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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RD23T4 - . Steel sculpture for Filey - A High Tide In Short Wellies, by artist Ray Lonsdale, The Beach Rd, Filey, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO14 9LW. Photographed on 25 September 2022. A larger than life 12 feet weathering steel figure of a fisherman holding a fishing rod whilst gazing out to sea. At his feet is a fish wrapped in paper. Ray Lonsdale's A High Tide in Short Wellies is a larger-than-life weathering-steel fisherman, about 12 feet high, installed at Filey's Coble Landing. The figure looks towards the North Sea with a fishing rod, while a wrapped fish at his feet refers to the town's fishing tradition and the decline of the old inshore industry. The sculpture is both public art and an interpretation of Filey's working maritime past, using rust-coloured steel that weathers naturally in the coastal environment. The historical context is that art in public and historic settings adds another layer to the built environment
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The Beach Rd, Filey, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO14 9LW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RD23TF - . Steel sculpture for Filey - A High Tide In Short Wellies, by artist Ray Lonsdale, The Beach Rd, Filey, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO14 9LW. Photographed on 25 September 2022. A larger than life 12 feet weathering steel figure of a fisherman holding a fishing rod whilst gazing out to sea. At his feet is a fish wrapped in paper. Ray Lonsdale's A High Tide in Short Wellies is a larger-than-life weathering-steel fisherman, about 12 feet high, installed at Filey's Coble Landing. The figure looks towards the North Sea with a fishing rod, while a wrapped fish at his feet refers to the town's fishing tradition and the decline of the old inshore industry. The sculpture is both public art and an interpretation of Filey's working maritime past, using rust-coloured steel that weathers naturally in the coastal environment. Looking at the subject's development, murals, sculptures and civic artworks turn public space into a record of local culture
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They also raise questions about conservation, ownership, temporary work and the rapid redevelopment of urban.
The Beach Rd, Filey, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO14 9LW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KG3RR0 - . This dated editorial view of Shambles Square, 4 Cathedral Gates,Manchester, Greater Manchester, M3 1SW in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The image documents The Old Wellington Inn and Sinclairs Oyster House,at dusk, 4 Cathedral Gates,Manchester, Greater Manchester, M3 1SW. The broader subject matter reaches into changing streetscape, parish history, historical comparison, religious heritage, everyday life, archival record, place identity, visitor hospitality, documentary photography, sacred architecture, licensed trade, faith community, pub heritage, and traditional ale house. The wider contemporary story combines business rates, beer duty and pressure on hospitality margins in the mid-2020s. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with accessibility, heritage conservation and how sacred spaces adapt to changing attendance and wider community use. Future viewers can use this scene from Shambles Square, 4 Cathedral Gates,Manchester, Greater Manchester, M3 1SW to compare street furniture and boundaries with whatever follows after closure or conversion. The surrounding story also includes local history, visual archive, community drinking venue, public realm, local character, church interior, regional identity, and Christian heritage. Details involving House, Cathedral, Gates, Greater, and Wellington make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around Shambles Square, 4 Cathedral Gates,Manchester, Greater Manchester, M3 1SW, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The wider significance includes business rates and pressure on hospitality margins in the mid-2020s within the specific setting of Shambles Square, 4 Cathedral Gates,Manchester, Greater Manchester, M3 1SW.
Shambles Square, 4 Cathedral Gates,Manchester, Greater Manchester, M3 1SW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PCTA15 - The equestrian Wellington Statue is a statue of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, located on Royal Exchange Square in Glasgow, Scotland. It is located outside the Gallery of Modern Art near the end of Ingram Street. The statue was sculpted by Italian artist Carlo Marochetti and erected in 1844. Capping the statue with a traffic cone has become a traditional practice in the city, claimed to represent the humour of the local population and believed to date back to the first half of the 1980s, if not before. The statue is a Category-A listed monument, and is one of Glasgow's most iconic landmarks. Due to minor damage and the potential for injury that the placing of cones involves, the practice has been discouraged by Glasgow City Council and Strathclyde Police. In 2011 the Lonely Planet guide included the statue in its list of the top 10 most bizarre monuments on Earth.
Glasgow Central Station, Gordon St, Glasgow, Scotland
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HEJ661 - Plan dropped to end cone tradition on Glasgow's Wellington statue
Plans to end a long-standing tradition of placing a traffic cone on Glasgow's iconic Duke of Wellington statue have been dropped after a massive backlash.
Glasgow City Council wanted to raise the plinth as part of a £65,000 project to refurbish the monument, which stands outside the Gallery of Modern Art.
It abandoned the plan after a massive social media campaign saw thousands of people sign a petition opposing it.
Campaigners who planned a demonstration now say they will hold a victory rally.
The council had said that raising the height would end a practice which projected a depressing image of Glasgow and would save the £10,000 cost of removing the cone 100 times a year.
Image caption Michael Gray is one of many campaigners who plan to hold a victory rally
The scheme would have seen a new granite-clad concrete base of 86cm (34in) added to the memorial to raise its overall height.
However, the council has reconsidered its decision after an online petition called Save Wellington's Cone, which gathered thousands of signatories in just a few hours, and a Facebook campaign which had planned a rally in support of the cone.
A council spokesman said: The wording of the report was appalling and the leader of the council (Gordon Matheson) has instructed officers to withdraw the planning application.
The petition stated: The cone on Wellington's head is an iconic part of Glasgow's heritage, and means far more to the people of Glasgow and to visitors than Wellington himself ever has.
Raising the statue will, in any case, only result in people injuring themselves attempting to put the cone on anyway: does anyone really think that a raised plinth will deter drunk Glaswegians?
So cone-troversial plans to cone-sider cone-structing a
Buchanan Street,entertainer, Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
