A summer scene in Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford. The awnings /sunshades are out over the shop windows, the animals and the people are resting in the shade of the trees and all is well with the world. Probably the most identifiable object in view is the post office pillar box and that should give us at least a start date but it there anything else that can help?
Oh yes, do I see a dog????
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Unknown
Collection:
Eason Photographic Collection
Date: between
1900-1939 1910 - 1934
NLI Ref:
EAS_3741
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
This photo came into the conversation on a Lawrence photo, see comments https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/49897189287/
Rory_Sherlock
Newtownbarry = Bunclody Streetview: www.google.com/maps/@52.6552035,-6.6524261,3a,49y,302.63h...
Rory_Sherlock
It's pre-1934 anyway... the gap between the first and second buildings is now filled with a building dated '1934'
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
The tree in the cage behind the post box 'escaped' sometime between August 2018 and August 2019. See streetview.
Niall McAuley
The DIA says the Tackaberry shop at right is dated 1910. The postbox is an ER one, after 1901.
suckindeesel
'CI-1' reg is Dec 1903. 'CI-28' can't be many years later.
nl042
Edward VII postbox. George V came to the throne 6 May 1910, don't know how much longer the post office would have been installing old stock postboxes after that. Not that that does much to narrow the range. The same post box was probably there for ages. (Just saw I had too many "I"s in the King's regnal number, now corrected)
Niall McAuley
CI-52 registered to W. P. R. Odlum, St. Mullin's Mills, Kilkenny per the 1914-15 directory.
suckindeesel
I think post box is Edward VII, so 1901 - 1910
nl042
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Indeed, that was a typo, rather than getting the wrong king. I don't even know if the post office ever had time to cast postboxes for Edward VIII, let alone whether they would have been exported to the Free State.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/51764891699/in/dateposted/
nl042
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Well, I've learned something new. I wonder how many Edward VIII ones were ever installed.
Niall McAuley
L_CAB_07267 has the earlier building before Tackaberry, and it has a postbox in the wall, suggesting that the pillar box was added when that building was demolished ~1910.
PepeData
Amazing people with this research...time
Salty Windows
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Looking at the Chemist shop front in Google map image. The shop front is exactly the same, even the supports for the awning is still there. Made stuff to last in those days.
DannyM8
It's a miracle, there are two dogs, perhaps three!!
suckindeesel
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/] Here's one in Bristol www.google.com/local/place/fid/0x48718f7faee44db5:0xe3411... So, despite being on the throne for less than a year, the PO still kept up to speed with the current monarch. That sort of answers your question re whether they would reuse old stock, no it seems. So, our pillar box must date from 1910, to tally with the removal of the old wall box during the 1910 shop rebuild.
suckindeesel
An Irish survivor https://www.flickr.com/photos/firehuse999/49083890982/in/photolist-2hMnLJs-3NWkHd-hMqZGT-2heXVLD-C83DjV-4CW8Nz-NcBotG-2ijgqRD-2k4jbSQ-ZGkwBm-VTgK7A-KXjSuA-84A6Ks-oqK8sc-nsMLJJ-277Ajbo-Xa63He-3mvwEU-FRYSTP-Z16iHR-2gG3YAK-2afJSZU-hRepF-etk6Xw-9fDapB-wRQjAv-fpZMVo-qJsWhb-2gbqZ56-vZzmZr-2k4nVFT-8i4xmB-5grEta-2kNuxQU-d4p33N-qHtUhV-5BK1oQ-64RLhD-57f1hD-aJ6shc-daFFfC-5twUCk-bKpVLH-7VBHH4-6hfn5f-4ZQtGt-4aBxrf-8qkSC1-6eHJeg-76xJKr
Dr. Ilia
just beautiful!