Portuguese Sausage cooked over alcohol, Taunton,Somerset,South West England, UK - Chouriço a Bombeiro

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2C9E2TTFile size:
57.1 MB (1.5 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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3648 x 5472 px | 30.9 x 46.3 cm | 12.2 x 18.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
7 February 2019More information:
. Recorded at the recorded location, this image forms part of the visual history of the locality and the activity, building, object or service shown. The scene records Portuguese Sausage cooked over alcohol, Taunton, Somerset, South West England, UK - Chouriço a Bombeiro. The photograph also carries associations with town-centre leisure, food-and-drink business, beer-led venue, social landscape, traditional ale house, visual archive, community identity, historical comparison, documentary photography, social history, changing streetscape, place identity, community social space, and archival record. For contemporary context, hospitality operating costs and local footfall are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the survival of community meeting places. The photograph fixes public access and movement within the recorded location at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changing public expectations. The setting also brings in before-and-after reference, licensed trade, regional identity, local drinking place, neighbourhood pub, hospitality venue, customer-facing hospitality, and period detail. References to Sausage, Chouri, Bombeiro, Taunton, and Portuguese give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to the named subject. The surrounding context at the recorded location matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. A further contemporary connection is hospitality operating costs and the survival of community meeting places within the specific setting of the recorded location. The image also provides a reference for changing drinking habits and changes in food, drink and leisure spending as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The wider significance includes local footfall and whether local venues can remain commercially viable when considered against later change at the recorded location.