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Taken on: 2006-09-16 15:40:09
Tags: Architecture, Black and White, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, foundation-stone, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Photos, Princes Street, Sigma 10-20, Signs, Urban
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This foundation stone is set into a building at one end of Princes Street, Cork. I never noticed it until the day I took this photo and a quick search for Barbara Jessie Burton returns information and pictures of foundation stones laid by her in the years following 1927:
Nottingham, UK
Vauxhall Gardens, UK (PDF)
stone2 Aldershot, UK A comment on Streatham Elephants mentions her too.

Does anyone know anything else about Barbara Jessie Burton?

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Comments:
JohnFinn
I think she and her husband Stanley Howard Burton were the owners/directors of Burtons gentlemen's outfitters who had several stores in the UK and Ireland.
arranging constellations
i have never noticed that before
off i go on a search...
Donncha @ InPhotos.org
carrigman - thanks! That's a fascinating bit of history. I wonder who paid for the upkeep of the stone. Hopefully someone who knows will come by here some day and answer that one. Could be the council of course.
mrkbrdshw
A similar stone is on 'our' Burtons in Taunton, Somerset - same name but laid in 1930.
It gets a mention o my Daily Photo Blog today.

www.tauntondailyphoto.blogspot.com