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Running with the hare, and hunting with the hounds...

October 15, 1923

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  • plaisanter~ said:
    The sacks were rented? Didn’t realize this was done. Great photo!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    plaisanter~ I didn't either, but they definitely all say "Hired Sacks"!
  • Swordscookie said:
    The chances are that the horses and carts were hired on a daily basis also. Each horse owner would have a cart or two and would be hired each day when a load needed to be shifted. Not too many of the companies held a "fleet" of horses and carts as it was much less trouble and cheaper to hire in. I remember goind down the docks in Limerick in the early 50's and seeing lines of them waiting their turrn to pick up loads from ships at the quays.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Swordscookie Ah, well I was just being lighthearted about the "fleet" but that is valuable information about the hiring, thanks!
  • desmondg47 said:
    My grand aunt worked mending the hired sacks for Dennys.. The women used to sit around on the floor or on a pile of sacks and repair the sacks. They used an x pattern stitch within a square pattern of stitches. And a huge needle. Dennys had a premises in O'Connell Street in Waterford

At Thurles Railway Station, Co. Tipperary