Bridge Street
What kind of transport do you see?
What is being transported?
An bhfuil an trácht (traffic) difriúil inniu? Cad a cheapann tú?
Do you expect any difference in the road surface?
How many people on foot do you see?: More than today?
This picture is from about 1926, taken about 40 after the Wynne Picture at the top of the page
Were there many changes at the turn of the century?
Would you say the bar above was doing business 80 years ago?
What suggests that this has been a bar for a long time?
Now look again:
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The arch is actually relatively new!
It was a hardware shop in the mid-Twentieth Century
This shows the perspective (viewing point) of the photographer, using the map from 1838.