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The Gorman's Medical Hall store caught my eye first, so thanks for highlighting the World War I poster. We've been going through our WWI holdings lately in preparation for the centennial. Maybe we could compare notes? -- Helena (LOC)

The Library of Congress And you have this poster too! Absolutely to the comparing of notes. Carol (NLI)

Hi Carol, I always thought that the L&N was the London & Newcastle Tea Company of the UK that was geographically located in the South/South Eastern part of the Republic of Ireland, which is what I thought that shop was beside the Chemist? Am I wrong in thinking they are one and the same as L&N.W. Midland?

ClickKen04 Afternoon Ken. This shop/office is definitely a railway company outlet. Thinking L & NW Midland was London & North West Midland? And L & Y Railways may have been Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, as there's a huge picture of Blackpool in the window also. But either way, think we're talking trains rather than tea, because the other poster is advertising "Special Services" between England and Ireland via Holyhead - in fact that was a Christmas 1914 poster that probably should have been taken down by 5 January... And oddly enough, have had a search for images of an L & N shop in Waterford, but can't find any by title, unless the shops are just incidentally in photos. But there were L & Ns on the Quays, and in Ballybricken, I think...

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Tks for that Carol. You make a lot of sense in your Observation. As for the L&N's, not sure about Ballybricken, they has a warehouse on the Cork Road in the 1980's, (not a huge distance from Ballybricken), but they had a small store on the 'North side' of the river, FERRYBANK I think it was called, which closed in the 80's I think due to various local competition and changes in demography. They had one called the ' L&N Hypermarket' on the 'Southside' of the river which this particular one has been taken over by Musgraves/Supervalu. My own information comes from being a Sales rep in the 80's and unfortunately never thought to take any photos of the stores I called in to. Thanks for all that info Carol though, very interesting.

O'Grady owned the shop next to Poole, we visited this before.

Here she is 17 years earlier with her family:

Miss O’Grady’s hair is beautifully set. I wonder did she get her hair done at Patricia’s... or at this one...

Beaufort Force 5 ..... Moderate waves taking a more pronounced long form; many white horses are formed; chance of some spray en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale

O Mac Hair Spray!! White Horses

Also, a girl's best friend! I have one holding up a fishbowl, a two-drawer version of that four-drawer one in the foreground.

My Mum had one of these up to ten years ago, my own kids loved playing with it when they were toddlers in the 80's. These can go for a nice little sum depending on their condition. Nice shot Carol.

My late mother had one just like the one in the foreground. It was also a very ingenious device. The machine tilted on hinges, you lifted the table it sat on out of the way, again on hinges, the machine folded down below the level of the table and the whole thing closed up so that you had a neat table/worktop with a fancy singer stand beneath. I remember rooting through drawers like those and finding bobbins and reels and being fascinated by the movement of the bobbin underneath the baseplate!

The factory in the poster is of the Kilbowie Road, Clydebank factory, with its distinctive clock tower.

The Russian poster "Компания Зингеръ Швейная машиъі" means 'The Singer Sewing Machine Company".