Golden Square Shopping Centre and old Market Place at Christmas,Warrington town centre,Cheshire,England,UK, WA1,at dusk,decorations

Golden Square Shopping Centre and old Market Place at Christmas,Warrington town centre,Cheshire,England,UK, WA1,at dusk,decorations Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2ADR2DF

File size:

54.1 MB (2 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5472 x 3456 px | 46.3 x 29.3 cm | 18.2 x 11.5 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

4 December 2019

Location:

27 Old Market Place, Warrington WA1 1QB

More information:

. This location-based editorial photograph from 27 Old Market Place, Warrington WA1 1QB in 2019 preserves a recognisable subject together with clues about how the place was used and presented at the time. The photograph records Golden Square Shopping Centre and old Market Place at Christmas, Warrington town centre, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1, at dusk, decorations. Other connected aspects include community identity, everyday life, consumer retail, social history, connected society, documentary photography, commercial frontage, before-and-after reference, smartphone culture, retail vacancy, town-centre economy, independent trading, customer footfall, and local character. Today's wider story includes online shopping, business rates and the practical question of the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres. For contemporary context, software change and digital exclusion are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes how phones have become gateways to everyday services. For local-history research, the image captures the relationship between the subject and its surroundings as seen at 27 Old Market Place, Warrington WA1 1QB. Other useful associations include visual archive, digital access, bricks-and-mortar retail, changing land use, historic context, high-street commerce, contemporary social history, and archival record. References to Shopping, Christmas, Centre, Golden, and Square help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. The surrounding context at 27 Old Market Place, Warrington WA1 1QB matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The wider significance includes online shopping and bringing underused premises back into productive use without losing the local specificity of 27 Old Market Place, Warrington WA1 1QB.