Toome Collection

Eel Weir on Lough Neagh at Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of the eel weir with three men standing on a wooden bridge. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Crosskeys Inn, Toome, a Relic of the Coaching Days - a view of a thatched licensed building with four boys outside. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

The Temple of Liberty, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of a derelict folly with people in the foreground. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

Cutting the Calacht, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of five people in a field, three with scythes, about to throw the scythes at a corn stack

The Churn Or Harvest Home, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of the photographer and his family all sitting at a table with wine and bread. There are interesting artefacts on the walls of the room

Primitive Method of Rippling Or Bolling Flax, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of two men in a field rippling flax onto a white sheet. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Church Island, Lough Beg, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of a church tower surrounded by much vegetation. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

New Ferry, Toome - a view of two women in a boat at a short crossing point at the river. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Eel Weir, Toome Bridge (1881). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1881

Straw Cross and Harvest Bows, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of the straw cross surrounded by four bows. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Eel Weirs at Toome - a view of the wooden eel weirs on the river at Toome. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Bann Weir at Toome - a view of the river weir used to catch eels. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

R. C. Church, Toome
R.C. Church, Toome - an more distant front view of the church, showing the road and surrounding buildings. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

River Bann and Eel Weirs, Toome - a view of the river and eel weirs across it. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

Sorting Eels in the Tanks, Toome - a view of a man sorting eels at the waterside with another man onlooking. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

Packing Eels for Shipment, Toome
Packing Eels forShipment, Toome - a view of a group of men packing eels into crates, in the background is the bridge at Toome. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome)

Eel Fishers Unloading the Catch. Toome - a view of men unloading crates of eels from a boat at Toome. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

Making St. Brigids Crosses of Straw. Toome - a view of a man and boy outside a thatched cottage, the man is making St Brigids crosses of straw. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome)

Kieselguhr Industry, Toome, Grinding Bann Clay - a view of a man shovelling clay into a feed for a grinder. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

Kieselguhr Industry, Toome, Bann Clay Stored in Sheds Ready forGrinding - a view of stacks of clay in a shed with two men in the background. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome)

Kieselguhr Industry Toome, Bann Clay Stacked to Dry - a view of large stacks of clay out to dry with a man beside them. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

Kieselguhr Industry at Toome, Digging the Bann Clay. Grants Factory - a view of two men digging clay and one using a barrow outside. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome)

Kieselguhr Industry, Toome, Grants Calcining and Grinding Factory - a view of a factory for grinding clay. There is a man standing at a door. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome)

Union Lodge, Toome - a view of a large house with a man at the gate waving to a motor car and passengers. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

Toome Weir on Lough Neagh - a view along the weir with a boy fishing in the foreground and the photographer standing on the weir. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome)

A Co. Antrim Cottage and Turf Stack, Toome - a view of a thatched cottage and a turf stack beside it. There is a man with a wheelbarrow. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Bringing Home the Calacht, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of the photographer being led by the neck with a sheath of corn, in a field of corn stacks, with three other people

Mowing Corn With Scythes, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view in a field of men scything and ladies collecting the corn. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Reaping the Corn, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view in a field of a horse drawn reaper, reaping the corn with people collecting the cut corn. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Interior of Cornmill Showing Grindstones, Toome, Co. Antrim - an interior view of a cornmill. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Hughie Dobbin and His Corn Mill, Toome - a view of hughie sitting in front of his corn mill behind. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Hughie Dobbin, Corn Miller, His Tally, Toome - a close in view of a tally of corn milled which is made of wood. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

A Corner in a Co. Antrim Farmhouse, Toome - a view of a draped bed and spinning wheel in the corner of a farmhouse. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Ballymatoskry Cottage, Toome - a view of a large cottage and to the left a horse vehicle, with passengers on a country road. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Winding Yarn Off the Swifts, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of a lady outside operating a spinning wheel unwinding yarn off the swifts. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Flax Stacked Ready for Scutching, Toome, Co. Antrim
Flax Stacked Ready forScutching, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of a man and woman beside a flax stack outside. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

The Clove, used for Removing Shoves After Hand Scutching, To
The Clove, used forRemoving Shoves After Hand Scutching, Toome - a view of a man and woman pulling flax threads with a clove. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Primitive Method of Breaking Flax for Hand Scutching, Toome
Primitive Method of Breaking Flax forHand Scutching, Toome - an outside shot showing a man and a woman breaking flax by hand, in the background are buildings

A Co. Antrim Scutch Mill, Toome - an interior shot of the scutch mill. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Flax Breaker in a Co. Antrim Scutch Mill, Toome - an interior shot showing a man operating a flax breaker. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Sowing the Flax, Toome, Co. Antrim - a picture of people hand sowing flax in a field followed by a horse vehicle. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Interior of Scutchmill, Showing Back of Scutching Handles, Toome - an interior shot showing the scutching handles. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Spinning and Winding Yarn, Toome, Co. Antrim - the same two ladies as above spinning and winding yarn outside. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Scutching Flax By Hand on the Scutching Stock, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of a lady scutching flax to the side of a house with another lady in the background spinning

A Lint Hole, Showing Flax in Steep, Toome Co. Antrim - a view of a lint hole in a field with houses in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Stooking the Flax, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of a man and woman in a field stooking the gathered flaX. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Steeping the Flax, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of men unloading the flax from the horse and cart and another man steeping the flax in a river

Spreading Flax, Toome - a view of women in a field overlooked by a man spreading out flax to dry. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

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