporter Bridge) is a structural steel transporter bridge across the River Mersey in Warrington, Cheshire, England
It was designed by William Henry Hunter and built by Sir William Arrol & Co. The bridge has a span of 200 ft (61 m), is 30 ft (9.1 m) wide, 76 ft (23 m) feet above high water level, with an overall length of 339 ft (103 m) feet and a total height of 89 ft (27 m)
It was constructed in 1915 and fell into disuse in approximately 1964. The bridge was constructed to connect the two parts of the large chemical and soap works of Joseph Crosfield and Sons. It was originally designed to carry rail vehicles up to 18 long tons (18 tonnes) in weight, and was converted for road vehicles in 1940. In 1953, it was further modified to carry loads of up to 30 long tons (30 tonnes)
It was the second of two transporter bridges across the Mersey at Warrington. The first was erected in 1905 slightly to the north of the existing bridge, and was described in The Engineer in 1908. A third transporter bridge over the Mersey was the Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge, built in 1905 and dismantled in 1961
One of 3 remaining such bridges in the UK
The bridge is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and because of its poor condition it is on the Heritage at Risk Register.Bridge is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument
A local group called Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge (FoWTB) was formed in Apr 2015 to act as the independent voice of the bridge. The group is liaising to safeguard the future of the bridge and its industrial heritage status. FoWTB has been featured on the local BBC News programme, North West Tonight and has set up a website for the bridge along with Facebook and Twitter pages. In 2016, the bridge was nominated for the Institution of Civil Engineers North West Heritage Award
More at http://www.warringtontransporterbridge.co.uk/history.html
Bank Quay Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,at,factory,Cheshire,England,UK,rusty,old,historic,legacy,history,soap,powder,industry,historical,relic,relics,structure,tank,tanks,silo,solos,detergent,detergents,manufacture,factories,industrial,rust,brownfield,site,sites,derelict,urbex,decay
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKMR5H -
Bank Quay , Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Transporter,Bridge,Crosfields,over,the,River Mersey,steel,built by,and Co,Unilever,rust,rusty,history,historic,Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge,FoWTB,Friends,of,Warrington Transporter Bridge,Cheshire,England,UK,industrial,heritage,factory,Crosfield,Joseph Crosfield,and Sons,North West,Heritage Award,industry,historical,relic,relics,bridges,structure
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKMR87 - The Warrington Transporter Bridge (or Bank Quay Transporter Bridge) is a structural steel transporter bridge across the River Mersey in Warrington, Cheshire, England
It was designed by William Henry Hunter and built by Sir William Arrol & Co. The bridge has a span of 200 ft (61 m), is 30 ft (9.1 m) wide, 76 ft (23 m) feet above high water level, with an overall length of 339 ft (103 m) feet and a total height of 89 ft (27 m)
It was constructed in 1915 and fell into disuse in approximately 1964. The bridge was constructed to connect the two parts of the large chemical and soap works of Joseph Crosfield and Sons. It was originally designed to carry rail vehicles up to 18 long tons (18 tonnes) in weight, and was converted for road vehicles in 1940. In 1953, it was further modified to carry loads of up to 30 long tons (30 tonnes)
It was the second of two transporter bridges across the Mersey at Warrington. The first was erected in 1905 slightly to the north of the existing bridge, and was described in The Engineer in 1908. A third transporter bridge over the Mersey was the Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge, built in 1905 and dismantled in 1961
One of 3 remaining such bridges in the UK
The bridge is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and because of its poor condition it is on the Heritage at Risk Register.Bridge is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument
A local group called Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge (FoWTB) was formed in Apr 2015 to act as the independent voice of the bridge. The group is liaising to safeguard the future of the bridge and its industrial heritage status. FoWTB has been featured on the local BBC News programme, North West Tonight and has set up a website for the bridge along with Facebook and Twitter pages. In 2016, the bridge was nominated for the Institution of Civil Engineers North West Heritage Award
More at http://www.warringtontransporterbridge.co.uk/history.html
Bank Quay Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Transporter,Bridge,Crosfields,over,the,River Mersey,steel,built by,and Co,Unilever,rust,rusty,history,historic,Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge,FoWTB,Friends,of,Warrington Transporter Bridge,Cheshire,England,UK,industrial,heritage,factory,Crosfield,Joseph Crosfield,and Sons,North West,Heritage Award,industry,historical,relic,relics,bridges,structure
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKMR8G - The Warrington Transporter Bridge (or Bank Quay Transporter Bridge) is a structural steel transporter bridge across the River Mersey in Warrington, Cheshire, England
It was designed by William Henry Hunter and built by Sir William Arrol & Co. The bridge has a span of 200 ft (61 m), is 30 ft (9.1 m) wide, 76 ft (23 m) feet above high water level, with an overall length of 339 ft (103 m) feet and a total height of 89 ft (27 m)
It was constructed in 1915 and fell into disuse in approximately 1964. The bridge was constructed to connect the two parts of the large chemical and soap works of Joseph Crosfield and Sons. It was originally designed to carry rail vehicles up to 18 long tons (18 tonnes) in weight, and was converted for road vehicles in 1940. In 1953, it was further modified to carry loads of up to 30 long tons (30 tonnes)
It was the second of two transporter bridges across the Mersey at Warrington. The first was erected in 1905 slightly to the north of the existing bridge, and was described in The Engineer in 1908. A third transporter bridge over the Mersey was the Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge, built in 1905 and dismantled in 1961
One of 3 remaining such bridges in the UK
The bridge is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and because of its poor condition it is on the Heritage at Risk Register.Bridge is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument
A local group called Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge (FoWTB) was formed in Apr 2015 to act as the independent voice of the bridge. The group is liaising to safeguard the future of the bridge and its industrial heritage status. FoWTB has been featured on the local BBC News programme, North West Tonight and has set up a website for the bridge along with Facebook and Twitter pages. In 2016, the bridge was nominated for the Institution of Civil Engineers North West Heritage Award
More at http://www.warringtontransporterbridge.co.uk/history.html
Bank Quay Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,ironwork,works,access,street,road,drain,manhole,named,cast,rust,rusty,services,sewage,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole,history,historic,drains,sewers,word,the,grids,sewer,wastewater,castiron,with,steel,metal,Urban,cover,grid,iron,England
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNA3ME -
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,drains,metal,steel,company,harding,Hereford,cast,iron,Harding Bros,bros,brothers,Ironmongers,ironmonger,history,historic,rusty,brown,embossed,heritage,Harding,Hardings,utility,utilities,sewer,sewers,water,supply,cover,covers,rust,rusting,rusted,seal,sealed
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JPMWT7 -
Castle Street, Hereford, England, UK, HR1 2NL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Herefordshire,steel,iron,cover,inspection,Hereford,steel grid,sewage,steelwork,ironwork,plumbing,plumbers,named,cast,rust,rusty,metal,services,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole,history,heritage,old,interesting,tourist,tourism,travel,attraction,attractions,trail,walking
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M07AFP -
Castle street, Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Herefordshire,Ironwork,grid,iron,steel,family,building,Nick Bolt,West Street,Bolts,Michael Bolt,contractors,contractor,1800,street,path,manhole,named,cast,rust,rusty,metal,services,sewage,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole,history,heritage,old,interesting,tourist,tourism,travel,attraction
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M07AFR -
Hereford, England, UK
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,made,in,North West,Manchester,Steel,iron gridiron,grid,access,street,Greater Manchester,Cheshire,England,UK,Old,historic,steelworks,SK,Beneath our feet,road,cover,manhole,named,cast,rust,rusty,metal,services,sewage,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole,rusting,embossed
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJPKT3 -
Stockport Road ,Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2WA
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,England,38 Strutton Ground,London,SW1P 2HR,SW1P,city,centre,Westminster,of,city of Westminster,sewer,rust,rusty,grid,grids,rusting,triangle,sewers,water,utility,utilities,heritage,places,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions,the,City of Westminster,embossed,metal,steel,cast iron,cast,iron
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJGFNA -
Strutton Ground, London, England, UK, SW1P 2HR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lancashire,seaside,coast,town,England,UK,County,steel,grid,manhole,history,historic,street,Lord St,Lord Street,road works,road,works,roadworks,named,cast,rust,rusty,metal,services,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole,PR8,Sefton Council,Southport Council,of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JHW8CH -
Southport, Merseyside, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,British,GB,UK,England,the,underground,cable,old,history,historic,national,BT,British telecom,telecoms,Openreach,infrastructure,telephone,telephones,GPO,General,Post,Office,relic,cover,wire,wires,cables,wiring,cast,iron,metal,rust,rusty,inspection,concrete,line,lines
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDDX84 -
England, United Kingdom, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,rust,decay,poorly,Peelports,Knutsford road,Swingbridge,maintained,closed,lack of,Latchford,Manchester Ship canal,Warrington,Cheshire,UK,WA4,WBC,road network,crossings,bridges,A50,Rusty swing bridge,rusty,oxidised metal struts,oxidisation,struts,metal gantries,major overhaul,repainting,refurbishment,Planned Maintenance,rusting,swing,swinging,village
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDDPC5 -
Knutsford Road, Latchford, Manchester Ship canal, Warrington, Cheshire,UK, WA4
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,North West,UK,pointer,Cricklewood,London,patina,minutes,secong,Seconds,distressed,dial,shallow,focus,distressed dial,shallow focus,instrument,old,historic,rust,aged,age,Victorian,history,brown,accurate,time,timing,timings,minute,second,seconds,min
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGM7B5 -
Cricklewood, London, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,FH,English Spelling,Welsh Spelling,Wales,North Wales,corporation,steel,metal,Blakeborough,makers Brighouse,spelling,Conway spelling,Caernarvonshire,Sir Gaernarfon,River Conwy,Conwy County Borough,Conway County Borough,Welsh language,historic,name,history,manhole,named,grid,cast,iron,rust,rusty,services,sewage,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2DD8GE7 -
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Warrington,Grappenhall,Thelwall,Chester,metal,scrap,grid thefts,Stolen grid covers,Stolen,grid covers,covers,grids,Manhole covers,grids stolen for scrap,stolen for scrap,history,historic,Deva,manhole,named,grid,cast,iron,rust,rusty,services,sewage,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C6RE8F -
Description
Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,department,DLO,Greater Manchester,England,UK,steel,drainspotting,drains,city centre,sewer,sewers,Highways and pavements,permission,permissions,manhole,cover,named,grid,cast,iron,rust,rusty,metal,services,sewage,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole,covers,utilities,street,road
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AEDHXW - A manhole cover or maintenance hole cover is a removable plate forming the lid over the opening of a manhole, an opening large enough for a person to pass through that is used as an access point for an underground vault or pipe. It is designed to prevent anyone or anything from falling in, and to keep out unauthorized persons and material.
Ancient Roman sewer grate made out of lime sandstone, 1st century AD, excavated at Vindobona (present-day Vienna)
Manhole covers date back at least to the era of ancient Rome, which had sewer grates made from stone. Manhole covers are often made out of cast iron, concrete or a combination of the two. This makes them inexpensive, strong, and heavy, usually weighing more than 113 kilograms (249 lb). The weight helps to keep them in place when traffic passes over them, and makes it difficult for unauthorized people without suitable tools to remove them.
Manchester,North West,England,UK
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Keywords: HotpixUk,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,England,English,West Midlands,city Centre,SV grid,SV,grid,worn,surface box,cover,meter cover,meter,Victorian,old,manhole,named,cast,iron,rust,rusty,metal,services,sewage,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole,embossed,history,historic,steel,utilities,council
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAT2NP -
Birmingham City Centre, West Midlands, England, UK
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Keywords: Republic of Ireland,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eire,Ireland,cast iron,grid,communications,internet,Broadband,Eireann,cast,iron,foundry,metal,steel,rust,rusty,rusting,Éireann,telecommunication,telecommunications,connections,connectivity,Department of Posts and Telegraphs,Eircom,Eir,telecoms,connection,broadband,telephone,telephones,wiring,cables,cabling
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84JKF - Telecom Éireann meaning Telecommunications of Ireland) was an Irish state-owned telecommunications company that operated from 1983 to 1999. Prior to then a telephone and postal service was provided by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (known as P and T or P⁊Ꞇ in gaelic script), as part of the civil service. Telecom Éireann was established by the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983
its full formal title was Bord Telecom Éireann or, in the English language, The Irish Telecommunications Board. Telecom Éireann may be translated as Telecom of Ireland. In 1999, the company was privatised and renamed as eircom.
Telecom Éireann rolled out digital telephone switching technology, across the country along with an extensive fibre optic and digital microwave backbone. Two digital switching systems were selected
CIT-Alcatel's E10 and Ericsson's AXE telephone exchange. Digital technology quickly replaced analogue systems at national and major regional switching centres and new international gateway switches were installed. The oldest electromechanical step-by-step exchanges and manual operator-manned local exchanges were the first to be converted to digital technology. More modern electromechanical crossbar exchanges, using Ericsson ARF, Hitachi and ITT Pentaconta technology dating from the 1960s and 1970s were converted to digital bit by bit through the late 1980s and early 1990s. These crossbar switches were capable of providing voice service that was comparable to digital switching technology.
Eir is currently majority owned by Xavier Niel's Iliad SA and his Paris-based NJJ Telecom Europe investment fund. The group includes French telecommunications provider Free and Iliad Italia
Dublin, Eire, Ireland
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Keywords: Republic of Ireland,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eire,Ireland,Canada,artist,covered,Christ,homeless,at,Christ Church,Dublin,Jesus,sculpture,designer,art,social,housing,park,2016,Christchurch Place,Wood Quay,Dublin 8,Deprevation,homelessness,rough sleeper,rough sleeping,on,the,streets,street,rust,rusty,rusting
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84JNN - Homeless Jesus, also known as Jesus the Homeless, is a bronze sculpture by Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz depicting Jesus as a homeless person, sleeping on a park bench. The original sculpture was installed at Regis College, University of Toronto, in early 2013. Over 100 casts of the statue have been installed worldwide since 2016
Homeless Jesus was designed by Timothy Schmalz, a Canadian sculptor and devout Catholic. It depicts Jesus as a homeless person, sleeping on a park bench. His face and hands are obscured, hidden under a blanket, but crucifixion wounds on his feet reveal his identity. The statue has been described as a visual translation of the Gospel of Matthew passage in which Jesus tells his disciples, as you did it to one of the least of my brothers, you did it to me. Schmalz intended for the bronze sculpture to be provocative, admitting, That's essentially what the sculpture is there to do. It's meant to challenge people. He offered the first casts to St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, but both churches declined. One spokesperson for St. Michael's said the church declined because appreciation was not unanimous and it was undergoing restoration. The cast intended for St. Michael's was installed at Regis College, the Jesuit School of Theology at the University of Toronto. Similarly, a spokesperson for St. Patrick's complimented the work but declined purchasing the cast due to ongoing renovations
Reception of the statue has been mixed. According to NPR, The reaction [to the cast in Davidson, North Carolina] was immediate. Some loved it
some didn't. However, according to Buck, residents are often seen sitting on the bench alongside the statue, resting their hands on Jesus and praying
By early 2016, some 100 copies of Homeless Jesus were on display worldwide. The first sculpture outside of North America was installed on the grounds of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
Christchurch Place, Wood Quay, Dublin 8, Ireland
Description
Keywords: Republic of Ireland,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eire,Ireland,cast,cast iron,grid,with,metal,rust,sewer,lane,city,foundry,ln,street,rusty,ironwork,letters,words,cover,rusting,Cast iron,Dublin,steelworks,Temple Bar,road,pavement,the,embossed,corporation,centre,water,Dublin city
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84JP3 -
Dublin ,Eire, Ireland
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Keywords: Republic of Ireland,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eire,Ireland,metal,ironwork,letters,words,rust,rusty,rusting,cover,grid,sewer,street,Cast iron,embossed,with,windmill,lane,ln,Dublin,south,city,foundry,steelworks,Dublin Docklands,dockland,docklands,pavement,road,cast,cast iron,the,Temple Bar
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84JRJ -
Windmill Lane, Dublin Docklands, Eire, Ireland
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Keywords: Republic of Ireland,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eire,Ireland,metal,ironwork,letters,words,rust,rusty,rusting,cover,grid,sewer,street,Cast iron,embossed,with,windmill,lane,ln,Dublin,south,city,foundry,steelworks,Dublin Docklands,dockland,docklands,cast,cast iron,the,Temple Bar,road,pavement
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84JT7 -
Windmill Lane, Dublin Docklands, Eire, Ireland
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,SDC,South West England,England,UK,South West,town,grid,grids,cover,Bridgwater Town,South West of England,history,historic,grass,metal,metalwork,named,rust,rusty,services,sewage,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole,Somerset,embossed,cast iron,Grid,covers,utilities,Stockham,foundry,maker,manufacturer
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKHN -
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,SDC,Sedgemoor,South West England,England,UK,South West,town,grid,grids,manhole,cover,Bridgwater Town,South West of England,Bridgwater Council ironwork,ironwork,history,historic,named,rust,rusty,services,sewage,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole,embossed with Town Council,embossed,with,Town,Council,cast iron,metal
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKHX -
Bridgwater Town, Somerset, South West of England, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,British,Great Britain,grid,South Western Electricity Board,SWEB,Electricity Board,manhole,named,cast,rust,rusty,metal,services,sewage,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole,west,western,electricity,distribution,supply,wires,wiring,wire,cables,concrete,covers,sealed,airtight
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C9E2WN -
Bridgwater,Somerset,South West England, UK
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,AA,on wall,wall mounted,history,motoring,Warrington 6 miles,Tarporley 11 miles,London 177,Safety First,village,Lower Whitley Village,sign,WA4,circular,circular sign,yellow black,yellow,black,distance,distances,A49,road,rust,rusty,old,Antique AA Road sign,Antique,AA Road sign,AA Sign,British brick world,historic,The AA,TheAA
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFFA1 -
Street Ln, Lower Whitley, Warrington WA4 4EN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,North West England,Warrington,Cheshire,fixed,attached,metal,iron,rust,rusted,on an,Men,to the left,because,women,marriage,partner,partnerships,funny,fun,sign,saying,misogyny,womans,right,rights,equality,equal,pay,joke,joking,making,signs
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RK9X6T -
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1NN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Blue bolted door with peeling paint,South West England,UK,security,old,old lock,history,weathered,peeling,paint,weathered peeling,peeling paint,colour,colours,cracked,distressed,colored,key,keyhole,rust,rustic,deprivation,deprived,flakes,flaking,screws,door furniture,old door,neglected,unloved,garage,wooden,wood,hasp,old hasp,shut up
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTEW -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Zündapp Bella,motorcycle,motorbike,Suburbanette,R154K,150cc,150 cc,Ambassador Motorcycles,Ambassador,Motorcycles,Suburbanettes,vehicle,brand,famous,logo,logos,mopeds,personal,transport,on,two,wheels,travel,the,engine,motor,scooter,manufactured,by,manufacturer,motorised,rust,rusting,rusty,rusted
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PCTA83 - The Zündapp Bella is a motor scooter manufactured by motorcycle manufacturer Zündapp from 1953 to 1964. Approximately 130,000 Bella scooters were sold, with engine sizes ranging from 150 cc to 200 cc.
The design of the Bella was heavily influenced by that of the Parilla Levriere, also known as the Parilla Greyhound. Along with being similar in general appearance, both designs have prominent air tunnels along the centreline of the scooter to allow fresh air to cool the engine without a fan.
Early Bella with kick starter and telescopic fork
As introduced in 1953, the Bella had a 146 cc two-stroke single cylinder engine, 12 inch wheels, 6 V electrics, a kick starter, and an undamped telescopic fork. The fuel tank was mounted under the seat.
A version of the Bella called the Suburbanette was made for the United States market from 1953 to 1954. The Suburbanette was stripped of the body panels enclosing the engine. 370 Suburbanettes were sold. An export version of the last 150cc Bella, the R154K (K for kickstarter), with higher Western (buckhorn) bars and no dynastarter, came to the United States in the later 1950s.[10]
A 197 cc (12.0 cu in) engine producing 10 hp (7.5 kW) became available in May 1954. The front suspension was later changed from a telescopic fork to an Earles-type leading link fork with a single suspension unit on left side of the fork. Later Bella scooters also had 12 V electricals powered by two 6 V batteries.[citation needed] Electric starters also became available on the Bella.
The Bella was imported into the United Kingdom by Ambassador Motorcycles, and into the United States by International Motorcycle Company.
Great Britain, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Gloucester,Gloucestershire,town,Forest of Dean,steel grid,iron grid,metal,Cinderford,Glos,Foundry,works,cast,iron,steel,metal grid,road,cover,Taunton,named,rust,rusty,services,sewage,drainage,maintenance,urban,man-hole,embossed,foundry,foundries,sewer,drain,covers,GL14 2PH,GL14
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P53BT3 -
Cinderford, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, UK , GL14 2PH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Northern Ireland,UK,BT1,Ireland,road,cast iron,cast,metal,steel,iron,rust,4,water,supply,cover,co,company,companies,utility,utilities,Irish,Ulster,sewage,printed,pattern,rusty,history,historic,foundry,ironwork,ironworks,County Antrim,NI,hotpix.org.uk,ECHR,Good Friday Agreement
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PP0N8N -
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, BT1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Northern Ireland,UK,BT1,Ireland,road,cast iron,cast,metal,steel,iron,rust,Ulster,utility,utilities,sewage,companies,Irish,cover,supply,water,company,co,printed,pattern,rusty,history,historic,foundry,ironwork,ironworks,County Antrim,NI,covered,hotpix.org.uk,ECHR,Good Friday Agreement
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PP0N8X -
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, BT1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RM1TFG -
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6 Slate Wharf, Castlefields, Manchester, England, UK, M15 4ST
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H8FHRW -
Moore, Warrington, England, UK
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Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1
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Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1
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England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYF1 - Industrial Mining Winding Gear Indicator - Men On Raise Steadily, from Astley Green Pit, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB
Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYFR - Red Winding Gear engine at Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB
Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6212145916 - 'Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf - Play this track here.
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This track reminds me of thick black vinyl LP's on the NEMS label, \u00a32.25 bargains at the Virgin Megastore on Manchester's Market Street, when I was still at school. Cracking albums anyway.
'Sweet Leaf' is a song by Black Sabbath from their 1971 album Master of Reality. The song, a hymn to recreational cannabis use. Apparently, it got its title from a packet of cigarettes bassist Geezer Butler bought in Dublin that claimed the tobacco was 'the sweet leaf.' ('Sweetleaf' is also an English name for stevia.) The song begins with a tape loop of guitarist Tony Iommi coughing.
I recently read the Ozzy Osbourne biography unintentionally by picking up a used book on holiday and I was instantly hooked. Could not put it down. Some of the Sabs albums have been out since.
Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Aston, Birmingham UK in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne (lead vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass guitar), and Bill Ward (drums). The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years.
Despite an association with occult and horror themes, Black Sabbath also composed songs dealing with social instability, political corruption, the dangers of drug abuse and the often apocalyptic prophesies of the horrors of war. Mostly of course it was good headbanging stuff!
If this floats your boat, check out some of these other banging tracks, all to be found on the various Black Sabbath compilations out there:
Paranoid
Iron Man
War Pigs
(tell 'em I sent you!).
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HF9B - An old rusty pram planted with flowers, Lymm Festival 2011, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Lymm Festival 2011, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BM3JM5 -
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HE7M9N -
Duke of York, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RTN -
Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 1AJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A9GHXF - Find out more at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F189095
Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 1AJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3809668752 - 'Old rusted clock face with roman numerals . Slightly selectively sepia toned to add additional distress. A now broken time machine.
For clocks and watches that do work we have to do this generally twice a year www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4050906369/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3827214101 - 'Stanton PLC EN124 C250 Ductile Waterfall Steel man hole cover. Spotted between Stockport and Hazel Grove, cheshire, England UK.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3782042445 - 'A fascinating little red rusting iron or steel container, maybe over 50 years old. Who were SM &
BP Ltd? Maybe Shell Mex and BP.
The original galvanised zinc has all but gone. Anyone who can tell me more, please leave a comment.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0ME4 - Red Rusty Vintage SM & BP (Shell Mex and British Petroleum) farm petrol container
Northwich, Cheshire
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3355855347 - 'The Doves, live on stage at the Parr Hall, Warrington cheshire UK 12th March 2009. Some Cities. Prior to Kingdom of Rust release mini tour.
Another shot here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3355854219/in/set-72157617...
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RWDK0D - Batger and Co Confectionery follows along with the theme of rationing, explored previously in the walking tour. The confectionery manufacturer was established in East London in 1748 by Miss Elizabeth Batger. The Batger family were leading sugar refiners in Britain and by the early-twentieth century became the largest jam and confectionery makers. Batger's had multiple factories, but the main factory was located on Broad Street in Stephany, which manufactured jams, bakery assortments, sweets and toffee. However, their most popular products were Chinese figs, Silmos Lollies, Jersey Caramels and John Peel marmalade, which were marketed to the public using imaginative and entertaining advertisements.
During the First World War, Batger's supplied the British army with jam. However, by 1940 the Stephany factory had been destroyed by bombing, forcing the company to move outside London's city core to 44 Clapham, Common South Side. The Clapham factory was known for producing Harlequin Christmas Crackers and cake decorations. In 1970, the company was acquired by Needlers Ltd., a confectionery manufacturer, which led to the closing of the Clapham factory a year later. Needlers Ltd. was later sold to Ashbury Confectionery Ltd. The last original Batger products were discontinued in 2000. For convenience, this tour will visit the Batger factory that was located at 566 Cable Street, which is currently an arts studio.
Thames House, 566 Cable St, London E1W 3HB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M1MMB6 - Yorkshire Water is a water supply and treatment utility company servicing West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, part of North Lincolnshire, most of North Yorkshire and part of Derbyshire, in England. The company has its origins in the Yorkshire Water Authority, one of ten regional water authorities created by the Water Act 1973, and privatised under the terms of the Water Act 1989, when Yorkshire Water plc, the parent company of the Yorkshire Water business, was floated on the London Stock Exchange. The parent company was Kelda Group in 1999. In February 2008, Kelda Group was bought by a consortium of infrastructure funds.
It is regulated under the Water Industry Act 1991
Yorkshire Water has received fines for breaches of environmental law. For example:
Yorkshire Water was fined twice in April 2007. The first offence was for allowing polluting matter to enter Clifton beck in Brighouse, contrary to section 85(1) of the Water Resources Act 1991. The final incident killed one third of the wildlife along over a mile of the stream
Yorkshire Water was fined £6,000 and ordered to pay £9,051 in costs for supplying unfit water in May 2006 in a prosecution brought by the Drinking Water Inspectorate,
Yorkshire Water's largest fine, of £119,000 (reduced to £80,000 on appeal), with costs of £125,598, was received in December 2000 after pleading guilty to seventeen charges of supplying water unfit for human consumption
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJG081 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGMNTF -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PGJX15 -
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JCMKC8 -
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK, S1 1AA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BTY7A7 -
Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H8FHWE - Photo shows Bridgewater Canal lifting machine crane, Moore, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. The photograph is useful as a documentary record of a real place, object or public-facing scene. It can support local history, travel, social observation, news features and web articles where authentic context matters more than a polished studio image. The supplied location evidence places the subject at or near Warrington, Cheshire, Moore, England, UK, which adds value for buyers searching by town, city, region or postcode. The supplied caption gives the main editorial context
visible weather, signage and surrounding detail should be checked on upload. 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. Because this is not a studio setup, the surrounding details matter: pavement, interior, transport hardware, street furniture, shopfronts, people, signs, light and seasonal clues can all help the buyer understand the real-world setting.
Moore, Warrington, England, UK
