Over the years of writing the Eye on the Past I have received many
photographs of local events and local people.
Unfortunately many of the photographs do not readily lend themselves to
identifying those photographed or the occasions which prompted the photographer
to capture the people or the events on film.
Over the Christmas period I am taking the opportunity of showing some of
these photographs, hoping that my readers
can help me put names and dates on the black and white records of
yesteryear.
The first photograph shows a group of happy women playfully enjoying
themselves on the forecourt of a petrol station. The protective head gear worn by the women
would suggest that they were workers from a factory. The forecourt appears to me to be what was
the Hurley petrol station on the Monasterevin Road. This was located next door to the Bachelors’
Pea Factory which leads me to believe that the happy women were workers from
that factory. Hopefully my readers can
identify the women in question and perhaps put a date on when the photograph
was taken.
The second photograph will pose greater difficulties in identifying
the men or the occasion captured on film.
It shows 23 men and 4 youngsters in a photograph taken around the 1900s
or thereabouts. I cannot identify the
building behind the men, although it has some resemblance to a church and I
wonder whether those photographed were construction workers for that building. The hatted and suited man on the right in the
middle row was probably the builder or the architect. Everyone photographed, including the
youngsters, wore head gear, even the young lad who was without shoes. This photograph is an important record of
some construction workers, probably from this area and probably taken on
completion of some major work. The
building behind the men I believe holds the key to solving the mystery of who
the men were and may also help to date the photograph.
Happy New Year to all the readers.
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