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Read All About It, via 'The Irish Sod' - theirishsod.blogspot.com/2012/12/irelands-bethlehem.html

Google Satellite - maps.app.goo.gl/a84JpjT8F4ysgCGz9
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There is a record at the NIAH which agrees with the beachcombers source: occupied for just 10 years until burnt in 1642, after which the nuns moved to Athlone.

A Madonna statue of bog oak from the convent survives in Galway: poorclares.ie/our-lady-of-bethlehem-athlone-madonna

The building was featured in a full-page article in the Evening Herald (Dublin) Thursday 24 December 1992.

Last year. Poor Clare nuns from around the world visited the ivy -clad ruins in Co Westmeath when the order celebrated the 350th anniversary of the flight of the nuns who escaped to Galway by taking to boats on Lough Ree.

It also mentions the Streven family, on whose farm it stands, who had cleared the ivy and received many letters from nuns who had visited.

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Very cool. Thanks for sharing these great photographs. "A sensation when it was unveiled at the London School of Economics in 1949, the Phillips machine used hydraulics to model the workings of the British economy ..." www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/08/bankofenglandgove... "The MONIAC (Monetary National Income Analogue Computer) also known as the Phillips Hydraulic Computer and the Financephalograph, was created in 1949 by the New Zealand economist Bill Phillips to model the national economic processes of the United Kingdom, while Phillips was a student at the London School of Economics (LSE), The MONIAC was an analogue computer which used fluidic logic to model the workings of an economy." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer

A renovated version of the MONIAC is in the Science Museum in London - I think it is part of the computing galleries.

That is superb!

A fine collection of 'pin-ups' in the Post Office of Box(?) Hall Camp, Essex. The bottom photo has something about Essex too ...

beachcomber australia They're quite demure, and mostly well-clad pin-ups.

"party of soldiers" You could more correctly refer to them as a "platoon". 20 to 50 soldiers, typically. Your photo has 24, plus the Sergeant.

Irish.

Compare the uniforms in this photo to the ones in your photo, above-
www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/hearts-of-stone-in-ir...

Uniforms in the photo above and the Irish Times have five buttons.

"Hare Hall Camp" on subsequent photos.

beachcomber australia Ah, Hare Hall Camp, brilliant. Thank you. And as you always say, someone on here will know where that is...