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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Grappenhall Youth and Community Association,Bellhouse Lane,Warrington,Cheshire,real ale,cask ale,cider,beer garden,outdoor,drinking,community,event,village,Saturday,afternoon,May,crowd,festival-goers,local,festival,community centre,charity event,social drinking,live music,spring,British,beers,cask,ale. ales,culture,beer lovers,family,fundraising,volunteer-run,hospitality,weekend leisure,social gathering
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EENJFJ - Saturday afternoon session at Grappenhall Beer Festival 2026, held at the Bellhouse and Grappenhall Youth and Community Association in Warrington, Cheshire, with visitors seated outside in the beer garden during a May community event. The image shows drinkers and festival-goers gathered around tables beside the brick community building, with umbrellas, marquees, beer festival signs and a relaxed village atmosphere. The 2026 festival was promoted as taking place on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 May, bringing together real ales, ciders, food, live music and local fundraising at Grappenhall Community Centre. This documentary image is useful for editorial and commercial features about British beer festivals, real ale culture, CAMRA-style drinking traditions, community pubs and clubs, village events, social gatherings, weekend leisure and outdoor hospitality. The scene appears to have been photographed in daylight under mixed spring weather, with cloudy skies, bright intervals and people dressed for a cool but pleasant May afternoon. The photograph has strong local interest for Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire and the North West of England, while also working more broadly for stories about beer gardens, community centres, volunteer-run events, charity fundraising, independent brewing, cask ale, cider, local festivals and social life. The Bellhouse is a charity-run hub on Bellhouse Lane, and the festival setting reflects the role of community venues in bringing residents together for conversation, music, food and drink. The image can also illustrate responsible social drinking, local tourism, village identity, weekend recreation, outdoor seating, hospitality trade resilience and the continuing popularity of beer festivals beyond large city centres. Details such as patio tables, plastic glasses, garden furniture, festival signage, marquees and mixed-age groups help place the scene clearly as a real local event rather than a staged lifestyle image.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,play,area,Cheshire,WA4,exercise,outdoor,gym,adult,fitness,equipment,playground,public fitness,childrens,local,green space,open space,community park,parish council park,Grappenhall and Thelwall,Parish Council,facility,spring,park,blossom tree,public,recreation,active,lifestyle,activity,wellbeing,leisure,health,and,accessible,outdoor fitness,station,infrastructure
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E9APG7 - Outdoor fitness equipment and play area at Jubilee Park in Grappenhall, Warrington, photographed in bright spring light with fresh green grass, a curving footpath, exercise stations, young trees, blossom and a blue sky partly covered by cloud. The image shows a neighbourhood recreation space used for informal fitness, walking, play, fresh air and community wellbeing. Grappenhall and Thelwall Parish Council lists Jubilee Park as one of its local play areas, at Euclid Avenue, Grappenhall, and notes that both Jubilee Park and Diamond Park play areas were fully refurbished in May and June 2018. Proludic also identifies Jubilee Play Area in Grappenhall as a parish council project at Euclid Avenue, Warrington WA4 2PT. The photograph is useful for editorial and commercial stock uses about outdoor gyms, public health, active lifestyles, parks investment, parish council facilities, open space, accessible green space, children's play, adult exercise and small parks. The equipment appears to include simple bodyweight and movement-based exercise apparatus set beside the path, making the scene relevant to stories about free outdoor fitness, keeping active without gym fees, ageing well, everyday exercise, social prescribing and wellbeing. The spring blossom tree, willow, open lawn and neat path give the image an optimistic seasonal feel, while the quiet residential setting places the facility firmly in local everyday life rather than a large destination park. It can support articles about Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, public open spaces, green infrastructure, urban biodiversity, recreation budgets, outdoor leisure, park maintenance and the importance of safe, attractive places for residents of all ages to walk, exercise, meet and relax. The supplied address of 269 Chester Road may be useful as a nearby location reference, but published sources more clearly identify Jubilee Park and its play area via Euclid Avenue, so that is the safer captioning location.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,spring,Beverley,East Riding of Yorkshire,East Yorkshire,Yorkshire,England,UK,fresh flowers,spring flowers,seasonal flowers,Saturday Market,town centre market,British market,springtime,seasonal shopping,Mothers Day flowers,Easter flowers,floristry,gardening interest,horticulture,home decoration,market culture,local economy,traditional market,retail resilience,community life,everyday Britain,consumer habits,price-led shopping,fresh produce,natural beauty,urban market,street photography,destination shopping,Yorkshire travel,seasonal colour,black crates
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E26XKG - Close-up market stall image showing bunches of fresh daffodils for sale at Beverley Market in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The photograph captures neatly stacked spring flowers in black crates with a handwritten price sign reading £1.00 a bunch, creating a strong documentary detail of affordable seasonal produce on a traditional British market stall. The vivid green stems and tightly closed yellow buds suggest early spring and the anticipation of flowers coming into bloom, making the image useful for themes such as springtime, local markets, fresh flowers, value shopping, seasonal produce and everyday town centre life. The simple retail presentation, with bunches tied and arranged in trays, adds authenticity and visual clarity, helping the picture work well for editorial and commercial uses linked to market trading, flower sales, consumer habits, budget purchases and the changing rhythms of the seasons in England.
Beverley is a historic Yorkshire market town with a long-established street market culture, and this image offers a strong close detail of one of the small everyday transactions that define local shopping. It is well suited to subjects such as daffodils, spring flowers, cut flowers, floristry, British markets, East Yorkshire shopping, town centre commerce, local produce, market stall displays, handwritten price signage, affordable bouquets, Mother's Day season, Easter season, gardening interest, floral retail and the visual signs of winter turning to spring. The photograph can also support wider themes around community life, traditional markets, independent traders, seasonal colour, natural beauty, flower stalls, horticulture, everyday Britain and the appeal of fresh flowers as low-cost gifts or home decoration. With clear pricing, strong texture and recognisable produce, it has good search value for Beverley, daffodils, spring market, flower stall, Yorkshire market town and seasonal shopping in the UK.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,CW9,Gt Budworth,village,history,ornate,water,spring,Viscount Ashbrook,Lord,Pendlebury,Arley Hall,supply,the,Budworth Fountain,Budworth,gate,parish,sandstone,building,small,crossroads,cross roads,Budworth Lane,High St,High Street,Great Budworth Drinking Fountain,drinking,fountain,tap,hut,mount,pumphouse,Roland Egerton Warburton,poem
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RCDCHD - More detail at https://trywater.club/listing/great-budworth-spring-eheshire-england-cw9-6hf/
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Roland Egerton Warburton's poem on the plaque above the pump reads:
Blessings are in never ending love Are put on us from Heaven above This running stream with ceaseless flow Springs from bounteous earth below.
Alike in both his goodness show Whom heaven and earth make its own.
This natural spring water in Budworth, Northwich, Cheshire, England, runs through a publically-funded stream that comes out from a tap. It's located in a sheltered house and is accessible to the public for free 24/7. Although it's tap water, several people in the locality have been using it for ages. There are no lab tests to back its quality, though. So drink at your own risk.
The correct coordinates are 53.29294388940146, -2.5090968151409543 and the complete address is Great Budworth, Northwich CW9 6HE, United Kingdom.
Directions:
To get to this spring water, you need to take the High Street from The Great Budworth and head to West. A few miles away there's a Warrington crossroad. This tap water should be near the crossroad preferably on your left just before the crossroad. It's famously known as the Great Budworth Drinking Fountain. Look for the hut-shaped construction.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,no public access,area,conservation,green,summer,countryside,farmland,farm,farming,woods,forest,conservation area sign,restricted access sign,environmental protection,protected land,conservation notice,access prohibited,land management sign,wildlife protection area,nature conservation,restricted area,countryside signage UK,forestry management,rural warning sign,nature reserve boundary,environmental awareness,countryside management,sustainability concept,owner,environmental conservation,access rights,land use policy,spring
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R5PNYP - This image shows a green conservation area sign clearly stating No public access, positioned at the edge of a wooded landscape. Such signage is commonly used across the UK to обозначate areas of land that are protected for environmental, ecological, or wildlife conservation purposes, where unrestricted public entry could cause damage or disturbance.
Restricted access zones may protect sensitive habitats, breeding wildlife, forestry operations, or conservation projects, and form part of wider land management and environmental protection strategies. The surrounding trees and natural vegetation reinforce the rural and ecological context of the sign.
The image is suitable for editorial and commercial use relating to environmental conservation, countryside management, access rights, land use policy, sustainability, wildlife protection, and rural regulation, as well as conceptual illustrations of restriction, preservation, and environmental responsibility.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,England,UK,Hampstead,Highgate,urban,independent,shops,3""5 Woburn Walk,London WC1,Georgian terrace,café culture,London streetscape,literary Bloomsbury,Woburn Walk Bloomsbury,Georgian architecture,terrace houses,pedestrianised lane,small independent shops,café tables,people sitting outdoors,London neighbourhood,Camden London,historic shopping street,boutique retail,residential street,summer in London,socialising outdoors,London urban life,conservation area,documentary photography,Spring,tranquil
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RA23DD - A view along Woburn Walk in Bloomsbury, central London, showing outdoor café seating and small independent businesses at numbers 35 Woburn Walk. The narrow pedestrian street is lined with Georgian terraced buildings, creating an intimate village-like atmosphere within the city centre.
Woburn Walk is one of London's earliest purpose-built pedestrian shopping streets and is closely associated with Bloomsbury's literary and cultural history. Today it remains a popular destination for cafés, specialist shops, and local visitors, blending residential architecture with relaxed street-level social life.
Photographed in natural daylight, the image captures everyday urban activity in central London, illustrating themes of café culture, historic streets, conservation areas, and the continued appeal of small-scale pedestrian environments in the capital. Seen in places like Woburn Walk, the idea that London neighbourhoods are uniformly dangerous quickly falls apart, yet the lazy narrative persists that the capital and its suburbs are defined by knife crime and disorder rather than by ordinary, peaceful life. Woburn Walk is quietly pedestrian, lined with small shops and cafes, people talking over coffee, children passing through, and neighbours using the street as an extension of their living space, a scene far closer to a village high street than to the sensational headlines that dominate national coverage. The reality is that most London streets, suburban and central alike, function exactly like this most of the time, shaped by routine, community habits, and long-established social norms rather than constant threat. Crime does exist, as it does in any large city, but the disproportionate focus on the most extreme incidents distorts public perception and flattens a complex urban landscape into something unrecognisable to those who actually live there. Woburn Walk, calm, human-scaled and socially active, stands as a quiet rebuttal to that caricature, illustrating difference.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warrington,Cheshire,UK,WA4,England,WA4 6HN,blue,spring,flowers,wild,natural,native,English,clump,group,Hyacinthoides,non scriptus,wood,woods,shade,shaded,Hycinthoides non-scripta,Hycinthoides,non-scripta,bloom,a,blooming,carpet,country,countryside,display,plant,rural,wildflower,wildflowers
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PPKPA7 - Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a bulbous perennial plant, found in Atlantic areas from north-western Spain to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant. It is known in English as the common bluebell or simply bluebell, a name which is used in Scotland to refer to the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia. In spring, H. non-scripta produces a nodding, one-sided inflorescence of 512 tubular, sweet-scented violetblue flowers, with strongly recurved tepals, and 36 long, linear, basal leaves.
H. non-scripta is particularly associated with ancient woodland where it may dominate the understorey to produce carpets of violetblue flowers in bluebell woods, but also occurs in more open habitats in western regions. It is protected under UK law, and in some other parts of its range. A related species, H. hispanica has also been introduced to the British Isles and hybridises with H. non-scripta to produce intermediates known as H. × massartiana.
Taxonomy
Hyacinthoides non-scripta was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 1753 work Species Plantarum, as a species in the genus Hyacinthus. The specific epithet non-scriptus[Note 1] means unlettered or unmarked and was intended to distinguish this plant from the classical hyacinth of Greek mythology. This mythical flower, which was almost certainly not the modern hyacinth, sprang up from the blood of the dying prince Hyacinthus. His lover, the god Apollo, shed tears that marked the new flower's petals with the letters AIAI (alas) as a sign of his grief
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lincolnshire,England,UK,centre,the,and,shopping,mall,shop,shops,Wilko,retail,area,in,spring,waterway,boat,boats,cherry,flowers,blossom,waterside,street,st,two,figures,figure,tourist,tourism,attraction,LN5 7EU,LN5,artist,Stephen Broadbent,square,council,blue sky
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PNA0Y6 - Empowerment is a public sculpture in the centre of the city of Lincoln in England.
Designed by the artist Stephen Broadbent, sponsored by Alstom UK Ltd, Lincoln Co-operative Society, and other Lincoln businesses and organisations, donated to Lincoln City Council.
The sculpture was completed in 2002, unveiled on 2 February, and spans the River Witham in Lincoln's City Square. It takes the form of two aluminium-and-steel human figures reaching to each other across the water. The design is intended to echo the shape of turbine blades, in recognition of Lincoln's industrial heritage, which transform into dynamic figures that reach out to empower one another, just as the blades empower one another within the turbine.
The statue was commissioned with the intent to create a bold and striking sculpture to celebrate the millennium, that spans the River Witham in Lincoln's city centre and act as a focal point in the space.
At 16 m (17 yd) tall, Empowerment is the largest sculpture in Lincolnshire. Increasingly, it is now used alongside more traditional images of Lincoln the cathedral and castle as a recognisable 'tourist emblem' of the city, similar to the adoption of the Angel of the North as a symbol of North East England
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4,Spring,blue,sky,sunny,Area,sign,cut,cuts,policing,in,Home Office,reduction,increase,increasing,fear,fears,on,a,streetlamp,lack,of,means,vigilante,vigilantes,support,officer,officers,DIY,own,property,security,Tory cuts,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PJW704 - Police chiefs blame Tory cuts for fall in crime detection and charge rates
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Senior officers rebuff claims police focusing on woke' causes and highlight disconnected approach over the last 12 years'
Cuts under Conservative-led governments have had a negative effect upon policing, the organisation representing senior officers has said, in a rebuff to claims that forces are focusing on woke causes.
The National Police Chiefs Council said in a statement that crime detection and charge rates had dropped following austerity measures and a fall in police numbers since 2010.
It comes after a report by the right-leaning thinktank Policy Exchange, which said on Tuesday that public confidence could be damaged if police showed solidarity against discrimination or expressed political views.
A National Police Chiefs Council spokesperson said: Detection and charge rates for a range of crimes have fallen over the past five years.
This has been impacted by austerity and the loss of thousands of police officers and staff, increasing complexity of policing and crime, growing demand related to mental ill health and impact of backlogs in the court system.
The NPCC's statement followed Monday's release of the Policy Exchange paper entitled Crime & Policing: What Do We want from the Next Prime Minister?
Written by the former Met detective chief inspector David Spencer, the 31-page report questioned whether officers should take part in acts that may be seen as political, such as taking the knee during protests.
Even the perception that an officer's decision-making, such as whether to arrest someone, might be influenced by a partisan political view has the potential to be hugely damaging to public confidence
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,England,UK,British,Thermometer,inability to pay,paying,inflation,gas,electricity,in,cold,cool,weather,winter,spring,bills,fuel,cash,money,sterling,notes,£20,£10,struggle,heat,homes,warm,increase,increases,soaring costs,prices,wholesale energy prices,price cap,enough is enough,budgeting,spending
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JPF7M9 -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,England,UK,British,Thermometer,inability to pay,paying,inflation,gas,electricity,in,cold,cool,weather,winter,spring,bills,fuel,cash,money,sterling,notes,£20,£10,struggle,heat,homes,warm,increase,soaring costs,prices,effects on households,freezing,conditions,Bank of England,household,budgets,Iran war
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Cheshire,WA4,WA4 3ET,spring,blossom,Springtime,blooms,blossoms,fruit,cherry,tree,trees,shrub,shrubs,by,the,parish,noticeboard,notices,notice board,board,bench,sunny,blue,sky,skies,WA43ET,bloom,flowers,flower,Broad Ln,Broad Lane,beautiful,village,villages
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH06KD -
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Cheshire,WA4,WA4 3ET,spring,blossom,Springtime,blooms,blossoms,fruit,cherry,tree,trees,shrub,shrubs,bench,sunny,blue,sky,skies,WA43ET,bloom,flowers,flower,Broad Ln,Broad Lane,beautiful,village,villages,the,parish,by,centre,Church Lane
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Marbury,Cheshire,England,UK,lamb,ruminants,lamb exports,exporting,subsidy,CAP,EU,exports,wool,woolly,fleece,sheep fleece,traceability,foodchain,food chain,of,product,sheep,lambs,field,farm,farming,rural,mutton,graze,grazing,spring,spring lamb,cattle
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C3K5J2 -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,outside,town hall,art,spring,manufacture,springs,Redditch,Worcestershire,England,box,of,metal,public,civic,Kesia Taylor,Redditch School of Art Trust,Bennett Mahler,Clifford springs,Davies Springs,G & O Springs,Micro Springs and Presswork,Profin Protective Finishing,S G Springs,Springmasters,Stride supplies,Wild springs and Wireform,Wire & Tube Technology Ltd,mild steel,steel,employers,local,company,companies
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,village,Cheshire villages,North West England,England,UK,Hatton Lane,Hatton Ln,WA4,WA4 4DB,Inn,Warrington,traditional pub,traditional village pub,listed,listed building,grade II,grade2,grade2 listed,Lord Daresbury,local,boozer,Lord Daresburys local,public house,Hatton Post Office,sign,pub sign,pubsign,coat of arms,Hatton Hall,CAMRA,real ale,ales,beers,summer,flowers,spring,Hatton Arms grade II listed pub bar
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PCTAE0 - Hatton is a civil parish and hamlet in Warrington, Cheshire, England, located to the south of Warrington town centre.
It lies on the B5356 road between the villages of Daresbury and Stretton. It has one public house, The Hatton Arms. This is a Grade II listed building which formerly incorporated a post office and a village store. Two other listed buildings are Hatton Hall and a K6 telephone kiosk designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PCTAE4 - Hatton is a civil parish and hamlet in Warrington, Cheshire, England, located to the south of Warrington town centre.
It lies on the B5356 road between the villages of Daresbury and Stretton. It has one public house, The Hatton Arms. This is a Grade II listed building which formerly incorporated a post office and a village store. Two other listed buildings are Hatton Hall and a K6 telephone kiosk designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,village,Cheshire villages,North West England,England,UK,Hatton Lane,Hatton Ln,WA4,WA4 4DB,Inn,Warrington,traditional pub,traditional village pub,listed,listed building,grade II,grade2,grade2 listed,Lord Daresbury,local,boozer,Lord Daresburys local,public house,Hatton Post Office,sign,pub sign,pubsign,coat of arms,Hatton Hall,CAMRA,real ale,ales,beers,summer,flowers,spring,Hatton Arms grade II listed pub bar
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PCTAE5 - Hatton is a civil parish and hamlet in Warrington, Cheshire, England, located to the south of Warrington town centre.
It lies on the B5356 road between the villages of Daresbury and Stretton. It has one public house, The Hatton Arms. This is a Grade II listed building which formerly incorporated a post office and a village store. Two other listed buildings are Hatton Hall and a K6 telephone kiosk designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Bridge,Cheshire,England,North West,North West England,wide,summer,GB,Great Britain,water,river,waterway,tidal,road,bottleneck,A49,A50,spring,traffic notices,traffic,information,road network,Mersey crossing,Warrington Mersey Crossing,chaos,Wilderspool Causeway,Warrington News,warrington Town News,riverside,Bridgefoot roadworks,Bridge foot roadworks,congestion,traffic congestion,bridge,bridge st,bridge street,WA1
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Bridge,Cheshire,England,North West,North West England,wide,summer,GB,Great Britain,water,river,waterway,tidal,road,bottleneck,A49,A50,spring,traffic notices,traffic,information,road network,Mersey crossing,Warrington Mersey Crossing,chaos,Wilderspool Causeway,Warrington News,warrington Town News,riverside,Bridgefoot roadworks,Bridge foot roadworks,congestion,traffic congestion,bridge,bridge st,bridge street,WA1
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Bridge,Cheshire,England,North West,North West England,wide,summer,GB,Great Britain,water,river,waterway,tidal,road,bottleneck,A49,A50,spring,traffic notices,traffic,information,road network,Mersey crossing,Warrington Mersey Crossing,chaos,Wilderspool Causeway,Warrington News,warrington Town News,riverside,Bridgefoot roadworks,Bridge foot roadworks,congestion,traffic congestion,bridge,bridge st,bridge street,WA1
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Bridge,Cheshire,England,North West,North West England,wide,summer,GB,Great Britain,water,river,waterway,tidal,road,bottleneck,A49,A50,spring,traffic notices,traffic,information,road network,Mersey crossing,Warrington Mersey Crossing,chaos,Wilderspool Causeway,Warrington News,warrington Town News,riverside,Bridgefoot roadworks,Bridge foot roadworks,congestion,traffic congestion,bridge,bridge st,bridge street,WA1
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Bridge,Cheshire,England,North West,North West England,wide,summer,GB,Great Britain,water,river,waterway,tidal,road,bottleneck,A49,A50,spring,traffic notices,traffic,information,road network,Mersey crossing,Warrington Mersey Crossing,chaos,Wilderspool Causeway,Warrington News,warrington Town News,riverside,Bridgefoot roadworks,Bridge foot roadworks,congestion,traffic congestion,bridge,bridge st,bridge street,WA1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,finger,post,sign,historic,history,summer,CCC,Cheshire County Council,spring,blossom,hedges,hedgerows,lovely,small,villages,village,cycle,walking,routes,route,outdoors,outside,sunny,blue,sky,skies,Whitley,land,Greenall,Greenalls,lower,Stretton,painted,freshly,white,black
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWFN - A fingerpost (sometimes referred to as a guide post) is a traditional type of sign post primarily used in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland,[1] consisting of a post with one or more arms, known as fingers, pointing in the direction of travel to places named on the fingers. The posts have traditionally been made from cast iron or wood, with poles painted in black, white or grey and fingers with black letters on a white background, often including distance information in miles. In most cases, they are used to give guidance for road users, but examples also exist on the canal network, for instance. They are also used to mark the beginning of a footpath, bridleway, or similar public path.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Bluebell,Bluebells,wood,wooded,Cheshire,England,spring,Hyacinthoides,flowers,blue flowers,tree,trees,forest,forest bluebells,floor,wood floor,forest floor,beautiful bluebells,carpet,bluebell carpet,ancient woodland,ancient forest,path,forest path,forest paths,bluebell woods,deadwood,dead wood,spring bluebells,bulb,bulbs,bluebell bulbs,British Isles,British bluebells,English Bluebells,fallen logs,logs
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P110K4 - Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a bulbous perennial plant, found in Atlantic areas from north-western Spain to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant. It is known in English as the common bluebell or simply bluebell, a name which is used in Scotland to refer to the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia. In spring, H. non-scripta produces a nodding, one-sided inflorescence of 512 tubular, sweet-scented violetblue flowers, with strongly recurved tepals, and 36 long, linear, basal leaves.
H. non-scripta is particularly associated with ancient woodland where it may dominate the understorey to produce carpets of violetblue flowers in bluebell woods, but also occurs in more open habitats in western regions. It is protected under UK law, and in some other parts of its range. A related species, H. hispanica has also been introduced to the British Isles and hybridises with H. non-scripta to produce intermediates known as H. × massartiana.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Bluebell,Bluebells,wood,wooded,Cheshire,England,spring,Hyacinthoides,flowers,blue flowers,tree,trees,forest,forest bluebells,floor,wood floor,forest floor,beautiful bluebells,carpet,bluebell carpet,ancient woodland,ancient forest,path,forest path,forest paths,bluebell woods,deadwood,dead wood,spring bluebells,bulb,bulbs,bluebell bulbs,British Isles,British bluebells,English Bluebells,fallen logs,logs
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P110K5 - Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a bulbous perennial plant, found in Atlantic areas from north-western Spain to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant. It is known in English as the common bluebell or simply bluebell, a name which is used in Scotland to refer to the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia. In spring, H. non-scripta produces a nodding, one-sided inflorescence of 512 tubular, sweet-scented violetblue flowers, with strongly recurved tepals, and 36 long, linear, basal leaves.
H. non-scripta is particularly associated with ancient woodland where it may dominate the understorey to produce carpets of violetblue flowers in bluebell woods, but also occurs in more open habitats in western regions. It is protected under UK law, and in some other parts of its range. A related species, H. hispanica has also been introduced to the British Isles and hybridises with H. non-scripta to produce intermediates known as H. × massartiana.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P110KA - Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a bulbous perennial plant, found in Atlantic areas from north-western Spain to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant. It is known in English as the common bluebell or simply bluebell, a name which is used in Scotland to refer to the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia. In spring, H. non-scripta produces a nodding, one-sided inflorescence of 512 tubular, sweet-scented violetblue flowers, with strongly recurved tepals, and 36 long, linear, basal leaves.
H. non-scripta is particularly associated with ancient woodland where it may dominate the understorey to produce carpets of violetblue flowers in bluebell woods, but also occurs in more open habitats in western regions. It is protected under UK law, and in some other parts of its range. A related species, H. hispanica has also been introduced to the British Isles and hybridises with H. non-scripta to produce intermediates known as H. × massartiana.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P110KC - Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a bulbous perennial plant, found in Atlantic areas from north-western Spain to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant. It is known in English as the common bluebell or simply bluebell, a name which is used in Scotland to refer to the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia. In spring, H. non-scripta produces a nodding, one-sided inflorescence of 512 tubular, sweet-scented violetblue flowers, with strongly recurved tepals, and 36 long, linear, basal leaves.
H. non-scripta is particularly associated with ancient woodland where it may dominate the understorey to produce carpets of violetblue flowers in bluebell woods, but also occurs in more open habitats in western regions. It is protected under UK law, and in some other parts of its range. A related species, H. hispanica has also been introduced to the British Isles and hybridises with H. non-scripta to produce intermediates known as H. × massartiana.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P110KH - Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a bulbous perennial plant, found in Atlantic areas from north-western Spain to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant. It is known in English as the common bluebell or simply bluebell, a name which is used in Scotland to refer to the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia. In spring, H. non-scripta produces a nodding, one-sided inflorescence of 512 tubular, sweet-scented violetblue flowers, with strongly recurved tepals, and 36 long, linear, basal leaves.
H. non-scripta is particularly associated with ancient woodland where it may dominate the understorey to produce carpets of violetblue flowers in bluebell woods, but also occurs in more open habitats in western regions. It is protected under UK law, and in some other parts of its range. A related species, H. hispanica has also been introduced to the British Isles and hybridises with H. non-scripta to produce intermediates known as H. × massartiana.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P110KJ - Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a bulbous perennial plant, found in Atlantic areas from north-western Spain to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant. It is known in English as the common bluebell or simply bluebell, a name which is used in Scotland to refer to the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia. In spring, H. non-scripta produces a nodding, one-sided inflorescence of 512 tubular, sweet-scented violetblue flowers, with strongly recurved tepals, and 36 long, linear, basal leaves.
H. non-scripta is particularly associated with ancient woodland where it may dominate the understorey to produce carpets of violetblue flowers in bluebell woods, but also occurs in more open habitats in western regions. It is protected under UK law, and in some other parts of its range. A related species, H. hispanica has also been introduced to the British Isles and hybridises with H. non-scripta to produce intermediates known as H. × massartiana.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P110KK - Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a bulbous perennial plant, found in Atlantic areas from north-western Spain to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant. It is known in English as the common bluebell or simply bluebell, a name which is used in Scotland to refer to the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia. In spring, H. non-scripta produces a nodding, one-sided inflorescence of 512 tubular, sweet-scented violetblue flowers, with strongly recurved tepals, and 36 long, linear, basal leaves.
H. non-scripta is particularly associated with ancient woodland where it may dominate the understorey to produce carpets of violetblue flowers in bluebell woods, but also occurs in more open habitats in western regions. It is protected under UK law, and in some other parts of its range. A related species, H. hispanica has also been introduced to the British Isles and hybridises with H. non-scripta to produce intermediates known as H. × massartiana.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXGEP - Hay production and harvest, colloquially known as making hay, haymaking, or doing hay, involves a multiple step process: cutting, drying or curing, processing, and storing. Hayfields do not have to be reseeded each year in the way that grain crops are, but regular fertilizing is usually desirable, and overseeding a field every few years helps increase yield.
Methods and the terminology to describe the steps of making hay have varied greatly throughout history, and many regional variations still exist today. However, whether done by hand or by modern mechanized equipment, tall grass and legumes at the proper stage of maturity must be cut, then allowed to dry (preferably by the sun), then raked into long, narrow piles known as windrows. Next, the cured hay is gathered up in some form (usually by some type of baling process) and placed for storage into a haystack or into a barn or shed to protect it from moisture and rot.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9B2J - A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae. Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colorful flowers. One species of poppy, Papaver somniferum, produces edible seeds, and is also the source of the crude drug opium which contains powerful medicinal alkaloids such as morphine and has been used since ancient times as an analgesic and narcotic medicinal and recreational drugs.
Following the trench warfare which took place in the poppy fields of Flanders, during the 1st World War, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYNF - Trees trimmed in early spring, over A56 road
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEBF - Petasites is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae, that are commonly referred to as butterburs and coltsfoots. They are perennial plants with thick, creeping underground rhizomes and large rhubarb-like leaves during the growing season. Most species are native to Asia or southern Europe.
Short spikes of flowers are produced just before the leaves in late winter (e.g. Petasites fragrans or spring, emerging with only a few elongated basal bracts and are usually green, flesh coloured or dull white depending on the species.
Butterbur can be found in parts of Asia such as Korea, China, and Japan, as well as Europe and North America. They prefer moist environments such as riverbanks, marshes and ditches.
Petasites is closely related to the genera Tussilago and Senecio.
Medicinal herb uses
Butterbur has been used for over 2000 years to treat a variety of ailments including fever, lung disease, spasms, and pain.[8] Currently, butterbur extract is used for migraine prevention and treatment of allergic rhinitis, which have the most evidence for its effectiveness.
Some butterbur species contain the chemicals petasin and isopetasin which are believed to have potential benefits in treating migraines. High concentrations of petasin occur in both butterbur root and leaves, with the leaves containing lower levels of the toxic chemical. Butterbur extracts have been reported to be effective in reducing frequency and severity of migraine headaches. Several double-blind studies have shown that high doses of Petasites hybridus extract, containing petasin and/or isopetasin, are effective both in preventing and in relieving migraine, with the best results in groups taking the higher dose of the supplement. Although mainly well-tolerated, the adverse effects of butterbur reported in clinical trials include mainly gastrointestinal problems, such as nausea, flatulence, and belching. In 2015, the American Academy of Neurology withdrew its original endorsement
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEPX - Primula veris is a variable evergreen or semi-evergreen perennial plant growing to 25 cm (10 in) tall and broad, with a rosette of leaves 515 cm long and 26 cm broad. The deep yellow flowers are produced in spring, in clusters of 10-30 blooms together on a single stem. Each flower is 915 mm broad. Red- and orange-flowered plants occur rarely but can be locally widespread in areas where coloured primula hybrids bloom at the same time as the native cowslip enabling cross-pollination.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEH1 - Horse chestnut is a deciduous broadleaf tree native to the Balkan peninsula.
Common name: horse chestnut
Scientific name: Aesculus hippocastanum
Family: Hippocastanaceae
UK provenance: non-native
Interesting fact: the leaf stalks leave a scar on the twig when they fall, which resembles an inverted horse shoe with nail holes. This association with horses could explain why conkers used to be ground up and fed to horses to relieve them of coughs, and could be the origin of the tree's name.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HWDN - Some spring dew drops on Snowdrop flowers in a square sepia format
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HWR9 - White English Snowdrops covered in morning dew Cheshire, England UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8464498157 - 'The Cult - 'Wild Flower' - Play this track here.
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This is one of the best tracks from 'Electric' the pivotal third album by The Cult. Released in 1987, the album marked a deliberate stylistic change in the band from a Gothic rock to a hard rock band. Rick Rubin, the producer on Electric, had been specifically hired to remake the band's sound in an effort to capitalize on the popularity of hard rock and heavy metal in the 1980s.
After the breakthrough success of their second album, Love, the Cult began working on a follow-up with producer Steve Brown. In the summer of 1986, they recorded twelve tracks at the Manor Studio in Oxfordshire. These recordings, which came to be known as the Manor Sessions, were to make up a new album, tentatively entitled Peace. However, upon completion of the recording sessions, the band decided that they were unhappy with the sound, and began to look for a new producer.
The band went on to choose Rick Rubin, who was known for producing albums for hip hop artists and thrash metal band Slayer. These new recordings, with a slightly different track-list and running order, became the album that was released.
Although all twelve of the Manor Sessions tracks were initially scrapped, four of them would turn up as B-sides to singles from Electric. A further five of them appeared on a limited edition EP, and with the release of Rare Cult in 2000, the rest of the unreleased Steve Brown-produced tracks were made available.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7024818981 - 'Ian McCulloch - 'In Bloom' - Play this track here.
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Candleland is the first solo album by Ian McCulloch, released 17 September 1989. This album marked McCulloch's departure from Echo &
the Bunnymen in 1989. The album features a guest appearance by the Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser on the title song, 'Candleland'. The album reached number 18 on the UK Albums Chart and number 179 on the Billboard 200.
The blossom this spring is truly breathtaking. Heaps of dazzling white blackthorn flowers look like piles of snow dropped on to hedgerows, and stunning white or pink cherry blossoms have turned parks and gardens into a magical wonderland.
Conditions for the blossom have been near perfect, with plenty of warm sunshine and hardly a wisp of wind, drop of rain or touch of frost to ruin the blooms. And even the winter weather played a part, with the bitter cold in late January and early February boosting the growth of many trees and shrubs, and which will help the crops of fruits and berries later in the year.
The magnificent symphony of spring is well under way, each plant opening its leaves and flowers in a remarkable choreography. A green mist is now enveloping hedges and woods as the early tree and shrub leaves \u2013 such as hawthorns, elders, hornbeams and weeping willows \u2013 burst open.
Woodland floors are also turning green as carpets of plant leaves pop up, decorated with splashes of bright woodland flowers glistening in the spring sunshine, such as wood anemone, lesser celandine and dog violets. Even the first bluebells are peeking through in some southern parts of England.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6843272141 - 'Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple haze' - Play this track here.
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'Purple Haze' is a song written in 1966 and recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and released as a single (Hendrix's second) in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It appeared on their 1967 album Are You Experienced. 'Purple Haze' has become one of the 'archetypical psychedelic drug songs of the sixties'.
Reportedly, the song came into being after the band's producer Chas Chandler heard him playing the riff backstage and suggested that he write lyrics to go with it. There is some dispute about the lyrics: supposedly written in the dressing room of the Upper Cut Club on Boxing Day, 1966, it is also believed that he wrote the lyrics in Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill.
Chandler claims that the lyrics were never cut in any way (though he admits that this was done on general principle with Hendrix's lyrics), while Hendrix stated that the original song contained much more text. Hendrix himself denied the drug relation of the song claiming it to be merely another love song.
He said that the line 'What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me' is the key line to the lyrics.
The woods around Grappenhall are becoming a bit purple hazy, as spring pokes its crocus flowers through the frozen ground. The snow drops are out too, grab 'em while they are here, when they gone, they gone!
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BJ1W9W - Quarry Bank Mill (also known as Styal Mill) in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The National Trust, which runs the site as a museum, calls it one of Britain's greatest industrial heritage sites, home to a complete industrial community. Quarry Bank Mill was established by Samuel Greg, and was notable for innovations both in machinery and also in its approach to labour relations, largely as a result of the work of Greg's wife, Hannah Lightbody. The relationship between owners and employees is explored in the 2013 television series The Mill.
Samuel Greg leased land at Quarrell Hole on Pownall Fee from Lord Stamford, who imposed a condition that none of the surrounding trees should be pruned, felled or lopped
maintaining the woodland character of the area. The factory was built in 1784 by Greg to spin cotton. When Greg retired in 1832 it was the largest such business in the United Kingdom. The water-powered Georgian mill still produces cotton calico. The Gregs were careful and pragmatic, paternalistic millowners, and the mill was expanded and changed throughout its history. When Greg's son, Robert Hyde Greg, took over the business, he introduced weaving. Samuel Greg died in 1834.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BJ1WA2 - Quarry Bank Mill (also known as Styal Mill) in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The National Trust, which runs the site as a museum, calls it one of Britain's greatest industrial heritage sites, home to a complete industrial community. Quarry Bank Mill was established by Samuel Greg, and was notable for innovations both in machinery and also in its approach to labour relations, largely as a result of the work of Greg's wife, Hannah Lightbody. The relationship between owners and employees is explored in the 2013 television series The Mill.
Samuel Greg leased land at Quarrell Hole on Pownall Fee from Lord Stamford, who imposed a condition that none of the surrounding trees should be pruned, felled or lopped
maintaining the woodland character of the area. The factory was built in 1784 by Greg to spin cotton. When Greg retired in 1832 it was the largest such business in the United Kingdom. The water-powered Georgian mill still produces cotton calico. The Gregs were careful and pragmatic, paternalistic millowners, and the mill was expanded and changed throughout its history. When Greg's son, Robert Hyde Greg, took over the business, he introduced weaving. Samuel Greg died in 1834.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BGRC09 - Digitalis is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennials, shrubs, and biennials commonly called foxgloves.
This genus was traditionally placed in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae, but recent phylogenetic research has placed it in the much enlarged family Plantaginaceae. This genus is native to western and southwestern Europe, western and central Asia and northwestern Africa. The flowers are produced on a tall spike, are tubular, and vary in colour with species, from purple to pink, white, and yellow. The scientific name means finger-like and refers to the ease with which a flower can be fitted over a human fingertip.
The best-known species is the common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea. This biennial plant is often grown as an ornamental plant due to its vivid flowers which range in colour from various purple tints through pink, and purely white. The flowers can also possess various marks and spottings. Other garden-worthy species include D. ferruginea, D. grandiflora, D. lutea and D. parviflora.
The term digitalis is also used for drug preparations that contain cardiac glycosides, particularly one called digoxin, extracted from various plants of this genus. Foxglove has medicinal uses but can also be toxic to humans and other animals
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BGRC1G - They are hardy tuberous geophytes. In a thickened underground stem, they can store a large amount of water to survive arid conditions. The tuber is flattened and finger-like. The long leaves are lanceolate and, in most species, also speckled. They grow along a rather long stem which reaches a height of 7090 cm (2835 in). Leaves higher on the stem are shorter than leaves lower on the stem. The inflorescence, compared to the length of the plant, is rather short. It consists of a compact raceme with 25-50 flowers. These develop from axillary buds. The dominant colors are white and all shades of pink to red, sprinkled with darker speckles. These terrestrial orchids grow in basic soils in wet meadows, bogs, heathland and in areas sparsely populated by trees. They are distributed throughout the subarctic and temperate northern hemisphere. It is found across much of Europe
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BGRC1M - They are hardy tuberous geophytes. In a thickened underground stem, they can store a large amount of water to survive arid conditions. The tuber is flattened and finger-like. The long leaves are lanceolate and, in most species, also speckled. They grow along a rather long stem which reaches a height of 7090 cm (2835 in). Leaves higher on the stem are shorter than leaves lower on the stem. The inflorescence, compared to the length of the plant, is rather short. It consists of a compact raceme with 25-50 flowers. These develop from axillary buds. The dominant colors are white and all shades of pink to red, sprinkled with darker speckles. These terrestrial orchids grow in basic soils in wet meadows, bogs, heathland and in areas sparsely populated by trees. They are distributed throughout the subarctic and temperate northern hemisphere. It is found across much of Europe
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BEW1DW - Newcastle upon Tyne commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, 8.5 mi (13.7 km) from the North Sea. Newcastle is the most populous city in the North East, and forms the core of the Tyneside conurbation, the eighth most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Newcastle is a member of the UK Core Cities Group and is a member of the Eurocities network of European cities.
Newcastle was part of the county of Northumberland until 1400, when it became a county of itself, a status it retained until becoming part of Tyne and Wear in 1974. The regional nickname and dialect for people from Newcastle and the surrounding area is Geordie. Newcastle also houses Newcastle University, a member of the Russell Group, as well as Northumbria University. Newcastle is member of the North of Tyne Combined Authority.
The city developed around the Roman settlement Pons Aelius and was named after the castle built in 1080 by Robert Curthose, William the Conqueror's eldest son. The city grew as an important centre for the wool trade in the 14th century, and later became a major coal mining area. The port developed in the 16th century and, along with the shipyards lower down the River Tyne, was amongst the world's largest shipbuilding and ship-repairing centres
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BEW1E0 - Newcastle upon Tyne commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, 8.5 mi (13.7 km) from the North Sea. Newcastle is the most populous city in the North East, and forms the core of the Tyneside conurbation, the eighth most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Newcastle is a member of the UK Core Cities Group and is a member of the Eurocities network of European cities.
Newcastle was part of the county of Northumberland until 1400, when it became a county of itself, a status it retained until becoming part of Tyne and Wear in 1974. The regional nickname and dialect for people from Newcastle and the surrounding area is Geordie. Newcastle also houses Newcastle University, a member of the Russell Group, as well as Northumbria University. Newcastle is member of the North of Tyne Combined Authority.
The city developed around the Roman settlement Pons Aelius and was named after the castle built in 1080 by Robert Curthose, William the Conqueror's eldest son. The city grew as an important centre for the wool trade in the 14th century, and later became a major coal mining area. The port developed in the 16th century and, along with the shipyards lower down the River Tyne, was amongst the world's largest shipbuilding and ship-repairing centres
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BEW1ET - Newcastle upon Tyne commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, 8.5 mi (13.7 km) from the North Sea. Newcastle is the most populous city in the North East, and forms the core of the Tyneside conurbation, the eighth most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Newcastle is a member of the UK Core Cities Group and is a member of the Eurocities network of European cities.
Newcastle was part of the county of Northumberland until 1400, when it became a county of itself, a status it retained until becoming part of Tyne and Wear in 1974. The regional nickname and dialect for people from Newcastle and the surrounding area is Geordie. Newcastle also houses Newcastle University, a member of the Russell Group, as well as Northumbria University. Newcastle is member of the North of Tyne Combined Authority.
The city developed around the Roman settlement Pons Aelius and was named after the castle built in 1080 by Robert Curthose, William the Conqueror's eldest son. The city grew as an important centre for the wool trade in the 14th century, and later became a major coal mining area. The port developed in the 16th century and, along with the shipyards lower down the River Tyne, was amongst the world's largest shipbuilding and ship-repairing centres
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BEW1F0 - The Tyne Bridge is a through arch bridge over the River Tyne in North East England, linking Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead. The bridge was designed by the engineering firm Mott, Hay and Anderson, who later designed the Forth Road Bridge, and was built by Dorman Long and Co. of Middlesbrough. The bridge was officially opened on 10 October 1928 by King George V and has since become a defining symbol of Tyneside. It is ranked as the tenth tallest structure in the city.
The Tyne Bridge was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson, comparable to their Sydney Harbour Bridge version
The bridge was completed on 25 February 1928, and officially opened on 10 October by King George V and Queen Mary, who were the first to use the roadway, travelling in their Ascot Landau. The opening ceremony was attended by 20,000 schoolchildren who had been given the day off. Movietone news recorded the speech given by the King
The Tyne Bridge's towers were built of Cornish granite and were designed by local architect Robert Burns Dick as warehouses with five storeys. But, the inner floors of the warehouses in the bridge's towers were not completed and, as a result, the storage areas were never used. Lifts for passengers and goods were built in the towers to provide access to the Quayside
they are no longer in use.
The bridge's design uses a parabolic arch.
The bridge was originally painted green with special paint made by J. Dampney Co. of Gateshead. The same colours were used to paint the bridge in 2000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BEW1F4 - The Tyne Bridge is a through arch bridge over the River Tyne in North East England, linking Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead. The bridge was designed by the engineering firm Mott, Hay and Anderson, who later designed the Forth Road Bridge, and was built by Dorman Long and Co. of Middlesbrough. The bridge was officially opened on 10 October 1928 by King George V and has since become a defining symbol of Tyneside. It is ranked as the tenth tallest structure in the city.
The Tyne Bridge was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson, comparable to their Sydney Harbour Bridge version
The bridge was completed on 25 February 1928, and officially opened on 10 October by King George V and Queen Mary, who were the first to use the roadway, travelling in their Ascot Landau. The opening ceremony was attended by 20,000 schoolchildren who had been given the day off. Movietone news recorded the speech given by the King
The Tyne Bridge's towers were built of Cornish granite and were designed by local architect Robert Burns Dick as warehouses with five storeys. But, the inner floors of the warehouses in the bridge's towers were not completed and, as a result, the storage areas were never used. Lifts for passengers and goods were built in the towers to provide access to the Quayside
they are no longer in use.
The bridge's design uses a parabolic arch.
The bridge was originally painted green with special paint made by J. Dampney Co. of Gateshead. The same colours were used to paint the bridge in 2000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HFDB - Galanthus (snowdrop
Greek gála milk, ánthos flower) is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. The plants have two linear leaves and a single small white drooping bell shaped flower with six petal-like (petaloid) tepals in two circles (whorls). The smaller inner petals have green markings.
Snowdrops have been known since the earliest times under various names, but were named Galanthus in 1753. As the number of recognised species increased, various attempts were made to divide the species into subgroups, usually on the basis of the pattern of the emerging leaves (vernation). In the era of molecular phylogenetics this characteristic has been shown to be unreliable and now seven molecularly-defined clades are recognised corresponding to the biogeographical distribution of species. New species continue to be discovered.
Most species flower in winter, before the vernal equinox (20 or 21 March in the Northern Hemisphere), but some flower in early spring and late autumn. Sometimes snowdrops are confused with the two related genera within the tribe Galantheae, snowflakes Leucojum and Acis.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8FBCT - The Common Blue Damselfly can be easily mistaken for the Azure Damselfly (Coenagrion puella), but on the back and the thorax, the Common Blue Damselfly has more blue than black
for the Azure Damselfly it is the other way around. The second segment of the thorax has a distinctive spot with a line below connecting to the third segment.
Another difference can be observed when inspecting the side of the thorax. The Common Blue Damselfly has only one small black stripe there, while all other blue damselflies have two.
During mating, the male clasps the female by her neck while she bends her body around to his reproductive organs this is called a mating wheel. The pair flies together over the water and eggs are laid within a suitable plant, just below the surface.
The eggs hatch and the larvae, called nymphs, live in the water and feed on small aquatic animals. Nymphs climb out of the water up a suitable stem to moult into damselflies.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RTN -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HDJ6 - St Oswald's Church, is in the village of Winwick, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Warrington and the deanery of Winwick
A church at Winwick is recorded in the Domesday Book. The earliest parts of the present church are the bases of the north arcade which date from the early 13th century, and the walls of the Legh Chapel and the organ chamber which are dated 1330. The west tower was built in 1358, and the walls and north arcade of the nave (except for the Legh Chapel and the organ chamber) date from 1580. Much damage was done to the church in 1648 when Oliver Cromwell stationed his troops in the church after the Battle of Red Bank. The south porch was added in 1720, and the south arcade of the nave was rebuilt in 1836 reusing earlier stones. The chancel, sanctuary and vestry were rebuilt by Pugin in 184749 for the 13th Earl of Derby. The spire was rebuilt and the church was restored in 1869 by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin. On Thursday 13 January 1887, Titanic Captain Edward Smith married Sarah Eleanor Pennington in the church. In 193132 Henry Paley successor in the Lancaster architectural practice, now known as Austin and Paley, restored the tower at a cost of £463, and in 1934 he added a new vestry, porch and entrance at a cost of £232
The church is built of sandstone with a metal, stainless steel, roof. Its plan consists of a west tower, a nave of six bays with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chapel in the east bay of each aisle, a chancel and sanctuary of three bays, and a north vestry. The south chapel is the Legh Chapel and the north chapel belonged to the Gerard family. The tower is in three stages and has a recessed spire. On the west face is a door above which is a three-light window. On each side of the window are niches
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A9GHRB -
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4548365291 - 'Narcissus is the mainly spring flowering bulb that usually signals in Europe that warmer times are on the way. Daffodil or Daffy is the common english name used. In the west, the Narcissus flower is seen as a symbol of vanity, in China, the same flower is seen as a symbol of wealth and good fortune. Since the flower blooms in early spring, it has also become a symbol of Chinese New Year. Daffodil is the national flower of Wales. In Wales it is traditional to wear a daffodil or a leek on Saint David's Day. The welsh form of David is Dafydd, which sounds similar. However in welsh, the daffodil is known as Cenhinen Bedr (Peter's Leek), so go figure!
All Narcissus varieties contain the alkaloid poison lycorine, mostly in the bulb but also in the leaves. 'Daffodil itch' is a common dermatitis problems for florists. It is blamed on calcium oxalate exposure in the sap.
The yellow flowers always cheer me up and remind me that summer is not so far away!
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HDH5 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A9GHRE -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A9GHXJ - Pussy willow is a name given to many of the smaller species of the genus Salix (willows and sallows) when their furry catkins are young in early spring. These species include (among many others):
Goat willow or goat sallow (Salix caprea), a small tree native to northern Europe and northwest Asia.
Grey willow or grey sallow (Salix cinerea), a small tree native to northern Europe.
American pussy willow (Salix discolor), native to northern North America.
Before the male catkins of these species come into full flower they are covered in fine, greyish fur, leading to a fancied likeness to tiny cats, also known as pussies. The catkins appear long before the leaves, and are one of the earliest signs of spring. At other times of year trees of most of these species are usually known by their ordinary names.
The flowering shoots of pussy willow are used both in Europe and America for spring religious decoration on Palm Sunday, as a replacement for palm branches, which do not grow that far north.
Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox
Ruthenian, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Bavarian, and Austrian Roman Catholics
Finnish and Baltic Lutherans and Orthodox
and various other Eastern European peoples carry pussy willows on Palm Sunday instead of palm branches. This custom has continued to this day among Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Romanian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Ruthenian Catholic, Ukrainian Catholic, Kashubian Catholic and Polish Catholic émigrés to North America. Sometimes, on Palm Sunday they will bless both palms and pussy willows in church. The branches will often be preserved throughout the year in the family's icon corner.
Pussy willow also plays a prominent role in Polish Dyngus Day (Easter Monday) observances, continued also among Polish-Americans,especially in the Buffalo, New York, area.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A9GHXN - Pussy willow is a name given to many of the smaller species of the genus Salix (willows and sallows) when their furry catkins are young in early spring. These species include (among many others):
Goat willow or goat sallow (Salix caprea), a small tree native to northern Europe and northwest Asia.
Grey willow or grey sallow (Salix cinerea), a small tree native to northern Europe.
American pussy willow (Salix discolor), native to northern North America.
Before the male catkins of these species come into full flower they are covered in fine, greyish fur, leading to a fancied likeness to tiny cats, also known as pussies. The catkins appear long before the leaves, and are one of the earliest signs of spring. At other times of year trees of most of these species are usually known by their ordinary names.
The flowering shoots of pussy willow are used both in Europe and America for spring religious decoration on Palm Sunday, as a replacement for palm branches, which do not grow that far north.
Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox
Ruthenian, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Bavarian, and Austrian Roman Catholics
Finnish and Baltic Lutherans and Orthodox
and various other Eastern European peoples carry pussy willows on Palm Sunday instead of palm branches. This custom has continued to this day among Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Romanian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Ruthenian Catholic, Ukrainian Catholic, Kashubian Catholic and Polish Catholic émigrés to North America. Sometimes, on Palm Sunday they will bless both palms and pussy willows in church. The branches will often be preserved throughout the year in the family's icon corner.
Pussy willow also plays a prominent role in Polish Dyngus Day (Easter Monday) observances, continued also among Polish-Americans,especially in the Buffalo, New York, area.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HD8R - The Tulip is native to the old world, southern europe right across to China and central asia.
Plants are perennials from bulbs and typically have two to six leaves. The cup shaped flowers typically have three petals and three sepals, which are most often termed 'tepals' because they are nearly indestinguishable.
The flowers have six stamens (yellow here) and the overies are three lobed. How nature likes threes eh?
Europians were taken by the spring flowers. Around 1634 to 1637, the early enthusiasm for the new tulips triggered a speculative frenzy now known as the 'tulip mania'. The tulip bulbs were then considered a form of currency. Not so far away from our own times when the 'dot com' boom and sub-prime lending, confirms we have actually not come that far from those heady days of dutch speculators over 450 years ago.
My advice, 'Buy Tulips' :-)
Macro tubes have been used here with a 28-300mm lens to give a life size macro image.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4402166224 - 'A little bulb that signals together with all those white snowdrops that have appeared, that winter is at last on its way out and spring is coming (yeppppeeeee !!).
This is a plant that likes damp grassland and thin woodland, exactly here just outside Northwich, Cheshire, England UK where I stumbled upon these. I am not so sure how wild these are, but they dont appear to have any tending. The crocus is a hardy perennial and in Britain and east across europe they can usually fend for themselves. The plants grow from corms. The leaves are similar to grass.
Crocus are cultivated for spice saffron. It is taken from the stigmas of Crocus sativus, an autumn/fall-blooming species. In fact the genus and name 'Crocus' comes from old hebrew or persian words kurkum/kark\u014dm which mean 'yellow saffron'.
This was taken on macro mode. These plants are under a thumbs height.
Here, an extreme flower close-up macro from the summer www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3811362428/ - This might help us all think of warmer times !
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HG6TBJ - The safety pin is a variation of the regular pin which includes a simple spring mechanism and a clasp. The clasp serves two purposes: to form a closed loop thereby properly fastening the pin to whatever it is applied to, and to cover the end of the pin to protect the user from the sharp point.
Safety pins are commonly used to fasten pieces of fabric or clothing together. Safety pins, or more usually a special version with an extra safe cover, called a nappy pin, are widely used to fasten cloth diapers (nappies), as the safety clasp, while remaining ingestion hazard, prevents the baby from being jabbed. Similarly, they can be used to patch torn or damaged clothing. Safety pins can also be used as an accessory in jewelry, like earrings, chains, and wristbands. Sometimes they are used to attach an embroidered patch. Size 3 is often used in quilting and may be labelled for purchase as a quilting pin. Size 4 and larger may be called blanket pins and deemed acceptable as kilt pins for informal dress, depending upon design and appearance.
