Sign,Mersey Ferriies,Spitting forbidden,punishable by a penalty,Woodside,Birkenhead,Wirral Merseyside,England,UK

Sign,Mersey Ferriies,Spitting forbidden,punishable by a penalty,Woodside,Birkenhead,Wirral Merseyside,England,UK Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2DAPRCW

File size:

40.5 MB (2 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

4980 x 2844 px | 42.2 x 24.1 cm | 16.6 x 9.5 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

4 May 2019

Location:

Woodside Ferry Terminal, Birkenhead,Merseyside,England,UK, CH41 6DU

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. A location-based documentary photograph from Woodside Ferry Terminal, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK, CH41 6DU, useful both for its immediate subject and for the smaller period details around it. At the heart of the image is Sign, Mersey Ferriies, Spitting forbidden, punishable by a penalty, Woodside, Birkenhead, Wirral Merseyside, England, UK. The scene can also be read in terms of before-and-after reference, riparian setting, managed navigation, built environment, industrial waterway history, boating network, historic transport corridor, public realm, changing streetscape, inland navigation, visual archive, everyday Britain, local character, and blue-green infrastructure. Today's wider story includes heritage conservation, navigation funding and the practical question of keeping historic infrastructure safe and operational. As a dated visual record of Woodside Ferry Terminal, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK, CH41 6DU, the frame retains commercial identity and local use, making it useful if changed technology subsequently changes the scene. Further associations include towpath landscape, canal heritage, place identity, waterside infrastructure, lock-side environment, historical comparison, archival record, and documentary photography. The combination of Merseyside, Mersey, Woodside, penalty, and Spitting helps anchor the frame to a recognisable activity, place or period. A later view of Woodside Ferry Terminal, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK, CH41 6DU may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The location additionally provides evidence for heritage conservation and keeping historic infrastructure safe and operational within the specific setting of Woodside Ferry Terminal, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK, CH41 6DU. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for Woodside Ferry Terminal, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK, CH41 6DU and the changing story of the subject shown.