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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,British,English,cardingmachine,textile,textiles,manufacturing,factory,spinning,fibre,fibers,engineering,mechanical,belt,pulleys,rollers,drums,Lancs,PlattBrothers,Oldham,Bolton,Blackburn,Burnley,Preston,northwestengland,britishindustry,heritage,historic,museum,preserved,victorian,edwardian,steamage,powertransmission,lineshaft,beltdrive
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R55JBG - The large central drum is the main carding cylinder, which rotates at speed.
The multiple small pulleys around the side are part of the belt-driven transmission, typical of Lancashire mills using line-shaft power from overhead shafts.
The wooden casing (often polished hardwood) is characteristic of British carding engines, both for protection and to reduce lint escape.
Surrounding rollers and covers would have worked with:
the licker-in (to open raw cotton),
worker and stripper rollers (to disentangle fibres),
and the doffer (to remove the aligned fibre web).
What it did in the cotton process
This machine sat early in the cotton production line:
Raw cotton arrived compressed and dirty
It was opened and cleaned (blow room machinery)
Carding engine aligned the fibres into a continuous web
The web was condensed into sliver, ready for drawing and spinning
Without carding, spinning simply did not work properly.
Why it's so Lancashire
Carding engines were ubiquitous in Lancashire mills (Oldham, Bolton, Blackburn, Burnley, Preston).
British makers such as Platt Brothers of Oldham dominated this machinery worldwide.
The heavy iron castings, belt drives, and polished woodwork are textbook North-West England mill engineering.
Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JY55ME - . This dated editorial view of Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The subject captured here is Manchester Victoria Mainline station departures board, Clitheroe, Rochdale, Newcastle, Southport, Wigan North Western,Blackburn,Chester,Redcar Central. The subject also carries associations with visual archive, historic rolling stock, bus infrastructure, local history, rail operations, rail transport history, community identity, changing land use, public-transport wayfinding, passenger information, local character, social history, trackside history, and public transport stop. The modern context includes continuing discussion of regional connectivity, heritage conservation and how Crewe's identity remains tied to railway engineering and operations. For current editorial use, passenger information and accessibility provide additional context, especially through how local bus services affect access to work, education and healthcare. As a dated visual record of Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY, the frame retains commercial use and occupation, making it especially useful if changing commercial priorities subsequently changes the scene. The location also brings in local mobility, surface public transport, railway heritage, industrial railway, street-side transport, public realm, bus route infrastructure, and passenger transport. Details involving Victoria, Rochdale, board, Southport, and Clitheroe make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The wider setting at Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The photograph keeps a local visual benchmark for future local research.
Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JREC1D - . An on-location photograph from North West England, UK in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The principal subject is Map showing Northwest England, with words Fuel Poverty spelled out. More than half of UK households across Britain will choose to eat or heat. Other connected aspects include commercial redevelopment, architectural character, before-and-after reference, heritage-led regeneration, local history, period detail, public realm, public-realm investment, adaptive reuse, local character, everyday life, visual archive, place-making, and historical comparison. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with housing pressure, heritage conservation and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. The archival value lies partly in recording public access and movement around North West England, UK before conservation work alters the character of the place. Further associations within the scene are regional identity, archival record, period architecture, civic architecture, built heritage, social history, urban regeneration, and historic townscape. Details involving Poverty, households, choose, Northwest, and across make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For North West England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence of housing pressure and how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity without losing the local specificity of North West England, UK. A further contemporary connection is commercial viability and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space in a form that can be compared with future views of North West England, UK.
North West England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lancs,England,UK,FY1,81,FY1 1PP,tackling,homelessness,in,Blackpool,the,offices,office,charitable,big,seaside,tafblackpool,Non-profit,charity,Blackburn,housing,helping,poor,people,find,homes,temporary,accommodation,community,deprived,deprivation,area,tackle,social,problems,action
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRFFBK - . An identifiable period record of 81 Abingdon St, Blackpool , Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 1PP in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The frame specifically shows Tackling homelessness in Blackpool - The Ashley Foundation office, 81 Abingdon St, Blackpool , Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 1PP. The frame also records themes of place identity, urban fabric, architectural character, public-realm investment, public realm, local character, archival record, documentary photography, visual archive, changing land use, historical comparison, community identity, urban regeneration, and mixed-use redevelopment. The modern context includes continuing discussion of adaptive reuse, town-centre regeneration and the value of reusing existing buildings rather than wholesale demolition. Small period details of public access and movement at 81 Abingdon St, Blackpool , Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 1PP may become more significant with time, particularly following refurbishment. Other useful contextual ideas include historic townscape, contemporary social history, regional identity, built heritage, commercial redevelopment, town-centre renewal, before-and-after reference, and social history. References to Lancashire, Blackpool, Abingdon, Tackling, and Ashley give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. By fixing the subject within 81 Abingdon St, Blackpool , Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 1PP, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The wider significance includes adaptive reuse and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres without losing the local specificity of 81 Abingdon St, Blackpool , Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 1PP. The photograph keeps period character for future local research.
81 Abingdon St, Blackpool , Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 1PP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Merseyside,England,UK,Levelling up,Northern Powerhouse,offices,office,block,LCVS,Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services,L2,Liverpool,city,centre,architecture,icon,iconic,ex,Blackburn,building,Art-Deco,art,deco,ArtDeco,artdeco,history,historic,heritage,sunny,blue sky,blue skies,renovated,redeveloped,maintained,well,flag,flagpole
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDDR5M - . This scene at 151 Dale Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2AH in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The subject captured here is Ex Blackburn Assurance Art-Deco building, 151 Dale Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2AH. The subject also carries associations with community life, pedestrian environment, documentary photography, urban social history, contemporary city life, period detail, social history, period building, historical comparison, urban change, heritage landmark, public realm, period streetscape, and everyday life. From a 2025-onward perspective, energy retrofit and adaptive reuse are closely linked to this subject, alongside the value of distinctive buildings and street furniture to local identity. The wider contemporary story combines local identity, footfall and the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments. The archival value lies partly in recording building condition and alterations around 151 Dale Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2AH before replacement signage alters the character of the place. The surrounding story also includes townscape record, city-centre activity, social landscape, archival record, conservation architecture, historic streetscape, architectural detailing, and conservation interest. Elements such as building, Art-Deco, Assurance, Merseyside, and Blackburn add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of 151 Dale Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2AH may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The view records a point of historical comparison for later comparison. Image 2JDDR5M also remains a dated record of 151 Dale Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2AH.
151 Dale Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2AH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A4PJMA - Ewood Park is a football stadium in the English town of Blackburn, Lancashire, and is the home of Blackburn Rovers Football Club Celebrating the life of a loved one, at Premiership & Championship Football Clubs
Dates refer to when the advice was given and is liable to change so please contact club to get permission before organising a scattering ceremony. The dates at the end are when we were advised of the policy, if you have any more current information please let us know so we can help others.
In alphabetical order (wouldn't want to show any allegiance!)
Arsenal “ ashes are not interred or scattered at Emirates stadium.
Aston Villa “ regrettably, the club is no longer in a position to accept requests for the scattering of ashes. We no longer have areas of Villa Park that are suitable for ashes to remain, and we would not want to scatter ashes in locations that would not be fitting or appropriate. Likewise we are faced with the same issues at Bodymoor Heath. To recognise the passing of our fans and former players, the Club is looking at other fitting ways to pay tribute to them. We will be publishing something in the near future on our website,which will provide the details of how families and friends can remember a loved one. 16/06/10
Blackburn Rovers “ ash scattering can be arranged through the clubs Chaplin although not on the pitch, they have a lovely garden of remembrance adjacent to the ground near the river. 29/06/10
Blackpool “ The club don't actually allow scattering of ashes but we allow the ashes to be buried at the side of the pitch. 14/06/10
Read more at https://scattering-ashes.co.uk/help-advice/law/football-clubs/
Ewood Park, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, BB2 4JF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A4PJMF - Ewood Park is a football stadium in the English town of Blackburn, Lancashire, and is the home of Blackburn Rovers Football Club ” one of the founder members of the Football League and Premier League. Rovers have played there since they moved from Leamington Road in the summer of 1890. The stadium opened in 1882 and is an all seater multi-sports facility with a capacity of 31,367. It comprises four sections: The Bryan Douglas Darwen End, Riverside Stand (named as such because it stands practically on the banks of the River Darwen), Ronnie Clayton Blackburn End, and Jack Walker Stand, which is named after Blackburn industrialist and club supporter, Jack Walker. The football pitch within the stadium measures 115 by 76 yards (105 m × 69 m).
Football had been played on the site since at least 1881
Rovers played four matches there when it was known as Ewood Bridge and was most likely little more than a field. Their first match was against Sheffield Wednesday on 9 April 1881.
Ewood Park was officially opened in April 1882 and during the 1880s staged football, athletics and some form of greyhound racing (not oval). Rovers moved back in in 1890, signing a ten-year lease at an initial annual rent of £60. Their first match at the ground was against Accrington in September. In 1893, Blackburn Rovers bought the freehold of the ground for £2500, but came close to disaster soon after when part of a stand collapsed under the weight of a 20,000 strong crowd for the visit of Everton
Ewood Park, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, BB2 4JF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A4PJMM - Ewood Park is a football stadium in the English town of Blackburn, Lancashire, and is the home of Blackburn Rovers Football Club ” one of the founder members of the Football League and Premier League. Rovers have played there since they moved from Leamington Road in the summer of 1890. The stadium opened in 1882 and is an all seater multi-sports facility with a capacity of 31,367. It comprises four sections: The Bryan Douglas Darwen End, Riverside Stand (named as such because it stands practically on the banks of the River Darwen), Ronnie Clayton Blackburn End, and Jack Walker Stand, which is named after Blackburn industrialist and club supporter, Jack Walker. The football pitch within the stadium measures 115 by 76 yards (105 m × 69 m).
Football had been played on the site since at least 1881
Rovers played four matches there when it was known as Ewood Bridge and was most likely little more than a field. Their first match was against Sheffield Wednesday on 9 April 1881.
Ewood Park was officially opened in April 1882 and during the 1880s staged football, athletics and some form of greyhound racing (not oval). Rovers moved back in in 1890, signing a ten-year lease at an initial annual rent of £60. Their first match at the ground was against Accrington in September. In 1893, Blackburn Rovers bought the freehold of the ground for £2500, but came close to disaster soon after when part of a stand collapsed under the weight of a 20,000 strong crowd for the visit of Everton
Ewood Park, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, BB2 4JF
