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DO YOU RECOGNISE any of these photographs?
Age Action is on a mission to reunite two photo albums crammed with photos with their owners, if they are still out there.
Charity staff found the two albums in amongst a pile of clothes received into the Camden St branch, and don’t want to discard what could be treasured family mementoes.
Eamon Timmins of Age Action told TheJournal.ie that one of the albums has a leather cover and contains photos from the late 1920s and early 1930s, while the second is more modern and contains photos mainly from the 1970s and 1980s. Many of the photos in the latter album were taken in the USA.
“These are memories”, he said of the photos. “They are some family’s memories. We couldn’t with any conscience throw these albums out.”
While Age Action does receive a large volume of items from homes, such a find is an unusual one.
If you believe you know more about these photographs, you are invited to email eamon.timmins@ageaction.ie
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Aoife the National Library of Ireland have a great page on Flickr where they post old images for identification purposes. It started slowly a few years ago and now they have garnered a great crew of historians, photo nerds and genuine amateur investigators who go to all lengths to ID people, places etc etc. Can’t remember the admins name but she is great, I think this angle may help Age Action!
The Flickr page is
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/
They are great and I’m sure they or the people who comment on their posts could help or will know people who can.
That is not military.. It is St John Ambulance
Exactly what I was thinking!
Love the Third photo. Welcome to Sister Immaculate Airlines.
Those were the days when a slab of toffee was 2 6′ and a litre of milk was a pint.
The term sky pilot springs to mind at photo #3, but does it refer to priests only? Curious. They look like Loreto nuns.
I have to agree with an earlier comment which said that the sister on the far right looks like aongus mac anally!
Lovely to see the compositors at work in photo 1……all done by computer now. In relation to this photo I would suggest Age Action contact The National Print Museum, Beggar’s Bush. Plenty people there to help with identifying the photo – they may have related material in their archives. Good luck with it.
Jaysus…..the women at work in photos 1 and 2 weren’t up to much….wonder what the chat was at the water cooler….while the “brides of Christ ” was a major career high versus the ” trolley dollies” of the airlines.
“The favourite daughter would become an air hostess and then the idiot brother would be sent off to the priesthood.”
They’re fantastic photos though, in fairness. It would be some savage blasht from the pasht if somebody recognised their grandparents in these!
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