Oldham Manchester Miner charger, Lead-Acid, lamps on charge, at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK

Oldham Manchester Miner charger, Lead-Acid, lamps on charge, at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2JAXT8W

File size:

57.1 MB (2.3 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

3648 x 5472 px | 30.9 x 46.3 cm | 12.2 x 18.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

25 May 2022

Location:

Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK

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. Recorded at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The subject captured here is Oldham Manchester Miner charger, Lead-Acid, lamps on charge, at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK. The frame also records themes of social history, everyday life, local history, industrial archaeology, manufacturing heritage, industrial transport, place identity, industrial artefact, factory heritage, historic freight equipment, engineering history, contemporary social history, period detail, and changing land use. The modern context includes continuing discussion of brownfield redevelopment, embodied carbon and how surviving industrial objects become evidence of vanished working practices. The image fixes materials and architectural details within Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against new construction. Further associations within the scene are heavy-industry heritage, working-industry history, manufacturing landscape, community identity, before-and-after reference, documentary photography, production infrastructure, and industrial material culture. Details involving charge, Lead-Acid, Blaenavon, Wales, and Miner make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Another useful connection is brownfield redevelopment and the growing value of industrial heritage for tourism and local identity when considered against later change at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK. The scene further reflects manufacturing decline and how surviving industrial objects become evidence of vanished working practices without losing the local specificity of Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK.