Another one of my dad’s photos and a favourite of mine. This is a parade of 12 elephants from Chipperfeld’s Circus crossing Redmond Bridge in 1956.#waterford #ireland #irish #circus #elephants #oldphoto #chipperfields pic.twitter.com/n4PioJ1MOw
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1956.
Waterford.
When circuses were circuses.
Name those jammers, anyone?
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Dumbo, Dumbo, Dumbo, Jumbo – and, I think Babar
”One of my favourite pics of animal cruelty” just doesn’t have the same ring to it I suppose.
Tricky; The boot handle and width of name badge suggests car on left may be a Wolseley?
Car on the left is likely an Austin A30. Wouldn’t make too much of the badge size because the car was assembled in the Lincoln and Nolan factory on the East Wall in Dublin and some features were sourced locally and therefore the cars wouldn’t be exact replicas of the UK models. My uncle had one on his farm that the dogs slept in. Car on the right is probably a Ford Prefect assembled in Cork.
The car on the left has the county Kilkenny registration IP, another bloody interloper coming over the bridge. WI was the Waterford City reg, while KI was the county.
Redmond Bridge stood from 1913 to 1982. It replaced Timbertoes a wooden toll bridge opened in 1794. There was another wooden toll bridge upriver in Fiddown that lasted until 1983. I remember my father paying the penny toll to cross it. Rice Bridge replaced Redmond Bridge and opened fully in 1986.
Never fails to amaze me the impressive knowledge of the Broadsheet family :-)
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