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Known to the indigenous inhabitants of Sydney as Woccanmagully, Farm Cove was used by them as an initiation ground and for the "Kangaroo and Dog Dance". The land immediately adjacent to Farm Cove was set aside soon after first European settlement in 1788 by Governor Arthur Phillip for the Government House Domain, a private reserve for the NSW Governor. The first farm for the colony was thereafter established in the area, subsequently lending its name to the cove. After the failure of this first farm, and the transfer of agricultural efforts elsewhere in the colony, Governor Lachlan Macquarie established the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney around Farm Cove in 1816. Farm Cove was used as an anchorage for Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy and visiting naval vessels until the 1960s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Cove,_New_South_Wales

The image on the right is Caves House, the visitor accommodation built in stages between 1879 and 1926 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenolan_Caves_House

The other two of cave formations are take in the Imperial Cave - caves.bookingboss.com/booknow.cfm?e=CAVES7582#:~:text=%C3....

Copy and paste problems.
This is a basic Convair 240 N94261 now carrying its third name by AA, mid-late 1950s or so
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Congrats on Explore! ⭐ April 18, 2025

Glückwunsch zu Explore !

Congrats on Xplore!!

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Congrats on Explore 😍

Beautiful.
Congratulations on Explore!

superbe !

Excellent looking photo - very well done - congrats on Explore!!! From SW Michigan - USA

“Violet Augusta Mary Bourchier, née Barnes (11 June 1867 – 11 November 1942), known professionally as Violet Vanbrugh, was an English actress with a career that spanned more than fifty years.

Vanbrugh was from a family with theatrical connections. The actress Irene Vanbrugh was one of her younger sisters and a brother, Kenneth Barnes, became principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Vanbrugh

"Arthur Bourchier (22 June 1863 – 14 September 1927) was an English actor and theatre manager. He married and later divorced the actress Violet Vanbrugh."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bourchier

All the "V's ... ...
Via Special Collections

Edit - From the Notes at the bottom of the wiki page ...
"In her memoirs, Irene Vanbrugh wrote, "It was the fashion then to have your two initials the same and Ellen Terry … happened to come across a novel called 'Miss Vanbrugh the Actress'. She laughingly suggested to Vi that she should call herself Violet Vanbrugh."

beachcomber australia Wow, that is amazing!

Suck Diesel John Spooner Thank you both. Hope to hear more! If that's not being greedy?

Here she is as the Ambassadress in George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion' (1938 film). (I think I've got the right clip, not 100% sure!) - youtu.be/oHtC49m19jQ?si=X8l2Hl-Tf1DunqHZ&t=3269

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Unlike in most celebrity divorces of the era, no dirty washing was revealed during the hearing. He left her, eventually she petitioned on the grounds of desertion, he didn't defend it, and she was granted the divorce, custody of the child, and costs.

[aside] Meanwhile I'm far too busy reading All Changed; by Colman Doyle and John Quinn (who wrote the words putting the pictures in context). And don't look for a copy in Garristown Library (or indeed Leabharlanna Fhine Gall) - the copy once on their shelves found its way onto the 2nd hand market and eventually to my bookcase. [Garristown Library - still open - is in a former church which cost less to convert to a library than the amount Mr Carnegie had offered to have a new one built.- No rabbit hole unexplored]

John Spooner Good to hear that they were civilised about the divorce.

I hope All Changed was officially "weeded" from Garristown Library, and then found its way onto the 2nd hand market, rather than something more nefarious! 😀 It is a great book.

(And long may you, like everyone else here, be exploring rabbit holes!)

Here's Alexander Bassanos Wikipedia page.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bassano

Presumably the Meadow Brook Hunt Club, when it was based at Westbury, Long Island, New York
- digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/ryr/id/2166/

It is now in Jericho, NY, also on Long Island.
See www.meadowbrookclub.com
'The Meadow Brook Hunt Club was incorporated in Westbury, Long Island on May 12, 1881. The Club included the famous Meadow Brook Hounds. The original golf course was built in 1894 and was a nine-hole course. The Club became the 37th member of the U.S.G.A. and in 1897 became a charter member of the M.G.A. In 1953 ground was broken at the Jericho site and noted architect L.S. “Dick” Wilson was contracted to build a new course. The new course was opened for play in 1955.'
www.meadowbrookclub.com

According to The New-York Tribune, February 16, 1912, page 1, col. 3
- chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1912-02-16/ed-...
"MEADOW BROOK HUNT HALTED BY QUARANTINE"
"Mineola, Long Island, Feb, 15 (Special).-Meadow Brook fox hunters will be compelled to forego their usual spring hunting, as Sheriff De Mott this afternoon received word from Calvin J.
Huson, Commissioner of Agriculture, to enforce a strict quarantine against all dogs in the township of Hempstead. which is composed of a dozen villages, besides small hamlets, which hardly show on the map. The quarantine may last six months.
The quarantine will prove a great hardship to the Meadow Brook club, as J. E. Davis. Its master, had prepared a schedule of hunts for the fox and drag hounds which would have attracted lovers of the sport from all parts of the country to take part in the dally runs."

This photo was dated 9/9/12. Perhaps, the quarantine was over.

swanq I wonder if this photo was taken in 1908 like the others around it, but then reused in 1912 (perhaps for a story about the quarantined hunt). There was a hunt in April which would fit with the timeline of nearby photos. Apparently in 1908 a farmer stopped the hunt when they tried to go onto his property.

This photo has a 137 as number on street.

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Woman in center and small boy looking at the camera are in both photos. So this is 137 E. Broadway.

Thanks swanq, we'll add the address to this description.

it looks like x-ray of Mikey Mouse

Really good photo

A big M for Monkey !

beachcomber australia Bet we have a photo with a big E as our Monkey Morgan swung around the site.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons
A big E for Easter !
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000731294/HierarchyTree?recor...

"Second helpings of all courses on request"
1949 advert via Alan Wall

Just the Martello tower on the 25", the big sheds at the tower on the 30s Cassini map, this in the 50s, and now nothing but the Martello tower again.

Wasn't expecting Archiseek to take an interest!

250 rooms, 500 guests weekly, 110 staff.

beachcomber australia Relieved there wasn't an Oliver situation when you asked for more!

Niall McAuley My poor retinas! You should have issued a heath warning about the colour on the Archiseek site. Very surprised that many guests came from the North of England.

The season began 1st May 1954. Drogheda Independent - Saturday 22 May 1954:

RED ISLAND : The Holiday Camp, open since May Ist. is now in full swing and I'm told bookings are very good for the season. A first class entertainment staff is already in residence and this year the services of the well-known and Popular Jack Ruane and his Band (from Balling.) have been acquired. Other Red Island entertainers include my old friend, Hal Roach (fresh as ever) and Nuala Campbell who, with newcomers Collette McNaney, Tommy Loftus and Denis Forsythe. help to entertain the guests during the season. Another Red Island personality is back again this year. He is Bob Ferrario, the photographer. whose unfailing humour (even it business is slow) is a source of joy to all.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilltop_Park
'Hilltop Park was a ballpark in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was the home of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball from 1903 to 1912 when they were known as the "Highlanders".'

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It made the papers as far away as Australia

paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD19080331.2.19

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The Evening World. March 28, 1908, Final Results Edition, page 1, under headline "BOMB THROWN IN RIOT OF IDLE IN UNION SQUARE; TWO KILLED."
- chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1908-03-28/ed-...
"CROWDS FLEE BEFORE POLICE.
The bulk of the rush was south in Broadway and west in Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, toward Fifth avenue. The crowd, running down Broadway, pursued by policemen, filled the street from building line to building line.
In their panic-stricken haste they knocked over showcases, broke plate-glass windows and ran over everybody who happened to be in their way. Excited spectators in windows overlooking Broadway and the other streets fronting on the Square, realizing that a bomb had been thrown, hurled inkstands, books and other missiles at the fleeing crowd on the pavements.
Previous to the bomb-throwing the crowd had been pretty well scattered from the easterly side of the Square, and thousands had assembled in Irving Place and Third avenue and the side streets between these thoroughfares and Fourteenth and Eighteenth streets. When the noise of the exploding bomb reached the ears of the crowd in Irving place there was a rush to get out of the neighborhood.
Hundreds ran south in Irving Place in the direction of Fourteenth street, and half a dozen mounted policemen took after them at a full gallop. About a hundred of the fugitives dodged into the lobby of the Academy of Music, where William Faversham was giving a matinee performance of "The Squaw Man."
RIDE AFTER MOB INTO THEATRE LOBBY.
Three of the mounted policemen rode right up the steps and into the theatre lobby after the mob. They guided their horses in such a way that the fleeing men were driven out into the street again, where other policemen were waiting. None of these persons escaped the police clubs or the hoofs of the horses."

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
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See:
Monmouth County Horse Show: 114 Years Old And Going Strong, FreeholdInJersey (newsletter), Aug 16 2009
via Internet Archive
- web.archive.org/web/20110713035749/http://freehold.injers...

"The Monmouth County Horse Show started in the late 19th century in Long Branch and, with the exception of a short respite during World War II, has been held in various Monmouth County locations ever since.

Through the years, the show has been held at what is now Thompson Park in Middletown and at Wolf Hill (at what is now the Monmouth Park racetrack) in Oceanport, eventually settling here in Freehold.

'It actually started as the Long Branch Horse Show,' Morris said."

Convair 240 NC8409H (was never converted to a Cv 600!)
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Convair 440!
All the following colour photos looks like they were made on a trip to Brazil, probably invited by Cruzeiro.
They were a good customer to Convair
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Convair 340 (11 pax windows)
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Note the prominent display of msn (c/n) on the aircraft, here 133.
They were removed by Swissair once in service
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Convair 110
You show the same photo later saying it is landing....
From the visible flap setting, I actually don't know.
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The two 240s bought by Ethiopian were equipped JATO bottles due to many of their airports were at high (and hot) altitudes.
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Convair 110
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This is the mother of them all!
Convair 110 NX90653 landing after a test flight in mid 1946
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NC94221 with its msn (c/n) 40 clearly seen. It was officially listed as manufactured 28 Feb 1948
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Well it says 440 all over the aircraft....
It was initially laid down as a 340 for Lufthansa (you have various photos of that). Lufthansa chose to canx their order and Convair modified it to a 440 before delivery to Union Carbon
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This is the prototype Cv 240 fitted with Allison turbo props early 1950s.
Since it was a novelty Convair never came up with a different designation.
It's mystery why Convair never designed a proper turbo-prop 240 - 440 but let other companies re-engine those produced.
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Not quite standard seating.... 😄
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40 seats = Convair 240
The whole reason for the 340 was, among other things, to increase the number of pax to 44
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This is the Convair 240 prototype NX90849 in flight in 1947
It says Convair 240 on the fuselage....
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Photo-shopped!
Chicago & Southern never operated any Convair.
They had already merged with Delta in 1953....
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Very much photo-shopped.
No Convair was ever registered N1BB or possibly N188.
There was a reg N18B for Luftag but their order was canx and reg NTU
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Convair 440 (not 340)
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Convair 440 (not 340)
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N24927 was a 240 all its life.
Started as a demonstrator and passed on to Hughes Tool.
It was not canx until 18 June 2013, but then registered as N12905!
Compared to your previous photos of the aircraft, this one looks "photo-shopped", especially round the engines....
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Convair 340 (not 440)
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Convair 340 (never converted to 440)
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Convair 340 (not 440). It was converted to a 440 later in its life
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Convair 340 (not 440)
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Still with reciprocating engines, so just before conversion to Model 540 which used the advertised Napier Eland engines
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The reason N94294 is in so many of your photos is that it was the prototype Model 600, which made its first flight 20 May 1965
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good dog :)

This guy! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mulock

hi - do you know how I can establish names for these people? I'm searching for my great grandfather's photo - he worked at the Eveleigh Railyards at this time.

1839. Or, photo #39.

It is possible receding glacier planted it there or if very steep terrain to the right it tumbled down, but the base of the boulder looks notched for the plinth to hold it upright and a tree planted just in case to keep it all in place. You know Irish are clever people, just not clever enough to make the whole of Ireland a Republic under their own flag.

The stone has a wikipedia page

It's on the list of State Monuments as a portal tomb.

Reproduced in
Belfast 1902 : a guide to Belfast and the counties of Down & Antrim / prepared for the meeting of the British Association by the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club

www.alamy.com/a-guide-to-belfast-and-the-counties-of-down...

The dolmen fits your theme, since it was built 4000 years ago!

Niall McAuley an excellent observation!

The note on the pic says sometimes called Kearney's Stone, but there are no Kearneys in the townland by 1901.

Niall McAuley What is the townland name? I'm struggling to make it out, even with my newest monocle. Kingash? Kingsh...?

Goward!

Niall McAuley Apologies. I wasn't clear in what I was asking you. In the handwriting under the photo, it says: "In the townland of Kin..."

Not Pennsylvania-class. Looks like New Mexico-class--note the angles on the turret sides. New Mexico-class had flat sides, Pennsylvania-class had curved sides. Also, the face plate ("glacis plate") is shaped differently between the two classes.

I believe the Jack Crystal shown is the father of Billy Crystal the comic and actor.

You're right, I think this is another view of the same photo shoot.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Commodore-Music-Shop-1947.jpg

Happy 4000th!

In megazoom, I can read that the huge carts opposite belong to Thomas White & Co.

Since absorbed by the House of Fraser department stores.

The trees are marked on the 25", weak evidence we are before 1900.

The barracks dates from 1891. I see scaffolding and an unfinished roof.

Niall McAuley Yes, when I saw Aldershot on the carts, I thought for a moment that Robert French had gone "out foreign" for once!

Thomas White & Co had their fingers in several pies. As well as department stores, they wer estate agents "Have all the best houses available on their Register, furnished and unfurnished, in immediate vicinity of the Aldershot Comamand Barracks" (Aldershot News - Friday 12 January 1917). As well as Aldershot they had a branch in Farnborough (or more accurately North Camp, between Aldershot and Farnborough). Their premises there were on Lynchford Road, which coincidentally was my great-grandfather's address in 1886-1889.

John Spooner Your knowledge of your own family's history is amazing! You put the rest of us to shame.

Might the carts have been moving the goods and chattels of a (presumably high-ranking) officer and family?

Thomas White opened the Aldershot store in 1855, when the military camp was in its infancy at the end of the Crimean War, and the business grew with the camp.
He died in 1880. Ths from his obituary (Aldershot Military Gazette - Saturday 17 July 1880)

he purchased land and commenced building those stately premises in Union-street, which forming one continuous range occupy a large space, but yet only serve to mask labyrinth of warehouses and storerooms capable housing stock property, and other material held in charge—to an amount almost incalculable —the whole forming an establishment, and emporium, which for ingenuity in its arrangement and details passes all description. With the view to supply every possible want, both for the military and civilian service, Mr. White added gradually, one by one, every conceivable item to his inventory of material until it could be said of his emporium almost the same as is boasted of the celebrated "Temple" of Paris —where it is told that one may purchase any article of manufacture "from a needle to a ship's anchor," and it is our belief that, with the exception of the last named article—and a hundred-ton gun, everything needful to the outward man and his surroundings could be obtained of Mr. Thomas White, and, indeed, such was the disposition of the late lamented gentleman, that we fully opine he would, in due course, have even added the "hundredton gun" to his stock in-trade, if his career had not been thus suddenly cut short.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons That particular ancestor was a Methodist minister. They had to move every 3 years, but I've managed to piece together most his movements from the letters he wrote to local newspapers.

John Spooner Newspapers are yer only man!

Either Mobile 05 (aka Fleet Hospital 105) or Mobile 07 (aka Fleet Hospital 107) – both were based in Noumea, New Caledonia

When was Photographer: Robert French born? When did he pass? That should narrow it down.

CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY The Lawrence Collection (mostly taken by Robert French) dates between 1865 and 1914 - see above. We were hoping it might be possible, as usual with these photographs, to narrow the date down further. We have succeeded many times before.

From the linked pic, the Hotel dates from 1894. This one is well earlier, no extension to our left, but we never found a date for that work.

Often clothing will give a clue.

Archiseek mentions that while the GSR originally open a hotel nearby in 1895 the present building (above) was built in 1897.
www.archiseek.com/1894-great-southern-hotel-parknasilla-c...
The original hotel was where the Parknasilla golf club is now.
L_IMP_3998 shows men wearing boaters. A pair of black stockings are out drying on a windowsill. Tut Tut..
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000327186

National Library of Ireland on The Commons “On the 1st of May 1895, The Southern Hotel Parknasilla opened, and the name Parknasilla which means “The field of the willows” began to appear on maps. It was also referred to as the “Bishops House Hotel, Parknasilla”.

parknasillaresort.com/history/great-southern-hotel-parkna...

L_IMP_4001 is the same view with a 2 storey addition to the left, years later.

Paging back, there is a sequence of the Kenmare hotel, dating from 1894 earliest. CBF L_IMP_3987 of Kingsbridge station as was lists Punchestown Races on Monday 10th April, so 1893, 1899 possible.

They're outside the APA Building in Martin Place...on the south side of the block between Elizabeth/Phillip Sts...built 1936...still standing...

maps.app.goo.gl/h6b1Zh6dxSgpFyay6 - Google street view

turnerscross.com/

Yes a brutalist (monstrosity) glory to god...
there are as many bicycles as people... Flann would be pleased

Wow! For some reason I thought this looked like Spain. It doesn’t look like your typical Irish church from that period.

Yes, it is still standing. Turner's Cross, Cork. Our own Christ the redeemer in Cork. Who needs Rio?

Foxglove Seán Ó Domhnaill Absolutely, I need to see wider shot of the church to try to get the entrance in context.

Ghost Radio Very good, Carnival Cross, Cork!

Phew! Still standing and looking fantastic in 2019
via John Finn

I absolutely love it! All art deco-y gorgeousness!

beachcomber australia It seems to have had a good deep clean recently.

There is a googleball inside - maps.app.goo.gl/hiKAbPsu1Bo8fQdN7

Edit - and the Satellite 3D is fun - www.google.com/maps/place/Church+of+Christ+The+King,+Turn...

Seanie Waslh (Kerry) and Brian Mullins (Dublin) in a high duel.

Up the Dubs

“Kerry for the holidays, Dublin for the cup!”

DannyM8 Were you at this match?

Walsh according to Wikipedia is 6ft 1in which would probably put him about 3 to 4 feet in the air.

Suck Diesel not that year. Kerry won their 25th title and 2nd in a row.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons On 16 September 1979, Kerry won the championship following a 3-13 to 1-8 defeat of Dublin in the All-Ireland final. Your date is a week early.

Mike Grimes Oh, thank you. Amended now.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Unfortunately, yes.

!!!

Niall McAuley that is correct. James Shanahan is my Grandad who died before I was born in 1973. Kitty his wife lived to 103.

Ciara Shanahan Hi Ciara, always nice to hear from family of the people pictured!

Do you know more about flower girl Pat Hayes?

Ciara Shanahan Hello. I'd like to echo what Niall McAuley said. We love to hear from family!

Douglas TA-4F converted to TA-4J BuN 152872 with PMTC (Pacific Missile Test Center) coded 82 between 1970-80.
Don't know when it carried this scheme but a rough guess is ca 1974-75
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Douglas A-4L Skyhawk from Flight Systems.
A far better photo can be seen here
www.airhistory.net/photo/97640/N403FS
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Douglas A-4L Skyhawk from Flight Systems.
A far better photo can be seen here
www.airhistory.net/photo/97640/N403FS
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Douglas A-4L Skyhawk from Flight Systems.
A far better photo can be seen here
www.airhistory.net/photo/97640/N403FS
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Douglas A-4L Skyhawk from Flight Systems.
A far better photo can be seen here
www.airhistory.net/photo/97640/N403FS
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I can see no evidence that N73147 was ever modified to a Model 540. Very few Model 340 were converted as such.
Most of them were built by Canadair as CL-66B/C for the RCAF.
N73147 was converted to a Model 580 and delivered back to Humble Oil & Refining Co at Houston on 28 Sep 1960. It was sold to Venezuela in Feb 1968
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Something went wrong with your copy and paste.
This is a Convair 340 N4803C which was delivered to Delta on 16 January 1953.
Obviously taken at Atlanta so probably while in service with the company.
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Something went wrong with your copy and paste.
This is another Convair 340, perhaps again N73102
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Actually this is NOT a Convair 580.
This is a regular Convair 240 which was handed over to Allison for testing various turbo-prop engines, probably with the USAF as customer in mind.
It was re-engined with reciprocating engines sometime in the early 1960s
It never changed its title and remained a Convair 240 all its life
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Actually this is NOT a Convair 580.
This is a regular Convair 240 which was handed over to Allison for testing various turbo-prop engines, probably with the USAF as customer in mind.
It was re-engined with reciprocating engines sometime in the early 1960s
It never changed its title and remained a Convair 240 all its life
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Actually this is NOT a Convair 580.
This is a regular Convair 240 which was handed over to Allison for testing various turbo-prop engines, probably with the USAF as customer in mind.
It was re-engined with reciprocating engines sometime in the early 1960s
It never changed its title and remained a Convair 240 all its life
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Actually this is NOT a Convair 580.
This is a regular Convair 240 which was handed over to Allison for testing various turbo-prop engines, probably with the USAF as customer in mind.
It was re-engined with reciprocating engines sometime in the early 1960s
It never changed its title and remained a Convair 240 all its life
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All these men worked for Ryan in 1927.
Fred Rohr was the sheet-metal foreman.
Fred Ayars (note spelling) later followed O.R. McNeel (again spelling) when they formed Ryan Mechanics to build their own designs.
Can't find Lon Wheeler, but he was most likely another of the hard working mechanics who worked for almost nothing.
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Has it survived?

www.change.org/p/sligo-county-council-save-rathellen-hous...

I think these maybe them
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Sligo/Sligo_Wes...

“Its History
Rathellen is a two storey, eight bay house that was built in the early 19th Century as a dower house for the Wood family of Woodville.
The house was first resided in 1826 by Capt James Wood, J.P. eldest son of James Wood who was High Sheriff with his widowed mother Judith and 10years later it was occupied by 2nd son of James of Woodville and his two sisters Margareth and Mary.
In 1860 the house was advertised for lease and described as 'a beautiful marine house' with acres and also described as 'the leafy suburban villa'.
In the same year the house was leased to the merchant Henry Lyons, J.P. who was a native to Scotland and came to settle in Sligo in 1835, he was mayor in 1860 and 1867, and a member of the Town and Harbour Commissioner and Corporation.
The house was leased to his son Alexander who sublet the house for a short time to Capt. George A. Bedford, then Roger D. Robinson, then to Patrick C. Howley.
Alexander succeeded his father in 1870, and for the remainder of the century Rathellen was his home. In 1888 he married Ellen Culbertson who was the daughter of Robert Culbertson of Ballisodare Mills.
Alexander was a popular man of his days occupying such positions such as Director of Messrs. Henry Lyons & Co. of the Sligo Steam Navigation Co. and the Sligo Gas Co. and also was Harbour Commissioner, a Grand Juror and a Governor of the Co. Infirmary.
After Alexanders death in 1900, the house was leased to a number of tenants until 1945 when Mary Lyons sold the house and its 12acres to John C.Cleeve and his wife for £3,000.
John was a retired Mayor, he had fought in the Indian Army and the two World Wars.
John died 3years later and the house was sold to Alfred Barrett Woods of Castle Street.
In 2002 the house was purchased by the Sligo Borough Council. It has since remained vacant and vandalised”


www.facebook.com/groups/605357269662532/posts/97396382280...

Suck Diesel "... vacant and vandalised". Not what we wanted to hear. Unless there's been a change more recently than 2002?

Some photos here from Sligo Heritage and History Club on Facebook.

www.facebook.com/groups/605357269662532/?ref=share

O Mac Hilda, Gladys, and Henry? Would that be Dorothy the Governess at right then?

Suck Diesel you beat me to it.

13 years ago

Mike Grimes Suck Diesel Only 2 minutes in it!

See
- bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000308
LILLEY, George Leavens, 1859 – 1909
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_L._Lilley
"George Leavens Lilley (August 3, 1859 – April 21, 1909) was an American politician who served as a United States representative from Connecticut's at-large district, and as the 63rd governor of Connecticut."

Congrats on Xplore!!

Gutes Foto

Congrats on Explore 👏

Congrats on making Explore! 🎉✨
Absolutely stunning shot! 🔥 Love the composition and details.
Can’t wait to see more of your amazing work! 👏😍

Congrats………………

Thanks swanq , we'll add this info to the catalog record.

Congrats The Library of Congress on making it to Explore! ✨ 🎉 🎆

See lccn.loc.gov/08035246 for a catalog record for what I assume is a digitized copy of a report associated with the committee. I am currently getting error messages when trying to access any of the pages.

“Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, KP, GCVO, FRS (10 November 1847 – 7 October 1927) was an Anglo-Irish businessman and philanthropist. A member of the prominent Guinness family, he was the head of the family's eponymous brewing business, making him the richest man in Ireland”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Guinness,_1st_Earl_of_Iveagh

Codpiece vital for Fancy Balls.

Suck Diesel Had to look up KP, and GCVO. For those of us equally challenged, they were Knight of the Order of St. Patrick, and a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.

beachcomber australia Buachaill dána! 😀

An article in the Manchester Courier - Wednesday 15 March 1876 began:

FANCY DRESS BALL AT DUBLIN CASTLE.
The fancy dress ball which took place on Saturday night Dublin Castle, was the first held at the Viceregal Court of Dublin. A children's fancy ball was given by Lord Mulgrave, but it bore no semblance to this splendid pageant. Every one who attended was in fancy dress, with the exception of the Lord Mayor, the judges, and the officers of the garrison. No Court, naval or civil uniform of this century, was allowed.

No mention specifically of these two, but other Jamesons and Guinnesses are namechecked.

John Spooner Thank you. Beginning to think that every time we have any sort of ball in Dublin Castle, we can assume it's some time around St. Patrick's Day.

But the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News - Saturday 11 March 1876 has an extensive write-up of "one of the grandest fancy-dress balls that have ever been witnessed in Dublin Castle", including

Together with the Eastern Question quadrille was danced what was both in idea and execution the most charming quadrille of the evening. This was Mrs. Chaplin's, in which were the following

and among the characters which took part in this quadrille was

Miss M. Jameson, a Maid of Honour to the Duchess of Orleans

Lady Olive Guinness' "the Shakespearean" was danced simultaneously with Mrs Henry Roe's "Waverley".

John Spooner What a to-do! Must have been some practising. I bet every dancing-master/-mistress in Dublin was exhausted by Saturday night.

And we now have an initial for Miss Jameson, M...

This Dublin Castle site has a bit about it, including this print. You have to scroll through to the eighth thingy - dublincastle.ie/exhibitions-2/splendour-and-scandal-the-o...

These women were all pilots from the NSW Aero Club

The location is Hong Kong.

in this one the tree/arbour has been scratched off the negative - badly ! Shane, it's a really good,as with the other in the collection, a fabulous family portrait. Getting into garments such as these would have needed ... domestic servants !

I do like the badminton racket and shuttlecock prop, and the umbrellas. And yes, a gloveley photo.

Oretani Wildlife (Mike Grimes) Brimful of lovely props. The stripey umbella is very fancy altogether!

29 June 1904 was a Wednesday ...

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq Thank you.

[aside: Taken 13 days after James Joyce first met/went out with Nora Barnacle]

Freckles !

[Aside} en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904_Moscow_tornado

A possibility?

www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Wexford/New_Ros...

Suck Diesel A possibility indeed! Probably about 4-5 years after the 1901 census? Going by the children's ages?

See
www.newyorksocialdiary.com/big-old-houses-in-a-very-diffe...
"George and Edith Gould were married in 1886. He was 21; she was 22. They were only in their early 30s (so young!) when in 1897 they moved with 5 (eventually 7) children into their not quite finished Lakewood mansion."

This photo may be the same George Gould:

Thanks swanq, we'll add that info to the catalog record.

Damaged by someone's upper chest?

See www.dupontcastle.com/castles/forest.htm
"I was driving down Route 9 South from Northern Jersey. Upon reaching the junction, I was supposed to make a left onto 88 but accidentally made a right off 9 onto First Street. One block in, I stumbled across an awesome Castle! Address: 111 Forest Street. Forest Castle was built 1900 and is not only a Castle, but more of a "Medieval Grounds" where you'll find not one but TWO Castles! Located on the corner of Forest St. and First St. , the area predates the avenue itself. Forest Castle is now an "apartment building" inside (I wish I lived there), and the other smaller Castle (419 First Street) is a "real estate agent"."
"I just stumbled upon your website and I think it is terrific. I'm not sure you are aware that Forest Castle in Lakewood, New Jersey is going to be demolished to make way for low income apartments... such a shame."
See also dailyabuse.typepad.com/the_daily_drink/2005/01/nj_castle....
"In November [2004], the Lakewood zoning board granted permission to a developer to raze a 100-year-old house on the New Jersey Registry of Historic Places without any discussion of the house's significance."

The intersection of Forest Ave and 1st St now shows no sign of the castle.
- 2020 Streetview

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Roeber
"Ernest Roeber (September 1861 – April 30, 1944) was a German-American professional wrestler who held the European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship from 1894 to 1900 and from 1900 to 1901. Roeber also held the American Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship and the German World Heavyweight Championship."

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