Three men at bridge - ads on wall for Lyons cafe and goods.
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Where: Sligo, Ireland
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When: 01 January 1926
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In Lyons you pays your money and takes your choice, cafe, furniture or funeral, all available here! An interesting shot but where????
B-59 receives all the plaudits for his investigations around this photo. He Identifies the location and also points us to the website of Henry Lyons & Co Ltd. Their history section is interesting as they were established in 1835 or over 180 years ago - a marvelous achievement for any business.
Henry Lyons Department Store was established in 1835 on Lower Knox Street.
Henry Lyons has always been an innovator and keen to increase sales as part of that they produced a seasonal brochure which contained all items that were for sale in the shop. They also ran a wholesale business and served from Belmullet to Tory Island.
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: labelled in catalogue as "c.1890-1910", but likely mid/late-1920s
NLI Ref: M20/32/5
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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B-59 receives all the plaudits for his investigations around this photo. He Identifies the location and also points us to the website of Henry Lyons & Co Ltd. Their history section is interesting as they were established in 1835 or over 180 years ago - a marvelous achievement for any business.
Henry Lyons Department Store was established in 1835 on Lower Knox Street.
Henry Lyons has always been an innovator and keen to increase sales as part of that they produced a seasonal brochure which contained all items that were for sale in the shop. They also ran a wholesale business and served from Belmullet to Tory Island.
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: labelled in catalogue as "c.1890-1910", but likely mid/late-1920s
NLI Ref: M20/32/5
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Nick Stewart2
Moderate charges. Not the cheapest in town then! Love the terminology.
B-59
Hyde Bridge, Sligo www.flickr.com/photos/crexcrex/3808473226/ Streetview: goo.gl/maps/Fh1AnQuD8x72
Swordscookie
Very good B-59, I was thinking Derry!
B-59
The Lyons Café and Warehouse is still nearby www.lyonscafe.com/about henrylyons.ie/ goo.gl/maps/ZH7sWUfajZt
B-59
Formerly Victoria Bridge: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,569079,836059,12,9
B-59
S. also archiseek.com/2009/1852-hyde-bridge-sligo-co-sligo/ www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...
BeachcomberAustralia
Pooh sticks! That's what they're doing.
Niall McAuley
I think we were here before, I remember eyeing the stone blocks in the wall on Streetview.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Here is a photograph from 2010 https://www.flickr.com/photos/griangrafphotograph/4952767508/in/photolist-8xEeef-8xBcAF-umYDpC-visWuC-umYDUA-un9SyH-vjjxgT-v2wVSv-v2xfuR-vgFBtm-un9KjT-vgFk3f-v2q6pu-viZsme-umZ6mY-vgFjuw-viZ1Hk-un9TNg-umZ4sC-vgFdPy-v2xjJx-vgFFbw-4VNpBp-dFEVnd-Dxgaaf-dFEVq3-4VSE4E-9y4xih-9y1yxP-9y1ygg-2mkXWN-5H32ka-bu1RMr-bu1SqK-bu1T6D-bu1ThV-bu1Sh8-bu1Tsr-bu1SUX-bu1Uqc-bu1U4x-bu1Sxt-bu1PQM-bu1RW2-bu1SJv-bu1UBk-23LBFs-2k6nCW-5spVow-oeYHJ4
sharon.corbet
There was an interesting article in the Indo about Lyon's during WWI and the War of Independence, including the following: Due to the fact that both the Great War and the War of Independence overlapped, the Lyons family found themselves in the unusual situation of having men from both sides working in the shop. In the mornings, staff would have to report to the manager, or matron's office, where they were ordered to leave their guns. At the end of the day, employees would take up their arms and fight against their colleagues as soon as they walked out the door.
guliolopez
I don't think it's "pooh sticks" [https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] They are looking into the race/wier - the same as the people we see in [https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]]'s street view 100+ years later. (I'm surprised sometimes at both how much or how little the "then and now" street views appear. I don't think we've ever had three rear-ends appear in almost exactly the same spot..... Though clearly hanging over the bridge at that spot is the "done thing" in Sligo - now matter what the year it is or what age you are...)
O Mac
The earliest date has to be after 1906. In this Lawrence L_ROY_11534 the hole in the roof of the building next door isn't as big as it is above---- so todays picture was taken later. Henry Lyon's shop on Lower Knox Street as seen in the W.L. was built in 1906. The fedora and fancy pants on the lads would have me thinking the picture was taken in the 1920's.
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] It's from after 1926, as that's when the café opened.
O Mac
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Very Good. That's the second time now that the Mason upper date range has been a good bit out.. ..the Carndonagh Alcohol Factory being the last time.
BeachcomberAustralia
"Oxford Bags" what the lads are wearing - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_bags - The style supposedly originated from a ban in 1924 on the wearing of knickers by Oxford (and Cambridge) undergraduates at lectures. The bagginess allowed knickers to be hidden underneath easily.
silverio10
Buena serie de fotos antiguas .