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Google Lens has zilch. Is that another man inside looking out under the 'E' of Doyle? Stone arches across the road reflected in the windows ...

It's very 'Peaky Blinders' ...

Somewhere in Dublin, I think, as the top of the poster in the window looks very much like one of these Theatre Royal posters...

Some (many) people navigate their way around Dublin using pubs as landmarks. As a Teetotaler I always struggle with such directions but I can confirm that the pub in question is not the one that gave it's name to Doyle's Corner in Phibsboro.

There are many Doyle entries in the 1911 Census that give their occupation as Publican and some Wine and Spirit Merchants etc., which might help the search?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons [aside] Cannot wait for the release of the 1926 census (18th April). It will give occupation plus name and business of employer!

Swordscookie Not that one or the one in College St

Suck Diesel Does it have a sort of suburban feel to it? Rathminesy or such like?

Carol Maddock I think you are correct, most city pubs have 3 or 4 floors.

"The accident occurred at about 4 p.m [Tuesday, 9/11] in a chemical tank in which nitric acid and chronic acid were brewed and used to remove paint from metal grill structures."
Source: Chula Vista Star-News, 13 September 1979, pp. 1.

There's a version of this pic in a collection of Manning Family photos held at the SLNSW...

Also see:

Does anyone know: did the turbines start from DC power (batteries) or from some other source?

For commercial airliners, my stereotype is that flight crew light-off the APU first, then engine start occurs from APU bleed air. Is that the most common way? Am I way off?

This is a good view of the tank and pump on Plant Protection's Ford F-series vehicle. This seems to be a Food Machinery Corporation (FMC) piston pump. It was made by FMC's Bean Division which also made agricultural spray rigs. The Bean Gun is a signature part of FMC fire equipment from the era.

These pumps operated at hundreds of pounds per square inch and were known to push things around when aimed at them. They could cause injury if body parts go into the water stream near the nozzle.

The newspaper describes this as a 17-ton test vessel. It says the Navy awared Rohr a $900,000 contract to test this vessel which was originally built in 1963.

This appears to be a Turboliner cab as demonstrated by this young engineer candidate:

The gun on the deck may be intended to look like this .50 caliber gun being operated by singer and actor Jessica Simpson:

Some kind of prop or tail rotor under test. The blades look temporary but the hub/motor could be flight hardware.

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On page 15 of Votes for Women - Friday 15 March 1912
is this

On page 6 is a report which begins

The atmosphere on Thursday evening at the London Opera House (two days after the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence) was electric with that undaunted spirit which in this Union never dissipates in emotion, but is translated into action. The blow that had fallen on the Union through the arrest of its leaders had made its friends rally in full force, and the huge house was packed from floor to ceiling with an audience of men and women entirely sympathetic and absolutely unwavering in confidence and loyalty, who stood up in a body to applaud and cheer the speakers. Outside, the seething of the crowd and the trampling of the mounted police ; inside, perfect quiet, except for the cheering and applause.

From the front page we learn that Votes for Women was edited by Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, appeared weekly and cost 1d (or 1½d by post).

A fine 1909 poster in suffragette colours -

Via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votes_for_Women_(newspaper)

It was an exciting time for the paper. On page 1:

Meantime, the other leader roams the earth, the ocean, or the air. Without being in the least like a Boojum, Miss Christabel Pankhurst has silently vanished away, and none knows whither, least of all the eminent detectives of Scotland Yard. Fond of hunting as the British people are, it is a peculiar thing that their sympathy is almost always with the fugitive, and we doubt if Sherlock Holmes himself would have a chance for their favour against a successful Vanishing Lady. So day by day, as the police went searching the British Isles, enquiring with simple guile at the residence of every noted Suffragist in the kingdom, the interest grew with laughter.

Wikipedia:
Boojum - A fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark; a particularly dangerous kind of snark
The narrative follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, a creature which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum. The only crew member to find the Snark quietly vanishes, leading the narrator to explain that the Snark was a Boojum after all.

(OR a phenomenon in physics associated with superfluid helium-3 OR a chain of Mexican restaurants in Ireland)

Page 4 has a huge heading - Christabel Pulls the Strings but Mrs Pethick Lawrence also gets a mention

... their honorary treasurer—the finest honorary treasurer that ever raised money in freedom's cause—calls to them from Holloway Gaol to carry on their work of filling the war chest right up to the Albert Hall meeting. The enemy, unimaginative, like all enemies of progress, thinks that in locking up Mrs., Pethick Lawrence they have also locked up the magic spell with which she conjures fairy gold from the pockets of all who hear her speak. Did ever enemy show less knowledge of the Union's honorary treasurer, less knowledge of the potency of spells? If " Christabel pulls the strings" of the forces that control the great militant movement among women,
Mrs. Pethick Lawrence Pulls the Purse Strings !
She will be pulling them from behind her prison bars on March 28.

The paper seems to take great delight from the authorities' inability to find Christabel Pankhurst. Page 4:

THE QUEST.
Of gallant Amundsen and Scott
In cold Australis' crystal grot,
We know a little, read a lot.;
But who, alas! can tell
The answer to that sterner quest
Of all-absorbing interest?
O North and South, 0 East and West.,
Where, where is Christabel?

Has any traced her woman's wit
To some forlorn, deserted pit
Wherefrom the lamps of night are lit,
The caves of sleeping Coal?
Or has her sense of sacrifice
Allured her to the realms of ice,
The great glass house, where men nor mice
Can fright her from the "Poll "

As well as Mr & Mrs Pethick Lawrence, Mrs Mabel Tuke and Mrs Pankhurst were arrested. Hence the portraits of these four, plus the fugitive Christabel Pankhurst, appearing in the supplement and available to supporters to purchase.

Here's a picture from the Daily Mirror on March 15th of the four alleged conspirators in the dock at Bow Street Police Court.

John Spooner beachcomber australia Thank you both for all of the above, fantastic!

Sevastopol city! (Севастополь и российские корабли)...

Can you smell the fiberglass curing?

I think believe this to be Rohr San Diego Prestressed Concrete. These appear to be the prefabricated concrete columns for the Pearlridge monorail in Hawaii. The logo on the tractor cab door says, "SDPC."

The flatbed trailer says, "Matson" and "intermodal system," suggesting it may be going on a ship.

Truckers call flatbed trailers, "skateboards," because they look sort of like a skateboard.

Correct!

www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-56034204

Suck Diesel Thank you.

There's a mention of a possible Punctilio at the 1942 Howth Yacht Club regatta. It can be seen at the time in the video in this blog entry.

07.43–07:52

Believed to be Punctilio, Dublin Bay 25-Footer (waterline), designed by William Fife Jr., built by Charles Sibbick, Cowes, 1898. Owner in 1942, J.B. Stephens.

peggybawn.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/summer-of-42/

So the newspaper clip is Summer 1942.

And here's The Royal Alfred Yacht Club.

afloat.ie/resources/irish-sailing-clubs/royal-alfred-yach...

A bit more about Punctilio which hit rocks in West Cork in 1970 bringing about her demise.

afloat.ie/sail/historic-boats/item/69898-historic-dublin-...

Perhaps the top right and bottom left are of Punctilio. The coach roof in both look similar, and the position of the mast between coach roof and hatch looks good to me. So, what's the French connection? J.B. Stephens and George Arthur Newsom bought the boat in 1899/1900. Perhaps they got Mr. French to take a few photos after they bought it or during a refit? Could the man with the pipe in both right hand photos be J.B. Stephens?

Admiring Mr French's trusty tripod, handy camera hand-cart, pale socks(!), and bushy dark beard.
Worried that his chair will slip through that iron grate, and startle the 1% Laotian Rock Rat.

It must be an early photo of Mr French (1841–1917), say c. 1880 ??
" ... Progressing upwards through the grades of printer, colourer-retoucher and assistant photographer, he attained the rank of photographer in the mid-1870s. ..."
Ref - www.dib.ie/biography/french-robert-a3369

Mr French with grey beard in c. 1897 -

The lower left photo was taken 'on the hard' in the Coal Harbour DunLaoghaire. The building is marked on the 25"OSI as a Sailors Bethel.

Mike Grimes Mike, that is interesting re the date you suggest of 1942, whereas the catalogue suggests a date range for the Album of 1900 to 1917.

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Above we see the team adding stripes and Amtrak graphics to the RTL.

One Flickr user claims three RTL-IIIs (upgraded RTLs) still exist: