How well do you know Dublin?

by **Global Citizen** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:43 pm

StephenC wrote:Casino Marino lion

Nope, they're all between the canals.

Paul is right about the first one.

I thought it would be the toughest. I'm impressed !

by **Paul Clerkin** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:05 pm

Global as a kid i was entralled by the Robert Ballagh book of photos of Dublin - this was in it

by **Frank Taylor** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:03 am

4th picture is Dunnes HQ in Upper Stephen Street

by **photopol** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:28 am

Nelson's Pillar

Not sure if this is the appropriate thread, but I don't know how to open a new one.

Just wondered if people might be interested in Nelson's progress (downfall) in 1966.

http://www.photopol.com/nelson_show/index.html

by **goneill** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:19 am

Lion at No 86 St Stephen's Green (in lead)?

by **Global Citizen** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:29 am

Frank Taylor wrote:4th picture is Dunnes HQ in Upper Stephen Street

Yep, or the old Dunlop factory...........

by **photopol** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:10 pm

Hope I'm doing this right. If not please tell me.

Four shots, within the canals, in Dublin below for guessing. I have labeled them V-Z to avoid confusion with any other current images.

V

X

Y

Z

by **gunter** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:41 pm

Hold on a minute there photopol, we don't know what these are yet

I know the Victorian brick gable, but I can't think of the name of the building, . . . . or where it is

doesn't count as a answer I don't suppose :confused:

by **GrahamH** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:04 pm

The latter piece of tat is from the larger piece of tat on Harcourt Street - the new infill building. Shocking stuff.

The lead lion is from Newman House alright, from which Richard Whaley's son famously jumped for a bet onto the roof of a carriage out on the road. Luckily for him, if not for his contemporaries, he lived to tell the tale.

The brick gable is extremely annoying.

The limestone pediment is clearly a flourish atop a Victorian commercial building of some kind, with a large limestone chimney stack to the rear - Lower Grafton Street or somesuch.

by **GrahamH** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:09 pm

Oh, and sorry Global, the little urchin chappie isn't on the O'Callaghan's Chance/ICS building at O'Connell Bridge. Good guess though

by **photopol** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:20 pm

Sorry Gunter. Ignore me until they're sorted out.

Apologies.

by **gunter** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:06 pm

. . . . we just have to follow proper proceedures photopoll, or the whole system breaks down

having said that, is the last one [Z] the Gilbert Library on pearse St. ?

Is this one Walton's music store on South Great Georges St.?

by **photopol** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:31 pm

Gunter

[Z] is the Gilbert, well done.

I'm a great one for procedures myself. Alternative is anarchy.

How do I know when a new set can be started? I guess I was a bit overenthusiastic, trying to figure out the mechanics of the site and flying through past posts checking what had already been covered.

by **Paul Clerkin** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:41 pm

the gable is bugging the hell out of me

by **jdivision** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:48 pm

Carvills on Camden Street?? It's a guess but like the others I'm being bugged by it cos I know it.

by **Paul Clerkin** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:56 pm

that crossed my mind too

by **foremanjoe** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:02 pm

I don't know where it is at all, but that limestone pediment looks like it's on top of a gatepost or a pillar rather than a building.
Otherwise those are some mighty slabs of stone.

by **Paul Clerkin** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:44 pm

i figured it was dormer type windows

by **GrahamH** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:48 pm

A little too grand for Carvill's -- but not the former Mercer Hospital

Those cut stone power-stacks always give the game away.

Spot on gunter with Walton's! One of those obscure ones that blurs into myriad others of its type.

photopol you may initiate proceedings! The freaky head is up at the former City Basin anyway...

by **photopol** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:24 pm

GrahamH

Full marks for the freaky head [V]. That's two down. I'll have to sharpen up my act next time round...

by **photopol** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:26 pm

GrahamH

Technically the former Harbour, but I know what you mean.

by **photopol** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 3:01 pm

I know you had these two ladies from George's Church in Hardwicke Place on earlier. Does anyone know who they are or where I can find out? Thanks.

by **Global Citizen** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:53 pm

GrahamH wrote:The latter piece of tat is from the larger piece of tat on Harcourt Street - the new infill building. Shocking stuff.

Well done Graham.

I only saw it for the first time last Saturday when I took these photos and its presence in such a beautiful street fills me with a mixture of anger and disappointment. Its a piece of vandalism that wouldn't be allowed in the suburbs of Calcutta. Yet our planners deem it appropriate in an overtly visible location in the georgian core of Dublin. How the hell.........? I'm straying a bit off topic here. But looking at the photo below, most people will understand why.
Anyway - A rant for another thread perhaps.

by **Global Citizen** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:58 pm

goneill wrote:Lion at No 86 St Stephen's Green (in lead)?

Yep. Tis Newman House.
And lots of lead !

by **Global Citizen** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:06 pm

[quote="gunter"]

Good God Gunter

Sorry...........
I love a little alliteration:o

Waltons - a candidate to the shopfront thread perhaps ?

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