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I’d say he’s getting it ready for some bowling.

Somewhere near the Marine Hotel, Sutton Cross ?? Googlesphere - goo.gl/maps/26jpzKbqMNveNq6J7 Satellite 3D - www.google.com/maps/@53.3892929,-6.1132911,71a,35y,123.65...

"The Hotel was built in 1897 in what was a sleepy outlying area of Dublin City. The Hotel was then known as the Golfers Hotel later becoming the Strand Hotel and finally in 1913 the Marine Hotel. It was one of the first businesses to have a telephone, its number being “Sutton 25”. The Gerarty sisters owned and managed the Hotel until 1959 when it was purchased by Oswald Johnson who built a seawater indoor swimming pool, a most unique feature at the time. ..." From - www.marinehotel.ie/en/the-hotel/ [possibly a wild goose chase]

The 25" map calls it the "Strand Hotel". The 1901 tram to Howth would be visible in the photo if it was built, so possibly before 1901. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Howth_Tramway

Gardens for a very newly built row of houses, by the looks of it.

Happy 4000th!

In megazoom, I can read that the huge carts opposite belong to Thomas White & Co.

Since absorbed by the House of Fraser department stores.

The trees are marked on the 25", weak evidence we are before 1900.

The barracks dates from 1891. I see scaffolding and an unfinished roof.

Niall McAuley Yes, when I saw Aldershot on the carts, I thought for a moment that Robert French had gone "out foreign" for once!

Thomas White & Co had their fingers in several pies. As well as department stores, they wer estate agents "Have all the best houses available on their Register, furnished and unfurnished, in immediate vicinity of the Aldershot Comamand Barracks" (Aldershot News - Friday 12 January 1917). As well as Aldershot they had a branch in Farnborough (or more accurately North Camp, between Aldershot and Farnborough). Their premises there were on Lynchford Road, which coincidentally was my great-grandfather's address in 1886-1889.

James Green Douglas, is second from right. www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/james_green_douglas.htm Mr C J France, is far right i2.wp.com/www.markholan.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AC...

We have seen "X"s before on Hogan photos. Makes them look like targets.

Picture from Freeman's Journal - Monday 14 February 1921
Weekly Freeman's Journal - Saturday 19 February 1921

Other press reports say that 5 of the 7 members of the delegation were Quakers.

In order that the truth of the existing conditions in Ireland should be known, the Committee sent a delegation of American citizens, all of whom were members of the religious Society of Friends, to make an impartial investigation and ascertain to what extent the American Committee might be called upon for aid. The delegation consisted of Messrs. R. Barclay Spicer, Phila- delphia, Pa. ; Oren B. Wilbur, Greenwich, N. Y. ; Philip W. Furnas, Canby, Ind. ; William Price, Philadelphia, Pa.; John C. Baker, Everett, Pa.; and Walter C. Longstreth, Philadelphia, Pa. They were accompanied by Messrs. C. J. France, Seattle, Wash., Chair- man, and Samuel D. McCoy, New York City, Secretary, and arrived in Ireland on February 12, 1921. Their report, which is printed in full on pages 62 to 67, was used as the basis of the amount of relief work that the Committee might have to furnish. archive.org/details/irelandcommitt00amerrich/page/48/mode... So if that's them, we're missing a few.

At the annual meeting of the Irish Agricultural Organization Society in Dublin on March 22nd last, at which Mr. France was present, the annual report was submitted. So possibly March 1921?