A proud Irish family and their horse-drawn slide car — no wheels, just wooden runners built for bog and field. A reminder of the quiet ingenuity that shaped rural life across generations.

Newton Heath, Wall Street. Circa:1963.
Manchester

Joicies on Left Central Market.
Nottingham

1920's Top Creamery, O'Brien St.Tipperary.

Galbally road on the left,

Emly road on the right.

Mechanical Transport Army Service Corps Garage, Hounslow

A shepherd with his most important tool of his trade his dog, who was also his companion. He has his crook, his hurdles and his flock.

G. Godson, Coffin Maker, Reddish, Greater Manchester, UK - circa 1880s.
"Plain & covered coffin maker" "Funerals completely furnished & personally conducted at the shortest notice"

In the Victorian era, making coffins was a busy industry because of the era's strong focus on death and mourning rituals.

People often died young, so there was always a need for coffins. Coffin makers, sometimes called undertakers, made different types of coffins. Some were plain wooden boxes for poorer people, and some were fancy and decorated for the rich.

Year 1890 Bansha Road,Tipperary Town
approx 29 houses were built.

On the left as you leave Tipp Town towards Bansha/Cahir

They were built at the same time as Emmet St, Dillon St. and New Tipperary also called New Town.

Friary St

1900





at Guildford, Surrey

The 2.5 million tonnes of coal that Britain produced in 1700 had swelled to a massive 224 million tonnes by 1900.

Titchfield, Hampshire.

The Square, Titchfield. Possibly 1940-50

The herring fleet offshore Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, 1897 In the foreground you can see some bathing machines.

The Dockers Taxi Dublin

England in 1900s

Old Blackburn

Pauldens, Cavendish Street, Manchester. Circa:1925.

Swimming in the Itchen at Mansbridge 1961 (Daily Echo)

A London police officer directing traffic in heavy fog using a device connected to the gas main, which could be folded away into a metal box embedded in the street. (1935)