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He needs to improve his swing, I'd say.

Joefuz Indeed. He's keeping his head down, but his stance and swing could use some work :) (And those young fellas are standing in the worst/best possible place to get a t-box clobbering!) Still though - better dressed for it than I'll ever be :)

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/66105333@N06] As do I! Thanks a million for all of your detective work...

At the time of the photo both the golf links and the racecourse were on the low lying reclaimed land behind the main beach in Tramore. The sea broke through the sea wall , i think in 1914 and drowned both the links and race course which were both rebuilt in locations higher up in the town in later years. Brownstown head is in the background in the photo

desmondg47 Thanks! Have moved the location to behind the main beach...

Oh I love the outfits the little girls are wearing in the bottom right of this photo!

All human life is there! You have the young girls wearing their lovely outfits and the young boy in rags and bare feet, the poor, the well off, the young and old and all crowded into a space most of us have occupied at some stage. I like the sign on the right "Maypole tea is best!" - never heard of it but I'll take their word. Super shot NLI thank you for sharing this.

Swordscookie No problem at all! :)

Ulysses mostly ignores Earl street, although Nelson's pillar and the GPO are directly behind the photographer. Thom's 1904 covers this patch on page 1481. Meagher's, where Bloom lent Hynes three shillings, and Downes' cakeshop which Maria visits in the story "Clay" are somewhere on the near right.

Streetview

Perhaps: "Finings are substances that are usually added at or near the completion of the processing of brewing wine, beer and various nonalcoholic juice beverages. Their purpose is for removal of organic compounds; to either improve clarity or adjust flavor/aroma." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finings Also, the date of the photograph may be few years later than on the barrel - Port wine often undergoes barrel-aging from 10 or less to 40 years...

Alek Nowak Thank you very much for the Finings info. Had considered that it might be older because of the date on the barrels (alcohol maturing, etc.), but we have a very finite set of photos of this establishment, and from how Poole Photographers usually operated (plus the clothing), I'd feel fairly confident this one was taken around the same time as the other two...

I like this amazing shot

"By 1924, Johnson & Johnson introduced the first machine that produced sterilized Band-Aids." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-Aid

blackpoolbeach Thanks, interesting! If we come across any more Druggist/Chemist shop windows, will keep an eye out for sticky plasters on display - Band-Aid or otherwise.