thediamond

The Guildhall was opened in July 1890. The clock has not been installed at the time of this photo. Google Street View

Everyone very well dressed. No barefoot urchins about.

The Guildhall Clock was installed in 1891.

Gerry Ward Aha, thanks Gerry! So then 1890 is looking correct for this photo: a) absence of clock; and b) flags in celebration of the opening?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons It's donkeys years since I was in Derry and I'm amazed at the steepness of the street there. It either was or had just stopped raining. Most of the flags are either meaningless or displayed out of their natural environment.

Building is dated 1892-94 per the DIA

Boo hoo! Streetview doesn't go there - I think this is the bank via the satellite - www.google.com.au/maps/@55.1313142,-6.6720231,50m/data=!3...

Here's how it looked in 1990 for contrast.

Streetmap lets us down today, but I think this is Santander bank now.

Niall McAuley That would match with it being Abbey National in 1990, according to wikipedia.

maps.google.ie/maps?q=The+Diamond,+Derry,+United+Kingdom&...

The shop is Austins now and they celebrated 180 years recently - seems it was also Austins then. NOTE - I think you may be correct about the SALE

I think they are electric lights c.1910 design.

From DIA Building: CO. DERRY, DERRY, DIAMOND, AUSTIN'S DEPARTMENT STORE Date: 1906 Rebuilding after fire; 'an imaginative, flamboyant design, with bold modelling which admirably expresses the function of the place'.

Building looks the same today. But that would suggest post 1906 Perhaps the 1906 work was internal ??