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Fantastic shopfront!

If the original moulding and ironwork has been preserved, it should be possible to find the exact address/location of this shop using Google Maps. I've very loosely placed it along the Quays in Waterford... (that's what's known in the trade as an unsubtle hint!)

maps.google.com/maps?q=quays+waterford&hl=en&ll=5...

Moira In future, you shall be known as quick draw mogey - Thanks!

love your photo of the day series

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.

19 November 1907 was a Tuesday ...

Doyle & Dillon is clock heaven. But which is the right time?

I think the buildings have survived. The new bank is to the right on the corner, and Kelly's have expanded.
Kellyview - maps.app.goo.gl/DzWgbGp2Le1b1qpX8

beachcomber australia Yes, both buildings survived, even the fancy windows of the clock shop.
Furlongs on the left wasn’t so lucky.
I’ve heard of the Happy Ring House in Dublin, this one is the Lucky Ring House.

Doyle & Dillon's prices on Tuesday 19 November 1907 as advertised in the Evening News (Waterford) I wonder why it says no. 79?
Their advert in the Waterford Star - Saturday 16 November 1907 says 76, as does the one in the Waterford Standard.
Monday's Evening News says 79, but by the 21st it says 76.

I wonder if the Evening Post typesetter was told to buck his ideas up or else.

I assume the figure in the doorway is either Doyle or Dillon, wondering why all their potential customers are passing their shop and looking for watches 3 doors down.