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Trains and boats but no planes in Waterside

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Google Maps Satellite View 3D - www.google.com/maps/@54.9913766,-7.321141,37a,35y,69.29h,...

    Mr French / Lawrence was up something very tall which is not there anymore. I wonder what it was?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Looks like it was the tower just glimpsed on the right in the neighbouring photo - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000330662
  • Deirge Del said:
    High probability camera location (54.99184, -7.32115) an upper floor of the Abercorn Factory with camera pointing close to due east. The foreground bridge is Bridge Street.

    Wikipedia says the Waterside was on the east bank of the Foyle so that makes it the far bank from the photo.

    I had planned to get the bus from Sligo to Derry for train to Belfast for a steam excursion to Whitehead but the RPSI knew I was coming and cancelled it. In the event I had to get back to UK due to a couple of urgent events (in the end not serious) and booked and flew out of knock within 3 hours, forgetting to check in while photoing Kennedy's at doocastle instead! Luckily staff at Knock great & got me on!😄

    On reflection this analysis may be total rubbish.😭
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The brideg seems to be the twin-deck Carlisle Bridge (opened 1863; replaced by the current Craigavon Bridge in 1936) - northernscrivener.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-carlisle-bridg...
  • Robin Parkes said:
    Deirge Del So the photograph has been taken from the city side as it says 'Waterside from Derry'. That means the railway that can be seen is the Great Northern.

Lifting the Siege

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • O Mac said:
    Could be the 'Mountjoy' and Phoenix' which were sent to break the boom.
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    O Mac The British Library has a similar version calling it the Mountjoy at the Boom all right.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Derry says "HMS Dartmouth fires at shore batteries while Mountjoy rams through the boom." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mountjoy_at_the_boom.jpg "... on 28 July 1689, Kirke sent four ships to the mouth of the River Foyle to try to bring food into Derry. These were HMS Dartmouth and three merchant ships: Mountjoy from Londonderry, and Phoenix from Coleraine, and Jerusalem, Dartmouth, under Captain John Leake, engaged the shore batteries, while Mountjoy, commanded by her Master Michael Browning, rammed and breached the boom, whereupon Mountjoy and Phoenix sailed up to Derry, unloading many tons of food. ..." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Derry#The_relief_of_the_city
  • O Mac said:
    Sharon Corbet Your ships seem to have an uphill struggle.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    O Mac Boom, boom!