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Voting for Castlerock, Co. Derry -
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlerock#

The front view of that terrace mid-left (for chimney counters) - maps.app.goo.gl/muzQ2uZpwCUTvC6r6

Previously, a similar Sligo slip-up -

Mr French / Lawrence was nearby earlier(?) -
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000041882

“Warke’s Quarry Castlerock
As with many of the small villages in the Causeway Coast quarrying provided employment for locals as well as a ready supply of building material.
Castlerock, with its mainline railway connection was no different. Warke’s Quarry was established just behind the village, and the basalt here was worked for many years.
This Basalt was often used for railway balast.
This old photograph shows some of the quarry workings and the road leading to the village of Castlerock.”

ccght.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Quarry-web-file.pdf

I wonder in what year the siding was closed.

Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday 29 April 1913, in a report of a quarterly meeting of Coleraine Rural Council

Messrs. Macaulay & O'Neill, solicitors, Coleraine, wrote giving notice that it was the intention of Mr. James Barr Warke, Castlerock, quarry proprietor, to construct a tramway for the purpose of conveying stones from his quarry to the railway line of the Midland Railway Company where it passes through the townland of Bennarees.

Bennarees is a short distance to the west of Castlerock.

OSNI 3rd edition
The building with the verandah to the right, on this side of the railway line, is a tennis pavilion.

The 1913 proposed tramway is much further west than the picture - another article says it crosses a road near Downhill Station, which is at the other end of the tunnels..

“The castle rock which gave the village its name was where a tragic shipwreck occurred, the 'Trader' from Greenock ran into a severe gale and foundered here during the night of 24th November 1826 with the loss of her crew of eight. The bodies were taken and buried in St Paul's Church at Articlave.”

www.causewaycoastalroute.com/castlerock#:~:text=With%20th...

Part of the tags puzzle: Looking at this using this URL

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the tags are locked. If you erase the "in" part so the URL is

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you can edit the tags.

This is believed to be Rohr France in Toulouse. Comments are welcomed confirming or correcting this possibility.

Chips Rafferty on the right, Grant Taylor in the middle. Pat Twohill on the left?

Via Google Lens ...

"The new Gaol at Trim opened in 1834 to replace the Gaol on the far side of the river. This new Gaol only operated until about 1870 and then in 1890 it was transformed into an industrial school for pauper children. Known as the Trim Joint School it was often mis-named Trim Giant School. The school was established to prevent children being brought up as paupers in the workhouses and giving them a good trade. The unions of Drogheda, Trim, Kells, Navan came together to form the school.

On 12 February 1912 John Kelly, an assistant teacher in the Trim Joint School, was killed in the schoolyard by a group of boys who were armed with brushes and sticks. John Kelly was on yard duty with forty boys at about quarter to seven in the evening. There was said to have been a dispute over a hurley with one of the boys a few days previous. The boys, aged between ten and sixteen, planned the attack. A young boy called Tommy Reilly struck the teacher on the back of the head with the head of a brush. Kelly fell to the ground where boys set on him with sticks and hurleys. Knocked unconscious the teacher died a half an hour later still lying in the school yard, where he was discovered by Samuel Kelly, the headmaster. A number of boys absconded with Reilly being picked up by the police in Clonee. Some say the boys were aiming to get Samuel Kelly rather than the young assistant teacher from Rush in north County Dublin. Samuel Kelly had previously been attacked by Reilly with a brush.

The court case was held at Trim a month later in March 1912 before Grand Jury under Lord Justice Cherry. Reilly was convicted of manslaughter and as he was under 16 sentenced to three years in a reformatory. A number of older boys were sentenced to three years penal servitude while two boys were discharged. Indignant letters were written to the papers about the young boys and their character. Fr. Woods, chaplain to the School and parish priest, wrote in the paper that Reilly’s father was a lunatic who was sent to an asylum for an attack on a priest on Drogheda and this explained his actions.

The murdered teacher, John Kelly, was the sole means of support for his mother and she took a case against the school for compensation under Workman’s Compensation Act. The County Court Judge awarded Mrs. Kelly £100 compensation but this was appealed as the school board felt that it was a conspiracy rather than an accident. The School Board appealed to the House of Lords and the appeal was allowed ..."

From - meathhistoryhub.ie/trim/ (near bottom of page)

Trim Gaol, demolished in the 1950s

Ooo, there is a bit more history at the foot of the page, under the photo ...

"Forty years later two men lost their lives at the demolition of the gaol in June 1953. Employees of Meath County Council, Peter Smith of Castlemartin, Navan and Michael Shiels of Marshallstown, Kilmessan were killed in a fall. Peter Smith was an explosives expert and he and Shiels were putting a charge of gelignite in a wall on the third floor of the building when the landing collapsed and the men were hurled thirty feet into the basement with a portion of the wall crashing down on top of them.

Kitty Dowling wrote “How Far Home” in the mid 1990s which told the story of Samuel Kelly, master of the Industrial School, who banished his wife to England believing that she had an affair. The book told the story of Kitty Dowling’s grandmother and her mother’s quest to find the man with whom Mrs. Kelly was reputed to have been having an affair. The book also supports the case that the boys attacked the victim they intended to murder rather than Samuel Kelly. In 1997 Vincent Dowling and Pat Laffan gave a reading of the book in Trim Library.

Today a song entitled “Trim Joint School” recalls the activities and characters of the long gone institution. "

A star shaped prison, no longer standing:

Now the site of Scoil Mhuire. The school website says The Sisters of Mercy bought the current site in the late 1960s and built a new Secondary school that was officially opened in 1969., will check for Monkey shots of this building.

This article from the Meath Chronicle has a great headline!

www.meathchronicle.ie/2019/03/04/jailhouse-shock-workers-...

Now the site of Scoil Mhuire secondary school, which retains the northern entrance screen wall.

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The gaol was demolished in the 1950’s with the site later used for the construction of Scoil Mhuire secondary school which still occupies the site. The original northern entrance screen wall was retained, acting as a 96m long by 8.5m high boundary wall to the OPW lands to the north of the site.

Conservation and consolidation works including repointing, stone consolidation and weathering & re-setting of parapet wall tops were carried out in three phases during the summers of 2020-2022 with Greg Smith Conservation acting as principal contractor. The southern face of the wall which originally was an internal face to lean-to structures within the prison compound (and as such was more vulnerable) required more intensive repair works than the partly rusticated cut-stone external northern wall face.

From fmgarchitects.ie/repairing/conservation-of-old-gaol-wall-...

Mr French / Lawrence took several 'General Views' of Trim. The prison / school shows in the distance between the castle and the church. It looked like a very fine building, in spite of its uses - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000326491

LAX 25R tags not working.

P&W = Pratt and Whitney?

Wikipedia claims the CF6-80C2 was used on the Airbus A300 and A310. So far as I can tell, this would have been the Toulouse plant in France. These look like annual report photos.

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This looks like a tension load test on the pylon. Notice the hydraulic cylinders, a load cell above each one, a power supply and load cell readout in the foreground. Note the chalk marking for forward and tail on the girder at right. Please feel free to correct any bogus comments in the comments below.

The red steel column at right is marked as a fire extinguisher location. Ironically there are two flammable liquid storage containers and I don't see an extinguisher.

I call the fixture with the holes for a forklift by a generic name: "ground support equipment." The pylon is protected against getting dropped or crashing into something by the fixture. By the time all of the bolts are torqued and the bleed air lines are in place, a part like this might cost in the six figures range.

The building with the Kolynos advert on top is the Canada Building, 822 George St, at the SW cnr George/Little Regent Sts...it was built ca. 1914-15 for the Canada Cycle & Motor Agency Ltd...it replaced an earlier Canada Building, built ca. 1910, which was destroyed by fire in December 1913...as of 2026 this second Canada Building still standing...

The building with the 50-50 sign on top is Central House...it was numbered 12 Little Regent St...I gather it was built in ca. 1926...it stood next to the Bowen's Building (which it obscures), which was at the corner of Lee/Little Regent Sts...the Bowen's Building was built in ca. 1912-13 for Sam Bowen, 'The People's Tailor'... you see it standing alone, sporting a rooftop billboard and with the north side covered with a huge advertising hoarding, in many of the pics of Railway Square taken in the years from ca. 1913-25...

Both the Bowen's Building and Central House occupied allotments where the Mercure Hotel now stands...

I don't think that this is a Model 'T'

Sorry Senator, but the patient looks terminal.

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What a delightful painting, the contraption in the foreground is a horse-driven whim, the horse must be taking a break, there is one working at distant lower right. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whim_(mining)

Very very nice!!!!

Aces softball team in 1940. They are shown in front of the Strand movie theater on the southeast corner of 5th and Locust Streets in Marshall. We are looking for more information about the name of the team. In the Marshall Public Library newspaper archives the team is listed as the Endicott Aces. But we have not been able to find any other articles in the archives directly connecting Mr. Endicott with the Strand Theater or the Aces team. There are, however, two mentions of him giving theater passes (no particular theater named) as prizes to a group of girls who had raised money for the blind at a flower show in 1938.

When we received this photograph there were names of the players that were in the picture on the back. We are hoping that some of the descendants of these players can help us connect the name of the team to the Strand Theater or provide any other information about the team.

The players’ names as printed are:

Front (l to r) Emer [sic] Haugh, Don Able, Everett English, Leon Cooper, Raymond (Bud) Abel, Bill Bubeck

Back (l to r) Charles Macke, Charles (Jr.) Haugh, Leroy (Shorty) Garner [sic], Lauf Forsythe, Dean English, Don Smitley, and Jim Stepp.

We believe that the two misspelled names should be Eamer Haugh and Shorty Gardner.

Google Maps Satellite -
www.google.com/maps/@53.2954332,-7.2989107,282a,35y,33.22...

Wikipedia - "... The complex is now used as a storage facility for the National Museum of Ireland and is owned by the Office of Public Works."
See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Conleth%27s_Reformatory_School

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2010 via Irish Photo Art

Disturbing stuff from 1947 (nine years before this photo) - drugsinfonewslineireland.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/some-hi...

2007

Grand Canal at bottom of picture.
The Prison chapel building left of the main building.
This contained many 19th century coaches of various types when I last visited, the National Museum’s overflow, which probably have yet to see the light of day.
My abiding memory of this terrible place was the comparison between the well kept Oblates cemetery with its headstones and the unmarked graves of the unfortunate children who perished there.
No marker, no Coroner’s Court, just conveniently dumped.

beachcomber australia that was some read. I wasn't sure if I would make it to the end.

When you use the Super Mega Zoom there is a patch that appears to be an area of broken stone. Given the reputation that den of abuse had for generations one wonders if that was the place of the age old punishment of stone breaking? It's reputation was horrendous and when I was growing up in the late 40's - 50's the threat of being sent to the place was enough to give you nightmares! I remember the judge mentioned in Sean Bourke's article being pretty infamous in tne Limerick area. Not quite a hanging judge but by then it was not on the menu! Ironically Bourke's father came from a family some of whose members became quite well off while others suffered extreme poverty as his did!

Mike Grimes beachcomber australia Agreed, harrowing!!

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I think this pic might have been taken from the Canada Building (Canada Cycle & Motor Co), at the SW cnr George/Little Regent Sts...the first one was built in ca. 1910...it was 7 storeys high...it burned down in December 1913...and was replaced by the second Canada Building in ca. 1914-15...which is still standing as of 2026. I can't think of any other candidates...up six storeys or so and looking straight up the George St tram tracks...

So my hunch is the pic might have been taken from the first Canada Building, before the construction of the Parcels Office...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/234761852 - the earlier Canada Building

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/238959536 - after the December 1913 fire

This [1927] view from the Central Station clock tower shows the 'new' Canada Building (with the Resch's sign...in the Tooth's Brewery heartland!!!)...but it gives you an idea of the location, etc

Of course the date marker here is Orchard's Chambers, at the NE cnr George/Quay Sts...it was built in ca. 1910-11...in this pic it looks to be nearing completion, but the ornamental parapet and tower with a cupola on top haven't been built yet...

So all up I think the date might be ca. 1910-11

Orchard's Chambers...still there as of 2026...but without the cupola...

Awesome job National Library of Ireland on The Commons reaching Explore! 🎆 📷 ✨

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/227179589 - the Australian Star, 13th May, 1893...item on Fitzgerald's Circus, which had just set up their tent opposite the Railway Station, in George St...they were evidently there until ca. mid August...after which they did a few suburban shows and then went to Goulburn...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13905628 - SMH, 3rd June, 1893...another item re Fitzgerald's Circus...mentions the rain...1893 was evidently a wet year...lots of floods and widespread deluges...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13911869 - SMH, 10th July, 1893...wonderful description of the previous evening's show!

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/113723447 - the Evening News, 22nd July, 1893...'Scene at Fitz-Gerald's Circus: A Lion Attacks the Tamer' (!)

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/113727467 - SMH, 8th August, 1893...another Lion attack...a different lion this time!!!

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13904646 - SMH, 28th September, 1893..report on yet another (this time near fatal) attack on lion tamer Captain Humphreys...