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Hmmm. "The Danites" (on the poster extreme right, if I've read it correctly) was a popular theatrical production advertised in the theatrical newspaper The Era at many venues between 1880 and 1900 (mostly 1880s). So I suggest that the picture is near some popular resort with a theatre.

Looks like Douglas Head Lighthouse, isle of Man. www.flickr.com/search/?q=douglas%20head%20lighthouse

The notices for The Danites in the Manx press were all in 1884. This is the first in The Isle of Man Times and General Advertiser (published in Douglas) on Saturday, July 05, 1884

Indeed and I think John Spooner has it: www.flickr.com/photos/paulafunnell/20007314416/

John Spooner Good call! The lighthouse was rebuilt in 1892, which explains the difference in windows etc, and helps confirm the date. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Head_Lighthouse A tram-ride away from Port Soderick -

The Saw Mill is on the 25", and the ruins are visible on the Google map aerial view: maps.app.goo.gl/mPhRzjX4fWbRKjDK7

History page below, there was a mill here from 1851 to 1999.
www.navanhistory.ie/elliotts-saw-mill/#:~:text=The%20buil....

As a teenager I worked for a builder in his workshop and occasionally was given the job of taking circular or bandsaw blades to McMahon's timber yard. There I would hand the saw over to a skilled Sawyer who would tune and sharpen it. That was skilled work where the teeth were adjusted by bending the them alternately left and right and then carefully filing the cutting face. I wasn't supposed to linger but I was fascinated with the skill and application of those men.

Here in the 1911 census are Thomas Mortimer, Timber Merchant and boss of the Mill, and his family. Also guest Joshua Elliot, who would later marry daughter Edith and run the mill.

www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Meath/Navan_Urb...

Mason has another shot in the archive titled Mill and Boyne River, but it is the Blackwater unless I have the wrong Mill.

Labourers' Cottages.

Bit of a seaside smell to this one.

Apologies, we had an issue with the sync on the description and labels this morning. With thanks to Sharon Corbet and Niall McAuley for establishing the catalogue references in the meantime, we've since updated the description....

This was probably one of many labourers' cottages built under some of the turn of the century acts. I couldn't say where these are. Because the country is littered with them. The 1881/1882 acts provided for the building of a lot of these. Mainly to address a lot of the probems we've discussed in the recent "evictions" series. A series of acts were passed between the 1880s and the 1930s, specifically with the intent of improving living conditions for agricultural labourers - local authorities were therefore involved in locating and compulsorily purchasing sites, building cottages and housing people. Tens of thousands of simple labourers cottages of this type were built all over the country. About the only thing that looks different for these ones is the second/dormer story - most were very simple one-storey buildings to pretty much the same plan. And the (newly en-vogue) water butt. If someone recognised the plan/form of this house we might be able to narrow down a county (as many local authorities and poor law unions built from their own plans). But otherwise it might be needle in a countryside of haystacks... (See Land & Labour Association#Cottage ownership and Land Acts#Labourers Act 1906 - both Wikipedia).

guliolopez We have a variation on a theme in the Claddagh here in Galway. These are known locally as "exservicemens houses" built under the "Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act 1919"