"Wellington from F's room. Fishing"
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The title on today's image from the Clonbrock Collection could be a really difficult clue from a cryptic crossword! "Wellington from F's room. Fishing" could easily be 12 down or perhaps 3 across? It is a photograph this time whereas most Clonbrock images up to now have been glass plates so after 70 million views we can begin with something different!
There general consensus is that "Wellington" is Wellington College in Berkshire, and that the "F" who has a room here is perhaps Francis Marcus Crofton - grandson of Edith Dillon.....
Thank you all for the fantastic support that enabled the NLI images to garner such an incredible level of viewing as well as the wonderful research and identification that has gone on. It has been a joy to take a small part therein!
Photographers: Dillon Family
Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon
Collection: Clonbrock photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue date c.1950-1960
NLI Ref: CLON1722
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Source: Flickr Commons
Views: 12045
There general consensus is that "Wellington" is Wellington College in Berkshire, and that the "F" who has a room here is perhaps Francis Marcus Crofton - grandson of Edith Dillon.....
Thank you all for the fantastic support that enabled the NLI images to garner such an incredible level of viewing as well as the wonderful research and identification that has gone on. It has been a joy to take a small part therein!
Photographers: Dillon Family
Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon
Collection: Clonbrock photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue date c.1950-1960
NLI Ref: CLON1722
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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John Spooner
Heroum filii (sons of heroes) is the motto or Wellington College
derangedlemur
Presumably wellington college, as viewed by one of the inmates.
abandoned railways
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_College,_Berkshire#Archi...
John Spooner
J.P.G Worlledge, whose box featured a few years ago, attended Wellington College.
BeachcomberAustralia
Flickr is sometimes 70,000,000 x amazing! Not quite from "F's" room, but close. In 2011 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/5797625876/
B-59
View in 2016 (by r kennedy): goo.gl/maps/BB4LjCKFxrP2
Niall McAuley
Can probably see F's room in this Google photosphere, but can't tell which one it is.
silverio10
Buenas fotos antiguas .
John Spooner
It's near enough to where I live that I could cycle there this afternoon for a shufti, but I don't think they'd approve of an oik like me nosing around uninvited.
O Mac
I think there's a possibility that the F could be Francis Marcus Crofton grandson of Edith Dillon. His mother Ursula Crofton is seen here in France 1956. Also in 1956 there's another photograph of Wellington Collage showing sailors marching . Francis had risen to rank of midshipman before he was killed in a car crash in 1960. He would have been 16 in 1956.. Age profile fits too.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner,https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected], and https://www.flickr.com/photos/abandonedrailsireland for confirmation on the "Wellington". And https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] for the suggestion on who "F" was. I've added a short note to the description to reflect....
BeachcomberAustralia
What about the "Fishing" reference?