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13:22 with long afternoon shadows. Possibly December? But which year?!

Previously (Golly - 11 years ago!)

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The DBC is now open. The streetlights are still the tall globe ones. Early 1900s. Construction underway beside Clerys - the DIA says:

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 021-27 (CLERY & CO & IMPERIAL HOTEL)
Date: 1902
Nature: Enlargement of premises, comprising reconstruction of Imperial Hotel (Nos. 21 & 22) lately purchased by Clery & Co. Wrought iron canopy over main entrance of hotel with name 'cleverly interwoven', by Fagan & Son

Clerys here has 9 urns on the parapet, if you megazoom this 1910-16 Eason, you can see the parapet has been extended the length of the Imperial Hotel:

There's a huge poster in the window of John Wallis & Sons for the Cork Exhibition. Could it have been this Exhibition in 1902/1903?

'National Consumption Hospital' says the titling.
A later Royal plate with many new additions says 'The Royal National Hospital for Consumption' - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000321421

Monkey swung by in August 1955 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000735492 etc

beachcomber australia It was certainly greatly expanded over the years. Did you notice the Monkey Puzzle trees in each of the photos?

Officially opened by Lady Zetland in 1896

www.archiseek.com/1896-royal-national-hospital-for-consum....

National Library of Ireland on The Commons The open verandas in front were added later, fresh air was considered beneficial

Designed by TN Deane & son, just like a certain local library!

Lady Alice Ma[r]y Gaisford (née Kerr) (1837 - 1892)
In 1860 by Disdéri

From - www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp90508/lady-ali...

From thepeerage: Lady Alice Mary Kerr was the daughter of John William Robert Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian and Lady Cecil Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot. She married Thomas Gaisford, son of Very Rev. Thomas Gaisford and Helen Margaret Douglas, on 20 June 1870. She died on 25 January 1892. Her married name became Gaisford. Children of Lady Alice Mary Kerr and Thomas Gaisford Walter Thomas Gaisford b. 7 Oct 1871, d. 15 Sep 1915 Hugh William Gaisford b. 18 Oct 1874

From the plaque on the memorial: This crucifix is erected to the glory of God and to the memory of Lady Alice Mary Gaisford who died at Killarney House XXV January MDCCCXCII by her loving friends and relatives. May she rest in peace. The scrolls higher up are Bible quotes.

I do not see a record of her death.

"The crucifix set in the archway is very impressive and the gravestone in the well tended plot would seem to suggest that" they were very wealthy.