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Up to the "wee North" today with a fine Lawrence shot of High Street in Portadown. A fine broad street, big well-built premises, gas lamps, and horse apples in abundance - all might mean this was late 1800s...?
....Or perhaps not the late 1800s after-all. Thanks to today's contributions (and the high-res megazoom version) the community's eagle-eyes spotted an apparently dated shop-window display suggesting a date of 1906. Niall McAuley's census and street-directory investigations would seem to corroberate this - as Hoy's boot-sellers (far left) seem to have left Portadown sometime between 1901 and 1910. Perhaps the "cheap boots sale" we see advertised was actually a closing/relocation sale? Courtney (the "Italian Warehouseman"?) seems to have been around for a few years after this image. And is it no wonder he did a busy trade, given that (as advertised) he always had "pickles in stock"! :)
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. Possibly c.1906
NLI Ref: L_ROY_09282
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....Or perhaps not the late 1800s after-all. Thanks to today's contributions (and the high-res megazoom version) the community's eagle-eyes spotted an apparently dated shop-window display suggesting a date of 1906. Niall McAuley's census and street-directory investigations would seem to corroberate this - as Hoy's boot-sellers (far left) seem to have left Portadown sometime between 1901 and 1910. Perhaps the "cheap boots sale" we see advertised was actually a closing/relocation sale? Courtney (the "Italian Warehouseman"?) seems to have been around for a few years after this image. And is it no wonder he did a busy trade, given that (as advertised) he always had "pickles in stock"! :)
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. Possibly c.1906
NLI Ref: L_ROY_09282
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Niall McAuley
In 1901, Joseph Hoy is 46. Clement Courtney(mispelled) is 50. Thomas James Montgomery is 55.
Niall McAuley
In 1911, Courtney and Montgomery are still there, but no Hoy. Joseph Hoy has moved to Armagh.
RETRO STU
Growing ivy from a window-box, that's unusual.
Niall McAuley
In 1890, I see Hoy, but Courtney is on Market St. and no T Montgomery.
Niall McAuley
1895: Hoy and Courtney are on High St, no T Montgomery. Likewise 1897 By 1899 Montgomery is there.
Niall McAuley
All 3 there in 1907.
Niall McAuley
Hoy gone in 1910
Niall McAuley
So 1897-1910.
Niall McAuley
Felix O'Hanlon, Spirit merchant is 72 in 1901, but lives in a house on William St., not over his bar.
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I think Mr Montgomery has a "1906" date in his window. See note and megazoom.
Niall McAuley
In 1900 and 1907 I see Allen, Paul, Davison Bros., Canavan, and O'Hanlon, no help.
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Spot the
dogdogs!Niall McAuley
At far right, the brick building at the corner of Thomas St./market St. is under construction. per the DIA, 8 houses and shops were built on Thomas St. in 1909.
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Yes, that does look like a 1906, and that would be consistent with the street directories - but why put the year in your window like that??
B-59
Streetview: goo.gl/maps/1bKr2PDmbwM2
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] So we could find it 110 years later !! Thanks megazoom. And Mr Montgomery! Several ads for Cerebos salt which started in 1892 - interesting history of free-pouring salt, which we take for granted - cosgb.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/cerebos-ltd.html
DannyM8
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Got them both!
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1907 Interesting Red Herring -
From trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134695541 2/11/1907derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Possibly this year's tea, or last year's if he's selling it cheap.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks all! Tags, description and location map all updated. (While changing the latter, I noticed that this image is taken only a few paces from a previous Portadown image from the Eason collection. Below). www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/5969567125/
Niall McAuley
We previously had L_ROY_09280, also in portadown and nearby in the catalogue, which is the Carnegie Library which opened in August 1905 looking new, so 1906 seems likely.