johnkelly

The building is still used for the motor trade : g.co/maps/ee5dn

highthorn(Nicky) Great to see continuity of a trade.

Great photo. I walked past this building everyday when I was going to school. By the way this was the first garage in Ireland.

www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography...

Paul O'Farrell That's great to know, and we have pictures of Peares, and of Mr Peare in his motors and his motor boat! Wish the picture of Kelly's in your link was larger, then we might be able to identify individual salesmen in our photo...

This is the garage established by WF 'Bill' Peare and WGD Goff at Catherine Street, Waterford in 1900. Peares went into liquidation in 1917 and the garage has continued in use under different owners to this day. It was the first purpose-built garage in Ireland. (The first garage in Ireland was Porters at Montgomery Street, Belfast in 1899).

This appears to have been the scene, on November 1, 1913, of a big auction at the Long Island farm of the late New York Mayor William Jay Gaynor, who had died in September. Items at auction included Gaynor's horses and farm animals, and drew a crowd of 1,000. The J. E. Smith Haddens had an estate called Hempstead Farm, near Hempstead, Long Island, on Meadow Brook Road, not far from the Meadow Brook Hunt Club and polo grounds. The woman in this photo probably is Mrs. Smith Hadden -- not "Miss." Bain has mistaken her marital status. A NYT news item from 1899 recalls an earlier adventure of Mrs. J. E. Smith Hadden with a horse and an employee named John Kelly. [The John Kelly in this photo looks too big to have been a jockey.] "MRS. J. E. SMITH HADDEN IN A RUNAWAY" "Hempstead, L. I. (April 8) Mrs. J. E. Smith Hadden's pony ran away today. A groom named Kelly was driving her through the village. Mrs. Hadden, who is a member of the Meadow Brook Hunt Club, and an expert horsewoman, jumped from the cart and escaped injury. Kelly could not stop the pony and was thrown out. His shoulder was dislocated. The pony ran into the wagon of George Sessions, and was stopped. The animal escaped injury." ---New York Times, April 9, 1899.

Great shot !!

Lets hope the rider is in better shape!.

philip ward Hopefully not too bent out of shape!

I think it might be a 1928 Cotton Blackburne 500cc,looks like it was modified a little for competetion .

A Cotton JAP? (J.A.Prestwich engine)