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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Marks & Spencer,M&S,MS,food,Manchester,airport,arrival,arrivals terminal 2,retail,store
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F7JC7H - . Marks & Spencer M&S Food store in the arrivals area of Manchester Airport Terminal 2, Greater Manchester, England, UK. The airport retail unit provides food, snacks, drinks and convenience shopping for arriving passengers, people meeting travellers, airport staff and other terminal users. Marks & Spencer is one of Britain's best-known high street and food retail brands, and its Simply Food and foodhall formats have become familiar in transport locations including railway stations, motorway services and airports where customers often want ready meals, sandwiches, refreshments and essentials at short notice. The photograph records the relationship between major retail brands and modern airport infrastructure, where commercial concessions form an important part of the passenger experience and generate non-aeronautical income for airport operators. Manchester Airport is the main international gateway for northern England and Terminal 2 has undergone a major long-term transformation, with expanded passenger facilities, new retail and hospitality space and greater capacity for international airlines. This image is suitable for editorial coverage of M&S, Marks and Spencer, airport retailing, convenience food, travel retail, airport concessions, consumer spending, British retail brands, passenger services, holiday travel, tourism, terminal redevelopment and the economics of airports. It also has value as a contemporary record of how Terminal 2 looked in 2026, documenting store branding and the mix of everyday retail services available immediately after passengers leave baggage reclaim and customs. The scene can support future retrospective use if the retailer, concession, terminal layout or branding changes as Manchester Airport continues to modernise. It also illustrates grab-and-go retail, premium convenience food and the role of trusted high-street brands in busy transport hubs.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Hancock and Wood,final,retail,retailing,bricks and mortar,shopping,dept,department,store,stores,closing,closed,down,sale,Bridge Street,Warrington
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F4BG1P - . Hancock and Wood, final closing down sale, Bridge Street, Warrington. Photographed on 25 July 2026, 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. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Hancock and Wood, final, retail, retailing, bricks and mortar, shopping, dept, department, store, stores, closing, closed, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The retail context supports editorial themes around high streets, shopping centres, consumer behaviour, independent and chain businesses, store branding, commercial property, hospitality and the changing economics of town and city centres. Shopfronts, promotional material, prices, signage and surrounding public space can become valuable historical evidence as businesses close, rebrand, relocate or adapt to online competition and changing consumer demand. 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. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Hancock and Wood,final,retail,retailing,bricks and mortar,shopping,dept,department,store,stores,closing,closed,down,sale,Bridge Street,Warrington
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F4BG1Y - . Hancock and Wood, final closing down sale, Bridge Street, Warrington. Photographed on 25 July 2026, 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. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Hancock and Wood, final, retail, retailing, bricks and mortar, shopping, dept, department, store, stores, closing, closed, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The retail context supports editorial themes around high streets, shopping centres, consumer behaviour, independent and chain businesses, store branding, commercial property, hospitality and the changing economics of town and city centres. Shopfronts, promotional material, prices, signage and surrounding public space can become valuable historical evidence as businesses close, rebrand, relocate or adapt to online competition and changing consumer demand. 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. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A9737,Taylors,Furniture,Falkirk,FC,stadium,advertising,local,sponsor,sponsorship,Scottish,football,business,signage,matchday,commercial,partnership,store,editorial,documentary,2026,British,Britain,Europe,travel,community,architecture,streetscape,economy
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FCCT80 - . A large Taylor's Furniture Stores advertisement inside Falkirk Stadium highlights the close commercial relationship between local businesses and professional football clubs outside the richest elite. The sign promotes a Falkirk-area furniture retailer to supporters attending matches, using the stadium audience and repeated exposure of perimeter or stand advertising to build local brand recognition. Sponsorship income is particularly important to clubs such as Falkirk, where gate receipts, hospitality, commercial partnerships and community engagement all contribute to budgets that are modest compared with television-driven finances at the top of the game. The photograph therefore records not just an advert but part of the economic ecosystem surrounding Scottish football. In 2026 Falkirk's return to the Premiership increased attention on the club and its modern stadium, potentially making local sponsorship more visible to larger crowds and broadcast audiences. The image supports themes of sports marketing, regional business, local retail, football finance, stadium advertising and the way community identity links a club with companies trading in the same area. Beyond the immediate subject, the frame is valuable as a time-specific record of how this place looked in 2026. Relevant search and editorial concepts include football, soccer, matchday, supporters, stadium, non-league, Scottish football, English pyramid, club finance, local sponsorship, community sport, terraces. Useful descriptive vocabulary for archive discovery includes Taylors, Furniture, Falkirk, FC, stadium, advertising, local, sponsor, sponsorship, Scottish, football, business, signage, matchday, commercial, partnership, furniture, store. The image may be useful to picture editors seeking authentic North West or British context for features on community life, economic change, heritage, services and the evolving built environment.
Falkirk Stadium, 4 Stadium Way, Falkirk, Scotland, FK2 9EE, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_1342,Lidl,middle,aisle,clothing,accessories,promotional,goods,UK,supermarket,retailer,discount,non-food,shopping,consumer,spending,bargain,merchandising,footwear,rails,bins,offers,prices,retail,store,promotion,impulse,shelves
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ETN5D1 - . Lidl middle aisle with clothing, accessories and promotional goods in a UK supermarket. Photographed on 19 June 2026. The recorded location is United Kingdom. Large branded red and blue panels reading 'Don't miss out' hang over rails and bins filled with clothing, footwear, accessories and other temporary merchandise. The image illustrates the discount retailer's well-known rotating non-food offer, which uses short availability periods and prominent price-led promotions to encourage impulse buying. In relation to menswear, historical context shows that fashion objects combine personal taste with industrial production
Labels, stitching and fabric can reveal country of manufacture, retail positioning and the design language of a particular decade. For the story of home cooking, it is useful to note that food photographs are records of both taste and material culture
Ingredients, recipes, packaging and serving styles can date an era and show how regional traditions, convenience and international influences enter everyday diets. The historical setting for retail and leisure is that 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. As of 2026, the position for menswear is that formal office dress is less universal than it was in previous decades, giving vintage ties and traditional menswear additional relevance to stories about changing workplace culture, resale and retro fashion. For present-day home cooking, 2026 is significant because hospitality and food retail continue to adapt to higher costs, delivery platforms and evolving diets, making older restaurant and product photographs useful evidence of consumer trends. Additional natural-language search terms include silk tie, neckwear, male fashion, retro clothing, and fashion history.
United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,No 729,council,social,housing,doing good,store,stall,clothes,clothing,footwear,shoes,curtains,Southern Gate,729 Princess Road,M20 2LT,South Manchester,housing association,free,clothing store,household goods,resident support,tenant,support,welfare support,tenancy,sustainment,action,initiative,clothing bank,household essentials,furniture poverty,poverty prevention,low income families,social landlord,not for profit landlord,community-based housing provider,waiting lists
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ENF26E - Southway Housing's free clothing and household store for residents at Southern Gate, 729 Princess Road, Manchester, M20 2LT. The subject is useful for illustrating practical tenant support by a community-based housing association in South Manchester, including help for people on low incomes, social housing residents, council housing tenants, families setting up or sustaining a tenancy, people affected by the cost of living, and residents needing clothing, household goods or basic essentials. Southway Housing describes itself as a community-focused housing association with more than 6,500 homes across Greater Manchester, while its contact information gives Southern Gate on Princess Road as its office address. Manchester's local advice directory also describes Southway as a community-based provider and social enterprise working in and around South Manchester, with support and advice services to help tenants maintain tenancies, manage household bills and debts and access other agencies. This makes the image relevant to editorial features on social housing, charitable help, tenancy sustainment, welfare support, poverty prevention, household budgeting, resident engagement, neighbourhood services and practical community assistance. The location on Princess Road in Didsbury places the service within a busy South Manchester corridor, making it suitable for stories about local authority housing transfer legacy, housing association customer services, tenant hardship, reuse of donated goods, circular economy, community resilience and the role of landlords beyond rent collection and repairs. Keywords and captions can connect the image with wider themes such as food and fuel poverty, furniture poverty, clothing banks, cost-of-living pressure, anti-poverty support, resident wellbeing, sustainable reuse, public service partnerships and the everyday social value delivered by not-for-profit housing providers.
Southern Gate, 729 Princess Road, Manchester, M20 2LT.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,store,postoffice,post office,post offices,shopfront,former,shop,Lands Lane,Leeds,city,centre,British,retailer,bookseller,and,stationer,retail,metal,security shutter,blue,branding,shop fascia,shops,signage,city centre,West Yorkshire,shopping,UK retail industry,high street decline,struggling retail sector,bricks and mortar shopping,changing British high street,retail restructuring,shop closure crisis,traditional chain store,consumer spending slowdown,retail business challenges
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJ11YW - Entrance to the TGJones books, stationery and news retail store stands closed behind a lowered metal security shutter at 3“7 Lands Lane in Leeds city centre, West Yorkshire. The prominent blue fascia displays the TGJones name in large white lettering above the shopfront, while a curved window panel beside the entrance carries a Hello Leeds design and small graphics representing products and services associated with the retailer.
The shuttered doorway provides a clear editorial image of a closed British high street shop, although the photograph alone does not establish whether the premises were simply outside normal trading hours, temporarily inaccessible or affected by a longer-term closure. Recessed lights remain visible beneath the entrance canopy, while the red brick exterior forms part of the surrounding city-centre commercial streetscape.
TGJones is the name adopted by the former WHSmith high street retail operation after it was acquired by Modella Capital in 2025. The transaction covered the traditional town-centre, shopping-centre and retail-park business, while WHSmith retained its separate travel outlets at railway stations, airports, hospitals and motorway service areas. The new TGJones identity retained a familiar blue-and-white visual style while replacing one of the longest-established names on the British high street.
The Leeds branch sells the types of goods traditionally associated with the business, including books, magazines, newspapers, stationery, greeting cards, gifts and entertainment products. The transition from WHSmith to TGJones illustrates the continuing restructuring of established retail chains as businesses respond to changing consumer habits, internet competition, operating costs, reduced city-centre footfall and pressure on discretionary spending.
A closed and shuttered national chain store can be used editorially to illustrate British high street change, retail uncertainty, corporate rebranding, private equity ownership, busine
TGJones, 3""“7 Lands Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, LS1 6AW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A9028,NCP Parking Manchester Store Street,NCP,Parking,Manchester,Store,Street,England,transport,travel,passengers,public,infrastructure,commuting,mobility,service,urban
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EDKYFA - NCP Parking Manchester Store Street, photographed in England, UK. The photograph is suitable for editorial coverage of public transport, rail and tram services, passenger journeys, commuting, transport investment, infrastructure, travel technology and everyday mobility. The image clearly records the visible subject, signage, branding, architecture, object or activity associated with NCP Parking Manchester Store Street. 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.
England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,IMG_9840,Hive,Warrington,Ex,Co,Op,store,Cheshire
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E8E1HC - . The Hive Warrington - Ex-Co-Op store. Photographed on 3 April 2026. The recorded location is Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. The background to independent business is that local businesses offer unusually precise social-history evidence because names, branding and uses change more quickly than the buildings they occupy
A shop, café, pub or service company can disappear while the façade survives, leaving photographs as a record of the previous commercial life of the street. Within the history of neighbourhood, town and neighbourhood images record the accumulation of ordinary change: road layouts, shop names, signage, public art and building uses
Their value increases when compared over decades because apparently minor details can become the clearest evidence of transformation. In relation to public realm, historical context shows that major stations and high-rise offices are not static: entrances, retail units and public spaces are repeatedly remodelled as transport and commercial needs evolve. Current 2026 context around independent business is that independent and high-street businesses continue to face pressure from costs, online competition and changing consumer habits, while councils increasingly treat local commerce, food and leisure as part of town-centre regeneration. Against the 2026 backdrop for neighbourhood, current place-making policy increasingly emphasises distinctive local identity rather than generic development, so small landmarks and community businesses can become important parts of how an area is represented. Relevant alternative phrases include high street, commercial premises, shopfront, town centre, local economy, business signage, retail and leisure, commercial history, small business, local services, business premises, urban commerce, community asset, local history, place identity, and townscape. Useful alternative terminology includes streetscape, community history, local landmark, urban change, and local character.
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A9160,Manchester,Selfridges,department,store,retail,shopping,architecture,city,centre
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E54RKJ - . Selfridges department store exterior in Manchester city centre. Photographed on 21 March 2026. The recorded location is Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK. The historical setting for local services is that commercial premises are part of everyday local history
Even businesses without national fame can become important reference points for residents and researchers once ownership changes or redevelopment alters the street. Seen through urban commerce, the earlier context is that markets and shops are direct records of changing consumer life
Trader names, fascias, product displays and market-hall directories can date a town-centre scene precisely and preserve independent businesses that may later close or relocate. In the 2026 discussion of local services, independent and high-street businesses continue to face pressure from costs, online competition and changing consumer habits, while councils increasingly treat local commerce, food and leisure as part of town-centre regeneration. The 2026 relevance of urban commerce comes from the fact that high streets continue to change rapidly , with vacancies, redevelopment and food-led destinations altering the balance between retail and leisure
Earlier photographs of traders and shopfronts provide useful evidence of business turnover and changing commercial character. Additional high-relevance terminology includes local business, town centre, local economy, business signage, commercial history, small business, business premises, community asset, retail premises, independent retailer, market hall, consumer culture, commercial property, and shopping district. Other strongly related concepts include retail history, market trader, 255A9160, shopping, and architecture. In 2026, town centre remains relevant because current interest in community assets and place-making gives photographs of individual businesses added significance when premises close, rebrand or are converted to new uses.
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,centre,Merseyside,England,UK,tourist,summer,sunny,L1,sign,signs,branding,store,shop,stores,chain,shops,profit,performance,51-53,GB,British,L1 1DE,chains,English,retailer,retailers,Maxx Maxx,corner,TK,Maxx,company,losses,parents,turnover
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RJAFFJ - TK Maxx is a subsidiary of the American apparel and home goods company TJX Companies. The stores operate throughout the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands, totalling 629 stores in Europe (up from 515 in April 2017) and 56 in Australia in May 2020. In Poland, there are a total of 44 stores. The chain uses a slightly different name from that of the TJ Maxx stores in the United States, to avoid confusion with the British retailer T. J. Hughes
In 1976, TJ Maxx was founded in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States, by Bernard Cammarata. The first international store opened in Bristol, UK, in 1994. The company modified the name to TK Maxx to avoid confusion with the established British retail chain T. J. Hughes (which is not affiliated with TJX).
In 2007, TK Maxx began winding down new store openings within the United Kingdom. Focus was given to revamping older inner city stores, or relocating them. This decision led to the creation of Maxx Maxx, moving from a budget reputation into a large department store format with a wider product range
51-53 Church St, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1DE
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Keywords: town,centre,WA1,Cheshire,England,English,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warringtons,Centre,school,uniform,50-54,50,your,one stop,store,stores,shop,shops,shopping,cost,costs,unaffordable,afford,retailer,problem,issue,sportswear,grammar,comprehensive,primary,schools,area,WA1 2NN
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RHH6HN - Taken on 15 Aug 2023, this photograph shows Warringtons Schoolwear Centre - Alpha school wear , 50-54 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2NN. The location is 50-54 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2NN. 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. It would suit editorial use on shopping, retail change, independent traders, high-street survival, tourism, local economies, consumer habits and the visual identity of British town and city centres. 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 Alpha schoolwear, Buttermarket Street, Warringtons Schoolwear Centre, Warrington Schoolwear Centre, Alpha school wear, retail, Warrington, Schoolwear, uniforms, Buttermarket St, 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. The photograph should appeal to buyers looking for a grounded visual that says more than a studio icon, because it ties the subject to a real street, building, object or public setting. Further SEO-friendly usage could include local services, town-centre change,heritage branding, British social history, public infrastructure
50-54 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2NN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,small,store,retail,Northwich,colourful wooden sign,reuse,and,recycling,creative,retail sign,small business UK,business,on,a,wall,Tabley Street Northwich,CW9 5DP,hand painted sign,reclaimed wood sign,charity shop style,preloved goods,vintage retro shop,vinyl records for sale,house clearance items,furniture and clothing shop,independent retailer,high street decline,reuse economy,sustainable shopping,brick wall exterior,documentary photography,CW9,secondhand
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2REGJ65 - A brightly coloured, hand-painted wooden sign mounted on a brick wall outside Leon's Store on Tabley Street in Northwich, Cheshire. The sign lists a wide range of goods including used furniture, clothing, house clearances, pre-loved furnishings, vintage and retro items, toys, games and vinyl records, reflecting the eclectic nature of independent second-hand retail.
The informal, recycled appearance of the sign, with individual painted wooden slats in different colours, conveys a do-it-yourself aesthetic often associated with small independent shops and reuse-based businesses. Such retailers play an important role in town centres like Northwich, combining affordability, sustainability and local character at a time when many UK high streets face pressure from vacancy and chain-store dominance.
Photographed in daylight, the image documents everyday independent retail culture in a provincial English town. It is suitable for editorial use relating to high-street change, small businesses, sustainability, reuse economies, and contemporary British town-centre life. Visible Text (fully analysed)
LEONS STORE
Used furniture
Clothing
House clearances
Pre-loved furnishings
House bedding plants
Vintage retro
Vintage toys + games
Telephone number visible
VINYL
- All text appears hand-painted on individual wooden boards.
Leon's Store, Tabley Street, Northwich, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom , CW9 5DP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,St Helens,town,centre,Merseyside,Bargain,buys,WA10,29,WA10 2JZ,shop,shopping,store,stores,low,cost,price,singleprice,single price,poundland,savings,thrifty,closed,pound shop format,format,clearance,unit,outlet,outlets,out of town,retail park,retailpark
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RF3EWN - . Bargain Buys, closed low cost store - 29 King Street, St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK, WA10 2JZ. Photographed on 4 July 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 29 King Street, St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK, WA10 2JZ, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include St Helens, Merseyside, Bargain, buys, WA10, WA10 2JZ, shop, shopping, store, stores, low, cost, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The retail context supports editorial themes around high streets, shopping centres, consumer behaviour, independent and chain businesses, store branding, commercial property, hospitality and the changing economics of town and city centres. Shopfronts, promotional material, prices, signage and surrounding public space can become valuable historical evidence as businesses close, rebrand, relocate or adapt to online competition and changing consumer demand. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene. The photograph can also support future before-and-after use if the building, business, service, streetscape, transport operation or public space is later altered, redeveloped, rebranded or closed.
29 King Street, St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK, WA10 2JZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,NI,Northern Ireland,UK,centre,Miss Morans,shop,store,shops,6,BT1 4QN,BT1,traditional,history,historic,cigars,cigarettes,product,products,Miss,Moran,Ltd,addiction,addictions,cities,city,cigar,loose,shag,old,ol fashioned,classic,pipe,pipes,tourism,tourist,destination
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ33G - . Miss Morans - 6 Church Ln, Belfast, NI, BT1 4QN. Photographed on 24 June 2023, this summer image stock-photo/gotonysmith-Record.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>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 6 Church Ln, Belfast, NI, BT1 4QN, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Northern Ireland, Miss Morans, shop, store, shops, BT1 4QN, BT1, traditional, history, historic, cigars, cigarettes, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. Architecturally, the scene records the form, materials, scale and public-facing character of the built environment, making it useful for coverage of design, planning, conservation, development and urban identity. The image has value for architectural and place-based research because buildings and interiors can be refurbished, repurposed, demolished or substantially altered, while streets and public spaces also evolve. The religious or ecclesiastical setting gives the photograph relevance to faith, worship, sacred architecture, stained glass, church heritage, tourism and the conservation of historic interiors and buildings. It can illustrate the continuing cultural role of churches and cathedrals as places of worship, community activity, music, remembrance and architectural interest. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison. It is a useful stock image for publishers, researchers and picture editors seeking a clearly identified contemporary record of the subject and location.
6 Church Ln, Belfast, NI, BT1 4QN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,WA7,53a,Halton,Cheshire,England,UK,WA7 4BH,operations,centre,charity,poverty,in,area,local churches,church,food,poor,people,hit,by,inflation,increased,increasing,costs,local,community,warehouse,store,polling station,local elections,election,Halton council,donate,tinned,dry,goods,Western Point
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PYTG21 - . Runcorn and district foodbank, operations centre, 53a Russell Rd, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 4BH. Photographed on 4 May 2023, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is 53a Russell Rd, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 4BH, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include WA7, 53a, Halton, Cheshire, WA7 4BH, operations, charity, poverty, area, local churches, church, food, 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.
53a Russell Rd, Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 4BH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,terminal,England,UK,airport,transport,M90 1QX,infrastructure,airports,A,Royal,Celebration,coronation,150g,for,at,£11.99,shop,store,dutyfree,20% off,heirloom,Shortbread Tin,of,souvenir,150grams,English,monarchy,Scotland,grams,potential,gift,special-edition,Royal Deeside,King Charles III,tourist,butter,collectors
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PYBH6K - . A Royal Celebration shortbread 150g at £11.99, Manchester International Airport, England, UK, M90 1QX. Photographed on 27 April 2023, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Manchester Airport, England, UK, M90 1QX, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include terminal, airport, transport, M90 1QX, infrastructure, airports, Royal, Celebration, coronation, 150g, £11.99, shop, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. 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. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene. The photograph can also support future before-and-after use if the building, business, service, streetscape, transport operation or public space is later altered, redeveloped, rebranded or closed. The scene contributes a specific, place-based record rather than a generic illustration.
Manchester Airport, England, UK, M90 1QX
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Keywords: Iceland Home Delivery,Free,Delivery,store,stores,market share,Dukes Drive,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,7,Milton Keynes,MK2 2QG,shop,retail,home,chain,cheap,prices,performance,frozen,grocery,MK2,Units,5,Buckinghamshire,front,entrance,outside,exterior,the,trademark,Bonus Card,loyalty card,freezer,wide,pano,shelves
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PG92TN - Iceland, officially Iceland Foods Ltd, is a British supermarket chain headquartered in Deeside, Wales. It mainly sells frozen foods, including prepared meals and vegetables, alongside non-frozen grocery items such as produce, meat, dairy and dry goods. The company also operates a chain of shops called The Food Warehouse.
Iceland Foods began business in 1970, when Malcolm Walker opened the first store in Leg Street, Oswestry, Shropshire, England, with his business partner Peter Hinchcliffe. Together, they invested £60 for one month's rent at the store. They were still employees of Woolworths at the time, and their employment was terminated once their employer discovered their other roles. Iceland Foods initially specialised in loose frozen food. In 1977, they opened a store in Manchester selling own-labelled packaged food, and by 1978 the company had 28 stores.
In 1983, the business grew by purchasing the 18 stores of Bristol-based St. Catherine's Freezer Centres, and in 1984 the business went public for the first time. The cash investment was used to purchase South East-based Orchard Frozen Foods in 1986, and the purchase of larger rival Bejam in 1988. In 1993, the firm took over the food halls of the Littlewoods department store and also acquired the French Au Gel chain. This last move proved unsuccessful and the stores were dropped within a year
In 2019, Iceland Foods opened 45 new stores in the UK (including 31 larger stores under The Food Warehouse fascia) but had also closed eight, increasing the number of UK stores to 942. The company has a strategic alliance with The Range, where Iceland's food offer has been introduced to nine of the home and garden retailer's stores. In 2019 it also expanded its warehousing locations, adding five multi-temperature regional distribution centres at Livingston, Warrington, Deeside, Enfield and Swindon
Unit 5-7 Dukes Dr, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK, MK2 2QG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Mainz,city,Germany,orange,blue,slide,transparency,negative,35mm,6x6,shop,store,old,heritage,branding,company,display,signs,recognisable,at,photographers,city centre,developer,development,Consumer Imaging division,German,Schillerpl. 18a,55116 Mainz,wedding,weddings,photographer,in,the,wall,side,studio
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RKGH52 - Are you looking for a photographer in Mainz, Wiesbaden or Frankfurt? We are there for you with vivid and emotional pictures!
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Schillerpl. 18a, 55116 Mainz , Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,town,centre,WA1,this,store,is,WA1 2QQ,and,transferred,to,Sainsburys,Sainsbury,17,Shopping,Park,outlet,at,retailer,supermarket,chain,of,franchised,overseas,Green Shield,printed,catalogue,small pens,online,moved,outlets,sign,warning,closing,Swift Partners
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NCX1XM - Argos Limited, trading as Argos, is a catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, acquired by Sainsbury's supermarket chain in 2016. It was established in November 1972 and is named after the Greek city of Argos. The company trades both through physical shops and online, with 29 million yearly shop customers, and nearly a billion online visitors per annum.[2] It has also franchised overseas to countries such as China
The company was founded by Richard Tompkins who had previously established Green Shield Stamps in the United Kingdom. He came up with the idea that people could purchase goods from his Green Shield Gift House with cash rather than savings stamps. He rebranded the original Green Shield Stamps catalogue shops as Argos beginning in July 1973
In April 2016, Argos' parent Home Retail Group agreed to a £1.4 billion takeover by Sainsbury's
On 5 November 2020, Sainsbury's announced that it would close 420 Argos standalone outlets by March 2024, leaving about 100
with other measures 3,500 Sainsbury's jobs were to be cut and £600m saved.
120 standalone Argos stores permanently closed and moved into the nearest Sainsbury's store. The measures were reported to be due to changing consumer habits and the growth of online shopping.[12]
On 19 January 2023, it was announced that Argos would cease its operations in Ireland, including both its online business and its and physical shops, by 24 June 2023
17 Cockhedge Way, Cockhedge Shopping Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2QQ
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,midlands,England,UK,store,stores,baker,bakers,shops,windows,Midlands,painted,sign,confectioners,confectioner,and,chocolate,shop,Fry,BCLM,1930,1930s,Joseph Storrs Fry,fry,frys,Frys Chocolate Cream,Bristol,JS Fry,cocoa,bar,bars,confectionary,history,historic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NAWF81 - J. S. Fry & Sons, Ltd., better known as Fry's, was a British chocolate company owned by Joseph Storrs Fry and his family. Beginning in Bristol in the 18th century, the business went through several changes of name and ownership, becoming J. S. Fry & Sons in 1822. In 1847, Fry's produced the first solid chocolate bar. The company also created the first filled chocolate sweet, Cream Sticks, in 1853. Fry is most famous for Fry's Chocolate Cream, the first mass-produced chocolate bar, which was launched in 1866, and Fry's Turkish Delight, launched in 1914.
Fry, alongside Cadbury and Rowntree's, was one of the big three British confectionery manufacturers throughout much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and all three companies were founded by Quakers. The company became a division of Cadbury in the early twentieth century. The division's Somerdale Factory near Bristol was closed after the 2010 takeover of Cadbury's by Kraft Foods Inc
Black Country, West Midlands, England, UK
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4,WA4 2SU,south,signs,signage,parcel,savings,annuity,bond,bonds,savings bank,postal order,GPO,insurance,and,business,architecture,village,Bell Lane,Thelwall,South Warrington,GB,Great Britain,British,old,the,shop,store,PL Greenway,grocer and provision dealer,Greenway,ward
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M9F1J0 - The post office and the village shop were at the heart of Thelwall life in the mid 1950s. The public telephone box outside the post office reflects an era before mobile phones became commonplace, The right-hand shop window would have been from P L Greenway, 'grocer and provision dealer', thi swould have been typical of the small general store which proceeded the supermarket age.
Childhood memory from Richard Oxley: The post office door had an actual brass bell fitted to it, on entering if the post master was in the back their parrot used to scream 'Wipe your feet' followed by 'No stamps today'
Adjacent Telephone kiosk. Type K6. Designed 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Made
by various contractors. Cast iron. Square kiosk with domed roof. Unperforated
crowns to top panels and margin glazing to windows and door.
Listing NGR: SJ6519087551
Bell Lane, Thelwall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2SU
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,UK,Warrington,Cheshire,England,store,Golden Square,WA1,band,used,vintage,pre-loved,secondhand,second-hand,irony,ironic,old,1970,1960s,art,artwork,home,95,The Mall,WA1 1QE,dubious,bad taste,Kitsch,JH Lynch,Joseph Henry Lynch,British,70s,80s,kitsch,copies,cheap,wall,prints
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M3JBA9 - . This authentic period view of 95, The Mall, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QE in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The principal subject is Old 1970s mass-produced paintings , in bad taste, for irony, in the Vintage Viola shop, Warrington Golden Square, England. Other connected aspects include regional identity, customer footfall, changing streetscape, historical comparison, changing land use, specialist retailer, before-and-after reference, local character, high-street commerce, bricks-and-mortar retail, period detail, street-level business, archival record, and small business. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into commercial rents and town-centre regeneration, not least because of how commercial property costs affect small retailers. Future viewers can use this scene from 95, The Mall, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QE to compare street furniture and boundaries with whatever follows after redevelopment. The location also brings in commercial frontage, social history, specialist shop, visual archive, contemporary social history, shopfront economy, everyday life, and town-centre trading. The combination of irony, Vintage, paintings, Golden, and Viola anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. For 95, The Mall, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QE, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another useful connection is commercial rents and how commercial property costs affect small retailers within the specific setting of 95, The Mall, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QE. The scene captures evidence of earlier appearance as part of 95, The Mall, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QE's history.
95, The Mall, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,city,centre,Yorkshire,England,UK,YO1,York,North Yorkshire,YO1 8AW,of,front,store,outside,external,branch,37,historic,building,exterior,history,town centre,city centre,stores,retailing,niche,quaint,style,heritage,Victorian,window,windows,frontage,entrance
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KF7FBC - Stonegate is a street in the city centre of York, in England, one of the streets most visited by tourists. Most of the buildings along the street are listed, meaning they are of national importance due to their architecture or history
The street roughly follows the line of the via praetoria of Eboracum, the Roman city, which ran between what are now St Helen's Square and York Minster.
The street appears to have lost importance in the Anglian and Jorvik period. York Minster was rebuilt in the 11th century, and stone for it was brought up the road, from a quay behind what is now York Guildhall. This appears to have brought the street back to prominence, and new building plots were laid adjoining the north-eastern part of the street. This part of the street lay in the Liberty of St Peter's, associated with the Minster, and many of its buildings belonged to the church, the whole area soon becoming built up, mostly with tenements. By 1215, there were houses for the prebends of Ampleforth, Barnby, Bramham and North Newbald
The street was known as Stonegate by 1119, probably named for stone paving, which would have been unique in the city at the time, although an alternative theory links the name to the stone hauled up to the Minster.
Because of the location of the street, it has historically been used for civic processions, from the York Guildhall to the Minster. It was also the site where three of the historic York Mystery Plays were performed. In 1570, Guy Fawkes was born at a house on the street.
Nikolaus Pevsner described the street as perhaps the most attractive [street in the city], and one of the busiest. Narrow, quite long, and with a variety of good things. Due to its popularity with tourists, the street was pedestrianised in 1974. It was repaved in York stone in 2020
Most of the buildings along the street are listed. Among the most notable on the north-west side are numbers 54, 56, and 58 Stonegate, 14th-century timber-framed buildings
the 12th-centur
37 Stonegate, York, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO1 8AW
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,city,centre,Yorkshire,England,UK,YO1 8AN,49,York,city centre,North Yorkshire,store,retail,Historic,history,entrance,at,blue,gold,Guildhall,listed,Grade II,464842,101256491,historic city,historic,No 49,No49,column,columns,door,exterior,outside,ornate,golden
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KF7FBF - Formerly known as: No.30 STONEGATE.
House and shop
now shop and offices. Early C17, extended in
early C18
refronted and roof altered in early C19
later C19
shopfront. Timber-framed, fronted in orange-grey brick in
Flemish bond
shopfront partly cast-iron
timber cornice to
pantile roof, hipped in front of original gable.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic
1-window front, with jettied
first floor. Shopfront framed in partly fluted Ionic pilasters
beneath sloped fascia with mask stops incorporating wording
'HENRY HARDCASTLE estab'd 1770: No.49 Stonegate'. Double doors
of shaped panels beneath panelled lintel on scroll brackets to
right of shallow canted bay window, both beneath diamond
lattice overlights. First floor has bow window with tripled
12-pane sash windows: on second floor, single bowed 16-pane
sash window. Moulded and modillioned eaves cornice, returned
at both ends.
INTERIOR: ground floor shop partly lined with reset C17
panelling, some carved. Staircase with moulded close string,
turned balusters, square newels with attached half balusters
and ramped handrail rises from ground to second floor. First
floor landing: reglazed small-pane sash window in round-arched
moulded surround
moulded round arch on moulded imposts leads
to front rooms. Beams in front rooms decorated with plaster
fruit and floral trails. A number of C17 panelled doors
survive, some on butterfly hinges.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 235).
49 Stonegate York city centre, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO1 8AN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,M11,clothing,Store,England,UK,M11 2NN,east,2022,logo,profits,profitability,downturn,clothes,front,shopfront,high street,high st,storefront,warehouse,British,fashion,homeware,retailer,John Hargreaves,Jason Hargreaves,source,Rana Plaza factory,Bangladesh,made,vietnam,labour rights,campaign,Matalan Retail Limited,Missouri Topco Limited,Steve Johnson
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K7NBGX - Matalan is a British fashion and homeware retailer based in Knowsley, Merseyside. It was established by John Hargreaves in 1985, and is still owned by the Hargreaves family. As of 2020, the company employed over 13,000, and had 230 stores in the United Kingdom, together with franchise stores in the Middle East.
John Hargreaves opened the first Matalan store in 1985 at Bamber Bridge, near Preston, Lancashire. There were fifty stores by 1995, and in 1997, the company moved its headquarters from Preston to Skelmersdale, also in Lancashire. The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1998, but taken private again by the Hargreaves family in October 2006.
During 2009, John Hargreaves sought to sell off Matalan, but by February 2010, had failed to find buyers willing to meet the £1.5 billion price.[4] Jason Hargreaves was appointed managing director in July 2013. The headquarters moved to a purpose built site at Knowsley, Merseyside in 2014. The company won approval for this scheme in October 2012.
Controversy
Matalan was among the companies who sourced clothes from the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh which collapsed, killing 1,134, in April 2013. In July 2014, they were the focus of a campaign by 38 Degrees and Labour Behind the Label, for failing to contribute to the official compensation fund coordinated by the ILO. This was in contrast to some of their main competitors, such as Primark who contributed $9 million.
After pressure, they announced that they would contribute an undisclosed amount. It was later revealed that they had paid £60,000 into the fund, which labour rights campaigns challenged as being an insufficient amount compared with other retailers.
Structure
Matalan Retail Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Missouri Topco Limited, a holding company which is based in Guernsey, and is controlled by the Hargreaves family.
In the Middle East, the Matalan brand is franchised to BTC Fashion General Trading, based in Qatar. BTC have stores in
Ashton Old Rd, Openshaw, Greater Manchester, England, UK, M11 2NN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,North Yorkshire,Yorkshire,England,UK,Filey,coast,coastal,store,material,woollen,supplies,patterns,display,hobby,35,supply,stuffed,colorful,hobbies,Belle Vue St,of,stories,handicrafts,yarn,balls,wool shop,craft,pattern,YO14 9HU,knitter,knitting,knit,ball,sirdar,shop,handicraft,colourful
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RD23YJ - . Balls of knitting wool, in The Beachcomber shop in Filey, North Yorkshire, England, UK,. Photographed on 25 September 2022, this autumn 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 35, Belle Vue St, Filey, Yorkshire, YO14 9HU, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Filey, coast, coastal, store, material, woollen, supplies, patterns, display, hobby, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The retail context supports editorial themes around high streets, shopping centres, consumer behaviour, independent and chain businesses, store branding, commercial property, hospitality and the changing economics of town and city centres. Shopfronts, promotional material, prices, signage and surrounding public space can become valuable historical evidence as businesses close, rebrand, relocate or adapt to online competition and changing consumer demand. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene. The photograph can also support future before-and-after use if the building, business, service, streetscape, transport operation or public space is later altered, redeveloped, rebranded or closed.
35, Belle Vue St, Filey, Yorkshire, YO14 9HU
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,North Yorkshire,Yorkshire,England,UK,35,cotton,coloured,colour,color,reels,reel,in,the,Beachcomber,store,stores,shop,mix,pile,shelf,colours,thread,threads,spool,bobbin,bobbins,spools,bar,coded,standard,standardised,material,materials,fibre,fibres
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RD23YX - . Cotton coloured reels in The Beachcomber shop in Filey, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO14 9HU. Photographed on 25 September 2022, this autumn 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 35, Belle Vue St, Filey, Yorkshire, YO14 9HU, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, cotton, coloured, colour, color, reels, reel, Beachcomber, store, stores, shop, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The retail context supports editorial themes around high streets, shopping centres, consumer behaviour, independent and chain businesses, store branding, commercial property, hospitality and the changing economics of town and city centres. Shopfronts, promotional material, prices, signage and surrounding public space can become valuable historical evidence as businesses close, rebrand, relocate or adapt to online competition and changing consumer demand. Industrial subject matter gives the image strong relevance to manufacturing, engineering, energy, utilities, machinery, skilled work and Britain's industrial heritage. The photograph can support stories about technological change, preservation, infrastructure, deindustrialisation, redevelopment and the reuse of former working sites for culture, housing, tourism or new commercial purposes. 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.
35, Belle Vue St, Filey, Yorkshire, YO14 9HU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Beatles,The Beatles,tour,Liverpool,Merseyside,L15 5AF,the,junk,business,named,name,taking,businesses,Penny Lane businesses,signs,sign,front,shopfront,shopfronts,The Substation,emporium,antiques,antique,red,using,shop,shops,stores,store,first,floor
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0KDNA - Penny Lane is a road in the south Liverpool suburb of Mossley Hill. The name also applies to the area surrounding its junction with Smithdown Road and Allerton Road, and to the roundabout at Smithdown Place that was the location for a major bus terminus, originally an important tram junction of Liverpool Corporation Tramways. The roundabout was a frequent stopping place for John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison during their years as schoolchildren and students. Bus journeys via Penny Lane and the area itself subsequently became familiar elements in the early years of the Lennon“McCartney songwriting partnership. In 2009, McCartney reflected:
Penny Lane was kind of nostalgic, but it was really [about] a place that John and I knew ... I'd get a bus to his house and I'd have to change at Penny Lane, or the same with him to me, so we often hung out at that terminus, like a roundabout. It was a place that we both knew, and so we both knew the things that turned up in the story.
Lennon's original lyrics for In My Life had included a reference to Penny Lane. Soon after the Beatles recorded In My Life in October 1965, McCartney mentioned to an interviewer that he wanted to write a song about Penny Lane. A year later, he was spurred to write the song once presented with Lennon's Strawberry Fields Forever. McCartney also cited Dylan Thomas's nostalgic poem Fern Hill as an inspiration for Penny Lane. Lennon co-wrote the lyrics with McCartney. He recalled in a 1970 interview: The bank was there, and that was where the trams sheds were and people waiting and the inspector stood there, the fire engines were down there. It was reliving childhood
Penny Lane, Moseley Hill, South Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 1DE
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,shop,store,centre,stalls,music,England,UK,M4 1PW,M4,indoor,NQ4,ice cream,icecream,vegan,diary,1st floor,Afflecks,palace,Manc,Manchester City centre,Mancunian,trendy,funky,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions,Affleck,market,vintage,unit,units,history,historic,heritage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR68 - . This dated editorial view of 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The frame specifically shows Gingers Comfort Emporium, 1st floor, Afflecks Palace , 52 Church St, Manchester , England, UK, M4 1PW. The locality and subject together evoke place identity, local history, everyday life, period detail, church interior, liturgical art, contemporary social history, archival record, independent trading, street-level business, ecclesiastical art, historic church fabric, Christian iconography, and commercial streetscape. The wider contemporary story combines online shopping, consumer spending and how physical retail adapts to online competition. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with faith communities, heritage conservation and how places of worship combine active faith use with heritage and tourism. The image fixes signage and branding within 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against replacement signage. A second descriptive layer includes mixed-use town centre, changing streetscape, documentary photography, retail property, historical comparison, before-and-after reference, local enterprise, and town-centre economy. The recorded references to Afflecks, Gingers, floor, Church, and Comfort preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. A further contemporary connection is online shopping and how physical retail adapts to online competition within the real-world context of 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW. The image fixes details of everyday use as a date-specific reference.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,shop,store,centre,stalls,music,England,UK,M4 1PW,M4,indoor,NQ4,MCRwall,art,Afflecks,palace,Manc,Manchester City centre,Mancunian,trendy,funky,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions,Affleck,market,vintage,unit,units,history,historic,heritage,memorabilia
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR69 - . An on-location photograph from 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The location is represented through Afflecks #MCRwall artwork for sale,Afflecks Palace , 52 Church St, Manchester , England, UK, M4 1PW. The image also relates to visual archive, archival record, social history, ecclesiastical craftsmanship, everyday life, destination shopping, high-street commerce, independent trading, retail property, consumer retail, religious heritage, sacred decoration, community identity, and local enterprise. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into brand consolidation and business rates, not least because of how physical retail adapts to online competition. Today's relevance is strengthened by visitor tourism, church maintenance and the continuing question of the conservation challenge of historic interiors and artwork. Future viewers can use this scene from 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW to compare period objects and surrounding context with whatever follows after new ownership. The photograph additionally reflects local character, bricks-and-mortar retail, commercial streetscape, regional identity, local history, sacred architecture, church interior, and mixed-use town centre. Elements such as artwork, Manchester, Afflecks, Palace, and MCRwall add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. Around 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The wider significance includes brand consolidation and the role of markets and independent shops in keeping town centres active in a form that can be compared with future views of 52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,M4,Manchester,England,UK,M4 3AH,indoor market,city,centre,retail,shop,store,stalls,vegetables,fruit,and,&,veg,stall,in,the,fruits,greens,vegetarian,eggs,seasonal,markets,small,retailers,community,urban,welcoming,bargain,bargains
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR81 - . This authentic period view of 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The scene records Manchester Arndale centre, Strawberry Garden fruit & veg stall in the indoor market, 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH. Other connected aspects include mixed-use redevelopment, commercial streetscape, regional identity, mixed-use town centre, public-realm investment, period architecture, archival record, place identity, heritage-led regeneration, place-making, adaptive reuse, high-street commerce, shopfront economy, and local enterprise. For current editorial use, commercial rents and store closures provide additional context, especially through how physical retail adapts to online competition. Current relevance extends to construction costs and town-centre regeneration, particularly through the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. The archival value lies partly in recording period objects and surrounding context around 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH before later reinterpretation alters the character of the place. The surrounding story also includes architectural character, contemporary social history, historic townscape, civic architecture, historical comparison, town-centre renewal, visual archive, and bricks-and-mortar retail. References to fruit, Strawberry, stall, Arndale, and centre give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. A further contemporary connection is commercial rents and how physical retail adapts to online competition within the real-world context of 49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH.
49 High St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 3AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Blackpool,Lancs,Lancashire,England,UK,swear,rude,rock,store,resort,promenade,rudely,on sale,in,sweet,sweets,top shelf,Trading standards,officers,lewd,traders,The stud,my slave,Old Slapper,Fuck off,Fuck you,you slut,up yours,mother fucker,suck my dick,swearing,swearer,lower class,working class,adult
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRM3Y0 - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The image documents Sweary sugar sweet rock, on sale in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. The setting additionally reflects commercial streetscape, consumer retail, visual archive, contemporary social history, high-street commerce, commercial frontage, everyday life, archival record, local enterprise, destination shopping, mixed-use town centre, regional identity, local history, and bricks-and-mortar retail. Today's relevance is strengthened by brand consolidation, consumer spending and the continuing question of how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets. Small period details of local activity and public use at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK may become more significant with time, particularly following conservation work. The wider setting retains connections with street-level business, independent trading, retail property, before-and-after reference, customer footfall, historical comparison, place identity, and changing streetscape. The recorded references to sugar, Sweary, sweet, Lancashire, and Blackpool preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes brand consolidation and how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets without losing the local specificity of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. Another strand within the photograph is business rates and the role of markets and independent shops in keeping town centres active in a form that can be compared with future views of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK.
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Blackpool,Lancs,Lancashire,England,UK,swear,rude,rock,store,resort,promenade,rudely,on sale,in,sweet,sweets,top shelf,Trading standards,officers,lewd,traders,You,bitch,cock sucker,such on this,tosser,lazy bastard,asshole,big boy,bite me,suck me,lick me,sex maniac,porno,pornographic,adult
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRM40F - . This location-specific image from Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK in 2022 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. At the centre of the view is Sweary sugar sweet rock, on sale in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. The image also relates to retail property, social history, shopfront economy, historical comparison, changing streetscape, community identity, town-centre economy, changing land use, customer footfall, public realm, bricks-and-mortar retail, consumer retail, everyday life, and commercial streetscape. For current editorial use, brand consolidation and commercial rents provide additional context, especially through how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets. For later comparison, the photograph preserves building condition and alterations at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, details that may look very different after replacement signage. The wider setting retains connections with commercial frontage, destination shopping, street-level business, before-and-after reference, documentary photography, local history, independent trading, and mixed-use town centre. Elements such as Blackpool, sugar, Lancashire, Sweary, and sweet add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. Around Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. A further contemporary connection is brand consolidation and how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets as part of the longer story of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. The wider significance includes brand consolidation and the role of markets and independent shops in keeping town centres active when considered against later change at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK.
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Blackpool,Lancs,Lancashire,England,UK,swear,rude,rock,store,resort,promenade,rudely,in,sweet,sweets,top shelf,Trading standards,officers,lewd,traders,My Nympho,Old slapper,Slaphead,wanker,fuck you,lazy bastard,sex maniac,cunt,cock sucker,fat bastard,you plonker,dickhead,dick head,twat,Big Tits,sex bomb,adult,positions
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRM40W - . An identifiable period record of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. At the centre of the view is Sweary sugar sweet rock, on sale in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. The image also relates to regional identity, bricks-and-mortar retail, changing land use, local enterprise, commercial streetscape, destination shopping, community identity, independent trading, commercial frontage, local character, retail property, high-street commerce, mixed-use town centre, and archival record. Current relevance extends to changing footfall and store closures, particularly through how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets. Future viewers can use this scene from Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK to compare materials and architectural details with whatever follows after conservation work. Other useful contextual ideas include contemporary social history, before-and-after reference, period detail, social history, street-level business, everyday life, town-centre economy, and changing streetscape. The combination of sweet, Sweary, Lancashire, sugar, and Blackpool anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The period setting at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The image also provides a reference for changing footfall and how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets as part of the longer story of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. Another useful connection is online shopping and how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets when considered against later change at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. The frame retains details of everyday use before later change alters the scene.
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,store,a,an,and,near,singles,single,album,LP,EPs,Dagfields Craft & Antique Centre,Dagfields,Heathfield,CW5 7LG,CW5,Nantwich,annual,Record Store Day,now playing,fair,fayre,rare,rarities,limited,edition,pressing,pressings,rock,hard core,new wave,indy,post punk,rack,racks shelves,records
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JP5T1D - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Dagfields Craft & Antique Centre, Crewe Rd, Heathfield, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 7LG in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The main point of reference is Punk and Indie, Record Mart, An independent record and vinyl shop Dagfields, near Audlem, Nantwich, Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 7LG. A broader reading of the photograph includes mail history, local enterprise, local character, postal artefact, paper communication, postal graphic design, postal ephemera, visual archive, commercial frontage, street-level business, small business, town-centre economy, place identity, and shopfront economy. Today's relevance is strengthened by national identity, graphic design and the continuing question of the continuing collector interest in discontinued states, currencies and postal systems. From a 2025-onward perspective, store closures and town-centre regeneration are closely linked to this subject, alongside the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy. As a dated visual record of Dagfields Craft & Antique Centre, Crewe Rd, Heathfield, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 7LG, the frame retains lettering, decoration and surface detail, making it especially useful if changing commercial priorities subsequently changes the scene. The photograph additionally reflects commemorative issue, period detail, national postal identity, changing streetscape, retail property, historical comparison, commercial streetscape, and philatelic material. The combination of Crewe, vinyl, Record, independent, and Indie anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The period view preserves details of everyday use for future local research. The view records evidence of changing use before later change alters the scene.
Dagfields Craft & Antique Centre, Crewe Rd, Heathfield, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 7LG
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,store,a,an,and,near,singles,single,album,LP,EPs,Dagfields Craft & Antique Centre,Dagfields,Heathfield,CW5 7LG,CW5,Nantwich,annual,Record Store Day,&,section,Elvis,Presley,Bob Dylan,style,audio,12 inch,12,Mt,Robert,Johnson,is,blues,now playing,rare,rarities,limited,edition
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JP5T1F - Interior view of the Jazz and Blues section at Record Mart shows rows of vinyl LPs arranged in browsing bins inside the independent record shop at Dagfields, near Nantwich in Cheshire. Prominent wooden divider cards marked JAZZ , BLUES , ELVIS PRESLEY and BOB DYLAN organise the stock, while visible sleeves include Johnny Adams' Room With a View of the Blues and The Beach Boys' 20/20. Behind the racks, a bold Mr Johnson Is The Blues poster and other music graphics reinforce the specialist atmosphere of a shop built around physical music culture.
The image captures the appeal of crate digging in a traditional record retailer, where customers search by genre, artist and label rather than through a digital screen. The arrangement of album bins, divider tabs and cover art gives a strong sense of tactile browsing and of the continuing attraction of analogue formats. Jazz and blues remain core collector genres, and the presence of adjacent artist categories such as Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan suggests a wider stock range covering roots music, singer-songwriters, classic rock and related heritage sounds.
Record Mart forms part of the wider destination-shopping environment at Dagfields, a well-known Cheshire retail and antiques centre that attracts visitors from the Audlem, Nantwich and Crewe area. Independent record shops such as this continue to benefit from interest in vinyl revival culture, collectable albums and the desire for curated music stock rather than anonymous mass retail.
The photograph is relevant to vinyl collecting, British independent retail, music nostalgia, album artwork, specialist shopping, cultural leisure, entertainment retail and small business life in rural Cheshire. It also works well for editorial themes around physical media, record collecting, music discovery and the enduring visual appeal of LP sleeves and category-led shop displays.
Dagfields Craft & Antique Centre, Crewe Rd, Heathfield, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 7LG
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,store,a,an,and,near,singles,single,album,LP,EPs,Dagfields Craft & Antique Centre,Dagfields,Heathfield,CW5 7LG,CW5,Nantwich,section,Electro,style,rack,racks,annual,Record Store Day,now playing,fair,fayre,rare,rarities,limited,edition,pressing,pressings,records
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JP5T1G - . Photographed at Dagfields Craft & Antique Centre, Crewe Rd, Heathfield, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 7LG 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 Electronic section at Record Mart, An independent record and vinyl shop Dagfields, near Audlem, Nantwich, Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 7LG. The wider scene also brings together commercial streetscape, regional identity, customer footfall, documentary photography, local enterprise, street-level business, town-centre economy, contemporary social history, changing land use, visual archive, archival record, changing streetscape, historical comparison, and commercial frontage. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with commercial rents, business rates and the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy. Small period details of building condition and alterations at Dagfields Craft & Antique Centre, Crewe Rd, Heathfield, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 7LG may become more significant with time, particularly following replacement signage. Other useful contextual ideas include place identity, independent retail, before-and-after reference, high-street commerce, public realm, shopfront economy, local trading, and specialist retailer. The recorded references to section, vinyl, Audlem, Nantwich, and Dagfields preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at Dagfields Craft & Antique Centre, Crewe Rd, Heathfield, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 7LG helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. It also preserves a point of historical comparison for future local research. The photograph keeps part of the area's social history before later change alters the scene.
Dagfields Craft & Antique Centre, Crewe Rd, Heathfield, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 7LG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,CH1 1NQ,the,row,rows shops,stores,building,buildings,retail,sky,skies,through,an,a,shops,art,Kingkabs,timber,framed,frame,timber-frame,old,walled,shopping,store,unique,timber-framed,Tudor,style,architecture,contrast
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JN5MP2 - . This scene at Bridge Street shops, from The Rows, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1NQ in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The principal subject is Bridge Street shops, from The Rows, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1NQ. Further facets of the scene include period building, adaptive reuse, social history, community identity, place identity, heritage asset, cityscape history, visual archive, period architecture, architectural detail, regional identity, before-and-after reference, documentary photography, and architectural character. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with energy retrofit, planning control and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility. The archival value lies partly in recording materials and architectural details around Bridge Street shops, from The Rows, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1NQ before replacement signage alters the character of the place. The surrounding story also includes changing streetscape, period detail, historic streetscape, archival record, local character, heritage landmark, public realm, and built heritage. Elements such as Chester, shops, and Bridge add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. For Bridge Street shops, from The Rows, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1NQ, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The wider significance includes energy retrofit and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility within the specific setting of Bridge Street shops, from The Rows, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1NQ. It also preserves a local visual benchmark within the wider story of Bridge Street shops, from The Rows, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1NQ.
Bridge Street shops, from The Rows, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1NQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,ornate,building,Great,Britain,timber,framed,frame,black,white,Twenty Two Bridge Street gallery,CH1 1NN,22,Chester,Cheshire,England,UK,placeforartinchester,place for art in chester,summer,blue,sky,old,walled,shopping,store,unique,timber-framed,Tudor,style,architecture,contrast,streets,lanes,retail,retailing
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JN5MP6 - New premises in Chester city centre soon to become available to share between us cool arty people!
Affordable exhibition spaces for individuals as well as businesses will be ours to make use of with Place for the Arts in Chester (www.placeforart.co.uk).
The concept of art on the walls still applies but we would like to have a mix of very different treasures!
We are looking for diverse, unusual and crazy stuff! 🙂
Art, guitar strings, books, glass, jewellery, textiles, fashion, furniture, interior quirks... Let us know what your field of expertise is!
Please read about Place for the Arts in Chester and how it operates first before getting in touch - we are not a gallery and will not simply accept submissions!
The project is not for profit and relies on your enthusiasm and passion for what you are doing, dedication to art and a bit of your time😊
hello@chesterartcentre.co.uk
placeforartinchester@gmail.com
22, Bridge Street, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK, CH1 1NN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Gloucestershire,centre,England,UK,GL5,GL5 1AA,the,store,shop,local,craft,crafts,made,in,gift,Covent garden of the Cotswolds,independent,artisan,maker,artist,artists,community,planet,ecological,eco,save,independence,books,stained,glass,ceramics,gifts,handmade,incense,candles,MadeInStroud
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5PH - . This dated editorial view of everything, 16, Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The location is represented through The Made In Stroud shop & emporium, local crafts, everything, 16 Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA. The image also relates to street-level business, regional identity, period detail, local trading, shopfront economy, everyday life, changing land use, visual archive, small business, archival record, specialist retailer, bricks-and-mortar retail, place identity, and public realm. The modern context includes continuing discussion of footfall, independent business and how consumer spending and property costs shape local commercial streets. The archival value lies partly in recording signage and branding around everything, 16, Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA before refurbishment alters the character of the place. Further associations within the scene are commercial streetscape, independent retail, retail property, local history, historical comparison, community identity, contemporary social history, and before-and-after reference. The recorded references to Stroud, everything, crafts, emporium, and Kendrick preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at everything, 16, Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is footfall and how consumer spending and property costs shape local commercial streets within the real-world context of everything, 16, Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA. Image 2JMD5PH also remains a dated record of everything, 16, Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA.
everything, 16, Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Gloucestershire,centre,England,UK,GL5,GL5 1AA,the,store,shop,local,craft,crafts,made,in,gift,Covent garden of the Cotswolds,independent,artisan,maker,artist,artists,community,planet,ecological,eco,save,independence,books,stained,glass,ceramics,gifts,handmade,incense,candles,MadeInStroud
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5PK - . Photographed at everything, 16, Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA in 2022, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The principal subject is The Made In Stroud shop & emporium, local crafts, everything, 16 Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA. The locality and subject together evoke regional identity, period detail, visual archive, changing streetscape, archival record, small business, everyday life, local character, commercial streetscape, specialist retailer, high-street commerce, social history, bricks-and-mortar retail, and community identity. For current editorial use, business rates and town-centre regeneration provide additional context, especially through the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy. The archival value lies partly in recording street furniture and boundaries around everything, 16, Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA before new ownership alters the character of the place. The photograph additionally reflects historical comparison, street-level business, changing land use, retail property, contemporary social history, customer footfall, documentary photography, and shopfront economy. References to local, emporium, Stroud, everything, and Gloucestershire give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For everything, 16, Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence of business rates and the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy in a form that can be compared with future views of everything, 16, Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA.
everything, 16, Kendrick St, Stroud , Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,South West,neon,sign,out,and,proud,glitterball,shop,store,office,Doina Cornell,leader,of,SDC,Stroud District Council,pride,gay,event,events,LGBT,LGBTQ,LGBTQ+,Pride,celebration,celebrating,equality,diversity,tradition,English,British,welcome,towns,Proud To Be Stroud,in.pride
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5PP - . This scene at Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The scene records Be Proud In Stroud, LGBTQ support in Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK - neon sign. The surrounding context encompasses orientation signage, historical comparison, before-and-after reference, street furniture, public information signage, local history, social history, everyday life, directional sign, visitor guidance, local character, community identity, public-facing notice, and changing streetscape. For current editorial use, inclusive design and public safety provide additional context, especially through how signs record changing road names, destinations and administrative responsibility. As a dated visual record of Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK, the frame retains signage and branding, making it especially useful if new construction subsequently changes the scene. Other useful contextual ideas include place identity, period detail, archival record, visual archive, route marker, contemporary social history, navigation aid, and public realm. The recorded references to Gloucestershire, LGBTQ, Stroud, support, and centre preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The location additionally provides evidence of inclusive design and how signs record changing road names, destinations and administrative responsibility when considered against later change at Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK. The record includes a local visual benchmark for later comparison.
Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,South West,neon,sign,out,and,proud,glitterball,shop,store,office,Doina Cornell,leader,of,SDC,Stroud District Council,pride,gay,event,events,LGBT,LGBTQ,LGBTQ+,Pride,celebration,celebrating,equality,diversity,tradition,English,British,welcome,towns
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5PX - . This location-specific image from Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK in 2022 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The principal subject is Be Proud In Stroud, LGBTQ support in Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK - neon sign. The frame also records themes of wayfinding marker, navigation aid, directional sign, archival record, regional identity, documentary photography, social history, before-and-after reference, historical comparison, local character, community noticeboard, roadside information, public-facing notice, and public information signage. For current editorial use, maintenance and clear communication provide additional context, especially through how small pieces of street furniture become recognisable parts of local identity. The archival value lies partly in recording equipment and working practice around Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK before different community use alters the character of the place. The wider setting retains connections with route marker, community identity, transport stop marker, instructional sign, orientation signage, local information board, place identity, and changing streetscape. The recorded references to Gloucestershire, Proud, Stroud, support, and LGBTQ preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The wider significance includes maintenance and the importance of clear wayfinding in public and transport environments in a form that can be compared with future views of Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK. The record includes details of everyday use for later comparison.
Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire, England, UK
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,poverty,inflation,outlet,store,Cheshire,UK,drop-off point where generous shoppers can donate non-perishable food items,drop-off point,drop off,point,shoppers,donate,non-perishable,food,items,UC,Universal Credit,debt,issues,green,CAB,Citizens Advice Bureau,Golden Square,shopping centre,line,absolute,in poverty,users,working poor,benefits,food bank,regular,local,Trussell Trust,usage,soaring
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKMTTR - Warrington Foodbank now have a brand-new outlet at Golden Square Shopping Centre, providing a dedicated drop-off point where generous shoppers can donate non-perishable food items and toiletries. Our information centre and donation station will open from 10am-2pm Tuesday to Saturday.
The new outlet will be located near Primark in Golden Square and will be run and manned by Warrington Foodbank volunteers. Alongside Warrington Foodbank, representatives from the Citizens Advice Bureau will also be available to speak to, offering information and guidance on such things as universal credit and debt issues.
Warrington Foodbank would like to greatly thank our friends at Golden Square for helping get this important new outlet, up and running.
Golden Square, Warrington, cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Herefordshire,apple,apples,distillers,maker,makers,bottle,bottled,Hereford Deer Park,Deer Park,ABV,proof,on,sale,being,sold,at,Hall,Gwatkin cider,Gwatkin cider company,spirit,strong,distillate,distilled,bottles,store,shop,stall,stalls,alcohol,alcoholic,beverage,beverages
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M07AGT - . A grounded documentary photograph made at the recorded location in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The principal subject is Hereford Deer Park, Gwatkin, Apple Whisky 40% proof, on sale at Hereford Market Hall, Herefordshire, England, UK. The subject also carries associations with specialist retailer, commercial frontage, public realm, local character, community identity, high-street commerce, shopfront economy, documentary photography, place identity, before-and-after reference, small business, social story.htm Target=_Blank>history, changing streetscape, and town-centre trading. Today's relevance is strengthened by independent business, footfall and the continuing question of the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets. Future viewers can use this scene from the recorded location to compare materials and architectural details with whatever follows after replacement signage. The surrounding story also includes period detail, retail property, changing land use, visual archive, independent retail, historical comparison, local history, and everyday life. Details involving Market, Herefordshire, Gwatkin, Hereford, and proof make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within the recorded location, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The image also provides a reference for independent business and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets within the real-world context of the recorded location. Another useful connection is online shopping and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets within the specific setting of the recorded location. The period view preserves evidence of earlier appearance before later change alters the scene.
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,Soho,England,UK,West End,W1F,W1F 8RH,orange,sell,your,&,and,CDs,to,us,store,retail,LP,LPs,singles,12inch,12 inch,limited edition,limited,editions,pressing,pressings,record shop,records shop,independant,record,records,12inchers
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJPKNT - . This scene at 30 Berwick St, London, England, UK, W1F 8RH in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The photograph centres on Reckless Records Soho LPs & 12inch - 30 Berwick St, London, England, UK, W1F 8RH. The wider scene also brings together town-centre economy, shopfront economy, physical store, local character, high-street commerce, retail chain, before-and-after reference, social history, queer urban culture, local history, shopping district, consumer retail, bricks-and-mortar retail, and LGBTQ social history. From a 2025-onward perspective, brand consolidation and consumer spending are closely linked to this subject, alongside the role of large retailers in town-centre and edge-of-centre economies. The wider contemporary story combines Pride visibility, venue closures and the role of bars and clubs as both businesses and community spaces. The archival value lies partly in recording signage and branding around 30 Berwick St, London, England, UK, W1F 8RH before closure or conversion alters the character of the place. The wider setting retains connections with visual archive, queer London, retail property, archival record, historical comparison, changing land use, gay hospitality, and outdoor retail. The combination of 12inch, Reckless, Records, and Berwick anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The period setting at 30 Berwick St, London, England, UK, W1F 8RH helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Another strand within the photograph is brand consolidation and the role of large retailers in town-centre and edge-of-centre economies when considered against later change at 30 Berwick St, London, England, UK, W1F 8RH. The view records evidence of earlier appearance as part of 30 Berwick St, London, England, UK, W1F 8RH's history.
30 Berwick St, London, England, UK, W1F 8RH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,RBKC,England,UK,Royal Borough,of,Kensington,Chelsea,Alices junk shop & antiques,86 Portobello Rd,W11 2QD,junk,store,shop,and,curios,antiques,86,famous,heads,phrenology,boys club,girls club,sign,signs,BW,black & white,saxophone,costumes,used,preloved,pre-loved,swordfish,life ring,lifering
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M0KWT1 - . This dated editorial view of Alices junk shop & antiques, 86 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill, RBKC,London, England, UK, W11 2QD in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The subject captured here is Inside Alices famous junk shop & antiques, 86 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill, RBKC,London, England, UK, W11 2QD - monochrome. A broader reading of the photograph includes regional identity, historical comparison, capital-city heritage, Thames city view, city branding, historic London streetscape, local history, local character, London cityscape, metropolitan identity, changing land use, community identity, heritage tourism, and before-and-after reference. Today's relevance is strengthened by public transport, visitor economy and the continuing question of how iconic streets and landmarks change while retaining strong visual identity. The archival value lies partly in recording street furniture and boundaries around Alices junk shop & antiques, 86 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill, RBKC,London, England, UK, W11 2QD before altered transport patterns alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include capital landmark imagery, documentary photography, social history, contemporary social history, London visitor economy, public realm, everyday life, and place identity. The recorded references to Alices, Portobello, Inside, famous, and monochrome preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The wider setting at Alices junk shop & antiques, 86 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill, RBKC,London, England, UK, W11 2QD matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The period view preserves evidence of earlier appearance as a date-specific reference. The view records period character for later comparison.
Alices junk shop & antiques, 86 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill, RBKC,London, England, UK, W11 2QD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,RBKC,England,UK,Royal Borough,of,Kensington,Chelsea,W11,W11 2QB,109,prints,maps,shop,map,print,store,retail,shopping,outside,external,NH,NottingHill,NottingHills,Notting Hills,history,historic,famous,popular,tourist,tourism,attractions,markets,weekend,Saturday,Sunday
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M0KX01 - . This authentic period view of 109 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 2QB in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The image documents The Portobello Print & Map Shop, 109 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 2QB. The image also relates to everyday life, documentary photography, public realm, historic London streetscape, place identity, urban tourism, Westminster landmark, London visitor economy, before-and-after reference, capital landmark imagery, local character, social history, changing streetscape, and period detail. For current editorial use, housing pressure and air quality provide additional context, especially through how familiar London symbols function as global shorthand for Britain. The image fixes public access and movement within 109 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 2QB at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against conservation work. The surrounding story also includes regional identity, local history, heritage tourism, London cityscape, city branding, iconic London transport, visual archive, and changing land use. The combination of Notting, Print, and Portobello anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. For 109 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 2QB, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The wider significance includes housing pressure and how iconic streets and landmarks change while retaining strong visual identity within the real-world context of 109 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 2QB. The record includes a trace of local identity as part of 109 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 2QB's history.
109 Portobello Rd, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 2QB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,RBKC,England,UK,Royal Borough,of,Kensington,Chelsea,W11 1LA,W11,store,green historic,history,antique,Victorian,antiques,175 Portobello Road,Portobello Market,Notting Hill,Portobello,Ladbroke Grove,butchers,butcher,old,building,buildings,classic,windows,window,front,outside,frontage,gold,golden,lettering
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M0KX3J - . A grounded documentary photograph made at 175 Portobello Road, Portobello Market, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 1LA in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. At the centre of the view is G.Portwine, 175 Portobello Road, Portobello Market, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 1LA. The broader subject matter reaches into Westminster landmark, changing land use, public realm, visual archive, London cityscape, local character, city branding, metropolitan identity, capital landmark imagery, period detail, Thames city view, contemporary social history, regional identity, and community identity. The modern context includes continuing discussion of visitor economy, urban mobility and the mix of working city infrastructure with heritage tourism. Future viewers can use this scene from 175 Portobello Road, Portobello Market, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 1LA to compare lettering, decoration and surface detail with whatever follows after later reinterpretation. A second descriptive layer includes historic London streetscape, before-and-after reference, archival record, documentary photography, changing streetscape, historical comparison, local history, and London visitor economy. The combination of Notting, Portwine, Market, and Portobello anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The wider setting at 175 Portobello Road, Portobello Market, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 1LA matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. A further contemporary connection is visitor economy and the mix of working city infrastructure with heritage tourism within the real-world context of 175 Portobello Road, Portobello Market, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 1LA.
175 Portobello Road, Portobello Market, Notting Hill, RBKC, London, England, UK, W11 1LA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,England,UK,dining,shopping,Camden,Stable St,coal,retail,and,development,coaldropsyard,Handyside,visitors,customers,complex,central,Thomas Heatherwick,privately,owned,public space,building,history,buildings,shoppers,with,Wolf & Badger,Wolf,Badger,concept,store,brands,edie rose
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M108DB - Coal Drops Yard is a shopping complex and privately owned public space that forms part of the King's Cross Central development scheme in London, England. The development was designed by Thomas Heatherwick and opened in October 2018
The two Victorian coal drops sheds were used to receive coal from South Yorkshire and trans-ship it to narrowboats on the Regents Canal and to horse-drawn carts
coal drops were redundant and fell into decay. They were used as warehouse units
one was gutted by fire in 1985 and another used by Bagley's nightclub, which closed in 2007. The night clubs complemented a vibrant night life of easy drug access, raves and prostitution.
The Regent's Canal was named in 1820 after the Prince Regent, who became George IV the same year. After his demise, the Kings Cross monument was raised at the junction of New Road and Battlebridge Road (Euston Road and York Way)
In 1986 the rave scene started in London. Disused warehouses were used to stage illegal raves, a form of partying fuelled by House music from Chicago and the illicit drug ecstasy. The scene developed and spawned several legal clubs such as The Clink, Shoom and Heaven and by the early-to-mid 1990s became centred on three bars in King's Cross. There was Billy Reilly's bar, 'Fabric' under the arches of the Coal Offices (which inspired a successor club, also called Fabric), 'The Cross' and 'Bagley's', which took over three floors at the southern end of the Eastern Coal Drops
Argent Group, the overall developer for the King's Cross Central site, appointed Thomas Heatherwick as architect for the redevelopment of the Coal Drop Yards as a retail park in 2014. Heatherwick worked in conjunction with engineers Arup, and the plans were approved in December 2015. BAM Nuttall undertook the construction work, which started in February 2016, following a two-year pre-construction phase to survey the condition of the Victorian era buildings and carry out demolition work as necessary.
Stable Street, Camden, London, England, UK, N1C 4DQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,England,UK,dining,shopping,Camden,Stable St,coal,retail,and,development,coaldropsyard,Handyside,visitors,customers,complex,central,Thomas Heatherwick,privately,owned,public space,building,history,buildings,shoppers,with,Wolf & Badger,Wolf,Badger,concept,store,brands,edie rose
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M108DG - Coal Drops Yard is a shopping complex and privately owned public space that forms part of the King's Cross Central development scheme in London, England. The development was designed by Thomas Heatherwick and opened in October 2018
The two Victorian coal drops sheds were used to receive coal from South Yorkshire and trans-ship it to narrowboats on the Regents Canal and to horse-drawn carts
coal drops were redundant and fell into decay. They were used as warehouse units
one was gutted by fire in 1985 and another used by Bagley's nightclub, which closed in 2007. The night clubs complemented a vibrant night life of easy drug access, raves and prostitution.
The Regent's Canal was named in 1820 after the Prince Regent, who became George IV the same year. After his demise, the Kings Cross monument was raised at the junction of New Road and Battlebridge Road (Euston Road and York Way)
In 1986 the rave scene started in London. Disused warehouses were used to stage illegal raves, a form of partying fuelled by House music from Chicago and the illicit drug ecstasy. The scene developed and spawned several legal clubs such as The Clink, Shoom and Heaven and by the early-to-mid 1990s became centred on three bars in King's Cross. There was Billy Reilly's bar, 'Fabric' under the arches of the Coal Offices (which inspired a successor club, also called Fabric), 'The Cross' and 'Bagley's', which took over three floors at the southern end of the Eastern Coal Drops
Argent Group, the overall developer for the King's Cross Central site, appointed Thomas Heatherwick as architect for the redevelopment of the Coal Drop Yards as a retail park in 2014. Heatherwick worked in conjunction with engineers Arup, and the plans were approved in December 2015. BAM Nuttall undertook the construction work, which started in February 2016, following a two-year pre-construction phase to survey the condition of the Victorian era buildings and carry out demolition work as necessary.
Stable Street, Camden, London, England, UK, N1C 4DQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,history,historic,gold,letters,lettering,shop,store,entrance,retail,premises,Halton,Cheshire,England,UK,WA7 1LX,former,tailors,clothes,clothing,Runcorn town centre,heritage,streets,old town,Runcorns,sunny,summer,blue sky,blue skies,clear sky,walk,walking,Old fashioned,memory,memories
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1417E - . An identifiable period record of 19 Church St, Runcorn , England, UK, WA7 1LX in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The location is represented through Window, 19-23 Church St, Runcorn old town, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK, WA7 1LX - Former Burton Store. Other connected aspects include visual archive, parish church heritage, destination shopping, customer footfall, commercial streetscape, everyday life, ecclesiastical craftsmanship, commercial frontage, mixed-use town centre, changing land use, retail property, historic church fabric, social history, and faith heritage. The wider contemporary story combines business rates, commercial rents and how physical retail adapts to online competition. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with faith communities, accessibility and how sacred art preserves religious, artistic and community history. The image fixes equipment and working practice within 19 Church St, Runcorn , England, UK, WA7 1LX at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against altered transport patterns. The location also brings in church interior, period detail, sacred architecture, bricks-and-mortar retail, historical comparison, local enterprise, archival record, and Christian iconography. Details involving Store, Window, Former, Runcorn, and Halton make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. A later view of 19 Church St, Runcorn , England, UK, WA7 1LX may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The scene further reflects business rates and how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets within the real-world context of 19 Church St, Runcorn , England, UK, WA7 1LX. The image fixes evidence of changing use for future local research.
19 Church St, Runcorn , England, UK, WA7 1LX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,area,Lokn,store,lockan,lock and,Bluecoat St,Orford,Warrington,WA2 7F,WA2,increase,in,flexible,unit,units,Lokn Store,Store,housing,crisis,boom,expansion,of,the,industry,growth,revenues,revenue,slump,turnover,profit,profits,possessions,insurance,Self-storage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JBXJMG - . This scene at Bluecoat Street, Orford, Warrington, Cheshire , England, UK, WA2 7FX in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The image documents Lokn ,Store Self Storage Warrington- Bluecoat St, Orford, Warrington WA2 7F. The frame also records themes of historical comparison, social landscape, local landmark, place identity, period streetscape, changing streetscape, historic townscape, regional identity, urban change, urban social history, architectural character, heritage landmark, conservation architecture, and historic frontage. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into adaptive reuse and embodied carbon, not least because of the value of distinctive buildings and street furniture to local identity. Today's relevance is strengthened by regeneration, community use and the continuing question of the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments. The image fixes signage and branding within Bluecoat Street, Orford, Warrington, Cheshire , England, UK, WA2 7FX at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against altered transport patterns. The location also brings in everyday street life, city-centre activity, built heritage, archival record, changing land use, period detail, townscape record, and architectural detailing. References to Warrington-, Storage, Store, Bluecoat, and Orford give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around Bluecoat Street, Orford, Warrington, Cheshire , England, UK, WA2 7FX, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The setting also helps illustrate adaptive reuse and the value of distinctive buildings and street furniture to local identity within the real-world context of Bluecoat Street, Orford, Warrington, Cheshire , England, UK, WA2 7FX.
Bluecoat Street, Orford, Warrington, Cheshire , England, UK, WA2 7FX
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK shops,GoTonySmith,Warrington,town,centre,Cheshire,UK,England,retailing,stock,stores,Internal,inside,nappy,Kitchen Roll,bog roll,toilet paper,depleted,aisle,shelf,Brexit,delay,increased,prices,cost,LIDLs,store,outlet,grocery,reduced,economic,interior,simple,shelves,Lupilu
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2E0F12R - Aldi and Lidl take £542m in sales from big four. In the 12 weeks to 26 January 2020 alone, Aldi and Lidl took £28m from Morrisons, £35m from Sainsbury's, £36m from Asda and £44m from Tesco
Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG is a German international discount supermarket chain that operates over 10,000 stores across Europe and the United States. Headquartered in Neckarsulm, Baden-Württemberg, the company belongs to the Schwarz Group, which also operates the hypermarket chain Kaufland.
Lidl opened its first UK store in 1994. Since then, Lidl UK has grown consistently, and today has over 800 stores. While it is still a small player in the United Kingdom, with a grocery market share of less than 5%, its importance, along with that of continental, no-frills competitor Aldi is growing, with half of the shoppers in the United Kingdom visiting Aldi or Lidl over Christmas 2014.
The Lidl operation in the United Kingdom took a different approach than in Germany, with a focus on marketing and public relations, and providing employee benefits not required by law, including paying the independently verified living wage and offering a staff discount. Upmarket products were introduced, especially in the lead-up to Christmas. This required significant investment in marketing to produce sales growth but had an effect on Lidl's logistical operation and pressure on profits. Ronny Gottschlich, who had run Lidl UK for the six years to 2016, was responsible for this approach, which led to friction with head office, due to the cost involved. In September 2016, Gottschlich unexpectedly left and was replaced by the Austrian sales and operations director, German-national Christian Härtnagel. Lidl continued to have ambitious investment plans in the United Kingdom, ultimately doubling the number of stores to 1,500. In the financial year of 2015, Lidl Great Britain's revenue from its over 630 stores throughout Britain was £4.7 billion
Thelwall Ln, Latchford East, Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK, WA4 1LJ
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Warrington,town,centre,Cheshire,UK,England,retailing,stock,GoOutdoors,Go-Outdoors,WA1,Wilson Patten Street,WA1 1PS,JD,JD Sports Fashion plc,sales floor,retail,sports,outdoor,retailer,bankrupt,redundancy,warehouse,outlet,shop,shops,store,stores,clothes,clothing,hiking,tents,door,doors,entrance
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2E0F12X - JD Sports Fashion plc, more commonly known as JD Sports or JD, is a British sports-fashion retail company based in Bury, Greater Manchester, England with shops throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It is a subsidiary of the Pentland Group.
In 2016 and again in 2019, JD Sports was profiled in British media amid allegations of mistreatment of its UK warehouse staff
letters JD in JD Sports stand for the initials of the founders of the company, John & David. In 1981, the company was established by John Wardle and David Makin, trading from a single shop in Bury, Greater Manchester. In 1983, the company opened a store in the Arndale Centre in Manchester.
In 2020, JD Sports was anticipated to appoint administrators for its nearly bankrupt Go Outdoors brand, placing additional high street workers at risk amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
On October 16, 2020 JD Sports opened a new flagship Store in Times Square New York. In December 2020, it was announced that the company had pulled out of talks aimed at rescuing department store chain Debenhams.
Wilson Patten Street,Warrington,Cheshire,England, UK, WA1 1PS
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Keywords: GotonySmith,UK,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,pumpout,wood,wooden,painted,Warrington,waterway,WA4,Diesel Pump out,Cheshire,England,WA4 6LE,Thorn Marine,Chandlery Boat Hire,Diesel,Pump out,Stockton Heath,South Warrington,London Bridge,warehouse,warehousing,shop,store,retail,towpath,tow path,Manchester ship Canal Company,Peel Ports,Rambling Thorn,exterior,outside,historic,old boathouse,ward,Boatyard and shop,British Waterways,boat hire
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAEJ7X - History of Thorn Marine
The Bridgewater canal reach Stockton heath about 1772, the area around London Bridge and Thorn Marine developed over the next few years and became known as Stockton Quays, there was warehousing, an inn, toll house,Blacksmiths, stabling, barns, and bank riders cottages. one of these bank riders cottages became Thorn Marine.
A very successful packet boat service started up running from the London Bridge Inn to Manchester allowing the gentry to travel in style and comfort on the last part of there journey to Manchester, good were also shipped from the warehouse over the road, The boats were in them days pulled by horses, and unusually the horse for the packet boat were trotted along the towpath and were ridden by Bank riders who lived in what is now Thorn Marine.
The quays at thorn marine were also used by Caldwells to ship there tools spades, picks, etc for the gold rush in america and the First World War. The good were shipped to Liverpool where they were loaded onto sea going ships
During the First and second world wars the canal was also used to move munitions and men to Liverpool to be shipped across for the war effort.
Since we took over
We passed Thorn Marine in the spring of 1991 on our 25' Dawncraft Hammie on a two week trip around the Cheshire ring, we noticed it was looking a bit unloved and there was a for sale sign out side.
A few phone calls on our return home we discovered it was still for sale, but not with the agents anymore. After nearly 12 months of negotiations with the vendor and The Manchester ship Canal Company, we finally moved in on the 11th April 1992.
Over the next few years Margaret turned the business around from a fancy good shop back to a chandlery with help from Brian and Nigel when they were not working in their own careers. Brian decided in 1997 to stop paining and decorating and joined Margret working full time in the shop.
In 1997 we too delivery of Rambling Thorn our purpose built day boat
Bridgewater Canal,Stockton Heath,South Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6LE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,store,retail,out of town,JunctionNINE,Retail Park,WA2,Warrington,WA2 8TW,UK,shopping,Cheshire,England,parking,larger,wider,wide,bay,space,for,kids,car park,family,with,baby,babies,parent,parents,married,marriage,partners,civil partnership,relationship,unit,vehicle,car,pram,buggy
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG41WN - . This authentic period view of JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW in 2019 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The image documents Larger parking space outside a store, for parents with children, JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW. Other connected aspects include historic signage, local history, commercial signage, commercial frontage, place identity, local character, visual merchandising, commercial streetscape, town-centre economy, independent retail, customer footfall, small-business culture, everyday life, and public information notice. For current editorial use, brand consolidation and online shopping provide additional context, especially through how physical shops adapt to online competition. Current relevance extends to retail change and branding, particularly through the speed at which branding and promotional styles change. Small period details of transport arrangements and footfall at JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW may become more significant with time, particularly following conservation work. The wider setting retains connections with public-facing notice, regional identity, documentary photography, contemporary social history, bricks-and-mortar business, brand display, street-level marketing, and visual archive. The recorded references to space, parents, outside, JunctionNINE, and Larger preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The record includes details of everyday use for later comparison. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2MG41WN.
JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,store,retail,JunctionNINE,Retail Park,WA2,Warrington,WA2 8TW,UK,shopping,Cheshire,England,parking,big,out,of,town,product,products,sign,signage,entrance,door,unit,the,bed,beds,specialist,specialists,Mattresses,Sofa Beds,Headboards,Bedroom Furniture,Bedding
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG41WY - . An on-location photograph from JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW in 2019, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The image documents Dreams, JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW. Other connected aspects include community identity, visual archive, customer footfall, local character, public realm, public-facing notice, retail property, historical comparison, commercial signage, social history, period advertising, public information notice, visual merchandising, and commercial frontage. From a 2025-onward perspective, brand consolidation and online shopping are closely linked to this subject, alongside how physical shops adapt to online competition. The wider contemporary story combines consumer culture, branding and the historical value of ordinary advertising material. The image fixes local activity and public use within JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changed technology. A second descriptive layer includes archival record, shop display, brand communication, high-street commerce, town-centre economy, changing land use, consumer retail, and local enterprise. Details involving JunctionNINE, Retail, and Dreams make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The wider significance includes brand consolidation and how physical shops adapt to online competition in a form that can be compared with future views of JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW.
JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,store,retail,JunctionNINE,Retail Park,WA2,Warrington,WA2 8TW,UK,shopping,Cheshire,England,parking,big,out,of,town,product,products,sign,signage,entrance,door,unit,hobbies,arts,and,crafts,superstore,chain,craft,supplies,investment,group,Bridgepoint
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG421P - Hobbycraft is an arts and crafts superstore retail chain in the United Kingdom. It is currently owned by investment group Bridgepoint.
Hobbycraft in Tunbridge Wells, using the former logo
It was started by the Haskins Group, a nursery and garden supplier in the south of England, and was bought by investment group Bridgepoint in April 2010.
The stores have been blamed for putting independent craft suppliers out of business, and the amount of choice for specific hobbies has been said to be not as good as in specialised stores. Hobbycraft reported a 10% increase in sales in the beginning of 2010, and opened two new stores, with the chief executive saying arts and crafts are a low cost hobby and he believed they would do well despite difficulties in the economy
In September 2014, it was revealed that Hobbycraft's profits had halved, due to chains such as Aldi, Lidl, Poundland, and online retailers such as Amazon moving into the craft market. Hobbycraft's CEO Catriona Marshall said that the company's profits had been depressed by a £3m investment on a rented warehouse in Burton-upon-Trent, on which Hobbycraft took out a fifteen-year lease
In August 2020, Hobbycraft announced multi-channel growth plans after a complete financial year in which its online revenues increased by 19%. The company has seen e-commerce turbocharged this year “ recording a 200% rise in internet revenues as the 12-week shutdown of Covid-19 channelled much of its web revenue.
In May 2021, Hobbycraft was revealed as the Fourth Best Big Company to Work for in the UK and the third Best Retail Company to work for in the UK by the Best Companies Awards 2021
JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,store,retail,JunctionNINE,Retail Park,WA2,Warrington,WA2 8TW,UK,shopping,Cheshire,England,parking,big,out,of,town,product,products,sign,signage,entrance,door,unit,curtains,soft,furnishing,mill,mills,Dunelm Group,Plc,homewares,bedding,lighting,Syston,Paula Vennells
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG427C - Dunelm Group Plc is a British home furnishings retailer operating throughout the United Kingdom. One of the largest homewares retailers in the United Kingdom, The company headquarters are based in Syston, England. It also has its own factory for curtains, blinds and accessories, based in Leicester, England.
It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
Dunelm was founded in 1979 by Bill Adderley and Jeany Adderley, trading in home textiles from a market stall in Leicester. The first Dunelm store opened in Churchgate Leicester in 1984 with the first superstore opening in Rotherham in 1991. In 1996 Will Adderley took over responsibility for the day-to-day running of the company from his father, Bill Adderley. The expansion of Dunelm continued with a new head office and warehouse being established in 1999 in Syston, Leicestershire
In November 2020, the company was criticised by shareholders for renominating Paula Vennells to its board, despite her responsibility for the Post Office subpostmasters' scandal, during which her leadership was accused of having been both cruel and incompetent by a Conservative peer and various MPs.[11] Her resignation from the board was announced on the morning of 26 April 2021 after all the remaining convictions of subpostmasters had been quashed.
Operations
Dunelm store in Bradford
As of 30 June 2020 Dunelm operated 173 stores, spread across the UK, and a webstore
JunctionNINE Retail Park, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8TW
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Keywords: Republic of Ireland,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Flip,&,4,Helter,Skelter,D02 Y798,vintage,gear,clothing,pre-loved,preloved,shop,store,shops,stores,trader,traders,cool,trendy,retail,retailers,area,district,painted,painting,graffiti,hipster,hipsters,tourist,destination,InkSpYre,cultural quarter
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84KAX - Temple Bar is an area on the south bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin, Ireland. The area is bounded by the Liffey to the north, Dame Street to the south, Westmoreland Street to the east and Fishamble Street to the west. It is promoted as Dublin's 'cultural quarter' and, as a centre of Dublin's city centre's nightlife, is a tourist destination. Temple Bar is in the Dublin 2 postal district.
Temple Bar, Dublin, Eire, Ireland
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,WA1,music,chain,closed,shop,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,WA1 1SU,65,head,office,quarters,piano tuner,keyboards,drums,instrument,iconic,retail,store,for,musicians,shutters,shuttered,bankrupt,retailer,owners,owner,Arranged Musical Options,Ltd,Andrew M Oliver,Karen Oliver
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K43P0R - Plans have been submitted for a major conversion of the former Dawson's Music store in Sankey Street, Warrington.
The proposals are to convert the building into four apartments, offices and two smaller retail shops.
Dawson's closed the store in 2019 after trading in Warrington for 121-years.
At the time, it was claimed the store was a victim of online shopping.It has stood empty ever since.
Developers say the proposal will make little difference to the exterior appearance of the three-storey building.
Dawson's was founded in 1898 by piano tuner John Dawson and has had a major presence from its Sankey Street HQ, since 1914.
During the 1970s and 1980s it was the go to store for youngsters buying their first records in Warrington. But later it changed to concentrate on the sale of musical instruments and running a music school.
65 Sankey St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1SU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XNBH - . This location-specific image from Newton Rd, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8RD in 2019 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The defining feature is B&Q, B and Q,hardware,retail,retailing home delivery,,Delph Ln, Newton Rd, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8RD. The wider scene also brings together public realm, community identity, town-centre trading, commercial frontage, changing land use, local history, local enterprise, specialist shop, period detail, bricks-and-mortar retail, changing streetscape, shopfront economy, social history, and customer footfall. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into store closures and consumer spending, not least because of the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets. The image fixes landscape treatment and surrounding development within Newton Rd, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8RD at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against replacement signage. The location also brings in independent retail, archival record, place identity, visual archive, local character, before-and-after reference, street-level business, and high-street commerce. Elements such as Delph, Newton, retail, Winwick, and delivery add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Newton Rd, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8RD helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is store closures and how commercial property costs affect small retailers in a form that can be compared with future views of Newton Rd, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8RD. The scene captures evidence of earlier appearance before later change alters the scene.
Newton Rd, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 8RD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PAN56B - Poundworld was a British value variety store that sold most of its items for £1. The chain was founded in 1974 by Yorkshire-based father-and-son team Chris Edwards Sr. and Chris Edwards Jr. In contrast to many high street retailers, Poundworld maintained strong sales and growth during the global recession that started in 2007.
Poundworld's product range consisted of over 6,000 items including groceries, health and beauty, toiletries, cleaning products and pet care. some of them known brands
At its peak it had 335 stores in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In 2014, it was planning to open 150 new stores within three years.
Its larger rival in the market was Poundland. A series on BBC One entitled Pound Shop Wars, broadcast between 2012 and 2015, concerned Poundworld and its rivals.
As well as all of its £1 lines, Poundworld introduced a range of multi-price products across its estate of stores in 2017 to offer customers 'More Choice, More Savings'.
Suffering intense competition from the addition of multi-price products, combined with difficulties arising from the weak pound, Poundworld entered administration in June 2018. Closing sales began in stores late that month. In July 2018, Poundworld confirmed that all stores were to close by 10 August 2018 after rescue talks with original founder Chris Edwards failed
Bridge St, Warrington, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PAN56C - Poundworld was a British value variety store that sold most of its items for £1. The chain was founded in 1974 by Yorkshire-based father-and-son team Chris Edwards Sr. and Chris Edwards Jr. In contrast to many high street retailers, Poundworld maintained strong sales and growth during the global recession that started in 2007.
Poundworld's product range consisted of over 6,000 items including groceries, health and beauty, toiletries, cleaning products and pet care. some of them known brands
At its peak it had 335 stores in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In 2014, it was planning to open 150 new stores within three years.
Its larger rival in the market was Poundland. A series on BBC One entitled Pound Shop Wars, broadcast between 2012 and 2015, concerned Poundworld and its rivals.
As well as all of its £1 lines, Poundworld introduced a range of multi-price products across its estate of stores in 2017 to offer customers 'More Choice, More Savings'.
Suffering intense competition from the addition of multi-price products, combined with difficulties arising from the weak pound, Poundworld entered administration in June 2018. Closing sales began in stores late that month. In July 2018, Poundworld confirmed that all stores were to close by 10 August 2018 after rescue talks with original founder Chris Edwards failed
Bridge St, Warrington, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWME - House, now shop. Mid C18. Flemish-bond brick with stone cornice, platband, keystones and cills, pantile roof, hipped to the front with a brick stack to right, gabled to the rear block. Double-depth plan. Mid-Georgian style. 3 storeys
symmetrical 2-window range. The parapet wall, scrolled to the ends, has a pediment with moulded cornice to centre resting on main cornice. Flat gauged brick arches with keystones, 3/6-pane sash windows to second floor, platband over plate-glass sashes with margin panes to first floor. The fine late C19 shop to ground floor has a cornice returned to left over a black and gold mirrored glass fascia with gold ornamental borders and letters, it reads
Silk Mercer and Draper. E.H.Hooper. Millinery and Mantles. The shop door is glazed with bolection moulding to a horizontal panel to the base and a brass handle
it is set well back with polychromatic tiles and an elaborately panelled ceiling to entrance
moulded glazing bars between 2 plate-glass windows to each side and left return. To left of left return are 8/8-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars and moulded forward frames to upper floors, that to second floor at eaves level, that to first floor under flat gauged brick arch
C20 window to ground floor left, blocked door to right, (cut into by shop front) below a blind window. The range to rear of rough Flemish-bond brickwork has blocked door to first floor. 2 storeys with attic
3-window range. 2 raking dormers, that to left has 2-light casement window with cill at eaves level, that to right is a 3-light half-dormer. Range to left cants back slightly. The first floor has segmental gauged brick arches to 2/2-panes sashes without horns, that to right has a wider arch to former wider opening
3-course brick platband over timber lintels
6-panel door to left with 6-pane overlight, C20 windows to centre and right. INTERIOR: a mid C19 staircase with turned balusters rises to first floor. History: the first floor once spanned the footpath
25 High Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK, TA6 3BE
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MGMJWB - . An on-location photograph from the recorded location in 2018, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The subject captured here is Maplins Warrington Store Closing. The surrounding context encompasses regional identity, everyday life, archival record, documentary photography, period detail, changing streetscape, shopfront economy, community identity, commercial streetscape, local enterprise, local history, street-level business, local character, and high-street commerce. From a 2025-onward perspective, business rates and independent business are closely linked to this subject, alongside the role of small retailers in maintaining active town centres. The archival value lies partly in recording transport arrangements and footfall around the recorded location before changed technology alters the character of the place. The subject also sits alongside contemporary social history, commercial frontage, visual archive, customer footfall, specialist retailer, changing land use, bricks-and-mortar retail, and independent retail. References to Closing, Store, and Maplins give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The lack of a more precise address does not reduce the archival value of MGMJWB: the photographed subject, Maplins Warrington Store Closing, remains tied to a specific date and visual context. Another strand within the photograph is business rates and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding when considered against later change at the recorded location. The setting also helps illustrate online shopping and how consumer spending and property costs shape local commercial streets without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. The view records details of everyday use for future local research. The image fixes evidence of changing use before later change alters the scene.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTNA3J - Candle making was developed independently in many places throughout history.
Dipped candles made from tallow were made by the Romans beginning about 1000 BCE. Evidence for candles made from whale fat in China dates back to the Qin Dynasty (221“206 BCE). In India, wax from boiling cinnamon was used for temple candles.
Candles were primarily made from tallow and beeswax in ancient times[when?], but have been made from spermaceti (from sperm whales), purified animal fats (stearin), and paraffin wax in recent centuries
The manufacture of candles became an industrialised mass market in the mid 19th century. In 1834, Joseph Morgan, a pewterer from Manchester, England, patented a machine that revolutionised candle making. It allowed for continuous production of molded candles by using a cylinder with a moveable piston to eject candles as they solidified. This more efficient mechanized production produced about 1,500 candles per hour, (according to his patent, with three men and five boys [the machine] will manufacture two tons of candle in twelve hours). This allowed candles to become an easily affordable commodity for the masses
In 1848 James Young established the world's first oil refinery at the Alfreton Ironworks in Riddings, Derbyshire. Two paraffin wax candles were made from the naturally occurring paraffin wax present in the oil and these candles illuminated a lecture at the Royal Institution by Lyon Playfair. In the mid-1850s, James Young succeeded in distilling paraffin wax from coal and oil shales at Bathgate in West Lothian and developed a commercially viable method of production. The Paraffin wax was processed by distilling residue left after crude petroleum was refined.
By the late 19th century, Price's Candles, based in London was the largest candle manufacturer in the world
Saltaire village,Bradford,West Yorkshire,England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C9E2RE - Debenhams prepares to file for bankruptcy April 2020
Chain buckling under coronavirus shutdown just a year after it was rescued & considering filing a formal notice of intention to appoint administrators.
Debenhams is preparing to call in administrators after the struggling department store was forced to close all its outlets under the coronavirus lockdown.
The company, which has 22,000 staff and was rescued by its lenders after collapsing into administration only a year ago, is understood to be considering filing a formal notice of intention to appoint administrators next week. The legal process provides protection from creditors for 10 working days while a company tries to secure a rescue deal.
Potential administrators lined up this time include KPMG, which handled the Debenhams restructure last May.
A Debenhams spokesman said: Like all retailers, we are making contingency plans reflecting the extraordinary current circumstances. Our owners and lenders remain highly supportive and whatever actions we may take will be with a view to protecting the business during the current situation.
They added: While our stores remain closed in line with government guidance, and the majority of our store-facing colleagues have been furloughed, our website continues to trade and we are accepting customer orders, gift cards and returns.
It is understood that the potential insolvency measure would be intended to protect the business so it could continue to trade.
Debenhams was taken over last year by a group of its financial backers, including the US hedge funds Silver Point and GoldenTree, after falling into administration. It then used an insolvency process known as a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) to cull unprofitable sites and cut rents.
The group has closed 22 stores, 19 of which shut in January, resulting in more than 700 job losses. A further 28 of its remaining 141 stores had been lined up for permanent closure next year.
Bedford House, Park St, Taunton,Somerset,England,UK, TA1 4DB
