Fighting Cocks Pub, Moseley, Birmingham City Centre, B13 8HW, UK

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
MJ2YFAFile size:
44.1 MB (1.9 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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4616 x 3342 px | 39.1 x 28.3 cm | 15.4 x 11.1 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
3 May 2018More information:
. An identifiable period record of the recorded location in 2018, retaining the practical detail and local context that distinguish a documentary photograph from a generic illustration. The frame specifically shows Fighting Cocks Pub, Moseley, Birmingham City Centre, B13 8HW, UK. The surrounding context encompasses everyday life, Herefordshire cider tradition, beverage production, orchard-to-bottle industry, historical comparison, cider-making heritage, contemporary social history, archival record, regional identity, factory bottling line, social history, historic beverage advertising, place identity, and local character. Today's relevance is strengthened by energy costs, packaging and the continuing question of how bottling technology transformed large-scale drinks manufacturing. Small period details of period objects and surrounding context at the recorded location may become more significant with time, particularly following changing commercial priorities. The wider setting retains connections with regional drinks industry, industrial beverage equipment, community identity, bottle-filling machinery, fermented drink production, changing streetscape, drinks packaging, and documentary photography. The combination of Fighting, Cocks, Moseley, Birmingham, and Centre anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The period setting at the recorded location helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The location additionally provides evidence of energy costs and how bottling technology transformed large-scale drinks manufacturing within the real-world context of the recorded location. A further contemporary connection is regional food heritage and Herefordshire's long association with commercial cider production within the specific setting of the recorded location. The period view preserves a local visual benchmark for future local research.