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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Hungary,Europe,European,at,evening,in,the,night,lit,lighted,illuminated,poet,Mihály Vörösmart,street,fashion,st,Budapest,Bécsi u. 5,1052,1052 Hungary,brand,brands,style,city centre,fashionable,clothing,stores,interesting,well-lit,well lit,street scene,scene,tourist,tourism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PYBH3N - . Budapest Fashion street , at night, Vörösmarty tér, Pest, Budapest, Hungary. Photographed on 27 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 Budapest, Bécsi u. 5, 1052 Hungary, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Hungary, Europe, European, evening, night, lit, lighted, illuminated, poet, Mihály Vörösmart, fashion, Budapest, 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 Bécsi u. 5, 1052 Hungary, brand, brands, style, city centre, broadening discoverability while remaining tied to the supplied subject information. The composition retains practical contextual detail for news, feature, documentary, educational and historical use.
Budapest, Bécsi u. 5, 1052 Hungary
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PMT9E1 - . Victorian pub urinal, at the Lass O Gowrie pub, 36 Charles St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 7DB. Photographed on 14 April 2023. The Lass 'O' Gowrie pub occupies a site on Charles Street beside the bridge that carries the street over the River Medlock and between the street and the railway viaduct. This area was once one of the poorest in the city which, based upon the origin of many of its residents, was known as Little Ireland. The pub website says of its history: Legend has it that the original landlord of the pub was not an Irishman, but a proud, homesick Scotsman who named the pub in honour of his favourite poem - 'the Lass O'Gowrie' written by the celebrated Scottish poet Lady Carolina Nairne. The Slaters Directory of Manchester & Salford indicated that in 1895 the Lass 'O' Gowrie's landlord was Charles Nolan. By 1909 the directory indicated that James Wagstaffe was the landlord. Looking at independent brewery, the longer history is that public houses form a distinctive strand of British social history
Coaching routes, tied brewery estates, Victorian urban growth and twentieth-century leisure each shaped the location and appearance of pubs, many of which later became restaurants, shops, housing or community assets. The background to public poetry is that poetry displayed in streets or public buildings moves literature beyond the book and turns ordinary places into temporary reading spaces
Such projects link typography, public art and local identity. In 2026, independent brewery remains relevant because pub survival remains a live issue as energy, staffing, taxation and changing drinking habits affect the licensed trade
Historic and contemporary pub images therefore have relevance to community assets, nightlife, independent brewing, high-street change and hospitality economics. Current 2026 context around public poetry is that literary installations and festivals continue to use public space to widen access to poetry and support local creative.
36 Charles St, Manchester, England, UK, M1 7DB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PHGEEW - Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 “ February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honour posthumously.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. Their relationship was tumultuous and, in her letters, Plath alleges abuse at his hands. They had two children before separating in 1962.
Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). She killed herself in 1963, 11/02/1963
12,Becketts Close, Heptonstall village, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England, UK, HX7 7LJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE3AF - Shakespeare Window, Manchester Central Library
Above the front door of the library is stained glass Shakespeare window. It was designed by Robert Anning Bell and depicts William Shakespeare and scenes from his plays. It was given to the library by Mrs Rosa Grindon, in memory of her husband, the famous Manchester botanist, Leo Grindon.
Inside Central Library
The main entrance hall gets its name from the huge stained glass window above the front door. The window was designed by the Arts & Crafts artist, Robert Anning Bell RA (1863-1933) and includes a portrait of William Shakespeare and scenes from many of his plays. It was given to the library by Mrs Rosa Grindon, in memory of her husband, the famous Manchester botanist, Leo Grindon.
The two other stained glass windows and the magnificent heraldic decorations were all designed by George Kruger Gray (1880-1943). On the ceiling are the arms and crests of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lancashire County Council and the Sees of York, Manchester and the City of Manchester . Around the walls are those of Manchester Grammar School, Manchester University, the Manchester Regiment, Humphrey Chetham, the Overseers of the Township, England, St George and St Mary (the patron saint of Manchester).
St Peter's Square, Manchester,Greater Manchester, England,UK, M2 5PD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE3BF - Shakespeare Window, Manchester Central Library
Above the front door of the library is stained glass Shakespeare window. It was designed by Robert Anning Bell and depicts William Shakespeare and scenes from his plays. It was given to the library by Mrs Rosa Grindon, in memory of her husband, the famous Manchester botanist, Leo Grindon.
Inside Central Library
The main entrance hall gets its name from the huge stained glass window above the front door. The window was designed by the Arts & Crafts artist, Robert Anning Bell RA (1863-1933) and includes a portrait of William Shakespeare and scenes from many of his plays. It was given to the library by Mrs Rosa Grindon, in memory of her husband, the famous Manchester botanist, Leo Grindon.
The two other stained glass windows and the magnificent heraldic decorations were all designed by George Kruger Gray (1880-1943). On the ceiling are the arms and crests of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lancashire County Council and the Sees of York, Manchester and the City of Manchester . Around the walls are those of Manchester Grammar School, Manchester University, the Manchester Regiment, Humphrey Chetham, the Overseers of the Township, England, St George and St Mary (the patron saint of Manchester).
St Peter's Square, Manchester,Greater Manchester, England,UK, M2 5PD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE3CF - Shakespeare Window, Manchester Central Library
Above the front door of the library is stained glass Shakespeare window. It was designed by Robert Anning Bell and depicts William Shakespeare and scenes from his plays. It was given to the library by Mrs Rosa Grindon, in memory of her husband, the famous Manchester botanist, Leo Grindon.
Inside Central Library
The main entrance hall gets its name from the huge stained glass window above the front door. The window was designed by the Arts & Crafts artist, Robert Anning Bell RA (1863-1933) and includes a portrait of William Shakespeare and scenes from many of his plays. It was given to the library by Mrs Rosa Grindon, in memory of her husband, the famous Manchester botanist, Leo Grindon.
The two other stained glass windows and the magnificent heraldic decorations were all designed by George Kruger Gray (1880-1943). On the ceiling are the arms and crests of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lancashire County Council and the Sees of York, Manchester and the City of Manchester . Around the walls are those of Manchester Grammar School, Manchester University, the Manchester Regiment, Humphrey Chetham, the Overseers of the Township, England, St George and St Mary (the patron saint of Manchester).
St Peter's Square, Manchester,Greater Manchester, England,UK, M2 5PD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8BNN6 - Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty (17 August 1878 “ 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist. He served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.
Gogarty was born 17 August 1878 in Rutland Square, Dublin, the eldest child of Henry Gogarty, a well-to-do Dublin physician, and Margaret Gogarty (née Oliver), the daughter of a Galway mill owner. Three siblings (Henry, Mary, and Richard) were born later. Gogarty's father, himself the son of a medical doctor, had been educated at Trinity College and owned two fashionable homes in Dublin, which set the Gogartys apart from other Irish Catholic families at that time and allowed them access to the same social circles as the Protestant Ascendancy
As one of Dublin's medicos, Gogarty was known to be fond of public pranks and midnight carousing in the Kips, Dublin's red-light district. He had a talent for humorous and bawdy verse, which quickly made the rounds through the city, and sometimes composed mnemonic lyrics to aid his medical studies. He also enjoyed a highly successful cycling career before being banned from the tracks in 1901 for bad language, and between 1898 and 1901 he rescued at least four people from drowning. He became interested in Irish nationalism after meeting Arthur Griffith in 1899, and contributed propaganda pieces to The United Irishman over subsequent years
As a Sinn Féiner during the Irish War of Independence, Gogarty participated in a variety of anti-Black and Tan schemes, allowing his home to be used as a safe house and transporting disguised IRA volunteers in his car. Following the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Gogarty sided with the pro-Treaty government (headed by his close friend Arthur Griffith) and was made a Free State Senator. When Griffith fell ill during the summer of 1922, Gogarty frequently attended his bedside. His death on 12 August 1922 had a profound effect on Gogarty
18-21 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 RX38
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8BNTG - . An on-location photograph from 18-21 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 RX38 in 2019, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The frame specifically shows Oliver St. John Gogartys bar, James Joyce statue,in the Heart of Temple Bar, Dublin, Eire, Ireland - 18-21 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 RX38. The subject also carries associations with period detail, night-time economy, local social venue, fruit-topped cereal, documentary photography, public realm, licensed trade, community identity, food-and-drink business, everyday nutrition, fresh fruit breakfast, archival record, historic hostelry, and place identity. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with consumer spending, hospitality costs and pressure on hospitality margins in a high-cost economy. The modern context includes continuing discussion of food prices, dietary fibre and the effect of food prices on healthier choices. Small period details of building condition and alterations at 18-21 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 RX38 may become more significant with time, particularly following closure or conversion. The photograph additionally reflects hospitality economy, balanced breakfast, historical comparison, local character, community drinking venue, regional identity, nutrient-rich breakfast, and social history. Elements such as statue, Ireland, Heart, Joyce, and 18-21 add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at 18-21 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 RX38 helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The wider significance includes consumer spending and the survival of local pubs as social meeting places within the specific setting of 18-21 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 RX38.
18-21 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 RX38
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8BNW0 - Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty (17 August 1878 “ 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist. He served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.
Gogarty was born 17 August 1878 in Rutland Square, Dublin, the eldest child of Henry Gogarty, a well-to-do Dublin physician, and Margaret Gogarty (née Oliver), the daughter of a Galway mill owner. Three siblings (Henry, Mary, and Richard) were born later. Gogarty's father, himself the son of a medical doctor, had been educated at Trinity College and owned two fashionable homes in Dublin, which set the Gogartys apart from other Irish Catholic families at that time and allowed them access to the same social circles as the Protestant Ascendancy
As one of Dublin's medicos, Gogarty was known to be fond of public pranks and midnight carousing in the Kips, Dublin's red-light district. He had a talent for humorous and bawdy verse, which quickly made the rounds through the city, and sometimes composed mnemonic lyrics to aid his medical studies. He also enjoyed a highly successful cycling career before being banned from the tracks in 1901 for bad language, and between 1898 and 1901 he rescued at least four people from drowning. He became interested in Irish nationalism after meeting Arthur Griffith in 1899, and contributed propaganda pieces to The United Irishman over subsequent years
As a Sinn Féiner during the Irish War of Independence, Gogarty participated in a variety of anti-Black and Tan schemes, allowing his home to be used as a safe house and transporting disguised IRA volunteers in his car. Following the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Gogarty sided with the pro-Treaty government (headed by his close friend Arthur Griffith) and was made a Free State Senator. When Griffith fell ill during the summer of 1922, Gogarty frequently attended his bedside. His death on 12 August 1922 had a profound effect on Gogarty
18-21 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 RX38
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8BNXE - Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty (17 August 1878 “ 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist. He served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.
Gogarty was born 17 August 1878 in Rutland Square, Dublin, the eldest child of Henry Gogarty, a well-to-do Dublin physician, and Margaret Gogarty (née Oliver), the daughter of a Galway mill owner. Three siblings (Henry, Mary, and Richard) were born later. Gogarty's father, himself the son of a medical doctor, had been educated at Trinity College and owned two fashionable homes in Dublin, which set the Gogartys apart from other Irish Catholic families at that time and allowed them access to the same social circles as the Protestant Ascendancy
As one of Dublin's medicos, Gogarty was known to be fond of public pranks and midnight carousing in the Kips, Dublin's red-light district. He had a talent for humorous and bawdy verse, which quickly made the rounds through the city, and sometimes composed mnemonic lyrics to aid his medical studies. He also enjoyed a highly successful cycling career before being banned from the tracks in 1901 for bad language, and between 1898 and 1901 he rescued at least four people from drowning. He became interested in Irish nationalism after meeting Arthur Griffith in 1899, and contributed propaganda pieces to The United Irishman over subsequent years
As a Sinn Féiner during the Irish War of Independence, Gogarty participated in a variety of anti-Black and Tan schemes, allowing his home to be used as a safe house and transporting disguised IRA volunteers in his car. Following the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Gogarty sided with the pro-Treaty government (headed by his close friend Arthur Griffith) and was made a Free State Senator. When Griffith fell ill during the summer of 1922, Gogarty frequently attended his bedside. His death on 12 August 1922 had a profound effect on Gogarty
18-21 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 RX38
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8DJE4 - Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 “ 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems On Raglan Road and The Great Hunger. He is known for his accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace
Patrick Kavanagh was born in rural Inniskeen, County Monaghan, in 1904, the fourth of ten children of James Kavanagh and Bridget Quinn
Kavanagh's first published work appeared in 1928[7] in the Dundalk Democrat and the Irish Independent. Kavanagh had encountered a copy of the Irish Statesman, edited by George William Russell, who published under the pen name AE and was a leader of the Irish Literary Revival. Russell at first rejected Kavanagh's work but encouraged him to keep submitting, and he went on to publish verse by Kavanagh in 1929 and 1930. This inspired the farmer to leave home and attempt to further his aspirations. In 1931, he walked 80 miles (abt. 129 kilometres) to meet Russell in Dublin, where Kavanagh's brother was a teacher. Russell gave Kavanagh books, among them works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Robert Browning, and became Kavanagh's literary adviser. Kavanagh joined Dundalk Library and the first book he borrowed was The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.
Kavanagh's first collection, Ploughman and Other Poems, was published in 1936. It is notable for its realistic portrayal of Irish country life, free of the romantic sentiment often seen at the time in rural poems, a trait he abhorred. Published by Macmillan in its series on new poets, the book expressed a commitment to colloquial speech and the unvarnished lives of real people, which made him unpopular with the literary establishment. Two years after his first collection was published he had yet to make a significant impression. The Times Literary Supplement described him as a young Irish poet of promise rather than of achievement
Fleet St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 NX25, Eire, Ireland
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFFA3 - Robert Burns (25 January 1759 “ 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in stock-photo/gotonysmith-English.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest.
Haggis is a savoury pudding containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver, and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and cooked while traditionally encased in the animal's stomach[1] though now often in an artificial casing instead. According to the 2001 English edition of the Larousse Gastronomique: Although its description is not immediately appealing, haggis has an excellent nutty texture and delicious savoury flavour
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFFA6 - Robert Burns (25 January 1759 “ 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in stock-photo/gotonysmith-English.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest.
Haggis is a savoury pudding containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver, and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and cooked while traditionally encased in the animal's stomach[1] though now often in an artificial casing instead. According to the 2001 English edition of the Larousse Gastronomique: Although its description is not immediately appealing, haggis has an excellent nutty texture and delicious savoury flavour
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HDF0A4 - Murals in Northern Ireland have become symbols of Northern Ireland, depicting the region's past and present political and religious divisions.
Belfast and Derry contain arguably the most famous political murals in Europe. It is believed that almost 2,000 murals have been documented since the 1970s. In 2014, the book, The Belfast Mural Guide estimated that, in Belfast, there were approximately 300 quality murals on display, with many more in varying degrees of age and decay. Murals commemorate, communicate and display aspects of culture and history. The themes of murals often reflect what is important to a particular community. A mural therefore exists to express an idea or message and could generally be seen as reflecting values held dear to that community.
In Irish republican areas the themes of murals can range from the 1981 Irish hunger strike, with particular emphasis on strike leader Bobby Sands
murals of international solidarity with revolutionary groups are equally common, as are those which highlight a particular issue, for example the Ballymurphy Massacre or the McGurk's Bar bombing. In working class unionist communities, murals are used to promote Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups such as the Ulster Defence Association and Ulster Volunteer Force and commemorate their deceased members. However traditional themes such as William III of England and the Battle of the Boyne, the Battle of the Somme and the 36th Ulster Division are equally common
Falls Rd, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H551TF - John Gower (c. 1330 “ October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer.
He is remembered primarily for three major works, the Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis, three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively, which are united by common moral and political themes.
His tomb is in Southwark Cathedral, London, with the following inscription:
This is the tomb of John Gower (d. 1408). Poet Laureate to Richard II and to Henry IV. Gower has been called the first English poet because, when most literary people wrote in French or Latin, he wrote also in English. He had a house and chapel within the precincts of the Augustinian Priory, (St. Mary Overie), to the north of this Cathedral Church. He left money for the founding of a chantry chapel in which he was buried. This chapel which stood on the north side of the nave was destroyed but the present tomb stands on or near the site on which it was originally built. The head of the effigy rests on three books. Gower wrote Vox Clamantis in Latin, Speculum Meditantis in French and Confessio Amantis in English
Southwark,London Bridge,London,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H5521P - John Gower (c. 1330 “ October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer.
He is remembered primarily for three major works, the Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis, three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively, which are united by common moral and political themes.
His tomb is in Southwark Cathedral, London, with the following inscription:
This is the tomb of John Gower (d. 1408). Poet Laureate to Richard II and to Henry IV. Gower has been called the first English poet because, when most literary people wrote in French or Latin, he wrote also in English. He had a house and chapel within the precincts of the Augustinian Priory, (St. Mary Overie), to the north of this Cathedral Church. He left money for the founding of a chantry chapel in which he was buried. This chapel which stood on the north side of the nave was destroyed but the present tomb stands on or near the site on which it was originally built. The head of the effigy rests on three books. Gower wrote Vox Clamantis in Latin, Speculum Meditantis in French and Confessio Amantis in English
Southwark,London Bridge,London,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H5527K - John Gower (c. 1330 “ October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer.
He is remembered primarily for three major works, the Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis, three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively, which are united by common moral and political themes.
His tomb is in Southwark Cathedral, London, with the following inscription:
This is the tomb of John Gower (d. 1408). Poet Laureate to Richard II and to Henry IV. Gower has been called the first English poet because, when most literary people wrote in French or Latin, he wrote also in English. He had a house and chapel within the precincts of the Augustinian Priory, (St. Mary Overie), to the north of this Cathedral Church. He left money for the founding of a chantry chapel in which he was buried. This chapel which stood on the north side of the nave was destroyed but the present tomb stands on or near the site on which it was originally built. The head of the effigy rests on three books. Gower wrote Vox Clamantis in Latin, Speculum Meditantis in French and Confessio Amantis in English
Southwark,London Bridge,London,England,UK
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Keywords: UK,Sir,John,Betjeman,Englist,poet,writer,inside,statue,Victorian,Society,architecture,building,structure,historic,history,busy,British,Poets,Laureate,saviour,of,Pancreas,railway,rail,terminal,eurostar,Euro-star,international,Gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,looking,looks,at,the,campaign,campaigner
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DJ7B73 - . St Pancras Station interior Camden London stock-photo/gotonysmith-England.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>England UK clock and Sir John Beteman statue, looking up. Photographed at St Pancras station, Euston road, Camden, London, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 20 November 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 upward-looking viewpoint gives extra emphasis to height, upper-storey detail and architectural features that are less prominent from a conventional eye-level view. The scene is closely associated with Pancras, Station, interior, Camden, London, John Betjeman statue, John Betjeman, Sir, John and Betjeman, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The scene has strong relevance to railway travel, public transport, passenger infrastructure and the everyday operation of Britain's rail network. It can illustrate editorial stories about stations, train journeys, commuting, regional connectivity, rail investment, rolling stock, freight, signals, platforms, accessibility and the relationship between railways and the places they serve. Visible railway furniture, signs, tracks, platforms, trains, signals or station buildings help place the photograph firmly in the practical environment experienced by passengers and railway staff. As a dated documentary image it also offers a useful record of transport infrastructure, branding and passenger facilities at the time the photograph was made. Search themes include British rail travel, railway stations, passenger journeys, tracks, platforms, signals, rolling stock, freight, regional connectivity and transport infrastructure.
St Pancras station, Euston road, Camden, London, England, UK
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Keywords: canongate,Edinburgh,Royal,Mile,Inscription,in,stone,is,Born,in,1750,died,in,Bedlam,1774,street,road,historic,history,tourist,attraction,tourism,famous,people,of,capital,city,of,scotland,proud,street,life,interesting,daytime,Edinburgh-born,poet,Robert,Fergusson,achieved,so,much,poetical,success,in,hi,gotonysmith Canongate kirk,Edinburgh Royal Mile,Scotland UK,oldtown,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Scotlands History,Scotlands History
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED05H - . Robert Fergusson Scots Poet bronze Statue from the canongate Edinburgh Royal Mile. Photographed on 26 August 2013. The recorded location is Canongate kirk, Edinburgh Royal Mile, Scotland UK. Edinburgh-born poet Robert Fergusson achieved so much poetical success in his short life of twenty-four years that Robert Burns called him 'my elder brother in the muse'. Robert Fergusson was an eighteenth-century Scots poet whose vivid writing about Edinburgh strongly influenced Robert Burns. The bronze statue outside Canongate Kirk was sculpted by David Annand and unveiled in 2004, showing Fergusson walking through the street environment he wrote about. Burns admired Fergusson so much that he paid for a memorial stone over the poet's grave in Canongate Kirkyard, creating a direct link between two major figures in Scottish literary history. Canongate Kirk was built between 1688 and 1691 after the congregation was displaced from Holyrood Abbey. The distinctive Dutch-gabled church serves the Canongate parish at the lower end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile and has longstanding links with Holyroodhouse and the military. Its interior, monuments, organ and stained glass sit within one of Scotland's most historically dense streetscapes. Looking at the subject's development, public art can become part of the identity of a street or neighbourhood, recording political ideas, local history, humour, memory and changing cultural tastes
Murals, sculpture and decorative art are especially valuable as documentary subjects because they may be altered, moved, weathered or removed. Historically, street signs, shop fascias, notices and inscriptions combine practical communication with graphic design
Typefaces, colours and wording can identify an era, organisation or local custom, making close photographs valuable for social, transport and commercial history. Related search language includes street art, artwork, visual culture, cultural identity, place-making, and community art.
Canongate kirk, Edinburgh Royal Mile, Scotland UK
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Keywords: canongate,Edinburgh,Royal,Mile,Inscription,in,stone,is,Born,in,1750,died,in,Bedlam,1774,street,road,historic,history,tourist,attraction,tourism,famous,people,of,capital,city,of,scotland,proud,street,life,interesting,daytime,Edinburgh-born,poet,Robert,Fergusson,achieved,so,much,poetical,success,in,hi,gotonysmith Canongate kirk,Edinburgh Royal Mile,Scotland UK,oldtown,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED0KH - . Robert Fergusson Scots Poet bronze Statue from the canongate Edinburgh Royal Mile. Photographed on 26 August 2013. The recorded location is Canongate kirk, Edinburgh Royal Mile, Scotland UK. Edinburgh-born poet Robert Fergusson achieved so much poetical success in his short life of twenty-four years that Robert Burns called him 'my elder brother in the muse'. Robert Fergusson was an eighteenth-century Scots poet whose vivid writing about Edinburgh strongly influenced Robert Burns. The bronze statue outside Canongate Kirk was sculpted by David Annand and unveiled in 2004, showing Fergusson walking through the street environment he wrote about. Burns admired Fergusson so much that he paid for a memorial stone over the poet's grave in Canongate Kirkyard, creating a direct link between two major figures in Scottish literary history. Canongate Kirk was built between 1688 and 1691 after the congregation was displaced from Holyrood Abbey. The distinctive Dutch-gabled church serves the Canongate parish at the lower end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile and has longstanding links with Holyroodhouse and the military. Its interior, monuments, organ and stained glass sit within one of Scotland's most historically dense streetscapes. In the longer view, art in public and historic settings adds another layer to the built environment
Sculpture, mosaic, painting and street art can interpret heritage, provoke debate, memorialise communities or create landmarks, and photographs preserve works that may later change or disappear. From a heritage perspective, signs and notices are ephemeral pieces of design that can become important historical evidence
Lettering, logos, warnings and directions record former businesses, regulations, transport systems and public messages that may disappear long before the surrounding building changes. Additional high-relevance terminology includes public art, mural, artwork, visual culture, cultural identity, place-making, and community art.
Canongate kirk, Edinburgh Royal Mile, Scotland UK
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Keywords: canongate,Edinburgh,Royal,Mile,Inscription,in,stone,is,Born,in,1750,died,in,Bedlam,1774,street,road,historic,history,tourist,attraction,tourism,famous,people,of,capital,city,of,scotland,proud,street,life,interesting,daytime,Edinburgh-born,poet,Robert,Fergusson,achieved,so,much,poetical,success,in,hi,gotonysmith Canongate kirk,Edinburgh Royal Mile,Scotland UK,oldtown,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED0TX - . Robert Fergusson Scots Poet bronze Statue from the canongate Edinburgh Royal Mile. Photographed on 26 August 2013. The recorded location is Canongate kirk, Edinburgh Royal Mile, Scotland UK. Edinburgh-born poet Robert Fergusson achieved so much poetical success in his short life of twenty-four years that Robert Burns called him 'my elder brother in the muse'. Robert Fergusson was an eighteenth-century Scots poet whose vivid writing about Edinburgh strongly influenced Robert Burns. The bronze statue outside Canongate Kirk was sculpted by David Annand and unveiled in 2004, showing Fergusson walking through the street environment he wrote about. Burns admired Fergusson so much that he paid for a memorial stone over the poet's grave in Canongate Kirkyard, creating a direct link between two major figures in Scottish literary history. Canongate Kirk was built between 1688 and 1691 after the congregation was displaced from Holyrood Abbey. The distinctive Dutch-gabled church serves the Canongate parish at the lower end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile and has longstanding links with Holyroodhouse and the military. Its interior, monuments, organ and stained glass sit within one of Scotland's most historically dense streetscapes. The historical context is that murals, sculptures and civic artworks turn public space into a record of local culture
They can commemorate people and events, respond to politics, celebrate industry or simply enliven streets, while the artists' materials and styles place the work within a particular period. In historical terms, 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. The subject remains topical in 2026 because contemporary interest in public art is closely linked to regeneration and cultural tourism.
Canongate kirk, Edinburgh Royal Mile, Scotland UK
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Keywords: going,to,be,an,uplift,and,its,going,to,make,everything,better,wall,label,NWMN,national,war,museum,North,GB,Great,Britain,UK,United,Kingdom,on,red,white,profound,poet,poetry,IWM,IWMN,gotonysmith it doesnt war never makes anything better,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Trafford Wharf Rd,Trafford Park,Stretford,Manchester,M17 1TZ
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DA623N - . People think they are fighting for something thats going to be an uplift and its going to make everything better, IWM North. Photographed on 16 June 2013. The recorded location is Trafford Wharf Rd, Trafford Park, Stretford, Manchester, M17 1TZ. Imperial War Museum North opened at Trafford Wharf in 2002 in a building designed by Daniel Libeskind. Its fragmented geometry represents a globe shattered by conflict, with interlocking shards symbolising land, air and water. The museum interprets how war affects people and society rather than concentrating only on weapons or military campaigns, making displayed quotations and personal testimony central to its storytelling. The historical context is that 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. In the longer view, consumer products often use heritage and place as part of their branding
Traditional colours, flags, regional names and historic typography can turn everyday packaging into an expression of identity as well as a commercial object. The subject remains topical in 2026 because digital-first communication means many everyday printed objects are disappearing
Older tickets, labels, cards and signs therefore offer useful material for stories about changing design, retail and consumer behaviour. Current 2026 relevance comes from the fact that packaging is increasingly judged not only by branding but by recyclability, material use and environmental claims
Older products can therefore illustrate how consumer design evolved before today's stronger focus on circularity and waste reduction. Other closely matched search terms include printed ephemera, poster, visual communication, print design, retro design, consumer culture, paper ephemera, graphic history, and design detail.
Trafford Wharf Rd, Trafford Park, Stretford, Manchester, M17 1TZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BTY79M - John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet who first became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s when he became known as a punk poet. He released several albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and continues to perform regularly.
His recorded output has mainly relied on musical backing from the Invisible Girls, which featured Martin Hannett, Steve Hopkins, Pete Shelley, Bill Nelson, and Paul Burgess.
Clarke was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1949. He lived in the Higher Broughton area of the city and became interested in poetry after being inspired by his English teacher, John Malone
In 1979 he had his only UK top 40 hit with Gimmix! (Play Loud). Clarke toured with Linton Kwesi Johnson, and has performed on the same bill as bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Fall, Joy Division, the Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Elvis Costello, Rockpile and New Order (including at their May 1984 Music for Miners benefit concert at London's Royal Festival Hall). His set is characterised by lively, rapid-fire renditions of his poems, usually performed a cappella. Often referred to as the bard of Salford, he usually refers to himself on stage as Johnny Clarke, the name behind the hairstyle.
Clarke appeared in a 1982 music documentary compilation Urgh! A Music War, in which he performed his poem Health Fanatic. The film featured live performances of mainstream artists (the Police, the Go-Go's, XTC, Devo) as well as more obscure bands (Pere Ubu, Invisible Girls, the Alley Cats, Athletico Spizz '80, Chelsea) using concert footage from around the world. He also starred in another 1982 film titled John Cooper Clarke - Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt directed by Nick May and produced for the Arts Council of Great Britain and Channel 4. Somewhere between a narrative film, a series of music videos and a documentary, the film features interviews and performances by Clarke and Linton Kwesi Johnson among others.
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Keywords: HotpixUk,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,on stage,supporting The Fall,2011,John Cooper-Clark,punk,poet,Salford,Liverpool,Uni,University,Liverpool De-Montford Hall,De-Montford Hall,poet Dr John Cooper Clarke,Dr John Cooper Clarke,john cooperclark,johncooperclark,punk poet,reading,poetry,salford punk,1976,1970s,Higher Broughton,performance artist,performance,art,artist,Dr,Doctor,John,Cooper,Clark,sunglasses,notes,diary,poems
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BTY79R - John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet who first became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s when he became known as a punk poet. He released several albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and continues to perform regularly.
His recorded output has mainly relied on musical backing from the Invisible Girls, which featured Martin Hannett, Steve Hopkins, Pete Shelley, Bill Nelson, and Paul Burgess.
Clarke was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1949. He lived in the Higher Broughton area of the city and became interested in poetry after being inspired by his English teacher, John Malone
In 1979 he had his only UK top 40 hit with Gimmix! (Play Loud). Clarke toured with Linton Kwesi Johnson, and has performed on the same bill as bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Fall, Joy Division, the Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Elvis Costello, Rockpile and New Order (including at their May 1984 Music for Miners benefit concert at London's Royal Festival Hall). His set is characterised by lively, rapid-fire renditions of his poems, usually performed a cappella. Often referred to as the bard of Salford, he usually refers to himself on stage as Johnny Clarke, the name behind the hairstyle.
Clarke appeared in a 1982 music documentary compilation Urgh! A Music War, in which he performed his poem Health Fanatic. The film featured live performances of mainstream artists (the Police, the Go-Go's, XTC, Devo) as well as more obscure bands (Pere Ubu, Invisible Girls, the Alley Cats, Athletico Spizz '80, Chelsea) using concert footage from around the world. He also starred in another 1982 film titled John Cooper Clarke - Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt directed by Nick May and produced for the Arts Council of Great Britain and Channel 4. Somewhere between a narrative film, a series of music videos and a documentary, the film features interviews and performances by Clarke and Linton Kwesi Johnson among others.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5903757821 - 'The timeless Johnny Clark ('the name behind the Hairstyle'), the Bard of Salford with his ring bound scribblings, on stage at the Stanley Theatre. He was on a bill with 'The Temps' and Mark E Smiths 'The Fall'.
He had changed little since I first saw him at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1978, although he is now pushing 62.
His early work, including the essential 'Disguise In Love' used backing from 'The Invisible Girls', which featured Martin Hannett, the producer. Clarke was born in Salford, Lancashire in 1949. His first job was a laboratory technician at the University of Salford. He began his performance career in Manchester folk clubs, where he began working with Rick Goldstraw and his band The Ferrets. His first releases were on the independent label Rabid, starting with the EP Innocents in October 1977. He toured with Bill Nelson's band Be-Bop Deluxe in 1978 and was signed by Epic Records, who issued the Nelson-produced debut album Disguise In Love in 1978.
Sadly, he spent much of the 1980s addicted to heroin, living in a 'domestic partnership' with singer and fellow addict Nico (of the Velvet Underground). He made an appearance in two UK adverts for Sugar Puffs in 1988, taking second billing to the Honey Monster. Quite often these days he takes second billing from MES and The Fall.
His set included Beasley St, the updated Beasley Boulavard (now the poem has had some investment from Urban Splash), Chicken Town, Hire Car and the brilliant 'Bongos Trousers'. This is a satirical take on the effects of U2's Bono struggling to save the world and have an audience with the pope minus his kecks.
Brilliant Stuff! - Listen to it here, live from the gig (Adults Only).
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4610912265 - 'This is an interesting service I came across while at the Northwich Thundersprint this weekend. If I was a bike enthusiast I think I would like to make my final journey like this. A black motorcycle hearse. In recent times, the Motorcycle plus side-hearse has become more popular. This type of hearse is a motorcycle with a special side-vehicle built to carry a casket or an urn. These hearses are often used during the funeral of motorcycle enthusiasts around the world.
Motorbikes have a higher fatality rate per unit of distance travelled when compared with cars. In 2004, figures from the UK Department for Transport indicated that motorcycles have 121 deaths or serious injuries per 100 million vehicle kilometers, compared to the corresponding figure of 2.6 for motorists. IE over 50 times more likely. This is due to the increased power and acceleration of bikes, but also size and ability of motorists to spot and make allowance for them.
This situation is helped by higher-visibility gear (not as sexy as the all-black leather iconic approach, but more practical), use of abrasion resistive gear and padding, Full face helmet (skidlid) with gloves and boots. All this gear on mopeds can look rather silly (although safe) and I remember in my first job a workmate being nicknamed 'Evil Kenevil' due to how bizarre this looked.
In the UK, for example, organizations such as the IAM and RoSPA offer advanced motorcycle rider training with the aim of reducing accident rates. There is often an added incentive to riders in the form of reduced insurance premiums.
A final quote from the Managing Director of www.MotorcycleFunerals.com Rev. Paul Sinclair. He believes we should reflect people's lifestyles in their funerals.
'No one submits a Catholic to a Muslim service or places a Liverpool fan in an Arsenal strip when they die so why should motorcycle enthusiasts be last seen in a car?'
Er.. Quite!
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