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The original "Brisbane Velodrome" board track was opened at Alexandra Park in Fortitude Valley on September the fifteenth 1929 and closed due to high operating costs in 1933. The Great Depression of the 1930's had hit hard. In 1934 grass track racing was held at Lang Park and by February 1937 the Australian championships were held there. "The Australian amateur cycling championships will begin in Brisbane tonight …… Brisbane has no first-class track, and the races will be contested on the grass at Lang Park." By the late 1940's Lang Park cycling track had finally been completed as a dirt track, just the way it had been planned as a 1933 replacement for the Brisbane board track Velodrome. Source: veloaficionado.com/blog/arthur-dows-brisbane-cycling-icon

[aside] I love that song, and often have it as an ear-worm, for no good reason.

🎶I wish I was in Carrickfergus ... 🎶

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrickfergus_(song)

Not ‘’Main St’, but High St

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Victoria Hotel on right

“A drinking fountain with a large gas lamp was installed on 19 November 1881 near the site of the old market cross on the High Street. It stood at the location of the old market house and was known locally as the Big Lamp. It became a meeting place, “Meet you at the Big Lamp”, and men gathered around it to discuss the news during World War One”

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Suck Diesel Address and date amended, thank you! Lovely lamp story.

Has the fountain been relocated?

Flickr sometimes amazes - via Internet Archive Book Images William "Billy" Byrne of Ballymanus. 1775 - 1799 www.clanobyrne.com/billy-byrne-of-ballymanus.html

Ballymanus - Home of Billy Byrne of '98. Ballymanus House, in townland of Ballymanus + Parish of Annacurra, is owned by the Lynch family for nearly 53 years. Billy Byrne + his two brothers, Garret + Myles, fought during '98. Billy was hanged in Wicklow in 1799. Ballymanys House was taken over by the State. Other Byrnes lived in it later. Then the present owner's father bought it. There was a herd in it, + the Lynch family did not occupy it for about 7 years after buying it. There is a slab over the door which was put up in 1898. These are the words on the slab "Ins andtig seo a chomnuigh Liam Ó Broin ag a dtingadh Billí Ó Broin, Baile Manuis, a throid ar son na hÉireamh san eirige amach 1798. Do chrocadh i gCill Manntáin 1799. "A Dhia, Shaor Éire"" "In this house lived William Byrne, affectionately known as Billy Byrne of Ballymanus, who fought + died for Ireland, during Rebellion of 1798. He was tried + hanged in Wicklow gaol in 1799. God Save Ireland". From - www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5044740/5035693/5142302

Ballymanus House maps.app.goo.gl/rUYVHnEB6ERcGo2Z6 RF was there pre Monkey Puzzle catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000321036

O Mac Looks like the monkey puzzles have pedalled off.

NIAH lets us down today.