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

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

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2AERPHG

File size:

51.5 MB (3.1 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5280 x 3408 px | 44.7 x 28.9 cm | 17.6 x 11.4 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

19 October 2019

Location:

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

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. Photographed at Floodgate St, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST in 2019, this is a specific real-world record of the subject, its setting and the period details surrounding it. The image documents Graffiti and urban street art on abandoned factory, in Floodgate St, Digbeth, Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST. The frame also contains themes of community identity, urban fabric, labour history, heritage landmark, architectural character, conservation interest, documentary photography, historic commercial architecture, architectural detailing, visual archive, industrial supply chain, regional identity, public realm, and industrial material culture. The subject remains useful for current coverage of labour history and regional industry, not least because of the relationship between local geology, manufacturing and the built environment. Today's wider story includes planning control, embodied carbon and the practical question of the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. As a documentary source, the frame records the combination of built form, activity and local identity within the setting of Floodgate St, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST. The surrounding context also covers changing land use, period streetscape, local history, historical comparison, industrial archaeology, contemporary social history, changing streetscape, and cityscape history. Details involving abandoned, Birmingham, Bordesley, Midlands, and Graffiti give the scene useful specificity and strengthen its local, cultural or historical identity. By fixing the subject within Floodgate St, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The period view preserves period character within the wider story of Floodgate St, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST.