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 [...]
"Is there anybody there?"
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 [...]
99 year old letter from America
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, anything but………..
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 & Bowen
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 [...]
"One giant leap for mankind"
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 [...]
Elijah Sewell
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 is coming to town
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 [...]
Bucker’s Lane – Frank and Benjamin Buckworth
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. [...]
Geoffrey Calverley
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; [...]