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Flickr is sometimes amazing! From 2016 via Diego Sideburns who says,
"Patrick Byrne Monument
In the grounds of the Church of St Anthony of Egypt, Scotland Road, Liverpool is the monument to Irishman "Dandy" Patrick Byrne who went to Liverpool as a 17 year old emigrant from Wexford and became a successful businessman and a Liverpool Councillor. He died in 1890 and a monument acknowledging his generosity to the Irish people in the Scotland Road area was erected in Scotland Place outside of the Morning Star Pub which Patrick Byrne owned. The original monument was removed from Scotland Place when work began on the second Mersey tunnel in the late 1960s. The monument was moved to another location and from there subsequently finished up in a Liverpool Corporation Yard. The whereabouts of the monument became known in 1998 and efforts to restore as much of the remaining parts of the monument succeeded in having it sited in the grounds of St Anthony's Church."

More via Diego Sideburns

beachcomber australia So we're not in Warrington at all, as we thought, but in Liverpool proper then? Must have been the "Warrington's Ales" that led the Krazy Kataloguer astray.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Seems so.

"The Morning Star was situated at 24-28 Scotland Place. This pub has now been demolished."
www.closedpubs.co.uk/lancashire/liverpool_l3_morningstar....

"Possibly the best known pub, and one I have mentioned before in this blog, was the Morning Star at 24 Scotland Place. It was better known as Dandy Pat’s on account of its charismatic landlord Pat Byrne, also a Liverpool councillor. It was positioned at the city end of the Scottie where it became Byrom Street, most of which was demolished to make way for the second Mersey Tunnel road scheme. There is a great photo of the Morning Star with its front ‘arched’ windows, and Walker’s Warrington Ales sign on the left. In the centre is the Birmingham Arms ( a Threlfalls pub renowned for their blue and white livery, at 14 Scotland Place) next to the ’98 Shop’. In the centre next to the tramlines is the ‘Dandy Pat Memorial Fountain’ which, after a previous relocation, survives today in the grounds of St.Anthony’s church further along Scotland Road. ..."

From - cadhain.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/the-pubs-of-scottie-road/

What? No short skirts, no popping the spare tennis balls up the legs of their drawers and only two rackets🤔 That can't be tennis.

Swordscookie You cannot be serious!

"Simonne Mathieu[a] (French pronunciation: [simɔn matjø] née Passemard;)[1] (31 January 1908 – 7 January 1980) was a tennis player from France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, who was active in the 1930s. She won the French Championships singles title in 1938 and 1939.

During World War II, she created and led the Corps of French Volunteers in the Free French Forces, the first female unit in the military history of France.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonne_Mathieu

Suck Diesel Very successful player, I wonder are all the others in the album as famous?

Madame Mathieu playing in 1929 - youtu.be/GlZee-dj7Qs?si=oUTaw8Wamp2klqEj

A fine collection of 'pin-ups' in the Post Office of Box(?) Hall Camp, Essex. The bottom photo has something about Essex too ...

beachcomber australia They're quite demure, and mostly well-clad pin-ups.

"party of soldiers" You could more correctly refer to them as a "platoon". 20 to 50 soldiers, typically. Your photo has 24, plus the Sergeant.

Irish.

Compare the uniforms in this photo to the ones in your photo, above-
www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/hearts-of-stone-in-ir...

Uniforms in the photo above and the Irish Times have five buttons.

"Hare Hall Camp" on subsequent photos.

beachcomber australia Ah, Hare Hall Camp, brilliant. Thank you. And as you always say, someone on here will know where that is...