Milk Cart

Bicycle, donkey cart, and automobiles are clearly normal transportation modes.

I'd love to know if the house with the balcony is still standing, and what street this is.

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lundur/Iceland says:

Wonderful shot!<img src="http://static.flickr.com/60/2060347 22_7c1e091cb5_t.jpg" width="48" height="48"
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

dbthayer says:

great record, love it.

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Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Well heres the story I grew up on that street, Its called Upper William St., it used be called Patrick St. I lived 8 doors up from the building with the balcony. That Hall is called St. Patricks Hall, they had snooker and Billard tables. The man standing at the door is Tony Fealey and I remember that wee black dog well I used to play with him. I was 12 when that photo was taken. I know everyone who lived in all those houses, one of them was direlect back then, the one with the brown door where the dog is. We thought is was haunted. The guy who owned the donkey is probably having a pint in Sheahan's Bar which was just a bit up on the left from where the donkey and cart were parked
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

dbthayer says:

bernard.oconnell:

your background really adds a lot to this. amazing that you and Colleen could make this connection--only on flickr.

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Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

marcus counihan says:

All of your photos are extraordinary. They are from a time not that long ago but it might as well be 200 years. Like Bernard, I remember the Ireland in the photographs, it is the Ireland of my childhood also and I do lament some of what we have lost. The photos capture the time perfectly because they are not just pretty pictures of Ireland but images of real people going about their ordinary lives in a way that is now just a distant memory. Thank you for sharing them...
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

gavino•vz says:

Is that milk in there?
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

ColleenM says:

Yes, farmers delivered fresh milk into towns every morning.

Here's a better view from Tipperary

Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

SLR_guy says:

My family is also from Ireland, but I'm not sure which exact part. Anyway my name is Drew Fealy. I know the spelling isn't exact, but I do think that I may be related. Fealy may also be prevelant over in Ireland, but alot of them are probably related. I have been told that a few hundred years ago the family name was O'Fallahey, then it became O'Fealey, then just Fealy. So there may be a connection there.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

kmccaul says:

Funny. I visited Ireland in 1972 too when I was a wee ten year old lad. We toured my father's boyhood town called Letterkenny. Its lovely street aroma is permenently etched in my head.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

zyrcster says:

Congrats for being blogged on Flickr! :)

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Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

firilencho says:

we still have those transports in Mexico =D hahaha!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

geozila says:

i like the small cars
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

@rmando says:

Perfect shot....

Old memories in my homeland...
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Mundomatic says:

Good shot.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

hugomonsterfanclub says:

If your interested, there is an amazing exhibition of colourful and curiously shaped tokens. Its a fascinating journey back to the days of home delivery and will give you a new appreciation for that ever-popular beverage: milk.

Check out…Just Add Milk! at the Currency Museum, Ottawa.

www.bankofcanada.ca/currencymuseum/eng/exhibi ts/nowat.php
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

fitzzz says:

Funny what you find on Flickr. I was born in Listowel the month this photo was taken.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

rickrollerbird says:

this poor old donkey :)
it looks very nice. thanks for sharing this beautiful shot :)

Yours Rick,
Admin of the Group -The finest of 2009-
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

ColleenM says:

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BredaF

Fantastic shot. They are making me lonesome for times gone by.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Brianog [deleted] says:

I am a native of Ireland. I holidayed with my family in Kerry in 1972 when I was 12 years old. I know we passed through Listowel on that holiday. I just cannot remember the exact details. We have lost so much through progress. On the other hand, this was about the time of the 'Kerry Babies' scandal, so there was a darker side to Romantic Ireland. All the same, I miss the time when seeing a donkey on the street did not occasion a moment of surprise.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

ColleenM says:

Fortunately, the Kerry Babies case didn't occur until 1984, and Ireland still appeared to be a fairy tale kind of place while I was wandering around.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

luckypass says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Beasts of Burden Around the World, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

langericious getting offside for awhile says:

god its like going back in time when this photo was taken i went to school not too far from here and after living in a big cosmopolitan city i thought ny parents so cruel to move us to such a place its only now on reflection i see how right they were i think if my memory serves me correctly if you kept going on up this street you would reach the cinema wow so many memories including the mark one cortina with the pye tailights well done to preserve this
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

ColleenM says:

langericious

I love stories like yours. So glad you found the pictures and they brought back good memories.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

maccath1 says:

sadly the donkey and cart are very rare now, as a child there would be a line of them passing our house heading for the creamery each morning and depending on who the farmer met it could be late afternoon before he headed home. for a few of the farmers that we knew it would be milking time when they reached home so going to the creamery was a full time job.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

bsouthj says:

It's terrific to see so many people connecting over the years and miles through a photograph on flickr. Wonderful!

I remember lying on my bunk in the service over in Germany and taking a "mental walk" down the main street of my hometown on the Atlantic Coast of New Jersey. I knew each shop on both sides of the street and the people who ran them. Of course, it had all changed in just a few years. I'll bet some of the people talking here are still able to do the same thing about the street in this picture.
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

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