George Tooley & sons, Banbury barge moored at Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP

George Tooley & sons, Banbury barge moored at Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK,  LL20 7TP Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2JRAHNH

File size:

55.4 MB (3.4 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5304 x 3648 px | 44.9 x 30.9 cm | 17.7 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

21 August 2022

Location:

Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP

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. Recorded at Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP 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 scene records George Tooley & sons, Banbury barge moored at Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP. The wider scene also brings together towpath landscape, historical comparison, local bus network, social history, working waterway, waterborne freight, roadside transit, local character, street-side transport, changing land use, inland transport history, bus route infrastructure, public realm, and period detail. The modern context includes continuing discussion of public access, biodiversity and how museum collections preserve working waterway history. For current editorial use, passenger information and decarbonisation provide additional context, especially through the shift toward cleaner vehicles and integrated ticketing. The archival value lies partly in recording lettering, decoration and surface detail around Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP before different community use alters the character of the place. The location also brings in transport accessibility, changing streetscape, passenger transport, bus infrastructure, waterway conservation, archival record, local mobility, and navigation engineering. The recorded references to Banbury, barge, moored, Tooley, and George preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The wider significance includes public access and the value of canals as both historic infrastructure and blue-green corridors without losing the local specificity of Vale of Llangollen, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TP.