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Here's another one from the exact same view - www.flickr.com/photos/proni/6198173616/

Gregory PC Excellent, and with the same poster in situ, though taken on a gloomier day - no awnings out over the shop fronts! Says Circa 1905, hmmm!

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In 1886, Armagh had seventeen pillar and wall boxes. Every day the Post Office dealt with between 8000 and 9000 letters, about 250 parcels, 250-300 telegrams, as well as all the other services it performed for 22 hours a day. To mark the "extensions, alterations and re-arrangements" which were then almost complete, which had "transformed it into an entirely new office, probably more complete than in any other city of the empire with a similar population" the Belfast News-letter published an article extolling its work on November 12, 1886 Everything you ever wanted to know about Armagh Post Office Take that, Darjeeling!

The Royal Regiment of Artillery was created in 1756, per wikipedia

Nope, haven't got a clue;-)

Swordscookie Well, that's a very direct answer! :)

Unless somebody is very familiar with the view I can't see this being easy. There are no shop names, posters or other manmade evidence to help. The one redeeming feature is that gap in the hills on the other side of town. The steep slope of the hill and the obvious valley in which the town is situated would indicate either a sea or riverside location but that doesn't count for much in a small island like ours.

I am 99.9% sure that this is Downpatrick, County Down. Looking down English Street, from the hill with the cathedral, past the jail, into the town. The lovely old buildings are still there on the left. The notch on the far hillside is slightly hidden from street view by the present building at the bottom of the street - now the Down Arts Centre .

Sorry I have to zap off here for a while so I can't do anymore of the investigating :-( But at the bottom of the hill on the left are the offices of the Down Recorder newspaper which was estabished in 1836. What I am not sure of is if the building has been replaced since then (even though I have been in them - they do look old!!)

Downpatrick Co. Down perhaps?

It says London on it. I'm guessing London.

Or Larne. When we don't know where it is, it's always Larne.

Beautiful.

But, yes, Ger Cos is correct. It's Downpatrick: Fitzsimons, Peter English Street Downpatrick Urban Down 54 M Bright Woollen Draper Roman Catholic Read and write Head of Family Not Married