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Where: Northern Ireland, North Down, United Kingdom
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Yet again we have a case of deja vu! We seem to have seen aspects of this estate in the past though not the castle itself. A renaissance style castle set in the North of Ireland must have seemed pretty pretentious to the sober, hard working northern folk?
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Thanks to BeachcomberAustralia, sharon.corbet, and Niall McAuley for quickly identifying that this isn't strictly a castle - but the 19th century Scottish Baronial architecture of Helen's Bay railway station in County Down. John Spooner also suggests that, unlike other stereopairs that he's helpfully "3d-ified" this image isn't an entirely true stereo image. Apparently both sides are identical.....
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1860-1883. Certainly after 1863 (construction). Perhaps some time after (ivy?)
NLI Ref: STP_1995
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Source: Flickr Commons
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To all our many supporters and contributors on this Photostream we the three Marys and all at Library towers wish you a very happy St. Patricks Day.
To the Ireland team who take on England in a Grand Slam decider tomorrow we say COME ON IRELAND
Thanks to BeachcomberAustralia, sharon.corbet, and Niall McAuley for quickly identifying that this isn't strictly a castle - but the 19th century Scottish Baronial architecture of Helen's Bay railway station in County Down. John Spooner also suggests that, unlike other stereopairs that he's helpfully "3d-ified" this image isn't an entirely true stereo image. Apparently both sides are identical.....
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1860-1883. Certainly after 1863 (construction). Perhaps some time after (ivy?)
NLI Ref: STP_1995
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: 23753
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Ooo! I recognize those bollards! https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/25307701068/
sharon.corbet
Isn't it the Railway station?
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet Yes, and there is even a Railway employee lounging on the bridge!
sharon.corbet
It's basically a companion photo to the one https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia posted, taken from the far side of the bridge in the distance.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet I think it might be between the two bridges (reverse view). At a different time 'cos of the puddles and the ivy. The bollards are a constant.
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Yeah, I think you're right. I didn't realise how wide the bridge is.
sharon.corbet
A postcard with a similar view.
John Spooner
There's something odd about this pair (as a pair). I tried to make an anaglyph from them, but in lining up the red and blue layers, I realised that the two images are identical, so there's no 3D effect at all. For example, one would expect the place in the distance where the track disappears to line up with a slightly different bit of the arch, but in both it lines up with exactly the same bit of masonry.
Vab2009
Even though I live not far from this it took me a few seconds to locate it in my brain. Heavily over grown up around it now.
Vab2009
sam2cents
Well, it's a beautiful castle. As for the northern folk, I think you've identified their historical problem - too sober.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Lord Dufferin, the landowner, was not just building grandiose fantasy memorials to himself. This 1889 newspaper article suggests he was an enlightened fellow -
From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170507615 Lord Dufferin (1826-1902) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood... Lord Dufferin and the Ghost !! - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood...Vab2009
Helen’s Bay, and the station here, (along with Helen’s Tower) were named after his mother by Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. “Lord Dufferin was devastated by her death in 1867, and built Helen's Tower, a memorial to her, on the estate at Clandeboye. A nearby bay was also named Helen's Bay, and a station of that name was built there by him, seeding the growth of the modern Belfast commuter town of Helen's Bay.”. Wikipedia at en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hamilton-Temple-Blackwo...
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Thanks all! Map, description and tags all updated as usual....
Dr. Ilia
nicely done