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Streetview DOG !!

Here's a wonderful bit of Red Herring ... "Sweet Afton" on the bar window - "Sweet Afton was an Irish brand of short, unfiltered cigarettes made with Virginia tobacco and produced by P.J. Carroll & Co., Dundalk, Ireland, now a subsidiary of British American Tobacco. The Sweet Afton brand was launched by Carroll's in 1919 to celebrate the link between Dundalk and the national poet of Scotland, Robert Burns. Burns' eldest sister, Agnes, lived in Dundalk from 1817 until her death in 1834 and was buried in the cemetery of St. Nicholas's Church in the town. Carroll's thought that the brand would only be successful in Scotland if the carton simply had an image of Burns, or Scottish name on the packet, so the people of Dundalk were canvassed and the name Sweet Afton was chosen. The name is taken from Burns' poem "Sweet Afton", which itself takes its title from the poem's first stanza:

Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes Flow gently, I’ll sing thee a song in thy praise My Mary’s asleep by thy murmuring stream Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.

A larger version of the cigarette was also marketed under the brand name Afton Major. This name served as inspiration for Carroll's later Major brand of tipped cigarettes. As of Autumn 2011, British American Tobacco no longer manufacture Sweet Afton cigarettes. ... The brand proved particularly popular with post World War II Rive Gauche Paris. It was reputed to be Jean-Paul Sartre's preferred cigarette, and also featured prominently in Louis Malle's film Le Feu Follet, as well as a number of other Nouvelle Vague films. Margot Tenenbaum (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) from Wes Anderson's 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums also smokes Sweet Aftons." From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Afton_(cigarette)

DannyM8 there's a dog in this!!!!

"and the chances are they were also the local undertakers!" I don't see a monument builder's of undertaker's shop window though.

Well, they're gone now anyway. maps.google.ie/maps?q=10+Grand+Canal+Street+Upper,+Dublin...

That brings back memories. When I was going to school in Dublin during the 60's and 70's remember see some houses along the North Circular Road with similar white horses and positioned in the fanlight window too just like those ones!

I remember the Golden Goose logo on some shops and they were certainly still around in the late 70's.

I remember the Golden Goose logo and I think that it was a cooperative/promotional effort across a range of groceries.

White Horse Whiskey had a bottle to commemorate the late King George V! That may be where the notion of the white horse in his support came from??? www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-19527.aspx

Pearse St ------- Streetview

Hats now definitely out of fashion.

John Spooner and women?

O Mac Definitely 'in'

Excuse my ignorance in such matters, is/was it obligatory for women to cover their heads in church? And for men to be bareheaded?