S. Noton Limited, Oldham, canister for holding cotton,textile bin, Manchester cotton mill,Lancashire, England, UK

S. Noton Limited, Oldham, canister for holding cotton,textile bin, Manchester cotton mill,Lancashire, England, UK Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2BM3JMD

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:

18 June 2011

Location:

Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK

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. A location-based documentary photograph from Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, useful both for its immediate subject and for the smaller period details around it. The view specifically shows S. Noton Limited, Oldham, canister for holding cotton, textile bin, Manchester cotton mill, Lancashire, England, UK. Other aspects of the subject include visual archive, period detail, labour history, industrial material culture, archival record, documentary photography, historic workplace, local character, changing streetscape, engineering history, manufacturing infrastructure, social landscape, production technology, and production machinery. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes embodied carbon alongside factory closures, with particular attention to understanding the industries that shaped northern towns. Future viewers can use this scene from Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK to compare public access and movement with whatever follows after closure or conversion. The wider local story also touches on working-industry history, everyday Britain, factory equipment, before-and-after reference, industrial archaeology, mill heritage, factory-floor equipment, and manufacturing heritage. Details involving cotton, Oldham, holding, Manchester, and canister make the image more specific than a generic illustration and strengthen its local or historical value. For Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which small changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence for embodied carbon and understanding the industries that shaped northern towns in a form that can be compared with future views of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. A further contemporary connection is factory closures and finding new uses for substantial older industrial buildings within the real-world context of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK.