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This beautiful Royal plate from the Lawrence collection was taken by Robert French in "Happy Valley" near Newcastle, County Down. The scene is idyllic (if rather rugged for true happiness) but then the road to happiness is sometimes long and tortured....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_06370
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Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_06370
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Colourizeified - www.postcardsireland.com/postcard/happy-valley-and-castle... Can anyone read the postmark date? Please post a streetview - I'm hopelessly lost!
B-59
Slieve Binnian in the background.
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The photo was taken likely from here
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The nearest views I could find: Photo by Andrew Hanna Streetview (unfortunately with clouds)
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Better (street-)view
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Is that part of the Mourne Wall, commenced 1904 (see note)? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourne_Wall en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Valley_Reservoir
guliolopez
Anyone interested in vintage photography processes (even if only in a passing sense) might find this tin-type demo interesting and easily digestible: www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=100&v=T_gQgkCfj7w
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
More history of the waterworks, including this caption on another Lawrence photo - "The Silent Valley, then known as "Happy Valley", before the Dam building began." See - www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/down/A1068... And the other Lawrence photo - see the Mourne Wall on the right hand side catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000333152
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] I'm pretty sure that this is indeed the Mourne Wall on the Moolieve. I think it's the same wall behind the house, though the course is slightly different on the map in www.mourne-mountains.com/mournes/information/the-mourne-w....
Niall McAuley
So is that Colligan Bridge?
Niall McAuley
Some big-bore water pipes noted.
Niall McAuley
Wikipedia says the Silent valley Reservoir was only built from 1923, so those pipes are too earlier for that.
Rory_Sherlock
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] It is Colligan Bridge - compare it to this image, which shows a different house (and very little forestry): www.nmni.com/collections/history/photographs/green-collec...
Rory_Sherlock
The house in the NMNI image (from the Green Collection) is the Water Superintendent's House (associated with the Silent Valley Reservoir) - it is still there: www.google.ie/maps/@54.1167342,-5.9976369,3a,75y,328.29h,... It is dated in the NISMR to 1900 - 1919 and the NMNI image clearly post-dates the construction of this house, while the Lawrence Collection image predates it. However, the activity captured by French in the Lawrence Collection image (workmen building a wall at centre, large pipes stockpiled nearby, small wooden shed under construction (?) at right, larger wooden house in the foreground under construction [roof is partly covered with a single strip of roofing felt or similar material]) would suggest that French visited the area as some significant engineering works were about to start - this may have included the Water Superintendent's House and a pipeline. Perhaps these works were undertaken before WWI interrupted the project and then the reservoir itself was built from 1923 onwards? www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/down/A1068...
domenico milella
Congratulation for your beautiful Album - Nice Week End.