Roadway showing motor car parked outside house, Mountmellick, Co. Laois
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Where: Laois, Ireland
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When: Unknown
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This rural scene appears to have been taken in one of those sunny summer days with the sound of bees buzzing and birds singing clearly in the background. The good old days before Global warming?
This is an easy summary to write thanks to O Mac who pointed us to previous research by Paddy Brennan, as a consequence we have identified the location, the owner of the house and the owner of the car!
The car is outside of Robert Middleton Smith residence at Park Terrace (Mountmellick Co Laois then Queen's Co.
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: Between 1900 - 1920
NLI Ref: Eas 2732
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This is an easy summary to write thanks to O Mac who pointed us to previous research by Paddy Brennan, as a consequence we have identified the location, the owner of the house and the owner of the car!
The car is outside of Robert Middleton Smith residence at Park Terrace (Mountmellick Co Laois then Queen's Co.
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: Between 1900 - 1920
NLI Ref: Eas 2732
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
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Apologies for the delay this morning, there was an accident on the M1 that caused delays getting here today!
Swordscookie
I can hear the cows lowing in the meadow on the right!
patrick.vickers1
Like the pedestrian walkway, shows consideration for those on foot.
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?? Pearse Street looking north - streetview - goo.gl/maps/VmBbAEh1Qmu
Niall McAuley
LN 3844 is a London registration.
RETRO STU
Same car in another part of Mountmellick? If so, a coincidence or could it be the photographer's car? catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000048053
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Would that make it 1907 or later?
O Mac
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] In the comments attached to Eas 2728 below [https://www.flickr.com/photos/paddyb] says "The car outside Humphrey Smiths shop could possible be the same car photographed outside Robert Middleton Smith residents of a house 1 in Park Terrace (Mountmellick Urban, Queen's Co."---which is the above house. maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,644949,707090,12,9 www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/8099355385/in/photolist-d... And we also had Eas 2731, "Wexford Millionaires", ---the previous photograph in the series--- where the date was reckoned to be 26th May 1911. www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/8741021052/
Brendan Doyle
My home town
Gerard Knight
Love that old car
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/paddyb You will be interested in this.
O Mac
Looks likes a 6hp 1907 Rover www.flickr.com/photos/rccapics/4580567474/in/photolist-Bf...