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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,LFC,Liverpool,FC,football,club,255A9839,Anne Williams,Hillsborough,justice,campaigner,mural,Anfield,England,UK,Kevin,Williams,supporters,campaign,truth,memorial,art,street,public,remembrance,history,families,victims,portrait
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EKP01Y - . Anne Williams Hillsborough justice campaigner mural in Anfield, Liverpool, England, UK. Photographed on 30 May 2026. The recorded location is Anfield, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. The wall portrait commemorates Anne Williams, mother of Kevin Williams, who spent many years challenging the official account of her son's death in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster and campaigning for truth and justice for the victims and families. The mural gives a human face to the long campaign by bereaved families and supporters and forms part of the wider landscape of remembrance and football-related public art around Anfield. The background to urban culture is that public art turns streets and buildings into records of local culture
Murals, statues and memorial sculpture can commemorate people and events, celebrate industry, respond to politics or simply enliven public space, while materials and style often identify a particular era. Within the history of football history, football and major sporting events leave a rich material record through flags, tickets, souvenirs, programmes and venue signage
International tournaments in particular can turn everyday objects into historical evidence of national sporting culture. In relation to constitutional debate, historical context shows that political photographs gain meaning over time as candidates, parties and constitutional debates change
A routine campaign scene can later become evidence of a turning point, an unsuccessful candidacy or a movement that developed further. Current 2026 context around urban culture is that public art is closely connected with regeneration, tourism, identity and debate about representation
Murals and sculptures can become visitor landmarks while also prompting discussion about whose past is visible in public space. Against the 2026 backdrop for football history, sporting imagery has relevance beyond results, illustrating club identity, fan culture, major-event economics, venue.
Anfield, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,benches,city,centre,this,the,bench,is a,designated,dont buy,The Sun,Merseyside,and,of,dont,buy,read,boycott,Hillsborough,truth,96,dead,LFC,fans,match,football,soccer,brass,never forgotten,warns,warning,S*n,message,protest,public,anger,angry,disaster,sun not welcome
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RJ3YNG - At the end of the decade, The Sun's coverage of the Hillsborough football stadium stock-photo/gotonysmith-Disaster.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>disaster, in which 97 people died as a result of their injuries, proved to be, as the paper later admitted, the most terrible blunder in its history.
Three days after the accident, editor Kelvin MacKenzie published an editorial which accused people of scapegoating the police, saying that the disaster occurred because thousands of fans, many without tickets tried to get into the ground just before kick-off “ either by forcing their way in or by blackmailing the police into opening the gates. The next day, under a front-page headline The Truth, the paper falsely accused Liverpool fans of theft and of urinating on and attacking police officers and emergency services. Conservative Member of Parliament Irvine Patnick was quoted as claiming that a group of Liverpool supporters told a police officer that they would have sex with a dead female victim
Widespread boycotts of the newspaper throughout Merseyside followed immediately and continue to this day. Boycotts include both customers refusing to purchase it, and retailers refusing to stock it. The Financial Times reported in 2019 that Merseyside sales were estimated to drop from 55,000 per day to 12,000 per day, an 80% decrease. Chris Horrie estimated in 2014 that the tabloid's owners had lost £15 million per month since the disaster, in 1989 prices. Sales also declined to a lesser degree in neighbouring parts of Cheshire and Lancashire. It was revealed in a documentary called Alexei Sayle's Liverpool, aired in September 2008, that many Liverpudlians will not even take the newspaper for free, and those who do may simply burn or tear it up. Local people often refer to the newspaper as The Scum, with campaigners believing it limited their fight for justice
Liverpool, city centre, Merseyside, England,UK, L1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,benches,city,centre,this,the,bench,is a,designated,dont buy,The Sun,Merseyside,and,of,dont,buy,read,boycott,Hillsborough,truth,96,dead,LFC,fans,match,football,brass,never forgotten,warns,warning,S*n,message,protest,public,anger,disaster,sun,not welcome
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RJ3YP7 - At the end of the decade, The Sun's coverage of the Hillsborough football stadium stock-photo/gotonysmith-Disaster.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>disaster, in which 97 people died as a result of their injuries, proved to be, as the paper later admitted, the most terrible blunder in its history.
Three days after the accident, editor Kelvin MacKenzie published an editorial which accused people of scapegoating the police, saying that the disaster occurred because thousands of fans, many without tickets tried to get into the ground just before kick-off “ either by forcing their way in or by blackmailing the police into opening the gates. The next day, under a front-page headline The Truth, the paper falsely accused Liverpool fans of theft and of urinating on and attacking police officers and emergency services. Conservative Member of Parliament Irvine Patnick was quoted as claiming that a group of Liverpool supporters told a police officer that they would have sex with a dead female victim
Widespread boycotts of the newspaper throughout Merseyside followed immediately and continue to this day. Boycotts include both customers refusing to purchase it, and retailers refusing to stock it. The Financial Times reported in 2019 that Merseyside sales were estimated to drop from 55,000 per day to 12,000 per day, an 80% decrease. Chris Horrie estimated in 2014 that the tabloid's owners had lost £15 million per month since the disaster, in 1989 prices. Sales also declined to a lesser degree in neighbouring parts of Cheshire and Lancashire. It was revealed in a documentary called Alexei Sayle's Liverpool, aired in September 2008, that many Liverpudlians will not even take the newspaper for free, and those who do may simply burn or tear it up. Local people often refer to the newspaper as The Scum, with campaigners believing it limited their fight for justice
Liverpool, city centre, Merseyside, England,UK, L1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,L1,Shunthesun,the,here,ban,on,media,Hillsborough,disaster,lie,lies,LFC,shame,enquiry,shameful,dont sell,dont buy,justice,for,campaign,96,shunthesun,@ShunTheS_n,boycotts,boycott,The Truth,falsehood,falsehoods,supporters,accident,death,deaths,Kelvin MacKenzie,football club,free zone
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M475N6 - A campaign poster displayed in a window in Liverpool city centre declares that The Sun newspaper is not welcome here . The design carries the slogan The truth was proved, they printed lies and replaces part of the newspaper's name with a large black cross. It promotes the Shun the S*n campaign and reflects Liverpool's continuing rejection of the tabloid following its false reporting about the Hillsborough disaster.
On 15 April 1989, 97 Liverpool supporters were ultimately recognised as having been unlawfully killed as a result of the Hillsborough stadium disaster. Four days later, The Sun published a notorious front page headed The Truth , containing allegations against supporters that were subsequently discredited. The reporting caused profound anger across Liverpool and Merseyside and led to a sustained boycott in which many residents refused to buy the newspaper and numerous retailers stopped stocking it.
The poster is a strong example of grassroots campaigning, public protest and collective consumer action. Its homemade appearance, bold black and red lettering, crossed-out logo and direct language communicate the depth of local feeling. The small campaign emblem and social-media details at the bottom encourage others to support the boycott and spread its message.
Photographed in a Liverpool shop window, the notice illustrates how memories of Hillsborough remain visible in the everyday streetscape rather than being confined to football grounds or formal memorials. It may be used editorially to illustrate press ethics, media accountability, misinformation, newspaper boycotts, freedom of expression, community solidarity, Scouse identity and campaigns for justice for the 97 victims.
The image also records a distinctive aspect of Liverpool's modern social history: a citywide protest sustained across generations through personal purchasing choices, shopkeeper participation, supporter activism and highly recognisable public signs.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2DA91H5 - Liverpool FC,Justice For The 96,Hillsbough,disaster,Anfield,Liverpool,Merseyside,England,UK gives a direct editorial record of a recognisable subject, with location, signage, architecture or everyday behaviour carrying much of the meaning. Justice for the 96 remains one of the most powerful phrases in Liverpool civic life, tied to the Hillsborough disaster, decades of campaigning and the defence of football supporters against institutional failure. At Anfield the subject can illustrate memory, protest, accountability, football culture, fan solidarity, Merseyside identity and the continuing political resonance of sporting tragedy. The location detail, Liverpool, Anfield, strengthens searches for regional features, travel pages, local-history pieces and news use where a named place matters. For buyers, the strength lies in the combination of a named subject, a lived-in setting and enough visual specificity to carry stories about how places are used, remembered, funded, visited or contested.
Liverpool Football Club, Anfield Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L4 0TH
