3648 x 2736 px | 30,9 x 23,2 cm | 12,2 x 9,1 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
18. Juni 2011
Ort:
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Weitere Informationen:
. A location-based documentary photograph from Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, useful both for its immediate subject and for the smaller period details around it. The photograph is concerned with Book of weekly cloth production and average weights ledger, Victorian cotton mill, Manchester, Cottonopolis. The wider scene also brings together period detail, industrial material culture, industrial artefact, visual archive, historic workplace, social history, engineering history, labour history, local character, manufacturing infrastructure, manufacturing heritage, working-industry history, archival record, and social landscape. Today's wider story includes industrial conservation, reuse of mills and warehouses and the practical question of understanding the industries that shaped northern towns. Future viewers can use this scene from Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK to compare building condition and alterations with whatever follows after later redevelopment. The surrounding context includes regional identity, before-and-after reference, community identity, production machinery, everyday Britain, contemporary history, historical comparison, and built environment. The recorded references to cotton, Cottonopolis, ledger, Manchester, and cloth preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. Around Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, apparently routine features can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar street details disappear. The location additionally provides evidence for industrial conservation and understanding the industries that shaped northern towns within the real-world context of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. A further contemporary connection is adaptive reuse and finding new uses for substantial older industrial buildings within the specific setting of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK.
