longford

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and a chicken too

I hoped that was a clock half way up the street on the right, but alas it's a sign for "Agency for xxx xxx Cycles". Which might help with the date? See megazoom ...

beachcomber australia That's a sign for Rudge Whitworth Cycles. They were formed in 1894. So hanging there and having rusty streaks would put this a good few years later. www.icollector.com/A-Rudge-Whitworth-Cycles-Agency-Enamel...

Again thanks to megazoom at full blast, you can just see the telegraph wire from that single (!) thingy on top of the pole, stretching down to another thingy above Irwin's Leather Store which is also the Post Office. Obvious really, but fascinating that such detail is there on the glass negative.

Meta comment: no grouping today, this is top of my stream on its own.

Streetview: 53 Main St
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In its entry on the Longford Arms Hotel to the right of the court house, the NIAH says: A late nineteenth-century photograph from the Lawrence Collection (1895) shows that it had a round-headed doorway with cut stone block-and-start surround at this time

The shop beyond the court house looks like a blurred Kelly. Peter Kelly Hardware is in the 1911 but not the 1901 census.

Niall McAuley Thanks for letting us know Niall, we think we have figured out the issue, happy that we are back to normal.

If that Potato Blight warning poster is fresh, then we're in summer months. Just need Niall McAuley to establish the year - easy peasy! :)

It's very run-down, isn't it? If it wasn't for all the horses and the fact that it's Robert French, I'd have thought it was the '50s.

Carol Maddock The amount of water on the street suggests summer alright. July, if I'm any judge: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eT40eV7OiI

Mostrim (Meathas Troim) has had many name changes down the years.

Policeman in a peaked cap - nearer 1900 than 1880.