Old Royal Bank Of Scotland PLC,£5,note 1972 to 1981, UK

. Made at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK in 2015, 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 scene records Old Royal Bank Of Scotland PLC, £5, note 1972 to 1981, UK. Another layer of the photograph includes regional identity, changing land use, historical comparison, local enterprise, independent retail, shopfront economy, specialist shop, period detail, changing streetscape, contemporary social history, town-centre trading, commercial frontage, archival record, and local character. The modern context includes continuing discussion of store closures, business rates and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses. Future viewers can use this scene from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK to compare transport arrangements and footfall with whatever follows after new construction. A second descriptive layer includes visual archive, public realm, retail property, place identity, everyday life, street-level business, bricks-and-mortar retail, and specialist retailer. References to Royal give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The period setting at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Its period value extends to store closures and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets when considered against later change at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The location additionally provides evidence of footfall and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets without losing the local specificity of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. A further contemporary connection is commercial rents and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy in a form that can be compared with future views of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.