"Bridge of three arches over river in foreground" is Portadown
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The somewhat long catalogue label for this image is "Bridge of three arches over river in foreground, street with terraces of chequered front houses in middle ground". While I must admit this seems desperately familiar (and fighting a feeling of déjà vu that we have visited this bridge before), today's "location unknown" image comes from the Stereo Pair collection. Are we losing it? Have we been here before? Where is "here"...?
With thanks to Mike Grimes, B-59, beachcomber, and O Mac, the location was quickly confirmed as Bann Bridge in Portadown. Captured possibly on a busy market day. The bridge was extensively rebuilt 50 or so years after this 1870s(?) image - many of the distinctive terraced houses on the right do not survive.
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: 1860-1883 (though likely after 1867/68)
NLI Ref: STP_2202
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With thanks to Mike Grimes, B-59, beachcomber, and O Mac, the location was quickly confirmed as Bann Bridge in Portadown. Captured possibly on a busy market day. The bridge was extensively rebuilt 50 or so years after this 1870s(?) image - many of the distinctive terraced houses on the right do not survive.
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: 1860-1883 (though likely after 1867/68)
NLI Ref: STP_2202
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Oretani Wildlife (Mike Grimes)
Portadown, Bann Bridge? www.google.es/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.portadownpho...
B-59
I had the same idea: www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/11993097693/ (The neigboring photos are from Portadown)
B-59
These buildings still exist (see note on photo): goo.gl/maps/XjEHf57WafD2
B-59
www.portadownphotos.co.uk/maps_of_portadown.htm has a map of 1906 with this situation (No. 5)
BeachcomberAustralia
From wikipedia - " ... There are three bridges across the river at Portadown. Bridge Street and Northway are both road bridges and there is a railway bridge beside the Northway. The 'Bann Bridge' on Bridge Street is the oldest. The story of this bridge is unusual in that it was built without a river running underneath it. After building was complete, the course of the River Bann was diverted by some 100 yards to straighten a meander. The old riverbed was then built upon. An archaeological dig in the area of the old riverbed uncovered the bones of some of those drowned in the 1641 massacre. The current bridge has been widened twice since it was built. ... " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portadown#The_River_Bann Edit: This bridge was completed in 1838, and widened on this southern side in 1922, according to www.craigavonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/rev/weatherupbridge... , so no help with the date.
O Mac
Bank of Ireland -with parapet- is evident, built 1867-68 www.dia.ie/works/view/7548/building/CO.+ARMAGH%2C+PORTADO...
BeachcomberAustralia
I am worried about that sagging arch (see note). By the time of this - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000338388 - a great big chunk of stone had fallen off ! Seems to have been fixed by this time - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000317785 - and a gas lamp added over the middle arch
silverio10
Buenas fotos antiguas .
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Great https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeegee! Thanks for that. The "location identified" klaxon is duly rung :) Always great to be able to update the map and tags for these ones....
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www.flickr.com/photos/national_archives_of_estonia/246507... The Estonians have done a better job...
BeachcomberAustralia
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] No wonder the masonry had cracks !! (see my old note)