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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Pith Helmets, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Mme Crouzat is here too:

i love this photo.( My favourite character is the lady on our far right)

The car on the left appears to be a mid-1920s Chevrolet K Series Sedan. The other car is more difficult to identify. Possibly British, radiator similar to a Morris Bullnose, but not quite.
What an amazing photograph! Note that the Chevy is LHD, whereas the other car is RHD.

Vintage Cars & People Thank you very much.

They had cars like that in 1885?!

I did notice that car as well. Perhaps around 1903 to 1915? There seems to be some electrical wires and street lights hanging too which might have started as far back as 1895. I find this picture fascinating because if you look at it closely you'll see all the people in it staring at what was probably the latest photographic technology. And much to their knowledge of you or me at the time, that technology had forever captured them looking back at us from a very different point in history. Almost as if all of us were being allowed only a glimpse into the future as well as the past through some sort of strange time machine.

The Motor Car Act 1903, which came into force on 1 January 1904, required all motor vehicles to be entered on an official vehicle register, and to carry alphanumeric plates. Photo Post Jan 1904. BJ is an Ipswich plate.

Thanks O Mac. Based on input from yourself (and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/118169193@N05] and locustangerine above) I've updated the range to c.1900+. What do you think about location? Based on this similar image, I recon we're around here....

National Library of Ireland on The Commons That postcard was helpful in finding exact location. The art deco bank building is still there so the hotel was exactly where Dunnes Stores is now. www.google.ie/maps/@54.8515083,-5.8183155,3a,75y,241.01h,... That Dunnes building is a awful looking building....along with too many others.