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That is a super image!! I have just been listening again to the Forsythe saga and the chapter on the funeral of old Aunt Anne. People were invited to the funeral and there was strict precedence in who went in which carriage. This is really wonderful with the hearse and detail in the coffin!

OS 25" link

Vab2009 This is the one of the hearse that I really wanted, but unfortunately have no higher res yet! Wonder what happened if someone got out of place? Was outrage expressed with the raise of an eyebrow? Was there a system of whip semaphore between drivers?

Niall McAuley Go raibh maith agat!

Odd that there's no engine sheds visible. I wonder when they were built - they should be blocking the view to Elmhurst.

I thought we had this one already, or did we just reference it while digging through some other B&Ts photo?

It looks like Patrick's Street, at a guess: maps.google.ie/?ll=51.89984,-8.470695&spn=0.009149,0....

Actually, maybe not. HE on the background suggests that the row of houses in the background are quite a bit lower than the street in the foreground (though the image is pretty murky).

The ruins of Sunner's Chemists perhaps.

During the War of Independence Cork was one of the main centres of resistance to British Rule. In one of the worst atrocities committed during the War of Independence. British forces deliberately set fire to several blocks of buildings along the east and south sides of St. Patrick's Street during Saturday night 11 December 1920 and the following Sunday morning. The City Hall and the nearby Carnegie Library were also completely destroyed by fire. From www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/historyofcorkcity/early...

Streetview 2011: goo.gl/maps/T5akQ9jEzPq

Surely this is East Beach?

This is wonderful!

Outside the Medical Hall / Chemist, there is a curvy lady (Gibson Girl?) advertising some kind of drink. How is your eyesight? Can anyone read the letters? [Al]mond S----- ?? See note and megazoom™.

terrific details; great post!