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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Ken Dodd,Diddy Men,comedy memorabilia,vintage annual,children annual,Ken Dodd portrait,Diddymen characters,cartoon artwork,British popular culture,nostalgia print,comic illustration,vintage cover,Liverpool comedian,Knotty Ash,TV comedian,entertainer merchandise,showbusiness ephemera,retro illustration,annual cover,old paperback,television comedy,collectors item,children entertainment,print memorabilia,1972,annual,1970s,Diddymen,Diddyman,comedian,entertainer,Scouser,Scouse,Liverpudlian,British,UK,collectable,book,books,entertainment,history,humour,Doddy,Ken
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FW39PJ - The cover of a 1972 Diddymen annual associated with comedian Ken Dodd is photographed as a piece of vintage British entertainment memorabilia. A large green title panel reading DIDDYMEN ANNUAL 1972 dominates the composition, with Ken Dodd's name at the top and a portrait of the performer below. Cartoonish Diddymen figures, including one with a high dark hat, occupy the lower area alongside colourful illustration. Ken Dodd, the Liverpool entertainer closely associated with Knotty Ash, created a comic world featuring the Diddymen as part of his stage and television persona. Annuals were a familiar format for children's entertainment publishing, combining characters, games, stories and artwork in collectable books. The image illustrates how television and variety entertainment extended into printed products during the 1970s. The worn cover and period graphic design are appropriate to stories about comedy history, post-war British culture, entertainment publishing, Ken Dodd memorabilia and nostalgia for traditional annuals. This is a photograph of a printed historical artefact rather than a contemporary performance by the comedian. The publication has a visual style associated with the period: strong block capitals, exaggerated comic figures and brightly coloured panels that separate the title, personality portrait and character art. The wording DIDDYMEN is larger than the entertainer's name, reflecting the recognisability of the fictional characters as a brand in their own right. Ken Dodd's stage act combined rapid-fire jokes, distinctive costumes and a comic world associated with his Liverpool roots. Printed annuals were a commercial way to extend that audience into children's publishing and seasonal gift purchases. The annual is a surviving example of illustrated celebrity merchandise from the early 1970s. Its dated title and illustrated characters connect the printed annual with the comedian's television audience.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_5201,platform nine and three quarters,Platform 9 3/4,Kings Cross station,Harry Potter,Hogwarts Express,fictional railway platform,literary tourism,London tourist attraction,Harry Potter fans,railway fantasy,J K Rowling fiction,red platform sign,British railway station,fictional train journey,pop culture tourism,book and film location,railway memorabilia,weathered station sign,London transport heritage,tourist photography,magical platform,fantasy literature,film tourism,public railway landmark,Kings Cross London,railway themed attraction,British popular culture,books,book,JK Rowling
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FPW3J5 - . A suspended red and cream platform board carries an old-fashioned 9¾ designation, referencing the imaginary departure point used by students travelling to Hogwarts in the Harry Potter stories. The sign is visibly weathered and resembles traditional railway signage rather than a modern electronic passenger display. London King's Cross station is strongly associated with this fictional platform through the novels and subsequent screen adaptations, making it a destination for visitors interested in literary and film-related tourism. The 9¾ number is a fictional element and does not designate a real operational platform between the station's numbered tracks. The enduring popularity of the scene illustrates how imagined places can become firmly connected with actual buildings, influencing visitor behaviour and the commercial presentation of heritage sites. Railway-themed objects often combine nostalgia for historic train travel with references to books, films and entertainment merchandise. The photograph documents the sign itself and the aged surface treatment. The number is written as a fraction, using a large nine followed by a smaller three over four, rather than an ordinary integer platform identifier. In the Harry Potter narratives, reaching the fictional platform involves passing through a magical boundary at King's Cross. The books' success has given the setting a recognisable place in international cultural tourism, with visitors connecting an everyday railway terminal to an imagined journey. King's Cross has also undergone major station improvements and commercial development, making its public spaces more than simply places to catch trains. The surviving board is photographed as an object, not an operational departure indicator. The faded red railway-style board shows the distinctive fraction 9¾, a playful visual connection between an ordinary London transport terminus and the fictional platform in the Harry Potter stories.
King's Cross railway station, London, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Beano,comics,comic,Bash Street,Bash St,kids,Dundee,DC Thompson,publishing,retro,book,The Beano,Beano comic,Bash Street Kids,DC Thomson,British comics,Beano Comics Bash Street kids,Comics,Bash,Scotland,Scottish,Dundee local history,Dundee documentary photography,Dundee public realm,Dundee urban life,Dundee place photography,documentary photography,local history,urban life,British culture,place photography,contemporary Britain,public realm,street scene,local identity,social history,everyday life,regional England,city life,town centre,community,built environment,public space,modern Britain,local landmark,urban detail
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F2PHD7 - Beano Comics Bash Street kids, Dundee DC Thompson publishing. Photographed on 14 May 2024. The image is centred on Beano Comics Bash Street kids, with enough of the surrounding setting at Dundee retained to establish how Beano Comics Bash Street kids appears in everyday life. Visible lettering, materials, neighbouring buildings and street furniture around Beano Comics Bash Street kids add specific physical context rather than reducing the scene to an isolated object. The photograph preserves the appearance of Beano Comics Bash Street kids and its immediate surroundings at one identifiable moment in the recent history of the location. The surrounding physical details help identify Beano Comics Bash Street kids precisely and distinguish the location from a generic urban scene. The composition therefore preserves both Beano Comics Bash Street kids and the immediate environment in which it was encountered. Beano Comics Bash Street kids is closely tied to Dundee
the surrounding street, building or public-space details help explain how the subject functioned or was encountered at the time. The setting around Beano Comics Bash Street kids records a recognisable part of everyday life in Dundee, retaining local context that can be lost when businesses, buildings or public spaces change.
Dundee, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: presentation,stage,Socialhousing,Central,Ocean Media,Gotonysmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Housing,at,centre,city,business,attendees,repairs,book,early,for,board,housing,2027,Ocean Media Group,Inside Housing,exhibition stand booking,Book your stand,social housing conference,housing exhibition,conference floorplan,prices,stands,CIH Housing,Chartered Institute of Housing,UK social housing,affordable housing sector,housing associations,local authorities,housing providers,B2B event marketing,conference sponsorship,exhibition hall layout
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EW7C1D - Exhibition floorplan and sales board at Manchester Central promoting early stand bookings for Housing 2027, displayed during the Housing 2026 exhibition and conference in Manchester. The visible wording reads Book your stand for HOUSING 2027 NOW to get the best rates... and the board shows a detailed plan of exhibition stands, aisles, stage areas and marked zones. Clearly visible feature areas include a fringe festival stage, knowledge stage and a PH lounge area, reflecting the scale and commercial structure of a major housing sector trade event.
Housing is one of the UK's major annual gatherings for the housing and wider living sector, bringing together social landlords, councils, suppliers, consultants, contractors, policy specialists, technology providers and other organisations working across homes, communities, asset management, development, repairs, finance, governance and resident services. The board is aimed at exhibitors and sponsors looking to secure space early for the following year, highlighting the importance of trade stands, networking, procurement conversations and supplier visibility within the UK social housing market.
The image is useful for editorial themes around the business of housing, conference marketing, exhibition stand sales, sector networking, social housing procurement and the continuing commercial ecosystem around public and affordable housing. It also reflects the practice of selling next year's event space while the current conference is still running, using footfall and exhibitor momentum to encourage early commitment.
Manchester Central, formerly the G-Mex exhibition centre, is a major city centre conference and events venue in Manchester. It regularly hosts large trade shows, professional conferences and public sector events. This scene records a practical behind-the-scenes detail from the June 2026 Housing event rather than a keynote stage or public speech, showing how the event is physically organised through stands, zones
Windmill Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK, M2 3GX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,M2 5PD,historic,Bee In The City,beeinthecitymcr.co.uk,beeinthecitymcr,book,books,bees,bee,symbol,of,city,centre,insect,insects,industry,industrious,wing,wings,winged,Achive,Archives,Archives+,honey,honeycomb,honeycombs,entrance,door,doorway,inside,interior,M2,giant,3D,culture
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADR2AB - Bee in the City stock-photo/gotonysmith-Worker.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>worker bee sculpture displayed by the Archives+ entrance inside Manchester Central Library at St Peter's Square, showing a large yellow and black Manchester bee with translucent wings and a honeycomb base. The image connects public art, civic identity, local history and city centre tourism in one of Manchester's best known cultural buildings. Bee in the City was a free Manchester art trail created with Wild in Art and Manchester City Council, running from 23 July to 23 September 2018, with giant bee sculptures placed across the city and wider area. The worker bee has long been used as a symbol of Manchester, linked with industry, hard work, collective effort, civic pride and the city's industrial past. In this photograph the bee sits beside the Archives+ sign, giving the scene extra relevance for stories about archives, local studies, libraries, heritage, public memory, cultural learning and Manchester's public services. The sculpture's bold stripes, oversized eyes, antennae, honeycomb pattern and roped display area make it a strong visual for searches about Manchester Bee, Bee in the City, public sculpture, art trails, family attractions, city branding, urban culture, community art, tourism, libraries, archives and northern identity. The indoor setting also works well for features on Manchester Central Library, St Peter's Square, civic buildings, visitor attractions, arts funding, local authority culture, public engagement and educational activities. With no people visible, the image remains flexible for editorial, travel, heritage, education, tourism, stock photography, websites, blogs, magazines and guidebook use. It captures how Manchester's bee symbol has moved from architectural and industrial motif into a widely recognised modern emblem of belonging, resilience, creativity and shared civic pride.
Bee in the City worker bee sculpture outside Archives+ at Manchester Central Library, celebrating th
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Keywords: gotonysmith,shopTrick,retail,door,store,33,Scotland,UK,G1 3EF,G1,entrance,window,history,historic,shop,TrickShop,tamshepherds.com,exterior,outside,magic,puzzles,puzzle,jokes,joke,tricks,card,cards,circle,Roy Walton,book,books,bicycle,trick,deck,decks,fancy dress,makeup
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HKHW7M - . This authentic period view of 33 Queen St, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G1 3EF in 2017 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The main point of reference is Tam Shepherds Trick Shop, 33 Queen St, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G1 3EF - tamshepherds.com. A broader reading of the photograph includes contemporary social history, before-and-after reference, community identity, regional identity, street-level business, changing streetscape, shopfront economy, documentary photography, historical comparison, everyday life, place identity, customer footfall, local trading, and commercial frontage. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with consumer spending, commercial rents and the role of small retailers in maintaining active town centres. The image fixes signage and branding within 33 Queen St, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G1 3EF at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changed technology. Further associations within the scene are public realm, archival record, retail property, visual archive, local character, period detail, specialist retailer, and town-centre economy. The recorded references to Scotland, Queen, Shepherds, Trick, and Glasgow preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at 33 Queen St, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G1 3EF helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Its period value extends to consumer spending and the role of small retailers in maintaining active town centres within the real-world context of 33 Queen St, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G1 3EF. The location additionally provides evidence of store closures and how consumer spending and property costs shape local commercial streets within the specific setting of 33 Queen St, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G1 3EF.
33 Queen St, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G1 3EF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,England,UK,42,SW1A 2BJ,SW1A,the,at,Serpentine,Lady,Di,plaques,plaque,royal,walk,pathway,path,walkway,queen,Diana,Spencer,of,sorrows,Princess of Wales Memorial Walk,tourist,tourism,attraction,park,paths,bronze,British,royalty,symbol,tribute,to,princess of Wales,book
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T35C2K - The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Walk is a 7-mile (11 km) long circular walking trail in central London, England, dedicated to the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Overview
The walk passes between Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Green Park and St. James's Park in a figure-eight pattern, passing five sites that are associated with Princess Diana's life: Kensington Palace, Spencer House, Buckingham Palace, St. James's Palace, and Clarence House. It is marked with ninety individual plaques, each of which has a heraldic rose etched in the centre made of aluminium. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, who was the Chairman of the Diana, Princess of Wales, Memorial Committee was quoted as saying it is one of the most magnificent urban parkland walks in the world. The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Walk is in London, and celebrates the life of the Princess of Wales who died in a car accident on 31 August 1997 in Paris.
The walk was constructed at a cost of £1.3 million. No member of the Royal Family was present at its opening
St James Park, 42 The Mall, London, England, SW1A 2BJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,County Durham,Co Durham,DL12 8PH,DL12,book,books,witch,witches,wizard,wizards,available,for,sale,in,a,shop,pentangle,pentangles,mystic,mystical,pagan,paganism,cover,font,magic,old,leather,worn,history,historic,heritage,1960s childrens book
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RWMEKF - Taken on 15 Sep 2023, this photograph shows Traditional occult book of spells, available for sale in a shop, in Barnard Castle, Teesdale, Co Durham, England, UK, DL12 8PH. The location is Barnard Castle, Teesdale, Co Durham, England, UK, DL12 8PH. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains public house signs, frontage, street activity or drinking culture details useful for hospitality and heritage features. The occult book cover can illustrate alternative spirituality, fantasy retailing, pagan symbolism, gift-shop browsing and the commercial afterlife of folklore in historic market towns. Barnard Castle is a historic Teesdale market town, with stone streets, independent shops and castle associations that support tourism, heritage trails and local retail photography. It could support features on pubs, beer, leisure, nightlife, tourism, heritage streets, local economies, independent hospitality and the pressures facing town-centre venues. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include Teesdale, Barnard Castle, book of spells, spell, spells, retail, selling, witchcraft, symbolism, symbol, County Durham, Co Durham, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes.
Barnard Castle, Teesdale, Co Durham, England, UK, DL12 8PH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,pubs,bar,bars,Jukebox,welcome,the,M1,127,England,UK,M1 5JQ,Gt Bridgewater Street,history,historic,famous,tiles,pub,Pev,Peveril,board,brewery,classic,centre,Barfootball,football,table,games,exterior,ouutside,yellow,horse-drawn,stagecoach,novel,Walter Scott,book,CAMRA,alcohol
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RAJ37F - . A-Board outside the entrance door of the famous Wilsons green tiled Peveril Of The Peak pub,127 Great Bridgewater St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 5JQ. Photographed on 28 June 2023. Peveril of the Peak (1823) is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, and Woodstock this is one of the English novels in the Waverley novels series, with the main action taking place around 1678 in the Peak District, the Isle of Man, and London, and centring on the Popish Plot. Plot introduction. Julian Peveril, a Cavalier, is in love with Alice Bridgenorth, a Roundhead's daughter, but both he and his father are accused of involvement with the Popish Plot of 1678. The historical setting for licensed premises is that beer culture links agriculture, brewing, distribution and the licensed trade
Cask-conditioned ale, handpumps, brewery branding and pub interiors became especially important to the real-ale revival from the 1970s onwards, while later craft brewing introduced new styles and independent producers. Seen through matchday, the earlier context is that british sports venues often have histories extending far beyond their current appearance, with rebuilt stands, sponsorship names and safety standards reflecting the professionalisation and commercial growth of spectator sport. For design history, the historical context is that everyday objects often become better historical evidence with age because packaging, typography, materials and branding change more rapidly than their basic function
Souvenirs, games and household items can therefore date consumer culture very precisely. In the 2026 discussion of licensed premises, in England eligible pubs and live-music venues receive a 15% business-rates relief for the 2026/27 billing year, reflecting continuing concern about operating costs, closures and the role of hospitality in town-centre vitality. The wider story encompasses Peveril Of The Peak, tiled, green, tile, A-Board, and Wilsons.
127 Great Bridgewater St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 5JQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,regular,childrens,children,kid,kids,annual,75,years,anniversary,edition,book,strip,cartoon,cartoons,publisher,& co,ltd,icon,iconic,childhood,British,Scotland,Dundee,Scottish,famous,Lord Snooty,Bash Street Kids,colour,misbehaving,characters,anarchic,humour,funny,David Couper Thomson,DD1,annuals,Xmas
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NCX0NB - The Beano (formerly The Beano Comic, also known as Beano) is a British anthology comic magazine created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson. Its first issue was published on 30 July 1938,[1] and it became the world's longest-running comic issued weekly in 2018, publishing its 4000th issue in August 2019.[2] Popular and well-known comic strips and characters include Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Roger the Dodger, Billy Whizz, Lord Snooty and His Pals, Ivy the Terrible, General Jumbo, Jonah, and Biffo the Bear.
The Beano was planned as a pioneering children's magazine that contained mostly comic strips, in the style of American newspaper gag-a-days, as opposed to the more text story based Story papers that were immensely popular before the Second World War. In the present, its legacy is its misbehaving characters, escapist tales and anarchic humour with an audience of all ages. Beano is a multimedia franchise with spin-off books and Christmas annuals, a website, theme park rides, games, cartoon adaptations, and a production company.
Dundee (Meadowside). 2 Albert Square Dundee, Scotland, DD1 1DD
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Keywords: instruction,manual,book,142/0,142/1,old,historic,BR,British,Rail,Great,Britain,UK,United,Kingdom,Railway,rail,transport,class,142,train,Pacer,diesel,multiple-unit,passenger,multiple,unit,units,DMMU Trains,DMMU trains,Working Instructions,GoTonySmith,BREL,in,Derbyshire,141,instruction,instructions,pacer train,vintage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCTC - The British Rail Class 142 is a class of Pacer diesel multiple-unit passenger trains used in the United Kingdom. 96 units were built by BREL in Derby between 1985 and 1987. They were a development of the earlier Class 141 which were introduced in 1984.
They were initially built for use on rural branch lines. However, as of April 2015 they are mainly used on busy commuter routes in the major cities in the north of England, with some also in use on local services around Cardiff. Until 2009, they also operated in Devon, by First Great Western.
United Kingdom
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,food,N1C,Coal drops,yard,Stable Street,London,England,UK,N1C 4DQ,experience,Kings Cross,fan,cooling,and,light,bulb,at,incandescent,book,cover,Emco,Aristocrat,traditional,architype,days,of,the,raj,sub-continent,sub continent,wire,cool,history,historic,Old Bombay
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKCBE2 - . Made at Coal drops yard, Stable St, London, England, UK, N1C 4DQ in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. At the centre of the view is Fan and light bulb at Dishoom Indian restaurant experience, Kings Cross Coal drops yard, Stable St, London, England, UK, N1C 4DQ. A broader reading of the photograph includes changing land use, local history, national symbolism, social history, patriotic symbolism, local character, community identity, before-and-after reference, place identity, public realm, English identity, street-level symbolism, visual archive, and flag culture. Today's relevance is strengthened by public display, sporting events and the continuing question of the visibility of English identity in residential streets and public space. For later comparison, the photograph preserves signage and branding at Coal drops yard, Stable St, London, England, UK, N1C 4DQ, details that may look very different after different community use. The surrounding story also includes St George's Cross, documentary photography, contemporary social history, changing streetscape, period detail, national flag display, everyday life, and historical comparison. Details involving London, Kings, Stable, light, and restaurant make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. A later view of Coal drops yard, Stable St, London, England, UK, N1C 4DQ may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The scene further reflects public display and the visibility of English identity in residential streets and public space within the real-world context of Coal drops yard, Stable St, London, England, UK, N1C 4DQ. The period view preserves details of everyday use as a date-specific reference.
Coal drops yard, Stable St, London, England, UK, N1C 4DQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,Merseyside,England,tourism,L1,L1 7AZ,St James Road,St James Mt,Church of England Cathedral of the Diocese of Liverpool,inside,hardback,hardbound,book,ledger,list,of,Liverpool,the,leather,bound,volume,1939-1945,1939,1945,(Liverpool),history,historic,saint James,mount,red,maroon,books,The Kings,regiment
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PK7X7R - . Directory of the fallen , Kings Regiment Liverpool, in the Anglican Cathedral, St James Mt, St James Road, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L1 7AZ. Photographed on 1 April 2023, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is St James Mt, St James Road, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L1 7AZ, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Merseyside, tourism, L1 7AZ, St James Road, St James Mt, Church of England Cathedral of the Diocese of Liverpool, hardback, hardbound, book, ledger, list, Liverpool, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. Architecturally, the scene records the form, materials, scale and public-facing character of the built environment, making it useful for coverage of design, planning, conservation, development and urban identity. The image has value for architectural and place-based research because buildings and interiors can be refurbished, repurposed, demolished or substantially altered, while streets and public spaces also evolve. The religious or ecclesiastical setting gives the photograph relevance to faith, worship, sacred architecture, stained glass, church heritage, tourism and the conservation of historic interiors and buildings. It can illustrate the continuing cultural role of churches and cathedrals as places of worship, community activity, music, remembrance and architectural interest. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. The composition retains practical contextual detail for news, feature, documentary, educational and historical use.
St James Mt, St James Road, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L1 7AZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,pennylane,gift,fab four,souvenirs,fab4,fab 4,shot,Merseyside,L18 1DE,Inside,interior,souvenir,the,store,shops,stores,gift shop,tourists,inside,museum,cards,poster,posters,Wings,solo,members,tour,tours,book,books,shelves,1970s childrens book
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0KPKW - Penny Lane is a road in the south Liverpool suburb of Mossley Hill. The name also applies to the area surrounding its junction with Smithdown Road and Allerton Road, and to the roundabout at Smithdown Place that was the location for a major bus terminus, originally an important tram junction of Liverpool Corporation Tramways. The roundabout was a frequent stopping place for John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison during their years as schoolchildren and students. Bus journeys via Penny Lane and the area itself subsequently became familiar elements in the early years of the Lennon“McCartney songwriting partnership. In 2009, McCartney reflected:
Penny Lane was kind of nostalgic, but it was really [about] a place that John and I knew ... I'd get a bus to his house and I'd have to change at Penny Lane, or the same with him to me, so we often hung out at that terminus, like a roundabout. It was a place that we both knew, and so we both knew the things that turned up in the story.
Lennon's original lyrics for In My Life had included a reference to Penny Lane. Soon after the Beatles recorded In My Life in October 1965, McCartney mentioned to an interviewer that he wanted to write a song about Penny Lane. A year later, he was spurred to write the song once presented with Lennon's Strawberry Fields Forever. McCartney also cited Dylan Thomas's nostalgic poem Fern Hill as an inspiration for Penny Lane. Lennon co-wrote the lyrics with McCartney. He recalled in a 1970 interview: The bank was there, and that was where the trams sheds were and people waiting and the inspector stood there, the fire engines were down there. It was reliving childhood
Penny Lane, Moseley Hill, South Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 1DE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eire,Ireland,tourist,travel,Irish,The,Dublin 2,D02 XE81,book,shop,store,retail,seller,historic,history,Dawson St,56-58,56,58,the,front,4,culture,literary,specialist,specialists,textbook,fiction,novels,1768,literature,facade,façade,green,sign,upper,floors
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG3YAJ - . Recorded at 56-58 Dawson St, Dublin 2, D02 XE81, Eire, Ireland in 2019, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. At the centre of the view is The Hodges Figgis bookstore,56-58 Dawson St, Dublin 2, D02 XE81, Eire, Ireland - 1768. The locality and subject together evoke everyday life, period building, shopfront economy, place identity, documentary photography, small-business culture, heritage landmark, contemporary social history, public realm, urban fabric, town-centre economy, local character, historic streetscape, and architectural character. The wider contemporary story combines consumer spending, store closures and how physical shops adapt to online competition. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with energy retrofit, tourism and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character. The image fixes commercial use and occupation within 56-58 Dawson St, Dublin 2, D02 XE81, Eire, Ireland at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changed technology. The surrounding story also includes commercial streetscape, street-level trading, traditional materials, high-street commerce, customer footfall, period detail, historic townscape, and changing land use. References to Ireland, Dublin, Hodges, 56-58, and Figgis give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The wider setting at 56-58 Dawson St, Dublin 2, D02 XE81, Eire, Ireland matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The scene further reflects consumer spending and how physical shops adapt to online competition in a form that can be compared with future views of 56-58 Dawson St, Dublin 2, D02 XE81, Eire, Ireland. The image fixes evidence of changing use as a date-specific reference.
56-58 Dawson St, Dublin 2, D02 XE81, Eire, Ireland
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheltenham,Gloucestershire,England,UK,Non-Fiction,non,fiction,6d,book,cover,front,James,McQueen,complete,and,unabridged,frame,yellow,lemon,Careful,care,books,paperback,1950,literature,novel,novels,&,distressed,card,covering,example,work,be careful,take care,taking care
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M6W9GC - . An identifiable period record of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50 in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The location is represented through Framed James McQueen yellow book cover, Be Careful What You Wish For, 6d, Penguin, Non-Fiction. Further facets of the scene include changing land use, local character, everyday life, adaptive reuse, historic streetscape, before-and-after reference, place identity, built heritage, regional identity, local history, conservation architecture, historical comparison, community identity, and urban fabric. The modern context includes continuing discussion of heritage conservation, tourism and how historic fabric can support regeneration rather than demolition. As a dated visual record of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50, the frame retains transport arrangements and footfall, making it especially useful if closure or conversion subsequently changes the scene. A second descriptive layer includes historic townscape, social history, visual archive, architectural detailing, changing streetscape, archival record, period building, and heritage asset. Elements such as Penguin, McQueen, cover, James, and yellow add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50 helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Its period value extends to heritage conservation and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character without losing the local specificity of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50. The photograph keeps a local visual benchmark within the wider story of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50. Image 2M6W9GC also remains a dated record of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50.
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheltenham,Gloucestershire,England,UK,Non-Fiction,non,fiction,6d,book,cover,front,James,McQueen,complete,and,unabridged,frame,blue,cyan,books,paperback,1950,literature,novel,novels,&,distressed,card,covering,example,work,have fun,once,awful
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M6W9GD - . An identifiable period record of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50 in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The image documents Framed James McQueen blue book cover, I had fun once it was awful, 6d, Penguin, Non-Fiction. The frame also records themes of period detail, place identity, heritage asset, contemporary social history, period building, archival record, local history, everyday life, social history, urban fabric, built heritage, conservation interest, architectural character, and conservation architecture. The modern context includes continuing discussion of planning control, redevelopment pressure and how historic fabric can support regeneration rather than demolition. Future viewers can use this scene from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50 to compare equipment and working practice with whatever follows after different community use. The surrounding story also includes public realm, traditional materials, historic streetscape, historic townscape, historical comparison, adaptive reuse, heritage landmark, and changing land use. Details involving awful, McQueen, cover, Non-Fiction, and Framed make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The image also provides a reference for planning control and how historic fabric can support regeneration rather than demolition in a form that can be compared with future views of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50. Another useful connection is tourism and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character within the real-world context of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50.
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL50
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Derbys,HighPeak,SK13,High Peak,George St,new,used,Glossop,England,UK,SK13 8AY,retail,store,local,town,centre,buildings,millstonegrit,central,Glossopian,Glossopians,blue sky,blue skies,Character,milltown,bookstore,bookstores,bookshop,bookshops,book,books,reading,independent
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1Y810 - . An identifiable period record of 14-16 George St, Glossop, High Peak, Derbys, England, UK, SK13 8AY in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The frame specifically shows George Street Books, 14-16 George St, Glossop, High Peak, Derbys, England, UK, SK13 8AY - Community Bookshop. Other connected aspects include everyday life, urban fabric, community identity, public-realm investment, destination shopping, before-and-after reference, visual archive, social history, regional identity, commercial streetscape, changing land use, town-centre economy, heritage-led regeneration, and high-street commerce. The modern context includes continuing discussion of store closures, town-centre regeneration and how physical retail adapts to online competition. For current editorial use, planning and public-realm investment provide additional context, especially through the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. The archival value lies partly in recording period objects and surrounding context around 14-16 George St, Glossop, High Peak, Derbys, England, UK, SK13 8AY before redevelopment alters the character of the place. The photograph additionally reflects historical comparison, bricks-and-mortar retail, consumer retail, place-making, adaptive reuse, mixed-use town centre, historic townscape, and shopfront economy. Elements such as Books, Community, 14-16, George, and Bookshop add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of 14-16 George St, Glossop, High Peak, Derbys, England, UK, SK13 8AY may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The photograph keeps a point of historical comparison within the wider story of 14-16 George St, Glossop, High Peak, Derbys, England, UK, SK13 8AY.
14-16 George St, Glossop, High Peak, Derbys, England, UK, SK13 8AY
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Keywords: Republic of Ireland,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eire,Ireland,hotel,Dublin 2,D02 FK84,building,architecture,block,rooms,B&B,bed and breakfast,Irish,3-6 Anglesea St,Stephen Dedalus,16 June,1922,Anglesea Street,Temple Bar,wall,city,Ulysses,16th June,James Joyce,Leopold Bloom,centre,3-6,sign,signs,landmark,literary,book,colorful,colourful
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84KEY - . A grounded documentary photograph made at 3-6 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, , Eire, Ireland, D02 FK84 in 2019, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The defining feature is Blooms Hotel, 3-6 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, , Eire, Ireland, D02 FK84. The image also relates to contemporary social history, before-and-after reference, hospitality economy, fresh fruit breakfast, visual archive, historic hostelry, night-time economy, healthy eating, licensed hospitality, changing streetscape, fruit-topped cereal, documentary photography, healthy breakfast, and social history. Current relevance extends to food inflation and pub closures, particularly through how food, drink and heritage combine in destination pubs. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into ultra-processed foods and nutrition, not least because of the effect of food prices on healthier choices. Future viewers can use this scene from 3-6 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, , Eire, Ireland, D02 FK84 to compare signage and branding with whatever follows after later reinterpretation. Other useful contextual ideas include public-house heritage, visitor hospitality, breakfast bowl, traditional ale house, balanced breakfast, pub interior heritage, historical comparison, and morning meal. Details involving Dublin, Hotel, Anglesea, Temple, and Blooms make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within 3-6 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, , Eire, Ireland, D02 FK84, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The image also provides a reference for food inflation and how food, drink and heritage combine in destination pubs when considered against later change at 3-6 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, , Eire, Ireland, D02 FK84.
3-6 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, , Eire, Ireland, D02 FK84
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eire,Ireland,Irish,3-6 Anglesea St,Temple Bar,Dublin 2,D02 FK84,wall,rooms,3-6,Anglesea Street,city,centre,1922,Ulysses,Leopold Bloom,16 June,16th June,James Joyce,Stephen Dedalus,Republic of Ireland,architecture,bed and breakfast,block,B&B,hotel,building,sign,signs,landmark,literary,book,colorful,colourful
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8BNP4 - James Joyce's Ulysses was published in 1922 and is considered to be one of the most important books of the 20th century. The narrative follows the journey of two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, as they criss-cross Dublin on 16 June 1904. Dublin takes centre stage in the book and the soul of the city is captured in all its gritty glory.
The narrative parallels Homer's Odyssey, with one notable difference, Guinness. The two boys travel across the city in what is basically a marathon pub crawl.
Every year a bunch of Joycean enthusiasts re-enact this epic pub crawl. It's dressed up as literary event, don't let that fool you, its drink broken up by a bit of walking. The event is known as Bloomsday.
2004 was the 100th birthday of the event, and there were lots of events organised that appealed to the high and low brow alike.
We think that the Catholic Church would have beatified Leopold Bloom if he really existed and wasn't Jewish. We decided to name the liveliest and loveliest hotel in Temple Bar after the great literary character - Blooms Hotel.
Blooms of Dublin is a musical play or operetta in two acts with music and text by Anthony Burgess. The work, nearly three hours long, was first performed (in a concert version) for the Dublin Joyce Centenary in 1982 by the RTE Singers and RTE Concert Orchestra and broadcast on BBC and RTE radio. It was produced by John Tydeman and Michael Heffernan.
The operetta is based on James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. It was published in book form in 1986. The texts of some of the songs also appear in the novels Earthly Powers (1980) and The End of World News (1982)
3-6 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, , Eire, Ireland, D02 FK84
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eire,Ireland,Irish,3-6 Anglesea St,Temple Bar,Dublin 2,D02 FK84,wall,rooms,3-6,Anglesea Street,city,centre,1922,Ulysses,Leopold Bloom,16 June,16th June,James Joyce,Stephen Dedalus,Republic of Ireland,architecture,bed and breakfast,block,B&B,hotel,building,sign,signs,landmark,literary,book,colorful,colourful
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8BNT2 - James Joyce's Ulysses was published in 1922 and is considered to be one of the most important books of the 20th century. The narrative follows the journey of two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, as they criss-cross Dublin on 16 June 1904. Dublin takes centre stage in the book and the soul of the city is captured in all its gritty glory.
The narrative parallels Homer's Odyssey, with one notable difference, Guinness. The two boys travel across the city in what is basically a marathon pub crawl.
Every year a bunch of Joycean enthusiasts re-enact this epic pub crawl. It's dressed up as literary event, don't let that fool you, its drink broken up by a bit of walking. The event is known as Bloomsday.
2004 was the 100th birthday of the event, and there were lots of events organised that appealed to the high and low brow alike.
We think that the Catholic Church would have beatified Leopold Bloom if he really existed and wasn't Jewish. We decided to name the liveliest and loveliest hotel in Temple Bar after the great literary character - Blooms Hotel.
Blooms of Dublin is a musical play or operetta in two acts with music and text by Anthony Burgess. The work, nearly three hours long, was first performed (in a concert version) for the Dublin Joyce Centenary in 1982 by the RTE Singers and RTE Concert Orchestra and broadcast on BBC and RTE radio. It was produced by John Tydeman and Michael Heffernan.
The operetta is based on James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. It was published in book form in 1986. The texts of some of the songs also appear in the novels Earthly Powers (1980) and The End of World News (1982)
3-6 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, , Eire, Ireland, D02 FK84
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Ireland,Dublin,Eire,Irish,book,archived,old,College Green,Dublin D02,adjacent,to,levels,city,centre,bookshelf,of,books,dusty,Spiral Staircase,bookcase,at,Trinity College,library,Spiral,Staircase,the,Library of Trinity College Dublin,university,legal deposit,copyright library,publications,UK Publications,Thomas Burgh,1712,rare,early,archive
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8DJF6 - The Library of Trinity College Dublin (Irish: Leabharlann Choláiste na TrÃonóide) serves Trinity College and the University of Dublin. It is a legal deposit or copyright library, under which, publishers in Ireland must deposit a copy of all their publications there, without charge. It is the only Irish library to hold such rights for works published in the United Kingdom.
The Library is the permanent home to the Brian Boru harp which is a national symbol of Ireland, a copy of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic, and the Book of Kells. One of the four volumes of the Book of Kells is on public display at any given time. The volumes and pages shown are regularly changed
a new display case installed in 2020 will allow all pages to be displayed including many not seen in public for several decades
The Library proper occupies several buildings, six of which are at the Trinity College campus itself, with another part of the Trinity Centre at St James's Hospital, Dublin:
The oldest library building, now known as the Old Library, is Thomas Burgh's magnum opus. Construction began in 1712. A large building which took twenty years to complete in its original form, it towered over the university and city after its completion in 1732. Even today, surrounded by similarly scaled buildings, it is imposing and dominates the view of the university from Nassau Street. The Book of Kells is located in the Old Library, along with the Book of Durrow, the Garland of Howth and other ancient texts. Also incorporating the Long Room, the Old Library is one of Ireland's biggest tourist attractions and holds thousands of rare, and in many cases very early, volumes. In the 18th century, the college received the Brian Boru harp, one of the three surviving medieval Gaelic harps, and a national symbol of Ireland, which is now housed in the Library
The Library began with the founding of Trinity College in 1592. In 1661, Henry Jones presented it with the Book of Kells
College Green, Trinity, Dublin D02, Eire, Ireland
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,British,Perthshire,Scotland,UK,FK19 8PA,book,books,public,borrow,a,village,in,an,old,telephone,box,recycled,recycling,pull,door,to,read,reading,readers,kiosk,stocked,up,exchange,scheme,hoping,regular,basis,leave,take,one,GPO,Telecom
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XMY0 - . This authentic period view of Balquhidder village, Perthshire, Scotland, UK, FK19 8PA in 2019 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The defining feature is Balquhidder village, Perthshire, Scotland, UK, village book exchange, in an old red public telephone box. A broader reading of the photograph includes traditional pub, community drinking venue, social history, everyday life, local history, public realm, historic hostelry, regional identity, local social venue, archival record, pub heritage, cask-beer tradition, hospitality economy, and changing land use. From a 2025-onward perspective, pub closures and business rates are closely linked to this subject, alongside the value of historic pubs to tourism and local identity. The archival value lies partly in recording period objects and surrounding context around Balquhidder village, Perthshire, Scotland, UK, FK19 8PA before changed technology alters the character of the place. The surrounding story also includes licensed trade, local character, licensed hospitality, community identity, contemporary social history, visitor hospitality, changing streetscape, and night-time economy. The recorded references to Perthshire, village, telephone, Balquhidder, and public preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Balquhidder village, Perthshire, Scotland, UK, FK19 8PA, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another useful connection is pub closures and pressure on hospitality margins in the mid-2020s without losing the local specificity of Balquhidder village, Perthshire, Scotland, UK, FK19 8PA. The view records a trace of local identity before later change alters the scene. The image fixes a local visual benchmark as a date-specific reference.
Balquhidder village, Perthshire, Scotland, UK, FK19 8PA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,city,centre,Yorkshire,England,UK,retail,hanging,Holy,Bible,hung,over,door,doorway,YO1 8AW,shop,suspended,suspend,a,book,historic,history,listed,grade II,Francis Hildyard,opened,bookshop,Tudor,style,Knowles family,Derek Acorah,filmed an episode of,Ghost Towns Live,Museum Of Psychic Experience
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KF7FBA - 35 Stonegate is a grade II* listed building in the city centre of York, in England.
The building lies on Stonegate, one of the most historic streets in the city of York. From the early 14th century, the site of the building was owned by the Prebend of Bramham. The front section of the current building was constructed in the 15th century, a timber-framed three-storey range facing the street. In the early-17th century, a separate two-storey timber-framed building was built at the rear of the plot
Stained glass in the first floor window
In 1682, Francis Hildyard opened a bookshop in the building, known as At the Sign of the Bible. From 1762 until 1811, it was a library and bookshop owned by John Todd. In 1759, he sold the first 200 copies of Laurence Sterne's novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, now commemorated in a York Civic Trust plaque. The property continued to operate as a bookshop until 1872, when it was purchased by John Ward Knowles, a stained glass maker. In 1874, he completed a renovation
The Holy Bible sign
In reference to the building's history, there is a sign above the door depicting a bible, with HOLY BIBLE 1682 written on it
In 1999, the building was purchased by astrologer Jonathan Cainer, who initially sold horoscopes from it. In 2004, he worked with Uri Geller to relaunch it as the Museum Of Psychic Experience. Derek Acorah filmed an episode of Ghost Towns Live in the building in 2006. The following year, Cainer transformed the building into Haunted, a haunted house attraction, which closed in 2014 In 2015, it became the first Oliver Bonas shop in the north of England
35 Stonegate, York, North Yorkshire, England, UK ,YO1 8AW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,M3,UK,M3 1WY,rail,Staffordshire tiles,letters,lettering,bookstall,with,art,architecture,design,books,book,reading,material,materials,magazines,periodical,periodicals,original,Victorian,traditional,rail company,history,historical,interior,inside,concourse,mosaic,mosaics,sign,signs,shop
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JY55P5 - Architecture and features
The original M&LR single-storey offices facing Hunt's Bank Approach were built in the Italianate style in sandstone ashlar with slate roofs in 1844. They were later enlarged and given a second storey. William Dawes built the station's larger extension for the L&YR in 1909. It is at right-angles to the north end of the old station giving the enlarged station an L-shaped plan. Facing Victoria Station Approach, its façade is in the Edwardian neo-Baroque style, four storeys high and 31 bays to the rounded corner at the south-east end. The ground floor windows have rounded heads and those on the floors above are square. The ornate glass and iron canopy along the façade displays the names of destinations that the station served in Art Nouveau lettering. The canopy was damaged by the Provisional IRA's 1996 bomb placed in a street adjacent to the Arndale Centre and was restored four years later.
Heritage features in the concourse were restored during the 2013-15 renovation, they include the café with its glass dome and mosaic lettering which was originally the first-class dining room, the adjacent bookstall, and the original 1909 wood-panelled booking hall. In the entrance is a large, white glazed tiled map showing the former network of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
Underneath the map is a bronze World War I war memorial with effigies of Saint George and Saint Michael at each end which was installed in 1923. At the south end of the concourse is the 'soldier's gate' which opened to the former fish docks from where thousands of soldiers departed for World War I and where a bronze plaque was erected to commemorate them. The gateway was restored in 2015 and a steel screen inserted featuring a map of World War I Commonwealth grave cemeteries in Northern France and Belgium.
The station received Grade II listed building status in 1988
Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,satire,book,books,Brexit,The Story of Brexit,Remainer,Remoaners,five,on,Tory,Tories,comedy,clown,literature,EU,referendum,2016,union,flag,jack,Enid Blyton,tale,hard,border,Nigel Farage,save,our,ReformUK,Reform,Russia,interference,UK,rejoin,UK EU trade relations,post Brexit trade,UK EU negotiations,Brexit economic impact,Andy Burnham
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K41KPD - . This scene at Britain , UK 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 frame specifically shows Bexit books, Five Escape Brexit Island, The Story of Brexit, ladybird book. Another layer of the photograph includes place identity, bricks-and-mortar retail, retail property, before-and-after reference, visual archive, public realm, local character, town-centre trading, customer footfall, commercial frontage, archival record, everyday life, small business, and regional identity. From a 2025-onward perspective, store closures and footfall are closely linked to this subject, alongside the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy. The archival value lies partly in recording landscape treatment and surrounding development around Britain , UK before changing commercial priorities alters the character of the place. Further associations within the scene are period detail, shopfront economy, contemporary social history, documentary photography, historical comparison, independent retail, local enterprise, and street-level business. References to books, ladybird, Story, Island, and Bexit give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The wider setting at Britain , UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The image also provides a reference for store closures and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy as part of the longer story of Britain , UK. Another useful connection is independent business and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses when considered against later change at Britain , UK. The scene further reflects town-centre regeneration and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy without losing the local specificity of Britain , UK.
Britain , UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,book,of,Mormon,the,night,dusk,at,night time,England,UK,W1D 6AS,W1D,POW,Latter Day,saints,Saint,movement,production,West End,Trey Parker,Robert Lopez,and,LDS,church,satire,billboard,Britain,lights,lit,up,tourism,venue,mormons,arts,architecture,illuminated
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M07AAK - . Made at Coventry St, London, England, UK, W1D 6AS in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. At the centre of the view is Book of Mormon, Prince Of Wales Theatre, at dusk, Coventry St, London, England, UK, W1D 6AS. The locality and subject together evoke Westminster landmark, place identity, documentary photography, urban tourism, heritage tourism, iconic London transport, London visitor economy, Thames city view, before-and-after reference, contemporary social history, historic London streetscape, capital landmark imagery, city branding, and local history. Current relevance extends to tourism and urban mobility, particularly through how iconic streets and landmarks change while retaining strong visual identity. For later comparison, the photograph preserves materials and architectural details at Coventry St, London, England, UK, W1D 6AS, details that may look very different after different community use. Further associations within the scene are regional identity, changing streetscape, period detail, historical comparison, changing land use, community identity, local character, and visual archive. Elements such as Theatre, Wales, Prince, Coventry, and Mormon add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. For Coventry St, London, England, UK, W1D 6AS, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The setting also helps illustrate tourism and how familiar London symbols function as global shorthand for Britain within the specific setting of Coventry St, London, England, UK, W1D 6AS. The frame retains part of the area's social history as a date-specific reference. The scene captures details of everyday use for later comparison.
Coventry St, London, England, UK, W1D 6AS
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,in,Girls Own,woman,putting down,history,historic,teaching,reader,The Girls Own Paper,Girls Own Paper,bound,edition,1956,patriarchy,matriarchy,Girls own,book,books,cooking,handicrafts,domestic,skills,cookery,kitchen,gender,sex,female,stereotypes,stereotype,transgender,not for boys,feminine,worn,old,copy
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2J92PHF - . This scene at England, Great Britain , UK 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 The Girls Own Annual, historic copy, classic book in blue - female stereotypes. Other connected aspects include traditional structure, conservation interest, social history, conservation architecture, regional identity, architectural detailing, architectural character, community identity, built heritage, before-and-after reference, local character, historic frontage, changing land use, and place identity. For current editorial use, heritage conservation and planning control provide additional context, especially through keeping older structures useful without erasing their character. For later comparison, the photograph preserves signage and branding at England, Great Britain , UK, details that may look very different after redevelopment. Further associations within the scene are visual archive, heritage asset, local landmark, period building, historic townscape, archival record, changing streetscape, and period detail. Details involving historic, classic, Girls, Annual, and female make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within England, Great Britain , UK, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. Another useful connection is heritage conservation and keeping older structures useful without erasing their character when considered against later change at England, Great Britain , UK. The scene further reflects redevelopment pressure and the tension between conservation and redevelopment without losing the local specificity of England, Great Britain , UK. The record includes evidence of earlier appearance for later comparison.
England, Great Britain , UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,org,The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,England,The Church of Jesus Christ,Church of Jesus Christ,Latter Day Saints,Temple Way,Preston,UK,PR6 7EQ,PR6,Mormon Church,The Mormons,Mormons,church,religion,faith,cult,flowers,book,of,churches,religions,American,US,USA,Lancs,center,centre,Lancashire,entrance,gate,door,drive,driveway,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K43PND - . Recorded at Temple Way, Hartwood Grn, Chorley, England, PR6 7EQ in 2019, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The defining feature is Preston England Temple, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Mormons in North West England, UK. The wider scene also brings together community identity, social history, period detail, local character, visual archive, documentary photography, ecclesiastical architecture, Christian heritage, public realm, parish history, heritage worship space, religious heritage, religious landmark, and ecclesiastical art. Current relevance extends to energy use and historic fabric, particularly through the importance of church buildings to genealogy and local identity. For later comparison, the photograph preserves transport arrangements and footfall at Temple Way, Hartwood Grn, Chorley, England, PR6 7EQ, details that may look very different after new construction. A second descriptive layer includes faith community, regional identity, sacred space, before-and-after reference, church interior, contemporary social history, historic church fabric, and archival record. Details involving Mormons, Church, Preston, Latter, and Temple make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. A later view of Temple Way, Hartwood Grn, Chorley, England, PR6 7EQ may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Another strand within the photograph is energy use and the importance of church buildings to genealogy and local identity when considered against later change at Temple Way, Hartwood Grn, Chorley, England, PR6 7EQ. The setting also helps illustrate accessibility and how sacred spaces adapt to changing attendance and wider community use without losing the local specificity of Temple Way, Hartwood Grn, Chorley, England, PR6 7EQ.
Temple Way, Hartwood Grn, Chorley, England, PR6 7EQ
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Keywords: Northumberland,book,shop,bookshop,red,lights,lighting,old,railway,station,second-hand,bookshop,second,hand,secondhand,local,tourist,attraction,Victorian,Alnwicks,railway,station,Gazette,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,BarterBooksAlnwick,book store,books,store,reader,reading,second-hand bookshop,2nd hand,second hand,Stuart and Mary Manley,tourist attraction,Victorian Alnwick railway station,Xmas,Christmas
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HCH4 - Barter Books is a second-hand bookshop located in the historic English market town of Alnwick, Northumberland owned and run by Stuart and Mary Manley. It has over 200,000 visitors a year, 40% of whom are from outside the area, and is one of the largest second-hand bookstores in Europe.[1] It is considered a local tourist attraction and has been described as the British Library of second-hand bookshops.
The bookshop is located within the Victorian Alnwick railway station, designed by William Bell and opened in 1887. It was in use until the closure of the Alnwick branch line in 1968. Barter Books was opened in 1991.
The shop is notable for its use of a barter system, whereby customers can exchange their books for credit against future purchases. Standard cash purchases are also available.
Barter Books has also been subject to crime on occasions. On the 3rd May 2007, a local newspaper, the Northumberland Gazette, reported that a book worth over £2,000 was returned to the book shop 5 years after it was stolen. It has also been subject to a scam which allowed thieves to take £200 in cash. However, the crime was dealt with in court.
Keep Calm and Carry On poster (1939)
Barter Books hit the headlines in 2000 when the owner discovered, in a box of old books bought at an auction, an old World War II poster from 1939. The slogan, Keep Calm and Carry On, and the simple design has turned it into an international phenomenon, and has been on the walls of places as diverse as Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing Street and the US Embassy in Belgium
Barter Books, Alnwick Station, Wagonway Road, ALNWICK, Northumberland, NE66 2NP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE3MN - . A grounded documentary photograph made at The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP in 2019, preserving the main subject alongside smaller details that may become more historically useful with time. The defining feature is Manchester Music,section of,Manchester Central Library,The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP. Other connected aspects include concert photography, venue culture, regional identity, music heritage, public realm, period detail, before-and-after reference, industrial artefact, cultural identity, community identity, building-material production, place identity, working-industry history, and historic manufacturing. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with audience behaviour, heritage and the archival value of recording bands and venues before they disappear. In the mid-2020s, adaptive reuse and construction materials keep the subject current, particularly through the reuse or loss of former production sites. As a piece of social history, the photograph anchors the relationship between the subject and its surroundings around The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP. The surrounding context also covers live music, changing land use, industrial supply chain, historical comparison, performance culture, documentary photography, independent music, and manufacturing heritage. References to Music, section, Oxford, Central, and Library help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. A later view of The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The frame retains a local visual benchmark as a date-specific reference. The scene captures a point of historical comparison for later comparison.
The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE3NJ - . This documentary view of The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP in 2019 captures the subject within its actual surroundings, preserving a dated piece of visual history rather than an isolated object study. The subject recorded here is Manchester Music,section of,Manchester Central Library,The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP. The frame also contains themes of place identity, changing streetscape, production technology, contemporary social history, public realm, industrial artefact, historic context, independent music, local history, social history, visual archive, historical comparison, performance culture, and nightlife culture. For contemporary context, independent promotion and venue closures are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the way music contributes to a city's identity. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about regional industry, construction materials and the relationship between local geology, manufacturing and the built environment. From an archival perspective, the view leaves evidence of period details that may disappear after redevelopment or refurbishment in this part of The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP. The setting also brings in industrial material culture, documentary photography, local character, music heritage, working-industry history, venue culture, community identity, and everyday life. References to Central, section, Music, Oxford, and Library help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. The surrounding context at The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The image fixes part of the area's social history before later change alters the scene.
The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester,North West,England,UK, M13 9PP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2DDW6CP - . This location-specific image from St John Baptist, 5 Market Place, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL7 2NX in 2019 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. At the centre of the view is Cirencester Abbey,our hearts are restless,Until they find,their rest in thee, Cirencester,Gloucestershire,Cotswolds,England,UK, GL7 2NX. A broader reading of the photograph includes community identity, destination retail, changing streetscape, physical store, changing land use, everyday life, commercial frontage, historical comparison, before-and-after reference, outdoor retail, commercial streetscape, public realm, archival record, and brand-led retail. For current editorial use, commercial rents and consumer spending provide additional context, especially through how consumer spending patterns reshape commercial streets. For later comparison, the photograph preserves local activity and public use at St John Baptist, 5 Market Place, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL7 2NX, details that may look very different after new ownership. The surrounding story also includes regional identity, customer footfall, shopping district, bricks-and-mortar retail, local character, place identity, high-street commerce, and documentary photography. The recorded references to Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, restless, hearts, and Until preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at St John Baptist, 5 Market Place, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL7 2NX helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is commercial rents and how consumer spending patterns reshape commercial streets without losing the local specificity of St John Baptist, 5 Market Place, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL7 2NX.
St John Baptist, 5 Market Place, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL7 2NX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cotton,Manchester,industry,factory,mill,history,machines,cloth,Lancashire,factory system,Victorian,average weights,ledger,Cottonopolis,Book,average,weights,produced,output,office,in the office,operations,estimated,product,statistics,ruled,sustainable,work,ledgers,record,database,book,books,stamp,stamps,inked
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BM3JPD - . A location-based documentary photograph from Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, useful both for its immediate subject and for the smaller period details around it. The photograph is concerned with Book of weekly cloth production and average weights ledger, Victorian cotton mill, Manchester, Cottonopolis. The wider scene also brings together period detail, industrial material culture, industrial artefact, visual archive, historic workplace, social history, engineering history, labour history, local character, manufacturing infrastructure, manufacturing heritage, working-industry history, archival record, and social landscape. Today's wider story includes industrial conservation, reuse of mills and warehouses and the practical question of understanding the industries that shaped northern towns. Future viewers can use this scene from Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK to compare building condition and alterations with whatever follows after later redevelopment. The surrounding context includes regional identity, before-and-after reference, community identity, production machinery, everyday Britain, contemporary history, historical comparison, and built environment. The recorded references to cotton, Cottonopolis, ledger, Manchester, and cloth preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. Around Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, apparently routine features can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar street details disappear. The location additionally provides evidence for industrial conservation and understanding the industries that shaped northern towns within the real-world context of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. A further contemporary connection is adaptive reuse and finding new uses for substantial older industrial buildings within the specific setting of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK.
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DHGY0M - The library room at Dunham is one of the least changed of the early 18th century interiors. The 2nd Earl of Warrington installed the fitted oak bookcases. He filled the room with scientific instruments and works of art, such as the carving above the fireplace by Grinling Gibbons.
Dunham Massey, Near Altrincham, Cheshire England UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AKWHFE - . An on-location image from England, Great Britain , UK in 2020, useful both for the specific subject shown and for the evidence it retains about local identity, design, use and everyday life. The view centres on Relax with a book, promotion of reading and physical books. The photograph also reflects regional identity, adaptive reuse, public realm, historic commercial architecture, heritage asset, social history, historic context, historic townscape, documentary photography, period streetscape, historical comparison, cityscape history, community identity, and changing streetscape. The subject remains useful for current coverage of redevelopment pressure and maintenance costs, not least because of keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character. As a piece of social history, the scene fixes signage, materials, design and everyday use within England, Great Britain , UK. The subject sits alongside archival record, contemporary social history, period detail, conservation interest, changing land use, architectural detailing, visual archive, and architectural character. Elements such as Relax, reading, books, physical, and promotion add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. A later view of England, Great Britain , UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Another strand within the photograph is redevelopment pressure and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character in a form that can be compared with future views of England, Great Britain , UK. The image also provides a reference for planning control and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character within the real-world context of England, Great Britain , UK. Another useful connection is heritage conservation and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character within the specific setting of England, Great Britain , UK.
England, Great Britain , UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AKWHFP - . Photographed at England, Great Britain , UK in 2020, this is a specific real-world record of the subject, its setting and the period details surrounding it. At the centre of the frame is Relax with a good book, promotion of reading and physical books. The locality and subject together evoke public realm, conservation interest, contemporary social history, archival record, period building, community identity, cityscape history, documentary photography, changing streetscape, local character, place identity, historic frontage, regional identity, and local history. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with energy retrofit, heritage conservation and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity. For place-based research, the photograph preserves the visual character of the locality at the time within the setting of England, Great Britain , UK. A second layer of the scene includes period streetscape, before-and-after reference, built heritage, architectural character, architectural detailing, historic context, historic commercial architecture, and historical comparison. Details involving books, Relax, physical, reading, and promotion give the scene useful specificity and strengthen its local, cultural or historical identity. The surrounding context at England, Great Britain , UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Another useful connection is energy retrofit and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character as part of the longer story of England, Great Britain , UK. The scene further reflects maintenance costs and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity when considered against later change at England, Great Britain , UK. Its period value extends to embodied carbon and the contrast between preservation and redevelopment without losing the local specificity of England, Great Britain , UK.
England, Great Britain , UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P9FFM7 - . A grounded editorial photograph shows the physical context of the recorded location, in a scene preserved from 2018. The scene also brings together government policy, policy change, social policy, public-sector policy, public policy, national policy, local authority, government decision-making, public administration, local democracy, policy implementation, and democratic accountability. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, community debate also connects with local authority finance, housing and efforts aimed at visible local consequences of policy. Because this is a time-specific record of the recorded location, later comparison can reveal changes in signage, ownership, land use, transport, street furniture, building condition and the way the public uses the surrounding space, specifically in relation to Office visitor badge 007. Beyond the immediate subject, the setting involves political discourse, civic administration, political controversy, civic life, public services, public interest. The scene is further associated with I am James Bond, James Bond, sign-in, signin, visitor permits. Modern coverage of public services frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of migration, climate policy and new regulatory requirements. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of everyday services, social change, historic fabric, movement through the area, and planning and redevelopment at this precise location. The combination preserved here provides evidence of neighbourhood identity, transport patterns, ownership or occupation, public access, and architecture and streetscape within the surrounding area. That gives this view of the recorded location continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison, specifically in relation to Office visitor badge 007. The view of Office visitor badge 007 also preserves another layer of local identity and period change.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P69RJG - . Recorded at 1 Leonard St, Perth PH2 8HE 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 defining feature is Scot Rail reserved journey from Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen Street, train from Perth, Scotland, UK. The broader subject matter reaches into regional identity, conservation architecture, social history, architectural character, documentary photography, cityscape history, place identity, changing streetscape, historic townscape, built heritage, local history, archival record, changing land use, and heritage landmark. The wider contemporary story combines adaptive reuse, heritage conservation and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change. Small period details of commercial use and occupation at 1 Leonard St, Perth PH2 8HE may become more significant with time, particularly following replacement signage. A second descriptive layer includes historic streetscape, visual archive, historical comparison, community identity, period architecture, heritage asset, local character, and conservation interest. Elements such as Glasgow, Perth, Scotland, train, and journey add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. For 1 Leonard St, Perth PH2 8HE, 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 adaptive reuse and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character in a form that can be compared with future views of 1 Leonard St, Perth PH2 8HE. A further contemporary connection is heritage conservation and the value of architectural landmarks to local identity and tourism within the real-world context of 1 Leonard St, Perth PH2 8HE. The image fixes a local visual benchmark for later comparison.
1 Leonard St, Perth PH2 8HE
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HH1T4Y - It sounds so simple and so trendy. The Eat-Clean Diet is a lifestyle way of eating that allows you to eat more, weigh less, and become the healthiest you can be, says Tosca Reno, author of The Eat-Clean Diet series.
Not only will you lose about 3 pounds a week, you will see dramatic changes in the way you look and feel, Reno says.
Reno says that eating clean encourages a lifestyle approach of exercise and a diet plan of unprocessed, whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and no artificial ingredients, preservatives, chemically charged foods, sugars, saturated fat, and trans fat.
That means tomatoes are in, ketchup is out. We live in a chemical soup experiment. Processed foods have undermined our health, especially sugars, which are deadly anti-foods that have no place in our body, Reno says.
Plans range from 1,200-1,800 calories, eaten in 5-6 small meals throughout the day -- designed to fire up the metabolism. Practicing portion control helps dieters avoid the dreaded calorie counting.
The Eat-Clean Diet is a beautiful book with lots of pictures of delicious-sounding recipes with nutrition information, glossy pictures, sample meal plans, grocery lists, and more to help dieters get excited about eating a healthy diet and engaging in more physical activity.
Latchford,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HH1T5D - It sounds so simple and so trendy. The Eat-Clean Diet is a lifestyle way of eating that allows you to eat more, weigh less, and become the healthiest you can be, says Tosca Reno, author of The Eat-Clean Diet series.
Not only will you lose about 3 pounds a week, you will see dramatic changes in the way you look and feel, Reno says.
Reno says that eating clean encourages a lifestyle approach of exercise and a diet plan of unprocessed, whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and no artificial ingredients, preservatives, chemically charged foods, sugars, saturated fat, and trans fat.
That means tomatoes are in, ketchup is out. We live in a chemical soup experiment. Processed foods have undermined our health, especially sugars, which are deadly anti-foods that have no place in our body, Reno says.
Plans range from 1,200-1,800 calories, eaten in 5-6 small meals throughout the day -- designed to fire up the metabolism. Practicing portion control helps dieters avoid the dreaded calorie counting.
The Eat-Clean Diet is a beautiful book with lots of pictures of delicious-sounding recipes with nutrition information, glossy pictures, sample meal plans, grocery lists, and more to help dieters get excited about eating a healthy diet and engaging in more physical activity.
Latchford,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HH1T5K - It sounds so simple and so trendy. The Eat-Clean Diet is a lifestyle way of eating that allows you to eat more, weigh less, and become the healthiest you can be, says Tosca Reno, author of The Eat-Clean Diet series.
Not only will you lose about 3 pounds a week, you will see dramatic changes in the way you look and feel, Reno says.
Reno says that eating clean encourages a lifestyle approach of exercise and a diet plan of unprocessed, whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and no artificial ingredients, preservatives, chemically charged foods, sugars, saturated fat, and trans fat.
That means tomatoes are in, ketchup is out. We live in a chemical soup experiment. Processed foods have undermined our health, especially sugars, which are deadly anti-foods that have no place in our body, Reno says.
Plans range from 1,200-1,800 calories, eaten in 5-6 small meals throughout the day -- designed to fire up the metabolism. Practicing portion control helps dieters avoid the dreaded calorie counting.
The Eat-Clean Diet is a beautiful book with lots of pictures of delicious-sounding recipes with nutrition information, glossy pictures, sample meal plans, grocery lists, and more to help dieters get excited about eating a healthy diet and engaging in more physical activity.
Latchford,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GMAC2R - A sculpture of King Robert the Bruce, that measures over 18ft high, has been unveiled outside Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen, Monday 09 May.
Gathered at the statue were, Lord Bruce, Lord Provost Peter Stephen, Alan Beattie Herriot (Statue Artist and Sculptor) , Councillor Kevin Stewart and seven year old Master Benedict Bruce. Lord Bruce and Master Benedict Bruce “ direct descendants of King Robert accompanied by the Lord Provost of Aberdeen Peter Stephen witnessed the ceremonial unveiling of the plinth by Depute Leader of Aberdeen City Council Councillor Kevin Stewart.
The statue created by sculptor Alan Beattie Herriot was commissioned following a motion by Councillor Kevin Stewart.
This sculpture is the culmination of years of hard work by Mr Herriot, and the result is a truly iconic piece which will be cherished by generations of Aberdonians and admired by thousands-upon-thousands of visitors to our city.
Sculptor Alan Beattie Herriot added: Seeing the sculpture in place is amazing. I hope that the people of Aberdeen like what has been done. I rather think King Robert would be very proud.
The total height of the statue including the plinth is 18ft 4in [5.6m].
The £120,000 statue was funded by the Common Good Fund which was originally set up by King Robert.
Broad Street, Aberdeen, Scotland
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy G9BJGJ - . This location-specific image from York, Yorkshire, England, UK in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The photograph centres on Transpennine Express Reservation,on train to York from Liverpool,England,UK. The broader subject matter reaches into rail modernisation, local character, changing land use, historical comparison, place identity, rail mobility, period detail, archival record, local history, station environment, contemporary social history, railway branding, passenger railway, and public transport network. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with public ownership, decarbonisation and the archival value of railway branding and infrastructure as operators change. Future viewers can use this scene from York, Yorkshire, England, UK to compare period objects and surrounding context with whatever follows after new construction. The location also brings in commuter travel, transport interchange, community identity, everyday life, before-and-after reference, documentary photography, trackside heritage, and mass transit. References to train, Liverpool, Reservation, Transpennine, and Express give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. A later view of York, Yorkshire, England, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. A further contemporary connection is public ownership and the archival value of railway branding and infrastructure as operators change within the real-world context of York, Yorkshire, England, UK. The wider significance includes public ownership and the reshaping of Britain's passenger railway in the mid-2020s within the specific setting of York, Yorkshire, England, UK. It also preserves a trace of local identity as part of York, Yorkshire, England, UK's history.
York, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: 150,England,UK,book,books,libraries,learn,learning,learned,learned,University,of,long,view,M3 3EH,Long View,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,old,perspective,arches,arched,cathedral,interior,inside,history,historic,lit,illuminated
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy FDNK23 - . John Rylands Library Interior,Deansgate,Manchester,England,UK - Long View, 150 Deansgate, Manchester,England,UK, M3 3EH. Photographed on 20 January 2016. The John Rylands Library is home to one of the world's richest and most unique collections - around 1.4 million items spanning over five thousand years and derived from all corners of the world. The John Rylands Library on Deansgate was commissioned by Enriqueta Rylands in memory of her husband, the Manchester industrialist John Rylands, and opened to the public in 1900. Designed by Basil Champneys in a richly detailed neo-Gothic style, it was conceived as a monumental research library and is now part of the University of Manchester. Its stone vaulting, stained glass, reading rooms and carved details make the building one of the city's most important interiors and a major architectural landmark. As background, libraries have continually adapted from reading rooms and reference collections to computers, events, study spaces and digital services
Interior details and staffing images show how the public library functions as both an information service and a community place. Historically, historic interiors combine architecture with material culture
Furniture, clocks, silverware, screens, organs and decorative schemes can show craftsmanship, status and institutional use in ways that a façade alone cannot convey. In the longer view, architecture records the priorities of the period in which a building was designed: materials, ornament, scale and planning can reveal evolving technologies, social status and commercial use
Later alterations and changes of tenant add further layers, so a single façade can embody several phases of local history. Against the 2026 backdrop, public libraries remain significant community infrastructure, particularly for people needing free access to information, digital services and shared space
Photographs of earlier staffing and buildings can support coverage of service.
150 Deansgate, Manchester,England,UK, M3 3EH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy FDNKB8 - The John Rylands Library is home to one of the world's richest and most unique collections - around 1.4 million items spanning over five thousand years and derived from all corners of the world.
John Cassidy created two matching statues, in white Saravezza marble, of John Rylands and Mrs Rylands, which stand guard over the two ends of the Library's Historic Reading Room. John Rylands (1801 - 1888) occupies a prominent position at one end, and Mrs Rylands presides over the other, near to what used to be the Library's service counter. The picture above dates from 2003.
Although the statues appear as a pair, they were not conceived or commissioned together. 'John Rylands' was commissioned by Mrs Rylands in 1894 as an integral part of the library dedicated to her late husband, and has had pride of place since the building opened in 1900, whilst her own likeness was commissioned by supporters of the Library, and unveiled on 9 December 1907, a few months before her death on 4 February 1908.
150 Deansgate, Manchester,England,UK, M3 3EH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DHGYTW - . Community Library volunteer offers cakes Grappenhall Warrington Cheshire England UK. Photographed at Albert Road, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 14 September 2013. The image metadata records 1 person in the frame. 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 Community, Library, volunteer, offers, cakes, cake, voluntary, event, happy and stall, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph has strong editorial relevance to public events, festivals, performances, celebrations and the temporary activity that changes the character of a familiar place. It can support coverage of festivals, street entertainment, performers, audiences, tourism, cultural events, city-centre activity and the economic and social impact of organised public gatherings. Costume, temporary signs, crowds, performance areas, street furniture and the surrounding architecture can all help establish the event in a specific place and period. Because events are temporary, a dated documentary photograph has particular archive value, preserving details that disappear as soon as the programme, performers and public activity move on. Search themes include festivals, street performance, live entertainment, cultural events, tourism, crowds, city-centre activity, temporary public space and event heritage. The dated view is valuable for identifying how a particular event, performer or festival presence looked in that year. 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. The view is firmly rooted in a real location rather than a constructed studio setting.
Albert Road, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED246 - . The old town bookshop Victoria Street Edinburgh Scotland UK. Photographed at 8 Victoria Street, EDINBURGH, EH1 2HG. The photograph was taken on 26 August 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with bookshop, Victoria, Street, Edinburgh, shop, book, shops, capital, maps and magazines, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The scene is relevant to retail, shopping, consumer behaviour, town and city centres, independent businesses and the changing appearance of the British high street. It can support editorial stories about shops, shopping centres, retail architecture, store branding, local commerce, vacancies, regeneration, consumer spending, tourism and the pressure on traditional bricks-and-mortar businesses. Shopfronts, signs, windows, displays, arcades and surrounding public realm provide useful visual context for how retail space is designed and experienced by pedestrians. The photograph also acts as a dated record of a business or shopping location, valuable when premises later change hands, rebrand, close or are redeveloped. Search themes include retail, shopping, shopfronts, consumer behaviour, high streets, town centres, commercial property, independent business, branding and changing local economies. A dated view of a shop or shopping environment gains extra archive value when businesses rebrand, close, move or when premises are redeveloped. 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. This particular view is catalogued under Alamy image reference DED246, distinguishing it from other photographs of the same or related subject.
8 Victoria Street, EDINBURGH, EH1 2HG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED27R - . Bernards India Pale Ale sign at the Oxford Bar is a public house situated on Young Street, in the New Town of Edinburgh. Photographed on 26 August 2013. The recorded location is The Oxford Bar, 8 Young Street, Edinburgh EH2 4JB. The modest Oxford Bar is a public house situated on Young Street, in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector Rebus's local from the Ian rankin books. A super secret tourist attraction for first time visitors to the city. The Oxford Bar in Edinburgh's New Town is a small, traditional public house with a long history on Young Street and a Category B listed interior. It became internationally known through Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels, in which the fictional detective drinks there. The literary association has made an otherwise understated local pub part of Edinburgh's crime-fiction tourism, while the surviving compartmentalised bar layout preserves an older form of Scottish pub interior. The wider historical story is that pub buildings and signs offer a useful record of the licensed trade, from traditional alehouses and brewery estates to contemporary hospitality businesses
They are also part of the story of changing high streets, nightlife, real ale, cask beer and the survival or reuse of historic premises. From a heritage perspective, urban street scenes capture the cumulative effect of planning, architecture, transport, retail and public space
Shopfronts, signs, street furniture and pedestrians can date an image precisely and show how a district changes between periods of investment, decline and regeneration. In the longer view, street signs, shop fascias, notices and inscriptions combine practical communication with graphic design
Typefaces, colours and wording can identify an era, organisation or local custom, making close photographs valuable for social, transport and commercial history. Additional natural-language search terms include licensed premises, hostelry, bar trade, cask ale, and beer culture.
The Oxford Bar, 8 Young Street, Edinburgh EH2 4JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDJP2H - The Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library are two grade II* listed buildings on William Brown Street, Liverpool, England which now form part of the Liverpool Central Library.
Chairman of the William Brown Library and Museum Sir James Picton laid the foundation stone of the Picton Reading Room in 1875. It was designed by Cornelius Sherlock, and modelled after the British Museum Reading Room, and was the first electrically lit library in the UK.
It was completed in 1879. The front is semicircular with Corinthian columns, and the shape was chosen by the architect to cover the change in the axis of the row of buildings at this point. The Hornby Reading Room (named after Hugh Frederick Hornby) by Thomas Shelmerdine was added in 1906. It stands behind the older building and the interior is decorated in the Edwardian Imperial style
William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK L3 8EW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDJP2Y - The Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library are two grade II* listed buildings on William Brown Street, Liverpool, England which now form part of the Liverpool Central Library.
Chairman of the William Brown Library and Museum Sir James Picton laid the foundation stone of the Picton Reading Room in 1875. It was designed by Cornelius Sherlock, and modelled after the British Museum Reading Room, and was the first electrically lit library in the UK.
It was completed in 1879. The front is semicircular with Corinthian columns, and the shape was chosen by the architect to cover the change in the axis of the row of buildings at this point. The Hornby Reading Room (named after Hugh Frederick Hornby) by Thomas Shelmerdine was added in 1906. It stands behind the older building and the interior is decorated in the Edwardian Imperial style
William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK L3 8EW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDJPKD - The Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library are two grade II* listed buildings on William Brown Street, Liverpool, England which now form part of the Liverpool Central Library.
Chairman of the William Brown Library and Museum Sir James Picton laid the foundation stone of the Picton Reading Room in 1875. It was designed by Cornelius Sherlock, and modelled after the British Museum Reading Room, and was the first electrically lit library in the UK.
It was completed in 1879. The front is semicircular with Corinthian columns, and the shape was chosen by the architect to cover the change in the axis of the row of buildings at this point. The Hornby Reading Room (named after Hugh Frederick Hornby) by Thomas Shelmerdine was added in 1906. It stands behind the older building and the interior is decorated in the Edwardian Imperial style
William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK L3 8EW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB0JXN - An old red British Telephone box turned into a village lending library, next to an old pillarbox (still emptied)
The kiosk in the centre of Great Budworth is now being stocked up with books after the parish council bought it from British Telecom for £1.
We are going to use it as a book exchange and are hoping people drop off books.
Children in the village are among those involved in the project.
A three month trial period is under way to see how well the scheme works.
If it is deemed a success then it will become permanent.
High st, Great Budworth, Cheshire East, England CW9 6HF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HCMK - Gt Budworth Village, St Marys Church statue, Great Budworth Cheshire England UK.
The earliest reference to the worshipping community at Great Budworth appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 where we are told of the presence of a priest and so can infer a worshipping community and probably a church building. Of these early days we can only catch glimpses through the mists of time but one point is clear, the Pre-Reformation history of the church is dominated by the Augustinian Canons of Norton Priory, Runcorn. The Canons were given the church and living of Great Budworth in 1130 by William Fitz Nigel, Constable of Chester. Later they received the gift of a third of all the land in the township of Great Budworth from Geoffrey De Dutton, to add to the already substantial holdings of land they had been given by local people, keen to save their souls and those of their loved ones by endowing the Canons in return for burials and perpetual prayers, a common practice in the middle ages. The Canons created the present church and dominated both the religious and economic life of the township. The oldest part of the church, the Lady Chapel, dates from the fourteenth century and most of the rest from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries showing that the Canons were very active in keeping the church not only in a good state of preservation, but also in continuing to beautify and modernise it. With the Reformation of the sixteenth century, the highly decorated church of the Augustinian Canons was transformed, and by 1600 it had become a white-washed preaching hall from which a. series of Puritan ministers would, throughout the seventeenth century, preach the Gospel and convert the parish from a religious conservatism to a radical Protestantism.
St Marys Church, Great Budworth village, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0NPH - St Oswald's Church, Winwick, is in the village of Winwick to the north of Warrington, Cheshire, England. Here shown at dusk, the church has been designated by English Heritage as a 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.
St Oswald's Church, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HCKY - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX in 2009, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The photograph centres on Interior Regimental Manchester Cathedral Lancashire England UK. The subject also carries associations with ecclesiastical architecture, visual archive, contemporary social history, before-and-after reference, archival record, public realm, everyday life, social history, period detail, place identity, sacred space, changing streetscape, Christian heritage, and faith community. The wider contemporary story combines accessibility, community use and the challenge of maintaining historic fabric amid rising costs. The image fixes signage and branding within Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changing commercial priorities. Other useful contextual ideas include regional identity, historic church fabric, local history, community identity, religious landmark, changing land use, sacred architecture, and ecclesiastical art. The combination of Regimental, Lancashire, Cathedral, Interior, and Manchester anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. For Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The scene further reflects accessibility and the challenge of maintaining historic fabric amid rising costs when considered against later change at Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX. Its period value extends to energy use and the importance of church buildings to genealogy and local identity without losing the local specificity of Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX. The image fixes part of the area's social history as a date-specific reference.
Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4556383830 - 'Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949. The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and propaganda. A bit similar to today with social media and the difficulties distinguishing fact from revised fact and ultimately 'fake news'. Orwell would have recognised the Brexit phenomenon.
In the novel, Great Britain ('Airstrip One') has become a province of a superstate named Oceania. Oceania is ruled by the 'Party', who employ the 'Thought Police' to persecute individualism and independent thinking. The Party's leader is Big Brother, who enjoys an intense cult of personality but may not even exist. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a rank-and-file Party member. Smith is an outwardly diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. Smith rebels by entering a forbidden relationship with fellow employee Julia.
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Fifty-eight has an aliquot sum of 32 and is the second composite member of the 31-aliquot tree. 58 is the sum of the first seven prime numbers, an 11-gonal number, and a Smith number. Given 58, the Mertens function returns 0.
Its the atomic number of cerium, a lanthanide. 58 is an album by John Cage, Chicago had a track called '58 Poems'. Prefix your international dial to Venezuela with +58. Its also the number of the French department Ni\u00e8vre.
Number 58 was commonly associated with misfortune in many civilizations native to either Central America or Southern America. Due to their beliefs in the original 58 sins, the number came to symbolize curses and ill-luck. Aztec oracles supposedly stumbled across the number an unnaturally high number of times before disaster fell. One famous recording of this, though largely discredited as mere folktale, concerned the oracle of Moctezuma II, who allegedly counted 58 pieces of gold scattered before a sacrificial pit the day prior to the arrival of Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s.
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Forty-Two is a pronic number and an abundant number
its prime factorization 2 \u00b7 3 \u00b7 7 makes it the second sphenic number and also the second of the form { 2 \u00b7 3 \u00b7 r }. As with all sphenic numbers of this form, the aliquot sum is abundant by 12. 42 is also the second sphenic number to be bracketed by twin primes
30 is also a pronic number and also rests between two primes. 42 has a 14 member aliquot sequence 42, 54, 66, 78, 90, 144, 259, 45, 33, 15, 9, 4, 3, 1, 0 and is itself part of the aliquot sequence commencing with the first sphenic number 30. Further, 42 is the 10th member of the 3-aliquot tree.
It is a Catalan number. Consequently
42 is the number of noncrossing partitions of a set of five elements, the number of triangulations of a heptagon, the number of rooted ordered binary trees with six leaves, the number of ways in which five pairs of nested parentheses can be arranged, etc.
The atomic number of molybdenum &
the angle rounded to whole degrees for which a rainbow appears (the critical angle). In the TIFF image file format, the second 16-bit word of every file is 42, which is used together with the first word to indicate byte order.
Google returns this number when 'the answer to life the universe and everything' is entered in an internet search.
In Japanese culture, the number 42 is considered unlucky because the numerals when pronounced separately \u2014 'shi ni' (four two) \u2014 sound like the phrase, 'unto death'. The Gutenberg Bible is also known as the '42-line Bible', as the book contained 42 lines per page.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6848147900 - '\u00bfWhats this Library Tribe set all about? Read about it here
What an interesting book this chap had as he left the library. His face could be that of modern Britain. Getting older, we expect to have more over 60's soon than ever before, we also probably will be expected to work longer for smaller pensions on the whole.
In Britain we should be the best europeans of all, we have had everyone through here, at some point or another. Romans, Vikings, Normans etc. This book is the story of who we are and where we are from - the history of Britain through war and conquest, migration and racial integration.
The Welcome Trust has given a GBP2million grant to Oxford geneticist Sir Walter Bodmer to take DNA samples from hundreds of volunteers throughout Britain and find tell-tale fragments of DNA that reveal the biological traces of successive waves of colonisers - Celts, Saxons, Vikings, etc. - in various parts of Britain. These traces in part determine our facial features. In effect, this project will produce a genetic map of our islands revealing where today's Cornish or East Anglians originally came from.
The project is unique in that it uses cutting edge technology to question our accepted notions of our history. Added to this, the series and the book will meld science, history and personal stories to investigate our linguistic history, our surnames and placenames and compare findings with the results of the Bodmer study.Face of Britain will be a launch pad to explore Britain's earliest history while investigating why we look the way we do.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5772288982 - '\u00bfWhats this Library Tribe set all about? Read about it here
With the demise of the CAB (Citizens Advice Bureau), the local library can be the place people turn for advice. This can be for legal matters, health issues or finance.
A well stocked library can help everyone access the information they need. Books may not do the job for you, thats down to the borrower of course.
It would be interesting to see if the person this lady was taking these books out for, benifitted from them 3 weeks later when they were returned/renewed.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5863292529 - '\u00bfWhats this Library Tribe set all about? Read about it here
Your local library is a great place to check out a better way of doing your pastimes or learning a new skill.
Learning techniques to paint, draw, photograph or film help you with some inspiration. I would have loved to see some of this ladies watercolours, or see how they have improved after getting a helping hand at the local library.
Some artists are using their skills, maybe learnt in libraries to help in the fightback over cuts. Below is the start of a compelling account from 'Artists of the Resistance', a bunch of folks who clearly think libraries are worth fighting for:
Unison, a local campaign for library and public services, concerned locals, political activists from a couple of different parties and library users previously unaware and needing no encouragement to join in.
Stalls were out, petitions offered, placards home made and more familiar were all present, children and their parents were chalking a giant \u2018Save Our Libraries\u2019 on the square floor, balloons in the air, a local author, local press, students, young, pensioners, activists, library staff, union members, authors, all ages, all backgrounds assembled and we knew we had alot of work to cover faithfully the atmosphere and the passion of this event.
More here.
What book will you get out of your local library this weekend?
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5756384702 - '\u00bfWhats this Library Tribe set all about? Read about it here
A cracking place for kids books and also those books of trains, ships and machines young lads always love. In my experience too, we ended up going home with the full quota of 8 books.
Books develop a childs imagination. I am convinced reading and writing is aided by having books around and having a diverse library of them on your doorstep. If you are lucky you might get a corner with Lego to fiddle with too.
Dora the Explorer is an American animated television series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh, and Eric Weiner. Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. The show can be found on the Nickelodeon cable television network.
Dora, the main character, is a young 7-year-old latin american girl who embarks on a trip in every episode in order to find something or help somebody. She asks the viewers at home to help her find new ways to reach places with the help of Map. She also teaches viewers Spanish, introducing them to short words and phrases.
Dora is available in many languages as TV series and books. In each country she pairs the native language with English. For example in Russia, the bilingualism is Russian-English. The series is called Dasha-sledopyt ('Dasha the Pathfinder'). Dasha is the children's name of Daria (Darya).
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5718425249 - '\u00bfWhats this Library Tribe set all about? Read about it here
You probably like me receive recommendations from Amazon and the like, introducing me to things to buy similar to the things I already have purchased. The effect of this is that we are recommended to listen to, watch or read more of the same.
In a library it is easy to walk in for a book on the Great Western Railway and walk out with a biography and a gluten free cook book as well, via the checkout desk (now fully computerised) of course.
I dont know if this man had been looking for this book, but his body language, holding this book at arms length revealed something extra. It is a racy title.
How did a 19 year-old, middle-class, Catholic girl from Munich become Hitler's mistress and what kept him faithful until the end of their lives? Was her appeal sexual, domestic, political - or did he really love her? Eva Anna Paula Hitler n\u00e9e Braun (6 February 1912 \u2013 30 April 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and for less than 40 hours, his wife.
Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was 17 years old while working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer and began seeing him often about two years later. By 1936 she was a part of his household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden and by all accounts lived a materially luxurious and sheltered life throughout World War II.
She was quite racy by all accounts and enjoyed make-up and nude sunbathing.
As the Third Reich collapsed towards the end of the war, Braun swore her loyalty to Hitler and went to Berlin to be by his side in the heavily reinforced F\u00fchrerbunker beneath the Reich Chancellery. As Red Army troops fought their way into the neighbourhood on 29 April 1945, she married Hitler during a brief civil ceremony: she was 33 and he 56. Less than 40 hours later they committed suicide together in a sitting room of the bunker, she by biting into a capsule of cyanide.
Strangely, the German public was wholly unaware of Braun until after her death. You would need several super injunctions these days to manage that!
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I had a long chat with this chap. His father had played football with the opposition during the war and that is why he selected this book ( Soccer at War: The Complete Record of British Football and Footballers During the Second World War) on this day.
'Soccer at War' is the compelling account of the national game during this defining moment in history. Rollin reveals how it was that football not only continued to be played and watched, but also grew in popularity and stature. He explains how, while the country fought for freedom, the sport offered morale-boosting appeal to war workers, servicemen, and civilians alike.
It tells of the hundreds of professional footballers who joined up, those who became heroes, and those who did not come back, the enthusiasts who administered the game in their spare time, and the players who turned out for thirty bob a week. The servicemen who went AWOL to play and others who hitch-hiked just to get to a game also find their place in the story, along with the record-breaking goalscoring achievements. Looking further afield to occupied Europe, 'Soccer at War' also exposes the role of football in Hitler's regime.
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Clive does a lot of walking and in April 2011 was planning to cover the West Highland Way. He was hoping for dry cool conditions, much like the ones the morning I snapped him here.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5403893155 - 'A tale in 12 fragments - 06/12 \u2013 On The Shelf.
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06/12 \u2013 On The Shelf
Visits to the labour exchange and short jobs came and went. Fork lift trucks, dispatch rider, undertakers assistant, tarmac-ing. Good contributions to his passing out degree from the school of hard knocks.
Along the way a chance conversation with a drinking mate introduced him to the \u2018ism\u2019s of abstract art. Something that became an interest and a fascination. He enjoyed the minimal and did not miss the accuracy of the figurative. With time he noticed the symbolism and could also see it in the catholic culture drummed into him in school. The Holy Trinity in the fleur-de-lis, the five wounds of Christ in the pentagram.
His partner Carla humored this interest as his books collected on the shelves, taking over the tiny two bed flat.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3916729604 - 'A Very old and veritable bible from St Michaels, Middlewich. Note the 's's rendered in the style of an 'f'.
On top is a lenten palm cross from Palm Sunday (prior to Easter).
The light coming across the bound bible was brilliant. A mix of artificial and light through stained glass.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED2KR - . Sign at the Oxford Bar. A public house situated on Young Street, in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. Insp' Rebus's local - Scotland , UK, EH2 4JB. Photographed on 26 August 2013. The recorded location is The Oxford Bar, 8 Young Street, Edinburgh EH2 4JB. The modest Oxford Bar is a public house situated on Young Street, in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector Rebus's local from the Ian rankin books. A super secret tourist attraction for first time visitors to the city. The Oxford Bar in Edinburgh's New Town is a small, traditional public house with a long history on Young Street and a Category B listed interior. It became internationally known through Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels, in which the fictional detective drinks there. The literary association has made an otherwise understated local pub part of Edinburgh's crime-fiction tourism, while the surviving compartmentalised bar layout preserves an older form of Scottish pub interior. Historically, british pubs evolved from inns, taverns and alehouses into licensed social institutions that have long served as meeting places, drinking houses, music venues and landmarks within town and village life
Their architecture, signs, interiors and evolving names often preserve layers of local commercial and social history. Looking at the subject's development, town and city centres are continually rewritten by new structures, transport schemes and changing commercial uses
Photographs preserve the everyday fabric between major landmarks, including underpasses, arcades, back streets and small businesses that may disappear during redevelopment. As background, public wording is part of the visual landscape
Direction signs, warning notices, painted advertisements and engraved plaques show how authorities and businesses communicated before digital screens and app-based information became widespread. Further subject-specific language includes licensed premises, hostelry, bar trade, and hospitality.
The Oxford Bar, 8 Young Street, Edinburgh EH2 4JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEY8TT - . A man in an underground tunnel at night tunnelvision vision, creating a path of light. Photographed on 29 October 2009. The recorded location is Latchford Pedestrian Tunnel, Knutsford Road, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA4 1JR. Man in a pedestrian tunnel having tunnel vision. Latchford A50 near the swingbridge, warrington Cheshire. The historical context is that walking routes, tunnels and footpaths reveal the small-scale infrastructure that connects neighbourhoods away from main roads
Underpasses, canal paths and pedestrian passages can become familiar local shortcuts while also reflecting the planning priorities of the period in which they were built. Historically, town and city centres are continually rewritten by new buildings, transport schemes and changing commercial uses
Photographs preserve the everyday fabric between major landmarks, including underpasses, arcades, back streets and small businesses that may disappear during redevelopment. In the longer view, seasonal and low-light photography can emphasise the relationship between natural conditions and the built environment
Dusk, snow, mist or dramatic cloud often reveal lighting, silhouettes and reflective surfaces that are less apparent in ordinary daylight. The subject remains topical in 2026 because walking and active travel are prominent in transport and public-health policy, with continuing attention to safe pedestrian routes, accessibility and connections between neighbourhoods
Older paths and tunnels can illustrate both useful permeability and the design problems associated with underpasses. In 2026, current regeneration programmes make older urban photographs particularly useful
They allow comparison of high streets, underpasses, shopping areas and public spaces before redevelopment, while also documenting local identity that may not survive physical change. Useful indexing vocabulary includes dog walking, public access, pedestrian infrastructure, and local route.
Latchford Pedestrian Tunnel, Knutsford Road, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA4 1JR
