Ye Old mail Coach pub, High St, Conwy, North Wales, UK, LL32 8DE

Ye Old mail Coach pub, High St, Conwy, North Wales, UK,  LL32 8DE Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2PH9MC5

File size:

51.5 MB (1.7 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5304 x 3396 px | 44.9 x 28.8 cm | 17.7 x 11.3 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

24 March 2023

Location:

High St, Conwy, North Wales, UK, LL32 8DE

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. Photographed at High St, Conwy, North Wales, UK, LL32 8DE in 2023, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The principal subject is Ye Old mail Coach pub, High St, Conwy, North Wales, UK, LL32 8DE. The frame also records themes of visitor hospitality, documentary photography, traditional ale house, visual archive, beer-led hospitality, changing streetscape, local character, social history, archival record, community drinking venue, contemporary social history, local mobility, place identity, and cask-beer tradition. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with pub closures, beer duty and pressure on hospitality margins in the mid-2020s. The modern context includes continuing discussion of accessibility, reliability and the importance of buses for access to work, education and healthcare. The archival value lies partly in recording street furniture and boundaries around High St, Conwy, North Wales, UK, LL32 8DE before changing commercial priorities alters the character of the place. A second descriptive layer includes before-and-after reference, regional identity, historical comparison, local bus network, licensed trade, bus infrastructure, hospitality economy, and changing land use. Elements such as Coach, Conwy, and Wales add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. Around High St, Conwy, North Wales, UK, LL32 8DE, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The scene further reflects pub closures and pressure on hospitality margins in the mid-2020s without losing the local specificity of High St, Conwy, North Wales, UK, LL32 8DE. It also preserves details of everyday use within the wider story of High St, Conwy, North Wales, UK, LL32 8DE.