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An interesting scene!

Your observation is an interesting one. The well dressed adults (overcoats, shoes and hats) on a cold damp looking day, is a harsh contrast to the young barefoot child with just a jumper and shorts. When browsing through Mount Saint Lawrence’s Cemetery burial records, it’s therefore not surprising to see a high ratio of children dying young at that time. Many tough kids had to survive Frank McCourt’s Limerick.

That poor man will never be able to pull that contraption all the way to Ardnacrusha! A factor in it's positioning is that most of the houses in Georgian Limerick had coal cellars that went out under the streets and might not have borne the weight of the Steam Shovel. You will note that it is in the centre of the roadway where it was strongest.

KölnMike Well, it just struck me that here we have a behemoth of modern technology, imported from Germany, lumbering off to what was one of the largest engineering projects in the world at that time - and a boy barefoot on the street watching it pass by. While I'm always wary of making assumptions about lack of shoes, in this case, he really does look poor juxtaposed with some of the men...

KolnMike - I wonder how many Limerick people would consider any aspect of their city to be Frank McCourts? I know what you mean though, the hardships, the conditions and the poverty.

This is actually much sharper that the other shot though not enough to be definitive about the time which I take to be 1205? but I wouldn't bet on it. The architect/town planner had a great eye for setting off his building to perfection, the line of Georgian houses leading down to the elegant church with clock tower at the end, very nice view.

Swordscookie It is lovely, like the gorgeous view down Upper Mount Street to the Pepper Cannister church. And taken later in the day, as the awning has been unfurled at Field's?

Aeroplane Disaster? "On 5th July 1912, Captain E.B. Loraine and Staff-Sergeant R.H.V. Wilson were killed near the junction of the A344, A360 and B3086 grid reference SU098429. They were flying a Nieuport Monoplane and when making a tight turn the aeroplane plunged toward the ground and crashed." Edit: Does this billboard say "Daily News and Leader"? The paper was only called that from sometime in 1912, when the Daily News merged with the Morning Leader.

Niall McAuley Just double-checked original, and it is indeed the Daily News & Leader!! So, changing to Circa 1912 for both of these photos. But going to leave the question mark in situ for a wee while longer, though 1912 is looking very promising, especially given your Aeroplane Disaster find above...

I firmly believe that there are no dogs in this photo..........

James Murtland, buried at Grove Town Cemetery, Maulte
www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/search-results/?S...

In the 1911 census James Murtland was a shirt cutter

John Spooner not the best skill to take to war with you.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons As you mention it, a lot of recruits from Coventry ended up in the machine gun corps, because it was assumed you worked in the motorcycle industry, and could operate and/or fix a motorcycle used to transport the machine gun (like my brother-in-law's grandfather). Likewise if you were from Grimsby the chances were you'd end up in an armoured trawler fighting the submarine menace (like Gainsborough Trinity goalkeeper Jim Bagshaw). But yes, difficult to find a suitable role for a shirt-cutter.