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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,HotpixUk,IMG_9011,Royal London Friendly Society Victorian offices Wigan,Royal,London,Friendly,Society,Victorian,offices,Wigan,Greater,Manchester,heritage,historic,history,architecture,civic,local,museum,conservation
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EF6C13 - Royal London Friendly Society Victorian offices Wigan, photographed at Wigan, Greater Manchester, stock-photo/gotonysmith-England.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>England, UK. The photograph provides a documentary record of local history, architecture, civic identity or preserved heritage and is suitable for editorial coverage of conservation, social history, institutions and changing urban life. The image clearly records visible signage, branding, architecture, objects or activity associated with Royal London Friendly Society Victorian offices Wigan. It provides useful contemporary or historical context for news, feature and documentary use, including stories about local identity, economic change, public services, travel, leisure, community life and the way familiar places and objects are presented in the built environment. The scene is shown as encountered, making it useful as an editorial stock image for illustrating the subject, its location and its wider social or cultural context.
Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,255A0376,Beverley Beck Sun barge preservation society,Beverley,Beck,Sun,barge,preservation,society,East,Riding,Yorkshire,England,canal,waterway,heritage,boat,waterside,navigation,leisure,urban
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E9ANFT - Beverley Beck Sun barge preservation society, photographed in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK. The photograph is suitable for editorial coverage of canals, barges, boats, inland waterways, waterside regeneration, heritage transport, leisure boating and the changing use of urban waterfronts. The image clearly records the visible subject, signage, branding, architecture, object or activity associated with Beverley Beck Sun barge preservation society. It provides useful documentary context for news, features, travel, social history and contemporary editorial coverage. Details visible in the scene help identify the place or subject and show how it appears in everyday use, making the photograph useful for stories about local identity, economic and social change, public services, transport, leisure, heritage, tourism, community life and the built environment. The photograph can also support retrospective or comparative coverage where the survival, redevelopment, reuse or changing role of the location or object is relevant.
Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,city,centre,Northern Ireland,UK,strikers,solidarity,support,the,poster,banner,urban,window,windows,we,always knew,who,was,and who,keeps,going,members,to,all,message,politics,political,BT1 2AG,BT1,96-98,High St,Belfast,keep,keeping,country,up,and,running,society
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R9J0J1 - A key worker, critical worker or essential worker is a public-sector or private-sector employee who is considered to provide an essential service. The term has been used[when?] in the United Kingdom in the context of workers who may find it difficult to buy property in the area where they work. The term was also used by the UK government during announcements regarding school shutdowns invoked in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to indicate parents whose occupations entitled them to continue sending their children to schools which were otherwise shut down by government policy, as well as teachers and LSAs at those schools.
A key worker is a public sector or private sector employee who is considered to provide an essential service.
Key workers jobs that cannot be done remotely:-
Energy. Many of the jobs in this field, which includes mining and oil extraction, cannot be done remotely.
First responders. These are the people communities depend on in emergencies, such as paramedics, firefighters and police.
Education and child care. Making sure children can grow academically even during a pandemic means vaccinating teachers, their support staff, and daycare employees.
Agriculture and food production. Many of the outbreaks at the onset of the pandemic were in meatpacking facilities and other food-processing plants.
Critical retail. (i.e. grocery stores, hardware stores, auto mechanics etc.). Keeping supermarket employees safe makes it possible for others to stay fed while restaurants are temporarily shut down.
Critical trades. (i.e. construction workers, electricians, plumbers, etc.)
Manufacturing. These jobs (producing goods) cannot be done remotely.
Corrections workers. Prisons are the types of closed facilities where the coronavirus can spread quickly.
Postal Service workers. This group makes sure vital packages get delivered, along with providing other key services.
Public transit workers.
96-98 High St, Belfast , Northern Ireland, UK, BT1 2AG
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Keywords: town,centre,WA1,Cheshire,England,English,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,WA1 1NB,architecture,Victorian,history,historic,British,masonic,hall,masons,Limited,Co,Ltd,hire,event,events,halls,exterior,outside,door,doorway,entrance,sunny,blue sky,blue skies,registered office,Masons,society,FreeMasons,FreeMason
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RHH6FK - Taken on 16 Jun 2023, this photograph shows Winmarleigh House, Warrington Masonic Hall Co Ltd,15 Winmarleigh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1NB. The location is Winmarleigh House, Warrington Masonic Hall Co Ltd,15 Winmarleigh St, Warrington WA1 1NB. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains visible signage, colour, materials, location clues and everyday street detail that make the image more specific than a generic stock photograph. Winmarleigh House and the Masonic Hall lettering provide a record of fraternal organisation, civic societies, meeting rooms and the architectural layers of Warrington's town centre. It can be used in editorial features, business reports, local-history writing, travel guides, public-policy explainers, educational material and SEO-led stock-photo searches needing a specific real-world image. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include Winmarleigh Street, Winmarleigh, Warrington, buildings, Warrington Masonic Hall, Co Ltd, Company, Winmarleigh House, venue, venues, town, centre, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes. This makes the image useful for comparison pieces, then-and-now features, local news, regeneration stories and plain-English explainers aimed at a general audienc.
Winmarleigh House, Warrington Masonic Hall Co Ltd,15 Winmarleigh St, Warrington WA1 1NB
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Keywords: town,centre,WA1,Cheshire,England,English,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,WA1 1NB,architecture,Victorian,history,historic,British,masonic,hall,masons,Limited,Co,Ltd,hire,event,events,halls,exterior,outside,door,doorway,entrance,sunny,blue sky,blue skies,registered office,letter box,letters,Masons,society,FreeMasons
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RHH6FX - Taken on 16 Jun 2023, this photograph shows Winmarleigh House, Warrington Masonic Hall Co Ltd,15 Winmarleigh St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1NB. The location is Winmarleigh House, Warrington Masonic Hall Co Ltd,15 Winmarleigh St, Warrington WA1 1NB. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains visible signage, colour, materials, location clues and everyday street detail that make the image more specific than a generic stock photograph. Winmarleigh House and the Masonic Hall lettering provide a record of fraternal organisation, civic societies, meeting rooms and the architectural layers of Warrington's town centre. It can be used in editorial features, business reports, local-history writing, travel guides, public-policy explainers, educational material and SEO-led stock-photo searches needing a specific real-world image. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include Winmarleigh Street, Winmarleigh, Warrington, buildings, Warrington Masonic Hall, Co Ltd, Company, Winmarleigh House, venue, venues, town, centre, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes. It also has a useful contemporary feel, because it shows how long-standing places, policies, products or institutions are encountered by ordinary people in daily.
Winmarleigh House, Warrington Masonic Hall Co Ltd,15 Winmarleigh St, Warrington WA1 1NB
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Keywords: Greater Manchester,centre,England,UK,NW,North West,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,the,CoOp,Co Op,OL12,OL12 0NU,boxes,Nexum,Cheroots,Navy Cut,Raydex,Beechwood,cigarettes,Jayce,Junior,Lustre,cigs,tabs,fags,Meadowland,Rochdale,equitable,Pioneers,society,limited,est,1844,Toad Lane,Lancs,medium,Angel Meadow
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RCA2JD - . CWS Cigarette packaging - Nexum Cheroots, CWS Navy Cut, Raydex, Beechwood cigarettes, Jayce Junior, Lustre, Raydex, Meadowland. Photographed on 10 June 2023. The recorded location is Toad Lane, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK OL12 0NU. The CWS tobacco factory opened in Ludgate Hill / Angel Meadow in 1898. Eight people could produced 3,500 packets of cigarettes an hour. The factory's most-prized workers were its cigar makers, whose nimble fingers could wrap and roll tobacco with the dexterity of classical pianists. Managers preferred to employ people from better class districts. The historical setting for consumer culture is that collectable items gain meaning through provenance and context
A board game, badge, souvenir or branded package may connect a national event or local place with mass manufacturing and personal memory. In the 2026 discussion of consumer culture, online resale, nostalgia and interest in vintage design have made many ordinary twentieth-century objects active collecting categories rather than disposable goods. Additional high-relevance terminology includes material culture, consumer object, vintage object, memorabilia, branding, design history, retro, household object, manufactured object, product history, social history, Co-Op, pioneers, box, North West, CoOp, Co Op, boxes, cigs, tabs, and fags. Other strongly related concepts include equitable. Seen through collecting, the earlier context is that everyday objects often become better historical evidence with age because packaging, typography, materials and branding evolution more rapidly than their basic function
Souvenirs, games and household items can therefore date consumer culture very precisely. Looking at souvenir, the longer history is that collectable items gain meaning through provenance and context
A board game, badge, souvenir or branded package may connect a national event or local place with mass manufacturing and personal memory.
Toad Lane, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK OL12 0NU
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Keywords: Greater Manchester,centre,England,UK,NW,North West,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,the,CoOp,Co Op,OL12,OL12 0NU,boxes,Nexum,Cheroots,Navy Cut,Raydex,Beechwood,cigarettes,Jayce,Junior,Lustre,cigs,tabs,fags,Meadowland,Rochdale,equitable,Pioneers,society,limited,est,1844,Toad Lane,Lancs,medium,Angel Meadow
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RCA2JP - . CWS Cigarette packaging - Nexum Cheroots, CWS Navy Cut, Raydex, Beechwood cigarettes, Jayce Junior, Lustre, Raydex, Meadowland. Photographed on 10 June 2023. The recorded location is Toad Lane, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK OL12 0NU. The CWS tobacco factory opened in Ludgate Hill / Angel Meadow in 1898. Eight people could produced 3,500 packets of cigarettes an hour. The factory's most-prized workers were its cigar makers, whose nimble fingers could wrap and roll tobacco with the dexterity of classical pianists. Managers preferred to employ people from better class districts. For the story of design history, it is useful to note that material culture includes the ordinary products people bought, used, collected or displayed
Small manufactured objects can reveal national identity, advertising, technology and popular taste in ways that formal records do not. For present-day design history, 2026 is significant because sustainability and reuse also give older objects new relevance, encouraging repair, second-hand sales and appreciation of durable material culture. Additional discoverability terms include collectable, souvenir, consumer object, vintage object, memorabilia, branding, consumer culture, retro, household object, collecting, product history, social history, Co-Op, pioneers, box, North West, CoOp, Co Op, boxes, cigs, tabs, fags, and equitable. The historical setting for household object is that everyday objects often become better historical evidence with age because packaging, typography, materials and branding change more rapidly than their basic function
Souvenirs, games and household items can therefore date consumer culture very precisely. Seen through product history, the earlier context is that material culture includes the ordinary products people bought, used, collected or displayed
Small manufactured objects can reveal national identity, advertising, technology and popular taste in ways that formal records do not.
Toad Lane, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK OL12 0NU
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Keywords: Greater Manchester,centre,England,UK,NW,North West,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,the,CoOp,Co Op,OL12,OL12 0NU,wagon,wagons,waggons,coal department,Manchester,No,1940,No1940,railway,builders,rail,waggon,dept,urging,Co-Op,fuel,fuels,Peterborough,Wholesale,society,Burn Co-op Coal Ltd,London
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RCA2KJ - . Rail waggon urging burn Co-Op coal CWS, coal department, Manchester, No 1940, at Rochdale. Photographed on 10 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 Toad Lane, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK OL12 0NU, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Greater Manchester, North West, CoOp, Co Op, OL12, OL12 0NU, wagon, wagons, waggons, coal department, Manchester, No1940, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. Transport context makes the photograph useful for stories about rail travel, passenger journeys, stations and interchanges, public transport investment, regional connectivity and the everyday experience of moving through the UK rail network. Railway architecture, passenger facilities, route identity, signage and operational infrastructure are important documentary themes, particularly as stations and services are modernised or altered over time. 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 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.
Toad Lane, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK OL12 0NU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,England,UK,London N6,red brick architecture,neighbourhood,society,Highgate Society,Highgate conservation,community group office,heritage organisation,local history,civic engagement,South Grove Highgate,period architecture,arched window,brick facade,street entrance,notice boards,community noticeboard,London neighbourhoods,grassroots organisation,urban heritage,documentary photography,everyday civic life,community,notices,pinned,displayed,official,on,external,boards
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RA23AR - The exterior of The Highgate Society building at 11 South Grove in Highgate, north London. The red-brick property features arched windows and period detailing typical of the area's late-19th-century architecture and serves as the headquarters of the Highgate Society, a long-established local community and conservation organisation.
The Highgate Society is known for its involvement in protecting the historic character, green spaces, and built environment of Highgate, as well as representing local residents' interests in planning and development matters. Notice boards outside the building display community information and events, reinforcing its role as a focal point for civic engagement.
Photographed in natural daylight, the image documents the everyday presence of grassroots community organisations within London neighbourhoods. It illustrates themes of local activism, conservation, heritage stewardship, and the continuing use of historic buildings for contemporary civic purposes.
The Highgate Society, 11 South Grove, Highgate, London, England, United Kingdom, N6 6BS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,West Yorkshire,Yorkshire,OL14,27,Rochdale Road,OL14 7LA,West Riding,Walsden,CooP,ornate,society,Limited,Ltd,of,blue,grade II,listed,Victorian,Co-operative shop,shop,shops,store,stores,shopfront,deep,fascia,with,gilded,inscription,gold,lettering,letters
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RG1WE6 - . Frontage of Todmorden industrial & Co-Operative society Limited, 29 Rochdale Rd, Todmorden, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, OL14 7LA. Photographed on 25 March 2023. The recorded location is 27 Rochdale Rd, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, UK, OL14 7LA. Todmorden is a market town and civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is 17 miles (27 kilometres) north-east of Manchester, 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Burnley and 9 miles (14 km) west of Halifax. In 2011, it had a population of 15,481. Todmorden is at the confluence of three steep-sided Pennine valleys and is surrounded by moorlands with outcrops of sandblasted gritstone. The historic boundary between Yorkshire and Lancashire is the River Calder and its tributary, Walsden Water, which run through the town. The administrative border was altered by the Local Government Act 1888 placing the whole of the town within the West Riding. The town is served by Todmorden and Walsden railway stations. The background to manufacturing is that industrial buildings and machinery preserve the material history of manufacturing: steam power, engineering, mining, textiles, ceramics and mass production transformed both the economy and the physical character of towns
Surviving equipment is now studied as industrial archaeology. Within the history of local economy, small businesses have long adapted existing premises to changing consumer demand, adding signs, windows and interiors that make each period visually distinct
Their survival is closely tied to footfall, rents, local competition and the wider fortunes of the town centre. In relation to visitor guidance, historical context shows that temporary and permanent notices are valuable social-past evidence because they capture the rules and assumptions of a particular moment, from parking and access to opening times, safety and public-service instructions.
27 Rochdale Rd, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, UK, OL14 7LA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Surrey,UK,England,GU7,Bridge St,Waverley,GU7 1HY,hall,theatre,hiring,multi,use,gig,tour,tours,and,nights,concert,concerts,film,society,municipal,building,dusk,night,evening,Borough,Council,venues,entertainment,halls,stage,hires,ticket,tickets,local,politics
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PG60X6 - Godalming Borough Hall is a municipal building in Bridge Street in Godalming, England. The building is the meeting place of Godalming Town Council.
Following significant population growth, especially after the London and South Western Railway reached the town in 1849, the area became a municipal borough with the Pepper Pot as its town hall in 1875. In May 1907 tenders were invited from contractors to extend the public hall in Bridge Street to the west to create new municipal buildings for the borough. The extension was built in red brick with stone dressings and the work was completed in 1908. The design of the enlarged structure involved an asymmetrical main frontage with ten bays facing onto Bridge Street
the central section of three bays, which slightly projected forward, featured arcading on the ground floor, three sash windows with stone surrounds on the first floor and a pediment above with an oculus in the tympanum. The left hand section featured, in the central bay, a doorway with a canopy on the ground floor and a panel containing the borough coat of arms on the first floor. The right hand section featured, in the end bay which slightly projected forward, a round headed doorway on the ground floor and a tri-part sash window on the first floor with a pediment above.
The building continued to serve as the meeting place of Godalming Borough Council for much of the 20th century, but ceased to be the local seat of government when Waverley Borough Council was formed with its headquarters in Guildford in 1974. Waverley Council moved to new council offices in The Burys just behind the borough hall in 1980. The borough hall subsequently became the meeting place for Godalming Town Council.
Works of art in the borough hall include a portrait by Godfrey Kneller of the locally-born sailor, Admiral Sir John Balchen, who became governor of the Greenwich Naval Hospital in March 1743
Bridge St, Godalming, Waverley, Surrey, England, UK, GU7 1HY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Surrey,UK,England,GU7,Bridge St,Waverley,GU7 1HY,hall,theatre,hiring,multi,use,gig,tour,tours,and,nights,concert,concerts,film,society,municipal,building,dusk,night,evening,Borough,Council,venues,entertainment,halls,stage,hires,ticket,tickets
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PG60X8 - Godalming Borough Hall is a municipal building in Bridge Street in Godalming, England. The building is the meeting place of Godalming Town Council.
Following significant population growth, especially after the London and South Western Railway reached the town in 1849, the area became a municipal borough with the Pepper Pot as its town hall in 1875. In May 1907 tenders were invited from contractors to extend the public hall in Bridge Street to the west to create new municipal buildings for the borough. The extension was built in red brick with stone dressings and the work was completed in 1908. The design of the enlarged structure involved an asymmetrical main frontage with ten bays facing onto Bridge Street
the central section of three bays, which slightly projected forward, featured arcading on the ground floor, three sash windows with stone surrounds on the first floor and a pediment above with an oculus in the tympanum. The left hand section featured, in the central bay, a doorway with a canopy on the ground floor and a panel containing the borough coat of arms on the first floor. The right hand section featured, in the end bay which slightly projected forward, a round headed doorway on the ground floor and a tri-part sash window on the first floor with a pediment above.
The building continued to serve as the meeting place of Godalming Borough Council for much of the 20th century, but ceased to be the local seat of government when Waverley Borough Council was formed with its headquarters in Guildford in 1974. Waverley Council moved to new council offices in The Burys just behind the borough hall in 1980. The borough hall subsequently became the meeting place for Godalming Town Council.
Works of art in the borough hall include a portrait by Godfrey Kneller of the locally-born sailor, Admiral Sir John Balchen, who became governor of the Greenwich Naval Hospital in March 1743
Bridge St, Godalming, Waverley, Surrey, England, UK, GU7 1HY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Germany,Rhineland-Palatinate,Rhineland,Palatinate,112,call,ambulance,emergency,response,van,vehicle,society,vehicles,Bereitschaften,Rotes Kreuz,ambulances,cross,red,vans,emergencies,ranks,&,and,insignia,DRK,called,an,the,brave,staff,strike,striking,recruit,recruiting
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PPXYER - The German Red Cross (German: Deutsches Rotes Kreuz DRK) is the national Red Cross Society in Germany.
With 4 million members, it is the third largest Red Cross society in the world. The German Red Cross offers a wide range of services within and outside Germany. GRC provides 52 hospitals, elderly care (over 500 nursing homes and a mobile nursing care network of covering the entire country), care for children and youth (i.e. 1.300 kindergartens, a full range of social services for children). GRC also provides 75% of the blood supply and 60% of the emergency medical services in Germany, as well as first aid training. GRC headquarters provides international humanitarian aid (disaster management and development assistance) to over 50 countries across the world.
Voluntary societies of the German Red Cross
The majority of active voluntary Red Cross members are part of the five voluntary societies of the German Red Cross.
Bereitschaften (emergency response units, about 160,000 members)
Bergwacht (mountain rescue service)
Wasserwacht (lifeguard service, about 130,000 members)
Sozialarbeit (welfare work)
Jugendrotkreuz
Mainz city centre, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K30HBD - George Formby, OBE (born George Hoy Booth
26 May 1904 “ 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the United Kingdom's highest-paid entertainer.
Born in Wigan, Lancashire, he was the son of George Formby Sr, from whom he later took his stage name. After an early career as a stable boy and jockey, Formby took to the music hall stage after the early death of his father in 1921. His early performances were taken exclusively from his father's act, including the same songs, jokes and characters. In 1923 he made two career-changing decisions “ he purchased a ukulele, and married Beryl Ingham, a fellow performer who became his manager and transformed his act. She insisted that he appear on stage formally dressed, and introduced the ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the late 1930s and 1940s, and became the UK's most popular entertainer during those decades. The media historian Brian McFarlane writes that on film, Formby portrayed gormless Lancastrian innocents who would win through against some form of villainy, gaining the affection of an attractive middle-class girl in the process.
Warrington cemetery, Manchester Road, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,of,and,father,son,comedian,entertainer,Manchester Road,Cheshire,England,UK,OBE,06/03/1961,Snr,jnr,jr,marble renovated,society,Warringtonian,the,ukulele,or,banjolele,When Im cleaning windows,George Hoy Booth,Lancashire,Lancs,working class,entertaining,death,died,family,John Willie,turned out nice again,With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock,Turned out nice again,star
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K30HDB - George Formby, OBE (born George Hoy Booth
26 May 1904 “ 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the United Kingdom's highest-paid entertainer.
Born in Wigan, Lancashire, he was the son of George Formby Sr, from whom he later took his stage name. After an early career as a stable boy and jockey, Formby took to the music hall stage after the early death of his father in 1921. His early performances were taken exclusively from his father's act, including the same songs, jokes and characters. In 1923 he made two career-changing decisions “ he purchased a ukulele, and married Beryl Ingham, a fellow performer who became his manager and transformed his act. She insisted that he appear on stage formally dressed, and introduced the ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the late 1930s and 1940s, and became the UK's most popular entertainer during those decades. The media historian Brian McFarlane writes that on film, Formby portrayed gormless Lancastrian innocents who would win through against some form of villainy, gaining the affection of an attractive middle-class girl in the process.
Warrington cemetery, Manchester Road, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,of,and,father,son,comedian,entertainer,Manchester Road,Cheshire,England,UK,OBE,06/03/1961,Snr,jnr,jr,marble renovated,society,Warringtonian,the,ukulele,or,banjolele,When Im cleaning windows,George Hoy Booth,Lancashire,Lancs,working class,entertaining,death,died,family,John Willie,turned out nice again,With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock,Turned out nice again
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K30HDF - George Formby, OBE (born George Hoy Booth
26 May 1904 “ 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the United Kingdom's highest-paid entertainer.
Born in Wigan, Lancashire, he was the son of George Formby Sr, from whom he later took his stage name. After an early career as a stable boy and jockey, Formby took to the music hall stage after the early death of his father in 1921. His early performances were taken exclusively from his father's act, including the same songs, jokes and characters. In 1923 he made two career-changing decisions “ he purchased a ukulele, and married Beryl Ingham, a fellow performer who became his manager and transformed his act. She insisted that he appear on stage formally dressed, and introduced the ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the late 1930s and 1940s, and became the UK's most popular entertainer during those decades. The media historian Brian McFarlane writes that on film, Formby portrayed gormless Lancastrian innocents who would win through against some form of villainy, gaining the affection of an attractive middle-class girl in the process.
Warrington cemetery, Manchester Road, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,of,and,father,son,comedian,entertainer,Manchester Road,Cheshire,England,UK,OBE,06/03/1961,Snr,jnr,jr,marble renovated,society,Warringtonian,the,ukulele,or,banjolele,When Im cleaning windows,George Hoy Booth,Lancashire,Lancs,working class,entertaining,death,died,family,John Willie,turned out nice again,With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock,Turned out nice again
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K30HDM - George Formby, OBE (born George Hoy Booth
26 May 1904 “ 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the United Kingdom's highest-paid entertainer.
Born in Wigan, Lancashire, he was the son of George Formby Sr, from whom he later took his stage name. After an early career as a stable boy and jockey, Formby took to the music hall stage after the early death of his father in 1921. His early performances were taken exclusively from his father's act, including the same songs, jokes and characters. In 1923 he made two career-changing decisions “ he purchased a ukulele, and married Beryl Ingham, a fellow performer who became his manager and transformed his act. She insisted that he appear on stage formally dressed, and introduced the ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the late 1930s and 1940s, and became the UK's most popular entertainer during those decades. The media historian Brian McFarlane writes that on film, Formby portrayed gormless Lancastrian innocents who would win through against some form of villainy, gaining the affection of an attractive middle-class girl in the process.
Warrington cemetery, Manchester Road, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,coop,tiles,advert,ad,limited,ltd,old tiled signs,1855,Cheshire,Limited,Provident,Society,Community Benefit,Societies,industrial and provident society,public,good,help,assist,the,poor,Friendly,history,historic,charitable,organisation,organisations,Macclesfield Equitable Pioneers Provident Society,pioneers,169b,SK11 6UD,SK11
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JP0KE3 - Macclesfield Equitable Pioneers Provident Society
Reference: FS 8/6/169b
Description:
Macclesfield Equitable Pioneers Provident Society
Date: 1858-1862
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Registered no: 169b
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
More info at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6633058
Park Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 6UD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Society,LTD,WA7,33,Halton,Cheshire,England,UK,WA7 1HU,beer,inside,interior,bar,pub,the tap,tap,art,posters,atmosphere,club,bars,pubs,outside,arts,arts space,new,repurposed,open,opened,reopening,regeneration,revitalised,entertainment,venue
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K13HN0 - . Photographed at 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU 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 defining feature is The Society Tap, Runcorn, 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU. The broader subject matter reaches into licensed hospitality, social history, song-inspired design, music tourism, public realm, cultural branding, hospitality trade, licensed trade, documentary photography, visual archive, popular-music heritage, music-themed venue, food-and-drink business, and night-time economy. For current editorial use, staffing pressure and pub closures provide additional context, especially through how branded and independent hospitality compete for changing leisure spending. Current relevance extends to cultural heritage and fan culture, particularly through how popular music is reused in hospitality and tourism branding. Small period details of building condition and alterations at 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU may become more significant with time, particularly following different community use. A second descriptive layer includes neighbourhood drinking venue, before-and-after reference, street-level dining, local music culture, traditional hostelry, archival record, historical comparison, and community identity. References to Runcorn, Society, Ashridge, and Halton give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The period setting at 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The record includes a point of historical comparison within the wider story of 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU.
33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Society,LTD,WA7,33,Halton,Cheshire,England,UK,WA7 1HU,beer,panorama,wide,view,pano,inside,interior,bar,pub,the tap,tap,art,posters,atmosphere,taproom,tap rooms,room,venue,venues,to,hire,poster,space,art space,bars
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K13HTF - . This dated editorial view of 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The location is represented through The Society Tap, Runcorn, 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU - panorama wide view. The setting additionally reflects historical comparison, cultural nostalgia, social history, documentary photography, changing land use, song-inspired design, casual dining, music iconography, street-level dining, Beatles memorabilia, community pub, neighbourhood drinking venue, period detail, and music-themed venue. The wider contemporary story combines hospitality costs, business rates and the pressure on customer-facing businesses in a high-cost economy. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with cultural heritage, creative industries and how popular music is reused in hospitality and tourism branding. Future viewers can use this scene from 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU to compare street furniture and boundaries with whatever follows after replacement signage. The photograph additionally reflects licensed hospitality, traditional hostelry, local character, archival record, community identity, pub heritage, music-themed hospitality, and fan tourism. The combination of Ashridge, Halton, Society, panorama, and Runcorn anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The location additionally provides evidence of hospitality costs and how familiar pubs and restaurants shape neighbourhood identity as part of the longer story of 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU.
33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Society,LTD,WA7,33,Halton,Cheshire,England,UK,WA7 1HU,beer,inside,interior,bar,pub,the tap,tap,art,posters,atmosphere,club,bars,pubs,outside,arts,arts space,new,repurposed,open,opened,reopening,regeneration,revitalised,entertainment,venue
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K13HTN - . Recorded at 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. At the centre of the view is The Society Tap, Runcorn, 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU. The setting additionally reflects neighbourhood drinking venue, licensed trade, local social venue, tribute venue, pub heritage, regional identity, popular culture, cultural nostalgia, documentary photography, changing streetscape, food-and-drink business, night-time economy, customer-facing leisure, and cultural branding. Current relevance extends to food inflation and staffing pressure, particularly through how branded and independent hospitality compete for changing leisure spending. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into local tourism and fan culture, not least because of how popular music is reused in hospitality and tourism branding. For later comparison, the photograph preserves materials and architectural details at 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU, details that may look very different after closure or conversion. Further associations within the scene are period detail, before-and-after reference, community identity, music-themed hospitality, contemporary social history, local music culture, Beatles memorabilia, and local character. Elements such as Ashridge, Society, Runcorn, and Halton add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of 33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The frame retains a trace of local identity as a date-specific reference. The scene captures a local visual benchmark for later comparison.
33 Ashridge St, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1HU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@hotpixUK,Hotpixuk,England,UK,accommodation,reduced,reducing,prices,100%,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4 3LH,WA4,dusk,rain,storm,building,site,moody,sky,ahead,property,new,newbuild,housing,development,house,housebuilding,Skipton,society,interest,rates,rate,LGBT,gay,pink pound,perfect,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDJ47T - . Recorded at Grappenhall Heys, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3LH 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 principal subject is Rainbow over new property housing development, a mortgage pot of gold, Grappenhall Heys, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3LH. The broader subject matter reaches into gay hospitality, local character, nightlife heritage, visual archive, Soho nightlife, site transformation, inclusive night-time venue, queer London, development pipeline, period detail, contemporary social history, queer urban culture, gay bar culture, and commercial construction. The wider contemporary story combines care demand, local infrastructure and the pressure to deliver new facilities while controlling construction cost and quality. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with night-time economy, Pride visibility and how Soho remains a symbolic centre of LGBTQ nightlife. The image fixes materials and architectural details within Grappenhall Heys, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3LH at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changing commercial priorities. Further associations within the scene are construction phase, queer social space, community identity, care-sector construction, construction project, LGBTQ community venue, regional identity, and everyday life. The recorded references to Grappenhall, development, property, mortgage, and Rainbow preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Grappenhall Heys, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3LH, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The image fixes period character as a date-specific reference. It also preserves a trace of local identity for later comparison.
Grappenhall Heys, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3LH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,tablet erected by the Warrington Society,town centre,blue,gold,black,Site of the residence,Anna Laetitla Aikin,Warrington Academy,Anna Laetitia Barbauld,WA1,memorial,plaque,history,historic,heritage,town,centre,Anna,Laetitla,Aikin Atkins,family,tablet,erected,by,for,the,Warrington,Society,1911,painted
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C5R38T - Anna Laetitia Barbauld née Aikin
20 June 1743 “ 9 March 1825[1]) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature.
A woman of letters who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career at a time when women rarely wrote professionally. She was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and an innovative writer of works for children
her primers provided a model for more than a century. Her essays showed it was possible for a woman to be publicly engaged in politics
other women authors such as Elizabeth Benger emulated her.Barbauld's literary career spanned numerous periods in British literary history: her work promoted the values of the Enlightenment and of sensibility, while her poetry made a founding contribution to the development of British Romanticism.[4] Barbauld was also a literary critic. Her anthology of 18th-century novels helped to establish the canon as it is known today.
Barbauld's career as a poet ended abruptly in 1812, with the publication of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, which criticised Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars. She was shocked by the vicious reviews it received and published nothing else in her lifetime. Her reputation was further damaged when many of the Romantic poets she had inspired in the heyday of the French Revolution turned against her in their later, more conservative years. Barbauld was remembered only as a pedantic children's writer in the 19th century, and largely forgotten in the 20th, until the rise of feminist literary criticism in the 1980s renewed interest in her works and restored her place in literary history
6 Dial St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2NX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,tablet erected by the Warrington Society,town centre,blue,gold,black,Site of the residence,Anna Laetitla Aikin,Warrington Academy,Anna Laetitia Barbauld,WA1,memorial,plaque,history,historic,heritage,town,centre,Anna,Laetitla,Aikin Atkins,family,tablet,erected,by,for,the,Warrington,Society,1911,painted
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C5R390 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld née Aikin
20 June 1743 “ 9 March 1825[1]) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature.
A woman of letters who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career at a time when women rarely wrote professionally. She was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and an innovative writer of works for children
her primers provided a model for more than a century. Her essays showed it was possible for a woman to be publicly engaged in politics
other women authors such as Elizabeth Benger emulated her.Barbauld's literary career spanned numerous periods in British literary history: her work promoted the values of the Enlightenment and of sensibility, while her poetry made a founding contribution to the development of British Romanticism.[4] Barbauld was also a literary critic. Her anthology of 18th-century novels helped to establish the canon as it is known today.
Barbauld's career as a poet ended abruptly in 1812, with the publication of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, which criticised Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars. She was shocked by the vicious reviews it received and published nothing else in her lifetime. Her reputation was further damaged when many of the Romantic poets she had inspired in the heyday of the French Revolution turned against her in their later, more conservative years. Barbauld was remembered only as a pedantic children's writer in the 19th century, and largely forgotten in the 20th, until the rise of feminist literary criticism in the 1980s renewed interest in her works and restored her place in literary history
6 Dial St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2NX
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Keywords: @Hotpixuk,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,England,artist,stencil,stencils,London,E1,BrickLane,face,artists,paint,painting,expression,work,street art,streetart,tags,tagging,derelict,abandoned,can,cans,imagination,comment,comments,on,society,closed,shuttered,empty,unused,building,path,yard,Hip-Hop,HipHop
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AE028X - . Made at Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL in 2019, this photograph records a real place and subject in context, allowing later viewers to compare what has survived, changed, closed, moved or been replaced. The principal point of reference is Brick Lane,art and graffiti,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL. The image connects the immediate subject with documentary photography, contemporary social history, factory history, working-industry history, labour history, historical comparison, built heritage, historic frontage, period streetscape, adaptive reuse, traditional masonry, production technology, cityscape history, and regional identity. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about industrial conservation, factory closures and the relationship between local geology, manufacturing and the built environment. The present-day relevance extends to embodied carbon and historic townscape, while a wider concern is the role of distinctive architecture in local identity. From an archival perspective, the view leaves evidence of the way the place functioned before later physical or commercial change within the setting of Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL. The setting also brings in architectural character, visual archive, conservation architecture, archival record, historic commercial architecture, changing streetscape, heritage asset, and place identity. Elements such as London, Tower, graffiti, Brick, and Shoreditch add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. Around Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear.
Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL
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Keywords: @Hotpixuk,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,England,grafitti,artist,stencil,stencils,London,E1,BrickLane,Tower Hamlets,artists,paint,painting,expression,work,street art,streetart,tags,tagging,derelict,abandoned,spray,can,cans,spraycan,imagination,comment,comments,on,society,closed,shuttered,empty,unused,building
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AE0291 - . An authentic period view of Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL in 2019, showing a subject whose value extends beyond the immediate scene into local history and changing social context. The scene shows Elephant,Abuse tag,Brick Lane,art and graffiti,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL. The image connects the immediate subject with archival record, period streetscape, historical comparison, industrial artefact, changing land use, manufacturing heritage, community identity, urban fabric, working-industry history, conservation interest, built heritage, heritage asset, building-material production, and before-and-after reference. The present-day relevance extends to embodied carbon and factory closures, while a wider concern is the reuse or loss of former production sites. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes embodied carbon alongside adaptive reuse, with particular attention to reusing existing buildings rather than demolishing them. Looking back from the mid-2020s, the image retains period details that may disappear after redevelopment or refurbishment within the setting of Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL. The wider local story also touches on conservation architecture, industrial material culture, traditional building materials, architectural character, historic manufacturing, historic frontage, historic commercial architecture, and factory history. The combination of London, Elephant, Hamlets, graffiti, and Tower anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The period setting at Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2AE0291.
Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL
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Keywords: @Hotpixuk,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,England,grafitti,artist,stencil,stencils,London,E1,BrickLane,Tower Hamlets,Hanbury Street,artists,paint,painting,expression,work,street art,streetart,tags,tagging,derelict,abandoned,spray,can,cans,spraycan,imagination,comment,comments,on,society,closed,shuttered,empty,unused,building,Tintin
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AE02A6 - . An on-location image from Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL in 2019, useful both for the specific subject shown and for the evidence it retains about local identity, design, use and everyday life. The subject recorded here is Hanbury St,Brick Lane,art and graffiti,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL. A broader reading of the scene brings in industrial artefact, production technology, historic context, working-industry history, social history, historic manufacturing, place identity, urban fabric, traditional masonry, documentary photography, period building, built heritage, industrial supply chain, and building-material production. The present-day relevance extends to manufacturing history and factory closures, while a wider concern is the relationship between local geology, manufacturing and the built environment. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes heritage conservation alongside historic townscape, with particular attention to the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. As a piece of social history, the image retains signage, materials, design and everyday use within Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL. Other useful associations include factory history, local history, community identity, public realm, contemporary social history, architectural detailing, traditional building materials, and before-and-after reference. Elements such as Hamlets, graffiti, Shoreditch, Hanbury, and Tower add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. The surrounding context at Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The photograph keeps part of the area's social history for future local research.
Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL
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Keywords: @Hotpixuk,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,England,grafitti,artist,stencil,stencils,London,E1,lane,cut through,cutthrough,artists,paint,painting,expression,work,street art,streetart,tags,tagging,derelict,abandoned,spray,can,cans,spraycan,imagination,comment,comments,on,society,closed,shuttered,empty,unused,building
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AE02AB - . An authentic period view of Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL in 2019, showing a subject whose value extends beyond the immediate scene into local history and changing social context. The image documents Brick Lane,art and graffiti,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL. The frame also contains themes of historical comparison, public realm, adaptive reuse, traditional masonry, local history, social history, period detail, local character, community identity, everyday life, production technology, regional identity, archival record, and visual archive. The subject remains useful for current coverage of manufacturing history and embodied carbon, not least because of recording industries that shaped northern towns. Today's wider story includes planning control, embodied carbon and the practical question of keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character. As the area changes, the view leaves evidence of a particular stage in the life of the location within the setting of Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL. The setting also brings in changing land use, period building, historic context, architectural character, historic commercial architecture, traditional building materials, building-material production, and conservation interest. Details involving Brick, Tower, graffiti, Hamlets, and Shoreditch give the scene useful specificity and strengthen its local, cultural or historical identity. A later view of Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The period view preserves details of everyday use before later change alters the scene. The view records evidence of changing use as a date-specific reference.
Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL
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Keywords: @Hotpixuk,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,England,grafitti,artist,stencil,stencils,London,E1,BrickLane,artists,paint,painting,expression,work,street art,streetart,tags,tagging,derelict,abandoned,spray,can,cans,spraycan,imagination,comment,comments,on,society,closed,shuttered,empty,unused,building,Hip-Hop,HipHop,high street decline
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AE02AF - . This period scene at Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL in 2019 provides a visual reference to the named subject and the wider commercial, social, cultural or physical environment around it. The subject recorded here is 40 Hanbury St,Brick Lane,art and graffiti,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL. Further facets of the subject include changing streetscape, industrial material culture, period streetscape, historic commercial architecture, cityscape history, documentary photography, factory history, public realm, before-and-after reference, industrial supply chain, social history, architectural detailing, regional identity, and historic townscape. In the mid-2020s, factory closures and regional industry keep the subject current, particularly through the relationship between local geology, manufacturing and the built environment. The subject remains useful for current coverage of redevelopment pressure and maintenance costs, not least because of the role of distinctive architecture in local identity. As a dated visual record, the frame records the visual character of the locality at the time at the recorded site in Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL. The surrounding context also covers heritage landmark, historic frontage, conservation architecture, traditional masonry, period building, engineering heritage, contemporary social history, and historical comparison. References to graffiti, Tower, London, Hamlets, and Brick help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. The period setting at Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2AE02AF.
Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL
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Keywords: @Hotpixuk,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,England,grafitti,artist,stencil,stencils,London,E1,BrickLane,Tower Hamlets,shop front,tag,artists,paint,painting,expression,work,street art,streetart,tags,tagging,derelict,abandoned,spray,can,cans,spraycan,imagination,comment,comments,on,society,closed,shuttered,empty,unused,building
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AE02AN - . An on-location image from Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL in 2019, useful both for the specific subject shown and for the evidence it retains about local identity, design, use and everyday life. The view centres on Shop front,Brick Lane,art and graffiti,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL. Other connected aspects include social history, production technology, period building, historic commercial architecture, period streetscape, cityscape history, visual archive, industrial artefact, historic townscape, heritage asset, working-industry history, engineering heritage, local character, and architectural detailing. The subject remains useful for current coverage of labour history and embodied carbon, not least because of the relationship between local geology, manufacturing and the built environment. Today's wider story includes historic townscape, embodied carbon and the practical question of the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. For place-based research, the frame records local appearance, occupation, access and public activity as seen at Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL. The wider local story also touches on changing streetscape, urban fabric, built heritage, production works, place identity, documentary photography, contemporary social history, and conservation architecture. The recorded references to London, graffiti, front, Shoreditch, and Brick preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The surrounding context at Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The period view preserves evidence of changing use as a date-specific reference.
Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL
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Keywords: @Hotpixuk,Scotland,UK,tall,flyer,flyers,pano,panorama,space,Surgeons Hall,Venue53,Venue260,Venue 53,Venue 260,cast,City Centre,flyering,medieval fantasy,medieval,fantasy,Fringe,Shellshock,how to attract attention,attracting attention,at the Edinburgh Fringe,at the Edinburgh Festival,ShellshockImpro,Shellshock Impro,ShellshockImprov,Shellshock Improv,Durham University Improvised Comedy Society,Durham University,Improvised Comedy Society,Improvised Comedy,Society,DSU,Durham,2018,GoTonySmith
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PG69G7 - . A place-specific photograph captures the working environment around 148 High St, Edinburgh EH1 1QS, UK, as photographed in 2018. The documentary focus is Cast of Here Be Improv, flyering in the High St, Edinburgh City Centre, Scotland, UK. The wider setting includes city-centre economy, commercial frontage, commercial streetscape, independent retail, retail property, consumer spending, consumer retail, shopfront economy, town-centre trading, bricks-and-mortar retail, retail vacancy, and customer footfall. The wider contemporary story of high-street retail now includes vacant premises alongside hybrid working, while policy and investment increasingly consider heritage-led regeneration. The date and location give the photograph archival strength: future views of 148 High St, Edinburgh EH1 1QS, UK may show different businesses, branding, services, architecture, traffic patterns or redevelopment, allowing clear before-and-after comparison. The surrounding story includes urban commerce, shopping district, local trading, retail decline and renewal, chain-store economy, storefront culture. Further recorded details include Edinburgh Fringe Festival, fringe Festival, Fringe, The Space, Edinburgh Fringe, Royal Mile. The same setting also brings together shopping habits, and high-street commerce. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, commercial property also connects with changing footfall, hybrid working and efforts aimed at bringing empty units back into use. As the location changes, the frame remains a reference for neighbourhood identity, transport patterns, ownership or occupation, public access, and architecture and streetscape as part of the area's longer social history. In historical comparison, the image can help trace regional identity, local business activity, patterns of everyday use, public-realm details, and the condition of buildings without relying on a generic or reconstructed view.
148 High St, Edinburgh EH1 1QS, UK
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Keywords: SDC,and,District,Civic,Society,blue,plaque,By,Holloway and Hutt,North Somerset,England,UK,GB,Gotonysmith,constructed,1726-1728,three Houses,Bridgwater & District,Bridgewater,wall,brick,chandos St,Chandos,street,home,homes,buildings,cottage,cottages,history,historic,built,3 houses,3 homes,levels,Somerset Levels,Brigg,Brigg-Walter,Somerset
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MHM6B0 - . This authentic period view of the recorded location in 2018 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The location is represented through Bridgwater & District Civic Society Blue Plaque Three Houses By Holloway and Hutt, North Somerset, england, UK. The locality and subject together evoke changing land use, visual archive, local history, commemorative object, regional identity, historic inscription, antique object, before-and-after reference, social-history object, everyday life, period craftsmanship, collectable heritage item, historic material culture, and commemorative plaque. For current editorial use, collecting and museum conservation provide additional context, especially through the importance of provenance and inscriptions in understanding historic artefacts. The archival value lies partly in recording commercial use and occupation around the recorded location before refurbishment alters the character of the place. The location also brings in decorative metalwork, historical comparison, local character, local-history evidence, contemporary social history, archival record, period detail, and heritage interpretation. Details involving District, Houses, Holloway, Bridgwater, and Society make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at the recorded location helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The image also provides a reference for collecting and how everyday objects can survive as evidence of earlier work and domestic life when considered against later change at the recorded location. Another useful connection is object conservation and the importance of provenance and inscriptions in understanding historic artefacts without losing the local specificity of the recorded location.
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Keywords: off,memorial,UFF,Unionist,mural,Shankill,rd,Northern Ireland,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,pink,BT13,224,Belfast,County Antrim,BT13 2BJ,historic,shopfront,shop,front,outside,remembering,the,past,with,pride,band,closed,shutter,shuttered,memory,memories,society,societies,community,terraced,terrace
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HDWT4D - . This location-specific image from 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The main point of reference is Shankill Historical Society and band shop, 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Ireland, BT13 2BJ. Another layer of the photograph includes performance venue, regional arts scene, retail property, street-level business, local cultural identity, documentary photography, creative culture, creative industries, regional identity, commercial streetscape, local trading, arts destination, customer footfall, and community identity. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into business rates and independent business, not least because of the role of small retailers in maintaining active town centres. Today's relevance is strengthened by venue survival, cultural tourism and the continuing question of the financial pressure faced by many galleries and performance venues. Future viewers can use this scene from 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ to compare equipment and working practice with whatever follows after different community use. The surrounding story also includes place identity, high-street commerce, gallery space, visual archive, specialist retailer, contemporary social history, town-centre economy, and public realm. Details involving Antrim, Society, Ireland, Shankill, and Belfast make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The scene captures part of the area's social history as a date-specific reference. The period view preserves details of everyday use for later comparison.
224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ
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Keywords: lineside,speed,restriction,signs,sign,Midlands,England,UK,23rd,January,2016,23/01/2016,61st,anniversary,crash,victim,victims,unveiled,at,station,Lord,Mayor,Birmingham,Councillor,in,appreciation,Royal,Town60th,Plaque,Midcounties,CoOp,Co-Op,society,West Midlands,Sutton Coldfield,Ray Hassall,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,GB,British,Railway,co-operative,observer,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,British Rail,co-operative society,Royal Sutton Coldfield Observer,Sutton Coldfield Observer
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy G9BJJB - The Sutton Coldfield train crash took place at about 16:13 on 23 January 1955 in Sutton Coldfield, a town now within the City of Birmingham, when an express passenger train traveling from York to Bristol, England, derailed due to excessive speed on a sharp curve.
Accident circumstances
Headed by a LMS Class 5 4-6-0 steam locomotive No 45274, the 12:15 York to Bristol express, consisting of ten carriages, approached Sutton Coldfield railway station at about 55-60 mph (88-96 km/h) ” twice the permitted speed of 30 mph. When it reached the sharp curve immediately before the station, the train derailed, colliding with the platforms.
The carriages, engine, and station buildings were severely damaged. The first carriage was crushed between the engine and the second carriage. The fourth carriage was knocked into the air causing it to drag along the station roof, damaging both the roof and the platforms to either side. Seventeen people, including the train crew, were killed and 25 injured.
The train had been diverted away from its usual route into Birmingham via Tamworth because of engineering work. The regular driver did not know the diversionary route via Sutton Coldfield, so another driver, fully conversant with it, had joined him at Burton-on-Trent to 'conduct' him over this section. However, the regular driver, complaining that the rough riding of the engine was tiring him, left the footplate and took a seat in the train, leaving the conductor driver in charge. This action was later criticised by the Inspecting Officer who commented that, even though he did not know the route, the safety of the train was still his responsibility.
On 23 January 2016, the day after the 61st anniversary of the crash, a memorial to the victims was unveiled, at Sutton Coldfield station, by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Ray Hassall
Railway Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, B73 6AY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Bristol,water,waterside,South West England,City Centre,post,Bristol Harbour,iron,mooring peg,Port of Bristol,Bristol docks,dock,Merchant City,The Society Of Merchant Venturers,Bristol City,Harbour,John Cabot,guild,Society of Merchant Venturers,charity,charitable,society,Indocilis Pauperiem Pati,ending slave trade,slave trade,Michael Becher,John Duckenfield,Isaac Hobhouse,harbourside,embossed,printed,the Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RM1TG8 - The Society of Merchant Venturers is a charitable organisation in the English city of Bristol.
The society can be traced back to a 13th century guild which funded the voyage of John Cabot to Canada that marked the origins of the British Empire. The society its first Royal Charter in 1552 and for centuries had almost been synonymous with the government of Bristol, especially Bristol Harbour. In recent times, the society's activities have centred on charitable agendas.
The Society played a part in the development of Bristol, including the building of Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Great Western Railway. It also influenced the development of educational institutions in Greater Bristol, including University of Bristol, University of the West of England, University of Bath, City of Bristol College, Colston's Girls' School and Merchants' Academy.
A Guild of Merchants was founded in Bristol by the 13th century, and swiftly became active in civic life. It funded John Cabot's voyage of discovery to Newfoundland in 1497. The society in its current form was established by a 1552 Royal Charter from Edward VI granting the society a monopoly on Bristol's sea trade. The society remained in effective control of Bristol's harbour until 1809. Further charters were granted by Charles I, Charles II and Elizabeth II. The society's members were active in the English colonisation of North America, helping to establish the Bristol's Hope and Cuper's Cove settlements in Newfoundland.
In 1694, the Merchant Venturers Society petitioned parliament against the monopoly held by the Royal African Company in the slave trade, leading to the ending of this monopoly in 1698. During the eighteenth century one quarter of the individual members of the Society were to be directly involved in the slave trade with such prominent Bristol slave traders as Michael Becher, John Duckenfield, and Isaac Hobhouse
Merchants Hall, Clifton Down, Bristol BS8 3NH
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Keywords: CWS,Co-operative,retail,Society,Manchester,England,UK,Cooperative,wholesale,wholesale society,historic,history,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Buy Pictures of CWS,Buy Images Of CWS,gotonysmith,Hanover Building,office,Hanover,Building,English CWS,Scottish CWS,the,style,brick,M60,M60 0AL,Redfern,1936,W. A. Johnson and J. W. Cropper,1930s,Dutch brick modernism,Danzig Street,Mayes Street,Hanover Street
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9APY - Where Danzig Street meets Mayes Street and Hanover Street, the CWS (Cooperative Wholesale Society) has two office/warehouse Buildings.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>buildings. One is the Redfern Building, the other, one block away, is its twin. The style of both buildings is described as Dutch brick modernism.
Millar street, Manchester,England, UK, M60 0AL
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Keywords: spare,a,thought,for,residents,ASB,CRIMBO,anti-social,behaviour,inconsiderate,anger,canine,clean,clear,collect,culture,dirt,dog,environment,excrement,lead,leash,mess,owner,pavement,pick,picking,picks,plastic,poo,Dog shit,Dog mess,Clear Up,dog owners,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,responsibility,responsible,scooper,sidewalk,social,society,spaniel,spot,tidies,tidy,up,verge,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE5313 - . Dog Owners,take some responsibility for dog mess. Photographed at Montecute,Somerset,England,UK. The photograph was taken on 13 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 Dog, Owners, take, responsibility, mess, antisocial, considerate, spare, thought and residents, 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. The view is firmly rooted in a real location rather than a constructed studio setting.
Montecute,Somerset,England,UK
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Keywords: Europe,white,flower,flowers,sky,blue,warm,new,growth,flowering,plant,species,in,the,subfamily,of,the,family,It,is,named,after,French,botanist,Pierre,Magnol,Annona,dodecapetala,Society,Gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Magnoliaceae
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEB2 - . Magnolia shrub flowers, cream in Spring season Europe. Photographed in England, UK. The photograph was taken on 27 April 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 Magnolia, shrub, flowers, cream, Spring, season, Euro, creme, Magnolioideae and Europe, 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.
England, UK
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Keywords: Grappenhall,library,friends,Friends of Grappenhall Library,fol,albert,rd,road,victoria,ave,avenue,south,warrington,cheshire,uk,bourough,council,big,society,project,charity,opening,grand,cakes,volunteers,libraries,England,local,crowd,mayor,mike,biggins,scout,leader,john,ashby,sheelagh,connolly
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7208117684 - 'A historic day today as the previously closed library (borough cuts April 2011) has now been officially re-named and re-opened by The Friends of Grappenhall Library. A registered charity, volunteers now run the facility which has been renamed 'Grappenhall Community Library'.
5000+ donated books fill the shelves once again and over 150 opening sessions already completed, over 1000 books have been issued. Over 34% to younger readers and under 16's.
Read more at friendsofgrappenhalllibrary.wordpress.com/ or pop in when open (Mon/Tues 1pm-5pm &
Thu/Sat 10-1pm) to find out more if you live in South Warrington. Always craft activities for younger ones and you will receive a warm welcome. ',
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Merseyside,North West England,England,City Centre,UK,Great Britain,Castle St,building,society,city centre,L2,Company building,history,heritage,listed building,historic,centre,buildings,architecture,attractions,sunny,blue skies,blue sky,maritime,port,cities,Castle Street,insurance,insurer,insurances,office,offices,Victorian,classic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BG7KEJ - A decorated building with Mosaics in Liverpool “ the British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company Building, Castle Street
Castle Street, one of Liverpool's most historic streets, contains many splendid buildings, mostly of Victorian vintage, and among them one of the most lavishly decorated is the former British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company Building, nos. 3-5 Castle Street at the Old Town Hall end almost on the corner of Dale Street.
It is five bays wide at ground level, with more numerous windows higher up, with projecting bay windows higher up to the left and right ends, and a modest central portico with some slight emphasis given by a projection of the bay immediately above. Higher up “ there are five storeys above the ground floor including the dormers “ are a long balcony and pointy roofs.
The terra cotta sculpture is nicely done and consists, as is often the case, of rather small embellishments so that the effect on such a large building is to give some vague impression of adornment and encrustation rather than individual sculptures which hold their own as additions to the building. The various arched windows however give rise to considerable opportunity for leafy spandrels (see this page for general introduction to spandrel sculpture), rather good corbels, birds, and to revert to the nautical theme appropriate for the building, fanciful fish, scallops, etc.
Read more at http://www.speel.me.uk/sculptplaces/lpoolcastlest3.htm
36 Castle St, Liverpool,Merseyside,England,UK, L2 0NR
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,England,UK,Cheshire,river,canal and river trust,Lock keeper on river Weaver,Northwich,British Waterways,Lockeeper,near Northwich,British,Waterway,locks,Hunts Lock,HuntsLock,life-vest,handle,lock,hat,waterway,Canal & River Trust,worker,Canal and River Trust,Weaver,navigation,Victorian,historic,holding,lifevest,opening,safety,opens,society,Northwich lock,logo,history,technical
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RPA - . An on-location image shows the physical context of Hunts Lock, Northwich,Cheshire, England, UK, in a view made during 2010. The defining subject in the supplied record is Mel, Lock keeper on river weaver, near Northwich, Cheshire, British Waterways, now Canal & River Trust, Hunts Lock. The wider setting includes river management, period property, inland navigation, navigation engineering, historic environment, urban conservation, architectural detail, waterway maintenance, architectural character, industrial waterway heritage, heritage navigation, and working waterway. In the mid-2020s, waterside heritage is increasingly discussed through volunteer involvement and heritage conservation, with attention turning to maintaining safe navigation. For present-day editorial use, older urban fabric can also illustrate debates about conservation of original fabric and planning control, particularly where these affect preserving local character. Over time, this view of Hunts Lock, Northwich,Cheshire, England, UK can support local-history and planning research by preserving details of appearance, occupation, signage, public access and everyday use that written records may omit. The scene also relates to towpath environment, boating infrastructure, built heritage, inland boating, riparian setting, civil engineering structure. Associated details include navigation, boat, Hartford, River Weaver Navigation Society, Navigation Society. The same setting also brings together local landmark, canal heritage, hydraulic control, traditional building, lock operation, waterborne transport, conservation architecture, heritage streetscape, waterside infrastructure, and navigation channel. Current debate around managed watercourses often combines ecology and habitat protection, safe public access and the practical challenge of maintaining safe navigation. The view of Hunts Lock, Northwich,Cheshire, England, UK also preserves another layer of local identity and period change.
Hunts Lock, Northwich,Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,England,UK,Cheshire,locks,near Northwich,British Waterways,Lock keeper on river Weaver,river,Hunts Lock,HuntsLock,Waterway,British,Lockeeper,Northwich,canal and river trust,worker,Canal and River Trust,Canal & River Trust,Weaver,navigation,waterway,technical,Victorian,hat,logo,history,historic,lock,Northwich lock,holding,handle,society,safety,lifevest,life-vest,opens,opening
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RTH - . This location-based editorial photograph from Hunts Lock, Northwich,Cheshire, England, UK in 2010 preserves a recognisable subject together with clues about how the place was used and presented at the time. The view centres on Mel, Hunts Lock Lock keeper on river weaver, near Northwich, Cheshire, British Waterways, now Canal & River Trust, Huntslock. The scene additionally carries associations with risk management, local character, everyday life, public realm, local story.htm Target=_Blank>history, health compliance, changing land use, social history, waterside infrastructure, blue-green infrastructure, clinical services, visual archive, place identity, and contemporary social history. In the mid-2020s, towpath access and maintenance funding keep the subject current, particularly through keeping historic infrastructure safe and operational. The subject remains useful for current coverage of building safety and workforce capacity, not least because of how regulation and service pressure affect everyday places. For future researchers, the frame records the visual character of the locality at the time around Hunts Lock, Northwich,Cheshire, England, UK. Other useful associations include archival record, working waterway, community identity, historic context, managed navigation, navigation engineering, regional identity, and treatment access. Details involving Waterways, Trust, Huntslock, Northwich, and river give the scene useful specificity and strengthen its local, cultural or historical identity. For Hunts Lock, Northwich,Cheshire, England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The image also provides a reference for towpath access and keeping historic infrastructure safe and operational as part of the longer story of Hunts Lock, Northwich,Cheshire, England, UK. It also preserves evidence of earlier appearance as part of Hunts Lock, Northwich,Cheshire, England, UK's history.
Hunts Lock, Northwich,Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: wdcc,thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc,warrington,district,camera,photographic,photo,bellhouse,society,lane,grappenhall,bank,quays,central,cheshire,england,UK,awards,competition,winners,simon,ian,sprott,molyneux,certificate,365project,camra,DSLR,nikon,canon,sony,olympus,pentax,Chehire,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4417346121 - 'It was the Warrington District Camera Club AGM tonight in Grappenhall. This included the usual treasurers report (finances=healthy), ratification of the coming programme (program=ratified) and presentation of certificates etc for competition success over the previous year.
Here Simon Molyneux is shown on the left receiving his 'certificate of merit' from WDCC competition secretary Ian Sprott.
The camera club meet in 'The Studio' , first floor GYCA club, Bellhouse lane, Grappenhall, Warrington WA4 2PL.
Visitors cam drop in with their new cameras or DSLR's on one of their fortnightly monday meetings. A list of coming nights can be seen here: www.flickr.com/groups/wdcc/discuss/72157623437736995/
Here is an image from a camera club portrait night: www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3874777337/
Some of Ians images can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/siprott/
Some of Simons here www.flickr.com/photos/39889537@N05/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC 07092182899',
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Keywords: Warrington,Golden,Gates,goldengates,town,hall,townhall,sankey,st,street,cheshire,england,uk,dusk,blue,sky,rain,wet,gold,au,car,headlights,lights,trail,bank,1750,victorian,historic,history,old,stopping,car stopping,head,light,car headlights,speeding,skid,skidding,stop,HotpixOrgUK,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,this photo rocks,HDR,high dynamic range,tonysmith,tony,smith,noche,nuit,hotpix!,hotpix.rocketmail.com,hotpixuk.rocketmail.com,contact.tony.smith.gmail.com,tony.smith.gmail.com,tonys@miscs.com,tony.smith@mis-ams.com
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4084316490 - 'The Town Hall (and its golden gates), formerly the home of the Philips family, Bank Hall (built 1750), and their scion, Nathaniel George Philips, the artist.
Taken here from Sankey street at dusk leading to the A57 travelling west from town after a day of rain showers.
Another shot at Dusk from Warrington www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3690680009/
These are my 2008-2015 images, view my most recent images at HotpixUK-2019 - www.flickr.com/people/167831053@N02/ including my second 365 one a day project
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC ',
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Keywords: firework,bon,fire,night,bonfire,guy,forkes,forks,sparkler,flame,macro,yellow,heat,5th,nov,fifth,tony,smith,warrington,tonysmith,hotpix,hotpixuk,tdktony,tdk,november,work,sparks,sparkles,sterretje,sterretjes,fireworks,vuurwerk,close,up,closeup,lens,HotpixOrgUK,hot,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,light,lemon,burn,burning,extrememacro
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4083548091 - 'Macro tubes were needed for this one.
A little macro city - here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3837494135/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: st,john,johns,church,evangelist,sandiway,sandyway,cheshire,A556,UK,England,village,villages,autumn,trees,tree,leaves,brown,orange,green,clock,tower,HotpixOrgUK,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4084252638 - 'Autumn in the graveyard at St Johns.
Nice browns and oranges in the trees.
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Warrington Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: fungi,Grappenhall,Cheshire,UK,England,Hays,Heys,Mushrooms,hotpix,hotpixuk,tony,smith,tdk,tdktony,woodland,forest,autumn,fungus,mushroom,plant,life,floor,wood,decaying,matter,woods,warm,light,sunset,glow,Grappenhall Village,village,Warrington,A50,A56,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,HDR,high dynamic range,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4023484541 - 'Fungi growing near some decaying trees and wood at Grappenhall Heys. I just stumbled across these mushrooms before it closed and the light was very warn and nice.
Not sure they were nice to eat (or this www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3708723795/in/set-72157621... )
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Warrington Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Conkers,spiky,horse,chestnut,tree,wet,autumn,countryside,shell,brown,nut,nuts,england,cheshire,UK,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,HDR,high dynamic range,stillife,stilllife,still,life,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4009260974 - '(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC
Follow me on Twitter twitter.com/HotpixUK',
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Keywords: malcolm,harradine,tv,television,chef,cook,shop,cookshop,Bratts,department,store,QVC,Mr,Silicone,cheshire,UK,Northwich,town,centre,fruit,crumble,smilling,smile,demo,demonstration,cookery,mrsilicone,recipe,chronicle,mid,midcheshire,Tim,Gray,demonstrations,outside,st,face,head,faces,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,tonysmith,tony,smith,HOT PIX,tony smith photography,tdktony,tdk,tdktonysmith
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3959757223 - 'Not what I expected walking down to the bank in Northwich, Malcolm Harradine, Mr Silicone of QVC and other television appearances.
Shown here, showing off his skills at Bratts cookshop in Witten street with a fruit crumble, one of his favourite demo dishes. He had offers on the latest cookware from induction hobs to knife sets.
Another chap in Northwich, Cheshire here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3998786439/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Ilfracombe,Pier,Tavern,Dorset,pub,bar,ale,harbour,quay,dusk,lights,traffic,trail,trails,ferry,terminal,boats,tripod,shot,tripod shot,long,exposure,long exposure,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,tonysmith,tony,smith,noche,nuit,hotpix!,#tonysmithhotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3871490136 - 'Night shot, just off the harbour.
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Grappenhall,Village,sun,sunset,set,warrington,Cheshire,UK,Canon,D50,D500,D450,D400,SLR,DSLR,Grappenhall Village,England,A50,A56,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,HDR,high dynamic range,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3843046553 - 'I have passed this a few times, but it seemed so warm tonight. I thought it would be good to capture before the dark nights draw in.
Another sunset in Grappenhall www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3915944895/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Pond,Dunham,Massey,Sepia,toned,Warrington,Camera,District,Club,society,DSLR,SLR,Nikon,Sony,Canon,digital,cameras,Jessops,wildings,Grappenhall,GYCA,Bellhouse,Village,Cheshire,Studio,walkabout,NT,Night,Grappenhall Village,England,UK,A50,A56,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,photographic,photography,group,bellhouse Club,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3835314286 - 'A very grey walk around Dunham with the WDCC
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: punk,roker,spikey,hair,smoking,ashtray,tattoo,Stockport,Brinnington,Cheshire,UK,Chad,Chez,Channon,BW,Monochrome,girl,woman,female,punkette,pierced,tatoo,tattood,tatto,tat2,smoker,spliff,weed,reefer,fish,net,fishnet,stockings,stocking,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,ink,skin,tattwo,erotic,smoky,ripped,nets,fishnets,punky,cigs,cigarette,ash,tray,tatuaje,\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0430,T\u00e4towierung,tatouage,tatoegering,\u7d0b\u8eab\u82b1\u523a,rocker,punk rockers,sexy,tonysmith,tony,smith,altfashion
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3804964709 - 'Chez at home in Brinnington, Stockport, Manchester, Cheshire England UK.
I photographed Chad and Sheryl's wedding in central Manchester (next to the old MEN newsroom) with a great party of punks. Two brilliant people and so was Ryan their little lad. Old school punks at heart, spirit of 1977.
Carlos and Time were at Dunstable www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3808854783/
Gothic portrait here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3805743676/in/photostream/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: BANNED!,band,DAN,Northwich,Winnington,rec,UK,England,unsigned,Cheshire,onstage,gig,live,music,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,bands,gigs,stage,musician,performer,rock,indie,player,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,this photo rocks,cool,person,people,portrait,image,tonysmith,tony,smith,hot pix,hotpicks,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3809817434 - 'A Winnington Rec Banned! gig, Northwich Cheshire, one of the best I recall. Nice twisters.
Shot of a lead guitarist with guitar also doing vocals.
Rock / metal style band with good stage lighting and a fogger / smoke machine.
Another music in a different 1970's kitchen here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3711866853/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Bible,Philippians,Rosary,monochrome,BW,black,white,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,mono,this photo rocks,stillife,stilllife,still,life,hotpix!,hotpix.rocketmail.com,hotpixuk.rocketmail.com,contact.tony.smith.gmail.com,tony.smith.gmail.com,tonys@miscs.com,tony.smith@mis-ams.com
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3813002518 - 'The holy book, the bible open at the Philippians with spanish wooden rosary beads from Guatemala, South / Central America.
Taken in an old colonial church.
I have these beads hanging from my car rear view mirror.
Sepia toned monochrome Black and White.
Check out the approchable choice here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4163897698/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Bus,50,Moseley,Birmingham,city,bullring,bull,ring,urban,cityscape,transport,BW,black,white,traffic,light,green,Tony,smith,Tonysmith,tdk,tdktony,hotpix,hotpixuk,monochrome,red,double,decker,UK,England,lane,buslane,moor,street,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,BirminghamUK,mono,HDR,high dynamic range,selctive,colour,color,colores,west,midlands,britain,GB,europe,english,interesting,place,places,building,buildings,built,architecture,abstract,#tonysmithhotpix,public,buses
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4021459973 - 'A no 50 bus passing Selfridges at Park street feeding into Moor street ringway, central Birmingham city.
Sunrise over Brum : www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4050532527/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Shell Mex,SM BP SMBP Ltd,Milk,Churn,old,antique,SM,BP,SMBP,Ltd,SMBPLTD,oil,can,container,rusting,rust,steel,zinc,galvanised,red,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,rot-rosso-rouge-rood,stillife,stilllife,still,life,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3782042445 - 'A fascinating little red rusting iron or steel container, maybe over 50 years old. Who were SM &
BP Ltd? Maybe Shell Mex and BP.
The original galvanised zinc has all but gone. Anyone who can tell me more, please leave a comment.
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: music,band,unsigned,London,UK,Tony,Smith,TonySmith,drummer,drumming,female,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,bands,gigs,gig,stage,musician,performer,rock,indie,player,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,hot pix,Hotpixorg,hotpixorguk,s
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3712678782 - '(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Warrington,Bank Quay,West Coast Mainline,Cheshire,UK,Tony,Smith,TonySmith,dusk,night,shot,nightshot,evening,rail,railway,station,west,coast,mainline,virgin,voyager,pendo,pendolino,tilting,train,trains,platform,indicator,bank,quey,quay,Beardy,Branson,Branston,Richard,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,HDR,high dynamic range,noche,nuit,hotpix!,pictures,photos,photographs,images
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3709536244 - 'Lever factory in the background. Taken from the west coast mainline south bound platform at Warrington Bank Quay station, Cheshire UK at dusk in the magic hour.
Gricers and train spotters may wish to know this was the 22:37 Virgin trains service (Air conditioned Diesel Voyager). Off course the west coast mainline is now electrified and generally high speed Pendolino (Pendo) trains ply the route.
A slower suburban train www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3835313976/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: America,1957,classic,Buick,car,Tony,Smith,TonySmith,Dave,weatherby,american,USA,57,automobile,vehicle,green,black,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,tatton,park,show,americana,2009,HDR,high dynamic range,old,stuff,auto,autos,automobiles,vehicles,hotpix!,hotpix.rocketmail.com,hotpixuk.rocketmail.com,contact.tony.smith.gmail.com,tony.smith.gmail.com,tonys@miscs.com,tony.smith@mis-ams.com
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3708845957 - 'Dave Weatherby with his award winning American 1957 classic car, about 4 minutes before the heavens opened.
Ever thought of taking the train instead? www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3709536244/in/set-72157621...
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: office,panorama,wide,angle,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,busy,julian,heywood,worker,office workers,office worker,this photo rocks,tonysmith,tony,smith,Panoramique,int\u00e9ressant,join,joiner,stitch,stitcher,autostitch,auto,pano,imagen,panor\u00e1mica,image,panoramisches,Bild,hotpicks,hotpix,old mobile telephone number 07733322402 07733-322-402 now try 07092182899 when i worked here,\u30d1\u30ce\u30e9\u30de,\u5168\u666f,\ud55c\uad6d\uc5b4,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix,07733-322402,+44 7733322402
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3665249874 - 'Busy, Busy, Busy...
A winner of the 2nd WDCC ( Warrington District Camera Club ) competition on the theme 'The Great Indoors' June 2009.
A special joiner panorama of several 18mm lens shots stitched together
Another unfeasibly wide panorama here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3709981451/in/set-72157621...
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Alison,Goldfrapp,AlisonGoldfrapp,Liverpool,live,tour,2008,Mountford,Hall,university,Students,union,switch,off,flash,noflash,31102008,20081031,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,music,musician,gig,stage,performer,player,event,signed,band,lighting,anbiant,ambiant,electronic,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,tonysmith,tony,smith,merseyside,hotpix!,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3077807567 - 'Goldfrapp live at the Mountford Hall, Liverpool 31/10/2008 Halloween
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: TheFall,The,Fall,Liverpool,Nation,courtyard,TheNation,MTV,music,week,30/10/2008,2008,tour,markesmith,mark,e,smith,hotpix,tonysmith,tony,hotpixuk,Live,stage,band,punk,alternative,imperial,wax,solvent,imperialwaxsolvent,album,cover,black,white,mono,50,year,old,man,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,musician,gig,performer,player,event,signed,lighting,anbiant,B/W,monochrome,merseyside,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3077851821 - 'Mark E Smith &
The Fall, Liverpool live at The Nation Courtyard 30/10/2008. Imperial Wax Solvent tour.
I'm a 50 year old man......
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3077852217/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3078683718/
Another shot here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3078683718/in/photostream/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: thedatsuns,datsuns,manchester,2008,2008/10/26,night,day,nightandday,live,tour,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,music,musician,gig,stage,performer,player,event,signed,band,lighting,anbiant,monochrome,black,white,blackwhite,B/W,mono,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,hotpix!,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3077780207 - 'The Datsuns, live at the Night and Day, Manchester 26/10/2008
The Datsuns formed in 2000 are a 1970's inspired hard rock band from Cambridge, New Zealand,. In August 2000 they released their first single, 'Super Gyration!,' on 7' vinyl only. In July 2002, after featuring several times on the greap and sadly lost John Peel's programme on the BBC Radio 1 and being hailed as 'the future of rock' by the British music press, the band signed with the V2 record label. Their self-titled debut album made a strong impression in the UK. They won the NME's 'Best Live Band' award.
A shot from indie Manchester band Ugli Fruit www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3828200198/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: thedatsuns,datsuns,manchester,2008,2008/10/26,night,day,nightandday,live,tour,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,music,musician,gig,stage,performer,player,event,signed,band,lighting,anbiant,oz,auz,austrailian,austrailia,rocker,rock,roll,rock and roll,rock n roll,NZ,new,zealand,metal,rockers,guitarist,guitar,electric,prog,progrock,city,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpix!,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3078611270 - 'Sons of New Zealand, The Datsuns, rock metal live at the Night and Day cafe bar and club venue, Manchester, England UK 26/10/2008
Wet outside and sweaty inside !
Another pic here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3077780207/in/set-72157617...
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: thecharlatans,parrhall,parr,hall,warrington,parrhallwarrington,pyramid,cheshire,UK,Tour,2008,20081006,Charlatans,live,gig,stage,You,Cross,My,Path,YouCrossMyPath,Tim,Burgess,TimBurgess,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,music,musician,performer,player,event,signed,band,lighting,anbiant,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpix!,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3078572654 - 'The Charlatans (or The Charlatans UK as american friends call them) live on stage at the Parr Hall Warrington Cheshire Monday 6th Oct 2008.
The Charlatans are the boyish Tim Burgess on vocals and lyrics, Mark Collins on guitar, Martin Blunt on bass, Tony Rogers on keyboards and Jon Brookes doing drums and percussion. Northwich is often cited as the bands town as Tim is from it and that is where Dead Dead Good Records was based.
Some of this success was instrumental in the formation of the Banned! Network who has promoted and assisted bands in the town since the early 1990's and for whom I have enjoyed covering gigs for over 15 years. The office can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3734237039/ ,a typical exciting gig here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3809817434/
This image will be one discussed at the Warrington District Camera Club Monday 12th October, 7.30pm meeting on the subject of 'Band Photography'
See www.flickr.com/groups/wdcc/discuss/72157622538217746/ for more details.
Visitors to the club very welcome to come along. Please contact Chris on 01925-653244 or email 'wdcc [at] live.co.uk' to reserve your place.
More gig pix here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3118229083/in/set-72157617...
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Lymm,Cross,Sundial,Save,Time,savetime,cheshire,village,canon,D50,D500,D400,D450,SLR,DSLR,tonysmith,tony,smith,tdktony,hotpix,hotpixuk,lymmvillage,england,UK,GB,A56,Shadow,contrast,texture,stone,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,clocks,horloge,reloj,orologio,Taktgeber,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,tony smith photography,tdk,tdktonysmith
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3873478277 - 'Apart from 'Save Time' there is also 'Think of the Last' and 'We are a Shadow'. There are three sundials on the West, South and East faces.
Lymm Cross at Christmas with tree and lights can be found here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4164402348/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC. Used as part of the Warrington District Camera Club photographic treasure hunt around Lymm. ',
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,city,city centre,centre,UK,Closed Circuit,CCTV,TV,cameras,pole,in a,town centre,England,Scotland,state,personal,security,safe,society,BigBrother,Orwell,Surveillance,Television,AI,Face Recognition,smarter,camera,multiple,smart,watching,spying,on,citizens,video surveillance,Human surveillance,Freedom of Information Act,GDPR,artificial intelligence war
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTJ8 - Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point to point (P2P), point to multipoint (P2MP), or mesh wired or wireless links. Though almost all video cameras fit this definition, the term is most often applied to those used for surveillance in areas that may need monitoring such as banks, stores, and other areas where security is needed. Though Videotelephony is seldom called 'CCTV' one exception is the use of video in distance education, where it is an important tool.
Surveillance of the public using CCTV is common in many areas around the world. In recent years, the use of body worn video cameras has been introduced as a new form of surveillance, often used in law enforcement, with cameras located on a police officer's chest or head. Video surveillance has generated significant debate about balancing its use with individuals' right to privacy even when in public.
There are about 350 million surveillance cameras worldwide as of 2016. About 65% of these cameras are installed in Asia.
An article published in CCTV Image magazine estimated the number of private and local government operated cameras in the United Kingdom was 1.85 million in 2011. The estimate was based on extrapolating from a comprehensive survey of public and private cameras within the Cheshire Constabulary jurisdiction. This works out as an average of one camera for every 32 people in the UK, although the density of cameras varies greatly from place to place. The Cheshire report also claims that the average person on a typical day would be seen by 70 CCTV cameras.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,charging point,Scotland,charging,point,low carbon,vehicles,vehicle,Carbon Free,society,Recharging point only,Recharging point,only,sign,white,yellow,Eskbank,Dalkeith,Midlothian,UK,EV,charging points,EV Charging,grant,ChargePoint,free,charge,electric vehicle charging points,electric vehicle charging network,green,motion,Electric vehicle (EV) charging,types,Eskbank Railway Station,college,Edinburgh College (Midlothian Campus),rapid,supply,transition
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTE3 - Electric Vehicle recharging point only, Eskbank Railway station, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland, UK has the strength of a real-world scene: ordinary enough to be believable, but specific enough to support precise editorial use. Railway carriages, platforms and station approaches are everyday public spaces where national transport policy becomes visible in delays, rolling stock, staffing, safety, accessibility and passenger comfort. The scene suits transport features on regional connectivity, rail investment, commuting, city-region economies and the difference between headline infrastructure schemes and ordinary journeys. The location detail, Dalkeith, strengthens searches for regional features, travel pages, local-history pieces and news use where a named place matters. Relevant editorial themes include Victorian bank, financial architecture, adaptive reuse, historic pub, railway station, passenger rail, train travel and public transport, with each theme rooted in the visible subject, place or activity. It can work both as a straightforward location record and as a wider editorial illustration of the habits, services, buildings, symbols and small commercial details that shape everyday life.
Eskbank Railway station, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland, UK, EH22 3NX
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Keywords: your,own,on,the,council,municipal,ground,land,at,home,recession,prices,high,avoiding,eco,green,party,back,to,The,pleasures,of,your,own,fruit,and,vegetables,on,an,or,on,a,veg,patch,at,home,gotonysmith,agenda,veggies,vegetarian,cordon,vert,cordon-vert,fresh,natural,society,goodlife,good,life,financial,crash,hard,times,hardtimes,benefit,HB,cuts,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DCYC07 - . Growing food on the allotment - The Sutton Rhubarb. Photographed on 9 August 2013. The recorded location is England, UK. The pleasures of growing your own fruit and vegetables, on an allotment or on a veg patch at home. In these times of recession, people are turning back to nature. In the longer view, british agriculture has repeatedly adapted to mechanisation, changing markets and environmental policy
Tractors, fields, cereal crops and allotment vegetables each represent different scales of food production, while also documenting seasonal work and rural landscapes. The historical context is that growing vegetables at home links horticulture, food security and recreation
Allotment plots became a distinctive part of British urban life, allowing gardeners to cultivate fruit and vegetables on small rented plots while preserving varieties and practical knowledge. Historically, food images can document evolving tastes, brands and methods of preparation as effectively as they illustrate a meal
Regional products, traditional recipes, independent food businesses and packaging all carry information about consumer culture and local identity. Current 2026 relevance comes from the fact that food security, soil health, biodiversity and climate resilience are increasingly central to UK farming and gardening
Images of crops, allotments and field work can support coverage of domestic food production, sustainable agriculture and adaptation to more variable weather. The subject remains topical in 2026 because allotments and grow-your-own gardening remain relevant to food prices, wellbeing, biodiversity and interest in shorter food chains
Waiting lists in many urban areas underline continuing demand for small plots where people can grow vegetables, fruit and flowers. Additional high-relevance terminology includes grow your own, arable farming, vegetable growing, rural economy, farmland, seasonal crop, cultivation, vegetable gardening, and kitchen garden.
England, UK
