No 3: 29 - Wexford Hat Co. Man in straw boater at machine
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| Summary: | Ireland at Work. |
| In collection: | Mason Photographic Collection |
| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[ca. 1890-1910]
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| Notes: | Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/49166887343/ Physical description: Glass slide 1. more |
| Arrangement: | Sub-fond. |
Over the years we have seen photos being dated by the fact that men depicted were wearing straw boater hats. Today we get right to the heart of the matter with the factory, machine and man who made many of those hats in the "Wexford Hat Company". No doubt the techies among us will explain how the complex machinery worked?
Photographer: Thomas H. Mason
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: 1890 - 1910
NLI Ref: M25/J/14
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
No. 6 in this series of six hat photos talks of King Edward (VII) and Queen Alexandra. So 1901 - 1910 ?
See - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000539711/HierarchyTree
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
No. 1 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000539706/HierarchyTree
No. 2 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000539707/HierarchyTree
No. 3 - This photo
No. 4 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000539709/HierarchyTree
No. 5 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000539710/HierarchyTree
No. 6 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000539711/HierarchyTree
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derangedlemur
The above conclusions were followed by a resolve to establish a factory for the manufacture of straw and felt hats , and with the willing and generous help of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction ( Ireland) , in the direction of providing expert instruction, a small company was formed, plant was laid down, and the industry was launched in May, 1903.
Posted: 04.12.2019
derangedlemur
Might be the Ulster Bank now: goo.gl/maps/9QYFZoTdPNcNhAeP6
Edit: Or maybe this one before it got a new facade: goo.gl/maps/6M2mMZmhHYt8qMXp9
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Treasure via Trove from June 1904 ...
"Wexford Hat Factory.
King Edward has patronised the Wexford Hat Factory (says the Freeman), and ordered some half-dozen of the light summer head gear which this newest product of the Irish industrial revival in Wexford has put forth. The Queen, too, has also given an order for some light garden hats, and expressed herself very pleased with the sample of hats which were shown her while here in Dublin. The head gear turned out by this new branch of industry in Wexford is now finding a market, not alone in the best shapes in Dublin and throughout Ireland generally, but Manchester, Liverpool, London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh are now buying largely from the Wexford Company. Curious to say, the war in the East has somewhat interfered with the prosperity of the Wexford factory, as most of the fine plats and straws are imported from China, but principally from Japan, and, needless to say, the supply at the present time is practically cut off. The factory had. however, a good stock of straws on hand. "
See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/212350880
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derangedlemur
Straw Hat Making in Wexford.
archive.org/stream/irishrurallifein00irisuoft/irishrurall...
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derangedlemur
WEXFORD.— An Old Industry Revived
Apropos of the acceptance by the King of a Trilby hat made by the Wexford Hat Company, it is interesting to recall that the manufacture of hats is not a new Irish industry, but an old Irish industry revived. The hat trade in Ireland in the eighteenth century was a thriving industry till it was suppressed by the legislation of the English Parliament, which suppressed the woollen trade, the glass trade and manufacture, and a hundred other Irish industries, in pursuance of a policy which Mr. John Morley has not hesitated to denote as an atrocious fiscal policy, and which Edmund Burke characterised as an artificial deprivation by the English people of the bounty of Providence to Ireland.
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Foxglove
the hatter is not wearing a "boater" ......
Posted: 04.12.2019
derangedlemur
No. It's a straw fedora. I have several just like it, in a similar state of disrepair.
Posted: 04.12.2019
suckindeesel
I think it's long gone, currently location of TKmax. The 25" shows "hat factory" on Paul Quay, between corners of Sinnott Pl. and Oyster Lane.
See duchas: www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5009253/5001715/5131212
"Hat Making
There was a hat factory on the Quay, Wexford owned by Mr Hadden but is now closed down.
Straw hats and felt hats were made there. It is next to Stafford's office. 1938"
I think our Mr. Plunkett of a few days ago would have been part of this Dept. Of Agriculture & Tech. Instruction mentioned above.
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derangedlemur
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04] Could be. One of the links I turned up suggested it was in Enniscorthy, though.
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derangedlemur
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04] You're right. here it is: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000559411
Posted: 04.12.2019
John Spooner
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia]
He was wearing a bowler when he visited Connemara Marble Quarries in 1903
but that was before he'd ordered the "light summer head gear", and it doesn't look like boater weather anyway despite the date, although it didn't put off the woman on the far left.
but that was before he'd ordered the "light summer head gear", and it doesn't look like boater weather anyway despite the date, although it didn't put off the woman on the far left.Posted: 04.12.2019
suckindeesel
I initially thought that it was Mr.Shaw and his patent sausage machine.
The second building on left in catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000559411 ?
Posted: 04.12.2019
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
Guessing that the tightly woven straw mat would be placed into the press and shaped that way. Seems like a hot job, because the gentleman in the photo has his sleeves rolled up, so maybe used steam, to soften the straw, in the press and shaping process. Then, the hat would be trimmed and a hemming materoal stitched onto the brim of the hat.
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