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Neddy stands front and centre for the attention!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 29 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons Oh goody, your'e back! I wasn't worried; just missing you ... :- )
  • DannyM8 said:
    There is a dog on the wall!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    DannyM8 is ALWAYS amazing! Streetview - goo.gl/maps/ZzqvjgexCJc63xfs5
  • DannyM8 said:
    beachcomber australia 🐕🐕🐕
  • George FitzPatrick said:
    Looking at the shadow under the donkey and cart I would think it is midday or early afternoon. But clock says different. Not off to the bog but to the meadow as there is a wood tine hay rake on top of the creels of the cart. Young lad with hand on coping of wall seems to be in uniform and cap (Post&Telegraph). Is that his bike leaning against the inside of the wall? Other young man leaning on wall has his arm around a strainer wire from a telegraph pole just out of shot. No shadow from wires in shot or insulators to be seen on house opposite. Time on clock I shall leave to beachcomber. Looking at pier we are not on high water yet or tide is o the ebb. Also of note is demasted vessel moored offshore.

Trains at station, Valentia Harbour, Co. Kerry

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  • O Mac said:
    25" OSI Streetview
  • Niall McAuley said:
    50 years or so after this one:
    Next stop, America!
  • O Mac said:
    A Mr Michael Kenna would have been station master at the time. www.flickr.com/photos/be216cd1/7653446174/in/photolist-cE...
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    There's a description of the last day of the railway here under "Caherciveen Closure." "The 39½ mile branch line from Farranfore to Valentia Harbour - one of the most scenic lines in Ireland - was closed to all traffic on and from February 1. As January 31 was a Sunday the last trains ran on Saturday, January 30, a day on which the Kerry weather, true to form, provided rain almost without a break throughout the day"
  • Mossy Carey said:
    The location is Renard Point. The Royal Hotel and other buildings in Knightstown, Valentia are to be seen across the harbour. A famous restaurant and bar are at The Point today and a fish processing plant. A modern ferry runs to Valentia on a constant basis during daylight in the summer. The Royal Hotel in Valentia is still in business and thriving. There are now plans afoot to create a cycleway where the trains once ran.

Valencia - Valentia? A storm in a tea-cup?

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  • O Mac said:
    SS Granuaile--between 1895-1915 was operated by the Congested Districts Board
  • John Spooner said:
    In a letter to "Granny" published on The Childrens's Page of Weekly Irish Times on Saturday 30 June 1906, 14-year-old Mary Howe of Caherciveen writes of her family's outing to Valencia;
    A regatta is held every year in Valencia Harbour. There is always a great gathering of people and excitement at it. I, with the rest of our family, go to it every year and you may be quite sure that we come home pleased with our day’s outing. We had the pleasure of seeing the Secretary for Ireland at Reenard Point the other evening. He came in the steamer Granuaile. A large number of the townspeople came down and told him their wants. He came up from the point that evening in his motor car, and passed through the town.
    For her letter Mary won one of the 3 "Granny's Hampers" awarded that week for the best letters.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Mr French was upstairs in the Royal Valentia Hotel - see streetview - www.google.com.au/maps/@51.9262146,-10.2876545,3a,75y,80.... Not sure if these are earlier or later - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000041644 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000320504 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000333259
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Amazing number (31) of "Valentia Hotel" photos inside and outside in the NLI catalogue - catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=valentia+hotel&am...
  • John Spooner said:
    There seems to have been an inclination at one time for using T for the town/port and C for the island.
    After the crew had been rescued by the Tenedos they were transferred to a local motor boat and landed at Valentia, Valencia Island.
    (Shields Daily News - Saturday 22 July 1939)
    Rev G L Swain. M.A, to the Rectory of Valentia, Valencia Island
    (Hampshire Advertiser - Saturday 18 August 1906)
    FLOWER SHOW AT VALENTIA: The first Flower Show ever held in Valencia Island ...
    (Kerry Evening Post. - Saturday 27 August 1892) Presumably the writers assume that because there are 2 spellings, each must refer to a different entity. But mostly they are randomly interchangeable
    RECREATION HALL FOR VALENTIA ISLAND. Last week a large and representative meeting of the people of Valencia Island
    (Kerry Evening Post. - Wednesday 11 April 1906)