Brassington Brothers a traditional shoe shop in Longton , Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, England, UK

. Made at 48 Market Street in Stoke-On-Trent, England, UK ST3 1BS in 2013, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The location is represented through Brassington Brothers a traditional shoe shop in Longton , Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. The broader subject matter reaches into changing streetscape, street-level business, visual archive, customer footfall, archival record, period detail, changing land use, social history, local history, town-centre trading, regional identity, before-and-after reference, local character, and everyday life. Today's relevance is strengthened by commercial rents, town-centre regeneration and the continuing question of how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses. For later comparison, the photograph preserves lettering, decoration and surface detail at 48 Market Street in Stoke-On-Trent, England, UK ST3 1BS, details that may look very different after new construction. A second descriptive layer includes public realm, specialist shop, retail property, historical comparison, contemporary social history, specialist retailer, place identity, and community identity. Elements such as Brothers, Longton, traditional, Staffordshire, and Brassington add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at 48 Market Street in Stoke-On-Trent, England, UK ST3 1BS helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The image also provides a reference for commercial rents and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses within the real-world context of 48 Market Street in Stoke-On-Trent, England, UK ST3 1BS. Image DBJFE5 also remains a dated record of 48 Market Street in Stoke-On-Trent, England, UK ST3 1BS.