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| Zufallsbilder - Days of Yore |
Bantry Train212 x angesehenBantry Railway Station 1940's
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Breaking the Boom at Berehaven287 x angesehenPolyphemus was sent on 1st July 1885 to Berehaven to be tested on the boom at the western end of the harbour. Many felt that this couldn’t be done, but the Polyphemus cut through the boom with ease. This feat led The Cork Examiner to declare the Polyphemus “the most powerful ship in the world”. (The boom made up of steel hawsers five inches thick)
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Bere Island 329 x angesehenSlipway, Rerrin, Bere Island. Note the British Warships in the sound
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Murphy's330 x angesehenMurphy's Store, Castletownbere. 1929
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Roancarrig572 x angesehenEarly photograph of Relief Lightkeepers landing on Roancarrig.
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Spanish Trawlers313 x angesehenSpanish Trawlers moored at Castletownbere
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Daniel Tallon346 x angesehenGroup taken at Mansion House, Dublin. Daniel Tallon, Lord Mayor of Dublin 1897 to 1899 (after whom the Tallon Road is Called), is seated in centre front row. Second from left at rear is his Secretary Thomas Kennedy who was a native of Castletownbere and who accompanied him on his visit to inspect the distress in Beara in 1898
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Bere Island341 x angesehenThe handover of Bere Island by the British to the Irish Free State, (Saorstát Éireann)
26th September 1938.
Although Southern Ireland won Dominion Status on the 6th December 1921, the United Kingdom retained control as sovereign bases, three deep water ports in Ireland. Known collectively as the Treaty Ports, these were respectively, Castletown Berehaven, Lough Swilly and Queenstown (Cobh)
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| neueste Dateien - Days of Yore |
The Old Mill. Castletownbere451 x angesehen28. Juli 2010
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Perrin Hotel. Glengarriff459 x angesehen28. Juli 2010
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Post Office. Glengarriff484 x angesehen28. Juli 2010
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Church of Ireland. Glengarriff472 x angesehen28. Juli 2010
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Roches Royal Hotel. Glengarriff474 x angesehen28. Juli 2010
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Tourist Car487 x angesehenOutside the Eccles Hotel, Glengarriff28. Juli 2010
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Battleship 1st Class463 x angesehenPre Dreadnought Battleship moored at Castletown Berehaven 1904. Class type and name unknown.
28. Juli 2010
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Adrigole Bridge408 x angesehen28. Juli 2010
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Bantry Pierhead438 x angesehen‘Lady Elsie’ arriving from Castletownbere to meet the train
28. Juli 2010
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Bellevue Hotel. Glengarriff455 x angesehen28. Juli 2010
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Casey’s Hotel? Glengarriff477 x angesehen28. Juli 2010
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The Slipway outside Eccles Hotel471 x angesehen28. Juli 2010
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Glengarriff Castle496 x angesehen28. Juli 2010
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The ‘Lady Elsie’ 459 x angesehenBerthed alongside the landing, Glengarriff28. Juli 2010
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The ‘Lady Elsie’ Glengarriff447 x angesehen28. Juli 2010
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Lord Bantry’s Lodge. Glengarriff185 x angesehen28. Juli 2010
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