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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_4129,Tesla,Supercharger,Gretna,Scotland,A74M,M74,EV,electric,vehicle,charging,charger,rapid,DC,motorway,services,transport,battery,car,cars,infrastructure,energy,journey,travel,range,emissions,decarbonisation,August,2026,road,network,technology
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FAP8NC - . Tesla Supercharger unit at Gretna Green Services on the A74(M) in Scotland, photographed in August 2026 as part of the rapid-charging infrastructure available on one of Britain's principal cross-border road routes. The distinctive white and red charging pedestal is positioned in a dedicated parking bay among trees, providing drivers of compatible electric vehicles with an opportunity to replenish their battery during a long-distance journey between Scotland and England. Motorway and trunk-road charging hubs are a critical part of the transition from petrol and diesel cars to electric vehicles because drivers need dependable high-power charging away from home as well as at their normal destination. The photograph can illustrate EV infrastructure, Tesla's charging network, range anxiety, road-trip planning, battery-electric transport, decarbonisation and investment in low-emission mobility. Gretna is a particularly relevant location because large numbers of motorists pass through the area on journeys between northern England and central Scotland. The image also provides a straightforward documentary view of charging technology integrated into an established motorway service area rather than a specialist urban charging site.
Gretna Green Services, A74(M), Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,255A1316,displayed,smartphone,screen,United,Kingdom,technology,warning,safety,alerts,warnings,public,Android,Wales,wildfires,dry,weather,drought,conditions,disposable,barbecue,firepit,UK,British,Emergency,Alerts,system,national,cellular,5G,moorland,fire,risk,woodland,woodlands,Peak District,heatwave
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F9CT5M - Close-up editorial image of a smartphone displaying the UK Government Severe Alert issued on 14 August 2026 warning of a very high risk of wildfires nationally during an exceptionally hot and dry British summer. The message told residents, landowners and visitors not to undertake activities that could start a fire, specifically naming disposable barbecues, firepits, garden incinerators and fireworks, and warned that even a small flame could rapidly develop into a major wildfire threatening lives, homes, businesses and emergency responders. It also instructed people to report signs of fire immediately by calling 999.
The warning was issued as wildfire danger had become a credible national concern. Government guidance earlier in August said the summer had brought some of the UK's hottest days on record and stressed that most UK wildfires are caused by human activity. Dry vegetation, prolonged heat and low rainfall had increased the chance of fires starting and spreading quickly, while fire services were already dealing with incidents. The alert was sent to millions of compatible mobile phones across England and Wales and was described as the most extensive use of the UK's Emergency Alerts system to that date.
The image can illustrate wildfire prevention, extreme heat, drought, climate change, emergency communications, civil protection, public safety, risk communication and pressure on fire services. It also raises debate about proportionality and alert fatigue: some questioned whether a nationwide-style warning was an appropriate use of a system designed for life-threatening emergencies, while supporters pointed to real fires, tinder-dry landscapes and repeated heatwaves as justification. The stark warning panel on a smartphone resting on printed pages creates a strong contemporary news image about digital government warnings, public behaviour, summer fire risk and Britain's changing exposure to severe weather and emergency preparedness.
United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A0271,Golden Boys,Golden,Boys,statue,Birmingham,depicting,Matthew Boulton,Matthew,Boulton,James Watt,James,Watt,William Murdoch,William,Murdoch,West Midlands,West,Midlands,UK,sculpture,gold,gilded,monument,public,art,industrial,revolution,engineering,engineer,inventor,inventors,heritage,history,manufacturing,steam,engine,technology,innovation,Soho,industry,historic,figures,tourism,landmark,civic,British
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F5100M - The Golden Boys statue in Birmingham, depicting Matthew Boulton, James Watt and William Murdoch, West Midlands, UK. The gilded public sculpture celebrates three figures closely associated with Birmingham's role in engineering, manufacturing and the Industrial Revolution. Matthew Boulton was an influential manufacturer and entrepreneur, James Watt developed major improvements to steam-engine technology, and engineer William Murdoch made important contributions while working with the Boulton and Watt enterprise. Their work helped establish Birmingham and the wider West Midlands as a centre of technological innovation and industrial production with an international reputation. The striking gold-coloured monument has become a distinctive piece of public art and a visual reminder of the city's industrial heritage. This photograph is suitable for editorial use relating to Birmingham history, the Industrial Revolution, engineering, invention, steam power, manufacturing, famous historical figures, public sculpture, civic identity, tourism and British industrial heritage. The monument also illustrates the way cities commemorate scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs whose work shaped economic and technological change.
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,self-service,Cx,digital,screens,kiosks,touchscreen,menus,menu,motorway,service,expensive,area,Warwickshire,England,UK,customer experience,automated ordering,cashless payment,queue management,digital exclusion,older customers,accessibility barriers,touch screen ordering,reduced staff interaction,hospitality automation,quick service restaurant,experience,roadside,dining,traveller,facilities,consumer,technology,people using kiosks,food court interior,electronic menu terminals,card payment machines
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F0793H - Customers stand beside a closely spaced bank of digital self-service ordering kiosks at the Burger King counter inside Welcome Break Warwick Services on the M40 in Warwickshire. The motorway food court scene illustrates the rapid replacement of conventional staffed tills with touchscreen terminals across fast-food restaurants, transport hubs and other hospitality venues.
The kiosks are intended to accelerate ordering, reduce queues, take card payments and allow customers to browse menus and customise meals without assistance. For the restaurant operator they can increase customer throughput, reduce demands on counter staff, collect sales data and encourage additional purchases through prominent meal upgrades, extras and promotional offers.
However, the experience can feel impersonal and user unfriendly, particularly when several customers are navigating unfamiliar menus simultaneously. Ordering may involve passing through numerous screens, locating products within categories, rejecting optional extras, checking allergen information, selecting collection options and completing a contactless payment before receiving an order number.
Older people, customers with limited digital confidence, visitors with impaired vision or dexterity, people who struggle with written English and travellers under time pressure may find the process confusing or inaccessible. Glare, small text, unclear navigation, timeouts, payment failures and printers that do not issue a receipt can add frustration. The tall fixed screens and lack of seating may also present practical barriers for some disabled users.
Although staff assistance is reportedly available at the northbound Burger King, the image conveys a system in which customers are largely left to work through the electronic ordering process themselves. A staffed counter remains important for accessibility, cash users, complex dietary questions and anyone unable or unwilling to use a touchscreen.
Warwick Services, M40 between Junctions 12 and 13, Banbury Road, Ashorne, Warwickshire, CV35 0AA, En
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_1851,AWS AI promotion,AWS,AI,promotion,ferris,wheel,Silverstone Circuit,Northamptonshire,England,UK,motorsport,visitors,summer,technology,Formula,One,cloud,computing,data,artificial,intelligence,marketing,sponsorship,event,activation,innovation,spectators,fan,zone
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F0K3EW - . AWS AI promotion beside a ferris wheel at Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire, England, UK. Photographed on 3 July 2026. The recorded location is Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire NN12 8TN, England, UK. The event scene shows motorsport visitors near a branded attraction area beneath a bright summer sky, combining technology promotion with the festival atmosphere of a major race weekend. AWS is a prominent technology partner in Formula One and uses motorsport events to demonstrate cloud computing, data and artificial intelligence applications. Silverstone Circuit occupies a former Second World War RAF airfield and hosted the first Formula One World Championship race in 1950. It remains the home of the British Grand Prix and one of the UK's most important motorsport venues, combining historic track heritage with continually upgraded spectator, hospitality and safety infrastructure. For cloud computing, the historical context is that digital technology moved from specialist computing into everyday business infrastructure as cloud services replaced many locally managed systems
Large technology companies increasingly market computing power and software through event sponsorship and public branding. Looking at trackside, the longer history is that motor racing venues combine sport with engineering, hospitality and large-scale event management
Circuit buildings, grandstands and temporary branding can change rapidly as safety standards, sponsorship and commercial expectations evolve. For cloud computing, the 2026 context is that artificial intelligence remains one of the fastest-moving areas of business investment, alongside debate about copyright, energy use, employment, safety and regulation. In 2026, trackside remains relevant because modern motorsport is also shaped by sustainability, hybrid technology, sponsorship and digital fan engagement, making trackside commercial development part of the wider business of racing.
Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire NN12 8TN, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_1555,Plentific Staithe,exhibition,stand,presentation,UK,housing,conference,delegates,speaker,social,technology,property,management,associations,trade,professional,networking,digital,transformation,proptech,software,suppliers,sector,events,audience,business,repairs,services,Manchester Central,England,Manchester,city centre
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EX1RBY - . Plentific Staithe exhibition stand and presentation at a UK housing conference and exhibition, Manchester Central, England. Photographed on 24 June 2026. The recorded location is Manchester Central, England, United Kingdom. Delegates sit around tables and listen to a speaker in a large exhibition hall surrounded by housing-sector suppliers and branded stands. Plentific is associated with property operations and repairs technology, while the conference environment demonstrates how housing organisations, suppliers and professionals exchange ideas, view new products and discuss service improvement. The busy hall, seated audience and presentation area give a clear sense of an active business-to-business event. Within the history of housing, housing photographs document changing ideas about density, tenure, architecture and neighbourhood design
Tower blocks, suburban estates, converted industrial buildings and private apartment schemes each represent different responses to demand for homes in particular periods. In relation to collections, historical context shows that museums turn objects into interpreted history, while archives preserve documents that may have little value until researchers connect them with people, buildings or events
Interiors therefore record both collections and changing curatorial practice. Against the 2026 backdrop for housing, debate about housing focuses not only on numbers but also energy performance, building safety, infrastructure and the balance between social, affordable and market homes
Development photographs can illustrate how those policies translate into physical change. As of 2026, the position for collections is that libraries and museums continue to operate as community hubs, visitor attractions and sources of digital access, while funding pressures encourage partnerships, volunteering and new uses for historic buildings. Further subject-specific language includes residential development, apartments, and flats.
Manchester Central, England, United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,IMG_0309,Silverstone F1 GP 2026,app,tickets,British Grand Prix,iPhone,Union Jack,UK,Silverstone,Formula,1,motorsport,Friday,Saturday,Sunday,July,2026,smartphone,digital,ticketing,F1,fans,race,weekend,practice,qualifying,Grand,Prix,spectator,access,technology,booking,fraud,concerns,buyer,buyers,tout,touts
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EPRNGT - Silverstone F1 GP 2026 app tickets for the British Grand Prix displayed on an iPhone over a Union Jack in the UK. The smartphone screen shows upcoming Formula 1 British Grand Prix passes for Friday 3 July, Saturday 4 July and Sunday 5 July 2026 at Silverstone, with the Formula 1 logo, event artwork, ticket dates and brightly coloured day panels visible in the mobile wallet-style interface. The close-up photograph provides a clear editorial illustration of how spectators now receive and manage admission to major motorsport events digitally rather than relying on printed paper tickets. It is suitable for coverage of Formula 1, the British Grand Prix, Silverstone Circuit, motorsport fans, race weekend tickets, mobile apps, digital ticketing, sporting events, spectator access, event technology, F1 tourism, online booking and the commercial experience of attending a Grand Prix. The Union Jack background reinforces the British setting while the three consecutive event dates communicate the full race-weekend format, from Friday practice through Saturday qualifying to Sunday's Grand Prix. The image can also illustrate stories about ticket prices, digital wallets, smartphone dependence at events and the increasing digitisation of spectator access to major sport.
Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,IMG_0310,Silverstone F1 GP 2026,Saturday,Sunday,mobile,tickets,motorsport,app,iPhone,UK,Silverstone,Formula,1,2026,July,digital,ticketing,admission,F1,fans,race,weekend,qualifying,sports,technology,event,booking,tourism,spectator,access,Union,Jack,fraud,touts,ticket
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EPRNH0 - Silverstone F1 GP 2026 Saturday and Sunday mobile tickets displayed in a motorsport app on an iPhone in the UK. The screen shows two upcoming event passes for the Formula 1 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, one for Saturday 4 July 2026 and another for Sunday 5 July 2026, with colourful Formula 1 event graphics and day labels clearly visible. The phone is photographed against a Union Jack background, strongly linking the digital tickets to the British Grand Prix. The image is suitable for editorial coverage of Formula 1, Silverstone, British Grand Prix 2026, motorsport tickets, mobile ticketing, smartphone apps, digital admission, F1 fans, race weekends, event booking, sports technology, Grand Prix tourism, ticket prices and the increasing use of app-based passes at major sporting events. The Saturday and Sunday entries also illustrate the multi-day structure of a Formula 1 weekend, where qualifying and supporting activity lead into race day. The close composition places the mobile interface and event dates at the centre of the image, making it useful for stories about attending Silverstone, digital ticket delivery, spectator access, motorsport travel and the commercial experience surrounding one of Britain's biggest annual sporting events.
Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,IMG_0315,Digital,rail,ticket,iPhone,Warrington Bank Quay,London Euston,journey,West Coast Main Line,UK,smartphone,mobile,railway,train,e-ticket,barcode,scannable,passenger,travel,app,booking,fares,intercity,commuting,technology,station,barriers,paperless,transport,British,online,WBQ,EUS
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EPRNH2 - Digital rail ticket displayed on an iPhone for a Warrington Bank Quay to London Euston journey on the West Coast Main Line in the UK. The smartphone screen shows the familiar mobile railway ticket layout with origin and destination codes, passenger and ticket details and a large scannable Aztec-style barcode used at station barriers and by train staff. The phone is photographed over a printed railway timetable or route document, reinforcing the contrast between traditional paper railway information and modern app-based ticketing. The image is suitable for editorial coverage of digital rail tickets, mobile travel, British railways, Warrington Bank Quay, London Euston, the West Coast Main Line, smartphone apps, e-tickets, train fares, rail booking, passenger technology, QR and barcode scanning, ticket barriers, contactless travel, railway modernisation and the move away from printed tickets. It can also illustrate stories about rail fare complexity, online ticket retailers, commuting, intercity journeys and passenger convenience. The close-up composition makes the ticket details and mobile interface the principal subject while the historic-looking railway paperwork beneath provides a useful visual comparison between old and new methods of planning and paying for train travel.
United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,machinery,exhibit,historic,textile,equipment,rope yarn,production,heritage,Scotland,technology,manufacturing,process,vintage,mill,Scottish textile,industry,mechanical,rope laying,preserved,industrial machine,Dundee museum,collection,Jutopolis history,working-class manufacturing heritage,industrial revolution engineering,historic factory automation,British mechanical innovation,museum technology display,traditional cordage manufacture,textile trade interpretation,machine-age craftsmanship,economic history,Tay-side industrial development,women mill workers history,raw fibre processing,export packaging materials,social history
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ENF22Y - Preserved Jenny Spinner, or string-laying machine, is displayed at Verdant Works, Dundee's museum of jute and industrial history. The substantial green-painted machine contains bobbin shafts, chains, gears, pulleys and a long conveyor fitted with rows of small projecting spikes. These components guided and arranged strands of yarn as they were combined into string or light rope for commercial and industrial use.
The machine was manufactured by Fairbairn, Lawson, Combe, Barbour Ltd of Leeds and Belfast and dates from 1937. It formed part of a collection of jute-processing machinery used for teaching spinning and weaving at Dundee College of Technology before entering the Dundee Heritage Trust collection. Its survival provides a detailed physical record of the engineering involved in transforming spun jute yarn into finished cordage.
Jute was once central to Dundee's economy and identity, earning the city the nickname Jutopolis. Imported raw fibre was softened, carded, spun, woven and manufactured into sacks, carpet backing, twine and other durable products. Machinery such as the Jenny Spinner demonstrates how repetitive manual processes were mechanised to achieve more consistent output and greater production speed.
The close view reveals the machine's robust steel construction, exposed drive systems and practical factory design. A historic image of rope or twine production is displayed behind the equipment, helping visitors understand its original function. The exhibit supports editorial coverage of industrial archaeology, textile technology, Scottish manufacturing, natural fibres, factory labour, engineering education and the preservation of Dundee's internationally significant jute heritage
Verdant Works, West Henderson's Wynd, Dundee, DD1 5BT, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A9992,Jute,lapping,machine,J H Riley and Co,Bury,Verdant Works Museum,Dundee,Scotland,UK,textile,machinery,cast-iron,flywheels,gears,rollers,engineering,manufacturing,industrial,factory,equipment,heritage,mechanical,technology,mills,history,museum,fibre,production
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ENF25M - Jute lapping machine by J H Riley and Co of Bury displayed at Verdant Works Museum in Dundee, Scotland, UK. The large cast-iron textile machine has exposed flywheels, gears, rollers and mechanical linkages which demonstrate the heavy engineering involved in preparing jute fibre for later stages of manufacture. Lapping machinery formed part of the sequence of industrial processes used to turn raw jute into a more even material suitable for further drawing, spinning and weaving. Verdant Works preserves working and static machinery associated with Dundee's once dominant jute industry and interprets both the technology and the lives of mill workers. The photograph is suitable for editorial coverage of jute manufacturing, textile machinery, industrial engineering, Victorian technology, factory equipment, Dundee heritage, Bury engineering, mechanical design, mills, manufacturing history, museum collections and the Industrial Revolution. The open framework of the machine reveals belts, wheels and moving components that would normally have operated continuously in a noisy working mill, making this a detailed technical image of historic textile production equipment.
Verdant Works Museum, West Henderson's Wynd, Dundee DD1 5BT, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: Gotonysmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,IMG_1049,Speedy Moisture Tester,Thomas Ashworth & Co Ltd,Burnley,historic,measuring,instrument,moisture,tester,scientific,apparatus,balance,equipment,grain,soil,sand,samples,Lancashire,engineering,technology,manufacturing,museum,industrial,testing,portable,brass,metal,jute,fibre,fibres,Dundee
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EW7BX3 - . Speedy Moisture Dundee Jute Tester made by Thomas Ashworth & Co Ltd of Burnley, displayed as a historic measuring instrument. Photographed on 9 June 2026. The recorded location is Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. The apparatus includes a balance mechanism, pan and associated equipment used to determine the moisture content of grain, soils, sand or other samples. Speedy Moisture Testers were manufactured in Lancashire and became portable field-testing devices used in agriculture, construction and materials testing. The brass and metal components mounted within a box give the object a distinctive early twentieth-century technical appearance. Seen through historic machinery, the earlier context is that factories, mills, mines and workshops record the technologies and labour that powered industrial expansion
Machinery, inscriptions and specialist buildings are valuable evidence of engineering practice, working conditions and regional industries. For public history, the Historical.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>historical context is that public libraries expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as part of civic education, later adding computers, events and digital services while retaining their role as shared community space. Looking at engineering, the longer history is that scientific and electronic equipment becomes historical quickly because components and interfaces are replaced by newer generations
Circuit boards, laboratory machines and instruments make visible the hardware beneath contemporary automated systems. The 2026 relevance of historic machinery comes from the fact that former industrial sites continue to be repurposed for housing, offices and cultural attractions
Historic machinery and surviving fabric therefore illustrate both deindustrialisation and current debates about adaptive reuse, local identity and heritage-led regeneration. Additional subject language includes library service, cultural institution, and historical records.
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,bus station,urban,transport,interchange,National Express,Manchester,Chorlton Street,IMG_0508,Passengers,Manchester Coach Station,ticket,gates,England,UK,coach,travel,public,intercity,bus,barriers,terminal,hub,tourism,ticketing,technology,city-centre
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJD0C5 - . Passengers at Manchester stock-photo/gotonysmith-Coach.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Coach Station ticket gates on Chorlton Street, Manchester, England, UK. Photographed on 23 May 2026. The recorded location is Manchester Coach Station, Chorlton Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK. The terminal interior shows travellers moving through automated barriers beneath bay signs and passenger information displays, with seating and waiting areas visible beyond. The everyday scene can illustrate stories about domestic tourism, public transport capacity, ticketing technology, accessibility, coach fares, passenger numbers and the continuing role of long-distance bus services as a relatively affordable alternative to rail and car travel. For the story of commuter travel, it is useful to note that urban buses and local transport connect residential areas with town centres, employment, hospitals and stations
Their routes provide a practical map of how communities function and how transport policy changes over time. The historical setting for passenger railway is that stations are both functional transport interchanges and pieces of civic architecture
Their canopies, footbridges, booking halls, signal boxes and signage reveal how passenger expectations and railway technology changed from steam-era operation to today's increasingly digital network. Seen through community history, the earlier context is that local place names and small landmarks can be as significant to community history as nationally famous buildings
Streets, neighbourhood businesses and informal attractions offer reference points that may vanish during redevelopment or rebranding. For present-day commuter travel, 2026 is significant because bus reliability, affordability and network coverage remain important , particularly for people without cars and for access to employment, education and healthcare. Its associated themes also include rolling stock, train service, rail infrastructure, and station architecture.
Manchester Coach Station, Chorlton Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,255A9235,Leeds bands,music,selection,screen,Sound Leisure,jukebox,Leeds,West Yorkshire,England,UK,digital,touchscreen,retro,British,manufacturing,heritage,bands,artists,technology,pubs,bars,entertainment
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EGWJTA - . Leeds bands music selection screen on a Sound Leisure jukebox in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. Photographed on 16 May 2026. The digital touchscreen is framed within a traditional wooden jukebox cabinet and displays multiple music choices associated with bands and artists from Leeds. The combination of modern digital control and a classic jukebox cabinet illustrates how traditional coin-operated music machines have evolved while retaining their nostalgic visual appeal. The image can support stories about Leeds bands, music tourism, jukebox manufacturing, local music heritage, retro design and the continuing popularity of curated music machines in hospitality venues. Within the history of organ stops, jukeboxes brought recorded music into cafés, pubs and leisure venues, while tape machines transformed recording and broadcasting during the mid-twentieth century
Surviving machines are now valued for design, engineering and music history. In relation to leisure venue, historical context shows that the shift from physical video media towards streaming and experience-led leisure is one of the clearest changes in recent consumer culture. Against the 2026 backdrop for organ stops, historic instruments and analogue audio equipment remain relevant to debates about preservation, repair skills and the distinctive sound and tactile experience of pre-digital music technology. As of 2026, the position for leisure venue is that experience-led leisure such as escape rooms and themed attractions competes alongside streaming and gaming for discretionary spending, making town-centre entertainment an important part of the post-retail economy. Useful subject and context terms include reel-to-reel, magnetic tape, recording equipment, organ keyboard, retro technology, sound reproduction, audio history, vintage audio, mechanical music, recording history, leisure business, experience economy, town centre leisure, and family entertainment.
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_9197,Public defibrillator,Briggate,Leeds,West Yorkshire,England,UK,AED,emergency,health,cardiac,arrest,first,aid,medical,technology,safety,community,public,shopping,city-centre
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJ1206 - . Public defibrillator off Briggate in Leeds city centre, West Yorkshire, England, UK. Photographed on 16 May 2026. The recorded location is Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. The emergency automated external defibrillator is housed in a prominent street cabinet within the busy shopping area, making potentially lifesaving equipment accessible to members of the public. Public access defibrillators are increasingly installed in high-footfall locations where rapid treatment can improve survival after sudden cardiac arrest. The historical setting for care services is that public access defibrillators reflect a newer model of community emergency response in which life-saving equipment is placed outside clinical settings for use before ambulance crews arrive. Seen through clinical services, the earlier context is that the National Health Service, founded in 1948, created a universal healthcare system whose hospitals, ambulances, clinics and public-information campaigns became familiar features of British life
Medical technology has continually changed the appearance of those services. For urban commerce, the historical context is that high streets evolved from traditional specialist traders and municipal markets towards department stores, chain retailers, shopping centres and mixed food-and-leisure destinations
Surviving shopfronts and signs document that shift in local economies and consumer habits. In the 2026 discussion of care services, adult social care remains under intense pressure from staffing, funding and rising demand, while accessibility and independent living are central policy concerns. The 2026 relevance of clinical services comes from the fact that seasonal vaccination continues to be a major public-health tool , particularly for influenza and respiratory illness among higher-risk groups
Campaign material illustrates how health services encourage uptake through everyday communication.
Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,test,tests,testing,diagnosis,diagnostics,IMG_9613,NHS,Warrington MRI Centre,entrance,sign,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,hospital,MRI,scanner,healthcare,medical,diagnostic,imaging,patients,health,public,technology,services,appointments,waiting,lists,medical centre,scan,facility,centre,cancer
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJD0J6 - . NHS Warrington MRI Centre entrance sign at Warrington Hospital, Cheshire, England, UK. Photographed on 28 April 2026. The recorded location is Warrington Hospital, Lovely Lane, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. The blue and white directional sign identifies the MRI imaging facility and points patients and visitors towards the entrance. Magnetic resonance imaging is widely used to create detailed images of organs, soft tissue and other structures without using ionising radiation. The close view of the NHS-branded sign provides a clear generic healthcare image for stories about hospital waiting lists, diagnostic capacity, investment in scanners, cancer and neurological diagnosis, medical appointments and pressures on NHS diagnostic services. For the story of medical technology, it is useful to note that the National Health Service, founded in 1948, created a universal healthcare system whose hospitals, ambulances, clinics and public-information campaigns became familiar features of British life
Medical technology has continually changed the appearance of those services. The historical setting for signage is that wayfinding developed from painted names and fingerposts into standardised road, rail and public-information systems
Local signs still retain distinctive typography or bilingual wording even within increasingly consistent national standards. Seen through streetscape, the earlier context is that place-based photography helps document the relationship between named locations and the people or businesses associated with them, especially where formal architectural records are limited. For present-day medical technology, 2026 is significant because seasonal vaccination continues to be a major public-health tool , particularly for influenza and respiratory illness among higher-risk groups
Campaign material illustrates how health services encourage uptake through everyday communication.
Warrington Hospital, Lovely Lane, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,new,3.26,Italy,Italian,airport,non-Schengen,common,third,country,fingerprint,scanning,facial,recognition,Entry Exit System,EES,security,smart,border,borders,technology,passenger,processing,registration,delays,queues,scanner,gate,Polizia di Frontiera,post Brexit,post-Brexit,identity verification,passenger flow,arrivals hall,departures,vision,surveillance,passport control
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ECEEBD - Blue automated passport control eGates stand in a glass-walled Italian airport border control area for non-Schengen passengers, showing the increasingly digital nature of European travel, immigration and frontier management. The Reco 3.26 branded machines are used for automated border control and passenger flow management, with passport scanning, biometric identity checks and registration points linked to facial images and fingerprints. For travellers from outside the EU and Schengen area, including many UK passengers after Brexit, the first-use enrolment process can mean extra time at the border as a digital record is created and checked. The scene is commercially useful for illustrating airport queues, travel delays, biometric surveillance, immigration technology, border security, smart borders, post-Brexit travel, EU Entry/Exit System processes, passenger processing and the practical reality of automation in busy terminals. The equipment is clean, blue and modern, but the image also hints at the tension between faster digital journeys and the inconvenience caused when new systems require unfamiliar steps, staff guidance or repeated registration. Visible scanners, kiosks, barriers and eGate lanes create a documentary view of contemporary airport infrastructure rather than a staged technology display. The indoor lighting, polished floor and queue barriers suggest a controlled terminal environment, likely at arrivals or departures where non-Schengen travellers pass immigration checks. The photograph has strong editorial value for stories on EES implementation, biometric data privacy, passport control modernisation, identity verification, Schengen external borders, airport capacity, holiday travel disruption and the everyday use of computer vision in public-sector security. It can also support broader features on border automation, data protection, UK and EU travel rules, delayed passengers, airline pressure and changing international air travel.
Blue Reco 3.26 automated passport eGates at an Italian non-Schengen airport border, using biometrics
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_0175,7 Dreams Legend,gaming,machine,Octavian Gaming,Sicily,Italy,slot,gambling,electronic,betting,technology,arcade,leisure,amusement,digital,game,controls,entertainment,indoor,cabinet
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJ11XX - . 7 Dreams Legend gaming machine by Octavian Gaming in Sicily, Italy. Photographed on 21 April 2026. The brightly illuminated electronic gambling machine features colourful game graphics, a bank of controls and branded cabinet artwork within an indoor leisure or gaming setting. The machine represents the digital evolution of traditional fruit machines and can illustrate stories about gambling regulation, gaming technology, consumer entertainment, amusement venues, machine design and the presence of electronic gambling products in hospitality and leisure environments. For the story of printed circuit board, it is useful to note that scientific and electronic equipment becomes historical quickly because components and interfaces are replaced by newer generations
Circuit boards, laboratory machines and instruments make visible the hardware beneath contemporary automated systems. The historical setting for themed attraction is that leisure businesses are highly responsive to fashion
Names, signs and interiors can therefore become strong markers of a particular period even when the underlying premises remain in use. Seen through betting, the earlier context is that the growth of online gambling changed the role of physical premises but did not remove casinos, slot venues and bookmakers from many British high streets. For present-day printed circuit board, 2026 is significant because scientific research relies heavily on automated instrumentation, data processing and specialist facilities, so older laboratory machines provide useful comparison with the pace of technical change. In the 2026 discussion of themed attraction, experience-led leisure such as escape rooms and themed attractions competes alongside streaming and gaming for discretionary spending, making town-centre entertainment an important part of the post-retail economy. Closely connected keywords include PCB, electronics, transistor, resistor, capacitor, and laboratory equipment.
Sicily, Italy
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_0017,solar,PV,photovoltaic,arrays,panels,house,Thelwall,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,renewable,energy,electricity,rooftop,domestic,residential,property,home,green,technology,decarbonisation,net zero,efficiency,retrofit,generation,household,roof,low-carbon
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EDKYN2 - Twin solar photovoltaic PV arrays fitted to a brick-built suburban house in Thelwall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. Roof-mounted solar panels are visible on both the main pitched roof and the lower garage or extension roof beneath a bright blue sky, with mature garden trees around the property. The photograph is suitable for editorial coverage of domestic renewable energy, rooftop solar power, household electricity generation, energy efficiency, home retrofitting, net zero, decarbonisation, green technology and residential property improvements. Solar PV installations allow householders to generate electricity from sunlight and can reduce reliance on grid power, particularly when combined with battery storage, smart tariffs or other low-carbon technologies. The scene can illustrate stories about installation costs, payback periods, energy bills, government incentives, home energy upgrades, planning considerations, property values and the growing visibility of renewable-energy technology on ordinary UK homes.
Thelwall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,car,Cisco,MCL38,Chrome,2024,F1 car,Oscar Piastri,papaya,orange,F1 display,cars,Never Drink and Drive,fanzone,responsible,drinking,road safety,message,Jack Daniels,sponsorship,motorsport,exhibition,technology,British motorsport,profile,elite motor racing,alcohol awareness campaign,drink-driving prevention,commercial sports sponsorship,international motorsport,automotive engineering,high-performance,vehicle,racing heritage,corporate partnership,branded exhibition,road safety education,Chrome branding Cisco sponsor Dewalt logo Pirelli tyres
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EE4M68 - A McLaren MCL38 Formula One car displayed at Silverstone during a British Grand Prix event, presented in the team's distinctive papaya orange and black colour scheme. The side view reveals the sculpted aerodynamic bodywork, front and rear wings, halo cockpit protection, Pirelli tyres and prominent sponsor branding including Chrome, Cisco, Dewalt and Jack Daniel's. The display plinth carries the responsible drinking message Never Drink and Drive , while spectators gather around the covered exhibition area beneath a grey, showery summer sky.
McLaren introduced the MCL38 as its challenger for the 2024 FIA Formula One World Championship, with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri sharing driving duties. The car became one of the most successful McLarens of the modern era, earning six Grand Prix victories and helping the team secure the 2024 Constructors' Championship, its first for 26 years. It scored points at every event and completed the season without a mechanical retirement across the 24 Grands Prix and six Sprint races.
The alcohol-awareness wording reflects Jack Daniel's role as an official McLaren Formula One Team partner and places a clear road-safety message alongside the glamour, speed and commercial sponsorship of elite motorsport. It creates a useful contrast between controlled competition on a closed racing circuit and the dangers of alcohol-impaired driving on public roads.
This editorial image is suitable for themes involving Formula One technology, McLaren racing heritage, British motorsport, responsible drinking campaigns, road safety, alcohol sponsorship, commercial partnerships and fan engagement. The close profile view highlights the MCL38's low stance, exposed wheels and complex aerodynamic surfaces, while the crowd and temporary event setting document the promotional displays surrounding a major international race weekend
Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, NN12 8TN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,tickets,in,card,cards,BR,staff,closing,ticket offices,losing,losses,screen,message,technology,digital,issuing,issue,printer,not,working,ATM,for,buying,train ticket,train tickets,British Railways,public,transport,cost,expensive,blue screen,cannot,print
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T3EFT2 - This editorial photograph captures Out of Order Northern Rail Ticket Machine, in Warrington, Cheshire, North West England, UK, WA1. The row metadata places the subject at Warrington Central, Winwick Street, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 7FW. The spreadsheet date indicates 18 October 2023, so the picture can also work as a time-specific archive record. Plainly, the image is useful because it shows Warrington, Out of Order, Northern Rail, Ticket, machine, rail, railway, Central, with search-relevant terms including Warrington, Out of Order, Northern Rail, Ticket, machine, rail, railway, Central, station, contactless, Cheshire, England, UK, tickets. Transport pictures are especially useful because they show the infrastructure and passenger experience behind policy debates about connectivity, reliability and regional investment. Warrington sits between Liverpool and Manchester and is often used as a practical example of a North West town balancing commuter growth, older industrial roots, retail change, new development, road traffic, local services and community identity. Transport images are useful because they show the lived reality behind policy debates about public transport, reliability, fares, regional connectivity, disabled access, climate goals, commuter patterns and the social value of buses and railways. The image can work as a lead picture, a supporting cutaway, a contextual inset or a visual metaphor for wider stories about place, services, consumer behaviour, heritage, transport, culture and public life. Historically and socially, this kind of image can help connect past and present: older streets, civic institutions, transport systems, shops, signs, political messages or public services are not frozen museum pieces, but part of how people understand modern life, local identity and economic change.
Warrington Central, Winwick Street, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 7FW
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Keywords: 2023,July,British,UK,England,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,silver,NN12 8TL,NN12,RAF Silverstone,Northampton,electric,vertical,takeoff,take off,airplane,company,sustainable,high,speed,VTOL,eVTOL,new,technology,German,aerospace,GmbH,air taxi,service,prototype,Tavistock Development Company,runway,parked,F1,GP,Grand Prix,Carlos Morgado
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RCC5RK - Lilium GmbH is a German aerospace company which is the developer of the Lilium Jet, an electrically powered personal air vehicle capable of VTOL flight.
History
Lilium GmbH was founded in 2015 by four engineers and PhD students at the Technical University of Munich, Daniel Wiegand, Sebastian Born, Matthias Meiner and Patrick Nathen.
The Lilium Eagle, an unmanned two-seat proof of concept model, performed its maiden flight at the airfield Mindelheim-Mattsies near Munich in Germany on 20 April 2017. The Lilium Jet five-seater prototype Phoenix first flew in May 2019. The prototype was powered by 36 electrically-powered jacketed-propellers mounted in movable flaps that can point down for vertical takeoff and gradually moved to a horizontal position to provide forward thrust. The five-seat Lilium Jet is capable of achieving a top speed of 300km/h and targets a range of 300 km
In January 2020 Aerokurier published a report which stated that Lilium could not meet its stated aircraft performance goals and would only be able to fly for two minutes at a time. The anonymously-authored report was dismissed by the company but later backed up by four German aerospace academics who wrote that Lilium was using brilliant PR to create an illusory world to attract investors.
In February 2021, Forbes published an article citing a number of former employees that stated the development of Lilium's aircraft was dogged by problems and that the flight test campaign made minimal progress
Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, UK, NN12 8TL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,2023,event,public,sector,technology,affordable,annual,arched,area,association,audience,authority,branding,building,business,central,chartered,cih,civica,convention,corporate,crowd,debate,delegate,delegates,discussion,england,european,festival,hall,homes,industry,affordable homes policy debate,property technology suppliers,tenant services innovation,retrofit sustainability discussion,professional keynote presentation
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F0W4WG - A speaker addresses a substantial seated audience during a live conference session at Housing 2023 inside Manchester Central Convention Complex in Manchester, England. Photographed from behind and slightly to the side of the presenter, the wide scene shows the raised stage, transparent lectern, microphone cables and floor-mounted confidence monitor, with rows of housing professionals listening from tiered benches and chairs. A busy trade exhibition continues immediately beyond the open theatre, where supplier stands, digital screens and prominent industry branding include Civica, MRI and other organisations serving housing associations and local authorities.
Housing 2023 was held from 27 to 29 June 2023 and brought together senior executives, operational managers, policymakers, consultants, technology providers and public-sector professionals from across UK social and affordable housing. The annual event combined keynote presentations, policy discussions, specialist seminar stages, networking opportunities and a large commercial exhibition. Conference themes reflected the major pressures facing landlords and residents, including housing supply, affordability, building safety, consumer regulation, tenant satisfaction, damp and mould, decarbonisation, retrofit programmes, digital transformation, data management and improving frontline services.
The photograph captures the scale and atmosphere of a major professional gathering, with delegates concentrating on the speaker while conversations and exhibitor activity continue around the surrounding marketplace. The open session format places debate and learning directly within the exhibition hall, illustrating the close relationship between public policy, housing operations, professional development and supplier marketing. Manchester Central's distinctive curved former railway-station roof forms a dramatic industrial backdrop, crossed by suspended lighting rigs, cables, banners and temporary exhibition structures.
Windmill Street, Petersfield, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, M2 3GX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,train,England,UK,rail,CW2 6HR,CW2,Nantwich Road,Crewe,coin,operated,card,cards,BT,telephones,box,boxes,at,on,the,4,call,calls,emergency,use,communication,English,GB,technology,unloved,cash,open,handset,payphone,payphones,decline of public payphones,end of landline era
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R8T9G1 - Public British Telecom payphone located on platform 4 at Crewe railway station on Nantwich Road, Crewe, Cheshire. The telephone represents a once-familiar passenger facility from the period before mobile phones became widely available, when travellers relied on station payphones to contact relatives, arrange onward journeys, report delays or make urgent calls while away from home.
The image can be interpreted as a last chance to phone scene, reflecting the declining presence of public telephones across railway stations, town centres and other shared public spaces. For much of the twentieth century, coin-operated and card-operated payphones formed an important part of Britain's communications infrastructure. They offered access to telephone services for people without a home landline and provided a practical connection for passengers waiting between trains.
The payphone's location on a station platform places older telecommunications technology within a busy transport environment. Crewe has long been one of Britain's most important railway junctions, and public telephones would once have been a routine feature among waiting rooms, ticket offices, refreshment facilities and passenger information points. Their use declined sharply as personal mobile phones and smartphones became the normal means of communication.
Surviving station payphones now have historical and nostalgic interest as examples of everyday public infrastructure approaching obsolescence. They also raise questions about emergency access, digital exclusion and the continuing needs of passengers who may not own a mobile phone, have sufficient battery power or receive a reliable signal.
The photograph is suitable for editorial coverage of British Telecom, public payphones, railway station facilities, communications history, technological change, mobile phone adoption, disappearing street furniture, analogue equipment, transport heritage and the transition from shared public services to personal digita
Nantwich Road, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK, CW2 6HR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4,fuel,petrol,diesel,technology,carbon,footprint,unleaded,points,here,Warrington,WA4 6QE,filling,station,Nectar,coffee,Causeway,price,per,litre,prices,sign,entrance,exit,fuels,EG,Synergy Supreme+99 Unleaded,Synergy Supreme+ Diesel,95,Synergy Unleaded 95,Allstar,card
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R0X31R - . ESSO EG Causeway filling station - Spar,Greggs,Starbucks, Nectar Wilderspool ,Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6QE. Photographed on 8 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 Wilderspool ,Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6QE, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Cheshire, WA4, fuel, petrol, diesel, technology, carbon, footprint, unleaded, points, here, Warrington, 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.
Wilderspool ,Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6QE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,M40,J10,junction,ten,10,OX27 7RD,Oxfordshire,England,UK,vehicle,car,charge,area,charging,at,point,plug,plugged,in,connected,machine,free,vacant,dusk,evening,night,EV,electric,fast,high,power,station,green,technology,Sustainable Energy Limited,Ecotricity,supply,transition
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PGAYMJ - Gridserve Sustainable Energy Limited is a British company founded in 2017 to develop, own and operate critical infrastructure for sustainable energy production. Gridserve opened the UK's first all-electric car charging forecourt in 2020, and plans to open over 100 more over the following five years to charge electric vehicles with 100% renewable energy, supporting the UK's transition to carbon neutrality.
Acts as a vendor and comparison site for the leasing of electric vehicles with Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions, with 100 trees planted for every car leased. Leased EV customers have the full cost of charging at Gridserve electric forecourts covered.
Installs and operates a network of electric charging hubs and home chargers. A £1bn UK-wide investment is planned to build over 100 public charging stations.
operates photovoltaic power stations, also known as solar farms, supplying renewable electricity to the National Grid. The solar modules are bifacial, allowing them to harvest energy from both sides of the panel. Land at Clay Hill, Bedfordshire serves as one of the UK's first subsidy-free solar farms, coming online in 2017 and comprising 10MW of solar PV and 6MW of energy storage. A solar farm was also constructed by GRIDSERVE for Warrington Borough Council at a site near Easingwold, York
In advance of the UK mandatory phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles by 2030[8] and anticipated mass adoption of electric vehicles, Gridserve is developing a countrywide network of customer-focused forecourts that provide ultra-fast electric vehicle charging services and associated retail. Revenue and profitability are designed to derive from electricity grid balancing services and the provision of solar energy generation. However, the company pointedly does not call them service stations
the planned forecourts are intended to serve local communities, like petrol stations do, rather than serving passing trade on motorways. Facilities include convenience stores, office 'pods'etc
Cherwell Valley Moto services, M40 J10, A43, Oxfordshire, England, UK, OX27 7RD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,661-663 Knutsford Rd,Latchford East,Warrington,WA4 1J,WA4,token,coin,operated,British,brush,machine,machinery,spinning,spins,clean,cleaned,rotate,rotating,water,technology,forecourt,service station,silver,car,Hyundai,saloon,being,washed,in,an,automatic,carwash,Esso Rontec,drive-through,motorist
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2P6JJYP - . This scene at 661-663 Knutsford Rd, Latchford East, Warrington, England, UK, WA4 1J in 2023 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The frame specifically shows Silver Hyundai saloon being washed in an automatic carwash, at a service station, Esso Rontec, 661-663 Knutsford Rd, Latchford East, Warrington WA4 1J. The frame also records themes of visual archive, local character, archival record, public realm, contemporary social history, period detail, transport interchange, railway branding, changing streetscape, social history, rail mobility, commuter travel, changing land use, and before-and-after reference. From a 2025-onward perspective, decarbonisation and rail reform are closely linked to this subject, alongside the role of public transport in reducing congestion and emissions. For later comparison, the photograph preserves transport arrangements and footfall at 661-663 Knutsford Rd, Latchford East, Warrington, England, UK, WA4 1J, details that may look very different after changing commercial priorities. The wider setting retains connections with public transport network, rail modernisation, rail infrastructure, community identity, documentary photography, station environment, rail corridor, and urban rail transport. References to Latchford, Rontec, washed, station, and service give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. A later view of 661-663 Knutsford Rd, Latchford East, Warrington, England, UK, WA4 1J may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The location additionally provides evidence of decarbonisation and the reshaping of Britain's passenger railway in the mid-2020s when considered against later change at 661-663 Knutsford Rd, Latchford East, Warrington, England, UK, WA4 1J.
661-663 Knutsford Rd, Latchford East, Warrington, England, UK, WA4 1J
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,English,Scotland,Wales,Scottish,Welsh,stamp,stamps,1st class,letters,mail,Britisk,replace,replacement,regular,competition,post,delivery,and,delivered,on,franked,letter,with,barcoded,British,1st class stamp,code,technology,walksort,mailsort,postage,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M904Y9 - In February Royal Mail introduced barcodes to stamps. These will include regular ˜everyday' Definitive stamps “ the ones with the profile of HM The Queen, as well as Christmas stamps.
Each barcode is unique and an integral part of the stamp, so when using these new stamps you must keep the barcode attached otherwise they are invalid.
Stamps without a barcode can be used until 31 Jan 2023 and will continue to be sold until stocks are exhausted. Barcoded and non-barcoded stamps can be used together on one item if required.
Royal Mail are encouraging customers to use up their non-barcoded stamps before 31 Jan 2023. Where this is not possible, non-barcoded stamps can exchanged using Royal Mail's 'Swap Out' scheme.
Please note, stamps cannot be exchanged in Post Office branches
Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2SJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,circuit,circuits,board,soldering,word,electronic,tech,technology,process,processes,world,reliant,on,chip,chips,silicon,binary,logic,PCB,printed,wiring,component,components,main,main-board,motherboard,mother,processor,AI,Artificial Intelligence,software,chatbot,chatbots,machine,learning,bot,war
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDPYAN - A printed circuit board (PCB
also printed wiring board or PWB) is a medium used in electrical and electronic engineering to connect electronic components to one another in a controlled manner. It takes the form of a laminated sandwich structure of conductive and insulating layers: each of the conductive layers is designed with an artwork pattern of traces, planes and other features (similar to wires on a flat surface) etched from one or more sheet layers of copper laminated onto and/or between sheet layers of a non-conductive substrate. Electrical components may be fixed to conductive pads on the outer layers in the shape designed to accept the component's terminals, generally by means of soldering, to both electrically connect and mechanically fasten them to it. Another manufacturing process adds vias: plated-through holes that allow interconnections between layers
The Austrian engineer Paul Eisler invented the printed circuit as part of a radio set while working in the UK around 1936. In 1941 a multi-layer printed circuit was used in German magnetic influence naval mines
Around 1943 the USA began to use the technology on a large scale to make proximity fuzes for use in World War II. Such fuzes required an electronic circuit that could withstand being fired from a gun, and could be produced in quantity
Motorola was an early leader in bringing the process into consumer electronics, announcing in August 1952 the adoption of plated circuits in home radios after six years of research and a $1M investment
Originally, every electronic component had wire leads, and a PCB had holes drilled for each wire of each component. The component leads were then inserted through the holes and soldered to the copper PCB traces. This method of assembly is called through-hole construction. In 1949, Moe Abramson and Stanislaus F. Danko of the United States Army Signal Corps developed the Auto-Sembly process in which component leads were inserted into a copper foil interconnection
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,circuit,circuits,board,soldering,word,electronic,tech,technology,process,processes,world,reliant,on,chip,chips,silicon,binary,logic,PCB,printed,wiring,component,components,main,main-board,motherboard,mother,processor,tracks,integrated,design,thinking,Kanban,agile,development,sys
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDPYB0 - A printed circuit board (PCB
also printed wiring board or PWB) is a medium used in electrical and electronic engineering to connect electronic components to one another in a controlled manner. It takes the form of a laminated sandwich structure of conductive and insulating layers: each of the conductive layers is designed with an artwork pattern of traces, planes and other features (similar to wires on a flat surface) etched from one or more sheet layers of copper laminated onto and/or between sheet layers of a non-conductive substrate. Electrical components may be fixed to conductive pads on the outer layers in the shape designed to accept the component's terminals, generally by means of soldering, to both electrically connect and mechanically fasten them to it. Another manufacturing process adds vias: plated-through holes that allow interconnections between layers
The Austrian engineer Paul Eisler invented the printed circuit as part of a radio set while working in the UK around 1936. In 1941 a multi-layer printed circuit was used in German magnetic influence naval mines
Around 1943 the USA began to use the technology on a large scale to make proximity fuzes for use in World War II. Such fuzes required an electronic circuit that could withstand being fired from a gun, and could be produced in quantity
Motorola was an early leader in bringing the process into consumer electronics, announcing in August 1952 the adoption of plated circuits in home radios after six years of research and a $1M investment
Originally, every electronic component had wire leads, and a PCB had holes drilled for each wire of each component. The component leads were then inserted through the holes and soldered to the copper PCB traces. This method of assembly is called through-hole construction. In 1949, Moe Abramson and Stanislaus F. Danko of the United States Army Signal Corps developed the Auto-Sembly process in which component leads were inserted into a copper foil interconnection
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,circuit,circuits,board,soldering,word,electronic,tech,technology,process,processes,world,reliant,on,chip,chips,silicon,binary,logic,PCB,printed,wiring,component,components,main,main-board,motherboard,mother,processor,Information,Technology,build,building,software,engineering,comms,equipment
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDPYB3 - A printed circuit board (PCB
also printed wiring board or PWB) is a medium used in electrical and electronic engineering to connect electronic components to one another in a controlled manner. It takes the form of a laminated sandwich structure of conductive and insulating layers: each of the conductive layers is designed with an artwork pattern of traces, planes and other features (similar to wires on a flat surface) etched from one or more sheet layers of copper laminated onto and/or between sheet layers of a non-conductive substrate. Electrical components may be fixed to conductive pads on the outer layers in the shape designed to accept the component's terminals, generally by means of soldering, to both electrically connect and mechanically fasten them to it. Another manufacturing process adds vias: plated-through holes that allow interconnections between layers
The Austrian engineer Paul Eisler invented the printed circuit as part of a radio set while working in the UK around 1936. In 1941 a multi-layer printed circuit was used in German magnetic influence naval mines
Around 1943 the USA began to use the technology on a large scale to make proximity fuzes for use in World War II. Such fuzes required an electronic circuit that could withstand being fired from a gun, and could be produced in quantity
Motorola was an early leader in bringing the process into consumer electronics, announcing in August 1952 the adoption of plated circuits in home radios after six years of research and a $1M investment
Originally, every electronic component had wire leads, and a PCB had holes drilled for each wire of each component. The component leads were then inserted through the holes and soldered to the copper PCB traces. This method of assembly is called through-hole construction. In 1949, Moe Abramson and Stanislaus F. Danko of the United States Army Signal Corps developed the Auto-Sembly process in which component leads were inserted into a copper foil interconnection
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,rail,railway,train,trains,Black & White,CW1 2DB,1950,sepia,image,of,and,frame,electric,Edwardian,controls,transport,transportation,heritage,technology,signal boxes,system,systems,control,mechanical,electromechanical,electro,mechanics,infrastructure,preservation,museum,piece,pieces
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JWGT9G - . This dated editorial view of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The location is represented through Sepia image of electric signal box levers and frame, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK, CW1 2DB. Other connected aspects include canal heritage, trackside history, mechanical signalling, public realm, working waterway, canal transport, local character, inland navigation, contemporary social history, regional identity, everyday life, archival record, rail operations, and changing streetscape. Current relevance extends to rail reform and network modernisation, particularly through how Crewe's identity remains tied to railway engineering and operations. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into biodiversity and volunteering, not least because of how museum collections preserve working waterway history. The archival value lies partly in recording local activity and public use around Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK before altered transport patterns alters the character of the place. The wider setting retains connections with working railway heritage, community identity, industrial railway, industrial navigation, changing land use, freight wagon, inland transport history, and before-and-after reference. References to Crewe, signal, levers, electric, and frame give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. A later view of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The scene further reflects rail reform and how Crewe's identity remains tied to railway engineering and operations when considered against later change at Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK. Its period value extends to volunteering and the transition from freight transport to leisure and heritage use without losing the local specificity of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK.
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,rail,railway,train,trains,CW1 2DB,signalling,signalbox,BR,British Rail,British,railways,engineering,technology,interior,inside,of,a,signal box,at,Crewe,major,town,and,LNWR,interchange,heritage,history,historic,antique,mechanical
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JWGT9J - . This location-specific image from Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB 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 Inside of a signal box at Crewe a major railway town and interchange,, Cheshire, England, UK, CW1 2DB. The setting additionally reflects changing streetscape, social story.htm Target=_Blank>history, architectural character, urban fabric, adaptive reuse, changing land use, freight wagon, signal-box architecture, period architecture, local character, local history, before-and-after reference, built heritage, and documentary photography. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with station investment, decarbonisation and the contrast between mechanical railway systems and digital signalling. The modern context includes continuing discussion of planning, public-realm investment and the value of reusing existing buildings rather than wholesale demolition. The archival value lies partly in recording landscape treatment and surrounding development around Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB before closure or conversion alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include everyday life, public realm, regional identity, period detail, rail operations, community identity, urban regeneration, and rail transport history. The combination of interchange, major, Crewe, railway, and signal anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. A later view of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Another useful connection is station investment and the contrast between mechanical railway systems and digital signalling as part of the longer story of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB. It also preserves details of everyday use as part of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB's history.
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,rail,railway,train,trains,label,labels,labelled,sepia,view,of,Victorian,inside,indicator,indicators,Station A,station,A,Horse landing,shunt,SDG,siding,sidings,transport,old,electro-mechanical,DN,down,through,main,technology,CW1 2DB
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JWGT9M - . This dated editorial view of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The photograph centres on Sepia view of signal box interior, Station A, Horse landing, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK, CW1 2DB. The image also relates to rail operations, industrial railway, public realm, social history, local character, public transport stop, before-and-after reference, changing land use, station environment, historic rolling stock, local mobility, passenger information, roadside transit, and freight wagon. The wider contemporary story combines station investment, rail reform and the role of rail in lower-carbon regional transport. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with accessibility, service frequency and how local bus services affect access to work, education and healthcare. The image fixes transport arrangements and footfall within Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against closure or conversion. The location also brings in bus route infrastructure, community identity, place identity, regional identity, passenger transport, bus infrastructure, local history, and railway heritage. Elements such as signal, Crewe, interior, Sepia, and Station add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Its period value extends to station investment and the contrast between mechanical railway systems and digital signalling when considered against later change at Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB. The image fixes period character before later change alters the scene. It also preserves a trace of local identity as a date-specific reference.
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,rail,railway,train,trains,at,a,red,yellow,big,old,inside,interior,heritage,technology,signal boxes,system,systems,control,mechanical,electromechanical,electro,mechanics,infrastructure,preservation,museum,piece,pieces,remember,past,pastimes,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JWGTD4 - . Made at Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The location is represented through Levers at a signal box , Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK. The frame also records themes of everyday life, changing land use, social story.htm Target=_Blank>history, archival record, freight wagon, station environment, community identity, rail transport history, place identity, public realm, before-and-after reference, historic rolling stock, industrial waterway history, and working waterway. The wider contemporary story combines rail reform, network modernisation and how Crewe's identity remains tied to railway engineering and operations. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with heritage conservation, volunteering and the value of canals as both historic infrastructure and blue-green corridors. Future viewers can use this scene from Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK to compare commercial use and occupation with whatever follows after closure or conversion. The subject also sits alongside rail operations, heritage boating, towpath landscape, canal heritage, boat museum collection, contemporary social history, navigation engineering, and working railway heritage. The recorded references to Levers, Crewe, and signal preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The scene further reflects rail reform and how Crewe's identity remains tied to railway engineering and operations as part of the longer story of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK. Its period value extends to flood resilience and how museum collections preserve working waterway history when considered against later change at Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK.
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,station,train,trains,APT,BREL,WCML,West Coast mainline,370006,Crewe,APT-P,Crewe Heritage Centre,Glasgow,London,Euston,InterCity,InterCityAPT,comfort,second class,2nd,1st,seats,passenger,passengers,information,seat,numbers,historic,history,transport,technology,plan,diagram
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JX2TAG - The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was a tilting high speed train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s, for use on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). The WCML contained many curves, and the APT pioneered the concept of active tilting to address these, a feature that has since been copied on designs around the world. The experimental APT-E achieved a new British railway speed record on 10 August 1975 when it reached 152.3 miles per hour (245.1 km/h), only to be bested by the service prototype APT-P at 162.2 miles per hour (261.0 km/h) in December 1979, a record that stood until September 2006.
Development of the service prototypes dragged on, and by the late 1970s the design had been under construction for a decade and the trains were still not ready for service. The election of Margaret Thatcher brought matters to a head and she alluded to funding cuts for the project. Facing the possibility of cancellation, BR management decided to put the prototypes into service, with the first runs along the London-Glasgow route taking place in December 1981. The result was a media circus when every problem large or small received front-page coverage and the entire project derided as an example of BR's incompetence. The trains were withdrawn from service again by the end of the month, to the great amusement of the press.
In spite of the APT's troubled history, the design was highly influential and directly inspired other high speed trains such as the Pendolino. The considerable work on electrification that was carried out hand-in-hand with APT was put to good use with newer non-tilting designs like the British Rail Class 91. The APT's tilt system was returned to the WCML on the British Rail Class 390, based on the Fiat Ferroviaria tilting train design and built by Alstom.
Crewe Heritage Centre, Vernon Way,Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lancs,Lancashire,icon,iconic,summer,in,England,UK,FY1,with,the,central,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions,NW,North West,NorthWest,lift,climb,view,from,Eiffel Tower,technology,of,Fielding & Platt,Gloucester,magnet,Victorian,blue sky,riveted,Blackpool central promenade
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRJ9TG - Blackpool Tower is a tourist attraction in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which was opened to the public on 14 May 1894. When it opened, Blackpool Tower was the tallest man made structure in the British Empire. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, it is 518 feet (158 metres) tall and is the 125th-tallest freestanding tower in the world. Blackpool Tower is also the common name for the Tower Buildings, an entertainment complex in a red-brick three-storey block that comprises the tower, Tower Circus, the Tower Ballroom, and roof gardens, which was designated a Grade I listed building in 1973.
Background
The Blackpool Tower Company was founded by London-based Standard Contract & Debenture Corporation in 1890
it bought an aquarium on Central Promenade with the intention of building a replica Eiffel Tower on the site. John Bickerstaffe, a former mayor of Blackpool, was asked to become chairman of the new company, and its shares went on sale in July 1891. The Standard Corporation kept 30,000 £1 shares and offered £150,000 worth of shares to the public
initially only two-thirds were taken up, forcing the company to ask for more cash contributions from its existing shareholders, but the poor financial situation of the company, exacerbated by the falling share price, rendered it unable to pay. Bickerstaffe, to avoid the potential collapse of the venture, bought any available shares until his original holding of £500 amounted to £20,000. He also released the Standard Corporation from its share commitments. When the Tower opened in 1894, its success justified the investment of nearly £300,000, and the company made a £30,000 profit in 1896.
Two Lancashire architects, James Maxwell and Charles Tuke, designed the tower and oversaw the laying of its foundation stone on 29 September 1891. By the time the Tower finally opened on 14 May 1894, both men had died. Heenan & Froude, then of Manchester, were appointed structural engineers, supplying and constructing both the tower,
Blackpool central promenade ,Lancashire, England, UK, FY1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,UTCW Building,Warrington,UTCW,Building,new,adult,building,Professional Standards,technical,college,WA2,Dallam Ln,WA2 7NG,Dallam,architecture,office,offices,classrooms,university,training,colleges,specialist,science,technology academy,technology,academy,teaching,lecture,lecturers,lecturer,cladding,safety,issues,closed,inspection
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JBXJMR - UTC Warrington is a purpose built technical college for 14-19 year olds. The college opened in central Warrington in September 2016.
Our key focus is to support young people prepare for the world of work, develop technical skills and to find meaningful careers. This includes apprenticeships, university, or employment. Partner organisations such as Sellafield Ltd and Manchester Metropolitan University worked together to create the UTC. The result is students have the opportunity to forge valuable relationships and experiences within the STEM industry in the North West and beyond.
UTCW's primary focus is to prepare students for a high quality career within science, technology, and engineering. Students study academic and technical subjects through a range of GCSE and post-16 qualifications. We also offer students the opportunity to focus on developing their practical skills and to work directly with the region's employers. Our dedicated personal development programme encourages students to challenge themselves by using their skills in Leadership, Organisation, Resilience, Initiative, and Communication in all aspects of their UTC career.
Dallam Ln, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 7NG
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Keywords: Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,power,plant,Woolston Weir,Hydro,water,project,gate,H20 Power Generation,three Archimedes screw turbines,turbines,fish pass,Czech company Hydropol,Czech,company,technology,green,carbon free,carbonfree,electricity generation,Woolston Eyes,Woolston,works traffic,only,SSSI,CZ,WA1,hydro,market,building,construction
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2E018GP - Woolston Weir Hydro project underway at last
long-awaited hydro-electric power installation planned at Woolston Weir since 2013 is finally getting under way.
The scheme which complements the Environment Agency flood defences is being undertaken by Czech company Hydropol and work has begun clearing the site for the arrival of the equipment starting this week.
This renewable energy electricity source will provide sufficient power for 380 typical UK homes and will effectively save in the region of 750 Tonnes of CO2 per year.
The installation will comprise of three Archimedes screw design turbines which are fish friendly. There will also be an improved and brand new fish pass allowing salmon, coarse fish and eels to pass through unharmed.
Locally available national grid connections means there is no need for pylons and there is sufficient separation from residential properties to ensure no operational noise pollution.
It is situated on the opposite bank of the river from Woolston Eyes so poses no threat to any of the wildlife on the local SSSI.
Main construction is planned between August 2020 and January 2021 with turbine delivery in early 2021 and project completion around April 2021.
Woolston, Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK, WA1 4LU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,apps,Covid,Covid19,19,Corona,virus,NHS,UK,Coronavirus App,Covid App,mobile,phone,iphone,tablet,track,trace,delays,Corona Virus,NHS Scotland,Pandemic,2020,holding smartphone,NHS Contact tracing app,failed,rollout,technology,contact tracing app,Serco,outsourced,Covid-19,C19,tracing software,Hallett,enquiry,Heather,long covid,longcovid
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C3DGYP - Associated keywords:
Auutomate,automation,Matthew Gould,Bluetooth technology,Bluetooth Signals,personal information,symptoms,risk algorithm,VMware Pivotal Labs,software firm Zuhlke,National Cyber Security Centre,NCSC,user data,devices,Android phones,privacy concerns
How was the NHS Covid-19 app planned to work?
Contact tracing apps aim to automate the human process by using the phone in your pocket. More than 30 countries are building tracing apps and the UK is no different. Its tracing software “ the NHS Covid-19 app “ has been trialled on the Isle of Wight since May 7. The island was picked as a testbed before wider rollout across the UK and more than 50,000 people on the island have downloaded the app.
It's highly unlikely the Covid-19 virus is going to go away, Jonathan Van-Tam, England's deputy chief medical officer, said as details of the app were revealed at the start of May. Testing and contact tracing is going to have to become part of our daily lives in the future.
Matthew Gould, the CEO for NHSX, the technology arm of the NHS, says the logic for creating the app is clear: it can potentially allow cases to be identified earlier and reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
The app works using Bluetooth signals. Bluetooth technology within phones, which has to be turned on at all times, broadcasts an identifier that is unique to that device. The identifier is essentially a random string of numbers that updates on a regular basis and doesn't include any personal information. When your phone is near another Bluetooth device the two will exchange their identifiers. A list of all the devices, in the form of their unique codes, are stored on your phone for 28 days. Nothing else happens unless a user indicates that they are experiencing coronavirus symptoms.
There is very limited functionality within the app. The only thing that users can do is report if they have Covid-19 symptoms. Within the app there is one central question: how are you feeling today?
Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: HotpixUk,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,letter,letters,spelt out,in,scrabble letter,word,words,software houses,software,spelt,out,apps,applications,Lenovo,Thinkpad,keys,keyboard,software sales,software salesmen,Enterprise Software Solutions,Business Software Solutions,business software,digital,solutions,technology,tech,solution,SME Solutions,data software solutions,Capita,Aareon,NEC,Northgate,Homemaster,MRI,Fujitsu,Microsoft
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BW004F - . This carefully observed view of Great Britain, UK fixes a specific place, use and moment for later historical comparison. The location is represented through Software Solutions, spelt out in scrabble letters on a keyboard, software houses,Enterprise Software Solutions, business software,SME Solutions. Other aspects of the subject include social history, local history, word association, language concept, regional identity, changing streetscape, editorial word image, visual metaphor, public realm, text-based still life, communication theme, typographic message, built environment, and contemporary history. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with trust, communication and how governance concepts underpin digital transformation and automation. The photograph fixes landscape and surrounding development within Great Britain, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against new construction. The surrounding context includes community identity, everyday Britain, social landscape, local character, period detail, letter-tile composition, archival record, and documentary photography. The combination of spelt, letters, Solutions, business, and keyboard helps anchor the frame to a recognisable activity, place or period. Around Great Britain, UK, apparently routine features can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar street details disappear. Its period value extends to trust and making an abstract idea immediately understandable in visual form within the real-world context of Great Britain, UK. The location additionally provides evidence for agreement and making an abstract idea immediately understandable in visual form within the specific setting of Great Britain, UK. A further contemporary connection is agreement and the role of clear language in business and public services as part of the longer story of Great Britain, UK.
Great Britain, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,history,historic,tech,technology,Bush Radio,electronics,electrical,plastic,circle,circular,blue,tuning,dial,MW,LW,FM,on,1960,receiving,set,cream,creme,cities,stations,transmitters,Motala,Hilversum,Home,London,Eireann,Lahti,Welsh,Moscow,LuxBG,broadcasting
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XN9B - Standalone audio stereo FM tuners are sought after for audiophile and TV/FM DX applications, especially those produced in the 1970s and early 1980s, when performance and manufacturing standards were among the highest. In many instances the tuner may be modified to improve performance. Electronics specialists and hobbyists buy, collect and restore vintage FM or AM/FM audio tuners on the secondary market. The restoration usually begins with replacing the electrolytic capacitors that may age over time. The tuner is outfitted with improved tolerance and better sounding upgraded parts. Prices have increased relative to the increasing demand for the older audio tuners. Those with the most value are the best sounding, most rare (collectible), the best DX capable (distance reception) and the known build quality of the component, as it left the factory.
Most of the early tuner models were designed and manufactured to receive only the AM broadcast band. As FM became more popular, the limitations of AM became more apparent, and FM became the primary listening focus, especially for stereo and music broadcasting.
The McIntosh MR78 is known as one of the first FM tuners precise enough to tune into a weaker station broadcast on the same frequency as another stronger signal.
In Europe, where a second AM broadcast band is used for longwave broadcasting, tuners may be fitted with both the standard medium wave and the additional longwave band. However, radios with only medium wave are also common, especially in countries where there are no longwave broadcasters. Rarely, radios are sold with only FM and longwave, but no medium wave band. Some tuners may also be equipped with one or more short wave bands.
England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,history,historic,tech,technology,Bush Radio,electronics,electrical,plastic,circle,circular,blue,tuning,dial,MW,LW,FM,on,1960,receiving,set,cream,creme,cities,stations,transmitters,Motala,Hilversum,Home,London,Eireann,Lahti,Welsh,Moscow,LuxBG,broadcasting
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XN9E - Standalone audio stereo FM tuners are sought after for audiophile and TV/FM DX applications, especially those produced in the 1970s and early 1980s, when performance and manufacturing standards were among the highest. In many instances the tuner may be modified to improve performance. Electronics specialists and hobbyists buy, collect and restore vintage FM or AM/FM audio tuners on the secondary market. The restoration usually begins with replacing the electrolytic capacitors that may age over time. The tuner is outfitted with improved tolerance and better sounding upgraded parts. Prices have increased relative to the increasing demand for the older audio tuners. Those with the most value are the best sounding, most rare (collectible), the best DX capable (distance reception) and the known build quality of the component, as it left the factory.
Most of the early tuner models were designed and manufactured to receive only the AM broadcast band. As FM became more popular, the limitations of AM became more apparent, and FM became the primary listening focus, especially for stereo and music broadcasting.
The McIntosh MR78 is known as one of the first FM tuners precise enough to tune into a weaker station broadcast on the same frequency as another stronger signal.
In Europe, where a second AM broadcast band is used for longwave broadcasting, tuners may be fitted with both the standard medium wave and the additional longwave band. However, radios with only medium wave are also common, especially in countries where there are no longwave broadcasters. Rarely, radios are sold with only FM and longwave, but no medium wave band. Some tuners may also be equipped with one or more short wave bands.
England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Birmingham,brum,Jewellery,Quarter,shops,retail,B18 6JW,Warstone Ln,Assay Office,industrial,technology,Jewellery Industry,UK,history,historic,goldsmiths,city centre,Edwardian,cast-iron,clock tower,clocktower,green clock,Joseph Chamberlain,wife,Mary Crowninshield Endicott,roundabout,junction,Vyse Street,Frederick Street,landmark,Brummy landmarks,Birmingham Landmark,abolish,Plate Duties,tradesmen,timepiece
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTDB - The Jewellery Quarter is an area of central Birmingham, UK. Situated in the north western area of the Birmingham City Centre, there is a population of around 19,000 people in a 1.07-square-kilometre (264-acre) area.
The Jewellery Quarter is Europe's largest concentration of businesses involved in the jewellery trade, which produces 40% of all the jewellery made in the UK. The Chamberlain Clock is an Edwardian, cast-iron, clock tower in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham, England. It was erected in 1903 to mark Joseph Chamberlain's tour of South Africa between 26 December 1902 and 25 February 1903, after the end of the Second Boer War. The clock was unveiled during Chamberlain's lifetime, in January 1904 by Mary Crowninshield Endicott, Joseph Chamberlain's third wife.
Standing at the junction of Vyse and Frederick Streets with Warstone Lane, it is now a local landmark and symbol of the Quarter. Chamberlain had been a resident on Frederick Street and had also helped jewellers through his campaign work to abolish Plate Duties “ a tax affecting jewellery tradesmen of the time. The timepiece was originally powered by a clockwork winding handle. It was later adapted to electricity but fell into disrepair and lost its chime.
It was fully restored in 1989.
Warstone Lane, Birmingham, England, UK, B18 6JW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,brown,Consolidated Micrographics,Microfiche Reader,creme,archive,information,records,data,data archive,1980s,1990s,historic,Microfilm,Microfiche,Microfilm reader,English,England,UK,film,reading,reads,old,images,library,museum,archiving,visual,microfilm,reels,reel,microfiche,flat,sheets,sheet,technology,obsolete,media
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P9FFMA - A microfilm reader is a device used in projecting and magnifying images stored in microform to readable proportions. Microform includes flat film, microfilm, aperture cards, microfiche, and ultra fiche. Using open reels or cassettes, microfilm is often used as a way to store many documents in a small space. It has become increasingly prevalent in the development of films, as well as storage of archived newspapers. With the invention of microfilm, microfilm readers soon developed. With the increasing popularity of computers, microform has decreased in use. However, many library archives still remain in microform.
England
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Keywords: GoTonysmith,@HotpixUK,G.E.C.,Solid State,transistor,radio,radio receiver,Wireless receiver,General electric Company,English,electronics,1960s,1970s,wire less,transistor-based,circuitry,circuits,circuit,PCB,receiver,transister,1950,AM transistor radios,AM radio,Aplitude Modulation Radio,audio,miniature,battery,1960 technology,technology,transistor technology,front,cover,speaker material,speaker,Go Easy Club,English Electric,mains,mains power,GoTonySmith
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MM99T9 - A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954, made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947, they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s. Their pocket size sparked a change in popular music listening habits, allowing people to listen to music anywhere they went. Beginning in the 1980s, however, cheap AM transistor radios were superseded by devices with higher audio quality such as portable CD players, personal audio players, boomboxes, and (eventually) smartphones, some of which contain radios themselves
609 Chester Rd, Sandiway, Northwich CW8 2EB, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,home,WiFi,password,child,childs,bedroom,reminder,jobs,before,screen time,handwritten,household,house,rules,parental,parent,technology,boundaries,tidy hamster cage,water plants,family internet rules,domestic responsibility,teenage bedroom,parent child negotiation,reward based parenting,household task list,internet privilege,bedroom chores checklist,password earned through chores,digital parenting,screen time management,responsible internet use,children and technology,parental supervision online,home broadband access,positive reinforcement parenting,behavioural incentives
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GMADEP - A yellow sticky note displayed in a child's bedroom sets out a clear list of household chores that must be completed before access to the home WiFi password is granted. Written by hand in thick black marker, the message lists everyday tasks including making the bed, tidying a hamster cage and watering plants. The note turns internet access into a reward for responsibility and captures a familiar example of modern parenting in a technology-dependent household.
The image reflects the way broadband, smartphones, gaming, social media and online entertainment have become central to teenage life. For many families, control of the WiFi password can be used as a practical bargaining tool, encouraging children to complete domestic jobs, homework or personal routines before spending time online. The handwritten reminder suggests a simple, low-cost form of parental control, relying on clear expectations and consequences rather than specialist software, device settings or formal screen-time applications.
A school homework sheet is partly visible behind the note, adding context to the themes of education, routine and family organisation. The scene can illustrate digital parenting, responsible internet use, household discipline, teenage motivation, reward-based behaviour management and the balance between online activity and offline responsibilities. It also conveys the everyday negotiations that take place between parents and children over access to technology, leisure time and personal freedom.
The yellow paper, informal handwriting and domestic bedroom setting give the image an authentic, unstaged quality. It may be used editorially to represent family rules, child development, adolescent behaviour, pet care, household contribution, screen-time limits, internet dependency and digital wellbeing. No exterior view, identifiable season or visible sky is present.
Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: busines,letter,office,work,machine,technology,old,obsolete,tech,keys,key,querty,retro,typed,azerty,vintage,brand,Gabriele,author,tool,of,the,trade,Olivetti,company,TA,Tool of the trade,GoTonySmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,classic,tool of the trade,writers friend
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DC7C - Triumph Adler is a brand for typewriters and computer keyboards, originally a merging of the brand names Triumph and Adler. The company and its brands was purchased by the owner of Royal Typewriter in 1969. The brands Triumph Adler, Royal and TA Royal were sometimes used interchangeably on the same models of typewriters. In 1986, Olivetti bought the company and held on to it until 1994.
England, United Kingdom
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Keywords: busines,letter,office,work,machine,technology,old,obsolete,tech,keys,keyboard,key,querty,retro,typed,azerty,vintage,author,tool,of,the,trade,TA,Royal,with,paper,sheet,words,old technology,Obsolete Technology,Tool of the trade,sheet of paper,GoTonySmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DC7K - Triumph Adler is a brand for typewriters and computer keyboards, originally a merging of the brand names Triumph and Adler. The company and its brands was purchased by the owner of Royal Typewriter in 1969. The brands Triumph Adler, Royal and TA Royal were sometimes used interchangeably on the same models of typewriters. In 1986, Olivetti bought the company and held on to it until 1994.
England, United Kingdom
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Keywords: dial,code,old,fashioned,fashioned,ivory,BT,British,Telecom,British Telecom,phone,zero,for,operator,999,technology,emergency,comms,communication,operator,homephone,home,work,vintage,Great Britain,UK,GoTonySmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,history,historic,issue,01 dial code,01,dial code
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCTT - . Recorded at Great Britain in 2015, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. At the centre of the view is Cream GPO telephone type 746 with 01 London number on rotary dial, UK. The broader subject matter reaches into London visitor economy, community identity, everyday life, documentary photography, place identity, heritage tourism, archival record, iconic London transport, metropolitan identity, historical comparison, historic London streetscape, before-and-after reference, public realm, and visual archive. The modern context includes continuing discussion of visitor economy, tourism and how familiar London symbols function as global shorthand for Britain. For later comparison, the photograph preserves local activity and public use at Great Britain, details that may look very different after new ownership. A second descriptive layer includes social history, local character, capital landmark imagery, Westminster landmark, contemporary social history, local history, changing streetscape, and regional identity. The combination of Cream, number, rotary, and telephone anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around Great Britain, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The setting also helps illustrate visitor economy and how familiar London symbols function as global shorthand for Britain when considered against later change at Great Britain. The image also provides a reference for public transport and how familiar London symbols function as global shorthand for Britain without losing the local specificity of Great Britain. Another useful connection is public transport and how familiar London symbols function as global shorthand for Britain in a form that can be compared with future views of Great Britain.
Great Britain
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Keywords: hardware,fly,flying,scrap,Russia,CCCP,Moscow,Mocba,Close-up,Close,Up,CloseUp,Macro,helicopter,cockpit,airliner,fighter,indicator,aviation,avionics,cabin,dashboard,dial,force,airforce,instrument,instrumentation,instruments,navy,military,speedometer,tachometer,GoTonySmith,technology,transport,transportation,up,ussr,vehicle,view,war,Ukraine
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCWN - . Photographed at Russia in 2015, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The main point of reference is Russian Aircraft Plane Dial Indicators from USSR hardware. The wider scene also brings together passenger information, local mobility, contemporary social story.htm Target=_Blank>history, place identity, public transport stop, everyday life, before-and-after reference, transport accessibility, documentary photography, roadside transit, street-side transport, passenger transport, archival record, and changing land use. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with service frequency, passenger information and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing. Small period details of signage and branding at Russia may become more significant with time, particularly following refurbishment. Further associations within the scene are bus infrastructure, local history, community identity, surface public transport, regional identity, visual archive, local bus network, and changing streetscape. Elements such as Russian, Indicators, hardware, Aircraft, and Plane add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. For Russia, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The image also provides a reference for service frequency and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing within the real-world context of Russia. Another useful connection is reliability and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing within the specific setting of Russia. The scene further reflects service frequency and the role of bus stops as the physical interface between passengers and the network as part of the longer story of Russia. It also preserves period character as part of Russia's history.
Russia
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Keywords: hardware,fly,flying,scrap,Russia,CCCP,Moscow,Mocba,Close-up,Close,Up,CloseUp,Macro,helicopter,cockpit,airliner,fighter,indicator,aviation,avionics,cabin,dashboard,dial,force,airforce,instrument,instrumentation,instruments,navy,military,speedometer,tachometer,GoTonySmith,technology,transport,transportation,up,ussr,vehicle,view,war,Ukraine
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCWR - . This location-specific image from Russia in 2015 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The image documents Russian Aircraft Plane Dial Indicators from USSR hardware. The subject also carries associations with street-side transport, historical comparison, local mobility, changing streetscape, roadside transit, before-and-after reference, public transport stop, bus infrastructure, social history, public realm, passenger information, documentary photography, transport accessibility, and local character. For current editorial use, service frequency and reliability provide additional context, especially through the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing. The image fixes transport arrangements and footfall within Russia at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against replacement signage. The wider setting retains connections with archival record, everyday life, regional identity, visual archive, community identity, place identity, local bus network, and passenger transport. Details involving hardware, Russian, Aircraft, Indicators, and Plane make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. A later view of Russia may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The setting also helps illustrate service frequency and the challenge of maintaining reliable local services within the specific setting of Russia. The image also provides a reference for integrated transport and the challenge of maintaining reliable local services as part of the longer story of Russia. Another useful connection is reliability and the importance of buses for access to work, education and healthcare when considered against later change at Russia. The record includes a local visual benchmark as a date-specific reference.
Russia
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Keywords: hardware,fly,flying,scrap,Russia,CCCP,Moscow,Mocba,Close-up,Close,Up,CloseUp,Macro,helicopter,cockpit,airliner,fighter,indicator,aviation,avionics,cabin,dashboard,dial,force,airforce,instrument,instrumentation,instruments,navy,military,speedometer,tachometer,GoTonySmith,technology,transport,transportation,up,ussr,vehicle,view,war,Ukraine
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCWX - . An on-location photograph from Russia in 2015, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The frame specifically shows Russian Aircraft Plane Dial Indicators from USSR hardware. The subject also carries associations with public transport stop, changing land use, community identity, street-side transport, passenger transport, documentary photography, period detail, local character, before-and-after reference, historical comparison, passenger information, local bus network, transport accessibility, and roadside transit. From a 2025-onward perspective, bus funding and local connectivity are closely linked to this subject, alongside the challenge of maintaining reliable local services. Future viewers can use this scene from Russia to compare local activity and public use with whatever follows after altered transport patterns. The photograph additionally reflects local mobility, bus infrastructure, local story.htm Target=_Blank>history, public realm, surface public transport, archival record, bus route infrastructure, and visual archive. The combination of Plane, Indicators, Russian, hardware, and Aircraft anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around Russia, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. Another strand within the photograph is bus funding and the challenge of maintaining reliable local services as part of the longer story of Russia. The setting also helps illustrate decarbonisation and the role of bus stops as the physical interface between passengers and the network when considered against later change at Russia. The image also provides a reference for bus funding and the challenge of maintaining reliable local services without losing the local specificity of Russia. The view records a trace of local identity as part of Russia's history.
Russia
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Keywords: hardware,fly,flying,scrap,Russia,CCCP,Moscow,Mocba,Close-up,Close,Up,CloseUp,Macro,helicopter,cockpit,airliner,fighter,indicator,aviation,avionics,cabin,dashboard,dial,force,airforce,instrument,instrumentation,instruments,navy,military,speedometer,tachometer,GoTonySmith,technology,transport,transportation,up,ussr,vehicle,view,war,Ukraine
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCX2 - . This scene at Russia in 2015 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 Russian Aircraft Plane Dial Indicators from USSR hardware. Other connected aspects include everyday life, visual archive, street-side transport, regional identity, roadside transit, bus infrastructure, archival record, period detail, historical comparison, before-and-after reference, bus route infrastructure, social history, surface public transport, and passenger information. From a 2025-onward perspective, reliability and service frequency are closely linked to this subject, alongside the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing. As a dated visual record of Russia, the frame retains local activity and public use, making it especially useful if new ownership subsequently changes the scene. The wider setting retains connections with public realm, public transport stop, local character, passenger transport, public-transport wayfinding, local bus network, local history, and changing land use. The recorded references to hardware, Aircraft, Indicators, Plane, and Russian preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of Russia may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The location additionally provides evidence of reliability and the challenge of maintaining reliable local services in a form that can be compared with future views of Russia. A further contemporary connection is bus funding and the challenge of maintaining reliable local services within the real-world context of Russia. The wider significance includes bus funding and the challenge of maintaining reliable local services within the specific setting of Russia. The view records a trace of local identity within the wider story of Russia.
Russia
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Keywords: hardware,fly,flying,scrap,Russia,CCCP,Moscow,Mocba,Close-up,Close,Up,CloseUp,Macro,helicopter,cockpit,airliner,fighter,indicator,aviation,avionics,cabin,dashboard,dial,force,airforce,instrument,instrumentation,instruments,navy,military,speedometer,tachometer,GoTonySmith,technology,transport,transportation,up,ussr,vehicle,view,war,Ukraine
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCX3 - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Russia in 2015, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The scene records Russian Aircraft Plane Dial Indicators from USSR hardware. Further facets of the scene include public transport stop, passenger information, public-transport wayfinding, place identity, local history, street-side transport, bus route infrastructure, everyday life, roadside transit, local mobility, transport accessibility, changing streetscape, changing land use, and contemporary social history. Today's relevance is strengthened by reliability, local connectivity and the continuing question of the role of bus stops as the physical interface between passengers and the network. Future viewers can use this scene from Russia to compare transport arrangements and footfall with whatever follows after changed technology. Other useful contextual ideas include documentary photography, visual archive, period detail, archival record, bus infrastructure, passenger transport, before-and-after reference, and community identity. Elements such as hardware, Indicators, Plane, Russian, and Aircraft add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. Around Russia, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. A further contemporary connection is reliability and the role of bus stops as the physical interface between passengers and the network in a form that can be compared with future views of Russia. The wider significance includes bus funding and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing within the real-world context of Russia. Another strand within the photograph is decarbonisation and the importance of buses for access to work, education and healthcare within the specific setting of Russia.
Russia
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Crewe works,rail,railway,trains,engine,transport,history,BR,UK,Great Britain,up fast,slot,labels,labeled,points,Selection,of,levers,93,94,95,96,track,tech,technology,gricers,label,signal box lever labels,lever labels,manually operated,manually,operated,manual,handle,handles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGMNY9 - . Photographed at the recorded location in 2014, this is a specific real-world record of the subject, its setting and the period details surrounding it. The scene shows Selection of signal box levers from Crewe, up fast slot,crossing,up slow,up fast,Up Chester,platform,Up Thro - Crewe platforms, Cheshire, England. The surrounding context brings together building-material production, production technology, archival record, changing streetscape, before-and-after reference, contemporary social history, historical comparison, social history, rail corridor, working-industry history, public realm, industrial supply chain, changing land use, and historic manufacturing. For contemporary context, rail reform and station investment are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes making rail simpler and more dependable. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about adaptive reuse, regional industry and the historical importance of everyday manufactured objects and materials. For local-history research, the frame records the relationship between the subject and its surroundings within the recorded location. Further connections include place identity, production works, industrial material culture, regional identity, manufacturing heritage, factory history, everyday life, and trackside infrastructure. The recorded references to crossing, signal, Selection, levers, and platforms preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The surrounding context at the recorded location matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. A further contemporary connection is rail reform and reducing congestion and car dependency without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. The image fixes a local visual benchmark as part of the recorded location's history.
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Crewe works,rail,railway,trains,engine,transport,history,BR,British Railways,UK,Great Britain,Steam,wheel,Staem,steam,wheel detail,engineering,coupling,cast,driving,tech,technology,steam technology,industry,rust,old,classic,metal,iron horse,link,links,steam age,steam loco,loco,large wheel,Crewe Works
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGMNYE - . A dated documentary view of England, UK in 2014, recording the subject as it appeared at that point rather than as a generic stock illustration. The principal point of reference is Close up of Steam Engine greased large driving wheel links. The scene additionally carries associations with archival record, public realm, passenger railway, rail mobility, industrial supply chain, production works, working-industry history, community identity, regional identity, local history, manufacturing heritage, rail corridor, trackside infrastructure, and everyday life. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes station investment alongside accessibility, with particular attention to making rail simpler and more dependable. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with factory closures, construction materials and the relationship between local geology, manufacturing and the built environment. As a documentary source, the photograph preserves the combination of built form, activity and local identity within the setting of England, UK. Other useful associations include before-and-after reference, historic context, transport interchange, industrial artefact, historic manufacturing, production technology, rail modernisation, and commuter travel. Details involving large, greased, driving, Engine, and Steam give the scene useful specificity and strengthen its local, cultural or historical identity. A later view of England, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The scene further reflects station investment and making rail simpler and more dependable without losing the local specificity of England, UK. Its period value extends to adaptive reuse and recording industries that shaped northern towns in a form that can be compared with future views of England, UK. The view records a trace of local identity within the wider story of England, UK.
England, UK
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Keywords: National Trust NT,Altrincham,Cheshire,England,UK,wood,number,numbers,interesting,history,phone,historic,old,GoTonySmith,comms,communication,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,old telephone,old phone,national Trust,antique,Edwardian,telecoms,telecom,elementary,tech,home,technology,analogue,black,wooden,Bakelite,phones
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DHGY17 - . Old fashioned Edwardian telephone, Dunham Massey NT, Altrincham, Cheshire, England , UK. Photographed at Dunham Massey NT, Altrincham, Manchester, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 15 September 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. Signage, lettering, logos, numbers or other visible information form an important part of the record, helping identify the subject and capture contemporary branding or public messaging. The scene is closely associated with Old fashioned Edwardian telephone, Dunham Massey, wallmounted, wall, mounted, handset, intercom, telephone, Victorian and National Trust NT, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is relevant to homes, residential streets, domestic architecture and the everyday details that shape the appearance of British housing. It can support editorial features about housing, addresses, front doors, neighbourhood identity, home ownership, renting, property condition, postal delivery, security and suburban or urban streets. Doors, windows, numbers, letterboxes, gardens, walls and other domestic details can provide a recognisable visual shorthand for home and residence without relying on a staged interior. As a dated record, the image can also be useful for local history and later comparison as properties are altered, refurbished or redeveloped. Search themes include housing, homes, front doors, addresses, letterboxes, house numbers, residential streets, property, neighbourhoods, renting and home ownership. Small domestic details can become useful archive evidence when properties are refurbished, altered, renumbered or redeveloped. This particular view is catalogued under Alamy image reference DHGY17, distinguishing it from other photographs of the same or related subject.
Dunham Massey NT, Altrincham, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: city,Scotland,UK,EH1,1JF,EH11JF,street,sciences,tourist,travel,attractions,Explore,the,diversity,of,natural,world,cultures,art,and,design,technology,Scottish,history,capital,cities,building,buildings,and,technology,natural,history,and,world,cultures,central,old,gotonysmith,town,George,IV,Bridge,4th,royal,grand,central,hall,of,cast,iron,outside,new,building,architecture,summer,blue,sky,construction,that,rises,the,full,height,Dolly,the,sheep,independance,independence,The,buildings,architecture,was,controversial,from,the,start,and Prince Charles resigned as patron of the museum,in,protest,at,the,lack,of,consultation,over,its,design.,The,building,is,made,up,of,geometric,Corbusian forms,but also has numerous references to Scotland,such as brochs and castellated defensive,architecture,It,is,clad,in,golden,Moray,sandstone,architects,Gordon,Benson,has,called,a,reference,to,Scottish,geology,The,building,was,a,1999,Stirling,Prize,nominee,nominated,oldtown,Tour,tourist,tourism,tourist,Scotland,Capita,the oldest exhibit in the building,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Tourist Attraction
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKB3 - National Museums Scotland was formed by Act of Parliament in 1985 , amalgamating the former National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland and The Royal Scottish Museum. The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Museum (so renamed in 1995), with collections covering science and technology, natural history, and world cultures.
The two connected buildings stand beside each other on Chambers Street, by the intersection with the George IV Bridge, in central Edinburgh. The museum is part of National Museums Scotland. Admission is free.
The two buildings retain distinctive characters: the Museum of Scotland is housed in a modern building opened in 1998, while the former Royal Museum building was begun in 1861, and partially opened in 1866, with a Victorian Romanesque Revival facade and a grand central hall of cast iron construction that rises the full height of the building. This building reopened on 29 July 2011 after a £47 million project to restore and extend the building, and redesign the exhibitions (by Ralph Appelbaum).
The National Museum incorporates the collections of the former National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, and the Royal Museum. As well as the main national collections of Scottish archaeological finds and medieval objects, the museum contains artifacts from around the world, encompassing geology, archaeology, natural history, science, technology and art. The 16 new galleries reopened in 2011 include 8,000 objects, 80 per cent of which were not formerly on display.
One of the more notable exhibits is the stuffed body of Dolly the sheep, the first successful clone of a mammal from an adult cell. Other highlights include Ancient Egyptian exhibitions, one of Elton John's extravagant suits and a large kinetic sculpture named the Millennium Clock.
Chambers St, Edinburgh city, Scotland UK EH1 1JF
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Keywords: Black,white,mechanism,old,tech,technology,word,processor,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,75,Queen Victoria Street,London,England,UK,EC1,type,fig,cap,keys,key,antique,classic,mechanical,wordprocessing,processing,black,ivory,vintage,retro,worn,well,well-worn,used,nostalgia
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXM0Y - . Old Typewriter machine showing keys, 75 Queen Victoria Street, London, England, UK, EC1. The photograph was taken on 31 August 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Typewriter, machine, showing, keys, London, Queen Victoria St, QWERTY, typing, Black and white, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image is relevant to digital technology, smartphones, software, online services and the way screens and apps increasingly mediate everyday activity. It can support editorial coverage of mobile applications, consumer technology, digital services, user interfaces, online communication, artificial intelligence, software platforms, data and the changing relationship between people and connected devices. Visible screen text, icons, branding, controls and handset details can give picture buyers a recognisable real-world technology context. As a dated photograph, it is particularly useful for documenting a specific version of an interface, product or digital service before later updates alter its appearance or functionality. Search themes include smartphones, apps, software, digital services, screen interfaces, online platforms, consumer electronics, artificial intelligence and changing technology. A dated screen or device photograph is useful because software interfaces, branding and product designs can alter rapidly through updates and replacement. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
75 Queen Victoria Street, London, England, UK, EC1
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Keywords: loaded,byou,company,antique,typing,type,ready,for,a,new,message,classic,old,fashion,mechanical,word,processed,processing,pool,black,keys,mechanism,old,technology,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,manual,writing,author,blank paper,for message,Querty,levers,ribbon,history,historic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DCYR9K - . An old fashioned typewriter with a blank sheet of paper for a new message. The photograph was taken on 07 August 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with fashioned, typewriter, blank, sheet, paper, Bayou, office, machine, loaded and byou, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image is relevant to digital technology, smartphones, software, online services and the way screens and apps increasingly mediate everyday activity. It can support editorial coverage of mobile applications, consumer technology, digital services, user interfaces, online communication, artificial intelligence, software platforms, data and the changing relationship between people and connected devices. Visible screen text, icons, branding, controls and handset details can give picture buyers a recognisable real-world technology context. As a dated photograph, it is particularly useful for documenting a specific version of an interface, product or digital service before later updates alter its appearance or functionality. Search themes include smartphones, apps, software, digital services, screen interfaces, online platforms, consumer electronics, artificial intelligence and changing technology. A dated screen or device photograph is useful because software interfaces, branding and product designs can alter rapidly through updates and replacement. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
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Keywords: England,English,British,research,researcher,mask,safe,glove,gloves,hand,protect,protective,Runcorn,ln,lane,industry,WA44AD,WA4,4AD,tech,technology,high,leading,Scitech,Sci-Tech,Digital,bio,biological,biomedical,trial,experiment,experiments,test,testing,Gotonysmith supercomputing supercomputers,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,PPE,Personal Protective Equipment
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HF3E - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Daresbury Laboratory, Keckwick La, Warrington, Cheshire, England UK WA4 4AD in 2011, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The defining feature is Clean Area worker Daresbury Science Lab , Cheshire England, UK. The broader subject matter reaches into regional identity, specialist retailer, historical comparison, changing land use, high-street commerce, customer footfall, local history, changing streetscape, public realm, retail property, local character, street-level business, local enterprise, and social history. Current relevance extends to business rates and town-centre regeneration, particularly through the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy. Small period details of street furniture and boundaries at Daresbury Laboratory, Keckwick La, Warrington, Cheshire, England UK WA4 4AD may become more significant with time, particularly following refurbishment. The surrounding story also includes visual archive, bricks-and-mortar retail, shopfront economy, commercial frontage, contemporary social history, community identity, place identity, and archival record. Details involving Daresbury, Clean, worker, and Science make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within Daresbury Laboratory, Keckwick La, Warrington, Cheshire, England UK WA4 4AD, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The setting also helps illustrate business rates and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy within the real-world context of Daresbury Laboratory, Keckwick La, Warrington, Cheshire, England UK WA4 4AD. The frame retains evidence of changing use as a date-specific reference.
Daresbury Laboratory, Keckwick La, Warrington, Cheshire, England UK WA4 4AD
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Keywords: England,Science,scientific,atom,high,technology,tech,hightech,National,Centre,for,Electron,Spectroscopy,and,Surface,Analysis,The,National,Centre,for,Electron,Spectroscopy,and,Surface,Analysis,brings,together,industry,and,academe,to,address,problems,in,materials,science,surface science and engineer,gotonysmith,engineering,precision,precise,scientists,boffin,boffins,Wide,fisheye,view,fish,eye,DaresburyLaboratory,Keckwick La lane Warrington,Cheshire England UK WA4 4AD,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HF3H - Daresbury Laboratory NCESS Dept machine, Cheshire UK
National Centre for Electron Spectroscopy and Surface Analysis. The National Centre for Electron Spectroscopy and Surface Analysis, brings together industry and academe to address problems in materials science, surface science and engineering.
Collaborative research programmes with industry and the academic community have been set up for targeted research areas, ranging from studies of polymers and composites through to ceramics, semiconductors, metals and novel materials. It offers repayment services to industry and has an EPSRC user programme which provides and supports access to its facilities to help academic groups with their own research programmes.
Daresbury Laboratory, Keckwick La, Warrington, Cheshire, England UK WA4 4AD
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,East Lancs Railway,greater Manchester,England,UK,East,Lancs,Lancashire,Railway,train,platform,steam,heritage,rail,railway,23A Bolton St,Bury BL9 0EY,Bolton St,BL9,BR,British Rail,British railways,history,historic,railways,locomotive,technology,Victorian,old fashioned,old-fashioned,working,preserved,platforms,engine,engines
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BPCNNR - . This period photograph records 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY as an identifiable real-world setting rather than a generic illustration. The photograph is concerned with ELR,East Lancs Railway, East Lancashire Railway Bury station, greater Manchester,England,UK - Sapper Green Engine. A wider reading of the photograph includes public realm, commuter travel, archival record, transport interchange, urban change, passenger railway, social landscape, local history, everyday Britain, public transport network, rail mobility, before-and-after reference, social history, and regional identity. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with fares, integrated transport and reducing congestion and car dependency. The archival value lies partly in recording landscape and surrounding development around 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY before closure or conversion alters the character of the place. The wider local story also touches on place identity, local character, contemporary history, trackside infrastructure, mass transit, built environment, documentary photography, and period detail. The combination of Green, greater, Manchester, Railway, and Lancashire helps anchor the frame to a recognisable activity, place or period. A later view of 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Another useful connection is fares and reducing congestion and car dependency when considered against later change at 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY. The scene further reflects accessibility and reducing congestion and car dependency without losing the local specificity of 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY.
23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY
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Keywords: England,UK,at,dusk,in,the,evening,signal,signs,old,heritage,heratage,rail,way,railway,railroad,english,BR,Britishrail,British,Rail,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,history,historic,night,after hours,nightshift,shift,shifts,track,Pway,signalling,Victorian,technology,CW1,CW1 2DB
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D96MPK - . Crewe Station A, old preserved signal box, at Dusk, Cheshire England, UK, CW1 2DB. Photographed on 3 March 2011. The recorded location is Crewe Railway Station, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK CW1 2DB. The historical context is that railway scenes connect industrial-age engineering with everyday passenger mobility
Station architecture, platforms, signal boxes, ticketing and rolling stock show how the network has evolved from steam and regional companies through British Rail, privatisation and today's increasingly digital passenger railway. In historical terms, older buildings and artefacts provide tangible evidence that written records cannot fully replace
Their wear, construction, signage and setting help researchers understand local history, design, industry and social life across different periods. Looking at the subject's development, landscape photographs record more than scenery: buildings, vegetation, weather, transport and land use combine to show how a place appeared at a specific moment
Repeated views can later become valuable evidence of development, environmental change and shifting patterns of use. The subject remains topical in 2026 because britain's railway is in another period of structural change as legislation for Great British Railways progresses, bringing infrastructure and passenger services into a more unified publicly owned model
Images of earlier operators, ticket machines and station branding help illustrate how quickly the passenger railway changes. During 2026, heritage remains economically and culturally significant through tourism, education and place-making, while the cost of maintaining historic fabric creates continuing debate about conservation and reuse. Against the 2026 backdrop, heritage remains economically and culturally significant through tourism, education and place-making, while the cost of maintaining historic fabric creates continuing debate about conservation and reuse.
Crewe Railway Station, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK CW1 2DB
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Keywords: from,Bosch,Worcester,central,heating,boiler,technology,high,tech,hitech,hi-tech,gotonysmith,integrated,PCB,tech,printed circuit board,A printed circuit board,or PCB,is,used,to,mechanically,support,and,electrically,connect,electronic,components,using,conductive,pathways,tracks,or,signal,traces,etched,from,copper,sheets,laminated,onto,a,non-conductive,substrate,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEYA9K - Blue Printed Circuit Board with resistors, capacitor and transistors, from Bosch Worcester central heating boiler
A printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate.
Excluding exotic products using special materials or processes, all printed circuit boards manufactured today can be built using the following four items which are usually purchased from manufacturers:
Laminates
Copper-clad laminates
Resin impregnated B-stage cloth (Pre-preg)
Copper foil
Warrington, Cheshire England UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,security,sticker,prevention,shop,product,on,a,crime,shoplifting,shoplifters,deterrent,Tesco,England,Great Britain,UK,WA4 2SJ,warning,tagged,tag,RFID,radio frequency identification reader,microchip,chipped,IOT,advanced,technology,smart,shelves,shelf,high,value,item,items,padlock,symbol,labelling,labelled,shrinkage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RXHH95 - Taken on 24 Sep 2023, this photograph shows RFID Security protected supermarket alcohol wine product, England, Great Britain, UK, WA4 2SJ. The location is Great Britain, UK. 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. The yellow security label turns an ordinary supermarket product into a clear image about retail theft, shrinkage, high-value goods, sensor technology and changing shop-floor controls. 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 anti-theft, yellow, security protected, supermarket, shops, supermarkets, products, wine, alcohol, theft, security, sticker, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes. It also has a useful contemporary feel, because it shows how long-standing places, policies, products or institutions are encountered by ordinary people in daily life. Further SEO-friendly usage could include local services, town-centre change, heritage branding, British social hi.
Great Britain, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,circuit,circuits,board,soldering,word,electronic,tech,technology,process,processes,world,reliant,on,chip,chips,silicon,binary,logic,PCB,printed,wiring,component,components,main,main-board,motherboard,mother,processor,&,and,Communication,Technology,inside,memory,innovation,job,jobs
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDPYAW - A printed circuit board (PCB
also printed wiring board or PWB) is a medium used in electrical and electronic engineering to connect electronic components to one another in a controlled manner. It takes the form of a laminated sandwich structure of conductive and insulating layers: each of the conductive layers is designed with an artwork pattern of traces, planes and other features (similar to wires on a flat surface) etched from one or more sheet layers of copper laminated onto and/or between sheet layers of a non-conductive substrate. Electrical components may be fixed to conductive pads on the outer layers in the shape designed to accept the component's terminals, generally by means of soldering, to both electrically connect and mechanically fasten them to it. Another manufacturing process adds vias: plated-through holes that allow interconnections between layers
The Austrian engineer Paul Eisler invented the printed circuit as part of a radio set while working in the UK around 1936. In 1941 a multi-layer printed circuit was used in German magnetic influence naval mines
Around 1943 the USA began to use the technology on a large scale to make proximity fuzes for use in World War II. Such fuzes required an electronic circuit that could withstand being fired from a gun, and could be produced in quantity
Motorola was an early leader in bringing the process into consumer electronics, announcing in August 1952 the adoption of plated circuits in home radios after six years of research and a $1M investment
Originally, every electronic component had wire leads, and a PCB had holes drilled for each wire of each component. The component leads were then inserted through the holes and soldered to the copper PCB traces. This method of assembly is called through-hole construction. In 1949, Moe Abramson and Stanislaus F. Danko of the United States Army Signal Corps developed the Auto-Sembly process in which component leads were inserted into a copper foil interconnection
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDPYB6 - A printed circuit board (PCB
also printed wiring board or PWB) is a medium used in electrical and electronic engineering to connect electronic components to one another in a controlled manner. It takes the form of a laminated sandwich structure of conductive and insulating layers: each of the conductive layers is designed with an artwork pattern of traces, planes and other features (similar to wires on a flat surface) etched from one or more sheet layers of copper laminated onto and/or between sheet layers of a non-conductive substrate. Electrical components may be fixed to conductive pads on the outer layers in the shape designed to accept the component's terminals, generally by means of soldering, to both electrically connect and mechanically fasten them to it. Another manufacturing process adds vias: plated-through holes that allow interconnections between layers
The Austrian engineer Paul Eisler invented the printed circuit as part of a radio set while working in the UK around 1936. In 1941 a multi-layer printed circuit was used in German magnetic influence naval mines
Around 1943 the USA began to use the technology on a large scale to make proximity fuzes for use in World War II. Such fuzes required an electronic circuit that could withstand being fired from a gun, and could be produced in quantity
Motorola was an early leader in bringing the process into consumer electronics, announcing in August 1952 the adoption of plated circuits in home radios after six years of research and a $1M investment
Originally, every electronic component had wire leads, and a PCB had holes drilled for each wire of each component. The component leads were then inserted through the holes and soldered to the copper PCB traces. This method of assembly is called through-hole construction. In 1949, Moe Abramson and Stanislaus F. Danko of the United States Army Signal Corps developed the Auto-Sembly process in which component leads were inserted into a copper foil interconnection
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R8T9GG - . Old UK Royal mail stamps - time running out for the old versions to be converted to Barcoded versions. Photographed on 7 June 2023. The recorded location is Britain , UK. In February 2022 new barcoded definitive design stamps were introduced. The rectangular (matrix) codes, unique to each stamp, use a trademarked coding designed to prevent counterfeiting and to enable tracking of letters, and to enable correspondents to link digital content to their stamps. Until 2022 any 1st and 2nd class and decimal currency postage stamps could be used. old Machin and country definitive design stamps without barcodes are no longer valid from 31st July 2023, with old ones exchangeable for barcoded ones indefinitely through a process which Royal Mail calls the Stamp Swap Out scheme. Special Stamps with pictures and Christmas Stamps without a barcode continued to be valid Stamps are exchanged like-for-like: a 1st class stamp will be replaced by a 1st class one, not 95p. In relation to design story.htm Target=_Blank>history, historical context shows that material culture includes the ordinary products people bought, used, collected or displayed
Small manufactured objects can reveal national identity, advertising, technology and popular taste in ways that formal records do not. For the story of packaging waste, it is useful to note that packaging waste illustrates the practical side of environmental policy
Products combining plastic, foil, paper or food residue can be difficult to process and reveal the limits of systems designed around simpler material streams. The historical setting for collectable is that printed and graphic ephemera are highly effective dating evidence
Tickets, stamps, posters, comics, manuals and vouchers combine wording, typography, colour and branding in forms that are often discarded after use. As of 2026, the position for design history is that online resale, nostalgia and interest in vintage design have made many ordinary twentieth-century objects active.
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