IF you’re from Tralee and on Facebook you may have noticed a lot of old photos cropping up on your timeline over the past few days.
That’s because John and Martin Cleary set up the ‘Clearysphoto Archive’ page on Wednesday which is uploading some great archive photos from the last six decades. The page is becoming hugely popular with hundreds of people sharing them.
They’re being uploaded from the website, clearysphotoarchive.com which has thousands of images spanning nearly 50 years taken by photographer John Cleary.
“We put it up as a personal page rather than a business page and we’ve over 600 ‘friends’ since we started it on Wednesday morning,” said Martin, when we visited the shop on Russell Street.
“We have about half a million negatives upstairs here. It dates back to 1967. We’ve scanned 20,000 photos so far, at random, and we’re going to scan another 30,000 over the next 18 months. They’re from sports events, dinner dances, confirmations, communions, anything that went into The Kerryman during his time there and from personal work,” said Martin.
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“Most of the photos on the Facebook page are of Tralee people, but we’ll branch out to other parts of the county in time,” he said.
“There’s some cracking photographs of people from years gone by. We have some interesting shots of Tralee streets from the 1970s that we’ll put up soon as well,” he said.
If you want to find out more and see some great archive shots click here and ask to be their ‘friend’.
Scroll down to see a selection of photos from the archive…
