The intention with this website is to locate at least 1,001 benchmark sites, or die in the attempt (no flowers please, house private). Photos of any benchmark sites found will be posted at intervals over the coming days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries ... Anyone who wishes to contribute can send photos and descriptions of any benchmarks they find and would like to have included here, to mfbourke@gmail.com See post Number 1 for a fuller description.

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Monday, September 19, 2011

NUMBER 219

BENCHMARKS continued

Oh it's easy knowing the weavers when they come into town
With their long yellow hair and their stockings hanging down
And their aprons tied afore them and their scissors in their hands
It's easy knowing the weavers for they'll never get their man
Oh they'll never get their man, oh they'll never get their man
It's easy knowing the weavers for they'll never get their man”

This is a really satisfying looking 'mark recorded by M.C. on Brown Street South at the corner with Weaver Square in Dublin City. The weavers are long gone, as indeed are the doffers and the spinners and the fleurers, but the 'mark endures.

Below: The 'mark on Brown Street South.

Above: The corner of Brown Street South with Weaver Square with the 'mark just to the left of the corner.

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