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Admiring the drawn type (3D effect) on that massive sign.

beachcomber australia They were going for snazzy, and succeeded.

Confusing ...

"Daylight saving time was introduced by the Summer Time Act 1916 and implemented on 1 October 1916 as GMT plus one hour and Dublin Mean Time plus one hour. However, Dublin Mean Time (used by the railways) had a disparity of twenty-five minutes with Greenwich Mean Time, which meant that the Bangor Railway Station Clock was to be put back only thirty-five minutes instead of one hour. An additional complication was that the clocks in Belfast and Bangor were twenty-three minutes and thirty-nine seconds behind Greenwich Mean Time (not twenty-five minutes as in Dublin), so the final adjustment was thirty-six minutes and twenty-one seconds. The change to the time displayed on the Bangor Station Clock was not welcomed by commuters."

From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangor_Bus_and_Rail_Centre_(Northern_Ireland)

Here is something of interest - a similar angle photo Lawrence no. 4723, which does not appear in the NLI catalogue. The photo has a motor charabanc (?) which puts it towards the end of the possible date range. Spot the other differences ...

via - lawrencecollection.com/product/bangor-co-down-d81-b/

At least 1884 onwards, as previously was operated by the Belfast, Holywood and Bangor Railway.
Sailors?

I checked in the Thom's Directories and the Rabaiotti Bros. don't appear until 1910 at no. 49 Amiens Street (for a couple of years before that, an Angelo Santi worked out of that address). The Rabaiotti's are listed as Merchants in 1910 and 1911. By 1914, they've expanded into no. 50 next door and are listed as Confectioners also.

www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000193785/ rabaiotti family in 1911 but very much Fish Merchants.

There were Rabaiottis in Swansea when I lived there in the 1980s. I think they ran a café.
Flickr confirms they are still there.


Most of the well-known Italian cafe dynasties in South Wales came from the Bardi region in the 1920s/1930s.

I wonder if the Irish Rabiottis are from the same part of Italy?

Streetview, OS 25" map link at GeoHive.

Describing the Italian cafe influx into South Wales www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/proud-history-valle... This sentence struck me. "Various members of the Rabaiotti families also had cafes and ice-cream carts on the streets well before 1907." Perhaps the Irish ones came via S Wales.

Ordinance Survey The photo was taken from the grounds of the Railway Hotel, subsequently The Great Sothern Hotel and now the malton Hotel.

Comment? The only thing that strikes me is the bench, facing the shrubs. Shouldn't it face the other way, so you don't get to look at the bushes? Look out over the courtyard instead...

Wikipedia says the Great Southern Railway operated from 1925 to'45. It is perhaps the Great Southern and Western Railway, operating from 1844 to 1924. That was a broad-gauge railroad (1.6m 5'3" between the rails). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Southern_and_Western_Railway

Seems to now be an IÉ terminal known asCill Airne (or Killarney in English). www.sinfin.net/railways/stations/sta-gael-ireland.html

That bench will be used to look at a garden full of flowers looking at those seedlings.