Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Posh surroundings! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman photo at frozenlight.eu http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu @nwajsman.bsky.social ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > On 6 Apr 2025, at 02:17, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > This clock is in the Kildare Street Club in Dublin where I was at the AGM > dinner of my wine society last month. Enjoyable, as it included a flight > of three '05 Pomerols and an exquisite '09 d'Yquem. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/NS+Clock+KSC.jpg.html > > The background to the peculiar clock is the club was used heavily by the > old ascendancy who were mainly protestant Unionists, and all were men. The > clock, probably made in France, commemorates the 200th anniversary of King > William III's victory in the Battle of the Boyne of 1690, and only has the > number 12 marked on it. It does have the motto of the Unionists on its > face however. So look at the larger size. Over here, we're tempted to > shout the slogan across the pond to the Tariffman. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kildare_Street_Club > > Jayanand, you may be interested in the fact that Lord Hugh Gough of the > Madras Army and Anglo-Sikh War fame was a member of the Club. It was > through his efforts in the war that Jammu and Kashmir came under British > rule and then, after the 1947 Partition, became mostly part of India. A > controversial figure in both India and China, Gough's Wikipedia page has > an interesting 1850 daguerreotype. Over here, there was a very good > equestrian statue by John Henry Foley of Gough on a plinth in the Phoenix > Park in the middle of Dublin. It survived until the mid 1950s, but looking > at a statue of a Field Marshal of the old occupying army was too much for > Irish people of a certain sensibility and it was blown up in 1957. > Repaired, it is now in the garden of an English estate. > > Douglas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information