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Thank you for uploading this photo I've added it to the Godley Head wikipedia page

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godley_Head#Facilities

1915, price 2d

collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk

I'd not heard of Schütte-Lanz airships before - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sch%C3%BCtte-Lanz_airships

Suck Diesel 1915, thank you.

Flickr is sometimes amazing! A 1914 postcard (with a message in German on the back) of a Schütte-Lanz airship bombing Warsaw, via Neil Ennis

The German aircraft were so much more elegant than their British counterparts! The British planes illustrated here really do look like "stringbags".

beachcomber australia Always startled by the early dates of aerial bombing.

Here's  more on the bombing of Warsaw in WWI.

The airships initially bombed with impunity
They could escape defending aircraft by quickly ascending to more than 10,000-ft and depart.
Even if the they were shot at, the bullet holes were small and gas loss was minimal.
They were hard to shoot down, until the British developed incendiary bullets to ignite the hydrogen

The poster could also be purchased from
E. PONSOMBY, LIMITED, 116, Grafton Street, Dublin

swanq, I agree, I think this is Victor. We'll add that to the catalog record.

Definitely seems like him

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Bruce,_9th_Earl_of_Elgin

The iconic Ulster Bank building (1885 - 1895) not yet built.

O Mac Thank you. That lops 20 years off the date.

For comparison and previous dating information ...

The 1876 Grattan statue is not even there in some early Stereo Pairs.
eg - catalogue.nli.ie etc

There, but no fancy lamps - catalogue.nli.ie - when were they added?

'Come Here to Me' was asking (2014) for dating help - comeheretome.com

beachcomber australia I was looking at this and thinking that the streetscape was all wrong for O'Connell St. And yet Morning Mary is seldom wrong. Big boo-boo this time

The cast-iron pillars are detailed replicas of a famous Victorian design originally created by British architect George John Vulliamy between 1870–1874 for London’s Thames Embankment project.
The "Sea Horses":
The creature featured on the base of the pillars is a hippocampus—a mythological sea-horse with a real horse's head and torso terminating in a scaled fish tail.
Disappearance and Restoration:
Two of the original four lamps surrounding the monument were removed during the mid-20th century, leaving only two standing for decades. However, the Dublin City Council's recent pedestrian plaza redesign plans for the area Grow College Green include casting and reinstalling the missing pair to restore the site to its historic 19th-century appearance

Coincidentally, more sea horses on Grattan Bridge

You can see the statue of King Billy on his charger in the distance

Does anyone (Hi Suck!) have date information about the resting horse-drawn trams, specifically Nos, '114' and '120' ?
Megazoom shows that the spiral steps to the upper deck were only iron bars like a ladder. Accident waiting to happen, but I suppose it would clean the horse-apples off your shooes.

She’s not cooking; she’s heating irons.

Bridge St, NLS, sadly

The coronation of Edward VII and his wife, Alexandra, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 9 August 1902. Originally scheduled for 26 June of that year, the ceremony had been postponed at very short notice, because the King had been taken ill

The poster says 26 June, so it was put up before the cancellation, and would surely have been replaced before the event.

The dia says the PO was built 1895-97, but cryptically adds Fittings 1904 dia.ie

The other poster is for the Adder, a steamer sailing between Belfast and Ardrossan in Scotland.

In the 1901 Census, Thomas Brogan, postmaster, his mother Jane, and Annie Richards, a servant, are living here.

dia.ie

Yorkshire Relish was once the best-selling bottled sauce in the world, selling over 13 million bottles a year by 1907.
Now only produced by Goodall’s of Ireland

Jane Brogan lived until 1912, died still on Bridge St, Portadown, so good chance the Brogans are living here in this shot.

Yes, Thomas is still postmaster in the 1911.

Thanks for all the information swanq. We'll update the catalog record.

Thanks swanq, we'll update this catalog record.

Thanks swanq, we'll update the catalog record.

I'd like to see the crimper that crimped the wire rope seen here.