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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Wales,welsh,BR,British Rail,transport,travel,excursion,journeys,journey,train,excursions,travelling,English,England,Cornwall,Cornish,railway,rail,town,advert,mixed,mix,of,4,four,North Wales,UK,1952,1962,Cymru,old fashioned,communications,trips,notices,notice board,noticeboard,GWR
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRA4HC - Four framed examples of British railway advertising and printed ephemera are displayed together at Llangollen Railway station in North Wales. The upper pair are colourful destination posters promoting rail travel to the Cornish resorts of Penzance and Newquay. The Penzance design shows the harbour, rooftops and waterfront beneath a blue sky, while the Newquay image presents sweeping beaches, cliffs, sea and a swimmer wearing a red bathing cap. Both use bold place names and idealised holiday imagery to encourage passengers to travel by train.
The lower frames contain more functional railway notices. One advertises weekday day-excursion bookings from Birkenhead and Liverpool, using a timetable-style layout of destinations, fares and journey information. The other promotes the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, held over several July days, with restrained typography and the limited colour palette typical of mid-twentieth-century publicity. Together, the four pieces show how the railway marketed national holiday destinations and regional leisure events.
The posters date from the post-war period, including examples associated with 1952 and 1962, when British Railways used commissioned illustration, strong lettering and carefully composed scenery to sell rail travel. Such material is now collected as railwayana and valued for its graphic design, social history and nostalgic view of British tourism.
The display is at Llangollen Railway, a volunteer-run standard-gauge heritage line operating through the Dee Valley between Llangollen and Corwen over part of the former Ruabon to Barmouth route. The preserved station gives the advertisements an appropriate historic context, linking the visual culture of the national network with present-day steam and diesel operations. The framed arrangement records changing styles of transport promotion, seaside leisure, excursion travel and cultural tourism in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s.
Llangollen Railway Station, Abbey Road, Llangollen, Denbighshire, North Wales, UK, LL20 8SN.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRA4HF - . Recorded at Penzance, Cornwall, 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 scene records British Railways poster - Penzance, the centre for west Cornwall, South West England, UK. The wider scene also brings together roadside transit, everyday life, local bus network, bus route infrastructure, documentary photography, rail infrastructure, historic rolling stock, place identity, transport accessibility, street-side transport, station environment, rail operations, before-and-after reference, and rail corridor. Today's relevance is strengthened by network modernisation, railway preservation and the continuing question of the importance of preserving signal boxes and rolling stock as industrial heritage. From a 2025-onward perspective, service frequency and bus funding are closely linked to this subject, alongside the importance of bus stops as the physical interface with public transport. The image fixes public access and movement within Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against redevelopment. The location also brings in contemporary social history, changing land use, rail transport history, freight wagon, bus infrastructure, signal-box architecture, mechanical signalling, and working railway heritage. References to British, centre, Cornwall, Penzance, and Railways give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK, 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 network modernisation and how Crewe's identity remains tied to railway engineering and operations within the specific setting of Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK. The period view preserves evidence of earlier appearance before later change alters the scene.
Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRA4HP - . This scene at the recorded stock-photo/gotonysmith-Location.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>location 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 scene records British Railways poster - Newquay, on the Cornish Coast, Cornwall, South West England, UK - a lady surfer in a cap and Tintagel castle. The frame also records themes of summer fieldwork, rail infrastructure, grain harvest, changing streetscape, freight wagon, place identity, field crop, local history, signal-box architecture, community identity, agricultural landscape, British agriculture, trackside history, and rail transport history. From a 2025-onward perspective, decarbonisation and regional connectivity are closely linked to this subject, alongside the importance of preserving signal boxes and rolling stock as industrial heritage. The wider contemporary story combines crop yields, farm costs and the pressure on farmers from energy, fertiliser and machinery costs. Future viewers can use this scene from the recorded location to compare street furniture and boundaries with whatever follows after new construction. The surrounding story also includes archival record, visual archive, before-and-after reference, rural economy, everyday life, industrial railway, rail operations, and grain quality. The combination of Coast, Cornish, Newquay, Railways, and surfer anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. A later view of the recorded location may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The scene further reflects decarbonisation and the importance of preserving signal boxes and rolling stock as industrial heritage as part of the longer story of the recorded location. Its period value extends to supply chains and the importance of domestic grain to food and brewing supply chains when considered against later change at the recorded location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XNA4 - Shops and offices in sandstone and some grey granite, and with slate roofs. The building has an irregular plan on a corner site, and has five storeys on the front, three on the side, and attics. The main front has three wide bays and a curved corner. The central round-headed doorway is in a round-headed arch, above is a feature with a balustraded parapet and ball finials, and at the top is a shaped gable flanked by octagonal turrets. The windows in the first and second floors are sashes, and in the upper floors they are mullioned and transomed. The curved corner rises to become a cylindrical turret that has a domed roof with a cupola and a finial
9-21 Princess Street, Manchester, England, UK, M2 4DN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DC5C - A Toby Jug - also sometimes known as a Fillpot (or Philpot) - is a pottery jug in the form of a seated person, or the head of a recognizable person (often an English king). Typically the seated figure is a heavy-set, jovial man holding a mug of beer in one hand and a pipe of tobacco in the other and wearing 18th century attire: a long coat and a tricorn hat. The tricorn hat forms a pouring spout, often with a removable lid, and a handle is attached at the rear. Jugs depicting just the head and shoulders of a figure are also referred to as Toby Jugs, although these should strictly be called Character Jugs
Cornwall, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BGRC71 - A pasty is a British baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, South West England, but has spread all over the British Isles. It is made by placing an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetables, in the middle of a flat shortcrust pastry circle, bringing the edges together in the middle, and crimping over the top to form a seal before baking.
The traditional Cornish pasty, which since 2011 has had Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status in Europe, is filled with beef, sliced or diced potato, swede (also known as yellow turnip or rutabaga “ referred to in Cornwall and other parts of the West Country as turnip) and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, and baked. Today, the pasty is the food most associated with Cornwall. It is a traditional dish and accounts for 6% of the Cornish food economy. Pasties with many different fillings are made, and some shops specialise in selling pasties.
The origins of the pasty are unclear, though there are many references to them throughout historical documents and fiction. The pasty is now popular worldwide because of the spread of Cornish miners and sailors from across Cornwall, and variations can be found in Australia, Mexico, the United States, Ulster and elsewhere.
Pasties resemble turnovers from many other cuisines and cultures, including the bridie in Scotland, empanada in Spanish-speaking countries, pirog in Eastern Europe, samsa in Central Asia, curry puff in Southeast Asia, and shaobing in China
St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BGRC74 - A pasty is a British baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, South West England, but has spread all over the British Isles. It is made by placing an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetables, in the middle of a flat shortcrust pastry circle, bringing the edges together in the middle, and crimping over the top to form a seal before baking.
The traditional Cornish pasty, which since 2011 has had Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status in Europe, is filled with beef, sliced or diced potato, swede (also known as yellow turnip or rutabaga “ referred to in Cornwall and other parts of the West Country as turnip) and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, and baked. Today, the pasty is the food most associated with Cornwall. It is a traditional dish and accounts for 6% of the Cornish food economy. Pasties with many different fillings are made, and some shops specialise in selling pasties.
The origins of the pasty are unclear, though there are many references to them throughout historical documents and fiction. The pasty is now popular worldwide because of the spread of Cornish miners and sailors from across Cornwall, and variations can be found in Australia, Mexico, the United States, Ulster and elsewhere.
Pasties resemble turnovers from many other cuisines and cultures, including the bridie in Scotland, empanada in Spanish-speaking countries, pirog in Eastern Europe, samsa in Central Asia, curry puff in Southeast Asia, and shaobing in China
St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK
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Keywords: Cornish,cornwall,Kernow,england,UK,GB,britain,tin,mine,mining,industry,industrial,archiology,mono,selective,colour,b/w,sepia,toned,holiday,accomodation,ruins,old,hotpix!,#tonysmith,#tonysmithhotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4726413997 - 'Mining in Cornwall has a long history and began in the early Bronze Age approximately 2,150 BC. It ended with the South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall closing in 1998. Tin and later also copper were the most productive of the metals extracted. Some tin mining continued long after mining of other metals had become unprofitable.
Tin is one of the earliest metals to have been exploited in Britain. Chalcolithic metal workers discovered that by putting a small amount of tin (5 - 20%) in molten copper an alloy called bronze was produced that was easier to work and harder than copper. The oldest production of tin-bronze is in Turkey about 3500 BC but exploitation of the tin resources in Britain is believed to have started before 2000 BC, with a thriving tin trade developing with the civilisations of the Mediterranean. The strategic importance of tin in forging bronze weapons brought the southwest of Britain into the Mediterranean economy at an early date. Later tin was also used in the production of pewter.
Cornwall was traditionally thought to have been visited by metal traders from the eastern Mediterranean. However, it is likely that the tin trade with the Mediterranean was controlled by the Veneti. Britain was one of the places proposed for the Cassiterides, that is Tin Islands.
As South-West Britain was one of the few parts of England to escape glaciation, tin ore was readily available on the surface. Originally it is likely that alluvial deposits in the gravels of streams were exploited but later underground working took place. Shallow cuttings were then used to extract ore.
Diodorus Siculus around 1 BC had this to say about ancient tin mining in Britain. 'They that inhabit the British promontory of Balerion by reason of their converse with strangers are more civilised and courteous to strangers than the rest are. These are the people that prepare the tin, which with a great deal of care and labour, they dig out of the ground, and that being done the metal is mixed with some veins of earth out of which they melt the metal and refine it. Then they cast it into regular blocks and carry it to a certain island near at hand called Ictis for at low tide, all being dry between there and the island, tin in large quantities is brought over in carts.'
By the 19th century, the areas of Cornwall around Gwennap and St Day and on the coast around Porthtowan were among the richest mining areas in the world and at its height the Cornish tin mining industry had around 600 steam engines working to pump out the mines (many mines stretched out under the sea and some went down to great depths). Adventurers put up the capital, and the mines would hopefully return them a profit.
During the 20th century various ores became briefly profitable, and mines were reopened, but today none remain. Dolcoath mine, (Cornish for Old Ground), the 'Queen of Cornish Mines' was, at a depth of 3500 feet (1067 m), for many years the deepest mine in the world, not to mention one of the oldest before its closure in 1921. Indeed, the last working tin mine in Europe, South Crofty, was to be found near Camborne until its closure in March 1998. An attempt was made to reopen it but the mine was then abandoned. There have been local media reports in September 2006 that South Crofty is being considered for re-opening as the price of tin has soared however the site is now part of a Compulsory Purchase Order (October 2006). On the wall outside the gate is some graffiti dating from 1999:
'Cornish lads are fishermen and Cornish lads are miners too. / But when the fish and tin are gone, what are the Cornish boys to do?'
Many old mine buildings with a chimney for the steam engine exhaust dot the Cornish landscape today. This one has been sensitively restored and put to residential use.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAW0M - A lifebuoy is a life-saving buoy designed to be thrown to a person in water, to provide buoyancy and prevent drowning. Some modern lifebuoys are fitted with one or more seawater-activated lights, to aid rescue at night.
Other names for lifebuoy include safety wheel, lifebelt, water wheely, ring buoy, life ring, lifering, lifesaver, life donut, life preserver, Perry buoy, or Kisbee ring. The Kisbee ring, sometimes kisby ring or kisbie ring, is thought to be named after inventor Thomas Kisbee (1792“1877), a British naval officer
The lifebuoy is usually ring- or horseshoe-shaped personal flotation device with a connecting line allowing the casualty to be pulled to the rescuer in a boat. They are carried by ships and are also located beside bodies of water that have the depth or potential to drown someone. They are often subjected to vandalism which, since the unavailability of lifebuoys could lead to death, may be punished by fines (up to £5,000 in the United Kingdom) or imprisonment.
The UK Royal Life Saving Society considers lifebuoys unsuitable for use in swimming pools because throwing one into a busy pool could injure the casualty or other pool users. In these locations, lifebuoys have been superseded by devices such as the torpedo buoy.
In the United States, Coast Guard approved lifebuoys are considered Type IV personal flotation devices. At least one Type IV PFD is required on all vessels 26 feet or more in length.
Leonardo da Vinci sketched a concept for a safety wheel, as well as for buoyant shoes and balancing sticks for walking on water
The Digey, St Ives, Cornwall, Kernow, South West England, UK, TR26 1HR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAW0W - . Looking east towards Carbis Bay, Boats moored at St Ives harbour, Cornwall Kernow , South West England, UK, TR26 1PU. Photographed on 31 May 2009, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include TR26, South West, TR26 1PU, tied, boat, boats, tourist, attraction, pier, piers, Smeatons Pier, Saint Ives, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The transport setting gives the image wider relevance to mobility, infrastructure, roads and public transport, travel behaviour, local connectivity, logistics and the relationship between vehicles and the built environment. It can illustrate planning, transport policy, accessibility, congestion, public investment and the changing technologies and services used to move people or goods. The waterside context adds themes of ports, docks, harbours, rivers, canals, ferries, leisure boating, maritime transport and waterfront regeneration. Such views are useful for travel and infrastructure coverage as well as for documenting how working waterfronts, passenger services and former industrial land change over time. 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 composition retains practical contextual detail for news, feature, documentary, educational and historical use.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAW13 - . Boats SS225, SS65, SS273 moored at St Ives harbour, Cornwall Kernow , South West England, UK, TR26 1PU. Photographed on 31 May 2009, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include TR26, South West, TR26 1PU, tied, boat, boats, tourist, attraction, Smeatons Pier, Saint Ives, moored, fishing boat, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The transport setting gives the image wider relevance to mobility, infrastructure, roads and public transport, travel behaviour, local connectivity, logistics and the relationship between vehicles and the built environment. It can illustrate planning, transport policy, accessibility, congestion, public investment and the changing technologies and services used to move people or goods. The waterside context adds themes of ports, docks, harbours, rivers, canals, ferries, leisure boating, maritime transport and waterfront regeneration. Such views are useful for travel and infrastructure coverage as well as for documenting how working waterfronts, passenger services and former industrial land change over time. 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 composition retains practical contextual detail for news, feature, documentary, educational and historical use.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAW17 - . SS80 Boat moored at St Ives harbour, Cornwall Kernow , South West England, UK, TR26 1PU. Photographed on 31 May 2009, this spring image stock-photo/gotonysmith-Record.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include TR26, South West, TR26 1PU, tied, boat, boats, tourist, attraction, pier, piers, Smeatons Pier, Saint Ives, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The transport setting gives the image wider relevance to mobility, infrastructure, roads and public transport, travel behaviour, local connectivity, logistics and the relationship between vehicles and the built environment. It can illustrate planning, transport policy, accessibility, congestion, public investment and the changing technologies and services used to move people or goods. The waterside context adds themes of ports, docks, harbours, rivers, canals, ferries, leisure boating, maritime transport and waterfront regeneration. Such views are useful for travel and infrastructure coverage as well as for documenting how working waterfronts, passenger services and former industrial land change over time. 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. It is a useful stock image for publishers, researchers and picture editors seeking a clearly identified contemporary record of the subject and location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0MX5 - . Dusk in St Ives Town, Fore Street, Cornish Ice Cream Shop, Cornwall, South West England, UK. Photographed on 31 May 2009. The recorded location is Fore Street, St Ives Town, Cornwall , Kernow , England, United Kingdom. A photograph of a dusk walk down the cobbled street of St Ives, a beautiful fishing town in the south of Cornwall ( Kernow ). The night shot has a clear blue sky and shows the charming shops in Fore St, that leads down to the harbour. As background, landscape images record more than scenery: buildings, vegetation, weather, transport and land use combine to show how a place appeared at a particular moment
Repeated views can later become valuable evidence of development, environmental change and shifting patterns of use. Looking at the subject's development, town and city centres are continually rewritten by new structures, transport schemes and changing commercial uses
Photographs preserve the everyday fabric between major landmarks, including underpasses, arcades, back streets and small businesses that may disappear during redevelopment. As background, travel photography documents the visitor economy as well as scenery, showing how historic places, coastlines and resort facilities are packaged, experienced and adapted for tourists over time. Against the 2026 backdrop, current interest in climate and place-making gives atmospheric landscape images added documentary value, particularly where weather, coastlines or urban development are prominent. For the 2026 context, urban regeneration in England continues to focus on town-centre renewal, housing, public realm and reuse of vacant commercial property
Earlier street scenes provide valuable before-and-after evidence of these changes and of the businesses or structures lost along the way. Relevant synonyms and subject phrases include panorama, scenic view, night photography, seasonal landscape, skyline, cityscape, coastal landscape, urban landscape, wide view, and sense of place.
Fore Street, St Ives Town, Cornwall , Kernow , England, United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HTH0 - . Barnoon Church and Graveyard , St Ives South Cornwall in mono , England UK. The recorded location is Barnoon Cemetery, St Ives, Cornwall, England UK. The Gothic. In historical terms, parish churches and cathedrals are among Britain's richest sources of architectural and social history
Medieval fabric, Victorian restoration, monuments, stained glass, organs, altars and inscriptions can coexist in a single building, reflecting generations of worship and local patronage. The historical context is that historic inscriptions provide unusually direct documentary evidence
Names, dates, dedications and symbolic imagery can connect a present-day location with former residents, workers, congregations or wartime casualties, making the object relevant to both genealogy and wider social history. The historical context is that tourism images record not just destinations but changing habits of leisure: seaside holidays, city breaks, heritage visits, package travel and resort culture have all developed with transport, disposable income and mass tourism. During 2026, historic places of worship remain important not only for faith but also for conservation, tourism, music, community use and local identity
Their maintenance illustrates the continuing challenge of caring for ageing heritage buildings while keeping them accessible and relevant. The subject remains topical in 2026 because interest in local history, genealogy and the conservation of memorials remains strong, while weathering, redevelopment and vandalism can threaten smaller monuments and inscriptions
Detailed photographs help preserve lettering, names and physical condition before further weathering or alteration. During 2026, memorials continue to play an active role in public history, supporting remembrance, genealogy, education and heritage tourism
Images can also record inscriptions before erosion or redevelopment alters the physical object.
Barnoon Cemetery, St Ives, Cornwall, England UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF21X7 - Barnoon Chapel , Celtic cross And Graveyard, with blue summer sky , St Ives Cornwall
St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia) is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis and the town is now primarily a popular holiday resort, notably achieving the award 'Best UK Seaside Town' from the British Travel Awards in both 2010 and 2011. St Ives was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1639. St Ives has become renowned for its number of artists. It was named best seaside town of 2007 by the Guardian newspaper.
Barnoon Chapel and Graveyard, Alexandra Road, St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK, TR26 1JG
