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While not strictly speaking a Railway shot this has enough clues as to its location to make it interesting. We thought you might like the chase to identify what it is and where it is now located????

Well, it's the order of the garter, isn't it?

It looks a bit new to be off Fort Castle, so it's probably from the defunct COI.

It appears to be Ratcliffe, Robert, 5th Earl of Sussex armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamps/RAT001_s1 What would his stamp be doing cluttering up Offaly?

derangedlemur Both his uncle and father were involved in the plantation of Laois/Offaly.

👀 Yikes! We've been indented!

I can see now why the carpet in Pooles studio looks so treadbare at times. This photo also tells us that his studio was on the ground floor. Busoni might have been the name of the horse?

No Carpet Required with apologies to Phil Collins

W. J Baird was ADC to Lord Wimbourne, the Lord Lieutenant from 1915 to 1917. This not yet digitised photo is also dated approx. 1917.

?? William James Baird 1893 - 1961 on The Peerage - www.thepeerage.com/p5730.htm#i57295 "William James Baird was born on 8 November 1893. He was the son of William Baird and Caroline Muriel Burn-Callander. He married Audley Josephine Helen Porter, daughter of John Porter Porter and Josephine Henrietta Lloyd, on 28 May 1918.1 He and Audley Josephine Helen Porter were divorced in 1936.1 He died on 2 February 1961 at age 67. He lived at Elie, Fife, Scotland. ... "

I think there's only one man without some sort of facial hair.

The Lord Lieutenant in 1914 was Edmond de la Poer. I don't think it is the impressively bearded man who has a more mayoral-looking chain of office.

Tne 'movers and shakers' of their day.

The mayor in 1914 was Richard Power, the name Power is derived from Poer, keep it in the family.

Bwana_Samaki Yep, I was assuming the chain is being worn by Waterford's Lord Mayor, and that the Lord Lieutenant (thank you very much for Edmond de la Poer) might be the gentleman seated in front?