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Now there's a Steam Engine for ya!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 20 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    3 July 1962 was a Tuesday ...
  • Foxglove said:
    it's smoking ! these must have presented as steaming smoking noisy monsters ! the man looked very focused on his levers and dials. top right there is a distinctive church tower ... any spotter experts? oh beachcomber, re your comment yesterday re / the upper deck, in some cities womenn were "not permitted" to climb the stairs to the upper deck !!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Railway in the background with an underpass, carriages parked on top - near a station...
  • Foxglove said:
    had a image Google, could be engineered by CJR Fyson Cambridge UK
  • beachcomber australia said:
    goo.gl/maps/iMTp3t7TDv8bGExr6 ?? Ed. Tar bitumen stains are still there!

Fair Green, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway

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  • 14 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I think it's Béal Átha (mouth of the ford) rather than Baile Na (town of the), so Mouth of the Ford of Crowds.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    I'll bow to your greater knowledge on the subject:-) In my native place the Fairgreen which was still used up to the late '50's was also the place of public execution. It was contiguous to both the courts and the prison which probably helped!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I see 3 churches, the town hall and a school which are in the NIAH - but all are older than 1865, no help on dates.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Streetview
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Aha, I think this is at the early end of the date range. We should see the gable of this building, the former Sisters of Mercy convent, behind the left end of the town hall, and we don't, we see a different building. The NIAH dates it to roughly 1860, but gives a wide range, meaning they aren't very sure.

She: I told you not to come this way! He: Yes dear!!!

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Looks similar to the stone crushing machine we encountered previously -
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Is that the Baron, Luke Dillon at left? If so, date is 1900+ish rather than 1860...
  • Foxglove said:
    makes my mind wander and think of a Kate Bush and Donald Sutherland shooting the "Cloud Busting" video ... showing my age...
  • Foxglove said:
    interestingly, there is a man at the front of the engine/carriage wearing a top hat, almost like a showman/ ringmaster ?
  • John D Durrant said:
    I have fond memories of traction engines towing threshing machines into the fields and working all dy non stop at grandmas in the late 1940s. Life was more fun then.

With a toot toot and a whish of steam

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