82 Graffiti urban street art,in Floodgate St,Digbeth,Bordesley & Highgate,Birmingham,West Midlands,England,UK,B5 5ST

82 Graffiti urban street art,in Floodgate St,Digbeth,Bordesley & Highgate,Birmingham,West Midlands,England,UK,B5 5ST Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2AERPEE

File size:

57.1 MB (2.8 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:

19 October 2019

Location:

Floodgate St,Digbeth, Birmingham,West Midlands,England,UK, B5 5ST

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. An authentic period view of Floodgate St, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST in 2019, showing a subject whose value extends beyond the immediate scene into local history and changing social context. The main subject is 82 Graffiti urban street art, in Floodgate St, Digbeth, Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST. The scene additionally carries associations with factory history, archival record, local history, adaptive reuse, regional identity, place identity, urban fabric, manufacturing heritage, social history, historic context, local character, industrial supply chain, historical comparison, and changing land use. For contemporary context, industrial conservation and adaptive reuse are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes recording industries that shaped northern towns. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about redevelopment pressure, adaptive reuse and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity. As a documentary source, the scene fixes the way the place functioned before later physical or commercial change as seen at Floodgate St, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST. A second layer of the scene includes building-material production, period detail, industrial archaeology, period streetscape, architectural character, engineering heritage, working-industry history, and contemporary social history. Elements such as Floodgate, Midlands, Birmingham, urban, and Digbeth add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. The surrounding context at Floodgate St, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The image fixes details of everyday use as part of Floodgate St, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST's history.