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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A9992,Jute,lapping,machine,J H Riley and Co,Bury,Verdant Works Museum,Dundee,Scotland,UK,textile,machinery,cast-iron,flywheels,gears,rollers,engineering,manufacturing,industrial,factory,equipment,heritage,mechanical,technology,mills,history,museum,fibre,production
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ENF25M - Jute lapping machine by J H Riley and Co of Bury displayed at Verdant Works Museum in Dundee, Scotland, UK. The large cast-iron textile machine has exposed flywheels, gears, rollers and mechanical linkages which demonstrate the heavy engineering involved in preparing jute fibre for later stages of manufacture. Lapping machinery formed part of the sequence of industrial processes used to turn raw jute into a more even material suitable for further drawing, spinning and weaving. Verdant Works preserves working and static machinery associated with Dundee's once dominant jute industry and interprets both the technology and the lives of mill workers. The photograph is suitable for editorial coverage of jute manufacturing, textile machinery, industrial engineering, Victorian technology, factory equipment, Dundee heritage, Bury engineering, mechanical design, mills, manufacturing history, museum collections and the Industrial Revolution. The open framework of the machine reveals belts, wheels and moving components that would normally have operated continuously in a noisy working mill, making this a detailed technical image of historic textile production equipment.
Verdant Works Museum, West Henderson's Wynd, Dundee DD1 5BT, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A8996,Salford,Manchester,Bury,cycle,route,sign,cycling,transport,NCN
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E49B9Y - . Cycle route sign from Salford towards Manchester and Bury. Photographed on 21 March 2026. The recorded location is Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. Seen through typography, the earlier context is that wayfinding developed from painted names and fingerposts into standardised road, rail and public-information systems
Local signs still retain distinctive typography or bilingual wording even within increasingly consistent national standards. For local connectivity, the historical context is that the growth of integrated transport authorities has encouraged common branding, coordinated fares and closer links between buses, trams, cycling and rail, replacing a more fragmented pattern of separate operators. The 2026 relevance of typography comes from the fact that current public-realm design increasingly expects signs to be legible, inclusive and consistent, while bilingual and accessibility information reflects wider policy around language and equal access. For local connectivity, the 2026 context is that local transport policy increasingly focuses on integrated networks, franchising, accessibility and lower-emission vehicles
Greater Manchester's Bee Network is a prominent example of buses being brought into a coordinated public system alongside trams and active travel. Additional subject vocabulary includes signage, public information, direction sign, street sign, notice, lettering, public realm, visitor guidance, information sign, bilingual signage, accessibility sign, graphic communication, street furniture, public transport, bus service, and local bus. Relevant alternative phrases include transport network, urban mobility, passenger transport, bus route, transport accessibility, sustainable transport, transport interchange, commuter travel, public service, 255A8996, and NCN. The image also relates directly to signage, public information and direction sign. Its wider context brings together direction sign, street sign and notice.
Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,statues,Greater Manchester,unveiled,2019,BL9,town,Bury,England,UK,BL9 0DP,sculptor,musician,screenwriter,director,comedy,star,North West,Lancashire,Victoria Wood statue,Victoria Wood memorial,Bury Victoria Wood statue,Bury Greater Manchester,British comedy icon,female comedian statue,public art Bury,bronze statue,Manchester cultural heritage,northern English humour,Kay Gardens Bury,Greater Manchester landmarks,British television comedy,playwright and songwriter,working class comedy,women in comedy,civic memorial,Becoming Victoria Wood,documentary
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3CJDPMY - This photograph shows the bronze statue of Victoria Wood, located in Kay Gardens in Bury town centre, Greater Manchester. The sculpture commemorates one of Britain's most respected and influential comedians, writers, and performers, who was born in Bury in 1953 and remained closely associated with northern English culture throughout her career.
Victoria Wood was widely celebrated for her sharply observed humour, original songs, and television work, including sketch shows and plays that portrayed everyday British life with warmth, intelligence, and social insight. Her comedy often drew on working class experiences, particularly those of women, and she became a defining voice in British television and stage comedy from the late 1970s onwards.
The statue depicts Wood in a relaxed, approachable pose, dressed in a long coat and smiling, with hands slightly raised as if mid-conversation. This informal stance reflects her reputation for observational humour and her ability to connect directly with audiences. Cast in bronze, the sculpture blends traditional public memorial form with a contemporary, accessible style, reinforcing her status as both a cultural figure and a local icon.
Set within a small landscaped garden space, with trees and surrounding buildings visible in the background, the statue forms part of Bury's civic landscape and serves as a point of pride for the town. Taken in natural daylight, the image documents a permanent tribute to Victoria Wood's lasting contribution to British comedy, northern cultural identity, and the wider performing arts.
Church Gardens, Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK, BL9 0DP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Black Pudding,classic,original,Chadwick,stall,shop,retail,pudding,history,heritage,historic,famous,award,winning,Bury black pudding,Chadwicks,Bury Black Puddings,Bury Market,stalls,Bury,Market,Hall,traditional,blood,black,artisan,English,England,Lancashire,food,foods,Greater Manchester,market food,British regional cuisine,famous black pudding
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3CJDPN3 - A freestanding sign promoting Chadwick's Original Bury Black Puddings at Bury Market Hall in Greater Manchester. The sign advertises both hot and cold black pudding, reflecting the everyday, practical nature of market food retail and the enduring popularity of this traditional Lancashire product.
Bury is nationally synonymous with black pudding, a food deeply rooted in northern English working-class food culture and historic meat-processing traditions. Chadwick's is one of the best-known traders at Bury Market, with a reputation built over decades among local shoppers and visitors alike. The straightforward, functional signage reinforces the stall's emphasis on tradition, familiarity and quality rather than novelty.
The image was taken indoors under artificial market-hall lighting, typical of year-round trading conditions, and captures a small but culturally significant detail of British food heritage. It is well suited for editorial use illustrating regional identity, traditional British cuisine, historic markets, local economies and the persistence of everyday food traditions in modern England.
Bury Market Hall, Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK , BL9 0BJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,history,historic,heritage,Victoria Station,rail,inside,interior,stations,tiled,tile,tilin,diagrams,Victoria Station Approach,Manchester,M3 1WY,M3,Chorley,Bolton,Oldham,Bury,Rochdale,red,black,lines,rails,route,routes,Bacup,Darwen,Ashton,Stalybridge,Wigan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RXX27J - Taken on 25 Sep 2023, this photograph shows Victorian Manchester railways map, Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY. The location is Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains platform, concourse or service signage details that place the railway scene in a real working transport environment. Manchester Victoria has long been part of the city's railway geography, with historic route maps and ticket-window details showing how rail travel has shaped Greater Manchester and the wider north west. 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 Manchester, city, centre, railway, Victoria, station, Lancashire and Yorkshire, diagram, maps, map, history, historic, 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. Because the subject is clearly labelled or visually distinctive, it can also work well in search-led usage where the buyer needs immediate recognition at small web-preview size. Further SEO-friendly usage could include local services, town-centre change, heritage branding, Britis.
Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,Bury,England,UK,response,responsive,property,repairs,repair,HA,vehicle,DLO,internal,M5,the,Soapworks,Colgate Lane,Salford,M5 3LZ,first floor,tenant,leaseholder,shared-owner,Irwell Valley Developments,IVDL,Hive Homes,homes,properties,white,compliments,and,complaints,problem,issue,with,Awaabs Law,waiting lists
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGPKDA - A registered provider of social housing and a Charitable Community Benefit Society registered under the Co-Operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. We employ around 275 people and are managed by a Board (hyperlink) of non-executive board members
Irwell Valley Developments (IVDL) is our one subsidiary company, set up to develop new properties on behalf of Irwell Valley Homes. IVDL and Irwell Valley Homes have an Intra Group Agreement in place, under which most of the policies and key documents for IVDL are provided by Irwell Valley Homes. In May 2021, IVDL formally adopted the NHF 2020 Code as their Code of Governance.¯Read more about IVDL and the homes we're developing here.
Our subsidiary Board and Committee members are members of the Group Board as we believe this gives the best overview of risk and ensures that IVDL's activities support our overall corporate objectives.
The Irwell Valley Foundation is a £2 million investment fund that is overseen by a resident led panel that's chaired by our resident Board Member. Every year we invest the dividends of the investment to support people with their personal development and wellbeing, plus initiatives that benefit the wider community. The fund is managed by Forever Manchester (as a hyper link) and dividends are released to IVH once applications are approved by the panel.
Investors in Hive Homes, a joint venture (JV) formed by 10 housing associations from Greater Manchester and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA). The JV aims to develop around 700 new homes for outright sale in Greater Manchester over 7 years. We invest in the JV venture via IVDL, alongside 9 other housing associations. Together own 80% of the JV, with 20% held by GMCA. IVDL does not have a controlling interest in Hive Homes
Soapworks, Irwell Valley Homes First Floor, Colgate Lane, Salford, England, UK, M5 3LZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,Bury,England,UK,Prestwich,precinct,shop,shopping,art,M25,6,Manchester,M25 3BS,Bury council,scenes,scene,design,tableaux,of,life,streets,Metro,Metrolink,arts festival,festival,kELzOs,kELzO,Heaton Park,vintage,car,cars,2022,entise,sunny,blue skies,blue sky
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGPN80 - . Prestwich town centre arts festival 2022 mural by kELzO, 6 Poppythorn Ln, Greater, Prestwich, Manchester, England, UK, M25 3BS. Photographed on 10 August 2023, this summer 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 6 Poppythorn Ln, Greater, Prestwich, Manchester, England, UK, M25 3BS, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Greater Manchester, Bury, Prestwich, precinct, shop, shopping, art, M25, Manchester, M25 3BS, Bury council, scenes, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The music context makes the image useful for editorial coverage of performers, venues, concerts, popular culture, local music heritage, audiences, nightlife and the creative industries. Such scenes can become important cultural records as bands, venues, festivals and city music districts change, linking contemporary entertainment with wider stories about tourism, identity and regeneration. Prominent wording, signage, posters, logos or other graphic material gives the photograph additional documentary value because it records how an organisation, campaign, business or place communicated with the public at that moment. Text and branding visible in a streetscape can be especially useful for editorial comparison after rebranding, closure, redevelopment or policy change. 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. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison.
6 Poppythorn Ln, Greater, Prestwich, Manchester, England, UK, M25 3BS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,Bury,England,UK,sign,network,public,transport,system,route,routes,Manchester,to,all,railway,station,light,rail,Rectory Lane,Prestwich,M25 1BR,M25,town,centre,signage,overhead,line,lines,yellow,livery,entrance,outside,path,entry
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGPN87 - . Prestwich Manchester Metrolink tramway light rail station, to all destinations, Rectory Lane, Prestwich, England, UK, M25 1BR. Photographed on 10 August 2023. Prestwich is a tram stop in the town of Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England. It is on the Bury Line of Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink system. The stop was originally Prestwich railway station, which was along the Manchester to Bury heavy rail line, completed by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, in 1879 and opened on 1 September. The line was converted from steam to electric power as from 17 April 1916, using the third rail system. The station closed on 17 August 1991 to allow conversion of the route to the Metrolink system using overhead power lines, reopening on 6 April 1992. The station forms part of Ticketing Zone 3. It is located off Rectory Lane a walkway connects the station to the Longfield Suite Precinct and Bury New Road (A56). Services mostly run every 12 minutes on 2 routes, forming a 6-minute service between Bury and Manchester at peak times. For passenger railway, the historical context is that rail transport links engineering history with everyday mobility
The network evolved through private railway companies, grouping, nationalisation, British Rail and later privatisation, leaving successive layers of architecture, liveries, ticketing equipment and operating practice. Looking at integrated transport, the longer history is that the growth of integrated transport authorities has encouraged common branding, coordinated fares and closer links between buses, trams, cycling and rail, replacing a more fragmented pattern of separate operators. The background to typography is that signs are functional pieces of graphic design that organise movement and communicate rules, names or destinations
Lettering, symbols, colours and materials can date public space as clearly as architecture, particularly when organisations rebrand or regulations evolution.
Rectory Lane, Prestwich, England, UK, M25 1BR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,Bury,England,UK,Star Buy,Quality Brands,Quality Prices,store,chain,stores,shop,shops,takeover,merger,Radius Building,Shopping Centre,Prestwich,Manchester,M25 1AS,M25,becoming,sold,to,owner,of,trolley,this,is,British,English,Northern,NW,North West,Tom Morris
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGPN8C - Quality Save is a chain of discount stores operating in northern England. The head office/store for Quality Save was located in Swinton.
History
Quality Save was founded in 1974 by Bob Rudkin. He started off with an indoor market stall in Walkden, and a small shop in Farnworth. The company opened more outlets over time.
In 2010, stores began playing a clip every fifteen minutes reminding customers of their Star Buy deals, their cheap prices in comparison to pound stores, and the company's alcohol policy. These clips end with the company's name and their slogan: Quality Save. Quality Brands “ Quality Prices. In 2012, Quality Save closed an outlet in Barnsley to open a much bigger one a few feet down the road. They also closed a temporary unit in Urmston, and opened a new one in the Eden Square Shopping Centre.
In 2015, the Middleton branch of Quality Save was closed, and a superstore was launched in the ex Tesco unit next door. It was then confirmed that their biggest ever superstore would open in the beginning of 2017 in Walkden, the town where the company was first founded on a market stall. In February 2017, the biggest ever Quality Save store was opened in Walkden Town Retail Park. This store was 22,000 cubic feet. On the 26th January 2023, Quality Save was sold to TJ Morris, owner of Home Bargains.
Radius Building, Shopping Centre, Prestwich, Manchester, England,UK, M25 1AS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,Bury,England,UK,Prestwich,M25,466,Manchester,M25 1AX,Bury council,precinct,precincts,sunny,blue skies,blue sky,Longfield shopping centre,Bury Council,and,Muse,the,Prestwich Regeneration,LLP,joint venture,regeneration,regenerating,Stuart Rogers,project director,local,community,investment,jobs,flats,apartments,housing
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGPN8J - Transformation of Prestwich town centre takes a step forward with promise to ˜ensure it thrives for decades to come'
A planning application which would involve the demolition of the Longfield shopping centre is expected by the autumn of 2023
£100m plans to redevelop Prestwich is to take a further step forward with business owners and the town's residents being asked to contribute to its shape. Proposals to demolish the current Longfield centre and replace it with independent businesses, a mix of homes, outdoor areas and a new community hub focused on health have been formed by Bury Council and development partners Muse.
They have announced dates next month for a ˜community conversation' on its plans. The project called Your Prestwich states its intention to ˜transform the Longfield Centre and cement Prestwich as one of the best places to live in the North West'.
People can attend a drop-in session on Sunday, January 29, 2023 from 11am “ 3pm at Prestwich Library, Longfield Centre where the project team will be on hand to discuss the scheme. The announcement of the 2023 conversation follows Bury Council and Muse forming the Prestwich Regeneration LLP joint venture in November 2022
Read more at https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/transformation-prestwich-town-centre-takes-25791439
466 Bury New Rd, Prestwich, Manchester, England, UK, M25 1AX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,Bury,England,UK,Chips@No8,M25,murals,music,musicians,bands,mural,on,at,of,chippy,fish and chip,shop,fish & chip,art,artwork,artist,painting,painted,smokes,cigarettes,building,Prestwich Arts Festival,giant,village,centre,Akse P19,Akse,P19,AkseP19
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGPN9M - Large scale mural of Mark E Smith, the late frontman and lyricist of The Fall, painted on the gable end wall of Chips at No8 on Clifton Road in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. The portrait shows the singer in a white open neck shirt and dark jacket, with a cigarette in his mouth, looking out from the side of the chip shop in bright sunshine beneath a clear blue sky. The image is a strong editorial stock photograph for Manchester music heritage, post-punk culture, The Fall, Prestwich, street art, public murals, local identity, fan pilgrimage and the continuing cultural afterlife of northern alternative music. The mural was created by street artist Akse P19 for Prestwich Arts Festival in 2018, after Smith's death earlier that year, and became one of the area's best known pieces of public art. The Fall emerged from Prestwich and Greater Manchester in the late 1970s and built a fierce cult reputation through abrasive post-punk sound, repetitive guitar lines, dry humour, literary references and Smith's unmistakable vocal delivery. The location adds strong northern character: a music icon painted not on a formal civic monument, but on the wall of an independent chippy in a town centre street. That setting gives the image commercial and editorial value for stories about grassroots culture, working class creativity, independent businesses, British music history, urban art, memory, fandom and the way local communities commemorate difficult, brilliant and uncompromising artists. Visible details include the pale rendered wall, red brick adjoining building, drainpipe, cables, windows, strong sunlight and blue sky, all helping to place the mural in a real high street environment rather than a gallery setting. It works well for articles on The Fall, Manchester bands, John Peel era alternative music, post-punk legacy, Prestwich tourism, Greater Manchester cultural landmarks and the wider role of murals in marking local pride.
8 Clifton Road, Prestwich, Bury, Manchester, England, UK, M25 3HQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGPNA3 - Large mural of Mark E Smith, frontman of The Fall, painted on the gable end of Chips at No8 on Clifton Road in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. The wider street view shows the famous portrait beside the blue frontage of the independent fish and chip shop, with visible signage for Chips@No.8, fish and chips, take away and eat in. Smith is shown in a white open neck shirt and dark jacket with a cigarette, a confrontational and instantly recognisable image that reflects the abrasive wit and cult presence of one of British post-punk's most uncompromising performers. The mural was created by street artist Akse P19 for Prestwich Arts Festival in 2018 after Smith's death, and was reported as a six metre painting on the side of the local chippy. Pitchfork also reported that the mural was based on a photograph by Alex Whitton. The Fall emerged from Prestwich and Greater Manchester in the late 1970s, building a fierce reputation through jagged repetition, literary bite, dry northern humour and Smith's unmistakable vocal delivery. The setting matters because this is not a formal monument in a gallery or civic square, but a music icon painted on a working chippy in a local high street environment. The image is useful for editorial stories about Manchester music heritage, The Fall, Mark E Smith, post-punk, fan pilgrimage, public art, grassroots culture, Prestwich identity, independent businesses and the role of murals in preserving local memory. Details such as the red brick shop, blue fascia, rendered side wall, flue pipe, overhead wires, drainpipe, clear blue sky and strong sunshine place the artwork firmly in an everyday northern street scene. The photograph also works for wider coverage of music tourism, urban art, cultural landmarks, British alternative rock, working class creativity and the way ordinary local businesses become points of pilgrimage for fans.
8 Clifton Road, Prestwich, Bury, Manchester, England, UK, M25 3HQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,Bury,England,UK,398,Prestwich,Manchester,M25 1AR,band,group,music,local,photos,photoshoots,pub,pubs,bar,bars,the,Joey Holts,Holt,Holts,of,sunny,blue sky,blue skies,street,road,398 Bury New Rd,398 Bury New Road,front,exterior,outside
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGPNAD - The Red Lion Joseph Holt pub on Bury New Road in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, photographed in bright sunshine with outdoor tables, brick frontage, hanging bunting and traditional pub signage visible. The image shows the large red brick pub building at 398 Bury New Road, a prominent local landmark in Prestwich village and a Joseph Holt public house with strong connections to the local drinking culture around Mark E Smith and The Fall. The scene is useful for editorial coverage of Manchester music heritage, post-punk history, pub culture, northern high streets, Joseph Holt Brewery, traditional locals, live music, beer gardens, pub crawls and cultural tourism in Greater Manchester. Mark E Smith, frontman and permanent driving force of The Fall, grew up around Prestwich and the band was formed locally in 1976, making pubs, shops, streets and landmarks around Bury New Road part of the informal geography of Fall fan pilgrimage. Local writing on Bury New Road notes that Smith drank in pubs along Prestwich village, including The Red Lion, while fan walking guides connect nearby locations with The Fall photographs and Mark E Smith stories. The photograph has added value because the Red Lion is not just a generic pub exterior, but part of a wider Prestwich music trail that also includes the Mark E Smith mural at Chips at No8, local streets, former band haunts and places associated with the band's uncompromising northern identity. Visible details such as the Joseph Holt lettering, red brick elevations, arched doorway, outside benches, chalkboard, railings, pavement, blue sky and strong summer light give the image a clear documentary sense of place. It can illustrate features on The Fall, Mark E Smith, Manchester alternative music, independent pubs, brewery estates, Prestwich regeneration, pub heritage, fan culture, music tourism and the role of ordinary local pubs in shaping cultural memory, alongside wider stories about community, place and northern identity.
398 Bury New Rd, Prestwich, Manchester, England, UK, M25 1AR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Greater Manchester,Bury,England,UK,398,Prestwich,Manchester,M25 1AR,band,group,music,local,photos,photoshoots,pub,pubs,bar,bars,the,Joey Holts,Holt,Holts,of,sunny,blue sky,blue skies,street,road,398 Bury New Rd,398 Bury New Road,front,exterior,outside,MES
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGPNC5 - . The Red Lion Joseph Holt pub, scene of The Fall Mark E Smith photoshoots, 398 Bury New Rd, Prestwich, Manchester, England, UK, M25 1AR. Photographed on 10 August 2023, this summer 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 398 Bury New Rd, Prestwich, Manchester, England, UK, M25 1AR, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Greater Manchester, Bury, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 1AR, band, group, music, local, photos, photoshoots, pub, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The subject has strong relevance to British pub and beer culture, licensed premises, hospitality, brewing, cask ale, consumer leisure and the continuing role of pubs as social meeting places. It is suitable for coverage of the licensed trade, independent and managed pubs, brewery branding, CAMRA and real-ale culture, hospitality economics, changing drinking habits and the condition of the UK pub sector. Food and drink content broadens the image's relevance to eating out, grocery retail, hospitality, pricing, consumer choice, local food culture and the commercial presentation of meals, ingredients or products. It can illustrate changing tastes, inflation and cost-of-living pressures, food retail competition, traditional businesses and the everyday economics of buying food and drink where those themes are relevant. 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. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison.
398 Bury New Rd, Prestwich, Manchester, England, UK, M25 1AR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,orange,livery,service,to,Bury,greater Manchester,England,UK,GB,468,timetable,made in,east,Lancs,Lancashire,since,1907,Blazefield,College Bank,Tenants & Resident Association,OL12 6UF,OL12,Fairfield Hospital,services,TfGM,public,transport,single,deck,decker,local,NW,North West
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T09JFY - Taken on 10 Jun 2023, this photograph shows Orange livery, 468 Transdevbus Blazefield, Trax bus Rochdale town centre to Bury, greater Manchester, England, UK, OL12 6UF. The location is St Marys Gate, Rochdale, Lancs, Greater Manchester, England, UK, OL12 6UF. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains the vehicle livery, route branding, boarding point and street setting that make the public transport subject specific rather than generic. 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 Rochdale, Bury, Trax, bus, town, centre, Transdev, Transdevbus, transport, buses, orange, livery, 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. This makes the image useful for comparison pieces, then-and-now features, local news, regeneration stories and plain-English explainers aimed at a general audience. Further SEO-friendly usage could include local services, town-centre change, heritage branding, British social history, public infrastructure, consumer behaviour, community identity and documentary evidence for newsletters, blogs, policy papers and web features.
St Marys Gate, Rochdale, Lancs, Greater Manchester, England, UK, OL12 6UF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,bus,buses,services,service,transport,GM,537 Bolton,Bolton,Ramsbottom,Ainsworth,Bury,route,routes,536,537,timetables,timetable,the,Bee,network,travel transportation,history,1970,1980,1970s,1980s,old,due,stops,here,alighting,only,Manchester,Lancashire,England,UK
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M4K85N - . This dated editorial view of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The subject captured here is Greater Manchester Transport Bus Stop A, 480 Bury, 484 Ainsworth, 494 Ramsbottom, 536, 537, Bolton. The broader subject matter reaches into changing streetscape, conservation interest, local history, heritage landmark, local character, everyday life, archival record, period building, place identity, historic streetscape, documentary photography, traditional materials, social history, and regional identity. Current relevance extends to embodied carbon and redevelopment pressure, particularly through the balance between conservation and modern commercial use. Future viewers can use this scene from Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK to compare commercial use and occupation with whatever follows after conservation work. The surrounding story also includes changing land use, adaptive reuse, historic townscape, before-and-after reference, architectural character, historical comparison, public realm, and urban fabric. The combination of Manchester, Transport, Ainsworth, Greater, and Bolton anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. For Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The image also provides a reference for embodied carbon and the balance between conservation and modern commercial use within the specific setting of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. Another useful connection is tourism and how historic fabric can support regeneration rather than demolition as part of the longer story of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. The scene further reflects tourism and the value of architectural landmarks to local identity when considered against later change at Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK.
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,lines,route,map,diagram,services,Bolton,Bury,Oldham,Accrington,Victoria,railway,station,tile,tiled,British Rail,map of Lancashire and Yorkshire,map of Lancashire & Yorkshire,Madchester,line,rail,railways,stations,towns,villages,mapped,tiles,Lancs,Yorks,BR,steam,steam trains,ornate,heritage tourism,rail connections,Victorian,rail travel nostalgia
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JY56CT - Detail of the historic glazed-tile route map inside Manchester Victoria railway station in Manchester city centre, Greater Manchester, England. The image shows part of the former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway network rendered in bold red and black lines across a grid of white ceramic tiles. Visible destinations include Manchester, Bolton, Wigan, Oldham, Rochdale, Burnley, Blackburn, Accrington, Chorley, Darwen, Preston, Halifax, Stockport, Ashton, Ramsbottom, Bacup, Todmorden and Hebden Bridge, together with smaller stations and junctions that once formed an extensive regional railway system.
The map dates from the Edwardian rebuilding of Manchester Victoria around 1904 and reflects the importance of the station as a principal hub and administrative centre of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Its coloured routes, station circles and carefully lettered place names provide a striking example of early twentieth-century railway cartography, public information design and decorative station architecture. The surviving mural is both a historical diagram and a substantial piece of transport heritage, recording rail connections across industrial Lancashire, Yorkshire and the towns that later became Greater Manchester.
The close view emphasises the handmade tiled surface, aged grout lines, route intersections and dense concentration of railway lines around Manchester. It also illustrates how railways linked major manufacturing centres, market towns and communities during the expansion of industrial northern England. Preserved within a modern interchange used by National Rail and Metrolink passengers, the map offers a visible connection between contemporary travel and the region's railway past. Photographed indoors under station lighting, the scene has an archival documentary character suitable for editorial subjects including railway history, Manchester heritage, historic mapping, station restoration, public transport, industrial archaeology and tourism.
Victoria Railway Station, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JREC1D - . An on-location photograph from North West England, UK in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The principal subject is Map showing Northwest England, with words Fuel Poverty spelled out. More than half of UK households across Britain will choose to eat or heat. Other connected aspects include commercial redevelopment, architectural character, before-and-after reference, heritage-led regeneration, local history, period detail, public realm, public-realm investment, adaptive reuse, local character, everyday life, visual archive, place-making, and historical comparison. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with housing pressure, heritage conservation and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. The archival value lies partly in recording public access and movement around North West England, UK before conservation work alters the character of the place. Further associations within the scene are regional identity, archival record, period architecture, civic architecture, built heritage, social history, urban regeneration, and historic townscape. Details involving Poverty, households, choose, Northwest, and across make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For North West England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence of housing pressure and how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity without losing the local specificity of North West England, UK. A further contemporary connection is commercial viability and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space in a form that can be compared with future views of North West England, UK.
North West England, UK
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eastcombe,Gloucestershire,village,Cotswold,Cotswolds,England,UK,grave,graves,fresh,freshly,digging,dug,ready,prepared,for,bury,coffin,Funeral director,undertaker,mortician,robber,exhumation,gravesite,site,dead,death,the,taking,a,cloth,planks,plank,assisted dying
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JM32TR - . Recorded at Stroud, Glos - Gloucestershire, England, UK in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The image documents Freshly dug grave plot, chapel graveyard, cemetery, Eastcombe, Gloucestershire, England, UK, ready for coffin burial. A broader reading of the photograph includes public monument, everyday life, visual archive, public realm, community memory, before-and-after reference, mortality symbolism, documentary photography, historic glazing, local character, place identity, local history, ecclesiastical art, and regional identity. Current relevance extends to genealogy and historic inscriptions, particularly through how inscriptions preserve humour, beliefs and attitudes toward death. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into visitor tourism and energy costs, not least because of the conservation challenge of fragile historic glass and stonework. For later comparison, the photograph preserves materials and architectural details at Stroud, Glos - Gloucestershire, England, UK, details that may look very different after changing commercial priorities. The wider setting retains connections with church conservation, period detail, commemorative text, commemorative inscription, stained-glass craftsmanship, ecclesiastical decoration, memorial stone, and faith heritage. The combination of coffin, grave, Eastcombe, ready, and cemetery anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. A later view of Stroud, Glos - Gloucestershire, England, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes genealogy and how inscriptions preserve humour, beliefs and attitudes toward death within the specific setting of Stroud, Glos - Gloucestershire, England, UK. Image 2JM32TR also remains a dated record of Stroud, Glos - Gloucestershire, England, UK.
Stroud, Glos - Gloucestershire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,3d,9d,5d,11d,single Bury bus tickets,from 1960s,Lancashire,England,UK,bus tickets,Bury,Manchester,3pence,9pence,5pence,buses,ticket,fare,price,Preprinted bus Tickets,Preprinted tickets,Preprinted,printed ticket,Bury Corporation Transport,bus ticket printing machine,bus ticket machine,c/s,s,single,w/r,r,c/r,TIM,Bus Conductors Ticket Machine,Cirencester,Ticket Issue Machines,Ashcroft Road
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BN388K - . A grounded editorial photograph of England, Great Britain , UK, capturing details that may acquire greater historical value as the location and its use change. The scene records Bury Corporation Transport, bus ticket printing machine, with printed ticket. The scene can also be read in terms of station environment, social history, rail mobility, local history, commuter travel, place identity, passenger railway, passenger connectivity, railway branding, everyday Britain, rail modernisation, documentary photography, regional rail, and changing streetscape. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about station investment, accessibility and preserving railway heritage while modernising the network. The archival value lies partly in recording commercial identity and local use around England, Great Britain , UK before refurbishment alters the character of the place. The surrounding context includes trackside infrastructure, rail corridor, urban change, public realm, local character, community identity, rail transport, and historical comparison. The recorded references to ticket, machine, printed, Corporation, and Transport preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. Around England, Great Britain , UK, apparently routine features can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar street details disappear. The image also provides a reference for station investment and preserving railway heritage while modernising the network as part of the longer story of England, Great Britain , UK. The wider significance includes station investment and making passenger rail simpler and more dependable when considered against later change at England, Great Britain , UK. Another strand within the photograph is fares and making passenger rail simpler and more dependable without losing the local specificity of England, Great Britain , UK.
England, Great Britain , UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@Hotpixuk,brick,Burnley,hilton brick works,building,material,materials,North West,northwest,Northern powerhouse,Halsall,plastic,clay,Bury,fireclay,fire clay,clays,works,Darwen,town,towns,factory,factories,bricks,maker,makers,example,examples,Lancs,Lancashire,NW,red,creme,red brick,red bricks
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BBXPAK - . Made at Darwen , Lancs, England, UK in 2019, this photograph records a real place and subject in context, allowing later viewers to compare what has survived, changed, closed, moved or been replaced. The scene shows Halsall plastic brick bury, fireclay works Darwen, Burnley,brick, hilton brick works. The setting also relates to urban fabric, period detail, historical comparison, production works, architectural character, historic manufacturing, before-and-after reference, engineering heritage, everyday life, public realm, contemporary social history, changing land use, heritage asset, and conservation architecture. In the mid-2020s, industrial conservation and manufacturing history keep the subject current, particularly through the relationship between local geology, manufacturing and the built environment. The subject remains useful for current coverage of energy retrofit and redevelopment pressure, not least because of the role of distinctive architecture in local identity. As a dated visual record, the scene keeps a record of the way the place functioned before later physical or commercial change as seen at Darwen , Lancs, England, UK. The surrounding context also covers heritage landmark, industrial material culture, industrial archaeology, traditional building materials, traditional masonry, visual archive, industrial supply chain, and historic frontage. Elements such as plastic, Burnley, brick, hilton, and works add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within Darwen , Lancs, England, UK, 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 industrial conservation and the historical importance of everyday manufactured objects and materials in a form that can be compared with future views of Darwen , Lancs, England, UK.
Darwen , Lancs, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,North West England,Manchester,Salford music,icon,icons,band,bands,Salford bands,building,historic,history,Manchester music,Salford,Mark E. Smith Quote,smoking,smoker,Mark E Smith smoking,interview,8 Clifton Road,Prestwich,bury,Prestwich Art Festival,Akse P19,graffiti artist,Guardian newspaper interview,cigarette,in mouth,post-punk bands,cult,music icon,face
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RK9X6Y - Mark E. Smith mural - 8 Clifton Road, Prestwich
This impressive mural of the mercurial frontman of The Fall was painted by graffiti artist Akse P19 as part of the Prestwich Art Festival in 2018.
The mural was painted 9 months after the underground rock icon died aged 60 after a battle with lung and kidney cancer, and features Smith smoking a cigarette in typically nonchalant fashion, alongside the quote ˜Fear is something I try not to absorb', from an interview he gave to the Guardian newspaper in 2011.
Smith “ who was born in Broughton, Salford in 1957 “ founded The Fall were founded in Prestwich in 1976, and lived in the area for most of his life.
The Fall were one of the most prolific and acclaimed post-punk bands to emerge in the UK, and retained a large cult following right until Smith's death. He was the only constant member of the group that notoriously had a high turnover of members. Smith once wittily remarked if it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.
The mural is on the side of the fish and chip shop Chips @ No.8 on Clifton Road.
8 Clifton Road, Prestwich, Bury, M25 3HQ, England
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,North West England,Manchester music,Salford,icon,Salford bands,history,building,icons,Salford music,bands,historic,band,Manchester,Mark E. Smith Quote,smoking,smoker,Mark E Smith smoking,interview,8 Clifton Road,Prestwich,bury,Prestwich Art Festival,Akse P19,graffiti artist,Guardian newspaper interview,cigarette,in mouth,post-punk bands,cult,music icon,face,The Chippy,Mark E Smith,MES,ME Smith
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RK9X72 - Mark E. Smith mural - 8 Clifton Road, Prestwich
This impressive mural of the mercurial frontman of The Fall was painted by graffiti artist Akse P19 as part of the Prestwich Art Festival in 2018.
The mural was painted 9 months after the underground rock icon died aged 60 after a battle with lung and kidney cancer, and features Smith smoking a cigarette in typically nonchalant fashion, alongside the quote ˜Fear is something I try not to absorb', from an interview he gave to the Guardian newspaper in 2011.
Smith “ who was born in Broughton, Salford in 1957 “ founded The Fall were founded in Prestwich in 1976, and lived in the area for most of his life.
The Fall were one of the most prolific and acclaimed post-punk bands to emerge in the UK, and retained a large cult following right until Smith's death. He was the only constant member of the group that notoriously had a high turnover of members. Smith once wittily remarked if it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.
The mural is on the side of the fish and chip shop Chips @ No.8 on Clifton Road.
8 Clifton Road, Prestwich, Bury, M25 3HQ, England
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Keywords: night,light,rail,system,in,RAPT,six,lines,city,centre,Ashton-under-Lyne,Bury,Eccles,and,Rochdale,integrated,and,efficient,system,of,public,transport,light,rail,street-running,street,running,tram,standard-gauge,track,standard,guage,gotonysmith system systems integrated commuter service Bombardier Flexity Swift M5000s,but,also,used,Ansaldo,Firema,T-68/T-68As,T-68/T-68A,M5000,FlexitySwift,LRVs,LRV,aquamarine,identity,colour,colouring,3a,3b,2CC,phase,phases,tram-train,technology.,GMPTE,SELNEC,PTE,Passenger,Transport,Executive,British,rail,East,Lancashire,Railway,(Bury-to-Victoria),and,South,Junction,and,Railway,network,GMA,Transport,and,Works,Act,1992,Salford,Quays,eccles,line,lines,European,Regional,Development,Fund,little,mini,bang,TMS,thales,3a,services,mediacityUK,mediacity,UK,serco,Stagecoach,dev,Peter,cushing,Fitch,RS,and,Design,Triangle,Hemisphere,Design,and,Marketing,Consultancy,Peter,Saville,Dalton Maag and Design Triangle M5000 systems operator system
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6HY59 - Metrolink is a light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network consists of six lines which radiate from Manchester city centre and terminate at Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, Didsbury, Eccles, and Rochdale. The system is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and operated and maintained under contract by RATP In 2013/14, 29.2 million passenger journeys were made on the system, also known as Manchester Metrolink.
A light rail system for Greater Manchester was borne of Greater Manchester County Council's obligations to provide an integrated and efficient system of public transport under its structure plan and the Transport Act 1968. Greater Manchester's public transport network suffered from poor north“south connections, exacerbated by the location of Manchester's main railway stations, Piccadilly and Victoria, which were unconnected and lay at opposite edges of central Manchester. Abandoning the monorail and underground options conceived in the 1960s and 1970s, light rail was proposed in 1982 as the best and most economical public transport solution for Manchester city centre and the surrounding Greater Manchester metropolitan area, and gathered support throughout the 1980s as an appropriate integrated commuter service.
Government approval was granted in 1988 and the network began operating services between Bury Interchange and Victoria on 6 April 1992. This founded the United Kingdom's first modern street-running rail system and its second operational public tram system, the 1885-built Blackpool tramway being the only heritage tram system in the UK that had endured up to Metrolink's creation.
Metrolink has 77 stops along 48.5 miles (78.1 km) of standard-gauge track routed through seven of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The system has a mix of designated light railway (segregated from other traffic) and on-street tramway.
St Peters Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: night,light,rail,system,in,RAPT,six,lines,city,centre,Ashton-under-Lyne,Bury,Eccles,and,Rochdale,integrated,and,efficient,system,of,public,transport,light,rail,street-running,street,running,tram,standard-gauge,track,standard,guage,gotonysmith system systems integrated commuter service Bombardier Flexity Swift M5000s,but,also,used,Ansaldo,Firema,T-68/T-68As,T-68/T-68A,M5000,FlexitySwift,LRVs,LRV,aquamarine,identity,colour,colouring,3a,3b,2CC,phase,phases,tram-train,technology.,GMPTE,SELNEC,PTE,Passenger,Transport,Executive,British,rail,East,Lancashire,Railway,(Bury-to-Victoria),and,South,Junction,and,Railway,network,GMA,Transport,and,Works,Act,1992,Salford,Quays,eccles,line,lines,European,Regional,Development,Fund,little,mini,bang,TMS,thales,3a,services,mediacityUK,mediacity,UK,serco,Stagecoach,dev,Peter,cushing,Fitch,RS,and,Design,Triangle,Hemisphere,Design,and,Marketing,Consultancy,Peter,Saville,Dalton Maag and Design Triangle M5000 systems operator system
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6HY5B - Metrolink is a light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network consists of six lines which radiate from Manchester city centre and terminate at Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, Didsbury, Eccles, and Rochdale. The system is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and operated and maintained under contract by RATP In 2013/14, 29.2 million passenger journeys were made on the system, also known as Manchester Metrolink.
A light rail system for Greater Manchester was borne of Greater Manchester County Council's obligations to provide an integrated and efficient system of public transport under its structure plan and the Transport Act 1968. Greater Manchester's public transport network suffered from poor north“south connections, exacerbated by the location of Manchester's main railway stations, Piccadilly and Victoria, which were unconnected and lay at opposite edges of central Manchester. Abandoning the monorail and underground options conceived in the 1960s and 1970s, light rail was proposed in 1982 as the best and most economical public transport solution for Manchester city centre and the surrounding Greater Manchester metropolitan area, and gathered support throughout the 1980s as an appropriate integrated commuter service.
Government approval was granted in 1988 and the network began operating services between Bury Interchange and Victoria on 6 April 1992. This founded the United Kingdom's first modern street-running rail system and its second operational public tram system, the 1885-built Blackpool tramway being the only heritage tram system in the UK that had endured up to Metrolink's creation.
Metrolink has 77 stops along 48.5 miles (78.1 km) of standard-gauge track routed through seven of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The system has a mix of designated light railway (segregated from other traffic) and on-street tramway.
St Peters Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: night,light,rail,system,in,RAPT,six,lines,city,centre,Ashton-under-Lyne,Bury,Eccles,and,Rochdale,integrated,and,efficient,system,of,public,transport,light,rail,street-running,street,running,tram,standard-gauge,track,standard,guage,gotonysmith system systems integrated commuter service Bombardier Flexity Swift M5000s,but,also,used,Ansaldo,Firema,T-68/T-68As,T-68/T-68A,M5000,FlexitySwift,LRVs,LRV,aquamarine,identity,colour,colouring,3a,3b,2CC,phase,phases,tram-train,technology.,GMPTE,SELNEC,PTE,Passenger,Transport,Executive,British,rail,East,Lancashire,Railway,(Bury-to-Victoria),and,South,Junction,and,Railway,network,GMA,Transport,and,Works,Act,1992,Salford,Quays,eccles,line,lines,European,Regional,Development,Fund,little,mini,bang,TMS,thales,3a,services,mediacityUK,mediacity,UK,serco,Stagecoach,dev,Peter,cushing,Fitch,RS,and,Design,Triangle,Hemisphere,Design,and,Marketing,Consultancy,Peter,Saville,Dalton Maag and Design Triangle M5000 systems operator system,Mancester,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6HY5C - Metrolink is a light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network consists of six lines which radiate from Manchester city centre and terminate at Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, Didsbury, Eccles, and Rochdale. The system is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and operated and maintained under contract by RATP In 2013/14, 29.2 million passenger journeys were made on the system, also known as Manchester Metrolink.
A light rail system for Greater Manchester was borne of Greater Manchester County Council's obligations to provide an integrated and efficient system of public transport under its structure plan and the Transport Act 1968. Greater Manchester's public transport network suffered from poor north“south connections, exacerbated by the location of Manchester's main railway stations, Piccadilly and Victoria, which were unconnected and lay at opposite edges of central Manchester. Abandoning the monorail and underground options conceived in the 1960s and 1970s, light rail was proposed in 1982 as the best and most economical public transport solution for Manchester city centre and the surrounding Greater Manchester metropolitan area, and gathered support throughout the 1980s as an appropriate integrated commuter service.
Government approval was granted in 1988 and the network began operating services between Bury Interchange and Victoria on 6 April 1992. This founded the United Kingdom's first modern street-running rail system and its second operational public tram system, the 1885-built Blackpool tramway being the only heritage tram system in the UK that had endured up to Metrolink's creation.
Metrolink has 77 stops along 48.5 miles (78.1 km) of standard-gauge track routed through seven of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The system has a mix of designated light railway (segregated from other traffic) and on-street tramway.
St Peters Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: night,light,rail,system,in,RAPT,six,lines,city,centre,Ashton-under-Lyne,Bury,Eccles,and,Rochdale,integrated,and,efficient,system,of,public,transport,light,rail,street-running,street,running,tram,standard-gauge,track,standard,guage,gotonysmith system systems integrated commuter service Bombardier Flexity Swift M5000s,but,also,used,Ansaldo,Firema,T-68/T-68As,T-68/T-68A,M5000,FlexitySwift,LRVs,LRV,aquamarine,identity,colour,colouring,3a,3b,2CC,phase,phases,tram-train,technology.,GMPTE,SELNEC,PTE,Passenger,Transport,Executive,British,rail,East,Lancashire,Railway,(Bury-to-Victoria),and,South,Junction,and,Railway,network,GMA,Transport,and,Works,Act,1992,Salford,Quays,eccles,line,lines,European,Regional,Development,Fund,little,mini,bang,TMS,thales,3a,services,mediacityUK,mediacity,UK,serco,Stagecoach,dev,Peter,cushing,Fitch,RS,and,Design,Triangle,Hemisphere,Design,and,Marketing,Consultancy,Peter,Saville,Dalton Maag and Design Triangle M5000 systems operator system,Mancester,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6HY5E - Metrolink is a light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network consists of six lines which radiate from Manchester city centre and terminate at Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, Didsbury, Eccles, and Rochdale. The system is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and operated and maintained under contract by RATP In 2013/14, 29.2 million passenger journeys were made on the system, also known as Manchester Metrolink.
A light rail system for Greater Manchester was borne of Greater Manchester County Council's obligations to provide an integrated and efficient system of public transport under its structure plan and the Transport Act 1968. Greater Manchester's public transport network suffered from poor north“south connections, exacerbated by the location of Manchester's main railway stations, Piccadilly and Victoria, which were unconnected and lay at opposite edges of central Manchester. Abandoning the monorail and underground options conceived in the 1960s and 1970s, light rail was proposed in 1982 as the best and most economical public transport solution for Manchester city centre and the surrounding Greater Manchester metropolitan area, and gathered support throughout the 1980s as an appropriate integrated commuter service.
Government approval was granted in 1988 and the network began operating services between Bury Interchange and Victoria on 6 April 1992. This founded the United Kingdom's first modern street-running rail system and its second operational public tram system, the 1885-built Blackpool tramway being the only heritage tram system in the UK that had endured up to Metrolink's creation.
Metrolink has 77 stops along 48.5 miles (78.1 km) of standard-gauge track routed through seven of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The system has a mix of designated light railway (segregated from other traffic) and on-street tramway.
St Peters Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: night,light,rail,system,in,RAPT,six,lines,city,centre,Ashton-under-Lyne,Bury,Eccles,and,Rochdale,integrated,and,efficient,system,of,public,transport,light,rail,street-running,street,running,tram,standard-gauge,track,standard,guage,gotonysmith system systems integrated commuter service Bombardier Flexity Swift M5000s,but,also,used,Ansaldo,Firema,T-68/T-68As,T-68/T-68A,M5000,FlexitySwift,LRVs,LRV,aquamarine,identity,colour,colouring,3a,3b,2CC,phase,phases,tram-train,technology.,GMPTE,SELNEC,PTE,Passenger,Transport,Executive,British,rail,East,Lancashire,Railway,(Bury-to-Victoria),and,South,Junction,and,Railway,network,GMA,Transport,and,Works,Act,1992,Salford,Quays,eccles,line,lines,European,Regional,Development,Fund,little,mini,bang,TMS,thales,3a,services,mediacityUK,mediacity,UK,serco,Stagecoach,dev,Peter,cushing,Fitch,RS,and,Design,Triangle,Hemisphere,Design,and,Marketing,Consultancy,Peter,Saville,Dalton Maag and Design Triangle M5000 systems operator system,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6J32X - Metrolink is a light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network consists of six lines which radiate from Manchester city centre and terminate at Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, Didsbury, Eccles, and Rochdale. The system is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and operated and maintained under contract by RATP In 2013/14, 29.2 million passenger journeys were made on the system, also known as Manchester Metrolink.
A light rail system for Greater Manchester was borne of Greater Manchester County Council's obligations to provide an integrated and efficient system of public transport under its structure plan and the Transport Act 1968. Greater Manchester's public transport network suffered from poor north“south connections, exacerbated by the location of Manchester's main railway stations, Piccadilly and Victoria, which were unconnected and lay at opposite edges of central Manchester. Abandoning the monorail and underground options conceived in the 1960s and 1970s, light rail was proposed in 1982 as the best and most economical public transport solution for Manchester city centre and the surrounding Greater Manchester metropolitan area, and gathered support throughout the 1980s as an appropriate integrated commuter service.
Government approval was granted in 1988 and the network began operating services between Bury Interchange and Victoria on 6 April 1992. This founded the United Kingdom's first modern street-running rail system and its second operational public tram system, the 1885-built Blackpool tramway being the only heritage tram system in the UK that had endured up to Metrolink's creation.
Metrolink has 77 stops along 48.5 miles (78.1 km) of standard-gauge track routed through seven of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The system has a mix of designated light railway (segregated from other traffic) and on-street tramway.
St Peters Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: night,light,rail,system,in,RAPT,six,lines,city,centre,Ashton-under-Lyne,Bury,Eccles,and,Rochdale,integrated,and,efficient,system,of,public,transport,light,rail,street-running,street,running,tram,standard-gauge,track,standard,guage,gotonysmith system systems integrated commuter service Bombardier Flexity Swift M5000s,but,also,used,Ansaldo,Firema,T-68/T-68As,T-68/T-68A,M5000,FlexitySwift,LRVs,LRV,aquamarine,identity,colour,colouring,3a,3b,2CC,phase,phases,tram-train,technology.,GMPTE,SELNEC,PTE,Passenger,Transport,Executive,British,rail,East,Lancashire,Railway,(Bury-to-Victoria),and,South,Junction,and,Railway,network,GMA,Transport,and,Works,Act,1992,Salford,Quays,eccles,line,lines,European,Regional,Development,Fund,little,mini,bang,TMS,thales,3a,services,mediacityUK,mediacity,UK,serco,Stagecoach,dev,Peter,cushing,Fitch,RS,and,Design,Triangle,Hemisphere,Design,and,Marketing,Consultancy,Peter,Saville,Dalton Maag and Design Triangle M5000 systems operator system,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6J32Y - Metrolink is a light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network consists of six lines which radiate from Manchester city centre and terminate at Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, Didsbury, Eccles, and Rochdale. The system is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and operated and maintained under contract by RATP In 2013/14, 29.2 million passenger journeys were made on the system, also known as Manchester Metrolink.
A light rail system for Greater Manchester was borne of Greater Manchester County Council's obligations to provide an integrated and efficient system of public transport under its structure plan and the Transport Act 1968. Greater Manchester's public transport network suffered from poor north“south connections, exacerbated by the location of Manchester's main railway stations, Piccadilly and Victoria, which were unconnected and lay at opposite edges of central Manchester. Abandoning the monorail and underground options conceived in the 1960s and 1970s, light rail was proposed in 1982 as the best and most economical public transport solution for Manchester city centre and the surrounding Greater Manchester metropolitan area, and gathered support throughout the 1980s as an appropriate integrated commuter service.
Government approval was granted in 1988 and the network began operating services between Bury Interchange and Victoria on 6 April 1992. This founded the United Kingdom's first modern street-running rail system and its second operational public tram system, the 1885-built Blackpool tramway being the only heritage tram system in the UK that had endured up to Metrolink's creation.
Metrolink has 77 stops along 48.5 miles (78.1 km) of standard-gauge track routed through seven of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The system has a mix of designated light railway (segregated from other traffic) and on-street tramway.
St Peters Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BN2W2G - . An on-location editorial image made at Bolton St, Bury, Lancs, England, UK, showing a subject whose wider significance extends beyond the immediate scene. The photograph centres on Cheap Trips to Liverpool, train,trips, sepia tone,Victorian Train Journeys. The scene can also be read in terms of passenger railway, rail corridor, changing streetscape, community identity, documentary photography, railway branding, social history, commuter travel, public realm, public transport network, built environment, rail modernisation, period detail, and social landscape. Today's wider story includes integrated transport, reliability and the practical question of making passenger rail simpler and more dependable. Future viewers can use this scene from Bolton St, Bury, Lancs, England, UK to compare signage and branding with whatever follows after later redevelopment. The photograph additionally reflects rail mobility, local history, contemporary history, mass transit, passenger connectivity, urban change, regional identity, and trackside infrastructure. Elements such as Cheap, Liverpool, train, sepia, and Victorian add documentary specificity and may become useful when the scene is compared with later records. Around Bolton St, Bury, Lancs, England, UK, apparently routine features can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar street details disappear. The scene further reflects integrated transport and preserving railway heritage while modernising the network as part of the longer story of Bolton St, Bury, Lancs, England, UK. Its period value extends to decarbonisation and reducing congestion and car dependency when considered against later change at Bolton St, Bury, Lancs, England, UK. The location additionally provides evidence for rail reform and linking trains more effectively with buses and trams without losing the local specificity of Bolton St, Bury, Lancs, England, UK.
Bolton St, Bury, Lancs, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BN384G - . A detailed documentary view from Manchester, England, UK, preserving the appearance and character of the subject at a particular point in time. The defining feature is 92 bus,Bury to Manchester Piccadilly,Greater Manchester, England, UK, Please deposit used tickets,in this box,. The photograph also carries associations with traditional masonry, visual archive, urban change, urban fabric, social history, conservation interest, public realm, architectural character, period detail, architectural contrast, regional identity, social landscape, before-and-after reference, and conservation architecture. In the mid-2020s, heritage conservation and redevelopment pressure keep this subject current, particularly through the contrast between historic fabric and modern development. As a dated visual record of Manchester, England, UK, the frame retains signage and branding, making it useful if changing public expectations subsequently changes the scene. The wider local story also touches on built heritage, period building, contemporary history, everyday Britain, historic townscape, local history, community identity, and documentary photography. Elements such as tickets, Please, Greater, deposit, and Piccadilly add documentary specificity and may become useful when the scene is compared with later records. The surrounding context at Manchester, England, UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. That also gives the frame relevance to heritage conservation and the contrast between historic fabric and modern development without losing the local specificity of Manchester, England, UK. Another useful connection is embodied carbon and the contrast between historic fabric and modern development in a form that can be compared with future views of Manchester, England, UK. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for Manchester, England, UK and the changing story of the subject shown.
Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BN384T - . Photographed at Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK, the scene provides a dated reference to the subject and the surrounding social, commercial or physical environment. The documented subject is 92 bus,Bury to Manchester Piccadilly,Greater Manchester, England, UK. Other aspects of the subject include architectural contrast, historical comparison, cityscape history, local history, before-and-after reference, public realm, social landscape, conservation interest, built heritage, visual archive, historic streetscape, everyday Britain, historic townscape, and regional identity. The present-day relevance extends to embodied carbon and historic townscape, while a wider concern is keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character. The photograph fixes transport arrangements and public activity within Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against closure or conversion. Further associations include place identity, documentary photography, contemporary history, conservation architecture, period detail, urban change, urban fabric, and architectural character. Details involving Manchester, Greater, and Piccadilly make the image more specific than a generic illustration and strengthen its local or historical value. The surrounding context at Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The scene retains a connection with embodied carbon and preserving local identity during urban change as part of the longer story of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK. That also gives the frame relevance to adaptive reuse and using existing buildings rather than demolishing them when considered against later change at Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK and the changing story of the subject shown.
Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,green,cream,transport,35,35 bus,Greater Manchester,Lancashire,England,UK,Bury,Bury Greater Manchester,281,Metropolitan Cammell,Leyland,British Leyland,Titan,Titan PD2 281,JRJ281E,Bury Bus,Leyland Titan,double decker,MCW,1967,PD2/40,city,transportation,council,buses,creme,&,and,the,Salford
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BN3853 - The Transport Act of 1968 allowed double-deck buses to be operated by one-person (up until then only single-deck buses had been permitted to be one-person-operated). This effectively sounded the death knell for the conductor and the two-man crew, as local authorities sought to put their transport undertakings on a firmer financial footing. It also brought about the rapid demise of the front-engined rear-entrance vehicle from our roads.
The last buses to be put into service by Bury Corporation were delivered in 1969. Three Leyland PDR1/1 Atlanteans (Nos. 1-3
KEN231-233G) with dual-entrance 72-seat East Lancs bodywork, six Daimler CRG/6LX Fleetlines (Nos. 92-97
KEN292-297G) with single-deck 41-seat dual-entrance East Lancs bodywork, and a Bedford J25Z10 (No. 81
KEN381G) with Duple 21-seat body (christened the 'breadvan' by crews). The Bedford was purchased specifically for the Chesham route, since the roads were deemed unsuitable for the heavier vehicles.
The idea of setting up a co-ordinated bus service in the larger cities of the country lay simmering for some years until the 1960's when it was revived. In December 1967 a white paper was published under the title 'Public Transport and Traffic'. This was later made the 1968 Transport Act, receiving the Royal Assent on October 25th 1968.
This Act created the Passenger Transport Authorities in Merseyside, Manchester, Tyneside and West Midlands. The PTA's were made up of members of local councils who drew upon the policies of each undertaking. Under their control were the Passenger Transport Executives (PTE's) who were professionals that would directly run the local services. There were to be no payments of compensation for the vehicles or premises as they were handed over to another joint local authority.
On the 1st Apr 1969 the PTA's were officially created and on the 1st November 1969 the PTE's took over the operations. At midnight on the 31st October 1969, Bury Corporation Transport Department ceased to exist
Bury, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,green,cream,transport,35,35 bus,Greater Manchester,Lancashire,England,UK,Bury,Bury Greater Manchester,281,Metropolitan Cammell,Leyland,British Leyland,Titan,Titan PD2 281,JRJ281E,Bury Bus,Leyland Titan,double decker,MCW,1967,PD2/40,city,transportation,council,buses,creme,&,and,the,Salford
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BN386D - The Transport Act of 1968 allowed double-deck buses to be operated by one-person (up until then only single-deck buses had been permitted to be one-person-operated). This effectively sounded the death knell for the conductor and the two-man crew, as local authorities sought to put their transport undertakings on a firmer financial footing. It also brought about the rapid demise of the front-engined rear-entrance vehicle from our roads.
The last buses to be put into service by Bury Corporation were delivered in 1969. Three Leyland PDR1/1 Atlanteans (Nos. 1-3
KEN231-233G) with dual-entrance 72-seat East Lancs bodywork, six Daimler CRG/6LX Fleetlines (Nos. 92-97
KEN292-297G) with single-deck 41-seat dual-entrance East Lancs bodywork, and a Bedford J25Z10 (No. 81
KEN381G) with Duple 21-seat body (christened the 'breadvan' by crews). The Bedford was purchased specifically for the Chesham route, since the roads were deemed unsuitable for the heavier vehicles.
The idea of setting up a co-ordinated bus service in the larger cities of the country lay simmering for some years until the 1960's when it was revived. In December 1967 a white paper was published under the title 'Public Transport and Traffic'. This was later made the 1968 Transport Act, receiving the Royal Assent on October 25th 1968.
This Act created the Passenger Transport Authorities in Merseyside, Manchester, Tyneside and West Midlands. The PTA's were made up of members of local councils who drew upon the policies of each undertaking. Under their control were the Passenger Transport Executives (PTE's) who were professionals that would directly run the local services. There were to be no payments of compensation for the vehicles or premises as they were handed over to another joint local authority.
On the 1st Apr 1969 the PTA's were officially created and on the 1st November 1969 the PTE's took over the operations. At midnight on the 31st October 1969, Bury Corporation Transport Department ceased to exist
Bury, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,Radcliffe Central,Clifton Junction,Salford,Manchester,train,sign,pre-Beeching cuts,Beeching,North West,Bury,Collection,stations,old stations,Greater Manchester,Southport,PR8,all,platform,history,historic,British,NW,BR,railway,cut,collection,signpost,signposts,heritage,old,olden days,1960s,1970s
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BN387R - . Recorded at Manchester, England, UK, this image forms part of the visual history of the locality and the activity, building, object or service shown. The photograph centres on Collection of railway station signs, pre-Beeching cuts,Summerseat,Ramsbottom,Whitefield,All stations to Manchester,Radcliffe,Clifton Junction,Salford. The photograph also carries associations with rail transport, period detail, community identity, public transport network, changing streetscape, archival record, rail modernisation, regional rail, station environment, railway branding, social history, trackside infrastructure, local history, and mass transit. The subject remains useful for current coverage of public ownership and decarbonisation, not least because of linking trains more effectively with buses and trams. As a dated visual record of Manchester, England, UK, the frame retains commercial identity and local use, making it useful if replacement signage subsequently changes the scene. The photograph additionally reflects social landscape, passenger connectivity, everyday Britain, public realm, documentary photography, rail mobility, rail corridor, and regional identity. The recorded references to Whitefield, Summerseat, Radcliffe, Junction, and Salford preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. The period setting at Manchester, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is public ownership and linking trains more effectively with buses and trams within the real-world context of Manchester, England, UK. The image also provides a reference for accessibility and making passenger rail simpler and more dependable within the specific setting of Manchester, England, UK. The wider significance includes accessibility and reducing congestion and car dependency as part of the longer story of Manchester, England, UK.
Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BN3883 - . A detailed documentary view from the recorded location, preserving the appearance and character of the subject at a particular point in time. At the heart of the image is 3d,9d,5d,11d,day return,single Bury Corporation bus tickets, from 1960's, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK - Preprinted bus Tickets. Its broader subject matter includes everyday Britain, railway branding, passenger railway, passenger connectivity, period detail, social history, railway heritage, local history, mass transit, changing streetscape, local character, place identity, historical comparison, and before-and-after reference. Today's wider story includes fares, integrated transport and the practical question of making passenger rail simpler and more dependable. Small period details of transport arrangements and public activity at the recorded location may become more significant with time, especially following closure or conversion. Further associations include contemporary history, urban change, built environment, visual archive, regional rail, rail corridor, public realm, and documentary photography. References to return, tickets, 1960's, Lancashire, and Greater give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to the named subject. By fixing the subject within the recorded location, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. That also gives the frame relevance to fares and making passenger rail simpler and more dependable within the real-world context of the recorded location. Another useful connection is rail reform and reducing congestion and car dependency within the specific setting of the recorded location. The scene further reflects reliability and preserving railway heritage while modernising the network as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for the recorded location and the changing story of the subject shown.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BN3887 - . Photographed at the recorded location, the scene provides a dated reference to the subject and the surrounding social, commercial or physical environment. The scene records 3d,9d,5d,11d,day return,single Bury Corporation bus tickets, from 1960's, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK - Preprinted bus Tickets. The frame also records themes of public transport network, local character, trackside infrastructure, railway branding, before-and-after reference, historical comparison, changing streetscape, station environment, rail corridor, rail mobility, period detail, commuter travel, local history, and everyday Britain. For contemporary context, accessibility and rail reform are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes reducing congestion and car dependency. The archival value lies partly in recording materials and construction around the recorded location before new ownership alters the character of the place. The wider local story also touches on social landscape, urban change, transport interchange, visual archive, archival record, public realm, rail modernisation, and contemporary history. Elements such as Corporation, 1960's, return, tickets, and Lancashire add documentary specificity and may become useful when the scene is compared with later records. For the recorded location, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which small changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The scene retains a connection with accessibility and making passenger rail simpler and more dependable within the specific setting of the recorded location. That also gives the frame relevance to integrated transport and reducing congestion and car dependency as part of the longer story of the recorded location. Another useful connection is reliability and making passenger rail simpler and more dependable when considered against later change at the recorded location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BN388D - . An on-location editorial image made at the recorded location, showing a subject whose wider significance extends beyond the immediate scene. The defining feature is 3d,9d,5d,11d,day return,single Bury Corporation bus tickets, from 1960's, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK - Preprinted bus Tickets. The scene can also be read in terms of built environment, railway branding, rail modernisation, rail corridor, passenger connectivity, local character, railway heritage, community identity, visual archive, rail mobility, before-and-after reference, commuter travel, trackside infrastructure, and rail transport. Today's wider story includes accessibility, reliability and the practical question of reducing congestion and car dependency. Future viewers can use this scene from the recorded location to compare equipment and working practice with whatever follows after changing public expectations. The photograph additionally reflects public realm, documentary photography, place identity, public transport network, contemporary history, historical comparison, social landscape, and passenger railway. Elements such as Greater, Corporation, Preprinted, Lancashire, and return add documentary specificity and may become useful when the scene is compared with later records. By fixing the subject within the recorded location, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The scene further reflects accessibility and preserving railway heritage while modernising the network when considered against later change at the recorded location. Its period value extends to accessibility and linking trains more effectively with buses and trams without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. The location additionally provides evidence for rail reform and linking trains more effectively with buses and trams in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BNKK4R - 80080 was built at Brighton in March 1954. It was based on the Eastern Region working on the London, Tilbury and Southend Line (LT&S) working commuter services out of London until that route was electrified in 1962.
It was withdrawn from service in July 1965 whilst based at Croes Newydd which by this time was a London Midland Region after being transferred from the Western Region in September 1963.
80080 was then sold for scrap to Woodham Brothers at Barry. It arrived at Barry in January 1966 and it remained there for the next fourteen years during which time it suffered the ravages weather, metal thieves, and later preservationists removing parts. When the locomotive was purchased in the autumn of 1980 all non-ferrous and motion parts were missing and it was no more than a skeletal hulk.
80080 was purchased for restoration in 1980 and moved to Matlock in November of that year but was moved to the Midland Railway at Butterley thee years later for restoration.
80080 also became the first steam engine to work a normal stopping passenger service on the mainline for over a quarter of a century back in March 1993, it worked for over a week on the Settle and Carlisle line working from Carlisle to Kirkby Stephen and back. It also returned to the famous Cambrian network in 1992.
80080 returned to steam following an overhaul in November 2010 and shortly afterwards was hired to the East Lancs Railway. In December 2016 the locomotive returned to the West Shed of the Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust where it will undergo some engineering work after failing its annual boiler inspection.It is understood that three of its superheater flue tubes failed.
Rawtenstall Station, Rossendale, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, BB4 6AG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BNKK7D - . An authentic period record of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK, retaining the practical visual detail that later redevelopment, rebranding or altered use can remove. The main point of reference is Maroon Bury Corporation Leyland bus, Greater Manchester,Lancashire, England, UK, 1960,1960s. The locality and subject together evoke built environment, heritage landmark, built heritage, urban fabric, conservation interest, historic streetscape, heritage asset, historical comparison, documentary photography, changing streetscape, local history, community identity, everyday Britain, and contemporary history. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about energy retrofit, historic townscape and using existing buildings rather than demolishing them. Future viewers can use this scene from Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK to compare street furniture and boundaries with whatever follows after closure or conversion. The photograph additionally reflects social landscape, social history, architectural character, before-and-after reference, public realm, period detail, conservation architecture, and place identity. Elements such as Manchester, Leyland, Lancashire, Greater, and Corporation add documentary specificity and may become useful when the scene is compared with later records. A later view of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, 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 energy retrofit and using existing buildings rather than demolishing them in a form that can be compared with future views of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK. The scene retains a connection with planning control and using existing buildings rather than demolishing them within the real-world context of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK. The scene remains tied to Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK, image reference 2BNKK7D.
Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BNKK7M - . Recorded at 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY, this image forms part of the visual history of the locality and the activity, building, object or service shown. The location is represented through Green steam engine,Hilda,RT Howarth,contractors,Rochdale, Thomas Green & Son,Leeds & London. The wider scene also brings together local character, period building, traditional masonry, architectural character, conservation architecture, public realm, archival record, before-and-after reference, urban fabric, cityscape history, conservation interest, documentary photography, built environment, and heritage landmark. For contemporary context, redevelopment pressure and historic townscape are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes using existing buildings rather than demolishing them. The photograph fixes ownership and occupation within 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changing public expectations. Other connected aspects are built heritage, urban change, local history, visual archive, social history, period detail, everyday Britain, and regional identity. The recorded references to London, Hilda, Leeds, Green, and contractors preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. The surrounding context at 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. A further contemporary connection is redevelopment pressure and using existing buildings rather than demolishing them within the specific setting of 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for 23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY and the changing story of the subject shown.
23A Bolton St, Bury,Greater Manchester,North West England,UK, BL9 0EY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BPCNPM - . This carefully observed view of Summerseat Station, Off Railway St, Miller St, Summerseat, Bury, Lancs, England, UK, BL9 5PZ fixes a specific place, use and moment for later historical comparison. The defining feature is Summerseat Station Sign on a lamp, Lancashire, England, UK. The wider scene also brings together urban change, historical comparison, public realm, social landscape, archival record, passenger connectivity, period detail, transport interchange, commuter travel, visual archive, regional rail, contemporary history, documentary photography, and rail modernisation. For contemporary context, rail reform and accessibility are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes preserving railway heritage while modernising the network. Small period details of ownership and occupation at Summerseat Station, Off Railway St, Miller St, Summerseat, Bury, Lancs, England, UK, BL9 5PZ may become more significant with time, especially following altered transport patterns. The setting also brings in railway branding, social history, local history, rail corridor, before-and-after reference, rail transport, station environment, and passenger railway. The combination of Summerseat, Lancashire, and Station helps anchor the frame to a recognisable activity, place or period. Around Summerseat Station, Off Railway St, Miller St, Summerseat, Bury, Lancs, England, UK, BL9 5PZ, apparently routine features can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar street details disappear. Its period value extends to rail reform and preserving railway heritage while modernising the network within the real-world context of Summerseat Station, Off Railway St, Miller St, Summerseat, Bury, Lancs, England, UK, BL9 5PZ. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for Summerseat Station, Off Railway St, Miller St, Summerseat, Bury, Lancs, England, UK, BL9 5PZ and the changing story of the subject shown.
Summerseat Station, Off Railway St, Miller St, Summerseat, Bury, Lancs, England, UK, BL9 5PZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Surrey,UK,England,GU7,merge,merger,Guildford,council,councils,GU7 1HP,local,office,offices,town,centre,exterior,sign,outside,civic,in,signs,grey,crest,the,Bury,leafy,history,historic,The Burys,Godalming,Borough of Waverley,is a,local government,borough
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PG60W3 - The Borough of Waverley is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. The borough's headquarters are in the town of Godalming
other notable settlements are the towns of Farnham and Haslemere and the large village of Cranleigh. At the 2021 Census, the population of the borough was 128,200.
Waverley borders the borough of Guildford to the north, the Mole Valley district to the east, the Horsham and Chichester districts of West Sussex to the south, and the East Hampshire and Hart districts and the borough of Rushmoor in Hampshire to the west and northwest. The borough is named after Waverley Abbey, near Farnham, the earliest Cistercian monastery in Britain. Blackheath Common, in the north of the borough, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Waverley is a Wealden borough, bounded to the north by the Hog's Back section of the North Downs and by the Greensand Ridge. It has the most green space in absolute terms in Surrey at 293.1 km2 (113 sq. mi.) according to the central government-compiled Generalised Land Use database of January 2005, approximately half of which is woodland.
Much of the west of the borough echoes former ownership by the abbey, such as Waverley Cricket Club and the Waverley Arms pubs in Farnham and elsewhere. Equally echoed are the tens of square miles held under Farnham holding of the Bishop of Winchester which took in the western parishes of Frensham and Churt as well as much of Farnham parish since the early 12th century when one such Bishop, Henry of Winchester and of Blois established Farnham Castle as the See's episcopal home but which is today the borough's main surviving castle and a museum to the period.
The Burys, Godalming, Surrey, England, UK , GU7 1HP
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eastcombe,Gloucestershire,village,Cotswold,Cotswolds,England,UK,grave,graves,fresh,freshly,digging,dug,ready,prepared,for,bury,coffin,Funeral director,undertaker,mortician,robber,exhumation,gravesite,site,dead,death,the,taking,a,cloth,planks,plank
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JM32TY - . This scene at Stroud, Glos - Gloucestershire, England, 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 main point of reference is Freshly dug grave plot, chapel graveyard, cemetery, Eastcombe, Gloucestershire, England, UK, ready for coffin burial. The setting additionally reflects memorial stone, historic glazing, graveyard heritage, changing streetscape, local remembrance, local character, funerary heritage, church conservation, commemorative text, memorial culture, faith heritage, public monument, epitaph, and changing land use. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with cemetery maintenance, genealogy and how public monuments become focal points for collective memory. The modern context includes continuing discussion of faith communities, accessibility and how sacred art preserves local patrons, stories and beliefs. As a dated visual record of Stroud, Glos - Gloucestershire, England, UK, the frame retains signage and branding, making it especially useful if closure or conversion subsequently changes the scene. The surrounding story also includes sacred space, ecclesiastical art, public realm, historic commemoration, community memory, regional identity, religious heritage, and local history. Elements such as Gloucestershire, burial, coffin, Eastcombe, and ready add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of Stroud, Glos - Gloucestershire, England, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The image also provides a reference for cemetery maintenance and how public monuments become focal points for collective memory as part of the longer story of Stroud, Glos - Gloucestershire, England, UK. It also preserves details of everyday use before later change alters the scene.
Stroud, Glos - Gloucestershire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6J32W - Metrolink is a light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network consists of six lines which radiate from Manchester city centre and terminate at Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, Didsbury, Eccles, and Rochdale. The system is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and operated and maintained under contract by RATP In 2013/14, 29.2 million passenger journeys were made on the system, also known as Manchester Metrolink.
A light rail system for Greater Manchester was borne of Greater Manchester County Council's obligations to provide an integrated and efficient system of public transport under its structure plan and the Transport Act 1968. Greater Manchester's public transport network suffered from poor north“south connections, exacerbated by the location of Manchester's main railway stations, Piccadilly and Victoria, which were unconnected and lay at opposite edges of central Manchester. Abandoning the monorail and underground options conceived in the 1960s and 1970s, light rail was proposed in 1982 as the best and most economical public transport solution for Manchester city centre and the surrounding Greater Manchester metropolitan area, and gathered support throughout the 1980s as an appropriate integrated commuter service.
Government approval was granted in 1988 and the network began operating services between Bury Interchange and Victoria on 6 April 1992. This founded the United Kingdom's first modern street-running rail system and its second operational public tram system, the 1885-built Blackpool tramway being the only heritage tram system in the UK that had endured up to Metrolink's creation.
Metrolink has 77 stops along 48.5 miles (78.1 km) of standard-gauge track routed through seven of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The system has a mix of designated light railway (segregated from other traffic) and on-street tramway.
St Peters Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RK9X70 - Mark E. Smith mural - 8 Clifton Road, Prestwich
This impressive mural of the mercurial frontman of The Fall was painted by graffiti artist Akse P19 as part of the Prestwich Art Festival in 2018.
The mural was painted 9 months after the underground rock icon died aged 60 after a battle with lung and kidney cancer, and features Smith smoking a cigarette in typically nonchalant fashion, alongside the quote ˜Fear is something I try not to absorb', from an interview he gave to the Guardian newspaper in 2011.
Smith “ who was born in Broughton, Salford in 1957 “ founded The Fall were founded in Prestwich in 1976, and lived in the area for most of his life.
The Fall were one of the most prolific and acclaimed post-punk bands to emerge in the UK, and retained a large cult following right until Smith's death. He was the only constant member of the group that notoriously had a high turnover of members. Smith once wittily remarked if it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.
The mural is on the side of the fish and chip shop Chips @ No.8 on Clifton Road.
8 Clifton Road, Prestwich, Bury, M25 3HQ, England
