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.

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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).

The names presented in the sketch of this photograph on Wikimedia Commons are as follows. The names are also given in: Bradley, W. (1884). The Wreck of the Nisero, and Our Captivity in Sumatra. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Available online at: archive.org/details/wreckniseroando01bradgoog Top row, left to right: James Grant, Martin Mickelson, Laurence Muller, Ah Foo, Frans Jacobsen. Middle row, left to right: L. K. Moore, Thomas Bubb, William Bradley, John Thomspon, Charles S. Crichton, James Wilson. Bottom row, left to right: John Stanton, Carl Gronu, Hamster Haar, George Essery, John Kelly, Olaus Holgerson.

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)