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07:34 or 19:34 ? The minute hand is blurred, so it must have been a very long exposure.

I’m pretty sure the sign near the clock reads Dobbyn. That probably sets the date to no later than 1926 per this page. www.timepieceantiqueclocks.com/getproductMobile.php?prodI.... I’m annoyed with myself that I don’t recognise the bishop in one of the photos.

"11, Mall, Waterford" is across the road from no. 34, Mr Poole's later premises. Where the Munster Bar (Est. 1853) is now - goo.gl/maps/CvQnrsJiNW2XcMb89

hint of a street name, with trade. 15 South...

There seems to be a photo of Edward VII in military uniform, which would probably limit the date range to 1901-1910.

Brisbane in 1888 was only 7 years behind the world’s first commercial public electricity supply system in Godalming in England in 1881. The advent of “cool” electric light to replace the “hot” gas lights was a welcome change for the citizens in a sub-tropical city, and as had been reported previously in the Brisbane Courier on 23 June, "during summer nights, the employees of the Post Office have suffered considerably through the vitiated state of the atmosphere in this room caused by the large consumption of gas and bad ventilation." The Barton & White enterprise started off providing the whole gamut of electrical services, as well as generation and supply wiring, by “manufacturing all fittings for electric light and power, supply brackets for lamps, sockets, cut outs, portable hand lamps, reflectors, arc lamps of 2000 candlepower, electric motors, etc., and undertake electrical work in all parts of the colony”.(S.A.Prentice Edward Barton Pioneer Electrical Engineer, 1988) From this humble beginning, using small carbon filament lamps and steam boilers fuelled by wood (because the cheaper coal was found to be a smoke nuisance), the whole electricity supply industry in Queensland has grown to provide a service right throughout our state, and which is essential to our modern way of life. Brian Becconsall, Engineering Heritage Queensland 10 Aug 2013 Source: www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/resourc...

While Corn Flakes is a slightly less than exciting cereal choice, they have a pretty bloody exciting history. The answer to ‘Why Corn Flakes were invented’ will, quite literally, blow your bloody pants off. But first, a bit about John Harvey Kellogg: the namesake of the popular cereal brand and Corn Flake creator. Old mate Kellogg was a Seventh-day Adventist who was allegedly against the very idea of fun. Context is important here. Okay Okay So, Why Were Corn Flakes Invented? According to Dan Snow, a popular British historian, John Harvey Kellogg invented Corn Flakes in the 1800s to “stop people masturbating.” Yup, nothing will stop people from helping themselves out like a flakey corn cereal… As a doctor and devout Christian, Kellogg was against masturbation. He wrote a book that stated clearly that the act of pleasuring yourself is a “heinous sin”, “self-pollution” and “the most dangerous of all sexual abuses”. In fact, Kellogg was against the sexual activity of all kinds and didn’t even consummate his own marriage. He sounds like a fun time! Kellogg believed that “the most simple, pure and unstimulating diet” could prevent one’s urges to masturbate Enter: Corn Flakes. Plain. Boring. Dry. Definitely not an exciting food. Okay, that’s not really why Corn Flakes were invented. The real reason was to treat hospital patients suffering from indigestion. In 1894, seventeen years after publishing his book which condemned masturbation, John Harvey Kellogg created Corn Flakes and marketed it as the “most nutritious and healthful of all cereals.” Still, it’s no surprise that this boring old doctor managed to produce the most boring cereal in the history of the world. Source: www.novafm.com.au/lifestyle/food-drink/were-corn-flakes-a...