Railway Hotel Pub, Nantwich etched with Greenalls Wilderspool Ales & Stout and logo from Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2JNN53WFile size:
46.8 MB (2.1 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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3648 x 4480 px | 30.9 x 37.9 cm | 12.2 x 14.9 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
11 August 2022More information:
. An on-location photograph from the recorded location in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The defining feature is Railway Hotel Pub, Nantwich etched with Greenalls Wilderspool Ales & Stout and logo from Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. The broader subject matter reaches into historical comparison, cider brand history, contemporary social history, archival record, bottling technology, drinks manufacturing, social history, regional drinks industry, visual archive, public realm, changing streetscape, bottle-filling machinery, orchard-to-bottle industry, and factory bottling line. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with regional food heritage, brand heritage and the relationship between orchard agriculture, regional identity and branded cider. The archival value lies partly in recording local activity and public use around the recorded location before altered transport patterns alters the character of the place. The surrounding story also includes cider-making heritage, period detail, fermented drink production, local history, community identity, industrial beverage equipment, Herefordshire cider tradition, and documentary photography. Details involving Hotel, Stout, Nantwich, Railway, and etched make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around the recorded location, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. A further contemporary connection is regional food heritage and the relationship between orchard agriculture, regional identity and branded cider when considered against later change at the recorded location. The wider significance includes alcohol duty and how bottling technology transformed large-scale drinks manufacturing without losing the local specificity of the recorded location.