Keywords: hearne & co. hearneco hearne's hearnes ireland munster fire rubble girders burnt gormans medical hall gormansmedicalhall tylers boots tylersboots tylers boots are right every way tylersbootsarerighteveryway granville hotel granvillehotel the granville thegranville henry bell henrybell bell's chemist bellschemist chemist pharmacy prescriptions compounded prescriptionscompounded cattle medicines cattlemedicines mellins food mellinsfood monday 12th april 1915 1910s a.h. poole ahpoole poole collection poolecollection arthur henri poole arthurhenripoole glass negative glassnegative barriers ladders meagher's quay meaghersquay shops hotel fire pumps firepumps hand-powered fire pumps handpoweredfirepumps waterford national library of ireland nationallibraryofireland blackandwhite monochrome building architecture outdoor building complex black and white A row of buildings on Meagher's Quay in Waterford, pictured 10 days after a fire caused the devastation evident in this photo (the other side of Hearne's which stretched through to George's Street. We can see here that the building has been completely gutted, but as Subpopulus Hibernia points out: "It's also pretty impressive that the facade remains intact. I wonder if it was supported by a steel girder... I'm not sure how often such building techniques would have been employed in provinical Irish cities at the turn of the century." Date: Monday, 12 April 1915 NLI Ref.: P_WP_2608 A row of buildings on Meagher's Quay in Waterford, pictured 10 days after a fire caused the devastation evident in this photo (the other side of Hearne's which stretched through to George's Street. We can see here that the building has been completely gutted, but as Subpopulus Hibernia points out: "It's also pretty impressive that the facade remains intact. I wonder if it was supported by a steel girder... I'm not sure how often such building techniques would have been employed in provinical Irish cities at the turn of the century." Date: Monday, 12 April 1915 NLI Ref.: P_WP_2608 |