Tony Smyth has unearthed another
hoard of photos for us.
He has already contributed a large amount of material
for the website, of course. His photos (alone) can be seen
on Pages 51,
52, 53, 55, 56 and 77 and you will find
more contributions in the Histories section.
Thank you, Tony and all those other
people who have generously contributed to this site.
(source: Tony Smyth)
Two more photos from Tony's year in Birkdale.
Above the house at 31 Weld Road which was to the left of the structure
27/29 Weld Road.
This building housed the chapel and meeting rooms.?
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(source: Tony
Smyth)
Christmas time frivolity at Weld Road.
(Left to Right) : Bernard Tremblay, Pat McKinlay, Jose ?, Jacques
Lacroix.
Seated (next to the Christmas tree, visitor, Richard Sloane).
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(source: Tony
Smyth)
Blacklion 1967
Pete Hurrell, Hugh McVey, Joe O'Reilly, Quentin Lowe,
Pat McHale,
Liam O'Neill, Tony Smyth, (leaning on) Robin Russell
Robin is sitting on Richard Moran, Eddie Martin (behind Tony Smyth),
Brendan Gormley, George Jason and Pat McDermott.
Robbie Dempsey
writes: "A
new photo has surfaced thanks to Hugh McVey
(October 2019) showing a few changes:-"
(source: Hugh McVey)
Blacklion 1967
Hugh McVey,
Pete Hurrell, Joe O'Reilly, Larry McFadded, Quentin Lowe,
Tony Smyth, Hugh McCafferty (behind Tony), Robin Russell (in front of Tony),
Richard Moran (tackling Robin),
Brendan Gormley (last on the back row),
Pat McHale (in front of
Brendan), George Jason (next to Pat and behind..), Pat McDermott.
Robbie adds:
"I
suspect that Liam took this shot FIRST and then stepped in
to replace Lawrence McFadden
who took the upper photo afterwards.
This is because Robin is surprisingly tackled by Dick Moran here and his
antics complete
in the first photo.
But Pat McHale has moved around to the right,Eddie has disappeared
to be replaced by Hugh McCafferty (or vice versa ?)
Looking closely you can see that Quentin is displaying his current
spiritual reading - a bookcover of a kneeling monk - (so not Edna O'Brien's
"The Country Girls" or "The Ginger Man" by JP Dunleavy - both banned !)"
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(source: Tony
Smyth)
Tony includes this for those who cannot remember how massive
that Wallace monument in Dryburgh really was.
That is Pat McKinlay standing on the base.
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(source: Tony
Smyth)
A couple of those 'let's get-a-head' of ourselves' photos:
Left: Frank and Tony getting into the White Fathers 'habit'
in their Philosophy days (although these photos were taken at Broome Hall..
Right: Dick Sloane & Frank Barnes sporting 'dog-collars' about
the same time.
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(source: Tony
Smyth)
Deaconate ordinations, Totteridge 1971.
The only ordinand that I recognise is John Slinger to the extreme
right.
Behind the ordinands are (left to right) :
Ronnie O'Connor,
Tony Smyth and Terry Madden (?) more to the right.
Winfried Hartwig writes (April 2011) :
"This is Whetstone parish church:
Front-row, second from the left is Gerhard Knühl (now in Trier,Germany)
— (not Jürgen Pelz, still in Tanzania).
The rest, might be Verona-Fathers and John Slinger, as you know.
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(source: Winfried Hartwig)
I've got a slightly different picture of the scene from
above and the one from the other side of the church:
From left: Dominique Arnauld, Augustin Dery, Marc François,
John Gould, Hans Schering,
Pierre Béné
(source: Winfried Hartwig)
Whetstone Parish Church — Deaconate ordinations, Totteridge 1971.
(source: Winfried Hartwig)
Whetstone Parish Church — Deaconate ordinations, Totteridge 1971.
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(source:
Tony Smyth)
Tony writes :
"This is what remains of the Eastview (Canada) Scholasticate
today.
The White Fathers sold their house in Vanier to the
city in 1975.
The main structure, which stood immediately behind the statue
of 'Notre
Dame d'Afrique' (Vanier is a francophone area of Ottawa)
was
demolished and made into a parking lot. The sisters' house to the
left of the main building (not seen in this photo) became the Vanier
City
Library and what was the last extension to the building, to the
left,
which in my day housed the recreation hall, conference room
and
meeting rooms, became Vanier City Hall.
Since the amalgamation of Vanier into the greater city of Ottawa
in
2000 I'm not sure what this building is now used for. But the statue
remains as do the White Fathers/Péres Blancs signs on the gate posts
to the property (one gatepost has White Fathers on a carving of the
African
continent, the other says Péres Blancs on a similar carving)
and the entire
property which is now a public park stands at the top
of Ave Pere Blancs.