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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4 2XT,WA4,locks,Swami,Nassau,at,up,along,the,ship,cargo,vessel,water,waterway,history,historic,heritage,IMO,9100126,1995,General Cargo Ship,ARKLOW SWAN,CV Scheepvaartonderneming Swan II,MSC,sailing,west,transport,from,green,flag,livery
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T0BDKY - . Swami Nassau IMO 9100126 at Latchford sailing west, Latchford Lock, MSCC, Ship Canal, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2XT. Photographed on 26 September 2023. SWAMI, IMO 9100126, is a 90-metre general cargo ship built in 1995 and sailing under the Bahamas flag in 2026. The vessel has traded under earlier identities, including Arklow Swan, and its appearance in the Manchester Ship Canal shows the continuing commercial function of the waterway linking the Mersey with inland docks and industrial locations around Warrington and Greater Manchester. Photographs of identifiable working ships are useful records of individual vessel histories, ownership changes, routes and the persistence of short-sea cargo traffic. Historically, britain's canals were built principally in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to move coal, raw materials and manufactured goods cheaply between industrial districts, ports and growing towns
Locks, basins, towpaths and warehouses survive as engineering heritage even where freight has given way to leisure boating, walking and waterside regeneration. The historical context is that maritime scenes record both movement and infrastructure: ships, ferries, fishing boats, quays and waterfront buildings show how ports serve commerce, communities and tourism
The details of a vessel's design, livery and role can also date a photograph precisely. In historical terms, stations and railway infrastructure are both working transport assets and historical records
Their changing operators, signage, ticketing systems, rolling stock and architecture chart the development of British rail travel from the Victorian era to modern inter-city and commuter services. In 2026, today the canal network is valued as much for heritage, leisure, walking routes and wildlife as for navigation. Closely connected keywords include inland waterway, lock chamber, lock gates, canal heritage, industrial transport, and waterway engineering.
Latchford Lock, MSCC, Ship Canal, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2XT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,NI,Northern Ireland,UK,centre,ship,shipbuilding,city,tourists,travel,dock,H&W,attractions,Belfast Harbour,Titanic Belfast,Belfast,harbour scene,maritime heritage,waterfront,boats and yachts,iconic architecture,tourism landmark,Titanic Quarter,Belfast docks,River Lagan,shipbuilding heritage,Harland and Wolff,maritime history,museum exterior,modern architecture,regeneration,waterfront regeneration,leisure boats,marina,working harbour,city skyline,Northern Ireland tourism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ33H - A view across Belfast Harbour showing moored boats and small working vessels in the foreground, with the distinctive angular form of Titanic Belfast rising in the background. The museum stands on the site of the former Harland and Wolff shipyard in the Titanic Quarter, an area central to Belfast's shipbuilding history.
Titanic Belfast is a major cultural and tourism landmark, opened as part of the wider regeneration of Belfast's historic docklands. The building's faceted aluminium-clad design references the hull forms of ships and the industrial heritage of the surrounding area, where RMS Titanic was designed and built in the early twentieth century.
The harbour remains an active maritime environment, combining leisure craft, working boats, and commercial activity alongside cultural attractions and new residential and commercial development. This juxtaposition highlights the transformation of Belfast's waterfront from heavy industry to a mixed-use urban quarter focused on tourism, heritage, and economic renewal.
Photographed in daylight under a cloudy sky, the image documents both the historic and contemporary character of Belfast Harbour. It is suitable for editorial use illustrating maritime heritage, urban regeneration, Northern Ireland tourism, and the continuing evolution of former industrial docklands.
Belfast Harbour with Titanic Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,NI,Northern Ireland,UK,centre,ship,shipbuilding,city,tourists,travel,dock,H&W,attractions,SS Nomadic at Hamilton Dock with Titanic Belfast,Titanic Quarter,Belfast,SS Nomadic,Nomadic Cherbourg,historic ship,maritime heritage,dry dock,White Star Line,Titanic Belfast,Hamilton Dock,Queens Road Belfast,BT3 9DT,Titanic Belfast museum,1 Olympic Way Belfast,BT3 9EP,Northern Ireland maritime history,RMS Titanic tender ship,preserved ship,historic vessel restoration,Belfast docks,shipbuilding heritage,Harland and Wolff,waterfront landmark,cultural regeneration
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ33J - The SS Nomadic, officially named Nomadic Cherbourg, photographed bow-on while moored in Hamilton Dock in the Titanic Quarter of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The dock is located off Queen's Road, postcode BT3 9DT, adjacent to the wider Titanic Quarter redevelopment and within walking distance of Titanic Belfast at 1 Olympic Way, BT3 9EP.
Built in 1911 by Harland and Wolff, the SS Nomadic is the last remaining White Star Line vessel and served as a tender to RMS Titanic, ferrying first- and second-class passengers to the liner at Cherbourg. The ship later had a varied working life before being restored and returned to Belfast as a key maritime heritage attraction.
Behind the vessel stands Titanic Belfast, the landmark museum commemorating the city's shipbuilding history and the story of RMS Titanic. The juxtaposition of the preserved ship within the historic dry dock and the modern museum building highlights the transformation of Belfast's former industrial docklands into a major cultural and tourism destination.
Photographed in daylight under a cloudy sky, the image documents both historic and contemporary elements of Belfast Harbour. It is suitable for editorial use covering maritime history, heritage conservation, tourism, urban regeneration, and Northern Ireland's industrial legacy.
SS Nomadic at Hamilton Dock with Titanic Belfast, Titanic Quarter, Belfast, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,NI,Northern Ireland,UK,centre,ship,shipbuilding,city,tourists,travel,dock,H&W,attractions,Charlie Chaplin statue beside SS Nomadic,Titanic Quarter,Belfast BT3 9EP,Charlie Chaplin statue,Charlie Chaplin sculpture,SS Nomadic,Belfast,public art,film history,cultural landmark,waterfront sculpture,Titanic Quarter Belfast,SS Nomadic Belfast,Nomadic Belfast,BT3 9EP,Queens Road Belfast,Olympic Way Belfast,Titanic Belfast area,Northern Ireland tourism,public art installation,steel sculpture,rusted metal sculpture,silent film icon
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ348 - A metal sculpture of Charlie Chaplin stands beside the SS Nomadic in the Titanic Quarter of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The artwork is located close to Titanic Belfast on Olympic Way, postcode BT3 9EP, within the regenerated docklands area that once formed part of the Harland and Wolff shipyard.
The statue depicts Charlie Chaplin in his iconic Little Tramp persona, complete with bowler hat and cane, rendered in cut steel with a weathered finish. Chaplin, one of the most influential figures in early cinema, symbolises the global cultural impact of silent film and twentieth-century popular entertainment.
The SS Nomadic, moored nearby, is the last remaining White Star Line ship and served as a tender to RMS Titanic, transporting passengers to and from the liner in Cherbourg. The proximity of the sculpture to the historic vessel highlights the Titanic Quarter's blend of maritime heritage, public art, and contemporary cultural tourism.
Photographed outdoors in daylight, with cobbled dock surfaces and harbour features visible, the image documents the reuse of historic docklands as a visitor destination. It is suitable for editorial use relating to film history, public art, tourism in Northern Ireland, maritime heritage, and the ongoing regeneration of Belfast's waterfront.
Charlie Chaplin statue beside SS Nomadic, Titanic Quarter, Belfast BT3 9EP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ34A - Harland & Wolff is a British shipbuilding and fabrication company headquartered in London with sites in Belfast, Arnish, Appledore and Methil. It specialises in ship repair, shipbuilding and offshore construction. Harland & Wolff is famous for having built the majority of the ocean liners for the White Star Line, including Olympic-class trio “ RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic. Outside of White Star Line, other ships that have been built include the Royal Navy's HMS Belfast
Royal Mail Line's Andes
Shaw, Savill & Albion's Southern Cross
Union-Castle's RMS Pendennis Castle
P&O's Canberra
and Hamburg-America's SS Amerika of 1905. Harland and Wolff's official history, Shipbuilders to the World, was published in 1986.
Today, the company is focused on supporting five sectors: Defence, Energy, Cruise & Ferry, Renewables and Commercial. It offers services including technical services, fabrication & construction, repair & maintenance, in-service support, conversion and decommissioning.
In 2022, the company was awarded a major naval contract as part of Team Resolute (alongside Navantia UK and BMT), to deliver the Royal Fleet Auxiliarys' three new Fleet Solid Support vessels.
Harland & Wolff was formed in 1861 by Edward James Harland (1831“95) and Hamburg-born Gustav Wilhelm Wolff (1834“1913) who came to the UK aged 14. In 1858 Harland, then general manager, bought the small shipyard on Queen's Island from his employer Robert Hickson.
After buying Hickson's shipyard, Harland made his assistant Wolff a partner in the company. Wolff was the nephew of Gustav Schwabe, Hamburg, who was heavily invested in the Bibby Line, and the first three ships that the newly incorporated shipyard built were for that line. Harland made a success of the business through several innovations, notably replacing the wooden upper decks with iron ones which increased the strength of the ships
and giving the hulls a flatter bottom and squarer cross section
Queen's Island, Belfast , Northern Ireland, UK, BT3 9EU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,NI,Northern Ireland,UK,centre,Harland and Wolf,Harland and Wolfe,BT3,historic,icons,BT3 9EU,ship,building,famous,yellow,crane,cranes,in,shipyard,Samson,&,Goliath,Samson and Goliath,industry,legacy,yard,repair,company,cityscape,skyline,H&W,H & W,British,Irish,Ireland,city
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ35H - Harland & Wolff is a British shipbuilding and fabrication company headquartered in London with sites in Belfast, Arnish, Appledore and Methil. It specialises in ship repair, shipbuilding and offshore construction. Harland & Wolff is famous for having built the majority of the ocean liners for the White Star Line, including Olympic-class trio “ RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic. Outside of White Star Line, other ships that have been built include the Royal Navy's HMS Belfast
Royal Mail Line's Andes
Shaw, Savill & Albion's Southern Cross
Union-Castle's RMS Pendennis Castle
P&O's Canberra
and Hamburg-America's SS Amerika of 1905. Harland and Wolff's official history, Shipbuilders to the World, was published in 1986.
Today, the company is focused on supporting five sectors: Defence, Energy, Cruise & Ferry, Renewables and Commercial. It offers services including technical services, fabrication & construction, repair & maintenance, in-service support, conversion and decommissioning.
In 2022, the company was awarded a major naval contract as part of Team Resolute (alongside Navantia UK and BMT), to deliver the Royal Fleet Auxiliarys' three new Fleet Solid Support vessels.
Harland & Wolff was formed in 1861 by Edward James Harland (1831“95) and Hamburg-born Gustav Wilhelm Wolff (1834“1913) who came to the UK aged 14. In 1858 Harland, then general manager, bought the small shipyard on Queen's Island from his employer Robert Hickson.
After buying Hickson's shipyard, Harland made his assistant Wolff a partner in the company. Wolff was the nephew of Gustav Schwabe, Hamburg, who was heavily invested in the Bibby Line, and the first three ships that the newly incorporated shipyard built were for that line. Harland made a success of the business through several innovations, notably replacing the wooden upper decks with iron ones which increased the strength of the ships
and giving the hulls a flatter bottom and squarer cross section
Queen's Island, Belfast , Northern Ireland, UK, BT3 9EU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ35J - . Harland & Wolff, Belfast shipyard, Northern Ireland, UK. Photographed on 24 June 2023, this summer image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Queen's Island, Belfast , BT3 9EU, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include history, historic, heritage, Belfast, shipyard, ships, builders, builder, Harland, Wolff, wall, ship, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene. The photograph can also support future before-and-after use if the building, business, service, streetscape, transport operation or public space is later altered, redeveloped, rebranded or closed. For search and editorial use, the image is relevant to the named location, local identity, contemporary Britain, regional tourism, urban life, community activity and the changing appearance of towns and cities. Additional relevant search concepts include shipbuilding, Titanic, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, ship yard, Queens Island, broadening discoverability while remaining tied to the supplied subject information. The composition retains practical contextual detail for news, feature, documentary, educational and historical use.
Queen's Island, Belfast , BT3 9EU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,centre,history,historic,heritage,Belfast,shipyard,ships,builders,builder,Harland,&,and,Wolff,yard,Nos 2 & 3,ship,shipbuilding,Titanic,shipbuilder,shipbuilders,ship yard,Queens Island,BT3 9EU,BT3,yards,industry heavy,traditional,work,workplace,employer,Royalist,community,Shankill
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ35K - . Arrol Gantry Slip Nos 2 & 3 blackboard, Harland & Wolff, Belfast shipyard, Northern Ireland, UK. Photographed on 24 June 2023, this summer image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Queen's Island, Belfast , BT3 9EU, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include history, historic, heritage, Belfast, shipyard, ships, builders, builder, Harland, Wolff, yard, Nos 2 & 3, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene. The photograph can also support future before-and-after use if the building, business, service, streetscape, transport operation or public space is later altered, redeveloped, rebranded or closed. For search and editorial use, the image is relevant to the named location, local identity, contemporary Britain, regional tourism, urban life, community activity and the changing appearance of towns and cities. Additional relevant search concepts include ship, shipbuilding, Titanic, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, ship yard, broadening discoverability while remaining tied to the supplied subject information. The scene contributes a specific, place-based record rather than a generic illustration.
Queen's Island, Belfast , BT3 9EU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,NI,Northern Ireland,UK,centre,Harland and Wolf,Harland and Wolfe,BT3,historic,icons,BT3 9EU,ship,building,famous,yellow,crane,cranes,in,shipyard,Samson,&,Goliath,Samson and Goliath,industry,legacy,yard,repair,company,cityscape,skyline,H&W,H & W,British,Irish,Ireland,city
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ35N - Harland & Wolff is a British shipbuilding and fabrication company headquartered in London with sites in Belfast, Arnish, Appledore and Methil. It specialises in ship repair, shipbuilding and offshore construction. Harland & Wolff is famous for having built the majority of the ocean liners for the White Star Line, including Olympic-class trio “ RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic. Outside of White Star Line, other ships that have been built include the Royal Navy's HMS Belfast
Royal Mail Line's Andes
Shaw, Savill & Albion's Southern Cross
Union-Castle's RMS Pendennis Castle
P&O's Canberra
and Hamburg-America's SS Amerika of 1905. Harland and Wolff's official history, Shipbuilders to the World, was published in 1986.
Today, the company is focused on supporting five sectors: Defence, Energy, Cruise & Ferry, Renewables and Commercial. It offers services including technical services, fabrication & construction, repair & maintenance, in-service support, conversion and decommissioning.
In 2022, the company was awarded a major naval contract as part of Team Resolute (alongside Navantia UK and BMT), to deliver the Royal Fleet Auxiliarys' three new Fleet Solid Support vessels.
Harland & Wolff was formed in 1861 by Edward James Harland (1831“95) and Hamburg-born Gustav Wilhelm Wolff (1834“1913) who came to the UK aged 14. In 1858 Harland, then general manager, bought the small shipyard on Queen's Island from his employer Robert Hickson.
After buying Hickson's shipyard, Harland made his assistant Wolff a partner in the company. Wolff was the nephew of Gustav Schwabe, Hamburg, who was heavily invested in the Bibby Line, and the first three ships that the newly incorporated shipyard built were for that line. Harland made a success of the business through several innovations, notably replacing the wooden upper decks with iron ones which increased the strength of the ships
and giving the hulls a flatter bottom and squarer cross section
Queen's Island, Belfast , Northern Ireland, UK, BT3 9EU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,NI,Northern Ireland,UK,centre,ship,shipbuilding,city,tourists,travel,dock,H&W,attractions,Belfast Harbour,Titanic Belfast,Belfast,harbour scene,maritime heritage,waterfront,boats and yachts,iconic architecture,tourism landmark,Titanic Quarter,Belfast docks,River Lagan,shipbuilding heritage,Harland and Wolff,maritime history,museum exterior,modern architecture,regeneration,waterfront regeneration,leisure boats,marina,working harbour,city skyline,Northern Ireland tourism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ387 - A view across Belfast Harbour showing moored boats and small working vessels in the foreground, with the distinctive angular form of Titanic Belfast rising in the background. The museum stands on the site of the former Harland and Wolff shipyard in the Titanic Quarter, an area central to Belfast's shipbuilding history.
Titanic Belfast is a major cultural and tourism landmark, opened as part of the wider regeneration of Belfast's historic docklands. The building's faceted aluminium-clad design references the hull forms of ships and the industrial heritage of the surrounding area, where RMS Titanic was designed and built in the early twentieth century.
The harbour remains an active maritime environment, combining leisure craft, working boats, and commercial activity alongside cultural attractions and new residential and commercial development. This juxtaposition highlights the transformation of Belfast's waterfront from heavy industry to a mixed-use urban quarter focused on tourism, heritage, and economic renewal.
Photographed in daylight under a cloudy sky, the image documents both the historic and contemporary character of Belfast Harbour. It is suitable for editorial use illustrating maritime heritage, urban regeneration, Northern Ireland tourism, and the continuing evolution of former industrial docklands.
Belfast Harbour with Titanic Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64MA2 - . Stena Line Embla Belfast ferry, on Liverpool waterfront panorama from Woodside, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK, CH41 6DU. Photographed on 27 May 2023, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Woodside, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK, CH41 6DU, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include CH41 6DU, CH41, Merseyside, Liverpool waterfront, panorama, pano, river, ferry, service, sailing, Belfast, ship, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The broad field of view gives useful spatial context, showing how the main subject sits within the wider urban or landscape setting. The transport setting gives the image wider relevance to mobility, infrastructure, roads and public transport, travel behaviour, local connectivity, logistics and the relationship between vehicles and the built environment. It can illustrate planning, transport policy, accessibility, congestion, public investment and the changing technologies and services used to move people or goods. The waterside context adds themes of ports, docks, harbours, rivers, canals, ferries, leisure boating, maritime transport and waterfront regeneration. Such views are useful for travel and infrastructure coverage as well as for documenting how working waterfronts, passenger services and former industrial land change over time. The wider panoramic composition places the principal subject within its surrounding streetscape or landscape, giving additional context about scale, neighbouring buildings, public space and the relationship between different landmarks. This makes the photograph relevant to both present-day reporting and future visual comparison of change over time.
Woodside, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK, CH41 6DU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,CH41 6DU,CH41,Merseyside,England,UK,Liverpool waterfront,panorama,pano,from,river,ferry,service,sailing,Belfast,on,ship,boat,route,Ireland,Ni,Northern Ireland,wide,long,sunny,summer,blue sky,blue skies,3 graces,three graces,Royal Liver Building,Pierhead,Pier Head,the,historic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64ME7 - . Stena Line Embla Belfast ferry, on Liverpool waterfront panorama from Woodside, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK, CH41 6DU. Photographed on 27 May 2023, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Woodside, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK, CH41 6DU, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include CH41 6DU, CH41, Merseyside, Liverpool waterfront, panorama, pano, river, ferry, service, sailing, Belfast, ship, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The broad field of view gives useful spatial context, showing how the main subject sits within the wider urban or landscape setting. The transport setting gives the image wider relevance to mobility, infrastructure, roads and public transport, travel behaviour, local connectivity, logistics and the relationship between vehicles and the built environment. It can illustrate planning, transport policy, accessibility, congestion, public investment and the changing technologies and services used to move people or goods. The waterside context adds themes of ports, docks, harbours, rivers, canals, ferries, leisure boating, maritime transport and waterfront regeneration. Such views are useful for travel and infrastructure coverage as well as for documenting how working waterfronts, passenger services and former industrial land change over time. The wider panoramic composition places the principal subject within its surrounding streetscape or landscape, giving additional context about scale, neighbouring buildings, public space and the relationship between different landmarks. This makes the photograph relevant to both present-day reporting and future visual comparison of change over time.
Woodside, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK, CH41 6DU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R4WDTB - HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London and is operated by the Imperial War Museum.
Construction of Belfast, the first ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the capital city of Northern Ireland and one of ten Town-class cruisers, began in December 1936. She was launched on St Patrick's Day 1938. Commissioned in early August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, Belfast was initially part of the British naval blockade against Germany. In November 1939, Belfast struck a German mine and, in spite of fears that she would be scrapped, spent more than two years undergoing extensive repairs. Belfast returned to action in November 1942 with improved firepower, radar equipment, and armour. Belfast saw action escorting Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union during 1943 and in December 1943 played an important role in the Battle of North Cape, assisting in the destruction of the German warship Scharnhorst. In June 1944, Belfast took part in Operation Overlord supporting the Normandy landings. In June 1945, she was redeployed to the Far East to join the British Pacific Fleet, arriving shortly before the end of the Second World War. Belfast saw further combat action in 1950“52 during the Korean War and underwent an extensive modernisation between 1956 and 1959. A number of further overseas commissions followed before she entered reserve in 1963.
In 1967, efforts were initiated to avert Belfast's expected scrapping and to preserve her as a museum ship. A joint committee of the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum, and the Ministry of Defence was established and then reported in June 1968 that preservation was practical. In 1971, however, the government decided against preservation, prompting the formation of the private HMS Belfast Trust to campaign for her preservation. The efforts of the Trust were successful
The Queen's Walk, London, England, Great Britain, UK, SE1 2JH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Town-class,light cruiser,battleship,ship,boat,British,tourism,SE1,The Queens Walk,London,SE1 2JH,sunny,blue sky,sunshine,war,navy,vessel,imperial,moored,mooring,the,south,bank,river,maritime,history,might,historic,combat,action,battle,Operation Overlord,defence,budget,budgets
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R4WDTE - HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London and is operated by the Imperial War Museum.
Construction of Belfast, the first ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the capital city of Northern Ireland and one of ten Town-class cruisers, began in December 1936. She was launched on St Patrick's Day 1938. Commissioned in early August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, Belfast was initially part of the British naval blockade against Germany. In November 1939, Belfast struck a German mine and, in spite of fears that she would be scrapped, spent more than two years undergoing extensive repairs. Belfast returned to action in November 1942 with improved firepower, radar equipment, and armour. Belfast saw action escorting Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union during 1943 and in December 1943 played an important role in the Battle of North Cape, assisting in the destruction of the German warship Scharnhorst. In June 1944, Belfast took part in Operation Overlord supporting the Normandy landings. In June 1945, she was redeployed to the Far East to join the British Pacific Fleet, arriving shortly before the end of the Second World War. Belfast saw further combat action in 1950“52 during the Korean War and underwent an extensive modernisation between 1956 and 1959. A number of further overseas commissions followed before she entered reserve in 1963.
In 1967, efforts were initiated to avert Belfast's expected scrapping and to preserve her as a museum ship. A joint committee of the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum, and the Ministry of Defence was established and then reported in June 1968 that preservation was practical. In 1971, however, the government decided against preservation, prompting the formation of the private HMS Belfast Trust to campaign for her preservation. The efforts of the Trust were successful
The Queen's Walk, London, England, Great Britain, UK, SE1 2JH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R4WDTN - This image shows the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, South East London, one of the most famous surviving clipper ships in the world. Built in 1869, the Cutty Sark was designed for speed and became renowned for transporting tea from China and later wool from Australia, playing a significant role in Britain's maritime trading history.
The ship is now preserved as a museum and visitor attraction within Maritime Greenwich, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its towering masts, complex rigging, and sleek black hull dominate the scene, while tourists and visitors walk and gather in the public space below, emphasising the Cutty Sark's continuing role as a focal point for education, leisure, and tourism.
Photographed in daylight under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds, the image captures both the scale of the vessel and the lively atmosphere of the surrounding area. The presence of people provides a sense of proportion and highlights the popularity of the site with families, tourists, and school groups.
This photograph is well suited to editorial use covering British maritime history, heritage tourism, historic ships, London landmarks, travel, education, and the ongoing public engagement with the UK's nautical past.
Cutty Sark, Greenwich, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, England, UK, SE10 9HT
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,GB,Great Britain,Merseyside,Manchester,and,1903,steamship,steam,powered,ship,boat,boats,dock,on,Liverpools,evening,Liverpool,L3,L3 4AF,evenings,at,the,docks,harbour,Royal Albert Dock,Albert Dock,orange,glow,glows,Hilton,hotels,hotel,Liverpool One
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R1MF8A - . Hilton Hotel and Daniel Adamson 1903 steamship boat, on Liverpool Albert Dock waterfront, evening sunset, Liverpool, England, UK, L3 4AF. Photographed on 12 May 2023, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Albert Dock, Pier Head, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 4AF, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Merseyside, Manchester, steamship, steam, powered, ship, boat, boats, dock, Liverpools, evening, Liverpool, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. Weather and natural light are part of the visual character of the frame, helping define the season, atmosphere, colour and visibility of architectural or landscape detail. Architecturally, the scene records the form, materials, scale and public-facing character of the built environment, making it useful for coverage of design, planning, conservation, development and urban identity. The image has value for architectural and place-based research because buildings and interiors can be refurbished, repurposed, demolished or substantially altered, while streets and public spaces also evolve. The transport setting gives the image wider relevance to mobility, infrastructure, roads and public transport, travel behaviour, local connectivity, logistics and the relationship between vehicles and the built environment. It can illustrate planning, transport policy, accessibility, congestion, public investment and the changing technologies and services used to move people or goods. The waterside context adds themes of ports, docks, harbours, rivers, canals, ferries, leisure boating, maritime transport and waterfront regeneration.
Albert Dock, Pier Head, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 4AF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NYNDXP - She is a historic tug from Liverpool.
Name / Owner: BROCKLEBANK
IMO No: 6420408 / ON 306497
Merseyside Maritime Museum.
Flag: United Kingdom (Liverpool).
Comments: July 10, 2004. Moored in Canning Half-tide Dock as a museum ship. Built for Alexandra Towing Co. Ltd., Liverpool, as a ship-handling tug with occasional duties in Heysham, Larne and Barrow. Restoration by the volunteers of the "
Wincham Preservation Society."
Purchased by the Merseyside Maritime Museum in 1989.
Year built / Builder: 1964, W. J. Yarwood &
Sons Ltd., Northwich (yard number: 945)
Details: 172 gt
length o.a. 31.37 m (bp: 28.35 m), 8.26 m beam, 3.81 m depth.
Main engines: 2, two stroke, turbo-charged, 8 cyl Crossley diesel motors developing 970 kW (1,200 bhp) to drive a single prop at a speed of 12 knots.
Static bollard pull: 17 tons
She crossed to Howth from Liverpool 4-5 April 2008.
Graving dry dock, Albert Dock, Pier Head, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 4AF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,fossil fuels,Dutch,Netherlands,Gale,ship,Rotterdam,IMO9876335,helping to supply Britain UK with natural gas from Norway,UK,GB,United Kingdom,Norwegian,Norway,declining North Sea output,transition,Warrington,locks,Chemgas,WA4,energy supplies,gas rationing,filling up,secure gas supply,gas grid,cut gas usage,shortage of gas,energy regulator,gas supply emergency,Gas-fired power stations,direct import of gas,UK energy system,fossil fuel imports,transportation of gas by ship
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M4K89J - GALE (IMO: 9876335) is a LPG Tanker that was built in 2021 (1 year ago) and is sailing under the flag of Netherlands.
Her carrying capacity is 3519 cubic meters Liquid Gas and her current draught is reported to be 3.8 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 91.09 meters and her width is 14.8 meters.
Here shown at Latchford lock, Warrington, Cheshire, UK travelling back to Mongstad, Norway
UK's LNG imports doubled in first quarter. The UK has seen a steep increase in LNG regas because of the energy crunch caused by the war in Ukraine. UK's liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports in the first quarter of 2022 reached the highest level recorded over a decade.
The latest data published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy shows that the amount of LNG imported to the UK increased by almost 50% in the first three months of the year.
The UK holds the second-largest LNG regasification infrastructure in Europe
UK has acted as a gateway for gas to enter European pipelines and meet demand, as countries moved away from importing Russian gas. GB is looking to secure long-term gas import contracts as part of efforts to ensure the country's gas supply security
UK relies on imported gas to meet around half of its demand, with Norway the top supplier, accounting for some two-thirds of the UK's imports last year, according to government data.
Latchford lock, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1DE
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M4K89M - GALE (IMO: 9876335) is a LPG Tanker that was built in 2021 (1 year ago) and is sailing under the flag of Netherlands.
Her carrying capacity is 3519 cubic meters Liquid Gas and her current draught is reported to be 3.8 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 91.09 meters and her width is 14.8 meters.
Here shown at Latchford lock, Warrington, Cheshire, UK travelling back to Mongstad, Norway
UK's LNG imports doubled in first quarter. The UK has seen a steep increase in LNG regas because of the energy crunch caused by the war in Ukraine. UK's liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports in the first quarter of 2022 reached the highest level recorded over a decade.
The latest data published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy shows that the amount of LNG imported to the UK increased by almost 50% in the first three months of the year.
The UK holds the second-largest LNG regasification infrastructure in Europe
UK has acted as a gateway for gas to enter European pipelines and meet demand, as countries moved away from importing Russian gas. GB is looking to secure long-term gas import contracts as part of efforts to ensure the country's gas supply security
UK relies on imported gas to meet around half of its demand, with Norway the top supplier, accounting for some two-thirds of the UK's imports last year, according to government data.
Latchford lock, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1DE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,industrial transport,maritime,industry,liquefied,petroleum,gas,tanker,ship,cargo vessel,night time,blue hour,illuminated ship,navigation lights,lock gates,canal infrastructure,shipping logistics,energy transport,working vessel,quay side,harbour scene,inland port,engineering,trade,transport network,UK waterways,vessel,boat,moored,dusk,evening,night,WA4 1AB,WA4
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R59WP0 - This photograph shows the LPG tanker Gale (IMO 9876335), a specialist liquefied petroleum gas carrier registered in Rotterdam, moored at Latchford Locks on the River Mersey in Warrington, Cheshire. The image was taken during the blue hour at dusk, with the deep blue evening sky contrasting against the bright white superstructure and illuminated working decks of the vessel.
The ship's design reflects its role in the transport of pressurised gas cargoes, with clearly visible deck equipment, piping, safety railings, and enclosed working areas. Prominent navigation and deck lights highlight the operational nature of the vessel and ensure visibility during night-time manoeuvres through inland waterways and lock systems.
Latchford Locks form an important part of the River Mersey navigation route, enabling commercial vessels to pass between tidal and non-tidal sections of the river. Scenes such as this illustrate the continued industrial and logistical use of Britain's inland waterways, even in urban settings like Warrington, where residential areas and historic riverside infrastructure sit alongside working maritime operations.
The calm water, artificial lighting, and absence of visible crew activity suggest a pause in transit rather than active loading or unloading. Images of LPG tankers in inland ports are commonly used to illustrate themes of energy supply, industrial transport, maritime engineering, shipping logistics, and the relationship between industry and urban waterways in the United Kingdom.
Latchford Locks, River Mersey, Warrington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, WA4 1AB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,river,Esk,River Esk,port,dock,harbour,summer,Yorkshire,boat,boats,coastal,coast,history,town,centre,tall,ship,ships,scene,fishing boats,leisure,replica sailing,moored vessels,quayside,red roofed houses,coastal townscape,busy,waterfront buildings,historic port town,North Sea coast,travel destination UK,holiday season England,maritime tourism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RCDXE2 - This image shows Whitby Harbour in North Yorkshire during the summer months, with fishing boats, leisure craft, and historic-style sailing vessels moored along the quayside. The harbour is surrounded by tightly packed red-roofed houses and historic waterfront buildings that rise up the hillside, giving Whitby its distinctive coastal townscape.
The scene reflects Whitby's dual role as both a working harbour and a major tourist destination on the Yorkshire coast. Fishing vessels, charter boats, and visitor attractions share the waterfront, while people move along the quayside enjoying the harbour views during the holiday season.
Taken in daylight under lightly overcast summer skies, the image captures the busy but relaxed atmosphere typical of Whitby in peak season. The harbour has long been central to the town's economy and identity, historically supporting fishing, shipbuilding, and maritime trade, and today playing a key role in tourism.
The photograph illustrates the enduring appeal of Whitby Harbour as a focal point of coastal heritage, maritime activity, and summer tourism in northern England.
Whitby Harbour, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RD246R - Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The town is on the Yorkshire Coast at the mouth of the River Esk. It has a maritime, mineral and tourist economy. The fishing port emerged during the Middle Ages, supporting important herring and whaling fleets, and was where Captain Cook learned seamanship and, coincidentally, where his first vessel to explore the southern ocean, HMS Endeavour was built. Jet and alum were mined locally, and Whitby jet, which was mined by the Romans and Victorians, became fashionable during the 19th century.
The earliest record of a permanent settlement is in 656 AD, when as Streanæshealh it was the place where Oswy, the Christian king of Northumbria, founded the first abbey, under the abbess Hilda. The Synod of Whitby was held there in 664 AD. In 867 AD, Viking raiders destroyed the monastery. The town's East Cliff is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey, where Cædmon, the earliest recognised English poet, lived. Another monastery was founded in 1078 AD. It was in this period that the town gained its current name, Whitby (from white settlement in Old Norse). In the following centuries Whitby functioned as a fishing settlement until, in the 18th century, it developed as a port and centre for shipbuilding and whaling, the trade in locally mined alum, and the manufacture of Whitby jet jewellery. Tourism started in Whitby during the Georgian period and developed with the arrival of the railway in 1839.
Its attraction as a tourist destination is enhanced by the proximity of the high ground of the North York Moors national park and the heritage coastline and by association with the horror novel Dracula. The abbey ruin at the top of the East Cliff is the town's oldest and most prominent landmark. Other significant features include the swing bridge, which crosses the River Esk and the harbour, which is sheltered by the grade II listed East and West piers. The town's maritime heritage is commemorated by statues of
West Cliff, Whitby town, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO21 3PU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,North Yorkshire,Yorkshire,England,UK,boat,boats,ship,fishing,yellow,West Cliff,and,moorings,including,YO21 3PU,tourists,attraction,tourism,town,centre,hill,cliff,homes,property,buildings,port,building,shore,shorefront,hotels,businesses,roofs,foof,stone,brick,a
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RD2477 - Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The town is on the Yorkshire Coast at the mouth of the River Esk. It has a maritime, mineral and tourist economy. The fishing port emerged during the Middle Ages, supporting important herring and whaling fleets, and was where Captain Cook learned seamanship and, coincidentally, where his first vessel to explore the southern ocean, HMS Endeavour was built. Jet and alum were mined locally, and Whitby jet, which was mined by the Romans and Victorians, became fashionable during the 19th century.
The earliest record of a permanent settlement is in 656 AD, when as Streanæshealh it was the place where Oswy, the Christian king of Northumbria, founded the first abbey, under the abbess Hilda. The Synod of Whitby was held there in 664 AD. In 867 AD, Viking raiders destroyed the monastery. The town's East Cliff is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey, where Cædmon, the earliest recognised English poet, lived. Another monastery was founded in 1078 AD. It was in this period that the town gained its current name, Whitby (from white settlement in Old Norse). In the following centuries Whitby functioned as a fishing settlement until, in the 18th century, it developed as a port and centre for shipbuilding and whaling, the trade in locally mined alum, and the manufacture of Whitby jet jewellery. Tourism started in Whitby during the Georgian period and developed with the arrival of the railway in 1839.
Its attraction as a tourist destination is enhanced by the proximity of the high ground of the North York Moors national park and the heritage coastline and by association with the horror novel Dracula. The abbey ruin at the top of the East Cliff is the town's oldest and most prominent landmark. Other significant features include the swing bridge, which crosses the River Esk and the harbour, which is sheltered by the grade II listed East and West piers. The town's maritime heritage is commemorated by statues of
West Cliff, Whitby town, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO21 3PU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,1914 headline,headlines,with,UK,1914-18,British,newspaper,daily,ship,sunk,reports,reported,paper,print,printed,page,front,report,on,a,table,kitchen,public,reading,reader,history,historic,reportage,journalism,media,pages,from,the,Daily News,Reader
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M4E - . Photographed at the recorded location in 2022, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The scene records Daily News and Leader, 1914 headline,Great Britain at war with Germany, on a kitchen table. The image also relates to public realm, mixed-use redevelopment, documentary photography, commercial redevelopment, period architecture, local character, historical comparison, changing land use, community identity, regional identity, place identity, town-centre renewal, built heritage, and everyday life. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into adaptive reuse and town-centre regeneration, not least because of the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. Future viewers can use this scene from the recorded location to compare building condition and alterations with whatever follows after new construction. The photograph additionally reflects heritage-led regeneration, local history, architectural character, archival record, public-realm investment, period detail, civic architecture, and place-making. The recorded references to table, Leader, kitchen, Germany, and Daily preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of the recorded location may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes adaptive reuse and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. Another strand within the photograph is commercial viability and the value of reusing existing buildings rather than wholesale demolition in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. The scene captures evidence of earlier appearance within the wider story of the recorded location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M50 - . Made at the recorded location in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The location is represented through Daily News and Leader, 1914 headline,Great Britain at war with Germany, on a kitchen table. The frame also records themes of urban fabric, before-and-after reference, everyday life, community identity, contemporary social history, regional identity, visual archive, local history, mixed-use redevelopment, local character, architectural character, place identity, place-making, and historical comparison. Current relevance extends to construction costs and housing pressure, particularly through the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. The archival value lies partly in recording transport arrangements and footfall around the recorded location before later reinterpretation alters the character of the place. The photograph additionally reflects archival record, period detail, built heritage, civic architecture, heritage-led regeneration, historic townscape, public-realm investment, and documentary photography. Elements such as headline, Leader, kitchen, table, and Daily add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within the recorded location, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The location additionally provides evidence of construction costs and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. A further contemporary connection is planning and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,renovation,Liverpool,cargo,ship,wood,boat,now,being,sold,to,used,by,of,Abel,&,sons,1860,barge,river,Mersey,Builder,Speakman,William,Chester,named,called,towed,no engine,heritage,olden days,preserved,renovating,museum,boats,ships,the
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M6C - Mossdale was built in 1876 by the Shropshire Union Railway & Canal Company, Chester. She is a Mersey Flat and was towed by horses or tugs. Her hull was carvel construction of oak, elm and pitch pine and she traded between Ellesmere Port and Liverpool. Originally known as RUBY, she was renamed MOSSDALE when bought by Abel & Son of Runcorn in the 1930s. They extensively rebuilt and deepened her to obtain maximum load for minimum displacement. She was found abandoned at Ellesmere Port in 1970 and is now preserved on shore at the Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port.
Mossdale's fabric is representative of a typical wooden Mersey flat, being built of oak frames on pitch pine planking doubled where necessary to achieve her shape. Her large foredeck windlass fitted her to work in the tidal Mersey, with a smaller windlass used when warping her into docks. In 1933, Mossdale underwent a major re-build which included lengthening her to 72 feet. Her increased length represents an important period in her working life, marking the development in trade caused by the industrial revolution and the need for her to carry a greater cargo to pay her way. With no means of propulsion, she would generally have been towed by a horse or tug.
Mossdale was never rigged as a sailing flat, but is a good example of a regional river barge from North-West England. She has a substantial rudder, a typical flat bottom, a round bilge and bluff square bows.
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M77 - Mossdale was built in 1876 by the Shropshire Union Railway & Canal Company, Chester. She is a Mersey Flat and was towed by horses or tugs. Her hull was carvel construction of oak, elm and pitch pine and she traded between Ellesmere Port and Liverpool. Originally known as RUBY, she was renamed MOSSDALE when bought by Abel & Son of Runcorn in the 1930s. They extensively rebuilt and deepened her to obtain maximum load for minimum displacement. She was found abandoned at Ellesmere Port in 1970 and is now preserved on shore at the Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port.
Mossdale's fabric is representative of a typical wooden Mersey flat, being built of oak frames on pitch pine planking doubled where necessary to achieve her shape. Her large foredeck windlass fitted her to work in the tidal Mersey, with a smaller windlass used when warping her into docks. In 1933, Mossdale underwent a major re-build which included lengthening her to 72 feet. Her increased length represents an important period in her working life, marking the development in trade caused by the industrial revolution and the need for her to carry a greater cargo to pay her way. With no means of propulsion, she would generally have been towed by a horse or tug.
Mossdale was never rigged as a sailing flat, but is a good example of a regional river barge from North-West England. She has a substantial rudder, a typical flat bottom, a round bilge and bluff square bows.
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,MSCC,coat of arms,navigation and Commerce,MSC,Manchester,Salford and Warrington,Azure,volant,two millrinds,Anno Regina Victoria,steamboat,boat,ship,brown,this,is,we,do,things,differently,here,icon,iconic,crest,crests,era,Cottonopolis,Victorian,pride,city,centre,waterway,waterways
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K23M7R - The Manchester Ship Canal Company was formed in 1882 with the aim of linking Manchester to the sea via a navigable canal and river route. The idea had been floating around since 1660, but it was the Manchester manufacturer Daniel Adamson who brought together the men who could actually make it happen in June of 1882. The bill that they proposed to Parliament was initially rejected, but was finally passed in May 1885, and was known as the Manchester Ship Canal Act 1885.
The ship canal took six years to complete at a cost of just over £15 million, equivalent to about £1.65 billion in 2011, and measures thirty-six miles in length, from the Mersey Estuary at Eastham on the Wirral to Manchester.
I've not been able to determine what year they were granted their coat of arms, but what's interesting about it is that bees are featured in two location, because it combines elements of the arms of Manchester, Salford and Warrington, as can be seen below.
Arms “ 1st Gules, three bendlets enhanced, or, on a chief argent, thereon on waves of the sea, a steamship, proper (for Manchester).
2nd. Azure, semee of bees, volant, a shuttle between three garbs, or, on a chief of the last, a bale corded, proper, between two millrinds, sable (for Salford).
3rd. Argent, six lionettes, three, two, and one, gules (for Warrinton).
Crest “ 1st, A terrestial globe, semee of bees, volant, all proper.
2nd. A demi-lion, argent, therefrom flowing to the sinister, a flag/
3rd. A sword and mace in saltire, the sword enfiled with a wreath of laurel, both surmounted by a scroll bearing the inscription Anno Regina Victoria .
Supporters “ On the dexter side an herladic antelope, argent, attired, collared, and chain reflexted over the back, or
on the sinister side, a lion guardant, or, murally crowned, gules, each charged on the shoulder with a rose of the last.
Motto “ Navigation and Commerce.
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K2PN01 - . A grounded documentary photograph made at National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The scene records Bacup, waterways and canal, cargo vessel, Rec No 1728 Liverpool. The subject also carries associations with inland navigation, heritage boating, everyday life, inland transport history, working waterway, local bus network, historical comparison, local character, towpath landscape, waterborne freight, community identity, changing streetscape, passenger transport, and navigation engineering. Today's relevance is strengthened by funding, public access and the continuing question of the value of canals as both historic infrastructure and blue-green corridors. From a 2025-onward perspective, reliability and passenger information are closely linked to this subject, alongside the challenge of maintaining reliable services outside dense urban centres. Future viewers can use this scene from National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW to compare period objects and surrounding context with whatever follows after new ownership. The subject also sits alongside industrial navigation, contemporary social history, bus route infrastructure, waterway conservation, surface public transport, documentary photography, local history, and local mobility. The recorded references to Liverpool, Bacup, canal, vessel, and waterways preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2K2PN01.
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K2PN05 - . Made at National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The main point of reference is MSC Pelican 1956 and ICI Cuddington, National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW. The setting additionally reflects heritage boating, navigation engineering, community identity, local bus network, archival record, changing land use, public-transport wayfinding, industrial waterway history, public transport stop, historic narrowboat, before-and-after reference, social history, place identity, and bus route infrastructure. The modern context includes continuing discussion of flood resilience, public access and the transition from freight transport to leisure and heritage use. For current editorial use, service frequency and accessibility provide additional context, especially through the shift toward cleaner vehicles and integrated ticketing. For later comparison, the photograph preserves public access and movement at National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW, details that may look very different after later reinterpretation. A second descriptive layer includes everyday life, waterborne freight, passenger transport, changing streetscape, roadside transit, surface public transport, contemporary social history, and industrial navigation. Details involving Waterways, Museum, Cuddington, National, and Pelican make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time.
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNHKHY - . Recorded at Latchford locks MSC (Manchester Ship Canal), Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The frame specifically shows Boats Bounty & Burscough, at Latchford locks MSC (Manchester Ship Canal), Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4. The subject also carries associations with built heritage, everyday life, local history, period detail, cityscape history, adaptive reuse, heritage asset, urban fabric, place identity, documentary photography, before-and-after reference, conservation architecture, contemporary social history, and architectural detail. The modern context includes continuing discussion of embodied carbon, heritage conservation and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character. The archival value lies partly in recording landscape treatment and surrounding development around Latchford locks MSC (Manchester Ship Canal), Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 before new ownership alters the character of the place. The surrounding story also includes community identity, historic streetscape, historic townscape, changing streetscape, heritage landmark, period building, period architecture, and conservation interest. References to Manchester, locks, Bounty, Latchford, and Canal give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around Latchford locks MSC (Manchester Ship Canal), Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The scene further reflects embodied carbon and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character within the real-world context of Latchford locks MSC (Manchester Ship Canal), Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4.
Latchford locks MSC (Manchester Ship Canal), Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cotswold,Oxfordshire,England,UK,GL55 6AA,historic,history,stone,listed,building,town,parish,grand,early,copper,Basil Hovandan Nava,plaque,at,Basil,Hovandan,Nava,in humble submission to the will of god,memorial,for country,ship,torpedoed,german submarine,St Abbs Head,flower,wool,merchants,of,all,English,Harry and Megan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNBY8E - The grand early perpendicular Cotswold wool church, Church of St James, with its medieval altar frontals (c. 1500), cope (c. 1400), and 17th century monuments includes a monument to silk merchant Sir Baptist Hicks and his family. As well, the Grade I listed Church of St James includes a plaque to William Grevel, described as the flower of the wool merchants of all England. His home, the Grade I listed Grevel's House, was built c. 1380. It is not open to visitors. Chipping Campden is a market town in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. (Chipping is from Old English cēping, 'market', 'market-place'
the same element is found in other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (now High) Wycombe.)
A wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants, most notably William Greville (d.1401). The High Street is lined with buildings built from locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of vernacular architecture. Much of the town centre is a conservation area which has helped to preserve the original buildings. The town is an end point of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile long-distance footpath.
Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olympic Games since 1612.
Chipping Camden, Cotswolds, Cotswold, Oxfordshire, England, UK, GL55 6AA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,the,ship canal,and,old,town,Cheshire,England,UK,fence,MSCC,MSC,barrier,river,WA7,The promenade,Runcorn old town,Halton,WA7 1DH,art,artwork,decoration,blue,painted,council,borough,rail,railings,fences,ship,canal,canals,waterway,waterways
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JHB6P0 - . Photographed at The promenade, Runcorn old town, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1DH in 2022, this detailed editorial image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The scene records The Runcorn promenade, the Manchester Ship canal, and Runcorn Bridge, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK. Further facets of the scene include community identity, river transport, social history, documentary photography, period detail, public realm, blue-green infrastructure, traditional holiday town, river crossing, resort heritage, working waterway, changing streetscape, historical comparison, and traditional confectionery. From a 2025-onward perspective, flood resilience and river transport are closely linked to this subject, alongside the role of passenger boats in broadening urban transport choices. The wider contemporary story combines visitor spending, retail pressure and how nostalgic retail remains part of the seaside experience. The image fixes transport arrangements and footfall within The promenade, Runcorn old town, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1DH at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against redevelopment. The surrounding story also includes waterfront cityscape, marine mobility, contemporary social history, coastal visitor economy, tourism retail, waterside public realm, British seaside culture, and coastal leisure. References to Bridge, canal, Runcorn, Halton, and Manchester give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For The promenade, Runcorn old town, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1DH, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The view records details of everyday use before later change alters the scene. The image fixes evidence of changing use as a date-specific reference.
The promenade, Runcorn old town, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1DH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,the,ship canal,and,old,town,Cheshire,England,UK,fence,MSCC,MSC,barrier,river,WA7,The promenade,Runcorn old town,Halton,WA7 1DH,art,artwork,decoration,blue,painted,council,borough,rail,railings,fences,ship,canal,canals,waterway,waterways
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JHB6P8 - . Photographed at The promenade, Runcorn old town, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1DH in 2022, this detailed editorial image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The subject captured here is The Runcorn promenade, the Manchester Ship canal, and Runcorn Bridge, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK. Further facets of the scene include riverfront regeneration, local character, waterborne travel, traditional holiday town, before-and-after reference, holiday resort economy, blue-green infrastructure, regional identity, inland navigation, navigation corridor, urban waterway, marine mobility, period detail, and canal heritage. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into biodiversity and waterside regeneration, not least because of the need to balance navigation, ecology and flood resilience. Today's relevance is strengthened by domestic tourism, retail pressure and the continuing question of how nostalgic retail remains part of the seaside experience. Small period details of commercial use and occupation at The promenade, Runcorn old town, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1DH may become more significant with time, particularly following new ownership. The photograph additionally reflects coastal leisure, changing streetscape, documentary photography, historical comparison, river crossing, visual archive, public realm, and social history. The recorded references to promenade, Halton, Runcorn, canal, and Manchester preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at The promenade, Runcorn old town, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1DH helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The scene captures a point of historical comparison within the wider story of The promenade, Runcorn old town, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1DH.
The promenade, Runcorn old town, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1DH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JEKPYA - . This scene at Walton Lock, Walton, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6DJ in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The frame specifically shows Danger cold water, no swimming, in the ship canal, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. The broader subject matter reaches into period detail, social landscape, city-centre activity, pedestrian environment, contemporary city life, local history, marine mobility, public realm, changing streetscape, navigation corridor, canal heritage, community identity, urban waterway, and waterside public realm. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into waterside regeneration and public access, not least because of the growing value of rivers and canals as transport, leisure and environmental corridors. Today's relevance is strengthened by regeneration, transport and the continuing question of the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments. Future viewers can use this scene from Walton Lock, Walton, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6DJ to compare local activity and public use with whatever follows after changed technology. The surrounding story also includes community life, everyday life, waterfront cityscape, local character, river transport, contemporary social history, river crossing, and waterborne travel. References to canal, swimming, water, and Danger give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. By fixing the subject within Walton Lock, Walton, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6DJ, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The scene captures a point of historical comparison for later comparison. The period view preserves part of the area's social history within the wider story of Walton Lock, Walton, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6DJ.
Walton Lock, Walton, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6DJ
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUk,GoTonySmith,Rotherhithe,Wapping,London,Thames,England,UK,SE16,famous,pub,bar,gastropub,sailing,English Puritans,1620,The Spread Eagle,next to the River Thames,Thames Side,history,historic,building,buildings,workhouse,drinking,pubs,bars,signage,signs,blue,plaque,Mayflower,ship,dock,docks
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AXKD48 - In July 1620, the Mayflower sailed from Rotherhithe and picked up 65 passengers, probably from Blackwall, then proceeded to Southampton on the south coast of England to begin loading food and supplies for the voyage to America. At that time, the English Separatists, who later became known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were mostly still living in the city of Leiden, in the Netherlands. There they hired a ship called the Speedwell to take them from Delftshaven in the Netherlands to Southampton to join the Mayflower.
The ship's master, Christopher Jones, died shortly after his return in 1621 and is buried in an unmarked grave at St Mary's Church. No one can be sure where on the Rotherhithe peninsula the Mayflower was berthed, but the Mayflower pub near St Mary's Church claims the honour, and lists the names of the Mayflower passengers on their wall. The building itself, despite external and interior appearances, dates only from the 1950s. The extent to which the pub was damaged during the Second World War, and was rebuilt or simply restored is uncertain
117 Rotherhithe St, Rotherhithe, London, England, UK, SE16 4NF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AR8C2W - NLV Pole Star is a lighthouse tender operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB), the body responsible for the operation of lighthouses and marine navigation aids around the coasts of Scotland and the Isle of Man.
Pole Star was completed in 2000 by Ferguson Shipbuilders on the River Clyde. She is the fourth NLB vessel to carry the name and replaced the 37-year-old NLV Fingal. In memory of this vessel, Pole Star has a workboat onboard named Fingal.
Pole Star was joined by a new vessel, NLV Pharos in March 2007, which replaced the previous vessel of the same name. Although the headquarters of the NLB is in Edinburgh, both vessels can be serviced by a workbase in Oban on the west coast.
From March 2008, Sean Rathbone has been Master of the Pole Star
Custom House Quay Ferry Terminal, Greenock , Inverclyde, West of Scotland, Scotland, UK, PA15 1EQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AR8C2X - NLV Pole Star is a lighthouse tender operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB), the body responsible for the operation of lighthouses and marine navigation aids around the coasts of Scotland and the Isle of Man.
Pole Star was completed in 2000 by Ferguson Shipbuilders on the River Clyde. She is the fourth NLB vessel to carry the name and replaced the 37-year-old NLV Fingal. In memory of this vessel, Pole Star has a workboat onboard named Fingal.
Pole Star was joined by a new vessel, NLV Pharos in March 2007, which replaced the previous vessel of the same name. Although the headquarters of the NLB is in Edinburgh, both vessels can be serviced by a workbase in Oban on the west coast.
From March 2008, Sean Rathbone has been Master of the Pole Star
Custom House Quay Ferry Terminal, Greenock , Inverclyde, West of Scotland, Scotland, UK, PA15 1EQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E422TJ - . RFA Fort Austin at Birkenhead docks. Photographed on 4 May 2019. The recorded location is Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK. In relation to waterfront, historical context shows that harbours and ferry ports have shaped coastal communities for centuries, providing sheltered water for fishing, trade and passenger travel
Quays, piers, slipways and terminal buildings record evolving vessel sizes and the transition from cargo handling to modern roll-on roll-off ferry operations. As of 2026, the position for waterfront is that ferry reliability, vessel replacement, accessibility and the resilience of island transport remain prominent issues in Scotland and other coastal regions
Port photographs therefore connect tourism and scenic travel with the practical dependence of communities on dependable maritime links. Relevant long-tail terms include working harbour, ferry terminal, maritime transport, island connectivity, lifeline ferry, port infrastructure, quayside, marine travel, coastal transport, harbour town, passenger ferry, vehicle ferry, maritime heritage, coastal economy, 5X8A7156, ship, and Royal. Other closely matched search terms include Fleet, Auxiliary, and naval. For the story of coastal transport, it is useful to note that harbours and ferry ports have shaped coastal communities for centuries, providing sheltered water for fishing, trade and passenger travel
Quays, piers, slipways and terminal buildings record changing vessel sizes and the transition from cargo handling to modern roll-on roll-off ferry operations. The historical setting for vehicle ferry is that maritime gateways connect island and mainland economies, carrying residents, visitors, freight and vehicles while also supporting fishing, leisure craft and tourism
Older waterfront buildings often survive beside contemporary ferry infrastructure, making port landscapes unusually layered records of economic change.
Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E4231F - . Royal Daffodil ferry moored on the Mersey. Photographed on 4 May 2019. The recorded location is Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK. Within the history of port infrastructure, working harbours combine civil engineering with everyday transport
Their breakwaters, piers, navigation lights and boarding areas reflect successive generations of investment as traditional fishing and coastal shipping have been joined by tourism, cruise traffic and lifeline ferry services. Against the 2026 backdrop for port infrastructure, current 2026 transport policy places increasing emphasis on integrated journeys, active travel and lower-emission fleets, so ferry terminals now sit within wider networks of rail, bus, cycling and electric-vehicle infrastructure rather than functioning as isolated ports. Associated subject terminology includes maritime transport, island connectivity, waterfront, quayside, marine travel, coastal transport, harbour town, passenger ferry, vehicle ferry, maritime heritage, coastal economy, 5X8A7239, and Liverpool. In relation to marine travel, historical context shows that harbours and ferry ports have shaped coastal communities for centuries, providing sheltered water for fishing, trade and passenger travel
Quays, piers, slipways and terminal buildings record evolving vessel sizes and the transition from cargo handling to modern roll-on roll-off ferry operations. For the story of passenger ferry, it is useful to note that maritime gateways connect island and mainland economies, carrying residents, visitors, freight and vehicles while also supporting fishing, leisure craft and tourism
Older waterfront buildings often survive beside modern ferry infrastructure, making port landscapes unusually layered records of economic change. The image also relates directly to maritime transport, island connectivity and waterfront. The subject also connects island connectivity, waterfront and quayside within the same editorial theme.
Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTDP - The Jewellery Quarter is an area of central Birmingham, UK. Situated in the north western area of the Birmingham City Centre, there is a population of around 19,000 people in a 1.07-square-kilometre (264-acre) area.
The Jewellery Quarter is Europe's largest concentration of businesses involved in the jewellery trade, which produces 40% of all the jewellery made in the UK. It is also home to the world's largest Assay Office, which hallmarks around 12 million items a year. Historically the Jewellery Quarter has been the birthplace of many pioneering advancements in industrial technology.
At its peak in the early 1900s the Jewellery Quarter employed over 30,000 people, however due to foreign competition and lack of demand, the industry declined throughout the 20th century. The area is now being transformed into an urban village and hub for creative businesses, whilst maintaining its urban fabric. Its historical importance has led to numerous conservation schemes and it is an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
A survey of 1553 named one of the first goldsmiths of Birmingham, Roger Pemberton. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Birmingham prospered from the Industrial Revolution and developed into a large industrial town, manufacturing a vast range of products, often from various metals. Many large foundries and glassworks attracted workers from all areas of Britain. A considerable trade developed in the manufacture of gilt buttons, cap badges, pins and small metal toys.
According to the Birmingham Directory of 1780, there were 26 jewellers at the time. Because the definition of a jeweller was not explained in the directory, it is thought that it may contain many irregularities and the number of actual jewellers may be lower. It is thought that by the start of the 19th century, there were around 12 jewellery manufacturing companies, employing approximately 400 people.
Warstone Lane, Birmingham, England, UK, B18 6JW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,Great Britain,British,NI,Ireland,Ulster,community,politics,politicians,BT1,Belfast,Antrim,Northern Ireland,BT1 5GS,Donegall Square,city hall,city,centre,color,coloured,colour,windows,window,&,ingenuity,H&W,shipbuilding,ship,ships,history,stained glass,fish,fishing
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PM628W - . Titanic & Ulster ingenuity, maritime stained glass at Belfast City Hall, Donegall Square North, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, BT1 5GS. Photographed on 19 August 2017, this summer image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Donegall Square North, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, BT1 5GS, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Ireland, Ulster, community, politics, politicians, BT1, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT1 5GS, Donegall Square, city hall, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. Architecturally, the scene records the form, materials, scale and public-facing character of the built environment, making it useful for coverage of design, planning, conservation, development and urban identity. The image has value for architectural and place-based research because buildings and interiors can be refurbished, repurposed, demolished or substantially altered, while streets and public spaces also evolve. The religious or ecclesiastical setting gives the photograph relevance to faith, worship, sacred architecture, stained glass, church heritage, tourism and the conservation of historic interiors and buildings. It can illustrate the continuing cultural role of churches and cathedrals as places of worship, community activity, music, remembrance and architectural interest. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison.
Donegall Square North, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, BT1 5GS
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H6JMRT - Aberdeen Harbour was the first publicly limited company in the United Kingdom and is today the principal commercial port in northern Scotland and an international port for general cargo, roll-on/roll-off and container traffic. The harbour also serves NorthLink Ferries, which sail to Kirkwall, Orkney and Lerwick, Shetland. The Aberdeen Maritime Museum (on Shiprow in the city centre) includes exhibitions and displays which tell the story of the harbour and its role in the economy and development of the city.
Originally, the defective harbour, with a shallow sand and gravel bar at its entrance, retarded the trade of Aberdeen, but under various acts since 1773 it was greatly deepened.
By the Harbour Act of 1868, the river Dee near the harbour was diverted from the south at a cost of £80,000, and 90 acres (364,000 m²) of new ground, in addition to 25 acres (101,000 m²) formerly made up, were provided on the north side of the river for the Albert Basin (with a graving dock), quays and warehouses. A 1050 ft (320 m) long concrete breakwater was constructed on the south side of the stream as a protection against south-easterly gales. On Girdleness, the southern point of the bay, a lighthouse was built in 1833.
The North Pier, built partly by John Smeaton 1775-81, and partly by Thomas Telford 1810-15, extends nearly 3,000 ft (1000 m) into the North Sea and raised the bar.
Victoria Dock, named in honour of the queen's visit to the city in that year, is a wet dock of 29 acres (117,000 m²) and with 6000 ft (1800 m) of quay, was completed in 1848
16 Regent Quay, Aberdeen AB11 5SS, Scotland
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HE18CE - Titanic Belfast is a visitor attraction and 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 ill-fated 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, plus private function rooms and community facilities.
1 Olympic Way, Queens Road, Titanic Quarter, Belfast, Northern Ireland,UK BT3 9EP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HE18CH - Titanic Belfast is a visitor attraction and 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 ill-fated 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, plus private function rooms and community facilities.
1 Olympic Way, Queens Road, Titanic Quarter, Belfast, Northern Ireland,UK BT3 9EP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy FDNK0B - . This location-specific image from Knutsford Road, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA1 in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. At the centre of the view is Power Cables Do Not Use anchors 15M sign,River Mersey,Warrington,Cheshire,England, UK. The setting additionally reflects before-and-after reference, local history, public transport stop, surface public transport, bus infrastructure, local character, archival record, visual archive, passenger information, period detail, bus route infrastructure, place identity, street-side transport, and local bus network. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with passenger information, accessibility and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing. Small period details of materials and architectural details at Knutsford Road, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA1 may become more significant with time, particularly following conservation work. The surrounding story also includes regional identity, social history, community identity, passenger transport, roadside transit, public-transport wayfinding, everyday life, and transport accessibility. References to River, anchors, Power, Mersey, and Cables give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. By fixing the subject within Knutsford Road, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA1, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. Another useful connection is passenger information and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing when considered against later change at Knutsford Road, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA1. The scene further reflects integrated transport and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing without losing the local specificity of Knutsford Road, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA1.
Knutsford Road, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EG0 - . Recorded at Canada in 2015, the image fixes a particular place, use and appearance for later comparison as buildings, businesses, signs and public activity change. The scene shows Canadian Stamp, Canada Stamp, Canada Post,used stamp, Emile Nelligan , Le vaisseau d'or Canada Postage, postes, 17, boat,ship. The frame also contains themes of period detail, historical comparison, conservation architecture, historic townscape, urban fabric, before-and-after reference, architectural character, customer footfall, retail vacancy, shopfront economy, local trading, town-centre economy, consumer retail, and period building. In the mid-2020s, vacant units and commercial rents keep the subject current, particularly through the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres. The subject remains useful for current coverage of maintenance costs and adaptive reuse, not least because of the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. For later comparison, the view documents the combination of built form, activity and local identity at Canada. Other useful associations include commercial streetscape, visual archive, local history, built heritage, period streetscape, regional identity, high-street commerce, and documentary photography. Elements such as Postage, Canadian, Stamp, Canada, and Nelligan add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. The surrounding context at Canada matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The image also provides a reference for vacant units and the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres within the real-world context of Canada. Another useful connection is maintenance costs and the contrast between preservation and redevelopment within the specific setting of Canada. It also preserves a local visual benchmark within the wider story of Canada.
Canada
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB5R - . Golden Gate fishing boat and Farne Islands Boat Trips, at Seahouses, NE England Northumberland, UK. Photographed at Seahouses, NE England, Great Britain. The photograph was taken on 08 August 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Golden Gate fishing boat at Seahouses, NE England, port, harbour, fish, fishing, trip, trips, Northumberland and charter, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is a documentary record of an identifiable subject and location, useful for editorial, archive, travel, local-history and social-history picture research. It can support features about everyday life, place, public space, local identity, tourism, consumer behaviour and the changing appearance of towns, cities and communities. Visible objects, signs, buildings and environmental details provide contextual clues that make the image useful beyond its immediate subject. As a dated stock photograph it also offers a reference point for later comparison, especially where businesses, streets, public services or local surroundings subsequently change. Search themes include documentary photography, local history, everyday life, place, public space, travel, community identity, social history and changing surroundings. Its specificity makes it more useful than a generic concept image when an editor needs a recognisable real-world subject and setting. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Seahouses, NE England, Great Britain
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB5T - . Boats in Seahouses harbour, Northumbria, NE England, UK. Photographed at Seahouses Harbour,Northumbria, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 08 August 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Boats in, Seahouses harbour, Northumbria, NE England, seahouses, northumberland, harbour, fishing, dock and Boats, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Seahouses Harbour,Northumbria, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB5Y - . Boats in Seahouses harbour, Northumbria, NE England, UK. Photographed at Seahouses Harbour,Northumbria, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 08 August 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Boats in, Seahouses harbour, Northumbria, NE England, seahouses, northumberland, harbour, fishing, dock and Boats, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Seahouses Harbour,Northumbria, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DN6NAA - . Boat on the Sankey Canal Reflection Warrington Cheshire England UK. Photographed at Sankey, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 22 September 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The wider composition gives a broader sense of the surroundings, showing the principal subject in relation to more of the streetscape, landscape or public space. The scene is closely associated with Boat, Sankey, Canal, Reflection, Warrington, Cheshire, pano, panorama, wide and shot, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. Beyond the immediate subject, the scene is relevant to British pub culture, licensed premises, real ale, beer tourism and the continuing social role of the traditional public house. For picture buyers, the photograph can support editorial features about pubs and bars, hospitality, independent and managed venues, drinking culture, local heritage, city and town centres, leisure spending and the changing British high street. Details such as brewery branding, pub signage, entrances, windows, bar fittings, beer pumps or period architecture can provide useful visual evidence of how licensed premises present themselves to customers. The image also works as a record of everyday social history, documenting a familiar type of British hospitality venue at a particular moment in time rather than presenting an idealised studio view. Search themes naturally include British pub heritage, real ale and beer culture, licensed premises, hospitality, public houses, local drinking traditions and the role of pubs within town and city life. Where brewery names, pumps, windows, pub signs or period fittings are present, they add useful detail for features on brewing history, hospitality branding and traditional licensed interiors or exteriors.
Sankey, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKR1 - The area around the Pier Head and Albert Dock is iconic for tourists / travelers and even more beautiful by night or at dusk.
The Pier Head is a riverside location in the city centre of Liverpool, England. It is part of the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was inscribed in 2004.
The site encompasses a trio of landmarks, built on the site of the former George's Dock and referred to since at least 2000 as The Three Graces:
Royal Liver Building, built between 1908 and 1911 and designed by Walter Aubrey Thomas. It is a grade I listed building consisting of two clock towers, both crowned by mythical Liver Birds. The building is the headquarters of the Royal Liver Friendly Society.
Cunard Building, constructed between 1914 and 1916 and a grade II* listed building. It is the former headquarters of the Cunard Line shipping company.
Port of Liverpool Building, built from 1903 to 1907 and also grade II* listed. It is the former home of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
Also on the site is the grade II listed Mersey Tunnel building, to the east of the Port of Liverpool building. It was built in the 1930s and contains offices and ventilator equipment for the Queensway Tunnel.
Pier Head, Liverpool, England, UK L3 1DL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKRA - The Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses in Liverpool, England. Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick, it was opened in 1846, and was the first structure in Britain to be built from cast iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood. As a result, it was the first non-combustible warehouse system in the world.
At the time of its construction the Albert Dock was considered a revolutionary docking system because ships were loaded and unloaded directly from/to the warehouses. Two years after it opened it was modified to feature the world's first hydraulic cranes. Due to its open yet secure design, the Albert Dock became a popular store for valuable cargoes such as brandy, cotton, tea, silk, tobacco, ivory and sugar. However, despite the Albert Dock's advanced design, the rapid development of shipping technology meant that within 50 years, larger, more open docks were required, although it remained a valuable store for cargo.
During the Second World War, the Albert Dock was requisitioned by the Admiralty serving as a base for boats of the British Atlantic Fleet. The complex was damaged during air raids on Liverpool, notably during the May Blitz of 1941. In the aftermath of the war, the financial problems of the owners and the general decline of docking in the city meant that the future of the Albert Dock was uncertain. Numerous plans were developed for the re-use of the buildings but none came to fruition and in 1972 the dock was finally closed. Having lain derelict for nearly ten years, the redevelopment of the dock began in 1981, when the Merseyside Development Corporation was set up, with the Albert Dock being officially re-opened in 1984.
Today the Albert Dock is a major tourist attraction in the city and the most visited multi-use attraction in the United Kingdom, outside of London. It is a vital component of Liverpool's UNESCO designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City and the docking complex and warehouses also com
Albert Dock Liverpool , Merseyside , England , UK L3 4AA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9APB - . Coastal Deniz at Latchford Locks, MSCC, Warrington, England, UK, WA4 1GN. Photographed at Latchford Lock, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 23 June 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Coastal Deniz, Latchford Locks, MSCC, Warrington, boat, cargo, vessel, tanker, Manchester Ship Canal and Manchester ship canal company, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. This particular view is catalogued under Alamy image reference DE9APB, distinguishing it from other photographs of the same or related subject.
Latchford Lock, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9APP - . Coastal Deniz at Latchford Locks, MSCC, Warrington, England, UK, WA4 1GN. Photographed at Latchford Lock, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 23 June 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Coastal Deniz, Latchford Locks, MSCC, Warrington, boat, cargo, vessel, tanker, Manchester Ship Canal and Manchester ship canal company, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. This particular view is catalogued under Alamy image reference DE9APP, distinguishing it from other photographs of the same or related subject.
Latchford Lock, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7205637566 - 'View this whole set here. If you do Twitter add me here.
Eight, A number is divisible by 8 if its last 3 digits are also divisible by 8.
Eight is the first number to be the aliquot sum of two numbers other than itself
the discrete biprime 10, and the square number 49.
8 is the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents 3 bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet.
The number 8 is a Fibonacci number, being 3 plus 5. The next Fibonacci number is 13. 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube.
The number eight is considered to be a lucky number in Chinese and other Asian cultures. Hanukkah is a Jewish festival holiday that lasts eight days and eight nights. In Islam, It is the number of Angels carrying The Holy Throne of Allah in heavens. In Hinduism, it is the number of wealth, abundance. The Goddess Lakshmi has eight forms. There are eight nidhi, or seats of wealth. There are also eight Guardians of the directions.
It is the atomic number of oxygen, as well as the number of tentacles on an octopus.
Checkout too many eights. A wonderful excuse to hear that track again.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BJ1WAB - . A location-based documentary photograph from Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe, useful both for its immediate subject and for the smaller period details around it. At the heart of the image is Bocayna Express Catamaran ferry, Fred Olsen express, sea transport, Lanzarote, Canaries,Spain,inter-island, Spain,Europe. The setting additionally reflects inland navigation, changing streetscape, waterborne travel, blue-green infrastructure, built environment, everyday life, place identity, waterside infrastructure, public realm, industrial waterway history, community identity, visual archive, historic transport corridor, and historical comparison. Today's wider story includes heritage conservation, navigation funding and the practical question of the long transition from freight route to leisure and heritage asset. For later comparison, the photograph preserves signage and branding at Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe, details that may look very different after later redevelopment. Further associations include working waterway, contemporary history, documentary photography, river transport, towpath landscape, urban change, before-and-after reference, and navigation engineering. Elements such as transport, Express, Catamaran, ferry, and Spain add documentary specificity and may become useful when the scene is compared with later records. The period setting at Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The location additionally provides evidence for heritage conservation and the long transition from freight route to leisure and heritage asset when considered against later change at Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe.
Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BJ1WAD - . Recorded at Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe, this image forms part of the visual history of the locality and the activity, building, object or service shown. The location is represented through Bocayna Express Catamaran ferry, Fred Olsen express, sea transport, Lanzarote, Canaries,Spain,inter-island, Spain,Europe. The frame also records themes of public realm, before-and-after reference, social landscape, built environment, local character, social history, navigation engineering, changing streetscape, canal heritage, everyday life, waterborne travel, blue-green infrastructure, contemporary history, and documentary photography. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with heritage conservation, biodiversity and the value of canals and rivers as blue-green corridors. As a dated visual record of Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe, the frame retains equipment and working practice, making it useful if later redevelopment subsequently changes the scene. A second layer of the scene includes river transport, waterside infrastructure, historic transport corridor, period detail, working waterway, lock-side environment, local history, and historical comparison. The combination of Express, Europe, Canaries, Olsen, and Bocayna helps anchor the frame to a recognisable activity, place or period. The period setting at Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is heritage conservation and the value of canals and rivers as blue-green corridors when considered against later change at Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe.
Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe
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Keywords: Gotonysmith,Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,Spain,35580 Playa Blanca,ferries,boat,ship,vessels,transport,Ferry,sea transport,Canaries,express,Bocayna,Express,service,services,Catamaran,port,in port,docked,Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca,Las Palmas,Lanzarote,Europe,boats,ferry,route,sailing,routing,line,lines car ferry,link,links,Calle Muelle,de,Playa Blanca
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BJ1WAJ - . This scene at Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe documents an everyday subject with wider connections to local identity, social history and changing patterns of use. The principal subject is Bocayna Express Catamaran ferry, Fred Olsen express, sea transport, Lanzarote, Canaries,Spain,inter-island, Spain,Europe. Other aspects of the subject include historic transport corridor, navigation engineering, boating network, social landscape, riparian setting, before-and-after reference, period detail, canal heritage, industrial waterway history, local character, social history, river transport, towpath landscape, and place identity. The subject remains useful for current coverage of navigation funding and flood resilience, not least because of balancing leisure use with engineering and environmental needs. Future viewers can use this scene from Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe to compare equipment and working practice with whatever follows after closure or conversion. The surrounding context includes changing streetscape, everyday life, waterborne travel, local history, community identity, contemporary history, visual archive, and managed navigation. The recorded references to Canaries, Express, ferry, Europe, and Catamaran preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. The surrounding context at Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The wider significance includes navigation funding and the long transition from freight route to leisure and heritage asset within the real-world context of Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe.
Calle Muelle de Playa Blanca, 35580 Playa Blanca, Las Palmas,Lanzarote , Spain, Europe
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,boat,ship,port,harbour,harbor,up,Build 2008,2008,2452 gt,3682 dwt,England,UK,in,BH15,Harbour Office 20 New Quay Road Poole,Dorset,BH15 4AF,20,New Quay Road,20 New Quay Road,night,evening,dusk,moored,mooring,the,shipping,natural harbour,harbours,ports,crane,cranes,Monrovia,Monrovian,flag
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BG7KGH - . This carefully observed view of Harbour Office, 20 New Quay Road ,Poole, Dorset,England,UK, BH15 4AF fixes a specific place, use and moment for later historical comparison. The defining feature is Herakles Monrovia vessel in Poole Harbour, Dorset,England,UK. Its broader subject matter includes changing streetscape, regional identity, urban commerce, local trading, retail vacancy, social history, customer footfall, independent trading, built environment, high-street commerce, historical comparison, public realm, town-centre economy, and before-and-after reference. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with vacant units, business rates and bringing underused premises back into productive use. The archival value lies partly in recording commercial identity and local use around Harbour Office, 20 New Quay Road ,Poole, Dorset,England,UK, BH15 4AF before changed technology alters the character of the place. Other connected aspects are local character, commercial streetscape, visual archive, period detail, local history, retail property, bricks-and-mortar retail, and documentary photography. References to vessel, Herakles, Poole, Monrovia, and Dorset give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to the named subject. Around Harbour Office, 20 New Quay Road ,Poole, Dorset,England,UK, BH15 4AF, apparently routine features can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar street details disappear. Its period value extends to vacant units and bringing underused premises back into productive use in a form that can be compared with future views of Harbour Office, 20 New Quay Road ,Poole, Dorset,England,UK, BH15 4AF. The location additionally provides evidence for hybrid working and the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres within the real-world context of Harbour Office, 20 New Quay Road ,Poole, Dorset,England,UK, BH15 4AF.
Harbour Office, 20 New Quay Road ,Poole, Dorset,England,UK, BH15 4AF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF23KC - An engine order telegraph or E.O.T., often also called a Chadburn, is a communications device used on a ship (or submarine) for the pilot on the bridge to order engineers in the engine room to power the vessel at a certain desired speed. In early vessels, from the 1800s until about 1950, the device usually consisted of a round dial about nine inches in diameter with a knob at the center attached to one or more handles, and an indicator pointer on the face of the dial. Modern E.O.T.s on vessels which still use them use electronic light and sound signals.
Traditional E.O.T.s required a pilot wanting to change speed to ring the telegraph on the bridge, moving the handle to a different position on the dial. This would ring a bell in the engine room and move their pointer to the position on the dial selected by the bridge. The engineers hear the bell and move their handle to the same position to signal their acknowledgment of the order, and adjust the engine speed accordingly. Such an order is called a bell, for example the order for a ship's maximum speed, flank speed, is called a flank bell.
For urgent orders requiring rapid acceleration, the handle is moved three times so that the engine room bell is rung three times. This is called a cavitate bell because the rapid acceleration of the ship's propeller will cause the water around it to cavitate, causing a lot of noise and wear on the propellers. Such noise is undesirable during conflicts because it can give away a vessel's position.
On most modern vessels the EOT acts as a direct throttle with no intervening engine room personnel.
This one has positions of Full Ahead, Half, Slow, Dead Slow, Stand By, Stop. Astern Finished with engines, dead slow, slow, half and full. German U-boats of World War II contained the dial position Alarmtauchen, the order for a crash dive.
Most seen these days are copies. Most do not include the CL of Chadburn Liverpool which was the place of manufacture, as in this specimen h
Cornwall, England, Great Britain, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4392889987 - 'One of the cantilevered bridges over the Manchester ship canal at sunset.
The Warburton Toll Bridge crosses the Manchester Ship Canal on the B5159 road, connecting Warrington with Trafford. There was an old stone bridge across the now dried up bed of the diverted River Mersey from 1863, there was an original toll for this.
The toll contributes towards the maintenance of the high level bridge style metal bridge and approach road. There is a limit of 3 tons on the bridge. The last time I crossed it was 12p. I believe a 25p ticket can be taken and used all day, a bit like the Thelwall ferry www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4337673883/ . There is also an annual pass from the MSCC.
If you cross, tolls are charged from 7am till 10pm Monday to Friday, from 8am Saturday and 9am on a Sunday. At 10pm until the following morning there is no charge to cross. Apparently its one of the few remaining pre-motorway toll bridges in the UK and the only one in Greater Manchester. So a little bit of history.
A ship in the canal going through a swing bridge www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4297752647/
MSCC locks at Latchford at night www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4312557732/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4297752647 - 'Here the Latchford road swing bridge on the Manchester Ship Canal has been swung and the ship passing through is being viewed from the Grappenhall side (Knutsford Road A50).
A number of cars and pedestrians were piling up, hence the two lads on the front of the boat waving.
The happy falcon is a frequent visitor to Carrington and is a LPG Tanker. For anyone interested it is IMO no 9227261 Flag IOM. It was Built 2002 and is 3366gt.
As can be seen its got a great red coloured hull and the boat can be easily seen from some distance away.
(Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire UK).
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4023454839 - 'Crane on the south side (Grappenhall / Thelwall) of canal at Latchford lock.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEXEH1 - The Lowry is a theatre and gallery complex situated on Pier 8 at Salford Quays, in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is named after the early 20th-century painter, L. S. Lowry, known for his paintings of industrial scenes in North West England. The complex was officially opened on 12 October 2000 by Queen Elizabeth II
To redevelop the derelict Manchester Docks, Salford City Council developed a regeneration plan in 1988 for the brownfield site highlighting the leisure, cultural and tourism potential of the area, and included a flagship development that would involve the creation of a performing arts centre. The initial proposals were for two theatres and an art gallery on a prominent site on Pier 8.
Between 1990 and 1991 a competition was launched and architects James Stirling Michael Wilford Associates was selected. After the death of James Stirling in June 1992 Michael Wilford continued the project.
The city council bid for Millennium and other British and European funds and private sector finance to progress the project. Funding was secured in 1996 and The Lowry Trust became responsible for the project which comprised The Lowry Centre, the plaza, a footbridge, a retail outlet shopping mall and Digital World Centre. The National Lottery provided over £21 million of funding towards its construction. The project was completed in 1999 at a cost of £106 million. The Lowry name was adopted in honour of the local artist, L. S. Lowry.
The complex is close to the Imperial War Museum North and the Old Trafford football stadium. It is served by the MediaCityUK stop on the Metrolink tram network. In 2010 and 2011 it was Greater Manchester's most visited tourist attraction.[5] A sting operation by the Salford Star in 2006 attempted to demonstrate intolerance towards unaccompanied teenagers in hoodies entering the complex
Salford Quays Lowry Centre, Pier 8 Salford Quays, Manchester, United Kingdom M50 3AZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEXEG8 - . Watchtower, Manchester Ship Canal at Latchford, Warrington Cheshire England UK
WA4 1NN Ž. Photographed on 4 July 2009. The recorded location is Manchester Ship Canal at Latchford, Warrington Cheshire England UK WA4 1NN. The historical context is that working locks, bridges and canal-side structures reveal the engineering system that underpinned industrial Britain
Many former commercial waterways have been restored for recreation and heritage use, creating a distinctive mixture of historic infrastructure, modern development and linear green space. Historically, ports and vessels are central to Britain's maritime history, linking coastal communities and inland industry with fishing, trade, passenger travel and international shipping
Harbours, docks and working craft also reflect changing technology, from traditional fishing fleets to high-speed workboats and modern freight logistics. In the longer view, buildings are often the most durable evidence of former institutions and businesses
Stonework, brickwork, windows, signs and decorative details can survive changes of ownership and use, allowing photographs to document both architectural style and the evolution of a street. The subject remains topical in 2026 because today the canal network is valued as much for heritage, leisure, walking routes and wildlife as for navigation. the condition and funding of ageing waterway infrastructure remain recurring issues, adding contemporary relevance to images of locks, towpaths and historic canal engineering. In 2026, ports remain crucial to UK trade, offshore energy, passenger travel and supply chains, while decarbonisation is driving interest in cleaner fuels, shore power and more efficient vessels
Earlier working-boat and harbour images therefore have both maritime-history and contemporary transport relevance. Additional discoverability terms include inland waterway, lock chamber, lock gates, canal heritage, industrial transport, and waterway engineering.
Manchester Ship Canal at Latchford, Warrington Cheshire England UK WA4 1NN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAW0M - A lifebuoy is a life-saving buoy designed to be thrown to a person in water, to provide buoyancy and prevent drowning. Some modern lifebuoys are fitted with one or more seawater-activated lights, to aid rescue at night.
Other names for lifebuoy include safety wheel, lifebelt, water wheely, ring buoy, life ring, lifering, lifesaver, life donut, life preserver, Perry buoy, or Kisbee ring. The Kisbee ring, sometimes kisby ring or kisbie ring, is thought to be named after inventor Thomas Kisbee (1792“1877), a British naval officer
The lifebuoy is usually ring- or horseshoe-shaped personal flotation device with a connecting line allowing the casualty to be pulled to the rescuer in a boat. They are carried by ships and are also located beside bodies of water that have the depth or potential to drown someone. They are often subjected to vandalism which, since the unavailability of lifebuoys could lead to death, may be punished by fines (up to £5,000 in the United Kingdom) or imprisonment.
The UK Royal Life Saving Society considers lifebuoys unsuitable for use in swimming pools because throwing one into a busy pool could injure the casualty or other pool users. In these locations, lifebuoys have been superseded by devices such as the torpedo buoy.
In the United States, Coast Guard approved lifebuoys are considered Type IV personal flotation devices. At least one Type IV PFD is required on all vessels 26 feet or more in length.
Leonardo da Vinci sketched a concept for a safety wheel, as well as for buoyant shoes and balancing sticks for walking on water
The Digey, St Ives, Cornwall, Kernow, South West England, UK, TR26 1HR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HWN1 - . Verity shipping on the Manchester Ship Canal early evening at Latchford Locks Warrington Cheshire January 2013. Photographed on 12 January 2013. The recorded location is Manchester Ship Canal Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA4 2XT. Historically, working locks, bridges and canal-side buildings reveal the engineering system that underpinned industrial Britain
Many former commercial waterways have been restored for recreation and heritage use, creating a distinctive mixture of historic infrastructure, modern development and linear green space. The historical context is that ports and vessels are central to Britain's maritime history, linking coastal communities and inland industry with fishing, trade, passenger travel and international shipping
Harbours, docks and working craft also reflect evolving technology, from traditional fishing fleets to high-speed workboats and modern freight logistics. As background, panoramic and atmospheric views place individual landmarks within their wider setting
Light, season and weather affect how architecture and landscape are perceived, while distant development can provide clues to the changing form of a town or coastline. In 2026, today the canal network is valued as much for heritage, leisure, walking routes and wildlife as for navigation. the condition and funding of ageing waterway infrastructure remain recurring issues, adding contemporary relevance to images of locks, towpaths and historic canal engineering. The subject remains topical in 2026 because ports remain crucial to UK trade, offshore energy, passenger travel and supply chains, while decarbonisation is driving interest in cleaner fuels, shore power and more efficient vessels
Older working-boat and harbour images therefore have both maritime-history and contemporary transport relevance. Other strongly related concepts include inland waterway, lock chamber, lock gates, canal heritage, industrial transport, and waterway engineering.
Manchester Ship Canal Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA4 2XT
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GT7R - Opened in 1920 by local brewers Mitchell and Butlers, The Rose Villa Tavern is a cool and quirky pub in Birmingham that has managed to retain its period features. Green tiles, art-deco features and original stone placements are original features that remain intact, even after the pub's quirky and somewhat renovation.
172 Warstone Ln, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B18 6JW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H6JMTG - Aberdeen Harbour was the first publicly limited company in the United Kingdom and is today the principal commercial port in northern Scotland and an international port for general cargo, roll-on/roll-off and container traffic. The harbour also serves NorthLink Ferries, which sail to Kirkwall, Orkney and Lerwick, Shetland. The Aberdeen Maritime Museum (on Shiprow in the city centre) includes exhibitions and displays which tell the story of the harbour and its role in the economy and development of the city.
Originally, the defective harbour, with a shallow sand and gravel bar at its entrance, retarded the trade of Aberdeen, but under various acts since 1773 it was greatly deepened.
By the Harbour Act of 1868, the river Dee near the harbour was diverted from the south at a cost of £80,000, and 90 acres (364,000 m²) of new ground, in addition to 25 acres (101,000 m²) formerly made up, were provided on the north side of the river for the Albert Basin (with a graving dock), quays and warehouses. A 1050 ft (320 m) long concrete breakwater was constructed on the south side of the stream as a protection against south-easterly gales. On Girdleness, the southern point of the bay, a lighthouse was built in 1833.
The North Pier, built partly by John Smeaton 1775-81, and partly by Thomas Telford 1810-15, extends nearly 3,000 ft (1000 m) into the North Sea and raised the bar.
Victoria Dock, named in honour of the queen's visit to the city in that year, is a wet dock of 29 acres (117,000 m²) and with 6000 ft (1800 m) of quay, was completed in 1848
16 Regent Quay, Aberdeen AB11 5SS, Scotland
