Lenaboy or not Lenaboy, that is the question?
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Where: England, Oxfordshire, UK
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The lady is standing in front of a house that may be Lenaboy House or so the cataloguer speculates but my untrained eye sees an institutional building and unlikely to be in Ireland? Our esteemed contributor, Rory Sherlock, accepted an invitation to make suggestions and this is one of his choices. This will be an interesting start to what we hope will be an interesting week?
Photographers: Dillon Family
Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon
Collection: Clonbrock photographic Collection
Date: Circa 1900
NLI Ref.: CLON726
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Photographers: Dillon Family
Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon
Collection: Clonbrock photographic Collection
Date: Circa 1900
NLI Ref.: CLON726
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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derangedlemur
There's bits of both Oxford and Cambridge universities in similar styles, but I haven't found a match yet.
derangedlemur
Jesus College Oxford, particularly, is quite like it.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Time to get to work!
Niall McAuley
Catalogue link is broken...
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Fixed
Niall McAuley
Next door in the catalogue is CLON725, looks helpful. Not Hereford as suggested in the catalogue, though.
Niall McAuley
Magdalen College, Oxford, I think. The greenhouses are in the botanic gardens. 725, I mean. so this one is probably Oxford, since I only looked there because of the Lemur's suggestion for today's 726.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley 726 to Oxford sounds like a train!!
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Ref 725. Too many turrets and not enough windows to be Hereford.
derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley You're right with Oxford botanic gardens - there's a more or less matching photo on google maps.
O Mac
Radcliffe Quadrangle, Oxford. Streetview doesn't oblige so here's a screen grab from University website. flic.kr/p/2mpCP6q
derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I don't know what you grabbed there, but I got a mature content warning.
derangedlemur
You're correct, though. Here it is: www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/accessguide/...
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Link is to picture of buildings from same perspective.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Good call! That creeper plant has done well, in spite of no soil ...
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Henry Fox Talbot, no less, had his trusty tripod there about 60 years earlier - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radcliffe_Quadrangle
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Google Maps Satellite 3D (takes a while to load) - www.google.com/maps/@51.7526364,-1.2518492,39a,35y,119.12...
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
"George From Ireland" had his rooms there! - youtu.be/xcPMZKxcJUc
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Not me honest.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Ha ha!
Niall McAuley
So, this is Radcliffe Quad in University College, Oxford. Not to be confused with Radcliffe Square, Oxford.
derangedlemur
I was sure there was a hotel called The Radcliffe - either a famous one, or one in Dublin - but google disagrees. Did I imagine it?
derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Now that I'm not going through the work network, I've clicked through to your picture. I can only guess that flickr thinks that's a row of boobs along the top.
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I have a vague feeling that I'm familiar with a hotel with a name that is similar to Radcliffe, and that it's a luxury or well-known hotel of some kind. However, the more I try and focus in on it, the vaguer it seems to become. (From experience, whatever I'm thinking of will come to me at 3 am some night, and will either be fictional, or very far away from Radcliffe.)
Rory_Sherlock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Very good O Mac - I looked through many Oxford quads on Streetview but couldn't find it!
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
So which Dillon lady is this? Striking similarity in composition with this photo ("c. 1900") in fairly nearby Broadway - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/49011806491/ I expect https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ has it all worked out!
Rory_Sherlock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland Sorry Mary, but I wasn't at my desk today - by a strange coincidence I was working at Clonbrock!
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] That is a coincidence.