Exchange Chambers, One Derby Square, James St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 9XX

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2D8NX1CFile size:
64.8 MB (3.1 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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7275 x 3111 px | 61.6 x 26.3 cm | 24.3 x 10.4 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
4 January 2017Location:
One Derby Square, James St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 9XXMore information:
. This scene at One Derby Square, James St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 9XX documents an everyday subject with wider connections to local identity, social history and changing patterns of use. At the heart of the image is Exchange Chambers, One Derby Square, James St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 9XX. A wider reading of the photograph includes commuter travel, trackside infrastructure, railway branding, regional rail, local history, documentary photography, public realm, passenger railway, social landscape, before-and-after reference, historical comparison, period detail, mass transit, and rail transport. The subject remains useful for current coverage of integrated transport and accessibility, not least because of reducing congestion and car dependency. The photograph fixes public access and movement within One Derby Square, James St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 9XX at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against replacement signage. Other connected aspects are visual archive, rail modernisation, transport interchange, changing streetscape, urban change, rail mobility, rail corridor, and built environment. The combination of Square, Merseyside, Chambers, Exchange, and James helps anchor the frame to a recognisable activity, place or period. A later view of One Derby Square, James St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 9XX may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes integrated transport and reducing congestion and car dependency without losing the local specificity of One Derby Square, James St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 9XX. Another strand within the photograph is public ownership and preserving railway heritage while modernising the network in a form that can be compared with future views of One Derby Square, James St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L2 9XX.