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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Made in Birmingham,pink,neon,city,centre,sign,West Midlands,England
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F58GE7 - . 'Made in Birmingham' pink neon sign in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, using bold illuminated lettering to celebrate the city's identity, creativity and long association with manufacturing. The phrase has strong resonance in Birmingham, a city whose growth was driven by metalworking, engineering, jewellery, guns, buttons, bicycles, motorcycles, cars and thousands of specialised workshops during the Industrial Revolution. Birmingham became known as the 'City of a Thousand Trades', with production spread across the city and the surrounding Black Country, and the legacy of making remains central to its cultural and economic identity. In a contemporary setting, 'Made in Birmingham' can refer not only to traditional industry but also to design, art, music, food, technology, advanced manufacturing and independent creative businesses. Neon signage adds another layer of visual culture, combining twentieth-century commercial display techniques with a retro aesthetic that has become popular in museums, bars, galleries, exhibitions and urban interiors. The photograph is suitable for editorial coverage of Birmingham identity, manufacturing heritage, British industry, Made in Britain, local pride, neon signs, typography, city branding, creative industries, regeneration, tourism, industrial history, retail design and the West Midlands economy. It can also illustrate stories about Birmingham's transition from heavy industry to a diverse modern economy while continuing to promote its reputation for practical invention and production. The bright pink lettering provides a simple, graphic representation of place and works as a visual shorthand for features about Birmingham-made products, businesses, culture, people and the enduring importance of manufacturing to the city's national image. It is also a strong conceptual image for inward investment, industrial strategy, local enterprise and regional branding across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,EFC,Everton,FC,football,club,blue,bues,255A9804,Goodison Park,No Ball Games,sign,Everton FC,Liverpool,England,UK,humour,irony,stadium,supporters,fans,heritage,culture,Merseyside,tourism,street,urban,neighbourhood,Goodison,Road,pink,branding
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EKNYNY - Goodison Park No Ball Games sign beside Everton FC's historic stadium in Liverpool, England, UK. The humorous juxtaposition shows a small street sign reading NO BALL GAMES beneath a huge pink stadium graphic welcoming visitors to GOODISON PARK, long synonymous with top-flight football. The photograph is suitable for editorial coverage of Everton FC, Goodison Park, football culture, ironic signs, urban humour, stadium surroundings, supporter culture, Liverpool tourism, Merseyside sport and football heritage. The image works particularly well as a visual contradiction: a prohibition on ball games immediately outside one of England's most famous football grounds. The red-brick building, Goodison Road street sign and giant club-branded stadium panel provide strong geographical context and a clear sense of the close relationship between the ground and the surrounding residential neighbourhood.
Goodison Park, Goodison Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_8948,Feed me & tell me Im Pretty - pink neon,Feed,me,tell,Im,Pretty,pink,neon,culture,art,music,design,heritage,local,urban,tourism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EENK1M - . Feed me & tell me Im Pretty - pink neon, England, UK. Photographed on 6 May 2026. Looking at poster, the longer history is that popular print such as comics and manuals documents everyday reading habits rather than elite culture, making surviving issues useful evidence of humour, hobbies, advertising and consumer interests. In 2026, poster remains relevant because physical comics, manuals and vouchers now coexist with apps, e-books and online instructions
Their material form has growing relevance to collectors, design past and nostalgia. Other useful descriptive phrases include printed ephemera, graphic design, stamp, typography, print history, consumer culture, paper artefact, retro design, visual communication, collectable, design history, IMG_8948, art, music, heritage, local, urban, and tourism. The background to stamp is that printed and graphic ephemera are highly effective dating evidence
Tickets, stamps, posters, comics, manuals and vouchers combine wording, typography, colour and branding in forms that are often discarded after use. Within the history of consumer culture, graphic design turns practical information into a visual object
Typefaces, layout and printing methods can identify a period or brand, while small paper items preserve prices, slogans and events that may otherwise leave little physical trace. In relation to manual, historical context shows that popular print such as comics and manuals documents everyday reading habits rather than elite culture, making surviving issues useful evidence of humour, hobbies, advertising and consumer interests. Current 2026 context around stamp is that much ticketing, advertising and personal communication is digital, making older printed ephemera increasingly distinctive evidence of pre-digital consumer life. Its wider context brings together printed ephemera, graphic design and stamp. A further layer of meaning comes from graphic design, stamp and typography.
England, UK
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Keywords: Gotonysmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,safe,route,Westbourne,Grove,London,crowd,sign,wayfinding,festival,street,people,event,safety,pedestrians,public,transport,UK,British,Caribbean,culture,party,weekend,multicultural,2026,August bank holiday,upcoming,approaching,pink,signs,TfL,crowds,busy,60th anniversary,security,event safety planning,Notting Hill,routing
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E3P63D - . Safe Route to Carnival signs guiding crowds along Westbourne Grove, west London. Photographed on 25 August 2025. The recorded location is Westbourne Grove, Bayswater, London, England, UK. Crowds move along the street beneath temporary event wayfinding, illustrating the large-scale traffic and pedestrian-management arrangements used during the annual festival. The image can support editorial reporting on crowd safety, public transport, road closures, pedestrian routes, local business disruption, policing, stewarding and the logistics of moving hundreds of thousands of visitors through residential and commercial streets. It also provides strong location context for Notting Hill Carnival, Bayswater, Paddington and west London during a major summer cultural event. Notting Hill Carnival developed from Caribbean community celebrations in west London during the 1960s and has become one of Europe's largest street festivals. In 2026 the event marks its 60th anniversary, giving imagery of costumes, flags, stewards, route signs and crowds additional historical relevance. Seen through direction sign, the earlier context is that signs are functional pieces of graphic design that organise movement and communicate rules, names or destinations
Lettering, symbols, colours and materials can date public space as clearly as architecture, particularly when organisations rebrand or regulations change. For community festival, the historical context is that carnivals, beer festivals and civic celebrations preserve traditions while continually adapting to new audiences
Signs, temporary stages, costumes and crowd-management measures document how organisers transform ordinary streets and venues. The 2026 relevance of direction sign comes from the fact that current public-realm design increasingly expects signs to be legible, inclusive and consistent, while bilingual and accessibility information reflects wider policy around language and equal access.
Westbourne Grove, Bayswater, London, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,English,L1,Merseyside,bars,pubs,pink,light,sign,lit,dusk,neon,at,the,Blob,Yates,Yate,Aussie,White,fortified,brand,blobs,chain,branch,blobby,drinks,alcohol,venue,Clayton Square,Clayton Sq,lamp,lantern,nightlife,night-life
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T19PFG - Yates is an English pub chain. It was founded as Yates's Wine Lodge in Oldham, Lancashire by Peter and Simon Yates in 1884
Yates is Britain's oldest pub chain. Its motto was moderation is true temperance. The founders, brothers Peter and Simon Yates, were from Preston. Peter (who lived from April 22, 18541944) was sent to Spain to learn about wine. Simon went to the US to learn about business methods.
The first Yates Wine Lodge opened in Oldham in 1884
On July 23, 1994, Yates became a public company owned by the Yates Group PLC (Yates Brothers Wine Lodges PLC). The Yates Group also owned Ha! Ha! Bar & Canteen and operated pubs under the Blob Shop and Addison's name. In the late 1990s, its share price rose to reach a high of 550p in 1998.
In June 2001, the Yates Group entered takeover talks with Luminar Group. In July 2001, it withdrew from takeover talks and saying it would instead sell off 25 of its pubs, later putting 18 of them up for sale. On November 1, 2001, the Yates Group sold eight pubs to Morrells for £4 million, with four being in Grantham, Slough, Solihull and Tunbridge Wells.
In October 2003, Yates sold its Aussie White fortified brand to Halewood International for £1 million
46 Great Charlotte St, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1HU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_1841,Karens Diner,neon,sign,Birmingham,West Midlands,England,UK,restaurant,diner,retro,hospitality,seating,pink,themed,dining,interior,leisure,novelty,experiential,city-centre
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EFEG0K - . Karen's Diner neon sign and retro seating in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK. Photographed on 2 October 2023. The bright pink illuminated Karen's sign hangs above red-and-white striped booth seating and black-and-white checked tablecloths, creating a deliberately nostalgic American-diner style interior. Karen's Diner became known for its deliberately rude-service concept in which staff play exaggerated characters as part of the entertainment. Looking at public realm, the longer history is that temporary and permanent notices are valuable social-history evidence because they capture the rules and assumptions of a particular moment, from parking and access to opening times, safety and public-service instructions. The background to local services is that local businesses offer unusually precise social-history evidence because names, branding and uses change more quickly than the buildings they occupy
A shop, café, pub or service company can disappear while the façade survives, leaving photographs as a record of the previous commercial life of the street. Within the history of design history, graphic design turns practical information into a visual object
Typefaces, layout and printing methods can identify a period or brand, while small paper items preserve prices, slogans and events that may otherwise leave little physical trace. In 2026, public realm remains relevant because current public-realm design increasingly expects signs to be legible, inclusive and consistent, while bilingual and accessibility information reflects wider policy around language and equal access. Current 2026 context around local services is that independent and high-street businesses continue to face pressure from costs, online competition and changing consumer habits, while councils increasingly treat local commerce, food and leisure as part of town-centre regeneration. Other useful descriptive phrases include signage, public information, wayfinding, and direction sign.
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,blue sky,Northwest,North West,tourists,destination,attraction,pink,red,yellow,L1,L1 1LJ,come,visit,and,skyline,promoting,staycation,short,trip,trips,symbols,landmark,landmarks,of,the,city,Visit Liverpool,visiting,Williamson Square,visitors,flag,flags,VisitLiverpool,VisitLiverpool.com,British,English,region
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RJ3YPM - . Symbols of the city, Visit Liverpool banners, St Johns Beacon and cityscape, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1LJ. Photographed on 19 August 2023. The recorded location is Williamson Square, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1EL. Welcome to VisitLiverpool.com!. 2023 is a massive year for Liverpool, the Eurovision Song Contest and the 151st Open are two major highlights in the City Region calendar. Explore top attractions from the iconic Royal Liver Building and Royal Albert Dock to green spaces and coastline. Be part of world-class events all year round. Exhibitions, festivals and light trails are just some of the experiences to enjoy in Liverpool. Don't just visit for a day, extend your stay with us by choosing from a perfect mix of hotels, apartments and aparthotels. Seen through civic identity, the earlier context is that civic spaces often accumulate layers of architecture from different periods while retaining a stable role as meeting places and pedestrian routes. For travel photography, the historical context is that travel imagery becomes historical evidence when transport, signage or the visitor economy changes
A familiar destination photographed years earlier can reveal redevelopment, altered businesses and changing patterns of access. The 2026 relevance of civic identity comes from the fact that well-used squares remain important to tourism and local identity, while redesign projects often focus on accessibility, shade, planting and flexible event use. For travel photography, the 2026 context is that tourism businesses continue to balance visitor demand with staffing, transport, environmental impact and pressure on popular places
Images of gateways, attractions and town centres can illustrate both destination appeal and the infrastructure required to support it. Additional subject vocabulary includes public square, public realm, urban design, city centre, courtyard, pedestrian space, public life, and urban heritage.
Williamson Square, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1EL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Merseyside,England,UK,L1 1JD,L1,train,service,cancelled,services,to,be,prepared,for,at,Lime Street,station,two,people,and,man,woman,waits,waiting,a,franchise,carriage,platform,on,seat,seating,seated,pink,blue,dressed,leisure,travel,two together railcard,dating
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64K91 - . A couple waits for a Northern franchise train to be prepared for departure, at Liverpool Lime Street station, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1JD. Photographed on 27 May 2023, this spring 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 Lime Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1JD, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Merseyside, L1 1JD, train, service, cancelled, services, prepared, Lime Street, station, two, people, man, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. 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. It can illustrate planning, transport policy, accessibility, congestion, public investment and the changing technologies and services used to move people or goods. 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.
Lime Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1JD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,GB,Great Britain,Merseyside,2023,city,L1,Liverpool,centre,pink,souvenir,purple,song,contest,Eurovision 2023,yellow,blue,and,selfie,memento,L3,L3 1BP,Ukraine,crowd,crowds,busy,tourist,tourists,tourism,visitors,fun,Eurovision2023,lover,Dutch,TV,boycott
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R1MF25 - . Liverpool Eurovision 2023, yellow, blue (Ukraine) and pink hearts, Mann Island, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, GB, L3 1BP. Photographed on 12 May 2023, this spring 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 Mann Island, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 1BP, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Merseyside, Liverpool, pink, souvenir, purple, song, contest, Eurovision 2023, yellow, blue, selfie, memento, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. 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. For search and editorial use, the image is relevant to the named location, local identity, contemporary Britain, regional tourism, urban life, community activity and the changing appearance of towns and cities. Additional relevant search concepts include L3 1BP, Ukraine, crowd, crowds, busy, tourist, broadening discoverability while remaining tied to the supplied subject information.
Mann Island, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 1BP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,English,England,Uk,food,tin,tinned,can,shop,store,shelf,shelves,tins,of,chopped,pork,and,pink,ham,licensed,by,classic,meaty,snack,emergency,processed,cooked,ready to eat,unhealthy,porky,opened,a,key,opener,box,in,luncheon meat
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PK2B0A - Spam is a brand of salty processed canned pork made by Hormel Foods Corporation. It was introduced by Hormel in 1937 and gained popularity worldwide after its use during World War II. By 2003, Spam was sold in 41 countries (and trademarked in over 100) on six continents. In the U.S., Hawaii is the state with the highest per capita consumption of Spam, which has become an ingredient in Hawaiian cuisine (like sushi).
The generic form of Spam may be sold in cans as pork luncheon meat. Since its invention, it is now available in different flavours and using different meats. Like most hotdogs, Spam is precooked, making it safe and edible to eat straight from the can, but it is often cooked further to improve some characteristics of its palatability.
Spam's basic ingredients are primarily pork shoulder and ham, with salt, water, modified potato starch (as a binder), sugar, and sodium nitrite (as a preservative). Natural gelatin is formed during cooking in its tins on the production line. Concerns about Spam's nutritional attributes have been raised, in large part due to its high content of fat, sodium, and preservatives.
Spam has affected popular culture, including a Monty Python skit, which repeated the name many times, leading to its name being borrowed to describe unsolicited electronic messages, especially email. It is occasionally celebrated in festivals such as Austin's Spamarama.
United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,English,England,Merseyside,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions,UK,L1 7AZ,L1,pink,red,neon,light,lights,words,at,phrase,love,I knew,West Door,artwork,message,of,Independents,Biennial,Tracey Emin,glowing,interior,inside,embellishment,Giles Gilbert Scott,protestant
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PK2ARW - . Tracey Emin - I knew you loved me, neon words at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, St James' Mount, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 7AZ. Photographed on 1 April 2023, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is St James' Mount, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 7AZ, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Merseyside, tourist, tourism, attraction, attractions, L1 7AZ, pink, red, neon, light, lights, words, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The wording and graphic design are important parts of the image, preserving contemporary language, typography, branding or campaigning material that may later disappear or change. Architecturally, the scene records the form, materials, scale and public-facing character of the built environment, making it useful for coverage of design, planning, conservation, development and urban identity. The image has value for architectural and place-based research because buildings and interiors can be refurbished, repurposed, demolished or substantially altered, while streets and public spaces also evolve. The religious or ecclesiastical setting gives the photograph relevance to faith, worship, sacred architecture, stained glass, church heritage, tourism and the conservation of historic interiors and buildings. It can illustrate the continuing cultural role of churches and cathedrals as places of worship, community activity, music, remembrance and architectural interest. 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.
St James' Mount, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 7AZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,city,Germany,Rhineland-Palatinate,centre,candidates,pink,board,advert,advertising promotion,promoting,runoff,vote,voting,mayor,running,campaign,campaigning,first,OB,elections,promotion,lost,losers,defeated,runner up,runners up,failed,Social Democratic Party,female,woman,lady,Jetzt Jungenfeld,now,for
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RKGH96 - Taken on 21 Feb 2023, this photograph shows Now - Jetzt Jungenfeld Mainz city politician, SPD political candidate poster - Mombacher Strasse. 61, 55122 Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The location is Mombacher Strasse. 61, 55122 Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains visible signage, colour, materials, location clues and everyday street detail that make the image more specific than a generic stock photograph. Mainz Fastnacht is one of Germany's major carnival traditions, combining political humour, costumes, parades, pub events and local identity in the Rhineland-Palatinate capital. The Mainz election posters document everyday democratic campaigning, party branding, street advertising and local politics during the 2023 mayoral contest. It could support features on pubs, beer, leisure, nightlife, tourism, heritage streets, local economies, independent hospitality and the pressures facing town-centre venues. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include 55122 Mainz, Mainz, Mombacher Strasse. 61, Mombacher Strasse, candidate, poster, political, politician, SPD, Mareike von Jungsfeld, city, Germany, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes.
Mombacher Strasse. 61, 55122 Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,pink,red,sky,skies,Grappenhall,south,WA4,bare,WA43EL,dusk,evening,sun,setting,suns,branches,showing,branch,bough,boughs,of,tree,silhouettes,blue,horizon,shepherds warning,countryside,wood,trees,cyan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NCX1AX - . A grounded documentary photograph made at Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA43EL in 2023, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The scene records Winter rural sunset in Grappenhall village, with a leafless tree silhouette, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA43EL. Further facets of the scene include independent retail, visual archive, bricks-and-mortar retail, local enterprise, commercial frontage, public realm, everyday life, contemporary social history, historical comparison, period detail, regional identity, specialist retailer, changing land use, and local history. The wider contemporary story combines footfall, online shopping and how commercial property costs affect small retailers. Small period details of landscape treatment and surrounding development at Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA43EL may become more significant with time, particularly following new ownership. The subject also sits alongside retail property, town-centre trading, specialist shop, before-and-after reference, small business, street-level business, changing streetscape, and documentary photography. The recorded references to leafless, Winter, sunset, WA43EL, and Grappenhall preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA43EL, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. Another strand within the photograph is footfall and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy as part of the longer story of Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA43EL. The image fixes a local visual benchmark for future local research. It also preserves a point of historical comparison before later change alters the scene.
Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA43EL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,city,centre,England,UK,the,Soap,Company,co,Co,indy,pink,front,frontage,flower,flowers,Blake,street,St,YO1 8QG,YO1,10,Blake St,York,Yorkshire,soft soap,town centre,city centre,stores,retailing,niche,quaint,style,heritage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KF7FDX - . This dated editorial view of 10 Blake St ,York, Yorkshire, England, UK, YO1 8QG in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. At the centre of the view is The Yorkshire Soap Company, 10 Blake St ,York, Yorkshire, England, UK, YO1 8QG. The subject also carries associations with customer footfall, period detail, high-street commerce, shopfront economy, documentary photography, commercial frontage, local character, changing streetscape, regional identity, local enterprise, contemporary social history, independent retail, town-centre trading, and small business. The wider contemporary story combines footfall, town-centre regeneration and how commercial property costs affect small retailers. The archival value lies partly in recording period objects and surrounding context around 10 Blake St ,York, Yorkshire, England, UK, YO1 8QG before different community use alters the character of the place. The wider setting retains connections with specialist retailer, specialist shop, public realm, local history, street-level business, place identity, visual archive, and changing land use. Details involving Yorkshire, Blake, and Company make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at 10 Blake St ,York, Yorkshire, England, UK, YO1 8QG helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The wider significance includes footfall and how commercial property costs affect small retailers without losing the local specificity of 10 Blake St ,York, Yorkshire, England, UK, YO1 8QG. Another strand within the photograph is consumer spending and how commercial property costs affect small retailers in a form that can be compared with future views of 10 Blake St ,York, Yorkshire, England, UK, YO1 8QG.
10 Blake St ,York, Yorkshire, England, UK, YO1 8QG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Gloucestershire,England,UK,GL51,Gloucester Rd,GL51 8PL,pink,beer,brewer,brewery,taprooms,Unit 27,entrance,DEYA Brewing,Company,independent,hoppy,beers,lagers,hops,mixed,fermentation,craftpeak,teeth,croc,smile,crocs,crocodiles,DEYA Brewing Company,DEYA Brewing Co,Deya brewery,painted,design
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M6W9E5 - . An on-location photograph from Lansdown Industrial Estate, Gloucester Rd, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL51 8PL in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The scene records Deya craft ale brewing, taproom,Unit 27, Lansdown Industrial Estate, Gloucester Rd, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL51 8PL. The image also relates to changing streetscape, food-and-drink business, contemporary social history, local character, historical comparison, archival record, local history, social history, licensed hospitality, hospitality economy, public realm, night-time economy, pub interior heritage, and local social venue. For current editorial use, hospitality costs and consumer spending provide additional context, especially through the survival of local pubs as social meeting places. The image fixes landscape treatment and surrounding development within Lansdown Industrial Estate, Gloucester Rd, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL51 8PL at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against new construction. The subject also sits alongside visual archive, community identity, everyday life, before-and-after reference, place identity, period detail, changing land use, and documentary photography. References to Cheltenham, Lansdown, Estate, craft, and Gloucester give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The period setting at Lansdown Industrial Estate, Gloucester Rd, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL51 8PL helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Another useful connection is hospitality costs and how food, drink and heritage combine in destination pubs when considered against later change at Lansdown Industrial Estate, Gloucester Rd, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL51 8PL.
Lansdown Industrial Estate, Gloucester Rd, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL51 8PL
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Keywords: city,centre,Greater,England,UK,Northern Quarter,M1 1JF,Good advice,Fred Aldous,M1 postcode,NQ4,Fred Aldous Ltd,yellow,pink,bright,slogan,art,shop,handicrafts,Stevenson Square,Stevenson Sq,work,working,workers,union,action,strike,strikes,be,busy,lazy,working hard,hard work,days,off,pays,inspirational slogan,work ethic,creativity,maker culture
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD2N6 - Bold Hard Work Pays Off artwork in Stevenson Square in Manchester's Northern Quarter, stock-photo/gotonysmith-England.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>England. The installation is credited on the upper panel as Fred Aldous x Tara Collette and uses a vivid yellow ground with large hand-painted pink lettering, turning a simple motivational phrase into bright public-facing street art. Fred Aldous is a long-established Manchester art and craft supplies business based nearby at 37 Lever Street, while Tara Collette is a Manchester-based banner maker and artist whose work includes custom signs and eye-catching shop-window display pieces. The image has strong value for editorial use around Manchester's creative economy, independent retail, local artists, public art, typography, murals, creative placemaking and the distinctive visual culture of the Northern Quarter. Stevenson Square has long been associated with street art, independent bars, shops, cafes and the city's alternative design scene, and this piece fits into that wider pattern of colourful urban intervention in a dense city-centre setting. The vertical composition emphasises the scale of the lettering and the block-like structure, with upper floors, street activity and surrounding buildings visible around the edges. It can illustrate stories about positive messaging in public space, artist and retailer collaborations, art-led high street identity, Manchester design culture, city-centre regeneration and the role of independent businesses in shaping neighbourhood character. The wording also makes the image suitable for features about work ethic, ambition, creativity, small business, entrepreneurship, student life and maker culture. For picture buyers, the readable slogan, bright colour palette, named collaboration and clear Manchester location make it a flexible stock image for editorial, cultural, lifestyle, education, business and urban arts usage.
Stephenson Square, Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, UK, M1 1JF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Blackpool,Lancs,Lancashire,FY1 5AA,building,Las Vegas,architecture,Prom,slots,machines,horses,drawn,horse,carriage,pink,pink carriage on The Promenade,on,the,carriages,transport,arcade,arcades,gateway to,gamble,gambling,FOBTs,Fixed Odds,betting,terminal,terminals,one armed,bandits,penny falls,pennyfalls,games,gaming,electronic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRJ9TY - . An on-location photograph from The Golden Mile, The Promenade, Blackpool , Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 4BJ in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The main point of reference is Golden Mile , Amusements , Family Entertainment, slots, machines, horse drawn carriages, on The Promenade , Blackpool, Lancashire, England,UK, FY1 5AA. The locality and subject together evoke period architecture, bus route infrastructure, local bus network, heritage-led regeneration, public transport stop, urban regeneration, archival record, public realm, period detail, commercial redevelopment, visual archive, built heritage, documentary photography, and social history. For current editorial use, heritage conservation and town-centre regeneration provide additional context, especially through the value of reusing existing buildings rather than wholesale demolition. Current relevance extends to decarbonisation and bus funding, particularly through the challenge of maintaining reliable services outside dense urban centres. The image fixes local activity and public use within The Golden Mile, The Promenade, Blackpool , Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 4BJ at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against redevelopment. The wider setting retains connections with contemporary social history, roadside transit, adaptive reuse, regional identity, mixed-use redevelopment, town-centre renewal, local character, and everyday life. Details involving Entertainment, carriages, slots, Blackpool, and machines make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within The Golden Mile, The Promenade, Blackpool , Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 4BJ, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history.
The Golden Mile, The Promenade, Blackpool , Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 4BJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,sweet,sweets,desert,deserts,treat,treats,GL5,Gloucestershire,England,UK,GL5 2HL,name,named,centre,fun,funny,humour,humor,British,names,sign,signs,signage,closed,waffle,Belgian waffle,Belgian waffles,pink,blue,shop,cafe,takeaway,shops,retail,cafes,store
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5TJ - . Photographed at 3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL 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 photograph centres on Stroud Waffles shop, 3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL. The image also relates to town-centre economy, documentary photography, historical comparison, social history, changing streetscape, shopfront economy, local character, period detail, visual archive, retail property, archival record, contemporary social history, bricks-and-mortar retail, and local history. For current editorial use, commercial rents and business rates provide additional context, especially through the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy. Future viewers can use this scene from 3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL to compare street furniture and boundaries with whatever follows after closure or conversion. The subject also sits alongside small business, local trading, public realm, street-level business, local enterprise, regional identity, changing land use, and commercial frontage. References to Stroud, Waffles, Gloucestershire, and Nelson give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around 3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The setting also helps illustrate commercial rents and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding without losing the local specificity of 3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL. The record includes a local visual benchmark as part of 3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL's history. The frame retains a point of historical comparison for future local research.
3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,sweet,sweets,desert,deserts,treat,treats,GL5,Gloucestershire,England,UK,GL5 2HL,name,named,centre,fun,funny,humour,humor,British,names,sign,signs,signage,closed,waffle,Belgian waffle,Belgian waffles,pink,blue,shop,cafe,takeaway,shops,retail,cafes,store
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JMD5TN - . An on-location photograph from 3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL 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 Stroud Waffles shop, 3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL. Further facets of the scene include archival record, commercial streetscape, before-and-after reference, public realm, independent retail, regional identity, historical comparison, local character, specialist retailer, changing streetscape, commercial frontage, documentary photography, everyday life, and place identity. For current editorial use, business rates and independent business provide additional context, especially through the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy. For later comparison, the photograph preserves local activity and public use at 3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL, details that may look very different after changed technology. The location also brings in town-centre economy, bricks-and-mortar retail, retail property, changing land use, local trading, high-street commerce, contemporary social history, and local enterprise. The combination of Stroud, Gloucestershire, Waffles, and Nelson anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. A later view of 3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL 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 business rates and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding when considered against later change at 3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL. The record includes details of everyday use as a date-specific reference. The frame retains evidence of changing use for later comparison.
3 Nelson St, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL5 2HL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,note,apology,apologise,everyone,say,forgive,me,sorry,confession,I am,sorrow,communicate,apologising,postit,post,it,sticky,label,notes,pink,colour,square,to,all,workmates,colleagues,friends,room,mates,roommates,personal,remorse,admission of fault,expressing regret,office communication
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJGB51 - Bright pink sticky note carries the handwritten words Sorry Everyone! in thick black marker, creating a direct visual statement of apology, regret and collective accountability. The informal handwriting, emphatic exclamation mark and vivid colour give the message an immediate, personal quality, as though it has been left quickly after a mistake, misunderstanding or embarrassing incident. Placed on a mottled stone or granite surface, the simple square note becomes the clear focal point of the image.
The wording is deliberately broad and can represent an individual apologising to colleagues, friends, customers, family members, an online audience or the wider public. It may illustrate taking responsibility after an error, acknowledging that other people have been affected, attempting to repair damaged trust or beginning a difficult conversation. The image also works as a metaphor for public relations problems, workplace conflict, customer service failures, social media controversy, leadership mistakes and the need for organisations or individuals to make amends.
Unlike a carefully prepared corporate statement, the handwritten note feels spontaneous and human. Its brevity leaves the cause of the apology unstated, making the photograph adaptable to editorial stories and conceptual features about accountability, remorse, forgiveness, reputation management, emotional intelligence and conflict resolution. The message may be sincere, awkward, humorous or ironic depending on the surrounding context.
The close-up composition, everyday stationery and authentic marker writing provide strong visual simplicity with space around the note for editorial use. The bright pink paper contrasts sharply with the neutral patterned background, helping the apology stand out. No people, exterior setting, season or sky are visible, keeping attention entirely on the message and its emotional meaning.
England, Great Britain , UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,Soho,London,SOHO,doorway,30,pink,Andrew,worked here,disco,painted,spray,paint,1993,1997,2020,Andrew James Weatherall,Primal Scream,album,Screamadelica,producer,1993-97,famous,economy,site,sites,run,entertainments,reason,to,visit,liberal,liberated,area
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJGAXP - Andrew James Weatherall (6 April 1963 17 February 2020) was an English musician, DJ, songwriter, producer and remixer. His career took him from being one of the key DJs in the acid house movement of the late 1980s to being a remixer of tracks by the likes of Happy Mondays, New Order, Björk, the Orb, the Future Sound of London and My Bloody Valentine.
His production work on Primal Scream's album Screamadelica, adding samples, loops and creating an influential mix of hard rock, house and rave, helped the record win the first ever Mercury Music Prize in 1992 and become one of the most celebrated albums of the 1990s
SOHO, London, England, UK
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Bridgwater,Somerset,SDC,Sedgemoor,Sedgemoor District Council,South West England,England,UK,South West,town,TA6,dusk,night,night time,Prezzo,neon,illuminated,Restaurant,pink neon,pink,eating out,dining out,chain restaurant,Cornhill,Italian chain restaurant,Italian,Italian food,in Bridgwater,evenings,old,building,Victorian,restaurant,restaurants
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKCA - . This location-based editorial photograph from the recorded location in 2019 preserves a recognisable subject together with clues about how the place was used and presented at the time. The view centres on Pasta Pizza Vino, Prezzo Bridgwater, in old market place,Cornhill, at dusk,Somerset, South West England, UK. The photograph also reflects shopfront economy, local trading, historical comparison, public realm, comfort food, customer footfall, festive eating, urban commerce, documentary photography, changing land use, social history, community identity, culinary tradition, and before-and-after reference. Today's wider story includes hospitality costs, cultural identity and the practical question of the role of ceremonial food in annual celebrations. For contemporary context, vacant units and hybrid working are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names. Looking back from the mid-2020s, the photograph anchors small features of identity that written records may overlook around the recorded location. The subject sits alongside high-street commerce, consumer retail, period detail, commercial frontage, changing streetscape, bricks-and-mortar retail, retail vacancy, and regional identity. The combination of Somerset, Cornhill, place, Pasta, and Bridgwater anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. A later view of the recorded location may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes hospitality costs and the role of ceremonial food in annual celebrations within the specific setting of the recorded location. Another strand within the photograph is commercial rents and the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres as part of the longer story of the recorded location.
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,England,UK,South West,town,Lymm,Spring,scene,in,the,Cross,village,Bridgewater Canal,Warrington,Cheshire,WA13 0HR,WA13,sunny,blue sky,history,historic,tourist,tourism,attraction,centre,sandstone,blossom,cherry,flower,flowering,pink,purple,Grade I listed,building,We are a Shadow,Save Time,Think of the Last
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMK7G - Lymm Cross is in the village of Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
The cross dates from the early to mid-17th century and was restored in 1897. It is constructed of sandstone and stands on an artificially stepped natural outcrop of red sandstone. Its shaft stands in a square pavilion of red sandstone with square corner pillars. It has a stone roof with a pedimented gable to each face and ball finials. Above the cross is an extension which carries a stone ball and an ornate weather vane. On the east, south and west gables are bronze sundials of 1897 carrying the inscriptions We are a Shadow, Save Time and Think of the Last.
The adjacent stocks are separately Grade II listed
The Cross, Lymm, Bridgewater Canal, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA13 0HR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warrington,WBC,Cheshire,North West England,UK,tree,shrub,white,pink,flower,flowers,branch,branches,sunny,sunny day,Hatton,Norcott Brook,blue sky,Springtime,cherryblossom,artistic,closeup,natural,nature,outdoor,outside,garden,park,Cherry tree in full blossom,Cherry tree,full blossom,healthy,genus Prunus,flowering cherries,flowering cherry,springtime
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy T3RF5B - A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).
The cherry fruits of commerce usually are obtained from cultivars of a limited number of species such as the sweet cherry (Prunus avium) and the sour cherry (Prunus cerasus). The name 'cherry' also refers to the cherry tree and its wood, and is sometimes applied to almonds and visually similar flowering trees in the genus Prunus, as in ornamental cherry or cherry blossom. Wild cherry may refer to any of the cherry species growing outside cultivation, although Prunus avium is often referred to specifically by the name wild cherry in the British Isles.
The English word cherry derives from Old Northern French or Norman cherise from the Latin cerasum, referring to an ancient Greek region, Kerasous (Κερασοῦς) near Giresun, Turkey, from which cherries were first thought to be exported to Europe. The indigenous range of the sweet cherry extends through most of Europe, western Asia, and parts of northern Africa, and the fruit has been consumed throughout its range since prehistoric times. A cultivated cherry is recorded as having been brought to Rome by Lucius Licinius Lucullus from northeastern Anatolia, also known as the Pontus region, in 72 BC.
Cherries were introduced into England at Teynham, near Sittingbourne in Kent, by order of Henry VIII, who had tasted them in Flanders.
Norcott Brook, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warrington,WBC,Cheshire,North West England,UK,tree,shrub,white,pink,flower,flowers,branch,branches,sunny,sunny day,Hatton,Norcott Brook,blue sky,Springtime,cherryblossom,artistic,closeup,natural,nature,outdoor,outside,garden,park,Cherry tree in full blossom,Cherry tree,full blossom,healthy,genus Prunus,flowering cherries,flowering cherry,springtime
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy T3RF5G - A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).
The cherry fruits of commerce usually are obtained from cultivars of a limited number of species such as the sweet cherry (Prunus avium) and the sour cherry (Prunus cerasus). The name 'cherry' also refers to the cherry tree and its wood, and is sometimes applied to almonds and visually similar flowering trees in the genus Prunus, as in ornamental cherry or cherry blossom. Wild cherry may refer to any of the cherry species growing outside cultivation, although Prunus avium is often referred to specifically by the name wild cherry in the British Isles.
The English word cherry derives from Old Northern French or Norman cherise from the Latin cerasum, referring to an ancient Greek region, Kerasous (Κερασοῦς) near Giresun, Turkey, from which cherries were first thought to be exported to Europe. The indigenous range of the sweet cherry extends through most of Europe, western Asia, and parts of northern Africa, and the fruit has been consumed throughout its range since prehistoric times. A cultivated cherry is recorded as having been brought to Rome by Lucius Licinius Lucullus from northeastern Anatolia, also known as the Pontus region, in 72 BC.
Cherries were introduced into England at Teynham, near Sittingbourne in Kent, by order of Henry VIII, who had tasted them in Flanders.
Norcott Brook, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warrington,WBC,Cheshire,North West England,UK,tree,shrub,white,pink,flower,flowers,branch,branches,sunny,sunny day,Hatton,Norcott Brook,blue sky,Springtime,cherryblossom,artistic,closeup,natural,nature,outdoor,outside,garden,park,Cherry tree in full blossom,Cherry tree,full blossom,healthy,genus Prunus,flowering cherries,flowering cherry,springtime
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy T3RF5K - A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).
The cherry fruits of commerce usually are obtained from cultivars of a limited number of species such as the sweet cherry (Prunus avium) and the sour cherry (Prunus cerasus). The name 'cherry' also refers to the cherry tree and its wood, and is sometimes applied to almonds and visually similar flowering trees in the genus Prunus, as in ornamental cherry or cherry blossom. Wild cherry may refer to any of the cherry species growing outside cultivation, although Prunus avium is often referred to specifically by the name wild cherry in the British Isles.
The English word cherry derives from Old Northern French or Norman cherise from the Latin cerasum, referring to an ancient Greek region, Kerasous (Κερασοῦς) near Giresun, Turkey, from which cherries were first thought to be exported to Europe. The indigenous range of the sweet cherry extends through most of Europe, western Asia, and parts of northern Africa, and the fruit has been consumed throughout its range since prehistoric times. A cultivated cherry is recorded as having been brought to Rome by Lucius Licinius Lucullus from northeastern Anatolia, also known as the Pontus region, in 72 BC.
Cherries were introduced into England at Teynham, near Sittingbourne in Kent, by order of Henry VIII, who had tasted them in Flanders.
Norcott Brook, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,England,UK,snow,cold weather,winter,weather,Christmas,card,scene,cold,colder,tourist,tourism,travel,Oxfordshire,market,town,centre,in winter,Roman,stone,buildings,architecture,Cotswold Architecture,Cotswolds,Cotswold,South West England,market place,market pl,white,pink,teal,grade II,listed,building
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RMJ3AC - Cirencester, occasionally /ˈsɪstər/ (About this soundlisten)
see below for more variations) is a market town in east Gloucestershire, England, 80 miles (130 km) west northwest of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in the Cotswold District. It is the home of the Royal Agricultural University, the oldest agricultural college in the English-speaking world, founded in 1840. The town's Corinium Museum is well known for its extensive Roman collection. The Roman name for the town was Corinium, which is thought to have been associated with the ancient British tribe of the Dobunni, having the same root word as the River Churn. The earliest known reference to the town was by Ptolemy in AD 150.
The Church of St. John Baptist, Cirencester is renowned for its Perpendicular Gothic porch, fan vaults and merchants' tombs.
The town also has a Roman Catholic Church of St Peter's
the foundation stone was laid on 20 June 1895. Coxwell Street to the north of Market Square is home to the Baptist Church that was founded in 1651 making it one of the oldest Baptist churches in England. Its current building was started in 1856.
To the west of the town is Cirencester House, the seat of Earl Bathurst and the site of one of the finest landscape gardens in England, laid out by the first Earl Bathurst after 1714.
Abbey House, Cirencester was a country house built on the site of the former Cirencester Abbey following its dissolution and demolition at the English Reformation in the 1530s. The site was granted in 1564 to Richard Master, physician to Queen Elizabeth I. The house was rebuilt and altered at several dates by the Master family, who still own the agricultural estate. By 1897 the house was let, and it remained in the occupation of tenants until shortly after the Second World War. It was finally demolished in 1964.
On Cotswold Avenue is the site of a Roman amphitheatre.
Market Pl, Cirencester, England, UK, GL7 2NX
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Canal St,Gay Village,gay,village,Sackville,LGBT,LGBTQ,heart,pink,pink heart,square,remember,loved one,lost ones,The Beacon of Hope,Beacon of hope,Warren Chapman,Jess Byrne-Daniels,Jess Byrne Daniels,The Tree of Life,Tree of Life,World AIDS Day,podium,seating,Beacon of hope podium,mosaic tiles,HIV community,time capsule,candle lit vigils,Liberal views
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF5EF - The Beacon of Hope can be found in Sackville Gardens, a five minute walk from Piccadilly Station and Piccadilly Gardens, in the heart of Manchester's city centre. The park is bounded by Manchester's Gay Village, universities, and residential areas.
The Beacon is sited in a prominent position overlooking the cafe bar society of the world famous Canal Street, and is regularly used by people as a place to chat, have a drink, or remember loved ones.
Sackville Gardens is one of the few green spaces left in the centre of the City and is a peaceful oasis in Manchester's hustle and bustle. As well as the Beacon of Hope memorial, the gardens is also the site of the Tree of Life, the Alan Turing memorial and the National Transgender Remembrance Memorial.
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Canal St,Gay Village,gay,village,Sackville,LGBT,LGBTQ,heart,pink,pink heart,square,remember,loved one,lost ones,The Beacon of Hope,Beacon of hope,Warren Chapman,Jess Byrne-Daniels,Jess Byrne Daniels,The Tree of Life,Tree of Life,World AIDS Day,podium,seating,Beacon of hope podium,mosaic tiles,HIV community,time capsule,candle lit vigils
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF5EG - The Beacon of Hope can be found in Sackville Gardens, a five minute walk from Piccadilly Station and Piccadilly Gardens, in the heart of Manchester's city centre. The park is bounded by Manchester's Gay Village, universities, and residential areas.
The Beacon is sited in a prominent position overlooking the cafe bar society of the world famous Canal Street, and is regularly used by people as a place to chat, have a drink, or remember loved ones.
Sackville Gardens is one of the few green spaces left in the centre of the City and is a peaceful oasis in Manchester's hustle and bustle. As well as the Beacon of Hope memorial, the gardens is also the site of the Tree of Life, the Alan Turing memorial and the National Transgender Remembrance Memorial.
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Keywords: Manchester,City centre,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Canal St,Gay Village,gay,village,Sackville,LGBT,LGBTQ,heart,pink,pink heart,square,remember,loved one,lost ones,The Beacon of Hope,Beacon of hope,Warren Chapman,Jess Byrne-Daniels,Jess Byrne Daniels,The Tree of Life,Tree of Life,World AIDS Day,podium,seating,Beacon of hope podium,mosaic tiles,HIV community,time capsule,candle lit vigils
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF5G0 - The Beacon of Hope can be found in Sackville Gardens, a five minute walk from Piccadilly Station and Piccadilly Gardens, in the heart of Manchester's city centre. The park is bounded by Manchester's Gay Village, universities, and residential areas.
The Beacon is sited in a prominent position overlooking the cafe bar society of the world famous Canal Street, and is regularly used by people as a place to chat, have a drink, or remember loved ones.
Sackville Gardens is one of the few green spaces left in the centre of the City and is a peaceful oasis in Manchester's hustle and bustle. As well as the Beacon of Hope memorial, the gardens is also the site of the Tree of Life, the Alan Turing memorial and the National Transgender Remembrance Memorial.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,capital,city,centre,Scotland,UK,EDN,in,the,evening,on,EH1,Lothian,EH1 2HG,Shops,stores,pretty,beautiful,at,40,blue,red,pink,Grainstore,Grain Store,Walker Slater,clothes,clothing,shopping,shoppers,tourist,tourism,tourists,world heritage,site,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XN3Y - . An on-location photograph from Victoria Street , Old Town, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, UK, EH1 2HG in 2018, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The principal subject is Shops at dusk, on Victoria Street , Old Town, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, UK, EH1 2HG - world heritage site. The subject also carries associations with before-and-after reference, fashion merchandising, occasionwear, archival record, period detail, bridal fashion, public realm, local history, marriage culture, everyday life, bridal gown, social history, place identity, and changing land use. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with sustainability, small business and the role of shop windows in aspirational fashion retail. The archival value lies partly in recording lettering, decoration and surface detail around Victoria Street , Old Town, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, UK, EH1 2HG before conservation work alters the character of the place. The location also brings in white wedding tradition, formalwear display, historical comparison, documentary photography, bridal boutique, wedding retail, ceremonial clothing, and local character. Details involving Lothian, world, Edinburgh, Victoria, and heritage make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within Victoria Street , Old Town, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, UK, EH1 2HG, 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 sustainability and the role of shop windows in aspirational fashion retail within the real-world context of Victoria Street , Old Town, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, UK, EH1 2HG. It also preserves a point of historical comparison as a date-specific reference.
Victoria Street , Old Town, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, UK, EH1 2HG
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Keywords: HousingITguy,Project365,2nd 365,HotpixUK365,Tone Smith,GoTonySmith,365,2365,one a day,Tony Smith,Hotpix,Rhubarb,Ginger,Gin,Liquor,drink,pink,BW,black white,Edinburgh,Company,Edinburgh Gin Company
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4682347412 - 'Well with all this gin-mania, its perhaps rude to not have a go.
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,England,UK,Neon,lights,night,sign,advert,advertising,bright,lighting,SoHo,South East England,City Centre,City,tourist,tourism,travel,neon sign,neon signs,evening,night time,star,music,Agent Provocateur shop,6 Broadwick St,W1F 8HL,shop,retail,Broadwick St,W1F,Provocateur,pink,neon,chain,boutiques
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RMJ3BM - . Agent Provocateur shop pink neon sign, 6 Broadwick St, Soho, London , England, UK, W1F 8HL. Photographed on 29 November 2018. The recorded location is 6 Broadwick St, Soho, London, England, UK, W1F 8HL. International chain of boutiques with special-occasion lingerie, sleepwear, swimwear & accessories. From a heritage perspective, graphic design turns practical information into a visual object
Typefaces, colour, layout and printing methods can identify a period or brand, while small items such as tickets and cards preserve events, prices and messages that may exist nowhere else in physical form. Looking at the subject's development, public wording is part of the visual landscape
Direction signs, warning notices, painted advertisements and engraved plaques show how authorities and businesses communicated before digital screens and app-based information became widespread. As background, landscape images record more than scenery: buildings, vegetation, weather, transport and land use combine to show how a place appeared at a particular moment
Repeated views can later become valuable evidence of development, environmental change and shifting patterns of use. As of 2026, digital-first communication means many everyday printed objects are disappearing
Older tickets, labels, cards and signs therefore provide useful material for stories about changing design, retail and consumer behaviour. For the 2026 context, much public information has moved onto smartphones and digital displays, making older fixed signs and printed notices increasingly useful as evidence of how people once navigated places, bought services and followed rules. Against the 2026 backdrop, much ticketing, advertising and personal communication is digital, making older printed ephemera increasingly distinctive as evidence of pre-digital communication
Physical cards, labels and tickets also provide a contrast with QR codes, apps and paperless transactions.
6 Broadwick St, Soho, London, England, UK, W1F 8HL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Germany,German,Mainz,Rhine,City Centre,Deutschland,city,ancient Mogontiacum,ancient,Mogontiacum,mogontiacum,ministry,of the,interior,local government,administration,government,local,Palatinate,region,building,sport,und für Sport,pink,white,exterior,Roger Lewentz,Bassenheimer Hof,state government,state,State of Rhineland-Palatinate,Sport and Infrastructure,Infrastructure,SPD,Authority
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RGGE6K - The Ministry of the Interior and Sports Rhineland-Palatinate is a supreme Land authority based in the Bassenheimer Hof in the state capital Mainz . It is next to the State Chancellery of one of the nine ministries of the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate . Since May 18, 2011 Roger Lewentz (SPD) Minister of Interior and Sport of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. State Secretaries are Günter Kern and Randolf Stich (both SPD).
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,St Marks Place,St Marks Place NYC,New York St Marks Place,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,New York Travel Tourism,open Today,East Village,New York,NYC,Psychic,tea room,Psychology,exploring the mind,EastVillage,manhattan,NY,pink,A-Board,advert,advertising,cheap,$10,ten dollar,special,fortune telling,fortune teller,mystic,supernatural
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF067 - . An editorial view sets out the physical context of the recorded location, in a time-specific record from 2018. Within that setting the photograph concentrates on open Today, Psychic tea room, Psychology, exploring the mind, East Village, manhattan, New York, NYC, NY, USA. The location also connects place and memory, documentary photography, local character, community environment, everyday Britain, social context, contemporary social history, everyday infrastructure, documentary record, place-based history, changing Britain, and public realm. Current debate around social history often combines redevelopment, business turnover and the practical challenge of before-and-after study. 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 open Today. The resulting scene connects with social landscape, urban and rural change, regional identity, local identity, community life, visual record. Associated details include NOHO NYC, New York City, Eastvillage. Other relevant facets include cultural landscape, and modern history. The wider contemporary story of regional identity now includes changing use alongside redevelopment, while policy and investment increasingly consider a clearer record of local change. As the location changes, the frame remains a reference for ownership or occupation, neighbourhood identity, architecture and streetscape, transport patterns, and public access as part of the area's longer social history. In historical comparison, the image can help trace patterns of everyday use, local business activity, the condition of buildings, public-realm details, and regional identity without relying on a generic or reconstructed view. The frame further records period appearance for visual before-and-after study.
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,NY,NYC,New York,New York City,City,Centre,City Centre,street,USA,United states of America,United States,East Village,St Marks Place,art,Manhattan,pink,socks,99,St Marks Pl,shop,store,shops,stores,Sockman,sock,basement,the,village,door,doorway,entrance,entrances,tights,stockings
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBJ9P1 - . A place-specific photograph captures the setting around 99 St Marks Pl, New York, NYC, USA, in a time-specific record from 2018. The documentary focus is The pink sockman shop, quirky retail, 99 St Marks Pl, New York, NYC, USA. The location also connects chain-store economy, shopping district, independent retail, commercial frontage, commercial streetscape, town-centre trading, local trading, city-centre economy, customer footfall, storefront culture, retail property, and high-street commerce. The wider contemporary story of independent trading now includes shifts in leisure spending alongside hybrid working, while policy and investment increasingly consider stronger local footfall. Because this is a time-specific record of 99 St Marks Pl, New York, NYC, USA, 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 view also records themes involving shopfront economy, retail decline and renewal, consumer spending, bricks-and-mortar retail, retail vacancy, consumer retail. Other local associations include The Sockman, store, sock shop, Saint Marks Place. The location further reflects shopping habits, and urban commerce. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, retail streets also connects with changing footfall, hybrid working and efforts aimed at mixed-use town centres. As the location changes, the frame remains a reference for changes of use, period design, local character, the appearance of the built environment, and public activity as part of the area's longer social history. In historical comparison, the image can help trace local continuity, commercial identity, physical infrastructure, community life, and signage and branding without relying on a generic or reconstructed view. The view additionally fixes evidence of changing place in 99 St Marks Pl, New York, NYC, USA as evidence of its time.
99 St Marks Pl, New York, NYC, USA
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,NY,NYC,New York,New York City,City,Centre,City Centre,street,USA,United states of America,United States,East Village,St Marks Place,art,Manhattan,pink,socks,99,St Marks Pl,shop,store,shops,stores,Sockman,sock,basement,the,village,door,doorway,entrance,entrances,tights,stockings
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBJ9P2 - . A local-history photograph depicts a moment within 99 St Marks Pl, New York, NYC, USA, in a view made during 2018. The scene is specifically associated with The pink sockman shop, quirky retail, 99 St Marks Pl, New York, NYC, USA. Other aspects of the setting include retail decline and renewal, shopping habits, city-centre economy, bricks-and-mortar retail, consumer spending, town-centre trading, retail property, independent retail, commercial frontage, retail vacancy, storefront culture, and shopping district. Modern coverage of high-street retail frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of changing footfall, shifts in leisure spending and mixed-use town centres. Over time, this view of 99 St Marks Pl, New York, NYC, USA 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 scene also relates to high-street commerce, urban commerce, chain-store economy, consumer retail, customer footfall, shopfront economy. Other local associations include The Sockman, store, sock shop, Saint Marks Place. The same setting also brings together commercial streetscape, and local trading. For present-day editorial use, consumer spending can also illustrate debates about operating costs and vacant premises, particularly where these affect adaptable commercial space. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of period design, changes of use, local character, public activity, and the appearance of the built environment as an authentic period reference. The combination preserved here provides evidence of local continuity, physical infrastructure, community life, signage and branding, and commercial identity at this precise location. The resulting record of 99 St Marks Pl, New York, NYC, USA is specific enough to support future before-and-after study of the same site.
99 St Marks Pl, New York, NYC, USA
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,NY,NYC,New York,City,Centre,City Centre,street,USA,United states of America,United States,Manhattan,Always Me,light,lit,sign,store,shop,window,clothes,clothing,female,womens,pink,fashion,collection,Coach Shop,retail,Selena Gomez Collection,perfect,line,lines,New Coach x Selena Gomez Collection,Coach Selena Gomez,powerful,personal,motto
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBJ9WJ - . This location-led image records the working environment around the recorded location, in a documentary image made in 2018. The described feature is Not Perfect Always Me sign, Selena Gomez collection, In A Coach Store, New York City, NY, USA. The location also connects road connectivity, local transport, customer footfall, bricks-and-mortar retail, town-centre trading, shopping district, motorway travel, consumer spending, retail property, consumer retail, junction design, and highway infrastructure. The wider contemporary story of commercial property now includes operating costs alongside shifts in leisure spending, while policy and investment increasingly consider heritage-led regeneration. Current debate around the public realm often combines business turnover, new technology and the practical challenge of before-and-after study. 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 Not Perfect Always Me sign. The scene also relates to traffic management, commercial frontage, urban mobility, urban commerce, high-street commerce, vehicle access. A more expansive reading adds storefront culture, shopping habits, shopfront economy, retail vacancy, road engineering, retail decline and renewal, commercial streetscape, chain-store economy, city-centre economy, and surface transport. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, commercial property also connects with vacant premises, operating costs and efforts aimed at mixed-use town centres. The combination preserved here provides evidence of social change, movement through the area, planning and redevelopment, historic fabric, and everyday services as an authentic period reference. The view of Not Perfect Always Me sign also preserves another layer of local identity and period change.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Office visitor,council,reception,pass,Office,fingers,holding badge,entrance,licensed to kill,licensed to work,TDBC,Taunton Deane Borough Council,Taunton Deane,Borough Council,sign in,sign,in,desk,procedure,permit,permits,entry,secure,security,secure entry,Somerset,Taunton,South West,pink,signing,book,signing in bok,protocol,entering an office,office,work
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P9FFM7 - . A grounded editorial photograph shows the physical context of the recorded location, in a scene preserved from 2018. The scene also brings together government policy, policy change, social policy, public-sector policy, public policy, national policy, local authority, government decision-making, public administration, local democracy, policy implementation, and democratic accountability. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, community debate also connects with local authority finance, housing and efforts aimed at visible local consequences of policy. 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 Office visitor badge 007. Beyond the immediate subject, the setting involves political discourse, civic administration, political controversy, civic life, public services, public interest. The scene is further associated with I am James Bond, James Bond, sign-in, signin, visitor permits. Modern coverage of public services frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of migration, climate policy and new regulatory requirements. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of everyday services, social change, historic fabric, movement through the area, and planning and redevelopment at this precise location. The combination preserved here provides evidence of neighbourhood identity, transport patterns, ownership or occupation, public access, and architecture and streetscape within the surrounding area. That gives this view of the recorded location continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison, specifically in relation to Office visitor badge 007. The view of Office visitor badge 007 also preserves another layer of local identity and period change.
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Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Glasgow,UK,G1,pink,building,Glaswegian,People Make Glasgow in pink,Strathclyde University,in pink,Glasgow City,Brand,City of Glasgow College building,Met Tower,City of Glasgow,College building,Met,Tower,City of Glasgow College,cityscape,skyline,concrete,buildings,architecture,people,make,slogan,brand,name,brand name,strapline,logo,city,urban,centre,landmark,scottish,strathclyde,university
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P72D36 - Vivid pink facade of Glasgow's Met Tower carries the enormous People Make Glasgow slogan above the city centre. Photographed beneath a clear blue sky, the grid of dark window panels and magenta cladding creates one of the most recognisable contemporary views on the Glasgow skyline. Rooftop telecommunications equipment, concrete service structures and weathered upper elevations reveal the practical postwar character of the high-rise building.
Standing at 60 North Hanover Street, close to George Square and the University of Strathclyde campus, the tower was completed in 1964 for the former Glasgow College of Building and Printing. It later formed part of Glasgow Metropolitan College and became widely known as the Met Tower. The 14-storey modernist building is Category B listed, reflecting the architectural quality of its design, construction and surviving original features.
The giant People Make Glasgow building wrap was installed in connection with Glasgow's hosting of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The slogan emerged from a crowd-sourced city-branding exercise intended to express the friendliness, confidence and character of Scotland's largest city. Its simple wording and striking pink presentation became closely associated with Glasgow tourism, civic identity and international promotion.
After the college moved into the City of Glasgow College's newer campus, the tower stood vacant and became the subject of several regeneration proposals. Vita Group acquired the landmark in August 2025 and announced plans to introduce its Union co-living concept, proposing flexible residential accommodation as part of wider efforts to increase the city-cententre population. The photograph records both an important example of Glasgow's mid-century educational architecture and a highly visible piece of civic advertising. Its bold facade links the city's industrial and academic past with modern tourism, redevelopment and the continuing reinvention of central Glasgow
Glasgow Cross,High Street,Glasgow Cross,Glasgow,Scotland,UK,G1 5ES
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Keywords: GoTonysmith,@HotpixUK,sky,orange sky,red sky,dramatic,winter sunset,sunset,tree,trees,bare trees,leafless tree,with trees,Cheshire,England,UK,field,fields,Countryside,country,sunrise,book cover,painting,sunset painting,sunrise painting,drama,sunrise drama,sunset drama,Sunset with leafless trees,red,pink,blue,yellow,oak tree,oak,oaks,larch,branch,branches
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MM99WJ - . Made at the recorded location in 2017, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The location is represented through Dramatic winter sunsets with trees, Cheshire, England, UK. The broader subject matter reaches into visual archive, documentary photography, period building, conservation interest, local history, architectural detail, heritage landmark, public realm, contemporary social history, period detail, everyday life, place identity, changing land use, and cityscape history. Today's relevance is strengthened by redevelopment pressure, tourism and the continuing question of the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility. Future viewers can use this scene from the recorded location to compare signage and branding with whatever follows after refurbishment. The location also brings in architectural character, adaptive reuse, heritage asset, changing streetscape, historic townscape, historical comparison, built heritage, and conservation architecture. The combination of Dramatic, sunsets, trees, and winter anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The period setting at the recorded location helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The wider significance includes redevelopment pressure and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. Another strand within the photograph is energy retrofit and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. The setting also helps illustrate planning control and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character within the real-world context of the recorded location.
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Keywords: GoTonysmith,@HotpixUK,sky,orange sky,red sky,dramatic,winter sunset,sunset,tree,trees,bare trees,leafless tree,with trees,Cheshire,England,UK,field,fields,Countryside,country,sunrise,book cover,painting,sunset painting,sunrise painting,drama,sunrise drama,sunset drama,Sunset with leafless trees,red,pink,blue,yellow,oak tree,oak,oaks,larch,branch,branches
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MM99X4 - . Photographed at the recorded location in 2017, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The image documents Dramatic winter sunsets with trees, Cheshire, England, UK. The subject also carries associations with visual archive, changing streetscape, before-and-after reference, public realm, historical comparison, period building, adaptive reuse, documentary photography, period detail, place identity, social history, architectural character, historic streetscape, and regional identity. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with energy retrofit, tourism and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility. Small period details of lettering, decoration and surface detail at the recorded location may become more significant with time, particularly following altered transport patterns. The subject also sits alongside heritage asset, changing land use, contemporary social history, community identity, historic townscape, urban fabric, conservation architecture, and archival record. The combination of sunsets, Dramatic, trees, and winter anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Viewed retrospectively, MM99X4 can help trace changes in the appearance, interpretation or use of Dramatic winter sunsets with trees, Cheshire, England, UK, despite the absence of a more detailed address. The image also provides a reference for energy retrofit and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility within the real-world context of the recorded location. Another useful connection is adaptive reuse and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character within the specific setting of the recorded location. The scene further reflects adaptive reuse and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility as part of the longer story of the recorded location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HEJ65M - Plan dropped to end cone tradition on Glasgow's Wellington statue
Plans to end a long-standing tradition of placing a traffic cone on Glasgow's iconic Duke of Wellington statue have been dropped after a massive backlash.
Glasgow City Council wanted to raise the plinth as part of a £65,000 project to refurbish the monument, which stands outside the Gallery of Modern Art.
It abandoned the plan after a massive social media campaign saw thousands of people sign a petition opposing it.
Campaigners who planned a demonstration now say they will hold a victory rally.
The council had said that raising the height would end a practice which projected a depressing image of Glasgow and would save the £10,000 cost of removing the cone 100 times a year.
Image caption Michael Gray is one of many campaigners who plan to hold a victory rally
The scheme would have seen a new granite-clad concrete base of 86cm (34in) added to the memorial to raise its overall height.
However, the council has reconsidered its decision after an online petition called Save Wellington's Cone, which gathered thousands of signatories in just a few hours, and a Facebook campaign which had planned a rally in support of the cone.
A council spokesman said: The wording of the report was appalling and the leader of the council (Gordon Matheson) has instructed officers to withdraw the planning application.
The petition stated: The cone on Wellington's head is an iconic part of Glasgow's heritage, and means far more to the people of Glasgow and to visitors than Wellington himself ever has.
Raising the statue will, in any case, only result in people injuring themselves attempting to put the cone on anyway: does anyone really think that a raised plinth will deter drunk Glaswegians?
So cone-troversial plans to cone-sider cone-structing a
Buchanan Street,entertainer, Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HEJ661 - Plan dropped to end cone tradition on Glasgow's Wellington statue
Plans to end a long-standing tradition of placing a traffic cone on Glasgow's iconic Duke of Wellington statue have been dropped after a massive backlash.
Glasgow City Council wanted to raise the plinth as part of a £65,000 project to refurbish the monument, which stands outside the Gallery of Modern Art.
It abandoned the plan after a massive social media campaign saw thousands of people sign a petition opposing it.
Campaigners who planned a demonstration now say they will hold a victory rally.
The council had said that raising the height would end a practice which projected a depressing image of Glasgow and would save the £10,000 cost of removing the cone 100 times a year.
Image caption Michael Gray is one of many campaigners who plan to hold a victory rally
The scheme would have seen a new granite-clad concrete base of 86cm (34in) added to the memorial to raise its overall height.
However, the council has reconsidered its decision after an online petition called Save Wellington's Cone, which gathered thousands of signatories in just a few hours, and a Facebook campaign which had planned a rally in support of the cone.
A council spokesman said: The wording of the report was appalling and the leader of the council (Gordon Matheson) has instructed officers to withdraw the planning application.
The petition stated: The cone on Wellington's head is an iconic part of Glasgow's heritage, and means far more to the people of Glasgow and to visitors than Wellington himself ever has.
Raising the statue will, in any case, only result in people injuring themselves attempting to put the cone on anyway: does anyone really think that a raised plinth will deter drunk Glaswegians?
So cone-troversial plans to cone-sider cone-structing a
Buchanan Street,entertainer, Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
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Keywords: off,memorial,UFF,Unionist,mural,Shankill,rd,Northern Ireland,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,pink,BT13,224,Belfast,County Antrim,BT13 2BJ,historic,shopfront,shop,front,outside,remembering,the,past,with,pride,band,closed,shutter,shuttered,memory,memories,society,societies,community,terraced,terrace
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HDWT4D - . This location-specific image from 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The main point of reference is Shankill Historical Society and band shop, 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Ireland, BT13 2BJ. Another layer of the photograph includes performance venue, regional arts scene, retail property, street-level business, local cultural identity, documentary photography, creative culture, creative industries, regional identity, commercial streetscape, local trading, arts destination, customer footfall, and community identity. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into business rates and independent business, not least because of the role of small retailers in maintaining active town centres. Today's relevance is strengthened by venue survival, cultural tourism and the continuing question of the financial pressure faced by many galleries and performance venues. Future viewers can use this scene from 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ to compare equipment and working practice with whatever follows after different community use. The surrounding story also includes place identity, high-street commerce, gallery space, visual archive, specialist retailer, contemporary social history, town-centre economy, and public realm. Details involving Antrim, Society, Ireland, Shankill, and Belfast make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The scene captures part of the area's social history as a date-specific reference. The period view preserves details of everyday use for later comparison.
224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ
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Keywords: City,Centre,number,pink,purple,history,historic,tourist,tourism,landmark,theater,England,UK,play,plays,commerce,commercial,finance,Closing Prices,Royal Exchange Theatre,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,English,England,Shakespeare,tourism,tourist,tour,destination,city,centre,Mancunian,Manc,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4EDX9 - . This location-specific image from St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The location is represented through Royal Exchange Closing Prices, Royal Exchange Theatre,Manchester,England,UK. The frame also records themes of heritage interpretation, historic artefact, social-history object, historic material culture, period craftsmanship, archival record, documentary photography, before-and-after reference, local history, regional identity, antique object, decorative metalwork, museum object, and material culture. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with object conservation, craftsmanship and how museums turn individual objects into wider stories about place and people. For later comparison, the photograph preserves landscape treatment and surrounding development at St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK, details that may look very different after new ownership. A second descriptive layer includes changing streetscape, public realm, local-history evidence, contemporary social history, place identity, historic inscription, commemorative object, and local character. References to Exchange, Closing, Theatre, Royal, and Manchester give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. A later view of St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. A further contemporary connection is object conservation and how museums turn individual objects into wider stories about place and people when considered against later change at St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK. It also preserves a point of historical comparison within the wider story of St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK.
St Anns Square, Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,problem,with,problem with,issue with,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles,NQ,M4,Kula,edge st,North West England,M4 1HW,sexy,sensual,pink,shop,front,trendy,terrace,retail
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ795R - . An identifiable period record of the recorded location in 2016, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The subject captured here is Edge Street, Northern Quarter,artwork of a woman, Manchester, North West England, UK, M4 1HW. Further facets of the scene include temporary artwork, regional identity, visual street culture, street-level design, changing land use, urban graphics, urban artwork, graffiti heritage, social history, visual archive, mural culture, creative district, documentary photography, and community identity. The wider contemporary story combines gentrification, tourism and how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time. The image fixes signage and branding within the recorded location at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changed technology. The surrounding story also includes archival record, public art, creative placemaking, period detail, contemporary mural, public-realm art, contemporary social history, and public realm. The combination of woman, Quarter, Northern, Manchester, and artwork anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. For the recorded location, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Its period value extends to gentrification and how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The location additionally provides evidence of gentrification and how temporary street art becomes an important visual archive when considered against later change at the recorded location. A further contemporary connection is regeneration and how regeneration can support and displace informal culture at the same time without losing the local specificity of the recorded location.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,problem,with,problem with,issue with,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles,NQ,M4,Kula,edge st,North West England,M4 1HW,sexy,sensual,pink,shop,front,trendy,terrace,retail
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ795W - . This location-specific image from the recorded location in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The defining feature is Edge Street, Northern Quarter,artwork of a woman, Manchester, North West England, UK, M4 1HW. Further facets of the scene include regional identity, before-and-after reference, street-level design, creative district, mural culture, visual street culture, documentary photography, archival record, local history, temporary artwork, historical comparison, public realm, visual archive, and contemporary mural. From a 2025-onward perspective, local identity and temporary works are closely linked to this subject, alongside the blurred line between commissioned public art and unsanctioned graffiti. The image fixes materials and architectural details within the recorded location at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changing commercial priorities. The surrounding story also includes everyday life, graffiti heritage, creative placemaking, public-realm art, urban graphics, street creativity, community identity, and social history. The combination of Northern, Manchester, artwork, Quarter, and woman anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The wider setting at the recorded location matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The location additionally provides evidence of local identity and the blurred line between commissioned public art and unsanctioned graffiti as part of the longer story of the recorded location. A further contemporary connection is regeneration and the blurred line between commissioned public art and unsanctioned graffiti when considered against later change at the recorded location. The view records evidence of changing use as a date-specific reference.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,problem,with,problem with,issue with,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles,Pink,shop,retail,pink shop,Tib St,Love Boutique,Over 18 only,Manchester,North West England,M4 1LR,sex aids,pornography,DVD,boutique,fetish wear
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ7983 - . This scene at 78 Tib St, Manchester M4 1LR, UK in 2016 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 subject captured here is Pink Tib St Love Boutique, Over 18 only, 78 Tib St, Manchester, North West England, UK, M4 1LR. The subject also carries associations with high-street commerce, commercial frontage, visual archive, customer footfall, independent retail, specialist shop, bricks-and-mortar retail, public realm, local character, before-and-after reference, social history, shopfront economy, documentary photography, and historical comparison. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with store closures, independent business and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets. The archival value lies partly in recording landscape treatment and surrounding development around 78 Tib St, Manchester M4 1LR, UK before different community use alters the character of the place. A second descriptive layer includes street-level business, small business, town-centre trading, place identity, changing streetscape, archival record, period detail, and everyday life. The recorded references to Boutique and Manchester preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. By fixing the subject within 78 Tib St, Manchester M4 1LR, UK, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The scene further reflects store closures and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets within the real-world context of 78 Tib St, Manchester M4 1LR, UK. Its period value extends to consumer spending and how commercial property costs affect small retailers within the specific setting of 78 Tib St, Manchester M4 1LR, UK. It also preserves evidence of earlier appearance for later comparison.
78 Tib St, Manchester M4 1LR, UK
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Keywords: Hotpixuk,@Hotpixuk,GoTonySmith,stamp,postal,franked,frank,used stamps,used franked,used,franked stamp,from envelope,history,historic,old,Italy,Italian,Italia,Italy Stamp,italian stamp,franked Italian stamp,used Italian stamp,Italy stamp,face,portrait,Italia E0.45 Roma R.morena,Italia E0.45,0.45,45c,Euro,Roma R.morena,Morena,IPZS Spa,IPZS,Spa,pink,red,woman,female,EU,Europe
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9E7G - . Made at Italy in 2015, this photograph records a real place and subject in context, allowing later viewers to compare what has survived, changed, closed, moved or been replaced. At the centre of the frame is Italian stamp, poste Italia used and franked stamp, Italia E0.45 Roma R.morena. The setting also relates to everyday life, historic context, built heritage, conservation interest, historic commercial architecture, visual archive, contemporary social history, documentary photography, architectural character, local history, conservation architecture, architectural detailing, heritage landmark, and historic townscape. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about historic townscape, embodied carbon and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character. With the passage of time, the image captures evidence of how the subject fitted into ordinary life within the setting of Italy. A second layer of the scene includes historical comparison, public realm, regional identity, period detail, urban fabric, period building, cityscape history, and historic frontage. Elements such as poste, franked, Italia, Italian, and morena add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. The surrounding context at Italy matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The location additionally provides evidence of historic townscape and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity as part of the longer story of Italy. A further contemporary connection is maintenance costs and reusing existing buildings rather than demolishing them when considered against later change at Italy. The wider significance includes embodied carbon and the contrast between preservation and redevelopment without losing the local specificity of Italy. The scene captures a point of historical comparison for later comparison.
Italy
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Keywords: Gotonysmith,@Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,rare old stamps,used stamps,Postal,letters,letter,communication,print,analogue,historic stamps,Used franked Nederland Stamp,Netherlands Stamp,Used franked,Netherlands,40c,pink,collect,collector,rare,rarity,old,ancient,vintage,stamps,perforated,utilised,used already,collection,stamp collector,stamp collection,sent,postcoded,unique,iconic,correspondence
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PF573D - . This contextual photograph records the visible identity of Amsterdam, Netherlands, in a photograph originating in 2015. The principal recorded subject is Used franked Nederland Netherlands Stamp, Juliana Regina 40c Forty Cent. Other closely connected aspects of the subject are political discourse, public administration, public-sector policy, local landmark, traditional building, architectural heritage, period architecture, civic life, democratic accountability, heritage asset, historic built environment, and social policy. Modern coverage of heritage assets frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of maintenance cost, conservation of original fabric and heritage-led regeneration. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, public policy also connects with local authority finance, infrastructure and efforts aimed at community responses to government decisions. Over time, this view of Amsterdam, Netherlands 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 view also records themes involving government decision-making, local democracy, public services, conservation architecture, period property, political controversy. Associated details include historic stamp, Rare postage stamps, old stamps, old stamp, used postage stamps, used postage stamp. A second layer of description includes policy implementation, civic debate, community debate, urban conservation, national policy, historic fabric, urban fabric, historic townscape, historic environment, and architectural detail. For present-day editorial use, local landmarks can also illustrate debates about vacancy and planning control, particularly where these affect keeping older buildings useful. That gives this view of Amsterdam, Netherlands continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Keywords: mode,fashion,style,stylish,design,store,window,showing,fashion,clothing,London,UK,green,pink,girl,female,woman,women,womens,clothing,jacket,pant,pants,Knightsbridge,England,GB,109,Knightsbridge,London,SW1X,7RJ,SW1X7RJ,109-125,shop,front,shopfront,glass,window,Gotonysmith,Mike Ashley,Frasers,rescue,takeover,Frasers Group
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DJ7B29 - Elaborately styled mannequin in a Harvey Nichols department store window in Knightsbridge, London, displaying luxury fashion clothing against a dramatic illuminated retail backdrop. The female-form mannequin has a white theatrical face, striking red lipstick, ornate decorative headwear and statement earrings, and is dressed in a patterned tailored jacket over a pale high-neck blouse with lace detailing, patterned trousers and a black studded handbag. Pink fabric at the wrist adds a bright accent, while green horizontal light trails and reflective glass create a futuristic visual-merchandising effect around the figure. The image illustrates high-end fashion presentation, designer retail, creative window dressing and the theatrical approach traditionally associated with luxury department stores. Harvey Nichols was founded in 1831 and its Knightsbridge flagship is one of London's best-known premium shopping landmarks, serving customers in an area associated with international fashion brands, affluent consumers and visitor spending. The retailer became the focus of major British business news in August 2026 when it entered administration and Mike Ashley's Frasers Group acquired the business through a pre-pack deal. The transaction included six UK stores, among them the Knightsbridge flagship, together with the online business, inventory and more than 1,000 employees. Frasers chief executive Michael Murray warned that significant restructuring would be needed, including a review and rationalisation of the store portfolio, organisational structure, operating model and costs, as the group sought to create a sustainable future for the historic retailer. This London shop-window scene can therefore illustrate both the glamour and creativity of luxury fashion retail and the commercial pressures facing traditional British department stores, including changing consumer behaviour, operating costs, online competition and weaker discretionary spending.
109 - 125 Knightsbridge London, England, UK SW1X 7RJ
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Keywords: Liverpool Catholic Cathedral,Altar,Mount Pleasant,Liverpool,Catholic Cathedral,Altar,Mount,Pleasant,city,religious,Christian,symbolistic,Hope,st,street,GoTonySmith,L3 5TQ,L3,side,inside,interior,altars,dove,doves,corner,pink,gold,golden,bottles,bottle,internal,altar
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DRH7TC - . Liverpool Catholic Cathedral Altar, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 5TQ. Photographed at Mount Pleasant, Hope St, Liverpool,England, UK, L3 5TQ. The photograph was taken on 05 October 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The interior viewpoint records fittings, surfaces, decoration and spatial details that help show how the premises or public space was arranged when photographed. The scene is closely associated with Liverpool, Catholic, Cathedral, Altar, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Metropolitan, Hope St, Hope street, symbols and religion, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is relevant to religious heritage, places of worship, ecclesiastical architecture, local history, faith communities and the conservation of historic buildings. It can illustrate editorial features about churches and cathedrals, worship, monuments, memorials, stained glass, church interiors, architectural detail, tourism, listed buildings and the role of historic religious sites within towns and cities. Stonework, inscriptions, furnishings, windows, towers, memorials and other surviving details can provide useful evidence for architectural and heritage-focused picture research. As a documentary location image it also records the condition, presentation and setting of the site at a particular point in time. Search themes include religious heritage, churches, cathedrals, worship, monuments, memorials, ecclesiastical architecture, conservation, tourism and local history. Architectural and decorative details can also be useful to researchers studying the fabric, furnishings and changing presentation of historic places of worship. The view is firmly rooted in a real location rather than a constructed studio setting.
Mount Pleasant, Hope St, Liverpool,England, UK, L3 5TQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DCYD1D - Nymphaeaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies. They live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains five genera with about 70 known species. Water lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on or emergent from the surface. The leaves are round, with a radial notch in Nymphaea and Nuphar, but fully circular in Victoria and Euryale.
Water lilies are a well studied clade of plants because their large flowers with multiple unspecialized parts were initially considered to represent the floral pattern of the earliest flowering plants, and later genetic studies confirmed their evolutionary position as basal angiosperms. Analyses of floral morphology and molecular characteristics and comparisons with a sister taxon, the family Cabombaceae, indicate, however, that the flowers of extant water lilies with the most floral parts are more derived than the genera with fewer floral parts. Genera with more floral parts, Nuphar, Nymphaea, Victoria, have a beetle pollination syndrome, while genera with fewer parts are pollinated by flies or bees, or are self- or wind-pollinated.[3] Thus, the large number of relatively unspecialized floral organs in the Nymphaeaceae is not an ancestral condition for the clade.
Water lilies do not have surface leaves during winter, and therefore the gases in the rhizome lacunae access equilibrium with the gases of the sediment water. The leftover of internal pressure is embodied by the constant streams of bubbles that outbreak when rising leaves are ruptured in the spring.
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Keywords: background,back,ground,various,shades,of,new,life,season,seasons,red,white,pinks,reds,gotonysmith,Cheshire,petals,pink,pastel,pastels,subtle,shade,nature,natural,color,colour,colours,colors,cherry,blossom,blossoms,plant,plants,fallen,romance,romantic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHE8R - . Mixed pink spring blossom petals, Cheshire, England ,UK, WA4. Photographed in England, UK. The photograph was taken on 15 May 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Mixed, pink, spring, blossom, petals, petal, flowers, flower, background and back, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
England, UK
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Keywords: Spring,flower,cherry,blossom,bloom,new,life,tree,cheshire,england,uk,white,pink,petals,tonysmith,hotpix,tonysmiththat,tonysmiththathousing
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8464498157 - 'The Cult - 'Wild Flower' - Play this track here.
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This is one of the best tracks from 'Electric' the pivotal third album by The Cult. Released in 1987, the album marked a deliberate stylistic change in the band from a Gothic rock to a hard rock band. Rick Rubin, the producer on Electric, had been specifically hired to remake the band's sound in an effort to capitalize on the popularity of hard rock and heavy metal in the 1980s.
After the breakthrough success of their second album, Love, the Cult began working on a follow-up with producer Steve Brown. In the summer of 1986, they recorded twelve tracks at the Manor Studio in Oxfordshire. These recordings, which came to be known as the Manor Sessions, were to make up a new album, tentatively entitled Peace. However, upon completion of the recording sessions, the band decided that they were unhappy with the sound, and began to look for a new producer.
The band went on to choose Rick Rubin, who was known for producing albums for hip hop artists and thrash metal band Slayer. These new recordings, with a slightly different track-list and running order, became the album that was released.
Although all twelve of the Manor Sessions tracks were initially scrapped, four of them would turn up as B-sides to singles from Electric. A further five of them appeared on a limited edition EP, and with the release of Rare Cult in 2000, the rest of the unreleased Steve Brown-produced tracks were made available.
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Keywords: @hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,GoTonySmith,flowers,England,UK,glove,wild flower,spring,foxes glofe,foxes glofa,witchs glove,witches glove,Plantaginaceae,common foxglove,biennial plant,plant,biennial,cardiac glycosides,digoxin,woodland plant,foxgloves,Digitalis purpurea,Digitalis,purpurea,macro,closeup,close-up,nature,pink,plants,wild,grass,woods,biodiversity,flora,flowering,close up,healthy,springtime
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BGRC09 - Digitalis is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennials, shrubs, and biennials commonly called foxgloves.
This genus was traditionally placed in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae, but recent phylogenetic research has placed it in the much enlarged family Plantaginaceae. This genus is native to western and southwestern Europe, western and central Asia and northwestern Africa. The flowers are produced on a tall spike, are tubular, and vary in colour with species, from purple to pink, white, and yellow. The scientific name means finger-like and refers to the ease with which a flower can be fitted over a human fingertip.
The best-known species is the common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea. This biennial plant is often grown as an ornamental plant due to its vivid flowers which range in colour from various purple tints through pink, and purely white. The flowers can also possess various marks and spottings. Other garden-worthy species include D. ferruginea, D. grandiflora, D. lutea and D. parviflora.
The term digitalis is also used for drug preparations that contain cardiac glycosides, particularly one called digoxin, extracted from various plants of this genus. Foxglove has medicinal uses but can also be toxic to humans and other animals
Cheshire,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4587919792 - 'Few plants captivate a nation quite like the Japanese flowering cherry or 'cherry blossom'. Pick up a 100 yen coin and at any time of the year it reminds you of the Sakura.
In Japan cherry blossoms among other things symbolize clouds. This is due to their nature of blooming en masse, besides being an enduring metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life, an aspect of Japanese cultural tradition that is often associated with Buddhistic influence, and which is embodied in the concept of 'mono no aware' (the life of things). The association of the cherry blossom with 'mono no aware' dates back to 18th-century scholar Motoori Norinaga.
The transience of the blossoms, the extreme beauty and quick death, has often been associated with mortality. For this reason, cherry blossoms are richly symbolic, and have been utilized often in Japanese art, manga, anime, and film, as well as at musical performances for ambient effect. The band Kagrra, which is associated with the visual kei movement, is an example of this latter phenomenon. There is at least one popular folk song, originally meant for the shakuhachi (bamboo flute), titled 'Sakura', and several pop songs. The flower is also represented on all manner of consumer goods in Japan, including kimono, stationery, and dishware.
Cherry blossom is an omen of good fortune and is also an emblem of love, affection and represents spring. Cherry blossoms are an enduring metaphor for the fleeting nature of life, and as such are frequently depicted in art.
At Himeji Castle Japan During World War II, the cherry blossom was used to motivate the Japanese people, to stoke nationalism and militarism among the populace. Japanese pilots would paint them on the sides of their planes before embarking on a suicide mission, or even take branches of the trees with them on their missions. There is a plane of this type in the Manchester museum of science of industry. My friend Josef Knocke always comes to mind when I look at it as does a particularly tasteless joke, that I would not repeat here for a family audience.
A cherry blossom painted on the side of the bomber symbolized the intensity and ephemerality of life. In this way, the aesthetic association was altered such that falling cherry petals came to represent the sacrifice of youth in suicide missions to honor the emperor. The government even encouraged the people to believe that the souls of downed warriors were reincarnated in the blossoms.
In its colonial enterprises, aparently imperial Japan often planted cherry trees as a means of 'claiming occupied territory as Japanese space'. Consider this as you pass below those lovely pink blossoms...
(2010 week 16)
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Keywords: luxury,South,homes,and,houses,in,a,Cheshire,set,gated,community,England,UK.,At,sunset,snow,ice,winter,gotonysmith,school,walled,garden,orange,pink,Astor,drive,Witherwin,Ave,Avenue,Lumb Brook Road rd,Dashwood Close,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMX56 - . The Grappenhall Heys Gates, luxury, South Warrington homes and houses in a Cheshire set gated community, England UK. At sunset. Photographed on 20 December 2009. The recorded location is Lumb Brook Road, Grappenhall Heys, South Warrington, Cheshire UK. The gates at Grappenhall Heys, taken in winter at sunset with ice and snow on the ground. Looking at the subject's development, panoramic and atmospheric views place individual landmarks within their wider setting
Light, season and weather affect how architecture and landscape are perceived, while distant development can provide clues to the changing form of a town or coastline. From a heritage perspective, images of homes and residential development can become important evidence of regeneration, demolition and tenure change, particularly where large estates or industrial buildings are later substantially altered. For the 2026 context, landscape imagery is increasingly used alongside discussion of climate, resilience, tourism and development
Older panoramas can show how skylines, waterfronts and vegetation have changed over a comparatively short period. As of 2026, the pressure to build more homes, particularly social and affordable housing, makes contrasting residential forms especially relevant to debate about density, planning and tenure
They can illustrate density, planning, neighbourhood change, regeneration and contrasting forms of tenure. The wider historical story is that seasonal and low-light photography can emphasise the relationship between natural conditions and the built environment
Dusk, snow, mist or dramatic cloud often reveal lighting, silhouettes and reflective surfaces that are less apparent in ordinary daylight. In the present 2026 context, landscape imagery is increasingly used alongside discussion of climate, resilience, tourism and development
Older panoramas can show how skylines, waterfronts and vegetation have changed over a comparatively short period.
Lumb Brook Road, Grappenhall Heys, South Warrington, Cheshire UK
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Keywords: sun,rise,sunrise,birmingham,over,aston,gas,holder,gasholders,England,west,midlands,industry,dusk,dawn,works,gasworks,factory,industrial,orange,light,lights,tower,blocks,block,west midlands,pink,sky,pink sky,tripod,shot,tripod shot,long,exposure,long exposure,365days,HDR,high dynamic range,uk,britain,GB,europe,english,tonysmith,tony,smith,interesting,place,places,noche,nuit,hotpix!,tony smith photography,tdktony,tdk,tdktonysmith,#tonysmithhotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4050532527 - 'Hard to see in this light, but these are painted in the colours of Aston Villa, just a stones throw down the road. Behind is part of the Birmingham skyline of tower blocks.
Nechells became a densely populated area during the 19th century, with mass development of houses and factories taking place. Mass immigration occurred from Ireland.
After World War II, further immigration occurred from parts of the Commonwealth, mostly the West Indies and the Indian Sub Continent.
By the 1950s, however, many of the homes in Nechells had been reduced to 'slums' and were unfit for human habitation. People were living in homes without electricity, running water, bathrooms or indoor toilets. The Gas Works caused a continuous unpleasant smell.
The face of Nechells changed dramatically during the 1960s, with the decaying Victorian terraces being cleared and the area redeveloped with new houses and tower blocks. Some families remained in the new homes that had been built around Nechells, but there weren't enough new homes to rehouse all of the area's original residents, and as a result some families moved to new housing estates like Castle Vale and Chelmsley Wood. The new homes were certainly a big improvement on their predecessors, but if anything the Nechells area became worse as unemployment and crime soared.
The development of high rise flats in Neachells had actually started in the 1950s, and it was the home of Birmingham's very first tower block - Queens Tower - which was completed in 1954 and is still standing today. However, many of the tower blocks in the Neachells area were demolished in the 1990s to make way for new low rise private and rented housing.
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Keywords: Gasholders,at,Aston,Birmingham,West,Midlands,United,Kingdom,at,Dusk,night,morning,sunrise,second,city,2nd,urban,suburban,across,cityscape,purple,blue,hour,tower,blocks,gotonysmith,towerblock,towerblocks,pink,cool,city,shots,shot,coolest,Brummy,Brummie,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,security
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0N8B - . Gasholders at Aston, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom at Dusk. Photographed on 20 October 2009. The recorded location is Aston, A34, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom. Tower blocks in the distance. From a heritage perspective, landscape photographs record more than scenery: buildings, vegetation, weather, transport and land use combine to show how a place appeared at a particular moment
Repeated views can later become valuable evidence of development, environmental evolution and shifting patterns of use. As background, buildings are often the most durable evidence of former institutions and businesses
Stonework, brickwork, windows, signs and decorative details can survive changes of ownership and use, allowing photographs to document both architectural style and the evolution of a street. As of 2026, current interest in climate and place-making gives atmospheric landscape photographs added documentary value, particularly where weather, coastlines or urban development are prominent. Against the 2026 backdrop, the reuse of existing buildings is increasingly discussed alongside conservation, embodied carbon and town-centre regeneration
Images of older façades and converted premises can therefore illustrate both architectural heritage and the practical pressures of adapting buildings for new uses. As background, panoramic and atmospheric views place individual landmarks within their wider setting
Light, season and weather affect how architecture and landscape are perceived, while distant development can provide clues to the changing form of a town or coastline. The wider historical story is that seasonal and low-light photography can emphasise the relationship between natural conditions and the built environment
Dusk, snow, mist or dramatic cloud often reveal lighting, silhouettes and reflective surfaces that are less apparent in ordinary daylight.
Aston, A34, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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Keywords: Duckboy,Action,Man,Northwich,Cheshire,A556,UK,roadsign,road,sign,graffitti,gay,meeting,places,365days,men,people,events,where,haunts,san,francisco,knutsford,erotic,sandbach,services,M6,showers,bath,house,sex,sexual,pink,swinger,driver,truckers,Queer,homosexual,proud,out,coming,stonewall,highway,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3837494263 - 'Who are Duckboy and Action Man?
A newspaper report did suggest at one point that Knutsford was the UK's San Francisco, due to one of the highest levels of sexual crime in the UK. Much was down to visitors and people just 'driving through'.
Read the article here archive.thisischeshire.co.uk/2000/7/27/220289.html
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Keywords: Flower Purple,Lavatera Thuringiaca,Lavatera,Thuringiaca,purple,flower,pink,stamen,365days,nature,natural,history,world,life,plant,bloom,flowers,flores,blome,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3782852212 - 'Lavatera thuringiaca, native to eastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from southern Germany south to Italy, quite likes our generally mild winters and occasionally pleasent summers. I noticed a bigger than usual show of flowers near the canal between Lostock and Middlewich
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,TV,presenter,presenters,blue,and,pink,lit,illuminated,television,British,programme,music,broadcast,Thursday,evening,top,40,records,Official Charts Company,Dave Lee Travis,Jonathan King,Studio A,at,Dickenson Road Studios,in,Rusholme,Manchester,DJ,Christmas,Pans People,Legs and Co,Whole Lotta Love,specials,special,vinyl,operation yewtree,jimmy saville,DJs
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R5PPB2 - Vivid blue, pink and red neon Top of the Pops sign celebrates one of the best-known brands in British broadcasting and popular music. The illuminated circular design features the handwritten Top of the Pops title surrounded by glowing arcs and diagonal light bars, creating the energetic visual style associated with television studios, pop culture, night-time entertainment and retro display design.
Top of the Pops, commonly shortened to TOTP, was the BBC's long-running weekly television music chart programme. First broadcast in 1964, it became a major part of British popular culture, presenting current hit records, studio performances, promotional appearances and the weekly singles chart to successive generations of viewers. For decades, an appearance on the programme was an important marker of commercial success for British and international singers, groups and musicians.
The neon display evokes the show's colourful television graphics, stage lighting, title sequences and changing visual identity across the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. Its intense magenta, electric blue and scarlet lighting also suggests nightlife, music venues, television heritage exhibitions, broadcasting memorabilia and nostalgia for the era when millions of viewers followed the UK record charts through scheduled terrestrial television.
The close-up composition concentrates on the glowing lettering and overlapping tubes, with reflections and saturated colour filling the frame. It can illustrate BBC television history, British music broadcasting, chart culture, youth entertainment, retro neon art, media nostalgia, popular music heritage and the continuing cultural recognition of the Top of the Pops name. The image also has wider editorial relevance to archive television, music programming, entertainment branding, classic television formats and the visual language of vintage pop culture
Great Britain, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,customer,service,problems,profit,post,royal mail,royalmail,and,blue,pink,packaging,packing,for,someone,very,special,UK,flag,technical,issues,lack,of,phone,support,email,ignored,mail,app,store,disruption,disruptor,apology,API,Political donations,Nick Jenkins,Guernsey,Tax haven
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTR49B - Moonpig is an internet-based business whose head offices are situated in London and Guernsey. The company's business model is mainly selling personalised greeting cards, flowers and gifts. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
According to founder Nick Jenkins, Moonpig was his nickname at school in Newport, Shropshire, hence the name of the brand.
The original launch of Moonpig in 2000 coincided with the collapse of the dot-com bubble, which made progress difficult at first, but Jenkins raised further investment from private investors and venture capital, and the advent of broadband and digital cameras together with news spreading by word-of-mouth meant sales steadily increased, with the first profits being made in 2005. A television advertising campaign began in the United Kingdom in November 2006. 2 years and 4 months later, Moonpig received more internet traffic than other flower and gift companies in the UK
August 2013, a private developer discovered a vulnerability in the Moonpig API that made it possible for outsiders to retrieve the personal information of all three million of its users (names, birthdays, postal addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and credit card expiry dates), and informed Moonpig. Moonpig did nothing about it until the developer publicly announced the problem in January 2015, whereupon Moonpig disabled the API and its mobile apps pending an investigation. Moonpig issued a statement saying that all password and payment information is and has always been safe
England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T0WE16 - Taken on 28 Jan 2023, this photograph shows Made in Sheffield, red neon sign, Kelam Island, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK, S3 8RD. The location is Kelam Island, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK, S3 8RD. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains readable commercial or civic signage, colour, typography and street context. Sheffield's name is internationally linked with steel, cutlery, engineering and industrial skill, so the neon wording works as a shorthand for civic identity, manufacturing heritage and northern regeneration. It can be used in editorial features, business reports, local-history writing, travel guides, public-policy explainers, educational material and SEO-led stock-photo searches needing a specific real-world image. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include South Yorkshire, Sheffield, Made in Sheffield, red, neon, sign, made, making, manufacturing, industry, Kelham Island, Kellham Island, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes. This makes the image useful for comparison pieces, then-and-now features, local news, regeneration stories and plain-English explainers aimed at a general audience.
Kelam Island, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK, S3 8RD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF21YG - This is a bingo hall in Edinburgh, in Nicholson Street, up from North Bridge.
Bingo or Housey Housey as some pensioners still call it is a gambling game of unknown origin. Players mark off numbers on a ticket as they are randomly called out, in order to achieve a winning combination.
The first column contains numbers from 1 to 9, The second column numbers from 10 to 19, The third 20 to 29 and so on up until the last column, which contains numbers from 80 to 90 (the 90 being placed in this column as well).
When called, numbers often aquire the types of preambles below:
Kelly's Eye 1, One Little Duck 2, Cup of Tea 3, Knock at the Door 4, Man Alive 5, Tom's Tricks 6, Lucky 7, Garden Gate 8, Doctors Orders 9, Tony's Den 10, Legs Eleven 11, One Dozen 12, Unlucky for Some 13, Key of the Door 21, Dirty Gertie 30, Down on your Knees 43, Heinz Varieties 57.
Nicholson St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, EH8 9DT
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTR49D - Moonpig is an internet-based business whose head offices are situated in London and Guernsey. The company's business model is mainly selling personalised greeting cards, flowers and gifts. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
According to founder Nick Jenkins, Moonpig was his nickname at school in Newport, Shropshire, hence the name of the brand.
The original launch of Moonpig in 2000 coincided with the collapse of the dot-com bubble, which made progress difficult at first, but Jenkins raised further investment from private investors and venture capital, and the advent of broadband and digital cameras together with news spreading by word-of-mouth meant sales steadily increased, with the first profits being made in 2005. A television advertising campaign began in the United Kingdom in November 2006. 2 years and 4 months later, Moonpig received more internet traffic than other flower and gift companies in the UK
August 2013, a private developer discovered a vulnerability in the Moonpig API that made it possible for outsiders to retrieve the personal information of all three million of its users (names, birthdays, postal addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and credit card expiry dates), and informed Moonpig. Moonpig did nothing about it until the developer publicly announced the problem in January 2015, whereupon Moonpig disabled the API and its mobile apps pending an investigation. Moonpig issued a statement saying that all password and payment information is and has always been safe
England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RMJ3AB - Cirencester, occasionally /ˈsɪstər/ (About this soundlisten)
see below for more variations) is a market town in east Gloucestershire, England, 80 miles (130 km) west northwest of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in the Cotswold District. It is the home of the Royal Agricultural University, the oldest agricultural college in the English-speaking world, founded in 1840. The town's Corinium Museum is well known for its extensive Roman collection. The Roman name for the town was Corinium, which is thought to have been associated with the ancient British tribe of the Dobunni, having the same root word as the River Churn. The earliest known reference to the town was by Ptolemy in AD 150.
The Church of St. John Baptist, Cirencester is renowned for its Perpendicular Gothic porch, fan vaults and merchants' tombs.
The town also has a Roman Catholic Church of St Peter's
the foundation stone was laid on 20 June 1895. Coxwell Street to the north of Market Square is home to the Baptist Church that was founded in 1651 making it one of the oldest Baptist churches in England. Its current building was started in 1856.
To the west of the town is Cirencester House, the seat of Earl Bathurst and the site of one of the finest landscape gardens in England, laid out by the first Earl Bathurst after 1714.
Abbey House, Cirencester was a country house built on the site of the former Cirencester Abbey following its dissolution and demolition at the English Reformation in the 1530s. The site was granted in 1564 to Richard Master, physician to Queen Elizabeth I. The house was rebuilt and altered at several dates by the Master family, who still own the agricultural estate. By 1897 the house was let, and it remained in the occupation of tenants until shortly after the Second World War. It was finally demolished in 1964.
On Cotswold Avenue is the site of a Roman amphitheatre.
Market Pl, Cirencester, England, UK, GL7 2NX
