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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F0K3GW - An illuminated Waltzer glows beneath a deep blue twilight sky at a traditional British travelling funfair. Bright red, green and white lights spread through the open ride platform, reflecting from the spinning tubs, painted fascia and polished machinery. A participant wearing a numbered bib stands at the foot of the entrance steps, while visitors gather in shadow near the ticket paybox at the right of the scene.
Large decorative WALTZER lettering crowns the attraction. Painted rounding boards, ornamental scrollwork, fluorescent colours, wooden safety railings and patterned panels create the distinctive visual spectacle associated with travelling showpeople. The mixture of artificial light, fairground haze and fading daylight gives the photograph an atmospheric dusk appearance.
A Waltzer is a circular platform ride in which individual tub-shaped cars move around an undulating track of hills and dips. Each car is mounted on a freely rotating mechanism, traditionally using a lubricated slew ring, allowing it to spin independently as the main platform revolves. Centrifugal force pushes riders together inside the tub, while attendants walking on the moving platform may hold and release individual cars to increase their rotation.
Amplified music, flashing lights and commentary from the operator form an important part of the experience. The familiar cry scream if you want to go faster has become closely associated with Waltzers and captures the theatrical interaction between the operator, attendants, riders and watching crowd.
The recognisably modern travelling Waltzer emerged in Britain during the early 1930s. Fairground Heritage Trust research records that Thomas Jackson developed an earlier design before Robert Lakin and showman Charles Thurston introduced a travelling version in 1933. The ride became one of the most enduring attractions on British fairgrounds, and its broad rounding boards provided a major canvas for lettering, speed lines, popular imagery
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3CKYR4E - A late-summer street scene in the Paddington Basin area of West London showing pedestrians walking past a line of bright pink wayfinding signs marked Carnival , directing people towards Notting Hill Carnival. The image was taken in August under strong daylight, clear blue skies and hot, dry weather, conditions typical of a peak UK summer period.
People are dressed in light clothing suitable for warm temperatures, reinforcing the sense of heat and seasonal conditions. The temporary signage highlights how London's public realm and transport-adjacent spaces are adapted each year to manage the movement of large crowds attending one of Europe's largest street festivals.
The photograph illustrates the interaction between urban infrastructure, seasonal weather and major cultural events, and is well suited for editorial use covering topics such as summer festivals, crowd movement, urban planning, transport access, heatwaves, and the logistical impact of large-scale events in London.
Paddington Basin, West London, England, UK, W2 1HQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E302TH - . Notting Hill Carnival participants carrying Suriname flags during the London parade. Photographed on 25 August 2025. The recorded location is Notting Hill, London, England, UK. The busy scene captures the international and multicultural character of the carnival, with performers and visitors celebrating Caribbean and wider diaspora cultures in west London. Bright clothing, national flags and the crowded street environment provide a strong documentary record of one of London's best-known annual cultural events. Notting Hill Carnival developed from Caribbean community celebrations in west London during the 1960s and has become one of Europe's largest street festivals. In 2026 the event marks its 60th anniversary, giving imagery of costumes, flags, stewards, route signs and crowds additional historical relevance. For event management, the historical context is that carnivals, beer festivals and civic celebrations preserve traditions while continually adapting to new audiences
Signs, temporary stages, costumes and crowd-management measures document how organisers transform ordinary streets and venues. For event management, the 2026 context is that major festivals are increasingly planned around crowd safety, accessibility, transport, security and environmental impact as well as entertainment
Images can therefore illustrate the operational infrastructure behind apparently spontaneous celebration. Further relevant search phrases include public event, visitor economy, community festival, event infrastructure, live entertainment, tourism event, annual festival, public celebration, 255A0229, people, dance, summer, WestLondon, heritage, and colourful. Looking at cultural event, the longer history is that festivals turn public space into temporary cultural infrastructure, bringing together performance, food, drink, costumes and crowds
Repeated annual events can become important parts of local identity and tourism.
Notting Hill, London, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Dancer,Notting Hill Carnival,London,carnival,Caribbean,culture,masquerader,mas,street,parade,soca,calypso,steelpan,Black,British,multicultural,August,Bank,Holiday,West,festival,costume,diaspora,Windrush,legacy,tourism,celebration,2025,Tears,frontline,vivid,West Indian,heritage,Black British,BME,enjoyment,party
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FC8C0G - . Tears mas frontline dancer in vivid feathered costume is photographed on the Notting Hill Carnival route in west London during the 2025 August Bank Holiday celebrations. Notting Hill Carnival remains one of the most photographed examples of Britain's post-war multicultural history. Caribbean migrants and community organisers created the foundations from which the modern festival grew, and the event has evolved into a vast annual showcase for mas, steelpan, calypso, soca, reggae and sound-system culture. The 2025 Carnival culminated in the Monday 25 August main parade, when coordinated bands and independent revellers moved through west London. Beyond the colour, the festival supports designers, musicians, food traders and local businesses while prompting recurring debate about funding, safety, crowd control and the pressure of hosting an event of exceptional scale in residential streets. The scene can illustrate carnival fashion, Black British identity, Caribbean heritage, dance, music culture, tourism and the creative labour behind parade presentation. It also records how a residential part of London is temporarily remade by barriers, buses, spectators, sound and movement, producing one of the country's most distinctive annual public events. The setting gives the subject a clear sense of place rather than treating it as a generic concept. It therefore works for local reporting, heritage features and broader UK stories where publishers need recognisable real-world context and accurately dated visual detail. It additionally captures ordinary material culture of 2026, including the graphic design, technology, clothing or infrastructure through which broader trends become visible at street level. For archive users, the frame is a useful factual record of how Tears Mas frontline dancer in vivid feathered costume appeared before later redevelopment, replacement or rebranding altered the scene. Useful for dated UK editorial coverage.
Notting Hill, London, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FC8C1A - . Wide street procession with multiple costumed bands is photographed on the Notting Hill Carnival route in west London during the 2025 August Bank Holiday celebrations. West London's Notting Hill Carnival has become a defining British celebration of Caribbean culture, but its history is inseparable from the experiences of the Windrush generation, racism in 1950s London and the growth of Black cultural organisation. From those beginnings came a street event that now fills neighbourhoods around Notting Hill with steelpan, soca, calypso, reggae, mas bands and huge crowds every August Bank Holiday. The 2025 edition included the Monday 25 August main parade. Editorial photographs from the route document costume craftsmanship, body movement, friendship, national identity and the way public streets are temporarily transformed into a vast performance space. The scene can illustrate carnival fashion, Black British identity, Caribbean heritage, dance, music culture, tourism and the creative labour behind parade presentation. It also records how a residential part of London is temporarily remade by barriers, buses, spectators, sound and movement, producing one of the country's most distinctive annual public events. The composition is also useful as a time capsule: the branding, materials and small practical details visible here are exactly the features most likely to change. That makes the photograph relevant to later stories about continuity, closure, investment, regulation or shifts in public behaviour. Search relevance also extends to notting, documentary photography, local reporting, public policy and mid-2020s social change. The subject provides a concrete visual reference for editors needing a real location rather than a generic illustration of notting. Because the photograph is tied to a specific date, it can later be compared with subsequent changes in signage, ownership, regulation, public use or the surrounding streetscape.
Notting Hill, London, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FC8C1M - . Two carnival goers in festival outfits is photographed on the Notting Hill Carnival route in west London during the 2025 August Bank Holiday celebrations. The annual Carnival is a rare event in which London's roads become a moving stage for Caribbean music, fashion and mas. Its development is usually traced through Claudia Jones's late-1950s Caribbean carnival events and the Notting Hill street celebrations of the 1960s, before the festival expanded into the internationally recognised August Bank Holiday gathering seen today. The 2025 programme continued that tradition with steelpan, J'ouvert, children's celebrations, sound systems and the adult main parade. For stock and archive use, scenes like this can illustrate Black British culture, tourism, identity, migration, community celebration, policing, crowd management and London's multicultural public realm. The scene can illustrate carnival fashion, Black British identity, Caribbean heritage, dance, music culture, tourism and the creative labour behind parade presentation. It also records how a residential part of London is temporarily remade by barriers, buses, spectators, sound and movement, producing one of the country's most distinctive annual public events. Taken as editorial evidence, the image connects an everyday scene with larger questions about how people travel, shop, celebrate, work and use shared space. It can support both current news coverage and longer-term archive projects examining the Britain of the mid-2020s. The subject provides a concrete visual reference for editors needing a real location rather than a generic illustration of notting. Because the photograph is tied to a specific date, it can later be compared with subsequent changes in signage, ownership, regulation, public use or the surrounding streetscape. Strong archive value for later comparison. A clear record of Britain in the 2020s. It also strengthens searches for authentic contemporary British documentary imagery.
Notting Hill, London, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FC8C2M - . Masquerader in silver and pale feathered costume is photographed on the Notting Hill Carnival route in west London during the 2025 August Bank Holiday celebrations. Carnival in Notting Hill is both spectacle and living heritage. Its lineage reaches back to Caribbean-led events in post-war London and the community street festival that emerged in the 1960s, later becoming an August Bank Holiday institution. In 2025 organisers again staged Panorama, J'ouvert, children's events, sound systems and the main Monday parade. Costumes are not simply fancy dress: mas bands build coordinated themes, frontline pieces and feathered sections that are designed for movement, performance and judging. The route is also a major expression of multicultural London, where Caribbean flags, music and food sit alongside the city's wider diaspora communities. The scene can illustrate carnival fashion, Black British identity, Caribbean heritage, dance, music culture, tourism and the creative labour behind parade presentation. It also records how a residential part of London is temporarily remade by barriers, buses, spectators, sound and movement, producing one of the country's most distinctive annual public events. For researchers and publishers, the image offers an authentic non-studio reference to ordinary life rather than an abstract illustration. Related search concepts include community, public space, contemporary Britain, changing high streets, local economy, culture and visual social history. For archive users, the frame is a useful factual record of how masquerader in silver and pale feathered costume appeared before later redevelopment, replacement or rebranding altered the scene. Search relevance also extends to notting, documentary photography, local reporting, public policy and mid-2020s social change. The subject provides a concrete visual reference for editors needing a real location rather than a generic illustration of notting.
Notting Hill, London, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FC8C4J - Dancers and carnival-goers move through west London during the main parade at Notting Hill Carnival 2025, carrying Caribbean national colours beside an iconic red London double-decker bus. In the foreground a woman wears and holds the flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis, recognisable by its green and red fields divided by a black diagonal band edged in yellow and bearing white stars, while other participants display clothing and accessories in Caribbean colours. The crowded street scene captures the mixture of music, dance, flags, fashion and public transport that makes Notting Hill Carnival one of Britain's most distinctive annual cultural events. Held over the August Bank Holiday weekend, the carnival grew from Caribbean community celebrations in post-war London and is particularly associated with people of Trinidadian and Tobagonian, Jamaican and wider Caribbean heritage. The modern event fills streets around Notting Hill, Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park with sound systems, steel bands, calypso, soca, masquerade costumes, dancing and large parade groups. The red double-decker bus provides an immediately recognisable London symbol behind the dancers, visually combining Caribbean identity with the capital city that has hosted the celebration for generations. The 2025 parade continued the carnival's role as a major expression of Black British and Caribbean culture, migration, community, music and multicultural London. Useful editorial themes include Caribbean diaspora, Saint Kitts and Nevis flag, West Indian heritage, London street festival, carnival dancers, parade crowds, August Bank Holiday, cultural diversity, Black British history, community celebration, tourism, public transport, red London bus, street photography and contemporary British identity. The photograph also records the scale and energy of the procession, with dense crowds lining the route, colourful street art and urban architecture creating a recognisably west London backdrop.
Carnival parade route, Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove, west London, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FC8C54 - . Female participant in colourful streetwear is photographed on the Notting Hill Carnival route in west London during the 2025 August Bank Holiday celebrations. Notting Hill Carnival is rooted in London's Caribbean community and developed from post-war cultural events, including Claudia Jones's indoor Caribbean carnival and the street celebrations that took shape in Notting Hill during the 1960s. By 2025 it remained one of Europe's largest annual street festivals, combining masquerade bands, steelpan, calypso, soca, reggae, sound systems and food across west London. The 2025 programme ran across the August Bank Holiday weekend, with the main parade on Monday 25 August. Its importance is cultural as well as touristic: costume design, dance and music express identities linked to Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean, while the crowds also reflect the diversity of modern London. The scene can illustrate carnival fashion, Black British identity, Caribbean heritage, dance, music culture, tourism and the creative labour behind parade presentation. It also records how a residential part of London is temporarily remade by barriers, buses, spectators, sound and movement, producing one of the country's most distinctive annual public events. The photograph also fixes the appearance of the place in the mid-2020s, preserving details that may later disappear through redevelopment, rebranding or changes in regulation. It is suitable for editorial use on social history, local identity, consumer behaviour and the way everyday streets respond to wider economic forces. Search relevance also extends to notting, documentary photography, local reporting, public policy and mid-2020s social change. The subject provides a concrete visual reference for editors needing a real location rather than a generic illustration of notting. It also strengthens searches for authentic contemporary British documentary imagery. Useful for dated UK editorial coverage.
Notting Hill, London, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NJ6RXA - The Mainz Carnival (Mainzer Fastnacht, Määnzer Fassenacht or Meenzer Fassenacht) is a months-long citywide carnival celebration in Mainz, Germany that traditionally begins on 11 November but culminates in the days before Ash Wednesday in the spring.
It is one of the largest carnival events in Germany and, along with the Cologne and Düsseldorfer carnivals, Mainz is one of the three cities prominent in the rhenish carnival tradition. Aside from the celebrations, parades, and jollity which are typical of carnival traditions in many countries, the Mainz carnival has an unusual emphasis on political and literary humor and commentary.
The tradition of carnival can be traced back to the Christian moveable feasts, where Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent and occurs forty-six days (forty days not counting Sundays) before Easter. The first written records of the tradition date from the 13th and 14th century. By that time, regulations against excessive gluttony and debauchery during the days before carnival had been established.
In the beginning, the Mainz carnival was non-political. The activities of the carnivalistic organizations (MCV, Ranzengarde, Rosenmontagszug, sessions) had been watched closely by the grand ducal authorities, but generally allowed to continue
Traditionally, carnival season in Mainz begins on November 11 at 11:11, and continues through Ash Wednesday. However, the event peaks in February or March in the days leading up to Ash Wednesday.
Political commentary and caricature have become a notable part of the Mainz carnival, and especially of its parades. For example, floats during one parade in the late 1980s showed Uncle Sam and a Russian soldier climbing out of suits of armor, and portrayed Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in a bathtub.
The battle cry of the Mainz carnival, Helau, originates from Düsseldorf and was introduced in 1938 in Mainz
Große Langgasse 10-12, Mainz, Germany, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 55116
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Germany,fastnacht,Meenzer Fassenacht,city,carnival,Rhineland-Palatinate,Große Langgasse,MZ,fun,celebration,tourist,tourism,temporary,in,red,of the,centre,Feb 2023,flag,enjoy,enjoying,the,Shrove Monday,lady,female,in a,cheek,Ludwigsstraße,smile,happy,enjoyment,show,Rhenish,tradition,MCV
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NJ6RXG - The Mainz Carnival (Mainzer Fastnacht, Määnzer Fassenacht or Meenzer Fassenacht) is a months-long citywide carnival celebration in Mainz, Germany that traditionally begins on 11 November but culminates in the days before Ash Wednesday in the spring.
It is one of the largest carnival events in Germany and, along with the Cologne and Düsseldorfer carnivals, Mainz is one of the three cities prominent in the rhenish carnival tradition. Aside from the celebrations, parades, and jollity which are typical of carnival traditions in many countries, the Mainz carnival has an unusual emphasis on political and literary humor and commentary.
The tradition of carnival can be traced back to the Christian moveable feasts, where Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent and occurs forty-six days (forty days not counting Sundays) before Easter. The first written records of the tradition date from the 13th and 14th century. By that time, regulations against excessive gluttony and debauchery during the days before carnival had been established.
In the beginning, the Mainz carnival was non-political. The activities of the carnivalistic organizations (MCV, Ranzengarde, Rosenmontagszug, sessions) had been watched closely by the grand ducal authorities, but generally allowed to continue
Traditionally, carnival season in Mainz begins on November 11 at 11:11, and continues through Ash Wednesday. However, the event peaks in February or March in the days leading up to Ash Wednesday.
Political commentary and caricature have become a notable part of the Mainz carnival, and especially of its parades. For example, floats during one parade in the late 1980s showed Uncle Sam and a Russian soldier climbing out of suits of armor, and portrayed Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in a bathtub.
The battle cry of the Mainz carnival, Helau, originates from Düsseldorf and was introduced in 1938 in Mainz
Große Langgasse 10-12, Mainz, Germany, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 55116
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NW51BN - . This location-specific image from Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 49, 55118 Mainz, Germany in 2023 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The main point of reference is 1. FSV Mainz 05 , 1. Fußball- und Sportverein Mainz 05 e. V. , Mainz 05, Bundesliga, the top tier soccer football club scarves,flags,memorabilia. The setting additionally reflects traditional ale house, sports branding, before-and-after reference, beer-led hospitality, period detail, social history, licensed hospitality, club identity, licensed trade, archival record, pub heritage, traditional pub, visual archive, and stadium architecture. For current editorial use, tourism and staffing pressure provide additional context, especially through pressure on hospitality margins in the mid-2020s. Current relevance extends to commercialisation and club ownership, particularly through the archival value of club lettering and branding as grounds evolve. Small period details of building condition and alterations at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 49, 55118 Mainz, Germany may become more significant with time, particularly following different community use. The subject also sits alongside changing land use, place identity, local social venue, stadium district, community identity, hospitality economy, local history, and public realm. References to football, memorabilia, Mainz, Bundesliga, and Sportverein give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The period setting at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 49, 55118 Mainz, Germany helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Its period value extends to tourism and the continuing appeal of real ale and regional brewing without losing the local specificity of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 49, 55118 Mainz, Germany.
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 49, 55118 Mainz, Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PPXYC1 - . 93 Raus-geflogen float - German football team early world cup exit - Fastnacht 2023 - Mainz city centre, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Photographed on 20 February 2023. A float that satirically depicts the early exit, of the German national football team, at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, passes through the city centre of Mainz, for Fastnacht carnival Shrove Monday 2023. Looking at the subject's development, sporting images document not only competition but venues, equipment, supporters and the commercial culture surrounding games
Stadiums, tickets and memorabilia can quickly become historical as clubs rebuild grounds, sponsors change and technology alters the spectator experience. The historical context is that town and city centres are continually rewritten by new buildings, transport schemes and changing commercial uses
Photographs preserve the everyday fabric between major landmarks, including underpasses, arcades, back streets and small businesses that may disappear during redevelopment. For the 2026 context, professional sport is increasingly shaped by digital broadcasting, data, sponsorship and sophisticated venues, while heritage grounds and physical memorabilia retain strong emotional appeal for supporters. The subject remains topical in 2026 because current regeneration programmes make older urban photographs particularly useful
They allow comparison of high streets, underpasses, shopping areas and public spaces before redevelopment, while also documenting local identity that may not survive physical change. The wider historical story is that sport is closely tied to local identity and popular culture
Grounds, trophies, simulators and match-day material show how professional and recreational sport are experienced away from the action itself, while preserving details that may later disappear. Relevant alternative phrases include fan culture, sporting heritage, match day, sports venue, trophy, sporting culture, and club history.
Mainz city centre, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PPXYD7 - . Float 94 - Die Meenzer Drecksäck' e.V Dirtbags scrap. - Fastnacht carnival 2023 - Mainz city centre, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Photographed on 20 February 2023, this winter 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 Mainz city centre, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Mainz, Germany, floats, Rhineland-Palatinate, Rhineland, Palatinate, Mainzers, Shrove monday, Rozenmontag, Die, e.V, band, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. 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. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene. The photograph can also support future before-and-after use if the building, business, service, streetscape, transport operation or public space is later altered, redeveloped, rebranded or closed. For search and editorial use, the image is relevant to the named location, local identity, contemporary Britain, regional tourism, urban life, community activity and the changing appearance of towns and cities. Additional relevant search concepts include music, group, letzte, generation, bag, team, broadening discoverability while remaining tied to the supplied subject information.
Mainz city centre, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NJ08TR - More at https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/23/mahsa-amini-death-could-be-spark-broader-political-action-iran
Mahsa Amini's death could be the spark that ignites Iran around women's rights
Weronika Strzyżyńska
On the day that news of Mahsa Amini's death spread throughout Iran, a young woman with a shaved head joined protesters who had gathered outside Kasra hospital, where Amini had lain in a coma since her violent arrest by Iran's morality police days earlier.
In her hand she carried a plastic bag full of her long hair, shorn off in a gesture of solidarity with Amini and in defiance of the increasing crackdown on women by the regime.
A week later, and protests sparked by Amini's death are raging in the province of Kurdistan and Tehran as well as cities such as Rasht, Isfahan and Qom, one of Iran's most religiously conservative cities.
The rage across Iran at the brutal pointlessness of Amini's death has lit the fires of protest and the increasing desperation of the authorities to extinguish it are, some believe, a sign of the growing strength and momentum of Iran's women's rights movement.
Women's issues have long been a catalyst for broader political action in Iran, said Annabelle Sreberny, professor emeritus at the Iranian Studies Centre at Soas University of London. This could be it. It could be the moment when people motivated by all the problems facing Iran today, like rising inflation, ecological crisis and lack of democratic participation, coalesce around these women's issues to challenge the regime.
During the past week women have been at the forefront of many of the demonstrations, shaving their heads and burning their headscarves in defiance of the strict hijab law and its brutal enforcement that led to 22-year-old Amini's arrest and allegedly her death.
The women's movement in Iran started in the first month of the Islamic Republic and has been simmering for at least the last 20 years, said Sreberny.
Ludwigsstraße 11, Mainz, Germany, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 55116
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JHB70J - . This authentic period view of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The defining feature is Brazil RJ number plate, Rio De Janeiro, RIO2002, in yellow and green. The broader subject matter reaches into contemporary social history, visual archive, local history, documentary photography, open-air leisure, community recreation, changing streetscape, regional identity, public-realm activation, historical comparison, before-and-after reference, family recreation, period detail, and seasonal outdoor activity. For current editorial use, climate resilience and maintenance provide additional context, especially through how well-designed public spaces encourage informal play and social activity. The archival value lies partly in recording transport arrangements and footfall around Rio De Janeiro, Brazil before altered transport patterns alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include archival record, public realm, community identity, pedestrian square, urban leisure, local character, interactive public realm, and urban gathering place. The combination of RIO2002, plate, green, Brazil, and yellow anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. A later view of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 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 climate resilience and how well-designed public spaces encourage informal play and social activity without losing the local specificity of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The setting also helps illustrate maintenance and how well-designed public spaces encourage informal play and social activity in a form that can be compared with future views of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The record includes a local visual benchmark as part of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil's history.
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C9E2R8 - . This period photograph records Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP as an identifiable real-world setting rather than a generic illustration. The photograph centres on Panorama of the BridgwaterTown Mural, Sedgemoor, Somerset,South West England, England, UK. The wider scene also brings together period detail, community identity, architectural character, local character, public realm, historic townscape, heritage landmark, heritage asset, conservation interest, contemporary history, documentary photography, urban change, visual archive, and architectural contrast. The present-day relevance extends to maintenance and adaptive reuse, while a wider concern is the contrast between historic fabric and modern development. Future viewers can use this scene from Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP to compare building condition and alterations with whatever follows after changed technology. The wider local story also touches on conservation architecture, urban fabric, historical comparison, place identity, everyday Britain, social landscape, period building, and traditional masonry. The combination of Sedgemoor, BridgwaterTown, Mural, Somerset, and Panorama helps anchor the frame to a recognisable activity, place or period. For Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which small changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another useful connection is maintenance and the contrast between historic fabric and modern development in a form that can be compared with future views of Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP. The scene further reflects historic townscape and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character within the real-world context of Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP.
Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RGGE7W - The Mainz Carnival (Mainzer Fastnacht) is a months-long citywide carnival celebration in Mainz, Germany that traditionally begins on 11 November but culminates in the days before Ash Wednesday in the spring.
It is one of the largest carnival events in Germany and, along with the Cologne and Düsseldorfer carnivals, Mainz is one of the three cities prominent in the rhenish carnival tradition. Aside from the celebrations, parades, and jollity which are typical of carnival traditions in many countries, the Mainz carnival has an unusual emphasis on political and literary humor and commentary.
The fountain is vitally important to all real Meenzer (people from Mainz): Every year on 11/11, all people celebrating Carnival in Mainz (fools) gather here when the clock on the balcony of the facing Osteiner Hof (Court of Ostein) strikes 11:11 p.m., which marks the fifth season of Carnival. The carnival is traditionally opened with the announcement of the 11 carnival laws.
The 8.50 metre-high carnival fountain, unveiled in 1967, designed by Blasius Spreng, is a comparatively young monument in Mainz. Nevertheless, you can't imagine it not being in the cityscape. With over 200 figures from carnival and mythology, it is a symbol of typical Mainz joie de vivre
Detailaufnahme des Fastnachtsbrunnens von unten
Detailed view of the fountain© Landeshauptstadt Mainz
Look a little closer - which figures do you recognise? Father Rhine, the monk and the man with the blockhead, the cat, Till Eulenspiegel and the city goddess, Mogontia, the purse scrubber and the paragraph rider. They are all examples of the variety of fantasy motifs that populate the Carnival fountain.
During the 19th century celebrants began using the carnival as an opportunity to mock the military forces occupying the city's fortress. The uniforms of the carnival guards are still reminders of the uniforms of the Austrian, Prussian, and French troops which were present in the town between 1792 and 1866.
Fastnachtsbrunnen, Landeshauptstadt , Schillerpl., 55116 Mainz, Germany, Europe
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H9PM20 - Bridgwater is a market town and civil parish in Somerset, England. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 35,886.
Bridgwater is at the edge of the Somerset Levels, in level and well-wooded country
to the north are the Mendips and to the west the Quantock hills. The town lies along both sides of the River Parrett, 10 miles (16 km) from its mouth, has been a major port and trading centre and maintains a large industrial base. It is linked to Taunton by the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. Bridgwater is between two junctions of the M5 motorway and Bridgwater railway station is on the main railway line between Bristol and Taunton.
Historically, the town had a politically radical tendency. The Battle of Sedgemoor, where the Monmouth Rebellion was finally crushed in 1685, was fought nearby. Notable buildings include the Church of St Mary and the house in Blake Street, largely restored, which was the birthplace of Admiral Blake in 1598, and is now the Blake Museum. The town has an arts centre and plays host to the annual Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival.
Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK
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Keywords: manchester,mardi,gras,mardigras,gay,fest,festival,gayfest,parde,carnival,dress,butterfly,blue,silver,shiny,hetro,homo,erotic,TV,TS,girls,men,boys,theatre,theatrical,england,lancs,lancashire,cultur,cultural,UK,GB,britain,portrait,face,pink,pound,sex,sexy,porn,porno,lady,woman,girlie,this photo rocks,Queer,homosexual,proud,out,coming,stonewall,girl,pretty,fetish,fetishist,city,crossdress,crossdressing,tgirl,t-girls,salford,hotpicks,pride,manchesterpride,\u5973\u6027\u30e1\u30b9\u306e\u5973\u6027\u306e\u5973\u306e\u5b50,\u592b\u4eba\u5973\u6027\u5987\u5973\u5973\u5b69,fille,f\u00e9minine,de,femme,dame,hotpix!,tony smith photography,tdktonysmith
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4318905746 - 'A shot of a blue butterfly Canal St festival taken in Deansgate.
A collection of Manchester Mardigras shots can be found at:
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318905746/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318167727/in/photostream/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318020799/in/photostream/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4318020799 - 'A handsome chap in a big pink hat from the Manchester Mardi Gras August bank holiday, with a nice big whistle.
I have since lost his name, if you know who this is, please add a comment. Hanx!
Canal Street was packed as it was after the main parage. Everyone was spilling into Sackville Street and teh gardens where a number of stalls were set up selling food drink, new flats, you name it. Shamelessly courting the pink pound.
A collection of Manchester Mardigras shots can be found at:
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318905746/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318167727/in/photostream/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318020799/in/photostream/
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3813064826/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5622525135 - 'Boys &
Girls - 'Blur' - Play this track here. If the link is broken, comment with an alternative..
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
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Streets like a jungle......
'Boys and girls' was the lead single from the 'Park Life' album. It was Blur's first top 5 UK hit and most successful single until 'Country House' reached number 1 the following year. The single was seen as a comeback for the band, who had had a lean commercial period for a couple of years. The song surpassed the band's previous commercial peak 'There's No Other Way' by three spots on the UK Singles Chart.
The video, directed by 10cc's Kevin Godley, featured Blur performing the song against a bluescreen backdrop of documentary footage people on 18-30 package holidays. Godley branded the video as 'Page 3 rubbish' while Blur found it 'perfect'. The front cover of the single was taken from a pack of Durex condoms.
In 1994, the song was named single of the year by NME and Melody Maker in the UK. It was also nominated for best song at the MTV Europe Music Awards. Everyone should own at least one Blur album, my choice would be the 'Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur'. Track it down, tell 'em I sent you.
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Manchester has a wealth of LGBT culture and activities. The sitcom drama 'Queer as folk' was set in the Canal St area of the city. 20th century broadcaster and social commentator Brian Redhead once said 'Manchester ... is the capital, in every sense, of the North of England, where the modern world was born. The people know their geography is without equal. Their history is their response to it'. Whilst Ian Brown of the Stone Roses has previously said that 'Manchester has everything except a beach' (er.. top man, bob-on!).
Manchester has claimed to have the UK's largest gay population outside of London. Gay Village, centred on the Canal Street area, is home to numerous shops, restaurants, bars and clubs. On the last weekend in August it hosts the Manchester Pride Festival (previously known as Mardi Gras and Gayfest).
Manchester's gay culture was brought to mainstream attention on television series Queer as Folk and Coronation Street. It is also the birthplace of several gay rights organisations including the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, Queer Youth Alliance, The Lesbian &
Gay Foundation.
Manchester has its own gay sports teams, Village Manchester FC (soccer), Northern Wave (swimming) and Village Spartans (Rugby) which take part in Manchester's annual Pride Games. In the 1990s Manchester City Council gave support to the establishment of a gay centre and employed four lesbians and gay men to help implement their equal opportunity policy. Their work continued in spite of Section 28 and the City Council actively supported the Mardi Gras and other gay events.
The year round gay and lesbian heritage trail exhibits Manchester's gay history. In 2003, Manchester played host city to the annual Europride festival. The Lesbian &
Gay Foundation, Britain's biggest gay charity, is based on Richmond Street in the city centre. Manchester Metropolitan University has been named the most gay friendly university in the UK.
One of these weekends, hop on a Richard Branson Virgin Train and feel welcome to come check us out!
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