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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCWJ - . This dated editorial view of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK in 2015 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The defining feature is Old Royal Bank Of Scotland PLC,£1,note 1965, UK,signed by Robertson,yellow. The surrounding context encompasses changing streetscape, local enterprise, street-level business, visual archive, independent retail, bricks-and-mortar retail, local history, public realm, community identity, place identity, retail property, before-and-after reference, changing land use, and customer footfall. The wider contemporary story combines commercial rents, store closures and how commercial property costs affect small retailers. For later comparison, the photograph preserves public access and movement at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, details that may look very different after changed technology. The location also brings in historical comparison, contemporary social history, archival record, local character, commercial frontage, specialist shop, shopfront economy, and social history. References to signed, yellow, Robertson, and Royal give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The wider setting at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Its period value extends to commercial rents and how commercial property costs affect small retailers without losing the local specificity of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The location additionally provides evidence of business rates and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets in a form that can be compared with future views of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. A further contemporary connection is online shopping and how commercial property costs affect small retailers within the real-world context of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCWK - . Made at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK in 2015, 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 scene records Old Royal Bank Of Scotland PLC,£5,note 1972 to 1981, UK. Another layer of the photograph includes regional identity, changing land use, historical comparison, local enterprise, independent retail, shopfront economy, specialist shop, period detail, changing streetscape, contemporary social history, town-centre trading, commercial frontage, archival record, and local character. The modern context includes continuing discussion of store closures, business rates and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses. Future viewers can use this scene from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK to compare transport arrangements and footfall with whatever follows after new construction. A second descriptive layer includes visual archive, public realm, retail property, place identity, everyday life, street-level business, bricks-and-mortar retail, and specialist retailer. References to Royal give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The period setting at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Its period value extends to store closures and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets when considered against later change at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The location additionally provides evidence of footfall and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets without losing the local specificity of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. A further contemporary connection is commercial rents and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy in a form that can be compared with future views of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4M1F - OLD STAMP OFFICE CLOSE
This close gets its name as it once housed the Government Stamp Office until 1821. The Royal Bank was also located here from 1727 to 1753.
It also contained the home of The Countess of Eglinton and her seven beautiful daughters. They family would set out to attend dancing assemblies in Assembly Close each in their own guilded Sedan Chair.
The poet Allan Ramsay dedicated The Gentle Shepherd to her.
The close also housed a Tavern called 'Fortune's Tavern' and at one time 'Ship's Tavern' Where levées were held by the General Assembly's Lord High Commissioner of 1754.
Flora McDonald, associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie attended boarding school here.
Old Stamp Office Close, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4M1G - OLD STAMP OFFICE CLOSE
This close gets its name as it once housed the Government Stamp Office until 1821. The Royal Bank was also located here from 1727 to 1753.
It also contained the home of The Countess of Eglinton and her seven beautiful daughters. They family would set out to attend dancing assemblies in Assembly Close each in their own guilded Sedan Chair.
The poet Allan Ramsay dedicated The Gentle Shepherd to her.
The close also housed a Tavern called 'Fortune's Tavern' and at one time 'Ship's Tavern' Where levées were held by the General Assembly's Lord High Commissioner of 1754.
Flora McDonald, associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie attended boarding school here.
Old Stamp Office Close, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF7D79 - . Dusk at the Bank of Scotland Building, The Mound, Edinburgh, Lothian Scotland , UK in icy weather, winter @Hotpixuk. Photographed on 25 December 2010. The recorded location is Bank of Scotland Building, North Bank street, The Mound, Edinburgh, Lothian Scotland, UK. Historically, banking imagery can range from grand Victorian branch architecture to the small physical objects of personal finance
Together, notes, coins, cards, cheques and cashpoints chart a shift from cash and branch-based services towards electronic and online banking. 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. In 2026, cash is used less often than in earlier decades but continues to be important, particularly for vulnerable consumers and some small businesses
FCA access-to-cash rules require designated banks and building societies to assess local provision and address significant gaps, making images of ATMs, notes and former branches relevant to financial inclusion. 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, landscape imagery is increasingly used alongside discussion of climate, resilience, tourism and development
Earlier panoramas can show how skylines, waterfronts and vegetation have changed over a comparatively short period.
Bank of Scotland Building, North Bank street, The Mound, Edinburgh, Lothian Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HEJ6CN - Photo shows Scotrail passenger tickets and £20 notes,Anytime day return. The image can support editorial features on public transport, commuting, passenger information, ticketing, rail and bus infrastructure, regional connectivity, station environments and sustainable travel. Transport images like this are especially useful where operator branding, vehicle type, platform or street context is visible, because they locate policy themes in a real everyday setting rather than an abstract transport graphic. The supplied workbook does not give a precise location, so the image should be treated as a concept or documentary subject unless the location can be verified separately. Visible wording, branding or signage noted in the supplied caption should be kept as search evidence because it helps buyers looking for specific editorial concepts, public messages, commercial streets, transport detail or local identity. Lighting, passenger density and weather should be checked from the image, but the subject is clearly a live transport or travel setting. It should work for editorial buyers needing authentic, non-staged British or travel imagery for news, magazine, blog, local government, heritage, housing, transport, tourism, retail, public policy or social commentary use. The caption should be checked against the visible photograph before upload so that any readable signs, weather, time of day and people context are accurately reflected without overstating facts not shown in the image. The strongest sales value is the combination of named subject, real location and everyday documentary style, giving picture editors a flexible image that can sit alongside features, opinion pieces, explainers, historical retrospectives and local news.
Queen St, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
