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Could that be a box of photography equipment in the car? is it perhaps the photographers car?

"the woman of the house": "the person of the house" Dickens; the trousers of the house, too. One image puts me in mind of The Stolen Child.

The wooden chimney pot would hardly comply with todays building regulations.

And a chicken in the doorway...

The right-hand side of the house (with the bigger cross hatched window) looks like a later extension/addition. I wonder if Dermot Bannon's ancestor had some input.... (Several likely candidate locations in the 6" and 25" OSI maps. Might require local knowledge.)

This is Cross St The cut stone building near right is the corner of Larne Town Hall. (1868-1870) www.google.ie/maps/@54.8513949,-5.8215028,3a,40.9y,317.67...

It's 11 o'clock? Where is everybody?

O Mac There seemed to be something weird happening to this particular photo - it kept appearing and disappearing... The comments don't want to stay visible either.

Here is Gingles in the 1901 census, a spirit merchant on Cross Street.

Sharon Corbet Weird is right. Same here......HAR92 is titled [Street scene in Larne, Co. Antrim] ...Mystery Mary must be out to confuse us with her "High Street".

Streetview maps.app.goo.gl/pj8of1RBaUwYnhpk8 I see a CTC winged wheel enamel sign over the hotel door. This logo was introduced in 1886 It's still there...though hidden. maps.app.goo.gl/127U5RhFcE3d6RkA6

View behind and to our Right catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000042377 On the modern day street view over the river bridge and on our right also is a forge with a horseshoe shape door similar to the one in Multyfarnham.

bit.ly/306yAix OSI link.

Flickr is sometimes totally useless! Can anyone find an equivalent 'now' photo? Via Trove this from 1905 - "Irish John Gilpin - Remarkable Ride of a Strangely-Equipped Horseman" - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/204543835

NIAH has many entries, but latest is Sheridan at right from c1890.