Children on the rocks?
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Where: Galway, Ireland
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When: 01 January 1891
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Connemara might seem an unlikely place to find marble but the green stone found there continues to fascinate. Mr. Hargrave has captured four children among the rocks of a quarry and unless my eyes deceive me they appear to be boys in dresses?
Apropos yesterdays image of a GNR railbus, Mr. Hargrave worked as a railway engineer for the Great Northern Railway so there is a connection however slight...
Photographers: Joshua H. Hargrave
Collection: Joshua H. Hargrave Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue date c.1891
NLI Ref: HAR20
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Apropos yesterdays image of a GNR railbus, Mr. Hargrave worked as a railway engineer for the Great Northern Railway so there is a connection however slight...
Photographers: Joshua H. Hargrave
Collection: Joshua H. Hargrave Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue date c.1891
NLI Ref: HAR20
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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They are working at the quarry, one has a crowbar. The clothing is protective.
BeachcomberAustralia
"Lissoughter, Recess, Galway" the catalogue says. Somewhere near here, going by the distant hills? Streetview - goo.gl/maps/cc6YTL1wGoJ2
BeachcomberAustralia
There is a 'similar item' of a child (crawling over an adult?) with a railway and a wagon to the left as if the line was being built. The Connemara railway opened in 1895 after difficulties, so the 1891 date makes sense. Was Mr Hargrave working on the railway? catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000288646 www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/...
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] I think that streetview looks good, The 25" map draws a literal blank today, but on the 1930s Cassini 6", this is marked as a Quarry (Marble).
BeachcomberAustralia
King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra visited in 1903 - via https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/. I think a few hundred metres down the hill - https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/34420994326https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/33652723663/in/dateposted/ I wonder if these lads are in that crowd 11 years on - bet they were!
Dr. Ilia
Great composition