Where: Cork, Ireland
Try to find the spot where the photographer was standing.
When: 01 January 1893
Try to find the date or year when this image was made.
Chose this curvy photo of the railway station in Cork for the bewildering multiplicity of signage. Most scenes in our early photos are blissfully uncluttered, but not this one!
Also chose it because it has a clock clearly displaying the time (like a moth to a flame), and the advertising posters are fab (technical term). However, think the adverts contain a first on our Flickr stream, unless of course you know different - Earth Closets!
Also wonder what happened ladies who got confused or were short-sighted and wandered into the Ladies First Class Room rather than Ladies Third Class Room?
Date: After 2 February 1893
NLI Ref.: L_NS_00149
Source: Flickr Commons
Views: 91347
Also chose it because it has a clock clearly displaying the time (like a moth to a flame), and the advertising posters are fab (technical term). However, think the adverts contain a first on our Flickr stream, unless of course you know different - Earth Closets!
Also wonder what happened ladies who got confused or were short-sighted and wandered into the Ladies First Class Room rather than Ladies Third Class Room?
Date: After 2 February 1893
NLI Ref.: L_NS_00149
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
Views: 91347
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TJ.Photography
wow....... such an architecture style was prevalent already in/around 1893??? amazing ... i have to say that i thought first it's from 50s or 60s!
derangedlemur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tj_q8 1850s
derangedlemur
maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,568445,572243,7,9 The curve is plainly visible. Looking from the north.
Swordscookie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] To answer your question Carol, ladies who tried to rise above their station and enter the first class waiting room were given a dose of cold shoulder by those ladies entitled to be there and hot tongue by the waiting room attendant!
Wendy:
That is a fabulous image at any time!
John Spooner
First advert in Freeman's for Draper's Dichroic Ink was on December 23rd. 1868 Interesting use of a pseudo-scientific name. Other inks may perform satisfactorily, but are they dichroic?
John Spooner
The OED defines 'dichroic' as
First citation is 1864derangedlemur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner Bayer started making paint like that about 10 or 15 years ago. It's primarily used in nail polish but Opel also painted cars using it for a while.
derangedlemur
the outfitters at 47 Great George's street would appear to have been Cleburne Brothers. www.corkpastandpresent.ie/places/streetandtradedirectorie... www.corkpastandpresent.ie/places/streetandtradedirectorie...
ccferrie
I must have a look at the roof again next time I'm in Cork - it doesn't have the same feeling of lightness now. Here's the archiseek entry for the building
derangedlemur
There were only three Cleburnes in Cork in 1911, compared to about a dozen in 1901, mostly in Bishopstown. William Henry and Robert are the two merchant tailors. In 1911 W.H. is gone and Robert derives his income from rent.
ccferrie
Eustace & Co's Timber Yard on Leitrim Street appears on the 1899 OS Map and they had a full page ad on Page 8 of the 1919 publication Cork: It's Trade & Commerce. No clues as to what the item [http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/] has tagged above is though!
ccferrie
All about Earth Closets www.jldr.com/henrymoule.htm and the modern equivalent: www.toiletrevolution.ie/products/composting-toilets/excel...
ccferrie
In 1879 William Adolphus Ross founded the ‘W.A. Ross & Co. Royal Belfast Ginger Ale and Aerated Water Manufacturing Works’ [http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/8201073320/] [http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/8201073238/]
derangedlemur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Well it appears to say "cockring".
Peter Denton
Everyone in the image appears to be looking at the camera, so this must have been a rare or special photo session. And why are the platforms so empty? Well, it's obvious of course - as the clock tells us it's nearly 1.30pm, clearly the passengers are all enjoying their table d'hote cuisine, served daily (except Sundays) from noon to 3pm. How eminently civilised!
ccferrie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Well, I'm not going to google that at work - are you! :-)
derangedlemur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] We might leave that one for the time being.
Inverarra
Class was very important on Irish trains. When the West Clare train broke down the announcement went as follows. "First class passengers stay where you are, second class passengers get out and walk, third class passengers get out and push"
ccferrie
Thanks http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingsnail/ - I can't imagine the smoke deflectors working particularly well in that space. It's a long distance to expect the smoke to travel to the outside.
Swordscookie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I'm at home so I googled it and the only definitions I got would bring a blush to the cheeks of any well brought up young lady, so in deference to the tender Ms. Maddock I won't cut and paste:-)
ccferrie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ the only related word that I can think of is caulking - perhaps it's an alternative spelling or misspelling of that?
derangedlemur
Well, whatever it is, they're the largest importers of it in the south of Ireland, they claim.
Niall McAuley
The Evening Echo started in 1892.
derangedlemur
What's the Cigarette poster? Cameo?
Rienk Mebius
Glanmire Road Station.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Could you check your Flickr Mail, please! :)
blackpoolbeach
I counted more than 30 lamps, with 2 types. Gas or electric?
DannyM8
The Rails and sleepers do not look newly installed - so I would say quite a few years after the station opened.
derangedlemur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland No problem.
derangedlemur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] They get into that state in about twenty minutes.
Swordscookie
Those were the days before the "Trolley Dollys" when porters were employed to move passengers bags around and there are three porters handcarts parked to the right of the photo near the subway to the other platforms!
ccferrie
BBC's Great British Railway Journeys goes to Ireland this evening including a trip to Cobh so we may see this fine edifice on the screen
John Spooner
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] With a familiar photograph at 5:23
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Joefuz
Somebody liked their signs! I count 29 (correct me if I'm wrong) official signs. If you didn't know where in the station you were, it wasn't the sign writer's fault!
DannyM8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I saw the show, very interesting. This photo was also in there.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Missed the programme! Was this one really there? And our picnic at Gearhameen http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner?
DannyM8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland yes it was and when they covered Cobh I think some of the photos from here featured. I believe the show is on all week at 6.30 with the focus on Munster railways. I presumed you had posted this photo to tie in with the broadcast.....
abandoned railways
Unseen in this picture is the storage celler under the restaurant and platform 5.It has an access door in the subway under the line, there was no footbridge anywhere, so goods/parcels could be delivered to any platform. There is also a lift next to the signal cabin.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Not at all, pure serendipity! I dream of one day being that organised...
MSGS4
I think the subway arrangement is different now. There seems to be two sets of ramps either side leading down to the subway, but nowadays there is only one ramp either side of the platform, I think. Great clarity in the photo. Also I seem to remember reading somewhere that its one of the few mainline stations in Europe that has its main platform on a bend. I suppose there wasn't much choice in that seeing as though when you exit the tunnel a turn has to be made, or else its into the river you go.
John Spooner
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] I think York is on a bend, but from memory it isn't as tight as Cork's. Meanwhile, roll credits.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Huzzah, John, thank you! I got home in time to watch this evening's edition, and I'm a little over-excited! What a wealth of William Lawrence's photos, and some that we've all argued over - the creamery one, and Bianconi's car among them! Have the magic box all set to record tomorrow evening's offering. (Though still laughing at Michael Portillo's pronunciation of Camogie!) Made me want to search for railway and station and Waterford photos, so be warned!
DannyM8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland I told ya that they were using your photos. How about a gamoogee photograph!!!!
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] Have you forgotten our lovely Miss Hookey and her Camogie Team? :)
DannyM8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland how could I forget......
John Spooner
A description of the "commodious new terminus" which appeared in Freeman's on Friday 13th January 1893 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpoolbeach] Both - in the article it says "It will be lit both by electric light and gas".
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner "Commodius", but no movable boudoir - very shortsighted of them...
John Spooner
The brick works at Ruabon in North Wales where the bricks used in the construction of the station were manufactured.
oaktree_brian_1976
I couldn't figure out how we knew it was after Feb. 2, 1893. Duh, that's when it opened... Per Wikipedia anyway :)
Carmen Cordero Olivares.
Buena toma.
blackpoolbeach
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] Newcastle upon Tyne Central Station had a nasty S-bend for northbound steam locos. I used to watch the big Pacific wheels spinning in the 1950s, trying to start heavy trains for Edinburgh. www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55210&... Cork Station looks an even tighter curve. maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,568403,572269,7,9
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
GoogleMapsStreetView is Quite Interesting (apologies if someone has posted this before). The station looks like a rotting red-brick Victorian monstrosity on streetview, not the feast for the eyes as in this photograph - well done Mr French!
John Spooner
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland On tonight's episode Señor Portillo visits the big Parsonstown telescope.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner What's the betting one of our photos turns up there?!
Swordscookie
One of my contacts had this one to show. http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/8453045392/in/contacts/ The intervening 100+ years have seen many changes but plenty of curved lines?
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner Didn't Birr Castle, and the remains of our Leviathan look great? Plus our lovely Lawrence photo? Bet any Flickroonie who ever sees that episode will smugly say "that's the fourth earl atop the telescope, don't you know!"
DannyM8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland I have watched the Portillo show all week. He makes an excellent presenter and has a very nice way about him. The tourist board must be delighted with the show, it is like an advertisement to visit Ireland.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I was thinking the same about the tourism aspect. Definitely want to try that Lismore steam section...
slippery eggs
Beautiful ! ! !
John Spooner
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland I'm "on the road" at the moment, so I missed the telescope. I'll just have to hope they are still available on iPlayer when I get home, otherwise wait for the repeats (which shouldn't be long).
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner No problem at all.
Carrignafoy
Kent station could do with some pigeon deflectors these days. The birds congregate over the heads of passengers waiting on Platform 4 to board trains to Dublin. Wear a hat!
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/8991141485/
werner.deceur
Noticed de "guard rail" on the tracks. (technical term for an extra rail along the tracks to avoid derailing) which was patent by Gorham B. Ames of Lagonia (New Hampshire) which he filed on the 20th of July 1893. So who is the copycat???
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Werner, let's see what the technical experts have to say. Later in the day.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
I have just added this photo to our 50,000+ Views Album https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/sets/72157651136879037
Niall McAuley
Streetview is inside now!
myheadismyonlyhouse
Eustace & Co. ads in Cork papers offers 'Goehring artistically moulded wood'