Drain cover located in a private driveway on Osborne Drive, Bangor (house vacant at time of photograph). It is marked "J.P. Corry and Co. Ltd., 28 Talbot Street, Belfast". This is an earlier version of modern covers such as J5082 : Manhole cover, Bangor and J2664 : Manhole cover, Lisburn produced by J.P. Corry Link .
James P. Corry & Co. was founded by Robert Corry in 1800. By 1826 he had established a timber importing business from Canada and began purchasing a number of sailing ships to travel to and from Ireland. They were ordering ships from Harland and Wolff as far back as 1860 - in fact the iron sailing ship 'Jane Porter' was the fourth vessel launched by the yard on 1st September 1860.
Talbot Street in Belfast now looks like this J3374 : Talbot Street, Belfast (January 2016).