Construction build of new flats, a block at Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4

Construction build of new flats, a block at Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2JGM7C7

File size:

57.1 MB (2.7 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

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

Date taken:

27 June 2022

Location:

Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4

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. A grounded documentary photograph made at Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The subject captured here is Construction build of new flats, a block at Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4. The locality and subject together evoke local character, community identity, place identity, engineering history, building works, changing streetscape, development pipeline, historical comparison, manufacturing heritage, public realm, heavy-industry heritage, documentary photography, historic freight equipment, and industrial material culture. The wider contemporary story combines industrial conservation, industrial tourism and how surviving industrial objects become evidence of vanished working practices. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with labour shortages, care demand and how temporary building sites mark a visible stage of long-term land-use change. For later comparison, the photograph preserves landscape treatment and surrounding development at Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4, details that may look very different after altered transport patterns. The surrounding story also includes new-build scheme, production infrastructure, site redevelopment, manufacturing landscape, site transformation, regional identity, construction phase, and visual archive. References to Construction, flats, build, Latchford, and block give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The image fixes period character for later comparison. It also preserves a trace of local identity within the wider story of Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4.