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Jim Eccles Photo Gallery

1. Lennox Robinson and Lady Gore-Booth - 1955

2. Mr. Gerry Flynn and helpers plucking turkeys -1955

3. Petrol pumps at Wine Street premises - 1955/56

4. Grattan Street/Harmony Hill Corner - 1955/56

5. Members of Feis Ceoil Committee in the Feis - 1956

6. Eamon McCole Dance Orchestra - 1956

7. Nuncio Caliendo & Bro. Einard - Sligo Gramophone Society - 1957

8. A Russian ship refuelling at Sligo Docks - 1957

9. Eamon Deignan preparing plaster cast statues - 1957

10. Irish Dancing in progress during the annual Beltra Show - 1958

11. Mayor of Sligo James Gannon - local cyclists -1958

12. Sean Lemass, Taoiseach viewing a guard of honour of FCA - 1958

13. Hunting in County Sligo - 1958

14. Sisters of Nazareth on visitation in Wine Street -1959

15. A popular four legged friend in the grounds of Nazareth House -1959

16. Mr. Mark Franklin with pupils - Schools Music Festival - 1959

17. Sligo Motor Company Ltd. High Street -1959

18. Ex Garda, John Duffy seeing children across Pearse Road - 1960

19. Santa is escorted down Pearse Road on a pre Christmas visit - 1960

20. Harry O’Rourke's Grocery, Castle Street - 1960

21. Easter Parade moving along Castle Street - 1960

22. Thomas Street/Castle Street comer -1961

23. Erskine Childers on a visit to Sligo - 1961

24. The Great Mandrake "seen" driving a car blindfold - 1961

25. Members of the Marist Brothers PPU - 1962

26. Bernard Tivlin, Porter, at the Great Southern Hotel -1962

27. Sligo Coursing Club

28. President of Ireland, Eamon DeValera - 1962

29. The gasometer structure which once stood in Adelaide Street - 1962

30. Sanctuary of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception -1962

31. Mr. Sean Lemass at the Marist Brothers Centenary - 1962

32. Live cattle being exported from Sligo Docks - 1963

33. Waiting on the "Boss" Connolly Street - 1963

34. Pilgrims at Cairns Quay for Garland Sunday ceremonies - 1964

35. Foleys Brewery, opposite JFK Parade - 1964

36. Mr. and Mrs Lawrence and their covered wagon - 1964

37. Mr. Davey tending his plants at Carraroe - 1964

38. Bank of the Garavogue looking North now Rockwood Parade - 1964

39. Bank of the Garavogue above Hyde Bridge - 1964

40. Lined up for the start of the messenger boys cycle race - 1965

41. Hauling in salmon nets at Markievicz Road - New Years day 1965

42. Santa Claus at St. Johns Hospital (old County Home) - 1965

43. Foundations of the Hotel Silver Swan, Hyde Bridge -1965

44. Note Bus Shelter on Hyde Bridge

45. Solicitors sign in Teeling Street opposite Sligo Courthouse -1966

46. The Metal Man, in Sligo Estuary - 1965.

47. Holy Cross Dominican Church Spire, High Street - 1967

48. Two way traffic O'Connell Street/Wine Street - 1967

49. Demolition of Premises of Sligo Gas Company, Wine Street -1968

50. Elephants not welcome to M. Doyle premises, Thomas Street - 1968

51. Mr. Coyle with his collection of antiques - 1969

52. Elsinore House, Rosses Point - 1969

53. F.W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd, O'Connell Street - 1969

54. Carroll & Co, Auctioneer and Valuers - 1970

55. Michael Quirke, Butcher come Woodcarver - 1970

56. The changing face of Wine Street -1971

57. O'Connell Street, John Street Corner - 1973

58. O'Connell Street, facade from EBS Building - 1973

59. Market Street Lower - 1972

60. Austie Gillen in his premises at Posses Point - 1974

61. Completing Coney Island Rosses Point phone link - 1975

62. Gaiety Cinema, Cinema was demolished in 1997 - 1976

63. Friday Fish Market - 1977

64. Sligo Independent premises Grattan Street -1978

65. Sir Alfred and Lady Beit connoisseurs -1979

66. Mass celebrated in Killaspugbrone - 1980

67. Henry Denny and Son Ltd. Quay Street - 1980

68. Ceramic Artist Michael Kennedy - 1981.

69. Tequila Sunset, Panama, ship delivering timber - 1983

70. Vincent Bird showing "The Sligo Chronicle" - 1984

71. Air display at Sligo Airport - 1985

72. Returning of Yeats portrait to the Irish Naval Service - 1985

73. Pauline Flanagan, Sligo Actress pictured with friends - 1986

74. Francis Stuart addresses Yeats Summer School - 1987

75. Country Markets Sligo - 1988

76. The Spanish Armada Commemorative Plaque - 1988

77. Spanish Armada Commemoration at Streedagh - 1988

78. President Mary Robinson visits Sligo Social Services Creche -1991

79. Trotting Out, County Sligo - 1993

80. Sligo Swans "Checking In" - 1960

81. Sligo Swans prefer to walk - 1960

82. Sligo Swans stepping out - 1960

83. Sligo Swans leading on - 1960

84. Sligo Swans home at last - 1988

85. Sligo Swans with Escort - 1960

86. Mr. and Mrs William Leigh with page boys on their Wedding Day

87. Frank O'Connor at Drumcliffe Church, Yeats Centenary Year

88. Sligo General Hospital and Extensions - 1997

89. Tower Hotel Quay Street with Benbulben in the background - 1997

90. Hughes Bridge, Harbour and New Apartments - 1997

91. Rockwood Parade looking North - 1998

92. Hyde Bridge and Wine Street - 1998

93. Tobernalt Sligo - Selection not available

94. Cormorant on Shore of Lough Gill - Selection not available

95. Mullaghmore Shoreline with Classiebawn Castle in the background

96. Portrait of Nora Niland, County Librarian and Curator - Selection not available

97. Yeats Family at W.B. Yeats Grave in Drumcliffe

98. O'Connell Street Two Way Traffic 1967

99. County Sligo Hunt on Parade - St. Patricks Day 1978

100. Kellys Hotel 1976

101. O'Gara's Garage Burton Street 1954

102. Salmon Fishing with Dick Woodmartin 1963

103. Sloweys Corner 1967

104. The Corpus Christi Procession 1969

105. The Old Friary at High Street, Sligo 1960

106. Fly Tying at Sligo RTC 1978

107. 1st Zebra Crossing in Sligo 1966

108. The Fair Green/Deal Done 1976

109. View from Cathedral Tower 1964

110. The Feis at St. John's School 1968

111. The Market Yard before re-development 1978

112. The last live Cattle Shipment 1963

113. Steam Train awaits at Sligo Station 1964

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