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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,addiction,slot,machines,gambling,danger,£100,Roadchef,Killington Lake,M6,services,motorway,service station gambling,adult gaming machines,over 18s gambling,electronic gaming terminals,high stakes slot machines,British gambling industry,casino style games,gambling at motorway services,fruit machines,temptation,easy,fast,hit,satisfaction,legislation,risk,risks,behaviour,related,harm,risk of,vulnerable,adult,gamblers,addictive machine,rest stop entertainment
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F2PHB6 - Brightly illuminated electronic slot machines inside Roadchef Killington Lake motorway services on the southbound M6 in Cumbria. The gaming terminals feature colourful screens, neon cabinet lighting and prominent promotional wording including Big Win and £100 prize branding. Individual games visible on the machines include Wild Adventure Buffalo Edition and other digital reel, jackpot and casino-style titles designed to attract attention within the indoor service-station environment.
The £100 maximum prize indicates category C gaming machines, which currently permit a maximum stake of £1 and a maximum cash prize of £100. These machines are restricted to adults aged 18 and over. Their presence at a motorway service area illustrates how opportunities to gamble can be encountered outside traditional betting shops, casinos and amusement arcades, including locations used by travellers, professional drivers and families taking breaks from long journeys.
The image is relevant to public debate about gambling harms, addiction and the accessibility and normalisation of commercial gambling. Bright displays, celebratory win messages, rapid electronic play and multiple games presented through a single terminal may encourage prolonged or impulsive use. Although occasional prizes are highlighted prominently, players remain exposed to repeated financial losses, with potential consequences including debt, stress, damaged relationships and compulsive gambling behaviour.
Roadchef Killington Lake is situated between junctions 37 and 36 on the southbound M6, east of Kendal and overlooking Killington Reservoir. The services operate continuously, making the machines potentially accessible throughout the day and night. The contrast between the dark surroundings and intense illuminated screens creates a visually seductive gaming area while also supporting editorial themes involving responsible gambling, consumer protection, vulnerable users, motorway leisure facilities
Killington Lake Motorway Services, M6 Southbound, Killington, Kendal, Cumbria, England, UK, LA8 0NW
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,machine,washer,dryer,wash,on,the,motorway,a,new,service,dolly,tub,24/7,dry,large,item,items,SMS alert,PhotoMe,Photo Me,area,services,on the,road,save,money,saving,Revolution Self Service Launderette,Launderette,forecourt,garage,filling station,revolution laundry,M6,UK,outside,laundromat
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K52C1W - . Made at Stafford North Services, M6, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. At the centre of the view is Launderette Revolution washer dryer Laundromat, at Stafford services north, Moto, Staffordshire, England, UK - part of Photo Me. The setting additionally reflects changing land use, visual archive, bus route infrastructure, everyday life, place identity, community identity, local history, public transport stop, local character, surface public transport, transport accessibility, public realm, roadside transit, and changing streetscape. The modern context includes continuing discussion of local connectivity, service frequency and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing. For later comparison, the photograph preserves lettering, decoration and surface detail at Stafford North Services, M6, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU, details that may look very different after redevelopment. The location also brings in period detail, contemporary social history, historical comparison, local mobility, local bus network, archival record, public-transport wayfinding, and before-and-after reference. Details involving services, washer, Revolution, Staffordshire, and dryer make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For Stafford North Services, M6, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The scene further reflects local connectivity and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing in a form that can be compared with future views of Stafford North Services, M6, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2K52C1W.
Stafford North Services, M6, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ABJGG9 - . An on-location image from M6 north, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK in 2019, useful both for the specific subject shown and for the evidence it retains about local identity, design, use and everyday life. The image documents Traffic Jam,view from a dashboard, Motorway,England,UK, zero MPH. A broader reading of the scene brings in social history, local character, period detail, transport corridor, motor traffic, urban mobility, motorway travel, changing streetscape, historical comparison, highway infrastructure, historic context, changing land use, traffic management, and everyday life. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with decarbonisation, congestion and the shift toward lower-carbon and more integrated transport. For local-history research, the view leaves evidence of the way the place functioned before later physical or commercial change at M6 north, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK. The wider local story also touches on road connectivity, contemporary social history, archival record, surface transport, road engineering, visual archive, roadside environment, and regional identity. The recorded references to Motorway, Traffic, and dashboard preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around M6 north, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. Another useful connection is decarbonisation and the continuing need to maintain ageing transport infrastructure within the real-world context of M6 north, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK. The scene further reflects public transport and how road layouts influence local access and development within the specific setting of M6 north, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK. Its period value extends to road safety and the continuing need to maintain ageing transport infrastructure as part of the longer story of M6 north, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK.
M6 north, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: 47,forty,seven,fortyseven,forty7,moto,baby,motobaby,motorway,M6,M5,M1,sign,M4,M3,hygiene,monitor,countdown,tonysmith,square,hipstamatic,iphone,pic
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 1156675792 - 'View this whole set here. If you do Twitter add me here.
Forty-seven is the fifteenth prime number, a safe prime, the thirteenth supersingular prime, and the sixth Lucas prime. Forty-seven is a highly cototient number. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part. Its the atomic number of silver and the atomic weight of Titanium.
Fortyseven has been the favourite number of Pomona College, California, USA, since 1964. A mathematical proof, written in 1964 by Professor Donald Bentley, supposedly demonstrates that all numbers are equal to 47. However, Bentley offered it as a 'joke proof' to further a popular student research project that listed real and imaginative '47 sightings'. Bentley used the invalid proof to introduce his students to the concept of mathematical proofs. The proof used limits to show that the sum of the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the base side. Bentley chose forty-seven as the base side, but he could have used any number.
Joe Menosky graduated from Pomona College in 1979 and went on to become one of the story writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Menosky 'infected' other Star Trek writers with an enthusiasm for the number 47. As a result, 47, its reverse 74, its multiples, or combinations of 47 occur surreptitiously in almost every episode of the program and its spin-offs Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. Forty-seven might be mentioned in dialogue or appear on a computer screen, for example:
- In the Voyager episode 'Parallax', we learn that the Emergency Medical Holographic Channel is 47 and that the EMH has the experience of 47 individual medical officers.
- In the 2009 film Star Trek, the Enterprise was built in Sector 47 of the Riverside Shipyards, and 47 Klingon ships are said to have been destroyed by Nero's ship, the Narada.
Washroom Hygiene monitors are all the rage these days. They come in a range of Standard, standard Plus, Professional, Professional Plus and Ultima (which can count down, has customer feed back buttons, option to bleep if poor or fair pressed more than say 5 times within a countdown period, data showing what time buttons were pressed, Delay on buttons pressed). So pretty much all as would be needed from a bog standard clock.
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Keywords: Nature,birds,ducks,water,sign,no,fishing,from,this,bank,No Fishing,f,birds ducks water sign no fishing from this bank No,Fishing from,cheshire,knutsford,northwich,middlewich,M6,motorway,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4541555972 - 'Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', 'This is my message to you-ou-ou:'
Singin': 'Don't worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don't worry!'
Singin': 'Don't worry about a thing' - I won't worry!
''Cause every little thing gonna be all right.'
Three cheeky birds, Shakerley Mere near Knutsford Cheshire UK
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Keywords: monk,benedict,benedictine,motorway,dress,services,service,M6,soutbound,south,bound,entrance,urban,contrasts,brown,rosery,rosary,give,garmen,amen,this photo rocks,cool,person,people,portrait,image,west,midlands,england,uk,britain,GB,europe,english,hotpicks,hotpix!,hotpix.rocketmail.com,hotpixuk.rocketmail.com,contact.tony.smith.gmail.com,tony.smith.gmail.com,tonys@miscs.com,tony.smith@mis-ams.com,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4306593793 - 'Brother Paul on his journey from Preston to London via Coventry UK.
Standing by the services Brother Paul almost looks like he is standing by the entrance of a huge glass cathedral.
I am sure more people visit the M6 motorway services than most churches, maybe they really are the cathedrals of the automobile / car age. Instead of 'body of christ' we worship at KFC, the E&
DCo (eat and drink Co) and M&
S Simply food.
Paul is far from the stereotype. A honourable historic tradition working within the modern world.
Another alternative religious view - www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4163897698/
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Keywords: M6,Lancaster,Services,southbound,motorway,UK,lancashire,Moto,M&S,justfood,just,food,tower,Pennine Tower,pennine,five,star,loo,award,top,crapper,365days,building,buildings,built,architecture,sex,sexy,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3838285938 - 'A classic services built from stout 1965's concrete, an iconic landmark on britains first motorway, M6 Preston Bypass.
It used to be Rank, then Granada, was Forton, then Lancaster, then Lancaster (Forton).
The tower is called 'The Pennine Tower', and when it opened it had a restaurant with a panoramic view. However, the tower fell short of the Health and Safety regulations for the number of emergency exits required in a public building, so it had to be closed. It's now only used for staff training and offices.
The tower is unique to the services, but Rank built slightly smaller versions at other services of theirs such as Hilton Park,which has suffered exactly the same fate. Although the one here is the 'daddy' (as they say).
In 2008 the services won a five star loo award, one more than in 2006. Worth sharing that with you, in case you might consider holding on until Knutsford.
Rumours that the cafe used to revolve inside like 'Piz Gloria' in Switzerland where the famous James Bond was filmed'on her Majesty's Secret Service are untrue. (apparently).
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Keywords: UK,Roadchef,services,meal,food,non,non-food,two,for,tenner,peas,mash,potato,potatoes,gravy,foodie,square,plate,road,chef,area,M6,motorway,roadside,treat,Stafford,Service,Staffs,England,365days,sausages,sausage,vegatables,meat,veg,plated,feed,feeding,snack,cheap,west,midlands,britain,GB,europe,english,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,british,classic,hotpix!,bangersandmash,bangers&mash,sausage&mash,sausageandmash,porky,product,products
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3708723795 - 'Sausage, potato and Peas - A bargain I regretted by the time I finished it.
Another type of meal, reassuringly home-made this time www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3834521645/in/set-72157621...
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,cars,trucks,vans,stop,stopped,stationary,England UK road network,M5,Traffic Jam,with an empty,Motorway,road,England,UK,M6,M1,M25,Traffic,congestion,Jam,empty,lane,lanes,opposite,carriageway,roads,network,Motorway Accident,delay,delays,accident,accidents,vehicles,smart,unsmart,stupid,motorways
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWGK - . Photographed at Gloucestershire, England, UK in 2018, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The defining feature is M5 Traffic Jam, with an empty opposite carriageway, Motorway delays, England, UK road network. The subject also carries associations with surface public transport, passenger transport, historical comparison, changing land use, local bus network, visual archive, regional identity, local character, contemporary social history, bus infrastructure, public realm, public transport information, social history, and period detail. For current editorial use, reliability and decarbonisation provide additional context, especially through the importance of bus stops as the physical interface between passengers and public transport. The image fixes signage and branding within Gloucestershire, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against replacement signage. The surrounding story also includes place identity, everyday life, local mobility, street-side transport, bus route infrastructure, community identity, changing streetscape, and local history. The combination of carriageway, Motorway, empty, network, and Traffic anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around Gloucestershire, England, UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The image also provides a reference for reliability and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing within the real-world context of Gloucestershire, England, UK. Another useful connection is integrated transport and the shift toward cleaner buses and integrated ticketing within the specific setting of Gloucestershire, England, UK. The record includes part of the area's social history within the wider story of Gloucestershire, England, UK.
Gloucestershire, England, UK
