Do you know who's Christening this is from 1998?

freshpopcorn · 25-08-2023 02:57AM #1

I stumbled across this on Youtube.

This roll of film was found in a second hand jacket.

Baby name appears to be Brendan.

Does you know anybody in the photos, the church, etc?

I'm getting more pathetic I know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDgqQvljaw

cj maxx · 25-08-2023 04:11AM

I don't recognise anyone but what uniform is granddad wearing. Seems like a police or other state service

Grayson · 25-08-2023 07:30AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121023629#Comment_121023629

Group 4 is a contractor that does security. They're english but probably operated in Ireland as well.

Badly Drunk Boy · 25-08-2023 08:43AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121023715#Comment_121023715

Group 4 were definitely in Ireland back then because a neighbour of mine worked for them (and he's long dead). They're called G4S nowadays, I think.

Hangdogroad · 25-08-2023 09:16AM

Yeah they were in Ireland for a while. They made the news a few times because prisoners kept escaping from their custody.

Dial Hard · 25-08-2023 09:30AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121023970#Comment_121023970

I didn't think private security ever did prisoner escorts, no? They definitely did cash-in-transit and had a couple of tiger kidnappings alright (including my next door neighbour's family).

artanevilla · 25-08-2023 09:38AM

They look English, the people I mean.

Kalimah · 25-08-2023 09:43AM

That was lovely!

Kalimah · 25-08-2023 09:49AM

double post

Kalimah · 25-08-2023 09:54AM

I wonder if it's an Anglican or Church of Ireland? I saw a cross in a photo but no crucifix as far as I could see.

Hangdogroad · 25-08-2023 10:02AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024022#Comment_121024022

OK, it seems they didn't do prisioner transfers in Ireland. They did in Britain, there were a few high profile cases of prisioners escaping, thats what I was thinking of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_4_(company)

freshpopcorn · 25-08-2023 10:08AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024055#Comment_121024055

When I look at it in the brightlight of day. I'd agree with you.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024078#Comment_121024078

I felt all emotional watching that at 3am.

BrianD3 · 25-08-2023 10:20AM

Anytime I got a roll of 35 mm film developed, the photos were all the same size yet they are various different sizes in that album. Is there something funny going on here.

artanevilla · 25-08-2023 11:28AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024234#Comment_121024234

It's probably from one of those cameras that came out just prior to digital. Not sure what they were called but they allowed you to change the size of the photo, panorama etc. I had one I'd say circa that same time.

Kalimah · 25-08-2023 11:57AM

The music makes it I think - a group called Loving Caliber - from Sweden I see.

L1011 · 25-08-2023 12:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024533#Comment_121024533

APS. Pointless attempt to lock down the printing facilities.

Badly Drunk Boy · 25-08-2023 01:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024698#Comment_121024698

It make it something, alright!! 😶

BrianD3 · 25-08-2023 02:50PM

The FreeBMD project has 322 million civil birth, death and marriage records up to 1998 for England and Wales but births only go up to about 1992. In a few years' time if they continue to add birth records, it may be possible to trace Brendans who were born around August 1998.

https://www.freebmd.org.uk/

Burt Renaults · 25-08-2023 03:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024121#Comment_121024121

They have that look about them, alright.

artanevilla · 25-08-2023 05:36PM

Far too fancy for Anglican or Church of Ireland, I'd guess Roman Catholic. It's looks rural. While they look English (I'd say Northerners too) is there many rural Catholic churches in the UK?

L1011 · 25-08-2023 06:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121026641#Comment_121026641

High Anglican churches are just as fancy as RC. There are both COE and COI bells'n'smells High Anglican parishes.

I'd say the name implies Catholic more than the church!

cj maxx · 25-08-2023 07:40PM

Oh the local CoI church is fancy , but it looked like a Catholic priest . I’ve never seen a reverend with a dog collar like that . They’re always full collars . Definitely a RC priest .

pgj2015 · 26-08-2023 02:40PM

That looks like my old priest Fr Michael O'Flatley.

DJIMI TRARORE · 26-08-2023 02:55PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121029599#Comment_121029599

Wasn't he the dancing priest from Fr Ted

pgj2015 · 26-08-2023 04:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121029648#Comment_121029648

No, that was Father Liam Finnegan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R2Sq26KvY0

Do you know who's Christening this is from 1998?

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