Icy Bridgewater Canal near Stanney Lunt bridge, Grappenhall , Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, in winter, WA4

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2M4W2HCFile size:
46.2 MB (3.8 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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5472 x 2952 px | 46.3 x 25 cm | 18.2 x 9.8 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
11 December 2022Location:
Bridgewater Canal,Stanny Lunt Bridge, Grappenhall , Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4More information:
. This dated editorial view of Bridgewater Canal, Stanny Lunt Bridge, Grappenhall , Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The photograph centres on Icy Bridgewater Canal near Stanney Lunt bridge, Grappenhall , Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, in winter, WA4. Further facets of the scene include period detail, navigation engineering, inland transport history, documentary photography, inland navigation, everyday life, place identity, heritage boating, visual archive, regional identity, industrial waterway history, waterborne transport, local character, and canal carrying trade. The wider contemporary story combines volunteering, industrial heritage and the value of canals as both heritage assets and blue-green corridors. As a dated visual record of Bridgewater Canal, Stanny Lunt Bridge, Grappenhall , Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4, the frame retains period objects and surrounding context, making it especially useful if different community use subsequently changes the scene. Other useful contextual ideas include public realm, working boat tradition, community identity, changing land use, towpath landscape, local history, working waterway, and historic narrowboat. Details involving Stanney, winter, Canal, Grappenhall, and Bridgewater make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at Bridgewater Canal, Stanny Lunt Bridge, Grappenhall , Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is volunteering and the value of canals as both heritage assets and blue-green corridors within the specific setting of Bridgewater Canal, Stanny Lunt Bridge, Grappenhall , Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4.