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What a womderful collection of exuberant victorian architecture. Flickr is sometimes freezing waterworks! In January 2009 via mick dunne

beachcomber australia They really did build it to last! There is not too much difference between the two photos.

Via Trove, this from 1864 - ... The corporation of Cork has been particularly fortunate as to its supply of water, which is obtained from the river Lee at a very short distance above the city. The supply is most abundant, and from the purest quality. It is conveyed to the top of the highest houses in the city, some of which are 300ft. above the level of the river. The waterworks buildings are ornamental, and the whole cost, £80,000., seems incredibly small compared with what other cities have to pay for waterworks. The city has been further improved by the erection of two very beautiful bridges, at a cost of £25,000. One was finished in 1861, and the other this year. The bridges are toll free, and the cost of their erection has been entirely borne by the corporation. ... ... See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8829208?searchTerm=cor...

💡Ooo! There is a Stereo Pair with lower, thinner trees - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000563892 I vote for the 1880s. Looks like the 1885 chapel for Our Lady's Hospital is not yet built?? - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady%27s_Hospital,_Cork And St Kevin's Hospital (1899) is not there yet - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Kevin%27s_Hospital [aside] dreadful history - www.thejournal.ie/st-kevins-building-mental-hospital-hist...

2018 googlesphere (with an alarming tilt!) shows the 1885 chapel behind the chimney and St Kevins. If they were built, they would show in the photo(?) - goo.gl/maps/CHinfMNtjoS86M4M6 I will shut up now.

I Know EVERYTHING about this Photograph. I know the loction, I know what day (and the time of Day) it was taken on. I Know the names of all the people. I even Know the Dogs name...... But I am not telling yet. YOU ALL have some time defore I disclose all.

In 1901 the then Lord Mayor of Cork, Edward Fitzgerald, proposed that Cork should stage an international industrial exhibition in 1902. The proposal was enthusiastically received by all sections of Cork society and planning for the exhibition soon began. The site chosen was an area of parkland between the Cork County Cricket Grounds and Wellington Bridge, now renamed Thomas Davis Bridge. The plans for the exhibition were extraordinarily imaginative and ambitious. It promised to be by far the most spectacular exhibition ever hosted in Cork

It opened on 1 May 1902 amid scenes of celebration and enthusiasm. Its success surpassed all expectations, attracting visitors from all over Ireland, Europe and beyond. After it officially closed on 1 November 1902, it was decided to stage a similar exhibition in 1903. The 1903 exhibition repeated the success of its predecessor and was graced by a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.

The Cork International Exhibition of 1902 – 1903 finally closed on 31 October 1903

Exhibitions included a Canadian pavilion, art gallery, machinery hall and industrial hall. Entertainments included a water chute, a skating rink, switchback railway, temperance resaturant , a creamery, shooting gallery and an aquarium.

Seconds before this one? -

Junction of Kennedy Quay and Victoria Road I'd suggest, with the old footbridge over the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway in the distance and Marina Mills (now cut down to a single storey facade) to the left - Streetview: www.google.ie/maps/@51.8983713,-8.4608333,3a,75y,103.19h,...

Depending on when this was taken my own father could have been among those being escorted to the ship! He was arrested after the siege of the Strand Barracks in Limerick, imprisoned there for a while, transferred from there to Cork and thence to Dublin before ending up in Gormanstown in Co. Meath!

Taken from the SS Arvonia flic.kr/p/zAQsRX

Model T Ford easily recognisable on the right; what is the one-eyed car on the left?