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Where: N Ireland, Fermanagh and Omagh, UK
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Since you had so much fun yesterday, we decided to give you a real puggle today. An institutional building at the edge of a river with a beautiful bridge right before it. Where is it? What is/was it? And what does it look like now???
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: between ca. 1860-1883
NLI Ref: STP_0941
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Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: between ca. 1860-1883
NLI Ref: STP_0941
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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O Mac
Belleeeeeeek .. maps.app.goo.gl/mB2cGkKZMhpjEdYz6 We've been here before.
sharon.corbet
Belleek Pottery https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/24239038740
suckindeesel
Looking across a future border
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Ok we know its Belleek, but what do we know about the pottery and the Town itself? It is built on a very strategic crossing point.
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Here is the company history. It was founded by John Caldwell Bloomfield, who inherited the land in 1849, and was looking for something with which to employ people after the famine. There’s some info as well from our last outing here - particularly dating info.
cargeofg
In the company history David Mc Birney Dublin merchant. I would take it he is the same person along with Robert Collis who founded Mc Birneys on Aston Quay.
Foxglove
once stayed in Belleek for a week..... never finished the proto limerick.. my family had a growing collection of Belleek pottery as it was used for sporty prize givings , big sales in the USA too. last time I was in Belleek the factory flew an enormous "stars and stripes"
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove I have seen some of the products on the Antiques Roadshow, if I remember correctly similar designs are worth more or less depending on the date stamp (?) originally applier by the Pottery.
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove From what my mother told me the earlier marks were black and later ones green. Black Belleek as she called it was more valuable.
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] The website has a Date your Belleek section with the datestamps.
cargeofg
www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/100627372908865986/Belleek marks and date ranges
sharon.corbet
The updated website also has a Date your Belleek section, with the one from 2019 present.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet Very interesting, I wonder did the creator of the 1st mark realise that it would make the original pieces more valuable as time marched on.
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Something spooky about this one. Maybe because there are no humans around - not even a photographic assistant lurking in the shrubbery.
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ What does a Lough Erne?
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia It has liquidated is assets.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove My only visit to the pottery was something of a surreal experience. Pushing the buggy down the main shopping street with armed soldiers dodging from doorway to doorway while everyone else ignoring them.
Foxglove
I had a similar experience, I was brief with my limerick story. when "P" checked by a jittery patrol in the early 80s they did not appreciate my rhyming answers ...... 😀
jggy2003
There were rapids between the bridge and Ballyshannon. They were filled in by the hydro electric scheme at Ballyshannon. That bridge has been replaced. The pottery was once the only manafacturing project in South Fermanagh.. The late Bishop Edward Daly, former bishop of Derry was from Belleek.