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Elephants loading the train, Sydney, ca. 1932 / Sam Hood

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Liz said:
    I suspect this may be Alice an elephant that was at 'Wonderland City' at Tamamara Bondi Sydney. It appears she may have been obtained by Wirth's Circus around mid - late 1908. Later on Wirth's claimed falsely they had Alice the companion of P.T Barnum's Jumbo, Alice was in fact an African Bush Elephant and not an Asian elephant. So Wirth's Claims were completely untrue.
  • Liz said:
    This is indeed Alice of Wonderland City fame. Wirth's Circus bought her from William Anderson in 1908 by the 1920's Alice was well travelled with the circus and with her came the myth that she was over 100 years old. Alice was born around 1876. She was owned by Bostock & Wombwell's Circus and Menagerie until 1906 when she was auctioned and bought by William Anderson. After Wirth's Circos obtained her they changed her name to 'Princess Alice' Alice died at Wirth's Circus in Melbourne in November 1941
  • Mich said:
    This elephant has small ears so I don't think it is an African elephant.
  • Liz said:
    Quite right she is an Asian elephant. The Alice PT Barnum had was an African so Wirth's were trying to make it up as they went along. They claimed Alice was 150 years old when she died but in fact she was around aged 65 years old.

Derailment at Lochinvar, 1959

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • Robert said:
    The location is Lochinvar (not Lockinvar). I have added a new tag but you need to remove the incorrect tag and also correct the photo title. Robert
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    Robert Quite right! Thanks for picking that up, we'll update our info. AB

February 13, 1971

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Swordscookie said:
    Are you surprised? Those are "iron lungs" of Guinness and there was carousing for months afterwards and the journo's were the leaders in the field! Seriously it really is a surprise that there is no mention in the papers, big event then and now!
  • blackpoolbeach said:
    maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,650005,750028,7,9 Down's Bog Crossing/46th Mile Box was between Killucan Station and Baltrasna Crossing. www.industrialheritageireland.info/TikiWiki/tiki-index.ph... There is another NLI photo on IrishRailwayNews irnirishrailwaynews.yuku.com/topic/2203#.TzkKbVGRKSo
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Swordscookie That's what I would have thought, but I tried a range of wide and narrow search terms and came up empty! Are you being poetic, or is/was "iron lungs" a nickname for the Guinness barrels?
  • Swordscookie said:
    When they changed over to aluminium from wood there were a number of stories in the news of people who were being kept alive in "iron lungs" which did the breathing for them and so the metal kegs became known as "iron lungs as a result. I see that master of research blackpoolbeach has come up with more information on the incident including some of your photographs!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    blackpoolbeach I know this is not in quite the right spot, but I find it very difficult to get co-ordinates from these OSI maps (brilliant as they are!). Do you know how to get lat and long from them that will suit any normal map, like here on Flickr or on Google Maps? Their X and Y do not compute with me, I'm afraid... :(