grandparade

Fabulous coachwork, I wonder who the builder was and what make of wagon chassis was used?

The Burton Mail ran a piece recently when they were trying to trace these advertising vehicles including TOM 888 - check out www.burtonmail.co.uk/Search-continues-iconic-bottle-vehic...

A right old mix that thing! I've always wondered what came of vehicles like these too.

Well the front wings look like Land Rover but the rest. .. Wonder if you got more than 3d for returning the bottle!

Seeing life through the bottom of a bottle

My mother had a saying that "Patrick Street Cork would be the finest street in the land if they only took the "Bind" (bend) out of it!!!" You can see the street from right to left down a couple of hundred metres.

Very amusing to note that Paris already brought a flavour of glamour... (Paris Studio)

Another Munster street view which hasn't changed all that markedly in >100 years. Most notable differences are the frontage of St. Patrick's Buildings (the "Paris Photo Studio" building opposite Daunt Sq) and the "extra window" which now bisects the W&B sign. (FYI - Pretty sure the extra window opening was added while still owned by W&B. Certainly it was there in the 80s when the building was converted - by W&B themselves - for use as a fast food place named Mandy's and definitely pre-dates McD's) Lots of historical W&B docs available in UCC Boole library archive. (Always knew W&B were an "institution" in Cork, but didn't know they owned the Oyster Tavern and half of Sheare Street!)

I love this :)

the late General Tom Barry, famous for his exploits in the Cork No.3 Brigade flying column in West Cork during the War of Independence, lived with his wife Leslie (née Price, founder of the Irish Red Cross), in a flat directly over Woodford Bourne for many years. The top window on the left would have been theirs from the 1940s until his death in 1980.

Hope they had a lot of heavy stuff inside that carriage!

So who were the privileged to get a seat in the Scaffold grandstand next to the telephone box upwind of the Elswick Institute? The Crooked Billet still looks good for a few years.

Wonder where that carriage is now? Beamish?