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First! (I have nothing sensible to say).

Apparently the chancel of St. Macartin's was enlarged in 1889. I can't tell from the photos if that's happened already in the older one though.

St. Michaels:" Largely built between 1870-75 to just above the belfry – the spire was added more recently. The interior is large and gloomy..."

derangedlemur Which/where is St. Michael's?

The barn on the right. "more recently", incidentally seems to mean mid '90s, so it's not in the other picture either.

Looks to me like this was taken from my old school, Portora?

Nick Stewart I think so, from the angle.

Walter was a real gentleman. Yep, that is taken from Portora and there in the lower foreground is the open air swimming pool, scene of manys a freezing cold swimming experience.

Paul Thanks for all your notes on the photo - have added them into our tags. Did you know Walter Brady then? I didn't know he had died... Here are all of Walter's photos (not yet digitised) that we have from the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991

National Library of Ireland on The Commons I went to school with his son, David. So I did not really know him that well, just as a really friendly Dad of my friend. I remember seeing some of his photos years ago and would be keen to see more. As far as I recall he was a great man for the slides and had hundreds, if not thousands.

No, that looks like Townhall Street to me, where the Wetherspoons pub is these days.

Colin Brilliant, thanks, new Flickr land speed record (under 5 minutes)! I think you're absolutely right - here's the Google Streetview... And I'm just going to change the record in our catalogue now.

Is there anywhere on that street that one could get some books?

I'd say a little further along, looking up High Street to Church Street: maps.google.co.uk/?ll=54.345579,-7.639596&spn=0.00108...

2009: The buildings haven't changed, but the cars have!