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A big carriage and nearly a Beetle...

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 15 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    BCI 239 ? (I can't find my glasses!) 28 October 1968 was a Monday ... 28 October 1967 was a Saturday ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The internet is sometimes AMAZING!
    "beetle.ie - Ireland’s first ever census on classic Irish aircooled VWs" - beetle.ie/vehicle/bci-239/
  • Niall McAuley said:
    beachcomber australia Incredible! The O'Dea shot is listed as Athy in the catalogue, that Beetle page says: It was parked at the side of a garage in Monastervin, County Kildare. in the mid 80s, 20 years later, just 20km up the road.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The Streetview shows that the layout at Athy is very simple now, just twin tracks straight through, but on the 25" it was more complex, with Cattle pens West of the line and track to the Goods shed at left/East. There was a section with buffers behind the surviving water tank. I think that is where the Bowater carriage was pictured, given the points in the foreground.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Niall McAuley Incredible is right!!

Not even a Wandering Tumbleweed in sight!

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! In August 1965 via Alistair Ness. That is seven year old Alistair ... 1 September 1959 was a Tuesday ...
  • John Spooner said:
    An ideal place for a bird to build its nest without fear of disturbance. So more so in 1959 than 31 years previously. Londonderry Sentinel - Tuesday 10 July 1928:
    A wagtail has built her nest underneath boards covering the points the Clogher Valley Bailway line at Maguiresbridge Station. Although the points are moved each time a train passes over the nest, the bird sits calmly hatching her four eggs.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    At wikipedia we learn it opened in 1859, closed in 1957, just a couple of years before this shot.
  • John Spooner said:
    Barbara Griggs mourned the passing of the Clogher Valley line in her column in Ireland's Saturday Night on Saturday 04 May 1968
    I was with friends in a car coming from Enniskillen via the Clogher Valley. a region I once had a weaknoss for. I knew it when the old Clogher Valley Railway meandered through woods, on the roadside, and along streets of wee towns. Romantic, charming, and out of this world. It ran from Maguiresbridge to Tynan. There was Augher, Clogher, FivemiletwAm, Baliygawley, Caledon: all delightful wee villages. except for big Aughnacloy with its wide square. its markets, and all that, and the railway workshops down the hill. It was, so to speak. a diadem of a valley, the towns and villages strung on it like jewels. To-day? Mere unimpressive items on a wide trunk road. They'd lost their characteristic background.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The 1906 railway map shows how it is the terminus of the Clogher Valley railway as well as a stop on the Dundalk to Enniskillen route. The Clogher Valley narrow gauge closed in 1942.

The Ancient Art of doing the Thatch

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    'May your roof be well thatched, and those inside be well matched.' ~ Old Irish blessing
  • beachcomber australia said:
    27 May 1961 was a Saturday ...

    The old thatcher looks decidedly wobbly.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Sallins, he was never far from the railway
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel Like magnetic attraction to Mr O'Dea.
  • Ambiguous Nature said:
    For those of us who wonder: www.formerglory.ie