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Keywords: HousingITguy,Project365,2nd 365,HotpixUK365,Tone Smith,GoTonySmith,365,2365 one a day,Tony Smith,Hotpix,Christmas,Stamp,Bah Humbug
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4642863100 - '....writing those last minute Christmas cards for posting, that is.
If you are on Twitter, do add a follow there and I will follow back in return mobile.twitter.com/HotpixUK
Have a look at my archived photography, from ten years back at www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/
Checkout the rest of this 365 set at www.flickr.com/photos/167831053@N02/albums/72157703214420874
All images (c) Tony Smith - @HotpixUK - No images to be used without express permission',
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Keywords: Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,GoTonySmith,stamp,postal,franked,frank,used stamps,used franked,used,franked stamp,from envelope,history,historic,old,poste,post office,communications,postage,sending letters,sending,parcels,Canada 6c,6c,6cent,$6,Christmas,Noel,angels,Jean Paul,Lemieux,Canadian,North America,design,designs,Quebec,Ontario,British Columbia,Nova Scotia,perforations
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EBD - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Canada in 2015, preserving the main subject alongside smaller details that may become more historically useful with time. The location is represented through Canadian Stamp, Canada Stamp, Canada Post,used stamp, Jean Paul Lemieux,angels , $6, Christmas , Noel, Jean Paul Lemieux , angels,6c,6cent. The wider subject matter also includes contemporary social history, independent trading, changing streetscape, period building, place identity, architectural detailing, historical comparison, bricks-and-mortar retail, local trading, commercial frontage, everyday life, documentary photography, heritage asset, and shopfront economy. The subject remains useful for current coverage of vacant units and online shopping, not least because of bringing underused premises back into productive use. Today's wider story includes heritage conservation, embodied carbon and the practical question of keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character. As a piece of social history, the view documents the visual character of the locality at the time at the recorded site in Canada. The photograph additionally reflects before-and-after reference, public realm, customer footfall, retail vacancy, historic commercial architecture, heritage landmark, conservation architecture, and consumer retail. Elements such as Lemieux, 6cent, Christmas, Stamp, and Canada add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. For Canada, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another strand within the photograph is vacant units and how high streets adapt when traditional retail contracts when considered against later change at Canada. The image also provides a reference for planning control and the contrast between preservation and redevelopment without losing the local specificity of Canada.
Canada
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Keywords: Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,GoTonySmith,stamp,postal,franked,frank,used stamps,used franked,used,franked stamp,from envelope,history,historic,old,poste,post office,communications,postage,sending letters,sending,parcels,32c,32cent,Christmas,Noel,Dallaire,angels,Canadian,North America,design,designs,Quebec,Ontario,British Columbia,Nova Scotia,perforations
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EC4 - . Made at Toronto, ON, Canada in 2015, this photograph records a real place and subject in context, allowing later viewers to compare what has survived, changed, closed, moved or been replaced. At the centre of the frame is Canadian Stamp, Canada Stamp, Canada Post,used stamp, Canada 32c, Christmas , Noel, Dallaire , angels. The locality and subject together evoke cityscape history, contemporary social history, high-street commerce, everyday life, place identity, urban commerce, commercial streetscape, retail vacancy, visual archive, consumer retail, local character, retail property, architectural character, and period building. In the mid-2020s, business rates and hybrid working keep the subject current, particularly through the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres. The subject remains useful for current coverage of embodied carbon and adaptive reuse, not least because of the role of distinctive architecture in local identity. As a dated visual record, the photograph anchors period details that may disappear after redevelopment or refurbishment at Toronto, ON, Canada. The surrounding context also covers historic frontage, historic context, town-centre economy, historic commercial architecture, changing streetscape, conservation architecture, heritage asset, and independent trading. Details involving Canada, Canadian, Dallaire, Stamp, and Christmas give the scene useful specificity and strengthen its local, cultural or historical identity. A later view of Toronto, ON, Canada 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 business rates and the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres within the real-world context of Toronto, ON, Canada. It also preserves a trace of local identity within the wider story of Toronto, ON, Canada.
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Keywords: Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,GoTonySmith,stamp,postal,franked,frank,used stamps,used franked,used,franked stamp,from envelope,history,historic,old,poste,post office,communications,postage,sending letters,sending,parcels,Canada 29c,29cent,Christmas,Noel,1986,29,carol singer,Canadian,collect,collecting,collector,of,rare,rarity,North America,design,designs
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EHB - . An authentic period view of Canada in 2015, showing a subject whose value extends beyond the immediate scene into local history and changing social context. The defining feature is Canadian Stamp, Canada Stamp, Canada Post,used stamp, Canada , Christmas ,Noel, 1986, 29c, carol singer, stamp. The image connects the immediate subject with changing land use, town-centre economy, changing streetscape, visual archive, historic context, customer footfall, commercial frontage, regional identity, commercial streetscape, music subculture, independent trading, urban commerce, popular-music history, and local character. The subject remains useful for current coverage of rising costs and audience behaviour, not least because of the fragility of local music scenes. Today's wider story includes consumer spending, online shopping and the practical question of the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names. For place-based research, the scene fixes the relationship between the subject and its surroundings within the setting of Canada. The wider local story also touches on grassroots gig, archival record, consumer retail, live music, shopfront economy, place identity, nightlife culture, and bricks-and-mortar retail. Elements such as singer, Christmas, Canada, Stamp, and carol add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. The surrounding context at Canada matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Another strand within the photograph is rising costs and the fragility of local music scenes as part of the longer story of Canada. The image also provides a reference for business rates and bringing underused premises back into productive use when considered against later change at Canada. Another useful connection is independent promotion and the way music contributes to a city's identity without losing the local specificity of Canada.
Canada
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Keywords: Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,GoTonySmith,stamp,postal,franked,frank,used stamps,used franked,used,franked stamp,from envelope,history,historic,old,poste,post office,communications,postage,sending letters,sending,parcels,green,snowman,51c 51cent,Noel,Christmas,Canadian,North America,design,designs,Quebec,Ontario,British Columbia,Nova Scotia,perforations
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EJJ - . Made at Canada in 2015, this photograph records a real place and subject in context, allowing later viewers to compare what has survived, changed, closed, moved or been replaced. At the centre of the frame is Canadian Stamp, Canada Stamp, Canada Post,used stamp, snowman, 51c 51cent ,Noel, Christmas. The image connects the immediate subject with visual archive, local character, social history, conservation interest, local trading, historic frontage, retail property, town-centre economy, shopfront economy, period streetscape, period building, commercial streetscape, architectural detailing, and urban commerce. Today's wider story includes consumer spending, vacant units and the practical question of bringing underused premises back into productive use. For contemporary context, redevelopment pressure and planning control are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character. As a documentary source, the photograph anchors a particular stage in the life of the location within Canada. The subject sits alongside retail vacancy, historic context, independent trading, everyday life, community identity, archival record, high-street commerce, and traditional masonry. The recorded references to Canada, 51cent, Canadian, Stamp, and snowman preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of Canada may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes consumer spending and bringing underused premises back into productive use within the specific setting of Canada. Another strand within the photograph is planning control and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character as part of the longer story of Canada. The record includes evidence of earlier appearance as a date-specific reference.
Canada
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Keywords: Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,GoTonySmith,stamp,postal,franked,frank,used stamps,used franked,used,franked stamp,from envelope,history,historic,old,poste,post office,communications,postage,sending letters,sending,parcels,1.49,$1.49,Christmas,Noel,skier,ski,$1.49 stamp,ski stamp,winter sports,Canadian,North America,design,designs,Quebec,Ontario,British Columbia,Nova Scotia,perforations
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EK2 - . Photographed at Canada in 2015, this is a specific real-world record of the subject, its setting and the period details surrounding it. The principal point of reference is Canadian Stamp, Canada Stamp, Canada Post,used stamp, 1.49, $1.49 , Christmas, Noel,stamp,frank,franked , skier,ski. Another layer of the scene includes heritage landmark, architectural detailing, contemporary social history, documentary photography, bricks-and-mortar retail, urban commerce, conservation interest, urban fabric, local history, historic frontage, public realm, traditional masonry, changing land use, and commercial streetscape. The present-day relevance extends to changing footfall and online shopping, while a wider concern is how high streets adapt when traditional retail contracts. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes adaptive reuse alongside redevelopment pressure, with particular attention to reusing existing buildings rather than demolishing them. With the passage of time, the photograph preserves a particular stage in the life of the location within the setting of Canada. A second layer of the scene includes place identity, visual archive, local character, community identity, before-and-after reference, heritage asset, conservation architecture, and shopfront economy. Elements such as franked, skier, Stamp, Christmas, and frank add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. For Canada, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Its period value extends to changing footfall and how high streets adapt when traditional retail contracts without losing the local specificity of Canada. The location additionally provides evidence of redevelopment pressure and reusing existing buildings rather than demolishing them in a form that can be compared with future views of Canada.
Canada
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Keywords: Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,GoTonySmith,stamp,postal,franked,frank,used stamps,used franked,used,franked stamp,from envelope,history,historic,old,poste,post office,communications,postage,sending letters,sending,parcels,Christmas Noel,nativity,scene,Canada,30c,30cents,Noel,red,Christmas,Canadian,North America,design,designs,Quebec,Ontario,British Columbia,Nova Scotia,perforations
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EM1 - . An authentic period view of Toronto, ON, Canada in 2015, showing a subject whose value extends beyond the immediate scene into local history and changing social context. The subject recorded here is Canadian Stamp, Canada Stamp, Canada Post,used stamp, Canada , 30c, 30cents, Noel,red, Christmas. The setting also relates to commercial streetscape, retail vacancy, before-and-after reference, local trading, changing streetscape, community identity, contemporary social history, architectural detailing, heritage landmark, shopfront economy, historical comparison, historic townscape, urban commerce, and period detail. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with consumer spending, vacant units and bringing underused premises back into productive use. In the mid-2020s, historic townscape and redevelopment pressure keep the subject current, particularly through reusing existing buildings rather than demolishing them. As a documentary source, the view documents a particular stage in the life of the location within Toronto, ON, Canada. Further connections include consumer retail, place identity, traditional masonry, documentary photography, public realm, period building, built heritage, and archival record. The recorded references to Stamp, 30cents, Canada, Canadian, and Christmas preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at Toronto, ON, Canada helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Another useful connection is consumer spending and bringing underused premises back into productive use without losing the local specificity of Toronto, ON, Canada. The scene further reflects embodied carbon and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character in a form that can be compared with future views of Toronto, ON, Canada.
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Keywords: Christmas,December,25th,December 25th,Used and Postmarked,Used,and,postmarked,perforated,Australia,stamp,Used,and,postmarked,Australia,Austrailian,Stamp,post,posting,mail,hobby,perforation,mark,postage,stamp,print,stamp,cancelled,stamp,payment,correspondence,postman,collection,co,Gotonysmith,post,posting,mail,hobby,perforation,mark,postage,stamp,print,stamp,cancelled,canceled,stamp,payment,correspondence,postman,collection,collector,philately,philatelist,letter,price,history,retro,Australian,Vintage,delivery,date,relationship,communication,Oz,Australia,DownUnder,classic rare unique Austrailian financial,investment,invest,value,British,empire,nation,canceled,printed on black background,close-up,closeup,close,up,sent,send,philately,mailing,shipping,postoffice,office,isolated,circa,special,colour,color,postmarked,marked,airmail,aged,antique,retro,cutting,historic,old,stamps,collection,stamp collection,album,Timbre,Sello,Stempel,Selo,Down Under,Black background
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EDR5M9 - Postage Stamps.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>stamps and postal history of Australia
The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps “ see articles on the systems on New South Wales (first stamps issued 1850), Victoria (1850), Tasmania (1853), Western Australia (1854), South Australia (1855) and Queensland (1860). Under section 51(v) of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution 1900, postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services became a Commonwealth responsibility.
The Commonwealth's Postmaster-General's Department became effective on 1 March 1901 (this agency would be disaggregated on 1 July 1975 in part into the Australian Postal Commission trading as Australia Post). All then-current colony stamps which continued on sale became de facto Commonwealth stamps. Some of these stamps continued to be used for some time following the introduction in 1913 of the Commonwealth's uniform postage stamp series. These stamps continued to be valid for postage until 14 February 1966 when the introduction of decimal currency made all stamps bearing the earlier currency invalid for use.
There have been many special issues. The first Christmas stamp appeared on 6 November 1957. In recent years, designs for the Christmas issue have alternated each year between the religious and the secular. From 1993, in October of every year, Australia Post has commemorated Stamp Collecting month with special issues, typically featuring topics that are of interest to children such as pets, native fauna and space. Commencing with the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, during the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, stamps featuring Australians who have won an Olympic gold medal are issued on the next postal business day after the achievement.
Australia
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Keywords: Christian,values,Christians,religion,religious,Used and Postmarked,Used,and,postmarked,perforated,Australia,stamp,Used,and,postmarked,Australia,Austrailian,Stamp,December,hobby,perforation,mark,postage,stamp,print,stamp,cancelled,stamp,payment,correspondence,Christmas,25th,Gotonysmith,post,posting,mail,hobby,perforation,mark,postage,stamp,print,stamp,cancelled,canceled,stamp,payment,correspondence,postman,collection,collector,philately,philatelist,letter,price,history,retro,Australian,Vintage,delivery,date,relationship,communication,Oz,Australia,DownUnder,classic rare unique Austrailian financial,investment,invest,value,British,empire,nation,canceled,printed on black background,close-up,closeup,close,up,sent,send,philately,mailing,shipping,postoffice,office,isolated,circa,special,colour,color,postmarked,marked,airmail,aged,antique,retro,cutting,historic,old,stamps,collection,stamp collection,album,Timbre,Sello,Stempel,Selo,Down Under,Black background
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EDR5NM - Postage Stamps.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>stamps and postal history of Australia
The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps “ see articles on the systems on New South Wales (first stamps issued 1850), Victoria (1850), Tasmania (1853), Western Australia (1854), South Australia (1855) and Queensland (1860). Under section 51(v) of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution 1900, postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services became a Commonwealth responsibility.
The Commonwealth's Postmaster-General's Department became effective on 1 March 1901 (this agency would be disaggregated on 1 July 1975 in part into the Australian Postal Commission trading as Australia Post). All then-current colony stamps which continued on sale became de facto Commonwealth stamps. Some of these stamps continued to be used for some time following the introduction in 1913 of the Commonwealth's uniform postage stamp series. These stamps continued to be valid for postage until 14 February 1966 when the introduction of decimal currency made all stamps bearing the earlier currency invalid for use.
There have been many special issues. The first Christmas stamp appeared on 6 November 1957. In recent years, designs for the Christmas issue have alternated each year between the religious and the secular. From 1993, in October of every year, Australia Post has commemorated Stamp Collecting month with special issues, typically featuring topics that are of interest to children such as pets, native fauna and space. Commencing with the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, during the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, stamps featuring Australians who have won an Olympic gold medal are issued on the next postal business day after the achievement.
Australia
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4181781153 - 'No ones like doing it, but we all have to catch the Royal Mails last Christmas post. Everyone who receives a card from me gets a small added extra.
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC 0709-2182899',
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Keywords: Bah,Humbug,to,Christmas,Anti-Xmas,stamp,in,red,on,a,card,Christmas,joke,humor,humour,anti,Xmas,anti-Christmas,cards,pulling,out,tongue,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Bah,Humbug,to,Christmas,Anti-Xmas,stamp,in,red,on,a,card,Christmas,joke,humor,humour,anti,Xmas,anti-Christmas,cards,pulling,out,tongue,gotonysmith
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMWDE - . Bah Humbug to Christmas Anti-Xmas stamp in red on a card. Photographed on 13 December 2009. Christmas. A joke to be shared with friends. The wider historical story is that christmas imagery ranges from religious observance to commercial decoration, seasonal entertainment and humour
Cards, shop displays, lights and novelty messages reveal how the festival has been represented in popular culture as well as how retail and public spaces respond to the winter season. As background, graphic design turns practical information into a visual object
Typefaces, colour, layout and printing methods can identify a period or brand, while small items such as tickets and cards preserve events, prices and messages that may exist nowhere else in physical form. In the present 2026 context, christmas remains a major retail and tourism period, while household energy costs, sustainable decorations and the pressure of seasonal spending often feature alongside more traditional festive themes. Against the 2026 backdrop, digital-first communication means many everyday printed objects are disappearing
Older tickets, labels, cards and signs therefore provide valuable material for stories about changing design, retail and consumer behaviour. Looking at the subject's development, festive objects and decorations are part of a long tradition of Christmas visual culture, from greetings cards and church imagery to illuminated houses, fairs and satirical 'Bah Humbug' humour
Designs and typography can quickly become associated with a particular decade. The historical context is that seasonal photographs document the mixture of tradition, commerce and community activity surrounding Christmas
Domestic lights, cards, street attractions and anti-Christmas jokes all sit within a broader culture of winter celebration. Relevant alternative phrases include festive season, Christmas card, seasonal decoration, Christmas lights, festive humour, holiday tradition, and seasonal retail.
