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Could the title be 'Cotton Thull'? I'm doing some research on Portuguese Goa and have found many mentions of a material called 'tanã', which appears to a sort of cheap cotton made near Bombay.

Paul Castro Hi there and thank you for your interest! I believe I might be able to clarify this for you. Thull Ghat is an archaic spelling of Thal Ghat, more modernly known as Kasara Ghat - a mountain incline/slope in the Western Ghats, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. What the photograph depicts is a cotton storage facility, located at this Ghat. As for 'tanã', I'm not completely certain, but I believe the word might stem from an area near Mumbai which was known for its cotton growing, in the 1870s. Thane is a district in present-day Mumbai, which was once known (and spelled) as both Thana and Tanna. In the book "In Quest of Coolies" by James L. A. Hope, printed in 1872 - there is a mention of how cotton-growing in Tanna was "showing signs of being a great business in the future". Link: books.google.com/books?id=F9gvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA92 I hope you find this information useful!

That's a real help. Thanks a lot for taking the time to get back to me.

Eee! There be double at t' mill !

Drogheda?

Niall McAuley I think you're right. Note gas works above and on map. geohive.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9...

Niall McAuley Looks a match to the map. Gas works and two chimneys and St Marys mill in the foreground and St Peters C of I in the distance. At a guess taken from railway embankment by the station hence the fence line with sleepers. Edit or maybe the viaduct?

Siena Convent (see note) - the NIAH say the "Convent chapel added to west by G. C. Ashlin, dated 1876." I think it is there; so after 1876? See - www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/13619...

That DMP man looks tired

Irish Independent, 6 May 1921, 3, has two other photos of the warehouse, with this caption: "Views of the ruined goods store of the British and Irish Steam Packet Co. at the North Wall, resulting from the fire following the destruction by armed men of motor tyres consigned to the military. Hundreds of tyres (picture on left) were destroyed." The second photo shows a DMP man, possibly the same one pictured here. The warehouse was designed by George Papworth (1781-1855): www.dia.ie/works/view/37287/building/CO.+DUBLIN%2C+DUBLIN...