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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.

Look at the dirt & rocks piled up in the windows to keep out the weather ... my-my-my! And we think we have it bad ... Never seen pictures like these before ... WOW! 12-26-15

The distance hills would suggest it was taken somewhere around here. www.google.ie/maps/@55.0439188,-8.1943586,3a,75y,247.64h,...

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/94586980@N06] O Mac Thanks for your comments. Owen will you have a look at the mapping of all photos posted since Christmas and let me know if any changes are needed.

O Mac I bet you are exactly right. I wonder what the current owners of these cottages would think if they saw the old pictures. . . . . Thanks to the NLI for sharing. Despite the married name I carry, I am not Scottish!

Dandy indeed

DannyM8 Thinking of switching to DandyM8? :)

There's no DOG!!! How can you have that many horses and not have a dog to bark at them? It's not natural I say. Great shot of the old pub - when it was an hotel no less!

I love the old picture, great find but that was a good point, not dog in sight. Did someone SHOOT the poor brutes?

Swordscookie Do you know where this was/is then, Sean? Would love a Google Maps link. Think we need to get Niall McAuley to do a Google Maps linking seminar with you... :)