Main Street, Belturbet, Co. Cavan, late 19th century

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:05:58 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Remarkably, just as in our recent Lawrence Photographic Project Carlow photo, there's a smiling policeman in this one too!

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 of Belturbet with its companion photo 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.

Date: Circa 1899?

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_07744

Main Street, Belturbet, Co. Cavan, 1990

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:05:58 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Taken by photographer, Eugene Clerkin, who reported that there was a Town Festival in progress on this day. Let the battle of car identification commence...

You can compare this view of Belturbet with its companion photo taken approximately 100 years earlier 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: Sunday, 5 August 1990 at 16:15 (weather conditions - cloudy)

NLI Ref.: LPP_15A/4

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Main Street, Belturbet, Co. Cavan, late 19th century

Main Street, Belturbet, Co. Cavan, 1990