Café open, Renarts Cafe Don't pass by being Bored, come in and be fed up ! - 156 Lytham Rd, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 6DJ

Café open, Renarts Cafe Don't pass by being Bored, come in and be fed up ! - 156 Lytham Rd, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 6DJ Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2JRB2XF

File size:

53 MB (1.6 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5076 x 3648 px | 43 x 30.9 cm | 16.9 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

20 August 2022

Location:

156 Lytham Rd, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 6DJ

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. An on-location photograph from 156 Lytham Rd, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 6DJ in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The image documents Café open, Renarts Cafe Don't pass by being Bored, come in and be fed up ! - 156 Lytham Rd, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 6DJ. The broader subject matter reaches into consumer retail, shopfront economy, high-street commerce, bricks-and-mortar retail, before-and-after reference, commercial streetscape, licensed hospitality, regional identity, contemporary social history, visual archive, night-time economy, commercial frontage, historical comparison, and independent trading. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with business rates, hospitality costs and how branded and independent hospitality compete for changing leisure spending. The modern context includes continuing discussion of consumer spending, store closures and how mixed retail, leisure and residential uses are reshaping high streets. The archival value lies partly in recording building condition and alterations around 156 Lytham Rd, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 6DJ before changed technology alters the character of the place. A second descriptive layer includes archival record, public realm, food-and-drink business, casual dining, local social venue, customer-facing leisure, place identity, and neighbourhood drinking venue. The combination of Blackpool, Lancs, Lytham, being, and Bored anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The wider setting at 156 Lytham Rd, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 6DJ matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. It also preserves a trace of local identity for future local research. The photograph keeps a local visual benchmark before later change alters the scene.