4032 x 3024 px | 34,1 x 25,6 cm | 13,4 x 10,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
14 octobre 2017
Lieu:
Runcorn
Informations supplémentaires:
. Made at Runcorn in 2017, 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 subject captured here is Silver Jubilee Bridge, Runcorn-Widnes Bridge or Runcorn Bridge. The image also relates to community identity, period building, regional identity, local character, historic streetscape, period architecture, contemporary social history, social history, everyday life, architectural character, conservation architecture, historic townscape, visual archive, and period detail. Today's relevance is strengthened by heritage conservation, embodied carbon and the continuing question of the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility. Future viewers can use this scene from Runcorn to compare street furniture and boundaries with whatever follows after closure or conversion. The photograph additionally reflects place identity, local history, changing streetscape, cityscape history, public realm, conservation interest, urban fabric, and built heritage. Details involving Jubilee, Bridge, Runcorn-Widnes, Silver, and Runcorn make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within Runcorn, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The location additionally provides evidence of heritage conservation and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility as part of the longer story of Runcorn. A further contemporary connection is heritage conservation and the value of architectural landmarks to local identity and tourism when considered against later change at Runcorn. The wider significance includes energy retrofit and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character without losing the local specificity of Runcorn.
