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30 photos and 1 illustration tagged pontoon, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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1863

2014

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beachcomber australia said:
Must have been a very high tide ? Streetview - www.google.com.au/maps/@53.9766808,-9.2124243,3a,75y,53.1...
Niall McAuley said:
"Demolition of 19th-century Healy’s Hotel opposed" - 5th September 2017, Mayo News
beachcomber australia said:
There is an extra bit (4 windows) built on the right-hand end since this photo - when ?
John Spooner said:
"We never remember to have experienced so much gratification at any public event, as we did at witnessing the festivities, by which the opening of the new PONTOON Hotel was celebrated." Mayo Constitution on Tuesday 4 October 1836. The article describes how the area had been "opened up" - the land had been "of a nature so forbidding, that even the attempt to run a road through it at one time seemed chimerical". The opening was marked with feasting ("an unlimited supply of beef, mutton, and bread"), an Amateur Band playing in a boat which had been towed offshore, and sports including horse races, donkey races and boat races. Not only the tenantry and workman - no-one who turned up was refused entry. All due to the generosity of the Earl of Lucan.
Niall McAuley said:
"The existing building has been open to the public since the 1840s as a bar, hotel and restaurant. "

JKClassic said:
Curtiss? Looks a lot like the original curtiss with floats!
flickrdownldr said:
The single narrow float points toward Curtiss (or a copy thereof) - not all of the various versions were well photographed and there is at least one I know they had no photos of in the books on Curtiss I have read.
Stig Jarlevik said:
As said, Curtiss never seemed to use such a V-strut arrangement to attach the central float Stig

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beachcomber australia said:
Is that the steam launch 'Ena'? -
beachcomber australia said:
This [imho hideous!] building was "The Landing Pavilion". Full details of the Royal visit in the SMH of 28/5/1901 page 5 onwards, including illustration of this building. Read all about it - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14387721
John Cowper said:
Certainly not a 'rotunda'. I agree with beachcomber! Hideous - but tastes change!
Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
beachcomber australia John Cowper Thanks folks, we'll update the caption.
pellethepoet said:
BobMeade BobMeade knows all about the history of this "extraordinary" pavilion. See this 2009 entry on his blog here - lifeasdaddy.typepad.com/lifeasdaddy/2009/09/commonground-... - including a brilliant double-photo from the National Library of the ceremony itself.