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Hi Mary, I just met Doreen and showed her the pix. She's going to get her daughters email address for me so I can send the link. Hard to see all details on a phone screen in the centra bit she recognised all the people her mum and dad and 2 others

Doris Hector, Louis's sister

Doris Hector

It only lasted twelve years. Lots of details here -
niallbrn.wordpress.com/2021/11/10/ballinacourty-magnesite...

New Ross Standard - Thursday 20 May 1993 carried a notice for an auction of railway sleepers and rails from the former Quigley Magnesite Plant at Ballynacourty. So it had gone by May 1993.

It was near Ballinacourty Lighthouse according to the site above. It would have been unbelievably fugly in what is a beautiful place.
via Sean Hartwell

Edit - Google Maps Satellite - www.google.com/maps/@52.0795014,-7.5559419,1121m/data=!3m...

Wikipedia article on Magnesite.

Used , and in the production of Magnesium Oxide, a heat resistant material.

Also used in floor screeds, and as a catalyst.

I'm not a big fan of using seaside land as golf courses, but there's no doubt it looks better now!

Reading the Beachcomber's linked site, the process used limestone brought by rail from a quarry at Bennetsbridge and salt water (hence the seaside location).

The route of the railway spur is visible on Google maps and Streetview.

The waste water treatment plant on the site is operating since 2007, so the round pool in this Waterford museum shot are part of the Magnesite works.

The track bed of the old railway is now the Deise Greenway. My son and I rode the full length in both directions in stages back in 2018. Part of it from Kilmeaden towards Waterford is used by the Waterford and Suir Valley railway.

Well, the hotel is within walking distance of the station, but then there’s the luggage

www.archiseek.com/royal-victoria-hotel-killarney-co-kerry/

Fun historical sequence of various forms of transport ....

Stereo Pairs -
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Fancier coach and folk, and flagpole ...
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This photo (maybe not the right order due to flagpole) ...
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With a motor car ...
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So Mr French / Lawrence visited four times (so far).
More Royal Victoria Hotel photos - catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?filter%5B%5D=digitised%3A...

Suck Diesel Ah now, you couldn't expect to have people staying there back in the day walk 4km to the train. You'd ruin the bottom of your dress or get your recently polished shoes dirty. And it sure does rain a fair bit down there. Even today, I doubt anyone staying at the Castlerosse Hotel, which is there now, walk from the train.

Flickr is sometimes amazing! The replacement Castlerosse Hotel with [omni]bus via DGlombardstown in 2013 -

L_CAB_03400 shows cabs and carriages at the station, with one from the Lake View and one from the Muckross Hotel

If it's all the same with you, I think I'll walk
Kerry Evening Post - Saturday 07 June 1890:

OMNIBUS ACCIDENT IN KILLARNEY.
Killarney, Saturday.
Last evening as the driver of the Royal Victoria Hotel omnibus was after returning from the 8.30 train with the omnibus and pair, one of the latter took head opposite Foley’s Medical Hall, in the Main street, and dragged the second horse and 'bus after it. Having reached the site opposite the Town Hall, the restive horse struck against the lamp post, an unusually heavy one, and fell. It was at once ascertained that its back was broken in the heavy fall and about an hour afterwards died from the effects the injury. It was not long hi use, having been recently purchased, and was valued for about £4O.

The spelling buss appears to have been a short-lived alternative shortening of omnibus, along with the pedantic 'bus and the eventual winner bus. It warrants further investigation, but I think I'll save it for a long winter evening when there's nothing on the telly.

up north, always referred to the parents as Armagh and Ardagh.....

In Elizabeth, New Jersey

Louis Hector

This is not Louis Hector

VMI

This is not Louis Hector in the photo

Elma Craft, bridesmaid at her friend Marie's wedding

Louis Hector (middle), Ned Thompson (right)

Elma Craft, Alden Craft, and Alieze Craft

VMI

VMI

VMI

Louis Hector III and his father, Louis Hector Jr.

VMI

Supermouse was my father's nickname due to his stature.

Elma Craft on the right

Elma Craft on left

Louis Hector in Elizabeth, NJ with one of his dogs.

Elma Craft on left with her mother's friend Liza in Columbia, SC.

Doris Blundell Hector, Louis's mother

Doris Blundell Hector, Louis Hector's mother

Louis Hector as a boy in Elizabeth, New Jersey

This was my father's nickname for my mother, who was born in the south.

Susan Hector Thank you very much for these comments!

left to right: George Gerald, Sam Gordon, and Alieze Craft. Alieze was Elma's sister.

Elma and Louis are not in this photo

Elma Craft

Elma Craft (left)

Left to right: Alden Craft, Elma Craft, Louis Hector

Elma Craft and her brother, Alden

Elma Craft holding Edward, with his mother Alieze in the background.

Elma Craft

Louis Hector Jr. and Albert

Elma Craft

Elma Craft and Louis Hector

Elma Craft

Elma Craft

Doris Hector, Louis's sister

Albert Hector, brother of Louis Hector

Left - Alden Craft; Right - Louis Hector

Left to right: Ned Thompson, Alden Craft, unknown, Louis Hector

Alden Waldo Craft, best friend of Louis Hector and brother to his wife, Elma Craft Hector. Uncle Al served in the US Navy.

Kate the dog in Palos Verdes

Albert Hector, brother of Louis Hector

Susan Hector, daughter of Louis Hector, c. 1956

Louis Hector at VMI

Louis Hector as a boy standing in front of a tall man; his boy scout leader?

Elma Marina Craft Hector and Louis James Hector

Louis Hector, bottom row on the left (viewer side)

Supermouse was my father's nickname due to his height. He was 5'4" tall.

This was my father's nickname for my mother who was from the south.

The prominent bulding in the bottom left is the College of Technology and not Inst. The lawn beside it is the front lawn of Inst but the building is just out of sight to the left.

Currently the excess baggage charge is £14(16 euros) per kilo. The most excess baggage checked-in is usually done by passengers flying to join cruises from foreign ports. Most airlines now pay their check-in agents a commission for excess baggage charges collected so getting away no charges these days is virtually impossible.

Google Maps 3D - www.google.com/maps/place/Dolphin's+Barn,+Saint+James,+Du...

Fatima Mansions in all their glory

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My memory of the ‘Mansions’ was how incredibly loud everything was
Would be hard to sleep at night

You get the idea

Reminiscent of Soviet era worker’s flats, 1977

Suck Diesel Wonder whose idea in the Corpo (presumably) it was to call them Mansions. Assuming Fatima arose from religious fervour.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Yes, the Corpo built and named them
It reflects the Ireland of that time

The original complex was built by Dublin Corporation (now Dublin City Council) after World War II, with the first tenants moving in around 1947. The name reflects the strong Catholic influence in Ireland at the time and the common practice of naming places, especially social housing projects, after Catholic figures or apparitions.
The complex was demolished and redeveloped in the early 21st century and has since been renamed Herberton Apartments,

The Grand Canal runs along the bottom of the picture, and the stretch going to the ‘basin’ can also be seen
No sign of any Guinness barges though.
Even the canal’s name and Rialto Bridge also show the use of grandiose place names, although from a much earlier non religious era

My first awareness of "Fatima Mansions" was during the mourning for those Irish soldiers who were killed in the Congo. The one body that had not been recovered at that time was that of Trooper Anthony Browne who hailed from Fatima Mansions. As a lad growing up down the country names like "Rialto, Ddolphin's Barn and Fatima Mansions" seemed to be very fancy indeed. Anthony was one of those who died in an ambush by Baluba tribesmen while on Peacekeeping mission in the Congo in 1960. It later emerged that he had survived the initial ambush and managed to escape into the bush only to be captured later and killed by the tribesmen.

Just above/right of the site, I see the Leinster Cinema on the SCR, which was a year round ice rink when I remember it.

Well done!
Congratulations on this photo in Explore!

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I seem to remember that the WR&S images are from the early years of the date range

Streetview

Niall McAuley Map updated. Thank you.

So County Down not Antrim!

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2013 via remprimo
Looks like some of the gravestones have moved ?

Inside via Bradley Davis

In southern Tasmania, a huge round tower was used as a "Shot Tower"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_Tower,_Taroona

Walk-around - www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkxoArmyXGQ

In 1830 - 1840 ... catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000541366

Where is the pointy top?

Committee on Emergency Measures by Manufacturers. Part of the September 1921 President's Conference on Unemployment.

Front row (L to R) Sarah Conboy, Secretary of the United Textile Workers of America, Arthur L. Humphrey, President of Westinghouse Air Brake Co., W.H. Stackhouse, President of National Implement and Vehicle Association, Samuel Gompers, President, American Federation of Labor, William H Butler, President, New Bedford Cotton Mills, James Campbell, President, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, Gordon Lee, Ex Secretary of the Committee.

Second Row: Clarence J Hicks, Executive Assistant to the President of Standard Oil Company, John Penton, Editor of Iron Trade Review, John D. Edgerton, President of Lebanon Woolen Mills, Roy Dickinson, Publisher of Printers Ink, Jackson Johnson, Chairman of International Shoe Company, WC Procter, President, Procter and Gamble, Thomas C Hinman, President of Hand Trading Company.

Source: note on back of image i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LikAAOSwE45mwSFO/s-l1600.jpg

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