moville

It hasn't changed much at all.

Talk about a small affair? What a tiny crowd at a market in a town in Ireland, there are barely 100 people in the whole square and there's not a whole lot of produce on sale either. The pile of clothes behind the young lad with the bit of a stick appear to be uniforms with bright metal buttons and there is little else for sale in evidence. Compare this with the shot of the market in Galway a couple of months back? I found this copy of the same image in colour on Google! www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&safe=active&sa=N&...

Swordscookie Ahhh, that would be a colourised postcard from Lawrence Photographic Studios. Did I add the link here from last week's blog? All about a researcher "going places" with our Lawrence postcards...

Still reading www.movillerecords.com/index.html

Cuddly Nutter Any of the businesses here still on the go? Duffy's, Moville Hotel? And I think shop second from left is Merger's! Is that a plausible name?

All the children fully shod and two restaurants!
The RIC man sports the new cap, which limits the date range.
Looks circa 1900

Suck Diesel The street falling away behind them probably leads down to the sea so that might explain the restaurants but every child well shod is somewhat at odds with the other dress,

maps.app.goo.gl/dALr6zxvfjZTQdtW6

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Yes, streetview shows the sea in the distance

Many of the children are holding satchels. Perhaps a school outing? I seem to remember that the WR&S pics are all 1900 to 1905 or some similar range. There was never a railway, and we are before the motor bus, so the children are likely local? But there were passenger steamers running to Moville, the children could be from Derry on a trip.

[Ooo - your clocks have sprung forward!] " ... In the second half of the 19th century, Moville was a point of embarkation for travellers, especially emigrants, to Canada and the United States of America. In the late 19th century, steamships of the Glasgow-based Anchor Line and Allan Line made port at Moville while en route to and from New York, while just after the turn of the 20th century, the Canadian Pacific Line also established a terminal at the port as part of their service connecting Liverpool and Montreal for Canadian-bound Irish immigrants. ... " From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moville Style of steamer with cross-spars on the foremast looks 1890-ish.

Congratulations! 😀

I think she might be an Allan Line ship -"Red with narrow white band below black top" funnels - www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/funnels.shtml But which one? - www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/allan.shtml

How about the S. S. 'Parisian' built 1880 ? www.robertsewell.ca/parisian.html She 'lost' a funnel in 1899 - www.titanicinquiry.org/ships/parisian.php (there is a 'Titanic' connection)

It appears to have been taken from the garden of the manse. Streetview(ish): goo.gl/maps/4kZxXExPHtDNtcFUA