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I am seeing Milford ...

?? "The Royal Bar" - still standing but in need of some tlc - streetview - goo.gl/maps/hWBZryBc9viPeTCt8

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Sharon Corbet Indeedy! SOMETIMES FLICKR IS AMAZING - who would have thunk it?! In 1909 via JamesTebay81 NB Licencee 'P. Gilligan' as half way up sign here.

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Here on Streetview. I walked past it every day to school. Although I never saw any tandems in Ross. www.google.es/maps/@51.5779082,-9.0319684,3a,75y,330.27h,...

Taken from www.rosscarbery.ie/rosscarbery-notes-june-18th-2015/ it would appear that Tom Barry's father ran The Arcade for a while. "Tom Barry likewise came from a long established farming family in Rosscarbery. His father joined the RIC, was stationed in North Cork where he married Margaret O’Donovan from Liscarroll. The family moved to Killorglin Co Kerry where Tom was born on 1st July 1897. His father resigned from the RIC and returned to Rosscarbery to run “The Arcade” as a retail business for about 8 years, they subsequently moved to Bandon and then emigrated to Liverpool. Tom joined the British Army in June 1915 and served in Mesopotamia and Egypt. He returned to Bandon after the War and worked for better treatment of the many ex-servicemen in the area who were now forgotten by the authorities. He became disillusioned by the British authorities and joined the IRA. With his military training and active service he put his experiences to good use and became the most successful and noted Flying Column leader of the War of Independence."

The building is from 1840 per the NIAH

The Allsops Ale sign at left says "Sold by Jeremiah Collins, the Arcade". Jeremiah was 61 in the 1911 census.

The NIAH says the Barrys were here from 1907-1914, (and the census agrees) so this must be before 1908.

I had this ready to post but I had forgotten that the following related photo had already been posted. Your comments on this photo are still welcome.

Looks like it's probably down here on Pigeonhouse road maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,719062,733954,11,9.

Presumably that's a pile of the tobacco leaf itself (removed from the barrel) on the slip way?

They probably used it to make JP Navy Cut Extra Salty.

derangedlemur Did they not know that flavoured tobacco is on its way to being outlawed? I found this in the Indo from Tuesday 17 May 1921: www.flickr.com/photos/20727502@N00/27127766860/ And this from the Examiner on Monday 16 May 1921: www.flickr.com/photos/20727502@N00/27369909746/

Mussolini sent a congratulatory message to the fliers and said he hoped to see them for the Pentecost celebrations when they would be accorded a national welcome. The fliers received a huge welcome here, doing social rounds and meeting the de Valera led Cabinet. Up to 15 mechanics had to fashion parts from scrap metal to repair the under-carriage and it was two weeks before the plane took from Moy. Alas, they came down again, this time in Wales, when the engine failed. Another two weeks passed before the 'Mona Lisa' was repaired again. Commodore Pond, who was now at the end of his tether, made the sensational claim that their plane had been vandalised! It is now known if they got that national welcome promised by Mussolini. Incidentally, Lieut. Sabelli sported the Italian Facist badge. - D. O'Shaughnessy.

denisoshaughnessy How marvellous! And what a picture of not only early aviation, but Thirties politics... Thank you!

Very interresting!

I found a picture of the aircraft at Floyd Bennett Field, New York (near the present JFK Airport) and it can be seen that it is a substantial enough machine. It is a Bellanca J-300 and this photo was taken by Rudy Arnold, an aviation photographer from the 1920s to the 1950s. sirismm.si.edu/nasmtop/NASM/7a/NASM-7A03451~A.jpg

Irish251 Gorgeous to see the full machine, as the ditch in our photo, while adding to the drama, obscures so much of the plane...