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Once more unto the Bridge, dear friends

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 25 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    I’m thinking very early 1900s, electric trams

    Pachmann returned to Dublin for subsequent standard UK/Irish tours during his long career (which lasted until his retirement in the late 1920s). These later concert stops were typically organized around his heavy London performance blocks.These concerts frequently took place at the Antient Concert Rooms on Great Brunswick Street (Pearse Street
  • Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:
    Suck Diesel
    Just maybe -
    Freemans Journal 29 May 1899
    "PIANOFORTE RECITALS BY DE PACHMANN.
    Fourteen years have elapsed since Viadimir De Pachmann, the Russian pianist, played to a Dublin audience. That long interval has anything but effaced the memory of him. On the contrary, at the first of the two recitals to be given on the occasion of his present visit, which took place at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon in the Antient Concert Hall . . ."
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Dún Laoghaire Micheál Very possibly.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Dún Laoghaire Micheál Yes, could be earlier than I first thought
    Route no. 8 to Dalkey was electrified 12 July 1898
  • Noel Treacy said:
    A picture of the time ball ! "After one. Timeball on the ballast office is down" Ulysses

Do you know your "Schüte-Lanz" from your "Astra Torres"?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    1915, price 2d

    collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I'd not heard of Schütte-Lanz airships before - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sch%C3%BCtte-Lanz_airships
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel 1915, thank you.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! A 1914 postcard (with a message in German on the back) of a Schütte-Lanz airship bombing Warsaw, via Neil Ennis
  • Swordscookie said:
    The German aircraft were so much more elegant than their British counterparts! The British planes illustrated here really do look like "stringbags".

The Post Office - a home from home!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 22 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Bridge St, NLS, sadly
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The coronation of Edward VII and his wife, Alexandra, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 9 August 1902. Originally scheduled for 26 June of that year, the ceremony had been postponed at very short notice, because the King had been taken ill
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The poster says 26 June, so it was put up before the cancellation, and would surely have been replaced before the event.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The dia says the PO was built 1895-97, but cryptically adds Fittings 1904 dia.ie
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The other poster is for the Adder, a steamer sailing between Belfast and Ardrossan in Scotland.