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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,rail,railway,train,trains,Victorian,signalbox,frame,green,signals,signalling,old,fashioned,traditional,British,English,signal,workplace,equipment,at,CW1 2DB,CW1,box,boxes,Crewe,Station,A,Black & White,in,sepia,rolling,stock
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JWGT93 - . This scene at Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The defining feature is Sepia traditional Victorian railway signalbox, and rolling stock at Crewe Station A, at Cheshire, England, UK, CW1 2DB, in sepia. Another layer of the photograph includes visual archive, rail infrastructure, trackside history, public realm, local character, rail operations, historic townscape, commercial redevelopment, town-centre renewal, public-realm investment, civic architecture, social history, period architecture, and mixed-use redevelopment. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with signalling technology, regional connectivity and the role of rail in lower-carbon regional transport. The modern context includes continuing discussion of commercial viability, planning and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. As a dated visual record of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, the frame retains local activity and public use, making it especially useful if refurbishment subsequently changes the scene. The subject also sits alongside period detail, freight wagon, regional identity, place-making, historical comparison, signal-box architecture, industrial railway, and rail corridor. Elements such as traditional, railway, Crewe, Station, and Victorian add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Crewe,Cheshire,England,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 signalling technology and the role of rail in lower-carbon regional transport without losing the local specificity of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK. It also preserves details of everyday use before later change alters the scene.
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JWGT9G - . This dated editorial view of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The location is represented through Sepia image of electric signal box levers and frame, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK, CW1 2DB. Other connected aspects include canal heritage, trackside history, mechanical signalling, public realm, working waterway, canal transport, local character, inland navigation, contemporary social history, regional identity, everyday life, archival record, rail operations, and changing streetscape. Current relevance extends to rail reform and network modernisation, particularly through how Crewe's identity remains tied to railway engineering and operations. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into biodiversity and volunteering, not least because of how museum collections preserve working waterway history. The archival value lies partly in recording local activity and public use around Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK before altered transport patterns alters the character of the place. The wider setting retains connections with working railway heritage, community identity, industrial railway, industrial navigation, changing land use, freight wagon, inland transport history, and before-and-after reference. References to Crewe, signal, levers, electric, and frame give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. A later view of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The scene further reflects rail reform and how Crewe's identity remains tied to railway engineering and operations when considered against later change at Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK. Its period value extends to volunteering and the transition from freight transport to leisure and heritage use without losing the local specificity of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK.
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JWGT9M - . This dated editorial view of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The photograph centres on Sepia view of signal box interior, Station A, Horse landing, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK, CW1 2DB. The image also relates to rail operations, industrial railway, public realm, social history, local character, public transport stop, before-and-after reference, changing land use, station environment, historic rolling stock, local mobility, passenger information, roadside transit, and freight wagon. The wider contemporary story combines station investment, rail reform and the role of rail in lower-carbon regional transport. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with accessibility, service frequency and how local bus services affect access to work, education and healthcare. The image fixes transport arrangements and footfall within Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against closure or conversion. The location also brings in bus route infrastructure, community identity, place identity, regional identity, passenger transport, bus infrastructure, local history, and railway heritage. Elements such as signal, Crewe, interior, Sepia, and Station add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. A later view of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Its period value extends to station investment and the contrast between mechanical railway systems and digital signalling when considered against later change at Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB. The image fixes period character before later change alters the scene. It also preserves a trace of local identity as a date-specific reference.
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 2DB
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,England,UK,inside,of,Eating Area,design,kiosk,&,Co,Pvt,Ltd,restroom,godown,A.H.,traditional,history,juice,sepia,BW,Black & White,Wheelers,facade,façade,culture,cultural,artistic,stage,staging,props,prop,scenery,Hindi,newsagents,newagent,book shop,bookshop
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKC2C9 - . A grounded stock-photo/gotonysmith-Documentary.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>documentary photograph made at Kings Cross, Coal Drops Yard, London, England, UK in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The frame specifically shows Sepia Interior of Dishoom Indian restaurant - AH Wheeler & Co kiosk, Kings Cross, Coal Drops Yard, London, England, UK. Another layer of the photograph includes pedestrian public space, archival record, industrial railway heritage, freight wagon, train operations, changing land use, adaptive reuse, contemporary cityscape, everyday life, rail mobility, heritage-led renewal, visual archive, community identity, and mixed-use redevelopment. The modern context includes continuing discussion of transport-led growth, mixed-use development and the balance between preserving industrial character and creating high-value urban destinations. For current editorial use, fares and station investment provide additional context, especially through the continuing importance of rail to regional connectivity. As a dated visual record of Kings Cross, Coal Drops Yard, London, England, UK, the frame retains signage and branding, making it especially useful if changing commercial priorities subsequently changes the scene. Further associations within the scene are creative quarter, public-realm design, place identity, passenger railway, regenerated railway lands, rolling stock, former industrial land, and destination retail district. Elements such as restaurant, Cross, Kings, kiosk, and Drops add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within Kings Cross, Coal Drops Yard, London, England, UK, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The photograph keeps period character before later change alters the scene.
Kings Cross, Coal Drops Yard, London, England, UK
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Keywords: SpreadEagel,Spread Eagle,pub,bar,Lymm,Eagle Brow,Cheshire,WBC,Warrington,England,UK,fog,foggy,weather,winter,real ale,village,boozer,sepia,brown,wet,dull,rain,rainy,trees,tree
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4596979965 - 'While high pressure systems bring lovely clear blue skies &
sunny days, in winter they can also bring cold grey fog, for days on end.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJ7903 - London Road Fire Station is a former fire station in Manchester, England. It was opened in 1906, on a site bounded by London Road, Whitworth Street, Minshull Street South and Fairfield Street. Designed in the Edwardian Baroque style by Woodhouse, Willoughby and Langham in red brick and terracotta, it cost £142,000 to build and was built by J. Gerrard and Sons of Swinton. It has been a Grade II* listed building since 1974.
In addition to a fire station, the building housed a police station, an ambulance station, a bank, a coroner's court, and a gas-meter testing station. The fire station operated for eighty years, housing the firemen, their families, and the horse-drawn appliances that were replaced by motorised vehicles a few years after its opening. It was visited by royalty in 1942, in recognition of the brigade's wartime efforts. After the war it became a training centre and in 1952 became the first centre equipped to record emergency calls. However, the fire station became expensive to maintain and after council reorganisation decline set in.
The building was the headquarters of the Manchester Fire Brigade until the brigade was replaced by the Greater Manchester Fire Service in 1974. The fire station closed in 1986, since when it has been largely unused despite several redevelopment proposals. It was placed on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk Register in 2001 and in 2010 Manchester City Council served a compulsory purchase order on the fire station's owner, Britannia Hotels. Britannia announced in 2015 their intention to sell the building opening up the possibility of redevelopment after nearly 30 years of dereliction.
50 London Rd, Manchester M1 2PH
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Keywords: Townhall,Merseyside,Street,building,structure,listed,buildings,18th,century,stone,Lord,Mayors,Mayor,parlour,Council,chamber,local,government,Corporation,James,Wyatt,Castle,Street,tour,licensed,for,weddings,slate,lead,roof,dome,18th Century,Buildings Of England,Town Hall,Dale St,Dale Street,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,United,Kingdom,GB,English,British,domed,clock,square,exchange,flags,Sepia,old,BW,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,United Kingdom,Great Britain,Exchange Flags
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GGWH3P - Liverpool Town Hall stands in High Street at its junction with Dale Street, Castle Street, and Water Street in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and described in the list as one of the finest surviving 18th-century town halls. The authors of the Buildings of England series refer to its magnificent scale, and consider it to be probably the grandest ...suite of civic rooms in the country, and an outstanding and complete example of late Georgian decoration.
It is not an administrative building but a civic suite, Lord Mayor's parlour and Council chamber
local government administration is centred at the nearby Municipal Buildings. The town hall was built between 1749 and 1754 to a design by John Wood the Elder replacing an earlier town hall nearby. An extension to the north designed by James Wyatt was added in 1785. Following a fire in 1795 the hall was largely rebuilt and a dome designed by Wyatt was built. Minor alterations have subsequently been made. The streets surrounding its site have altered since its initiation, notably when viewed from Castle Street, the south-side, it appears as off-centre. This is because Water Street which ran to the junction with Dale Street, the west-east axis, was continuous and built up across the junction so that the Town Hall was not visible originally from that aspect. The structures were removed 150 years after this to expose the building from this position.
High St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK L2 3SW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EY3RMJ - . Will Nixon and sons,traditional Carlisle pet shop,Cumbria,England,UK in monochrome. Photographed at 5 Bank Street,Carlisle,Cumbria,England,UK. The photograph was taken on 06 July 2015. 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 Nixon, sons, Carlisle, pet, shop, care, retail, retailer, hamster and food, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is relevant to homes, residential streets, domestic architecture and the everyday details that shape the appearance of British housing. It can support editorial features about housing, addresses, front doors, neighbourhood identity, home ownership, renting, property condition, postal delivery, security and suburban or urban streets. Doors, windows, numbers, letterboxes, gardens, walls and other domestic details can provide a recognisable visual shorthand for home and residence without relying on a staged interior. As a dated record, the image can also be useful for local history and later comparison as properties are altered, refurbished or redeveloped. Search themes include housing, homes, front doors, addresses, letterboxes, house numbers, residential streets, property, neighbourhoods, renting and home ownership. Small domestic details can become useful archive evidence when properties are refurbished, altered, renumbered or redeveloped. 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.
5 Bank Street,Carlisle,Cumbria,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EY3RMM - . Will Nixon and sons,traditional Carlisle pet shop,Cumbria,England,UK,Black/White. Photographed at 5 Bank Street,Carlisle,Cumbria,England,UK. The photograph was taken on 06 July 2015. 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 Nixon, sons, Carlisle, pet, shop, care, retail, retailer, hamster and food, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is relevant to homes, residential streets, domestic architecture and the everyday details that shape the appearance of British housing. It can support editorial features about housing, addresses, front doors, neighbourhood identity, home ownership, renting, property condition, postal delivery, security and suburban or urban streets. Doors, windows, numbers, letterboxes, gardens, walls and other domestic details can provide a recognisable visual shorthand for home and residence without relying on a staged interior. As a dated record, the image can also be useful for local history and later comparison as properties are altered, refurbished or redeveloped. Search themes include housing, homes, front doors, addresses, letterboxes, house numbers, residential streets, property, neighbourhoods, renting and home ownership. Small domestic details can become useful archive evidence when properties are refurbished, altered, renumbered or redeveloped. 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.
5 Bank Street,Carlisle,Cumbria,England,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ECW52D - The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary dates from at least 1074. The original church was demolished and completely rebuilt, but both the chancel and the bell tower of the present building contain small amounts of re-used Norman stonework.
The present Early English Gothic chancel was built late in the 12th or early in the 13th century. The tower has a saddleback roof and may have been built in the 13th or 14th century. The present nave was built in 1793 and has a west gallery that was added in 1834.
St. Mary's is now part of the Cherwell Valley Benefice along with five other ecclesiastical parishes: Fritwell, Lower Heyford, Somerton, Souldern and Upper Heyford.
Here is shown, middle window on south side of nave
built in 1792, blocked for many years and then restored with a new stained glass window early in the 21st century.
Ardley, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Keywords: Spring,snow,drops,england,english,winter,season,seasonal,flowers,flower,white,sepia,fine,art,fineart,image,tony,smith,tonysmith,tonysmiththat,tonysmiththatit,housing,UK,GB,square,Grappenhall,warrington
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8559566106 - 'St Etienne - 'Spring' - Play this track here.
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A great track from the London Conversations album. this time of year always reminds me of it with all the snowdrops in the hedgerows. Very uplifting that Easter and warmer, longer days just around the corner.
Saint Etienne are an English electronic music band from London, formed in 1990. The band consists of Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. They are named of course after the French football team AS Saint-\u00c9tienne
Saint Etienne were associated with the 'indie dance' genre in the early 1990s. Their typical approach was to combine sonic elements of the dance-pop that emerged in the wake of the so-called Second Summer of Love (e.g. samples and digitally synthesized sounds) with an emphasis on songwriting involving romantic and introspective themes more commonly associated with traditional British pop and rock music.
Early work demonstrated the influence of '60s soul, '70s dub and rock as well as '80s dance music, giving them a broad palette of sounds and a reputation for eclecticism. Years later, The Times wrote that they 'deftly fused the grooviness of Swinging Sixties London with a post-acid house backbeat'. Their first two albums, Foxbase Alpha and So Tough feature sounds chiefly associated with house music, such as standard TR-909 drum patterns and Italo house piano riffs mixed with original sounds, notable by the use of found dialogue, sampled from 1960s British realist cinema. Some of these earlier recordings included skits by (Brass Eye) satirist Chris Morris.
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Keywords: sepia,wedding,marriage,tyrone,julia,field,Codsall,Wolves,Wolverhampton,South,Staffordshire,Throwing,Confetti,Tettenhall,white,dress,traditional,mono,b/w,tony,smith,tonysmith,voluntas,hotpix,tonysmithhotpix,thathousingitguy,tonysmiththathousingitguy,city,town,happy,couple,english,country,church,churches,gate,wwedding
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7160855907 - 'Anyone who knows me well, knows that I dont generally do weddings.
They have to be special or be occasions for special people. Suffice to say I spent Saturday photographing one such wedding in Tettenhall, near Wolverhampton and Codsall. I jumped at photographing this one and was honoured to be asked along.
Tyrone, you are a diamond, you have found a brilliant lady in Julia. You will have many happy years together I am sure!
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Keywords: LBD,LBN,Little,black,dress,number,Caroline,hat,mono,b/w,Tresman,Sandbach,Cheshire,Sepia,toned,TonySmith,Hotpix,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8234745589 - 'View this whole set of portraits here. If you do Twitter add me here.
This is a shot of Caroline, a great lady who I was introduced to when taking some fashion shots last November. A fantastic bundle of fun who probably once you know her better, you could trust your life to.
Here she sports a lovely LBD (Little black dress) and the type of difficult to light hat that photographers hate.
An LBD. A Little Black Number. They say no lady's wardrobe is complete without one. Wearing black might not make those extra pounds disappear, but you can trick the eye into believing they have. Caroline doesn't need slimming effects and is a healthy 8-10.
As a general rule though, dressing from head to toe in a single color will instantly make you look slimmer. This is because wearing one color gives you a straight vertical line to look at and doesn\u2019t emphasize any particular areas. When you wear more than one color, the eye is instantly attracted to where the break occurs, which is usually around the waist.
Black increases that slimming illusion because it does not reflect light. Other colors are affected by light, projecting reflections or casting shadows in areas where your body curves or the material bends and wrinkles. Black, on the other hand, doesn\u2019t have this effect, so any imperfections remain hidden under the clothes. In short, black is a very effective color for hiding bulges, lumps and bumps. White highlights all shadows, making bulges and lumps prominent and causing the exact opposite effect of wearing black.
Beware, the slimming effect of black is somewhat diminished if you wear shiny materials like Lycra, satin or sequins. The shine on the clothes will produce reflections and sometimes shadows, depending on the type of cloth. It\u2019s also important to remember that the slimming illusion of black only works from the back or front. If you stand sideways, the shape of your body becomes evident again
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Keywords: couple,two,people,sepia,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,goth,gothic,clothes,robes,man,woman,gentleman,tony,smith,tonysmith,hotpix,tonysmithhotpix,recognition,MIS,@hotpixUK,ActiveH,housingtechnology
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6488842835 - 'Bauhaus - 'Terror Couple Kill Colonel' - Play this track here.
A band that I am convinced never had the recognician they deserved.
The group consisted of Peter Murphy (vocals), Daniel Ash (guitar), Kevin Haskins (drums) and David J (bass). The band was originally Bauhaus 1919 before they dropped the numerical portion within a year of formation. With their dark and gloomy sound and image, Bauhaus are generally considered the first gothic rock group.
Bauhaus first broke up in 1983. Peter Murphy began a solo career while the other members continued as Tones on Tail and, later, Love and Rockets. Both enjoyed greater commercial success in the United States than Bauhaus had, but disappeared from the charts in their homeland. The band reunited for a 1998 tour and on a more permanent basis in 2005. The group announced plans to disband again following the release of their final album, Go Away White, in 2008.
The band started on the 4AD label and moved quickly to Beggars Banquet, who was their parent. 'Kick in the Eye' was the debut release on the label.
Bauhaus combined a number of influences including punk music, glam rock, and Krautrock\u2014even funk and dub\u2014to create a gloomy and introspective sound which appealed to many fans left disillusioned by the New Wave that arose in the wake of punk's collapse.
Their sound proved influential, inspiring or bringing attention to a whole wave of post-punk groups delving into the intense, gloomy style that would eventually come to be known as gothic rock. Its crucial elements included Peter Murphy's deep and sonorous voice, Daniel Ash's innovative guitar playing and David J's dub-influenced bass.
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Keywords: tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpix,tonysmithhotpix,mono,monochrome,grain,grainy,hand,fingers,man,baby,boy,holding,hands,father,love,affection,sepia,tone,toning,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6148376926 - 'The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand - Play this track here.
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Holding hands is something we enjoy doing with our children and lovers. In some cultures, Arab countries, Africa and some parts of Asia it is done also by men and/or boys for friendship and/or a sign of respect.
The custom of men holding hands can cause discomfort in societies unused to it, as it did with Americans, when, in 2005, then Crown prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia held hands in public with then American president George W Bush.
Archaeological ruins and ancient texts show that handshaking was practiced in ancient Greece as far back as the 5th century BC
a depiction of two soldiers shaking hands can be found on part of a 5th century BC funerary stele on display in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin.
Other funerary steles like the one of the 4th century BC which depicts Thraseas and his wife Euandria handshaking (see images on the right). Some researchers have suggested the handshake may have been introduced in the Western World by Sir Walter Raleigh in service with the British Court during the late 16th century.
The handshake is thought by some to have originated as a gesture of peace by demonstrating that the hand holds no weapon.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6156336257 - 'Roxy Music - Street Life - Play this track here.
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I was a latecomer to appreciating the talents of Roxy Music, born slightly too late I guess.
'Street Life' is the opening track of Roxy Music's third album Stranded, their first album with Eddie Jobson, who replaced the talented Brian Eno. It was released as a single in the UK in November 1973 and reached number 9 on the charts. Its non-LP B-side 'Hula Kula', an hawaiian-like instrumental composed by Phil Manzanera, was re-released on the 'The Thrill of It All' boxset.
Roxy Music are an English art rock group formed in November 1970 by Bryan Ferry, who became the group's lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson. The other members are Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe) and Paul Thompson (drums and percussion). Former members include Brian Eno (synthesizer and 'treatments'), and Eddie Jobson (synthesizer and violin).
Although the band took a break from group activities in 1983, they reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and have toured together intermittently since that time.
Roxy Music attained popular and critical success in the UK, Europe and Australia during the 1970s and early 1980s, beginning with their debut album, Roxy Music (1972). The band was highly influential, as leading proponents of the more experimental, musically sophisticated element of glam, as well as a significant influence on early English punk music.
They also provided a model for many New Wave acts and the experimental electronic groups of the early 1980s. The group is distinguished by their visual and musical sophistication and their preoccupation with style and glamour. Ferry and co-founding member Eno have also had influential solo careers, the latter becoming one of the most significant record producers and collaborators of the late 20th century.
This image was taken at 79 Rue Saint-Dominique, Paris 7th arrondissement. It is quite up-market, also home to many foreign diplomatic embassies, some of them occupying outstanding H\u00f4tels particuliers.
The arrondissement is home to French upper class since the 17th century, when it became the new residence of French highest nobility. The district has been so fashionable within the French aristocracy that the phrase le Faubourg \u2014 referring to the ancient name of the current 7th arrondissement \u2014 has been used to describe French nobility ever since.
France's 2nd richest district in average income, this arrondissement is part of Paris Ouest, alongside the 6th, 8th, 16th arrondissements and Neuilly, and is usually considered the most aristocratic district of the area. Indeed, plat de jour at Thoumieux will set you back 80 Euros a head before service charge, water or wine. I have got to say though, the food is good!
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Johnny Marr should need no introduction being one half the team that founded 'The Smiths' and on break up entered years of legal battles with the rest of the band members.
This track is from Boomslang, the first, and to date only album by Johnny Marr + the Healers. It was released in 2003 through Artistdirect and iMusic. The band consisted of drummer Zak Starkey and former Kula Shaker bassist Alonza Bevan with Marr handling guitars and lead vocals.
Boomslang received a mixed critical reaction. Uncut, Billboard and PopMatters gave the album positive reviews, while Q and Mojo published more lukewarm reactions.
In Rolling Stone, Pat Blashill wrote that the album 'shimmers with elements of T. Rex and traces of the Stone Roses \u2013 it's got all the atmosphere of a great rock record, but not the guts of one'
Sadly, Marr and his immense talent seems eclipsed by his nemesis Steven Patrick Morrissey.
This shot was taken at dusk in a warm, sweaty Paris evening, after a meal of Steak Tartare and a calvados and apple tart.I thanked my lucky stars I was not queuing for the Eiffel tower, I would have needed my supper before I got to the top.
The restaurant up there is horrendously expensive. There is a story about a man who once a week always took coffee up there. He was asked why with it being so expensive. He replied it was the only place in Paris he was sure he could take his coffee, look out of the window, and NOT see the Eiffel tower!
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5506924407 - 'Charlotte Street - 'Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' - Play this track here.
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This is certainly a shop I would expect to find on 'Charlotte Street'.
Rattlesnakes was the debut album released in 1984 by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. The band formed in Glasgow and were a great success in the second half of the 1980's. The band were formed whilst Cole (who was born in Derbyshire, England) was studying at the University of Glasgow. After signing to Polydor Records, the band had a Top 40 UK hit with their debut single 'Perfect Skin' in Spring 1984.
The follow-up album, Easy Pieces, was produced by Clive Langer (ex Deaf School guitarist) &
Alan Winstanley (who had previously produced Madness, The Teardrop Explodes and Elvis Costello and the Attractions). Released in November 1985, the album was a much quicker commercial success than its predecessor (entering the UK album chart at no 5 and certified Gold within a month). The singles 'Brand New Friend' and 'Lost Weekend' were the band's first and only UK Top 20 hits (charting 19 and 17 respectively).
To track down some more Lloyd Cole, checkout 'Live at the BBC', volumes 1 and 2 (2007), which contains BBC broadcasts of live shows between 1984 and 1986.
Some trivia about Charlotte St, nothing to do with Lloyd Cole. Theresa Berkley was an early 19th century dominatrix who ran a brothel in at 28 Charlotte Street in London (now 84-94 Hallam Street), specialising in flagellation. Well I never!
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5877759603 - 'The Stranglers 'London Lady' - Play this track here.
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A frequent visitor, but not a daily commuter on the London Underground thankfully, I often get the feeling I could be on an elaborate film set.
London's underground railway system, known as the Tube, has featured in several films. The plot of the 1998 film Sliding Doors hinges on whether Gwynneth Paltrow's character catches a particular Tube train or not. Bulldog Jack (1934), Manhunt (1941), The Good Die Young (1954), and 28 Weeks Later (2007) all include chase sequences across underground tracks.
A number of horror films have also used the subterranean network of tunnels as an atmospheric location, most notably the John Landis hit An American Werewolf in London (1981), which contains a famous scene set in Tottenham Court Road tube station, and the 2004 film Creep. The eerie 1973 horror Death Line stars Donald Pleasence as a Scotland Yard detective who traces a series of murders to cannibals living in the network's tunnels.
Excavations on the Underground unearthed an ancient alien spacecraft in Quatermass and the Pit (1967), and dormant dragons in Reign of Fire (2002).
The 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day features a secret MI6 facility in a fictional disused Underground Station called Vauxhall Cross. Another fictional station, Hobbs End features in the 1967 science fiction film Quatermass and the Pit. Shaun of the Dead features the fictional Crouch End station.
London Lady is the 3rd track on side one of Rattus Norvegicus (alternative title The Stranglers IV) is the first studio album by The Stranglers, released on 17 April 1977. The album was originally to be entitled 'Dead on Arrival' but was changed at the last minute. It was one of the highest-selling albums of the punk era in Britain, eventually achieving platinum record sales.
The album's title is the taxonomic name for the common brown rat. It was produced in one week by Martin Rushent, and was basically a snapshot of the band's live set at the time.
The first 20,000 copies of the original vinyl release included a free 7' single, containing 'Peasant in the Big Shitty (live)' and 'Choosie Susie'. I have a copy in my loft. Two singles were taken from the album: 'Grip', and 'Peaches' (released as a double A-side with the non-album track 'Go Buddy Go'), which gave the band their first major hit single, reaching No.8 on the UK chart.A remastered version of the album was reissued on CD in 2001, including these three additional tracks.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5266844649 - 'Mr Brownstone - 'Guns n' Roses' - Play this track here.
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Mr Brownstone is a track from the album 'Appetite for Destruction' from 1987. Legend has it that Slash &
Izzy Stradlin wrote the song after lamenting their heroin habits. The line 'I used to do a little, but a little wouldn't do, so the little got more and more. I just keep trying to get a little better, said a little better than before' encapsulates it all.
Mr Brownstone was GnR's first UK double A-side single, but was not released anywhere else in that form. The band was from Hollywood, Los Angeles, California originating in 1985. Led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose, Jr.), the band has released six studio albums so far &
an official live album while going through numerous line-up changes. As of 2010, Rose is the only consistent member of Guns N' Roses.
The debut album, 'Appetite for Destruction', has sold in excess of 28 million copies worldwide and even if you hate rock or metal music, in my opinion you should still probably have a copy. There was a long gap between early work and the much hyped 'Chinese Democracy' album.
On March 26, 2008, 'Dr Pepper' announced a plan to give everyone in America \u2013 except the band's former guitarists Slash and Buckethead \u2013 a free can of Dr Pepper if the band released Chinese Democracy before the end of 2008. Rose added, 'As some of Buckethead's performances are on our album, I'll share my Dr Pepper with him.'
With the announcement from Guns N' Roses regarding a release date in November, Tony Jacobs, Dr Pepper's Vice President of Marketing for Dr. Pepper, announced a free soda coupon campaign for 24 hours on Sunday, November 23, 2008. Due to 'heavy volume' on the server throughout the entire day it was impossible to submit for your free coupon. I cannot say I was gutted, I would rather drink 'Venos' than Dr Pepper myself!
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Castlerigg Stone Circle (alt. Keswick Carles, Carles, Carsles or Castle-rig) near Keswick in England is one of the most visually impressive prehistoric monuments in Britain and is the most visited stone circle in Cumbria, England UK.
Every year, thousands of people make the short journey from Keswick to the plateau of Castlerigg Fell and to Chestnut Hill, on which the monument stands. This plateau forms the raised centre of a natural amphitheatre created by the surrounding fells and from within the circle it is possible to see some of the highest peaks in Cumbria: Helvellyn, Skiddaw, Grasmoor and Blencathra.
The stones are of a local metamorphic slate, set in a flattened circle, measuring 32.6 m (107 ft) at its widest and 29.5 m (97 ft) at its narrowest. The heaviest stone has been estimated to weigh around 16 tons and the tallest stone measures approximately 2.3m high. There is a 3.3m wide gap in its northern edge, which may have been an entrance.
Within the circle, abutting its eastern quadrant, is a roughly rectangular setting of a further 10 stones. The circle was probably constructed around 3200 BC (Late Neolithic/Early Bronze-Age), making it one of the earliest stone circles in Britain and possibly in Europe. It is important to archaeoastronomers who have noted that the sunrise during the Autumn equinox appears over the top of Threlkeld Knott, a hill 3.5 km to the east. Some stones in the circle have been aligned with the midwinter sunrise and various lunar positions.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6220634687 - 'The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe - Play this track here.
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The Hollies are an English pop and rock group, formed in Manchester in the early 1960s, though most of the band members are from throughout East Lancashire. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style, they became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s and 1970s. They enjoyed considerable popularity in many countries, although they did not achieve major US chart success until 1966. Along with The Rolling Stones and The Searchers, they are one of the few British pop groups of the early 1960s that have never officially broken up and that continue to record and perform. The Hollies were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.
The original line-up included Graham Nash as guitarist and vocalist. You may know him from Crosby, Stills &
Nash, considered one of the first 'supergroups'.
This is a classic track, my favourite from the Hollies.
I am familiar with Asthma. It claimed the life of my mother, who suffered with it for many years.
Asthma (from the Greek \u03ac\u03c3\u03b8\u03bc\u03b1, \u00e1sthma, 'panting') is the common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. Its characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm.
Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath. Asthma is clinically classified according to the frequency of symptoms, forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), and peak expiratory flow rate.
It is thought to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Treatment of acute symptoms is usually with an inhaled short-acting beta-2 agonist (such as salbutamol). Alternatively glucocorticoid/corti steroids, such as Pulmicort, a brand name in the UK and Europe.
The prevalence of asthma has increased significantly since the 1970s. As of 2010, 300 million people were affected worldwide. In 2009 asthma caused 250,000 deaths globally.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5356706533 - 'In A Room - 'Dodgy' - Play this track here.
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I had the pleasure of photographing Dodgy at a festival in the late 1990's. What a sound bunch of lads.
The band's cracking debut album was produced by The Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie. During the 1990s the band gained much popularity for their live performances. The band concerned themselves with social issues by supporting The Serious Road Trip, War Child, the Liverpool Dockers' Strike, Charter 88 and youth democracy campaigns. The band became the second UK act, after China Drum, to play in Sarajevo after the lifting of the siege, giving a concert at Kuk club in August 1996. They returned to Bosnia in 1997, to film a programme with Kate Thornton in Mostar.
The original line up of the band, Clark, Miller, and Priest, returned with a live album, So Far On 3 Wheels - Dodgy On The Radio, in October 2007. In the summer of 2007, the band announced a reunion tour, featuring the entire original line up. These plans were abandoned however, when Miller fell out of bed, chipping a bone in his arm in the process. The rescheduled tour took place in March 2008.
Dodgy are best known for their hits 'Staying Out For The Summer', 'If You're Thinking Of Me', and 'Good Enough'. Check these out if this has whetted your appetite. Oh and tell 'em I sent you.
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Art Deco is an eclectic artistic and design style which had its origins in Paris in the first decades of the 20th century. The style originated in the 1920s and continued to be employed until after World War II. The term 'art deco' first saw wide use after an exhibition in 1966, referring to the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts D\u00e9coratifs et Industriels Modernes that was the culmination of high-end style moderne in Paris.
Led by the best designers in the decorative arts such as fashion, and interior design, Art Deco affected all areas of design throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including architecture and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as painting, the graphic arts and film. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, glamorous, functional and modern.
In London, the former Arsenal Stadium boasts the famous East Stand facade. It remains at the football club's old home at Highbury, London Borough of Islington, which was vacated in the summer of 2006. Opened in October 1936, the structure now has Grade II listed status and has been converted into flats. William Bennie, the man behind the project, famously used the Art Deco style in the final design which was seen as one of the most opulent and impressive stands in world football. The London Underground is also famous for many examples of Art Deco architecture.
This joiner from over 20 iphone images is taken in Le Metropolitain in central Halifax, West Yorks. Its a lively cafe bar and brasserie with Art Deco-style design, housed in an elegant Georgian Listed building. There is a courtyard for al fresco dining. My lunch unexpectedly came in a Yorkshire Pudding, which after I had got my head around it was really good. Thanks to Jim for introducing the place to me!
Eclectic and vibrant with leapard print seats, the decor at Le Metro features Thai bronzed figures, walls adorned with Art-Deco posters and tin ceilings from New York. With a bold orange and black colour scheme, the unique interior has a warm, lively ambience.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5580256000 - 'Hash Pipe - 'Weezer' - Play this track here..
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Just when you thought pipes were so yesterday.....
One of my favourite tracks, good to hear it today!
'Hash Pipe' is a song by US indie rock band Weezer. Released in 2001, it was the first single off the band's long-awaited third album, Weezer (The Green Album).
The song was aparently inspired by a male transvestite prostitute known for rambling to people in Santa Monica. Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson is featured on the cover of the song's CD single holding a pack of Natural American Spirit cigarettes that has been blurred out due to copyright issues.
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The new white Samuel Beckett Bridge (Irish: Droichead Samuel Beckett) is a cable-stayed bridge in Dublin that joins Sir John Rogerson's Quay on the south side of the River Liffey to Guild Street and North Wall Quay in the Docklands area.
The architect is Santiago Calatrava, a designer of a number of innovative bridges and buildings. This is the second bridge in the area designed by Calatrava, the first being the James Joyce Bridge, which is further upstream.
Constructed by a 'Graham Hollandia Joint Venture', the main span of the Samuel Beckett Bridge is supported by 31 cable stays from a doubly back-stayed single forward arc tubular tapered spar, with decking provided for four traffic and two pedestrian lanes. It is also capable of opening through an angle of 90 degrees allowing ships to pass through. This is achieved through a rotational mechanism housed in the base of the pylon.
The shape of the spar and its cables is said to evoke an image of a harp, a symbol of Ireland lying on its edge.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HF2W - . An adult holding his babies hand for the first time. Photographed on 4 September 2010. The recorded location is England. From a heritage perspective, human-interest photographs record gestures and relationships that sit outside formal institutions: family care, childhood, friendship and affection
Small interactions such as holding hands can communicate age, dependence and connection without requiring a staged portrait. Historically, alternative photographic processes can make familiar subjects appear unfamiliar
Black-and-white and sepia evoke older photographic traditions, selective colour isolates a chosen detail, and infrared can render foliage and skies with striking tonal separation. As of 2026, family and community imagery remains widely used for coverage of childcare, public services, wellbeing, intergenerational relationships and everyday life, particularly when the scene includes identifiable civic or leisure settings. In 2026, these effects can be produced digitally with ease, but their usefulness still depends on the underlying subject and the visual information retained
Older examples also document the aesthetics of an era when strong selective colour and infrared processing were especially popular in creative digital photography. As background, everyday family scenes provide a social-story.htm Target=_Blank>history record of relationships, clothing and public behaviour
They can be especially useful when the setting or activity changes over time, such as libraries, playgrounds, streets or travel. The wider historical story is that images of parents, children and couples combine personal emotion with wider social context
They can illustrate care, intergenerational relationships, childhood and companionship while also documenting the environment in which those interactions take place. Relevant long-tail terms include parent and child, human interest, parenthood, community life, family bond, public space, social history, black and white, and monochrome.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4952503738 - 'Fooled Again (I Don't Like It) - 'Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers' - Play this track here.
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are a US rock band. They were formed in 1976 by Tom Petty (one of my favourite guitarists), Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench. The Heartbreakers began their recording career with a self-titled album. Initially, the Heartbreakers did not gain much traction in America, although they achieved success in the UK playing 'Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll' on Top of the Pops. Early singles included 'Breakdown' and 'American Girl'. 'Breakdown' was re-released in the USA and became a Top 40 hit in 1978, after word filtered back to the States that the band was creating a firestorm in the UK.
Their 1978 second album You're Gonna Get It! marked the band's first gold album, although sale of their record company led to bankruptcy. After the dispute was settled, the Heartbreakers released their third album Damn the Torpedoes (1979) which rapidly went triple-platinum.
Petty and his band the Heartbreakers celebrated their 30th anniversary with a tour in 2006, though Petty has occasionally released solo work, such as 2006's Highway Companion, on which he performed most of the backing instrumentation. Members of the Heartbreakers have played on each of his solo albums and the band has always backed him when touring
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Clowns are comical performers, stereotypically characterized by their grotesque and foolish appearances: colored wigs, stylistic makeup, outlandish costumes, unusually large footwear, red-nose, etc., who entertain spectators by acting in a hilarious fashion. The types of their acts varies greatly. Although some find clowns to be scary, their intended purpose is to entertain people, especially young children.
Peter Berger writes that 'It seems plausible that folly and fools, like religion and magic, meet some deeply rooted needs in human society.' For this reason, clowning is often considered an important part of training as a physical performance discipline, partly because tricky subject matter can be dealt with, but also because it requires a high level of risk and play in the performer.
Billy The Clown works in and around Warrington. It always cracks me up when I have ever dropped anything off at his house and he has not been in. I go to his neighbour and ask 'Can I leave these for the clown next door!.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4850651734 - 'Furniture Music - 'Bill Nelsons Red Noise' - Play this track here.
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This is one of my favourite singles and another that I was introduced to via the late great John Peel on his 10 to midnight radio show in the late 1970's.
I still have my red vinyl version of the 'Furniture Music' 7'. It was backed by 'Acquitted By Mirrors' and 'Wonder Toys That Last Forever'. The A side appeared on their debut album, Sound On Sound. The two supporting tracks did not but were added as bonuses when the album was re-released on CD.
Bill Nelson's Red Noise, or called simply Red Noise, was a 'synthpop/new-wave' band, formed by Bill Nelson (lead vocals, guitar), his brother Ian (saxophone), Andy Clark (keyboards), Rick Ford (bass) and Steve Peer (drums), around 1978.
Nelson is one of England's under-rated genius musicians (maybe Yorkshires Peter Gabriel, if things had been different), and formed the band after dissolving Be-Bop Deluxe, while he was metamorphosing from blues, progressive and glam rock to more New Wave and electronic sounds. This was after the last Be-Bop Deluxe album, Drastic Plastic, released early 1978. This is certainley worth seeking out.
Clark also was a member of Nelson's previous band, and Ian Nelson collaborated with that group on the song 'Ships In The Night', from the Sunburst Finish album (1976). Peer was previously in TV Toy.
Red Noise released only one album, the seminal Sound On Sound, plus a two singles, Furniture Music and Revolt Into Style, in 1979. After that, Bill Nelson continued as a solo artist, with the collaboration of Clark and his brother Ian.
Furniture music has been described as the perfect single, clocking in at a little over three and a half minutes. John Aizlewood in 1999had it to a tee, when he wrote 'He would never better Sound-on-Sound, musically or lyrically. Tight songs, sharp lyrics and, in Furniture Music and Revolt Into Style, two should-have-been hit singles which reached numbers 59 and 69 in the UK charts respectively. The follow up never happened. What a mess'.
Now turned fifty, Nelson continues to make albums, recently signing to Robert Fripp's DGM label. Since the late-eighties he has become increasingly infatuated with capturing the creative spark at work, improvising material direct to tape and describing it as 'sonic snapshots', sketches rather than finished pieces. This resulted in many of his innumerable CD releases sounding like a collection of half-baked ideas haphazardly flung together as opposed to the fully-rounded soundscapes he used to construct. Although his latest, 'Atom Shop', is something of a return to form, 'Sound-on-Sound' captures Nelson at his creative and artistic peak. Get it, enjoy it, stay young (and keep in touch).
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Each year he hosts Nelsonica in York. One day I will get to one of these.
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Bl\u00fcthner, formally Julius Bl\u00fcthner Pianofortefabrik GmbH, is a piano-manufacturing company founded by Julius Bl\u00fcthner in 1853 in Leipzig Germany.
By 1900 Bl\u00fcthner had become the largest piano maker in Germany producing some 5,000 instruments annually. Innovations such as the Aliquot string, a fourth string that vibrated sympathetically and that is tuned in unison as well as the cylindrical soundboard and angle cut hammers created a unique voice for the Bl\u00fcthner instrument.
This fine example is from Wimpole Hall near Cambridge.
Apparently, One Bl\u00fcthner piano owned by the EMI Abbey Road Studios in London was used on some tracks of The Beatles' Let It Be album, most notably, in the hits 'Let It Be' and 'The Long and Winding Road'.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4868172747 - 'Down In The Park - 'Gary Numan' - Play this track here.
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I remember Gary Numan coming out of the left field in 1979 with heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals. At the time the likes of the Silicon Teens and The Normal (Warm Leatherette seemed to have the post punk synth sound licked.
Hammersmith boy, Gary Webb was original front man for Tubeway Army. 'Down In The Park' was Tubeway Armys third single and appeared on the Replicas album.
Replicas was based on a book Numan hoped to complete someday as a type of concept album. It was set in a not-too-distant future metropolis where Machmen (androids with cloned human skin) and other machines keep the general public cowed on orders from the Grey Men (shadowy officials).
Numan was directly inspired by the science fiction of Philip K. Dick, particularly the book 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'.
Numan has become acknowledged and respected by his peers, with such musicians as Dave Grohl (of Foo Fighters and Nirvana), Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails), and Marilyn Manson proclaiming his work an influence and recording cover versions of old Numan hits. If you have chance and inclination, checkout the 'Premier Hits' compilation for a good into to this forgotten pioneer.
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Dunham Park covers an area of over 190 acres and is part of the Dunham Park Estate, run by the National Trust (NT). The park is mostly \u201cpasture-woodland or park-woodland\u201d and has been since the Middle Ages. Many of the oak trees, which make up the larger part of the woodland, date back to the 17th century. Dunham Park is the only place in the northwest of England with such a concentration of old trees, and one of only a few remaining in England, making it a site of national importance. The park supports a range of animals, including fallow deer. The old water mill is pictured here. This image has been take using a Hoya R72 filter for infra red.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4688541277 - 'Its really German Bight, but hey it was too good not to mis-spell!
For contacts outside the UK, the Shipping Forecast is a four-times-daily BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office.
Many people find the well-known repetition of the names of the sea areas almost hypnotic, particularly during the bedtime (for Britain) broadcast at 00:48 UK time. It is regarded with affection by many listeners, and in the United Kingdom often pops up in pub quizzes.
The zones start near the isle of Mull in Scotland and progress clockwise around Shetland, Tyne, Dover, Portland and through Shannon and the Irish sea. The General Synopsis is read, giving the position, pressure (in millibars) and track of pressure areas (e.g. Low, Viking, 981, deepening rapidly, expected North Utsire 964 by 0700 tomorrow).
BBC Radio 4 is the choice for the Shipping Forecast as it is a speech-based channel and broadcasts via longwave on 198 kHz as well as FM, and the longwave signal can be received clearly at sea all around the British Isles regardless of time of day or radio conditions. DAB radio is unlikely to cut the mustard for this one.
The Shipping Forecast is intended to be read at dictation speed to aid those who wish to write down the information. After all for many mariners, your life and that of your crew may well depend on it.
many musicians have name checked it. Notably one of my faves, (Yorkshire Anachists) Chumbawamba on the 'The Good Ship Lifestyle', on the album Tubthumper. It starts out with a listing of the sea areas in the wrong order. How anarchist(!). Beck includes a 27-second sample five minutes into the track 'The Horrible Fanfare, Landslide, Exoskeleton' on the album The Information too. Jethro Tull pn the album Stormwatch also predictably samples it.
All but two of the characters in the UK ITV cartoon 'The Adventures of Portland Bill' were named after the shipping areas or coastal weather stations. If you do the odd pub quiz, leave me a comment and I will let you know by Flickr mail if you are correct!
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4733688312 - 'The 'Beeching Axe' is an informal name for the British Government's attempt in the 1960s to reduce the cost of running British Railways, the nationalised railway system in the UK. The name is that of the main author of The Reshaping of British Railways, Dr Richard Beeching.
Although this report also proposed new modes of freight service and the modernisation of trunk passenger routes, it is remembered for recommending wholesale closure of what it considered little-used and unprofitable railway lines, the removal of stopping passenger trains and closure of local stations on other lines which remained open. The Helston line was one such example.
Helston railway station was the terminus of the Helston Railway in Cornwall, in England (United Kingdom). It was later operated by the Great Western Railway (some called it Gods Wonderful Railway) but has since been closed.
Helston secured its place in history when it became the first place in the country with a railway-operated bus service. These GWR road motor services met trains at the station and carried passengers on towards The Lizard.
The Beeching report was a reaction to significant losses which had begun in the 1950s as the expansion in road transport began to attract passengers and goods from the railways
losses which continued to bedevil British Railways despite the introduction of the railway Modernisation Plan of 1955. Beeching proposed that only drastic action would save the railways from increasing losses in the future.
Successive governments were more keen on the cost-saving elements of the report rather than those requiring investment. More than 4,000 miles of railway and 3,000 stations closed in the decade following the report, a reduction of 25 per cent of route miles and 50 per cent of stations.
To this day Beeching's name is synonymous, in an unfavourable way with mass closure of railways and loss of many local services. This is particularly so in parts of the country which suffered most from cuts.
Many old lines are being resurected by volunteers and enthusiasts such as this one. The Helston Railway Preservation Society are working on the Trevarno branch line and hope one day to run a short service.
Their sister organisation, the Helston Diesel Group, has acquired a two car Park Royal Diesel Multiple Unit (shown here), and two Ruston &
Hornsby shunters, all now based at Trevarno. One of the shunters has been restored to use.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4720739399 - 'An engine order telegraph or E.O.T., often also called a Chadburn, is a communications device used on a ship (or submarine) for the pilot on the bridge to order engineers in the engine room to power the vessel at a certain desired speed. In early vessels, from the 1800s until about 1950, the device usually consisted of a round dial about nine inches in diameter with a knob at the center attached to one or more handles, and an indicator pointer on the face of the dial. Modern E.O.T.s on vessels which still use them use electronic light and sound signals.
Traditional E.O.T.s required a pilot wanting to change speed to 'ring' the telegraph on the bridge, moving the handle to a different position on the dial. This would ring a bell in the engine room and move their pointer to the position on the dial selected by the bridge. The engineers hear the bell and move their handle to the same position to signal their acknowledgment of the order, and adjust the engine speed accordingly. Such an order is called a 'bell,' for example the order for a ship's maximum speed, flank speed, is called a 'flank bell.'
For urgent orders requiring rapid acceleration, the handle is moved three times so that the engine room bell is rung three times. This is called a 'cavitate bell' because the rapid acceleration of the ship's propeller will cause the water around it to cavitate, causing a lot of noise and wear on the propellers. Such noise is undesirable during conflicts because it can give away a vessel's position.
On most modern vessels the EOT acts as a direct throttle with no intervening engine room personnel.
This one has positions of Full Ahead, Half, Slow, Dead Slow, Stand By, Stop. Astern Finished with engines, dead slow, slow, half and full. German U-boats of World War II contained the dial position 'Alarmtauchen', the order for a crash dive.
Most seen these days are copies. Most do not include the CL of Chadburn Liverpool which was the place of manufacture, as in this specimen here.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4695553569 - 'The Queen in a deck of french playing cards are often assigned names. These have origins in the bible or from history. The queen of diamonds is Rachel, spades Athena, Hearts Judith and clubs cryptically Argine, which is an anagram of Regina, Latin for 'queen'.
The headress of the english queen playing card resembles a Tudor design. Possibly Elizabeth of York, queen consort of Henry VII of England as is often mentioned in tales and legend is depicted.
Playing cards were found in China as early as the 9th century during the Tang Dynasty (618\u2013907), when relatives of a princess played a 'leaf game'. Its thought that playing cards first entered Europe in the late 14th century, probably from Mamluk Egypt, with suits very similar to the tarot suits of Swords, Staves, Cups and Coins (also known as disks, and pentacles) and those still used in traditional Italian, Spanish and Portuguese decks.
The earliest cards were made by hand, like those designed for Charles VI
this was expensive. Printed woodcut decks appeared in the 15th century. The 78-card Tarot deck, and subsets of it, were used for a variety of European trick-taking games. Allegorical meanings for each card existed as of the earliest days of the deck, but it wasn't until the late 1700s's that the works of Antoine Court de Gebelin made decks based on the Tarot de Marseille popular for divinatory purposes.
A number of people I know swear by tarot readings, others regard them supersticious mumbo jumbo. maybe more a female thing I guess. If you want to share an experience or prediction you have had as a result of a reading (true or false), please leave a comment!
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4686458094 - 'I have passed this building many times. Its in an unloved street near an old cabinet works building. On this day I passed the lights were on so I walked in. No tripod, so the panorama was hand held.
Cairo Street Chapel is the second oldest surviving place of worship in Warrington and is tucked away just away from the modern shopping area. It holds a lot of history of the town in many of the characters connected with it.
Robert Yates was the founder, ejected from the Church of England in 1662, he obtained a licence for public worship. In 1689, religious dissent was permitted by the Act of Toleration. This Act enabled Dissenters to build their own places of worship and in 1703, following the raising of sufficient money through subscriptions, a chapel was built on land behind Randle Myddleton\u2019s Smithy in Sankey Street. This is now Cairo Street.
A deed signed between Dr. Charles Owen Minister of the Chapel and the Earl of Warrington refers to a \u201clate erected building or meeting place\u201d.
It was during the ministry of Dr. Owen in 1745 that the present larger chapel was built.
Dr. Owen was the minister of the chapel for fifty years from 1696 to 1746 and it was he who lead consolidation and growth of the chapel.
In 1863 the chapel was extensively repaired, the old gallery was taken down and the interior re-seated to make it look much as it does in this photograph.
The Revd. John Seddon followed Charles Owen in the Ministry at Cairo Street Chapel or Sankey Street Chapel as it was then known. The son of a dissenting Minister born in Hereford and educated at Caleb Rotherham\u2019s Academy in Kendal, he campaigned and fundraised tirelessly for the establishment in 1757 of The Warrington Academy.
He was a lecturer at the Academy, its Secretary and Minister of the Chapel. Active in many spheres of dissenting and town life, John Seddon was the first President of The Warrington Public Library.
Another famous member of the chapel was Frederick Monks 1834-1912, an entrepreneur and industrialist, his enlightened treatment of his workforce was influenced by the ethical preaching of Pearsall Carpenter. The high esteem in which he was held is testified by the 2ft high clock of solid
brass open work on a marble stand. On it are inscribed the words \u201cpresented to Mr. F. Monks of the Wire Department of the White Cross
Wire and Iron Co. Ltd. as a token of respect on his retirement from active management in connection with the company in July 1874\u201d. Frederick
Monks presented the Golden Gates to Warrington where they currently stand outside the Town Hall.
Joseph Priestley. Scientist, Minister and Thinker (1733-1804) is perhaps the best known individual associated with the Academy. He is now more known as a great scientist but as a lecturer he introduced the subjects of chemistry, anatomy and civic responsibility to the curriculum of the academy. He was however primarily a Minister and was ordained at Warrington. His belief that Jesus was an ethical teacher and not a God influenced greatly the development of Unitarianism.
A supporter of the French Revolution and a campaigner against slavery he left England after his home and chapel in Birmingham were burnt by a mob. After leaving England and settling in America in 1794, he established the first American Unitarian Church in Philadelphia.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF224F - Interior panorama of Cairo Street Chapel, Warrington, Cheshire UK.
Its in an unloved street near an old cabinet works building. On this day I passed the lights were on so I walked in. No tripod, so the panorama was hand held.
Cairo Street Chapel is the second oldest surviving place of worship in Warrington and is tucked away just away from the modern shopping area. It holds a lot of history of the town in many of the characters connected with it.
Robert Yates was the founder, ejected from the Church of England in 1662, he obtained a licence for public worship. In 1689, religious dissent was permitted by the Act of Toleration. This Act enabled Dissenters to build their own places of worship and in 1703, following the raising of sufficient money through subscriptions, a chapel was built on land behind Randle Myddleton's Smithy in Sankey Street. This is now Cairo Street.
A deed signed between Dr. Charles Owen Minister of the Chapel and the Earl of Warrington refers to a late erected building or meeting place .
It was during the ministry of Dr. Owen in 1745 that the present larger chapel was built.
Dr. Owen was the minister of the chapel for fifty years from 1696 to 1746 and it was he who lead consolidation and growth of the chapel.
In 1863 the chapel was extensively repaired, the old gallery was taken down and the interior re-seated to make it look much as it does in this photograph.
The Revd. John Seddon followed Charles Owen in the Ministry at Cairo Street Chapel or Sankey Street Chapel as it was then known. The son of a dissenting Minister born in Hereford and educated at Caleb Rotherham's Academy in Kendal, he campaigned and fundraised tirelessly for the establishment in 1757 of The Warrington Academy.
He was a lecturer at the Academy, its Secretary and Minister of the Chapel. Active in many spheres of dissenting and town life, John Seddon was the first President of The Warrington Public Library.
Cairo street, Warrington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4653594686 - 'This is an image taken in the first floor historic reading room of the Manchester University John Rylands library. This serves as the special Collections section of the John Rylands University Library (JRUL). It is a remarkable victorian gothic building right in the heart of the city's shopping district Deansgate.
The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Mrs Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her late husband, John Rylands. The collections include medieval illuminated manuscripts, examples of the earliest forms of European printing, including the Gutenberg Bible, and the personal papers of notable local figures such as Elizabeth Gaskell and chemist John Dalton.
Enriqueta Rylands purchased a site on Deansgate, at the heart of Manchester city centre, in 1889 for her planned memorial library and commissioned a design from architect Basil Champneys. Mrs Rylands had originally intended the library as a principally theological collection and the building, which is a very fine example of Victorian Gothic, has much of the appearance of a church, although the actual concept was of an Oxford college library on a larger scale.
The core of the library was formed around the collection of 40,000 books including many rarities assembled by George John Spencer, which Mrs Rylands purchased in 1892. The library was finally opened to readers on 1 January 1900. It was illuminated internally by electricity (rather than gas which was more common at the time). The use of electricity was still in its early stages, the supply had to be generated on-site. This took some years to achieve due to the inexperience of local contractors, but the library became one of the first public buildings in Manchester to be lit by electricity and continued to generate its own supply until 1950.
Basil Champneys was given the rare honour of speaking about the building at a general meeting of the Royal Institute of British Architects and was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1912. The library was granted listed building status on 25 January 1952, which was upgraded to Grade I on 6 June 1994.
In the Rylands Gallery on the lower floor, you can see some of the most important items from the Library's collections including magnificent medieval manuscripts and examples of the earliest books ever printed. The gallery is organized around seven themes. Faiths, History of the Bible, Beautiful Books, Science, World Literatures, Everyday Life and Manchester.
It is one of Manchester's building gems and inside more resembles a cathedral than a library. Marble statues of Enriqueta and John Rylands watch over the readers from either end of the room. If you are in the city, make an excuse to spend some time to drink in the history.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4656685501 - 'Here is a reader in The John Rylands Library, a Victorian Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester and part of Manchester University. The library is a grand historical place to study with the smell of books all around. There are many collections here, but you will be as welcome if you bring in Martin Amis or Dan Brown.
The foundations of the Library's collections were the Althorp Library of Lord Spencer (yes that one!), acquired in 1892 and a part of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana purchased from James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford in 1901. The Bibliotheca Lindesiana was one of the most impressive private collections in Britain at the time, both for its size and for the rarity of some of the materials it contained. The manuscript collections (including Chinese and Japanese printed books) were sold in 1901 to Mrs. Rylands for the John Rylands Library.
The collections include exquisite medieval illuminated manuscripts, examples of the earliest forms of European printing including the Gutenberg Bible, as well as the personal papers of distinguished historical figures including Elizabeth Gaskell, John Dalton and John Wesley. The library also houses the papyrus fragments known as the Rylands Papyri and documents from North Africa. The most notable of these are the so-called St John Fragment, believed to be the oldest extant New Testament document., Rylands Library Papyrus P52, the earliest fragment of the canonical Gospel of John text and Papyrus Rylands 463, a manuscript fragment of the apocryphal Gospel of Mary. The collection of incunabula numbers about 4,500.
In a nod to Irene Royal and Ann Brown, librarians I see very infrequently, there have been many important staff associated with the collection.
Librarians at John Rylands before its merger include Edward Gordon Duff in 1899 and 1900 and Henry Guppy between 1899 and 1948 (joint Librarian with Duff until 1900). Duff was responsible for the original library catalogue, compiled between 1893 and 1899: Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
ed. E. G. Duff. Manchester: J. E. Cornish, 1899. 3 vols.
Dr Guppy began publication of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library in 1903
it later became a journal publishing academic articles and from autumn 1972 the title was changed to the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (further slight changes have occurred since).[30] Other noteworthy members of staff were James Rendel Harris, Alphonse Mingana, the Semitic scholar Professor Edward Robertson (d. 1964) who was the third librarian, and Moses Tyson, keeper of western manuscripts, afterwards librarian of Manchester University Library
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4649331451 - 'A local tale suggests the site of St Oswald's church, Winwick, was decided by a pig that carried and laid the foundation stones where the church was subsequently built!
A pig is commemorated on the west wall of the tower, this could be the evidence or the start of the medieval urban myth. That would certainley be an intelligent pig that would not be eaten in just one sitting!
The Domesday Book in 1086 records that a church existed here at the time of the Norman conquest . The oldest part of the present church dates from the early 14th century. An inscription in the church commemorates King Oswald of Northumbria, a prominent Christian, who is said to have been killed here in 642.
Remains on the site ate thought to go back even further. The current church occupies the site of an ancient Druidical altar and pre-Christian temple. Excavations beneath this Chancel in 1828 revealed 3 gigantic skeletons supporting these theories.
Pictured here is the chancel, formed from a panorama of four seperate images joined. The main body of the church and its wooden nave is currently under threat from Death Watch Beatle. In late april teh local newspaper, the Warrington Guardian reported the following:
'The oak beams of the nave roof at the Winwick church have been gnawed at by death watch beetles, a wood-boring insect, which has led to water seeping into the Legh Chapel and major structural problems in Gerrard Chapel.
The nave has been closed since January after builders carried out maintenance on ceiling tiles and discovered the delapidated beams. Wardens must now apply to English Heritage for a grant by June if they are to get funding during 2010 to resolve the problem.
They hope to hear if they are successful by the end of the year. The work will be carried out over the next two years, depending on how the grant is staged. Warden Christine Melia said: \u201cWe\u2019re looking to set up a website to support the funding and we\u2019re hoping that members of the congregation get involved.\u201d
Meanwhile the main Sunday morning services are being held in the church hall. The chancel can still be used for baptisms and weddings but only if the congregation does not exceed 50 people. Christine confirmed that the application for the English Heritage grant would be fully supported by the Rev Canon June Steventon, who was licensed as the church\u2019s new vicar on Tuesday.
St Oswald\u2019s Church is a Grade I listed structure and its earliest parts date back to the early 13th century with the nave \u2013 the long central part of the building \u2013 dated at roughly 1580'
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4653781013 - 'Albert Square is a public square in the centre of Manchester, England. It is dominated by its largest building, Manchester Town Hall Grade I, a Victorian Gothic building by Alfred Waterhouse and previously in the opposite corner by the Square Albert, a Tetleys pub.
Albert Memorial, a monument to Prince Albert, Prince consort of Queen Victoria is in the square. The square, also named after the Prince, was originally laid out to provide a space for this memorial in 1863\u201367. Work on the new town hall began in 1868 and was completed in 1877. On the top of the clock tower is a golden cotton seed, the symbol of teh source of Manchester City and its cottonopolis prosperity.
The creation of the square arose out of a project by Manchester Corporation's Monuments Committee to erect a memorial to Prince Albert who had unexpectedly died of typhoid in 1861. After some initial proposals to create a memorial library, museum or botanical gardens, the committee decided to erect a statue in a decorated canopy. It was originally planned to place the monument in Piccadilly Gardens, but it was felt that its ornate design was not in keeping with the surrounding buildings. In 1863, land was offered by the Corporation which was cleared to make way for a public space.
The project won much public support
the Manchester Bricklayers' Protection Society donated 50,000 bricks towards the construction of the monument, 'as an expression of sympathy towards our beloved Queen'. When construction problems arose (the site was found to be riddled with drains and culverts) and these bricks were used up on the foundations alone, a further public subscription was launched in 1865 and a further \u00a36,249 was raised, in spite of the hardships of the Cotton Famine.
The Memorial is topped with an ornate spire, and on each side a crocketed gable with canopied pinnacles on colonettes. Within the canopies stand symbolic figures representing art, commerce, science and agriculture. Below these stand secondary figures representing particular disciplines
The Four Arts: painting, architecture, music, sculpture
Commerce: the Four Continents
The Four Sciences: chemistry, astronomy, mechanics, mathematics
Agriculture: the Four Seasons.
In the town hall, despite its medieval styling, the building was designed to support the practical technologies of the 19th century. These included gas lighting, and a warm-air heating system, which provided fresh air drawn through ornamental stone air inlets placed below the windows and admitted behind the hot water pipes and 'coils' of rooms. Warmed, fresh air was also fed into the stairwells and through hollow shafts within the spiral staircases in order to ventilate the corridors. The pipes that supplied the gas for the lighting were ingeniously concealed underneath the banister rails of the spiral staircases.
While not quite as grand as the hotel de ville in Brussels or similar buildings in Europe, the town hall in Manchester proclaimed that the city had 'arrived'. A saying capturing this sense of innovation survives today: 'What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow. Although I do not think they were in fact refering to Bez of the Happy Mondays when they coined that :-)
(2010 week 19)
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Keywords: Northwich,Witton,St,Street,Cheshire,pet,shot,365,project project365,365project,sepia,toned,selective,colour,color,colores,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4612956442 - 'This was a quick grab shot outside Northwich's premier pet emporium. Firthfield stock fish for home aquariums, small birds such as parakeets, mice (PEW's), hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, rabbits, snakes and other reptiles.
I do not know if this chap was waiting for Neil Tennant who was partaking of a burger and a pint of carling at the Penny Black, just up Witton Street for \u00a33.49, or any of Northwich's other musical icons. On a side note, the Melting Pot cafe has now had a new paint job, making it almost unrecognisable as the cover for The Charlatans (UK for any US readers) greatest hits album. More details here.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4589609737 - 'Saltaire United Reformed Church is one of the UK's most precious Victorian architectural gems. The church was built by Sir Titus Salt in 1859 near Shipley along from Bradford, West Yorkshire. Its style is Italianate religious architecture. It has been described as a classic 'Cathedral of Congregationalism'.
Saltaire was Sir Titus Salt's legacy. Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet (20 September 1803 \u2013 29 December 1876), born in Morley, near Leeds, was a manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. I find him pretty inspirational, he was certainly way ahead of his time. His father Daniel Salt was a fairly successful businessman and was able to send Titus to Batley Grammar School.
In 1833 he had taken over the running of his father's business and within twenty years had expanded it to be the largest employer in Bradford. In 1848 Titus Salt became mayor of Bradford. He had a social conscience and took steps to look for solutions to the pollution from the many factory chimneys in the city.
Around 1850, he decided to build a large mill to consolidate his textile manufacture in one place, but he 'did not like to be a party to increasing that already over-crowded borough', and he bought some land three miles from Bradford, adjacent to Shipley next to the River Aire. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the Midland Railway, main arteries of the day were adjacent.
Building of his mill was begun in 1851. He opened it with a grand banquet on his 50th birthday, 20 September 1853. Following that public conscience he then set about building the houses, bathhouses, institute, hospital, almshouses and churches, that make up Saltaire. very revolutionary for the time. Similar ventures were persued by the quaker chocolate barons at Bournville and by Rowntree in York. Salt built the Congregational Church pictured here (now Saltaire United Reformed Church) at his own expense in 1858\u201359. He donated the land on which the Wesleyan Chapel was built by public subscription in 1866\u201368.
Sir Titus commissioned architects Lockwood and Mawson to design the building, as they had designed a number of other important Italianate buildings in Bradford City centre.
His body is interred at a mausaleum at the church and can be viewed. Reportidly at his funeral 100,000 people lined the route. Many people had him to thank for his far sightedness and care for his fellow man.
The church today is grade I listed. The entrance is up six steps under a portico supported by six unfluted Corinthian columns and topped by a fretted tower with cupola.
Inside are hollow Corinthian columns with beautiful Scagliola exteriors, an Italian technique implemented by Mr. Dolan of Manchester. Two ornate chandeliers of ormolu and cut glass hang from the ceiling, of such great weight that additional roof trusses had to be inserted to support them. Originally lit by gas, they were made by Hausburg of Liverpool.
The existing organ, built by Peter Conacher and Co. of Huddersfield, was installed in 1890, rebuilt at the end of the Second World War.
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Keywords: white,black,sepia,cotton,toned,selective,color,colores,colour,cl white,clothing,top,smock,dress,purple,silk,sash,ribbon,tonysmith,hotpix,hotpixuk,england,UK,united,kingdom,britain,GB,old,fashioned,antique,ancient,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,art,arty,light,stream,lightstream,history,muchacha,femenina,de,la,mujer,se\u00f1ora,lady,female,woman,girl,\u5973\u6027\u30e1\u30b9\u306e\u5973\u6027\u306e\u5973\u306e\u5b50,\u592b\u4eba\u5973\u6027\u5987\u5973\u5973\u5b69,fille,f\u00e9minine,femme,dame,Beningbrough,York,North Yorkshire YO30 1DD Yo301dd
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4568832928 - 'This is a cotton smock or undergarment for a small child. The smock-frock or smock is an outer garment traditionally worn by rural workers, popular in early victorian times.
By the mid-nineteenth century, wearing of traditional smock-frocks by country laborers was dying out. As the authentic tradition was fading away, a romantic nostalgia for England's rural past, as epitomized by the illustrations of Kate Greenaway, led to a fashion for women's and children's dresses and blouses loosely styled after smock-frocks. These garments are generally of very fine linen or cotton and feature delicate smocking embroidery done in cotton floss in contrasting colors
smocked garments with pastel-colored embroidery remain popular for babies and small children.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5479972298 - 'Peace Of Iona - 'The Waterboys' - Play this track here.
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This is a track I seldome play, but when I do it generally goes on repeat for 3 or more hours. Its a pleasure to pair it up to one of my favourite locations, the isle of Iona, a mere rock at the foot of Mull, western Scotland.
'Peace of Iona' is a song written by Mike Scott that appears on the studio album Universal Hall and on the live recording Karma to Burn by The Waterboys. The band dates back to 1983. They play a mix of Celtic folk music with rock and roll.
The early Waterboys sound was dubbed 'The Big Music' after a song on their second album, A Pagan Place. This musical style was described by Scott as 'a metaphor for seeing God's signature in the world.' It either influenced or was used to describe a number of other bands, including Simple Minds, The Alarm, In Tua Nua, Big Country, the Hothouse Flowers and World Party, the last of which was made up of former Waterboys members.
The Waterboys have also influenced musicians such as Colin Meloy of The Decemberists Grant Nicholas of Feeder and Miles Hunt of The Wonder Stuff. Bono and The Edge from U2 are fans of the band.
The Waterboys are best known for 'The Whole of the Moon' which typifies the sound of The Big Music period. Theres much more to them than this and the 2005 live album 'Karma To Burn' is a good place to start. Tell 'em I sent you :-)
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Iona (Scottish Gaelic: \u00cc Chaluim Chille) is a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland. It was a centre of Irish monasticism for four centuries and is today renowned for its tranquility and natural beauty. It is a popular tourist destination. Its modern Gaelic name means 'Iona of (Saint) Columba' (formerly anglicised 'Icolmkill').
It is one mile from Mull and has a population of just over 100. From the moment you leave the ferry, you can feel the history.
Iona was the site of a highly important monastery (see Iona Abbey) during the Early Middle Ages. According to tradition the monastery was founded in 563 by the monk Columba, also known as Colm Cille, who had been exiled from his native Ireland as a result of his involvement in the Battle of Cul Dreimhne. Columba and twelve companions went into exile on Iona, then part of the Irish kingdom of D\u00e1l Riata, and founded a monastery there.
The monastery was hugely successful, and played a crucial role in the conversion to Christianity of the Picts of present-day Scotland in the late 6th century and of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in 635. A large number of satellite institutions were founded, and Iona became the centre of one of the most important monastic systems in Great Britain and Ireland.
Iona Abbey, now an ecumenical church, is of particular historical and religious interest to pilgrims and visitors alike. It is the most elaborate and best-preserved ecclesiastical building surviving from the Middle Ages in the Western Isles of Scotland. Though modest in scale in comparison to medieval abbeys elsewhere in Western Europe, it has a wealth of fine architectural detail, and monuments of many periods.
In front of the Abbey stands the 9th century St Martin's Cross, one of the best-preserved Celtic crosses in the British Isles, and a replica of the 8th century St John's Cross (original fragments in the Abbey museum).
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Keywords: cadbury,creme,cream,egg,easter,chocolate,food,calories,confectio cadbury,confectionry,confectionary,365project,365,project,project365,selective,color,colour,black,white,mono,toned,sepia,stillife,stilllife,still,life,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,sex,sexy,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4521874232 - 'The classic Cadbury Creme Egg is manufactured to look like an egg inside and out. For the benefit of any one who has never seen a 171 calorie creme egg, it consists of a thick milk chocolate shell, housing a white and yellow filling made from egg, thick white cream, sugars and other additives. Creme Eggs are a best-selling confectionery item between New Year's Day and Easter in the UK (when sale stops). There are annual sales in excess of 200 million eggs and a brand value estimated of approximately \u00a345 million.
They are produced by Cadbury UK in the United Kingdom, and under licence by The Hershey Company in the United States. The eggs are manufactured at the Bournville factory in Birmingham with around 1.5 million being hatched from the production line each day.
While filled eggs were first manufactured by the Cadbury Brothers in 1923, the Creme Egg in its current form was introduced in 1971.
The Cadbury Creme Egg is manufactured by making a chocolate shell in a half-egg shaped mould, which is then filled with white fondant and a dab of yellow fondant to simulate the yolk. Two mould halves are closed very quickly and cooled to allow the chocolate to set. When the moulds are opened, the eggs fall onto a conveyor which transports them, first to the foiling machines and then to the finished packing.
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Keywords: tattoo,tatoo,tat2,ink,skin,design,england,english,british,UK,man,male,back,face,leg,thigh,black,white,selective,color,colour,colores,sepia,convention,expo,exhibition,circuit,herts,tonysmith,tony,smith,Tatuada,tatto,tats,bodyart,body,art,dark,disturbia,interesting,people,person,persons,persona,interesante,tatouage,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,HOT PIX,tony smith photography,tdktony,tdk,tdktonysmith
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4480147112 - 'Here is some brilliant artistic tattoo work over back, chest (not shown), waist and upper legs.
The detail on the head in the middle of the back is great. A medusa type figure.
Nice block outline detail mainly maintaining a black/white theme.
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Keywords: brian,bevan,famous,award,winning,rugby,player,warrington,wolves,wilderspool,wildespool,cheshire,stadium,brick,town,wires,sepia,true,fans,super,league,championship,champions,2009,winners,cup,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4489490325 - 'My local rugby club and its hero Brian Bevan who as an unassuming slight looking player, scored a world record 796 tries in his time for Warrington RLFC. He was actually Austrailian by birth.
As his mosiac is made of hundreds of yellow and blue bricks (the colours of The Wires strip) this is a family club and the people named here are the true wires, who invested \u00a335 each. Replica bricks could also be purchased for \u00a325 each up until spring 2004.
Warrington Wolves are a professional rugby league football club and compete in Super League, Europe's top-level rugby league competition. They are yet to win the super league trophy, but its sure to come after lifting the Challenge Cup in August, 2009.
It was one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs in 1895 that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union, so has long roots. The winger Brian Bevan named here made his d\u00e9but for Warrington in 1945 and was one of the teams most iconic players. He is honoured by a statue at the eastern gates end of the North Stand at the entrance to the Halliwell Jones Stadium.
This image was taken at the Halliwell Jones Stadium, which s their recent new home.
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Keywords: IOD,London,England,GB,britain,UK,Europe,old,clock,electric,insti IOD,institute,directors,building,office,lund,Brockleys,patent,42,pall,mall,synchronized,synchronised,time,hands,sepia,b/w,black,white,mono,monochrome,regents,street,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,stillife,stilllife,still,life,stuff,buildings,built,architecture,history,hotpix!,tony smith photography,tdktony,tdk,tdktonysmith,#tonysmithhotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4466159077 - 'The IOD or Institute of Directors is based in Westminster, London at 116 Pall Mall in a wonderful grade I listed building. Above the oak panelled Tres Posh 'Directors Dining Room' is this wonderful electric clock. There is a surround of plaster leaves and it is mounted on plaster that has been painted with a mock yellow marble effect. I dont know how many people enering these offices notice this each day.
It was made by Lund &
Blockleys of 42 Pall Mall (just further down the street). It is labelled 'Patent Synchronized Clock'. It has classic romon style numerals on its face.
Looking at previous auctions of other clocks it appears that Lund &
Brockley were at one point official suppliers of clocks, watches etc to the queen of England or royal family by appointment. If anyobe has any further information to add on this timepiece or the manufacturers, please leave a comment.
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Keywords: pint,pub,lager,beer,bitter,overlooking,1st,floor,upper,level,cov pint,covent,garden,westminster,london,square,market,england,uk,sepia,black,white,selective,color,colores,colour,mono,monochrome,b/w,city,old,ancient,tourist,places,tonysmith,tony,smith,stuff,interesting,place,building,buildings,built,architecture,favourite,pubs,public,houses,narrative,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,history,wide,angle,wideangle,lens,sigma,12-24mm,10-20mm,hotpix!,#tonysmithhotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4467457083 - 'Ah, a chance to enjoy a quiet pint in pedestrianised Covent Garden and watch the street entertainment (without getting hassled for cash). That might pay for another bag of chilli nuts then.
It is a nice part of 'old London', it was the site of a flower, fruit and vegetable market from the 1500s until 1974. The wholesale market was then relocated to New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms (not so picturesque). While Covent Garden is the only part of London licensed for street entertainment, performers have to jump through hoops, having to undertake auditions for the Market's management and representatives of the performers' union and signing up to timetabled slots.
It was nice on a quite mild March afternoon to enjoy my pint of Fullers London Pride overlooking the main piazza. This image has been turned to monochrome then selectively coloured.
(2011 week 11)
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Keywords: this,photo,rocks,tattoo,tat2,manchester,warrington,cheshire,m62,england,uk,british,britain,skin,color,colores,colour,selective,black,white,blanco,negra,b/w,sepia,select,gmex,march,2010,6th,20100306,06032010,hotpixuk,tonysmith,Tatuada,tatoo,tatto,tats,ink,bodyart,body,art,dark,disturbia,tatouage,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4482039111 - 'Saz my local tattoo-ist from Warrington, working on a large elaborate leg / thigh tattoo. Here at the manchester Tattoo convention at Gmex, now Manchester central 6th March 2010.
I keep thinking I should pop in and say hello.
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Keywords: Warrington,Cinema,old,picture,house,movie,buttermarket,street,st,cheshire,England,UK,sepia,selective,color,colour,b/w,black,white,demolished,ceased,be,RIP,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,highway,road,building,buildings,built,architecture,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,art,arty,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4370446858 - 'Here showing Edward Scissorhands in 1990, only four years before its demise.
It was designed by architect Joseph Gomersall. The Odeon cinema opened in 1937. In 1981 following the fashion of the times it was split into three screens.
It was replaced by the large clinical multiscreen box cinema at Westbrook.
If you have ever lived in Warrington you may have memories of this place. I took this shot in the first year I moved here.
Maybe you watched your first film (maybe Star Wars) here, perhaps met your partner here, came out and admitted your true sexuality here. Tell us about it, leave a comment....
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4365286573 - 'Its like a large rock crusher, although its purpose is only to generate sparks and light your tabs.
Olympus OM 20mm Macro lens
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Keywords: Bell,Telephone,Manufacturing,Company,co,phone,black,white,old,1920,1930,dial,rotary,Antwerp,belgian,Belgium,Alcatel,Lucent,selective,colour,color,toned,sepia,mono,monochrome,stuff,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4390394677 - 'An old black telephone from franco-belgium approx 1930's in an old contracts office.
The Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company, was a former company in Antwerp (Belgium), now part of Alcatel-Lucent. This one is still in working order remarkably, although obviously misses the modern function ssuch as redial and pager etc.
RTT was the Belgian state telephone provider, who had a monopoly.
Another mono sepia shot here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3813002518/
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Keywords: Northwich,plaza,bingo,cinema,picture,house,cheshire,witton,street,england,uk,GB,britain,sepia,b/w,black,white,haunted,eye,down,cash,Chehire,selctive,colour,color,colores,dark,disturbia,old,stuff,building,buildings,built,architecture,sex,sexy,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4369387854 - 'I have seen many photos of this building, all from the outside. If I had \u00a350 for every picture of those cherubs operating the projector I could retire early (see www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4366034792/ ). Inside it is more interesting still.
Its modus operandi is bingo and it has not been a place to see films since the late 1960's. That's a good 40 years plus.
All the old balcony seats are intact and rumour has it that the upper level is haunted. It felt a little like Derek Acora might pop out at any minute when I was up there. A very brilliant yet spooky place indeed.
Down below the first cash bingo players were arriving. The hatch serves a mean pie and chips if you are interested.
If you are of an age when you may have seen a film in a cinema like this, you may have been served up one of these www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4357789604/ from the box office.
(2010 week 7)
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Keywords: old,granny,grannies,clock,time,piece,timepiece,antique,mantle,england,smiths,wood,metal,sepia,b/w,black,white,brass,hands,numbers,numerals,living,room,picture,wooden,mantel,edwardian,english,british,empire,this photo rocks,clocks,horloge,reloj,orologio,Taktgeber,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,stillife,stilllife,still,life,stuff,sex,sexy,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4343129726 - 'Grannies old clock, still right a couple of times a day.
It is wound by two stout keys and originates in the 1920's or older. A mantlepiece clock that had seen numerous high teas, 'porridge breakfasts with homemade jam' and time to go to 'bedfordshire up the wooden hill' as well as two world wars, a moon landing and the illegal removal of a few dictators.
When made, most of the world map was still pink and the British Empire ran like clockwork. Today its own clockwork doesn't run that smooth.
Check out the bi-annual routine here for most of our clocks www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4050906369/
Some blue toned monochrome here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3828202260/
Despertador antic. Crec que data del 1920. O potser encara \u00e9s m\u00e9s vell.
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Keywords: b/w,black,white,pocket,watch,gold,old,roman,numerals,timetable,time,africa,accra,ghana,sepia,toned,mono,monchrome,second,hand,hour,antique,this photo rocks,clocks,horloge,reloj,orologio,Taktgeber,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,stillife,stilllife,still,life,stuff,history,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4325867361 - '13:25 Wheres the hell that bus to Accra?
Here, a view of a broken time machine www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3809668752/
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Keywords: snow,winter,trees,newbury,highclere,estate,castle,map,sepia,black,white,monochrome,finger,post,sign,foot,path,footpaths,lane,road,tracks,A34,Jeeves,Wooster,Stephen,Fry,Berkshire,England,RG20,east,woodhey,ashmansworth,whitway,broad,laying,penwood,woolton,hill,burgeclere,sydmonton,B/W,mono,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4309792480 - 'A fall of january winter snow at the Highclere estate, gardens and castle just outside the village near Newbury, England UK. The snowy footpath leads into the delicate snow covered trees in the wooded forest area.
First snow after the early january UK big freeze 2010.
Rather than a real 'castle' it is a fine house designed by the man that created parliament. It was featured in 'Jeeves and Wooster' with Stephen Fry.
The 5th Earl discovered The Tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt. Highclere Castle, is the home of 8th Earl and Countess of Carnarvon.
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Keywords: BW,Black,white,monochrome,fog,mist,northwich,cheshire,england,water,barge,barges,sepia,toned,Lostock,Gralam,Trent,Mersey,canal,bridge,orchard,boatyard,boatbuilders,british,waterways,tree,foggy,mono,HDR,high dynamic range,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4182533330 - 'A shot taken from the old canal bridge crossing the trent and mersey canal to Orchard boatyard south of Lostock.
It was cold and misty all day and gave a really delicate feel.
Another toned image here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3813002518/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: corn,cob,corn on the cob,maize,texture,BW,black,white,sepia,still,life,stillife,baby,toned,monochrome,365days,mono,partial,mixed,color,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4104058442 - 'A dried out nearly ripe maize husk with just a single ear of corn fully formed (from one of those fields of maize that seemed to have sprouted up everywhere over the summer).
Another still-life (in colour) here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3690682655/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC
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Keywords: wavy,hair,old,retired,man,brown,sepia,overall,worker,working,wood,chip,chipping,chipper,tools,bench,smilling,elderly,ancient,OAP,aged,tonysmith,tony,smith,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,HOT PIX,retro
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4325899655 - 'An old retired woodworker wittling in his shed, south Warrington, Grappenhall, Cheshire UK.
Oh heaven!
Not for me, I would rather get someone in so I dont have to get it rectified later :-)
Another person at work, resolving conflict - www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3812467275/
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Warrington District Camera Club are looking for similar models and subjects for studio nights like this.
They are looking for interesting studio subjects for a number of future Monday night photo club nights in Grappenhall, Warrington Cheshire.
Sessions start at 7.30pm until about 9.30pm and expenses etc will be paid, as well of course subjects receiving images and prints from the session. In some cases this can be a useful additional to a portfolio etc for securing other modelling work.
They do like unusual subjects and if you are part of another group as part of an interest or hobby, please get in touch.
Over the years WDCC have had circus performers, musicians, dancers, performers, a clown, wheelchair tennis professionals, threatre / amateur theatricals group, an old woodworker and beekeeper, exotic animals keeper, hair and beauty students, bird of prey owner and numerous more unusual and standard model subjects. Male or female, old or young, if you might be interesting to photograph, WDCC would like to hear from you.
Some of the people who have visited WDCC in the past for studio nights before are shown below:
Battle re-enactment group
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3874777337/
Padgate collegiate hair and beauty NVQ students
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3809053351/
Interesting senior chap
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4325899655/
Warrington Community Circus
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3809667972/
Male musician
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3827403667/
Male / Female couple
www.flickr.com/photos/42023242@N06/3874519169/
Tai Chi Instructor and Students
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3809820112/in/pool-wdcc
Female models
www.flickr.com/photos/22552315@N02/4004616212/in/pool-wdcc
If you think that you could be interested in being a subject for us or know someone, get in youch either on Flickr mail to HotpixUK or 'wdcc [at] live.co.uk'. telephone 07092182899.',
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4991347212 - 'Theme From Sparta FC - 'The Fall' - Play this track here.
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
This music you may remember from BBC Saturday Sport was composed by MES (Mark E Smith) and The Fall. To get a feel for the show, check this out. Unfortunately, his beloved Man City had managed a 'Hopeless as usual performance' in their 0-0 draw against Blackburn.
The Fall are an English post-punk group, formed in Prestwich, Greater Manchester in 1976. The group has existed in some form ever since, and is essentially built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith. First associated with the punk movement of the late 1970s, the group's music has gone through several stylistic changes over the years.
However, The Fall's music is often characterised by repetition, an abrasive guitar-driven sound, and is always underpinned by Smith's vocals and often cryptic lyrics, described by critic Steve Huey as 'abstract poetry filled with complicated wordplay, bone-dry wit, cutting social observations, and general misanthropy (sometimes more implied than clearly stated, but apparent nonetheless).'
The group's output is prolific. As of September 2010 they have released 28 studio albums, and more than triple that counting live albums and other releases. They have never achieved widespread public success beyond a handful of minor hit singles in the late 1980s, but have maintained a strong cult following. The band were long associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and cited The Fall as his favourite band, famously explaining, 'They are always different, they are always the same.'. The Fall were the only band who merited a seperate section in John Peel's record collection.
MES does manage the band like a football team, bringing in new talent and mavericks (many he encounters in the pub in Prestwich) acting as foreman. Dave Simpson's book 'The Fallen' is a great guide to the world of The Fall.
The last time I saw them was in Liverpool 2008 when MES had just turned 50. The band's Peel sessions were finally released recently by Castle Records in the six-CD box 'The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004'. This is a good starting point for getting to know the varied music of the band. The lastest album 'Your Future, Our Clutter' is also worth a listen to wet your appetite. Tell 'em I sent you.....
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This is quite an old shot. In the current climate I may not even have attempted to take it.
I have heard it said that many classic shots from the likes of Cartier Bresson and others would not be able to take many of their classic images these days. Very sad.
NB: Like all the images on this stream, full size prints up to 30x20inches are available, Check my profile for how to contact me.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3839976273 - 'Hay bales spotted on the way home. Polariser and sepia toned.
Another sepia scene here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4182533330/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3835314286 - 'A very grey walk around Dunham with the WDCC
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3809668752 - 'Old rusted clock face with roman numerals . Slightly selectively sepia toned to add additional distress. A now broken time machine.
For clocks and watches that do work we have to do this generally twice a year www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4050906369/
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Keywords: IR,St,Saint,Georges,Hall,lime,street,limestreet,Liverpool,UK,Engalnd,EmpireTheatre,Empire,theatre,Hotpix,railway,station,England,mersey,merseyside,GB,britain,great,united,kingdom,sepia,BW,Black,white,monochrome,mono,city,town,building,buildings,built,architecture,fujifilm
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3813064130 - 'R72 filter used here. with a tripod.
Empire Theatre and fountains looking down towards Liverpool Lime street railway station, England, UK
These are my 2008-2015 images, view my most recent images at HotpixUK-2019 - www.flickr.com/people/167831053@N02/ including my second 365 one a day project
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Keywords: Jack,plays,double,six,dominos,pub,games,gloucester,lea,gloucestershire,forest,dean,traditional,booser,boozer,tweed,jacket,table,bar,public,house,england,uk,gb,beer,pot,glass,dimpled,real,ale,CAMRA,indoors,ambiant,light,oap,retired,pensioner,recreation,this photo rocks,tonysmith,tony,smith,sepia,black,white,b/w,selective,colour,color,colores,favourite,pubs,houses,selectivo,couleur,s\u00e9lective,vorgew\u00e4hlte,Farbe,retro,hotpix!,tony smith photography,tdktony,tdk,tdktonysmith,#tonysmithhotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3813283684 - 'A traditional village scene from the village pub in Lea, Gloucestershire, UK near Ross-On-Wye. (not far from Mitcheldean, forest of Dean on the edge of Wales)
Pub games like this are the backbone of a night out and I cannot even remember if this pub had a fruit machine or a juke box music machine. This is a great little country pub doing great meals at good prices. Rabbit pie, pigeon and venison with veg, just watch out for teh lumps of leadshot!
Wikipedia describes dominos thus:
In the area of mathematical tilings and polyominoes, the word domino often refers to any rectangle formed from joining two congruent squares edge to edge. The traditional Sino-European domino set consists of 28 dominoes, colloquially nicknamed bones, cards, tiles, tickets, stones, or spinners. Each domino is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square ends. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called pips) or is blank. The backs of the dominoes in a set are indistinguishable, either blank or having some common design. A domino set is a generic gaming device, similar to playing cards or dice, in that a variety of games can be played with a set.
The oldest domino sets have been dated from around 1120 A.D. Modern dominoes, as most of the Western world knows them, however, appear to be a Chinese invention. They were apparently derived from cubic dice, which had been introduced into China from India some time in the distant past. Each domino originally represented one of the 21 results of throwing two dice. One half of each domino is set with the pips from one die and the other half contains the pips from the second die. Chinese sets also introduce duplicates of some throws and divide the dominoes into two classes: military and civil. Chinese dominoes are also longer than typical European dominoes. Over time Chinese dominoes also evolved into the tile set used to play Mah Jong, a game which swept across the United States in the early to mid 1920s and has enjoyed moderate popularity, especially in its 'solitaire' form, since that time.
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Keywords: Tony,saxophone,b/w,black,white,hand,color,coloured,sepia,toned,portrait,man,male,bloke,dude,sax,musical,instrument,gold,painted,suit,sexy,cool,mustache,live,musician,jazz,band,gig,studio,image,print,soft,box,softbox,hotpix,hotpixuk,tonysmith,smith,Warrington,cinnamon,brow,cheshire,mono,monochrome,this photo rocks,hotpicks
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3827403667 - 'A portrait of Tony and his old golden saxophone. Black and White monochrome image, sepia toned and hand colored.
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Keywords: Leaf,Gravestone,grave,stone,cemetary,frozen,winter,leaves,england,uk,cheshire,brown,autumn,plant,tree,sycamore,fallen,cold,great,britain,hotpix,hotpixuk,tdk,tony,smith,tdktony,gave,yard,graveyard,RIP,dead,men,women,cemetery,sepia,black,white,mono,monochrome,b/w,graves,tomb,tombs,cemetario,muchacha,femenina,de,la,mujer,se\u00f1ora,lady,female,woman,girl,\u5973\u6027\u30e1\u30b9\u306e\u5973\u6027\u306e\u5973\u306e\u5b50,\u592b\u4eba\u5973\u6027\u5987\u5973\u5973\u5b69,fille,f\u00e9minine,femme,dame
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3828201350 - 'Another Autumn shot here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4009260974/
Have a look at some of my other sepia images on Flickr -
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Keywords: In,Memory,of,james,Tomlinson,departed,this,life,grave,Grappenhall,graveyard,1831,1851,sepia,ivy,old,ancient,Cheshire,South,warrington,Thelwall,gotonysmith,tony,smith,Decay decayed old olde stone dead death funeral,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Graveyard,cheshire,England,UK
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMX5W - . Grappenhall St Wilfids Gravestone Ivy Church, Graveyard, South warrington , cheshire , England ,UK. Photographed on 14 March 2009. The recorded location is St Wilfrids Church, Church Lane, Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire. The last resting place and in Memory of james Tomlinson departed this life September 12th 1831. St Wilfrids Church Graveyard, Grappenhall Village, South Warrington , Cheshire England UK. The wider historical story is that churches combine worship with architecture, community memory and centuries of community history
Their stonework, stained glass, memorials, furnishings and churchyards often record successive periods of rebuilding, changing liturgy, community benefactors, war remembrance and family history. From a heritage perspective, commemorative plaques, gravestones and monuments transform individual or collective memory into a permanent feature of the landscape
Their wording, materials and location can illuminate genealogy, social history, military service and changing attitudes to public remembrance. In the present 2026 context, historic places of worship remain important not only for faith but also for conservation, tourism, music, community use and community identity
Their maintenance illustrates the continuing challenge of caring for ageing heritage structures while keeping them accessible and relevant. As of 2026, interest in local history, genealogy and the conservation of memorials remains strong, while weathering, redevelopment and vandalism can threaten smaller monuments and inscriptions
Detailed images help preserve lettering, names and physical condition before further weathering or alteration. In the present 2026 context, memorials continue to play an active role in public history, supporting remembrance, genealogy, education and heritage tourism
Images can also record inscriptions before erosion or redevelopment alters the physical object.
St Wilfrids Church, Church Lane, Grappenhall, South Warrington, Cheshire
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Keywords: Old,style,Mullard,triode,valve,sitting,on,a,printed,circuit,wiring,diagram,from,1960,gotonysmith,thermionic,valves,TV,Vacuum,tube,tubes,electron,filament,hot,cathode,Tetrodes,and,pentodes,tetrode,petrode,television,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,schematic,1930,1930s,sepia
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0NM7 - . Old style Mullard triode valve sitting on a printed circuit vacuum valves wiring diagram from 1960. In historical terms, technology objects become historical remarkably quickly
Telephones, calculators, cameras, valves, televisions and workplace machines chart successive shifts from mechanical and analogue systems to electronics, digital processing, smartphones and cloud-connected services. In historical terms, mechanical calculators, time clocks and electronic valves belong to successive generations of office and industrial technology before solid-state electronics and networked computers became dominant
Their keys, dials, circuits and mechanisms make visible tasks that contemporary digital systems perform almost invisibly. In historical terms, older buildings and artefacts provide tangible evidence that written records cannot fully replace
Their wear, construction, signage and setting help researchers understand local history, design, industry and social life across different periods. During 2026, technology is dominated by connected devices, cloud services and rapid product cycles
Historic hardware therefore offers a useful counterpoint to contemporary debates about electronic waste, right-to-repair, data dependence and the speed with which once-common devices become obsolete. During 2026, calculation, payroll, attendance and communications are largely software-based, while vintage office and electronic equipment survives mainly in museums, collections and specialist restoration
Such objects are increasingly useful for illustrating the material history behind contemporary digital work. In the longer view, everyday technology provides a compact history of design and changing behaviour
Rotary dials, thermionic valves, mechanical keypads, film cameras and early televisions were once ordinary equipment but now illustrate obsolete standards, manufacturing methods and patterns of work or communication.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HF37 - . A bus journey down the Shankill Road , a very British and Unionist area of Belfast. Looking at the subject's development, everyday journeys depend on an evolving network of vehicles, stops, stations and roads
Buses, cars, ferries and trams can become historical subjects within a few years as operators rebrand, fleets are replaced and infrastructure is rebuilt. As background, alternative photographic processes can make familiar subjects appear unfamiliar
Black-and-white and sepia evoke older photographic traditions, selective colour isolates a chosen detail, and infrared can render foliage and skies with striking tonal separation. For the 2026 context, transport policy increasingly emphasises decarbonisation, integration and reliable public services, while older diesel vehicles and legacy infrastructure provide a visual contrast with electric fleets and changing travel behaviour. Against the 2026 backdrop, these effects can be produced digitally with ease, but their usefulness still depends on the underlying subject and the visual information retained
Older examples also document the aesthetics of an era when strong selective colour and infrared processing were especially popular in creative digital photography. The wider historical story is that mobility is shaped by both technology and policy
Images of vehicles and transport infrastructure record changing design, accessibility, fuel use, ownership patterns and the ways towns organise movement. Historically, transport images are time capsules of technology and everyday mobility
Vehicle models, liveries, ticketing, road layouts and passenger behaviour evolution quickly, so photographs can chart the transition between generations of public and private transport. Additional high-relevance terminology includes public transport, passenger transport, transport history, urban transport, sustainable transport, commuter, road transport, low-emission transport, black and white, and monochrome.
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Keywords: Vintage sweet shop scales,Eagle,brow,Lymm,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,old,gotonysmith,to,weigh,2,two,pound,sweet,jars,jar,candy,store,sepia,olde,town,machine,imperial,bag,lucky,sherbet,dips,lemons,cola,cubes,mints,licorice,pineapple,aniseed,jap,deserts,rock,boiled,sweets,in wrappers blackcurrant,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0N9A - . British vintage sweet shop scales, Eagle brow, Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. Photographed on 27 June 2009. The historical context is that shops and markets are a visible record of changing consumer life, from family businesses and specialist traders to chain stores, department stores and regenerated market halls
Fascias, signs and shopfronts can date a street scene as clearly as architecture or vehicles. The wider historical story is that heritage photography is particularly useful where buildings or objects have changed function
A former workplace, shop, transport structure or piece of equipment can become a museum object or landmark, linking everyday history with conservation and interpretation. The subject remains topical in 2026 because town-centre resilience remains a major policy issue in England, with government programmes aimed at high streets and community ownership of valued local assets
Changing retail patterns, vacancies and the growth of food-led destinations make older shop and market photographs useful for comparison. In the present 2026 context, heritage remains economically and culturally significant through tourism, education and place-making, while the cost of maintaining historic fabric creates continuing debate about conservation and reuse. Historically, retail premises reveal the evolution of high streets and town centres: independent shops, markets, bakeries, butchers and larger chains respond continually to changing tastes, rents, competition and shopping habits
Photographs can preserve businesses and shopfronts that later disappear. In historical terms, markets and high-street businesses combine commercial history with everyday social life
Their evolving occupiers, branding and uses document local economies, consumer culture, town-centre regeneration and the long shift from traditional retailing towards mixed shopping, food and leisure destinations.
Eagle brow, Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DJ7B91 - Waiting staff (British English), waitstaff (North American English), waiters (male) / waitresses (female), or servers (North American English), or colloquially food runner, are those who work at a restaurant, a diner, or a bar and sometimes in private homes, attending to customers by supplying them with food and drink as requested. Waiting staff follow rules and guidelines determined by the manager. Waiting staff carry out many different tasks, such as taking orders, food-running, polishing dishes and silverware, helping bus tables and restocking working stations with needed supplies.
Waiting on tables is part of the service sector and among the most common occupations in the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that, as of May 2008, there were over 2.2 million people employed as servers in the U.S.
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