midlandgreatwesternrailway

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from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Swordscookie said:
    I'd say there was many a good story told in that group? That looks like a big spanner - the one in his hand not the man himself!!!! If he turns too quickly the man on the left will let him know what he thinks of him when he gets his breath back (if ever)!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Swordscookie Methinks I'm the spanner for tagging that tool as a wrench! :D
  • Joefuz said:
    I think Broadstone is now used by Dublin Bus...
  • Swordscookie said:
    Joefuz, it has been for many years. At one time it was a national hub with the Royal Canal having a spur and basin nearby. Barges, buses and trains all operating from there and so close to the city centre must have made it a hive of activity. There was a repair depot attached to the station and accessible up further towards Phibsborough.
  • John M said:
    Great shot!

Weighed

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  • Moira said:
    it's certainly a donkey or an ass
  • Moira said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey and then of course there is the mule!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Moira I forgot mules! :)
  • heady school said:
    The two women sitting on the ground give it a bit of a Latin American feel. Clifden's usually a bit cold for that sort of thing.
  • John Spooner said:
    The building on the right would appear to be Boyles Foyles Hotel Google Streetview

A "Midland" hotel on the coast

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Mr French / Lawrence was there also; anyone for croquet . . . catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000316394
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I love the shadows of the camera and bowler hatted photographer bottom left.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    No Longer Standing, I think. Here is the 6" Cassini map showing the hotel (1930s), and a modern Google maps aerial shot showing quarry sheds here.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The (railway) company built a hotel at Recess, where King Edward VII and his party lunched in July 1903, during his tour of the congested districts of the West. Over the years the company advertising paid off, and the rich and famous came to Connemara to shoot and fish.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Per the DIA in 1897: The Recess hotel is now far advanced. The greater part of it had to be taken down and re-built. We are doing the whole work under the superintendence of Mr O'Neill, our own engineer. We have no architect for it, and from what I can learn I think it is going on just as well as if we had an architect.