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There's a few more gigantic tanks at the end of it now: goo.gl/maps/3o8Aedy94ZnzSkp47

25" says the toll is at the other end from my streetview link, but in the megazoom, I think I can see the gable and chimney of the house at the end facing this way. Maybe it also includes the island, thus: goo.gl/maps/WTfvKk5ZEda8dXxW9 Hard to tell with the foreshortening.

Close-up of the gates and toll collector - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000577057 who may be Mr John Brown, who hired Mr Poole to photo him in 1931 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000696462 ?? Not the only toll bridge: via Mr French / Lawrence at Athlunkard - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000297881 And via Mr Poole with pigs and policemen - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590759

At the NIAH: of additional importance for the historic associations with the Malcomson family of nearby Portlaw who, being major shareholders in the railway companies in Ireland, financed much of the construction as a means of connecting the model industrial village in County Waterford with the station recently established in Fiddown From a random road trivia page: The present concrete bridge was opened in 1983 and replaced a toll wooden bridge built in the 1850s to link the railway station at Fiddown with Portlaw. As it was provided for the benefit of the railway, the bridge became property of the rail infrastructure operator, CIÉ. After the station closed but the bridge became important to the community, CIÉ continued to maintain it with a 1p toll charged. They saw this operation as a nuisance and were eventually able to pass responsibility to the local councils, meaning that toll charges ended in 1976. This was the last toll in operation in Ireland at the time.

beachcomber australia So the cottage at the end that looks like a tollhouse is in fact a tollhouse.

From the shape of that outcrop above, I think we are on the Wooden Bridge looking Northwest. The buildings are mostly the GSW railway: Streetview, GeoHive 25" map

In this earlier Lawrence shot of the station, there is no road on the seaward side, and no room for one: L_CAB_00246

The signal box seems to have survived all the newer roads and buildings ...

Of interest - "François Hennebique (26 April 1842 – 7 March 1921) was a French engineer and self-educated builder who patented his pioneering reinforced-concrete construction system in 1892, integrating separate elements of construction, such as the column and the beam, into a single monolithic element. The Hennebique system was one of the first appearances of the modern reinforced-concrete method of construction. ,,, " From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Hennebique

Flickr is sometimes set in concrete! Via leadfoot2011

Solo Dragon Boat Race?

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In the "1950's" via Phil Greaves

I think this other photo may be earlier, due to the lack of the verandah, and people in peculiar clothes - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000335653

The Workingmen's Boat Club, 1883 www.tipperarycoco.ie/your-council/county-archives/clubs-a...

Boathouse is on the OSI 25", but is no longer standing. Church is 1850. The rowing club have moved to further upstream on Moore's Island.