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lovely photo g.co/maps/wevxy. One thing that always strikes me about Streetview is how little the infrastructure of Irish town centres has changed. Shop signs, cars and fashions change but buildings are usually recognisable.

Here is something Quite Interesting - the monument (see note) is for Isaac Corry who as Ireland's Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of Union, had introduced a Window Tax (see previous photo comments). " A local legend has it that the [Chancellor's] road was constructed after an incident in which Corry's stagecoach was stoned while passing through Newry by people angry at an unpopular window tax he had introduced." (ref. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Corry#Later_years)

Moira Thanks for the Street View, Moira, and you're dead right about how often towns change over time, but essentially stay the same!

so amazing

beachcomber australia Thanks for the Isaac Corrry info, and now two of our photos in a row tagged for Window Tax. What are the odds of that?

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Basket World, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

This is probably the Mount Pleasant sorting office, which was in a former prison. See www.postalheritage.org.uk/exhibitions/mountpleasant/worki... which has photos that show similar lights.

I visited Mount Pleasant Sorting Office in 1978 or so to see the famous Post Office Underground railway in operation . It linked the main sorting offices with London train stations. In Victorian times it was a pneumatic train, driven by compressed air. In te 1970s it was electric . The post office was huge then too hundreds of sorting staff coming and going. Amazing place.

There's some info about the underground "mail rail" here: www.postalheritage.org.uk/history/downloads/BPMA_Info_She... Also, a short film about it here: uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj0-0q6bQOc

-the You Tube clip is exactly as I remember it...

It is nice to see pictures from the other side. All to often we only see pictures of British/French/American troops.

the second looks like Adolf H.

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