![[Excursion party, Kings Arms Hotel, Larne, Co. Antrim]](/IIIF/000200000/000191891/vtls000191891_001.jp2/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
[Excursion party, Kings Arms Hotel, Larne, Co. Antrim]
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| In collection: | The Lawrence Photograph Collection |
| Format: | Photo |
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[between 1880-1900].
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| Notes: | Featured in exhibition entitled "Féile", National Photographic Archive, March, 2003. Additional information about this photograph may be available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/5730990722/in/photostream/ Robert French was the chief photographer responsible for photographing three quarters of the Lawrence Collection. For more information, see the Dictionary of Irish Biography: http://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a3369 Physical description: 1 photographic negative glass 16.5 x 21.5 cm. Geographic Coverage: Larne, County Antrim, Province of Ulster, Ireland. more |
NLI Ref.: LROY2346
Date: Catalogue range c.1880-1900. Though likely after c.1904 (car registration plate)
Tags:
street, scene, Antrim, Larne, horses, motorcar, automobile, hotel, excursion, bicycles, Wagons, National Library of Ireland
Comments
locustangerine
They had cars like that in 1885?!
Posted: 18.04.2012
useful pizza
I did notice that car as well. Perhaps around 1903 to 1915? There seems to be some electrical wires and street lights hanging too which might have started as far back as 1895. I find this picture fascinating because if you look at it closely you'll see all the people in it staring at what was probably the latest photographic technology. And much to their knowledge of you or me at the time, that technology had forever captured them looking back at us from a very different point in history. Almost as if all of us were being allowed only a glimpse into the future as well as the past through some sort of strange time machine.
Posted: 03.05.2014
O Mac
The Motor Car Act 1903, which came into force on 1 January 1904, required all motor vehicles to be entered on an official vehicle register, and to carry alphanumeric plates.
Photo Post Jan 1904.
BJ is an Ipswich plate.
Posted: 07.06.2017
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks [https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03]. Based on input from yourself (and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/118169193@N05] and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/sapuska] above) I've updated the range to c.1900+. What do you think about location? Based on this similar image, I recon we're around here....
Posted: 07.06.2017
O Mac
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] That postcard was helpful in finding exact location. The art deco bank building is still there so the hotel was exactly where Dunnes Stores is now. www.google.ie/maps/@54.8515083,-5.8183155,3a,75y,241.01h,...
That Dunnes building is a awful looking building....along with too many others.
Posted: 07.06.2017
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
That's what I thought [https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] - on both fronts. (That the location seemed confirmed by the striking bank facade. And that all other frontages seemed so awful.) Map updated!
Posted: 07.06.2017
KimberleyAllen
This is a fantastic photograph! I'm thrilled to find it as my great grandfather Richard Shepherd Close and his brother George Alfred Close had a company that used to own this hotel. They were directors of Henry McNeill Limited around the 1920s / 30s. My Mum used to tell me that every year they would receive a hamper from the hotel with lots of goods including a huge turkey. My Nana, Richard Shepherd Close's daughter, Marjorie Close, used to crochet mats for the ladies' dressing tables.
Posted: 28.11.2017
Niall McAuley
I megazoom, I see that the charabanc does not say Kings Arms Hotel on the side, it says something ending in RNA HOTEL. Per the DIA, there was a LAHARNA Hotel in Larne:
It was quite the edifice.
Name:WISE, BERKELEY DEANE
Building:CO. ANTRIM, LARNE, MAIN STREET, LAHARNA HOTEL
Date:1905
Nature:Acquired by Midland Railway Northern Counties Committee. Extensive alts. to be carried out by BDW. Will accommodate about 400 visitors; 'specially designed to meet the requirements of the tourist traffic from the Lancashire and Yorkshire districts, which traffic has now grown to extensive proportions in the Larne and Antrim-coast districts'.
Posted: 04.09.2020
