Definitely Cumbria. May be Clement, in clement weather.

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Today we find ourselves in England, at Ashness Bridge in Cumbria. The gentleman may be one Clement A. Hughes. Your knowledge, research, insights, and even your wild surmises will be most welcome...

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Collection: Collection: Piaras Béaslaí Collection

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NLI Ref: BEA114

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    suckindeesel

    • 31/Oct/2023 08:20:50

    maps.app.goo.gl/YMkTAzGLAUDbpWzQ7?g_st=ic

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 31/Oct/2023 08:25:26

    Happy Halloween ! Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ in c. 1905 https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/8692064291/

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    suckindeesel

    • 31/Oct/2023 08:39:08

    https://flic.kr/p/2pcVxVY Beaslai himself??

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 31/Oct/2023 08:42:44

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04/] I'm not convinced. There are similarities, but Piaras Béaslaí was very distinctive looking...

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 31/Oct/2023 09:00:54

    👻 Is that the Ghost of a Dog by his right leg ?

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    Carol Maddock

    • 31/Oct/2023 09:16:03

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Ghoulies! I wondered about the dog too! We need our Official Ghost Dogjudicator, https://www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06/...

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 31/Oct/2023 09:20:33

    ... and a damaged head on the bridge parapet ... 💀

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    John Spooner

    • 31/Oct/2023 09:58:45

    The photo which won the Tatler's readers' photographic competition in November 1904. Prize 1 guinea. Not spending it all at once was Mr A. C. Bull of Wood Green.The Tatler - Wednesday 16 November 1904 The bridge looks to be in much the same state as today's photo, but without the "skull", and without the repairs in the Library of Congress postcard.

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    DannyM8

    • 31/Oct/2023 13:51:14

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia https://www.flickr.com/photos/47297387@N03 I think it is a dog too!

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    suckindeesel

    • 31/Oct/2023 13:59:11

    DannyM8 Yes, but what’s the dog’s name?

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    John Spooner

    • 31/Oct/2023 15:29:09

    Wild surmise warning Ancestry.co.uk has a birth record for a Clement A Hughes in 1880, in Liverpool, baptized a Roman Catholic (as Clemens Alston Hughes) , so the right age, place and religion to have been a schoolfriend of Piaras Béaslaí. Confirmed in 1894. 1901 census - he's a medical student. 1911 census - he's single. Physician and surgeon. In the 1939 register he's an opthalmic surgeon, married with two children. Living in Liverpool. His 1958 probate record gives an address at Bolton-le-Sands, near Carnforth, so I surmise (wildly) that he retired there to live within easier reach of the Lake District.

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 31/Oct/2023 15:36:15

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/29809546@N00/ Will quite happily accept your wild surmise! From a very cursory search, the only Clement A. Hughes I could find was a doctor in the Royal Army Medical Corps. I assume my Clement and your Clement are one and the same.

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    John Spooner

    • 31/Oct/2023 15:51:09

    His medal card from the UK national archives shows his middle name is Alston, so I think it's a safe assumption. He tried to shake me off his trail by using his middle name but here's his obituary in the Liverpool Daily Post - Wednesday 17 April 1957Liverpool Daily Post - Wednesday 17 April 1957

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    John Spooner

    • 31/Oct/2023 15:58:11

    BTW searching for "Alston Hughes" without the "C." returns a lot of matches for a notorious drug dealer caught in Operation Julie in 1977. I wonder if there's a connection.

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 31/Oct/2023 16:08:09

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/29809546@N00/ That took a dark turn very quickly, John!

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    John Spooner

    • 31/Oct/2023 16:09:59

    And I've found a Lake District link. The Lancaster Guardian of Friday 2 September 1949 reported thus

    Last Sunday might have been termed a day of seeing things for North Lancashire Branch of the British Empire Naturalists’ Association since interests were quite varied on their visit to Coniston, Hawkshead and Amblcside areas.
    and later
    At Waterhead, the Dlctis Roman Camp was visited, and explained by Dr. C. Alston Hughes, in a vivid little lecture, much appreciated by the members.

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    O Mac

    • 31/Oct/2023 16:15:45

    Hughes was also President of Students Representative Council at Liverpool Guild of Students 1902-03 www.liverpoolguild.org/about/how-we-re-run/board-of-trust...

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 31/Oct/2023 20:40:06

    The Doctor Clement Alston Hughes Limerick There once was a Clement A. Hughes Who sometimes appeared in the news - A doctor of eyes, It's not a surprise He enjoyed such wonderful views.

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 31/Oct/2023 20:41:48

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/ Bualadh bos! 😀