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Welcome back! Have a Streetview

Niall McAuley Why thank you! Don't mind if I do...

Welcome back Carol, I was thinking of you when I saw the earthquakes in Bologna, I hope you were not too badly rattled in the process? Nice return to the scene and believe me you have been missed. I like this for the curiosities on display, the sign for the Pickwick pen by McNiven and Cameron overhead see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macniven_and_Cameron. There is also the number over the second part of the shot with the number 11-1/2. Just up the road in Dorset Street Upper near the junction with Blessington St was a shop number 123-1/2, I was always amused to see it and when development removed it I thought it a pity they did not retain it. I note that the headlines refer to a "Balkan War" but there did not appear to be a crisis in 1905 but there was one in 1908 and of course there was a little dispute in 1914 that led to a slightly larger dispute. "Bosnian Crisis 1908-09 Each succeeding international crisis from 1905 to 1913 threatened the security of all the powers and thus increased the hostility between the rival camps. If a war broke out in Europe, it would naturally become an international war involving all the powers.#"

Swordscookie Thanks, and no, we'd moved on to Rome by time of second quake! They are beautiful nibs, and you're right, the 11-1/2 is gorgeus, isn't it? Don't think we've come across that in any of our photos yet. I did try some of the headlines that I could make out in our online newspapers for dating purposes but couldn't find any exact matches...

I wonder if the Premier's trenchant speech referenced in the Weekly Freeman is Asquith in Dublin in July 1912?

Scanlan and Verling there in 1911 Census

I'd have loved to live in that time!

There's only one of those four shop/houses extant.
maps.google.ie/maps?q=baggot+street&hl=en&ll=53.3...

Marco Buccelli With no telly, no internet, no dishwasher, no front loading washing machine and no penicillin? I think not.

According to the 25", there should be trees all down the right hand side of the street, with the first one in front of Verling's: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,716879,732961,7,9. They're not on the 6" though: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,716879,732961,7,7

Here on Streetview. I walked past it every day to school. Although I never saw any tandems in Ross. www.google.es/maps/@51.5779082,-9.0319684,3a,75y,330.27h,...

Taken from www.rosscarbery.ie/rosscarbery-notes-june-18th-2015/ it would appear that Tom Barry's father ran The Arcade for a while. "Tom Barry likewise came from a long established farming family in Rosscarbery. His father joined the RIC, was stationed in North Cork where he married Margaret O’Donovan from Liscarroll. The family moved to Killorglin Co Kerry where Tom was born on 1st July 1897. His father resigned from the RIC and returned to Rosscarbery to run “The Arcade” as a retail business for about 8 years, they subsequently moved to Bandon and then emigrated to Liverpool. Tom joined the British Army in June 1915 and served in Mesopotamia and Egypt. He returned to Bandon after the War and worked for better treatment of the many ex-servicemen in the area who were now forgotten by the authorities. He became disillusioned by the British authorities and joined the IRA. With his military training and active service he put his experiences to good use and became the most successful and noted Flying Column leader of the War of Independence."

The building is from 1840 per the NIAH

The Allsops Ale sign at left says "Sold by Jeremiah Collins, the Arcade". Jeremiah was 61 in the 1911 census.

The NIAH says the Barrys were here from 1907-1914, (and the census agrees) so this must be before 1908.