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www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EHvEOWNv9o

It holds historical significance as the first Catholic parish built following the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1791.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Christ
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Teresa%27s_Carmelite_Church which says - " Daniel O'Connell reputedly held meetings in the church in the early nineteenth century"

@beachcomber australia .... communion wafers by "deliveroo" ?

Oldest Catholic church in Dublin I believe?

Details here:
www.dia.ie/works/view/53430/building/CO.+DUBLIN%2C+DUBLIN...

Interesting to see the adjacent building was likely gabled originally from the fewer windows on the top floor indicating the window alignment

The 25" OSI indicates that Johnson' Ct was accessed throught that arched entrance on the adjacent building.

Architecture of Dublin Excellent, and very clear timeline, thanks.

Holy Dove View 3D is fascinating -
www.google.com/maps/place/St+Teresa's+Church+Discalced+Ca...

The building nearer the camera is St. Theresa's Carmelite Priory from 1898

www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...

This image is upside down. Please rotate 180 degrees then delete this note.

He's turning a chicken head knob on what looks like a machine that develops photographic film.

There are a bunch of AmTrak cars being repaired in these August 1972 photos, suggesting they were already operational when the aerial photos were shot.

Date in the notes says, "1970-1972." Rohr (RSI) did not acquire this location until 1972. The aerial photos seem to be about the time the property was acquired, (12/18/1972). A newsletter published by the Southern California Railway Museum claims Rohr acquired the RSI property in 1973.

What's going on? Is there madness in their Methodism?

Hats on (this photo) -
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589969
Hats off -
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589972


Also (another year?) Hats on -
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589970
Hats off - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589971

Wonderful! "If you want to get ahead, get a hat!"

Cliff House, Dunmore East

catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000032599

Amazed here! Never suspected Dunmore East...

Niall McAuley Charles ODowd Thank you both.

My unscientific calculations think Cliff House used to be here and the photos were taken in the park across the road, near the tennis courts - maps.app.goo.gl/oVe7ZeBH29pAT5bf7

See also the second (actually third!) house from the left mid-distance here - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000329472

And on the left with a flagpole - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000329471

beachcomber australia

Very interesting find, geohive would suggest it was demolished between 2001-2006.

Going from memory, 9-1-1 was introduced in California between 1979 and 1981. This newer color photo was taken after 9-1-1 was introduced in California:

A very twenty first century overhead projector.😄

See also (without chair):

These look like they have been retrofitted to use recycled water for flushing. Note the exposed pipe strapped to the tile wall.

Notice this image has been added to the Rohr collection in error. There may be a few hundred images in the wrong album.

Other side:

Too easy with Google Lens -

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huda_Sha%27arawi

This is unusual - from the wiki above - "Sha'arawi is depicted in the song "The Lioness" by English singer-songwriter Frank Turner on his 2019 album No Man's Land."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xms9pmtTqI0

Bualadh bos, ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq!

Though *shaking fist* at Google Lens for ruining our fun!

There are plenty of photos credited to G. Lekigian of Cairo in such illustrated periodicals as The Graphic and the Illustrated London News, and also to C.Lekigian and L. Lekigian, the latest being in 1919. In 2002 the Dundee Weekly News published a photo of camels, palm trees, Nile waters and the pyramids taken by Mrs Lekigian in the 1860s.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Google Lens is sometimes amazing! Often it's AI gobbledegook ...
I am more than a little interested in this lady because my own Irish grandfather was a fairly senior officer in the Egyptian colonial Police from 1919 to 1937. He would certainly have known of Huda Sha'arawi, and possibly she knew of my grandfather.
[Aside - my mother was born in Cairo in 1922, which makes her my Egyptian Mummy ! ]

beachcomber australia Huzzah for your gorgeous [asides]!

More on G. Lekigian with examples of his work here: www.vintag.es/2024/10/cairo-1800s.html

Heaps of "Lekegian" photos on Flickr too -
www.flickr.com/search/?text=+Lekegian

John Spooner ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq And I think this is our only Lekegian photo at Library Towers.

I became a member of his college frat - Not bt accident.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated.
Brother Greg D.
Cary, NC

Thanks for the identification, Abbie Hudson! I've done some digging online and it looks like they - and you - are right!

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71207910 - Town & Country Journal, 24th December, 1892...description, sketch, etc...

Middle East - Recovered Prisoners of War Rolls, 1939-45 War
Donald John Skelton
Service number NX5055
Rank Private
Unit 2/3rd Australian Infantry Battalion
Places
Crete
Leeton, New South Wales
Oflag III-C [from 6/11/42]
Stalag 383 - [from 10/4/43 until liberated 12/5/45]
Stalag VII-A [from 5/11/41]
Conflict/Operation Second World War, 1939-1945
Fate Recovered
Place of Association Leeton, New South Wales
www.awm.gov.au/collection/R2821494

Donald's casualty form summarised above, which gives a date range for the image, shows he was posted missing 8 June 1941, when he was captured in the Battle of Crete. Beginning 20 May 1941 and named Operation Mercury (German: Unternehmen Merkur), this was a major Axis airborne and amphibious operation during World War II to capture the island of Crete.
Allied tactical hesitation, and determined offensive operations, enabled German land reinforcements to overwhelm the defensive positions on the north of the island. Allied forces withdrew to the south coast, where more than half were evacuated by the British Royal Navy and the remainder surrendered or joined the Cretan resistance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crete

Donald John Skelton
Birth 26 JUN 1918 • Leeton, New South Wales, Australia
Death 8 JAN 2007 • Canowindra, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation - Corner Store Proprietor; Industrial Officer.
Donald's father Walter was Member for Newcastle in NSW Parliament 1922.
AncestryLibrary - Family tree

The AWM has a photo of Stalag 383:
"THE CAMP AT HOHENFELS, STALAG 383, WHICH HOUSED SOME 8000 BRITISH ... IN MID-SUMMER. ITS ONE REDEEMING FEATURE WAS THAT THE GERMAN COMMANDER WAS A FREEMASON, WHO EXERCISED HIS HARSH DUTY WITH COMPASSION, AND WHATEVER SYMPATHY HE DARED." www.awm.gov.au/collection/C206805

Stalag 383
The camp comprised 400 detached accommodation huts, 30 feet (9.1 m) x 14 feet (4.3 m), each typically housing 14 men. More were built towards the end of the war as prisoners were moved in from other camps as the Russian front advanced from the east.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_383

Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies 👍

"Money's No Good To You Here - Mate"

This was a true statement that I was aware of as soon as I entered a Prisoner of War Camp. I had often heard it said that money had no intrinsic value itself - it was only a means of exchange. It was what money could buy that was important and in a P.O.W. Camp Pounds, shillings and pence; Dollars; Francs and Guilders could buy very little.
BUT there was "money"in the camp, which could purchase many things. The "currency" in the camps was CIGARETTES, and this was the accepted means of exchange. There were a few wealthy men in the Camps - these were the cigarette "Barons". Men who accumulated thousands of cigarettes. I never found out how they did this - there was talk of con men and cardsharpers. No
doubt there was a sprinkling of such characters, as card games involving gambling went on at every possible occasion. Gambling schools took place in many parts of the huts - I often watched, but never played for "money".

The cigarette "Barons" could buy many things inside the camp - and it was said even outside the camp. Dealings with various camp guards went on all the time. The "Barons" purchased extra rations of Red Cross food from prisoners who had run out of their supply of cigarettes. Articles of clothing were also exchanged for cigarettes..."
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/43/a5676843.s...

I located Donald's military record at the NAA and found his 'Statement of Repatriated Prisoners of War', which shows his place of capture as 'Sparkia' and continues, "Withdrew from Suda Bay to Sparkia for evacuation, all troops capitulated". He then spent a month in Salonica in Greece before being transfered to 'Stalag VIIA (13 months), then Stalag 383 (32 months)".

He describes camp conditions in the following terms: "Accommodation - BAD; Rations - POOR; Clothing & footwear - None except for Red Cross issues; Bathing, washing and sanitary facilities - VIIA fair, other camps BAD; recreational facilities (sport, reading, news) - REASONABLE in VIIA and 383"
recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchS...

Sparkia is actually the Greek 'Sfakiá' in Wikipedia, which notes: "After the Battle of Crete during World War II, the locals helped many Australian and New Zealand soldiers escape from here on the night of May 31, 1941, suffering great reprisals. King George II of Greece had already escaped this way when the Germans invaded. "

"Sfakiá is notorious for the harshness of the environment and the warlike people. Sfakians themselves are still considered somewhat beyond the reach of the lawmakers and tax collectors of Athens, with vendettas over stolen sheep and women's honour still fought into the mid-20th century, with a whole village abandoned."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfakia

"POW CIGARETTE STANDARD
A unique form of commodity money surfaced in the Nazi prisoner-of-war (POW) camps during World War II. Cigarettes came to fulfill all the functions of money: a medium of exchange, unit of account, standard of deferred payment, and store of value. The Red Cross furnished the prisoners with cigarettes along with food, clothing, and other goods.
The history of POW cigarette money furnishes examples of a wide range of monetary phenomenon. Gresham’s law could be seen in the tendency for inferior cigarettes to remain in circulation while prisoners hoarded higher-quality cigarettes. Sometimes prisoners debased the currency by removing tobacco in the middle of the cigarette and replacing it with inferior material. A diminished (or expectation of a diminished) influx of cigarettes caused a fall in the velocity of circulation as prisoners hoarded cigarettes, which were becoming more valuable as prices in cigarettes fell. An added infusion of cigarettes, or rumors of an added infusion, brought a rise in velocity, dishoarding, and rising prices in cigarettes."
More - encyclopedia-of-money.blogspot.com/2011/10/pow-cigarette-...

Hello

Great picture.

Test flight over Coronado, California.

Stig Jarlevik Thanks for the great historical notes!

The hammer has an accelerometer attached to it. He's doing something to evaluate the door. Comments and corrections are welcomed. Fixture may say, "304 stns" (stations?)