queenssquare

It's a bit more colourful these days: maps.google.ie/?ll=52.138756,-8.27543&spn=0.008745,0....

derangedlemur It certainly is - looks gorgeous!

maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,581152,598449,7,9

David Hayes, Merchant: 58 in 1901. It's hard to gauge his age from this picture though.

William Eager - 46, Thomas Mannix - 58, John Quinlan - 24. They're all shopkeepery sort of ages. I'd say this is quite close to the turn of the century. Quinlan can't have been in business much before this (Unless he inherited the business from another J, I suppose - his mother's still on the premises as head of family).

Previously:

It was taken before 1908 ...see date on building www.google.ie/maps/@52.1381891,-8.2752926,3a,53.4y,102.73...

I think it is before the 1899 provincial Bank, too, now the AIB.

I think this image pre-dates the L_ROY_00062 image posted by Sharon Corbet - Note the differences in the facade of the large 12-bay block at the top of the square. In this image, the facade is fairly plain and the two bays at either end have old 6-over-6 Georgian sashes. In L_ROY_00062, the windows are all updated to one-pane-per sash, plaster hood mouldings have been placed over the windows in the central 4 bays and the 4 bays on the right, and a balustrade has been installed on top of the building at the right - that's still there (see Streetview provided by O Mac). Mannix's shop in the older image is replaced by O'Brien's in L_ROY_00062.

On the far side of the square at right, we see Mannix and Smith, in Sharon's shot above we saw O'Brien and Eager. I think this one is earlier...

It was the unveiling of the new statue of Queen Victoria as part of the Centenary celebrations on Tuesday 24 January 1888. Read all about it - SMH 26/1/1888 p.5 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/1391390 Henry King was also there, somewhere on the right with a black cloth over his head ...

beachcomber australia I'm thinking that one was a bit easy, huh :) It's a great photo, all that bustle and movement has been captured, it must have been an exciting day.. Thanks for the info - we'll update the caption. AB

Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection Never too easy - just that I have been there before with the Henry King photo. I remember three years ago having huge problems trying to find what the occasion was (when Trove was young).