Drain cover, Bangor
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Drain cover, Bangor
Image: © Rossographer Taken: 1 May 2016
Drain cover located in a private driveway on Osborne Drive, Bangor (house vacant at time of photograph). It is marked "J.P. Corry and Co. Ltd., 28 Talbot Street, Belfast". This is an earlier version of modern covers such as Image and Image produced by J.P. Corry http://www.jpcorry.com/ . James P. Corry & Co. was founded by Robert Corry in 1800. By 1826 he had established a timber importing business from Canada and began purchasing a number of sailing ships to travel to and from Ireland. They were ordering ships from Harland and Wolff as far back as 1860 - in fact the iron sailing ship 'Jane Porter' was the fourth vessel launched by the yard on 1st September 1860. Talbot Street in Belfast now looks like this Image
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Image Location
Latitude
54.659694
Longitude
-5.678301