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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,255A9486,Wrexham Miners Project,building,mining,memorial,clock,Wrexham,Wales,UK,red-brick,Miners,Rescue,Station,heritage,museum,community,industrial,coalfield,historic,listed,restoration,green,doors,charity,charitable,Wrecsam
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ERX6D0 - . Wrexham Miners Project building and mining memorial clock in Wrexham, Wales, UK. Photographed on 17 May 2026. The recorded location is Wrexham Miners Project, 3 Maesgwyn Road, Wrexham LL11 2AP, Wales, UK. The red-brick former Miners Rescue Station is shown with green industrial doors, heritage signage and the distinctive clock mounted on the exterior wall. The building provides an important surviving link to the North Wales mining industry and the history of mine rescue. For the story of local history, it is useful to note that mechanical public clocks combine engineering with ornament and often survive long after the original building or transport function changes. The historical setting for collectable is that collectable items gain meaning through provenance and context
A board game, badge, souvenir or branded package may connect a national event or local place with mass manufacturing and personal memory. Seen through historic machinery, the earlier context is that industrial buildings and machinery preserve the material history of manufacturing: steam power, engineering, mining, textiles, ceramics and mass production transformed both the economy and the physical character of towns
Surviving equipment is now studied as industrial archaeology. For present-day local history, 2026 is significant because historic clocks also contribute to place identity and restoration projects where original street furniture or building details are retained. In the 2026 discussion of collectable, online resale, nostalgia and interest in vintage design have made many ordinary twentieth-century objects active collecting categories rather than disposable goods. Additional discoverability terms include heritage clock, timekeeping, clock face, mechanical clock, street clock, civic landmark, horology, architectural detail, clock mechanism, public realm, heritage feature, timepiece, material culture, consumer object, vintage object, memorabilia, and branding.
Wrexham Miners Project, 3 Maesgwyn Road, Wrexham LL11 2AP, Wales, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EBGJC0 - Winter view of the Pickering Arms in stock-photo/gotonysmith-Thelwall.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Thelwall, Warrington, showing the historic black-and-white timber-framed inn with snow on the foreground plants, hanging baskets, leaded windows and pub sign. The building is a listed seventeenth-century inn on Bell Lane, with oak small-framed construction, brick nogging, later brick and sandstone extensions and a grey slate roof. The image is especially useful for editorial stories about Cheshire village pubs, historic inns, traditional British pub architecture, timber-framed buildings, real ale culture, winter hospitality, cosy country pubs and local heritage in the Warrington area. The painted inscription running below the roofline refers to King Edward the Elder founding a fortified settlement here in AD 923 and naming it Thelwall, a story that gives the pub strong value for features on Anglo-Saxon history, place names, village identity and the older defensive landscape of north Cheshire. The low viewpoint, snow-covered foliage, pale winter sky and warm pub windows create an inviting seasonal image, suggesting shelter, food, drink and community life during cold weather. The Pickering Arms is also relevant to CAMRA and pub heritage coverage, as CAMRA describes it as a listed building in the heart of Thelwall village and notes the gable inscription about Edward the Elder. The photograph can support articles on pub preservation, heritage hospitality, rural and semi-rural dining, Warrington tourism, local history walks, historic village centres, community pubs and the survival of characterful independent-looking venues in a changing pub trade. The building's contrast of white render, black timbering, brickwork, slate roof and signboard makes it visually strong for stock use, while the snow adds a less common seasonal angle. It is a distinctive Cheshire pub scene connecting winter atmosphere, architectural heritage, real ale, local legend, Anglo-Saxon history and the continuing role of old inns as social landmarks.
The Pickering Arms, historic timber-framed inn in snowy Thelwall, Warrington, with Edward the Elder
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,north,town,centre,Norfolk,parish,church,exterior,evening,light,historic,history,facade,tower,clock,English,Saturday,Market Place,building,stone,large,outside,evening sun,on,tourism attraction,historic market town,medieval architecture England,place of worship,religion,faith,listed,townscape,churchyard,approach,sacred,notable,fine,sunlit
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F39YWT - King's Lynn Minster, historically known as the Priory and Parish Church of St Margaret, photographed in warm evening light in the centre of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. The low-angle exterior view shows the imposing west front, twin towers, large traceried windows, Gothic arches, clock face, pinnacles and weathered stonework beneath a dramatic mixture of blue sky and grey cloud.
Although sometimes informally described as King's Lynn Cathedral, the building is not a cathedral. It is a major Church of England parish church and received the honorary title of King's Lynn Minster in 2011. Its grand scale reflects the medieval prosperity and importance of King's Lynn as a port and trading town linked with the Hanseatic League and the River Great Ouse.
The church was founded in the early twelfth century and retains elements representing several periods of rebuilding, alteration and restoration. Its architecture includes Norman origins together with later Gothic and Perpendicular features. The substantial west towers dominate Saturday Market Place and form one of the most distinctive landmarks in the historic town centre. Large windows with elaborate stone tracery admit light into the nave, while buttresses, battlements and slender pinnacles contribute to the building's vertical appearance.
Warm evening sunlight falls across the pale masonry, bringing out variations in the aged stone and contrasting with the darker clouds behind. Railings, a church notice and a narrow pathway are visible in the foreground, placing the historic building within its present-day urban and community setting.
The image is suitable for editorial subjects involving King's Lynn, Norfolk tourism, medieval churches, English ecclesiastical architecture, historic market towns, Christian worship, conservation, East Anglian heritage and notable British parish churches. It also documents the architectural character of a prominent place of worship that has served the local community for centuries
King's Lynn Minster, Saturday Market Place, King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, UK, PE30 5DQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ3EJ - John Kyrle (22 May 1637 “ 7 November 1724), known as the Man of Ross, was an English philanthropist, remembered for his time in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.
Born in the parish of Dymock, Gloucestershire, he was the son of Walter Kyrle, a barrister and MP. The family had lived at Ross for many generations
John Kyrle was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, matriculating in 1654
From his early twenties he adopted a frugal lifestyle and instead of utilising his wealth for himself, he sought to invest in the greater good of his locality and community that lived there.
In everything that concerned the welfare of the small town of Ross in which he lived he took a lively interest
in the education of the children and in improving and embellishing the town. He planted trees in and around the town, with two or three workmen to assist with the manual work. He delighted in mediating between those who had quarrelled and in preventing costly lawsuits between prominent townspeople. He was generous to the poor and spent all he had in good works.
The building is Late C16 or early C17. 3 storeys and cellar with large projecting wing at rear. North front of Nos 34 and 35 is timber framed with fairly close set studding. No 36 is cement rendered above 1st floor 2nd storey projects on mould bressummer with carved brackets. Enriched moulded beam and similar brackets under eaves which formerly supported a series of gables. 9 sash windows. On the front is a panel with the head of John Kyrle in relief and below Died November 7 1722, aged 88. Interior has original ceiling beams and panelling. Roof with double collar beam trusses, 2 C17 doors with the date 1689 and the arms of Kyrle in punctured decoration.
34 High Street, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR9 5HD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ3EP - John Kyrle (22 May 1637 “ 7 November 1724), known as the Man of Ross, was an English philanthropist, remembered for his time in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.
Born in the parish of Dymock, Gloucestershire, he was the son of Walter Kyrle, a barrister and MP. The family had lived at Ross for many generations
John Kyrle was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, matriculating in 1654
From his early twenties he adopted a frugal lifestyle and instead of utilising his wealth for himself, he sought to invest in the greater good of his locality and community that lived there.
In everything that concerned the welfare of the small town of Ross in which he lived he took a lively interest
in the education of the children and in improving and embellishing the town. He planted trees in and around the town, with two or three workmen to assist with the manual work. He delighted in mediating between those who had quarrelled and in preventing costly lawsuits between prominent townspeople. He was generous to the poor and spent all he had in good works.
The building is Late C16 or early C17. 3 storeys and cellar with large projecting wing at rear. North front of Nos 34 and 35 is timber framed with fairly close set studding. No 36 is cement rendered above 1st floor 2nd storey projects on mould bressummer with carved brackets. Enriched moulded beam and similar brackets under eaves which formerly supported a series of gables. 9 sash windows. On the front is a panel with the head of John Kyrle in relief and below Died November 7 1722, aged 88. Interior has original ceiling beams and panelling. Roof with double collar beam trusses, 2 C17 doors with the date 1689 and the arms of Kyrle in punctured decoration.
34 High Street, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR9 5HD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,centre,Cymru,Wales,Welsh,UK,Cardiff,St Mary St,city,historic,history,heritage,hotel,building,architecture,outside,frontage,listed,pub,bar,pubs,stone,commercial,reuse,South Wales,sign,ground floor,pedestrians,walking,wet,pavement,reflections,urban,street scene,tourism,tourists,capital
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ3CY - This image shows the former Royal Hotel building on St Mary Street in Cardiff city centre, a prominent Victorian-era structure that once operated as one of the city's notable hotels and now houses the Slug & Lettuce bar and restaurant. The stone-fronted facade, with its symmetrical window arrangement and classical detailing, reflects Cardiff's late nineteenth-century commercial architecture and the city's expansion during the industrial and dockland boom years.
The words ROYAL HOTEL remain clearly visible across the upper facade, preserving the building's historic identity despite its modern hospitality use. At street level, contemporary branding and glazing for Slug & Lettuce sit within the original architectural framework, illustrating the adaptive reuse of historic city-centre buildings common across UK high streets.
The photograph appears to have been taken in daylight during warmer months, with people casually dressed and moving along St Mary Street. The pavement looks wet, suggesting recent rain, with subtle reflections adding texture to the urban scene. Overhead tram or utility wires are visible, reinforcing the dense city-centre environment.
St Mary Street is one of Cardiff's principal pedestrian routes, linking shopping, nightlife, and tourism areas, and this building forms part of a continuous historic streetscape that blends heritage architecture with contemporary leisure and retail uses. The image captures both Cardiff's architectural past and its present-day role as a lively capital city destination.
St Mary Street, Cardiff city centre, Cardiff, Wales, UK, CF10 1AD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PGAYJK - The present building, the oldest in the town, was built in the twelfth century, replacing an earlier Anglo-Saxon church. Two medieval chapels are integrated into the present building. Its core is made from the local sandstone, Bargate stone from the nearby Greensand Ridge, which is found close to the town. Also found around the church is the old Lammas, or 'common', land.
A church has stood on this site since at least the mid-ninth century. It features several carved stones, which are dated between 820 and 840. A few Anglo Saxon remnants survive in the present structure, which was largely rebuilt in the twelfth century. In 1086, the Domesday Book recorded that Ranulf Flambard, justiciar of William Rufus, held Godalming church.
The lammas, or common land, complemented a substantial glebe, the funds from which allowed for a grand and spacious structure to be built.
First built during the Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods, the structure has been proven in ecclesiastical records to have been a redevelopment of an Anglo-Saxon church
The Church has a fine set of bells hung for the traditional English-style of bell-ringing. The tenor weighs just over a tonne and weighs in at 1221 kg.
In 2017, all of the bells were recast, with the tenor weighing two hundredweight more than previously (now weighing 24 hundredweight, 0 quarters and 4 pounds, or 1221 kg). The restoration and recasting were carried out by John Taylor & Co, now Britain's largest church-bell firm
Borough Rd, Godalming, Surrey, England, UK, GU7 2AG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Surrey,Waverley,GU7 1AB,GU7,Godalming,spire,sunny,historic,UK,England,Borough Road,Borough Rd,GU7 2AG,&,graveyard,gravestones,Grade I,listed,building,history,twelfth,century,12C,12th,remnants,Ranulf Flambard,justiciar,of,William Rufus,Doomsday book,sandstone,religious,graves,Anglo Saxon,gravestone,centre,skies
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PGAYK1 - The present building, the oldest in the town, was built in the twelfth century, replacing an earlier Anglo-Saxon church. Two medieval chapels are integrated into the present building. Its core is made from the local sandstone, Bargate stone from the nearby Greensand Ridge, which is found close to the town. Also found around the church is the old Lammas, or 'common', land.
A church has stood on this site since at least the mid-ninth century. It features several carved stones, which are dated between 820 and 840. A few Anglo Saxon remnants survive in the present structure, which was largely rebuilt in the twelfth century. In 1086, the Domesday Book recorded that Ranulf Flambard, justiciar of William Rufus, held Godalming church.
The lammas, or common land, complemented a substantial glebe, the funds from which allowed for a grand and spacious structure to be built.
First built during the Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods, the structure has been proven in ecclesiastical records to have been a redevelopment of an Anglo-Saxon church
The Church has a fine set of bells hung for the traditional English-style of bell-ringing. The tenor weighs just over a tonne and weighs in at 1221 kg.
In 2017, all of the bells were recast, with the tenor weighing two hundredweight more than previously (now weighing 24 hundredweight, 0 quarters and 4 pounds, or 1221 kg). The restoration and recasting were carried out by John Taylor & Co, now Britain's largest church-bell firm
Borough Rd, Godalming, Surrey, England, UK, GU7 2AG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PGJ2EH - The present building, the oldest in the town, was built in the twelfth century, replacing an earlier Anglo-Saxon church. Two medieval chapels are integrated into the present building. Its core is made from the local sandstone, Bargate stone from the nearby Greensand Ridge, which is found close to the town. Also found around the church is the old Lammas, or 'common', land.
A church has stood on this site since at least the mid-ninth century. It features several carved stones, which are dated between 820 and 840. A few Anglo Saxon remnants survive in the present structure, which was largely rebuilt in the twelfth century. In 1086, the Domesday Book recorded that Ranulf Flambard, justiciar of William Rufus, held Godalming church.
The lammas, or common land, complemented a substantial glebe, the funds from which allowed for a grand and spacious structure to be built.
First built during the Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods, the structure has been proven in ecclesiastical records to have been a redevelopment of an Anglo-Saxon church
The Church has a fine set of bells hung for the traditional English-style of bell-ringing. The tenor weighs just over a tonne and weighs in at 1221 kg.
In 2017, all of the bells were recast, with the tenor weighing two hundredweight more than previously (now weighing 24 hundredweight, 0 quarters and 4 pounds, or 1221 kg). The restoration and recasting were carried out by John Taylor & Co, now Britain's largest church-bell firm
Borough Rd, Godalming, Surrey, England, UK, GU7 2AG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PG6110 - The present building, the oldest in the town, was built in the twelfth century, replacing an earlier Anglo-Saxon church. Two medieval chapels are integrated into the present building. Its core is made from the local sandstone, Bargate stone from the nearby Greensand Ridge, which is found close to the town. Also found around the church is the old Lammas, or 'common', land.
A church has stood on this site since at least the mid-ninth century. It features several carved stones, which are dated between 820 and 840. A few Anglo Saxon remnants survive in the present structure, which was largely rebuilt in the twelfth century. In 1086, the Domesday Book recorded that Ranulf Flambard, justiciar of William Rufus, held Godalming church.
The lammas, or common land, complemented a substantial glebe, the funds from which allowed for a grand and spacious structure to be built.
First built during the Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods, the structure has been proven in ecclesiastical records to have been a redevelopment of an Anglo-Saxon church
The Church has a fine set of bells hung for the traditional English-style of bell-ringing. The tenor weighs just over a tonne and weighs in at 1221 kg.
In 2017, all of the bells were recast, with the tenor weighing two hundredweight more than previously (now weighing 24 hundredweight, 0 quarters and 4 pounds, or 1221 kg). The restoration and recasting were carried out by John Taylor & Co, now Britain's largest church-bell firm
Borough Rd, Godalming, Surrey, England, UK, GU7 2AG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,pano,CF10,CF99,Cymru,Wales,UK,Cardiff Bay,the,bay,red brick,historic,Bute,Dock,company,in,estate,of,1897,National Assembly,for,HQ,gothic,style,Victorian,Welsh,building,architecture,grade,listed,history,French,renaissance,William Frame,architect,Adeilad y Pierhead,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R0MMXN - The Pierhead Building (Welsh: Adeilad y Pierhead) is a Grade I listed building in Cardiff Bay, Wales. One of Cardiff's most familiar landmarks, it was built in 1897 as the headquarters for the Bute Dock Company.
The Pierhead Building is part of the estate of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament
Welsh: Senedd Cymru), which also includes the Senedd building and TÅ· Hywel. The clock on the building is unofficially known as the Baby Big Ben or the Big Ben of Wales.
The building was built in 1897 and designed by the English architect William Frame. It was a replacement for the headquarters of the Bute Dock Company which burnt down in 1892. Frame's mentor was William Burges, with whom he worked on the rebuilding of Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch until Burges's death in 1881.
The Bute Dock Company was renamed the Cardiff Railway Company in 1897. A coat of arms on the building's façade bears the company's motto Wrth ddŵr a thân (by water and fire), encapsulating the elements creating the steam power which transformed Wales.
The building became the administrative office for the Port of Cardiff in 1947.
The 1897 clock mechanism, by William Potts & Sons of Leeds, was removed and replaced with an electronic motor, and auctioned off by British Rail and sold to an American collector in 1973. It was returned to Cardiff in 2005 and in 2011 was restored by Smith of Derby Group and installed as a piece of contemporary art created by the artist Marianne Forrest in Cardiff city centre.
Architecture
Incorporating a French-Gothic Renaissance theme, the Pierhead boasts details such as hexagonal chimneys, carved friezes, gargoyles, and a highly ornamental and distinctive clock tower. Its exterior is finished in glazed terracotta blocks supplied at the end of the 19th century by J. C. Edwards & Co. of Acrefair, near Ruabon in Wrexham County Borough
they were once described as one of the most successful producers of terracotta in the world.
Senedd , Cardiff, Cymru , Wales, UK, CF99 1SN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NYNDWD - The Royal Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses in Liverpool, England. Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick, it was opened in 1846, and was the first structure in Britain to be built from cast iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood. As a result, it was the first non-combustible warehouse system in the world. It was known simply as the Albert Dock until 2018, when it was granted a royal charter and had the honorific Royal added to its name.
At the time of its construction the dock was considered to be revolutionary in its design because ships were loaded and unloaded directly from or to the warehouses. Two years after it opened it was modified to feature the world's first hydraulic cranes. Due to its open yet secure design, the dock became a popular store for valuable cargoes such as brandy, cotton, tea, silk, tobacco, ivory and sugar. However, despite its advanced design, the rapid development of shipping technology meant that, within 50 years, larger and more open docks were required, although the Albert Dock remained a valuable store for cargo.
During the Second World War, the dock was requisitioned by the Admiralty serving as a base for ships of the British Atlantic Fleet. The complex was damaged during air raids on Liverpool, notably during the May Blitz of 1941. In the aftermath of the war, the financial problems of the owners and the general decline of docking in the city meant that the future of the Albert Dock was uncertain. Numerous plans were developed for the re-use of the buildings but none came to fruition and in 1972 the dock was finally closed. Having lain derelict for nearly ten years, the redevelopment of the dock began in 1981, when the Merseyside Development Corporation was set up, with the Albert Dock being officially re-opened in 1984.
Today the Royal Albert Dock is a major tourist attraction in the city and the most visited multi-use attraction in the United Kingdom, outside London.
Albert Dock, Pier Head, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 4AF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,city,centre,Merseyside,England,UK,the,royal,maritime,port,Mersey,river,historic,ports,column,columns,L3 4AF,development,redevelopment,designed,by,1846,Development Corporation,multi-use,Grade I,listed,building,buildings,Beatles Story,Merseyside Maritime Museum,Tate,prince,store,storehouse
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NYNDWF - The Royal Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses in Liverpool, England. Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick, it was opened in 1846, and was the first structure in Britain to be built from cast iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood. As a result, it was the first non-combustible warehouse system in the world. It was known simply as the Albert Dock until 2018, when it was granted a royal charter and had the honorific Royal added to its name.
At the time of its construction the dock was considered to be revolutionary in its design because ships were loaded and unloaded directly from or to the warehouses. Two years after it opened it was modified to feature the world's first hydraulic cranes. Due to its open yet secure design, the dock became a popular store for valuable cargoes such as brandy, cotton, tea, silk, tobacco, ivory and sugar. However, despite its advanced design, the rapid development of shipping technology meant that, within 50 years, larger and more open docks were required, although the Albert Dock remained a valuable store for cargo.
During the Second World War, the dock was requisitioned by the Admiralty serving as a base for ships of the British Atlantic Fleet. The complex was damaged during air raids on Liverpool, notably during the May Blitz of 1941. In the aftermath of the war, the financial problems of the owners and the general decline of docking in the city meant that the future of the Albert Dock was uncertain. Numerous plans were developed for the re-use of the buildings but none came to fruition and in 1972 the dock was finally closed. Having lain derelict for nearly ten years, the redevelopment of the dock began in 1981, when the Merseyside Development Corporation was set up, with the Albert Dock being officially re-opened in 1984.
Today the Royal Albert Dock is a major tourist attraction in the city and the most visited multi-use attraction in the United Kingdom, outside London.
Albert Dock, Pier Head, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 4AF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3K5Y6 - Taken on 26 Sep 2022, this carefully framed image documents St Marys church, Kirkgate, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England, UK, LS24 9BL. The thumbnail shows the church in its setting, with stonework, tower, graveyard or interior detail giving buyers a sense of parish architecture, local faith history and village or town identity. Tadcaster is a long-established Yorkshire brewing town on the River Wharfe, and its streets still carry the visual imprint of beer production, coaching routes, stone buildings, flood risk and local trade.
St Mary's is part of Tadcaster's parish and conservation-area story, where church fabric, memorial windows, graveyards and townscape all carry evidence of local families, faith and civic memory. For stock photography use, the value is in the precise subject: St Marys church, Kirkgate, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England, UK, LS24 9BL. It can support articles and publications about parish church history, stained glass research, religious art, genealogy, local families, Anglican heritage, memorial inscriptions, church tourism, architectural detail, conservation, as well as more specific searches using church, St Marys, St mary, Tadcaster, parish church, Anglican, Saint Mary, tower, graveyard, Kirkgate, Yorkshire, LS24 9BL, LS24, Christian, the Virgin, cemetery, graves, clocktower. The composition also gives space for tighter crops, captions, web thumbnails, report illustrations and social media use, while the Alamy reference 2K3K5Y6 and the row caption help connect the image to a real place rather than a vague concept. The picture can be used by writers covering heritage, conservation, planning, tourism, retail, transport, public services, nostalgia, local identity, architectural survival, industrial change and the way familiar objects or buildings continue to carry meaning in modern Britain.
Kirkgate, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England, UK, LS24 9BL
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Keywords: Salt,Titus,village,West,Yorkshire,England,UK,buildings,listed,site,salts,mill,BD18,Shipley,West Yorkshire,BD18 3LA,river,Titus Salt,mills,office,offices,renovated,preserved,sunny,evening,exterior,outside,building,history,architecture,factory,textile,British,textiles,UNESCO,model
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD31C - . This location-specific image from Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA in 2022 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The defining feature is Listed buildings in Saltaire world heritage village site, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA. A broader reading of the photograph includes built heritage, architectural character, historic townscape, commercial redevelopment, period architecture, community identity, regional identity, changing land use, adaptive reuse, civic architecture, everyday life, contemporary social history, urban regeneration, and historical comparison. For current editorial use, construction costs and planning provide additional context, especially through the value of reusing existing buildings rather than wholesale demolition. Future viewers can use this scene from Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA to compare local activity and public use with whatever follows after closure or conversion. The subject also sits alongside period detail, town-centre renewal, place identity, place-making, changing streetscape, before-and-after reference, documentary photography, and local history. References to Saltaire, Yorkshire, village, Shipley, and Listed give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another strand within the photograph is construction costs and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space within the real-world context of Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA.
Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA
Description
Keywords: Salt,Titus,village,West,Yorkshire,England,UK,buildings,listed,site,salts,mill,BD18,Shipley,West Yorkshire,BD18 3LA,river,Titus Salt,mills,office,offices,renovated,preserved,evening,exterior,outside,building,history,architecture,factory,textile,British,textiles,model,Pace,Arris,wired,and,wireless communications
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD31P - . An on-location photograph from Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA 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 Listed buildings in Saltaire world heritage village site, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA. Further facets of the scene include everyday life, archival record, visual archive, heritage-led regeneration, urban regeneration, adaptive reuse, local character, regional identity, mixed-use redevelopment, public realm, period architecture, historical comparison, before-and-after reference, and period communications technology. For current editorial use, collecting and repairability provide additional context, especially through the renewed interest in repairable analogue electronics. Current relevance extends to construction costs and public-realm investment, particularly through how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity. Future viewers can use this scene from Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA to compare signage and branding with whatever follows after new construction. Other useful contextual ideas include place-making, broadcast history, analogue broadcasting, urban fabric, social history, architectural character, period detail, and community identity. The combination of world, Yorkshire, Shipley, heritage, and Bradford anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. For Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The record includes a point of historical comparison within the wider story of Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA.
Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA
Description
Keywords: Salt,Titus,village,West,Yorkshire,England,UK,buildings,listed,site,salts,mill,BD18,Shipley,West Yorkshire,BD18 3LA,river,Titus Salt,mills,canals,tow,path,office,offices,renovated,preserved,tower,evening,exterior,outside,building,history,architecture,factory,textile,British,textiles,UNESCO,model,Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD39X - . Recorded at Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The subject captured here is Canal towpath, listed buildings in Saltaire world heritage village site, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA. Further facets of the scene include navigation engineering, industrial navigation, community identity, inland navigation, boat museum collection, period architecture, period detail, waterway conservation, before-and-after reference, urban fabric, mixed-use redevelopment, town-centre renewal, social history, and changing land use. Current relevance extends to public access and volunteering, particularly through the transition from freight transport to leisure and heritage use. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into adaptive reuse and planning, not least because of how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity. Small period details of equipment and working practice at Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA may become more significant with time, particularly following later reinterpretation. The subject also sits alongside historical comparison, contemporary social history, changing streetscape, architectural character, local character, industrial waterway history, heritage-led regeneration, and waterborne freight. Elements such as village, Saltaire, world, buildings, and Bradford add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The wider setting at Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The frame retains a local visual benchmark before later change alters the scene.
Victoria Rd, Saltaire, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK, BD18 3LA
Description
Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,villages,of,the,panorama,imposing,history,historic,listed,building,grade I,A529,tourism,attraction,wide,wider,image,sunny,blue sky,blue skies,St James the Great,hill,above,landmark,Audlum,century,architectural,architecture,17th,heritage,St James,religion,traditional,parish,classic,CW3 0AB,on,high
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JP5TEX - St James' Church is in the village of Audlem in south Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The church dates from the late 13th century with additions in the 19th century. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Nantwich. Its benefice is combined with those of St John, Doddington, and St Chad, Wybunbury. The church stands in an elevated position in the centre of the village. History The church is not recorded in the Domesday Book and it is thought that the first building on the site was given by Thomas de Aldelim to the priory of St Thomas at Stafford in the reign of Edward I. After the dissolution of the monasteries the advowson was granted to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. The church dates from the late 13th and early 14th centuries. In 1855“56 there were additions and alterations by Lynam and Rickman The church stands on a small mound in the centre of the village. It is built of red sandstone ashlar with a lead roof.[1] Its plan consists of a six-bay nave with an embattled clerestory, a tower at the northwest corner of the nave, a north aisle with a chapel at its east end, a narrower south aisle, a chancel and a south porch. The church is approached through the south porch by 26 steps arranged in a semicircle. The south wall contains a former priest's doorway which has been walled up and its steps removed. The tower has on its west face a two-light window, above which is a pair of windows and above these is a circular clock. The belfry windows have two lights and are louvred. The top is embattled with pinnacles at the four corners
Audlem, Cheshire, England, UK, CW3 0AB
Description
Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eastcombe,Gloucestershire,Cotswold,Cotswolds,England,UK,GL6,Benefice,history,historic,architecture,building,St John,St Johns,1820,John Wight,Francis Niblett,Grade II,listed,summer,blue sky,blue skies,bright,view,image,cute,village,villages,heritage,stone,stonework,old,Victorian,Anglican,churches
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JM9P35 - The village church, St John the Apostle, was built and opened in 1820. It was designed by John Wight, and later expanded in 1872 by Francis Niblett. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a stone slate roof to coped gables. English Heritage has listed the church as Grade II for its special architectural and historic interest
Sheepscombe, Slad Rd, Stroud, Cotswold, England, UK, GL6 7RF
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Gloucestershire,centre,England,UK,GL5,gate,the,church,in,of,town,listed,building,architecture,grade II,GL5 1AP,rebuilt,1866-8,1866,Bishop,Dr,Charles Ellicott,architect,architects,Wilson & Wilcox,of Bath,Geo Wall and Henry Hook,Brimscombe,Wall and Hook,carving,Joshua Wall,Anglican,sunny,history,historic,heritage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5T8 - . An identifiable period record of The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP in 2022, retaining the practical detail and local context that distinguish a documentary photograph from a generic illustration. At the centre of the view is St Lawrence Parish church, The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP. The wider scene also brings together Christian iconography, regional identity, local character, visual archive, archival record, changing land use, religious heritage, contemporary social history, local history, faith heritage, place identity, documentary photography, public realm, and religious artwork. Current relevance extends to faith communities and heritage conservation, particularly through how sacred art preserves local patrons, stories and beliefs. As a dated visual record of The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP, the frame retains public access and movement, making it especially useful if closure or conversion subsequently changes the scene. The wider setting retains connections with church conservation, ecclesiastical decoration, everyday life, period detail, cathedral interior, medieval church setting, ecclesiastical art, and sacred architecture. Elements such as Parish, Shambles, Stroud, Lawrence, and church add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. A further contemporary connection is faith communities and how places of worship combine active religious use with tourism and heritage within the specific setting of The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP. The frame retains part of the area's social history for later comparison.
The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Gloucestershire,centre,England,UK,GL5,gate,the,church,in,of,town,listed,building,architecture,grade II,GL5 1AP,rebuilt,1866-8,1866,Bishop,Dr,Charles Ellicott,architect,architects,Wilson & Wilcox,of Bath,Geo Wall and Henry Hook,Brimscombe,Wall and Hook,carving,Joshua Wall,English,thriving,successful,district,council,DC
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5TB - . This authentic period view of The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The main point of reference is St Lawrence Parish church, The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP. Further facets of the scene include religious artwork, contemporary social history, medieval church setting, stained-glass craftsmanship, everyday life, church conservation, Christian iconography, ecclesiastical art, regional identity, visual archive, heritage worship space, ecclesiastical decoration, cathedral interior, and public realm. For current editorial use, cultural heritage and visitor tourism provide additional context, especially through the conservation challenge of fragile historic glass and stonework. As a dated visual record of The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP, the frame retains materials and architectural details, making it especially useful if new ownership subsequently changes the scene. A second descriptive layer includes changing streetscape, place identity, faith heritage, community identity, period detail, archival record, historic glazing, and local character. Details involving Lawrence, Shambles, Stroud, Parish, and Gloucestershire make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The wider significance includes cultural heritage and the role of cathedrals as cultural landmarks beyond their congregations within the real-world context of The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP. Image 2JMD5TB also remains a dated record of The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP.
The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 1AP
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,in,the,Marsh,Moreton-In-The-Marsh,Moreton,Cotswold,Cotswolds,town,Gloucestershire,England,UK,Moreton in the Marsh,Evenlode,valley,TC,old,GL56,Moreton-in-Marsh,Evenlode Valley,Cotswold District Council,GL56 0LW,building,buildings,architecture,history,historic,of,ghost,branch,office,civic,listed,grade II,Harry and Meghan,Moreton in Marsh
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNBXNX - 1. 5224 MORETON-IN-THE-MARSH HIGH STREET (east side)
Cotswold District Council Offices (Branch Office) SP 2032 NW 2/90 SP 2032 NE 2/90 SP 2032 SW 2/90 SP 2032 SE 2/90
II GV
2. Late C19, C18 manner. Ashlar front, roof not visible from street. Two storeys. Five bays below, articulated by plain pilasters with entablature. Large 12 pane sashes with segmental heads and glazing bars. Central doorway with 6 pane light over. Four large sashes with glazing bar above, moulded architraves and cornice. Eaves cornice, parapet, brick end stacks with moulded stone caps.
Listing NGR: SP2050332496
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number:
126694
High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh, Evenlode Valley, Cotswold District Council, Gloucestershire, England,
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cotswold,Oxfordshire,England,UK,GL55 6AA,historic,history,stone,listed,building,town,parish,grand,early,tower,architecture,sunny,blue skies,heritage,olden,days,stonework,country,countryside,rural,village,villages,sights,attraction,architectural,landmarks,landmark,British,17th century,Harry and Megan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNBY8C - The grand early perpendicular Cotswold wool church, Church of St James, with its medieval altar frontals (c. 1500), cope (c. 1400), and 17th century monuments includes a monument to silk merchant Sir Baptist Hicks and his family. As well, the Grade I listed Church of St James includes a plaque to William Grevel, described as the flower of the wool merchants of all England. His home, the Grade I listed Grevel's House, was built c. 1380. It is not open to visitors. Chipping Campden is a market town in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. (Chipping is from Old English cēping, 'market', 'market-place'
the same element is found in other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (now High) Wycombe.)
A wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants, most notably William Greville (d.1401). The High Street is lined with buildings built from locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of vernacular architecture. Much of the town centre is a conservation area which has helped to preserve the original buildings. The town is an end point of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile long-distance footpath.
Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olympic Games since 1612.
Chipping Camden, Cotswolds, Cotswold, Oxfordshire, England, UK, GL55 6AA
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cotswold,Oxfordshire,England,UK,GL55 6AA,historic,history,stone,listed,building,town,parish,grand,early,tower,architecture,sunny,blue skies,heritage,olden,days,stonework,country,countryside,rural,village,villages,sights,attraction,architectural,landmarks,landmark,British,17th century
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNBY8D - The grand early perpendicular Cotswold wool church, Church of St James, with its medieval altar frontals (c. 1500), cope (c. 1400), and 17th century monuments includes a monument to silk merchant Sir Baptist Hicks and his family. As well, the Grade I listed Church of St James includes a plaque to William Grevel, described as the flower of the wool merchants of all England. His home, the Grade I listed Grevel's House, was built c. 1380. It is not open to visitors. Chipping Campden is a market town in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. (Chipping is from Old English cēping, 'market', 'market-place'
the same element is found in other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (now High) Wycombe.)
A wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants, most notably William Greville (d.1401). The High Street is lined with buildings built from locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of vernacular architecture. Much of the town centre is a conservation area which has helped to preserve the original buildings. The town is an end point of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile long-distance footpath.
Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olympic Games since 1612.
Chipping Camden, Cotswolds, Cotswold, Oxfordshire, England, UK, GL55 6AA
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cotswold,Oxfordshire,England,UK,GL55 6AA,historic,history,stone,listed,building,town,parish,grand,early,copper,Basil Hovandan Nava,plaque,at,Basil,Hovandan,Nava,in humble submission to the will of god,memorial,for country,ship,torpedoed,german submarine,St Abbs Head,flower,wool,merchants,of,all,English,Harry and Megan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNBY8E - The grand early perpendicular Cotswold wool church, Church of St James, with its medieval altar frontals (c. 1500), cope (c. 1400), and 17th century monuments includes a monument to silk merchant Sir Baptist Hicks and his family. As well, the Grade I listed Church of St James includes a plaque to William Grevel, described as the flower of the wool merchants of all England. His home, the Grade I listed Grevel's House, was built c. 1380. It is not open to visitors. Chipping Campden is a market town in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. (Chipping is from Old English cēping, 'market', 'market-place'
the same element is found in other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (now High) Wycombe.)
A wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants, most notably William Greville (d.1401). The High Street is lined with buildings built from locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of vernacular architecture. Much of the town centre is a conservation area which has helped to preserve the original buildings. The town is an end point of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile long-distance footpath.
Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olympic Games since 1612.
Chipping Camden, Cotswolds, Cotswold, Oxfordshire, England, UK, GL55 6AA
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cotswold,Oxfordshire,England,UK,GL55 6AA,historic,history,stone,listed,building,town,parish,grand,early,stained glass,at,stained,coloured,glass,panel,panels,market hall,market,marketplace,architectural,English,architecture,classic,traditional,window,windows,local,scene,scenes
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNBY8F - The grand early perpendicular Cotswold wool church, Church of St James, with its medieval altar frontals (c. 1500), cope (c. 1400), and 17th century monuments includes a monument to silk merchant Sir Baptist Hicks and his family. As well, the Grade I listed Church of St James includes a plaque to William Grevel, described as the flower of the wool merchants of all England. His home, the Grade I listed Grevel's House, was built c. 1380. It is not open to visitors. Chipping Campden is a market town in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. (Chipping is from Old English cēping, 'market', 'market-place'
the same element is found in other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (now High) Wycombe.)
A wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants, most notably William Greville (d.1401). The High Street is lined with buildings built from locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of vernacular architecture. Much of the town centre is a conservation area which has helped to preserve the original buildings. The town is an end point of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile long-distance footpath.
Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olympic Games since 1612.
Chipping Camden, Cotswolds, Cotswold, Oxfordshire, England, UK, GL55 6AA
Description
Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Herefordshire,England,UK,HR1 2NG,entrance,door,doors,entry,listed,grade II,building,gargoyle,stone,carved,carving,HR1,doorway,outside,architecture,arch,arches,Britain,British,Great Britain,history,historic,old,medieval,Christian,face,faces,ornate,detail,gargoyles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JPB8P5 - . This scene at Hereford City Centre, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NG in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The location is represented through Hereford Cathedral details, Hereford City Centre, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NG. The surrounding context encompasses cityscape history, religious artwork, period architecture, sacred space, heritage landmark, built heritage, period detail, community identity, heritage asset, historic townscape, social history, changing streetscape, before-and-after reference, and cathedral interior. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into cultural heritage and historic fabric, not least because of how places of worship combine active religious use with tourism and heritage. Today's relevance is strengthened by embodied carbon, redevelopment pressure and the continuing question of how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change. Future viewers can use this scene from Hereford City Centre, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NG to compare building condition and alterations with whatever follows after redevelopment. A second descriptive layer includes everyday life, medieval church setting, church conservation, urban fabric, stained-glass craftsmanship, historic glazing, local character, and contemporary social history. Details involving Herefordshire, details, Centre, and Cathedral make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around Hereford City Centre, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NG, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The scene captures details of everyday use for future local research. The period view preserves evidence of changing use before later change alters the scene.
Hereford City Centre, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NG
Description
Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Herefordshire,England,UK,HR1 2NG,entrance,door,doors,entry,gargoyle,stone,carved,carving,listed,grade II,building,HR1,doorway,outside,architecture,arch,arches,Britain,British,Great Britain,history,historic,old,medieval,Christian,face,faces,ornate,detail,gargoyles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JPB8P9 - . This location-specific image from Hereford City Centre, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NG in 2022 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. At the centre of the view is Hereford Cathedral details, faces & gargoyle , Hereford City Centre, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NG. Another layer of the photograph includes place identity, sacred architecture, visual archive, community identity, church conservation, conservation interest, social history, faith heritage, heritage worship space, changing land use, heritage landmark, documentary photography, stained-glass craftsmanship, and adaptive reuse. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with church maintenance, heritage conservation and the role of cathedrals as cultural landmarks beyond their congregations. The modern context includes continuing discussion of embodied carbon, tourism and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility. Small period details of commercial use and occupation at Hereford City Centre, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NG may become more significant with time, particularly following new construction. Other useful contextual ideas include period architecture, changing streetscape, historic glazing, local history, heritage asset, medieval church setting, architectural character, and architectural detail. The recorded references to Herefordshire, Centre, Cathedral, faces, and gargoyle preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around Hereford City Centre, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NG, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. It also preserves evidence of changing use for later comparison. Image 2JPB8P9 also remains a dated record of Hereford City Centre, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NG.
Hereford City Centre, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NG
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,England,UK,Herefordshire,religion,listed,building,entrance,St,HR4,Hereford,HR4 9AP,1839,Roman Catholic,Parish church,Grade II,crucifix,cross,neoclassical-style,neoclassical,style,Charles Day,St Francis,Xavier,Xavierians,heritage,buildings,architecture,design,designed,old,place,of,worship,Roman Catholics,RC
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JPDJJF - St Francis Xavier Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in the city centre of Hereford, Herefordshire. The neoclassical-style church was built in 1839 and was designated a Grade II* listed building on 10 June 1952. It is in the Hereford Deanery of the Archdiocese of Cardiff.
History
The foundation stone of St Francis Xavier's was laid 19 September 1837 and Queen Victoria sent her personal representative to the ceremony. The church was designed by Charles Day, an architect from Worcester, who also designed St Edmund's Church in Bury St Edmunds for the Jesuits. The building's construction cost over £16,000. It was opened on 7 August 1839, before the restoration of the English Catholic hierarchy in 1850, because of this, the church has no windows, fearing that any would be broken during the early 19th century. The church was built on the site of a chapel used by the Society of Jesus during the reformation, hence it was dedicated to St Francis Xavier, a Jesuit missionary from the 16th century who travelled to eastern and southern Asia. The Jesuits were in charge of the Catholic mission to Hereford from at least 1773 (when it was under the care of Dr John Butler, S.J.) to 1858. In 1858, the Benedictines created Belmont Abbey nearby. The church was handed over to them that year. It remained in their hands until 1954 when it was given over the Archdiocese of Cardiff. In 1992, administration of it reverted to the abbey.
The church contains a relic, the hand of St John Kemble a Catholic martyr, who was executed in nearby Widemarsh Common on 22 August 1679. He was beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI and canonized on 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI. His feast day is 22 August.
The exterior comprises columns and a frieze made of stucco. There is a dome at the back of the church. The front comprises two fluted Doric columns either side of the entrance. The interior is ornate with a decorated ceiling made of plaster. The church is lit by a lightwell.
19 ,Broad Street, Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR4 9AP
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Herefordshire,England,UK,HR4 9DG,33,The,listed,building,1297461,frontage,outside,front,babies born at home,delivering,midwives,midwife,Hereford Infirmary,Infirmary,office,offices,Georgian,architecture,historic,heritage,history,buildings,decayed,decaying,distinctive,olde,worldly,attractions,streets,older,part,parts
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M07ACA - House. Early C17 with C18, C19 and C20 alterations. Ashlar sandstone
sham timber-framing
slate roof with gable to left
central brick stack. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar
3-window range: 2 storey oriels in sham timber-framing, under gabled roofs
C18 ashlar with storeybands and coved cornice to eaves. Plank double doors to central passage
6-panel door to right, in plain case with overlight and moulded architrave under pedimented hood on console brackets
9 panel door to left, under leaded overlight
various leaded lights. The John Gwynne James Memorial Home for Nurses tablet. Tablet to rear: W.J.H. 1766 1883. INTERIOR: dogleg staircase with turned balusters and moulded rail
rear winder stair with boarded balusters. Turret: moulded and boarded ceiling. 2nd floor: picture rail
4-panel doors
panelling
chamfered ceiling beam
architraves. 1st floor: moulded ceiling frame with boarded panels
wood 4-centred arch with architrave
cornice and corbells to stacks
9-panel doors
tiled fireplace with overmantel (dated 1632)
carved frieze to panelled dado (dated 1630)
C19 fireplace
boarded dado
wall panelling door-cupboard
panelled reveals to flat arch
architraves
fireplaces. Ground floor: fireplace
6- and 4-panel doors
overlight
wall cupboard
panelling. Passageway: flagstone floor
C18 timber-framing
cast-iron pillar. Cellar: stone-lined
chamfered ceiling beams
brick vault
2-panel door
bins.
33 Bridge Street, Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR4 9DG
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,@hotpixUK,Hotpixuk,England,UK,2 Heath St,Cheshire,WA4 6LP,WA4,dusk,at,building,architecture,religion,2,Walton road,heritage,sun,sunny,orange,glow,tower,bells,belltower,listed,bell tower,corner,venue,Bridgewater,singer,singers,compact,Methodists,red brick,6LP,clear sky
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDJ563 - . A grounded documentary photograph made at 2 Heath St, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6LP in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The defining feature is Stockton Heath Methodist Church, at sunset, 2 Heath St, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6LP. The wider scene also brings together changing land use, conservation architecture, place identity, city-centre activity, local character, period building, historic townscape, historic streetscape, historical comparison, visual archive, urban social history, social landscape, local landmark, and social history. Today's relevance is strengthened by planning control, heritage conservation and the continuing question of the tension between conservation and redevelopment. From a 2025-onward perspective, regeneration and street safety are closely linked to this subject, alongside the relationship between public space and local social life. For later comparison, the photograph preserves materials and architectural details at 2 Heath St, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6LP, details that may look very different after new ownership. The wider setting retains connections with built heritage, archival record, historic frontage, architectural detailing, heritage landmark, community identity, local history, and urban change. Details involving Methodist, Church, sunset, Heath, and Stockton make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For 2 Heath St, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6LP, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The period view preserves evidence of earlier appearance as a date-specific reference.
2 Heath St, Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6LP
Description
Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,City Centre,scouse,L2 0UD,England,UK,The,colonial,imperial,His Majesties,government,crest,icon,building,office,offices,officials,city,centre,control,Tory,Tories,Westminster,House of Commons,effective,ineffective,Conservatives,selfservatives,Home Office,HM,His Majesty,Water St,passageway,grade II,listed,Rachel Reeves,Kier Starmer,Andy Burnham,visa
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JCW1WA - . An identifiable period record of India Buildings, Water Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L2 0UD in 2022, retaining the practical detail and local context that distinguish a documentary photograph from a generic illustration. The frame specifically shows The Liverpool HMRC, HM Government, India Buildings offices, India Buildings, Water Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L2 0UD. The locality and subject together evoke changing streetscape, townscape record, local landmark, conservation interest, documentary photography, period streetscape, archival record, everyday life, place identity, heritage landmark, local character, urban change, changing land use, and heritage asset. Current relevance extends to adaptive reuse and heritage conservation, particularly through the value of distinctive buildings and street furniture to local identity. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into local identity and public-realm change, not least because of the relationship between public space and local social life. As a dated visual record of India Buildings, Water Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L2 0UD, the frame retains signage and branding, making it especially useful if new ownership subsequently changes the scene. Further associations within the scene are period detail, architectural character, contemporary social history, everyday street life, public realm, visual archive, contemporary city life, and conservation architecture. The recorded references to India, Liverpool, Government, Water, and offices preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at India Buildings, Water Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L2 0UD helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The frame retains a point of historical comparison as part of India Buildings, Water Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L2 0UD's history.
India Buildings, Water Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L2 0UD
Description
Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,England,shop,shops,retail,high street,New Street,UK - retail units at Christmas,New St,retail units,Victorian,building,arcade,Victorian arcade,listed,grade II,grade2,Burlington Arcade,Burlington,hotel,bow,red,Xmas,decorated,decorations,decoration,white,arcades,shopping,stores,front,entrance,doorway,council
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFP0FY - . A grounded documentary photograph made at New Street, Birmingham, England, UK in 2019, preserving the main subject alongside smaller details that may become more historically useful with time. The defining feature is Piccadilly Arcade, New Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK - retail units at Christmas - decorative bow. A broader reading of the scene brings in customer footfall, period streetscape, visual archive, local character, architectural detailing, historic context, historical comparison, retail property, retail vacancy, place identity, heritage landmark, high-street commerce, changing streetscape, and conservation interest. For contemporary context, heritage conservation and energy retrofit are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the role of distinctive architecture in local identity. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about online shopping, business rates and how high streets adapt when traditional retail contracts. As the area changes, the scene fixes small features of identity that written records may overlook within the setting of New Street, Birmingham, England, UK. The subject sits alongside local history, traditional masonry, changing land use, built heritage, consumer retail, contemporary social history, historic townscape, and before-and-after reference. The recorded references to decorative, Birmingham, Christmas, Arcade, and Piccadilly preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The surrounding context at New Street, Birmingham, England, UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. A further contemporary connection is heritage conservation and reusing existing buildings rather than demolishing them within the real-world context of New Street, Birmingham, England, UK.
New Street, Birmingham, England, UK
Description
Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,SDC,Sedgemoor,Sedgemoor District Council,South West England,England,UK,South West,town,lamp,lantern,ironwork,Gate,arch,iron arch,st Mary,church,Anglican,religion,religious,town centre,Grade I listed building,listed buildings,listed,building,architecture,deanery of Sedgemoor,the Virgin,William Briwere,TA6,Bridgwater,Somerset,historic,Bridgewater,tower
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKHJ - The Church of St Mary in Bridgwater, Somerset, England was built in the 13th century, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. It is dedicated to Saint Mary, the Virgin.
The building is on the site of an earlier church which was rebuilt by William Briwere in the early 13th century.
St Mary's church has a north porch and windows dating from the 14th century. During the 15th and 16th centuries chapels were added, modifying the nave and the chancel extended.
In July 1685, during the Monmouth Rebellion, the Duke of Monmouth watched from the tower as the forces of King James II assembled, at Westonzoyland, under the command of the Earl of Feversham prior to the Battle of Sedgemoor. The spire, which was built in 1367, is 114 feet 7.5 inches (34.938 m) high and sits on top of the 64 feet (20 m) tower. The spire was split by lightning in 1814 and repaired the following year. On the face of the tower is a clock installed in 1869 replacing earlier clocks which had been on the tower since 1393. Within the tower are eight bells. The oldest bell dates from 1617 with further bells being added through the 17th and 18th centuries. The most recent bell is the Tenor which dates from 1868 and was cast by John Taylor & Co.
Between 1849 and 1851 major renovation work, by Dickson and Brakspear of Manchester, included the removal of the galleries and box pews
they were replaced by regular pews. Between 1877 and 1878 further alterations were made, and in 1888 the walled up arch between the nave and the tower was opened. In 1902 a vestry was added. In 1937 more alterations were made and the decoration of the Sanctuary simplified.
The interior of the church includes a 13 feet (4.0 m) by 8 feet (2.4 m) painting of the Descent from the Cross of Spanish or Italian origin given to the church by Anne Poulett the Member of Parliament for the Bridgwater constituency in 1775. It was apparently captured when a Spanish warship was taken a prize. The artist is unknown, although it ha
St. Mary St, Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK, TA6 3EQ
Description
Keywords: City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,Basin,brick,Dale St,Dale street,Waterside,Mixed Use,Development Site,site,land,commercial,residential,Urban Exchange,Carvers Warehouse,Ducie House,iconic,history,building,architecture,outside,exterior,listed,centre,parking
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M2A - . A detailed visual record preserves the visible identity of Dale Street, Manchester, UK, M1 2HG, in a 2019 record. The principal recorded subject is Piccadilly Basin Arch, Car Park, Dale Street, Manchester, UK, M1 2HG. The physical and social setting additionally connects with housing stock, architectural detail, heritage asset, residential development, estate environment, urban living, architectural heritage, community infrastructure, period property, adaptive reuse, housing quality, and local landmark. For present-day editorial use, neighbourhood condition can also illustrate debates about decarbonisation and tenant rights, particularly where these affect more affordable supply. Modern coverage of historic buildings frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of conservation of original fabric, redevelopment pressure and lower-carbon reuse rather than demolition. Small period details preserved at Dale Street, Manchester, UK, M1 2HG 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 tenure and occupancy, place-making, affordable homes, urban conservation, housing affordability, domestic architecture. The record also refers to Manchester City Centre, Manchester Piccadily Basin, stone, Stone arch. A second layer of description includes neighbourhood regeneration, historic townscape, conservation interest, local neighbourhood, historic built environment, heritage streetscape, property maintenance, community housing, traditional building, and residential environment. In the mid-2020s, neighbourhood condition is increasingly discussed through decarbonisation and the cost of decent homes, with attention turning to stronger tenant accountability. The view of Dale Street, Manchester, UK, M1 2HG also preserves another layer of local identity and period change.
Dale Street, Manchester, UK, M1 2HG
Description
Keywords: City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Victorian,office,offices,warehouse,Watts Bros Manchester,Watts Brothers,English Heritage Legacy ID,388270,English Heritage Legacy ID 388270,SJ8498SE,LEVER STREET,698-1/29/206 (South East side),Listing NGR SJ8457498405,Hardware,and,furniture,brothers,M1 1DW,M1,centre,Ancoats,history,historic,Lever Street,Lever St,now,listed,building
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF633 - Hardware and furniture warehouse, now offices. Dated 1898 at
3rd floor
altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with red
sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan at
right-angles to street, with loading bay at rear. Free
Elizabethan style. Basement, 4 storeys and attic, 4 bays, with
plinth, cornice over ground floor, slightly-projected outer
bays with tall shaped gables, and chamfered shafts piercing a
prominent cornice. The ground floor has a large round-headed
doorway to the left, with convex jambs, moulded head and
keystone cartouche lettered 24, and a prominent cornice on
elongated consoles
a mullioned 2-light window to the right
over a basement doorway and 2 altered windows further right.
On the upper floors the 2 centre bays have 3-storey
elliptical-headed arches with 3-light wndows to all floors,
the outer bays have vertical-rectangular windows, with
panelled aprons at 2nd floor and large carved aprons at 3rd
floor lettered respectively 18 and 98. The attic has
3-light mullioned windows in the centre bays and vertical
windows in the gables with ornamental architraves including
oculi in steeply-swept gables finished with small segmental
pediments. The right-hand return wall has 2 bays in matching
style, continued with an 8-window range of white glazed brick,
carried down to 2 storeys at the rear, which has a parallel
loading bay.
Bunsen St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1DW
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,office,offices,hotel,Refuge Building,Oxford rd,Insurance,Victorian,Office,listed building,building,Grade II listed,listed,City Centre,Manchester,Principal Hotel,Refuge Friend in Deed Life Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly,central Manchester,M60 7HA,M60,Lancashire,Commerce,business,company,leisure,dining,rooms,hotels,Landmark,Landmark Hotel,insurance,window,windows,etched,buildings
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98NB - The Refuge Assurance Company Ltd. was a life insurance and pensions company based in England. It was founded by James Proctor and George Robins in Dukinfield, Cheshire in 1858. The company was originally known by the unwieldy name of the Refuge Friend in Deed Life Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly Society.
From 1895 until 1987, its head office was the magnificent Grade II* listed, Refuge Assurance Building on Oxford Street in central Manchester, now used as the Principal Hotel. In 1987, the company decided to move out of the city centre to new, purpose-built, offices in the grounds of Fulshaw Hall in Wilmslow, around 12 miles south of the old Refuge Building. In October 1996, the Refuge Assurance Company merged with United Friendly to form the United Assurance Group (UAG).
After disappointing performances following the merger, the United Assurance Group was first approached by Britannic Assurance in November 1999, and then by Royal London Mutual Insurance Society in February 2000. Following successful talks, Royal London took over UAG for £1.6 billion.
The Refuge Assurance Building, Manchester, on Oxford Road, was the company's head office between 1895 and 1987
Oxford St, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M60 7HA
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,office,offices,hotel,Refuge Building,Oxford rd,Insurance,Victorian,Office,listed building,building,Grade II listed,listed,City Centre,Manchester,Principal Hotel,Refuge Friend in Deed Life Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly,central Manchester,M60 7HA,M60,Lancashire,Commerce,business,company,leisure,dining,rooms,hotels,Landmark,Landmark Hotel,insurance,Refuge Insurance,window,windows,etched
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98NH - The Refuge Assurance Company Ltd. was a life insurance and pensions company based in England. It was founded by James Proctor and George Robins in Dukinfield, Cheshire in 1858. The company was originally known by the unwieldy name of the Refuge Friend in Deed Life Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly Society.
From 1895 until 1987, its head office was the magnificent Grade II* listed, Refuge Assurance Building on Oxford Street in central Manchester, now used as the Principal Hotel. In 1987, the company decided to move out of the city centre to new, purpose-built, offices in the grounds of Fulshaw Hall in Wilmslow, around 12 miles south of the old Refuge Building. In October 1996, the Refuge Assurance Company merged with United Friendly to form the United Assurance Group (UAG).
After disappointing performances following the merger, the United Assurance Group was first approached by Britannic Assurance in November 1999, and then by Royal London Mutual Insurance Society in February 2000. Following successful talks, Royal London took over UAG for £1.6 billion.
The Refuge Assurance Building, Manchester, on Oxford Road, was the company's head office between 1895 and 1987
Oxford St, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M60 7HA
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,office,offices,hotel,Refuge Building,Oxford rd,Insurance,Victorian,Office,listed building,building,Grade II listed,listed,City Centre,Manchester,Principal Hotel,Refuge Friend in Deed Life Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly,central Manchester,M60 7HA,M60,Lancashire,Commerce,business,company,leisure,dining,rooms,hotels,Landmark,Landmark Hotel,insurance,Refuge Insurance,courtyard,outside
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98NT - The Refuge Assurance Company Ltd. was a life insurance and pensions company based in England. It was founded by James Proctor and George Robins in Dukinfield, Cheshire in 1858. The company was originally known by the unwieldy name of the Refuge Friend in Deed Life Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly Society.
From 1895 until 1987, its head office was the magnificent Grade II* listed, Refuge Assurance Building on Oxford Street in central Manchester, now used as the Principal Hotel. In 1987, the company decided to move out of the city centre to new, purpose-built, offices in the grounds of Fulshaw Hall in Wilmslow, around 12 miles south of the old Refuge Building. In October 1996, the Refuge Assurance Company merged with United Friendly to form the United Assurance Group (UAG).
After disappointing performances following the merger, the United Assurance Group was first approached by Britannic Assurance in November 1999, and then by Royal London Mutual Insurance Society in February 2000. Following successful talks, Royal London took over UAG for £1.6 billion.
The Refuge Assurance Building, Manchester, on Oxford Road, was the company's head office between 1895 and 1987
Oxford St, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M60 7HA
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,office,offices,hotel,Refuge Building,Oxford rd,Insurance,Victorian,Office,listed building,building,Grade II listed,listed,City Centre,Manchester,Principal Hotel,Refuge Friend in Deed Life Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly,central Manchester,M60 7HA,M60,Lancashire,Commerce,business,company,leisure,dining,rooms,hotels,Landmark,Landmark Hotel,insurance,Refuge Insurance,Volta Bar Dining Room Winter Garden Den
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98RH - The Refuge Assurance Company Ltd. was a life insurance and pensions company based in England. It was founded by James Proctor and George Robins in Dukinfield, Cheshire in 1858. The company was originally known by the unwieldy name of the Refuge Friend in Deed Life Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly Society.
From 1895 until 1987, its head office was the magnificent Grade II* listed, Refuge Assurance Building on Oxford Street in central Manchester, now used as the Principal Hotel. In 1987, the company decided to move out of the city centre to new, purpose-built, offices in the grounds of Fulshaw Hall in Wilmslow, around 12 miles south of the old Refuge Building. In October 1996, the Refuge Assurance Company merged with United Friendly to form the United Assurance Group (UAG).
After disappointing performances following the merger, the United Assurance Group was first approached by Britannic Assurance in November 1999, and then by Royal London Mutual Insurance Society in February 2000. Following successful talks, Royal London took over UAG for £1.6 billion.
The Refuge Assurance Building, Manchester, on Oxford Road, was the company's head office between 1895 and 1987
Oxford St, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M60 7HA
Description
Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Lever,Bros,Brothers,Lady Lever,Cheshire,England,UK,North West England,building,listed,architecture,classic,CH62 5EQ,CH62,room,rooms,paintings,National Museums Liverpool,National Museums,Liverpool,William and Segar Owen,Segar Owen,Beaux-Arts style,Beaux Arts style,BeauxArts,Art Collection,Art Gallery,Elizabeth Hulme,Sunlight Soap brand,Sunlight Soap,brand,factory,galleries,gallery,Eurovision,2023
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P72D9N - The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village of Port Sunlight, on the Wirral and one of the National Museums Liverpool.
The museum is a significant surviving example of late Victorian and Edwardian taste. It houses major collections of fine and decorative art that are an expression of Lord Leverhulme's personal taste and collecting interests. The collection is strong in British 19th-century painting and sculpture, spilling over to include late 18th-century and early 20th works. There are important collections of English furniture, Wedgwood, especially jasperware, and Chinese ceramics, and smaller groups of other types of objects, such as Ancient Greek vases and Roman sculpture. The majority of objects were part of the original donation, but the collection has continued to expand at a modest rate. The museum displays mostly mixed paintings, sculpture and furniture together, and there are five Period Rooms recreating typical period interiors from large houses.
The Building was commissioned in 1913 from architects William and Segar Owen, the Lady Lever Art Gallery was built in the Beaux-Arts style. The building was opened in 1922 by Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria.
In 2015 part of the museum was closed for building works, with little of the ceramics collections on display, but most of the other collections. A touring exhibition visited museums in Japan and elsewhere. The redeveloped South End galleries were restored to their original architecture style as part of a £2.8 million restoration project in 2016. The work included opening up original doorways to increase the circulation of visitors, improving the lighting and restoring some of the original vaulted ceilings
Port Sunlight Village, Lower Rd, Bebington, Wirral, England, UK, CH62 5EQ
Description
Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Lever,Bros,Brothers,Lady Lever,Cheshire,England,UK,North West England,building,listed,architecture,classic,CH62 5EQ,CH62,room,rooms,paintings,National Museums Liverpool,National Museums,Liverpool,William and Segar Owen,Segar Owen,Beaux-Arts style,Beaux Arts style,BeauxArts,Art Collection,Art Gallery,Elizabeth Hulme,Sunlight Soap brand,Sunlight Soap,brand,factory,galleries,gallery,greenwashing
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P72DH2 - The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village of Port Sunlight, on the Wirral and one of the National Museums Liverpool.
The museum is a significant surviving example of late Victorian and Edwardian taste. It houses major collections of fine and decorative art that are an expression of Lord Leverhulme's personal taste and collecting interests. The collection is strong in British 19th-century painting and sculpture, spilling over to include late 18th-century and early 20th works. There are important collections of English furniture, Wedgwood, especially jasperware, and Chinese ceramics, and smaller groups of other types of objects, such as Ancient Greek vases and Roman sculpture. The majority of objects were part of the original donation, but the collection has continued to expand at a modest rate. The museum displays mostly mixed paintings, sculpture and furniture together, and there are five Period Rooms recreating typical period interiors from large houses.
The Building was commissioned in 1913 from architects William and Segar Owen, the Lady Lever Art Gallery was built in the Beaux-Arts style. The building was opened in 1922 by Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria.
In 2015 part of the museum was closed for building works, with little of the ceramics collections on display, but most of the other collections. A touring exhibition visited museums in Japan and elsewhere. The redeveloped South End galleries were restored to their original architecture style as part of a £2.8 million restoration project in 2016. The work included opening up original doorways to increase the circulation of visitors, improving the lighting and restoring some of the original vaulted ceilings
Port Sunlight Village, Lower Rd, Bebington, Wirral, England, UK, CH62 5EQ
Description
Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Lever,Bros,Brothers,Lady Lever,Cheshire,England,UK,North West England,building,listed,architecture,classic,CH62 5EQ,CH62,room,rooms,paintings,National Museums Liverpool,National Museums,Liverpool,William and Segar Owen,Segar Owen,Beaux-Arts style,Beaux Arts style,BeauxArts,Art Collection,Art Gallery,Elizabeth Hulme,Sunlight Soap brand,Sunlight Soap,brand,factory,galleries,gallery,bust,busts,stone,carved
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P72EMC - The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village of Port Sunlight, on the Wirral and one of the National Museums Liverpool.
The museum is a significant surviving example of late Victorian and Edwardian taste. It houses major collections of fine and decorative art that are an expression of Lord Leverhulme's personal taste and collecting interests. The collection is strong in British 19th-century painting and sculpture, spilling over to include late 18th-century and early 20th works. There are important collections of English furniture, Wedgwood, especially jasperware, and Chinese ceramics, and smaller groups of other types of objects, such as Ancient Greek vases and Roman sculpture. The majority of objects were part of the original donation, but the collection has continued to expand at a modest rate. The museum displays mostly mixed paintings, sculpture and furniture together, and there are five Period Rooms recreating typical period interiors from large houses.
The Building was commissioned in 1913 from architects William and Segar Owen, the Lady Lever Art Gallery was built in the Beaux-Arts style. The building was opened in 1922 by Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria.
In 2015 part of the museum was closed for building works, with little of the ceramics collections on display, but most of the other collections. A touring exhibition visited museums in Japan and elsewhere. The redeveloped South End galleries were restored to their original architecture style as part of a £2.8 million restoration project in 2016. The work included opening up original doorways to increase the circulation of visitors, improving the lighting and restoring some of the original vaulted ceilings
Port Sunlight Village, Lower Rd, Bebington, Wirral CH62 5EQ
Description
Keywords: GoTonysmith,@HotpixUK,City Centre,public house,historic,history,capital,Citte,Of,Yorke,City of York,Chancery Lane,London,England,UK,grade2,Grade II,listed,building,Old Brewery,beer,bitter,Henekeys long bar,long bar,Henekeys,with drinker,Victorian,22 High Holborn,exterior,outside,clock,pub with clock,Coat of Arms,Front,stone,frontage,front,roman numerals,sign,pub sign
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MM9A08 - . This scene at the recorded location in 2018 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The scene records Citte Of Yorke Pub, Chancelry Lane, Holborn, London, England, UK. A broader reading of the photograph includes cider brand history, drinks packaging, changing land use, before-and-after reference, drinks manufacturing, documentary photography, local history, factory bottling line, social history, regional drinks industry, community identity, changing streetscape, period detail, and archival record. From a 2025-onward perspective, regional food heritage and brand heritage are closely linked to this subject, alongside Herefordshire's long association with commercial cider production. Small period details of building condition and alterations at the recorded location may become more significant with time, particularly following redevelopment. Further associations within the scene are everyday life, fermented drink production, public realm, visual archive, bottle-filling machinery, historical comparison, historic beverage advertising, and bottling technology. Elements such as London, Yorke, Chancelry, Citte, and Holborn add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. Even without a fuller street location, image MM9A08 preserves the period presentation of Citte Of Yorke Pub, Chancelry Lane, Holborn, London, England, UK, giving later viewers a fixed documentary point for comparison. Its period value extends to regional food heritage and the relationship between orchard agriculture, regional identity and branded cider without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. The location additionally provides evidence of responsible drinking and how bottling technology transformed large-scale drinks manufacturing in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location.
Description
Keywords: Office,space,history,historic,architecture,building,city,centre,ave,L2,grade,listed,II,building,Grayson,Ould,granite,brick,stone,arched,entrance,Corinthian,pilasters,Ionic,Queen Insurance,Queen Insurance Buildings,Queen Avenue,Castle st,Grade II,Grayson and Ould,Grayson & Ould,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,Ionic,half-columns,half,columns,lamp,lamps,Victorian,gaslamp,gas,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4HM7R - An office building designed by Grayson and Ould. It is in brick with stone dressings, a granite ground floor, and a slate Mansard roof. The building has four storeys, and is five bays wide. In the ground floor, two of the bays form an arched entrance to Queen Avenue. In the first floor, between the windows, are Corinthian pilasters, and between the windows in the second floor are Ionic half-columns. On the front of the building are friezes, and at the top are dormers
Queen Insurance Buildings, Queen Avenue, Liverpool L2 4TZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4HM81 - An office building designed by Grayson and Ould. It is in brick with stone dressings, a granite ground floor, and a slate Mansard roof. The building has four storeys, and is five bays wide. In the ground floor, two of the bays form an arched entrance to Queen Avenue. In the first floor, between the windows, are Corinthian pilasters, and between the windows in the second floor are Ionic half-columns. On the front of the building are friezes, and at the top are dormers
Queen Insurance Buildings, Queen Avenue, Liverpool L2 4TZ
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Keywords: St Wilfrids Parish Church,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4,inside,interior,religious,art,memorial,historic,tourist,landmark,Anglican,GradeI,listed,grade,building,Architecture,My,spirit,hath,rejoice,in,God,my,Saviour,WA4 3EP,Lady Chapel,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles,My spirit hath rejoice in God my Saviour
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY06ME - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 1873“74 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 1873“74 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
Church Lane, Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire, England, WA4 3EP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GGWHBK - Liverpool Town Hall stands in High Street at its junction with Dale Street, Castle Street, and Water Street in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and described in the list as one of the finest surviving 18th-century town halls. The authors of the Buildings of England series refer to its magnificent scale, and consider it to be probably the grandest ...suite of civic rooms in the country, and an outstanding and complete example of late Georgian decoration.
It is not an administrative building but a civic suite, Lord Mayor's parlour and Council chamber
local government administration is centred at the nearby Municipal Buildings. The town hall was built between 1749 and 1754 to a design by John Wood the Elder replacing an earlier town hall nearby. An extension to the north designed by James Wyatt was added in 1785. Following a fire in 1795 the hall was largely rebuilt and a dome designed by Wyatt was built. Minor alterations have subsequently been made. The streets surrounding its site have altered since its initiation, notably when viewed from Castle Street, the south-side, it appears as off-centre. This is because Water Street which ran to the junction with Dale Street, the west-east axis, was continuous and built up across the junction so that the Town Hall was not visible originally from that aspect. The structures were removed 150 years after this to expose the building from this position.
High St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK L2 3SW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GGWHBY - Liverpool Town Hall stands in High Street at its junction with Dale Street, Castle Street, and Water Street in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and described in the list as one of the finest surviving 18th-century town halls. The authors of the Buildings of England series refer to its magnificent scale, and consider it to be probably the grandest ...suite of civic rooms in the country, and an outstanding and complete example of late Georgian decoration.
It is not an administrative building but a civic suite, Lord Mayor's parlour and Council chamber
local government administration is centred at the nearby Municipal Buildings. The town hall was built between 1749 and 1754 to a design by John Wood the Elder replacing an earlier town hall nearby. An extension to the north designed by James Wyatt was added in 1785. Following a fire in 1795 the hall was largely rebuilt and a dome designed by Wyatt was built. Minor alterations have subsequently been made. The streets surrounding its site have altered since its initiation, notably when viewed from Castle Street, the south-side, it appears as off-centre. This is because Water Street which ran to the junction with Dale Street, the west-east axis, was continuous and built up across the junction so that the Town Hall was not visible originally from that aspect. The structures were removed 150 years after this to expose the building from this position.
High St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK L2 3SW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EY5KET - The first public baths in the town opened on Church Street on 1 May 1851 The foundation stone for Legh Street Baths was laid in 1865 and they opened in 1866. They were originally privately owned by the Warrington Baths Company who went bankrupt. The council purchased them in 1873 and added two extra pools in 1912. This was commemorated in a foundation stone on Legh Street
The baths closed forever on 31 July 2003 and stood empty until the demolition company Anthony O'Connor & Sons Ltd from Salford moved in on Saturday 16 April 2011. They had a contract to clear the site in preparation for the construction of a new health centre. The baths consisted of four swimming pools, a steam room, laundry, and slipper baths for both ladies and men. The early boilers were typical ships' boilers (there were two of those) running on heavy oil. Phil recalls spending many a happy hour warming the oil line with a blowlamp in order to get the oil thin and warm enough before the boilers would fire up.
Legh St,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DN6N8T - The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed building in Manchester, England. It is located in the city centre on the land bounded by St Ann's Square, Exchange Street, Market Street, Cross Street and Old Bank Street. The complex includes the Royal Exchange Theatre and the Royal Exchange Shopping Centre.
The Royal Exchange was heavily damaged in the Manchester Blitz and in the 1996 Manchester bombing. The current building is the last of several buildings on the site used for commodities exchange, primarily but not exclusively of cotton and textiles.
The cotton industry in Lancashire was served by the Manchester Royal Exchange which traded in spun yarn and finished goods throughout the world including Africa while the Liverpool Cotton Exchange traded in imported raw cotton. In the 18th century the trade was part of part the slave trade in which African slaves were transported to America where the cotton was grown and then exported to Liverpool where the raw cotton was sold.[2]
The first exchange opened in 1729 but closed by the end of the century. As the cotton industry boomed, the need for a new exchange was recognized. Thomas Harrison designed the new exchange of 1809 at the junction of Market Street and Exchange Street.[2] The expanding cotton industry required a larger building and its extension was completed in 1849. The second exchange was replaced, by a third exchange by Mills & Murgatroyd, constructed between 1867 and 1874. It was extended and modified by Bradshaw Gass & Hope between 1914 and 1931 to form the largest trading hall in England.
The trading hall had three domes and was double the size of the current hall. The colonnade parallel to Cross Street marked the its centre. On trading days merchants and brokers struck deals which supported the jobs of tens of thousands of textile workers in Manchester and the surrounding towns. Manchester's cotton dealers and manufactureres trading from the Royal Exchange earned the city the name, Cottonopolis
Exchange St, Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BGRC21 - . This scene at 27 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2LY documents an everyday subject with wider connections to local identity, social history and changing patterns of use. The location is represented through The Lower Angel Pub, Buttermarket Street, Warrington Town Centre, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1. The wider scene also brings together local drinking place, everyday Britain, leisure venue, town-centre leisure, beer-led venue, regional identity, customer-facing hospitality, archival record, urban change, food-and-drink business, licensed trade, community identity, public realm, and place identity. For contemporary context, changing drinking habits and the night-time economy are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the survival of community meeting places. As a dated visual record of 27 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2LY, the frame retains materials and construction, making it useful if later redevelopment subsequently changes the scene. The setting also brings in local history, neighbourhood pub, traditional ale house, contemporary history, period detail, licensed premises, before-and-after reference, and hospitality venue. The recorded references to Centre, Angel, Buttermarket, and Lower preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. Around 27 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2LY, apparently routine features can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar street details disappear. The wider significance includes changing drinking habits and the survival of community meeting places without losing the local specificity of 27 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2LY. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for 27 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2LY and the changing story of the subject shown.
27 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2LY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BGRC26 - . A grounded editorial photograph of 27 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2LY, capturing details that may acquire greater historical value as the location and its use change. The principal subject is The Lower Angel Pub, Buttermarket Street, Warrington Town Centre, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1. The wider scene also brings together built environment, licensed trade, community identity, local drinking place, archival record, changing streetscape, neighbourhood pub, documentary photography, everyday Britain, community social space, place identity, night-time economy, food-and-drink business, and contemporary history. Today's wider story includes changing drinking habits, the night-time economy and the practical question of the survival of community meeting places. For later comparison, the photograph preserves equipment and working practice at 27 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2LY, details that may look very different after different community use. Other connected aspects are public realm, social history, local history, community hostelry, period detail, urban change, historical comparison, and social landscape. The recorded references to Buttermarket, Centre, Lower, and Angel preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. Around 27 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2LY, apparently routine features can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar street details disappear. The image also provides a reference for changing drinking habits and the survival of community meeting places as part of the longer story of 27 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2LY. The wider significance includes staffing pressures and whether local venues can remain commercially viable when considered against later change at 27 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2LY.
27 Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 2LY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BG7KGY - The Royal Liver Building is a Grade I listed building in Liverpool, England. It is located at the Pier Head and along with the neighbouring Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building is one of Liverpool's Three Graces, which line the city's waterfront. It is also part of Liverpool's UNESCO-designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City.
Opened in 1911, the building is the purpose-built home of the Royal Liver Assurance group, which had been set up in the city in 1850 to provide locals with assistance related to losing a wage-earning relative. One of the first buildings in the world to be built using reinforced concrete, the Royal Liver Building stands at 98.2 m (322 ft) tall to the top of the spires, and 50.9 m (167 ft) to the main roof. Once one of the tallest buildings in the country, the Royal Liver Building is now only the joint-fifth tallest structure in the City of Liverpool.
Today the Royal Liver Building is one of the most recognisable landmarks in the city of Liverpool and is home to two fabled Liver Birds that watch over the city and the sea. Legend has it that were these two birds to fly away, then the city would cease to exist.
Atop each tower stand the mythical Liver Birds, designed by Carl Bernard Bartels. The birds are named Bella and Bertie, looking to the sea and inland, respectively
Royal Liver Building, Liverpool, England,Uk, L3 1HU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF23TD - Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the cotton industry. It is a Grade II listed building and is now in the care of the National Trust.
The mill was founded by Samuel Greg (who is represented here), in 1784 in the village of Styal on the River Bollin. Its original iron water wheel was designed by Thomas Hewes and built between 1816 and 1820.
The Hewes wheel finally broke in 1904. After that the River Bollin continued to power the mill, through two water turbines. Today the Mill is home to the most powerful working waterwheel in Europe, an iron water wheel which was originally at Glasshouses Mill at Patley Bridge. This wheel was designed by Sir William Fairbairn, the Scottish engineer who had been an apprentice of Thomas Hewes.
The estate surrounding the mill, also developed by Greg, is the most complete and least altered factory colony of the Industrial Revolution. The estate and mill were donated to the National Trust in 1939 by Alexander Carlton Greg and are open to the public. The mill continued in commercial production until 1959.
The Greg family were Unitarians and built Norcliffe Chapel in Styal village. Their non-conformist religious beliefs provided the Gregs with important business contacts as many of the major Manchester Industrialists were Unitarian. Methodist workers at the mill later sought a place of worship, and the Gregs converted a grain store in Styal village into a Chapel for their use.
In Britain, a cotton mill is a factory that houses spinning and weaving machinery. Typically built between 1775 and 1930, mills spun cotton which was an important product during the Industrial Revolution.
Cotton mills, and the mechanisation of the spinning process, were instrumental in the growth of the machine tool industry, enabling the construction of larger cotton mills. The requirement for water helped stimulate the construction of the canal system too.
Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4592890162 - 'I passed the Ring O Bells today in Warrington and it looked very spring like with all the tulips and daffidils outside. Unfortunately I could not drop in to sample any of the seasonal ales on offer :-( . Purely in the interests of providing additional information you understand!
The Ring Of Bells is situated in the yard adjacent to St Elphins ( www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4163626967/ ), Warrington's principle central church. The building is grade I listed in the same manner as the church. Its a fine traditional boozer and watering hole.
There are five constantly changing real ales alongside the usual suspects (lagers, alcopops etc). Dave down there has Cask Marque accreditation and are regularly featured in 'Out Inn Cheshire', our areas CAMRA magazine. The Cask Marque trust website will help you locate the nearest accredited real ale pub to you at www.cask-marque.co.uk/pubs/map.php. there is also an iPhone app (if you have such new fangled things) to do this for you too. Its called CaskFinder.
There is a varied menu at the Ring Of Bells and they have a four star rating from the local council. All the food is freshly prepared and as far as practical from locally sourced ingredients. They don't have Sky Sports, Jukebox, Pool table or other similar distractions from a friendly community atmosphere. If you are in town, drop in for a pint or two. Tell them you read about it here!
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HDN9 - St Oswald's Church, is in the village of Winwick, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Warrington and the deanery of Winwick
A church at Winwick is recorded in the Domesday Book. The earliest parts of the present church are the bases of the north arcade which date from the early 13th century, and the walls of the Legh Chapel and the organ chamber which are dated 1330. The west tower was built in 1358, and the walls and north arcade of the nave (except for the Legh Chapel and the organ chamber) date from 1580. Much damage was done to the church in 1648 when Oliver Cromwell stationed his troops in the church after the Battle of Red Bank. The south porch was added in 1720, and the south arcade of the nave was rebuilt in 1836 reusing earlier stones. The chancel, sanctuary and vestry were rebuilt by Pugin in 1847“49 for the 13th Earl of Derby. The spire was rebuilt and the church was restored in 1869 by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin. On Thursday 13 January 1887, Titanic Captain Edward Smith married Sarah Eleanor Pennington in the church. In 1931“32 Henry Paley successor in the Lancaster architectural practice, now known as Austin and Paley, restored the tower at a cost of £463, and in 1934 he added a new vestry, porch and entrance at a cost of £232
The nave and aisles have camber beam panelled oak roofs dated 1711. The Legh Chapel has a 16th-century panelled roof. In the Legh Chapel is a brass to Sir Peter Legh dated 1527. This is the only known English monumental brass to combine the military and the sacred. It shows the Knight and Priest in clerical vestments worn over armour, with his sword by his side
Golborne Rd, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, England,Uk, WA2 8SZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HTT4 - The Royal Liver Building is a Grade I listed building located in Liverpool, England. It is sited at the Pier Head and along with the neighbouring Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building is one of Liverpool's Three Graces, which line the city's waterfront. It is also part of Liverpool's UNESCO designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City.
Opened in 1911, the building is the purpose-built home of the Royal Liver Assurance group, which had been set up in the city in 1850 to provide locals with assistance related to losing a wage-earning relative. One of the first buildings in the world to be built using reinforced concrete, the Royal Liver Building stands at 90 m (300 ft) tall.
It was the tallest storied building in Europe from completion until 1934 and the tallest in the United Kingdom until 1961. The Royal Liver Building is now however only the joint-fourth tallest structure in the City of Liverpool, having been overtaken in height by West Tower, Radio City Tower and Liverpool Cathedral.
Today the Royal Liver Building is one of the most recognisable landmarks in the city of Liverpool and is home to two fabled Liver Birds that watch over the city and the sea. Legend has it that were these two birds to fly away, then the city would cease to exist.
Pier Head, Liverpool, UK L3 1HT
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0N10 - . St Wilfrids, Davenham Last Supper Frieze in stone. Photographed on 27 July 2009. The recorded location is Church St, Davenham, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK. In historical terms, art in public and historic settings adds another layer to the built environment
Sculpture, mosaic, painting and street art can interpret heritage, provoke debate, memorialise communities or create landmarks, and photographs preserve works that may later change or disappear. The wider historical story is that historic objects and places gain meaning through survival
Materials, craftsmanship, inscriptions and later alterations can reveal how a building, machine or everyday item was made, used and valued, while preservation decisions show which parts of the past communities choose to retain. During 2026, public art and murals remain significant to place-making, tourism and regeneration, particularly in city districts where street art has become part of the visitor economy
They also raise questions about conservation, ownership, temporary work and the rapid redevelopment of urban neighbourhoods. In the present 2026 context, heritage remains economically and culturally significant through tourism, education and place-making, while the cost of maintaining historic fabric creates continuing debate about conservation and reuse. In the longer view, public art can become part of the identity of a street or neighbourhood, recording political ideas, local history, humour, memory and changing cultural tastes
Murals, sculpture and decorative art are especially valuable as documentary subjects because they may be altered, moved, weathered or removed. As background, murals, sculptures and civic artworks turn public space into a record of local culture
They can commemorate people and events, respond to politics, celebrate industry or simply enliven streets, while the artists' materials and styles place the work within a particular period.
Church St, Davenham, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0N14 - St Wilfrid's Church is in the village of Davenham, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Middlewich.
History
A church on the site was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. A later church was built in the 14th century and its chancel was rebuilt in 1680 and again in 1795.[3] The present church dates from 1842 to 1844 when the body of the church was replaced, and the tower and spire were repaired, the architect being Edmund Sharpe of Lancaster. The nave was lengthened by one bay, heightened and widened, and galleries were inserted on three sides. The tower was damaged when it was struck by lightning on 16 July 1850.[3] A new tower was designed by Sharpe and his partner at the time, E. G. Paley. The chancel and transepts date from 1870 by the later partners in the practice, Paley and Austin.
Architecture
Exterior
The church is built in red sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. Its plan consists of a west tower, a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel with a north vestry and a south chantry chapel, and a southwest porch. The tower has an octagonal spire with three tiers of lucarnes.
Interior
In the chancel is a two-arched sedilia. The reredos contains an alabaster relief depicting The Last Supper. The monuments in the church include ones to William Tomkinson who died in 1770 by Benjamin Bromfield, to Mrs France who died in 1814 by S. and F. Franceys of Liverpool, to Mrs Harper dated 1833 by Francesco Pozzi of Florence with a relief of a mother and child, and to Frederick and Cecil France-Hayhurst who died in 1915, by Underwood. In the south aisle is a war memorial chapel designed by Sir Robert Lorimer. It contains a reredos with carvings of personifications of virtues, framed by carved friezes, and posts surmounted by angels
57 Church St, Davenham, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW9 8NF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HCN8 - Hadlow Road railway station was a station on the single track Hooton to West Kirby branch of the Birkenhead Railway, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, England.
The station served the village of Willaston. It may be presumed that it was named Hadlow Road to distinguish it from the pre-existing Cheshire station at the other Cheshire village of Willaston, and so named, on the GWR/LNWR joint line between Crewe and Nantwich.
Hadlow Road railway station closed to passengers on 17 September 1956. The track continued to be used for freight transportation and driver training for another six years, closing on 7 May 1962. The tracks were lifted two years later.
The route became the Wirral Way footpath and part of Wirral Country Park in 1973, which was the first such designated site in Britain. All of the station (excluding the westbound platform) has been preserved to give an authentic 1950s look and a short section of track has been relaid in front of the eastbound platform.
The station is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building. It is one of two visitor centres on the Wirral Way, with the other at Thurstaston where the platforms remain in situ, but the station has not been restored.
Hadlow Road station, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0NPH - St Oswald's Church, Winwick, is in the village of Winwick to the north of Warrington, Cheshire, England. Here shown at dusk, the church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.
It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Warrington and the deanery of Winwick.
St Oswald's Church, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HCKK - Manchester cathedral interior NW England UK
Manchester Cathedral is a medieval church in Manchester, England seat of the Bishop of Manchester. Its official name is the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George in Manchester and is located on Victoria Street in the city centre.
Although extensively refaced, restored and extended in the Victorian period, and then again following severe bomb damage in the 20th century, the main body of the cathedral largely derives from the wardenship of James Stanley (warden 1485“1506), and is in the Perpendicular Gothic style.
Stanley was also primarily responsible for commissioning the spectacular late medieval wooden furnishings, including the pulpitum, the choir stalls and the nave roof supported by angels with gilded instruments. It is one of fifteen Grade I listed buildings in Manchester. Since 2005 the Dean of the Cathedral has been the Very Reverend Rogers Govender.
Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HCKT - Manchester cathedral interior NW England UK
Manchester Cathedral is a medieval church in Manchester, England seat of the Bishop of Manchester. Its official name is the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George in Manchester and is located on Victoria Street in the city centre.
Although extensively refaced, restored and extended in the Victorian period, and then again following severe bomb damage in the 20th century, the main body of the cathedral largely derives from the wardenship of James Stanley (warden 1485“1506), and is in the Perpendicular Gothic style.
Stanley was also primarily responsible for commissioning the spectacular late medieval wooden furnishings, including the pulpitum, the choir stalls and the nave roof supported by angels with gilded instruments. It is one of fifteen Grade I listed buildings in Manchester. Since 2005 the Dean of the Cathedral has been the Very Reverend Rogers Govender.
Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3520381638 - 'Glasgow's, John Street at night. Just after a shower while I was on my way to Babbity Bowsters , light reflecting off the wet pavement. A lovely bit of the city. For more on this vibrant part of toun visit www.glasgowmerchantcity.net/
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The Merchant City is a district of the city of Glasgow. The area was first formed during the 18th century to house the wealthy merchant 'tobacco lords' who prospered shipping, amongst other things, tobacco, sugar and tea to the Clyde and fabricated goods to the Americas at this time many classical villas were built in the area. The name 'Merchant City' was coined during 1980's 'Glasgows Smiles Better' regeneration. Historically the area was called 'the tron' or 'cross' or simply by most Glaswegians 'the toun' or 'the town'. An annual Merchant City Festival takes place around the last week of September attracting tens of thousands to the area with a multi-arts programme.
If you visit the Merchant city don't miss the best pint and Cullen Skink in toun www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3813065342/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P72E1B - The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village of Port Sunlight, on the Wirral and one of the National Museums Liverpool.
The museum is a significant surviving example of late Victorian and Edwardian taste. It houses major collections of fine and decorative art that are an expression of Lord Leverhulme's personal taste and collecting interests. The collection is strong in British 19th-century painting and sculpture, spilling over to include late 18th-century and early 20th works. There are important collections of English furniture, Wedgwood, especially jasperware, and Chinese ceramics, and smaller groups of other types of objects, such as Ancient Greek vases and Roman sculpture. The majority of objects were part of the original donation, but the collection has continued to expand at a modest rate. The museum displays mostly mixed paintings, sculpture and furniture together, and there are five Period Rooms recreating typical period interiors from large houses.
The Building was commissioned in 1913 from architects William and Segar Owen, the Lady Lever Art Gallery was built in the Beaux-Arts style. The building was opened in 1922 by Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria.
In 2015 part of the museum was closed for building works, with little of the ceramics collections on display, but most of the other collections. A touring exhibition visited museums in Japan and elsewhere. The redeveloped South End galleries were restored to their original architecture style as part of a £2.8 million restoration project in 2016. The work included opening up original doorways to increase the circulation of visitors, improving the lighting and restoring some of the original vaulted ceilings
Port Sunlight Village, Lower Rd, Bebington, Wirral, England, UK, CH62 5EQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RC6H5Y - . Liverpool Music City at St Georges Hall, St George's Pl, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1JJ. Photographed on 12 July 2023, 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 St George's Place, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1JJ, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include North West, St Georges Pl, Liverpool, Merseyside, L1 1JJ, Music, groups, poster, words, building, architecture, history, 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 music context makes the image useful for editorial coverage of performers, venues, concerts, popular culture, local music heritage, audiences, nightlife and the creative industries. Such scenes can become important cultural records as bands, venues, festivals and city music districts change, linking contemporary entertainment with wider stories about tourism, identity and regeneration. 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.
St George's Place, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1JJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNN55B - St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Nantwich, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It has been called the Cathedral of South Cheshire and it is considered by some to be one of the finest medieval churches, not only in Cheshire, but in the whole of England. The architectural writer Raymond Richards described it as one of the great architectural treasures of Cheshire, and Alec Clifton-Taylor included it in his list of outstanding English parish churches.
The building dates from the 14th century, although a number of changes have since been made, particularly a substantial 19th-century restoration by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The church and its octagonal tower are built in red sandstone. Features of the church's interior include the lierne-vaulted ceiling of the choir, the carved stone canopies of the sedilia in the chancel, and the intricately carved wooden canopies over the choirstalls together with the 20 misericords at the back of the stalls. The church is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Nantwich
The last major work to be carried out on the church was in 1878, under the direction of local architect Thomas Bower, when the south porch was restored at a cost of £900.
The church is built in red sandstone and is cruciform in shape. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave with north and south aisles, a south porch with two storeys, a central tower, north and south transepts, and a three-bay chancel, to the north of which is a two-storey treasury. The tower is square below and octagonal above. Both transepts are of three bays and the northernmost bay of the north transept was formerly a Lady chapel. The other two bays were dedicated to Saint George. The south transept was known as the Kingsley Chapel
Church Ln, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5RQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P72D9D - The City Chambers or Municipal Buildings in Glasgow, Scotland, has functioned as the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since 1996, and of preceding forms of municipal government in the city since 1889, located on the eastern side of the city's George Square. An eminent example of Victorian civic architecture, the building was constructed between 1882 and 1888 to a competition winning design by Scottish architect William Young a native of Paisley.
Inaugurated in August 1888 by Queen Victoria, the first council meeting was held within the chambers in October 1889. The building originally had an area of 5,016 square metres. In 1923, an extension to the east side of the building in John Street was opened and in 1984 Exchange House in George Street was completed, increasing the size of the City Chambers complex to some 14,000 square metres.
The need for a new city chambers had been apparent since the 18th century, with the old Tolbooth at Glasgow Cross becoming insufficient for the purposes of civic government in a growing town with greater political responsibilities. In 1814, the Tolbooth was sold “ with the exception of the steeple, which still remains “ and the council chambers moved to Jail Square in the Saltmarket, near Glasgow Green. Subsequent moves were made to Wilson Street and Ingram Street. In the early 1880s, City Architect John Carrick was asked to identify a suitable site for a purpose built City Council Chambers. Carrick identified the east side of George Square, which was then bought.
The new City Chambers initially housed Glasgow Town Council from 1888 to 1895, when it was replaced by Glasgow Corporation. It remained the Corporation's headquarters until it was replaced by Glasgow District Council under the wider Strathclyde Regional Council in May 1975. The City Chambers has been the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since April 1996, when it replaced the District Council with the abolition of the Strathclyde Region.
82 George Square, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G2 1DU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DFF2 - The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road. Established in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, it was taken over by Emma Cons in 1880 when it was known formally as the Royal Victoria Hall. In 1898, a niece of Cons, Lilian Baylis assumed management and began a series of Shakespeare productions in 1914. The building was damaged in 1940 during air raids and it became a Grade II* listed building in 1951 after it reopened.
It was also the name of a repertory company that was based at the theatre and formed the core of the National Theatre of Great Britain on its formation in 1963, under Laurence Olivier. The National Theatre remained at the Old Vic until new premises were constructed on the South Bank, opening in 1976. The Old Vic then became the home of Prospect Theatre Company, at that time a highly successful touring company which staged such acclaimed productions as Derek Jacobi's Hamlet. However, with the withdrawal of funding for the company by the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1980 for breaching its touring obligations, Prospect disbanded in 1981. The theatre underwent complete refurbishment in 1985. In 2003, Kevin Spacey was appointed as new artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre Company which received considerable media attention. In 2015, Matthew Warchus was appointed the new Artistic Director.
On May 26, 2022, Spacey was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in the United Kingdom with four counts of sexual assault against three complainants. The alleged offenses occurred between 2005 and 2013 in London and Gloucestershire. According to the Crown Prosecution Service, it would be possible to formally charge Spacey only if he entered England or Wales, which would entail extradition if Spacey refused to do so voluntarily. Nevertheless, in a statement to Good Morning America on May 31, 2022, Spacey said that he would voluntarily appear in the U.K. as soon as can be arrange
The Cut, London SE1 8NB
