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Old landline diallers to bypass #eircom high phone tariffs.
Happy memories?

'Smartbox' might be overcooking it a bit 😂

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#StandingStoneSunday

Knocknakilla boggeragh mountains, 3K5 BP

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocknakilla

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Cork AD 630 Tidal undershot waterwheel mill at Little Island

The earliest of its type and when Little Island was still an island.

Source /© @Archaeology_Irl Spring 2023
also shown a vertical wheel at the same site

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#cork 1960s Patrick's Parade South Mall

More:
https://corkcamera.com/corkcamera/1960s/index_3.html#35

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#ThrowbackThursday (way back!)

Fossils on Eason bookshop on Patrick's Street.

Part of a #fossil tour of the city by Cork Geological Association, more photos in a later post.

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#throwbackthursday

Cork docks 1969, one of my first photos.
Diana plastic camera & 120 roll film. The camera cost 10 Schillings, bought in Lehanes grocer shop (now Centra) Rossa Avenue, Bishopstown.

Purchased the film from the chemist shop (now Spice Town?) in Uam Var Ave and the kind man, in a white coat, showed me how to put the film in.

#ThrowbackThursday
#dianaCamera
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#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircleSunday

Knocknakilla Megalithic Complex 3500 years old

Boggeragh Mountains, Co Cork

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocknakilla?wprov=sfla1

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#throwbackthursday

Coachford Junction, Cork and Muskerry Light Rail, Cork, #Ireland. Closed in 1934. Pics 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_and_Muskerry_Light_Railway?wprov=sfla1

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#standingStoneSunday

Cork city, Ardmahon estate.

The estate was built aligned with the stone, so it didn't need to be removed.

One of the children raised in the house went on to become an archaeologist!

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#standingStoneSunday Killowen #coCork

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Cork's first quartz clock in the late 1960s which was on display at 42 Grand Parade, then 38 Oliver Plunkett street.

Still accurate to +/- 1 second per month, over 50 years since it left the German Junghans factory.

A 12.8kHz quartz crystal is housed in a vacuum tube.

Only 5000 Astrochron were made. Designed to run on a 1.5 volt D cell zinc–carbon battery giving a years operation.

Full video:
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZUCenVZkmFTykLtYaVpWaSl0DQIK5VjqE77

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Cork City '80s tidal flooding Oliver Plunket St. Cyclist & 'The Brass Boot'

The OPW plan to top the historic Georgian quay walls with concrete to prevent tidal flooding. Geologists & Engineers I've listened to think it won't work in the city's marshy foundation. Alternative: tidal barrier

See:
https://savecorkcity.org/

#historicQuays
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My 1970 Xmas pressies with Paterson b/w negative film processing which I used later for processing many cork slide film photos.

Also Lego with electric motor, 'Monkey Race' & a model boat kit. I did well!

Modern Paterson kit:
https://www.patersonphotographic.com/new-products/

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Cork '80 Patrick's Street #xmas lights.

Olympus OM10 & slide film

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1980 Cork Xmas, SHARE crib, Cashes in the background

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https://corkcamera.com/corkcamera/1980s/night/index.html#3

#tombTuesday
George Boole, #cork

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole?wprov=sfla1

#boolean #programming #ucc #booleanAlgebra #oldCork #oldCorkPhotos #computerScience

Xmas '84 Patrick's St. Cork, Mangans clock, pre Merchants Quay.

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Ref: nC35kg 098 02 cropped, Karl Grabe

St. Mary's and the derelict 'Cork Timber Slate & Cement Co.' timberyard

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#derelict #derelictCork #mastodaoine

20k matchsticks, 700 Lilopop sticks, by 68yo Michael Heffernan of Redmond St.

'Sriking' model of Shandon Church painstakingly assemled in1983, on display in the church.

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Merchants Quay pre-shopping centre ~86

Cropped Telephoto view from Shandon Church

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Merchants Quay pre-shopping centre ~86

Cropped Telephoto view from Shandon Church

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Covered over dungeon under South Gate Bridge, the site of an earlier gaol at the city entrance.

Also yesterday the collapsed wall at the bridge, one of Cork's oldest bridges

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