The Jubilee Pub, Ales & Stout building, Somers Town, Euston,Camden, London

The Jubilee Pub, Ales & Stout building, Somers Town, Euston,Camden, London Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

H04G9C

File size:

57.1 MB (2.4 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5472 x 3648 px | 46.3 x 30.9 cm | 18.2 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

15 September 2016

Location:

Cranleigh St, Somers Town, London

More information:

. Recorded at Cranleigh St, Somers Town, London in 2016, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The defining feature is The Jubilee Pub, Ales & Stout building, Somers Town, Euston, Camden, London. The wider scene also brings together contemporary social history, before-and-after reference, street-level dining, licensed hospitality, neighbourhood drinking venue, public-realm investment, everyday life, adaptive reuse, public realm, pub heritage, customer-facing leisure, local history, hospitality trade, and historical comparison. The modern context includes continuing discussion of housing pressure, heritage conservation and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. For current editorial use, commercial rents and hospitality costs provide additional context, especially through how branded and independent hospitality compete for changing leisure spending. Small period details of equipment and working practice at Cranleigh St, Somers Town, London may become more significant with time, particularly following refurbishment. Further associations within the scene are night-time economy, archival record, place-making, licensed trade, urban regeneration, built heritage, place identity, and historic townscape. The recorded references to Jubilee, Stout, Somers, Camden, and building preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The wider setting at Cranleigh St, Somers Town, London matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The image also provides a reference for housing pressure and how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity within the specific setting of Cranleigh St, Somers Town, London. The photograph keeps evidence of earlier appearance for future local research.