Keywords: market square marketsquare dromore down ireland northern ireland northernireland ulster market horses carts sacks shops railings posters dawson r.j. poots rjpoots farola fruit hudson's hudsons soap grocery david allen davidallen dunville's dunvilles whisky telegraph wires telegraphwires butchers r.h. hazlett rhhazlett watchmaker jeweller marsuma cigars fitzpatrick tobacconist auction jas. p. mccrea jaspmccrea james mccrea jamesmccrea auctioneer dromore methodist church dromoremethodistchurch harvest thanksgiving festival harvestthanksgivingfestival sunday 9th october 1904 20th century 20thcentury revd. george r. wedgwood revdgeorgerwedgwood george wedgwood georgewedgwood pork bacon robert french robertfrench william lawrence williamlawrence lawrence collection lawrencecollection glass negative glassnegative national library of ireland nationallibraryofireland pigs' trotters pigstrotters limerick by beachcomber limerickbybeachcomber blackandwhite monochrome outdoor black and white Very patiently queueing horses at the Market Square in Dromore, Co. Down. Do we reckon those sacks and bundles are grain? (In which case, it must have been torture for the horses - so near and yet so far!) Lovely clear shops in this one; a fantastic sign trumpeting the selling of Farola (hands up who remembers that gloop?) in the establishment of R.J. Poots (don't think we've had a Poots before); and an excellent poster that gives us a very accurate date - thank you, Rev. Wedgwood for advertising your "Service Chiefly Musical" and thank you, Robert French for capturing it... Photographer: Almost certainly Robert French of Lawrence Photographic Studios, Dublin Date: Circa Sunday, 9 October 1904 NLI Ref.: L_ROY_08006 Very patiently queueing horses at the Market Square in Dromore, Co. Down. Do we reckon those sacks and bundles are grain? (In which case, it must have been torture for the horses - so near and yet so far!) Lovely clear shops in this one; a fantastic sign trumpeting the selling of Farola (hands up who remembers that gloop?) in the establishment of R.J. Poots (don't think we've had a Poots before); and an excellent poster that gives us a very accurate date - thank you, Rev. Wedgwood for advertising your "Service Chiefly Musical" and thank you, Robert French for capturing it... Photographer: Almost certainly Robert French of Lawrence Photographic Studios, Dublin Date: Circa Sunday, 9 October 1904 NLI Ref.: L_ROY_08006 |