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Wartime limits on beer production were imposed in March 1942, requiring breweries to reduce their output to two-thirds of previous levels. The resulting beer shortages led to widespread profiteering and black-marketing. Some hotel keepers diverted beer from public bars to lounge bars where it was sold at inflated prices. Others more unscrupulous withheld beer from their customers, and passed it on at greater profit to the black-market. Beer shortages also encouraged the illegal activity of home-brewing, and many home-brewers were convicted of making beer without a licence. Among them was a 66-year-old man who was found in 1941 at his house in Sydney with sugar, hops, malt, galvanised vats, and more than one-thousand bottles of beer. He copped a larger fine than most home-brewers of the time because he was selling his beer. The most enduring effect of war, insofar as beer in Australia is concerned, was probably its damaging effect on the image and reputation of the beverage. Second World War shortages and black-marketing set against the background of early closing of pubs, a First World War imposition, stigmatised beer, and especially its consumption in pubs. Through the immense up-welling of interest in beer which presently engulfs us, however, this damage is gradually and persistently being undone. Source: www.brewsnews.com.au/2012/07/17/beer-and-war-in-australia/

It's Edward the Blue Engine!

This is the only turntable at Dundalk on the old OSI map.
maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,704179,806395,7,9
It's all desolate now on Google Maps
The original shaded lettering "17?" is more ornate than the new lettering "CIE".

Excellent Carol!
I Love old trains!

beachcomber australia But no sign of Charlie Sand or Sidney Hever :(

blackpoolbeach Thanks Pete. Now located on Flickr Map. Plus thanks for CIÉ rather than CN. The hook is a little obscuring, but I had thought I could see a stroke...

The "Flying Fish" was on of the boats that rescued the survivors of the Lusitania.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Lovely description above.

Streetview

PS Ireland was one of the boats that brought the last passengers to the Titanic.

O Mac Agreed, morning Mary at her best.