Hanbury St,Brick Lane,art and graffiti,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL

Hanbury St,Brick Lane,art and graffiti,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2AE02A6

File size:

57.1 MB (2.7 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5472 x 3648 px | 46.3 x 30.9 cm | 18.2 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

26 November 2019

Location:

Brick Lane,Shoreditch,Tower Hamlets,East End,London,South East,England,UK, E1 6QL

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. An on-location image from Brick Lane, Shoreditch, Tower Hamlets, East End, London, South East, England, UK, E1 6QL in 2019, useful both for the specific subject shown and for the evidence it retains about local identity, design, use and everyday life. The subject recorded here is Hanbury St, Brick Lane, art and graffiti, Shoreditch, Tower Hamlets, East End, London, South East, England, UK, E1 6QL. A broader reading of the scene brings in industrial artefact, production technology, historic context, working-industry history, social history, historic manufacturing, place identity, urban fabric, traditional masonry, documentary photography, period building, built heritage, industrial supply chain, and building-material production. The present-day relevance extends to manufacturing history and factory closures, while a wider concern is the relationship between local geology, manufacturing and the built environment. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes heritage conservation alongside historic townscape, with particular attention to the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. As a piece of social history, the image retains signage, materials, design and everyday use within Brick Lane, Shoreditch, Tower Hamlets, East End, London, South East, England, UK, E1 6QL. Other useful associations include factory history, local history, community identity, public realm, contemporary social history, architectural detailing, traditional building materials, and before-and-after reference. Elements such as Hamlets, graffiti, Shoreditch, Hanbury, and Tower add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. The surrounding context at Brick Lane, Shoreditch, Tower Hamlets, East End, London, South East, England, UK, E1 6QL matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The photograph keeps part of the area's social history for future local research.