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Shine a light on the fountain

  • 19 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    [aside] I love that song, and often have it as an ear-worm, for no good reason.

    🎶I wish I was in Carrickfergus ... 🎶

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrickfergus_(song)
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Not ‘’Main St’, but High St

    maps.app.goo.gl/TPQVEpNKtEa4sZRj8

    Victoria Hotel on right
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “A drinking fountain with a large gas lamp was installed on 19 November 1881 near the site of the old market cross on the High Street. It stood at the location of the old market house and was known locally as the Big Lamp. It became a meeting place, “Meet you at the Big Lamp”, and men gathered around it to discuss the news during World War One”

    memorialdrinkingfountains.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/big-la...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel Address and date amended, thank you! Lovely lamp story.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Has the fountain been relocated?

Fancy a Cuppa?

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    May The Fourth Be With You.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia And also with you! :)
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Phelans is now Smak, East European Store, according to Streetview
  • blackpoolbeach said:
    Lipton's Tea 1s/4d. That's a very tall gas lamp or it's on a raised plinth. maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,660276,612407,7,9
  • Niall McAuley said:
    That does not look like a good place to be in bare feet!

National Art Gallery of New South Wales, ca. 1900-1910 / Star Photo Co.

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  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    One for Francesca at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Art Gallery of NSW said:
    Many thanks for putting this one up, interesting to note the changing plant life over the years if you compare with this pic taken around 1948.
    Frank Hurley The tree has gone and the now familiar palm trees are taking root.

    Francesca
  • beachcomber australia said:
    And another couple of photos:
  • beachcomber australia said:
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  • covid convict said:
    The first of the bronze bas-reliefs added to the Art Gallery facade was 'Phryne before Praxiteles', by Percival Ball...which was unveiled on 27th March, 1903. I think we see it here...4th niche from the right (it's almost entirely obscured by the tree). So I'd say this pic was taken some time on/after 27th March, 1903...but before the construction of the Northern wing...which was built in the period ca. March 1908 - July 1909...

    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/263590766 - Australian Town & Country Journal, 4th March, 1908...similar pic here...maybe slightly later...two more telephone lines...

    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/238338443 - the Daily Telegraph, 27th July, 1909...pic here showing the completed Northern wing...


    The second bas-relief added to the Art Gallery facade was 'Assur Natsir Pal, King of Assyria', by Gilbert Bayes...it was unveiled on 18th February, 1907...the third was 'Queen Hatasu of Egypt', by Countess Feodora Gleichen...it was placed in position in ca. March, 1908. Both these reliefs occupy niches to the left of 'Phryne before Praxiteles', so if they were present at the time this SLNSW pic was taken, they would have been obscured by the tree. The fourth Bas-relief added was 'Augustus at Nimes' by William Reid Dick...it was unveiled 20+ years later, on 10th December, 1931...it occupies the niche to the right of 'Phryne before Praxiteles'...