SCAMPS and SCALLYWAGS STANDING on SLIGO STREET
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Where: Connaught, County Sligo, Ireland
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O'Connell Street in Sligo with lots of people, including the driver of the horse and cart, are standing about looking at the photographer as he goes about his work! Interestingly the dress of many of the adults could be from right up to the late '50's while the children's and lack of motorised transport would indicate much earlier.
Well done on all the great work yesterday with the Butlers of Kilkenny, it was a joy to follow the story unfold!
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Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: between 1900-1939
NLI Ref: EAS_3391
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Well done on all the great work yesterday with the Butlers of Kilkenny, it was a joy to follow the story unfold!
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: between 1900-1939
NLI Ref: EAS_3391
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Oretani Wildlife (Mike Grimes)
Street View. maps.app.goo.gl/1PXPpnAY5nkzPYKMA
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Previously known as Knox Street, we had the reverse view a while ago - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/51981258878/
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
What is a "1st Class Toilet Saloon" ?!
suckindeesel
Hibernian Bank, c 1900, according to NIAH www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/32007...
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/ Perhaps in the meaning of "Toilette"
suckindeesel
“And watch the barefoot gossoons as they play” youtu.be/P1uo0gkrDgM - Galway Bay (song)
Niall McAuley
The DIA dates the Hibernian Bank at left , tenders 1908, completed 1910. Looks newish here
John Spooner
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04]
(Belfast Telegraph - Monday 24 May 1909)
Based on the number of hits in the BNA for 'first-class toilet salon' the phrase doesn't appear until 1884, and had all but died out by about 1920. Usually they are adverts and their main business seems to be hairdressing ("hair brushed by machinery" was one), with occasional bits of side business such as tobacco products or walking sticks.
So nothing to do with a chalet de necessité.
The phrase appears again in the Crosby Herald (Lancashire) in 1995, but only because the paper published a very old (undated) photograph of a row of shops, one with a 'first-class toilet saloon' sign, and they wanted to know what it was.
The only hit in an Irish newspaper was the Belfast Telegraph Sligo one above.
Niall McAuley
At left I see T. Downs - Thomas Downs, Vintner, was 66 in 1911. Nxt door I see Costello? I do not see them in the 1901 or 1911 census.
Niall McAuley
Near the Toilet sign is a sign for CJ Denning & Co Ltd. I see a 1906 almanac reference to : AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS. Collery, B-, O’Connell Street Denning, C. J- A Co., Knox’s Street-
Niall McAuley
I do not see a CJ in the 1901 or 1911 census. A Charles John died in 1876, Apothecary.
Deirge (Del)
The "white horse" yer man has might be a little more on the rare side and maybe the man might be wishing to distinguish himself. But those fancy collars on the well dressed scholars reminds of the line in the Thom Moore "The Train from Sligo" (aka the The Scholar): ".. Oh school books, and fancy collars, I might not care to be a scholar, hold on, her Daddy tells her, learn to sing your song" ...
Deirge (Del)
Oh ... just found this article on Thom Moore and his association with Sligo ...
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/29809546@N00/] Yes, appears to have been a gents hairdressing emporium, often also selling other male necessities including tobacco and cigars, and perhaps other male needs?, but not in Ireland. youtu.be/3prx_z3y63s
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] There are a couple of elevated Lawrence photos (including the 1910 Bank) which show a "Dentist" sign instead of the "CJ Dennis" one. Spot the Differences! - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000191747 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000041938 Flickr is sometimes amazing! A "failed Sligo Town Experiment" in 2008 via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/8496837@N06/] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/8496837@N06/3512527695/]
suckindeesel
This 1925 photo of the same street shows a much different scene, filled with motor cars www.rareirishstuff.com/sligo-/oconnell-street-sligo-town-...
La Belle Province
The Grande Dame on the right all in white is greatly concerned with not getting one speck or smudge on her clothing