Old Wilderspool Greenall Whitley brewery site, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, at dusk

. Recorded at Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK in 2011, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The main point of reference is Old Wilderspool Greenall Whitley brewery site, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, at dusk. The image also relates to place identity, local enterprise, small business, town-centre trading, changing streetscape, social history, customer footfall, specialist retailer, local character, before-and-after reference, historical comparison, commercial frontage, changing land use, and public realm. Today's relevance is strengthened by footfall, town-centre regeneration and the continuing question of the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy. Small period details of landscape treatment and surrounding development at Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK may become more significant with time, particularly following changed technology. The subject also sits alongside independent retail, visual archive, documentary photography, community identity, street-level business, regional identity, everyday life, and archival record. The recorded references to Whitley, Greenall, brewery, and Wilderspool preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The location additionally provides evidence of footfall and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy when considered against later change at Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. A further contemporary connection is consumer spending and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy without losing the local specificity of Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. The period view preserves details of everyday use as a date-specific reference.