1940s Radio Dial M-L, Medium Wave, Long Wave Bush valve radio dial, Aircraft, Leningrad, Berlin, Moscow, BBC, Hamburg, Vienna, Budapest

1940s Radio Dial M-L, Medium Wave, Long Wave Bush valve radio dial, Aircraft, Leningrad, Berlin, Moscow, BBC, Hamburg, Vienna, Budapest Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2JP5T10

File size:

45.9 MB (1.3 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5171 x 3103 px | 43.8 x 26.3 cm | 17.2 x 10.3 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

14 August 2022

Location:

England, Great Britain , UK

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. A grounded documentary photograph made at England, Great Britain , UK in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The image documents 1940s Radio Dial M-L, Medium Wave, Long Wave Bush valve radio dial, Aircraft, Leningrad, Berlin, Moscow, BBC, Hamburg, Vienna, Budapest. Another layer of the photograph includes period building, before-and-after reference, place identity, architectural detail, period detail, local character, conservation interest, social history, heritage landmark, period architecture, contemporary social history, local history, archival record, and community identity. The wider contemporary story combines embodied carbon, maintenance and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character. For later comparison, the photograph preserves equipment and working practice at England, Great Britain , UK, details that may look very different after refurbishment. Further associations within the scene are changing land use, historic streetscape, everyday life, conservation architecture, built heritage, historical comparison, changing streetscape, and heritage asset. Details involving Budapest, valve, Aircraft, Radio, and Leningrad make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within England, Great Britain , UK, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The wider significance includes embodied carbon and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change as part of the longer story of England, Great Britain , UK. Another strand within the photograph is adaptive reuse and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility when considered against later change at England, Great Britain , UK.