![[Pedestrians on street, distant view]](/IIIF/000050000/000049599/vtls000049599_001.jp2/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
[Pedestrians on street, distant view]
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| In collection: | Tempest Photographic Collection |
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| Format: | Photo |
| Published / Created: |
1906
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| Notes: | Image possibly taken on an election day, 1906 Image taken from distant vantage point Poor image quality Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/53486464535 Physical description: 1 photographic negative glass more |
Today we dip into one of the more obscure collections in the Library - the Tempest Collection! An image taken, appropriately enough during wet weather and from on high, of a street scene with plenty of pedestrians and of people who would happily take them as passengers. There is a mention on the site that it may have been taken on election day in 1906? Where was it taken and what election are they referring to?
Photographers: Probably Harry or William Tempest
Collection: Tempest Photographic Collection
Date: 1906?
NLI Ref: TEM 34
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags:
20th Century, Ireland, National Library of Ireland, National Photographic Archive, William Lawrence, Tempest Photographic Collection, Election Day 1906, street scene, high POV, Jarvies, pedestrians
Comments
mikeyashworth
A fine open air urinal there.
Posted: 25.01.2024
O Mac
Crowe Street/Townparks Dundalk.
maps.app.goo.gl/tuhJreug5MM2Rn5i8
We've been to Market Square a few times.
flic.kr/p/2pjTjJR
Posted: 25.01.2024
Foxglove
- as well as the urinal there is a separate space with a cistern - so I presume there is also a toilet too -
Posted: 25.01.2024
Niall McAuley
We are looking at the back of the court house. We have seen the front a couple of times:
Posted: 25.01.2024
Niall McAuley
Similar market stalls in the square:
Posted: 25.01.2024
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
The building at right same day?
"[Group outside building, election day, 1906]"
From - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000049606
From - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000049606Posted: 25.01.2024
Niall McAuley
An earlier angle:
Posted: 25.01.2024
Niall McAuley
TEM 33 a picnic.
This is TEM 34.
TEM 35, 36 are Cardinal Logue blessing the bells of the new cathedral.
Beachcombers TEM 37 is election day.
TEM 38 a walk in the woods.
I don't see anything in that sequence to suggest that today's shot is election day.
OK, the election day pic is of the Town Hall, which is the buidling at right in this one. Election day is also taken from an elevated spot, but not I think as high as this. This is from roof level, election day maybe 1st floor window?
Also, the weather looks better on election day.
Posted: 25.01.2024
Niall McAuley
The Tempests are listed as living at Douglas Place, Dundalk in the 1911 census, not known to Google maps.
There is only 1 occupied house listed on Douglas Place in 1911, the Tempests house (3 houses total). 14 windows to the front!
Douglas Court today seems to be the building between Crowe St. and Francis St, and the middle section has 14 windows. I think this is where the Tempests lived: Streetview.
Posted: 25.01.2024
Niall McAuley
I previously turned up a 1931 trade directory putting Tempests Shop on Crowe St:
Posted: 25.01.2024
O Mac
Niall McAuley Possibly taken from the roof of this fine house.
2 Crowe St
maps.app.goo.gl/uARAYfJAPNzk2cTE9
and that smudge in the bottom right corner of the photograph is a bit of the parapet.
maps.app.goo.gl/562mHGRnMmgHWnGj9
Posted: 25.01.2024
Niall McAuley
I suspect that the Tempests shop was opposite the town hall on Crowe St, and that both todays shot and Election Day were taken from the premises, which would suggest that todays shot is not necessarily election day, I think it may just be a damp market day.
Posted: 25.01.2024
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
I know how flickeroonies are fascinated by historic pissoir / urinals; this one seems to be a very similar pattern to Colyford Station, via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/neiljennings/] -
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/neiljennings/51313929454/]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pissoir
Edit: Where to go in Ireland - www.pee.ie/
Posted: 25.01.2024
John Spooner
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] 'Opposite Town Hall' is indeed where you could find the shop according to this advert in the Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal on Saturday 10 February 1906
Posted: 25.01.2024
John Spooner
Another advert, for F. Joseph Deery, Architect and Surveyor, in the Dundalk Examiner and Louth Advertiser on Saturday 30 May 1903, gives his address as "Crowe Street (over Tempests')", which suggest that Tempests only had the ground floor.
I wonder, did they have to ask a favour from their upstairs neighbour if they wanted a higher viewpoint?
Posted: 25.01.2024
Architecture of Dublin
The Market House, Dundalk was demolished in the month of August 1968
Posted: 25.01.2024
John Spooner
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] I think you mean Chalets de Nécessité.
Posted: 25.01.2024
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/30369211@N00/] Here’s Douglas Pl on the NIAH, seems to be same location as Douglas Court
www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/13705...
Posted: 25.01.2024
