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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lincolnshire,England,UK,centre,the,and,shopping,mall,shop,shops,Wilko,retail,area,in,spring,waterway,boat,boats,cherry,flowers,blossom,waterside,street,st,two,figures,figure,tourist,tourism,attraction,LN5 7EU,LN5,artist,Stephen Broadbent,square,council,blue sky
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PNA0Y6 - Empowerment is a public sculpture in the centre of the city of Lincoln in England.
Designed by the artist Stephen Broadbent, sponsored by Alstom UK Ltd, Lincoln Co-operative Society, and other Lincoln businesses and organisations, donated to Lincoln City Council.
The sculpture was completed in 2002, unveiled on 2 February, and spans the River Witham in Lincoln's City Square. It takes the form of two aluminium-and-steel human figures reaching to each other across the water. The design is intended to echo the shape of turbine blades, in recognition of Lincoln's industrial heritage, which transform into dynamic figures that reach out to empower one another, just as the blades empower one another within the turbine.
The statue was commissioned with the intent to create a bold and striking sculpture to celebrate the millennium, that spans the River Witham in Lincoln's city centre and act as a focal point in the space.
At 16 m (17 yd) tall, Empowerment is the largest sculpture in Lincolnshire. Increasingly, it is now used alongside more traditional images of Lincoln ” the cathedral and castle ” as a recognisable 'tourist emblem' of the city, similar to the adoption of the Angel of the North as a symbol of North East England
Waterside South, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK, LN5 7EU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH06KD - . This authentic period view of Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ET in 2021 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The principal subject is Spring in Broad Lane by the parish noticeboard, , Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ET. The locality and subject together evoke everyday life, directional marker, built heritage, architectural detailing, public realm, period building, regional identity, visitor guidance, orientation signage, conservation interest, community identity, public information signage, street furniture, and operational signage. For current editorial use, redevelopment pressure and embodied carbon provide additional context, especially through keeping older structures useful without erasing their character. Current relevance extends to public safety and inclusive design, particularly through how clear signs help people navigate complex public places. The archival value lies partly in recording public access and movement around Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ET before changed technology alters the character of the place. The location also brings in architectural character, social history, place identity, visual archive, changing streetscape, public-facing notice, navigation aid, and urban fabric. Elements such as noticeboard, Grappenhall, parish, Spring, and Broad add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ET, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The record includes period character for later comparison. The frame retains a trace of local identity within the wider story of Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ET.
Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ET
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Cheshire,WA4,WA4 3ET,spring,blossom,Springtime,blooms,blossoms,fruit,cherry,tree,trees,shrub,shrubs,bench,sunny,blue,sky,skies,WA43ET,bloom,flowers,flower,Broad Ln,Broad Lane,beautiful,village,villages,the,parish,by,centre,Church Lane
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH06KF - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ET in 2021, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The location is represented through Spring in Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ET. The wider scene also brings together visual archive, pedestrian environment, historic streetscape, contemporary city life, traditional structure, built heritage, period building, historical comparison, contemporary social history, historic frontage, social landscape, street-level documentary, documentary photography, and period detail. Today's relevance is strengthened by planning control, heritage conservation and the continuing question of the value of distinctive buildings and street furniture to local identity. From a 2025-onward perspective, public-realm change and local identity are closely linked to this subject, alongside how ordinary street scenes become valuable records as businesses and infrastructure change. For later comparison, the photograph preserves commercial use and occupation at Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ET, details that may look very different after new construction. The wider setting retains connections with urban fabric, archival record, historic townscape, changing streetscape, local landmark, conservation interest, changing land use, and heritage landmark. Elements such as Broad, Spring, and Grappenhall add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ET may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Image 2JH06KF also remains a dated record of Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ET.
Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3ET
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,England,UK,South West,town,Lymm,Spring,scene,in,the,Cross,village,Bridgewater Canal,Warrington,Cheshire,WA13 0HR,WA13,sunny,blue sky,history,historic,tourist,tourism,attraction,centre,sandstone,blossom,cherry,flower,flowering,pink,purple,Grade I listed,building,We are a Shadow,Save Time,Think of the Last
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMK7G - Lymm Cross is in the village of Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
The cross dates from the early to mid-17th century and was restored in 1897. It is constructed of sandstone and stands on an artificially stepped natural outcrop of red sandstone. Its shaft stands in a square pavilion of red sandstone with square corner pillars. It has a stone roof with a pedimented gable to each face and ball finials. Above the cross is an extension which carries a stone ball and an ornate weather vane. On the east, south and west gables are bronze sundials of 1897 carrying the inscriptions We are a Shadow, Save Time and Think of the Last.
The adjacent stocks are separately Grade II listed
The Cross, Lymm, Bridgewater Canal, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA13 0HR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy T3RF21 - . A close documentary record captures the physical context of Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, UK, as photographed in 2019. The location is represented through Carved wooden figure, at Grappenhall Wood, off Broad Lane, Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. Related ideas embodied by the location include environmental conservation, ecological value, natural habitat, species protection, green infrastructure, nature recovery, habitat management, biodiversity, ecosystem protection, climate resilience, climate impacts, and climate adaptation. In the mid-2020s, natural habitats is increasingly discussed through extreme weather and habitat loss, with attention turning to climate-adapted landscapes. Because this is a time-specific record of Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, UK, later comparison can reveal changes in signage, ownership, land use, transport, street furniture, building condition and the way the public uses the surrounding space. The surrounding context also touches on nature conservation, environmental change, environmental stewardship, ecosystem resilience, landscape ecology, natural environment. Further recorded details include community wood, Grappenhall Village, community forest, Carved wooden figure at Grappenhall Wood, Woodland Trust, tree blossom. Its context additionally embraces conservation management, and wildlife habitat. Current debate around climate resilience often combines habitat loss, species decline and the practical challenge of climate-adapted landscapes. The combination preserved here provides evidence of architecture and streetscape, public access, neighbourhood identity, transport patterns, and ownership or occupation without relying on a generic or reconstructed view. That gives this view of Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, UK continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison.
Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy T3RF2R - . This location-led image depicts the everyday reality of Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, UK, in documentary coverage dating from 2019. Within that setting the photograph concentrates on Carved wooden figure, at Grappenhall Wood, off Broad Lane, Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. The wider setting includes ecological value, nature recovery, ecosystem protection, environmental change, biodiversity, nature conservation, environmental conservation, climate impacts, climate adaptation, green infrastructure, species protection, and wildlife habitat. The wider contemporary story of green and blue spaces now includes extreme weather alongside land-use pressure, while policy and investment increasingly consider more resilient ecosystems. The photograph fixes Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, UK at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed. The surrounding context also touches on habitat management, environmental stewardship, natural habitat, ecosystem resilience, landscape ecology, conservation management. Further recorded details include community wood, Grappenhall Village, community forest, Carved wooden figure at Grappenhall Wood, Woodland Trust, tree blossom. Other relevant facets include climate resilience, and natural environment. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, wildlife protection also connects with habitat loss, pollution and efforts aimed at nature recovery. In historical comparison, the image can help trace period design, the appearance of the built environment, changes of use, public activity, and local character in a form that can be compared with later photographs. This period image preserves the area's visual identity at Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, UK for future editorial context.
Broad Lane, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,finger,post,sign,historic,history,summer,CCC,Cheshire County Council,spring,blossom,hedges,hedgerows,lovely,small,villages,village,cycle,walking,routes,route,outdoors,outside,sunny,blue,sky,skies,Whitley,land,Greenall,Greenalls,lower,Stretton,painted,freshly,white,black
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWFN - A fingerpost (sometimes referred to as a guide post) is a traditional type of sign post primarily used in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland,[1] consisting of a post with one or more arms, known as fingers, pointing in the direction of travel to places named on the fingers. The posts have traditionally been made from cast iron or wood, with poles painted in black, white or grey and fingers with black letters on a white background, often including distance information in miles. In most cases, they are used to give guidance for road users, but examples also exist on the canal network, for instance. They are also used to mark the beginning of a footpath, bridleway, or similar public path.
Lower Stretton, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: country,countryside,travel,tourism,tourist,walk,walking,cycle,track,trees,leisure.beautiful,still,reflections,Cheshire,England,UK,path,tow,towpath,NW,north,west,Halton,blossom,Cycle Track,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,problem,with,problem with,issue with,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles,Runcorn Canal,Runcorn Bridgewater Canal,Bridgewater Canal Halton
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H8FJH3 - The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England. It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester. It was opened in 1761 from Worsley to Manchester, and later extended from Manchester to Runcorn, and then from Worsley to Leigh.
The canal is connected to the Manchester Ship Canal via a lock at Cornbrook
to the Rochdale Canal in Manchester
to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Preston Brook, southeast of Runcorn
and to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Leigh. It once connected with the River Mersey at Runcorn but has since been cut off by a slip road to the Silver Jubilee Bridge.
Often considered to be the first true canal in England, it required the construction of an aqueduct to cross the River Irwell, one of the first of its kind. Its success helped inspire a period of intense canal building in Britain, known as canal mania. It later faced intense competition from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Macclesfield Canal. Navigable throughout its history, it is one of the few canals in Britain not to have been nationalised, and remains privately owned. Pleasure craft now use the canal which forms part of the Cheshire Ring network of canals.
Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EMK - . This location-based editorial photograph from Canada in 2015 preserves a recognisable subject together with clues about how the place was used and presented at the time. The scene shows Canadian Stamp, Canada Stamp, Canada Post,used stamp, Canada , 51, 51cents,red flower,Red bergamot blossom. The surrounding context brings together commercial frontage, local trading, shopfront economy, architectural detailing, documentary photography, consumer retail, community identity, retail vacancy, public realm, place identity, period streetscape, urban commerce, independent trading, and heritage landmark. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes commercial rents alongside town-centre regeneration, with particular attention to the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with redevelopment pressure, planning control and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character. For future researchers, the view documents the combination of built form, activity and local identity within the setting of Canada. The photograph additionally reflects cityscape history, retail property, adaptive reuse, archival record, changing land use, historic frontage, period building, and bricks-and-mortar retail. The combination of Canadian, flower, Canada, 51cents, and Stamp anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. By fixing the subject within Canada, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The scene further reflects commercial rents and the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres in a form that can be compared with future views of Canada. Its period value extends to heritage conservation and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character within the real-world context of Canada.
Canada
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHE8R - . Mixed pink spring blossom petals, Cheshire, England ,UK, WA4. Photographed in England, UK. The photograph was taken on 15 May 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 Mixed, pink, spring, blossom, petals, petal, flowers, flower, background and back, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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.
England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEAB - . Signs of spring New creme white apple / cherry Blossom flowers against a deep blue sky England. Photographed in England, UK. The photograph was taken on 02 May 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 Signs, spring, creme, white, apple, cherry, season, seasons, 4seasons and four, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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.
England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEN0 - . White beautiful English flowers and blossoms of spring UK. Photographed at Cheshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 02 May 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 White, beautiful, flowers, blossoms, flower, plant, sun, sunny, sunshine and summer, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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.
Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHENE - . White beautiful English flowers and blossoms of spring UK. Photographed at Cheshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 02 May 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 White, beautiful, flowers, blossoms, flower, plant, sun, sunny, sunshine and summer, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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.
Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEP3 - . White beautiful English flowers and blossoms of spring UK. Photographed at Cheshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 02 May 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 White, beautiful, flowers, blossoms, flower, plant, sun, sunny, sunshine and summer, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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.
Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHE81 - . Signs of spring New creme white apple / cherry Blossom flowers against a deep blue sky England. Photographed in England, UK. The photograph was taken on 27 April 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 Signs, spring, creme, white, apple, cherry, season, seasons, 4seasons and four, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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.
England, UK
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Keywords: season,seasons,4seasons,four,skies,UK,Blossom,flowers,against,a,deep,blue,sky,England,United,Kingdom,western,hemisphere,life,springs,forth,love,good,to,be,alive,bloom,blooming,sprung,has,fruit,tree,trees,Sakura,Japan,Japanese,blosoms,almond,Gotonysmith,pollen,to,pollinators,insect,insects,bees,cross,polination,initiate,cross-pollination,necessary,to,reproduce,by,producing,fruit
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHE89 - . Signs of spring New creme white apple / cherry Blossom flowers against a deep blue sky England. Photographed in England, UK. The photograph was taken on 27 April 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 Signs, spring, creme, white, apple, cherry, season, seasons, 4seasons and four, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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.
England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEM0 - Warrington Academy, active as a teaching establishment from 1756 to 1782, was a prominent dissenting academy, that is, a school or college set up by those who dissented from the state church in England.
It was located in Warrington (then part of Lancashire, now within Cheshire), effectively moved to Manchester where Manchester New College was its successor institution, and led in time to the formation of Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEJ9 - . White beautiful English flowers and blossoms of spring UK. Photographed at Cheshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 20 April 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 White, beautiful, flowers, blossoms, flower, plant, sun, sunny, sunshine and summer, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEJH - . White beautiful English flowers and blossoms of spring UK. Photographed at Cheshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 20 April 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 White, beautiful, flowers, blossoms, flower, plant, sun, sunny, sunshine and summer, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEJX - . White beautiful English flowers and blossoms of spring UK. Photographed at Cheshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 20 April 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 White, beautiful, flowers, blossoms, flower, plant, sun, sunny, sunshine and summer, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEK8 - . White beautiful English flowers and blossoms of spring UK. Photographed at Cheshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 20 April 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 White, beautiful, flowers, blossoms, flower, plant, sun, sunny, sunshine and summer, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8464498157 - 'The Cult - 'Wild Flower' - Play this track here.
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This is one of the best tracks from 'Electric' the pivotal third album by The Cult. Released in 1987, the album marked a deliberate stylistic change in the band from a Gothic rock to a hard rock band. Rick Rubin, the producer on Electric, had been specifically hired to remake the band's sound in an effort to capitalize on the popularity of hard rock and heavy metal in the 1980s.
After the breakthrough success of their second album, Love, the Cult began working on a follow-up with producer Steve Brown. In the summer of 1986, they recorded twelve tracks at the Manor Studio in Oxfordshire. These recordings, which came to be known as the Manor Sessions, were to make up a new album, tentatively entitled Peace. However, upon completion of the recording sessions, the band decided that they were unhappy with the sound, and began to look for a new producer.
The band went on to choose Rick Rubin, who was known for producing albums for hip hop artists and thrash metal band Slayer. These new recordings, with a slightly different track-list and running order, became the album that was released.
Although all twelve of the Manor Sessions tracks were initially scrapped, four of them would turn up as B-sides to singles from Electric. A further five of them appeared on a limited edition EP, and with the release of Rare Cult in 2000, the rest of the unreleased Steve Brown-produced tracks were made available.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7024818981 - 'Ian McCulloch - 'In Bloom' - Play this track here.
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Candleland is the first solo album by Ian McCulloch, released 17 September 1989. This album marked McCulloch's departure from Echo &
the Bunnymen in 1989. The album features a guest appearance by the Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser on the title song, 'Candleland'. The album reached number 18 on the UK Albums Chart and number 179 on the Billboard 200.
The blossom this spring is truly breathtaking. Heaps of dazzling white blackthorn flowers look like piles of snow dropped on to hedgerows, and stunning white or pink cherry blossoms have turned parks and gardens into a magical wonderland.
Conditions for the blossom have been near perfect, with plenty of warm sunshine and hardly a wisp of wind, drop of rain or touch of frost to ruin the blooms. And even the winter weather played a part, with the bitter cold in late January and early February boosting the growth of many trees and shrubs, and which will help the crops of fruits and berries later in the year.
The magnificent symphony of spring is well under way, each plant opening its leaves and flowers in a remarkable choreography. A green mist is now enveloping hedges and woods as the early tree and shrub leaves \u2013 such as hawthorns, elders, hornbeams and weeping willows \u2013 burst open.
Woodland floors are also turning green as carpets of plant leaves pop up, decorated with splashes of bright woodland flowers glistening in the spring sunshine, such as wood anemone, lesser celandine and dog violets. Even the first bluebells are peeking through in some southern parts of England.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5471903470 - 'Awake - 'Black Rebel Motorcycle Club' - Play this track here.
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It happens every year I know, but it always impresses me how nature awakens after those 'Jacks in the green' have done their work over the winter. And, this track says it all to me.
Its from one of my favourite bands BRMC and an album that has most tracks as my 4 &
5 star ratings on my ipod.
The band are named after Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in the 1953 film The Wild One and are from San Francisco, California, now based in Los Angeles, USA.
Its easy to hear their influences from Led Zeppelin, the BJM, The Stones and The Jesus and Mary Chain in their music.
Early albums were in a very rock vein, with 'Howl' showing a move to a more blues/folk style.
The first album is the best starting point for newcomers to the band. The live DVD recorded in Glasgow, Berlin, and Dublin during the Baby 81 world tour is also worth grabbing.
Oh, and tell 'em I sent you!
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A church at Winwick is recorded in the Domesday Book. The earliest parts of the present church are the bases of the north arcade which date from the early 13th century, and the walls of the Legh Chapel and the organ chamber which are dated 1330. The west tower was built in 1358, and the walls and north arcade of the nave (except for the Legh Chapel and the organ chamber) date from 1580.
The south porch was added in 1720, and the south arcade of the nave was rebuilt in 1836 reusing earlier stones. The chancel, sanctuary and vestry were rebuilt by Pugin in 1847\u201349 for the 13th Earl of Derby. Much damage had been done to the church in 1648 when Oliver Cromwell stationed his troops in the church after the Battle of Red Bank.
It is particularly good in spring when all the cherry trees in the graveyard blossom. A very unique building any time of year.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HE39 - . Photographed at England, UK in 2011, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The location is represented through White Spring Cherry Blossom and a super clear blue sky, England UK. The wider scene also brings together historical comparison, small business, public realm, local history, local enterprise, changing streetscape, changing land use, high-street commerce, shopfront economy, archival record, documentary photography, town-centre trading, customer footfall, and regional identity. From a 2025-onward perspective, online shopping and business rates are closely linked to this subject, alongside how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses. For later comparison, the photograph preserves equipment and working practice at England, UK, details that may look very different after new construction. Further associations within the scene are bricks-and-mortar retail, specialist shop, everyday life, social history, community identity, place identity, contemporary social history, and commercial frontage. The recorded references to Blossom, super, Spring, clear, and White preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For 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 wider significance includes online shopping and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets within the specific setting of England, UK. Another strand within the photograph is footfall and how commercial property costs affect small retailers as part of the longer story of England, UK. The setting also helps illustrate consumer spending and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses when considered against later change at England, UK.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4615776482 - 'Here is a great ceiling of white blossom, some kind of apple I think. We seem to be awash with blossom at the moment. I dont know if its better than usual near me or just a bit better this year after the particularly harsh winter.
Thinking about that theme, the National Trust (NT) have launched a light-hearted competition asking for contributions towards a Japanese-style 'renga' poem on teh subject of the spring blossom.
Renga is an art form going back centuries, where one poet writes a verse before passing their contribution on to another. Blossom, a popular obsession in Japan is a traditional subject matter.
The National Trust's 36 verse poem will plan to track the country's orchards as they blossom from south to north in the coming weeks. The first 12 started at the Mother Orchard on the Cotehole Estate near Saltash in Cornwall, an eight-acre orchard filled with 120 apple tree varieties as well as cherries, pears and plums.
The middle 12 will be composed with the help of the public over the following 14 days, as the trees blossom across the country.
Aspiring renga poets can submit their verses for consideration online at a special website, www.orchardnetwork.org.uk . The best will be picked for inclusion in the final poem bythe Trust's poetry experts. The final 12 verses will be written at Acorn Bank in Cumbria, mid May.
Good for families the events at Cotehele and Acorn Bank will include picnics under the trees, bug hunts, blossom walks and wildlife displays. A great many of Englands orchards have been lost over the last 50 years and hopefully, this will help revive interest in Adams Pearmain, Ashmead's Kernel, Beauty of Bath, Egremont Russet and Sufolks Sturmer Pippin.
Lets see!
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HDJ6 - St Oswald's Church, is in the village of Winwick, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Warrington and the deanery of Winwick
A church at Winwick is recorded in the Domesday Book. The earliest parts of the present church are the bases of the north arcade which date from the early 13th century, and the walls of the Legh Chapel and the organ chamber which are dated 1330. The west tower was built in 1358, and the walls and north arcade of the nave (except for the Legh Chapel and the organ chamber) date from 1580. Much damage was done to the church in 1648 when Oliver Cromwell stationed his troops in the church after the Battle of Red Bank. The south porch was added in 1720, and the south arcade of the nave was rebuilt in 1836 reusing earlier stones. The chancel, sanctuary and vestry were rebuilt by Pugin in 1847“49 for the 13th Earl of Derby. The spire was rebuilt and the church was restored in 1869 by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin. On Thursday 13 January 1887, Titanic Captain Edward Smith married Sarah Eleanor Pennington in the church. In 1931“32 Henry Paley successor in the Lancaster architectural practice, now known as Austin and Paley, restored the tower at a cost of £463, and in 1934 he added a new vestry, porch and entrance at a cost of £232
The church is built of sandstone with a metal, stainless steel, roof. Its plan consists of a west tower, a nave of six bays with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chapel in the east bay of each aisle, a chancel and sanctuary of three bays, and a north vestry. The south chapel is the Legh Chapel and the north chapel belonged to the Gerard family. The tower is in three stages and has a recessed spire. On the west face is a door above which is a three-light window. On each side of the window are niches
Golborne Rd, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, England,Uk, WA2 8SZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4587919792 - 'Few plants captivate a nation quite like the Japanese flowering cherry or 'cherry blossom'. Pick up a 100 yen coin and at any time of the year it reminds you of the Sakura.
In Japan cherry blossoms among other things symbolize clouds. This is due to their nature of blooming en masse, besides being an enduring metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life, an aspect of Japanese cultural tradition that is often associated with Buddhistic influence, and which is embodied in the concept of 'mono no aware' (the life of things). The association of the cherry blossom with 'mono no aware' dates back to 18th-century scholar Motoori Norinaga.
The transience of the blossoms, the extreme beauty and quick death, has often been associated with mortality. For this reason, cherry blossoms are richly symbolic, and have been utilized often in Japanese art, manga, anime, and film, as well as at musical performances for ambient effect. The band Kagrra, which is associated with the visual kei movement, is an example of this latter phenomenon. There is at least one popular folk song, originally meant for the shakuhachi (bamboo flute), titled 'Sakura', and several pop songs. The flower is also represented on all manner of consumer goods in Japan, including kimono, stationery, and dishware.
Cherry blossom is an omen of good fortune and is also an emblem of love, affection and represents spring. Cherry blossoms are an enduring metaphor for the fleeting nature of life, and as such are frequently depicted in art.
At Himeji Castle Japan During World War II, the cherry blossom was used to motivate the Japanese people, to stoke nationalism and militarism among the populace. Japanese pilots would paint them on the sides of their planes before embarking on a suicide mission, or even take branches of the trees with them on their missions. There is a plane of this type in the Manchester museum of science of industry. My friend Josef Knocke always comes to mind when I look at it as does a particularly tasteless joke, that I would not repeat here for a family audience.
A cherry blossom painted on the side of the bomber symbolized the intensity and ephemerality of life. In this way, the aesthetic association was altered such that falling cherry petals came to represent the sacrifice of youth in suicide missions to honor the emperor. The government even encouraged the people to believe that the souls of downed warriors were reincarnated in the blossoms.
In its colonial enterprises, aparently imperial Japan often planted cherry trees as a means of 'claiming occupied territory as Japanese space'. Consider this as you pass below those lovely pink blossoms...
(2010 week 16)
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4552559482 - 'Ahh, a week of warm english weather, blossoms, daffy's, spring has definitely landed. Where church lane and Broad lane meet is a lovely spot for catching the last rays of sun before heading into the village for a quick pint before tea. I would have liked to have been able to say I could smell a BBQ but it would be a wee fib! Also a blue sky untarnished with smoke trails from planes. All air traffic thankfully grounded by the Iceland volcano.
Grappenhall on the edge of south Warrington is mentioned in the Domesday Book under the name Gropenhale. It roughly translates to 'The Groping Place' as my cousin (who has a degree in such matters but also an uncharacteristically un-catholic sense of humour) once explained to me. At the time of the Domesday Grappenhall was stated to be worth five shillings. Lets hope that was just the tax revenue.
St Wilfrid's Church has a carving of a cat on the west face of the tower. This is believed to be Lewis Carroll's inspiration for the grinning Cheshire Cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I have resisted photographing the cat, although may relent if I can find a suitably creative way of doing it.
Parts of the Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes were filmed in the centre of Grappenhall. The 'large room' in Grappenhall village, was converted into a Police station for the filming of the 'Wisteria Lodge' episode of The Return of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett. The 'Rams Head' pub was converted to the 'The Bull Hotel' in the same episode (see www.flickr.com/photos/nathanchantrell/4010783429/in/photo... ).
Grappenhall has a thriving Cricket Club and is part of the CCC. Cheshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Cheshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy. The club is based at Cheadle and plays matches around the county at Boughton Hall in Chester, Nantwich, New Brighton, Grappenhall and Alderley Edge.
Oh, and by-the-way, I have reached 300 in my 365 without missing a day so far - yay! (big thanks to Jill, who helped me decide to start, way back in June - Hanx!)
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A9GHRB - . An editorial view records the everyday reality of Broad Lane,Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England,WA4 3ER, in documentary coverage dating from 2010. The scene is specifically associated with Spring cherry blossom, Grappenhall Thelwall Parish Council, notice board, Broad Lane,Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England,WA4 3ER. The location also connects architectural detail, civic life, period architecture, policy change, local landmark, national policy, historic built environment, public interest, historic fabric, heritage streetscape, historic townscape, and architectural character. Current debate around architectural conservation often combines maintenance cost, planning control and the practical challenge of lower-carbon reuse rather than demolition. In the mid-2020s, civic administration is increasingly discussed through migration and planning, with attention turning to community responses to government decisions. The photograph fixes Broad Lane,Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England,WA4 3ER at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed. The surrounding context also touches on urban conservation, community debate, public administration, policy implementation, public-sector policy, traditional building. The scene is further associated with Grappenhall and Thelwall Parish Council, flowers, Grappenhall Village. The scene also carries the language of public policy, built heritage, architectural heritage, adaptive reuse, conservation interest, government decision-making, conservation architecture, democratic accountability, townscape identity, and public services. It remains a grounded period reference to Broad Lane,Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England,WA4 3ER, its use, appearance and changing local context.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4556321256 - 'A picture of spring just about to emerge!
Spotted on Knutsford Road Grappenhall, Cheshire, purple cherry blossom on a tree just about ready to open. In Japan the cherry blossom has nearly mystical spring significance.
During the Heian Period (794\u20131191), Japanese sought to emulate many practices from China, including the social phenomenon of flower viewing (hanami), where the imperial households, poets, singers and other aristocrats would gather and celebrate under the blossoms. In Japan, cherry trees were planted and cultivated for their beauty, for the adornment of the grounds of the nobility of Kyoto, at least as early as 794. In China, the ume 'plum' tree (actually a species of apricot) was held in highest regard, but by the middle of the ninth century, the cherry blossom had replaced the plum as the favored species in Japan.
Every year the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the public track the sakura zensen (cherry-blossom front) as it moves northward up the archipelago with the approach of warmer weather via nightly forecasts following the weather segment of news programs. The blossoming begins in Okinawa in January and typically reaches Kyoto and Tokyo at the end of March or the beginning of April. It proceeds into areas at the higher altitudes and northward, arriving in Hokkaid\u014d in the colder east a few weeks later. Japanese pay close attention to these forecasts and turn out in large numbers at parks, shrines, and temples with family and friends to hold flower-viewing parties.
Hanami festivals celebrate the beauty of the cherry blossom and for many are a chance to relax and enjoy the beautiful view. The custom of hanami dates back many centuries in Japan: the eighth-century chronicle Nihon Shoki records hanami festivals being held as early as the third century CE.
Most Japanese schools and public buildings have cherry blossom trees outside of them. Since the fiscal and school year both begin in April, in many parts of Honsh\u016b, the first day of work or school coincides with the cherry blossom season.
(2010 week 14)
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A9GHRE - . This contextual photograph records the social and built context of Cheshire, England, UK, in a photograph originating in 2010. The principal point of reference is Beautiful Spring pink cherry blossom, Cheshire, England, UK - prunus accolade. The wider setting includes local identity, contemporary social history, regional identity, social landscape, urban and rural change, everyday Britain, documentary record, community life, public realm, everyday infrastructure, changing Britain, and social context. Modern coverage of community change frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of redevelopment, altered public space and preservation of everyday detail. Small period details preserved at Cheshire, England, UK may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage. The surrounding context also touches on place and memory, documentary photography, local character, cultural landscape, place-based history, visual record. Further recorded details include tree, apple blossom, flowering. The location further reflects modern history, and community environment. For present-day editorial use, ordinary infrastructure can also illustrate debates about shifts in local identity and redevelopment, particularly where these affect preservation of everyday detail. In historical comparison, the image can help trace social change, historic fabric, planning and redevelopment, everyday services, and movement through the area without relying on a generic or reconstructed view. The lasting documentary value lies in its record of architecture and streetscape, public access, transport patterns, neighbourhood identity, and ownership or occupation in a form that can be compared with later photographs. The view of Cheshire, England, UK also preserves another layer of local identity and period change.
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