Dewsbury Railway Station, West Riding,pub,platform refreshment, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Dewsbury Railway Station, West Riding,pub,platform refreshment, West Yorkshire, England, UK Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2BPCNJK

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:

25 June 2011

Location:

Dewsbury station, Wellington Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire,England,UK, WF13 1HF

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. This scene at Dewsbury station, Wellington Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, UK, WF13 1HF documents an everyday subject with wider connections to local identity, social history and changing patterns of use. The location is represented through Dewsbury Railway Station, West Riding, pub, platform refreshment, West Yorkshire, England, UK. The setting additionally reflects passenger connectivity, changing streetscape, urban change, contemporary history, place identity, social history, community hostelry, transport interchange, night-time economy, passenger railway, neighbourhood pub, before-and-after reference, trackside infrastructure, and beer-led venue. For contemporary context, fares and reliability are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes making passenger rail simpler and more dependable. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes local footfall alongside staffing pressures, with particular attention to changes in food, drink and leisure spending. For later comparison, the photograph preserves equipment and working practice at Dewsbury station, Wellington Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, UK, WF13 1HF, details that may look very different after new construction. The setting also brings in town-centre leisure, traditional ale house, rail mobility, local drinking place, licensed premises, community identity, food-and-drink business, and regional rail. The recorded references to refreshment, platform, Riding, Railway, and Yorkshire preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. By fixing the subject within Dewsbury station, Wellington Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, UK, WF13 1HF, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. This gives Dewsbury station, Wellington Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, UK, WF13 1HF another specific visual benchmark for later local, social or physical change.