Inside bar area & spirit optics, at The White Horse Sam Smiths pub, Soho, 45 Rupert Street Soho London, England, UK, W1D 7PJ

Inside bar area & spirit optics, at The White Horse Sam Smiths pub, Soho, 45 Rupert Street Soho London, England, UK,  W1D 7PJ Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2JJYRD2

File size:

55.1 MB (2.2 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5280 x 3648 px | 44.7 x 30.9 cm | 17.6 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

24 July 2022

Location:

45 Rupert Street, Soho, London, England, UK, W1D 7PJ

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. Photographed at 45 Rupert Street, Soho, London, England, UK, W1D 7PJ in 2022, this detailed editorial image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The photograph centres on Inside bar area & spirit optics, at The White Horse Sam Smiths pub, Soho, 45 Rupert Street Soho London, England, UK, W1D 7PJ. The broader subject matter reaches into archival record, historical comparison, customer-facing service, social landscape, commercial hospitality, local character, independent food retail, before-and-after reference, licensed hospitality, restaurant culture, food tourism, changing streetscape, public realm, and pedestrian environment. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with tourism, commercial rents and how food and drink help define neighbourhood identity. The modern context includes continuing discussion of local identity, street safety and the relationship between public space and local social life. As a dated visual record of 45 Rupert Street, Soho, London, England, UK, W1D 7PJ, the frame retains landscape treatment and surrounding development, making it especially useful if closure or conversion subsequently changes the scene. The surrounding story also includes community life, changing land use, urban social history, city-centre activity, hospitality trade, townscape record, contemporary social history, and regional identity. The recorded references to Horse, Rupert, White, Inside, and spirit preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at 45 Rupert Street, Soho, London, England, UK, W1D 7PJ helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is tourism and how food and drink help define neighbourhood identity when considered against later change at 45 Rupert Street, Soho, London, England, UK, W1D 7PJ.