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Street view maps.app.goo.gl/NBB3rENGBAv4DegbA Niah www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/12329...

18th May 1924 was a Sunday. Did creameries work on Sundays? I doubt it.

My Great Grandfather Richard Walsh the Manager far left of the stage

kill ma cow - dangerous place if you are a member of the dairy gang: if you think that is weak what about ... Khan to Can as a link. seriously though, this is a great rural scene with so much to visually dissect

National Library of Ireland on The Commons They were "Cans" in some places and "churns" in udder places.

hmm Usually i hear of parades or marches for the army (apparently as a power show) ... but policemen parade? I don't know how much common is that.

I find the "slow unravelling of the photos details and origins" on these pages through the investigative comments and detailed knowledge of several posters as fascinating as the photos themselves - yesterdays was a great example ...... I'll be back to see what follows

Hurraah, Hurrah Limerick features on NLI in Flickr but where's this Georges Street I ask. That beautiful thoroughfare is O'Connell St with The Crescent and O'Connell Avenue in the distance. Limerick is of course a very old city but in the 1700's/1800's a planned city on a grid was developed and this street was part of what is/was Newtown-Pery. The massed ranks are marching in the opposite direction to modern parades as we normally had parades that marched down towards the O'Connell Street/William St. junction behind the photographer. I know they look like policemen but I can't see that many "polis" having a role in Limerick around that time. They are marching in the direction of the "New" barracks, now Sarsfields Barracks, and I suspect that this might explain the direction and the echelons.

there seem to be a band marching in the opposite direction???

TJ No TJ, if you look closely in Original size you will see that they have the bayonet frogs to the left just like the group closest the camera. I was just going to comment on the bayonets, they are each wearing a bayonet in a frog on a white belt. This is more a military item of kit than police and looking at the dress of the NCO's they are wearing sashes etc which is once again more a military affectation than a police one.

Baker's Lane/Road.......It's unrecognizable today. The only building I can see that still exists is that two story house with the three windows over a window.(dispensary on Osi ) Street view OSI (1903)

Here is a 1907 Guy's, it lists 3 dairies in Charleville, none of them called Meadowvale.

It's also marked as the 'Maypole Dairy' on the 1903 map.

Further down that page, we see Butter Exporters including Maypole Dairy Company, the name for this building on the OSI 25"

Meadowvale is in the 1910 Guys!