Rainy days and Sundays always get me down

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On a wet and pretty miserable day in Dublin, and most of the North and East of the country, O'Dea takes us down South to a rainy day long ago. A man in a Mac (that was a Mackintosh raincoat long before Apple) passes a lady in a very old-fashioned cloak on a street in Bandon, County Cork.

Photographer: James P. O'Dea

Collection: O'Dea Photograph Collection

Date: Friday, 15 September 1961

NLI Ref.: ODEA 27/93

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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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BeachcomberAustralia
- 19/Jan/2021 09:15:14
15 September 1961 was a Friday. A moist Friday. Standard Eight or Ten ?
sharon.corbet
- 19/Jan/2021 09:18:06
Streetview
BeachcomberAustralia
- 19/Jan/2021 09:19:21
Mr O'Dea photographed the lady in the cloak coming as well as going - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000305725
sharon.corbet
- 19/Jan/2021 09:27:33
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Any sign of a Mk2 Morris Minor. ZU 2716? (As that should be O'Dea's car at the time based on the previous research.)
DannyM8
- 19/Jan/2021 09:32:47
If you are a sole agent for Irish made Winstanley boots are you an agent for the soles only or for the whole boot?
BeachcomberAustralia
- 19/Jan/2021 09:33:41
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet I haven't found it yet ...
BeachcomberAustralia
- 19/Jan/2021 09:45:49
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Put a sock in it !
DannyM8
- 19/Jan/2021 09:56:43
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia ;-)
robinparkes
- 19/Jan/2021 10:44:39
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia It might be a Standard 8 because it has no chrome grille bars but I've seen a picture of a Standard 10 with that single chrome moustache.
radiosnail
- 19/Jan/2021 10:55:45
Good heavens! A wet day in Ireland! Ah well, thank's to my mother's genes, the sunshine is wasted on me.
cargeofg
- 19/Jan/2021 11:00:32
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet There are two Morris Minors in the photo beyond the Henkel( Correction Lambretta) scooter. KI reg is from Waterford. The first Minor has a D as a first letter of it registration. But top of second letter is horizontal. Second car could be O'Dea's. The car across the street with ZF Co.Cork reg is a Rover P4. Standard 8 or 10 could be a Deluxe model with its upper chrome bar.
BeachcomberAustralia
- 19/Jan/2021 11:03:24
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] Hey! There is a famous DOG in this photo. Called Nipper. Hint: above the, er, um, ... Rover! www.startribune.com/the-hidden-history-behind-nipper-one-....
BeachcomberAustralia
- 19/Jan/2021 11:17:00
Previously, with more cloaks - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/9650264133/
BeachcomberAustralia
- 19/Jan/2021 11:20:58
Flickr is sometimes amazing! In July 1932 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimcoughlan/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimcoughlan/36231501146/
O Mac
- 19/Jan/2021 12:24:41
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ James O Dea never had a Rover. Austin Morris Oxford but never a Rover.
suckindeesel
- 19/Jan/2021 12:47:54
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suckindeesel
- 19/Jan/2021 12:58:15
A different day "Hangin' around Nothin' to do but frown Rainy days and Mondays always get me down" The Carpenters
suckindeesel
- 19/Jan/2021 13:42:24
Looks like an old Lambretta LD or later model scooter
cargeofg
- 19/Jan/2021 14:34:35
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I was referring to second car along from scooter both are Minors and reg on first one rules it out as O'Dea's but second Minor may be his. RoverP4 was only listed in my comment as identifying it as make and model. I have done an edit on earlier comment as I see how it could be misread.
cargeofg
- 19/Jan/2021 14:45:49
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Spare wheel carrier and little chrome vent on rear mudguard look more like a Lambetta than Henkel
John Spooner
- 19/Jan/2021 16:17:17
I looked for a local weather report for Bandon or Cork, but failed. The nearest I could find was this from the New Ross Standard for 15th September 1961 , which might or might not have applied to Co Cork
Harvesting Operations—The excellent harvesting weather which prevailed for the past three or four weeks and which enabled farmers to bring harvesting operations well up to schedule broke early in the week and work was brought to a standstill. There was torrential rain on Tuesday, and flooding was reported from some areas.
The rain on the 15th in Bandon might have been a side effect of Hurricane Debbie
suckindeesel
- 19/Jan/2021 18:02:53
The "O'Leary" shop is still there and has become "O'Leary and Daughters" Gets a mention by the NIAH, as do several other shops along there. [www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20844...]
suckindeesel
- 19/Jan/2021 18:15:45
I see some signs for brands not so long gone: Players Please, my brand Gold Flake Ilford (film) Winstanley (Irish made shoes and boots) HMV Many of the cars would have been Irish assembled, a situation which continued until our joining the EEC.
Tintin et Milou
- 20/Jan/2021 19:25:20
Sunday teatime (as it used to be when nearly everything was closed and boredom set in). "The long dark teatime of the soul". Someone said that but I don't remember who🤔