Whose funeral is this?

[majm]

The fixed roof motorcars did not usually have a different colour on their roof from the body of the vehicle.  (Production line vehicles) However, it would be interesting to learn when white walled tyres were introduced.   It is logical to presume that the persons in charge of each vehicle would remove snow from the bonnet easily simply by keeping the motors running....

[Flattybasher9]

Just curious, why no footprints behind the lead "mourners"??

Regards

malky.

[JenB]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_tramways
See what you mean - a lot of these photos are similar. (How stupid they were to kill off the trams.)

Looking at the photos on this link - the 'snow' effect is apparent in very many of them  

[majm]

Just curious, why no footprints behind the lead "mourners"??

Regards

malky.

There's not too many clear spots for the footprint to be shown, and from my take of the photographer's own position, the photographer was not high enough to have captured the footprints in that photo of any of the THREE men "leading" the procession.  I can see "scuff marks" (perhaps trampled footprints)  further back in the procession, near the "scouts" and others...

Cheers,  JM

[Wiggy]

Just a thought - is it really really important whether there is snow or not?   

 - it's Winter - surely that's all that matters - having snow isn't going to provide the answer is it - or is it??   

[Seoras]

True Wiggy,true,but if they arrived by bike they left no tyre marks.

[Pastmagic]

The snow or not question is only important becaause snow would narrow the date to a day when snow actually fell in Dublin - few and far between usually, in Dublin. Most years there was no snow at all. The fact is we can be out in  overcoats any time of the year as Irish weather can produce a cold snap without snow any time of the year! The other problem is that there were an awful lot of deaths, because of the politics of the time which would have warranted a big funeral. It is just hard to figure out who died and would have went from or via Marine Rd Dunlaoighre.

[Flattybasher9]

Interestingly, I have just "Google mapped " Marine Rd,  Dunlaoighre, and traced up it on satelite view. How sure are we that this photograph is of a section of Marine Rd, Dunlaoighre.

Regards

Malky

[JenB]

Interestingly, I have just "Google mapped " Marine Rd, Dunlaoighre, and traced up it on satelite view. How sure are we that this photograph is of a section of Marine Rd, Dunlaoighre.

From the OP

Much changed but those of us who were living out there before the changes will know the original photo as being that of St Michaels and the Marine Road

The road has much changed since the fire and the building of the new church and shopping centre

And from someone who lives there

at this stage we know its Dun Laoghaire/Kingstown (I'm from D/L  )
it is St. Michaels church -it is Marine road -