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That is a super image!! I have just been listening again to the Forsythe saga and the chapter on the funeral of old Aunt Anne. People were invited to the funeral and there was strict precedence in who went in which carriage. This is really wonderful with the hearse and detail in the coffin!

OS 25" link

Vab2009 This is the one of the hearse that I really wanted, but unfortunately have no higher res yet! Wonder what happened if someone got out of place? Was outrage expressed with the raise of an eyebrow? Was there a system of whip semaphore between drivers?

Niall McAuley Go raibh maith agat!

Odd that there's no engine sheds visible. I wonder when they were built - they should be blocking the view to Elmhurst.

Splendid photo.

OSI 25" map. We are looking North West up the oddly named Leitrim River according to the Ordnance survey, which I (and Google maps) have always called the Vartry. Streetview

that is a great scene!

Challenge for Flickroonies - is the tide going out, or coming in ?

In the wall to the right (at the corner of Leitrim Place and Bath Street), the 1908 25" shows a Letter Box. The NIAH says the letter box is an Edward VII and dates from 1905. I think I can see it in the Original Size of this image. So, unless the 1905 letter-box replaced an earlier one, we are after 1905.

I note that nobody has pointed out that this is on the quays in Waterford and that that is the Clock Tower on the right facing up towards Barronstrand Street!

I remember telephone poles like those....how times change.

Treasa The polar opposite of wireless technology!

I remember a line of these going to Cheekpoint, County Waterford. It was still there up to the 1980s.

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