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Streetview - maps.app.goo.gl

Built 1879 according to Archiseek - www.archiseek.com

Mr French / Lawrence visited too. Earlier or later ? -
catalogue.nli.ie (Cabinet)
catalogue.nli.ie (Royal)

Where Cadwallader himself lived
A modest pile!

Almoner’s house on left

www.buildingsofireland.ie

Downpatrick Recorder : Saturday 24 October 1874

Charitable Bequests.— The Right Hon. Cadwallader. Lord Blayney, late of Castleblayney, County Monaghan, who died on the 18th day of January, 1874, by his last will and testament, [...] the sum of .£3,000, upon trust, to purchase freehold land of inheritance for the erection of almshouses capable accommodating twenty persons, and, if practicable, within half-a-mile of the Market-house of Castleblayney, in the County of Monaghan; and for the erection of said almshouses, to the Commissioners for Charitable Donations and Bequests in Ireland, .£15,000 as an endowment fund for said almshouses, when built;

And much later Newry Reporter Saturday 24 March 1923

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. The late Mrs. Martha Callan, of Hillside, Warrenpoint, who died there on the 15th of April, 1922, made several charitable bequests by her will to the Trustees of the Blayney Almshouse Trust, £1,600, in trust, to provide a salary for a resident female professional and properly trained nurse, whole sole duties shall be to attend to and care and nurse those of the inmates of the said Almshouses as shall be infirm and ailing, such services and nursing to be given by said nurse absolutely free of charge, and without any distinction of creed or sex; and Testatrix left the above bequests upon and subject to the following - conditions, viz.-—That the said nurse shall be a member of the Church of Ireland, and shall be under the control and subject to the directions of the said Trustees for the time being of the said Blavney Almshouses, and also that the said nurse is not to be allowed to take any other work, or attend any other patients, save the inmates of the said almshouses,

Whos property is this structure nowadays please?An object/property of the conservation society i guess?

20 inmates residents, in 5 houses, so 4 in each house, each with their own window,

Dima Muzhetsky “Blayney sold the family estate in Castleblayney to Henry Thomas Hope[10] of Deepdene, Surrey in 1852 and died in London on the 18th January, 1874, without issue at he age of 74. On his death the title of Lord Blayney, Baron of Monaghan became extinct.

However the association of the Blayneys did not end with the sale of the estate in 1852. Their association with Castleblayney continues to this day arising from a bequest made in the last will and testament of Cadwallader, 12th Lord Blayney, the last Lord Blayney, dated 4th July 1871. On foot of the bequest a trust was set up and known as the “Lord Blayney’s Charity”. The Charity built 20 houses to provide accommodation for “single elderly persons of good character, from the Castleblayney area” on an interdenominational basis and are better known to many as the Alms Houses. They were completed in 1879. The Charity is now known as the Lord Blayney Trust and in 2005 the “Alms Houses” were refurbished and modernized, a lasting reminder of the association of Blayneys with Castleblayney.”
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So there’s your answer

Shame we can't get context. A fruit shop doesn't normally attract a crowd.

Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), Friday 17 January 1941, page 8
Fruit Shop Pickets
ROCKDALE CROWDS PROTEST
Local residents yesterday picketed the fruit shop of Mr. Antonio Arena, in Princes Highway, Rockdale. This followed picketing of the fruit shops of Mr. Leo Costa and Mr. A. Rumore in Prince's Highway, Rockdale, on Wednesday. Yesterday both those shops were locked and deserted. All yesterday afternoon crowds jostled and argued outside Mr. Arena's shop, while a squad of police looked on. Few people entered the shop to buy fruit A group of residents led several dogs on leads to and fro before the shop. Mr. Arena immediately removed several cases of fruit from the doorway.
Had Birth Certificate
Mr. Arena showed his birth certificate to the demonstrators and said he was Australian born. A member of the A.I.F. examined the certificate and told the crowd, "He's O.K." Two elderly women had a violent argument outside the shop. One said: "Anybody with Italian blood in them is no good." The other replied: "Italian blood and Australian— It's all the same. They're all mothers' sons." A broken window of Mr. Costa's shop was boarded up with planks. On the planks was scrawled in chalk: "Down with Dagoes," "Boycott the wops," "Wop-shop," and "Dagoes are dingoes." On the closed shutters of Mr. Rumore's shop someone had written: "Have a bath."
"Not Real Australians"
Interviewed at his home in Bay Street, Rockdale, Mr. Costa said: "I have sold my business and will lead a gentleman's life for a while. "The people who smash my shop are not real Australians. "They wait there to see the window fall in to pick up some oranges for nothing." Mr. Costa, who is 40, said he had been in Australia for 15 years. His wife had been here 18 years. He had two children, and was a naturalised British subject. Mr. H. Trelaw, of Maltland Ave., Kensington, who was visiting Mr. Costa, said he had bought Costa's business.
ITALIAN SELLS HIS SHOP
MR. H. TRELAW, who yesterday purchased the greengrocery business at Rockdale from Mr. Leo Costa, naturalised British subject. Crowds demonstrated outside the premises the previous day.

Fruit Shop Pickets (1941, January 17). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), p. 8. Retrieved August 7, 2026, from nla.gov.au

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Sitters

Henry Vernon Esmond (Harry Esmond Jack) (1869-1922), Actor and playwright.
Ellis Jeffreys (1872-1943), Actress; wife of Herbert Sleath Skelton.
Marie Kaye Wouldes Löhr (Lohr) (1890-1975), Actress-producer and manager of the Globe Theatre; former wife of Anthony Leyland Val Prinsep.
Suzanne Sheldon (1875-1924), Actress.
Edward O'Connor Terry (1844-1912), Actor and theatre proprietor.
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917), Actor and theatre manager.

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On the back of the postcard is ...

Date from postmark. Inscribed in ink on verso: "Show this to / Mrs Hamilton. / Kind regards. / Self seated in / L. corner / [Ellen Terry?]"

Which might be a cataloger's error for Edward O'Connor Terry (10 March 1844 – 2 April 1912) who is listed on the NPG website. He might be the sender of the postcard (NB 'X') - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O%27Connor_Terry

The postcard is addressed to " J. M. Lowry Esq, 16 Hatch St., Dublin. " Looks like it has been rebuilt; I was hoping to see the letterbox through which the postcard once slid!
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Lots of info on wiki - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_for_Scandal - including this ... "It is recorded that Jane Austen, who was said to be a fine actor, had played the part of Mrs Candour in 1812 in a private production with great aplomb."

Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News April 17th 1909

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AI

This historic photograph captures a scene from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's celebrated April 1909 revival of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy, The School for Scandal, staged at His Majesty's Theatre in London.
The Production Context
The Venue: His Majesty's Theatre in the West End served as the home base for legendary actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
The Scale: Tree was renowned for gathering star-studded, extravagant "all-star" casts and utilizing highly detailed, lavish period costuming and sets.
The Critical Reception: The 1909 production was highly covered by major press, including the New York Times and The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, making it one of the definitive Edwardian-era revivals of the 18th-century play.
Notable Cast & Characters
While this particular wide shot depicts a crowded ensemble moment from the play, the production featured several titans of the Edwardian stage:
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Starred in the leading role as Sir Peter Teazle, the wealthy old man married to a much younger woman.
Marie Löhr: Played Lady Teazle, his vibrant, fashionable, and country-bred wife who gets caught up in London's malicious high-society gossip.
Other Featured Cast Members: The grand revival also included celebrated actors of the era such as Edward O'Connor Terry as Crabtree, Lionel Brough as Moses, Henry Neville as Sir Oliver Surface, and Suzanne Sheldon.
The Photographic Provenance
The Studio: The photograph was taken on-set by Daily Mirror Studios, which frequently documented major West End openings.
The Distribution: It was widely sold to theatergoers as a collectible real-photo postcard by J. Beagles & Co. (Serial No. 281 Y).
Archival Preservation: A complete series of individual character portraits and scene captures from this exact photo session is preserved in the permanent archives of the National Portrait Gallery in London.

It is my understanding that the whole document wasn't actually 'written' by Sarah. Her signature is quite unlike the 'flowing, elegant script' of the petition. An amanuensis or scribe skilled in this sort of flowery expression and presentation work would have written it under her instructions and no doubt for payment.

Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies
I'm thinking a solicitor's clerk may have been the actual 'writer' of the document.
Doctor's handwriting was probably as poor then as now, although it wasn't until two years later in 1867 that Sarah went to Italy to pursue medical training in Florence, where she became a physician. She practiced medicine for nearly 20 years in Italy and never returned to the United States, dying in Rome at the age of 68. See a lovely portrait of her here with more details of her life - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Parker_Remond

Sarah's brother Charles Lenox Remond was a firebrand orator who told a meeting in 1857 which Sarah also attended, "When the world shall learn that 'mind makes the man'-- that goodness; moral worth, and integrity of soul, are the true tests of Character, then prejudice against caste and color, will cease to be."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lenox_Remond

It is interesting that when Charles Lenox Remond married Elizabeth Magee, a native of Virginia, in Newton on July 5, 1858. The abolitionist preacher, Rev. Theodore Parker, officiated. Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Parker

Merryjack
And the great Frederick Douglass, "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century", so admired Charles that he named one of his sons for him: Charles Remond Douglass.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lenox_Remond
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

Admiral Charles Bowers "Swede" Momsen was my late wife's granduncle. He was the uncle of Lois Mae Momsen. He was the son of Hart Momsen and violinist/pianist Susie Bowers.

Sewde also invented the McCann Rescue Chamber, and directed the rescue of sailors from the sunken submarine Squalus in 1939. Sam Neill (who just died a couple of weeks age) played Swede Momsen in the TV movie Submerged, loosely based on the Peter Maas books.

The Momsen Lung was actually a rebreather, not an oxygen tank.

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