Pasta Pizza Vino, Prezzo Bridgwater, in old market place,Cornhill, at dusk,Somerset, South West England, UK

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2AFMKCAFile size:
57.1 MB (1.9 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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5472 x 3648 px | 46.3 x 30.9 cm | 18.2 x 12.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
24 April 2019More information:
. This location-based editorial photograph from the recorded location in 2019 preserves a recognisable subject together with clues about how the place was used and presented at the time. The view centres on Pasta Pizza Vino, Prezzo Bridgwater, in old market place, Cornhill, at dusk, Somerset, South West England, UK. The photograph also reflects shopfront economy, local trading, historical comparison, public realm, comfort food, customer footfall, festive eating, urban commerce, documentary photography, changing land use, social history, community identity, culinary tradition, and before-and-after reference. Today's wider story includes hospitality costs, cultural identity and the practical question of the role of ceremonial food in annual celebrations. For contemporary context, vacant units and hybrid working are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the rapid turnover of shopfronts and trading names. Looking back from the mid-2020s, the photograph anchors small features of identity that written records may overlook around the recorded location. The subject sits alongside high-street commerce, consumer retail, period detail, commercial frontage, changing streetscape, bricks-and-mortar retail, retail vacancy, and regional identity. The combination of Somerset, Cornhill, place, Pasta, and Bridgwater anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. A later view of the recorded location may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes hospitality costs and the role of ceremonial food in annual celebrations within the specific setting of the recorded location. Another strand within the photograph is commercial rents and the shift toward mixed retail, leisure, service and residential centres as part of the longer story of the recorded location.