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Based on some of beachcomber australia's "see alsos", I think this is Scoil Mhuire in Derrybeg, Gweedore. There's a recording from the opening of the school on Youtube, which gives the date 4th April 1959 for the official opening by then Taoiseach Éamon de Valera.

Sharon Corbet That has got to be it !

Sharon Corbet beachcomber australia Yep! Saturday, 4 April 1959...

Gaeltacht Secondary School Opened And Blessed Historic Occasion In Derrybeg Ard Scoil Mhuire, Derrybeg, the first secondary school to qualify for a grant under the new scheme of Roinn na Gaeltachta to promote secondary school training in Irish speaking areas, was formally opened on Saturday by An Taoiseach, Mr. Eamon de Valera. The ceremony was attended by a large gathering of clergy and laity from the parishes of Gweedore, Annagry and Cloghaneely who came to mark an event of great significance in the development of Gaeltacht amenities. The school was blessed by his Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. McNeely, Bishop of Raphoe. The splendidly equipped college, was built and furnished at a cost of £11,000 and in honour of the occasion the building and grounds were decorated with bunting and flags. An Taoiseach, who was accompanied by his A.D.C, Lieut. Col. Sean Brennan, on arrival inspected a guard of honour of Gardai under Inspector J. Sheehan. Chief Supt. M. Walsh, Letterkenny, was represented by Supt. C. V. Convery, Milford...

(Donegal Democrat, 10 April 1959)

👀 Yikes! We've been indented!

I can see now why the carpet in Pooles studio looks so treadbare at times. This photo also tells us that his studio was on the ground floor. Busoni might have been the name of the horse?

No Carpet Required with apologies to Phil Collins

W. J Baird was ADC to Lord Wimbourne, the Lord Lieutenant from 1915 to 1917. This not yet digitised photo is also dated approx. 1917.

?? William James Baird 1893 - 1961 on The Peerage - www.thepeerage.com/p5730.htm#i57295 "William James Baird was born on 8 November 1893. He was the son of William Baird and Caroline Muriel Burn-Callander. He married Audley Josephine Helen Porter, daughter of John Porter Porter and Josephine Henrietta Lloyd, on 28 May 1918.1 He and Audley Josephine Helen Porter were divorced in 1936.1 He died on 2 February 1961 at age 67. He lived at Elie, Fife, Scotland. ... "

Nice photo. Sir Harry was Governor of NSW, not Governor-General. His ADC, seen at right, fromm1903 to 1909 was Leslie (later Sir Leslie) Orme Wilson. Sir Leslie later became Governor of Bombay and later still Governor of Queensland. Sir Harry appears with his daughter Rita who took over her mother's duties after her Lady Rawson's 1905 death.

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BobMeade Thank you for the corrections BobMeade, especially the info about Leslie Orme Wilson. Regarding his daughter, records show that her name was Alice. She is mentioned a few times in the newspapers nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72211037 Here is a link to a notice published in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1938, after she died. nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17431034 Thanks again for your help, we have now updated our database records.

Captain Francis Harrison Smith (see here on the left) was the NSW Governor's Private Secretary in the period 1904-08. During this time he was evidently on leave from the Royal Navy. He's usually referred to in the various newspaper items as 'Mr Harrison Smith'...which might well have been in accordance with protocol...I gather he was a Paymaster Captain and that he was in the 'secretarial' branch of the Royal Navy. Later in his career he was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral and knighted (HMS Pinafore sequel). The location is Cranbrook, at Bellevue Hill, the NSW Governor's residence in the period 1901-17 www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/8474206395/