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Yet again thankyou for the back story as its always nice to know more of the lives these people had.

“AI Overview

Arklow Pottery was established in 1934 in Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland, and operated until its closure in 1998. It was the second pottery company to be founded in the Irish Free State. The factory produced a wide range of decorative earthenware and tableware, and at its peak employed around 480 people.
The company was known for its innovative designs and export-driven approach, producing up to 25,000 items per week. Arklow Pottery supplied dinnerware to many top hotels and institutions across Ireland. The company developed its own unique style, with many early patterns featuring 22-carat gold finishes.
The history of Arklow Pottery is deeply intertwined with the social landscape of Arklow and Ireland. The factory was a significant employer in the area and played a central role in the community.”

Some of their better work, bottom left

www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Art-and-Industry...

Seagullview 3D - www.google.com/maps/@52.790912,-6.1484361,152a,35y,70.72h...
I'm glad to see they have got rid of that 'knuckle' at the bend in the waterway. It must have been an accident waiting to happen.

"I'm a little teapot ..."
via Stephen Davies

And some ladies at a trade stall, via The 'Eir-Lite' Book of Whimsy

I was looking in the 1911 census for any sign of a Pottery tradition in the area prior to the business being started there in 1934, but the search did not reveal anything concrete (or ceramic for that matter). I did find some interesting occupations as follows, High Explosive Mixer, Seafaring Tailor, Cartridge Wrapping in Explosive Factory, Labourer in Cordite Works, Factory Girl Kynocks, Traveller in Tea, Seniptress, Shipowner, Electric Wire-man, Lead Miner Unemployed and Lamplighter.

beachcomber australia Perhaps it's gone because it did happen?

Suck Diesel Was it a Government sponsored business?

Via Trove from 1934 ...

"Irish Pottery.
Irish pottery had almost ceased to exist. Last year [1933] Ireland imported £389,451 worth of earthenware. It is pleasing to know that the famous Belleek firm, which has been out of action for some years, is being re-established at Arklow. The promoters anticipate the immediate employment of 300 workers."

See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104400936?searchTerm=a...

Hands up if you had the Autumn Leaves set, or at least some of it, in your home!

Governor Baldwin (third from left) with Claude Bell (third from right) holding a water diviner rod. Claude Bell was a water diviner who was invited to Antigua from Jamaica by Baldwin to locate wells and underground streams for the people to obtain additional access to water.

Oliver Baldwin, Governor of the Leeward Islands with the moustache. His life-long partner, Johnny Boyle in white shorts and shite shortsleeve shirt.

I just love seeing Mt. Ninderry in the distance... Beautiful location, man!

Wearing the titles U.S. AIR FORCE and MILITARY AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE !!

According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Technical_College
"In July 2012 the Bastrop, Farmerville, Ruston, West Monroe, and Winnsboro campuses merged with Louisiana Delta Community College."

[Monroe] Morning World, Feb 11 1979, P. 28, top right
- www.newspapers.com/article/morning-world-delta-ouachita-v...
"The school, which has campuses in Monroe and West Monroe,
also will sponsor radio and television advertisements during the week with the theme: "Know How Vocational Education Serves the Nation."
...
"The institute is operated by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. It formerly consisted of two separate schools: Ouachita vo-tech school in West Monroe and a Delta vo-tech school in Monroe.
The institute plans a new campus in the West Ouachita Industrial Park, west of West Monroe near Interstate 20."

The building in this 1982 Margolies photo seems unlikely to be the "new campus." Perhaps it is the building used by one of the older schools, with the new name painted on.

Hawaiian Air Tours / Hawaiian Air Tour Service (HATS) and their DH-104 Dove (reg. N134G), wearing fleet number "7" on its vertical stabilizer in the photo above, make a cameo appearance in the circa-1960s "America!" television series episode entitled, "A Heaven Called Honolulu," at the 17min 24sec mark.
See:
YouTube - Periscope Film - 'America! A Heaven Called Honolulu' - 32605z

This is a rectangular waveguide - used for highly efficient propagation of RF energy from source to antenna… I’m guessing S-band (2-4 GHz).
This waveguide has a slight ridge machined into the upper and lower surfaces, in the center. The black rectangle in the lower part of the photo is probably a resistive sheet, placed between the ridges in the guide to measure its RF resistance.

We drove the Danes out of Ireland over 1000 years ago and there are still shiploads of them off our west coast! Are they heading to Greenland to repel the US invasion?????

Question of the day.
Why is the Honeymoon of Maggie and Jiggs represented on the map?

beachcomber australia There's a good Limerick in there somewhere.

and several dogs !.... and a lion pair too

Foxglove I saw them first!

Arra Musha is at it again.

O Mac and the same to you Owen.

The literature person at the Waterford News & Star, 3 December 1937, loved this bonkers map, but was not happy about the lack of attention Waterford received!

WONDERFUL PRODUCTION

As we mentioned yesterday, a Waterford friend sent us a copy of a map entitled Story Map of Ireland, produced by a Chicago firm—a work of remarkable interest. The border design and title decoration are stated to be adapted from the Book of Kells and the Book of Mac Durnan, sixth and tenth century illuminated manuscripts. As an example of modern printing the production is an eye-opener. The map itself is illustrated in colour with tiny portraits of famous people placed alongside the locality they made famous in history or the arts. Waterford hardly gets its due. The "signature" pictures show Barron and his Gaelic College; Reginald's Tower; Meagher; Sir Walter Raleigh; Lismore Castle; Mount Melleray; Robert Boyle; Ardmore; James II's ship in flight to France. In other parts of the map we see the early Irish chief, Marson, setting out in 983 to discover America! And there is St. Brendan in "an Irish skin boat" (very crowded!) on a trip to Hy Brasil (identified as Florida!) But taken on a whole this is a wonderful map, and Irish men and women at home must envy their Chicago compatriots their opportunity of possessing it. We centainly envy our Waterford friend his luck in having it sent to him.

As a jigsaw
“produced by Colortext Publications in the 1930s and 1940s. The Story Map of Ireland (1935) features historical facts about Éire’s major battles, discoveries, and cultural events; basic geographic details, including elevations, bodies of water, bays, counties, and towns; and intricate borders and title decorations adapted from The Book of Kells and Book of Mac Durnan illuminated manuscripts. Captions labeling landmarks such as lighthouses, castles, and universities intermingle with bits of whimsy such as a leprechaun and a limerick. Amid the ships of many centuries sailing the surrounding seas are the portraits of “Dublin’s Sons,” “Irish Patriots,” “Erin’s Heroes,” and “Modern Bards.” The Story Map of Ireland is one of many such creatively illustrated maps included in the world’s largest cartographic collection, the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress.”

shop.nybooks.com/products/story-map-of-ireland-500-piece-...

Mega good architecture shot.

Viewed and admired In Explore .
Congrats .....

Mrs Emma Dillwyn Llewelyn, about 1845,
daguerreotype taken by her husband John Dillwyn Llewelyn:

Biggs Awning & Window was at
3410 N Main Street
East Peoria, IL 61611
until fairly recently. But that is not the address for the building in this photo.

Unfortunately, article in The [Bloomington] Pantagraph, Jul 08 1983. P. 5
- www.newspapers.com/article/the-pantagraph-awning-firm-big...
is about an expansion by Biggs Awning into Bloomington, Illinois, but doesn't give an address of the company in Peoria.

swanq, I located the building in an old directory, it was at 2301 Southwest Adams, Peoria 61602. www.google.com/maps/@40.6747803,-89.6153325,3a,75y,296.81...

Now on display at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ

Outstanding, doc!