Knock, knock, knocking on heavens door
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Where: Leinster, County Westmeath, Ireland
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For all you Guns N'Roses fans the title is as far as it goes, indeed St. Mary's Church in Athlone is as far as anyone is going on that street. What an impressive spire? Reaching for the sky and soaring above the church and all around it. What does it look like today?
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa1865 - 1914 1906 - 1911
NLI Ref: L_ROY_11618
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Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa
NLI Ref: L_ROY_11618
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derangedlemur
Much the same: goo.gl/maps/Mw9MZLDQpdXP5BUo9 A few more fish trailers and street lamps
Rory_Sherlock
Streetview: www.google.ie/maps/@53.4231465,-7.9344755,3a,50.6y,51.39h...
Rory_Sherlock
Building on the left is a former school, built c.1900 according to the NIAH (but it appears on the 25" map which was surveyed in 1888): www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15009... The church was built 1857-61 - NIAH: www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15009...
derangedlemur
Looks like we're missing a few buildings these days: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000319159
Rory_Sherlock
The small building on the right seems to be related to a weighbridge, and the larger building on the right is a Dispensary. The school(s) on the left don't appear on the 1874 town plan, so they appear to date to between 1874 and 1888. 1874 Town Plan: digital.ucd.ie/view-media/ucdlib:41656/canvas/ucdlib:43025
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There is a numerical sequence of interior photos, probably the same visit - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000316220 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000316221 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000316222 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000316223 And another showing gas jets (not globes) and a lurking priest. Earlier? - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000324158
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Live webcam NOW !! - stmarysathlone.ie/webcam/ Edit - they still have a christmas tree up.
suckindeesel
2RN calling...
Niall McAuley
There is a series of Athlone shots. L_ROY_11614 includes the Celtic Cross from 1906 commemorating John Joseph Walsh:
Niall McAuley
L_ROY_11610 seen here previously:
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] That 1888 date is clearly an error, the 25" includes that 1906 cross.
Niall McAuley
Some L_CABs look to be the same visit, like L_CAB_02269. L_CAB_02275 shows Haire's Hotel on Mardyke Street. Bessie Haire is on the mistranscribed Inarayke St in 1901, and George Claxton is there in 1911. Claxton's Royal Hotel features in a murder during the Civil War later. So I think the L_CABs are before 1911, and the whole sequence (including today's shot) is 1906-1911 somewhere.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Date updated.
suckindeesel
RTE's Athlone studio occupies part of the former school on left stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/result.html?_IXMAXHITS_=1&...
suckindeesel
flic.kr/p/85dEDS Via John Daly
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"Guns N'Roses"? Try Bob Dylan. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, written for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Released as a single two months after the film's premiere, it became a worldwide hit, reaching the Top 10 in several countries. It was released a year after I graduated high school. Maybe Dylan's version was before your time.