Earl Street, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
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Another fine Lawrence street shot taken by the inimitable Mr. French to start our week! Here we have not only a goodly, straight and clean street but the denizens thereof watching the artist as he takes their image for posterity. Looking at the lady with the donkey and cart dressed in a shawl and bowler hat it strikes me how closely that dress resembles the dress of the women in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador in the high Andes. Can anybody see the man with one leg?
Thanks to all of today's contributors - including to B-59 and Niall McAuley who draw our attention to the street names. Including that the main street we see ("Earl Street") was renamed (to "Pearse Street") in the decades that followed this image, while one of the side-streets has an Irish language street sign (later standardised to "Boithrín Tobar an Sconna")...
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: between 1880-1900
NLI Ref: L_ROY_08093
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Thanks to all of today's contributors - including to B-59 and Niall McAuley who draw our attention to the street names. Including that the main street we see ("Earl Street") was renamed (to "Pearse Street") in the decades that followed this image, while one of the side-streets has an Irish language street sign (later standardised to "Boithrín Tobar an Sconna")...
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: between 1880-1900
NLI Ref: L_ROY_08093
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
Views: 79301
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B-59
Streetview 2014: goo.gl/maps/MhywBh5gmWr
Foxglove
oh my first thought was "BOLIVIA" !! :-) the original source of the potato mmmmm
Swordscookie
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove Me too! I notice the boy with the white collar on the right is carrying a basket similar to the one my Dad used when he was working on the the railway. He would carry his lunch and necessities in it with his "journals" where he noted the accounts of the times and places he would go to!
B-59
Now Pearse Street According to mullingarhistory.wordpress.com/mullingar-town-council-blogs/, Earl Street appears to have been named in honour of the new Landlord of Mullingar, Colonel Greville, who had purchased the town in 1858. In 1920-21, streets were re-named after patriot dead and other suitable figures.
Niall McAuley
We see the gable of #18 at right, built in 1870. If it was built, we would see the bay window of 20-22, built around 1890.
Niall McAuley
Interesting that Spout Well Lane to the right is labelled as gaeilge - Sraidin Tobar an Something. Today the sign says Boithrín Tobar an Sconna.
Niall McAuley
Lots of these names in the 1901 census Daly, Barry, Smyth, Fegan, Nooney. I would not be surprised if the happy man outside the butcher's shop is William Barry.
Niall McAuley
There is a bicycle parked over the way, so not too early. I think mid-late
1990s1890s.ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] "mid-late 1990s" ?!?! A few seconds later, see the hay-cart moving away - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000332059
Niall McAuley
this reverse view looks to me like the same day - see parked bicycle outside Nooneys, man with crutch in distant left.
Niall McAuley
In that one, I see that Nooneys are selling Carburine Motor Spirit. A HAWS suggests "around 1900" for when that brand appeared. Also ads for Bovril, launched in 1889.
Niall McAuley
In the reverse view, I see Porter at left (with Bovril ads) next door to Murray. He appears as the mistranscribed Parter in 1911, but no Murray next door. Murray appears in the 1901 in the empty house #20, but no Porter next door. So between 1901 and 1911, the two must have been next door at some point!
mickyman13
The man with one leg is easy, I like the mobile haystack. just need a dog and it would be complete!
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Mullingar seems to inspire poetry. Some contemporary Trove finds... Mullingar Mike's Bike - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12752305 (1899) The Pride of Mullingar (in limerick form with illustration) - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/211587418 (1903) Mullingar! - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/212360749 (1919) And a Leprechaun sighting! - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/212622181 (1908)
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks all! I thought the sign for "Mortimer's Plymouth Dye Works" (outside Murphy's?) was an interesting one - hadn't spotted the Irish language street sign for Sráidín Tobar [...]. Somewhat interesting to note that Earl Street and the Sráidín were relabelled (for likely significantly differing reasons) in the half-century that followed this image...
Martina Gallery
Wow! I'm in love with your photos
le cabri
Cool shot
RETRO STU
The name 'Daly' can still be seen on many shop signs around Mullingar!
nannyjean35
how styles have changed
jackthestroller
General View, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath graphic by French, Robert, 1841-1917 photographer Published / Created: between ca. 1865-1914. In collection: The Lawrence Photograph Collection “...Mullingar. 1587. W. L.... I was wondering would you kindly think of putting up this picture. I think this is a stunning picture. If you were to see the street Scape today it has changed completely. all the thatched cottages are demolished and the old cathedral is gone replaced by a much grander one. I spotted the picture the other day and couldn't believe my eyes. it's another world . The clarity of the photograph is magnificent.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Do you mean this one from the catalogue [https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]]? If so, I've "added it to the list". We'll post it in the coming few months....
jackthestroller
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ yes that's the one .it's amazing. The photo is almost HD if you know what I mean . one can zoom in and get a real sense of Mullingar at the time .