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Here at the National Library of Ireland we look after the largest collection of Irish printed, manuscript, and visual material in the world, and our collections span almost 1,000 years of Irish art, culture, history and literature. We first started on flickr in February 2010 with a range of items from our Ephemera Collections. These printed items - originally produced to be almost as quickly thrown away - are invaluable as a means of gaining snapshots of different periods in Ireland's social, political, economic and cultural history. Though transient items, they're sometimes very beautiful to look at, occasionally fascinating, and often unintentionally funny...

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Let's stay at Lacy's of Bray

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  • 11 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Per the NIAH: Detached multiple-bay three-storey Gothic Style hotel, built 1900.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A Witches' Hat ? Google is telling me they should be conical; this looks hexagonal.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Not far to the right from this other O'Connor photo -

    Mr O'Connor seems to have photographed every hotel in Bray!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The 25" suggests this block was 2 hotels originally.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The 1911 census has Mary Josephine Lacy, Hotel Keeper, 45.

Elmhurst for the holidays but only in the summer

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  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    Quite a beautiful photo of a beautiful house.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Google maps gives an Elmhurst Road, but it is not very near Bournemouth and this house is not on it.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    UCD have a collection of correspondence of a Dr. William Frazer, who was a hobbyist in historical and archaeological stuff.

    www.ucd.ie/archives/t4media/la0041-frazer-william-descrip...

    Maybe not, he seems to have died in 1899: www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1...
  • John Spooner said:
    The Bournemouth Daily Echo of- Saturday 4 October 1902 carried an legal notice of an application to license a building for stage plays. William Frazer M.D. of Elmhurst, Bournemouth, is named.
    Bournemouth Daily Echo - Saturday 04 October 1902
  • John Spooner said:
    Dr Frazer of Elmurst had one daughter , Elsie Mary, who married Mr Edgar Grotrian of Wetherby, Yorkshire on on April 27th 1905. (Gentlewoman - Saturday 20 May 1905)

Ireland's tallest ladder or longest drainpipe?

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  • 28 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Gas AND electric lights - brilliant !
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I think this nearby-in-the-catalogue one is the same day (small bare trees in the park etc). Shows the poles for electric trams, and the Robinson & Cleaver store where Mr French / Lawrence was perched on the first floor(?) - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000338154
    L_CAB_02411
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The other photo shows a shining new statue of Queen Victoria in prime position ...
    ...Created by the sculptor Sir Thomas Brock to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, it was unveiled by her son, King Edward VII in 1903. Carved from Sicilian marble and standing 11 feet high, this memorial is accompanied on each side by life size bronze figures representing spinning and shipbuilding. The reading child to the rear of the sculpture represents education ...
    From - www.belfastcity.gov.uk/cityhallstatues#:~:text=Created%20....

    So 1903 + ?
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Building from 1903

    www.archiseek.com/1903-ocean-accident-gaurantee-corporati...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Google satellite 3D is fun - maps.app.goo.gl/jLF8pQyRFa7CytsX6

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