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China - Beans at Dalny (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    In 1899, the Russian Tsar ordered construction of the city of Dalny as a major Asian seaport at the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is now the city of Dalian, a seaport in south Liaoning Province, in northeastern China, in the region once known as Manchuria.

October 15, 1923

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • plaisanter~ said:
    The sacks were rented? Didn’t realize this was done. Great photo!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    plaisanter~ I didn't either, but they definitely all say "Hired Sacks"!
  • Swordscookie said:
    The chances are that the horses and carts were hired on a daily basis also. Each horse owner would have a cart or two and would be hired each day when a load needed to be shifted. Not too many of the companies held a "fleet" of horses and carts as it was much less trouble and cheaper to hire in. I remember goind down the docks in Limerick in the early 50's and seeing lines of them waiting their turrn to pick up loads from ships at the quays.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Swordscookie Ah, well I was just being lighthearted about the "fleet" but that is valuable information about the hiring, thanks!
  • desmondg47 said:
    My grand aunt worked mending the hired sacks for Dennys.. The women used to sit around on the floor or on a pile of sacks and repair the sacks. They used an x pattern stitch within a square pattern of stitches. And a huge needle. Dennys had a premises in O'Connell Street in Waterford

"Success to New Tipperary; 'tis the glory of our land!"

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  • derangedlemur said:
    Well, sure how about a spot of streetview to start us off? maps.google.ie/maps?q=Dillon+Street,+South+Tipperary,+Tip...
  • derangedlemur said:
    The shops and pub are all just houses now.
  • derangedlemur said:
    From Wikipedia: In 1888-9, tenants of the local landlord, Arthur Smith Barry, withheld their rents in solidarity with his tenants in Co Cork. They were evicted and, under the direction of Fr. David Humphreys[8][9] and William O'Brien, decided to build a new town on land outside his control. The area now known Dillon Street and Emmet Street in Tipperary town was the centre of this development and was built by local labour but with funds raised in Australia and the United States. The high point was 12 April 1890, when a row of shops called the William O'Brien Arcade was opened, providing shops for some of the business people who had been evicted from the centre of the town. Eventually, compromise was reached and the tenants returned to the 'Old Tipperary'
  • derangedlemur said:
    Presumably the William O'Brien Arcade is the row of shops at the end. I'd guess from the road-laying activities on that this would be about 1890.
  • derangedlemur said:
    OSI: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,588641,635823,7,9