Typhoon Dunkerton Somersetshire Coal Canal 1794,Waterway Canal boat,narrowboat,England,Great Britain,UK

Typhoon Dunkerton Somersetshire Coal Canal 1794,Waterway Canal boat,narrowboat,England,Great Britain,UK Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2BGRC29

File size:

28.6 MB (1.4 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

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

Date taken:

28 May 2011

Location:

Great Britain, UK

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. An on-location editorial image made at Great Britain, UK, showing a subject whose wider significance extends beyond the immediate scene. The photograph is concerned with Typhoon Dunkerton Somersetshire Coal Canal 1794, Waterway Canal boat, narrowboat, England, Great Britain, UK. Other aspects of the subject include everyday Britain, waterside infrastructure, navigation engineering, blue-green infrastructure, industrial waterway history, riparian setting, managed navigation, inland navigation, lock-side environment, towpath landscape, place identity, regional identity, historical comparison, and social landscape. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about biodiversity, waterway maintenance and keeping historic infrastructure safe and operational. As a dated visual record of Great Britain, UK, the frame retains transport arrangements and public activity, making it useful if changing public expectations subsequently changes the scene. The subject also sits alongside archival record, visual archive, waterborne travel, local character, historic transport corridor, changing streetscape, working waterway, and river transport. References to narrowboat, Typhoon, Dunkerton, Waterway, and Somersetshire give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to the named subject. A later view of Great Britain, UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The scene further reflects biodiversity and keeping historic infrastructure safe and operational when considered against later change at Great Britain, UK. Its period value extends to towpath access and the value of canals and rivers as blue-green corridors without losing the local specificity of Great Britain, UK. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for Great Britain, UK and the changing story of the subject shown.