Conversations
Here are conversations that have happened in the last week on Flickr Commons:
-
To shine a light in the darkness
-
beachcomber australia said:
A lot of history here - www.irishlights.ie/tourism/our-lighthouses/inishtearaght....
This may help with dating -
" ... An aerial hoist on the rock over the south landing was erected during 1906-07. Incandescent apparatus using vaporised paraffin burnt in a mantle replaced the multi-wick oil burner in March 1909.
... " -
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia Only mention of a hoist, so 1906-1907 looks good, thank you.
-
beachcomber australia said:
It looks like a fantastic but inhospitable place. In 2015 via William Glasgow Howe
Click through to the large size to see the incline and platforms -
Suck Diesel said:
“Inishtearaght (Inis Tiaracht) is one of the Blasket Islands and is probably the only Irish lighthouse that ordinary Joe Soaps like you and me will never get a glimpse of. This is a shame because it is one of the great lighthouses of the south-west of Ireland. But alas, it is a long way out, the lighthouse is on the far side of the island and no boats go out that far.
It is of course, Ireland's most westerly lighthouse”
irishlighthouses.blogspot.com/search?q=Inish+tearaght -
Suck Diesel said:
It’s remote! -
beachcomber australia said:
Maybe after 1913 when the funicular railway was built ...
"...the remains of the steepest and shortest funicular rail track in Europe (1.88:1 gradient). A funicular rail track is a narrow-gauge railway - here a 3ft. 3in. gauge track embedded on a 6ft X 100 yds concrete runway - where the carriage is pulled by a cable system, formerly operated on Tearaght by an air winch when built in 1913, and later replaced by a Lister diesel engine in 1980, powering a hydraulic winch. The almost 100 yds rail-track up the precipitous rock also uniquely has different gradients which necessitated the use of custom-cast fish plates to connect the rails. A wonderful piece of industrial engineering and now part of our (abandoned) industrial archaeological heritage. ..."
From - marinetours.ie/wildlife-log/219-great-lighthouses-of-irel... -
Suck Diesel said:
That group of islands includes Inis Mhic Aoibhleáin, if you remember what that one was known for?
-
beachcomber australia said:
Yes! After 1913 -
" ... In 1913 the Board of Trade sanctioned the installation of Reavell compressors and Petter oil engines. New derricks and an inclined railway were constructed and the south landing was rebuilt. Wheels were fitted to the fog signal air receivers so they could be hauled up the rock on the railway. A decision to fit a diaphone instead of a siren for the fog signal was taken in 1914. Work on the fog signal plant was suspended in 1915 and it was not until 1st January 1925 that the fog signal was completed and established. ..."
From (again) - www.irishlights.ie/tourism/our-lighthouses/inishtearaght.... -
Suck Diesel said:
A history
marinetours.ie/wildlife-log/219-great-lighthouses-of-irel... -
Suck Diesel said:
The new aerial hoist in operation, 1910
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000740282/HoldingsILS -
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia The funicularity clinches it. Will leave at circa 1913.
-
Swordscookie said:
In my best tenor voice:
Funiculi funicula, funiculi funiculaaaa you don't want to hear that! -
beachcomber australia said:
Swordscookie Encore!
-
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Swordscookie I'm so pleased it's not just me! Belting it out con gusto here. Though not as impressively as your glorious tenor! 😉
-
beachcomber australia said:
[Aside] Via Trove from 1885, the lighthouse keeper was also an ornithologist, mentioned in an article about migrating birds ...
" ... There are occasionally interesting natural history notes mixed up with the migration returns of the light keepers. One of these is made by the keeper of Tearaght light house, who states that he watched an old razor-hill dive beneath its young one, and rise exactly underneath it. The young one was thus raised on the back of the old bird, which carried it in this position over the waves in a rough sea. He witnessed this occurrence several times. ..."
From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198051356?searchTerm=T...
Edit - It was evidently part of an exercise using many lighthouses to track bird migration -
" ... It was a happy thought on the part of the committee to utilise the lighthouses and lightships on the British and Irish coasts as ornithological observatories, from which the keepers might take note of the goings to and fro of birds. During the year 1881 schedules were issued to nearly 200 of these, and from more than a hundred of them returns have been obtained. ..." -
Niall McAuley said:
Here are the keepers in 1911. The oldest, Daniel Twohig, is married.
Daniel married Catherine Friel in 1893, and was a lighthouse keeper then, too. In 1901, they were lighthouse keeping together on Aran in Donegal, with 5 children. -
Foxglove said:
Oddly enough I spent the day getting to Barnes Nes lighthouse... Oh the big wheel of life never fail to amaze
-
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
This, from beachcomber australia Irish Lights link, is very harsh! Would love to hear a bit of how the inquest was reported in newspapers...
On the 12th September 1913 one of the Assistant Keepers fell to his death over the cliff whilst catching goats for milking. Compensation was eventually paid but a remark was made by the Commissioners that the goats were the Board's property and it was up to the Keepers to look after them.
-
John Spooner said:
The derrick gets a mention in this account of the hardships of life as a lighthouse keeper in the Dublin Daily Express on Friday 24 January 1913
With a slight abatement in the weather came the lerne out from Valencia harbour to the Tearaght, which is many miles from the Skelligs. On heaving to near the rock the ship's lifeboat was lowered and brought close under the "sling" on which at the end of a long rope, swung out over the sea by a derrick, men or gear to be landed or taken off are hoisted or lowered in bad weather. One of the labourers getting on to the sling on the rock was sent out into mid-air, and lowered towards the boat that tossed about in a dangerous manner in the sea beneath.
Many attempts were made to take him on board, without success, and for the greater part of an hour he hung thus—at one moment out of reach of the waves, and at the next completely buried beneath them. Soon the sea rose alarmingly necessitating the abandonment of the task, the labourer was hoisted and swung back to terra firma while the Ierne ran for Valencia Harbour. -
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
John Spooner Here's the SS Ierne plus derrick in action. (Assuming Ierne and Ierne II are one and the same.)
-
Flickr said:
Congrats on Explore! ⭐ October 21, 2024
-
Michael Gschwind said:
Glückwunsch zu Explore !
-
Lukas Larsed said:
Congrats on Explore 🌟
-
Sigurd Krieger said:
Congrats on Xplore!!
-
jacklowry47 said:
Great outdoor photo, great shot.
-
beachcomber australia said:
-
World War One, Internment camp, New South Wales, 1918
-
Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
An earlier view of Trial Bay taken from below the gaol site and showing the bay from where the above photo was taken, still plenty of shacks -
-
State Library of New South Wales said:
Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies 👍
-
Flickr said:
Congrats on Explore! ⭐ October 21, 2024
-
Michael Gschwind said:
Glückwunsch zu Explore !
-
Sigurd Krieger said:
Congrats on Xplore!!
-
Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
-
Cowboy and bull statues, Waukon, Iowa (LOC)
-
Herbert Ganoy Mansion sign, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts (LOC)
-
James O'Keefe said:
That is Hebert Candy Mansion, which still exists.
-
Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks James O'Keefe. We'll fix the spelling in our catalog record.
-
jessamyn west said:
Gosh we loved to go to this place when we were kids. Amazing sundae bar.
www.hebertcandies.com/pages/contact-store-hours -
jessamyn west said:
Wikipedia (I added this image, thank you!)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebert_Candies -
James O'Keefe said:
Jon (LOC P&P) thanks!
-
James O'Keefe said:
jessamyn west wonderful!
-
James O'Keefe said:
-
Trefaldighetskyrkan (Holy Trinity Church), Karlskrona, Blekinge, Sweden
- 4 older comments, and then…
-
jessamyn west said:
Lovely photo, the image they have on Wikipedia shows that it's a lovely shade of orange/coral/rust
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Holy_Trinity_Karlskr...
-
Corner Sackville and Hollis Streets (north-east corner)
- 2 older comments, and then…
-
Linda Kennedy said:
Just wondering if you have any information about the old address is 92 Hollis St. I believe it was a boarding house and possibly could’ve been used for seniors Especially veterans I have some documentation saying that people who live there were employed at Russell House. I would appreciate any information. My great aunt Isabella Kennedy was the proprietors of Russell House. Hoping someone can help me thank you Linda kennedy
-
Halifax Municipal Archives said:
Linda Kennedy Hello Linda! I've looked through our Halifax City Directories, but the earliest mention of a 92 Hollis Street is for the Maritime Telegraph & Telephone Company at 88-92 Hollis, and it looks like that address later became 1520 Hollis before being disused. I also looked through our building permits however I wasn't able to find any permit referencing a boarding house at the address. This is a link to our database if you have any more keywords you would like to use to search with, archive.halifax.ca/archive/final/portal.aspx, and feel free to email us if you'd like to discuss this further (archives@halifax.ca).
-
CO 1069-917 01
- 1 older comment, and then…
-
motohakone said:
The panorama is from c1875. On the third part a long pier is visible, it was 1,000 feet long. It was in operation between 1873 and c.1883, see gwulo.com/node/34116#17~22.27732~114.16928~Map_by_GovHK-M...
-
Front cover of an advertising booklet for the Jenyns Patent Reducing and Supporting Corset
- 1 older comment, and then…
-
Shu Wei Chin said:
It is so incredibly interesting to see the transition in fashion from this advertisement dated 1912. From my perspective, I can see the classic silhouette desired in the Edwardian era (the S curve and soft sloping shoulders), but I also see that the hairstyle resembles the gorgeously curled and crimped short crop popular in the 1920s.
-
[Two unidentified women being photographed] (LOC)
- 4 older comments, and then…
-
epicphotostyle said:
the ghostly reflections in the mirror
-
Sea horse statue, Mattapoisett, Massachusetts (LOC)
-
swanq said:
See:
- www.atlasobscura.com/places/salty-the-seahorse
- www.wanderer.com/features/a-brief-history-of-the-mattapoi...
- fun107.com/mattapoisett-salty-seahorse-origin/
for something about the statue's history.
38 North St, Mattapoisett, MA 02739
- 2023 Streetview
-
swanq said:
-
Topps Western World sign, Bossier City, Louisiana (LOC)
-
swanq said:
See similar photo earlier in the LoC stream.
The business is still going in Fall 2024. See www.facebook.com/toppswesternworld/
The figure was there in April 2019 -- 2019 Streetview
but not in December 2023 -- 2023 Streetview
-
swanq said:
-
British Library digitised image from page 146 of "Round the Calendar in Portugal ... Illustrated by Miss Dorothy Tennant, Mrs. Arthur Walter ... and the author"
from British Library- 6 older comments, and then…
-
Cassiopée2010 said:
😍
-
The Field Marshall and the Dancer
-
Suck Diesel said:
“Canadian dancer, Allan trained as a musician before developing a unique expressive style of dance, performing barefoot and in loose garments. She made her debut in Vienna in 1903 and achieved fame (and notoriety) with her sensational Vision of Salome, which she first performed at the Palace Theatre, London, 1908. She toured widely during the First World War but her career came to an end when, after losing a libel trial in 1918, she was exposed as the sister of a murderer and shunned by theatres. She died in obscurity in a Los Angeles convalescence home”
www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp72278 -
Suck Diesel said:
A different account:
“Maud had had a very successful career and was famous for her exotic “Dance of the Seven Veils”. But in 1818, MP Noel Pemberton Billings published an article which accused her of being a “lesbian ally of German wartime conspirators”. Maud Allan sued for libel – and lost – which led to the end of her career in Europe, and the beginning of her financial struggles to maintain the house. With the help of Lloyd George, she was granted a new 16-year lease on the West Wing in 1934, and relinquished the remainder of the building. Crown Estate”
“During WWII the rest of the building was commandeered for military use. Miss Allan stayed on in the West wing, but the house became uninhabitable when it was bombed in 1942. She was then 69 years old, but drove an ambulance in London for a year before returning to America, where she spent 13 years working as a draughtswoman at MacDonald Aircraft in Santa Monica. She died in a nursing home in LA, aged 83”
www.friendsofregentspark.org/news/park-post/holford-house/ -
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Suck Diesel I prefer the "different account"!
-
Suck Diesel said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons what did Henry Ford say re History?
-
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Suck Diesel Any colour the customer wants, so long as it's black? 😀
-
Suck Diesel said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons No. “History is bunk”
-
Suck Diesel said:
An account of the sensational libel trial
blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/lgbtq-history-maud-allan-unn... -
John Spooner said:
They couldn't wait for Salome to be brought to Bradford. Bradford Daily Telegraph - Friday 20 March 1908:
One of the critics of the remarkable Miss Maud Allen, says she is “the most screwy, serpenting, spirally thing of joy that has yet struck the town.” How and when will she strike Bradford?
The good news was that Salome did indeed come to Bradford, but the bad news was that it was without Miss Maud Allen. -
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
John Spooner What glorious alliteration!
-
Suck Diesel said:
Her only movie?
collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks... -
beachcomber australia said:
Via Trove (originally from the London 'Times'), a long, glowing review from 1908 ...
... But the dancer has reserved her masterstroke for the last. This "Vision of Salome" has not only made her famous, but has so haunting a fascination that, to our own knowledge, many people cannot keep away from it, and return to the Palace to see it night after night. For many of us in this world will go anywhere in search of dreams, taking Calderon's vida es sueno for our motto, and caring little whether our dreams come to us through the Gate of Ivory or the Gate of Horn. This time our dream is sensuous, decadent, macabre. To the strains of weird Oriental music Salome slowly descends the palace steps. There are jewels on her neck and bosom, and she wears a tunic of black gauze. It is of the essence, of course, of Eastern dancing to show rhythmic movements of the body round itself, so to speak, as a pivot, which, means, of course, that it may become, as in the notorious case of the danse du ventre, something lascivious and repulsively ugly. Now it is obvious that this dancer could make no movement or posture that is not beautiful, and, in fact, her dancing as Salome, though Eastern in spirit through and through, is absolutely without the slightest suggestion of the vulgarities so familiar to the tourist in Cairo or Tangier. She achieves the distinction — we admit it risks being a nice distinction, but she achieves it — between the lascivious and the voluptuous. Salome dances as one fascinated, slowly advancing towards the head and swiftly receding from it, gradually drawing nearer and nearer, then falling upon hands and knees and gloating, half savagely, half amorously, over it, then pouncing upon it like a hawk upon its prey. Thereafter she dances fear, a quivering, shuddering dance, and finally collapses. a huddled— but still graceful, still beautiful— mass. And there you have the secret of her art, sheer beauty; every line in it, every rhythm, every movement, every posture, every pause, is beautiful. And so Maud Allan gives you beautiful dreams, and, we do not wonder that all the dreamers in London and all the lovers of beauty for beauty's sake are crowding to see her, and return to see her again and again.
From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197339223?searchTerm=%... -
beachcomber australia said:
The series of 'Salome' postcards by Foulsham & Banfield are dated 1908, according to - cabinetcardgallery.com/tag/maud-allan/
-
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia Thanks, between yourself and Suck Diesel, I think 1908 is very reliable.
-
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
p.s. This is a level of glamour I don't think we've ever achieved before!
Unless of course, any of you remember differently... -
Suck Diesel said:
-
Silverio Graullers said:
Buenas fotos antiguas .
-
Suck Diesel said:
-
Burwell Theater, Dudley Avenue, Parkersburg, West Virginia (LOC)
- 2 older comments, and then…
-
Matthew Spence said:
I think I saw Smokey and the Bandit II there back in 1980.
-
Messrs John Kelly Ltd. Damaged motor cycle.
- 5 older comments, and then…
-
Suck Diesel said:
Cotton J.A.P. 500 cc OHV
-
Masonic sign, Gilmore City, Iowa (LOC)
-
mark doyle said:
👍 youtu.be/cCgxqqxE9Y0?si=hBPn3vb8dUJVJULV
-
mark doyle said:
-
Tragedy on the Suir
-
Mike Grimes said:
Information about the crash can be found here. There was another incident at the Cahir viaduct in 2003.
www.cahirhistoricalsociety.com/curiosities05.html
www.bridgesofdublin.ie/bridge-building/disasters/cahir-vi... -
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Mike Grimes Thank you. That gives us the exact date of 21st December.
-
beachcomber australia said:
Monkey took eight photos of the scene. This one shows how the bridge floor collapsed - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000736100/
Nothing in Trove about the incident, but reference to another unfortunate fatality in 1896 (possibly 1895?), when a young man fell off a tower - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166348821?searchTerm=c... -
Suck Diesel said:
www.cahirhistoricalsociety.com/curiosities05.html -
Marc Barrot said:
This is an excellent Black and white Photo. Seen in Black & White Unlimited (pool)
Your photo deserves a compliment from the special fish!!!
Please be sure your photo is TAGGED "Black & White"
Black and White unlimited (pool) post 1 comment 2 -
beachcomber australia said:
Monkey gets a compliment from the special fish!!!
-
O Mac said:
t'wud be hard to beet that train wreck.
-
Suck Diesel said:
“In the 1950s CIÉ continued to operate freight trains without continuous brake.
On 21 December 1955, number 375 was in charge of such an unfitted train consisting of 32 wagons laden with sugar beet.
The train was on the line between Waterford and Limerick Junction on CIÉ's Southern section when it ran away descending the gradient to Cahir.
The signalman diverted the runaway train into a siding to protect a mail train that was standing in the station.
375 smashed through the buffer stop at the end of the siding and onto the viaduct over the River Suir beyond the station, demolishing the first span of the viaduct.
The locomotive and 22 of the wagons plunged into the river, killing the driver and fireman.
375 was recovered from the river but considered beyond economic repair and scrapped.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSR_Classes_372_and_393
It appears that no official accident report commissioned by the Dept. Of Transport has been published? -
Suck Diesel said:
via Fred Dean -
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Suck Diesel Good old Fred Dean. Very sadly missed around these parts!
-
Mike Grimes said:
-
Big John, Metropolis, Illinois (LOC)
- 1 older comment, and then…
-
artsychau said:
Fargo movie vibes
-
Rose & Lena Krautly and Jitney bus (LOC)
- 6 older comments, and then…
-
Varun Coutinho said:
Car : 1912 Halladay (Model 40) Touring
Manufacturer :
1905 - 1913 Streator Motor Car Co. - Streator, Illinois.
1913 - 1917 Barley Mfg Co.
1917 - 1919 Halladay Motor Car Co. - Attica and Warren, Ohio.
1920 - 1922 Halladay Motors Corp. - Newark, Ohio.
-
Woman in a bottle, trick photography, Sydney, 1938
-
Maximilian Karl Haupt said:
Wow deep
-
Maximilian Karl Haupt said:
-
Hail to the Chief
-
Suck Diesel said:
The Next Commander-in-Chief. Illustration for The Graphic, 31 August 1895.
www.bridgemanimages.com/en/english-school/the-next-comman... -
Suck Diesel said:
“Wolseley led the belated expedition to relieve General Gordon at Khartoum, 1884-5. Later Commander in Chief of the British Army, he was responsible for important reforms. Wolseley was the model for Major-General Stanley in Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Pirates of Penzance.”
npgshop.org.uk/products/garnet-joseph-wolseley-1st-viscou... -
beachcomber australia said:
At The Peerage - thepeerage.com/p47494.htm#i474933
"... ... Wolseley eventually retired in 1901. But his reputation for efficiency led to the phrase 'everything's all Sir Garnet’, meaning all is in order.
More - www.nam.ac.uk/explore/garnet-wolseley -
beachcomber australia said:
In 1892 via The History of Photography Archive
-
beachcomber australia said:
Here is a (lo-res) cabinet card from the original Werner & Son, Dublin, photo -
Via - www.abebooks.com/Field-Marshall-Sir-Garnet-Joseph-WOLSELE... -
beachcomber australia said:
Heaps of Garnet Wolseley stuff on Flickr -
A Punch cartoon via Amida Collection
Caricature via The City College of New York
Advert for Boots (word puzzle) via patrick.marks
Statue in Horse guards, London via Charlotte Best
and a pub in Norwich via Budby -
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Suck Diesel Thanks, Mr Diesel. This gives us the opportunity to have a second photo tagged with Pirates of Penzance. This was the first...
-
Carol Maddock said:
beachcomber australia Well, this's a little ironic, given all the caricatures and images floating around. Digitised letter in Library Towers from Garnet Wolseley to Hugh Lane "regretting that he cannot donate a portrait of himself as he does not own one"!
-
John Spooner said:
More pictures from The Graphic
(Saturday 7 July 1883)
(Saturday 04 November 1882)
(Saturday 4 October 1879)
[From the obscure claims to fame dept: my great great great grandfather was also pictured in The Graphic in 1883, Here he is, 3rd from right
] -
Suck Diesel said:
John Spooner John, he’s the image of you!
-
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
He has almost as many medals on his chest as initials after his name. "K.P., P.C., G.C.B. G.C.M.G." Guessing one would be a nobody of any worth without initials after their name.
-
Suck Diesel said:
-
18_000363 SDASM Archival Image Please help ID
from SDASM Archives-
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
This is not "Chennault, Claire"
-
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
-
18_000364 SDASM Archival Image
from SDASM Archives-
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
Maybe their wedding.
-
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
-
Sentinel Building, Centralia, Illinois (LOC)
- 1 older comment, and then…
-
Matt Carroll said:
this is edited too dark.
-
24-0089-001b
from Navy Medicine-
Navy Medicine said:
Any transcription help would be appreciated!
-
Navy Medicine said:
-
Military column
- 37 older comments, and then…
-
benoit_thiell said:
digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/4115/ shows a different view of this location, during the Royal visit of April 1900. The flags match, as well as the crown on top of the pole.
-
Tire Man, Venice, California (LOC)
-
Matt Carroll said:
this needs to be brightened up a bit.
-
Matt Carroll said:
-
It's Grand Prix season in Dublin
- 11 older comments, and then…
-
el.guy08_11 said:
beachcomber australia 😊