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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,story of the bawning of the Thorn,village,of the,Thorn,bawning,of,the,story,WA4 4QX,brass,plate,description,tale,legend,local,odd,oddity,festival,event,thorn,tree,Glasto,Glastonbury,Somerset,RE,Egerton,R.E.,1973,2011,parish council,Appleton,Midsummer's,ribbons
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C5R3AA - Bawming the Thorn' in Appleton Thorn Village
Appleton Thorn village is the only village in England where the 'Bawming the Thorn' ceremony takes place. This ceremony take place on the 3rd Saturday of June every year. The thorn tree, which stands beside the church, is believed to be an offshoot of the Glastonbury thorn, which grew from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea. Adam de Dutton, a knight of the Crusades and local landowner, brought it to Appleton. Bawming, which means, decorating the the tree with flowers and ribbons, takes place whilst local children (our 6 class) dance and sing the Bawming song.
The Bawming Committee are always looking for new members to get involved to help maintain this unique celebration. If you would like to help in any way, please contact the Committee at: bawming@appletonthorn.org.uk
Grappenhall Ln, Appleton Thorn, Warrington, Cheshire,England, UK, WA4 4QX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Somerset,South West England,England,UK,TA5 2AP,TA5,marina,river,history,dock,dockside,cranes,flowers,summer,baskets,of,hanging,west,iron,chains,pulley,19th,century,antique,restored,preserved,shipping,old,Stothert,and,Pitt,quay,black
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG40X3 - . This dated editorial view of Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP in 2019 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The image documents Historic dockside 19th century crane on the river Parrett, Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP. The broader subject matter reaches into contemporary social history, changing streetscape, before-and-after reference, regional identity, social history, documentary photography, built heritage, period detail, period architecture, local history, architectural character, urban fabric, heritage landmark, and heritage asset. Today's relevance is strengthened by planning control, maintenance and the continuing question of the value of architectural landmarks to local identity. The archival value lies partly in recording signage and branding around Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP before new ownership alters the character of the place. A second descriptive layer includes visual archive, everyday life, traditional materials, archival record, historic townscape, period building, historic streetscape, and adaptive reuse. The recorded references to Bridgwater, dockside, century, crane, and Parrett preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The setting also helps illustrate planning control and the balance between conservation and modern commercial use in a form that can be compared with future views of Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP. The period view preserves details of everyday use for later comparison.
Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG4124 - . Photographed at Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP in 2019, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The defining feature is Historic dockside 19th century crane on the river Parrett, Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP. The subject also carries associations with documentary photography, historic streetscape, archival record, built heritage, heritage landmark, heritage asset, social history, period building, before-and-after reference, architectural character, visual archive, historic townscape, architectural detailing, and local character. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with embodied carbon, planning control and the value of architectural landmarks to local identity. As a dated visual record of Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP, the frame retains local activity and public use, making it especially useful if changed technology subsequently changes the scene. Further associations within the scene are conservation interest, public realm, contemporary social history, changing land use, changing streetscape, place identity, period detail, and everyday life. Details involving Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, crane, Somerset, and century make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. A later view of Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The image also provides a reference for embodied carbon and how historic fabric can support regeneration rather than demolition within the specific setting of Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP.
Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Somerset,South West England,England,UK,TA5 2AP,TA5,TA6,vehicle,Robin,Church St,Bridgwater,Church Street,Anderson,Wall,motor,company,Sedgemoor,south west,motors,cars,ltd,limited,blue,partsworld,Tamworth,Staffordshire,dealer,Reliants,fibreglass,Reliant Robin car,reliants,3 wheel,3 wheeler,three wheeler,vehicles,British,English
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MG4160 - Reliant Motor Company was a British car manufacturer based in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. It was founded in 1935 and ended car production in 2002, the company had been known as Reliant Motor Company (or RMC for short) until the 1990s when it became Reliant Motors and then finally became Reliant cars LTD after production had ended of the Robin as the company was restructured to be a car import business. It is now a dormant company and the only entity left is a separate parts company created called Reliant Partsworld which produces parts for Reliant vehicles.
Reliant was a large manufacturing company that mainly produced vehicles for niche markets, such as small three-wheeled vehicles and sports cars. It was best known for the three-wheeled Reliant Robin, but produced a variety of vehicles over 60 years, including sports cars, convertibles and commercial vehicles. Approximately half a million Reliant vehicles were produced and sold in at least nine countries. For a period from the 1970s until the 1990s, Reliant was the UK's second biggest British-owned car manufacturer behind British Leyland.
To make their vehicles light, the company decided to produce car bodies from fibreglass in the mid-1950s. From this, Reliant became a pioneer in fibreglass design, techniques, and developments. Reliant also produced kitchen worktops, train bodies, and personal watercraft shells from fibreglass. In the 1970s, Reliant was the largest producer of fibreglass in Europe
Church St, Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, England, UK, TA6 5AS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Taunton,Somerset,South West England,UK,England,DLO,DSO,Direct Labour,van,car,West Somerset Taunton,white van,Deane Building Section van,repairs service,repairs,maintenance,team,vehicle,transport,Serving The Community,Protecting the Environment,Low emissions,TD,District Council,local government district,building,service,history,historic,old,unitary,council,councils,Belvadere Road
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A0TWP7 - Taunton Deane was a local government district with borough status in Somerset, England. Its council was based in Taunton.
The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the Municipal Borough of Taunton, Wellington Urban District, Taunton Rural District, and Wellington Rural District.
Taunton Deane was granted borough status in 1975, perpetuating the mayoralty of Taunton.
The district was given the name of an alternative form of the Taunton Deane Hundred.
In September 2016, West Somerset and Taunton Deane councils agreed in principle to merge the districts into one (with one council) subject to consultation. The new district would not be a unitary authority, with Somerset County Council still performing its functions. In March 2018 both councils voted in favour of the merger and it came into effect on 1 April 2019, with the first elections to the new council in May 2019. The new authority will be known as Somerset West and Taunton
Belvadere Road, Taunton,Somerset, South West England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,violation,South West England,Notice,yellow,Do Not Remove,Somerset,England,Yellow Parking Penalty Charge Notice,Parking Ticket,Warden,Issued,charge,Penalty Charge Notice,Warden Parking Ticket,Northgate car park,parking notice,mercenary,on,car windscreen,under,wiper,car park,offence,not displaying a valid parking ticket,under wiper,under wiperblade,TD,Sedgemoor,Taunton,West Somerset and Taunton,council parking,ticket,offense,Fixed penalty notices,PCN,consumer rights
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A0TWP6 - Penalty notices for parking and motoring offences
Fixed penalty notices were originally introduced for parking and motoring offences, currently continuing in Great Britain under powers provided by the Road Traffic Act 1991 as well as in Northern Ireland
in many areas this style of enforcement has been taken over from police by local authorities. Some other motoring offences (other than parking) can also be dealt with by the issue of FPNs by police, officers of the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency or local authority personnel. A fixed penalty notice issued by local authority parking attendants is backed with powers to obtain payment by civil action and is defined as a penalty charge notice (PCN), distinguishing it from other FPNs which are often backed with a power of criminal prosecution if the penalty is not paid
in the latter case the fixed penalty is sometimes designated as a mitigated penalty to indicate the avoidance of being prosecuted which it provides.
If a charge is paid within 14 days of the 28-day period, the charge is decreased by 50%. Appealing against or contesting this notice, requires going through courts and hearings: if lost, the 50% period pay could be extended.
Penalty Charge Notices (PCN) should not be confused with 'Parking Charge Notices, the latter, being issued by private landowners seeking to impose a charge for parking on private land.
Northgate car park, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2DFF0CH - The Blake Statue in Bridgwater, Somerset, England was unveiled in 1900 to commemorate naval commander Robert Blake. The hollow bronze life size sculpture was crafted by F. W. Pomeroy. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The hollow Bronze, statue was made by F. W. Pomeroy at a cost of £1,200. It was unveiled in 1900 by Lord Brassey. Pomeroy was a prolific British sculptor of architectural and monumental works. He was one of the so-called New Sculptors identified by Edmund Gosse in 1894 “ a group distinguished by a stylistic turn towards naturalism and their work in architectural sculpture.
It was erected to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Robert Blake. £1,200 had been raised from public donation to fund the statue. Blake was one of the most important military commanders of the Commonwealth of England and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bridgwater in the Short Parliament. When the English Civil War broke out during the period of the Long Parliament, and having failed to be re-elected, Blake began his military career on the side of the parliamentarians despite having no substantial experience of military or naval matters. Blake was appointed general at sea in 1649, serving in the First Anglo-Dutch War and Anglo-Spanish War. Later he was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
Bridgwater Old Marketplace, ,Somerset,South West England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMJTM - . Photographed at Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU in 2019, this is a specific real-world record of the subject, its setting and the period details surrounding it. The principal point of reference is Dusk in Bridgwater,Somerset, town centre, old market hall,Cornhill,South West England, UK,TA6 3BU. The frame also contains themes of everyday life, historic townscape, documentary photography, national food identity, built heritage, community identity, changing streetscape, culinary tradition, traditional cuisine, historic context, archival record, food heritage, architectural detailing, and heritage asset. The subject remains useful for current coverage of adaptive reuse and embodied carbon, not least because of the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. Today's wider story includes regional tourism, food prices and the practical question of the tourism and cultural value of distinctive local cuisine. From an archival perspective, the frame preserves the relationship between the subject and its surroundings in this part of Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU. The photograph additionally reflects festive eating, regional food culture, traditional recipe, visual archive, historic frontage, architectural character, food-and-drink tradition, and conservation architecture. The combination of Cornhill, Somerset, market, Bridgwater, and centre anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. Another strand within the photograph is adaptive reuse and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity within the real-world context of Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU. The period view preserves a local visual benchmark before later change alters the scene.
Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,Somerset,SDC,Sedgemoor,Sedgemoor District Council,South West England,England,UK,South West,TA6,at,old,place,night,evening,old market,listed,grade II,traditional,public,markets,Italian Restaurant,hall,Prezzo,life,nightlife,history,TA6 3BU,market,night time,town,statue,stone,stonework,column,columns
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMJTT - . A dated documentary view of the recorded location in 2019, recording the subject as it appeared at that point rather than as a generic stock illustration. At the centre of the frame is Dusk at Bridgwater's old Public Marketplace,Somerset,South West England, UK, TA6. The image connects the immediate subject with built heritage, heritage landmark, social history, local history, changing land use, traditional masonry, historic frontage, cultural gastronomy, food heritage, everyday life, food-and-drink tradition, urban fabric, adaptive reuse, and regional speciality. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about heritage conservation, energy retrofit and reusing existing buildings rather than demolishing them. The present-day relevance extends to food prices and consumer spending, while a wider concern is how food traditions survive alongside changing diets and lifestyles. As a documentary source, the photograph anchors local appearance, occupation, access and public activity within the setting of the recorded location. The wider local story also touches on culinary tradition, documentary photography, seasonal celebration, period streetscape, ceremonial meal, regional identity, traditional recipe, and community identity. The combination of Marketplace, Bridgwater's, Somerset, and Public anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The period setting at the recorded location helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The location additionally provides evidence of heritage conservation and reusing existing buildings rather than demolishing them in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. A further contemporary connection is local sourcing and how food traditions survive alongside changing diets and lifestyles within the real-world context of the recorded location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMK0K - Spirit of Carnival statue, Bridgwater
The town centre bank branch on the left is at 9 York Buildings, Cornhill, Bridgwater.
The work of sculptor David Faulks, the statue on the right was erected in 2005 by Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival to mark the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. It depicts a masquerader dressed in early 17th century clothing, holding aloft a lighted Bridgwater squib attached to a squib cosh. For centuries on November 5th, residents of Bridgwater gathered around a bonfire located here in Cornhill to celebrate the failure of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
9 York Buildings, Cornhill, Bridgwater, Somerset,England, UK, TA6 3BY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMK0X - Spirit of Carnival statue, Bridgwater
The town centre bank branch on the left is at 9 York Buildings, Cornhill, Bridgwater.
The work of sculptor David Faulks, the statue on the right was erected in 2005 by Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival to mark the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. It depicts a masquerader dressed in early 17th century clothing, holding aloft a lighted Bridgwater squib attached to a squib cosh. For centuries on November 5th, residents of Bridgwater gathered around a bonfire located here in Cornhill to celebrate the failure of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
9 York Buildings, Cornhill, Bridgwater, Somerset,England, UK, TA6 3BY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMK6D - . Recorded at King Square, Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK, TA6 3AR in 2019, the image fixes a particular place, use and appearance for later comparison as buildings, businesses, signs and public activity change. The image documents Sunday Times 100 Best Not For Profit Organisations,awards cabinet, Homes In Sedgemoor,Bridgwater,award winning social housing landlord. The frame also contains themes of historic context, policy controversy, constituency representation, place identity, changing land use, electoral messaging, local history, social history, government priorities, contemporary social history, housing affordability, neighbourhood regeneration, documentary photography, and affordable homes. Today's wider story includes energy retrofit, housing supply and the practical question of the balance between new supply and local infrastructure. For contemporary context, cost of living and healthcare are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes showing how national debate reaches local places. For future researchers, the image captures a particular stage in the life of the location as seen at King Square, Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK, TA6 3AR. The setting also brings in civic debate, visual archive, public policy, political campaigning, everyday life, local character, housing stock, and changing streetscape. Details involving Bridgwater, winning, landlord, Sedgemoor, and Organisations give the scene useful specificity and strengthen its local, cultural or historical identity. By fixing the subject within King Square, Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK, TA6 3AR, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The wider significance includes energy retrofit and the pressure to provide safe and affordable homes when considered against later change at King Square, Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK, TA6 3AR.
King Square, Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK, TA6 3AR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMK6M - . This documentary view of King Square, Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK, TA6 3AR in 2019 captures the subject within its actual surroundings, preserving a dated piece of visual history rather than an isolated object study. The scene shows Sunday Times 100 Best Not For Profit Organisations,awards cabinet, Homes In Sedgemoor,Bridgwater,award winning social housing landlord. The image connects the immediate subject with historical comparison, archival record, policy controversy, political communication, community housing, housing quality, documentary photography, changing streetscape, housing provision, public policy, electoral messaging, regional identity, democratic accountability, and housing affordability. The present-day relevance extends to tenant rights and repairs, while a wider concern is how housing quality affects everyday wellbeing. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes housing alongside healthcare, with particular attention to tracking how priorities change after elections. With the passage of time, the scene keeps a record of period details that may disappear after redevelopment or refurbishment around King Square, Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK, TA6 3AR. A second layer of the scene includes constituency representation, visual archive, built environment, place identity, local character, contemporary social history, public realm, and affordable homes. References to social, cabinet, housing, winning, and Homes help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. A later view of King Square, Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK, TA6 3AR may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Its period value extends to tenant rights and the balance between new supply and local infrastructure as part of the longer story of King Square, Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK, TA6 3AR.
King Square, Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK, TA6 3AR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMK6Y - . Made at Bridgwater, somerset, England, UK in 2019, this photograph records a real place and subject in context, allowing later viewers to compare what has survived, changed, closed, moved or been replaced. At the centre of the frame is Office staff in/out indicator, office environment,slider. The frame also contains themes of documentary photography, town-centre economy, regional identity, contemporary social history, historical comparison, constituency representation, political campaigning, government priorities, community identity, local history, political communication, local trading, bricks-and-mortar retail, and place identity. In the mid-2020s, cost of living and public spending keep the subject current, particularly through comparing earlier political promises with later policy. The subject remains useful for current coverage of vacant units and consumer spending, not least because of the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres. For later comparison, the photograph anchors the relationship between the subject and its surroundings within Bridgwater, somerset, England, UK. The wider local story also touches on electoral messaging, changing streetscape, policy controversy, party-political communication, changing land use, shopfront economy, archival record, and urban commerce. The recorded references to Office, environment, staff, slider, and indicator preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Bridgwater, somerset, England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The image also provides a reference for cost of living and comparing earlier political promises with later policy within the real-world context of Bridgwater, somerset, England, UK. It also preserves evidence of earlier appearance as part of Bridgwater, somerset, England, UK's history.
Bridgwater, somerset, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKCC - The Blake Statue in Bridgwater, Somerset, England was unveiled in 1900 to commemorate naval commander Robert Blake. The hollow bronze life size sculpture was crafted by F. W. Pomeroy. It is a Grade II* listed building
The hollow Bronze, statue was made by F. W. Pomeroy at a cost of £1,200. It was unveiled in 1900 by Lord Brassey. Pomeroy was a prolific British sculptor of architectural and monumental works. He was one of the so-called New Sculptors identified by Edmund Gosse in 1894 “ a group distinguished by a stylistic turn towards naturalism and their work in architectural sculpture.
It was erected to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Robert Blake. £1,200 had been raised from public donation to fund the statue. Blake was one of the most important military commanders of the Commonwealth of England and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bridgwater in the Short Parliament. When the English Civil War broke out during the period of the Long Parliament, and having failed to be re-elected, Blake began his military career on the side of the parliamentarians despite having no substantial experience of military or naval matters. Blake was appointed general at sea in 1649, serving in the First Anglo-Dutch War and Anglo-Spanish War. Later he was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
The statue was moved to its current site in 1986 having previously stood in front of the Corn Exchange
Corn Exchange,Bridgwater,Sedgemoor,England,UK, TA6 3BU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKCK - The Blake Statue in Bridgwater, Somerset, England was unveiled in 1900 to commemorate naval commander Robert Blake. The hollow bronze life size sculpture was crafted by F. W. Pomeroy. It is a Grade II* listed building
The hollow Bronze, statue was made by F. W. Pomeroy at a cost of £1,200. It was unveiled in 1900 by Lord Brassey. Pomeroy was a prolific British sculptor of architectural and monumental works. He was one of the so-called New Sculptors identified by Edmund Gosse in 1894 “ a group distinguished by a stylistic turn towards naturalism and their work in architectural sculpture.
It was erected to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Robert Blake. £1,200 had been raised from public donation to fund the statue. Blake was one of the most important military commanders of the Commonwealth of England and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bridgwater in the Short Parliament. When the English Civil War broke out during the period of the Long Parliament, and having failed to be re-elected, Blake began his military career on the side of the parliamentarians despite having no substantial experience of military or naval matters. Blake was appointed general at sea in 1649, serving in the First Anglo-Dutch War and Anglo-Spanish War. Later he was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
The statue was moved to its current site in 1986 having previously stood in front of the Corn Exchange
Corn Exchange,Bridgwater,Sedgemoor,England,UK, TA6 3BU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKCX - Spirit of Carnival statue, Bridgwater
The town centre bank branch on the left is at 9 York Buildings, Cornhill, Bridgwater.
The work of sculptor David Faulks, the statue on the right was erected in 2005 by Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival to mark the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. It depicts a masquerader dressed in early 17th century clothing, holding aloft a lighted Bridgwater squib attached to a squib cosh. For centuries on November 5th, residents of Bridgwater gathered around a bonfire located here in Cornhill to celebrate the failure of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
9 York Buildings, Cornhill, Bridgwater, Somerset,England, UK, TA6 3BY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKHD - . An authentic period view of the recorded location in 2019, showing a subject whose value extends beyond the immediate scene into local history and changing social context. The main subject is Stone Carved Angel, St Mary's Church,Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK. The image connects the immediate subject with visual archive, changing streetscape, political campaigning, historic frontage, traditional masonry, constituency representation, cityscape history, local character, government priorities, place identity, everyday life, period detail, heritage asset, and public realm. The subject remains useful for current coverage of maintenance costs and planning control, not least because of the role of distinctive architecture in local identity. Today's wider story includes infrastructure, healthcare and the practical question of tracking how priorities change after elections. For local-history research, the photograph anchors local appearance, occupation, access and public activity in the immediate surroundings of the recorded location. The setting also brings in before-and-after reference, urban fabric, architectural detailing, social history, contemporary social history, policy controversy, adaptive reuse, and civic debate. The recorded references to Mary's, Bridgwater, Stone, Church, and Angel preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at the recorded location helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Another strand within the photograph is maintenance costs and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The image also provides a reference for healthcare and tracking how priorities change after elections when considered against later change at the recorded location. The period view preserves details of everyday use before later change alters the scene.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKHN - . Photographed at the recorded location in 2019, this is a specific real-world record of the subject, its setting and the period details surrounding it. The main subject is Bridgwater embossed cast iron Grid, Bridgwater Town, Somerset, South West of England, England, UK - T.Stockham Contractor Bridgwater. A broader reading of the scene brings in public realm, electoral messaging, period detail, historic townscape, archival record, architectural character, social story.htm Target=_Blank>history, local character, government priorities, political communication, public policy, historic frontage, contemporary social history, and community identity. The subject remains useful for current coverage of local services and cost of living, not least because of comparing earlier political promises with later policy. Today's wider story includes adaptive reuse, heritage conservation and the practical question of the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. As a documentary source, the image captures evidence of how the subject fitted into ordinary life around the recorded location. The setting also brings in historical comparison, architectural detailing, historic commercial architecture, visual archive, heritage asset, before-and-after reference, heritage landmark, and party-political communication. Details involving Contractor, Stockham, Somerset, Bridgwater, and embossed give the scene useful specificity and strengthen its local, cultural or historical identity. The surrounding context at the recorded location matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Another strand within the photograph is local services and tracking how priorities change after elections without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. The period view preserves period character within the wider story of the recorded location. The view records a trace of local identity as part of the recorded location's history.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMJTA - . This period scene at Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU in 2019 provides a visual reference to the named subject and the wider commercial, social, cultural or physical environment around it. The principal point of reference is Dusk in Bridgwater,Somerset, town centre, old market hall,Cornhill,South West England, UK,TA6 3BU. The locality and subject together evoke regional food culture, place identity, national food identity, culinary tradition, food-and-drink tradition, ceremonial meal, contemporary social history, documentary photography, archival record, everyday life, cultural gastronomy, seasonal celebration, period detail, and visual archive. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about adaptive reuse, historic townscape and reusing existing buildings rather than demolishing them. The present-day relevance extends to traditional celebrations and food prices, while a wider concern is the tourism and cultural value of distinctive local cuisine. As the area changes, the view documents the way the place functioned before later physical or commercial change within Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU. The wider local story also touches on public realm, local history, conservation interest, historical comparison, food heritage, regional identity, period streetscape, and historic context. Elements such as Cornhill, market, centre, Somerset, and Bridgwater add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. For Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence of adaptive reuse and the contrast between preservation and redevelopment as part of the longer story of Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU.
Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMJTE - . Photographed at the recorded location in 2019, this is a specific real-world record of the subject, its setting and the period details surrounding it. The location is represented through Bridgwater Food & Drink Festival 2019,taste of the west,foods,drink,Town hall. The surrounding context brings together seasonal celebration, heritage dish, visual archive, drinks hospitality, real-ale culture, beer tourism, beer judging, changing land use, changing streetscape, archival record, festive eating, regional food culture, social history, and beer festival scene. For contemporary context, staffing pressure and consumer spending are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the economics of beer festivals and licensed venues. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about changing diets, regional tourism and the tourism and cultural value of distinctive local cuisine. For later comparison, the view leaves evidence of the visual character of the locality at the time at the recorded location. The photograph additionally reflects licensed hospitality, ceremonial meal, regional identity, festival bar service, pub trade, place identity, cultural gastronomy, and local history. Elements such as Bridgwater, taste, Drink, foods, and Festival add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. The surrounding context at the recorded location matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. A further contemporary connection is staffing pressure and the cultural role of real ale and regional brewing when considered against later change at the recorded location. The wider significance includes local sourcing and how food traditions survive alongside changing diets and lifestyles without losing the local specificity of the recorded location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMJTH - . Photographed at the recorded location in 2019, this is a specific real-world record of the subject, its setting and the period details surrounding it. At the centre of the frame is Bridgwater Food & Drink Festival 2019,taste of the west,foods,drink,Town hall. The locality and subject together evoke brewing heritage, traditional recipe, festive eating, changing streetscape, public realm, beer judging, community identity, licensed hospitality, national food identity, regional speciality, food-and-drink tradition, beer festival scene, pub trade, and food heritage. For contemporary context, changing drinking habits and independent brewing are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the economics of beer festivals and licensed venues. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about changing diets, hospitality costs and how food traditions survive alongside changing diets and lifestyles. With the passage of time, the photograph anchors a particular stage in the life of the location around the recorded location. The subject sits alongside archival record, local character, social drinking culture, licensed trade, local history, festival bar service, cultural gastronomy, and everyday life. References to taste, Drink, Bridgwater, Festival, and foods help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. A later view of the recorded location may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. A further contemporary connection is changing drinking habits and the economics of beer festivals and licensed venues as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The wider significance includes food prices and the role of ceremonial food in annual celebrations when considered against later change at the recorded location. The image fixes a local visual benchmark for future local research.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMJTJ - . An on-location image from the recorded location in 2019, useful both for the specific subject shown and for the evidence it retains about local identity, design, use and everyday life. The defining feature is Bridgwater Food & Drink Festival 2019,taste of the west,foods,drink,Town hall. The surrounding context brings together national food identity, period detail, place identity, culinary tradition, beer appreciation, real-ale culture, public realm, changing land use, ceremonial meal, social history, local character, archival record, historic context, and heritage dish. The present-day relevance extends to hospitality costs and pub closures, while a wider concern is the economics of beer festivals and licensed venues. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes consumer spending alongside hospitality costs, with particular attention to how food traditions survive alongside changing diets and lifestyles. From an archival perspective, the image captures the combination of built form, activity and local identity around the recorded location. The setting also brings in traditional recipe, contemporary social history, social drinking culture, changing streetscape, cask-beer tradition, beer tourism, community drinking venue, and local history. The combination of Bridgwater, Festival, Drink, foods, and taste anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The period setting at the recorded location helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Its period value extends to hospitality costs and the economics of beer festivals and licensed venues in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. The location additionally provides evidence of hospitality costs and the tourism and cultural value of distinctive local cuisine within the real-world context of the recorded location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMJTW - Spirit of Carnival statue, Bridgwater
The town centre bank branch on the left is at 9 York Buildings, Cornhill, Bridgwater.
The work of sculptor David Faulks, the statue on the right was erected in 2005 by Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival to mark the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. It depicts a masquerader dressed in early 17th century clothing, holding aloft a lighted Bridgwater squib attached to a squib cosh. For centuries on November 5th, residents of Bridgwater gathered around a bonfire located here in Cornhill to celebrate the failure of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
9 York Buildings, Cornhill, Bridgwater, Somerset,England, UK, TA6 3BY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKCP - . Made at Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU in 2019, this photograph records a real place and subject in context, allowing later viewers to compare what has survived, changed, closed, moved or been replaced. At the centre of the frame is Dusk in Bridgwater,Somerset, town centre, old market hall,Cornhill,South West England, UK,TA6 3BU. The frame also contains themes of traditional masonry, historic townscape, historic frontage, architectural detailing, national food identity, cultural gastronomy, culinary tradition, heritage landmark, seasonal celebration, heritage asset, everyday life, adaptive reuse, regional food culture, and public realm. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes redevelopment pressure alongside embodied carbon, with particular attention to the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with consumer spending, regional tourism and how food traditions survive alongside changing diets and lifestyles. Looking back from the mid-2020s, the frame records signage, materials, design and everyday use at the recorded site in Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU. The photograph additionally reflects conservation interest, comfort food, regional speciality, regional identity, historic context, food-and-drink tradition, visual archive, and historical comparison. Elements such as Bridgwater, Somerset, centre, market, and Cornhill add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. The surrounding context at Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The scene further reflects redevelopment pressure and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity in a form that can be compared with future views of Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU.
Bridgwater Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3BU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKJ2 - . This period scene at 34 High St, Bridgwater, Somerset,South west England,UK, TA6 3BL in 2019 provides a visual reference to the named subject and the wider commercial, social, cultural or physical environment around it. The image documents WH Smith,Plowman,Trundle,Saddler,sign on side of BOS cafe,Travelling and Hand Bags,Purses,Dog Collars,and luggage,of all descriptions. Further facets of the subject include high-street commerce, traditional cuisine, period detail, archival record, regional food culture, heritage dish, public realm, cultural gastronomy, place identity, documentary photography, food heritage, festive eating, historical comparison, and everyday life. Today's wider story includes food prices, cultural identity and the practical question of the tourism and cultural value of distinctive local cuisine. For contemporary context, commercial rents and town-centre regeneration are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres. From an archival perspective, the photograph anchors the combination of built form, activity and local identity within the setting of 34 High St, Bridgwater, Somerset,South west England,UK, TA6 3BL. The setting also brings in shopfront economy, visual archive, changing streetscape, before-and-after reference, regional identity, retail property, customer footfall, and commercial frontage. Details involving descriptions, Smith, Trundle, luggage, and Travelling give the scene useful specificity and strengthen its local, cultural or historical identity. The period setting at 34 High St, Bridgwater, Somerset,South west England,UK, TA6 3BL helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The record includes a trace of local identity for later comparison. Image 2AFMKJ2 also remains a dated record of 34 High St, Bridgwater, Somerset,South west England,UK, TA6 3BL.
34 High St, Bridgwater, Somerset,South west England,UK, TA6 3BL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKCA - . This location-based editorial photograph from the recorded location in 2019 preserves a recognisable subject together with clues about how the place was used and presented at the time. The view centres on Pasta Pizza Vino, Prezzo Bridgwater, in old market place,Cornhill, at dusk,Somerset, South West England, UK. The photograph also reflects shopfront economy, local trading, historical comparison, public realm, comfort food, customer footfall, festive eating, urban commerce, documentary photography, changing land use, social history, community identity, culinary tradition, and before-and-after reference. Today's wider story includes hospitality costs, cultural identity and the practical question of the role of ceremonial food in annual celebrations. For contemporary context, vacant units and hybrid working are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names. Looking back from the mid-2020s, the photograph anchors small features of identity that written records may overlook around the recorded location. The subject sits alongside high-street commerce, consumer retail, period detail, commercial frontage, changing streetscape, bricks-and-mortar retail, retail vacancy, and regional identity. The combination of Somerset, Cornhill, place, Pasta, and Bridgwater anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. A later view of the recorded location may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes hospitality costs and the role of ceremonial food in annual celebrations within the specific setting of the recorded location. Another strand within the photograph is commercial rents and the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres as part of the longer story of the recorded location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFMKCG - The Blake Statue in Bridgwater, Somerset, England was unveiled in 1900 to commemorate naval commander Robert Blake. The hollow bronze life size sculpture was crafted by F. W. Pomeroy. It is a Grade II* listed building
The hollow Bronze, statue was made by F. W. Pomeroy at a cost of £1,200. It was unveiled in 1900 by Lord Brassey. Pomeroy was a prolific British sculptor of architectural and monumental works. He was one of the so-called New Sculptors identified by Edmund Gosse in 1894 “ a group distinguished by a stylistic turn towards naturalism and their work in architectural sculpture.
It was erected to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Robert Blake. £1,200 had been raised from public donation to fund the statue. Blake was one of the most important military commanders of the Commonwealth of England and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bridgwater in the Short Parliament. When the English Civil War broke out during the period of the Long Parliament, and having failed to be re-elected, Blake began his military career on the side of the parliamentarians despite having no substantial experience of military or naval matters. Blake was appointed general at sea in 1649, serving in the First Anglo-Dutch War and Anglo-Spanish War. Later he was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
The statue was moved to its current site in 1986 having previously stood in front of the Corn Exchange
Corn Exchange,Bridgwater,Sedgemoor,England,UK, TA6 3BU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C9E2RB - . An on-location editorial image made at Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP, showing a subject whose wider significance extends beyond the immediate scene. The defining feature is Cycle signage, Bridgwater Town Centre,Railway station,walking route,Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK. Its broader subject matter includes rail corridor, documentary photography, commuter travel, before-and-after reference, regional rail, rail mobility, everyday Britain, social landscape, railway branding, period detail, urban change, archival record, railway heritage, and visual archive. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes rail reform alongside fares, with particular attention to making passenger rail simpler and more dependable. Small period details of commercial identity and local use at Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP may become more significant with time, especially following changing public expectations. The setting also brings in rail modernisation, place identity, mass transit, built environment, changing streetscape, social history, regional identity, and trackside infrastructure. The combination of Cycle, Centre, Bridgwater, route, and Somerset helps anchor the frame to a recognisable activity, place or period. A later view of Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP 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 linking trains more effectively with buses and trams without losing the local specificity of Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP. Its period value extends to station investment and reducing congestion and car dependency in a form that can be compared with future views of Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP.
Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, South West England, England, UK, TA5 2AP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C9E2RN - . A grounded editorial photograph of King Square, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK,, capturing details that may acquire greater historical value as the location and its use change. The documented subject is Elegant King Square, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, Victorian Lamp, TA6 3AR. The scene can also be read in terms of built environment, community identity, archival record, local history, urban change, historic townscape, conservation interest, period building, social landscape, before-and-after reference, architectural contrast, built heritage, visual archive, and conservation architecture. In the mid-2020s, embodied carbon and maintenance keep this subject current, particularly through using existing buildings rather than demolishing them. As a dated visual record of King Square, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK,, the frame retains commercial identity and local use, making it useful if changed technology subsequently changes the scene. The setting also brings in traditional masonry, regional identity, local character, public realm, historic streetscape, cityscape history, period detail, and documentary photography. The recorded references to Elegant, Square, Bridgwater, Somerset, and Victorian preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. By fixing the subject within King Square, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK,, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The image also provides a reference for embodied carbon and using existing buildings rather than demolishing them when considered against later change at King Square, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK,. The wider significance includes energy retrofit and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character without losing the local specificity of King Square, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK,.
King Square, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK,
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C9E2PW - Despite its name, Bath Brick was a Bridgwater product. Anywhere the British army went, the Bath Brick went likewise. It started in 1820 when it was discovered that using silt from the river bank, bricks could be made which when scraped would produce a gritty substance suitable for scouring metal. It was a predecessor to Vim and Ajax. The river carries a heavy burden of silt. This is deposited on each tide as a layer of slimy yellow matter. Within a mile of either side of the town bridge, the particle size of the grit, and the algae content, is perfect for making the Bath Bricks. Square pens were constructed on the river bank to trap the silt. After two or three months, this would be ˜harvested', ground by a horse-driven mechanism and shaped into bricks for kiln-firing.
The bricks, some two or three inches across, were patented in 1827 by John Browne and became a world-wide commodity. They were given the name of Bath Brick since the colour after firing closely resembled that of Bath stone. At its peak, 24,000,000 bricks per year were being produced by ten different Bridgwater companies, especially during First World War when they were part of the soldier's standard kit issue. By the start of First World War l, they had been replaced by those tall cans of kitchen scourers.
East Quay Bridgwater, Somerset,England, UK, TA6 4DB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XN9H - . This scene at Withy Rd, Highbridge, Somerset, England, UK, TA9 3RA in 2019 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 frame specifically shows Blackboard of Real Somerset Cider, in a bar, Crossways Inn, Withy Rd, Highbridge, Somerset, England, UK, TA9 3RA. The subject also carries associations with historic hostelry, regional identity, night-time economy, visitor hospitality, licensed trade, archival record, contemporary social history, social history, documentary photography, changing land use, local social venue, local history, visual archive, and place identity. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into business rates and pub closures, not least because of the continuing appeal of real ale and regional brewing. Future viewers can use this scene from Withy Rd, Highbridge, Somerset, England, UK, TA9 3RA to compare street furniture and boundaries with whatever follows after altered transport patterns. The location also brings in community drinking venue, real-ale culture, licensed hospitality, changing streetscape, public realm, beer-led hospitality, everyday life, and pub heritage. Details involving Cider, Crossways, Highbridge, Somerset, and Withy make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For Withy Rd, Highbridge, Somerset, England, UK, TA9 3RA, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Its period value extends to business rates and the survival of pubs as both businesses and informal community spaces without losing the local specificity of Withy Rd, Highbridge, Somerset, England, UK, TA9 3RA. The scene captures details of everyday use as part of Withy Rd, Highbridge, Somerset, England, UK, TA9 3RA's history.
Withy Rd, Highbridge, Somerset, England, UK, TA9 3RA
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3154007853 - '',
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4541763104 - 'A statue I pass at least twice a month, as I do work at the offices adjacent.
Bridgwater War Memorial is a Grade II* listed war memorial located on King Square in Bridgwater, Somerset, England, on the site previously occupied by Bridgwater Castle. It was designed by John Angel in the mid-1920s. The green figure of the memorial is allegorical, representing 'Civilization as a seated female, holding a globe in one hand and with the book of knowledge on her lap.
John Angel sculpted the Angel of Bridgwater. Mounted on a plinth, a female figure of 'Civilisation' lofts the world, which is encircled by emblems of commerce and peace. Under her foot are the 'demons of war.' The throne and figure are backed by 'relief depictions of Labour, Home, Life and Education.' On her lap is a book of laws, and she is surrounded by children. Indeed, given its monumental breadth, the many details in the design, and its metaphorical and iconic form, the sculpture is subject to colorful and variant interpretations and description. The bronze was cast by W Morris Art Bronze Foundry.
At the time, Angel was working four years as assistant to Sir George Frampton, and Frampton's influence is apparent. Figures from the roughly contemporaneous Exeter War Memorial, specifically 'Peace' (also known as Victory) were exhibited by Angel at The Royal Academy in 1922, being exhibited in the courtyard of Burlington House, as were other studies of the Bridgwater War Memorial on several occasions.
On the third step these words are inscribed: 'IN HONOUR OF THE MEN OF BRIDGWATER WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918'
The memorial was unveiled by General the Earl of Cavan then Chief of the Imperial General Staff on 25 September 1924, to commemorate the fallen of World War I. Further names have been added following World War II, the Korean War. Falklands Conflict and the Afghan conflict. It has been characterised as, 'An exceptionally fine and moving memorial, which forms an important focal point to this fine late Georgian square.'
In 2009 the memorial benefited from a small stipend from War Memorials Trust, which was used to replace bronze plaques and add a new one. The new plaques are said to be a precise match in form and typeface for those that were replaced.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTJN - . This location-led image captures the social and built context of Wood street, Taunton, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA1 1UN, as recorded during 2018. The source caption identifies Woman in black walking past colourful graffiti, in Wood street, Taunton, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA1 1UN. Other closely connected aspects of the subject are community art, urban artwork, mural culture, street-level design, temporary artwork, creative regeneration, city artwork, public art, public realm art, visual placemaking, creative streetscape, and local identity. The wider contemporary story of visual placemaking now includes regeneration alongside community participation, while policy and investment increasingly consider stronger place identity. The date and location give the photograph archival strength: future views of Wood street, Taunton, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA1 1UN may show different businesses, branding, services, architecture, traffic patterns or redevelopment, allowing clear before-and-after comparison. Beyond the immediate subject, the setting involves art-led regeneration, street creativity, urban visual culture, contemporary mural, urban graphics, community expression. Other local associations include walks. The location further reflects graphic intervention, and illustrated hoarding. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, public art also connects with graffiti versus commissioned work, community participation and efforts aimed at creative reuse of redevelopment sites. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of patterns of everyday use, the condition of buildings, regional identity, local business activity, and public-realm details as an authentic period reference. The combination preserved here provides evidence of local character, period design, changes of use, the appearance of the built environment, and public activity at this precise location.
Wood street, Taunton, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA1 1UN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Somerset,UK,TA6 3RL,South West,England,TA6,tower,block,flat,flats,summer,sunny,blue sky,social housing,socialhousing,Homes In sedgemoor,ALMO,construction,refurbishment,balconies,balcony,highrise,high rise,blocks,leaseholder,leaseholders,1960,1960s,11,stores,Westfield,house,blue skies,render,rendered,leasehold,section 20
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTE8 - Fire Safety Review Gives Westfield House the ˜All Clear'
Westfield House towering above Bridgwater's West Street since 1965
Sedgemoor District Council's Corporate Scrutiny committee, under the chairmanship of Westover Councillor Brian Smedley, has reviewed the Council's response to the Grenfell Tower fire disaster in its own hi-rise properties and has concluded that all necessary steps have been taken to re-assure tenants and where there was cause for concern measures are being introduced to improve the situation.
On 14 June at about 1am, a fire started on the 4th floor of the Grenfell Tower block in London housing some 600 people. Grenfell Tower had 24 floors with 6 flats per floor, an alarm system that worked and the Fire Brigade in immediate attendance “ yet at least 80 died “ most of them in 23 of the blocks 129 flats
Ward Councillor Brian Smedley immediately called for urgent review of safety measures
On the morning of 14th June, Scrutiny Chair Cllr Smedley visited Sedgemoor's (and Somerset's) only tower block, Westfield House and nearby lo-rise blocks around West Street. Hi Rise blocks are defined as ˜anything above 18 metres'-usually 5 storeys or more. Noting resident's concerns he immediately wrote to Chief Executive Kerry Rickards and SDC Leader Duncan McGinty asking for a swift Council response to re-assure tenants and offered to hold a Scrutiny meeting at which residents and Homes in Sedgemoor officers could participate.
Cllr Smedley said The key question asked was ˜How can a small kitchen fire in one flat lead to this catastrophe? How could it happen there and could it happen here?' Residents raised four areas of concern -The Stay Put Policy, the lack of a central sprinkler system, the lack of a central Fire Alarm and , crucially, the Cladding used which seemed to have contributed to the spread of the fire. We felt a Scrutiny Working Party should look at these issues first and present a full and open report to be put on the table for the public
West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTG9 - . A grounded editorial photograph records the character of 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH, in a 2018 record. The principal recorded subject is Excel Fish Bar, 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH - Spreadsheet Supper bar and fast food. The photograph carries associations with consumer leisure, shopfront economy, bricks-and-mortar retail, chain-store economy, catering trade, tourist accommodation, hospitality trade, customer footfall, food culture, food-and-drink business, tourism economy, and commercial streetscape. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, high-street retail also connects with online shopping, shifts in leisure spending and efforts aimed at heritage-led regeneration. The wider contemporary story of restaurants and hotels now includes changing visitor patterns alongside staffing, while policy and investment increasingly consider sustainable tourism. The photograph fixes 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed. The location additionally reflects destination economy, city-centre economy, storefront culture, hospitality premises, hospitality employment, visitor destination. The scene is further associated with West Street Bridgwater, British Chip Shop, fried food, spreadsheet formulas, Chinese takeaway, takeaway food. The same setting also brings together leisure venue, commercial frontage, high-street commerce, service economy, shopping district, restaurant sector, local dining, food service, local tourism, and leisure hospitality. Modern coverage of physical shops frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of brand consolidation, vacant premises and heritage-led regeneration.
73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTGF - . A carefully observed scene records the social and built context of 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH, in an image captured in 2018. The documentary focus is Excel Fish Bar, 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH - Spreadsheet Supper bar and fast food. The location can also be described in terms of customer footfall, high-street commerce, visitor economy, retail property, tourism economy, destination economy, local tourism, independent retail, commercial streetscape, leisure hospitality, food culture, and food service. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, high-street retail also connects with changing footfall, shifts in leisure spending and efforts aimed at adaptable commercial space. The wider contemporary story of restaurants and hotels now includes staffing alongside changing visitor patterns, while policy and investment increasingly consider adaptable venues. The photograph fixes 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed. The location additionally reflects catering trade, retail decline and renewal, hospitality premises, customer service, city-centre economy, storefront culture. The record also refers to West Street Bridgwater, British Chip Shop, fried food, spreadsheet formulas, Chinese takeaway, takeaway food. A more expansive reading adds shopping district, food-and-drink business, consumer retail, visitor destination, local trading, consumer leisure, shopping habits, chain-store economy, urban commerce, and hospitality employment. Modern coverage of commercial property frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of shifts in leisure spending, vacant premises and adaptable commercial space.
73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTHF - . An on-location image records the visible identity of 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH, in an image captured in 2018. The supplied image information identifies Excel Fish Bar, 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH - Spreadsheet Supper bar and fast food. The location can also be described in terms of independent retail, tourist accommodation, consumer spending, service economy, food service, consumer leisure, retail property, town-centre trading, local tourism, catering trade, hospitality premises, and hospitality employment. In the mid-2020s, independent trading is increasingly discussed through operating costs and online shopping, with attention turning to bringing empty units back into use. For present-day editorial use, local dining can also illustrate debates about seasonality and commercial rents, particularly where these affect stronger town-centre leisure economies. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at 73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves. Beyond the immediate subject, the setting involves food culture, destination economy, tourism economy, restaurant sector, shopfront economy, consumer retail. The record also refers to West Street Bridgwater, British Chippy, British Chip Shop, takeaway food, fried food, Chinese takeaway. A more expansive reading adds leisure hospitality, shopping district, retail vacancy, retail decline and renewal, shopping habits, bricks-and-mortar retail, visitor economy, high-street commerce, commercial frontage, and hospitality trade. Current debate around physical shops often combines hybrid working, brand consolidation and the practical challenge of mixed-use town centres. The dated view captures a stage in local change as evidence of its time.
73 West St, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA6 3RH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Somerset,South West England,UK,South West,England,building,charity,The Albemarle Centre,TA1 1BA,TA1,church,churches,of,Baptists,Baptist,Albemarle,architecture,history,historic,old,heritage,sunny,preserved,contrast,triangle,triangles,clean,shape,shapes,chapels,well-maintained,well,maintained
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTGT - . This contextual photograph shows the character of Albemarle Road, Taunton, England, UK, TA1 1BA, in an image captured in 2018. The defining subject in the supplied record is Albemarle Baptist Chapel Taunton, Somerset, South West England, UK. Other closely connected aspects of the subject are historic environment, parish history, motor traffic, architectural character, community ministry, period property, local faith community, religious building, worship space, conservation interest, built heritage, and roadside commerce. Modern coverage of community ministry frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of maintenance cost, heritage tourism and sensitive conservation. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, regional identity also connects with the passage of time, new technology and efforts aimed at a clearer record of local change. The wider contemporary story of local landmarks now includes vacancy alongside energy retrofit, while policy and investment increasingly consider sensitive refurbishment. Small period details preserved at Albemarle Road, Taunton, England, UK, TA1 1BA may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage. The scene also relates to traffic management, townscape identity, local landmark, conservation architecture, sacred interior, place of worship. Associated details include Albemarle Centre, grade two, grade2, historic, listed. Other relevant facets include church conservation, adaptive reuse, religious heritage, vehicle movement, vehicle access, urban fabric, junction design, motorway travel, urban conservation, and road connectivity. For present-day editorial use, community ministry can also illustrate debates about maintenance cost and heritage tourism, particularly where these affect accessible worship spaces.
Albemarle Road, Taunton, England, UK, TA1 1BA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Somerset,SDC,town,England,UK,Medieval,stone wall,blue plaque,blue,wall,Bridgwater wall,mediaeval stone wall,mediaeval,support,stone moulding,Civic Society,history,historic,plate,record,historical,architecture,centre,of,architectural,tourist,tourism,sunny,prominent,trail,walking,route,buff,buffs
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWMA - . Bridgwater Civic Society, sample of Medieval stone wall, high street, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK. Photographed on 19 June 2018. Bridgwater & District - Blue Plaque. The masonry below represents a mediaeval stone wall between two timber-framed buildings. The stone moulding supported a wooden jetty that protruded over the street. Civic Society. Looking at the subject's development, historic objects and places gain meaning through survival
Materials, craftsmanship, inscriptions and later alterations can reveal how a building, machine or everyday item was made, used and valued, while preservation decisions show which parts of the past communities choose to retain. The historical context is that 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. The historical context is that public wording is part of the visual landscape
Direction signs, warning notices, painted advertisements and engraved plaques show how authorities and businesses communicated before digital screens and app-based information became widespread. For the 2026 context, heritage remains economically and culturally significant through tourism, education and place-making, while the cost of maintaining historical fabric creates continuing debate about conservation and reuse. The subject remains topical in 2026 because interest in local history, genealogy and the conservation of memorials remains strong, while weathering, redevelopment and vandalism can threaten smaller monuments and inscriptions
Detailed photographs help preserve lettering, names and physical condition before further weathering or alteration. Associated keywords and synonyms include historic environment, period detail, historic fabric, heritage asset, and architectural history.
High Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Somerset,SDC,town,England,UK,doorway,entrance,TA6 6RE,Home of the Vagabonds Carnival Club,Reflections Club,door,Home of the,West Country Carnival Circuits,squibbing,carnival clubs,clubs,1947,history,historic,team,teams,46,High St,High Street,Reflections,club,pub,bar,Sedgemoor,home of the Vagabonds,Gunpowder Plot,Victory or Defeat,Guy Fawkes,Ken Parsons,Walt Creedy
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWMD - The Vagabonds Carnival Club was founded in 1947 by Ken Parsons and Walt Creedy, and the club's first entry, The Miners, took first place at Bridgwater Carnival. Members originally met at Unity House (the local Labour Party headquarters) for a room rent of one shilling per night.
The following year, the club moved to The Railway Hotel, and the new home brought further success, after winning the carnival concerts with the stage show Gay Bachelors.
The Bristol and Exeter Pub (St John Street) became home to the club in 1951, before it moved to Ye Olde Oake (High Street) after club member, Ray Heal, took a tenancy with local brewers Starkey, Knight and Ford.
In 2001, the club were looking for a new site to build its entries after being forced to leave its cart building site at Huntworth after 17 years. After identifying a suitable new site at Dunwear, the club set about constructing a new shed. The cost of doing this, in terms of both time and money, proved a heavy burden, and for the first time in its history, the club was unable to enter a cart into Bridgwater Carnival in 2002. So in true carnival spirit, some members rode the procession route on the back of a lorry, with the remaining members walking behind.
The club is currently based at The Gallery, High Street, Bridgwater.
Whatever happens, The Vagabonds Carnival Club has already done enough to stamp its mark in the annals of carnival history and will, with luck, continue to do so for a long time to come.
46 High St, Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK, TA6 3BL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWME - House, now shop. Mid C18. Flemish-bond brick with stone cornice, platband, keystones and cills, pantile roof, hipped to the front with a brick stack to right, gabled to the rear block. Double-depth plan. Mid-Georgian style. 3 storeys
symmetrical 2-window range. The parapet wall, scrolled to the ends, has a pediment with moulded cornice to centre resting on main cornice. Flat gauged brick arches with keystones, 3/6-pane sash windows to second floor, platband over plate-glass sashes with margin panes to first floor. The fine late C19 shop to ground floor has a cornice returned to left over a black and gold mirrored glass fascia with gold ornamental borders and letters, it reads
Silk Mercer and Draper. E.H.Hooper. Millinery and Mantles. The shop door is glazed with bolection moulding to a horizontal panel to the base and a brass handle
it is set well back with polychromatic tiles and an elaborately panelled ceiling to entrance
moulded glazing bars between 2 plate-glass windows to each side and left return. To left of left return are 8/8-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars and moulded forward frames to upper floors, that to second floor at eaves level, that to first floor under flat gauged brick arch
C20 window to ground floor left, blocked door to right, (cut into by shop front) below a blind window. The range to rear of rough Flemish-bond brickwork has blocked door to first floor. 2 storeys with attic
3-window range. 2 raking dormers, that to left has 2-light casement window with cill at eaves level, that to right is a 3-light half-dormer. Range to left cants back slightly. The first floor has segmental gauged brick arches to 2/2-panes sashes without horns, that to right has a wider arch to former wider opening
3-course brick platband over timber lintels
6-panel door to left with 6-pane overlight, C20 windows to centre and right. INTERIOR: a mid C19 staircase with turned balusters rises to first floor. History: the first floor once spanned the footpath
25 High Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK, TA6 3BE
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWKX - ROBINSONS RELEASE NEW SEASONAL BEER ˜FROM THE LIGHT SIDE': HOPPY WAN KENOBI
THIS IS THE BEER YOU'RE LOOKING FOR!
180 year old family-run-brewers, Robinsons, have unveiled a new seasonal beer designed to get drinkers to come out in force: Hoppy Wan Kenobi
a golden ale inspired by the world-famous movie: Star Wars.
Available for just two months throughout June and July, this noble brew is crisp, tart and packing a punch. The pump clip has been carefully designed to capture the legendary Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, proudly presenting his iconic blue plasma blade lightsaber. ˜Search your feelings' and you'll find the hop is strong with this one. Loaded with cascade and sovereign hops, and interlaced with light citrus aromas, this 4% ABV limited-edition golden ale is dangerously drinkable.
Hoppy Wan Kenobi is part of Robinsons' series of seasonal movie-themed ales that have been specially brewed for 2018.
Gill Yates, Brands Manager for Robinsons Brewery, explains: For our latest seasonal beer, Hoppy Wan Kenobi, we decided to continue to play on our popular TV and film series theme, as from our customer's response we're aware of how well it works. In 2017, we sold 770,688 pints of our seasonal beers altogether. This was a great result and we're pleased to be able to provide drinkers with fun, relatable ales which look fantastic alongside our other beers on the bar. We hope that everybody gets a chance to taste this golden delight.
Hoppy Wan Kenobi is available throughout June and July regionally via select Robinsons' pubs and free trade across the North West, Cumbria and North Wales, and nationally via listings with Heineken, Enterprise Inns Carlsberg, Punch, Admiral Taverns, Stonegate,
Highbridge, Somerset, England
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,chips,slaw,pub food,lunch,dinner,South West,England,bar,bar food,English,British,beer,ale,pint pot,coleslaw,Somerset,South West England,UK,pub,with,burger in a bun,chicken,cheese,Chicken Burger meal,with fries,pint in a traditional English pub,bun,roll,bread,bread roll,sandwich,melted cheese,chicken on a bun,Chip basket,served in a basket,frying basket,fried food
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWM1 - . An on-location photograph from Highbridge, Somerset, England in 2018, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The frame specifically shows Chicken Burger meal with fries, coleslaw, and a pint in a traditional English pub, Somerset, South West England, UK. A broader reading of the photograph includes beverage production, regional drinks industry, documentary photography, cider brand history, before-and-after reference, factory bottling line, place identity, community identity, bottling technology, regional identity, social history, contemporary social history, public realm, and orchard-to-bottle industry. For current editorial use, packaging and alcohol duty provide additional context, especially through the relationship between orchard agriculture, regional identity and branded cider. The image fixes period objects and surrounding context within Highbridge, Somerset, England at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against later reinterpretation. A second descriptive layer includes local character, Herefordshire cider tradition, drinks packaging, historical comparison, bottle-filling machinery, drinks manufacturing, historic beverage advertising, and local history. Elements such as coleslaw, Chicken, English, traditional, and Burger add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. For Highbridge, Somerset, England, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The scene further reflects packaging and Herefordshire's long association with commercial cider production when considered against later change at Highbridge, Somerset, England. Its period value extends to energy costs and how bottling technology transformed large-scale drinks manufacturing without losing the local specificity of Highbridge, Somerset, England.
Highbridge, Somerset, England
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,drinks,drink,alcoholic,pub,bar,pint,bitter,dark,malty,South West England,Drink Moor Beer,bar pump,Somerset,England,UK,angram,pump,beer on a bar,Moor beer glass,glass,pale ale,ale,traditional,Pale Modern Ale,Positive Mental attitude,For those with a,brewer,brewing,pints,head,glasses,clip,beer clip,Days Road,Bristol,BS2 0QS,BS2
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWM5 - . Made at Somerset,England,UK in 2018, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The subject captured here is Moor Beer Company,PMA,Drink Moor Beer,Drink more beer,bar pump,handpull,Somerset,England,UK,Pale Modern Ale. The locality and subject together evoke contemporary social history, fermented drink production, place identity, visual archive, archival record, drinks packaging, period detail, public realm, changing land use, orchard-to-bottle industry, changing streetscape, factory bottling line, bottle-filling machinery, and cider brand history. The wider contemporary story combines energy costs, tourism and Herefordshire's long association with commercial cider production. For later comparison, the photograph preserves equipment and working practice at Somerset,England,UK, details that may look very different after replacement signage. Further associations within the scene are beverage production, drinks manufacturing, before-and-after reference, regional drinks industry, local history, documentary photography, historic beverage advertising, and historical comparison. Elements such as Somerset, Company, Drink, handpull, and Modern add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within Somerset,England,UK, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. Another strand within the photograph is energy costs and Herefordshire's long association with commercial cider production within the specific setting of Somerset,England,UK. The setting also helps illustrate energy costs and Herefordshire's long association with commercial cider production as part of the longer story of Somerset,England,UK. The image fixes part of the area's social history within the wider story of Somerset,England,UK.
Somerset,England,UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,70 Station Rd,Somerset,South West England,UK,TA1 1NX,mens clothing,clothing for men,Gurds,boys,men,retail,store,sign,Accessories,Suits,Blazers,Coats,Jackets,Trousers,Shirts,Pyjamas,Headwear,Knitwear,Underwear,Socks,Waistcoats,Devon,Quality Menswear,Mens Traditional Quality Clothing,family clothes shop,family business,extra large sizes,big size,big size menswear,independent
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P53BT0 - Gurds are specialists in Men's Traditional Quality Clothing run by the same family since 1933.
We offer a complete range of clothing from small to extra large, 38 to 60 chest and waist 32 to 60 the extra large sizes are a large section of our sales.
We have our own onsite workroom for shortening trousers at no extra charge on purchase.
70 Station Rd, Taunton, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA1 1NX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,70 Station Rd,Somerset,South West England,UK,TA1 1NX,mens clothing,clothing for men,Gurds,boys,men,retail,store,sign,Accessories,Suits,Blazers,Coats,Jackets,Trousers,Shirts,Pyjamas,Headwear,Knitwear,Underwear,Socks,Waistcoats,Devon,Quality Menswear,Mens Traditional Quality Clothing,family clothes shop,family business,extra large sizes,big size,big size menswear
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P53BT1 - Gurds are specialists in Men's Traditional Quality Clothing run by the same family since 1933.
We offer a complete range of clothing from small to extra large, 38 to 60 chest and waist 32 to 60 the extra large sizes are a large section of our sales.
We have our own onsite workroom for shortening trousers at no extra charge on purchase.
70 Station Rd, Taunton, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA1 1NX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,70 Station Rd,Somerset,South West England,UK,TA1 1NX,mens clothing,clothing for men,Gurds,boys,men,retail,store,sign,Accessories,Suits,Blazers,Coats,Jackets,Trousers,Shirts,Pyjamas,Headwear,Knitwear,Underwear,Socks,Waistcoats,Devon,Quality Menswear,Mens Traditional Quality Clothing,family clothes shop,family business,extra large sizes,big size,big size menswear
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P53BT2 - Gurds are specialists in Men's Traditional Quality Clothing run by the same family since 1933.
We offer a complete range of clothing from small to extra large, 38 to 60 chest and waist 32 to 60 the extra large sizes are a large section of our sales.
We have our own onsite workroom for shortening trousers at no extra charge on purchase.
70 Station Rd, Taunton, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA1 1NX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P53BT4 - This Post Office in Taunton was built in 1911 in the neo-Georgian style (red brick with stone dressings on the upper floors, stone on the ground floor) then popular for Post Offices. I have noticed before how this style was popular in the early-20th century
Former Post Office, 38 North St, Taunton, Somerset, England, UK, TA1 1AB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P53BT5 - Vivary Park is a public open space in Taunton, Somerset, England.
The Sherford Stream, a tributary of the River Tone, flows through the 7.5 hectares (19 acres) park, which is located near the centre of the town. It contains two main wide open spaces, as well as a war memorial dating from 1922, a miniature golf course, tennis courts, two children's playgrounds, a model railway track which was added in 1979, and an 18-hole, 4,620-yard (4,220 m), par-63 golf course. The park includes trees, rose beds and herbaceous borders, with around 56,000 spring and summer bedding plants being used each year. The rose garden includes the Royal National Rose Society Provincial Trial Ground.
The park is a garden of the European Garden Heritage Network.
The park stands on land that was formerly a medieval fish farm, or vivarium, for Taunton Priory and Taunton Castle. Although nothing remains above ground of these lakes, they are the origin of the name Vivary. Entries in pipe rolls of the 13th and 14th centuries show that bream, pike, and eels were supplied from the vivarium to the Castle and sometimes to the royal household. These sources identify two ponds, the magnum vivarium, or great pond, which probably occupied the low-lying area of the present-day golf-course, and the parvum vivarium or little pond, within what is now the park proper. When a trench for a new sewer was cut through the park and its golf course during the 1970s, archaeologists were able to identify the deposits of silt left behind by the medieval fish ponds.
Upper High St, Taunton, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA1 3SX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P53BT6 - Vivary Park is a public open space in Taunton, Somerset, England.
The Sherford Stream, a tributary of the River Tone, flows through the 7.5 hectares (19 acres) park, which is located near the centre of the town. It contains two main wide open spaces, as well as a war memorial dating from 1922, a miniature golf course, tennis courts, two children's playgrounds, a model railway track which was added in 1979, and an 18-hole, 4,620-yard (4,220 m), par-63 golf course. The park includes trees, rose beds and herbaceous borders, with around 56,000 spring and summer bedding plants being used each year. The rose garden includes the Royal National Rose Society Provincial Trial Ground.
The park is a garden of the European Garden Heritage Network.
The park stands on land that was formerly a medieval fish farm, or vivarium, for Taunton Priory and Taunton Castle. Although nothing remains above ground of these lakes, they are the origin of the name Vivary. Entries in pipe rolls of the 13th and 14th centuries show that bream, pike, and eels were supplied from the vivarium to the Castle and sometimes to the royal household. These sources identify two ponds, the magnum vivarium, or great pond, which probably occupied the low-lying area of the present-day golf-course, and the parvum vivarium or little pond, within what is now the park proper. When a trench for a new sewer was cut through the park and its golf course during the 1970s, archaeologists were able to identify the deposits of silt left behind by the medieval fish ponds.
Upper High St, Taunton, Somerset, South West England, UK, TA1 3SX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Somerset,South West England,UK,TA1 4AF,transport,South West,England,bus routes,travel,bus travel,building,bus stop,bus stops,bus stand,stops,stands,transport interchange,interchange,South West Coaches,car park,grant,the,2 Tower street,routes,local,services,Firstbus,Buses of Somerset,grants,Quantock Motor Services,public transport,funding,Tower street,First,2,service,route,buses
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P53BT9 - . An on-location photograph from 2 Tower street, Taunton, Somerset, England, TA1 4AF in 2018, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. At the centre of the view is Taunton Bus station, First Bus, 2 Tower street, Somerset, South West England, UK,TA1 4AF. Another layer of the photograph includes street-side transport, changing streetscape, surface public transport, local character, local mobility, public realm, public transport information, community identity, bus infrastructure, everyday life, period detail, place identity, contemporary social history, and transport accessibility. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into passenger information and local connectivity, not least because of how local bus services affect access to work, education and healthcare. The image fixes signage and branding within 2 Tower street, Taunton, Somerset, England, TA1 4AF at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against refurbishment. The wider setting retains connections with roadside transit, local history, historical comparison, bus route infrastructure, roadside stop, changing land use, documentary photography, and archival record. Elements such as Somerset, Taunton, First, Tower, and station add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. Around 2 Tower street, Taunton, Somerset, England, TA1 4AF, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The image also provides a reference for passenger information and how local bus services affect access to work, education and healthcare when considered against later change at 2 Tower street, Taunton, Somerset, England, TA1 4AF. The scene captures evidence of changing use as a date-specific reference. The period view preserves evidence of earlier appearance for later comparison.
2 Tower street, Taunton, Somerset, England, TA1 4AF
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Keywords: GoTonysmith,@HotpixUK,Socailhousing,Social Housing,UKhousing,UK Housing,Repairs,Group,Van,working,in,partnership,with,England,UK,white van man,white van,maintenance,MDGroup,MD Group,issue,problem,town,centre,town centre,Bridgwater Town Centre,Peugeot,Partner,Peugeot Partner,Peugeot Partner Van,parked,on street,plumbing,electrical,contract,Repairs Contractor,Main Contractor,trusted partner,Somerset,Awaabs Law
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MM9A1R - . This authentic period view of 41-43 Northgate, Bridgwater TA6 3EU, UK in 2018 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The scene records MD Repairs Group Van, working in partnership with Homes In Sedgemoor, Bridgwater,Somerset, England,UK. The broader subject matter reaches into architectural character, before-and-after reference, documentary photography, changing land use, period building, adaptive reuse, built heritage, cityscape history, heritage asset, heritage landmark, everyday life, period detail, visual archive, and conservation interest. For current editorial use, adaptive reuse and embodied carbon provide additional context, especially through keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character. The image fixes landscape treatment and surrounding development within 41-43 Northgate, Bridgwater TA6 3EU, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against different community use. The subject also sits alongside historic townscape, community identity, place identity, public realm, conservation architecture, social history, local history, and historic streetscape. References to Somerset, Homes, partnership, Bridgwater, and working give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around 41-43 Northgate, Bridgwater TA6 3EU, UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The location additionally provides evidence of adaptive reuse and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character within the specific setting of 41-43 Northgate, Bridgwater TA6 3EU, UK. A further contemporary connection is redevelopment pressure and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change as part of the longer story of 41-43 Northgate, Bridgwater TA6 3EU, UK.
41-43 Northgate, Bridgwater TA6 3EU, UK
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Keywords: beer,bar,pub,pubs,bars,Somerset,Bridgwater,Bridgewater,rural,country,brewing,brewers,glass,foam,indoors,inside,Cask Marque,cask,Marque,process,drinker,Bridgwater,Bridgewater,Butcombe Brewery,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles,Buy photo of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HAFM72 - . This authentic period view of Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK in 2016 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. At the centre of the view is Butcombe bitter on a bar in Somerset, England, UK. The wider scene also brings together local character, bottling technology, regional identity, beverage production, drinks packaging, Herefordshire cider tradition, cider-making heritage, bottle-filling machinery, regional drinks industry, historical comparison, drinks manufacturing, cider brand history, archival record, and documentary photography. For current editorial use, regional food heritage and responsible drinking provide additional context, especially through how bottling technology transformed large-scale drinks manufacturing. The archival value lies partly in recording street furniture and boundaries around Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK before conservation work alters the character of the place. The subject also sits alongside place identity, factory bottling line, orchard-to-bottle industry, community identity, before-and-after reference, social history, visual archive, and public realm. Details involving Butcombe, bitter, and Somerset make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence of regional food heritage and how bottling technology transformed large-scale drinks manufacturing within the real-world context of Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK. A further contemporary connection is alcohol duty and how historic drinks advertising and machinery become industrial heritage within the specific setting of Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK.
Bridgwater,Somerset,England,UK
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Keywords: St,Marys,Marys,Sedgemoor,Somerset,England,UK,gate,St Mary St,TA6 3EQ,TA6,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Tony,Smith,UK,GB,Great,Britain,United,Kingdom,English,British,England,problem,with,problem with,issue with,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,Tony Smith,United Kingdom,Great Britain,British Isles
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HDEYKT - . An identifiable period record of St Mary St, Bridgwater TA6 3EQ in 2016, retaining the practical detail and local context that distinguish a documentary photograph from a generic illustration. The frame specifically shows St Marys Church,Bridgwater,Sedgemoor,Somerset,England,UK. Other connected aspects include historical comparison, everyday life, religious heritage, archival record, sacred space, place identity, religious artwork, faith heritage, contemporary social story.htm Target=_Blank>history, medieval church setting, local history, community identity, period detail, and regional identity. Current relevance extends to cultural heritage and heritage conservation, particularly through the conservation challenge of fragile historic glass and stonework. The archival value lies partly in recording commercial use and occupation around St Mary St, Bridgwater TA6 3EQ before new ownership alters the character of the place. Further associations within the scene are visual archive, historic glazing, Christian iconography, changing land use, changing streetscape, stained-glass craftsmanship, cathedral interior, and church conservation. References to Somerset, Church, Sedgemoor, Marys, and Bridgwater give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around St Mary St, Bridgwater TA6 3EQ, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The image also provides a reference for cultural heritage and how places of worship combine active religious use with tourism and heritage within the specific setting of St Mary St, Bridgwater TA6 3EQ. Another useful connection is energy costs and the role of cathedrals as cultural landmarks beyond their congregations as part of the longer story of St Mary St, Bridgwater TA6 3EQ. The frame retains part of the area's social history as part of St Mary St, Bridgwater TA6 3EQ's history.
St Mary St, Bridgwater TA6 3EQ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Co,Somerset,England,UK,TA12 6JH,TA12,glove,blue,sign,Martock Glove Company,glove factory sign,historic glove making,Somerset glove industry,painted wall sign,British,heritage,traditional,building,factory,Burfields gloves,The Martock Glove Co,glove manufacturing England,textile heritage,industrial history,factory signage,hand painted sign,faded lettering,blue painted sign,brick workshop wall,small factory window,rural industry,craft manufacturing,British craftsmanship,heritage building,local industry,editorial documentary,UK industrial past
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R5PNMD - This image shows a historic painted wall sign advertising Burfields and The Martock Glove Company, located on Manor Road in Martock, Somerset (TA12 6JH). The weathered blue sign reads: This is where gloves of quality and superlative design are manufactured by Burfields and The Martock Glove Co , reflecting the pride once taken in local glove production.
Martock has a long-established association with glove making, with the industry forming a significant part of the village's economy from the 18th century onwards. Somerset, and Martock in particular, became known for high-quality leather gloves supplied across Britain and overseas, supported by skilled local labour and small-scale manufacturing workshops rather than large industrial mills.
The sign is mounted on a brick building beside a traditional sash-style window, reinforcing the modest, workshop-based nature of glove production in rural Somerset. The faded paint, uneven lettering, and patina of age add strong visual evidence of mid-20th-century industrial advertising practices, when painted signs served as both branding and local wayfinding.
Today, surviving signs such as this are valued as tangible reminders of Britain's manufacturing heritage and regional craft industries. The image is suitable for editorial use relating to industrial history, British textiles, traditional craftsmanship, rural manufacturing, historic signage, and Somerset local history.
Burfields / The Martock Glove Company, Manor Road, Martock, Somerset, England, UK, TA12 6JH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDJPJG - . Patience Charity Humility Stained Glass in a church, South Window St Andrews Church Brympton D'Evercy Somerset England UK. The photograph was taken on 08 July 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Patience, Charity, Humility, Stained, Glass, church, Patience Charity Humility, women, ladies and colored coloured saint saints holy picture image Patience, 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.
St Andrews Church Brympton D'Evercy Somerset England UK
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Keywords: Barrington,Court,Ct,Ilminster,Somerset,England,UK,NT,National Trust,Summer,in summer,Tudor,manor,house,south,west,English,vernacular,stable,garden,collection,collections,history,historic,porcalane,vitreous,Belfast,white,wash,washing,old,tap,taps,GoTonySmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DEJMJT - . Sink at Barrington Court,ilminster,Somerset,England,UK,NT. Photographed at Ilminster, Somerset, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 14 June 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Barrington Court, ilminster, Somerset, Tudor manor house, National, Trust, sink, Barrington, Court and National Trust, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Ilminster, Somerset, England, UK
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Keywords: Somerset,NT,property,England,UK,grass,fun,activity,activities,for,children,pretty,floral,garden,installation,on,lawn,colourfull,colourful,petals,attraction,national,trust,tudor,mansion,house,stately,home,Colonel,Lyle,great,British,walk,Britain,GB,Gotonysmith,chutfest,2013,2014
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DEJMMK - . Barrington Ct Summer Flower Art in ceramic Somerset NT property England UK. Photographed at Ilminster, England UK TA19 0NQ. The photograph was taken on 14 June 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Barrington, Summer, Flower, Art, ceramic, Somerse, Somerset, property, grass and fun, 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.
Ilminster, England UK TA19 0NQ
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Keywords: Barrington,Court,Ct,Ilminster,Somerset,England,UK,NT,National Trust,National,Trust,Summer,in summer,Tudor manor house,Tudor,manor,house,south,west,English,vernacular,stable,garden,collection,collections,history,historic,white wisteria Tree,white,hanging,GoTonySmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DEJN4X - . Barrington Court white wisteria Tree, Somerset, England, UK. Photographed at Ilminster, Somerset, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 14 June 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Barrington Court, ilminster, Somerset, shrub, Wisteria, white wisteria, Tree, Barrington, Court and National Trust, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image has relevance to landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environmental quality and the relationship between natural features and nearby settlement. It can illustrate editorial coverage of tourism, walking, recreation, conservation, seasonal change, biodiversity, green space, waterways and local identity. Vegetation, water, paths, buildings, weather and landform provide geographic and environmental context, helping the image work as both a place record and a broader landscape photograph. The documentary approach is useful for archive comparison, showing how a location looked at a particular time and how vegetation, land use or development may change later. Search themes include landscape, countryside, waterways, parks, gardens, environment, green space, tourism, recreation, seasonal conditions and local geography. The location view can also provide a useful baseline for later comparison as vegetation, land use, water levels or surrounding development change. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Ilminster, Somerset, England, UK
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Keywords: plumbing,example,England,UK,bath,cleaning,personal,hygiene,wash,washing,red,painted,walls,victorian plumbing,South Somerset,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,sponge,keeping,clean,hygienic,history,historic,British,old,traditional,tap,taps,shaving,mug,foam,Somerset,maroon
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE54CH - . Victorian bathing tap end - at a bathroom , Montecute House, NT, South Somerset, England, UK. Photographed at Montecute House,Montecute,South Somerset,England, UK. The photograph was taken on 13 June 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Victorian bathing at Montecute House, bathroom, cast iron, Victorian, Somerset, preserved, loofer, plumbing, example and bath, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image is relevant to architecture, the built environment, urban heritage, streetscape and the way historic and modern buildings contribute to a sense of place. It can illustrate editorial coverage of architectural detail, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, tourism, civic identity and changing uses of older properties. Facades, windows, entrances, masonry, decorative elements, signage and neighbouring structures provide documentary evidence of the building's appearance and setting. The dated view also gives the photograph archive value for future comparison if the property is restored, altered, rebranded, repurposed or redeveloped. Search themes include architecture, historic buildings, facades, interiors, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, heritage, streetscape and urban change. A precise location image is useful for comparing later restoration, alteration, redevelopment, rebranding or changes in the use of the building. 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. This particular view is catalogued under Alamy image reference DE54CH, distinguishing it from other photographs of the same or related subject.
Montecute House,Montecute,South Somerset,England, UK
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Keywords: plumbing,example,Somerset,England,UK,bath,cleaning,personal,hygiene,wash,washing,red,painted,walls,victorian plumbing,South Somerset,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Images of,Stock Images,mug,traditional,history,sponge,keeping,historic,tap,foam,taps,British,clean,hygienic,old,shaving,maroon
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE54D2 - . Victorian bathing at a bathroom , Montecute House, NT, South Somerset, England, UK. Photographed at Montecute House,Montecute,South Somerset,England, UK. The photograph was taken on 13 June 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Victorian bathing at Montecute House, preserved, cast iron, Victorian, loofer, Somerset, bathroom, plumbing, example and bath, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The image is relevant to architecture, the built environment, urban heritage, streetscape and the way historic and modern buildings contribute to a sense of place. It can illustrate editorial coverage of architectural detail, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, tourism, civic identity and changing uses of older properties. Facades, windows, entrances, masonry, decorative elements, signage and neighbouring structures provide documentary evidence of the building's appearance and setting. The dated view also gives the photograph archive value for future comparison if the property is restored, altered, rebranded, repurposed or redeveloped. Search themes include architecture, historic buildings, facades, interiors, conservation, listed buildings, planning, regeneration, heritage, streetscape and urban change. A precise location image is useful for comparing later restoration, alteration, redevelopment, rebranding or changes in the use of the building. 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. This particular view is catalogued under Alamy image reference DE54D2, distinguishing it from other photographs of the same or related subject.
Montecute House,Montecute,South Somerset,England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BGRC29 - . An on-location editorial image made at Great Britain, UK, showing a subject whose wider significance extends beyond the immediate scene. The photograph is concerned with Typhoon Dunkerton Somersetshire Coal Canal 1794,Waterway Canal boat,narrowboat,England,Great Britain,UK. Other aspects of the subject include everyday Britain, waterside infrastructure, navigation engineering, blue-green infrastructure, industrial waterway history, riparian setting, managed navigation, inland navigation, lock-side environment, towpath landscape, place identity, regional identity, historical comparison, and social landscape. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about biodiversity, waterway maintenance and keeping historic infrastructure safe and operational. As a dated visual record of Great Britain, UK, the frame retains transport arrangements and public activity, making it useful if changing public expectations subsequently changes the scene. The subject also sits alongside archival record, visual archive, waterborne travel, local character, historic transport corridor, changing streetscape, working waterway, and river transport. References to narrowboat, Typhoon, Dunkerton, Waterway, and Somersetshire give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to the named subject. A later view of Great Britain, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The scene further reflects biodiversity and keeping historic infrastructure safe and operational when considered against later change at Great Britain, UK. Its period value extends to towpath access and the value of canals and rivers as blue-green corridors without losing the local specificity of Great Britain, UK. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for Great Britain, UK and the changing story of the subject shown.
Great Britain, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P53BT7 - . Made at Corporation St, Taunton, Somerset, England, UK, TA1 4AH in 2018, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The location is represented through Mecca Bingo Taunton, Corporation St, Taunton, Somerset, England,Uk, TA1 4AH. A broader reading of the photograph includes everyday life, historical comparison, conservation interest, documentary photography, regional identity, period building, archival record, social history, public realm, period detail, local character, contemporary social history, historic townscape, and historic streetscape. The modern context includes continuing discussion of redevelopment pressure, energy retrofit and the value of architectural landmarks to local identity and tourism. The image fixes period objects and surrounding context within Corporation St, Taunton, Somerset, England, UK, TA1 4AH at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against conservation work. The surrounding story also includes heritage asset, architectural character, architectural detail, changing streetscape, visual archive, adaptive reuse, period architecture, and built heritage. Elements such as Taunton, Corporation, Mecca, Somerset, and Bingo add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The wider setting at Corporation St, Taunton, Somerset, England, UK, TA1 4AH matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The wider significance includes redevelopment pressure and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility without losing the local specificity of Corporation St, Taunton, Somerset, England, UK, TA1 4AH. The photograph keeps period character as a date-specific reference. The record includes a trace of local identity for later comparison.
Corporation St, Taunton, Somerset, England, UK, TA1 4AH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DEJN4J - White wisteria in full spring flower at Barrington Court, the National Trust property near Ilminster in Somerset, photographed in bright daylight against a clear blue sky. Long racemes of creamy white blossom hang in dense curtains from fresh green foliage, creating a rich seasonal garden image for use in horticulture, travel, heritage, countryside and National Trust features. Barrington Court is known for its formal garden rooms, walled spaces, orchards and productive kitchen garden, with the garden layout shaped in the 1920s by Colonel Arthur Lyle and strongly influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement and the ideas of Gertrude Jekyll. The National Trust highlights the wisteria in the White Garden as a spring spectacle, filling the air with sweet scent during April and May. This photograph is useful for articles about spring gardens, flowering climbers, white garden planting, Wisteria floribunda alba, garden design, Somerset tourism, historic country houses, English gardens and seasonal days out in South West England. The image has strong commercial search value for buyers needing a clean, uplifting botanical subject, with cascading flowers, fresh leaves, sunshine, blue sky and a peaceful country estate setting. It can also illustrate garden visiting, heritage conservation, National Trust membership, plant collections, romantic planting schemes, cottage garden style, formal garden design, scented plants, spring blossom, pollinator friendly flowers and ornamental climbers. The absence of people keeps the composition flexible for calendars, magazines, websites, brochures, gardening blogs, travel guides and editorial features. The soft white flowers contrast with vivid green leaves and summer-like light, suggesting late spring warmth, fine weather and the short-lived beauty of wisteria season at one of Somerset's notable historic garden destinations.
Barrington Court white wisteria Tree, Somerset, England, UKWhite wisteria flowers cascade in spring
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDD6NW - . Brympton d'Evercy manor house panorama, including St Andrews Church, near Yeovil, Somerset, South West England, UK. The photograph was taken on 06 August 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The wider composition gives a broader sense of the surroundings, showing the principal subject in relation to more of the streetscape, landscape or public space. The scene is closely associated with Brympton dEvercy, St Andrews Church, Odcombe, wedding venue, medieval manor house, medieval manor, Brympton, brympton house, panorama and historical house, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is relevant to religious heritage, places of worship, ecclesiastical architecture, local history, faith communities and the conservation of historic buildings. It can illustrate editorial features about churches and cathedrals, worship, monuments, memorials, stained glass, church interiors, architectural detail, tourism, listed buildings and the role of historic religious sites within towns and cities. Stonework, inscriptions, furnishings, windows, towers, memorials and other surviving details can provide useful evidence for architectural and heritage-focused picture research. As a documentary location image it also records the condition, presentation and setting of the site at a particular point in time. Search themes include religious heritage, churches, cathedrals, worship, monuments, memorials, ecclesiastical architecture, conservation, tourism and local history. Architectural and decorative details can also be useful to researchers studying the fabric, furnishings and changing presentation of historic places of worship. The view is firmly rooted in a real location rather than a constructed studio setting.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C9E2RE - Debenhams prepares to file for bankruptcy April 2020
Chain buckling under coronavirus shutdown just a year after it was rescued & considering filing a formal notice of intention to appoint administrators.
Debenhams is preparing to call in administrators after the struggling department store was forced to close all its outlets under the coronavirus lockdown.
The company, which has 22,000 staff and was rescued by its lenders after collapsing into administration only a year ago, is understood to be considering filing a formal notice of intention to appoint administrators next week. The legal process provides protection from creditors for 10 working days while a company tries to secure a rescue deal.
Potential administrators lined up this time include KPMG, which handled the Debenhams restructure last May.
A Debenhams spokesman said: Like all retailers, we are making contingency plans reflecting the extraordinary current circumstances. Our owners and lenders remain highly supportive and whatever actions we may take will be with a view to protecting the business during the current situation.
They added: While our stores remain closed in line with government guidance, and the majority of our store-facing colleagues have been furloughed, our website continues to trade and we are accepting customer orders, gift cards and returns.
It is understood that the potential insolvency measure would be intended to protect the business so it could continue to trade.
Debenhams was taken over last year by a group of its financial backers, including the US hedge funds Silver Point and GoldenTree, after falling into administration. It then used an insolvency process known as a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) to cull unprofitable sites and cut rents.
The group has closed 22 stores, 19 of which shut in January, resulting in more than 700 job losses. A further 28 of its remaining 141 stores had been lined up for permanent closure next year.
Bedford House, Park St, Taunton,Somerset,England,UK, TA1 4DB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE54BF - Baptist Church. 1879. Ham stone ashlar
Welsh slate roof between coped gables. In an Early English style, with gable ends to road. Plinth: main gable features a Geometric rose window under trefoil gable vent, with a cusped label in pointed segmental-arched recess below left: on south-west corner a quasi-turret with gable end having segmental- arched doorway flanked by Gothic foliated capital shafts under label roll, above which is a rather wide cusped lancet and a clock-face in the gable
across main gable and in angle formed by projecting turret, leading to first floor of same, an open covered stair with pitched Welsh slate roof and arches and pillars to match doorway: cast iron finials to both gables. C20 chimney stack to north-west corner. Foundation stone with date and architect's name on front wall. South side elevation has 4 pairs pointed segmental-arched windows under continuous label. Attached to rear a 7 bay schoolroom block, sash windows below and semi-circular arched casements above under continuous arched label. Further extension to east. Interior not seen. About 10 metres west the front boundary wall, ashlar with plinth and angled coping, with square piers having frieze bands and bell- hip caps: railings with taper points to middle and top rails, fleur-de-lys tops to arch-braced standards, matching gates, adding to setting of Church
Montecute, South Somerset, England, United Kingdom
