Canal Office, Digbeth,Birmingham,England,UK

Image details
Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2AERPEPFile size:
53.9 MB (2.7 MB Compressed download)Releases:
Model - no | Property - noDo I need a release?Dimensions:
5160 x 3648 px | 43.7 x 30.9 cm | 17.2 x 12.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
19 October 2019Location:
Fazeley St, Birmingham,England,UK, B5 5RXMore information:
. An on-location image from Fazeley St, Birmingham, England, UK, B5 5RX in 2019, useful both for the specific subject shown and for the evidence it retains about local identity, design, use and everyday life. The location is represented through Canal Office, Digbeth, Birmingham, England, UK. A broader reading of the scene brings in working waterway, towpath landscape, industrial waterway history, public realm, navigation engineering, conservation architecture, urban fabric, changing streetscape, managed navigation, adaptive reuse, inland navigation, architectural character, architectural detailing, and contemporary social history. The present-day relevance extends to waterside regeneration and ageing locks and bridges, while a wider concern is keeping historic infrastructure safe and operational. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes historic townscape alongside planning control, with particular attention to the role of distinctive architecture in local identity. For future researchers, the view documents the way the place functioned before later physical or commercial change within the setting of Fazeley St, Birmingham, England, UK, B5 5RX. The photograph additionally reflects waterside infrastructure, period detail, historical comparison, local history, historic frontage, conservation interest, canal heritage, and traditional masonry. The recorded references to Birmingham, Canal, Office, and Digbeth preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of Fazeley St, Birmingham, England, UK, B5 5RX may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. Its period value extends to waterside regeneration and keeping historic infrastructure safe and operational when considered against later change at Fazeley St, Birmingham, England, UK, B5 5RX. The photograph keeps part of the area's social history for later comparison.