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He looks like he's amazed by the size of that lightbulb.

Nice

Those are some great pants, too.

This photo is part of the Indicommons.org post Laughing across the Commons, featuring some of the nominees so far for Silliest Commons Photo!

!!! Wonderful find!!! I wonder if it's still in existence?

3.5 EMILY BLANCHE WATTS (1878-1960?), born on 31 July 1878 at Bonmahon and aged 22 in 1901. She was always known as Blanche. On 7 August 1902, a stormy day with heavy seas, Blanch and a number of friends decided to go swimming. The beach at Bonmahon is treacherous in any bad weather as a rip tide cuts deep channels in the sand and in stormy weather must be avoided. Despite being advised otherwise the party went swimming. Many got into difficulty and both coastguard and local men then tried to save them. A local man, Cornelius (Con) Sarsfield, saved Blanche. A coastguard, one Frederick Shaw, saved some others and then he was drowned, but the girl he was trying to save got back to shore with help from other helpers. Another girl died. Shaw was buried in a grave in Bonmahon churchyard just beside the final resting place of Blanch herself. Blanch married her first cousin and sister-in-law's brother, Thomas Francis Buckley, on 29 April 1907. (There is a photograph in the Poole collection at the National Library of Ireland.) Tom had been born at Hackney in the last quarter of 1882. In 1901 he was working as a jeweller's assistant in the family business, Buckley & Lovell in Ludgate Hill, London. At the time of his marriage, he had a printer's and stationer's shop at 112 Wealdstone High Street. He was also sub-postmaster. The couple settled in Wealdstone, and were there in 1911, but when Blanch's brother, Dick, died in 1919, they returned to Bonmahon to help Maisie with the business. freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~davie/misc/Wat... www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001224382/

DannyM8 Brilliant, thank you! Lovely to have confirmation on the dating of our photo, and always love more information about the people in our photos. Very sad about Frederick Shaw... I've added speculative notes on the photo for Blanche's mother and brother, may be wildly wrong.

Curious point about Cornelius Sarsfield who saved Blanche as above, in 1901 census he is listed as 22 whereas in 1911 he is only 30? 1901 1911 Also The Men involved in the rescue were awarded RHS Bronze medals ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY BRONZE MEDALS CITATIONS TAKEN FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT 1902 Compiled by Peter Helmore RHS Helmore Shaw, Frederick. Coastguard. Case 32244 Holmes, Robert. Coastguard. Sarsfield, Con. Labourer. On the 7th August 1902, three ladies were bathing in the sea at Bonmahon, Co.Waterford, when they were swept out 50 yards from shore into 10 feet of water. Shaw swam out and rescued one of them, and on going out a second time was carried away and drowned. Holmes then went in and brought the second lady in, but she was dead when landed. Sarsfield succeeded in saving the third lady.

www.bbc.co.uk/wear/content/image_galleries/durham_baths_g... Norman Sarsfield was well known in County Durham for his amateur swimming. www.insweep.com/News/view/2531 There is probably a family link to the Sarsfields of Waterford. genforum.genealogy.com/sarsfield/messages/248.html

Great image and capture.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sydney Harbour Bridge, and we'd love to have this added to the group! -- Seen in your Sydney Harbour Bridge set. (?)

Thanks so much to Tony Browne for providing us with additional information about the kids in this photo. From Tony Browne: "The 89 year old lady next door said she was at the opening of the Sydney Harbor bridge and a paper took a picture and she was in the paper. I did a search and found this picture. When I showed her she remembered and all her memories of the day came back. She was very excited to see it as she no longer had a copy. The School was Bellmore North . The 2 girls featured are Isabella Watts on the left & Alice Walker then now Oldham the lady next door .;80 years ago.....she was 9 then."

Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection Great stuff!

Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection I've passed the ID on to SLNSW so they can update the details on their entry - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=280760 - they hold the dry plate. [Apologies AG if you've already thought of telling them ...]

pellethepoet A wonderful photo made even better by the identification of the school and the two girls. How amazing that someone found one of the girls! I love it when things like that just happen by chance.