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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,255A9323,Busy fresh produce,Leeds Kirkgate Market,Leeds,West Yorkshire,England,UK,market,traders,fresh,produce,fish,shellfish,shopping,retail,food,independent,business,shoppers,traditional,city-centre
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EGWK1P - . Busy fresh produce stalls inside Leeds Kirkgate Market, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. Photographed on 16 May 2026. Traders including Ramsdens and Shellfish display boxes and counters of fish and fresh produce beneath the historic covered market roof, with shoppers moving through the aisles. Kirkgate Market remains one of Leeds' best-known traditional shopping institutions and combines historic architecture with everyday food and retail trading. Seen through restaurant, the earlier context is that food photographs are records of both taste and material culture
Ingredients, recipes, packaging and serving styles can date an era and show how regional traditions, convenience and international influences enter everyday diets. For market hall, the historical context is that high streets evolved from traditional specialist traders and municipal markets towards department stores, chain retailers, shopping centres and mixed food-and-leisure destinations
Surviving shopfronts and signs document that shift in local economies and consumer habits. The 2026 relevance of restaurant comes from the fact that hospitality and food retail continue to adapt to higher costs, delivery platforms and evolving diets, making older restaurant and product photographs useful evidence of consumer trends. For market hall, the 2026 context is that town-centre resilience remains a major issue as online shopping, costs and changing footfall reshape retail
Markets and independent businesses are increasingly promoted as anchors for regeneration, local identity and experience-led shopping. Relevant synonyms and subject phrases include food culture, cuisine, street food, home cooking, food photography, regional food, consumer culture, meal, culinary tradition, food provenance, eating out, retail premises, local business, independent retailer, town centre, and commercial property. Alternative search wording includes local economy, shopping district, retail history, and market trader.
Leeds Kirkgate Market, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,HotpixUk,the,fish,chippy,supper,British,fast food,food,city,centre,customer,staff,menu,inflation,board,rising,food costs,cost of living,hospitality,traditional,takeaway,prices,independent,takeaways,energy,bills,casual,dining,working,lunch,haddock,culture,cod,pies,gravy,curry sauce,mushy peas
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EF6BER - Interior view of The Fish Hut, a traditional fish and chip shop on Liverpool Road in Manchester city centre, showing a customer at the counter, a member of stock-photo/gotonysmith-Staff.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>staff serving food in takeaway boxes, heated display cabinets, menu boards and the practical stainless steel counter area of a working British chippy. The visible menu and shop sign link the photograph directly with everyday high street food, takeaway culture and the rising cost of a fish supper, with cod, haddock, chips, pies, sausages, sauces and meal deals forming part of the familiar language of British fish and chip shops. The Fish Hut is listed at 27 Liverpool Road, Manchester, M3 4NW, close to Castlefield, Deansgate and the Science and Industry Museum area, making it part of the food offer around one of Manchester's busiest visitor and nightlife districts. The image has strong editorial value for stories about fish and chips, casual dining, independent takeaways, food inflation, energy bills, hospitality pressures, staff costs, ingredient prices, city centre rents and the squeeze on food businesses and customers. Fish and chips remain one of Britain's most recognisable takeaway meals, but the scene can also illustrate how a simple fish supper has become a sharper cost of living symbol as prices rise across food, cooking oil, white fish, potatoes, packaging and utilities. The photograph shows a clean, modernised interior, with digital screens, a black menu wall, bright counter lighting and prepared food ready for service. The visible customers and staff add human context without making any individual the sole subject. The indoor setting means there is no visible weather, although the lighting and muted window view suggest a daytime or early evening city centre visit. This commercially useful stock image suits features on Manchester eating out, British takeaway culture, fish and chip shops, hospitality economics, consumer spending, inflation, local business survival and changing urban food habits.
Interior of The Fish Hut fish and chip shop on Liverpool Road, Manchester, showing staff serving cus
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,fish & chips,fish and chips,chippy,takeaway,carryout,IMG_9892,Think Fish,blue,neon,sign,Glasgow,Scotland,UK,fish,chip,shop,yellow,food,seafood,British,cuisine,hospitality,restaurant,retail,signage,fast,independent,urban,night,illuminated,traditional
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EKP0D7 - . Think Fish blue neon sign at a Glasgow fish and chip shop in Scotland, UK. Photographed on 17 February 2025. The recorded location is Glasgow, Scotland, UK. The brightly illuminated words THINK FISH and THINK BLUE glow in yellow and blue against a dark background, creating a bold graphic image associated with traditional British fish and chips. The simple composition makes the colourful neon lettering the main subject and gives the image strong visual impact for stories about chippies, takeaway businesses, urban food culture, retail signage, night-time hospitality and the enduring popularity of fish and chips in Britain. Within the history of local economy, local businesses provide unusually precise social-history evidence because names, branding and uses change more quickly than the buildings they occupy
A shop, café, pub or service company can disappear while the façade survives, leaving photographs as a record of the previous commercial life of the street. In relation to visitor guidance, historical context shows that wayfinding developed from painted names and fingerposts into standardised road, rail and public-information systems
Local signs still retain distinctive typography or bilingual wording even within increasingly consistent national standards. For the story of culinary tradition, it is useful to note that packaging and utensils also matter: corks, bottles and branded labels preserve evidence of production and trade alongside the food or drink itself. Against the 2026 backdrop for local economy, current interest in community assets and place-making gives photographs of individual businesses added significance when premises close, rebrand or are converted to new uses. As of 2026, the position for visitor guidance is that digital maps and smartphone navigation are ubiquitous, but physical signage remains essential for safety, accessibility, legal restrictions and visitors without reliable connectivity.
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_9390,The Virgin Queen,London,England,UK,public,house,pub,night,exterior,beer,wine,fish,chips,hospitality,British,traditional,architecture,street,nightlife,drinking,bar,signage,urban,corner,social,culture
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F3F0Y7 - . The Virgin Queen public house exterior at night in London, England, UK. Photographed on 31 October 2023. The traditional corner pub frontage is brightly illuminated and carries prominent signage advertising beer, wine, fish and chips. The historical setting for cask ale is that beer culture links agriculture, brewing, distribution and the licensed trade
Cask-conditioned ale, handpumps, brewery branding and pub interiors became especially important to the real-ale revival from the 1970s onwards, while later craft brewing introduced new styles and independent producers. Seen through ingredients, the earlier context is that packaging and utensils also matter: corks, bottles and branded labels preserve evidence of production and trade alongside the food or drink itself. For graphic communication, the historical context is that signs are functional pieces of graphic design that organise movement and communicate rules, names or destinations
Lettering, symbols, colours and materials can date public space as clearly as architecture, particularly when organisations rebrand or regulations evolution. In the 2026 discussion of cask ale, in England eligible pubs and live-music venues receive a 15% business-rates relief for the 2026/27 billing year, reflecting continuing concern about operating costs, closures and the role of hospitality in town-centre vitality. The 2026 relevance of ingredients comes from the fact that hospitality and food retail continue to adapt to higher costs, delivery platforms and changing diets, making older restaurant and product images useful evidence of consumer trends. Closely related image-search terms include licensed premises, alehouse, hostelry, bar trade, real ale, local pub, historic pub, nightlife, community asset, independent brewery, food culture, cuisine, street food, home cooking, food photography, regional food, consumer culture, and meal.
London, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,city,centre,pubs,bars,traditional,history,historic,heritage,Victorian,building,buildings,architecture,outside,door,49,London,UK,WC1B 3BA,WC1B,summer,sunny,lantern,lanterns,lights,lighting,fish,&,chips,the,food,grub,watering hole,boozer,boozers,Dock and Duck,Dog and Duck
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RW3WYD - The origins of the pub go back to 1723 when it opened as the Dock and Duck reflecting the more country pastimes of the area. However when the British Museum was built in the 1760s, the owners decided to change the name to the British Museum Tavern in 1762 and in 1858 after a refit it became the Museum Tavern
The refit was overseen by architect William Finch Hill who was best known for his designs for Music Halls, much of his design still remains.
It's position at the entrance to the British Museum means it has for centuries been a favourite port of call for the many visitors, academics and workers in the area.
When the British Library was inside of the British Museum it attracted the great minds and thinkers, a regular user was Karl Marx and it has been said that the Museum Tavern was his ˜local' whilst he was rewriting history.
Other famous visitors to the Tavern have included Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and J. B. Priestley.
There is no doubt even up to the present day a wide range of people have frequented the Museum Tavern which is part of its charm, it is a traditional London pub owned by Taylor Walker Brewery with real ales on tap and traditional food being served.
49 Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London, England, UK, WC1B 3BA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,midlands,England,UK,BCLM,daily,12,till,3,12-3pm,chips,fish,&,and,The,Great Britain,food,foods,traditional,hot,fry,fried,supper,lunch,meal,in,cooked,closed,Wales,Welsh,Scotland,shop,window,takeaway,chipbox,chippy,fish bar,cod
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NAWFMR - A fish and chip shop, sometimes referred to as a chip shop, is a (often fast food) restaurant that specialises in selling fish and chips. Usually, fish and chip shops provide takeaway service, although some have seating facilities. Fish and chip shops may also sell other foods, including variations on their core offering such as battered sausage and burgers, to regional cuisine such as Greek or Indian food.
Variations on the name include fish bar, fishery (in Yorkshire), fish shop and chip shop. In the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland, they are colloquially known as a chippy or fishy, while in the rest of Ireland and the Aberdeen area, they are known as chippers.
The word chip-shop is first recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1953. Chippy or chippie was first recorded in 1961. Occasionally the type of fish will be specified, as in 'Cod-n-Chips'.
In Scotland, the fish tends to be haddock, whereas in England it tends to be cod. This is because both fish tend to be sourced from Scottish waters in the North Sea and then shipped around the UK. Haddock was thought to taste better than cod when fresh, while cod tasted better a few days later. In the days before refrigerated haulage this meant that haddock would taste bad by the time it made it out of Scotland, while the cod would still taste good if it took a few days to reach its destination. Hake, pollock, whiting, and plaice are also seen at many chip shops. In Scotland, 'special fish' is a variant where the haddock is breadcrumbed instead of battered.
UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,UK,Edinburgh,Scotland,EH1,9 Victoria Street,EH12HE,fish,chips,foods,poor,Scottish,sign,in,oil,range,frying,unhealthy,not healthy,fry everything,fried mars bar,fried mars bars,cholesterol,cholesterols,heart attack,eating,diet,weight,gain,fatty,fat,obesity,overweight,oily,batter,battered,The Chippy,crisis
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M3JBRA - . This authentic period view of 9 Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, EH12HE in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The scene records Fry Me To The Moon, neon sign, in orange, Berties Fish & Chip restaurant ,9 Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, EH12HE. A broader reading of the photograph includes regional identity, historical comparison, archival record, local history, cask-beer tradition, changing land use, visitor hospitality, licensed hospitality, licensed trade, everyday cuisine, everyday life, public realm, before-and-after reference, and changing streetscape. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into nutrition and local business, not least because of how familiar dishes remain cultural shorthand for British food. Today's relevance is strengthened by pub closures, tourism and the continuing question of the continuing appeal of real ale and regional brewing. The image fixes public access and movement within 9 Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, EH12HE at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changing commercial priorities. Further associations within the scene are documentary photography, food heritage, local dining tradition, traditional takeaway, British food tradition, real-ale culture, beer-led hospitality, and street food culture. References to Edinburgh, restaurant, Victoria, orange, and Berties give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. By fixing the subject within 9 Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, EH12HE, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. Another useful connection is nutrition and how familiar dishes remain cultural shorthand for British food in a form that can be compared with future views of 9 Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, EH12HE.
9 Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, EH12HE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,UK,Cheshire,England,186 Knutsford Rd,Grappenhall,WA4 2QU,WA4,Golden City,Chinese,with,fish,frying,carry out,pies,chicken,curry etc,186,menu,China,sweet and sour,unhealthy,late,night,munchies,hungry,evening,post pub,post-pub,chef,cook,cooking,British,Cantonese,Hong Kong,The Chippy
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M3JBE4 - . A grounded documentary photograph made at 186 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington WA4 2QU in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The main point of reference is Chinese takeaway, with neon Open sign, fried food, fish, chips, pies, chicken, curry etc, 186 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington WA4 2QU. The setting additionally reflects period detail, changing streetscape, everyday cuisine, community identity, British food tradition, local character, public-facing signage, regional food culture, commercial ephemera, period lettering, street food culture, public realm, before-and-after reference, and archival record. The modern context includes continuing discussion of commercial branding, advertising change and how signs can document commercial, social or regulatory change. For current editorial use, nutrition and changing diets provide additional context, especially through how food signs and shopfronts become part of urban cultural identity. Small period details of building condition and alterations at 186 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington WA4 2QU may become more significant with time, particularly following conservation work. The subject also sits alongside local dining tradition, food-and-drink heritage, historic sign, popular cuisine, visual archive, traditional takeaway, material sign design, and hospitality food service. References to Chinese, chips, takeaway, chicken, and Knutsford give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The period setting at 186 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington WA4 2QU helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The photograph keeps evidence of changing use within the wider story of 186 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington WA4 2QU.
186 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington WA4 2QU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,North Yorkshire,Yorkshire,England,UK,smoking,smoked,herring,Sorry,open,at,YO22,22,Henrietta St,YO22 4DW,smokehouse,cured,Whitby Cured Kippers,1872,history,historic,window,sign,door,shop,store,family,quality,sold out,William Fortune,red,frame,ancestors,business,fish
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RD2597 - Fortune's Kippers, Henrietta Street, Whitby
The Fortune's family has been making and supplying quality kippers in Whitby at their smokehouse in Whitby since 1872. It is the 5th generation of the Fortune's family who are currently running the business and a 6th generation is lined up to follow in their ancestors' footsteps.
The quality of Fortune's Kippers is renowned throughout the world, not just in the UK. The family firm received a Les Routiers award in 2002 and were nominated for Local Food Hero for the last 3 years. Their kippers are recommended for their superior taste and flavour in many Good Food Guides.
Members of the Royal Family have also been known to enjoy their kippers and HRH the Princess Anne has written to the current owners telling them how much she enjoys them.
Many celebrity chefs have spoken of their admiration of the quality of Fortune's Kippers including Rick Stein, Two Fat Ladies, the late Gary Rhodes, Brian Turner and James Martin.
The various chefs have spread the word across the globe and there are now people from Australia, New Zealand and Canada who travel to Whitby to visit the famed smokehouse and to sample the renowned kippers.
Generations of Fortune's family:
William Fortune (born 1829) Founded the business in 1873
Martyn Fortune (son, born 1870)
William Fortune (son, born 1898)
William Fortune (son, born 1929)
Barry & Derek Brown (nephews) are the current owners
22 Henrietta St, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO22 4DW
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,England,UK,Merseyside,L18,famous,song,area,fab four,Penny Lane fish and chip,shop,Penny Lane,fish and chip,fish & chip,shutters,shuttered,20,mph,sign,chip shop,fish,chip,The Chippy,Beatle,fab4,the,history,heritage,historic,music,songs,track,Penny Ln,Penny Lane Liverpool,streets,obesity
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0PRTY - . An identifiable period record of Penny Ln, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 1DE in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The subject captured here is Penny Lane fish and chip shop, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 1DE. Further facets of the scene include music tourism, adaptive reuse, mixed-use redevelopment, built heritage, popular culture, urban regeneration, regional identity, town-centre renewal, documentary photography, local character, historical comparison, urban fabric, public-realm investment, and before-and-after reference. The wider contemporary story combines venue survival, licensing and how popular music is reused in hospitality and tourism branding. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with construction costs, planning and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. As a dated visual record of Penny Ln, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 1DE, the frame retains public access and movement, making it especially useful if redevelopment subsequently changes the scene. A second descriptive layer includes contemporary social history, changing streetscape, local music culture, local history, place-making, Beatles memorabilia, public realm, and period detail. References to Penny, Liverpool, and Merseyside give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The period setting at Penny Ln, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 1DE helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The image also provides a reference for venue survival and the role of music heritage in attracting visitors beyond conventional attractions within the real-world context of Penny Ln, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 1DE.
Penny Ln, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L18 1DE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lancs,Lancashire,England,UK,the,CodFather,Cod Father,mafia,reference,fish,chips,fried,food,FY1,FY1 6BH,finest,and,&,The,South Beach Hotel,south,funny,humour,humorous,joke,jokey,name,for,chip shop,Lancashires,interesting,cute,Blackpools,chippy,names,business,The Chippy
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRM38K - . This authentic period view of 371 The Promenade, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 6BH in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The principal subject is Comic fast food name, The Cod Father, finest fish and chips, 371 The Promenade, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 6BH. The frame also records themes of consumer retail, customer-facing leisure, commercial frontage, destination shopping, community pub, licensed trade, bricks-and-mortar retail, pub heritage, local history, regional identity, food-and-drink business, local character, everyday life, and retail property. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into consumer spending and pub closures, not least because of how branded and independent hospitality compete for changing leisure spending. Today's relevance is strengthened by commercial rents, town-centre regeneration and the continuing question of how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets. Future viewers can use this scene from 371 The Promenade, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 6BH to compare equipment and working practice with whatever follows after conservation work. Other useful contextual ideas include local enterprise, mixed-use town centre, licensed hospitality, documentary photography, public realm, contemporary social history, period detail, and hospitality economy. Elements such as chips, Lancs, Blackpool, Comic, and finest add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. Around 371 The Promenade, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 6BH, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The scene captures a local visual benchmark before later change alters the scene. The period view preserves a point of historical comparison as a date-specific reference.
371 The Promenade, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 6BH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Cheshire,fish shop,fish,sea,food,fresh,retailer,retailing,english,selling Cornish Silver Hake,seafoods,traditional,under threat,crab,dressed,Whitby,Seabreeze,Pepper Street,Nantwich CW5 5AB,CW3,independent,diet,pescatarian,just,caught,line,boards,advertising,promotion,promoting,catch,of,the,day
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNN5AH - . An identifiable period record of Seabreeze, 15 Pepper Street, Nantwich CW5 5AB in 2022, retaining the practical detail and local context that distinguish a documentary photograph from a generic illustration. The image documents Traditional fishmongers,selling Cornish Silver Hake,Monkfish tails, Sushi Grade Tuna,Swordfish steaks,fresh Whitby dressed crabs,in Nantwich,Cheshire. The image also relates to period detail, historical comparison, commercial frontage, local trading, high-street commerce, independent retail, everyday life, town-centre economy, documentary photography, local enterprise, street-level business, archival record, community identity, and small business. The modern context includes continuing discussion of footfall, town-centre regeneration and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding. Small period details of period objects and surrounding context at Seabreeze, 15 Pepper Street, Nantwich CW5 5AB may become more significant with time, particularly following later reinterpretation. The subject also sits alongside local character, commercial streetscape, local history, changing streetscape, place identity, shopfront economy, retail property, and public realm. The recorded references to fresh, steaks, selling, Swordfish, and crabs preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around Seabreeze, 15 Pepper Street, Nantwich CW5 5AB, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The wider significance includes footfall and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding within the real-world context of Seabreeze, 15 Pepper Street, Nantwich CW5 5AB. Another strand within the photograph is footfall and the role of small retailers in maintaining active town centres within the specific setting of Seabreeze, 15 Pepper Street, Nantwich CW5 5AB.
Seabreeze, 15 Pepper Street, Nantwich CW5 5AB
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GotonySmith,Warrington,town,Cheshire,England,factory,works,in,ornate,UK,WA1,Bank Quay,4 Liverpool Road,WA5 1AB,maritime,sea,fish,sealife,art,sculpture,of,a,creature,at,outside,factories,J Crossfields,Crossfield,Crossfields,tail,swimming,tails,face,head
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJM7HT - . An on-location photograph from Bank Quay, 4 Liverpool Road, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 1AB in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The photograph centres on Crossfields factory in Warrington entrance, stone fish stonework, Liverpool Road, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1. The subject also carries associations with changing streetscape, industrial artefact, local history, contemporary city life, historic freight equipment, heavy-industry heritage, manufacturing heritage, period detail, changing land use, social landscape, everyday street life, contemporary social history, everyday life, and pedestrian environment. From a 2025-onward perspective, embodied carbon and manufacturing decline are closely linked to this subject, alongside the reuse of former industrial land and buildings. The wider contemporary story combines commercial change, local identity and how ordinary street scenes become valuable records as businesses and infrastructure change. For later comparison, the photograph preserves equipment and working practice at Bank Quay, 4 Liverpool Road, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 1AB, details that may look very different after changed technology. The location also brings in urban change, local character, city-centre activity, working-industry history, public realm, documentary photography, community life, and regional identity. References to entrance, stone, stonework, factory, and Crossfields give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around Bank Quay, 4 Liverpool Road, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 1AB, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The view records evidence of changing use before later change alters the scene.
Bank Quay, 4 Liverpool Road, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 1AB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Wigan & Leigh Council,Greater Manchester,England,Lancs,Lancashire,centre,stalls,stall,indoor,inside,Market Hall,Spinning Gate,wn74pg,Markethall,WN7,UK,Leigh covered indoor market hall,covered,interior,market,hall,retail,traders,local,Derek Green,the fish man,fishmanofleigh,quality,fish,meat,poultry,todays,specials,busy,high class,trader
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH06YW - . This authentic period view of Gas St, Leigh, Lancashire, England, UK, WN7 4PG in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The scene records Derek Green the fish man, Leigh covered indoor market hall, Gas St, Leigh, Lancashire, England, UK, WN7 4PG. A broader reading of the photograph includes period detail, changing streetscape, social history, local history, town-centre economy, city-centre activity, everyday street life, outdoor retail, pedestrian environment, local identity, local character, before-and-after reference, consumer retail, and retail property. For current editorial use, business rates and consumer spending provide additional context, especially through how physical shops adapt to online competition. Current relevance extends to commercial change and public-realm change, particularly through how regeneration alters the character of familiar places. Small period details of local activity and public use at Gas St, Leigh, Lancashire, England, UK, WN7 4PG may become more significant with time, particularly following refurbishment. The photograph additionally reflects contemporary social history, shopfront economy, townscape record, urban social history, community identity, commercial frontage, shopping district, and physical store. The recorded references to Lancashire, covered, indoor, Green, and Derek preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. By fixing the subject within Gas St, Leigh, Lancashire, England, UK, WN7 4PG, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The scene further reflects business rates and how physical shops adapt to online competition within the specific setting of Gas St, Leigh, Lancashire, England, UK, WN7 4PG. The record includes part of the area's social history before later change alters the scene.
Gas St, Leigh, Lancashire, England, UK, WN7 4PG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,caviar,Marmite,fish,2,tubes,two,IKEA,Scandinavians,Swede,metal,aluminium,MSC,boy,eating,blond,Codroe,original,product,fishy,love it,hate it,love,hate,salty,savoury,Kalles Kaviar Original,190g,190,grams,pate,creamed,cods,roe,spread,pink,orange
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDRN4J - . This authentic period view of Sweden in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The image documents Two tubes of Kalles Original , Codroe kaviar, 190g. Another layer of the photograph includes everyday life, documentary photography, local identity, changing land use, local character, archival record, visual archive, contemporary social history, period detail, before-and-after reference, historical comparison, community life, townscape record, and contemporary city life. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into footfall and local identity, not least because of how ordinary street scenes become valuable records as businesses and infrastructure change. For later comparison, the photograph preserves equipment and working practice at Sweden, details that may look very different after new ownership. The wider setting retains connections with urban social history, pedestrian environment, city-centre activity, local history, public realm, everyday street life, place identity, and changing streetscape. The combination of Kalles, Original, tubes, Codroe, and kaviar anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. For Sweden, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The setting also helps illustrate footfall and the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments as part of the longer story of Sweden. The image also provides a reference for public-realm change and how ordinary street scenes become valuable records as businesses and infrastructure change when considered against later change at Sweden. Another useful connection is public-realm change and how regeneration alters the character of familiar places without losing the local specificity of Sweden.
Sweden
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,Barry,Barry Island,pleasure park,holiday,beach,VofG,Vale of Glamorgan,Wales,Gavin,&,and,Stacey,Stacy,seaside,TV,Sitcom,BBC,CF62,CF62 5BQ,history,Butlin,east,YNYS Y BARRI,shapes,buckets,trains,flip flops,ice cream cones,anchors,fish,planes,teapots,shells,fossils,Becky Adams,Gordon Young,Celfwaith,Pleasure Beach
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JC40WD - Climbing Wall, Barry Island Eastern Promenade
If you were to fly into Cardiff Airport these days on a clear day and look towards Barry Island, you would see the words YNYS Y BARRI BARRY ISLAND writ large on the wall along the Eastern Promenade. The large scale letters have been formed from colourful, quirky climbing holds and other acrylic shapes of buckets, trains, flip flops, ice cream cones, anchors, fish
The 2014 Celfwaith commission to create a climbing wall was part of a major refurbishment scheme on Barry Island, including structural works to the Eastern end of the Promenade
Early in 2014 Celfwaith appointed Becky Adams to collaborate on consultation meetings and workshops with youth groups at Area 41 and Barry Island, pupils at Barry Island Primary School, and the Barry Island Historical Society.
Gordon Young was appointed to create the climbing wall and had previous experience of creating climbing and bouldering structures in Blackpool. However, his proposal for Barry Island was completely different and captured the fun, colourful and tongue-in-cheek character of the place popularised by Gavin & Stacey.
Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, CF62 5BQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JC40WF - Climbing Wall, Barry Island Eastern Promenade
If you were to fly into Cardiff Airport these days on a clear day and look towards Barry Island, you would see the words YNYS Y BARRI BARRY ISLAND writ large on the wall along the Eastern Promenade. The large scale letters have been formed from colourful, quirky climbing holds and other acrylic shapes of buckets, trains, flip flops, ice cream cones, anchors, fish
The 2014 Celfwaith commission to create a climbing wall was part of a major refurbishment scheme on Barry Island, including structural works to the Eastern end of the Promenade
Early in 2014 Celfwaith appointed Becky Adams to collaborate on consultation meetings and workshops with youth groups at Area 41 and Barry Island, pupils at Barry Island Primary School, and the Barry Island Historical Society.
Gordon Young was appointed to create the climbing wall and had previous experience of creating climbing and bouldering structures in Blackpool. However, his proposal for Barry Island was completely different and captured the fun, colourful and tongue-in-cheek character of the place popularised by Gavin & Stacey.
Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, CF62 5BQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,Cheshire,UK,Warrington,Thelwall,food,Big Blue,Chippy,fish & chips,fish,chips,fried,award winning,awards,shop,retail,Knutsford Rd,WA4,The Chippy,chipshop,chip shop,takeaway,the,village,award,winner,winning,local,frying tonight,scampi,chip,supper,outside,exterior,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C6RE91 - . A detailed documentary view from 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL, preserving the appearance and character of the subject at a particular point in time. The principal subject is The Big Blue,Fish and Chip shop, 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington,Cheshire,England, UK, WA4 2QL. The scene can also be read in terms of before-and-after reference, retail property, historical comparison, contemporary history, local history, local trading, local character, customer footfall, high-street commerce, everyday Britain, period detail, shopping district, shopfront economy, and consumer retail. Today's wider story includes business rates, commercial rents and the practical question of how high streets adapt when traditional retail contracts. For later comparison, the photograph preserves commercial identity and local use at 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL, details that may look very different after changing public expectations. The surrounding context includes independent trading, urban commerce, archival record, town-centre economy, commercial streetscape, built environment, commercial frontage, and urban change. References to Knutsford and Grappenhall give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to the named subject. For 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which small changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. That also gives the frame relevance to business rates and how high streets adapt when traditional retail contracts within the real-world context of 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL and the changing story of the subject shown.
177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C6RE93 - . This carefully observed view of 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL fixes a specific place, use and moment for later historical comparison. The defining feature is Big Blue,Fish and Chip shop bag, 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington,Cheshire,England, UK, WA4 2QL. The wider scene also brings together built environment, changing streetscape, everyday Britain, high-street commerce, place identity, social history, commercial streetscape, public realm, retail vacancy, before-and-after reference, bricks-and-mortar retail, local character, customer footfall, and shopping district. The subject remains useful for current coverage of commercial rents and town-centre regeneration, not least because of the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names. The photograph fixes transport arrangements and public activity within 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against refurbishment. The wider local story also touches on urban commerce, town-centre economy, social landscape, consumer retail, independent trading, documentary photography, community identity, and local history. Details involving Knutsford and Grappenhall make the image more specific than a generic illustration and strengthen its local or historical value. The surrounding context at 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Its period value extends to commercial rents and the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names without losing the local specificity of 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL and the changing story of the subject shown.
177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C6RE95 - . An authentic period record of 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL, retaining the practical visual detail that later redevelopment, rebranding or altered use can remove. The scene records Social Distancing at the Big Blue,Fish and Chip shop, 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington,Cheshire,England, UK, WA4 2QL. The photograph also carries associations with shopfront economy, historical comparison, contemporary history, before-and-after reference, period detail, regional identity, town-centre economy, shopping district, community identity, urban change, urban commerce, archival record, changing streetscape, and built environment. In the mid-2020s, consumer spending and town-centre regeneration keep this subject current, particularly through the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names. For later comparison, the photograph preserves public access and movement at 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL, details that may look very different after changed technology. Other connected aspects are social history, everyday Britain, documentary photography, high-street commerce, retail property, local history, business premises, and public realm. Elements such as Distancing, Grappenhall, Knutsford, and Social add documentary specificity and may become useful when the scene is compared with later records. Around 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL, apparently routine features can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar street details disappear. Another strand within the photograph is consumer spending and the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names within the real-world context of 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL. The image adds a further period reference to the visual history of 177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL.
177 Knutsford Rd, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 2QL
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Keywords: GotonySmith,UK,Scotland,Glasgow,city,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Art Deco,Cocktail Bar,sign,outside,exterior,design,architecture,lettering,1935,G1 3AN,Exchange Place,G1,Oyster Bar,bar,pub,venue,famous,history,historic,cafe,seafood,sea food,meals,logo,oysters,Scottish,Scots,sourced,crab,lobster,fish,restaurant,artdeco
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAEJ1F - In 1935, as the great Cunard liner 'Queen Mary' took shape on the Clyde, a restaurant was refitted in the same Art Deco style and a Glasgow legend was born.
With its unique 1930's ambience, Rogano is the oldest surviving restaurant in Glasgow. For over seventy five years its chefs have dedicated themselves to the delicate art of cooking and serving the finest fish and seafood in the world from Scottish waters.
For all its inimitable style, and its local clientele, Rogano is a friendly place, with a special welcome for the traveller, being perfectly situated with close proximity to the city's most elegant shops and many of its leading cultural venues.
The Rogano Oyster and Cocktail Bar has been a bastion of Glasgow's bar scene since 1935, our customers enjoy drinks in original art deco surrounding with soft jazz filtering throughout the bar to create a truly unique bar experience.
Rogano customers are spoiled for choice from a variety of house wines, champagne (by the glass) and an extensive cocktail list all of which are served with the upmost standard of service from our bar waiting staff.
Food is served from the bar menu which includes a selection of seafood, light meals and sandwiches. Food is best enjoyed in one of our highly coveted booths which provide customers with a little world of their own within a bustling bar.
The Oyster Bar opens at 11.00 am until midnight, every day except Sunday when it opens at 12.00 noon. The Bar Menu is available throughout the day until 10.00pm. The Oyster and Cocktail bar operates a no reservation policy.
11 Exchange Place, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G1 3AN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAEJ1R - In 1935, as the great Cunard liner 'Queen Mary' took shape on the Clyde, a restaurant was refitted in the same Art Deco style and a Glasgow legend was born.
With its unique 1930's ambience, Rogano is the oldest surviving restaurant in Glasgow. For over seventy five years its chefs have dedicated themselves to the delicate art of cooking and serving the finest fish and seafood in the world from Scottish waters.
For all its inimitable style, and its local clientele, Rogano is a friendly place, with a special welcome for the traveller, being perfectly situated with close proximity to the city's most elegant shops and many of its leading cultural venues.
The Rogano Oyster and Cocktail Bar has been a bastion of Glasgow's bar scene since 1935, our customers enjoy drinks in original art deco surrounding with soft jazz filtering throughout the bar to create a truly unique bar experience.
Rogano customers are spoiled for choice from a variety of house wines, champagne (by the glass) and an extensive cocktail list all of which are served with the upmost standard of service from our bar waiting staff.
Food is served from the bar menu which includes a selection of seafood, light meals and sandwiches. Food is best enjoyed in one of our highly coveted booths which provide customers with a little world of their own within a bustling bar.
The Oyster Bar opens at 11.00 am until midnight, every day except Sunday when it opens at 12.00 noon. The Bar Menu is available throughout the day until 10.00pm. The Oyster and Cocktail bar operates a no reservation policy.
11 Exchange Place, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G1 3AN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ABJGCG - . A dated documentary view of corner of Duke Wynd and Hunter Street, Drygate, Glasgow, Scotland in 2019, recording the subject as it appeared at that point rather than as a generic stock illustration. The subject recorded here is Artist Jennifer Grant Sculpture, corner of Duke Wynd and Hunter Street, Glasgow - The Tree that Never Grew - verses from the Glasgow Story. The locality and subject together evoke built heritage, national food identity, urban fabric, changing land use, food-and-drink tradition, heritage dish, everyday life, historic townscape, archival record, place identity, public realm, conservation architecture, heritage asset, and traditional masonry. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes hospitality costs alongside consumer spending, with particular attention to how food traditions survive alongside changing diets and lifestyles. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with heritage conservation, embodied carbon and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character. For future researchers, the scene keeps a record of signage, materials, design and everyday use in this part of corner of Duke Wynd and Hunter Street, Drygate, Glasgow, Scotland. The photograph additionally reflects historic frontage, comfort food, culinary tradition, historical comparison, local history, festive eating, period detail, and social history. The combination of Hunter, Artist, verses, Sculpture, and Never anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. By fixing the subject within corner of Duke Wynd and Hunter Street, Drygate, Glasgow, Scotland, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The scene further reflects hospitality costs and how food traditions survive alongside changing diets and lifestyles in a form that can be compared with future views of corner of Duke Wynd and Hunter Street, Drygate, Glasgow, Scotland.
corner of Duke Wynd and Hunter Street, Drygate, Glasgow, Scotland
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Bridgewater Canal,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4 3EL,fishermen,fish,club,group,sport,leisure,activity,English,British,pastime,bank,towpath,of,catch,maggots,bait,seated,landing,bringing,in,hooked,got,bite,one,man,net,netting,out,accessories,hobby,angler,roach
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG40FR - Angling is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook or angle (from Old English angol) attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth. The fishing line is usually manipulated via a fishing rod, although rodless techniques such as handlining and longlining also exist. Modern angling rods are usually fitted with a reel that functions as a cranking device for storing, retrieving and releasing out the line, although Tenkara fishing and cane pole fishing are two rod-angling methods that do not use any reel. The hook itself can be additionally weighted with a dense tackle called a sinker, and is typically dressed with an appetizing bait to attract the fish and enticing it into swallowing the hook, but sometimes an inedible fake bait with multiple attached hooks (known as a lure) is used instead of a single hook with edible bait. A bite indicator, such as a float or a quiver tip, is often used to relay underwater status of the hook to the surface.
When angling, the fisherman (known as the angler) will first throw the hook (i.e. cast) to a chosen area of water, and then patiently wait for fish to attack and eat the hookbait. It is also not uncommon for the angler to scatter some loose bait (groundbait) around the spot before even casting the hook, in order to better attract fish with scents. If a fish has succumbed to its own feeding instinct and swallowed the hook (i.e. bite or strike), the hook point will pierce into and anchor itself inside the fish mouth, gullet or gill, and the fish in turn becomes firmly tethered to the fishing rod via the fishing line. Once the fish is hooked (often colloquially called fish-on), any struggles and attempts to escape will pull along the line, causing the bite indicator to signal the angler, who jerks the rod to further secure the hook anchorage (i.e. setting the hook) and then tries to retrieve the line back, pulling the fish closer in the process.
Bridgewater Canal, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3EL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG40J2 - Angling is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook or angle (from Old English angol) attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth. The fishing line is usually manipulated via a fishing rod, although rodless techniques such as handlining and longlining also exist. Modern angling rods are usually fitted with a reel that functions as a cranking device for storing, retrieving and releasing out the line, although Tenkara fishing and cane pole fishing are two rod-angling methods that do not use any reel. The hook itself can be additionally weighted with a dense tackle called a sinker, and is typically dressed with an appetizing bait to attract the fish and enticing it into swallowing the hook, but sometimes an inedible fake bait with multiple attached hooks (known as a lure) is used instead of a single hook with edible bait. A bite indicator, such as a float or a quiver tip, is often used to relay underwater status of the hook to the surface.
When angling, the fisherman (known as the angler) will first throw the hook (i.e. cast) to a chosen area of water, and then patiently wait for fish to attack and eat the hookbait. It is also not uncommon for the angler to scatter some loose bait (groundbait) around the spot before even casting the hook, in order to better attract fish with scents. If a fish has succumbed to its own feeding instinct and swallowed the hook (i.e. bite or strike), the hook point will pierce into and anchor itself inside the fish mouth, gullet or gill, and the fish in turn becomes firmly tethered to the fishing rod via the fishing line. Once the fish is hooked (often colloquially called fish-on), any struggles and attempts to escape will pull along the line, causing the bite indicator to signal the angler, who jerks the rod to further secure the hook anchorage (i.e. setting the hook) and then tries to retrieve the line back, pulling the fish closer in the process.
Bridgewater Canal, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 3EL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Manchester,England,UK,GB,North West England,city centre,Northern Quarter,M4,Oak street,art,crafts,City Centre,fish,poultry,phone,Dea,2752,cafe,M4 5JD,cabin,window,sign,booth,stall,stalls,glass,wholesale,Smithfield,market,old,green,and,white,chicken,seafood,history,historic,fishmongers
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RPGEKD - . A detailed visual record sets out the physical context of 17 Oak St, Manchester, UK, M4 5JD, in a time-specific record from 2019. The frame is associated with Fish and Poultry office, E. Gibbons, at Manchester Craft Village, Oak street, North West England, UK, M4 5JD. The photograph carries associations with local tourism, urban fabric, food culture, customer service, historic townscape, conservation interest, urban conservation, townscape identity, historic fabric, hospitality trade, historic environment, and architectural detail. For present-day editorial use, older urban fabric can also illustrate debates about planning control and conservation of original fabric, particularly where these affect heritage-led regeneration. Modern coverage of restaurants and hotels frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of staffing, delivery-platform competition and resilient local hospitality. Over time, this view of 17 Oak St, Manchester, UK, M4 5JD can support local-history and planning research by preserving details of appearance, occupation, signage, public access and everyday use that written records may omit. The scene also relates to heritage streetscape, built heritage, local dining, destination economy, food service, food-and-drink business. Associated details include fishmonger, dea2752, E Gibbons, Fish & poultry, Tib St, NQ4. The location further reflects tourist accommodation, architectural character, leisure venue, visitor economy, hospitality premises, heritage asset, restaurant sector, period property, service economy, and catering trade. In the mid-2020s, older urban fabric is increasingly discussed through planning control and redevelopment pressure, with attention turning to heritage-led regeneration. That gives this view of 17 Oak St, Manchester, UK, M4 5JD continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison. The period detail at 17 Oak St, Manchester, UK, M4 5JD adds another layer of local evidence.
17 Oak St, Manchester, UK, M4 5JD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF5CY - . A grounded editorial photograph places on record the character of 27 Bloom St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3JE, M1, in a 2019 record. Within that setting the photograph concentrates on I heart Fish and Chips sign , I love Fish and Chips, Fish Bar, Bloom St, Krispy Fried Fish & Chips, Gay Village, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. The location can also be described in terms of hospitality premises, tourism economy, service economy, leisure venue, leisure hospitality, visitor economy, food service, tourist accommodation, consumer leisure, hospitality employment, hospitality trade, and destination economy. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, hospitality businesses also connects with staffing, changing visitor patterns and efforts aimed at distinctive visitor experiences. Small period details preserved at 27 Bloom St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3JE, M1 may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage. Beyond the immediate subject, the setting involves catering trade, customer service, food-and-drink business, local tourism, visitor destination, local dining. Further recorded details include Fish & Chips Sign, bad diet, fatty food, poor diet, junk food. Its context additionally embraces food culture, and restaurant sector. Modern coverage of food service frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of delivery-platform competition, food and energy costs and adaptable venues. The lasting documentary value lies in its record of period design, changes of use, public activity, the appearance of the built environment, and local character at this precise location. For future comparison, the scene preserves signage and branding, local continuity, community life, commercial identity, and physical infrastructure within the surrounding area.
27 Bloom St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3JE, M1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTG9 - . A grounded editorial photograph records the character of 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH, in a 2018 record. The principal recorded subject is Excel Fish Bar, 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH - Spreadsheet Supper bar and fast food. The photograph carries associations with consumer leisure, shopfront economy, bricks-and-mortar retail, chain-store economy, catering trade, tourist accommodation, hospitality trade, customer footfall, food culture, food-and-drink business, tourism economy, and commercial streetscape. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, high-street retail also connects with online shopping, shifts in leisure spending and efforts aimed at heritage-led regeneration. The wider contemporary story of restaurants and hotels now includes changing visitor patterns alongside staffing, while policy and investment increasingly consider sustainable tourism. The photograph fixes 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed. The location additionally reflects destination economy, city-centre economy, storefront culture, hospitality premises, hospitality employment, visitor destination. The scene is further associated with West Street Bridgwater, British Chip Shop, fried food, spreadsheet formulas, Chinese takeaway, takeaway food. The same setting also brings together leisure venue, commercial frontage, high-street commerce, service economy, shopping district, restaurant sector, local dining, food service, local tourism, and leisure hospitality. Modern coverage of physical shops frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of brand consolidation, vacant premises and heritage-led regeneration.
73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,South West England,Spreadsheet Supper bar,Chip Shop,Chinese meals to takeaway,Chinese meals takeaway,Excel Formulas,spreadsheet food,Bridgwater takeaways,spreadsheet formula,Vlookup,Chippy,Fish bar,fast food,UK,TA6 3RH,Somerset,sign,Bridgwater fast food,Fish and Chips sign,spreadsheet,spreadsheets,fish,chip,chips,bar,snack,snack bar,Fish & Chips,supper,chippy tea,chippy,open,73,West Street,Chinese meals,to,take away
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTGF - . A carefully observed scene records the social and built context of 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH, in an image captured in 2018. The documentary focus is Excel Fish Bar, 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH - Spreadsheet Supper bar and fast food. The location can also be described in terms of customer footfall, high-street commerce, visitor economy, retail property, tourism economy, destination economy, local tourism, independent retail, commercial streetscape, leisure hospitality, food culture, and food service. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, high-street retail also connects with changing footfall, shifts in leisure spending and efforts aimed at adaptable commercial space. The wider contemporary story of restaurants and hotels now includes staffing alongside changing visitor patterns, while policy and investment increasingly consider adaptable venues. The photograph fixes 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed. The location additionally reflects catering trade, retail decline and renewal, hospitality premises, customer service, city-centre economy, storefront culture. The record also refers to West Street Bridgwater, British Chip Shop, fried food, spreadsheet formulas, Chinese takeaway, takeaway food. A more expansive reading adds shopping district, food-and-drink business, consumer retail, visitor destination, local trading, consumer leisure, shopping habits, chain-store economy, urban commerce, and hospitality employment. Modern coverage of commercial property frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of shifts in leisure spending, vacant premises and adaptable commercial space.
73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Somerset,UK,TA6 3RH,Spreadsheet Supper bar,fast food,Chip Shop,Chippy,Fish bar,Chinese meals to takeaway,Chinese meals takeaway,Vlookup,Excel Formulas,spreadsheet formula,spreadsheet food,Bridgwater takeaways,Bridgwater fast food,Fish and Chips sign,sign,spreadsheet,spreadsheets,fish,chip,chips,bar,snack,snack bar,Fish & Chips,supper,chippy tea,chippy,open,73,West Street,Chinese meals,to,take away,vintage,1970s
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTHF - . An on-location image records the visible identity of 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH, in an image captured in 2018. The supplied image information identifies Excel Fish Bar, 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH - Spreadsheet Supper bar and fast food. The location can also be described in terms of independent retail, tourist accommodation, consumer spending, service economy, food service, consumer leisure, retail property, town-centre trading, local tourism, catering trade, hospitality premises, and hospitality employment. In the mid-2020s, independent trading is increasingly discussed through operating costs and online shopping, with attention turning to bringing empty units back into use. For present-day editorial use, local dining can also illustrate debates about seasonality and commercial rents, particularly where these affect stronger town-centre leisure economies. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves. Beyond the immediate subject, the setting involves food culture, destination economy, tourism economy, restaurant sector, shopfront economy, consumer retail. The record also refers to West Street Bridgwater, British Chippy, British Chip Shop, takeaway food, fried food, Chinese takeaway. A more expansive reading adds leisure hospitality, shopping district, retail vacancy, retail decline and renewal, shopping habits, bricks-and-mortar retail, visitor economy, high-street commerce, commercial frontage, and hospitality trade. Current debate around physical shops often combines hybrid working, brand consolidation and the practical challenge of mixed-use town centres. The dated view captures a stage in local change as evidence of its time.
73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Germany,German,Rhine,City Centre,city,ancient Mogontiacum,ancient,Mogontiacum,historic,town,55116 Mainz,55116,St stephen,saint stephen,Marc Chagall,St Stephan zu Mainz,St. Stephan,zu Mainz,window,windows,history,Gothic hall,collegiate church,Collegiate Church of St. Stephan,door,handle,fish,fish handle,cross,copper,St Stephan Mainz door,St stephen Mainz door,arch,archway,entrance,mogontiacum
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RGGE55 - The Collegiate Church of St. Stephan, known in German as St. Stephan zu Mainz, is a Gothic hall collegiate church located in the German city of Mainz. It is known for windows created by Marc Chagall.
St. Stephan was originally built in 990 at the order of Archbishop Willigis, who also initiated the building of Mainz Cathedral. The church was founded on top of the highest hill in the town, most likely on behalf of Theophanu, the widow of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor. Willigis intended the church to be a site of prayer for the Empire.
The provost of the Collegiate Church administered one of the archdiaconates (a medieval organizational form similar to today's diaconates) of the Archbishopric of Mainz.
The current church building dates from the late medieval era
construction of the main area of the church began in about 1267 and was completed in 1340. The successional building kept the guidelines of the floor plan of the original Willigis building and with it the design as a double choir church. St. Stephan is the oldest Gothic hall church in the Upper Rhine district, and is (besides Mainz Cathedral) the most important church in the city of Mainz.
View of the Gothic cloister of St. Stephan, rebuilt 1968-71 after heavy destruction in World War II
Only a few changes have been made to the church since the 14th century. The cloister, for instance, was added between 1462 and 1499 to the southern side of the church, and the outer face of the church was updated during the Baroque period. In 1857 a great explosion in a nearby powder magazine (Mainz was a federal fortress in the 19th century) destroyed the baroque facing of the church.
St. Stephan was heavily damaged in the cause of the bombing of Mainz in World War II. The cloister was heavily damaged and was rebuilt between 1968 and 1971
the restoration of the huge western belfry was also completed at that time, albeit with some difficulty.
Kleine Weißgasse 12, 55116 Mainz, Germany
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Silverstone,car,Formula One,track,people,spectators,spectator,fast food,Fish & Chips,fish,chips,Fish and Chips,the circuit,circuit,F1,F1 Circuit,British,British Formula 1 Championship,British Grand Prix,food,dish,Festival,shaped,like,a,lighthouse,England,UK,sunny,summer,crowds,variety,unit,stalls,partner,Freeman,Event,Partners
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P8HWBT - . Recorded at Silverstone Circuit, Towcester NN12 8TL in 2018, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The principal subject is British Festival Fish and Chip shop shaped like a lighthouse, England, UK. The locality and subject together evoke town-centre economy, historic streetscape, urban fabric, visual archive, before-and-after reference, everyday life, place identity, changing land use, cityscape history, adaptive reuse, conservation architecture, period architecture, commercial streetscape, and high-street commerce. The wider contemporary story combines online shopping, independent business and how consumer spending and property costs shape local commercial streets. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with embodied carbon, maintenance and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character. Small period details of materials and architectural details at Silverstone Circuit, Towcester NN12 8TL may become more significant with time, particularly following replacement signage. The wider setting retains connections with public realm, retail property, period building, contemporary social history, specialist retailer, customer footfall, local trading, and built heritage. References to British, Festival, shaped, and lighthouse give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For Silverstone Circuit, Towcester NN12 8TL, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence of online shopping and the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy within the real-world context of Silverstone Circuit, Towcester NN12 8TL. The image fixes details of everyday use within the wider story of Silverstone Circuit, Towcester NN12 8TL.
Silverstone Circuit, Towcester NN12 8TL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MGMJWG - . A grounded documentary photograph made at 10 High St, Northwich CW9, UK in 2018, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The main point of reference is Fish & Chips fried in Beef Dripping Sign. Another layer of the photograph includes street furniture, transport stop marker, visual archive, high-street commerce, documentary photography, small business, changing streetscape, regional identity, public realm, commercial streetscape, public information signage, period detail, retail property, and visitor guidance. Current relevance extends to business rates and independent business, particularly through how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into navigation and public safety, not least because of the importance of clear wayfinding in public and transport environments. Future viewers can use this scene from 10 High St, Northwich CW9, UK to compare transport arrangements and footfall with whatever follows after later reinterpretation. The surrounding story also includes route marker, customer footfall, street-level business, specialist retailer, roadside information, navigation aid, local history, and independent retail. References to fried, Chips, and Dripping give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. A later view of 10 High St, Northwich CW9, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The image also provides a reference for business rates and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding without losing the local specificity of 10 High St, Northwich CW9, UK. The frame retains part of the area's social history as a date-specific reference. The scene captures details of everyday use for later comparison.
10 High St, Northwich CW9, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Europe,fishing,Office,EU,offices,fish,industry,south,southern,south east,port,dock,dockside,Alicante,Spain,fresh fish,market,freshly,caught,fellowship,of,fishermen,Moraira auction,auction,covers,covered,windows,cofradia,building,organisation,federation,catch,sale,sales,selling,HotpixUK.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2DA91GJ - . A location-based documentary photograph from Calle Del Mar, 0 S/N, 03724 Moraira, Alicante, Spain, useful both for its immediate subject and for the smaller period details around it. At the heart of the image is Office of Cofradia de pescadores Moraira Fishermen,Alicante, Spain, EU - fresh fish market. The scene can also be read in terms of local character, community identity, social history, retail property, bricks-and-mortar retail, consumer retail, retail vacancy, shopping district, period detail, archival record, visual archive, social landscape, before-and-after reference, and commercial frontage. In the mid-2020s, hybrid working and commercial rents keep this subject current, particularly through the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names. For later comparison, the photograph preserves street furniture and boundaries at Calle Del Mar, 0 S/N, 03724 Moraira, Alicante, Spain, details that may look very different after new ownership. The surrounding context includes customer footfall, place identity, regional identity, local trading, changing streetscape, urban commerce, contemporary history, and historical comparison. References to Fishermen, Alicante, market, fresh, and Office give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to the named subject. For Calle Del Mar, 0 S/N, 03724 Moraira, Alicante, Spain, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which small changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence for hybrid working and the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names in a form that can be compared with future views of Calle Del Mar, 0 S/N, 03724 Moraira, Alicante, Spain. A further contemporary connection is vacant units and how high streets adapt when traditional retail contracts within the real-world context of Calle Del Mar, 0 S/N, 03724 Moraira, Alicante, Spain.
Calle Del Mar, 0 S/N, 03724 Moraira, Alicante, Spain
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,Great Britain,British,NI,Ireland,Ulster,community,politics,politicians,BT1,Belfast,Antrim,Northern Ireland,BT1 5GS,Donegall Square,city hall,city,centre,color,coloured,colour,windows,window,&,ingenuity,H&W,shipbuilding,ship,ships,history,stained glass,fish,fishing
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PM628W - . Titanic & Ulster ingenuity, maritime stained glass at Belfast City Hall, Donegall Square North, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, BT1 5GS. Photographed on 19 August 2017, this summer image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Donegall Square North, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, BT1 5GS, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Ireland, Ulster, community, politics, politicians, BT1, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT1 5GS, Donegall Square, city hall, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. Architecturally, the scene records the form, materials, scale and public-facing character of the built environment, making it useful for coverage of design, planning, conservation, development and urban identity. The image has value for architectural and place-based research because buildings and interiors can be refurbished, repurposed, demolished or substantially altered, while streets and public spaces also evolve. The religious or ecclesiastical setting gives the photograph relevance to faith, worship, sacred architecture, stained glass, church heritage, tourism and the conservation of historic interiors and buildings. It can illustrate the continuing cultural role of churches and cathedrals as places of worship, community activity, music, remembrance and architectural interest. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison.
Donegall Square North, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, BT1 5GS
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Keywords: stone,brick,Victorian,carved,sculpted,figures,Manchester,city,centre,England,history,historic,feature,features,gate,gated,retail,wholesale,Northern,Quarter,greater,powerhouse,Booth,Mayor,fish,gate,gates,fish,Smithfield Markets,Northern Quarter,Manchester Northern Quarter,Greater Manchester,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,United,Kingdom,GB,English,British,fishermen,trade,traders,trader,seller,baskets,basket,rod,rods,city,centre,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,United Kingdom,Great Britain
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ796C - . This location-specific image from High St, Manchester, England, UK in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The photograph centres on Smithfield old fish Markets sculpted figures,Manchester city centre, England,UK. The image also relates to place identity, contemporary mural, street-level design, visual archive, changing streetscape, temporary artwork, graffiti heritage, visual street culture, changing land use, street creativity, documentary photography, urban graphics, social history, and contemporary social history. For current editorial use, tourism and creative industries provide additional context, especially through how temporary street art becomes an important visual archive. The archival value lies partly in recording building condition and alterations around High St, Manchester, England, UK before changing commercial priorities alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include mural culture, period detail, local character, local history, public-realm art, before-and-after reference, regional identity, and public art. References to sculpted, Markets, Smithfield, Manchester, and figures give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. By fixing the subject within High St, Manchester, England, UK, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The scene further reflects tourism and how temporary street art becomes an important visual archive as part of the longer story of High St, Manchester, England, UK. Its period value extends to graffiti policy and how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time when considered against later change at High St, Manchester, England, UK. The record includes evidence of earlier appearance within the wider story of High St, Manchester, England, UK.
High St, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ796F - . This dated editorial view of High St, Manchester, England, UK in 2016 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The photograph centres on Smithfield old Markets sculpted figures,Manchester city centre, England,UK -Fish sales. Another layer of the photograph includes contemporary social history, visual street culture, urban artwork, temporary artwork, place identity, changing land use, contemporary mural, regional identity, street-level design, period detail, archival record, visual archive, social history, and public realm. The modern context includes continuing discussion of graffiti policy, temporary works and how temporary street art becomes an important visual archive. Future viewers can use this scene from High St, Manchester, England, UK to compare commercial use and occupation with whatever follows after replacement signage. The subject also sits alongside documentary photography, local history, everyday life, historical comparison, community identity, graffiti heritage, public-realm art, and creative placemaking. The combination of sculpted, -Fish, Manchester, Markets, and sales anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. By fixing the subject within High St, Manchester, England, UK, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. A further contemporary connection is graffiti policy and how temporary street art becomes an important visual archive within the real-world context of High St, Manchester, England, UK. The wider significance includes tourism and how temporary street art becomes an important visual archive within the specific setting of High St, Manchester, England, UK. Another strand within the photograph is graffiti policy and the role of murals in defining creative neighbourhoods as part of the longer story of High St, Manchester, England, UK.
High St, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: Pano,wide,shot,wideshot,West,Yorkshire,stone,tower,towering,centre,proud,Eastgate,quarters,shop,shopping,retail,LS,largest,market,in,Europe,meat,fish,entrance.indoor,exterior,sign,horizontal,landscape,stall,urban,cupola,roof,detail,Edwardian,Vicar Lane,GoTonySmith,England,UK,GB,Great Britain,United,Kingdom,stalls,creative,different,architecture,attraction,marketplace,quirky,retail,shopping,shops,stylish,tourist,traders,unique,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EY7XE1 - Leeds Kirkgate Market (pronounced /ˈkɜrɡət/) is a market in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England located on Vicar Lane. It is the largest covered market in Europe. There are currently 800 stalls which attract over 100,000 visitors a week
The markets are situated with their front facing onto Vicar Lane and the southern face onto Kirkgate. To the east is Leeds City bus station, while to the north is an open car park, which will become part of the Eastgate Quarters, should that development take place. To the south of the open market is the markets multi-storey car park operated by National Car Parks (NCP). From across Vicar Lane, the markets are connected to Briggate via the Victoria Quarter.
Vicar lane, Leeds,West Yorkshire,England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EY7XE4 - Leeds Kirkgate Market (pronounced /ˈkɜrɡət/) is a market in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England located on Vicar Lane. It is the largest covered market in Europe. There are currently 800 stalls which attract over 100,000 visitors a week
The markets are situated with their front facing onto Vicar Lane and the southern face onto Kirkgate. To the east is Leeds City bus station, while to the north is an open car park, which will become part of the Eastgate Quarters, should that development take place. To the south of the open market is the markets multi-storey car park operated by National Car Parks (NCP). From across Vicar Lane, the markets are connected to Briggate via the Victoria Quarter.
Vicar lane, Leeds,West Yorkshire,England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EY7XFH - Leeds Kirkgate Market (pronounced /ˈkɜrɡət/) is a market in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England located on Vicar Lane. It is the largest covered market in Europe. There are currently 800 stalls which attract over 100,000 visitors a week
The markets are situated with their front facing onto Vicar Lane and the southern face onto Kirkgate. To the east is Leeds City bus station, while to the north is an open car park, which will become part of the Eastgate Quarters, should that development take place. To the south of the open market is the markets multi-storey car park operated by National Car Parks (NCP). From across Vicar Lane, the markets are connected to Briggate via the Victoria Quarter.
Vicar lane, Leeds,West Yorkshire,England, UK
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Keywords: UK,United,Kingdom,miso,fried,healthy,food,traditional,interesting,tourist,meal,meals,Yorkshire,west,chopstick,United Kingdom,Miso Soup,West Yorkshire,GoTonySmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Deep-fried,Fried-food,Fried,Food,lunch,Japanese,Japan,batter,battered,tempura,prawn,fish,soup,menu,plate,chopsticks,wooden Chopstick,tofu,fat
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EY7XWE - . This authentic period view of Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK in 2015 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The location is represented through Meal in a Japanese Restaurant, Leeds, England, UK- Sashimi Tempura Miso Soup. Other connected aspects include changing land use, British food tradition, traditional takeaway, historical comparison, food-and-drink heritage, changing streetscape, visual archive, everyday life, social history, popular cuisine, local history, public realm, food heritage, and regional food culture. From a 2025-onward perspective, tourism and changing diets are closely linked to this subject, alongside how food signs and shopfronts become part of urban cultural identity. Future viewers can use this scene from Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK to compare equipment and working practice with whatever follows after replacement signage. The surrounding story also includes place identity, documentary photography, before-and-after reference, street food culture, comfort food, community identity, contemporary social history, and everyday cuisine. Elements such as Leeds, Tempura, Sashimi, Restaurant, and Japanese add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK 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 how food signs and shopfronts become part of urban cultural identity within the specific setting of Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. The location additionally provides evidence of tourism and how familiar dishes remain cultural shorthand for British food as part of the longer story of Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. The view records a point of historical comparison for future local research.
Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: Billy,Island,boat,trip,trips,at,Seahouses,NE,England,Northumberland,Seals,Seal,Golden,gate,Longstone,Lighthouse,Serenity,StCuthbert,St,Cuthbert,shed,ticket,office,offices,tourist,tourism,11am,departure,travel,GB,great,britain,british,maritine,seaside,town,towns,family,fish,Gotonysmith,fishing,hobby,ticket,tickets
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB60 - . Tickets being sold from Serenity sheds at Seahouses, for Farne Island trips, NE England, UK. Photographed at Seahouses, NE England, UK. The photograph was taken on 08 August 2014. The image metadata records 2 people in the frame. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Ticket, sheds, Farne, Island, Trips, Seahouses, tour, Shiel, Islands and Billy, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is a documentary record of an identifiable subject and location, useful for editorial, archive, travel, local-history and social-history picture research. It can support features about everyday life, place, public space, local identity, tourism, consumer behaviour and the changing appearance of towns, cities and communities. Visible objects, signs, buildings and environmental details provide contextual clues that make the image useful beyond its immediate subject. As a dated stock photograph it also offers a reference point for later comparison, especially where businesses, streets, public services or local surroundings subsequently change. Search themes include documentary photography, local history, everyday life, place, public space, travel, community identity, social history and changing surroundings. Its specificity makes it more useful than a generic concept image when an editor needs a recognisable real-world subject and setting. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Seahouses, NE England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB61 - . Billy Shiel boat Tickets being sold from sheds at Seahouses, for Farne Island trips, NE England, UK. Photographed at Seahouses, NE England, UK. The photograph was taken on 08 August 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Ticket, sheds, Farne, Island, Trips, Seahouses, Shiel, Islands, Northumberland and Billy, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is a documentary record of an identifiable subject and location, useful for editorial, archive, travel, local-history and social-history picture research. It can support features about everyday life, place, public space, local identity, tourism, consumer behaviour and the changing appearance of towns, cities and communities. Visible objects, signs, buildings and environmental details provide contextual clues that make the image useful beyond its immediate subject. As a dated stock photograph it also offers a reference point for later comparison, especially where businesses, streets, public services or local surroundings subsequently change. Search themes include documentary photography, local history, everyday life, place, public space, travel, community identity, social history and changing surroundings. Its specificity makes it more useful than a generic concept image when an editor needs a recognisable real-world subject and setting. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Seahouses, NE England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB62 - . Tickets being sold from Golden Gate Boat sheds at Seahouses, for Farne Island trips, NE England, UK. Photographed at Seahouses, NE England, UK. The photograph was taken on 08 August 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Ticket, sheds, Farne, Island, Trips, Seahouses, tour, Shiel, Islands and Billy, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is a documentary record of an identifiable subject and location, useful for editorial, archive, travel, local-history and social-history picture research. It can support features about everyday life, place, public space, local identity, tourism, consumer behaviour and the changing appearance of towns, cities and communities. Visible objects, signs, buildings and environmental details provide contextual clues that make the image useful beyond its immediate subject. As a dated stock photograph it also offers a reference point for later comparison, especially where businesses, streets, public services or local surroundings subsequently change. Search themes include documentary photography, local history, everyday life, place, public space, travel, community identity, social history and changing surroundings. Its specificity makes it more useful than a generic concept image when an editor needs a recognisable real-world subject and setting. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Seahouses, NE England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy E6JB63 - . St Cuthbert boat Tickets being sold from sheds at Seahouses, for Farne Island trips, NE England, UK. Photographed at Seahouses, NE England, UK. The photograph was taken on 08 August 2014. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Ticket, sheds, Farne, Island, Trips, Seahouses, Northumberland, StCuthbert, Billy and Shiel, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is a documentary record of an identifiable subject and location, useful for editorial, archive, travel, local-history and social-history picture research. It can support features about everyday life, place, public space, local identity, tourism, consumer behaviour and the changing appearance of towns, cities and communities. Visible objects, signs, buildings and environmental details provide contextual clues that make the image useful beyond its immediate subject. As a dated stock photograph it also offers a reference point for later comparison, especially where businesses, streets, public services or local surroundings subsequently change. Search themes include documentary photography, local history, everyday life, place, public space, travel, community identity, social history and changing surroundings. Its specificity makes it more useful than a generic concept image when an editor needs a recognisable real-world subject and setting. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Seahouses, NE England, UK
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Keywords: Maggie,pub,Grassmarket,Edinburgh,Scotland,UK,tourist,bar,bars,pubs,Belhaven best,GoTonySmith,oldtown,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,famous,Caledonia,Best,ale,beer,EH1,EH1 2JR,Old Town,brewery,customers,drinker,drinkers,fishwife,from,Musselburgh,fish,wife,Margaret,hauf-hingit Maggie,hauf-hingit,hanged,hanging,Gerda Stevenson
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED1G7 - A popular story in Edinburgh is that of Margaret (or Maggie) Dickson, a fishwife from Musselburgh, whose husband left, possibly press-ganged, to join the Royal Navy. Maggie had gone to work in an inn in the Borders, and was hanged in the Grassmarket in August 1724, at the age of 22 or 23, by hangman John Dalgliesh for murdering her illegitimate baby there by drowning it or placing it in the river Tweed at Kelso, shortly after the birth. After the hanging, a doctor declared Dickson dead, and her family argued with the medical students, who then were only allowed to dissect criminal corpses, so her body was taken back to Musselburgh on a cart. However, on the way there, the story was that her family went for a wake at an inn (possibly Sheep's Heid Inn, Duddingston) when they heard noises from the coffin as she awoke. Under Scots Law, her punishment had been carried out, so she could not be executed for a second time for the same crime (only later were the words until dead added to the sentence of hanging). Her resurrection was also to some extent seen as divine intervention, and so she was allowed to go free. In later life (and legend), she was referred to as hauf-hingit Maggie and attracted curiosity as she was seen back in the Grass-market in October 1724, with an item about a crowd forming to see her in the Scots Magazine. She remarried her husband (as ˜death' had parted them) and lived another 40 years.
A poem in Scots appears in a book Quines by actress Gerda Stevenson
Hauf-hingit Maggie
Deith is wappin when it comes “ like birth, I ken “ I hae warstled throu, an focht wi baith. She wis blue, ma bairn, blue as the breast o a brid I seen oan the banks o the Tweed thon day
then grey, aa wrang, the naelstring windit ticht aroon her neck
I ettled tae lowse it, aince, twice, but it aye slippit “ ¨ma hauns couldnae grup, ma mind skailt ¨ frae the jizzen fecht, ma mooth steekit: no tae scraich, no tae scraich, let nane hear¦
92 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, EH1 2JR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DCYE31 - . This location-specific image from England, Great Britain , UK in 2013 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The scene records Suburban bathroom, with fish shower curtain, bath, pedestal sink wash hand basin. Other connected aspects include changing streetscape, retail property, local character, everyday life, independent retail, documentary photography, archival record, bricks-and-mortar retail, local story.htm Target=_Blank>history, social history, regional identity, place identity, specialist retailer, and town-centre trading. From a 2025-onward perspective, store closures and town-centre regeneration are closely linked to this subject, alongside the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets. As a dated visual record of England, Great Britain , UK, the frame retains equipment and working practice, making it especially useful if closure or conversion subsequently changes the scene. The wider setting retains connections with customer footfall, specialist shop, before-and-after reference, changing land use, local enterprise, small business, commercial frontage, and community identity. Details involving Suburban, curtain, bathroom, shower, and basin make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at England, Great Britain , UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is store closures and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets within the specific setting of England, Great Britain , UK. The wider significance includes store closures and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy as part of the longer story of England, Great Britain , UK. The view records part of the area's social history for later comparison.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDJPGX - In May 2008 it was announced that some of the complex of buildings that hold the Central Library will be demolished and replaced with modern buildings suitable for use with modern IT services. The historic buildings in the complex will be refurbished to provide modern facilities. In October 2009 the proposed rebuild was shown to the public.
The main library building on William Brown Street closed on 23 July 2010, while closed, a temporary service operated from next door, on the second floor of Liverpool World Museum. It re-opened to the public on Friday 17th May 2013.
It is a member of the Libraries Together: Liverpool Learning Partnership (evolved from Liverpool Libraries Group) which formed in 1990. Under which, a registered reader at any of the member libraries can have access rights to the other libraries within the partnership
William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, UK L3 8EW
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8386628455 - 'View this whole set of away from home images here. If you do Twitter add me here.
The Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Tewkesbury, in the English county of Gloucestershire, is the second largest parish church in the country and a former Benedictine monastery. It is one of the finest examples of Norman architecture in Britain, and has probably the largest Romanesque crossing tower in Europe.
In the 10th century the religious foundation at Tewkesbury became a priory subordinate to the Benedictine Cranbourne Abbey in Dorset. In 1087, William the Conqueror gave the manor of Tewkesbury to his cousin, Robert Fitzhamon, who, with Giraldus, Abbot of Cranbourne, founded the present abbey in 1092. Building of the present Abbey church did not start until 1102, employing Caen stone imported from Normandy and floated up the Severn.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the people of Tewkesbury saved the abbey from destruction in 1539: Insisting it was their parish church, which they had the right to keep, they bought it from King Henry VIII for the value of its bells and lead roof which would have been salvaged and melted down, leaving the structure a roofless ruin. The price came to \u00a3453 (\u00a3193,780 as of 2013).
The Abbey's 17th century organ - known as the Milton Organ - was originally made for Magdalen College, Oxford by Robert Dallam. After the English Civil War it was removed to the chapel of Hampton Court Palace and came to Tewkesbury in 1737. Since then, it has undergone several major rebuilds.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RM9AWE - This documentary stock photograph shows Las Vegas Grill, Southend, seafood, 46 Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea SS1 2EN. The scene belongs to the Southend-on-Sea seafront and beachfront leisure strip, a classic Essex seaside setting where amusement arcades, fish and chip shops, pubs, bowling, family attractions and day-trip promenades sit close together. The image is especially useful because it records clear documentary detail, not a generic tourist board view, so it can illustrate real trading frontage, local colour, shop signs, coastal leisure and the everyday economy of a British resort town. Southend has long depended on visitors arriving for the pier, beach, amusements and evening hospitality, and images like this help explain how traditional seaside places continue to balance nostalgia with modern retail, food, drink and entertainment uses. Editorial buyers could use it for stories about coastal regeneration, seaside tourism, amusement arcades, family holidays, local business survival, seasonal employment, consumer spending, waterfront redevelopment, heritage leisure and the social history of British day trips. It also works for commentary on how resort towns present themselves visually, with bright signs, familiar names, glass-fronted arcades, food offers and a dense mixture of leisure uses competing for passing footfall. For SEO and stock search, relevant composite terms include Southend seafront amusement arcade, Essex seaside tourism, British beachfront entertainment, family coastal day out, traditional seaside economy, high street leisure frontage and UK resort town regeneration. The value is in the combination of place-specific caption wording, visible subject matter and practical editorial usefulness. It could support news, magazine, web, travel, council, planning, business, heritage, nostalgia, tourism, consumer affairs and local economy content where a real coastal street scene is needed rather than a polished stock illustration.
46 Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea, Essex,UK, SS1 2EN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RM9AWF - This documentary stock photograph shows Las Vegas Grill, Southend, seafood, 46 Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea SS1 2EN. The scene belongs to the Southend-on-Sea seafront and beachfront leisure strip, a classic Essex seaside setting where amusement arcades, fish and chip shops, pubs, bowling, family attractions and day-trip promenades sit close together. The image is especially useful because it records readable signage, not a generic tourist board view, so it can illustrate real trading frontage, local colour, shop signs, coastal leisure and the everyday economy of a British resort town. Southend has long depended on visitors arriving for the pier, beach, amusements and evening hospitality, and images like this help explain how traditional seaside places continue to balance nostalgia with modern retail, food, drink and entertainment uses. Editorial buyers could use it for stories about coastal regeneration, seaside tourism, amusement arcades, family holidays, local business survival, seasonal employment, consumer spending, waterfront redevelopment, heritage leisure and the social history of British day trips. It also works for commentary on how resort towns present themselves visually, with bright signs, familiar names, glass-fronted arcades, food offers and a dense mixture of leisure uses competing for passing footfall. For SEO and stock search, relevant composite terms include Southend seafront amusement arcade, Essex seaside tourism, British beachfront entertainment, family coastal day out, traditional seaside economy, high street leisure frontage and UK resort town regeneration. The value is in the combination of place-specific caption wording, visible subject matter and practical editorial usefulness. It could support news, magazine, web, travel, council, planning, business, heritage, nostalgia, tourism, consumer affairs and local economy content where a real coastal street scene is needed rather than a polished stock illustration.
46 Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea, Essex,UK, SS1 2EN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HF3H - Daresbury Laboratory NCESS Dept machine, Cheshire UK
National Centre for Electron Spectroscopy and Surface Analysis. The National Centre for Electron Spectroscopy and Surface Analysis, brings together industry and academe to address problems in materials science, surface science and engineering.
Collaborative research programmes with industry and the academic community have been set up for targeted research areas, ranging from studies of polymers and composites through to ceramics, semiconductors, metals and novel materials. It offers repayment services to industry and has an EPSRC user programme which provides and supports access to its facilities to help academic groups with their own research programmes.
Daresbury Laboratory, Keckwick La, Warrington, Cheshire, England UK WA4 4AD
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5672847773 - 'Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics is the astronomical research centre of the University of Manchester and operates MERLIN, the UK's national radio astronomy facility.
Jodrell Bank is a world leader in radio astronomy-related research and technology development but also carries out research across the electromagnetic spectrum and in theoretical topics. It was first in the west to track the Russian USSR Luna 1 probe.
While the early warning radars at Fylingdales Moor were being constructed Jodrell Bank was held in a sort of readiness to track Soviet ICBM:s by using the big antenna as a radar. The radar tracking of the Sputnik rocket bodies (and later Sputnik 3 itself) demonstrated that the telescope had the capability to detect missiles at great range and the telescope was given an interim ballistic missile early warning role. Presumably also this effort provided some much needed funding for the telescope.
The Centre occupies three main locations: the world-famous Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire (shown here in panorama form, original dimensions 7332x3666pixels), and the Alan Turing and Sackville St Buildings in central Manchester.
The Lovell Telescope has stood proudly over the Cheshire Plain since its completion in 1957 and is the flagship of the Jodrell Bank Observatory. The observatory is a place of learning, teaching and research for the many engineers, astronomers and students who develop and use the radio telescopes here.
This is an infrared shot taken with a 720nm adapted SLR. It is more convenient to use than using a Hoya R72 for IR. This spring day was good for infrared.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D96MR5 - Exeter West signal box 'Dog Chart' track layout diagram at dusk (wide angle fisheye lens view)
Exeter West signal box is not at Exeter - it is at Crewe.
Why is this? Because a group of dedicated individuals saved the signalbox from demolition when the signalling in the Exeter area was renewed in 1985, and carefully dismantled it so it could be re-erected as a working museum demonstrating how the larger signal boxes of the past were.
This box is now viewable at Crewe as part of Crewe Heritage Centre display, and signalmen are present most weekends to describe and demonstrate signalling days of the past and answer questions from visitors.
Crewe Railway Station, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK CW1 2DB
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5076530742 - 'A Northern Soul - 'The Verve' - Play this track here.
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Released June 1995, A Northern Soul is the second studio album by English rock band The Verve. The title is a reference to Northern Soul, a popular soul movement in Britain during the 1960s at which Wigan (The Wigan casino) was near its epicentre.
The Verve formed in 1990 in Wigan with Richard Ashcroft on vox, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones, and drummer Peter Salisbury. Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to shoegazing and space rock, by the mid-1990s the band had released several EPs and three albums.
I had first heard a track from their first album on a magazine compilation and was then hooked.
For this 2nd album the band de-camped to their Wigan-based practice room to begin writing and recording songs for their second studio album. Commenting on the effect that working in the 'dank rehearsal room' had on the band's songwriting process, frontman Richard Ashcroft stated:
'Practising in a dungeon in Wigan for this record, you're devoid of any kind of fashion, or thought of 'This is what we should be doing'. Like a band that goes into the studio and plays the music they hear in their heads rather than what they read in magazines'.
Critical acclaim was heaped upon the album (justifyably). Guitar Magazine writer Dan Eccleston claimed 'the band retreated to their Wigan rehearsal room and plugged in, tuned up and flipped out into that parallel universe wherein the Verve song resides. And the result is A Northern Soul - a record whose deep, dark funky rock makes their actually rather lovely '93 debut A Storm in Heaven sound almost limp. The Verve essence remains - swirling guitar arpeggios, grand rock themes, sprawling structures - but it's warmer, denser and more powerful in every way.'
If you like this track, this album or Urban Hymms which followed it should be your starting point. Tell 'em I sent you!
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Wigan Athletic Football Club is a professional football (Soccer ! ) team based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. They compete in the Premier League, in which they have been playing since their promotion from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.
They have played at the DW Stadium since 1999, which they now own, sharing the stadium with rugby league club Wigan Warriors. They previously played at Springfield Park for 67 years.
As of the 2009\u201310 season, Wigan Athletic are the youngest club in the Premier League, having only been formed in 1932. Sporting goods retailer JJB Sports\u2014whose former chairman Dave Whelan owns Wigan Athletic and his company DW Sports Fitness is currently the stadium's main sponsor.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5580256000 - 'Hash Pipe - 'Weezer' - Play this track here..
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Just when you thought pipes were so yesterday.....
One of my favourite tracks, good to hear it today!
'Hash Pipe' is a song by US indie rock band Weezer. Released in 2001, it was the first single off the band's long-awaited third album, Weezer (The Green Album).
The song was aparently inspired by a male transvestite prostitute known for rambling to people in Santa Monica. Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson is featured on the cover of the song's CD single holding a pack of Natural American Spirit cigarettes that has been blurred out due to copyright issues.
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The new white Samuel Beckett Bridge (Irish: Droichead Samuel Beckett) is a cable-stayed bridge in Dublin that joins Sir John Rogerson's Quay on the south side of the River Liffey to Guild Street and North Wall Quay in the Docklands area.
The architect is Santiago Calatrava, a designer of a number of innovative bridges and buildings. This is the second bridge in the area designed by Calatrava, the first being the James Joyce Bridge, which is further upstream.
Constructed by a 'Graham Hollandia Joint Venture', the main span of the Samuel Beckett Bridge is supported by 31 cable stays from a doubly back-stayed single forward arc tubular tapered spar, with decking provided for four traffic and two pedestrian lanes. It is also capable of opening through an angle of 90 degrees allowing ships to pass through. This is achieved through a rotational mechanism housed in the base of the pylon.
The shape of the spar and its cables is said to evoke an image of a harp, a symbol of Ireland lying on its edge.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4846909105 - 'Very local to me, Chester city cathedral is the mother church of the Church of the Diocese of Chester, and is located in the administrative walled city. The cathedral, formerly St Werburgh's abbey church of a Benedictine monastery, is dedicated to Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Since 1541 it has been the centre of worship, administration, ceremony and music for the city and diocese.
The cathedral is a Grade I listed building, and the heritage site, including the former monastic buildings, lying to the north of the cathedral is also listed Grade I. The cathedral, typical of English cathedrals in having been modified many times, dates from between 1093 and the early 1500s, although the site itself may have been used for Christian worship since Roman times. All the major styles of English medieval architecture, from Norman to Perpendicular are represented in the present building.
The cathedral and monastic buildings were extensively restored during the 19th century amidst some controversy, and a free-standing bell-tower was added in the 20th century. The buildings are a major tourist attraction in Chester, a city of historic, cultural and architectural importance. In addition to holding services for Christian worship, the cathedral is used as a venue for concerts and exhibitions.
The city of Chester was an important Roman stronghold (Deva). There may have been a Christian basilica on the site of the present cathedral in the late Roman era, while Chester was controlled by Legio XX Valeria Victrix. Legend holds that the basilica was dedicated to St Paul and St Peter. This is supported by evidence that in Saxon times the dedication of an early chapel on this site was changed from St Peter to St Werburgh. In the 10th century, St Werburgh's remains were brought to Chester, and 907 AD her shrine was placed in the church.
The interior of Chester Cathedral gives a warm and mellow appearance because of the pinkish colour of the sandstone. The proportions appear spacious because the view from the west end of the nave to the east end is unimpeded by a pulpitum and the nave, although not long, is both wide and high compared with many of England's cathedrals. The piers of the nave and choir are widely spaced, those of the nave carrying only the clerestory of large windows with no triforium gallery. The proportions are made possible partly because the ornate stellar vault, like that at York Minster, is of wood, not stone.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4921444378 - 'The Bottle - 'Gil Scott-Heron' - Play this track here.
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'The Bottle' is a song by American soul artist Gil Scott-Heron and musician Brian Jackson, released in 1974 on Strata-East Records in the United States.
The song was issued as the first and only single for Scott-Heron's and Jackson's album Winter in America (1974). It became an underground and cult hit upon its release, and the single peaked at number 15 on the R&
B Singles Chart. Cited by music critics as the album's best recording, the commercial success of 'The Bottle' helped lead to Jackson's and Scott-Heron's next recording contract with Arista Records. Similar to other compositions by Scott-Heron, the song has been sampled extensively by hip hop artists.
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The Liverpool Cains brewery was founded by Irish immigrant Robert Cain in 1858 when he was able to buy an established brewery. Cain had begun his brewing career aged 24 when he purchased a pub and brewed his own ales.
Within 25 years of founding his brewery, Cain had established 200 pubs, including The Philharmonic Dining Rooms, The Vines and the Central Commercial Hotel, which are currently listed as being of architectural merit. His personal mansion had each window arch inscribed with his monogram. In 1887 construction began on a second brewery.
In 1921, 14 years after Cain's death, the Cains brewery merged with Walkers of Warrington becoming Walker Cains. Then in 1923 the original Stanhope Street Brewery was sold to Higsons, who continued to brew Cains ales.
In 1985, Higsons was bought by Boddingtons of Manchester. Five years later Boddingtons opted to concentrate on pub ownership and sold all its breweries to Whitbread, at which point the Stanhope Street site was closed.
Since that time, the site has been re-opened by Danes, rescued by the Asian Dusanj brothers and neared administration again. Today it still brews a nice range of real ales and lager. The Brewery Tap (or The Grapes Inn as was), pictured here is an interesting place for a few pints of Cains or Cains. It is about a 15min walk from Liverpool Lime street.
Cains was the official beer of Liverpool's 2008 European Capital of Culture celebrations. For a full story of the Cains history checkout 'Chris Routledge's fine tome 'The Story of Liverpool in a Pint'.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RTB - . A dated documentary view of 4 Winnington Ln, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 4DB in 2010, recording the subject as it appeared at that point rather than as a generic stock illustration. The photograph records Lucky Pete outside Lucky Petes, simply the best chippy in Winnington, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK. A broader reading of the scene brings in consumer retail, commercial frontage, comfort food, urban commerce, independent trading, cultural gastronomy, contemporary social history, commercial streetscape, changing streetscape, traditional cuisine, food-and-drink tradition, national food identity, culinary tradition, and period detail. In the mid-2020s, consumer spending and cultural identity keep the subject current, particularly through the tourism and cultural value of distinctive local cuisine. The subject remains useful for current coverage of town-centre regeneration and consumer spending, not least because of the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names. Looking back from the mid-2020s, the photograph anchors the combination of built form, activity and local identity around 4 Winnington Ln, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 4DB. The surrounding context also covers everyday life, place identity, changing land use, regional speciality, town-centre economy, historical comparison, bricks-and-mortar retail, and festive eating. References to simply, Petes, Lucky, Northwich, and chippy help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. A later view of 4 Winnington Ln, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 4DB 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 consumer spending and the tourism and cultural value of distinctive local cuisine within the specific setting of 4 Winnington Ln, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 4DB.
4 Winnington Ln, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 4DB
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Keywords: interesting,people,lucky,pete,peter,CW8,4DB,CW84DB,Winnington,Northwich,Cheshire,england,britain,small,shop,store,fast,food,fastfood,fish,chips,tonysmith,hotpix,hotpics,uk,hotpixuk,01606,77939,01606-77939,sigma,wide,wide angle lens,sex,sexy,Edinburg,hotpix.rocketmail.com,hotpixuk.rocketmail.com,contact.tony.smith.gmail.com,tony.smith.gmail.com,tonys@miscs.com,tony.smith@mis-ams.com,edimburgh
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4574527758 - 'Lucky Pete outside his traditional british chippy at 4 Winnington Lane, Northwich, Cheshire. I have had a few chip suppers from Petes when photographing gigs and bands just down the road at the w=33062170@N08\'>Winnington Park Rec'. I can recommend his fish in cajun spiced batter, just have some lager at the ready! His sign states 'Simply The Best Chippy In Winnington'. That cannot be denied as he has the 'only' chippy in Winnington, however he does do top chips!
Fish and chips, often referred to as national takeaway food of these islands originated in the victorian era. It is pretty much everywhere and even in rural areas, like Cornwall or Mull, it often arrives by mobile van in the evening. Around 1860, it is legend that the first fish and chip shop was opened in London by Jewish proprietor Joseph Malin who married together 'fish fried in the Jewish fashion' with thick chiped potatoes. In 1863 the chip shop reached Manchester, when a Mr Lees opened a shop in Mossley. Interestingly, throughout world war II, fish and chips remained one of the few foods in the United Kingdom not subject to rationing. Salt and vinegar (spirit preferred) or gravy usually goes with it.
Across britain, fish and chip shops offer a varied menu. Pete covers the usual staples
mushy peas, Dinaclass curry sauce, sausages, heated (but not fried) pies and suit puddings, gravy, fried chicken. Further north you can expect scallops (wide slices of potato in batter), deep fried Mars bars, deep fried pizza and haggis are popular in Scotland. In Edinburgh you would most likely buy a 'supper' with 'Salt n sauce' (watered down brown sauce - 'sottensauce'). In many places you can buy a whole picked egg or individual pickled onions too. In east Anglia and the south east fish roes or rock salmon can often be found.
Most places use vegatable oil these days, but a few proudly fry in lard (and generally have a sign outside shouting the fact). Waste frying oil is sometimes nowadays used to make bio-diesel. Older diesel cars can often run on it without modification. I would not try it in a HDI style engine though!
As a kid I remember the local chippy doing fizzy minerals too. Ben Shaws from Huddesfield with 2p back on the bottle, which was returned. Collect enough of those to take back and you had enough for a bag of chips with batter bits (and pea-wet if you couldn't afford a proper portion of green mushy peas). You always got it in newspaper too, that was before the possible perils of printers ink were legislated for. Still the terrible names are still there
Codfellas, FryDays, 'Good Buy Mr Chips', 'The Fryery' , 'The Codfather', 'The Frying Scotsman' and the classic 'Assault and Battery'.
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Keywords: Market,Street,fish,golden,square,shop,shopping,centre,dusk,night,shot,nightshot,Warrington,Cheshire,UK,England,Christmas,Tony,Smith,TonySmith,Hotpix,Hotpixuk,marketplace,lights,illuminations,Xmas,winter,Xmas lights,Christmas Lights,low,light,ambient,ambiant,lowlight,bulb,setting,bulb setting,365days,photo,photos,photography,photographer,HDR,high dynamic range,building,buildings,built,architecture,noche,nuit
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4104085284 - 'A shot of the old Warrington fish market at dusk looking nice and festive in Golden square, Cheshire UK.
Before the 1970/80's development, the old fishmarket was actually in the space to the left of this shot.
More shots of warrington at dusk can be found here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4084316490/ here
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3782042577/ and here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3709536244/
These are my 2008-2015 images, view my most recent images at HotpixUK-2019 - www.flickr.com/people/167831053@N02/ including my second 365 one a day project
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Keywords: Fish,Holga,TonySmith,120,roll,film,120roll,CFN,tony,smith,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3809636648 - 'Holga CFN 120 Film doble exposure
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: punk,roker,spikey,hair,smoking,ashtray,tattoo,Stockport,Brinnington,Cheshire,UK,Chad,Chez,Channon,BW,Monochrome,girl,woman,female,punkette,pierced,tatoo,tattood,tatto,tat2,smoker,spliff,weed,reefer,fish,net,fishnet,stockings,stocking,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,ink,skin,tattwo,erotic,smoky,ripped,nets,fishnets,punky,cigs,cigarette,ash,tray,tatuaje,\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0430,T\u00e4towierung,tatouage,tatoegering,\u7d0b\u8eab\u82b1\u523a,rocker,punk rockers,sexy,tonysmith,tony,smith,altfashion
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3804964709 - 'Chez at home in Brinnington, Stockport, Manchester, Cheshire England UK.
I photographed Chad and Sheryl's wedding in central Manchester (next to the old MEN newsroom) with a great party of punks. Two brilliant people and so was Ryan their little lad. Old school punks at heart, spirit of 1977.
Carlos and Time were at Dunstable www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3808854783/
Gothic portrait here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3805743676/in/photostream/
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Keywords: sea,Star,fish,starfish,blue,tone,toned,bwb/w,black,white,black & White,black and white,shells,seashore,shore,flotsom,B/W,mono,monochrome,this photo rocks,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3828202260 - 'Autumn Star Fish, shells, sea weed and other seashore flotsom, washed up, near St Ives, Cornwall England UK.
Black and White Mono image blue toned.
More toning here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4343129726/
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Keywords: Dusk,over,England,UK,sea,painters,painter,harbour,shore,blue,hour,tripod,gotonysmith,seaside,town,parish,port,night,lights,nightlights,pano,wide,shot,Celtic,sea,ocean,holiday,resort,fish,fishing,docks,dock,StIves,Borough,Council,tate,resorts best late village Porth La,gotonysmith,EU,Fishing,quota,Brexit,freedom,British,waters,territory,territorial,rights,borders,border,sovereignty,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,territorial waters
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0MY1 - . Dusk over St Ives Bay, South Cornwall, England, UK. Photographed on 1 June 2009. From a heritage perspective, popular destinations are shaped by repeated waves of visitors, transport investment and changing ideas of leisure
Beaches, resorts, historic streets and attractions can therefore be read as both travel imagery and social history. In the longer view, seasonal and low-light photography can emphasise the relationship between natural conditions and the built environment
Dusk, snow, mist or dramatic cloud often reveal lighting, silhouettes and reflective surfaces that are less apparent in ordinary daylight. As of 2026, contemporary tourism is shaped by strong demand for city breaks and leisure travel alongside concerns about sustainability, crowding and the environmental cost of transport
Older destination photographs provide useful comparison with today's visitor economy. Current 2026 relevance comes from the fact that landscape imagery is increasingly used alongside discussion of climate, resilience, tourism and development
Older panoramas can show how skylines, waterfronts and vegetation have changed over a comparatively short period. 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. The wider historical story 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. Historically, popular destinations are shaped by repeated waves of visitors, transport investment and evolving ideas of leisure
Beaches, resorts, historical streets and attractions can therefore be read as both travel imagery and social history. Other useful descriptive phrases include heritage tourism, sightseeing, and visitor attraction.
St Ives Bay, South Cornwall, England, UK
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Keywords: Manchester,Mardi,Gras,collector,pierced,tattoo,tattood,tattoos,tat2,leather,erotic,studs,socialist,alliance,tin,collection,deansgate,england,UK,gay,fest,gayfest,festival,august,bank,holiday,fish,net,fishnet,big,chest,breasts,show,showing,dirty,woman,women,wimmin,femme,lesbian,transgender,transexual,sexual,bi,trans,transvestite,ladyboy,lady,boy,gtreater,mancunia,mancunian,nw,britain,rocks,bare,nipple,slightly,pornographic,rude,porno,fithy,Queer,pink,homosexual,proud,out,coming,stonewall,tatoo,city,tatouage,pride,manchesterpride,racy
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4318167727 - 'A charity collector in the main carnival parade collecting for the Mardi Gras festival charities. The gayfest carnival finishes in Canal Street.
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/
More piercings and tatoos www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4407631870/
Have a look at some of my other Manchester images on Flickr - w=33062170@N08\'>www.flickr.com/search/?q=Manchester&
w=33062170@N08 .
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Keywords: GotonySmith,UK,Scotland,Glasgow,city,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Art Deco,Cocktail Bar,sign,outside,exterior,design,architecture,lettering,1935,G1 3AN,Exchange Place,G1,Oyster Bar,bar,pub,venue,famous,history,historic,cafe,seafood,sea food,meals,logo,oysters,Scottish,Scots,sourced,crab,lobster,fish,restaurant,artdeco
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAEJ1K - In 1935, as the great Cunard liner 'Queen Mary' took shape on the Clyde, a restaurant was refitted in the same Art Deco style and a Glasgow legend was born.
With its unique 1930's ambience, Rogano is the oldest surviving restaurant in Glasgow. For over seventy five years its chefs have dedicated themselves to the delicate art of cooking and serving the finest fish and seafood in the world from Scottish waters.
For all its inimitable style, and its local clientele, Rogano is a friendly place, with a special welcome for the traveller, being perfectly situated with close proximity to the city's most elegant shops and many of its leading cultural venues.
The Rogano Oyster and Cocktail Bar has been a bastion of Glasgow's bar scene since 1935, our customers enjoy drinks in original art deco surrounding with soft jazz filtering throughout the bar to create a truly unique bar experience.
Rogano customers are spoiled for choice from a variety of house wines, champagne (by the glass) and an extensive cocktail list all of which are served with the upmost standard of service from our bar waiting staff.
Food is served from the bar menu which includes a selection of seafood, light meals and sandwiches. Food is best enjoyed in one of our highly coveted booths which provide customers with a little world of their own within a bustling bar.
The Oyster Bar opens at 11.00 am until midnight, every day except Sunday when it opens at 12.00 noon. The Bar Menu is available throughout the day until 10.00pm. The Oyster and Cocktail bar operates a no reservation policy.
11 Exchange Place, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G1 3AN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4,WA4 2SU,a,blue,squeezy,tube,of,Kalles,salted,cod,roe,gadus morhua,red,top,fish,seafood,eggs,traditional,sugar,canola oil,and,spices,spice,on,over,fresh,white,dinner,party,Swedish,IKEA,food,smörgåskaviar,Abba,Kallen Mätitahna
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M9F1T7 - Kalles Kaviar (known as Kallen Mätitahna in Finland) is a Swedish brand of smörgåskaviar.
It is manufactured by Abba Seafood. Kalles Kaviar is mainly made of salted cod roe (Gadus morhua), sugar, canola oil and spices. It is officially credited as having been introduced in 1954, but probably existed even earlier as advertisment for the product appeared in newspapers as early as 1950. The product soon became considered a classic product in the Swedish market, internationally recognised as a Swedish product.
The tube label has maintained the same design from the beginning, and depicts the son of the then-CEO of the manufacturing company, Carl Ameln. The name Kalle was used because it was a popular name in the 1950s when it was first created.
The tube had to be made of aluminium rather than plastic because kaviar cannot stay fresh when in contact with air, and plastic tubes become filled with air when the contents have been squeezed out, whereas aluminium remains in the form it was pressed into.
In 2011, IKEA replaced Kalles Kaviar with its own brand of caviar. This led to backlash, leading to IKEA returning the product to its shelves within a few years
England, UK
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Keywords: England,UK,GB,Victorian,public,park,area,Company,white-clawed,crayfish,was,discovered,in,Hatherton,Lake,rare,crayfish,cray,fish,ducks,geese,goose,water,trees,summer,2013,tower,block,CESP,Austin,house,solar,eco,green,Lichfield,Street,gotonysmith,Black,Country,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Black Country,Walsall Black Country
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DHGYWH - In 1848, John Eglington, a local surveyor, valued the estate at £160,000. In the 1860s, E. A. Foden first mooted the idea of turning the estate into a park and in 1871, the Walsall Arboretum and Lake Company was formed and issued a prospectus for shareholders describing the principal features.
In 1873, a lease was drawn up for the creating of a park and the flooding of more land. The Arboretum was officially opened on May 4, 1874 by Lady Hatherton. The park consisted of two lakes, two lodges, a boathouse, bandstand, several summerhouses, a tree lined promenade, space for dancing, a flagpole, croquet lawns and a cricket ground. On May 20, 1875, severe weather caused extensive damage to the lake area.
In 1965, exploration began for underground tunnels connecting the Littleton Street mine workings, however none were found. In 1967, proposals for a new roundabout and flyover scheme that would have demolished the Clock Tower and lodge were rejected due to public pressure. In 1972, a proposal by Featherstone-Dilke to construct housing on the northern edge of the park was rejected following a public enquiry. On April 19, 1989, 31.32ha of land consisting of the original Arboretum and surrounding housing was designated a conservation area.[1]
In 1995, a Charter Mark was awarded to the Arboretum for excellence and diversity in the services it offered. It was re-awarded in 1999 and in the same year, a rare species of white-clawed crayfish was discovered in Hatherton Lake
Walsall Arboretum, Lichfield Street, Walsall, West Midlands England UK
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Keywords: Exeter,West,saved,the,signalbox,from,demolition,carefully,dismantled,re-erected,as,a,working,museum,lever,levers,bluehour,blue,sky,traditional,heritage,centre,center,railroad,railway,BR,Britishrail,British,rail,1950,1960,old,signalman,man,old,worker,fish,eye,wide,image,lens,12mm,10mm gotonysmith working age retired CW12DB CW1 2DB,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D96MRE - Exeter West signal box in operation at dusk (wide angle fisheye lens view)
Exeter West signal box is not at Exeter - it is at Crewe.
Why is this? Because a group of dedicated individuals saved the signalbox from demolition when the signalling in the Exeter area was renewed in 1985, and carefully dismantled it so it could be re-erected as a working museum demonstrating how the larger signal boxes of the past were.
This box is now viewable at Crewe as part of Crewe Heritage Centre display, and signalmen are present most weekends to describe and demonstrate signalling days of the past and answer questions from visitors.
Crewe Railway Station, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK CW1 2DB
