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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,english,illumination,illuminated,lit,lighted,up,Oldham St,Oldham Street,in,Manchester,City,Centre,faith,belief,religion,M1 1JR,M1,NQ4,Northern,Quarter,neon lettering,religious message,Christian sign,illuminated sign,blue neon,Manchester city centre,Manchester nightlife,urban signage,faith in public space,spiritual message,city street sign,Christianity,worship,spirituality,evangelical message,God is not dead,Jesus is not dead
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2X2CG3J - This image shows a striking illuminated neon sign displaying the words Come and Worship, rendered in bright blue neon tubing and framed by a contrasting green neon border. The sign is located on Oldham Street in Manchester city centre, an area strongly associated with nightlife, independent music venues, bars, and alternative culture within the Northern Quarter.
The message presents a deliberate and thought-provoking contrast between religious language and its urban surroundings. Oldham Street is better known for live music, late-night venues, record shops, and street culture than overt expressions of faith, making the presence of a Christian worship message visually and culturally arresting. The glowing neon typography echoes commercial signage styles more commonly associated with entertainment or retail, blending religious invitation with the visual language of the night-time city.
Photographed at night, the sign's illumination stands out sharply against a dark background, emphasising the clarity of the text and the symbolic impact of faith displayed openly in a secular urban environment. The image reflects wider themes in contemporary British cities, including the coexistence of belief systems, the visibility of religion in public spaces, and the use of modern visual forms to communicate traditional spiritual messages.
This photograph has strong editorial relevance for themes of religion, belief, spirituality, urban culture, modern Britain, social commentary, and the interaction between faith and nightlife in city centres.
Oldham Road, Manchester, M1 1JR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,Victorian,building,architecture,Manchester Coffee Tavern Company Limited,Manchester,Co,Ltd,teetotal,tee-total,8,M1 3GF,M1,centre,Fairfield St,rival,alcoholic,pubs,and,gin palaces,history,historic,Victorians,coffee house,scene,coffee,houses,lure,naïve,social workers,drinks,drinking,beverages,beverage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RG8YA4 - A rather artificial attempt at the recreation of a lively coffee house scene was made by the temperance movement in the 1880's. Modelled after the spacious, light, mahogany-trimmed taverns being promoted by the beer industry, the late Victorian coffee house was a conscious attempt by naive social workers to lure the working men from their pubs and the perils of demon drink. Coffee taverns, one pamphlet stated, must show there are beverages as comforting as beer, that there are beverages to be bought as cheap as beer. And they must provide advantages not provided by such a formidable enemy and by this manoeuvre make victory certain. Accordingly, working-men were encouraged to bring their own food to be cooked free of charge in the tavern's kitchen. Newspapers and games were laid out - also gratis - and customers were encouraged to remain as long as they wanted. Needless to say, none of these coffee taverns survived long on their own.
8, Fairfield Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3GF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,England,UK,MES,band,nightclub,poster,Tue,6th,March,Mar,1990,M.E.S.,9pm,at,FAC51,Whitworth Street,West,Manchester,Advance tickets available,Piccadilly Records,Eastern Bloc,history,historic,Mancunian,city,centre,music,scene,Tony Wilson,Factory,Records,Extricate,tour,touring,11-13 Whitworth Street West,M1 5DD,M1,Mark E Smith
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PFAAAD - The Fall Extricate tour opened 01/03/1990 at Poole arts centre, closing 26/03/1990 at the Top rank Brighton - Cog Sinister
Extricate is the 12th album by post-punk band the Fall. It was made immediately after bandleader Mark E. Smith divorced guitarist Brix Smith. Brix's departure helped define the sound of this album: her background vocals and relatively pop-oriented guitar, which had become mainstays of The Fall, are noticeably absent in this release. In one of the more unusual events in the group's career, she was replaced by founding former member Martin Bramah, who had previously left the group in 1979 to form his own group Blue Orchids.
Lead-off single Telephone Thing could have been seen as a nod to the Manchester scene of the time as the sound is quite similar to the dance-influenced music that was being released by Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses in 1989. However, its origins were in Smith's previous collaboration with Coldcut on their track I'm in Deep, which, in turn, led to Coldcut producing the track and Black Monk Theme Part II, one of two tracks by 60s garage band The Monks to be covered on the album (the other being Black Monk Theme “ The Fall retitled both tracks). Elsewhere, Bramah, appearing on his first Fall album since Live at the Witch Trials adds a distinctly raw, even rockabilly sound to some of the songs. However, the album's best-known track was one of the least typical of the group's catalogue: Bill Is Dead, a slow-paced tender love song which topped John Peel's Festive Fifty that year, the only occasion in the DJ's lifetime when his favourite band would do so. Although originally conceived by Smith and Craig Scanlon as a parody of The Smiths, Smith changed lyrical tack when he decided Scanlon's music deserved better, delivering a highly personal lyric. However, at Smith's insistence, it was not released as a single.
The critical reception to Extricate was largely positive
The Hacienda, Factory Records FAC51, 11-13 Whitworth Street West, Manchester, England, UK, M1 5DD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,M1,36 Charles Street,Manchester,England,UK,M1 7DB,etched,traditional,Victorian,pub,bar,window,at,the,distilled,gin,rum,vodka,whisky,liquor,drink,drinks,Pastis,Calvados,Bourbon,spirit,patterned,pattern,alcohol misuse,alcohol abuse,intoxication,intoxicated,strong,double,treble
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M69C9X - Liquor (or a spirit) is an alcoholic drink produced by distillation of grains, fruits, vegetables, or sugar, that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation. Other terms for liquor include: spirit drink, distilled beverage, spirituous liquor or hard liquor. The distillation process concentrates the liquid to increase its alcohol by volume. As liquors contain significantly more alcohol (ethanol) than other alcoholic drinks, they are considered 'harder'
in North America, the term hard liquor is sometimes used to distinguish distilled alcoholic drinks from non-distilled ones, whereas the term spirits is more common in the UK. Some examples of liquors include vodka, rum, gin, and tequila. Liquors are often aged in barrels, such as for the production of brandy and whiskey, or are infused with flavorings to form a flavored liquor such as absinthe.
While the word liquor ordinarily refers to distilled alcoholic spirits rather than beverages produced by fermentation alone, it can sometimes be used more broadly to refer to any alcoholic beverage (or even non-alcoholic products of distillation or various other liquids).
Like other alcoholic drinks, liquor is typically consumed for the psychoactive effects of alcohol. Liquor may be consumed on its own ('neat'), typically in amounts of around 50 millilitres (1.7 US fluid ounces) per served drink. In an undiluted form, distilled beverages are often slightly sweet, and bitter, and typically impart a burning mouthfeel, with an odor derived from the alcohol and the production and aging processes
the exact flavor varies between different varieties of liquor and the different impurities they impart. Liquor is also frequently mixed with other ingredients to form a cocktail.
Rapid consumption of a large amount of liquor can cause severe alcohol intoxication or alcohol poisoning, which can be fatal. Consistent consumption of liquor over time correlates with higher mortality and other harmful health effects
36 Charles Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 7DB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,M1,housing student,block of flats,Manchester,M1 6FU,station,rail,railway,flat,icon,iconic,blocks,new,cladding,BR,British Rail,flats,room,rooms,modern,development,Oxford Road station,tower block,secure,expense,availability,Manchester Metropolitan University,Royal Northern College of Music,Parkway Gate,evening,night,student beds uk,student accommodation England,student accommodation UK
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KG413A - . This dated editorial view of Oxford Road station,Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The photograph centres on Unite students accommodation, block of flats, Oxford Road station,Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU. Other connected aspects include before-and-after reference, public-transport wayfinding, local bus network, archival record, regional rail, public transport network, historical comparison, rail modernisation, visual archive, transport interchange, documentary photography, local history, passenger railway, and railway branding. The modern context includes continuing discussion of public ownership, integrated transport and the reshaping of Britain's passenger railway in the mid-2020s. For current editorial use, passenger information and integrated transport provide additional context, especially through the importance of buses for access to work, education and healthcare. Future viewers can use this scene from Oxford Road station,Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU to compare materials and architectural details with whatever follows after closure or conversion. A second descriptive layer includes social history, rail mobility, commuter travel, local character, place identity, street-side transport, surface public transport, and contemporary social history. Elements such as block, students, Oxford, Manchester, and Unite add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Oxford Road station,Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Another useful connection is public ownership and the reshaping of Britain's passenger railway in the mid-2020s in a form that can be compared with future views of Oxford Road station,Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU.
Oxford Road station,Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU
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Keywords: Manchester,city,centre,Greater,England,UK,We do things,differently here,This is Manchester,love Manchester,M1,Lancashire,NQ4,bee,bees,LoveManchester,WeAreManchester,We Are Manchester,Love Manchester,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Madchester,icons,icon,iconic,image,images,the,6th,day,on,days,God,created,creation,buildings,building,hive,hives
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD2MR - . Recorded at Northern Quarter, NQ4, Manchester, England, UK 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 main point of reference is On the sixth day, God created Manchester, LoveManchester, WeLoveManchester, This is Manchester,We Do Things Differently Here. A broader reading of the photograph includes commercial redevelopment, urban regeneration, architectural character, community identity, mixed-use redevelopment, archival record, civic architecture, period detail, town-centre renewal, place-making, place identity, regional identity, public-realm investment, and local character. The modern context includes continuing discussion of commercial viability, planning and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. The image fixes equipment and working practice within Northern Quarter, NQ4, Manchester, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changed technology. The location also brings in changing land use, contemporary social history, built heritage, period architecture, changing streetscape, everyday life, urban fabric, and social history. Details involving WeLoveManchester, Things, Manchester, Differently, and sixth make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. A later view of Northern Quarter, NQ4, Manchester, England, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Another useful connection is commercial viability and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space as part of the longer story of Northern Quarter, NQ4, Manchester, England, UK. The photograph keeps part of the area's social history within the wider story of Northern Quarter, NQ4, Manchester, England, UK.
Northern Quarter, NQ4, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,on,blue,background,unhealthy,fatty food,poor,chips,potatoes,chippy,fish and chips,oil,lard,vegetable,frying,tonight,fast food,restaurant,Manchester,bright,glow,glowing,sign,signage,take out,takeout,business,cafe,diner,dinner,meal,snack,chip butty,M1,Mancunian,crisis
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR9X - . Photographed at Manchester, England, UK, M1 in 2022, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The principal subject is Dirty Fries, yellow neon sign on blue background, fried fatty food, fast food restaurant, Manchester. The wider scene also brings together local character, before-and-after reference, traditional hostelry, licensed trade, changing streetscape, food-and-drink business, neighbourhood drinking venue, local social venue, night-time economy, place identity, contemporary social history, changing land use, social history, and hospitality trade. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with hospitality costs, changing drinking habits and the pressure on customer-facing businesses in a high-cost economy. The image fixes landscape treatment and surrounding development within Manchester, England, UK, M1 at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changing commercial priorities. The subject also sits alongside period detail, customer-facing leisure, local history, licensed hospitality, pub heritage, casual dining, everyday life, and hospitality economy. The combination of Manchester, restaurant, Dirty, fatty, and fried anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. By fixing the subject within Manchester, England, UK, M1, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The image also provides a reference for hospitality costs and the pressure on customer-facing businesses in a high-cost economy within the specific setting of Manchester, England, UK, M1. Another useful connection is pub closures and how branded and independent hospitality compete for changing leisure spending as part of the longer story of Manchester, England, UK, M1. It also preserves evidence of changing use as a date-specific reference.
Manchester, England, UK, M1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Oxford Road Manchester,at night,at,Manchester,victorian,building,dusk,M1 6FU,M1,evening,night time,nightime,cityscape,skyline,tall,old,history,historic,insurance,offices,hotel,hotels,office,university,buildings,block,blocks,city,centre,Oxford Rd,lit,illuminated,tower
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG5JM2 - . An identifiable period record of Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU 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 Manchester victorian Kimpton hotel refuge building at dusk, Oxford Road Manchester , at night, England, UK,. Other connected aspects include architectural character, community identity, place identity, period streetscape, historical comparison, customer-facing service, night-time economy, conservation architecture, historic frontage, traditional structure, local character, changing streetscape, independent food retail, and local history. Current relevance extends to embodied carbon and energy retrofit, particularly through the value of distinctive buildings and street furniture to local identity. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into hospitality costs and changing dining habits, not least because of the resilience of customer-facing businesses in a high-cost economy. As a dated visual record of Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU, the frame retains signage and branding, making it especially useful if altered transport patterns subsequently changes the scene. The wider setting retains connections with period building, visitor economy, historic townscape, historic streetscape, everyday life, social history, visual archive, and food-and-drink business. Details involving night, Oxford, Kimpton, building, and hotel make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The image also provides a reference for embodied carbon and the tension between conservation and redevelopment in a form that can be compared with future views of Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU.
Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Unite Students,flat,flats,M1,Uni,University,at dusk,Manchester,England,UK,M1 6FU,new,from,platform,empty,course,platforms,lines,power,night,evening,dusk,station,transport,public transport,concourse,travel,travelling,alone,lonely,all,Manchester Oxford Road,Station
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG5JME - . This scene at Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU 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 image documents Unite Students accommodation, from Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU. Further facets of the scene include documentary photography, station environment, rail infrastructure, regional rail, freight wagon, before-and-after reference, railway heritage, historical comparison, social landscape, social history, rail transport, community identity, contemporary social history, and regional identity. For current editorial use, public ownership and decarbonisation provide additional context, especially through the balance between railway heritage and network modernisation. Current relevance extends to public-realm change and community use, particularly through how regeneration alters the character of familiar places. The archival value lies partly in recording materials and architectural details around Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU before altered transport patterns alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include urban change, community life, townscape record, period detail, local character, visual archive, passenger railway, and rail mobility. The recorded references to Manchester, Station, Unite, Students, and accommodation preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU, 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 local visual benchmark as a date-specific reference. The frame retains a point of historical comparison for later comparison.
Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Unite Students,flat,flats,M1,Uni,University,at dusk,Manchester,England,UK,M1 6FU,new,from,platform,empty,course,shortage,student,accommodation,term,university,block,apartments,night,evening,night time,nighttime,platforms,the,city,centre,skyline,cityscape,student accommodation uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG5JMG - . This authentic period view of Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. At the centre of the view is Unite Students accommodation, from Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU. The setting additionally reflects train operations, passenger railway, historical comparison, railway heritage, rolling stock, public realm, freight wagon, local history, changing streetscape, place identity, contemporary social history, public transport network, local character, and trackside history. For current editorial use, rail reform and accessibility provide additional context, especially through the balance between railway heritage and network modernisation. Future viewers can use this scene from Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU to compare local activity and public use with whatever follows after replacement signage. The wider setting retains connections with rail transport, everyday life, documentary photography, transport interchange, regional rail, regional identity, period detail, and changing land use. Elements such as Students, accommodation, Manchester, Station, and Oxford add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The location additionally provides evidence of rail reform and the balance between railway heritage and network modernisation in a form that can be compared with future views of Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU. The record includes details of everyday use for later comparison.
Manchester Oxford Road Station at dusk, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,evening,night,time,nighttime,Oxford Rd,Manchester,England,UK,M1 6FU,train,trains,rail,railway,BR,platforms,at,in,the,M1,station,service,services,electric,electrification,driver,drivers,shortage,industrial,action,RMT,union,unions,dispute,disputes,English,Northern Powerhouse,main
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG5JMK - . This authentic period view of Station Approach, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The frame specifically shows Northern railway EMU train, at Oxford Road railway station, Manchester, Station Approach, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU. The wider scene also brings together visual archive, rail mobility, transport interchange, rail corridor, period detail, local history, heavy-industry heritage, working-industry history, place identity, rail infrastructure, changing land use, manufacturing landscape, former production site, and local character. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with fares, decarbonisation and the balance between railway heritage and network modernisation. The modern context includes continuing discussion of industrial conservation, manufacturing decline and the growing value of industrial heritage for tourism and local identity. The archival value lies partly in recording street furniture and boundaries around Station Approach, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU before refurbishment alters the character of the place. The subject also sits alongside regional rail, public transport network, industrial artefact, manufacturing heritage, labour history, historic freight equipment, factory heritage, and everyday life. The combination of Approach, Northern, station, Manchester, and train anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The wider setting at Station Approach, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The wider significance includes fares and the balance between railway heritage and network modernisation within the real-world context of Station Approach, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU.
Station Approach, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,North West,UK,City,centre,NW,North west,M1,Locks,M1 5LH,Castlefields,pano,Panorama,of,Manchester,flat,accommodation,block,skyline,Metrolink,tram,at,trams,public,transport,Hilton,property,flats,hotels hotel,tramlines,rail,rails,WeLoveMCR
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGM7DA - . This dated documentary view of Deansgate Castlefield, Manchester, 2 Whitworth St W, Deansgate, Locks, Manchester, England, UK, M1 in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The photograph centres on Metrolink tram at Deansgate Castlefield, Manchester, 2 Whitworth St W, Deansgate, Locks, Manchester, England, UK, M1 5LH. The surrounding context encompasses passenger railway, everyday street life, documentary photography, station environment, railway heritage, industrial railway heritage, local identity, place identity, train operations, regional rail, public realm, city-centre activity, social landscape, and social history. The modern context includes continuing discussion of decarbonisation, public ownership and the role of stations and trains in lower-carbon mobility. For current editorial use, street safety and footfall provide additional context, especially through the relationship between public space and local social life. Small period details of signage and branding at Deansgate Castlefield, Manchester, 2 Whitworth St W, Deansgate, Locks, Manchester, England, UK, M1 may become more significant with time, particularly following refurbishment. The surrounding story also includes public transport network, rail mobility, everyday life, pedestrian environment, street-level documentary, transport interchange, historical comparison, and contemporary city life. Details involving Whitworth, Metrolink, Locks, Castlefield, and Deansgate make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at Deansgate Castlefield, Manchester, 2 Whitworth St W, Deansgate, Locks, Manchester, England, UK, M1 helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2JGM7DA.
Deansgate Castlefield, Manchester, 2 Whitworth St W, Deansgate, Locks, Manchester, England, UK, M1
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Keywords: @Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,GotonySmith,Manchester,Northern Quarter,England,UK,M1,NQ4,casting,Ashton,industry,history,historic,canal carrier,M1 2JQ,transport,canals,city,centre,regeneration,development,redevelopment,fence,barrier,fencing,Victorian,building,buildings,Manchesters,Ancoats,waterway,waterways,water,Rochdale Canal,ornate,brickwork
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2J880E0 - . An on-location photograph from Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The image documents Albert Wood (old canal carrier) iron casting, Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ. The surrounding context encompasses social history, architectural detailing, historic frontage, urban renewal, former industrial land, changing land use, built heritage, post-industrial redevelopment, urban fabric, heritage landmark, adaptive reuse, conservation architecture, urban regeneration, and local landmark. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with public-realm investment, housing pressure and how major transport hubs can drive surrounding development. The modern context includes continuing discussion of planning control, local identity and keeping older structures useful without erasing their character. For later comparison, the photograph preserves public access and movement at Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ, details that may look very different after closure or conversion. Further associations within the scene are changing streetscape, architectural character, before-and-after reference, period detail, city-centre placemaking, community identity, public realm, and everyday life. The recorded references to Ashton, carrier, canal, Basin, and Ducie preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. It also preserves a trace of local identity as a date-specific reference. The photograph keeps a local visual benchmark for later comparison.
Ashton Canal Basin, Ducie Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2JQ
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Keywords: @Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,GotonySmith,beer,public house,Chester,brewery,Manchester,NQ4,Northern Quarter,tiled,sign,signage,historic,M1,front,Staffordshire,tiles,tiling,ceramic,blue,gold,Chesters,ales,ale,Victorian,building,buildings,public houses,chain,outside,exterior,entrance,entrances,Manchesters,Ancoats,lettering
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2J880ET - Chesters Brewery Co. Ltd, Ardwick Brewery, Princess Street, Manchester, Ardwick, Greater Manchester.
Founded before 1830 at the Victoria Brewery, Hyde Street and became Collins and Chesters 1842. Ardwick Brewery opened 1852.
Registered April 1888.
Merged with Threlfall & Co Ltd. 1961 to form Threlfall Chesters Ltd.
Brewery closed 1966 and demolished 1967.
41 Hilton Street, Manchester, England, UK , M1 2EE
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Keywords: @Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,GotonySmith,beer,public house,Chester,brewery,Manchester,NQ4,Northern Quarter,tiled,sign,signage,historic,M1,front,Staffordshire,tiles,tiling,ceramic,blue,gold,Ale trail,Chesters,ales,ale,Victorian,building,buildings,public houses,chain,outside,exterior,entrance,entrances,Manchesters,Ancoats,lettering
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2J880EW - Chesters Brewery Co. Ltd, Ardwick Brewery, Princess Street, Manchester, Ardwick, Greater Manchester.
Founded before 1830 at the Victoria Brewery, Hyde Street and became Collins and Chesters 1842. Ardwick Brewery opened 1852.
Registered April 1888.
Merged with Threlfall & Co Ltd. 1961 to form Threlfall Chesters Ltd.
Brewery closed 1966 and demolished 1967.
41 Hilton Street, Manchester, England, UK , M1 2EE
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUk,ale,beer,Tavern,Manchester,customers,men,man,blokes,inside,interior,The Circus,city centre,smallest public house,smallest,1790,Grade II building,Grade II,building,Tetley,Tetleys,historic,oldest pubs in Manchester,oldest pub in Manchester,drinkers,drinker,men in a pub,man in a pub,bitter,lager,pints,on a table,round,86 Portland St,M1 4GX,M1
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFFER - . A grounded documentary photograph made at 86 Portland St, Manchester M1 4GX in 2019, preserving the main subject alongside smaller details that may become more historically useful with time. The main subject is Enjoying a pint,at the Circus Tavern, Portland Street, Manchester, smallest public house in the city,1790, A Tetley pub. The setting also relates to cityscape history, before-and-after reference, historic frontage, festival bar service, historic commercial architecture, archival record, social drinking culture, pub trade, public realm, drinks hospitality, heritage landmark, community drinking venue, built heritage, and historic townscape. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with changing drinking habits, staffing pressure and the cultural role of real ale and regional brewing. In the mid-2020s, historic townscape and adaptive reuse keep the subject current, particularly through keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character. For retrospective editorial use, the frame preserves the relationship between the subject and its surroundings in this part of 86 Portland St, Manchester M1 4GX. Further connections include changing land use, real-ale culture, conservation interest, documentary photography, licensed trade, licensed hospitality, place identity, and community identity. Details involving Tetley, Circus, house, smallest, and Enjoying give the scene useful specificity and strengthen its local, cultural or historical identity. For 86 Portland St, Manchester M1 4GX, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another useful connection is changing drinking habits and the cultural role of real ale and regional brewing when considered against later change at 86 Portland St, Manchester M1 4GX. The frame retains a point of historical comparison as a date-specific reference.
86 Portland St, Manchester M1 4GX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,GB,North West England,city centre,sign,Piccadilly,bar,dont,worry,be happy,help,is,coming,pub,bars,Malmaison Hotel,Manchester,city,centre,red,neon,light,bright,M1,1-3,M1 3AQ,French Kiss,cocktail,cocktails,spirits,drink,drinks
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RPGEF7 - . An editorial view captures the setting around 1-3 Piccadilly, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3AQ, in a scene preserved from 2019. The defining subject in the supplied record is Dont Worry Help Is On Its Way, sign at Malmaison Manchester, Piccadilly, bar, North West England, UK. The photograph carries associations with food culture, night-time economy, ale house tradition, hospitality economy, licensed hospitality, food-and-drink business, service economy, hospitality premises, leisure venue, pub architecture, licensed premises, and community venue. Current debate around community pubs often combines changing drinking habits, competition for household spending and the practical challenge of balancing heritage with commercial survival. In the mid-2020s, food service is increasingly discussed through seasonality and changing visitor patterns, with attention turning to resilient local hospitality. Small period details preserved at 1-3 Piccadilly, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3AQ may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage. The surrounding story includes hospitality trade, licensed trade, consumer leisure, destination economy, local tourism, beer retail. Further recorded details include City Centre, hotel, pub, do not worry, Manchester City Centre. A more expansive reading adds social drinking venue, customer service, beer heritage, traditional hostelry, visitor economy, British pub trade, town-centre hospitality, catering trade, tourist accommodation, and public house culture. The wider contemporary story of town-centre hospitality now includes operating costs alongside competition for household spending, while policy and investment increasingly consider supporting independent operators. The frame further records period appearance for future researchers.
1-3 Piccadilly, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3AQ
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Keywords: Manchester City Centre,Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,Piccadilly,Station,Rail,Terminal,Manchester Piccadilly,Manchester Piccadilly Station,Network Rail,NetworkRail,Entrance,door,doorway,gate,M1 2QF,M1,rail station,centre,travel,gates,entrance,interchange,refurbished,Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road Capacity Scheme,London road
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M0D - Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England. Opened as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-east of Manchester city centre, it hosts long-distance intercity and cross-country services to national destinations including London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bristol and Southampton
regional services to destinations in Northern England including Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and York
and local commuter services around Greater Manchester. It is one of 19 major stations managed by Network Rail. The station has 14 platforms, twelve terminal and two through platforms. Piccadilly is also a major interchange with the Metrolink light rail system with two tram platforms in its undercroft.
Piccadilly is the busiest station in the Manchester station group with nearly 28 million passenger entries and exits between April 2017 and March 2018, (the other major stations in Manchester are Oxford Road and Victoria). It is the fourth busiest station in the United Kingdom outside London. The station hosts services from six train operating companies. It is the second busiest interchange station outside London, with almost 3.8 million passengers changing trains annually.
Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, Piccadilly Station was refurbished, taking five years and costing £100 million (in 2002), it was the most expensive improvement on the UK rail network at the time. Further improvements and expansion plans have been mooted. In October 2016, a Transport and Works Act application was submitted for the construction of two platforms as part of the Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road Capacity Scheme. As of 2018, this application has not been approved by the government. To allow the station to accommodate high speed services under High Speed 2 proposals, five platforms would be required and the Metrolink station would be reconfigured.
Piccadilly, Manchester, UK, M1 2QF
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Keywords: Manchester City Centre,Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,streets,Piccadilly,Station,Rail,Terminal,Manchester Piccadilly,Manchester Piccadilly Station,Network Rail,NetworkRail,Entrance,doorway,gate,M1 2QF,M1,rail station,centre,travel,gates,entrance,interchange,refurbished,Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road Capacity Scheme,London road,workers,strike,RMT union,Madchester
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M0T - Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England. Opened as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-east of Manchester city centre, it hosts long-distance intercity and cross-country services to national destinations including London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bristol and Southampton
regional services to destinations in Northern England including Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and York
and local commuter services around Greater Manchester. It is one of 19 major stations managed by Network Rail. The station has 14 platforms, twelve terminal and two through platforms. Piccadilly is also a major interchange with the Metrolink light rail system with two tram platforms in its undercroft.
Piccadilly is the busiest station in the Manchester station group with nearly 28 million passenger entries and exits between April 2017 and March 2018, (the other major stations in Manchester are Oxford Road and Victoria). It is the fourth busiest station in the United Kingdom outside London. The station hosts services from six train operating companies. It is the second busiest interchange station outside London, with almost 3.8 million passengers changing trains annually.
Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, Piccadilly Station was refurbished, taking five years and costing £100 million (in 2002), it was the most expensive improvement on the UK rail network at the time. Further improvements and expansion plans have been mooted. In October 2016, a Transport and Works Act application was submitted for the construction of two platforms as part of the Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road Capacity Scheme. As of 2018, this application has not been approved by the government. To allow the station to accommodate high speed services under High Speed 2 proposals, five platforms would be required and the Metrolink station would be reconfigured.
Piccadilly, Manchester, UK, M1 2QF
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Keywords: Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,Piccadilly,Station,Railway Station,Rail,Terminal,Manchester Piccadilly,Manchester Piccadilly Station,Network Rail,NetworkRail,Entrance,door,doorway,gate,London Road,North West England,M1 2QF,signs,historic sign,historic,Victorian,frontage,M1,office,offices
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M0W - . An editorial view captures the character of the recorded location, in a photograph originating in 2019. The frame is associated with Shipping and Cartage historic sign on frontage of Piccadilly Railway station, London Road, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 2QF. Further features of the subject include traditional building, rail modernisation, period architecture, heritage asset, integrated transport, road connectivity, transport planning, commuter transport, local transport, rail heritage, passenger railway, and conservation interest. Current debate around integrated public transport often combines reliability, ticketing reform and the practical challenge of renewed station districts. In the mid-2020s, place and memory is increasingly discussed through new technology and business turnover, with attention turning to before-and-after study. For present-day editorial use, traditional structures can also illustrate debates about redevelopment pressure and energy retrofit, particularly where these affect heritage-led regeneration. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at the recorded location, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves, specifically in relation to Shipping and Cartage historic sign on frontage of Piccadilly Railway station. Beyond the immediate subject, the setting involves road safety, motorway travel, period property, architectural character, mass transit, train travel. The scene also carries the language of roadside environment, sustainable mobility, strategic road network, intercity travel, urban fabric, public transport network, urban mobility, rail transport, vehicle access, and rail corridor. That gives this view of the recorded location continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison, specifically in relation to Shipping and Cartage historic sign on frontage of Piccadilly Railway station.
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Keywords: Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,Store St,long mural,art,artwork,New York street artist,New York,street artist,Doodle,on,Matt Peacock,Manchester Artists,wide,long,pano,panorama,Joel,International Arts,Festival,M1 2JQ,M1,North West England,orange,Cookies Doodle,Cookies,Emmaus Mossley,Homelessness Mural
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M10 - 40 homeless people, a New York street artist and two local creatives create a massive Manchester mural
The Doodle on Ducie Street has been created to launch the inaugural International Arts and Homelessness Summit and Festival
The mural, The Doodle on Ducie Street, has been created to launch the inaugural International Arts and Homelessness Summit and Festival in November which aims to raise awareness of homelessness and support homeless people.
We had almost 40 artists working on this and we came together just one week ago, said street artist and activist Joel.
It's been an intense week. We got together and asked what we could create that would represent everyone and what message or story we wanted to tell. Everyone made sketches and we made a composition, then each day we came out and worked on it.
Now the wall is a wondrous array of colour, inspired by Joel's signature style, designed to encourage conversation “ perfect for the upcoming festival.
The unique creative team was organised with the help of With One Voice, an organisation which sets out to tackle homelessness in a creative way.
Everyone came together and decided what was important to them. We came up with this concept of the guy on the mural, he's flying through the air from challenges in his life to a brighter future, said With One Voice director, Matt Peacock.
It's been an amazing experience, says Matt. We were really conscious that we were putting this piece of public art in the centre of Manchester, where homelessness has been on the rise. For many years people would rightly say, ˜why art?'
And the reasons for that, which I hope you can see, are so many things “ it's about personal and societal regeneration, it's about telling a different story about homelessness, and giving a voice to people who are and have been homeless to say what they want to say to the public.
The artists have found the experience a boost to their confidence.
I wanted to get involved with the mural because I
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Keywords: Manchester,City Centre,city,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,shopping,faces,art,artist,grafitti,shutter,shutters,graffiti on shutters,closed,derelict,M1 2BA,M1,down,run,rundown,problem,eyesore,centre,City,Centre,problem with,urban,tourism,tourists,Buy Images Of,Stock Images,tour,Britain,Hip-Hop
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M57 - . A grounded editorial photograph captures the working environment around the recorded location, as recorded during 2019. The location is represented through Derelict shop, The Barrow Boys Shop, Paton Street, Piccadilly, Northern Quarter, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 2BA. Further features of the subject include urban artwork, city artwork, town-centre trading, consumer spending, illustrated hoarding, community expression, local trading, shopfront economy, visual placemaking, independent retail, urban graphics, and commercial frontage. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, commercial property also connects with vacant premises, operating costs and efforts aimed at adaptable commercial space. The wider contemporary story of public art now includes graffiti versus commissioned work alongside public-realm investment, while policy and investment increasingly consider community-led design. Because this is a time-specific record of the recorded location, later comparison can reveal changes in signage, ownership, land use, transport, street furniture, building condition and the way the public uses the surrounding space, specifically in relation to Derelict shop. The broader context includes local identity, shopping habits, consumer retail, chain-store economy, contemporary mural, street-level design. Further aspects present in the subject include retail vacancy, graphic intervention, commercial streetscape, creative regeneration, customer footfall, creative streetscape, mural culture, city-centre economy, retail property, and storefront culture. Modern coverage of physical shops frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of hybrid working, online shopping and mixed-use town centres. That gives this view of the recorded location continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison, specifically in relation to Derelict shop. The location view retains the location's physical context for future editorial context.
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Burnley,Bus,travel,Chorlton Street,grey bus,bus,gray,M1 3JF,X43 bus,express,Lancashire Bus,M1,Witch Way,route,routes,bus routes,public transport,integrated,transport,buses,strett,town,centre,connection,Witchway,capped,fares,£2,two pound,fare,Andy Burnham
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF5BJ - . This contextual photograph records a moment within Central Coach Station, Chorlton St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3JF, in this period view from 2019. The documentary focus is The Witchway X43 bus, Manchester to Burnley express, TransDev Lancashire Bus, Chorlton Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3JF. Related ideas embodied by the location include railway operations, motor traffic, transport corridor, integrated transport, public transport network, rail corridor, roadside environment, commuter transport, highway services, local transport, station environment, and rail heritage. Modern coverage of rail accessibility frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of public ownership, reliability and more dependable regional connections. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, community change also connects with business turnover, shifts in local identity and efforts aimed at future historical research. Over time, this view of Central Coach Station, Chorlton St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3JF can support local-history and planning research by preserving details of appearance, occupation, signage, public access and everyday use that written records may omit. The surrounding context also touches on regional rail, road engineering, road safety, vehicle movement, roadside commerce, strategic road network. The record also refers to Manchester Burnley, transport. Its context additionally embraces road transport, intercity travel, transport interchange, junction design, urban mobility, highway infrastructure, traffic management, road connectivity, rail infrastructure, and passenger railway. For present-day editorial use, integrated public transport can also illustrate debates about fares and affordability and accessible travel, particularly where these affect renewed station districts. The photograph preserves local character within the evolving townscape. The photograph preserves local character within the evolving townscape.
Central Coach Station, Chorlton St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3JF
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Burnley,Bus,travel,Chorlton Street,grey bus,bus,gray,M1 3JF,X43 bus,express,Lancashire Bus,M1,Service X43,Witch Way,route,routes,bus routes,public transport,integrated,transport,buses,strett,town,centre,connection,Witchway,Northern Powerhouse,fares,£2,two pound,Andy Burnham
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF5BK - . This descriptive scene records the visible identity of Central Coach Station, Chorlton St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3JF, as it appeared in 2019. The defining subject in the supplied record is The Witchway X43 bus, Manchester to Burnley express, TransDev Lancashire Bus, Chorlton Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3JF. Other aspects of the setting include road engineering, vehicle movement, roadside commerce, junction design, mass transit, trackside infrastructure, integrated transport, surface transport, highway infrastructure, rail transport, rail mobility, and train travel. For present-day editorial use, rail accessibility can also illustrate debates about decarbonisation and fares and affordability, particularly where these affect better links with buses and trams. Modern coverage of the public realm frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of changing use, altered public space and future historical research. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at Central Coach Station, Chorlton St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3JF, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves. The surrounding story includes public transport network, motor traffic, sustainable mobility, transport planning, local transport, rail infrastructure. Further recorded details include Manchester Burnley, transport. Other relevant facets include station environment, roadside environment, intercity travel, passenger connectivity, commuter transport, urban mobility, traffic management, regional rail, vehicle access, and strategic road network. In the mid-2020s, passenger rail is increasingly discussed through public ownership and town-centre connectivity, with attention turning to lower-carbon mobility. The photograph also fixes details of public use for future researchers. The photograph also fixes details of public use for future researchers.
Central Coach Station, Chorlton St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3JF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Community,Village,Sackville Park,memorial,bench,apple,Manchester,City,centre,cast,bronze,Father of,Computer Science,Mathematician,Logician,Victim,of Prejudice,Lancs,Lancashire,metal,Enigma,wartime,WWII,codebreaker,gay,AI,Artificial Intelligence,ChatGPT,test,the,tourist,tourism,attraction,M1
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF5JR - Turing has been honoured in various ways in Manchester, the city where he worked towards the end of his life. In 1994, a stretch of the A6010 road (the Manchester city intermediate ring road) was named Alan Turing Way. A bridge carrying this road was widened, and carries the name Alan Turing Bridge. A statue of Turing was unveiled in Manchester on 23 June 2001 in Sackville Park, between the University of Manchester building on Whitworth Street and Canal Street. The memorial statue depicts the father of computer science sitting on a bench at a central position in the park. Turing is shown holding an apple. The cast bronze bench carries in relief the text 'Alan Mathison Turing 1912“1954', and the motto 'Founder of Computer Science' as it could appear if encoded by an Enigma machine: 'IEKYF ROMSI ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ'. However, the meaning of the coded message is disputed, as the 'u' in 'computer' matches up with the 'u' in 'ADXUO'. As a letter encoded by an enigma machine can not appear as itself, the actual message behind the code is uncertain.[207]
Turing memorial statue plaque in Sackville Park, Manchester
A plaque at the statue's feet reads 'Father of computer science, mathematician, logician, wartime codebreaker, victim of prejudice'. There is also a Bertrand Russell quotation: Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty”a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. The sculptor buried his own old Amstrad computer under the plinth as a tribute to the godfather of all modern computers - The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Park in Manchester, England, is in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Turing is believed to have committed suicide in 1954 two years after being convicted of gross indecency (i.e. homosexual acts). As such he is as much a gay icon as an icon of computing, and it is no coincidence that this memorial is situated near Canal Street, Manchester's gay village.
Alan Turing Memorial, Sackville Park, Fairfield St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3HB
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Canal St,gay,village,Sackville,LGBT,community,Gay Bee,Love Is Love,Alan Turing,Alan,Turing,LBGT Community,LGBTQ,Manchester M1 3HB,M1,rainbow,rainbow bee,Turing head,sponsored,LGBTQ+ community Bee in Sackville Gardens,LGBTQ+ community,Bee in Sackville Gardens,LGBTQ+,Sackville Gardens Bee,Bee in The City MCR,MCR,LGBT Foundation,Manchester Pride,Heart of Manchesters Gay Village,Queen Bee,CJTaylord Art Ben Sedman Photography,Wild in Art
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF5ME - Canal Street, the centre of the Manchester Gay Village, is a street in Manchester city centre in North West England. The pedestrianised street, which runs along the west side of the Rochdale Canal, is lined with gay bars and restaurants. At night time, and in daytime in the warmer months, the street is filled with visitors, often including gay and lesbian tourists from all over the world. The northern end of the street meets Minshull Street and the southern meets Princess Street
part of the street looks across the Rochdale Canal into Sackville Park.
90's Focus led to several of the pubs on or near Canal Street acquiring a predominantly gay clientele. In 1991, Manto (Manchester Tomorrow) bar opened at no. 46. It was built in 1989 by Benedict Smith Architects. Unlike the other gay bars at that time, Manto had large glass windows, allowing the casual passer-by to view what was going on inside. Previously, many establishments catering for the gay community were often keen to conceal activities from the general public, but the architectural design of Manto was seen as a queer visual statement of we're here, we're queer “ get used to it, and a brick-and-mortar refusal to hide any more, or to remain underground and invisible.
Over the next decade, more numerous and larger bars opened along the canal side, turning Canal Street into the centre of the most successful gay village in Europe. Because of this, the Canal Street street signs are regularly defaced to read Anal Treet or Anal Street. The success was further enhanced by the use of Canal Street and its bars in several television series, including Bob and Rose and Queer as Folk, both written by Russell T Davies. See https://beeinthecitymcr.co.uk/
Sackville Gardens, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3HB
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Canal St,gay,village,Sackville,LGBT,community,Gay Bee,Love Is Love,Alan Turing,Alan,Turing,LBGT Community,LGBTQ,Manchester M1 3HB,M1,rainbow,rainbow bee,Turing head,sponsored,LGBTQ+ community Bee in Sackville Gardens,LGBTQ+ community,Bee in Sackville Gardens,LGBTQ+,Sackville Gardens Bee,Bee in The City MCR,MCR,LGBT Foundation,Manchester Pride,Heart of Manchesters Gay Village,Queen Bee,CJTaylord Art Ben Sedman Photography,Wild in Art
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF5RD - Canal Street, the centre of the Manchester Gay Village, is a street in Manchester city centre in North West England. The pedestrianised street, which runs along the west side of the Rochdale Canal, is lined with gay bars and restaurants. At night time, and in daytime in the warmer months, the street is filled with visitors, often including gay and lesbian tourists from all over the world. The northern end of the street meets Minshull Street and the southern meets Princess Street
part of the street looks across the Rochdale Canal into Sackville Park.
90's Focus led to several of the pubs on or near Canal Street acquiring a predominantly gay clientele. In 1991, Manto (Manchester Tomorrow) bar opened at no. 46. It was built in 1989 by Benedict Smith Architects. Unlike the other gay bars at that time, Manto had large glass windows, allowing the casual passer-by to view what was going on inside. Previously, many establishments catering for the gay community were often keen to conceal activities from the general public, but the architectural design of Manto was seen as a queer visual statement of we're here, we're queer “ get used to it, and a brick-and-mortar refusal to hide any more, or to remain underground and invisible.
Over the next decade, more numerous and larger bars opened along the canal side, turning Canal Street into the centre of the most successful gay village in Europe. Because of this, the Canal Street street signs are regularly defaced to read Anal Treet or Anal Street. The success was further enhanced by the use of Canal Street and its bars in several television series, including Bob and Rose and Queer as Folk, both written by Russell T Davies. See https://beeinthecitymcr.co.uk/
Sackville Gardens, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3HB
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Canal St,gay,village,Sackville,LGBT,community,Gay Bee,Love Is Love,Alan Turing,Alan,Turing,LBGT Community,LGBTQ,Manchester M1 3HB,M1,rainbow,rainbow bee,Turing head,sponsored,LGBTQ+ community Bee in Sackville Gardens,LGBTQ+ community,Bee in Sackville Gardens,LGBTQ+,Sackville Gardens Bee,Bee in The City MCR,MCR,LGBT Foundation,Manchester Pride,Heart of Manchesters Gay Village,Queen Bee,CJTaylord Art Ben Sedman Photography,Wild in Art
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF5RK - Canal Street, the centre of the Manchester Gay Village, is a street in Manchester city centre in North West England. The pedestrianised street, which runs along the west side of the Rochdale Canal, is lined with gay bars and restaurants. At night time, and in daytime in the warmer months, the street is filled with visitors, often including gay and lesbian tourists from all over the world. The northern end of the street meets Minshull Street and the southern meets Princess Street
part of the street looks across the Rochdale Canal into Sackville Park.
90's Focus led to several of the pubs on or near Canal Street acquiring a predominantly gay clientele. In 1991, Manto (Manchester Tomorrow) bar opened at no. 46. It was built in 1989 by Benedict Smith Architects. Unlike the other gay bars at that time, Manto had large glass windows, allowing the casual passer-by to view what was going on inside. Previously, many establishments catering for the gay community were often keen to conceal activities from the general public, but the architectural design of Manto was seen as a queer visual statement of we're here, we're queer “ get used to it, and a brick-and-mortar refusal to hide any more, or to remain underground and invisible.
Over the next decade, more numerous and larger bars opened along the canal side, turning Canal Street into the centre of the most successful gay village in Europe. Because of this, the Canal Street street signs are regularly defaced to read Anal Treet or Anal Street. The success was further enhanced by the use of Canal Street and its bars in several television series, including Bob and Rose and Queer as Folk, both written by Russell T Davies. See https://beeinthecitymcr.co.uk/
Sackville Gardens, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3HB
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,M1,North West,art,artist,street art,street artist,mural,Arena Bomb,Arena bombing,arts,street,centre,spray paint,expression,decorated,decoration,M1 1DN,PC,ex,public conveniences,toilet,canvas,outside,square,exterior,pink,cyan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF66B - . An editorial view documents the setting around Stevenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 1DN, as photographed in 2019. The supplied image information identifies #OutHouseMcr Bee, Stevenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 1DN. Further features of the subject include community art, creative regeneration, illustrated hoarding, urban visual culture, art-led regeneration, city artwork, mural culture, graphic intervention, contemporary mural, public realm art, temporary artwork, and local identity. Current debate around street-level design often combines youth culture, graffiti versus commissioned work and the practical challenge of art integrated with regeneration. Because this is a time-specific record of Stevenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 1DN, later comparison can reveal changes in signage, ownership, land use, transport, street furniture, building condition and the way the public uses the surrounding space. The resulting scene connects with visual placemaking, public art, creative streetscape, street creativity, community expression, street-level design. Further recorded details include NorthernQuarter, Manchester Bee Symbol, Bee Symbol, open air gallery. The scene also carries the language of urban artwork, and urban graphics. The wider contemporary story of visual placemaking now includes regeneration alongside temporary installations, while policy and investment increasingly consider creative reuse of redevelopment sites. For future comparison, the scene preserves the appearance of the built environment, public activity, period design, local character, and changes of use at this precise location. Viewed retrospectively, the photograph can reveal community life, local continuity, physical infrastructure, signage and branding, and commercial identity within the surrounding area.
Stevenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 1DN
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,M1,Northern Quarter,kissing,woman,black,blue,Manchester Northern Quarter,female,love,affection,A Kiss,NorthernQuarter,girl,seduction,seduced,streetart,eye contact,ears,Life is beautiful,Catwoman kisses Batman in a doorway,NQ4,Cat woman,kisses,Batman,doorway,tail,catwomans tail,+44,lovers,purple,people
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF673 - . A local-history photograph preserves the character of the recorded location, as recorded during 2019. The source caption identifies Life is beautiful, Catwoman kisses Batman in a doorway, Northern Quarter, Manchester, NQ4, North West England, UK. Further features of the subject include street-level design, creative regeneration, public art, local identity, community art, contemporary mural, public realm art, urban graphics, graphic intervention, urban artwork, urban visual culture, and visual placemaking. Modern coverage of creative hoardings frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of public-realm investment, regeneration and stronger place identity. Small period details preserved at the recorded location may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage, specifically in relation to Life is beautiful. The surrounding context also touches on illustrated hoarding, temporary artwork, street creativity, art-led regeneration, community expression, creative streetscape. The scene is further associated with A Kiss can be deadlier, NorthernQuarter, Everlasting Love, Cat Woman poster, Cat Woman, sexy woman. For present-day editorial use, community artwork can also illustrate debates about temporary installations and youth culture, particularly where these affect creative reuse of redevelopment sites. Viewed retrospectively, the photograph can reveal transport patterns, neighbourhood identity, architecture and streetscape, ownership or occupation, and public access as part of the area's longer social history. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of local business activity, the condition of buildings, regional identity, public-realm details, and patterns of everyday use without relying on a generic or reconstructed view.
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,M1,Northern Quarter,urban art,kissing,affection,memories,stereotype,love,female,woman,lady,sexy,erotic,black,blue,peeling,wall,on a wall,Manchester Northern Quarter,poster,A Kiss,can be deadlier,NorthernQuarter,girl,seduction,seduced,streetart,eye contact,ears
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF675 - . A carefully observed scene records the character of the recorded location, in this period view from 2019. The image record centres upon Cat Woman poster, A Kiss can be deadlier, Manchester Northern Quarter, England, UK. The wider setting includes creative streetscape, visual placemaking, public realm art, local identity, street creativity, public art, urban graphics, temporary artwork, graphic intervention, illustrated hoarding, contemporary mural, and urban visual culture. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, creative hoardings also connects with youth culture, local identity and efforts aimed at creative reuse of redevelopment sites. The date and location give the photograph archival strength: future views of the recorded location may show different businesses, branding, services, architecture, traffic patterns or redevelopment, allowing clear before-and-after comparison, specifically in relation to Cat Woman poster. The surrounding context also touches on art-led regeneration, creative regeneration, community expression, street-level design, mural culture, community art. Associated details include NQ4, NorthernQuarter, Everlasting Love, sexy woman, NQ4 Manchester, artwork. Other relevant facets include urban artwork, and city artwork. Modern coverage of visual placemaking frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of public-realm investment, temporary installations and art integrated with regeneration. Viewed retrospectively, the photograph can reveal everyday services, movement through the area, social change, historic fabric, and planning and redevelopment at this precise location. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of transport patterns, ownership or occupation, public access, neighbourhood identity, and architecture and streetscape within the surrounding area. It remains a grounded period reference to the recorded location, its use, appearance and changing local context.
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,art work,Newton St,Northern Quarter,M1,artwork,urban art,NQ4 Manchester,old love,older love,love in old age,cloth cap,northerners,kissing,Coronation Street,Coronation St,spark of love,painting,old age love,cute old people,northern,stereotype,seniors,retired love,memories,of love,love,affection,backstreet,Love Has No Age Limit
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF676 - . A contemporary documentary view sets out the visible identity of Newton St, Manchester, England, UK, in a photograph originating in 2019. Within that setting the photograph concentrates on Two old people kissing, art work, Newton St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M1, England, UK. The location also connects regional identity, place and memory, cultural landscape, modern history, urban and rural change, social context, visual record, contemporary social history, local character, public realm, everyday infrastructure, and documentary photography. Current debate around community change often combines changing use, new technology and the practical challenge of before-and-after study. The photograph fixes Newton St, Manchester, England, UK at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed. Beyond the immediate subject, the setting involves social landscape, community environment, place-based history, community life, local identity, changing Britain. Associated details include NQ4, NorthernQuarter, Newton Street, pensioners kissing, elderly couple, Everlasting Love. The same setting also brings together documentary record, and everyday Britain. The wider contemporary story of everyday local life now includes altered public space alongside new technology, while policy and investment increasingly consider future historical research. The combination preserved here provides evidence of movement through the area, historic fabric, everyday services, planning and redevelopment, and social change at this precise location. As the location changes, the frame remains a reference for neighbourhood identity, transport patterns, architecture and streetscape, ownership or occupation, and public access within the surrounding area. The view of Newton St, Manchester, England, UK also preserves another layer of local identity and period change.
Newton St, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,art work,Newton St,Northern Quarter,M1,artwork,urban art,NQ4 Manchester,old love,older love,love in old age,cloth cap,northerners,kissing,Coronation Street,Coronation St,spark of love,painting,old age love,cute old people,northern,stereotype,seniors,retired love,memories,of love,love,affection,backstreet,Love Has No Age Limit,Madchester
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF67M - . A contemporary documentary view records the working environment around Newton St, Manchester, England, UK, as it appeared in 2019. The documentary focus is Two old people kissing, art work, Newton St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M1, England, UK. The photograph carries associations with contemporary social history, place and memory, modern history, local character, visual record, documentary photography, documentary record, everyday infrastructure, public realm, urban and rural change, place-based history, and social landscape. Current debate around social history often combines business turnover, redevelopment and the practical challenge of a clearer record of local change. Small period details preserved at Newton St, Manchester, England, UK may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage. The view also records themes involving regional identity, community life, community environment, changing Britain, cultural landscape, local identity. Associated details include NQ4, NorthernQuarter, Newton Street, pensioners kissing, elderly couple, Everlasting Love. A second layer of description includes everyday Britain, and social context. The wider contemporary story of community change now includes shifts in local identity alongside new technology, while policy and investment increasingly consider a clearer record of local change. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of physical infrastructure, community life, signage and branding, commercial identity, and local continuity in a form that can be compared with later photographs. The combination preserved here provides evidence of historic fabric, planning and redevelopment, everyday services, movement through the area, and social change as an authentic period reference.
Newton St, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,art,streetart,street art,M1 1DF,North West,M1,artist,artwork,urban,native,red,background,paint,painting,graffiti,Spear St,Aboriginal,faces,Aboriginals,face,on,of,looking,out,fence,site,building,Hip-Hop,HipHop
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF67R - . A carefully observed scene preserves the social and built context of Spear Street, Manchester, England, UK, in documentary coverage dating from 2019. The frame is associated with Aboriginal face on red background of graffiti, Spear St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK. Related ideas embodied by the location include period property, urban fabric, creative regeneration, urban graphics, visual placemaking, community expression, public art, historic environment, urban visual culture, adaptive reuse, architectural heritage, and illustrated hoarding. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, visual placemaking also connects with regeneration, local identity and efforts aimed at recording temporary artwork. The wider contemporary story of historic buildings now includes conservation of original fabric alongside maintenance cost, while policy and investment increasingly consider keeping older buildings useful. Small period details preserved at Spear Street, Manchester, England, UK may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage. The location additionally reflects mural culture, local landmark, historic townscape, city artwork, traditional building, conservation interest. Other local associations include Urban art in Spear Street, Spear Street, urban art, vibrant, NQ4. The location further reflects street-level design, built heritage, graphic intervention, townscape identity, urban conservation, historic built environment, heritage asset, architectural character, street creativity, and period architecture. Modern coverage of urban murals frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of community participation, temporary installations and recording temporary artwork. This image retains local character before further change occurs.
Spear Street, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,art,streetart,street art,M1 1DF,North West,M1,artist,artwork,urban,native,red,background,paint,painting,graffiti,Spear St,Aboriginal,faces,Aboriginals,face,on,of,looking,out,fence,site,building
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF67W - . This descriptive scene records a moment within Spear Street, Manchester, England, UK, in a view made during 2019. The location is represented through Aboriginal face on red background of graffiti, Spear St, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK. The photograph carries associations with street creativity, period architecture, heritage asset, architectural heritage, heritage streetscape, urban visual culture, urban fabric, illustrated hoarding, visual placemaking, historic environment, public realm art, and community expression. For present-day editorial use, street-level design can also illustrate debates about community participation and regeneration, particularly where these affect stronger place identity. Modern coverage of historic buildings frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of planning control, vacancy and heritage-led regeneration. The date and location give the photograph archival strength: future views of Spear Street, Manchester, England, UK may show different businesses, branding, services, architecture, traffic patterns or redevelopment, allowing clear before-and-after comparison. The surrounding context also touches on conservation architecture, community art, urban graphics, historic townscape, conservation interest, historic fabric. Further recorded details include Urban art in Spear Street, Spear Street, urban art, vibrant, NQ4. Its context additionally embraces townscape identity, architectural detail, local identity, creative streetscape, built heritage, traditional building, city artwork, historic built environment, period property, and mural culture. In the mid-2020s, community artwork is increasingly discussed through regeneration and temporary installations, with attention turning to community-led design. That gives this view of Spear Street, Manchester, England, UK continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison.
Spear Street, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,urban art,art,streetart,street art,vibrant,No Entry Sign,No Entry,cul-de-sac,M1,M1 1DF,Urban,in Spear Street,North West,Manchester Northern Quarter,arts,street,centre,spray paint,expression,open air gallery,decorated,decoration,tag,tags,painting,spayed,spray can,no entry
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF67X - . A detailed visual record shows the visible identity of Spear Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1DF, as photographed in 2019. The image record centres upon Urban art in Spear Street, Northern Quarter, NQ4, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 1DF. Related ideas embodied by the location include contemporary mural, urban graphics, public art, mural culture, street creativity, visual placemaking, local identity, urban visual culture, street-level design, creative regeneration, illustrated hoarding, and community expression. For present-day editorial use, urban murals can also illustrate debates about community participation and graffiti versus commissioned work, particularly where these affect art integrated with regeneration. The photograph fixes Spear Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1DF at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed. The resulting scene connects with creative streetscape, urban artwork, temporary artwork, public realm art, graphic intervention, art-led regeneration. The scene is further associated with Manchester city centre, Manchester Northern Quarter art, culdesac, spray paint. Further aspects present in the subject include community art, and city artwork. In the mid-2020s, creative hoardings is increasingly discussed through public-realm investment and graffiti versus commissioned work, with attention turning to creative reuse of redevelopment sites. Viewed retrospectively, the photograph can reveal neighbourhood identity, ownership or occupation, transport patterns, architecture and streetscape, and public access at this precise location. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of local business activity, patterns of everyday use, public-realm details, regional identity, and the condition of buildings within the surrounding area.
Spear Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1DF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Bloom,St,Canal,Manchester,LGBT,LGBTQ,LGBTQ+,celebrating,busy,crowd,crowded,event,annual,equality,party,Canal street,Bloom Street,England,UK,M1 3EZ,M1,city,centre,the,flag,flags,bunting,banner,banners,MCR,live,floats,Napoleons,pub,community,Restaurant and KTV,tip toe,village
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RD81T1 - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
Canal street , Bloom Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3EZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Bloom,St,Canal,Manchester,LGBT,LGBTQ,LGBTQ+,celebrating,busy,crowd,crowded,event,annual,equality,party,Canal street,Bloom Street,England,UK,M1 3EZ,M1,city,centre,the,flag,flags,bunting,banner,banners,MCR,live,floats,Napoleons,pub,community,Restaurant and KTV,village
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RD81TJ - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
Canal street , Bloom Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3EZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Manchester,England,UK,M1 3HZ,M1,tourists,ticket,tickets,annual,parties,celebrating,the,circus,and,embracing,LGBTQ+,friends,visitors,partners,August,25th,2018,Saturday,life,love,MCR,inclusion,acceptance,atmosphere,Mancunian,Mancunians,community,LGBTQIA+,crowded,crowds,busy,rammed
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDATXA - . The Manchester Pride party festival in Bloom Street, celebrating the circus and embracing MCR LGBTQ+ friends, visitors and partners, August 25th 2018. Photographed on 25 August 2018, 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 Bloom Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3HZ, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Manchester, M1 3HZ, tourists, ticket, tickets, annual, parties, celebrating, circus, embracing, LGBTQ+, friends, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. 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. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene. The photograph can also support future before-and-after use if the building, business, service, streetscape, transport operation or public space is later altered, redeveloped, rebranded or closed.
Bloom Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3HZ
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Keywords: Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,England,UK,woke,NHS,National Health Service,at,hospitals,nurses,Tip Toe,Tiptoe,village
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAW6D - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Keywords: Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,AKT,Homelessness,at,Albert Kennedy Trust,England,UK
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWA6 - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Keywords: Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,Unison,union,at,TUC,Pride in our work,Pride in our public services
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWAP - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,the,Albert Kennedy Trust,at,AKT,homeless,voluntary organisation
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWBA - Akt (stylised as akt and legally known as The Albert Kennedy Trust) is a voluntary organisation based in England, created in 1989 to serve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ+) young people who are homeless or living in a hostile environment. It started in Greater Manchester in 1989 and opened in London in 1996, and expanded to Newcastle in 2013, Newcastle upon Tyne and Bristol.
History
The charity is named after Albert Kennedy (31 January 1973 “ 30 April 1989), a 16-year-old Social Services care leaver from Manchester who was gay. Kennedy died after falling from the top of Chorlton Street multi-storey car park. Despite an inquest the circumstances of his death remain unclear. The official version is that he died from misadventure.
Kennedy had experienced a great deal of homophobia during his life. Manchester's gay community was moved into action by the Trust's founder patron Cath Hall. Cath Hall was a straight foster carer who saw the need for an organisation to be set up to support young lesbian, gay, bi and trans people who were facing homelessness because of rejection at home. She had observed that Kennedy's case was not isolated, and that many other LGBTQ+ young people in and out of the foster care system were struggling with the effects of homophobia. Hall described the founding of the trust as an emotional response, an angry response, to what was going on.
As a result, the Albert Kennedy Trust was formed, officially becoming a Trust in 1990.
In 2019 the Albert Kennedy Trust rebranded as akt.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,Home,at,village
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWBH - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,General Medical Council,LGBTQ+,at,GMC,balloons
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWFB - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,Costa,Coffee,staff,team,at
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWFJ - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,Hopwood Hall,College,Rochdale,at,woke
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWFX - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWH3 - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWH8 - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWJC - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWM2 - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWM8 - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWNE - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWNP - The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI), also called Order of Perpetual Indulgence (OPI), is a charitable, protest, and street performance movement that uses drag and religious imagery to satirize issues of sex, gender, and morality (particularly Christian perspectives on these topics) and fundraise for charity. In 1979, a small group of gay men in San Francisco began wearing the attire of Catholic nuns in visible situations using camp to promote various social and political causes in the Castro District.
From the original organization in San Francisco, the Sisters have grown throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia, Europe, and South America, and are now an international network of autonomous orders. These orders are mostly registered as non-profit charity organizations that raise money for AIDS, LGBT-related causes, and mainstream community service organizations, while promoting safer sex and educating others about the harmful effects of drug use and other high risk behaviors. They have also protested many Christian, and specifically Catholic, events perceived as anti-LGBT, including the visit of Pope John Paul II to the United States.
Throughout the movement's history there have been a number of conflicts with Christian communities. The group has been characterized by some Catholics (such as the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights) as anti-Catholic and a hate-group for impersonating and mocking Catholic practices and beliefs, including religious sisters
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWP5 - The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI), also called Order of Perpetual Indulgence (OPI), is a charitable, protest, and street performance movement that uses drag and religious imagery to satirize issues of sex, gender, and morality (particularly Christian perspectives on these topics) and fundraise for charity. In 1979, a small group of gay men in San Francisco began wearing the attire of Catholic nuns in visible situations using camp to promote various social and political causes in the Castro District.
From the original organization in San Francisco, the Sisters have grown throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia, Europe, and South America, and are now an international network of autonomous orders. These orders are mostly registered as non-profit charity organizations that raise money for AIDS, LGBT-related causes, and mainstream community service organizations, while promoting safer sex and educating others about the harmful effects of drug use and other high risk behaviors. They have also protested many Christian, and specifically Catholic, events perceived as anti-LGBT, including the visit of Pope John Paul II to the United States.
Throughout the movement's history there have been a number of conflicts with Christian communities. The group has been characterized by some Catholics (such as the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights) as anti-Catholic and a hate-group for impersonating and mocking Catholic practices and beliefs, including religious sisters
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWX8 - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWYH - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAX0E - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAX0N - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAX1E - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAX2P - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAX30 - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Manchester,city,centre,August,Bank Holiday,parades,float,visitors,crowd,busy,2018,tourist,tourism,community,Greater Manchester,Canal Street,charity,sponsor,sponsors,participants,M1 3NR,M1,Whitworth Street,rainbows,colourful,supporters,march,marching,placards,messages,Mermaids,at,transgender,youth,Lauren Stoner
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAX39 - Mermaids is a British charity and advocacy organisation that supports gender variant and transgender youth. It also provides inclusion and diversity training. Mermaids was founded in 1995 by a group of parents of gender nonconforming children and became a charitable incorporated organisation in 2015.
History
Formation and leadership
Mermaids was founded in 1995 by a group of parents of gender nonconforming children, originally acting as a small helpline. It aims to provide support for transgender youths up to 20 years of age. Mermaids became a Charitable incorporated organisation in 2015.
Susie Green was the chief executive from January 2016 until 25 November 2022 when she resigned. Previously she worked as an IT manager at the Citizens Advice Bureau in Leeds. Green was a trustee of Mermaids for four years from 2011. Her daughter is one of the youngest individuals in the UK to have transitioned surgically.
Lauren Stoner is interim chief executive since December 2022.
Lobbying the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service
In the years from 2000, Mermaids alongside another campaign group, GIRES (Gender Identity Research and Education Society), lobbied clinicians at the NHS Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) for early interventions on children
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64K8M - . Metrolink Manchester tram Rochdale via Oldham, on a rainy evening, in Market Street, near Primark, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1 1PW. Photographed on 2 November 2013, this autumn 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 Market Street, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1 1PW, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Market St, Manchester, Lancashire, M1 1PW, rain, tram, rainy, evening, shopping, Rochdale, via, Oldham, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The retail context supports editorial themes around high streets, shopping centres, consumer behaviour, independent and chain businesses, store branding, commercial property, hospitality and the changing economics of town and city centres. Shopfronts, promotional material, prices, signage and surrounding public space can become valuable historical evidence as businesses close, rebrand, relocate or adapt to online competition and changing consumer demand. Transport context makes the photograph useful for stories about rail travel, passenger journeys, stations and interchanges, public transport investment, regional connectivity and the everyday experience of moving through the UK rail network. Railway architecture, passenger facilities, route identity, signage and operational infrastructure are important documentary themes, particularly as stations and services are modernised or altered over time. The transport setting gives the image wider relevance to mobility, infrastructure, roads and public transport, travel behaviour, local connectivity, logistics and the relationship between vehicles and the built environment.
Market Street, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64K8R - . Metrolink Manchester tram to Ashton via Piccadilly, on a rainy evening, in Market Street, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1 1PW. Photographed on 2 November 2013, this autumn 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 Market Street, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1 1PW, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Market St, Manchester, Lancashire, M1 1PW, rain, tram, rainy, evening, via, Piccadilly, Ashton under Lyne, Ashton-under-Lyne, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The retail context supports editorial themes around high streets, shopping centres, consumer behaviour, independent and chain businesses, store branding, commercial property, hospitality and the changing economics of town and city centres. Shopfronts, promotional material, prices, signage and surrounding public space can become valuable historical evidence as businesses close, rebrand, relocate or adapt to online competition and changing consumer demand. Transport context makes the photograph useful for stories about rail travel, passenger journeys, stations and interchanges, public transport investment, regional connectivity and the everyday experience of moving through the UK rail network. Railway architecture, passenger facilities, route identity, signage and operational infrastructure are important documentary themes, particularly as stations and services are modernised or altered over time. The transport setting gives the image wider relevance to mobility, infrastructure, roads and public transport, travel behaviour, local connectivity, logistics and the relationship between vehicles and the built environment.
Market Street, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1 1PW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DN6N49 - . The City Road inn Pub Manchester with Hilton Hotel in background Lancashire England UK. Photographed at 14 Albion St, Manchester, England, UK M1 5NZ. The photograph was taken on 24 September 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. Signage, lettering, logos, numbers or other visible information form an important part of the record, helping identify the subject and capture contemporary branding or public messaging. The scene is closely associated with Road, inn, Pub, Manchester, Hilton, Hotel, Madchester, summer, blue and sky, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. Beyond the immediate subject, the scene is relevant to British pub culture, licensed premises, real ale, beer tourism and the continuing social role of the traditional public house. For picture buyers, the photograph can support editorial features about pubs and bars, hospitality, independent and managed venues, drinking culture, local heritage, city and town centres, leisure spending and the changing British high street. Details such as brewery branding, pub signage, entrances, windows, bar fittings, beer pumps or period architecture can provide useful visual evidence of how licensed premises present themselves to customers. The image also works as a record of everyday social history, documenting a familiar type of British hospitality venue at a particular moment in time rather than presenting an idealised studio view. Search themes naturally include British pub heritage, real ale and beer culture, licensed premises, hospitality, public houses, local drinking traditions and the role of pubs within town and city life. This particular view is catalogued under Alamy image reference DN6N49, distinguishing it from other photographs of the same or related subject.
14 Albion St, Manchester, England, UK M1 5NZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6099851024 - 'Model 500 - No UFOs - Play this track here.
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About time I featured a slab of Detroit Techno here.
Model 500 &
Infiniti were names used by Juan Atkins. He is widely credited as the originator of techno music, specifically Detroit techno along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. The three, sometimes called the Belleville Three, attended high school together in Belleville, Michigan, near Detroit.
At age sixteen, Atkins heard electronic music for the first time, which would prove to be a life-changing experience. In late-1990s interviews, he recalls the sound of synthesizers as being like 'UFOs landing.' He soon had his first synthesizer and abandoned playing funk bass.
\u201c When I first heard synthesizers dropped on records it was great\u2026 like UFOs landing on records, so I got one.
\u2026It wasn\u2019t any one particular group that turned me on to synthesizers, but 'Flashlight' (Parliament's number one R &
B hit from early 1978) was the first record I heard where maybe 75 percent of the production was electronic.'
The first publicized UFO sightings were usually referred to using the term mystery airships, which were commonly seen and described as such during the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th.
The term foo fighters was used by American fighter pilots during World War II to refer to UFOs.
The first widely publicized U.S. sighting, reported by private pilot Kenneth Arnold in June 1947, gave rise to the popular terms 'flying saucer' and 'flying disc', of which the former is still sometimes used, even though Arnold said the most of the objects he saw were not totally circular and one was crescent-shaped (see Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting for details). In addition, the infamous Roswell UFO Incident occurred at about the same time, which only served to further fuel public interest in the topic.
The term 'UFO' was first suggested in 1952 by Cpt. Edward J. Ruppelt, who headed Project Blue Book, then the USAF's official investigation of UFOs. Ruppelt felt that 'flying saucer' did not reflect the diversity of the sightings. He suggested that UFO should be pronounced as a word \u2013 you-foe. However it is now usually pronounced by forming each letter: U.F.O. His term was quickly adopted by the United States Air Force, which also briefly used 'UFOB'. The Air Force initially defined UFOs as those objects that remain unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators, though today the term UFO is often used for any unexplained sighting regardless of whether it has been investigated.
Because the term UFO is ambiguous \u2013 referring either to any unidentified sighting, or in popular usage to alien spacecraft \u2013 and the public and media ridicule sometimes associated with the topic, some investigators now prefer to use other terms such as unidentified aerial phenomenon (or UAP).
For trivia buffs, the equivalent acronym for UFO in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian is OVNI (Objeto Volador No Identificado, Objeto Voador N\u00e3o Identificado, Objet volant non identifi\u00e9 or Oggetto Volante Non Identificato).
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Keywords: @Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,GotonySmith,Manchester,England,UK,M1,NQ4,sign,flats,apartments,block,residential,cladding,property,new build,for-rent,rental,city,living,studio,studios,yellow pay here,Planned Maintenance,Service Charges,repairs,real estate,building,responsive,BIM,information,management,managing,agent,estate,sunny,clad,renters rights act,Renters Rights,Act 2026
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2J880EK - A sharp editorial image showing a large yellow PAY HERE sign set against a modern block of new flats, creating a witty visual juxtaposition about the cost of renting, housing affordability and the changing rules for private tenants in England. The image is useful for coverage of the Renters' Rights Act 2025, with major private rented sector reforms taking effect from 1 May 2026, including the end of assured shorthold tenancies and the move to periodic tenancies, stronger protection against no-fault eviction, new rules around rent increases and limits on rent in advance. The bold sign in the foreground points downwards like an instruction to pay, while the apartment building behind it suggests new build flats, urban housing markets, landlord income, tenant pressure and the continuing debate about who benefits from rising rents and housing investment. The scene works well as a stock image for articles on renters' rights, letting agents, private landlords, build-to-rent, city flats, cost of living pressures, housing reform, property markets and the affordability gap facing many households. It can also illustrate commentary about whether legal reform alone can protect renters when rents remain high and housing supply remains constrained. The bright summer daylight, blue sky, brick facade, balconies and windows provide a clean contemporary urban backdrop, while the humorous sign adds a slightly satirical documentary edge. There are no visible people, allowing the picture to operate as a flexible concept image for newspapers, policy papers, housing blogs, campaigning material and public information features. The wording PAY HERE makes the photograph immediately readable at thumbnail size and gives it strong commercial potential for searches connected with rent, payment, bills, landlords, tenancy reform, English housing policy, monthly costs, deposits, affordability, tenant security and the politics of private renting.
61 Houldsworth St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 2FA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,LGBT,trans,party,leisure,pubs,bars,dusk,at night,M1,tourist,attraction,Manchester,England,UK,M1 3EZ,cruising,rainbow,colours,Lesbian,Via,Via fossa,Via bar,pub,club,venue,Pride,night,evening,evenings,Canal St,LGBTQ,LGBTQ+,late night venue,queer history,safe space,cabaret,nightlife,nightclub,village
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADR29X - Via bar on Canal Street in Manchester's Gay Village, photographed at night with coloured exterior lighting, illuminated signage, awnings and people moving along the pavement. The image captures the lively evening atmosphere of one of Manchester city centre's best known LGBTQ+ nightlife areas, where Canal Street, the Rochdale Canal and nearby streets are associated with queer culture, Pride events, cabaret, bars, clubs, restaurants and tourism. Via Manchester is listed at 28-30 Canal Street, Manchester M1 3EZ, and its own venue information describes it as a friendly local LGBTQ+ bar with live entertainment seven days a week. The venue also describes itself as open since 1995 and as the grande dame of Canal Street, a long standing part of the Gay Village's entertainment scene. This editorial image is useful for coverage of Manchester Pride, LGBTQ+ travel, nightlife, city breaks, inclusive tourism, cabaret venues, evening economy, urban leisure, hospitality, queer history and the cultural identity of Manchester. The visible VIA signs, colourful rainbow-style lighting and twilight street scene give the photograph strong search value for articles about Canal Street, the Gay Village, Pride weekends, LGBTQIA+ venues, night-time economy, bars and live entertainment in North West England. The picture also works for broader features on city centre regeneration, tourism marketing, weekend breaks, hospitality recovery, pub and bar culture, Manchester after dark and the importance of LGBTQ+ venues as social and cultural anchors. The mix of deep blue dusk sky, bright coloured lights, brick architecture and blurred passers-by creates a sense of movement and excitement while keeping the venue frontage as the main documentary subject. Editorial use should recognise that the venue name and visible signage may be protected branding, so the image is best suited to news, travel, culture, nightlife and documentary contexts
Via bar on Canal Street lit for nightlife in Manchester's Gay Village, a landmark LGBTQ+ venue and P
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3BR17C1 - This commercially useful editorial image shows This is Manchester, famous quote, We do things differently here red neon sign, city centre, Greater Manchester. The row metadata places the subject at Manchester, England, UK. The spreadsheet date indicates 28 June 2025, so the picture can also work as a time-specific archive record. Plainly, the image is useful because it shows We do things differently here, This is Manchester, neon, red, bars, Manchester, Mancunian, Manc, with search-relevant terms including We do things differently here, This is Manchester, neon, red, bars, Manchester, Mancunian, Manc, tourist, destination, famous, quote, M1, M2. Hospitality images often work beyond simple venue illustration, because pubs and bars speak to tourism, music, night-time economies, independent trade and changing social habits. Manchester is strongly associated with industry, music, football, railways, political culture and northern civic pride. A real city-centre detail can support stories about regeneration, identity, public services, transport and everyday urban life. Pub and bar imagery can illustrate the changing British and Irish hospitality trade, real-ale culture, night-time economies, independent businesses, tourism districts, licensing, social life and the pressure on high streets and leisure spending. The image can work as a lead picture, a supporting cutaway, a contextual inset or a visual metaphor for wider stories about place, services, consumer behaviour, heritage, transport, culture and public life. Historically and socially, this kind of image can help connect past and present: older streets, civic institutions, transport systems, shops, signs, political messages or public services are not frozen museum pieces, but part of how people understand modern life, local identity and economic change.
Manchester, England, UK
