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At this time of lockdown/social spacing/cocooning with no traffic about and Spring in the air the choir of songbirds is as clear and as beautiful as ever it was! This fine Organ and Choir Gallery in a Roman Catholic Cathedral from the Poole collection may not have as many soloists but no doubt sounded like angels. Is it still the same?
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date:between ca. 1901 and 1954
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 0225
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Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date:between ca. 1901 and 1954
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 0225
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Foxglove
one very shadowed figure at extreme left, could have a clerical collar? The other two adults appear to have hats on, women. Putting poles and pennants up for saints, does this indicate a religious feast ? The choir box has fitted light globes that could indicate that the church was finished when electricity supply was expected/planned rather than being added in afterwards.
Rory_Sherlock
Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity in Waterford
Rory_Sherlock
Flickr is sometimes amazing -![CATHEDRAL OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY [WATERFORD]-132301](https://live.staticflickr.com/4383/35995388843_7536f1436e_b.jpg)
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Organ view - goo.gl/maps/K6wKsve7m3YVzM4D7
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
History of the 1848 William Hill organ and the current specification (it is about to be restored) - waterfordcathedralchoir.webs.com/thecathedralorgan.htm Trying to find a good recording ... ... ...
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The fancily painted vaulted ceiling was quite something; better seen in this reverse view - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590104
John A. Coffey
Wonder Is that the washing or curtains on the choir gallery rail ?
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove A Retreat, perhaps?
cargeofg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hill_%26_Sons Not listed in examples of their work. Maybe Wiki needs an edit to include the companys Irish installations
cargeofg
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove] From the ESB archives esbarchives.ie/2017/09/18/connecting-waterford-to-the-nat... Arched door not in existance in 50s ? photo. Looks like a notice board with an carved surround and apex
John Spooner
Poole saw fit to register copyright for a "Photograph of Roman Catholic Cathedral, Waterford, exterior" two days before Christmas 1898. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9351135
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner] I can only find two exterior photos by Mr Poole - At 16:36 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590444 At 16:45 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590443 Spot The Differences! I think those are stained gas globes on the gallery and lethal gas jets around the pillars. The photo looks c. 1900.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia The railings have since been removed, no specific date for this however, exterior shots contemporary with interior shot?
cargeofg
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] Holder on right hand side look similar to other gas light images I have found. Globe type by organ would have had a mantle and produced better light. Gas works in the city circa 1870 www.facebook.com/WaterfordCityCentre/posts/old-gasworks-b... and from OSI 25"http://map.geohive.ie/mapviewer.html?webmap=4f5fcee8072a413185bcfaa0b509f246
ofarrl
www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ The cathedral railings were removed in 1974, they were installed originally in 1864. I remember them well, they were beautiful, black and gold, and should never have been taken away. This is a William Lawrence lithograph showing a view towards the alter with the pulpit, which was a work of art in itself, on the right.
John Spooner
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia I'll have to go to Kew to see what he copyrighted. Will involve handling photos using gloves and being let into the Invigilation Room, where CCTV follows every move. The upside is that photos are in boxes of 50, so I have to look through all 50 old photos.
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] There is a couple of Waterford gasometers in your stream that I wanted to copy over with my above comment but did not as you had a permission caveat. As a general question or would it be in closed diocesan records as to cost/contractor name of when cathedral was wired up ? https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner Know the feeling same here at The National Library of Wales. No biros no brief cases. Pencils only and any foolscap folders you have are opened and inspected when you go to the reading rooms. There was a case a few years ago and they caught the guy. He was cutting the blank fly leaves out of old books to use them as correct aged paper for forged docs and manuscripts.
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There is a later (but before 1914) Lawrence photo showing glass-shaded gasoliers near the pillars, and the lethal gas jets on the pillars have gone - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000335816 Interesting to compare with [https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]]'s photo above and Mr Poole's reverse view - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590104 They must have been a very long exposures; hence the spooky 'ghosts' trying to sit still in the back pews ...
ofarrl
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I should clarify I have no problem with links to my photos, I'm more concerned with people reposting elsewhere with no indication of the source. This happened recently with a major newspaper.
gato-gato-gato
Sehr schönes Bild, mag ich.
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner Oh no! Not look through a box of 50 old photos! The horror, the horror. But I know you'll be a brave soldier.
Wendy:
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lizinitaly Thanks Wendy.
John Spooner
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] You never know what might be among the other 49. I've come across some real gems. And there's the thrill of handling the original prints from 1898 (or whenever)..
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner Oh yes! Philip Larkin said of manuscripts, but could as easily apply to photographs, that they have a meaningful value – how they can enlarge our knowledge. But they also have a magical value – feeling that you are actually ‘touching’ the past...
le cabri
Great catch
Bernard Healy
The noticeboard at the back seems to have the 'mortuary cards' of people who have died. Perhaps that used to be common, but I've only rarely seen it in recent times.