aprons

Nuns? Nurses? Women in uniform? Hygiene or what. It is strange to see the dress given the nature of the work they were doing!

Very high ceiling without a picture rail where the flies used to breed. I cannot work out if they are gas mantles that have been converted to electric lights. I remember gas lights with 2 chains hanging to regulate the gas supply. www.1900s.org.uk/1900s-lighting.htm

Swordscookie I'm thinking volunteers, some of whom may well have been nurses. But given the nature of the enterprise and that it was probably run in a very disciplined manner, that they were expected to wear the apron and veil affair; and for hygiene too as you say...

Probably standard Red Cross uniforms for the period.

The system they used to get in all our lives,.The schools & hospitals,.Now we can't get them out,.Thank you, Brenda,.did you happen to see this,. Smiling Eamon de Valera "Follier Upper"

Any idea where this was taken? I know this is a bit of work but it may be worth adding each picture to your map. It means people could check the NLI flickr page and see any photos taken in their area! I know its not possible to locate each picture but as you have seen there are people out there that will help, as RICH AM proved in this picture www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/5997404467/in/photostream

Brian Mulligan I always add photos to the map, but only when sure of the location, and we have gotten so much help from contacts, it's unbelievable. As info comes in, this one'll find its way to the map too... SO FAR: 316 items on Commons stream: www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/map/ and 135 items on our Mixed Content flickr stream: www.flickr.com/photos/yournlireland/map/

nice angle and framing.

They're baking blahs! There was nothing like fresh blahs for breakfast with melting butter and home-made strawberry jam, yum, yum!!

This is more then likely John Adair's City Bakery at 18 Lady Lane, Waterford. He's listed in P.M. Egan's 1894 directory.
I think the bakery occupied the site of the Library on the corner of Lady Lane & Bakehouse Lane.
The foundation stone of the library was laid in 1903.

Mr G. Todd might be one of them - from the catalogue "Mr. G. Todds Masonic group".

Royal Shamrock Lodge, Waterford Address: 1 Waterside Sq., Waterside, Waterford Constituted: 1795 Originally warranted as 817 in 1795; exchanged for 32 in 1843.

snap.waterfordcoco.ie/collections/ejournals/100704/100704... ..Captain Todd had a daughter Eliza, and when she was five years old (in 1881), her mother died (aged 31), and Eliza was sent from her home in Wales to London. Meanwhile her grandfather, Captain W.L. Pearn had retired in Waterford, bought a pub at the top of Exchange Street (on the right hand side), and lived at No.7 William Street. Eliza Todd came to Waterford and worked at Poole's Photographic shop on the Quay'

Fred Dean Snr. According to the marriage record, her father was George Todd.

Sharon Corbet Here are the Preans and Todds in the 1901 Census in William Street.