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Every picture tells a story......As a young lad I helped deliver beer and minerals around this town in the fifties. Ger's Coffee Shop was known as Minni Allens's Foodstore then. I was once crossing the street with a wooden crate of empty bottles near where the Garda is standing in this picture. The arse fell out of the crate and much to the amusement of the passers by, nearly three dozen of bottles rolled all the way down the street. Took me ages to pick them all up again lol.

DannyM8 Promise a doggy picture in the next week or so!

corncrake68 You'd probably have had more help if they hadn't been empty! Would you please mind adding a note on the photo at Ger's Coffee Shop to say it used be Minni Allens? And were any of the other businesses in the older Belturbet shot still on the go in the 50s - Devines, etc.?

Wow!

I think I see a head of dark hair behind the chap in the white cap standing by the rail at the end of the gangplank...

Wow! Very nice shot :)

Added my very own special custom tag, and thank you, Carol!

wow she must be near capacity

Cavan Library has a little detail about the similar photo: "When the Great Northern Railway Service arrived in Belturbet in 1885, excursions were run from Dublin to Belturbet, passengers then boarded the S.S. Belturbet for a pleasure trip on Lough Erne. The boat, owned by J.G.V. Porter, was licenced to carry 174 passengers. Following Mr. Porter's death in 1903, the SS Belturbet was retired from service. In 1914, at the start of World War One, the steel hull was melted down for the war effort. " So this is between 1885 and 1903.

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Situations Vacant, Freeman's journal, May 3rd 1892: DRESSMAKING; wanted a first class Dressmaker, R. C.; must be able to cut and fit well, and take entire charge of workroom; none but competent person need apply; state references and lowest salary. Leonard Brothers, Belturbet.

Niall McAuley Thank you very much! Now both photos are on our Flickr Map.

John Spooner So 1899 is not wildly out then? And I'm assuming R.C. was Roman Catholic - you wouldn't specify religion in an ad nowadays!

In April 1894 they were looking for a 'stylish Millener, R.C. and good Saleswoman'' The ad for a dressmaker appeared again in Agust 1894, so presumably the successful applicant in 1892 had moved to pastures new. Still expanding in January 1897 DRESSES; Leonard Bros, Belturbet, require a pushing Salesman, RC, of good appearance and address, for their Dress Department; give full particulars at once. Address 8502, Freeman Office.

A month to go!
The Cavan and Leitrim Railway. 1887 to 31 March 1959
25" OSI, June 1909

I love this shot, the two engines one, ready for its journey and pumping out the smoke while the other is standing there biding its time. I've been trying to locate the station on Streetview but the place has changed so much since 1959 I am struggling. I really would love to identify the two engines and establish their types and service!

Swordscookie The one on the right is an ex Tralee and Dingle Light Railway Hunslet engine brought up when that line closed in late 40's/early50's

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