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Quite a long exposure by the looks of it. Another auction poster on the church gate. The church has a sort of C of I look about it, which might help narrowing the search down.

There is a Blackhall a retired Grocer in Mountbellew in 1911 www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Mount_Be...

I've done a quick streetview of all the Blackall locations form the census and there's nothing like this. It seems to be a church attached to an ecclesiastical ruin of some sort - maybe an abbey or maybe just an older church.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Is the auction poster on the arch legible if you stick the negative into a microfiche reader?

Hi, This is St. Mary's Church, Athenry, Co. Galway.

The Gorman's Medical Hall store caught my eye first, so thanks for highlighting the World War I poster. We've been going through our WWI holdings lately in preparation for the centennial. Maybe we could compare notes? -- Helena (LOC)

The Library of Congress And you have this poster too! Absolutely to the comparing of notes. Carol (NLI)

Hi Carol, I always thought that the L&N was the London & Newcastle Tea Company of the UK that was geographically located in the South/South Eastern part of the Republic of Ireland, which is what I thought that shop was beside the Chemist? Am I wrong in thinking they are one and the same as L&N.W. Midland?

ClickKen04 Afternoon Ken. This shop/office is definitely a railway company outlet. Thinking L & NW Midland was London & North West Midland? And L & Y Railways may have been Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, as there's a huge picture of Blackpool in the window also. But either way, think we're talking trains rather than tea, because the other poster is advertising "Special Services" between England and Ireland via Holyhead - in fact that was a Christmas 1914 poster that probably should have been taken down by 5 January... And oddly enough, have had a search for images of an L & N shop in Waterford, but can't find any by title, unless the shops are just incidentally in photos. But there were L & Ns on the Quays, and in Ballybricken, I think...

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Tks for that Carol. You make a lot of sense in your Observation. As for the L&N's, not sure about Ballybricken, they has a warehouse on the Cork Road in the 1980's, (not a huge distance from Ballybricken), but they had a small store on the 'North side' of the river, FERRYBANK I think it was called, which closed in the 80's I think due to various local competition and changes in demography. They had one called the ' L&N Hypermarket' on the 'Southside' of the river which this particular one has been taken over by Musgraves/Supervalu. My own information comes from being a Sales rep in the 80's and unfortunately never thought to take any photos of the stores I called in to. Thanks for all that info Carol though, very interesting.

well ... the shadow is almost under the bodies so ... I'd say the time here is noon... I leave the clothing to you all ! Seems it was a bit of a windy day (observing the flags on buildings).

Well, sure we may as well have the streetview: maps.google.ie/?ll=53.339816,-6.260855&spn=0.000026,0...

Is the tram horse drawn or is it just running someone over? I don't see any wires but there's a couple of legs up the front. edit: "Discussions towards electrification began in late 1890", so it's definitely a horse.

I assume it's at the top of Grafton Street. There wouldn't be any business for the sidecars at any other corner of the green.

None of the park's corners has a rounded fence today. Also the cobbled surface and the tramways have long been gone. Ironically, there are as many carts and horses in the picture as there are nowadays. Some things never change :)