Canal Barge on Bridgewater Canal,Narrowboat, Regent No2,NS,NE,Moore,Norton Canes,

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2DCE9PAFile size:
57.1 MB (2.8 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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5472 x 3648 px | 46.3 x 30.9 cm | 18.2 x 12.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
12 September 2020More information:
. This dated documentary view of the recorded location in 2020 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The principal subject is Canal Barge on Bridgewater Canal, Narrowboat, Regent No2, NS, NE, Moore, Norton Canes, . Further facets of the scene include historical comparison, visual archive, waterside public realm, passenger river service, public realm, archival record, everyday street life, place identity, waterfront cityscape, urban social history, river crossing, riverfront regeneration, urban change, and waterborne travel. The modern context includes continuing discussion of river transport, biodiversity and the role of passenger boats in broadening urban transport choices. For current editorial use, transport and community use provide additional context, especially through the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments. The archival value lies partly in recording landscape treatment and surrounding development around the recorded location before altered transport patterns alters the character of the place. The location also brings in everyday life, working waterway, social landscape, canal heritage, documentary photography, blue-green infrastructure, urban waterway, and local history. Elements such as Barge, Regent, Narrowboat, Canes, and Norton add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at the recorded location helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The wider significance includes river transport and the role of passenger boats in broadening urban transport choices when considered against later change at the recorded location. The photograph keeps period character before later change alters the scene. The record includes a trace of local identity as a date-specific reference.