Max Altdorfer – Father & Son
Maximilian Erneste Altdorfer was born in 1891 in St Ann’s Hill Hydro, son of Dr. Max Altdorfer and Mrs Auguste Altdorfer. His father was one of the resident physicians [...]
Maximilian Erneste Altdorfer was born in 1891 in St Ann’s Hill Hydro, son of Dr. Max Altdorfer and Mrs Auguste Altdorfer. His father was one of the resident physicians [...]
Georgiana Houghton (British painter) 1814 - 1884 The Eye of the Lord, 1874 watercolour and gouache on paper on board 25.3 x 35.6 cm (9.96 x 14.02 in.) Victorian Spiritualists [...]
Not quite the standard of hotel that you associate with people from Tower village at the turn of the 1900's but thanks to a letter from ninety-nine years ago [...]
Lilian Bland was a woman who made an indelible mark on the world of aviation, ,she was the first woman in Ireland to fly a biplane and was the world’s [...]
Disney and Bowen, two iconic names in entertainment circles; staying in St Ann's Hill Hydro on the night of the 1901 census was Rev Brabazon Disney and his wife Sarah [...]
This day fifty years ago, 20th July 1969, was the first day that a man stood on the moon. There are numerous newspaper articles and podcasts, documentaries, and my personal [...]
When I first started to collect the census information for the Tower area a number of years ago I made a list of people and names that caught my attention, [...]
The circus came to Tower over a hundred years ago and there is no doubt it would have been a cause for huge excitement and high spirits. In April 1911 [...]
Head up the Old Kerry Road from Tower Cross, take the very first turn on your right and you are on a cul de sac known locally as Buckers Lane. [...]
Mitchelstown Castle circa early 1900’s from the Great Irish Houses website There wasn’t too many children staying in St Anns’ Hydro hotel on the night of the census in 1901; [...]