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I don't think this is Merewether Beach. More likely the southern end of Newcastle Beach.
maps.app.goo.gl/whdCJSntefmYa8vg8

28 January 1952 was a Monday ...

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Waterford blogger and maritime historian, Andrew Doherty, has identified Mr. T. Barton as Tom Barton, a log roller who had worked in the logging industry in Canada in the late 1800's.
This is a link to his piece which has a lot more information on the man and the event pictured.
tidesandtales.ie/tom-barton-bovril-man/

15 April 1913 was a Tuffy Tuesday ...

An unusually clean floor at Poole Towers.

beachcomber australia Was it already Wuffy Wednesday in Widgiemooltha, Western Australia.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Yuffy Yes!

I had to look it up - maps.app.goo.gl/TpQHNfgxaa79WZxcA

Only one Doreen Lindsay in the 1911 census, she's 11, could be the girl at our right.

Has the feel of amateur dramatics, the cast of a play or sketch.

In 1901, her father Walter was Gentleman in Waiting to the Viceroy of Ireland

For POOLEWP 2451 (of just two of the "actors") the catalogue says they are in fancy dress.

There are several photos commissioned by Doreen Lindsay in the catalogue all seem to be of the amateur dramatics theme. A couple mention Ballylinch House in the descriptions. As far as I can work out this is now Ballylinch Stud.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Cecil_Rhodes,_Bulawayo

"The statue of Cecil John Rhodes in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, is a bronze sculpture of the British colonialist, businessman and politician who was the founder of the British South Africa Company (BSAC), through which he founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia.
The statue was sculpted by a Scottish sculptor, John Tweed and was erected in Bulawayo city centre in 1904. In February 1981, after Southern Rhodesia's independence as Zimbabwe in 1980, the statue was removed from the city centre; it was relocated to the centenary park at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe."

note correct Spelling: Bulawayo

Thanks swanq and Seuss., we'll update and correct the catalog record.

See New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), May 24, 1908, P. 55
- www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1908-05-24/ed-1/?sp=55
"KINGSTON TO CELEBRATE HER 250TH ANNIVERSARY
Reinterment of the Body of Governor Clinton Principal Feature."

"New York City will have a chance to share in the honors done to the first executive when the body arrives at the Battery from Washington. it will be escorted by between 2,500 and 3,000 soldiers, sailors, Clinton descendants, city officials, committees and citizens through the lower streets of the city to the City Hall, passing Fraunces's Tavern, where Clinton entertained Washington, and St. Paul's Chapel, where he was in the habit of attending religious service when in the city. The body will lie in state at the City Hall throughout the day until sunset, when it will be placed on a naval vessel for transfer to Kingston. It will be accompanied by a fleet of torpedo craft, and, it is expected, will be saluted at various points along the river."

Thanks swanq, we'll update catalog record. According to one article this shows the US Revenue Cutter Manhattan.

“The golden sun is sinking far
Beyond Kilcummin shore,
The pale faced moon of rosy June
Doth rise to waken lore;
The evening star illumines far
Around old Nephin’s crown,
And muffled roar of Rosses shore
Doth swell these valleys round;
This silent strand, these waters grand,
So deep, so lone, so blue;
This Abbey Moyne whereon I stand,
This prospect of Moyview,
The calm repose of evenings close
That wraps this pool of Moyne,
And wailing cry of seabirds high
Deep silence all enjoin.”
(Rev. James Greer)

HNY 2026 - Trifecta Time !

catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000320969 ROY (this photo)
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000333039 CAB
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000326982 IMP

beachcomber australia A low ROY, a medium CAB and a huge IMP catalogue number. I think a date is unlikely from catalogue neighbours!

Happy new year, all.

EDIT: Wait, it is not a low ROY number 607 as indicated in the link, it should be 6072 - hope for a nearby dated shot after all.

There is another photo - L_ROY_06075 - which shows a newish grave stone with "1898" (or possibly 1888) see - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000320972

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq 1898, definitely

findagrave says its Rev Nolan, P. P.

There are many wonderful Googleball views around the ruins; here is Rev Nolan's grave 120+ years later - maps.app.goo.gl/E7xo8qdcVfgs2FdQ7

And a similar but closer view to Mr French / Lawrence's; he was up the hill behind with the cows nibbling at his tripod - maps.app.goo.gl/mzrKnPmfX8u5yfvo7

Pigeonview - maps.app.goo.gl/bGKZzUndmnbbKhic7

I would like to have a snoop around there, perhaps not in January!

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq Certainly not in the sort of January weather we are currently "enjoying"! Thanks for 1898.

And thanks Niall McAuley for the date confirmation.

L_ROY_06077 of Killala has the 1900 causeway. I see some possibility at findagrave that Rev. PJ Nolan did not die until 1906, in spite of the 1898 date there.

maps.app.goo.gl/BWznwBAqo2M8Ww3P6

Please let us know if you can help identify these children. Thanks!

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May 27 was the date for the 1908 commencement at Columbia, including Barnard.

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See East Oregonian : E.O (Pendleton, Umatilla Co., Or.;Pendleton, OR), May 27, 1908, (EVENING EDITION), P. 3
- www.loc.gov/resource/sn88086023/1908-05-27/ed-1/?sp=3&...

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Apparently a United Auto Workers strike possibly in the 1960s or 1970s. I was unable to find this story in newspaper archives.

I can't figure this one out. An antenna? A pressure transducer? Unsure.

Front page of the Aberdeen Herald January 11, 1894.

Don't forget to take your Simmons Liver Regulator every day.

Because the left knob has an adjustment range of 0-3, the display would seem to be showing degrees.

Entire face of unit:

Name tag on the guy on the left is something like, "A. J. Brillanto." I can't find that name in the organization charts (yet).

If you want to fix it, several of these black-and-white images need to be flipped horizontally, Note the text in the background. Best wishes and thanks for your efforts. Ok to delete this comment.

Possibly some kind of ASROC which may or may not ever have been deployed.

Ha! I've just now discovered that in 1922 David Jones sold what was a larger part of the former Girls' High School site to Sir Benjamin and John Fuller, who subsequently built the St James Theatre and St James Building there...the St James Theatre was built in 1923-26 (including excavation)...the St James Building wasn't completed until ca. late 1929...it was opened in January 1930...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16005719 - SMH, 3rd June, 1922...item re DJ's sale of the larger part of the Girls' High School site to the Fullers...

See www.jstor.org/stable/3405597?seq=1 for info about the Red Cross Siberian Commission from February 1919.
"Under the Red Cross Commission to Siberia, over one hundred and fifty American nurses are now stationed at Red Cross hospitals at Vladivostok, Russian Island, Omsk, Tumen, Novo-Nikolaovsk, and the Engineers' Hospital established to help care for the men now at work on the Trans-Siberian Railway."

The President in 1927 was Calvin Coolidge.

John Spooner Fantastic! I found one as late as 27 July 1946 in the Drogheda Independent. Jill Delaney carried the day in the Girls Under Eight competition at the Children's Carnival at Bettystown for Best Advertisement.

Ilsa Hesse

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