Uploads from National Library of Ireland on The Commons, tagged sidecar, with geodata

The Square at Warrenpoint

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:14:45 -0700

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Think this is one of our best market shots ever! All of human / animal / commercial life is here - I'd recommend zooming in and exploring every inch (or pixel) of it…

Think we have our first Furniture Remover - wish the name was clearer on the "van". And would really love to know what's going on with the man holding the elaborately beaded pole? We might have a little reward for anyone who comes up with the most convincing (or even most entertaining) answer as to who or what he was...

Date: Circa 1902 to 1910??

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_09880

The Palace - Twice Nightly at 7 & 9

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:01:52 -0700

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The marvellous Cirque and Grand Opera House in Belfast. There's no way a date for this one will defeat us - a poster above the Gallery entrance says "Palace Theatre. Chas Majiltons Co. The Trippers. Tho Hardeen". So when did that combination of performers show the theatre-going people of Belfast a good time??

Date: Circa 1909?? (post-1905, and no later than 1909)

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_08983

"... a foot in foreground" = Ruins of Olderfleet Castle, Larne

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:50:25 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Hope none of you are eyeing the foreground uneasily to search for a severed limb, but in our catalogue, this image is titled: "Road approaching village, ruin to right, side-car, tourist party, a foot in foreground" so couldn't resist it as a title.

That said, we started off this week with a toughie (technical term). We didn't know where this was taken, but I threatened that if you all solved this mystery with relative ease, I would eat my big feathery flouncy Flickr Hat! Think I can get away without eating that hat, as it did take a while for this one to be solved. Thanks to Flying Snail for suggesting Olderfleet Castle near Larne, Co. Antrim.

Date: 1860-1883

NLI Ref.: STP_0470

Armagh Man (William Stickers?) laughs in the face of "Post No Bills" signs

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:06:58 -0800

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Cheating a little with the title of this one, as there is no "Post No Bills" sign to be seen (although we know they existed in Ireland long before this photo was taken). However, I fell in love with it when I saw the gentleman caught in the act of sticking up posters on the gate piers of Portadown Railway Station.

And what a joy those posters are! Hope you can make out the posters on the large size of this photo, but shout if you'd like me to add notes for any of them, and the best bit is that they date this photo to around May of 1879...

Date: Circa May 1879

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_01626

Queenstown aka Cobh

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:51:05 -0700

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Fell in love with this street scene from Cobh (Queenstown as was) because of the soldiers, but then noticed the woman further back near the side cars. Virtual prizes for any or all of you who can give a plausible explanation why she's playing a cornet/trumpet(?) in the middle of the street?

Date: 1890s??

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_02701

Egyptian Arch, Newry, Co. Down, circa 1905

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:00:40 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

This photo was taken probably by Robert French, chief photographer of William Lawrence Photographic Studios of Dublin. There are fragmentary posters under the arch.

From what I can make out, the furthest one has CATT... perhaps a Cattle Mart? But I can definitely make out May, and if it wasn't for a pesky outcrop of rock, we might actually have a year! Unforunately can't make sense of the other poster, as it has folded back on itself, and the one beneath it is not clear either! :(

There are 3 children under the arch. Ethereal boy at extreme right moved twice, so we've two ghosty boys for him... Oh, and we have telegraph wires if that's a help!

You can compare this view of the Egyptian Arch with its companion photo taken approximately 85 years later as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.

For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.

Date: Circa 1905?

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_08886

George's Street, Limerick

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 01:52:50 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

And this shot of George's Street, which also started life in our Munsterset is taken just a little further back so that you can make out a bank at no. 115 on the left, and Bennis & Sons at no. 30 on the right... And I think the photo was taken at 14:45.

Date: 1900?

NLI Ref.: EAS_2779

Waterfoot, Co. Antrim, late 19th century

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:50:02 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

This photo was taken in the late 19th century, probably by Robert French, chief photographer of William Lawrence Photographic Studios of Dublin.

You can compare this view with its companion photo next door taken approximately 100 years later as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.

For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.

Our thanks to beachcomberaustralia for an image of Waterfoot produced using Google Earth.

Date: Circa 1890

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_02300

April 23, 1915

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:09:22 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

In a fine example of "You can't keep a good company down", here is Hearne's temporary new shop on the quayside in Waterford, in business exactly 3 weeks after a devastating fire on Friday, 2 April.

The Great Fire Salvage Sale was for 4 days only, and began on the day this photo was taken.

The boat behind Hearne's shop has been identified by ofarrl as the Portlairge, a steam dredger known around Waterford as the Mudboat:
"Built in 1907 by the Dublin Dockyard Co. she was the last working steamship in Ireland when she was retired in 1980."
Meanwhile Niall McAuley found the Portlairge at its new home in Saltmills, Co. Wexford.

Date: Friday, 23 April 1915

NLI Ref.: P_WP_2607