Canal barge, narrowboat, carrying, Fellows Morton, 1396, & , Clayton, Ltd, Registered at Birmingham No1273

Canal barge, narrowboat, carrying, Fellows Morton, 1396, & , Clayton, Ltd, Registered at Birmingham No1273 Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2K23M66

File size:

54.1 MB (1.8 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5184 x 3648 px | 43.9 x 30.9 cm | 17.3 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

14 September 2022

Location:

National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW

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. Made at National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The subject captured here is Canal barge, narrowboat, carrying, Fellows Morton, 1396, & , Clayton, Ltd, Registered at Birmingham No1273. The locality and subject together evoke heritage boating, place identity, documentary photography, local mobility, visual archive, community identity, changing land use, industrial navigation, public realm, local bus network, historical comparison, surface public transport, navigation engineering, and local character. The modern context includes continuing discussion of industrial heritage, flood resilience and how museum collections preserve working waterway history. For current editorial use, bus funding and reliability provide additional context, especially through how local bus services affect access to work, education and healthcare. The image fixes local activity and public use within National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against new construction. Other useful contextual ideas include industrial waterway history, archival record, transport accessibility, passenger information, boat museum collection, local history, towpath landscape, and period detail. References to Fellows, Clayton, carrying, Registered, and Morton give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2K23M66.