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Keywords: gray,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,feet,bee,bees,boot,on,a,grey,boots,in a,York,for,sale,footwear,shoes,shoe,Manc,Mancunian,bee shoes,fashion,foot wear,Yorkshire,England,UK,fashionable,brand,brands,unisex,trend,trendy,insect,insects,symbol,of,Manchester,network,retailers
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KFB175 - . An identifiable period record of York, Yorkshire, England, UK in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The subject captured here is Heavenlyfeet bee boot, bees on a grey Doc Martin boot, in a shop, York. Other connected aspects include visual archive, specialist retailer, everyday life, commercial frontage, small business, place identity, shopfront economy, documentary photography, local character, social history, bricks-and-mortar retail, retail property, contemporary social history, and public realm. The wider contemporary story combines consumer spending, commercial rents and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy. The image fixes lettering, decoration and surface detail within York, Yorkshire, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against later reinterpretation. The photograph additionally reflects high-street commerce, changing streetscape, local history, changing land use, regional identity, community identity, period detail, and customer footfall. The recorded references to Heavenlyfeet and Martin preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at York, Yorkshire, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The setting also helps illustrate consumer spending and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses when considered against later change at York, Yorkshire, England, UK. The image also provides a reference for town-centre regeneration and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses without losing the local specificity of York, Yorkshire, England, UK. The image fixes details of everyday use for future local research. It also preserves evidence of changing use before later change alters the scene.
York, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,estate,overspill,electric,Finnigan,SK13,Glossop,High Peak,Derbyshire,UK,Manchester overspill estates,Social,Housing,socialhousing,council,sheds,natural,vegetables,flowers,bug hotels,diversity,insect,insects,wood,debris,brick,gap,gaps,crawlies,crawly,home,frame,space,spaces
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1P06T - Gamesley is a residential area within the Borough of High Peak in Derbyshire, England, west of Glossop and close to the River Etherow which forms the boundary with Tameside in Greater Manchester. Gamesley is a ward of the High Peak Borough Council. It had a population of 2,531 at the 2011 Census
The original village of Gamesley consisted of rows of cottages inhabited by workers at the local textile mills, and it remained largely undeveloped until the 1960s, when it underwent considerable change. It was chosen as the location of an overspill estate, built by Manchester City Council. This was in order to rehouse people from decaying inner city areas of Manchester. These housing areas were also built in other towns surrounding Manchester, such as nearby Hattersley on the outskirts of Hyde.
The Gamesley estate was built in 2 half's. The first houses were built by contractors Finnegans which were constructed with
flat felted roofs, pebble dash cladding ground floors and tile cladded first floors. Finnegans houses were equipped with warm air central heating which used gas as an energy source. The Finnegan side of the estate was known locally as the ˜gas side'. In the late 1980s the local authority renovated the Finnegan system built houses, the works included re-enveloping the external building with traditional bricks and mortar. The works also added apex roofing complete with roofing tiles.
The second half of the Gamesley estate was built a couple of years later by George Wimpey using the Wimpey no-fines house building method. The houses were constructed with full pebble dash finish and tiled apex roofing. The houses built by George Wimpey had a solid concrete ground floor which had electrical underfloor heating installed, the first floors of these houses were built with no heating. Due to electricity being the main energy source for heating, the George Wimpey side of Gamesley became known locally as the ˜electric side'.
Gamesley Estate, Melandra Castle Road, Gamesley, High Peak,England, UK, SK13 0BN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1P06W - Gamesley is a residential area within the Borough of High Peak in Derbyshire, England, west of Glossop and close to the River Etherow which forms the boundary with Tameside in Greater Manchester. Gamesley is a ward of the High Peak Borough Council. It had a population of 2,531 at the 2011 Census
The original village of Gamesley consisted of rows of cottages inhabited by workers at the local textile mills, and it remained largely undeveloped until the 1960s, when it underwent considerable change. It was chosen as the location of an overspill estate, built by Manchester City Council. This was in order to rehouse people from decaying inner city areas of Manchester. These housing areas were also built in other towns surrounding Manchester, such as nearby Hattersley on the outskirts of Hyde.
The Gamesley estate was built in 2 half's. The first houses were built by contractors Finnegans which were constructed with
flat felted roofs, pebble dash cladding ground floors and tile cladded first floors. Finnegans houses were equipped with warm air central heating which used gas as an energy source. The Finnegan side of the estate was known locally as the ˜gas side'. In the late 1980s the local authority renovated the Finnegan system built houses, the works included re-enveloping the external building with traditional bricks and mortar. The works also added apex roofing complete with roofing tiles.
The second half of the Gamesley estate was built a couple of years later by George Wimpey using the Wimpey no-fines house building method. The houses were constructed with full pebble dash finish and tiled apex roofing. The houses built by George Wimpey had a solid concrete ground floor which had electrical underfloor heating installed, the first floors of these houses were built with no heating. Due to electricity being the main energy source for heating, the George Wimpey side of Gamesley became known locally as the ˜electric side'.
Gamesley Estate, Melandra Castle Road, Gamesley, High Peak,England, UK, SK13 0BN
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,please,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4,the,pollinators,environment,improving,urban,creating,habitats for bees,habitat,habitats,solitary bees,social bees,bumble,nature,reserve,friendly,bee-friendly,buzz,beekeeping,keeping,green,spaces,unmowed,un,mowed,not mowing,municiple,graveyards,graveyard,Church Lane,village,benefit,insect
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JP5TF8 - . An on-location photograph from Church Lane, Grappenhall, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The subject captured here is Please excuse the weeds,we are feeding the bees! sign, Church Lane, Grappenhall, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4. The surrounding context encompasses archival record, heritage worship space, before-and-after reference, religious artwork, social history, changing streetscape, local history, religious heritage, faith heritage, medieval church setting, historical comparison, local character, cathedral interior, and sacred architecture. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with cultural heritage, heritage conservation and the conservation challenge of fragile historic glass and stonework. Small period details of period objects and surrounding context at Church Lane, Grappenhall, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 may become more significant with time, particularly following new ownership. Further associations within the scene are Christian iconography, ecclesiastical decoration, sacred space, public realm, documentary photography, stained-glass craftsmanship, contemporary social history, and ecclesiastical art. The recorded references to weeds, feeding, excuse, Please, and Grappenhall preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of Church Lane, Grappenhall, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The setting also helps illustrate cultural heritage and how places of worship combine active religious use with tourism and heritage within the specific setting of Church Lane, Grappenhall, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4. It also preserves a local visual benchmark as part of Church Lane, Grappenhall, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4's history.
Church Lane, Grappenhall, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Small British Tortoiseshell Butterfly on Pussywillow catkins,Small,insect,diversity,countryside,biodiversity,polinate,polinators,Butterfly,on,Pussywillow,catkins,in,Spring,flower,beauty,outdoor,outdoors,Tortoiseshell Butterfly,Tortoiseshell,native,fauna,Warrington,Hatton,Village,habitat,Cheshire,sunny,sunshine,nature,natural,buds,decoration,Aglais urticae,Nymphalidae,reddish,orange,orange butterfly
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MGMJR3 - . An identifiable period record of Pillmoss Ln, Warrington WA4 4DF, UK in 2018, retaining the practical detail and local context that distinguish a documentary photograph from a generic illustration. The scene records Small British Tortoiseshell Butterfly on Pussywillow catkins, in Spring. The broader subject matter reaches into historic townscape, changing land use, local character, urban fabric, archival record, historic streetscape, regional identity, changing streetscape, period detail, architectural detail, period architecture, architectural character, period building, and historical comparison. Current relevance extends to redevelopment pressure and energy retrofit, particularly through the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility. Small period details of landscape treatment and surrounding development at Pillmoss Ln, Warrington WA4 4DF, UK may become more significant with time, particularly following new ownership. The surrounding story also includes visual archive, cityscape history, local history, everyday life, public realm, place identity, adaptive reuse, and social history. Elements such as catkins, Spring, Small, British, and Pussywillow add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Pillmoss Ln, Warrington WA4 4DF, 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 redevelopment pressure and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility in a form that can be compared with future views of Pillmoss Ln, Warrington WA4 4DF, UK. The location additionally provides evidence of tourism and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change within the real-world context of Pillmoss Ln, Warrington WA4 4DF, UK. The frame retains a point of historical comparison as a date-specific reference.
Pillmoss Ln, Warrington WA4 4DF, UK
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Keywords: season,seasons,4seasons,four,skies,UK,Blossom,flowers,against,a,deep,blue,sky,England,United,Kingdom,western,hemisphere,life,springs,forth,love,good,to,be,alive,bloom,blooming,sprung,has,fruit,tree,trees,Sakura,Japan,Japanese,blosoms,almond,wet,magnolia,petal,petals,Gotonysmith,pollen,to,pollinators,insect,insects,bees,cross,polination,initiate,cross-pollination,necessary,to,reproduce,by,producing,fruit,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHEAB - . Signs of spring New creme white apple / cherry Blossom flowers against a deep blue sky England. Photographed in England, UK. The photograph was taken on 02 May 2013. 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 Signs, spring, creme, white, apple, cherry, season, seasons, 4seasons and four, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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.
England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHE81 - . Signs of spring New creme white apple / cherry Blossom flowers against a deep blue sky England. Photographed in England, UK. The photograph was taken on 27 April 2013. 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 Signs, spring, creme, white, apple, cherry, season, seasons, 4seasons and four, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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.
England, UK
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Keywords: season,seasons,4seasons,four,skies,UK,Blossom,flowers,against,a,deep,blue,sky,England,United,Kingdom,western,hemisphere,life,springs,forth,love,good,to,be,alive,bloom,blooming,sprung,has,fruit,tree,trees,Sakura,Japan,Japanese,blosoms,almond,Gotonysmith,pollen,to,pollinators,insect,insects,bees,cross,polination,initiate,cross-pollination,necessary,to,reproduce,by,producing,fruit
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHE89 - . Signs of spring New creme white apple / cherry Blossom flowers against a deep blue sky England. Photographed in England, UK. The photograph was taken on 27 April 2013. 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 Signs, spring, creme, white, apple, cherry, season, seasons, 4seasons and four, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. 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.
England, UK
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Keywords: nature,fly,insect,green,black,natura,natur,macro,tubes,bellows,clos,up,closeup,music,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpix,hotpics,hot,pic,pics,pix,northwich,cheshire,uk,england,ipod,#tonysmithhotpix,#tonysmithotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4844482206 - 'Magic Fly - 'Space' - Play this track here.
?Whats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
Space were Marseille's answer to Dusseldorfs Kraftwerk. A little softer, more french, more disco, but in the same vein. This hit single from the album of the same name only really came to my attentiona decade later after listening to too much New Order (can you do such a thing you may ask?).
Space was founded in 1977 by Didier Marouani (also known as Ecama), Roland Romanelli, and Jannick Top. The first three albums \u2014 Magic Fly, Deliverance and Just Blue \u2014 were an immediate success (they sold over 12 million records all over the world).
The album Magic Fly, which is widely considered to be their best work, was released in audio cd in 2001, 24 years after its original release. Although Didier Marouani left the band in 1979, the other two members Roland Romanelli and Jannick Top released in 1980 the album Deeper Zone under the name of Space. Then Space officially split up in 1981.
In early 1980s Marouani, with Janny Loseth of Titanic as lead vocalist, continued to perform and record under the titles of Didier Marouani &
Space, and Paris-France-Transit due to release lawsuits. The name 'spAce' was legally reacquired after some artistic copyright disputes around 1990, allowing musicians to re-release classic albums and give a European live cover tour in 1993.
The latest Space album was released in 2002. In the same year, the S Club Juniors made a remix to their single 'New Direction' featuring the backing track of 'Magic Fly'. The band's hit 'Magic Fly' as well as many other songs from the self-named album were remixed in 2003 by the Belgian dance music project Minimalistix.
If you have chance, seek out the Magic Fly album. Tell 'em I sent you !
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Damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) are insects in the order Odonata. Damselflies are similar to dragonflies, but the adults can be differentiated by the fact that the wings of most damselflies are held along, and parallel to, the body when at rest.
Furthermore, the hindwing of the damselfly is essentially similar to the fore-wing, while the hind-wing of the dragonfly broadens near the base, caudal to the connecting point at the body. Damselflies are also usually smaller, weaker fliers than dragonflies, and their eyes are separated.
Interestingly, Damselflies undergo incomplete metamorphosis, with an aquatic nymph stage. The female lays eggs in water, sometimes in underwater vegetation, or high in trees in bromeliads and other water-filled cavities.
Nymphs are carnivorous, feeding on daphnia, mosquito larvae, and various other small aquatic organisms, using extendable jaws similar to those of the dragonfly nymph. The gills of damselfly nymphs are large and external, resembling three fins at the end of the abdomen.
After moulting several times, the winged adult emerges and eats flies, mosquitoes, and other small insects. Some of the larger tropical species are known to feed on spiders, hovering near the web and plucking the spider from its nest.
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Keywords: reeds,Enallagma,cyathigerum,is,a,European,eyes,insect,insects,colourful,english,england,british,great,britain,UK,united,kingdom,leaf,summer,spring,damselfly,and,dragonfly,Cheshire,Northwich,England,United,Kingdom,Gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,cyan,adult,rest
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8FBCT - The Common Blue Damselfly can be easily mistaken for the Azure Damselfly (Coenagrion puella), but on the back and the thorax, the Common Blue Damselfly has more blue than black
for the Azure Damselfly it is the other way around. The second segment of the thorax has a distinctive spot with a line below connecting to the third segment.
Another difference can be observed when inspecting the side of the thorax. The Common Blue Damselfly has only one small black stripe there, while all other blue damselflies have two.
During mating, the male clasps the female by her neck while she bends her body around to his reproductive organs “ this is called a mating wheel. The pair flies together over the water and eggs are laid within a suitable plant, just below the surface.
The eggs hatch and the larvae, called nymphs, live in the water and feed on small aquatic animals. Nymphs climb out of the water up a suitable stem to moult into damselflies.
Northwich Cheshire England United Kingdom
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Keywords: web,spider,spiders,spiders web,england,grappenhall,Warrington,UK,Cheshire,Hotpix,Hotpixuk,insect,insects,macro,Araneae,Grappenhall Village,village,A50,A56,365days,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3892878298 - 'Spider (Araneae) in its web awaiting lunch, spotted in Grappenhall, Cheshire UK.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3664445817 - 'Side on view of orange, black spotted Monarch butterfly insect. Macro shot with fresh air macro tubes.
Another close up shot www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3690682981/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98K1 - The City of Manchester in North-West England has traditionally been represented by various symbols. Most of these symbols are derived from heraldic emblems contained within the city's official heraldic achievement, which was officially adopted when the Borough of Manchester was granted city status in 1842. Notably, the motif of the worker bee has been widely used to represent the city as a symbol of industry
The worker bee has long been a symbol of Manchester and of the city's hard-working past.
And while every other city in the north of England has a heritage built upon industry - there is a reason that the bee symbol is a part of Manchester's coat of arms which was given to the city in 1842.
In the 1800s Manchester was awash with textile mills that were commonly described as ˜hives of activity' and the workers inside them compared to bees.
˜Busy bee' is still a term associated with industriousness and hard work.
These days Manchester is a city mostly associated with a deep and rich pop culture and a musical history that has influenced artists all over the globe. Coincidentally, the former Sankeys nightclub in Ancoats is housed in the former Beehive Mill on Jersey Street.
The Cottonopolis logo - the Manchester worker bee
You won't just find the bee on bins dotted around the city though. The bee can be seen on the clock face of the Palace Hotel, on the mosaic flooring at Manchester Town Hall and even above the arches of Links of London.
Furthermore, urban beekeeping even takes place on the roof of The Printworks , thus producing local honey.
Following the Manchester Arena bombing on May 22, 2017, the worker bee became a symbol of unity and defiance in the wake of the attack.
It has come to represent Manchester's indomitable spirit.
An image of 22 Manchester worker bees was emblazoned on a wall on the side of the Koffee Pot building in the heart of the Northern Quarter.
Each bee, pictured swarming around a honey heart, represents one of the innocent people
Mason St, Northern Quarter, North West England, UK, M4 5JU
