Map showing Scotland, Isles, with words Fuel Poverty spelled out. More than half of UK households across Britain will choose to eat or heat

Map showing Scotland, Isles, with words Fuel Poverty spelled out. More than half of UK households across Britain will choose to eat or heat Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2JREC46

File size:

55.5 MB (3 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5316 x 3648 px | 45 x 30.9 cm | 17.7 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

23 August 2022

Location:

North West Scotland, UK

More information:

. This scene at North West Scotland, UK in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The image documents Map showing Scotland, Isles, with words Fuel Poverty spelled out. More than half of UK households across Britain will choose to eat or heat. The locality and subject together evoke changing streetscape, historical comparison, community identity, before-and-after reference, period architecture, urban regeneration, contemporary social history, regional identity, documentary photography, local history, adaptive reuse, place-making, built heritage, and civic architecture. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with construction costs, heritage conservation and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. The image fixes equipment and working practice within North West Scotland, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against different community use. The location also brings in town-centre renewal, public realm, changing land use, period detail, public-realm investment, archival record, mixed-use redevelopment, and commercial redevelopment. The recorded references to choose, Scotland, across, spelled, and words preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at North West Scotland, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is construction costs and how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity in a form that can be compared with future views of North West Scotland, UK. The wider significance includes heritage conservation and how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity within the real-world context of North West Scotland, UK.