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A fairly long exposure with lots of 'ghosts' about. It must have been windy too as the last word on the flag "Rest for Tyred ?' is indistinct! I must have a look at streetview!

Streetview 2014: goo.gl/maps/Vbe8ziJRzZN2

I found a list from Porter's (I think) directory from 1910: QUINSBOROUGH ROAD Frank Bethel Internation Hotel-Bethel Hotels Lts -Managing Director QUINSBOROUGH ROAD ( Contd) 1 Leverett & Fry Grocers and spirit merchants 2 D H Doyel Victualler and at Tilley;s Town Shankill 3 John Ryan Grocers and spirit merchants and Canton Tea House 4 Mrs Julia Lyons General Draper 5 Mrs Howard Baker Confectioner and restaurant. 6 J J Bradley Manager Lipton, Ltd. Grocer & Provision merchants 7 Philip Reilly Wine and spirit merchant 8 The Misses Turner General drapes and Milliners 9 Harry Taylor Family butcher 10 Miss J Byrne Bookseller and stationer 11 Boland Lts. Baker and Confectioners 12 J E McCormick Coal and Lime Merchants Rev H P Glenn Presbyterian Church and Manse QUINSBOROUGH ROAD ( Contd from Main Street.) 1 Arthur Odell Royal Hotel and Skating Rink Some of the names match, but a few are different. Swordscookie There is a reverse view in the catalogue, but the flag is still unreadable.

Rest for Tyred Folk I think - a pun for a motoring or cycling stop? There is a Motor Garage sign opposite...

I think that streetlight outside Byrnes is electric.

Probably were under instruction to keep still for a minute or so.

Now those two ladies look suspiciously like mother and daughter, so could this be the propietor's family posing for an all-important publicity post-card? Sunday clothes, mother to anwer to if they don't get it right..... it's no wonder the poor things look wooden. And, Oh I do hope father didn't step on his nice new billy-cock hat when he got up!

Well, I guess Michiel2005 is right, posing for a while didn't exactly make for spontaneous snapshots, but maybe you're right too Jack Falstaff. Maybe they weren't resting tourists! And thanks for billycock! Didn't know that was what these hats were called. Apparently also bombín in Spanish speaking parts...

You're welcome, Carol. It was also known as a Derby in the USA, but more generally in the UK (when Jack was a lad, which is a long time ago) as a Bowler (after the name of the original makers) and,much more rarely if memory serves, as a Coke Hat (because it was created in the mid-nineteenth century for Edward Coke, brother of the Earl of Leicester).

Charming scene would be great foe a publicity shot.

The original photograph is slightly better in my opinion!

Magnifica!

Is sad to compare :(

How sad. Ireland is full of this neglect.

nice shot