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Junction, Rathmines

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 12 older comments, and then…
• heady school said:

  My grandfather was an inspector on the trams, but I have a feeling he started out as a conductor. A bit of a stretch, but it might even be him centre frame. Great photo.

• Gerry Ward said:

  Google Street View

• blackpoolbeach said:

  In the foreground are white lines painted on the cobblestones, or they could be white stones set into the road. Is this a first for these old NLI photos?

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  blackpoolbeach Early pedestrian crossing as in our Cork photo with the running lady?

• heady school said:

  Couldn't find any mention of the name Retz in the census for 1901 or 1911, but have found the phone number for George Retz, Pork Butcher, in the 1913 phone directory.

Linen Bleach Green

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 79 older comments, and then…
• Bwana_Samaki said:

  The extensive enclosures by dry stone walls extending right up into the hills, and the nature of the hills themselves would make me think more of a large estate in County Tyrone or County Londonderry near the Sperrins. Is there a building of some sort behind the trees centre right in the picture I wonder? (and by the way why am I first, I am never first)

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Bwana_Samaki It's almost biblical! The last being first, and the first being last, and all that...

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Had a look at earlier images (though negative number sequences are not always to be trusted, and it's Beck's Linen Factory in Belfast...

• derangedlemur said:

  There's a model bleach green in Cultra, but I doubt this is it. It's on a steeper hill for a start.

• derangedlemur said:

  www.geolocation.ws/v/W/File:The%20Ulster%20Folk%20Museum%20(5)%20-%20geograph.org.uk%20-%20440126.jpg/-/en

Ewart's Linen Factory

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Gerry Ward Thanks, Gerry! I plopped it down near Flax Street?

• joe crowley said:

  Wow, that looks like a safe place to work!

• marinela 2008 said:

  Excellent old images !

• Sølve N.T. Lauvås said:

  Nice! What's the story about the "gothic-looking" wheels? We have them at the Salhus knitting factory too: