Rolls of British bank of England notes held together by an elastic bands

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2KYMFKPFile size:
46.4 MB (2 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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5064 x 3204 px | 42.9 x 27.1 cm | 16.9 x 10.7 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
1 December 2022More information:
. This scene at the recorded location 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. At the centre of the view is Rolls of British bank of England notes held together by an elastic bands. The surrounding context encompasses small business, everyday life, period detail, high-street commerce, changing land use, regional identity, changing streetscape, town-centre trading, commercial frontage, place identity, shopfront economy, community identity, local enterprise, and customer footfall. From a 2025-onward perspective, online shopping and footfall are closely linked to this subject, alongside how commercial property costs affect small retailers. For later comparison, the photograph preserves landscape treatment and surrounding development at the recorded location, details that may look very different after redevelopment. A second descriptive layer includes street-level business, historical comparison, public realm, visual archive, social history, specialist retailer, contemporary social history, and independent retail. The recorded references to bands, British, elastic, Rolls, and together preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For the recorded location, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence of online shopping and how commercial property costs affect small retailers in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. A further contemporary connection is town-centre regeneration and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses within the real-world context of the recorded location. The view records period character before later change alters the scene.