Old Cork Photos

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Seems like shades of yellow was a popular colour for cars in the 1970s

I remember the trains going over that bridge and of course the wooden planks on that bridge as well.

 

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Stranger Things - A young Micheál Martin

 

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Stranger Things - A young Micheál Martin

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Where did he go wrong???

 

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Where did he go wrong???

He brought us all into the upside down world so he did.

 

[sigourney's knickers]

The Spacer v-neck is perfect.

 

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The Spacer v-neck is perfect.

And the polo shirt hiding the neck of a jockeys bollocks.

 

[Meridian]

 

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Great photo, and I was going to say brings back happy memories, but definitely brings back memories of the 70s. I remember we all went to see my uncle-in-law off on the Innisfallen as he got transferred to Ford UK, some years before the Cork plant shut down. This ship was the 4th successor to the original Innisfallen.

One of my great grandfathers was killed on the successor to the original Innisfallen (1896-1918), while removing the big coils of electrical wire.

Innisfallen​

A ship named Innisfallen was built at Blyth, Northumberland, England, in about 1863. She sank with the loss of eight lives in the English Channel in the vicinity of the Goodwin Sands in a storm at the end of November 1897, on a voyage from South Shields to Cowes. She was carrying a cargo of coal gas when she sank.

The 2nd Innisfallen built in 1896 was torpedoed and sunk, without warning, by German U-boat UB-64 on 23 May 1918, 16 nautical miles (30 km) east of the Kish Light Vessel. She was on her way from Liverpool to Cork. 10 died. She had been owned by City of Cork Steam Packet Company.

Innisfallen 1896

Cargo Ship Passenger Innisfallen 1896 Wigham Richardson Neptune Low Walker

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I remember the trains going over that bridge and of course the wooden planks on that bridge as well.

The tracks were a cyclist’s nightmare

 

[Dinger]

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