Bridgwater & District Civic Society Blue Plaque Three Houses By Holloway and Hutt, North Somerset, england, UK

Bridgwater & District Civic Society Blue Plaque Three Houses By Holloway and Hutt, North Somerset, england, UK Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

MHM69F

File size:

57.1 MB (2.6 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:

1 May 2018

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. Recorded at the recorded location in 2018, 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 Bridgwater & District Civic Society Blue Plaque Three Houses By Holloway and Hutt, North Somerset, england, UK. The wider scene also brings together contemporary social history, visual archive, historic artefact, before-and-after reference, regional identity, historical comparison, antique object, public realm, local-history evidence, historic material culture, local character, social-history object, period detail, and commemorative object. The modern context includes continuing discussion of public history, object conservation and the importance of provenance and inscriptions in understanding historic artefacts. The archival value lies partly in recording local activity and public use around the recorded location before changing commercial priorities alters the character of the place. Further associations within the scene are local history, museum object, community identity, archival record, period craftsmanship, documentary photography, changing streetscape, and changing land use. The combination of Somerset, Civic, Holloway, Society, and District anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The strongest archival anchor in this row is the subject itself, Bridgwater & District Civic Society Blue Plaque Three Houses By Holloway and Hutt, North; image MHM69F records it at a defined point for future comparison and research. A further contemporary connection is public history and the importance of provenance and inscriptions in understanding historic artefacts in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. The wider significance includes object conservation and how everyday objects can survive as evidence of earlier work and domestic life within the real-world context of the recorded location.