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25 December 1936 was a Friday ...

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1936 with some interesting characters on display! A "Brownshirt" on the left? A Mr. Bean in clowns outfit and a PH Pearse imitator complete with wig and gown? Having a fancy dress party would have been great craic.
Merry Christmas one and all!

I love SAUCY BUT OK! That shall be my motto for 2026... 😀

Happy Xmas all!

Flickr amazes! Via Argy58

beachcomber australia I've said it before, and I know I'll say it again but you're amazing! Love the saucy backstory!

And this weird language up in bold letters is what please?Some keltish or what?

many thanks for all your work during the year...it's a cultural pit stop every day

Dima Muzhetsky hi Dima, it is the Irish language (Gaeilge) and "sos beag" translates as "a little break". Mary / Máire

"Mary" Christmas to the three Marys and their joly band of word thieves making morning coffee (sometimes lunch and dinner too) entertaining and educational jaunts. ⛄️🌲🎄!

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/239661601 - the Daily Telegraph, 13th February, 1920...item on David Jones' acquisition of the old school...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245788527 - the Daily Telegraph, 9th September, 1922...interesting item by 'Old Scholar'

Puka shell necklaces were popular at the time. I hope she was treated well.

The broadcaster's jacket looks like it says, "30." There is an ABC 30 in Fresno market, so this event may have been in Fresno.

Person at left has a name tag that reads "Sue Kibb____" but is blocked by the trophy. Trophies say, "BART '73 EGG THROWING." Sue has an egg in her hand.

The tag is in focus but covered by hair.

added to her wikipedia page
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Whitty

The son of this guy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_zu_Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

Cool!

I can't read the name tag on the guy identified as "Fred - President." It looks like "Fred Ganry" or something close. On the right, the guy's name tag appears to read, "Bob Wallesa, Vice President of Public Affairs." The guy at the table in the background appears to be an ABC News cameraman with a 16mm camera (how it was done in 1975) and a battery belt.

Chuck Walla I switched this one and a few others to the highest resolution. Fred Garry President of Rohr

If she were really "on the phone," one of the line buttons would be depressed and lit. Nice portrait anyhow.

On my end, I do not show tags for this image. When the page draws, there is no place to enter tags.

Are you familiar with the saying, "the aircraft doesn't take off before the weight of the paperwork exceeds the weight of the aircraft?" For BART cars or engine nacelles there would likely be binders of paper logs where employees verified that every bolt had been tightened and every connector had been fully mated. You can look up what company made bolts that hold a wing on an aircraft or who tightened them. Nowadays it's probably all in a database.

On my end, I do not show tags for this image. When the page draws, there is no place to enter tags.

This is a structural test for the item marked, "part being tested," in the photo. They're applying pressure and measuring how much it deforms. So far as I can tell, they adjust the hardware to apply a side load and measure movement. There are load cells to measure how much force is applied to each of the three connections. The gauges mark displacement. (See notes on image.)

Guess: the axis suggest it could be a landing gear part or an engine pylon part?

There's a name tag on the horseshoe thrower but it's unreadable at 1600 pixels. Feel free to post the name in tags. If you want me to post it, please provide a copy with more detail.

Based on a conversation with a civilian airline engine technician, after an engine gets significant work, they put it in this stand and run it to make sure it's ok.

Because engines are expensive and safety is important, all repair steps are controlled for quality. If completed correctly, the engine gets bolted to this stand. If the engine has a rated thrust of, say, 20,000 pounds, the test stand must be rigid with much more than 20,000 pounds pushing against it. Airlines may run an engine with a limit of 90% rated thrust. They may put the engine in the stand and run it at 90% of rated thrust for a specified time. If all is ok, it gets shut down and installed on the aircraft.

Corrections welcomed.

The tank might be jet fuel.

Anna Oscàr
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Osc%C3%A0r

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Noria

The little magnet!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_Gilson

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Robson_(actor)

We have learned from the Anyone in Denbigh Facebook that man #2 is Ken Fritsch.

Queen of the stage!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinne_Kimball

Thank you for this, this image contains a much better copy of his signature than the one currently on Wikipedia so I've replaced it

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Samuel_Francis_Smith

7 March 1968 was a Thursday ...

Easiest to see and follow the line of the disused railway using Google Satellite 3D - maps.app.goo.gl/JghBqiu9ZiX1iLGM9

The Silvermines line was a short branch of 1¼ miles, off the Ballybrophy – Killonan line, at Silvermines Jct, between Nenagh and Birdhill. It opened in 1966 to serve a barytes mine. The mine and branch closed in 1993.

thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/ForgottenRailways/Silvermin...

youtu.be/L63o4poXAWQ?si=st_ed-tsPK0Kg4rm

via Fred Dean

Silvermines Junction (MP 35-1/4), the start of the short spur to the mines

Approx location of photo

maps.app.goo.gl/FkSpuNfJrGniiUUs6?g_st=ipc

Rail spur stars at Rossminane

“Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear,
And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you most could hear;
With only the howl of a timber wolf, and you camped there in the cold,
A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;
While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars? —
Then you've a hunch what the music meant. . . hunger and night and the stars”

youtu.be/iOGymv6yiw4?si=nFadOAEbPXrzXeGq

There's another O Dea Silvermines photo that wasn't taken at Silvermines..Any ideas as to where it is?

catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000306822

Note odd looking fella wearing a dunces hat at the wall with his bicycle.

O Mac Here’s one taken same day

catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000578005

Fenit branch

May 27, 1908 A garden party for the benefit of the New York Branch of the Army Relief Society will be held this afternoon on Governors Island. Gen. and Mrs. Frederick D. Grant will hold a reception

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John Dunne, wife Mary and son James, The Square, Rathdowney in 1911

The Dunnes are in 5 rooms, 2 rooms are taken by an elderly Ellen Fitzgerald.

The courthouse is at the Niah, different, 2 storeys: www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/12900...

Dunnes house has a thatched roof in 1901, tiled in 1911. Just the Dunnes there in 1901.

In March 1883 in Rathdowney CoI Church, John Dunne married Mary Anne Howard, her address Rathdowney.

Birth and death of John in 84, birth of James in 85, address is just Rathdowney.

was hoping for Garrison House in a record, but no.

Dún Laoghaire Micheál That facebook shot looks as if it was only the one end of the original house standing, from the door left.

Niall McAuley Yes, photo here also shows a shorter cottage with now two chimneys

murray-prior.org/mpwiki/doku.php?id=thomas_prior_m-p_fami...

Niall McAuley Perhaps up this laneway?

earth.app.goo.gl/?apn=com.google.earth&isi=293622097&...