Canal waterways bucket decorated in colour dedicated to Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK

Canal waterways bucket decorated in colour dedicated to Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2BEW1F9

File size:

28.6 MB (1.3 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

2736 x 3648 px | 23.2 x 30.9 cm | 9.1 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

23 April 2011

Location:

Market Square, Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK, CW11 1AT

More information:

. This period photograph records Market Square, Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK, CW11 1AT as an identifiable real-world setting rather than a generic illustration. The view specifically shows Canal waterways bucket decorated in colour dedicated to Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK. Other aspects of the subject include managed navigation, visual archive, social history, boating network, place identity, waterside infrastructure, changing streetscape, archival record, inland navigation, regional identity, waterborne travel, everyday Britain, period detail, and community identity. The subject remains useful for current coverage of biodiversity and ageing locks and bridges, not least because of the value of canals and rivers as blue-green corridors. The archival value lies partly in recording landscape and surrounding development around Market Square, Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK, CW11 1AT before new ownership alters the character of the place. The subject also sits alongside navigation engineering, social landscape, towpath landscape, canal heritage, historic transport corridor, local character, urban change, and documentary photography. Elements such as waterways, Sandbach, decorated, dedicated, and colour add documentary specificity and may become useful when the scene is compared with later records. Around Market Square, Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK, CW11 1AT, apparently routine features can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar street details disappear. Another useful connection is biodiversity and the value of canals and rivers as blue-green corridors within the specific setting of Market Square, Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK, CW11 1AT. The scene further reflects navigation funding and the value of canals and rivers as blue-green corridors as part of the longer story of Market Square, Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK, CW11 1AT.