Robert French - Diamond, Coleraine, circa 1890?

Very open urban space around the Town Hall in Coleraine in comparison to this 1990 photograph ( nlireland/9265719305/ ) taken at the same spot...Date: Circa 1890??..NLI Ref.: L_ROY_03951 ( vtls000041887 ) ..This photo was taken probably by Robert French, chief photographer of William Lawrence Photographic Studios of Dublin...You can compare this view of the Diamond at Coleraine with its companion photo ( nlireland/9265719305/ ) taken approximately 100 years later as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland...For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog ( 2012/04/13/then-then-and-now-photographic-projects/ ) .