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that's super interesting! she looks like a ghost!!

I think she may be The Wicked Witch of the West, rushing to catch the tram, 'cos she left her broomstick in Oz. Interesting to compare with a LOC image on flickr (ignore some idiot's remarks about Saint Patrick!) -

Was there some special anniversary or occasion for people to put out so many flags? And what's the quartered one on the left?

beachcomber australia Yeah, what an idiot! ;) Well, at least we know the trams were electrified in 1898, so circa 1900 is ok for the moment...

John Spooner There must have been, mustn't there? Never seen such an array of flags in our photos without some event or other... Naval visit perhaps?

My mother had a saying that "Patrick Street Cork would be the finest street in the land if they only took the "Bind" (bend) out of it!!!" You can see the street from right to left down a couple of hundred metres.

Very amusing to note that Paris already brought a flavour of glamour... (Paris Studio)

Another Munster street view which hasn't changed all that markedly in >100 years. Most notable differences are the frontage of St. Patrick's Buildings (the "Paris Photo Studio" building opposite Daunt Sq) and the "extra window" which now bisects the W&B sign. (FYI - Pretty sure the extra window opening was added while still owned by W&B. Certainly it was there in the 80s when the building was converted - by W&B themselves - for use as a fast food place named Mandy's and definitely pre-dates McD's) Lots of historical W&B docs available in UCC Boole library archive. (Always knew W&B were an "institution" in Cork, but didn't know they owned the Oyster Tavern and half of Sheare Street!)

I love this :)

the late General Tom Barry, famous for his exploits in the Cork No.3 Brigade flying column in West Cork during the War of Independence, lived with his wife Leslie (née Price, founder of the Irish Red Cross), in a flat directly over Woodford Bourne for many years. The top window on the left would have been theirs from the 1940s until his death in 1980.

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...