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A lot of old train stations in Argentina look like this nowadays!

Lovely portrait of the station, fortunately it still survives. This photo was featured on a BBC railway walk series about 15 years ago in which Mrs Lawlor was interviewed (not sure if she is still around today), I tried to recreate the image myself when I visited Borris.

Beaten to the Streetview, I will play my GeoHive OS 25" link.

Nice shot love the old station and lady.

Ciarán Cooney That's lovely to know. I've added your info in the description above. Who was Mrs Lawlor? Was she Station "Master"? Was such a thing possible back in the day, or was she Mrs Station Master?

Needs more cats: s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/43/78/2437832_aa21bc07.jpg

I like the brickwork in the chimneys on the LHS. Yet another Bovril sign, several of your pictures have them.

derangedlemur Love the "companion" photo not much changed with the station.

Photo taken from the footbridge maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,716117,771371,7,9 Google Street View maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Laytown,+Meath,+Ireland&hl=e...

blackpoolbeach Interesting. So those are the denizens of Julianstown and points north.

She was Clara Dolores Machain, before becoming Mrs. George Washington Lopp. In the New York Times story of 2/3/15, she is referred to as Clara "Washington-Lopp", sender of two 15,000 pound shipments of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco to soldiers at the front. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9500E3D91538E633A... A newspaper article from May, 1916 describes her husband as shooting and wounding her and his stepdaughter in an argument about divorce. She is described as being known as "Lady Nicotine" by grateful soldiers for whom she had collected millions of cigarettes. news.google.com/newspapers?id=j9ExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_uIFA... Other newspaper articles describe the weapon as a chisel. One account says she was Paraguayan by birth, her father being the the Paraguayan minister in Paris.

Thanks so much artolog, for finding this information about "Lady Nicotine." We will add some of it to the record the next time we update.

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