Post Office, Carnlough, Co. Antrim
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A familiar bridge but a different focus. We have seen this bridge before from the other side. But today, the focus is on the Post Office at Carnlough in Co. Antrim. The scene really has a charm all its own!
With thanks to today's contributors, there's a suggestion that this image may date from the latter half of the catalogue range - possibly early 20th rather than late 19th century. If so, those pictured at the Post Office door may be members of the McSparron family, who were running it at the time of the 1901 and later 1911 census....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: between ca. 1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_06575
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Source: Flickr Commons
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With thanks to today's contributors, there's a suggestion that this image may date from the latter half of the catalogue range - possibly early 20th rather than late 19th century. If so, those pictured at the Post Office door may be members of the McSparron family, who were running it at the time of the 1901 and later 1911 census....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: between ca. 1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_06575
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: 27120
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derangedlemur
Wot, no headless engineman?
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09:00
derangedlemur
Stands the church clock at ten to three, Does no one wind the bloody thing but me?
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The headless one was 16:43 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/9464854780/
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Thanks to megazoom™, the sign on the bridge reads ...
Vab2009
Cracking images of a gorgeous wee spot. Just been reading all the history on the image from 3 years ago. Love this wee place with its limestone harbour.
DannyM8
There is half a dog half way up the street.
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Map via https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/9487137215/ And 'now' view via https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/15056155242/
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Look what ended up at this Carnlough Post Office in 1917 !!
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130589521sharon.corbet
In both 1901 and 1911, John
McSparrowMcSparron was the postmaster at Carnlough. (Assisted at least in 1901 by his daughter, Mary.)Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] Streetview says that A. McSparron was running a Funeral Home here in 2011.
Niall McAuley
Sadly illegible posters under the bridge...
Niall McAuley
Beyond the bridge, the man sat on the bench is wearing a boater - so I'll guess 1905. Does the sign above him say Temperance restaurant?
derangedlemur
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] Seems to: www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/26243373243/in/dateposted/
Swordscookie
Somehow without the headless train driver it just doesn't have the same appeal??
DannyM8
https://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie I strongly disagree - there is not even a quarter of a dog in the other one......
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks all. If this image was taken around or between the 1901 and 1911 censuses, it seems reasonable to think that those pictured at the Post Office door include Mary McSparron and number of her younger siblings.
guliolopez
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] There seems to be three McSparron undertakers in the area now: J(ohn)?, Ambrose and Michael. The latter seemingly the "singing undertaker from Carnlough". According to Ambrose's website "following in the footsteps of his parents - John and Mary - [...] based in Carnlough, Co. Antrim, where the family have been in the undertaking business since 1927". Seems likely to be a family connection and diversification from the post-office business in the decades after this image...
O Mac
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] I think you are right and we could safely speculate that we are looking at the McSparron family at the post office with Anna, Bridget and Sara at the near door and Mary and John at the other. Anna is not in the 1901 census but was 20 and two years younger than Bridget in 1911... ie 10 in 1901, If it is them they look a bit younger here which would put date slightly pre 1901. W.L. and Co. was in Carnlough at least 3 times. The above photograph was taken after L_CAB_02172 ( no telephone/telegraph connection) and before L_ROY_06573 where there is a new building and stairs across the road. The roof of this building can be seen in the headless engine driver shot putting it later than the above.
silverio10
Muy buenas fotos antiguas .
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Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Nice!
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The census in both 1901 and 1911 says McSporrans has 6 windows to the front, so all these people are part of the household. I think this is ~10 years earlier, 1891, and the couple are John and Ellen, with the three of the older children in the door, Mary (19ish) with 2 of Ellen, Lizzie and Sarah. (10 ish) Daughter Mary from the 1901 census died in May 1903 from TB. From the birth record of Anna Maria Josephine in 1891, Mrs McSparron was Ellen née McLaughlin, and John was postmaster at Carnlough at that time. Likewise for Daniel 1887.