Green flag, green for go, beach flag, safe for bathing - low hazard, calm conditions

Green flag, green for go, beach flag, safe for bathing - low hazard, calm conditions Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2AJRT99

File size:

57.1 MB (741.3 KB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

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

Date taken:

3 January 2020

More information:

. An on-location image from the recorded location in 2020, useful both for the specific subject shown and for the evidence it retains about local identity, design, use and everyday life. The image documents Green flag, green for go, beach flag, safe for bathing - low hazard, calm conditions. The setting also relates to safety messaging, everyday life, archival record, place identity, contemporary social history, social history, community identity, visual archive, documentary photography, changing land use, access-control notice, local history, historical comparison, and before-and-after reference. For contemporary context, customer management and child safeguarding are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes how public spaces communicate rules quickly and visibly. For future researchers, the view documents a particular stage in the life of the location within the setting of the recorded location. Other useful associations include compliance notice, operational signage, rule enforcement, instructional sign, changing streetscape, period detail, venue rules, and visitor instruction. Elements such as Green, bathing, beach, hazard, and conditions add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. By fixing the subject within the recorded location, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. A further contemporary connection is customer management and the role of signs in shaping behaviour without staff intervention as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The wider significance includes customer management and the balance between access, safety and venue responsibility when considered against later change at the recorded location. Another strand within the photograph is child safeguarding and how public spaces communicate rules quickly and visibly without losing the local specificity of the recorded location.