Great war memorial, Lest we Forget, remembrance , day, poppy,poppies,1914-1918, - Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK

Great war memorial, Lest we Forget, remembrance , day, poppy,poppies,1914-1918, - Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2BBXPAR

File size:

76 MB (2.9 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

3952 x 6720 px | 33.5 x 56.9 cm | 13.2 x 22.4 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

10 February 2019

Location:

Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M29 7JB

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. This period scene at Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M29 7JB in 2019 provides a visual reference to the named subject and the wider commercial, social, cultural or physical environment around it. At the centre of the frame is Great war memorial, Lest we Forget, remembrance , day, poppy, poppies, 1914-1918, - Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK. Other connected aspects include place identity, historic context, local character, everyday life, industrial supply chain, contemporary social history, before-and-after reference, labour history, community remembrance, building-material production, industrial artefact, working-industry history, wartime sacrifice, and local roll of honour. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes public commemoration alongside local history, with particular attention to how local communities preserve the names and memory of the dead. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with regional industry, construction materials and the relationship between local geology, manufacturing and the built environment. For place-based research, the frame records the relationship between the subject and its surroundings at Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M29 7JB. A second layer of the scene includes factory history, visual archive, commemorative memorial, war dead, memorial culture, production technology, archival record, and traditional building materials. Elements such as memorial, poppies, Lancashire, Green, and 1914-1918 add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. A later view of Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M29 7JB may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The view records period character before later change alters the scene.