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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,midlands,England,UK,BCLM,waste,removal,refuse,collection,and,rubbish,&,ash,Dudley,excrement,notification,of,manure,including,ashpit,ashpits,fonts,various,service,services,privies,cesspools,give,notice,swage,work,works,muck,privy,management
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NAWFC4 - . This location-specific image from Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK in 2023 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The subject captured here is Borough of Dudley, notification of night soil manure removal, including household ashes and rubbish - free of charge - Mr H Smitheman. The surrounding context encompasses promotional board, community identity, place identity, advertising ephemera, regional identity, period advertising, documentary photography, street-level marketing, period detail, public information notice, local character, shop display, visual merchandising, and contemporary social history. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with heritage, consumer culture and the historical value of ordinary advertising material. The image fixes materials and architectural details within Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changed technology. The subject also sits alongside public-facing notice, retail graphics, visual archive, historic signage, changing land use, commercial signage, everyday life, and public realm. References to removal, Smitheman, manure, Borough, and household give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The scene further reflects heritage and the historical value of ordinary advertising material within the specific setting of Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK. Its period value extends to public safety and the historical value of ordinary advertising material as part of the longer story of Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK. It also preserves a trace of local identity for future local research.
Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,pennylane,Hong Kong,wash,washing,dolly,tub,117,Liverpool,Merseyside,L18,Chinese,ash,house,old,frozen,in,time,Fing Wong Yiu,launderette,apparently,haunted,history,historic,BW,black and white,laundries,shop,shops,store,property,shopfront,shopfronts,Asian,immigrant
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0KPY0 - . Photographed at 117 penny Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 in 2022, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The main point of reference is Haunting historic Chinese laundry shop, G.Leong, 117 penny Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 - apparently haunted BW. The surrounding context encompasses shopfront economy, historic townscape, period detail, street-level business, contemporary social history, changing land use, local history, mixed-use town centre, social history, adaptive reuse, commercial frontage, local character, local enterprise, and consumer retail. For current editorial use, town-centre regeneration and commercial rents provide additional context, especially through how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets. Current relevance extends to town-centre regeneration and construction costs, particularly through how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity. The image fixes street furniture and boundaries within 117 penny Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against altered transport patterns. The location also brings in visual archive, urban regeneration, bricks-and-mortar retail, public realm, archival record, community identity, changing streetscape, and civic architecture. Details involving Merseyside, laundry, penny, Liverpool, and Chinese make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at 117 penny Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The record includes evidence of earlier appearance as a date-specific reference. The frame retains period character for later comparison.
117 penny Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,pennylane,Hong Kong,wash,washing,dolly,tub,117,Liverpool,Merseyside,L18,Chinese,ash,house,old,frozen,in,time,Fing Wong Yiu,launderette,apparently,haunted,laundries,shop,shops,store,property,shopfront,shopfronts,Asian,immigrant,immigrants,community,outside,laundromat,family run laundry UK historic immigrant business
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0KPY7 - The distinctive traditional shopfront of G Leong Laundry at 117 Penny Lane in the Mossley Hill area of Liverpool, Merseyside. The small commercial premises occupy the ground floor of a red-brick terraced building and retain a striking crimson-painted timber frontage. Large cream and gold lettering across the fascia identifies G. LEONG and LAUNDRY , preserving the visual character of an earlier era of neighbourhood shops and family-run service businesses.
Two broad display windows flank a narrow recessed central entrance fitted with a geometric metal grille. Their lower sections have been screened with pale opaque material, while the dark upper panes provide only a limited view into the premises. Weathered wooden pilasters, aged paintwork, a tiled threshold and lace curtains in the rooms above contribute to the building's modest, timeworn appearance. The straight-on composition records the frontage as an architectural and social-history document, including details that could easily disappear through redevelopment or modern replacement.
Chinese-owned laundries once formed a familiar part of British urban life, providing essential washing and ironing services while also representing an important route into self-employment for migrant families. A Liverpool local-history account published in 2002 stated that the city had around 100 Chinese laundries after the Second World War, but identified G Leong on Penny Lane as the only surviving example at that time.
The property also appears in local supernatural folklore. Accounts concerning supposed hauntings around Penny Lane describe unexplained incidents dating back to the late nineteenth century. One retelling claims that in 1955 something was heard moving heavily across nearby slate roofs before stopping above George Leong's laundry at number 117 and disappearing with a loud bang. The story is part of neighbourhood legend rather than established evidence of paranormal activity.
117 penny Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,Gotonysmith,in a city street,Lancs,England,UK,antisocial,anti-social,ash,disgusting,cancer,health dangers,dangers of smoking,smoking,bin,lots,abundance,refuse,rubbish,trash,tobacco related deaths,smelling,hex,hexagon,smokers corner,filter,tips,waste,dimp,dimps,successful smoking ban,stub,it,out,stub it out,quit,quit smoking,addiction,beat smoking addiction,smoking health problem
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MNFTCT - . Recorded at Byrom House, 21 Quay St, Manchester M3 3JD, UK in 2018, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The main point of reference is Cigarette butts, in a city street, Manchester, Lancs,England, UK. The setting additionally reflects local character, before-and-after reference, historical comparison, changing land use, conservation architecture, documentary photography, conservation interest, everyday life, visual archive, community identity, place identity, urban fabric, social history, and adaptive reuse. The modern context includes continuing discussion of maintenance, planning control and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character. The image fixes street furniture and boundaries within Byrom House, 21 Quay St, Manchester M3 3JD, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against redevelopment. Other useful contextual ideas include architectural character, regional identity, heritage asset, contemporary social history, changing streetscape, historic streetscape, heritage landmark, and period building. References to Lancs, Manchester, butts, and Cigarette give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. By fixing the subject within Byrom House, 21 Quay St, Manchester M3 3JD, UK, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. Another strand within the photograph is maintenance and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character within the specific setting of Byrom House, 21 Quay St, Manchester M3 3JD, UK. The setting also helps illustrate redevelopment pressure and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character as part of the longer story of Byrom House, 21 Quay St, Manchester M3 3JD, UK.
Byrom House, 21 Quay St, Manchester M3 3JD, UK
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Keywords: Street,Rail,Mainline,art,sculpture,comedian,man,funny,humour,scouse,Funnyman,personality,OBE,Kenneth,Arthur,Landmark,Diddy,men,tickling,stick,music,hall,drama,actor,entertainer,comedy,bronze,Lime St,Liverpool Lime St,Kenneth Arthur Dodd,Diddy Men,Knotty Ash,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,alloy,metal,ash,face,close,up,closeup,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4HKYM - Kenneth Arthur Ken Dodd, OBE (born 8 November 1927) is an English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor, identified by his trademark unruly hair and protruding teeth, his red, white and blue tickling stick and his famous, upbeat greeting of How tickled I am!. He also created the world and characters of the Diddy Men, with 'diddy' being Liverpudlian slang for small.
He works mainly in the music hall tradition, although, in the past, has occasionally appeared in drama, including as Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on stage in Liverpool in 1971
on television in the cameo role of 'The Tollmaster' in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen
and as Yorick (in silent flashback) in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1996. In the 1960s his fame in the UK was such that he rivalled The Beatles as a household name, with his recording of Tears being the UK's third-best-selling single of the 1960s. His records have sold millions worldwide. As of 2016 he continues to tour with his comedy and music show.
Lime Street, Liverpool, England, UK, L1 1JD
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Keywords: Street,Rail,Mainline,art,sculpture,comedian,man,funny,humour,scouse,Funnyman,personality,OBE,Kenneth,Arthur,Landmark,Diddy,men,tickling,stick,music,hall,drama,actor,entertainer,comedy,bronze,Lime St,Liverpool Lime St,Kenneth Arthur Dodd,Diddy Men,Knotty Ash,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,alloy,metal,ash,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4HM0F - Kenneth Arthur Ken Dodd, OBE (born 8 November 1927) is an English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor, identified by his trademark unruly hair and protruding teeth, his red, white and blue tickling stick and his famous, upbeat greeting of How tickled I am!. He also created the world and characters of the Diddy Men, with 'diddy' being Liverpudlian slang for small.
He works mainly in the music hall tradition, although, in the past, has occasionally appeared in drama, including as Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on stage in Liverpool in 1971
on television in the cameo role of 'The Tollmaster' in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen
and as Yorick (in silent flashback) in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1996. In the 1960s his fame in the UK was such that he rivalled The Beatles as a household name, with his recording of Tears being the UK's third-best-selling single of the 1960s. His records have sold millions worldwide. As of 2016 he continues to tour with his comedy and music show.
Lime Street, Liverpool, England, UK, L1 1JD
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Keywords: Street,Rail,Mainline,art,sculpture,comedian,man,funny,humour,scouse,Funnyman,personality,OBE,Kenneth,Arthur,Landmark,Diddy,men,tickling,stick,music,hall,drama,actor,entertainer,comedy,bronze,Lime St,Liverpool Lime St,Kenneth Arthur Dodd,Diddy Men,Knotty Ash,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,alloy,metal,ash,clock,historic,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4HM1A - Kenneth Arthur Ken Dodd, OBE (born 8 November 1927) is an English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor, identified by his trademark unruly hair and protruding teeth, his red, white and blue tickling stick and his famous, upbeat greeting of How tickled I am!. He also created the world and characters of the Diddy Men, with 'diddy' being Liverpudlian slang for small.
He works mainly in the music hall tradition, although, in the past, has occasionally appeared in drama, including as Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on stage in Liverpool in 1971
on television in the cameo role of 'The Tollmaster' in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen
and as Yorick (in silent flashback) in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1996. In the 1960s his fame in the UK was such that he rivalled The Beatles as a household name, with his recording of Tears being the UK's third-best-selling single of the 1960s. His records have sold millions worldwide. As of 2016 he continues to tour with his comedy and music show.
Lime Street, Liverpool, England, UK, L1 1JD
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Keywords: Jesse,Shirley,historic,pottery,firm,whose,company,collapsed,under,crippling,trading,conditions,in,autumn,2011,bone,ash,supplier,suppliers,Managing,director,Mike,Shirley,redundant,redundancies,pot,land,potland,decline,in,Eturia,SOT,Stoke,on,trent,stokeontrent,on-trent,business,businesses,St,Modwen,gotonysmith,bad,the,situation,is,for,industry,ceramic,companies,revival,Jesse,Shirley's,Bone,and,Flint,Mill,Shirleys,Lower,Bedford,Street,Etruria,Stoke-on-Trent,ST4 7AF ST47AF,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DBHR3N - . Jesse Shirley historic pottery firm whose company collapsed under crippling trading conditions in autumn 2011. Photographed on 27 July 2013. The recorded location is Lower Bedford Street, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7AF. From a heritage perspective, factories, mills, engines and workshops record the technologies and labour that powered Britain's industrial expansion
Their machinery, inscriptions and specialist buildings are valuable evidence of engineering practice, working conditions, regional industries and the later shift from heavy industry to heritage, housing or new commercial uses. 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. As of 2026, industrial heritage is increasingly tied to regeneration, tourism, conservation and skills education, particularly in former manufacturing towns seeking new uses for historic sites
Preserved machinery and redundant industrial buildings also provide evidence for debates about adaptive reuse and local identity. 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.
Lower Bedford Street, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7AF
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Keywords: punk,roker,spikey,hair,smoking,ashtray,tattoo,Stockport,Brinnington,Cheshire,UK,Chad,Chez,Channon,BW,Monochrome,girl,woman,female,punkette,pierced,tatoo,tattood,tatto,tat2,smoker,spliff,weed,reefer,fish,net,fishnet,stockings,stocking,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,ink,skin,tattwo,erotic,smoky,ripped,nets,fishnets,punky,cigs,cigarette,ash,tray,tatuaje,\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0430,T\u00e4towierung,tatouage,tatoegering,\u7d0b\u8eab\u82b1\u523a,rocker,punk rockers,sexy,tonysmith,tony,smith,altfashion
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3804964709 - 'Chez at home in Brinnington, Stockport, Manchester, Cheshire England UK.
I photographed Chad and Sheryl's wedding in central Manchester (next to the old MEN newsroom) with a great party of punks. Two brilliant people and so was Ryan their little lad. Old school punks at heart, spirit of 1977.
Carlos and Time were at Dunstable www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3808854783/
Gothic portrait here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3805743676/in/photostream/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
