Cemetery, Belfast, Co. Antrim
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Good morning everyone, the excitement is palpable, the activity is corybantic, preparations are nearing an end, only two more sleeps until the opening of our Flicker exhibition "Photo Detectives"
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Getting back to the days task, we have a very nice photo from the dead center of Belfast for your perusal, all contributions and comments welcome.
Other than puns and poetry (and confirmation that the fountain is now more flower-bed than water-feature), the main learning today was that this fountain was built by the Sun Foundry around 1880 - helping condense the likely date range quite a bit....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. Possibly shortly after c.1880 (fountain built)
NLI Ref: L_CAB_05567
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Keep tuned for further news and updates.
Getting back to the days task, we have a very nice photo from the dead center of Belfast for your perusal, all contributions and comments welcome.
Other than puns and poetry (and confirmation that the fountain is now more flower-bed than water-feature), the main learning today was that this fountain was built by the Sun Foundry around 1880 - helping condense the likely date range quite a bit....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. Possibly shortly after c.1880 (fountain built)
NLI Ref: L_CAB_05567
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
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M0GNM
I think that's the 'City Cemetery'.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] thank you.
M0GNM
www.geograph.ie/photo/811787
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Flickr is sometimes amazing ... in 2007 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/garymcmurray/ Looks like it doesn't squirt any more and the cherubs have departed - https://www.flickr.com/photos/garymcmurray/1030003971/
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From this one - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000323560 - the iron fountain was made in the Sun Foundry in Glasgow. But when?
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia From the link above I see - The fountain was installed in 1880 by George Smith and Company of the Sun Foundry, Glasgow.
Niall McAuley
No particular proof, but that fountain looks brand new to me...
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The Jaffe fountain in Belfast also came from the Sun Foundry - [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/29002622913/] memorialdrinkingfountains.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/jaffe-...
Niall McAuley
There is a cherub holding an oar in this one in Monkstown, also from the Sun foundry:
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Red Herring - If you think this fountain is fancy, check out what the Sun foundry put in Paisley in 1868 (restored 2014) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/25980138870/
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guliolopez
As https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley mentions, the fountain looks pretty spanking new to me - so could be quite close to the 1880 opening. The people in the background intrigue me (especially the man in the top hat with the line of well-dressed kiddies). Are they on their way to/from a funeral? And/or just enjoying the environs and fountain?
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Well done.
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I wonder why it was turned off / filled in ?
O Mac
The Sun Foundry fountain in the DunLaoghaires People's Park is still "squirting" www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/27379923856
Foxglove
it gasp at a bit of it's glory as the decades pass
Foxglove
it has lost..... etc Oh it's not " dead centre" of town it's out in the West of the falls road
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove :) (FYI - Date and location all updated based on today's lyrical and literal inputs...)