1954

Excellent!!

Is this our shortest phone number to date - Rathmullen 11?

FORT ROYAL HOTEL RATHMULLEN -- CO. DONEGAL Why not arrange your Summer Holidays at this carefree Country House Hotel, far from the turmoil. In its delightful setting on the Shores of Lough Swilly, amidst the unsurpassable scenery of the Hills of Donegal. Waiter service on our Private Beach. Golf and Tennis facilities. Hot and Cold all Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine Fully Licensed. Family Parties with young children most welcome. Please write for Brochure or, better still, call at the Hotel on your next week-end car drive. PHONE: RATHMULLEN 11.

(Belfast Newsletter, 9 June 1954)

Carol Maddock I think I see the waiter on the lawn near the building.

Sold in 2013 for conversion to a private house? See - www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/a-fo... Which has this - "... The 11-bedroom hotel was built in 1805 by Charles Rae, a British navy officer, and has more than six acres of magical gardens, including a front lawn that leads down to the beach, and three converted, self-contained cottages that were used as holiday lets. It had been run as a small but elegant three-star hotel by the Fletcher family since 1948, and had an award – winning restaurant, but the business closed two years ago. Next to Rathmullan House hotel, Fort Royal also has a tennis court and nine-hole pitch and putt course overlooking the sea as well as an arboretum and a walled garden. And as if that wasn’t enough, a 204sq m (2,196sq ft) detached manager’s house was also included in the sale."

The foreshore has lost the rocky outcrops and gained a sandy beach over the last 70 years. Dropped pin maps.app.goo.gl/rQtBPBLgUAACdJKKA

Still recognisable underneath all the later additions; google maps satellite 3D (takes a while to load, and fun to play with) - www.google.com/maps/@53.4325316,-6.2473877,151a,35y,157.1...

OY-DDO Type Douglas DC-3A (C-47A-90-DL) Construction number 20453 Year of manufacture 1944 Year of registration-cancellation 1946-1948 ICAODC3 Notes 43-15987, OY-DDO DDL "Odd Viking", EI-AFB, VR-TBT, G-APPO, broken up 1967 Luton

The terminal building is from 1937 per the NIAH: Designed by architects Desmond Fitzgerald with Dermot O'Toole, Daithi Hanley, Charles Aliaga Kelly, Kevin Barry and Harry Robson. One of the first buildings in Ireland in an International Modernist style.

REGISTRATION DETAILS FOR EI-AFT (AER LINGUS) BRISTOL 170-FREIGHTER 31 E Serial 13076 ModelBristol 170-Freighter 31 E Status Left Fleet Registration History Airline Delivered Status G-AMLN The Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd 00.00.53 Left Fleet EI-AFT Aer Lingus 27.01.53 Left Fleet F-BFUO Societe Commerciale Aerienne du Littoral 00.10.56 Left Fleet EI-APM Aer Turas Unknown Crashed

Lots of info previously -

Bloomsday, 16 June 1954 was a Wednesday ... VW Beetle bonnet?

Morning Mary, please clean your pince-nez and have a closer look. ;) That’s not a booth. That’s the carriage they’d been swanning around Dublin in (please excuse me, while I tuck away that dangling preposition).

There were two carriages in this birds-eye view, and also from the street - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000050506 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000050374 Can anyone identify the American car behind the VW?

beachcomber australia looks like a Chevy name badge, but don't know my models, some sort of land yacht, anyway.

Carol Maddock Is that not a Cab?