The esplanade at Douglas on the Isle of Man, with trams, shops, and many people strolling.

[graphic].

Bibliographic Details
Main Creator:	Mason, Thomas Holmes, 1877-1958, photographer
Contributors:	Thomas H. Mason & Sons photographers
In collection:	Mason Photographic Collection
Format:	Photo
Language:	English
Published / Created:	[ca. 1892-1902].
Notes:	In our catalogue, this photo was originally titled "The esplanade, with trams, shops and many figures strolling". Research by our Flickr Commons users established that this was Douglas on the Isle of Man. Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/45512421162/ Physical description: Glass slide 1. more
Arrangement:	Sub-fond.

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside...

To end the week and to stay beside the sea as we have for the past few days we go to the Mason Collection. This doesn't look like anyplace in Ireland that I know? Was Mr. Mason out forring?

And indeed derangedlemur quickly confirmed that Mason was not on these shores, but living it up in Douglas on the Isle of Man. The general consensus is that we can perhaps refine the two decades of our catalogue range to perhaps the decade between 1890ish and 1900ish...

Collection: Mason Photographic Collection

Date: Catalogue range c.1890-1910. Perhaps c.1892-1902

NLI Ref: M49/10

You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

Comments

derangedlemur

Looks a bit like Bangor, only bigger and fancier.

Posted: 26.10.2018

derangedlemur

Or Douglas

Posted: 26.10.2018

derangedlemur

There's the clock: www.google.com/maps/@54.1490838,-4.4756756,3a,75y,351.53h...

Posted: 26.10.2018

National Library of Ireland on The Commons

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/8468254@N02] Douglas sounds good, the (edit - the first) Map link is not working for me.

Posted: 26.10.2018

B-59

Loch Promenade, Douglas Streetview 2010

Posted: 26.10.2018

B-59

Photo via The Library of Congress: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/9040182555/

Posted: 26.10.2018

National Library of Ireland on The Commons

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/8468254@N02] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/66311327@N05] What a shame the same view is not available today. It would be some tourist attraction.

Posted: 26.10.2018

domenico milella

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

Posted: 26.10.2018

derangedlemur

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Even without, they seem to get a fair few tourists.

Posted: 26.10.2018

Niall McAuley

Reverse view, 1974:

Posted: 26.10.2018

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

Horse tramway history - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Bay_Horse_Tramway - I think we are before 1902 ... "... In 1882, Lightfoot sold the line to Isle of Man Tramways Ltd, later the Isle of Man Tramways & Electric Power Co. Ltd, which also owned the Manx Electric Railway. The company went into liquidation in 1900 as a consequence of a banking collapse. The tramway was sold by the liquidator to Douglas Corporation in 1902. Since 1927 the tramway has run in summer only...."

Posted: 26.10.2018

Niall McAuley

Whisky history: Founded in 1893 in Leith by Roderick Macdonald and Alexander Muir, of Macdonald and Muir Ltd, Nicol Jarvie whisky is one of the few remaining independent family-owned and family-controlled companies left in the Scotch whisky trade.

Posted: 26.10.2018

Niall McAuley

I see straw hats on the ladies, but not on the gentlemen. Pics from 1905 on would have been full of boaters, suggesting an earlier date.

Posted: 26.10.2018

Niall McAuley

The clock is from 1887: originally the four clock faces were lit by small gas jets.

Posted: 26.10.2018

Niall McAuley

This Mason out at Douglas head is definitely 1890-92:

Sloops at anchor in harbour, lighthouse on outcrop in distance

Posted: 26.10.2018

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

Flickr shows this was a very popular view, but Mr Mason was there first ... [https://www.flickr.com/photos/falconer41337/7551676386/] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/24354425@N03/9053762807/] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/falconer41337/7544974584/] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/52930834@N06/6325921016/] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/145639833@N07/44299663724/]

Posted: 26.10.2018