Staithes Fishermans Gansey, Robin Hoods bay, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO22 4RD

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2K4KYEAFile size:
45.3 MB (2.4 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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4344 x 3648 px | 36.8 x 30.9 cm | 14.5 x 12.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
26 September 2022Location:
Church Lane, Robin Hoods bay, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO22 4RDMore information:
. Recorded at Church Lane, Robin Hoods bay, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO22 4RD 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 subject captured here is Staithes Fishermans Gansey, Robin Hoods bay, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO22 4RD. The subject also carries associations with local history, religious landmark, social history, historic church fabric, sacred space, place identity, sacred architecture, historical comparison, local character, ecclesiastical art, public realm, religious heritage, church interior, and community identity. The modern context includes continuing discussion of historic fabric, tourism and the challenge of maintaining historic fabric amid rising costs. The image fixes landscape treatment and surrounding development within Church Lane, Robin Hoods bay, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO22 4RD at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against replacement signage. Other useful contextual ideas include changing streetscape, contemporary social history, changing land use, faith community, ecclesiastical architecture, everyday life, parish history, and archival record. Elements such as Robin, Staithes, Yorkshire, Gansey, and Whitby add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Church Lane, Robin Hoods bay, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO22 4RD helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is historic fabric and how sacred spaces adapt to changing attendance and wider community use without losing the local specificity of Church Lane, Robin Hoods bay, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO22 4RD. The photograph keeps evidence of changing use before later change alters the scene.