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Traffic seemed to be a problem even back then. Is that the Irish Metal Box factory at lower left? I used to pass it by on the bus when commuting from Blanchardstown in the late 90s.

Seán Ó Domhnaill Seán correct, I see on one of the old maps that it is the Ashtown Metal Box Co.

The ring of trees has survived and grown. Google Maps satellite 3D - www.google.com/maps/@53.376458,-6.3363974,310a,35y,177.56...

Name ALL those cars ...

A poster reference to this racecourse was helpful in dating this one to after the opening of this course in 1902:

Interesting Flicker will not allow the tag "Balls Bridge"

In last week's episode:

Datewise, electric trams mean after 1896 per wikipedia

A busy time of day - can anyone see a clock ? Moments later - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000041053 Months later (by the creeper on the building on right) - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000318648 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000318558

Fagan Brothers in the 1911 census, I think the first shop is Beatty, if blurred. In beachcomber australia's later shot, definitely P.J. Beatty per the 1911 census. No sign of John J. Johnson, J.T. Hart or Patrick Doyle in 1911.

I'm interested by the 'T. Clarke' name over the shop - is it Tom Clarke of Rising fame or just a coincidence? It's interested to see so many well-dressed women standing around, so I suspect that's some sort of after-event. My mother is from Bray and she tells me that Kevin Barry's mother lived there and when she was a child she would see her walking around the town, and people were always doffing their hats to her and she was considered a tragic figure. I think that might have been as last as the 1960s. Had he lived Kevin Barry would undoubtedly have reached a ripe old age, although he might have not been very well known. He died very young.

My grandfather used to sing this after a few glasses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysH86MMwPs8&list=RDysH86MMwPs8

I think the big door at right may be Monk's bakery on Church Street/North king Street?

Patrick Monk’s Bakery at 79-80 Upper Church Street, near the corner of North King Street, Dublin,

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