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POINT OF INFORMATION On Wednesday 31st January 2018 the NLI Flickr Photostream with all the research and information gathered will be archived. The Irish Web has been archived by the NLI over the past several years and this has led to the archiving of the photostream. Carol has been linking the information gathered on each shot to the catalogue and now the archiving will ensure that it is preserved for future reference for those who may wish to research!

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

"An oast, oast house or hop kiln is a building designed for kilning (drying) hops as part of the brewing process. They can be found in most hop-growing (and former hop-growing) areas and are often good examples of vernacular architecture. ... They consist of a rectangular one or two storey building (the "stowage") and one or more kilns in which the hops were spread out to be dried by hot air rising from a wood or charcoal-fired below. The drying floors were thin and perforated to permit the heat to pass through and escape through a cowl in the roof which turned with the wind. The freshly picked hops from the fields were raked in to dry and then raked out to cool before being bagged up and sent to the brewery. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oast_house

Streetview: www.google.ie/maps/@52.8555172,-7.5844973,3a,60y,90t/data... 25" Map: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,627987,678420,12,9

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Wednesday January 31 (2018) is also a a super Blue Moon total eclipse, the first in 150 years - earthsky.org/?p=270280 . Lock up your archives!

Aviators Robert K. Perry and Harry Goodman, representing Williams College, next to a Curtiss JN-6 Jenny, at the 1920 Collegiate Air Races at Mitchel Field, Long Island. See comments: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/37274929460/

Thanks, TVL1970, we'll add info to the record.