williampower

what a lovely image!

Is that the same little lady as in the previous Powers posting.Maybe a member of the family?.

Yes!! The prize of (virtual) Christmas pudding goes to philip ward !! It is the same girl, as suggested before - maybe a daughter of the Powers... Either way, it allows us to date Hamburg! Urgent! to 1929, rather than somewhere between 1926 and 1939... :)

Rather an odd outfit for the driver. No wonder he looks out of sorts. First thing I thought when I saw the young lady was that we had seen her before in the Hamburg Urgent shot but I had been away working and had not see todays posts. She is dressed up all fancy in this one but she still looks very pretty. As regards the trees morrisoxfordV there are a variety of trees for the good reason that Powers sold seeds and trees!

I eagerly await the pudding in my email.

This is a beautiful studio portrait of a truly great Irishman who has been almost forgotten in light of the Rising and the war that followed it. He had achieved his objective of Home Rule only to be thwarted by the onset of the Great War and the fudge by the Government of the time! " John Edward Redmond (1 September 1856 – 6 March 1918) was an Irish nationalist politician, barrister, MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 to 1918. He was a moderate, constitutional and conciliatory politician who attained the twin dominant objectives of his political life, party unity and finally in September 1914 achieving the promise of Irish Home Rule under an Act which granted an interim form of self-government to Ireland. However, implementation of the Act was suspended by the intervention of World War I, and ultimately made untenable after the Conscription Crisis of 1918. He was the elder brother of Willie Redmond and father of William Archer Redmond, both of whom were to serve as MPs in his party"

Redmond married twice, his first wife was a Dalton from Australia and she died after having borne three children. He married Ada Beesley and I suspect that this is Ada as there is little resemblance that I can detect between the young lady sitting at his knee and the lady with her hand on his shoulder!

It is a superb portrait! Looking large I feel I can touch his shoes as the detail and 3d quality is excellent.

The date must be before his death for starters!

His first wife Johanna died in 1889, he married Ada in 1899.

I'm a kind of a city fella but I always thought swedes were blonde??? Seriously I thought that swedes were smaller and whiter than these. Apparently these were rarely used for human consumption until WW1, they were used to feed animals until then. When I was growing up they were referred to as Mangols!

Swordscookie Well, some of this series of photos are described as Swedish Turnips which I think was the photographer hedging his bets!

My instinct is swede, but then according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutabaga whilst known as swede in most British English speaking countries, this is known as turnip in Ireland!!!

And then according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnip "The leaves grow directly from the above-ground shoulder of the root, with little or no visible crown or neck (as found in rutabagas)" [rutabaga=swede - see link above!]. This seems to again make these swedes (in the British English sense, but not the Irish sense!) as the ones shown here DO have a neck I feel.

They look like swedes - turnips are much smaller and flatter. Swedes have orange flesh, turnips white.

Just to confuse matters, swedes were known as turnips where I grew up in Yorkshire (1950s) and they're called neeps in Scotland.

So far, the Swedes seem to have it! And [http://www.flickr.com/photos/22562862@N06] isn't there a traditional dish in Scotland that's "something and neeps" or "neeps and something", just like bacon and cabbage here?