Gasometer
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Hi Guys,
My Girlfreind doesn’t remember the Gasometer from Dublin Docks ( Demolished 1998 ) and I’m trying to get s decent scale picture of it to ‘Wow’ her with. Can anyone help?
Incidentaly, I did an image search on Google and discovered a huge amount of similar structures Europe-wide that have been reimagined. Why couldn’t this of been done for such a landmark here??
Punchbowl, at the very beginning of the Rattle and Hum Video (or DVD) by U2 there is a movement of the camera down the docks. This shows the structure that I think you are referring to (It is actually great in that it shows loads of the docks during the 1980s). It is quite cheap to buy as far as I know, and, if you like their Joshua Tree era, there are some very good live versions of their songs aswell. There is also more contrastable material in the images used for their October album (1981 I think) with how the area looks today.
Phil
There is a reimagining of sorts taking place off Barrow Street. Among the warren of new development there (overdevelopment if ever I saw it) is the building a new apartments and offices within the cast iron gasometer. Looks quite interesting
Great shots SW101, but I don’t think that is what Punchbowl is referring to. Those shots are of the Gasometer referred to by StephenC that now has the ‘Gasworks’ apartments being built within it. I think the one Punchbowl is referring to was a great big white structure that used to be beside the south quays of the Liffey.
I was just relieved you didn’t slag me about my music tastes again! 🙂
@phil wrote:
I was just relieved you didn’t slag me about my music tastes again! 🙂
nah, i’ll just stick to “you’re so bleedin old, remembering stuff long gone”.
I find it amazing that a lot of people can’t recall this ‘ building ‘. It was fairly tall ( Moreso than Liberty Hall? ) and definately visible from any viewpoint along the Quays.
It pops up quite a bit on old 80’s shows ( Perhaps this was to create the illusion of a high rise city? ) and most Shay Healy related programmes.
Phils Picture doesn’t really give you a true sense of the size of it… Or am I just remembering it too fondly??
@Punchbowl wrote:
I find it amazing that a lot of people can’t recall this ‘ building ‘. It was fairly tall ( Moreso than Liberty Hall? ) and definately visible from any viewpoint along the Quays.
It pops up quite a bit on old 80’s shows ( Perhaps this was to create the illusion of a high rise city? ) and most Shay Healy related programmes.
Phils Picture doesn’t really give you a true sense of the size of it… Or am I just remembering it too fondly??
Its RoryWs picture.
I think SW101 is such a young pup that he wasnt around in the 80s to remember it! 🙂 I however, being so old, remember its dominant presence quite well. However, the fact that it was around up as far as 1998 makes it incredible that people have forgotten it so quickly.
I loved the quays way back in the 70s early 80s. My father was a bike dealer and Raleigh Ireland had a factory on Hanover Quay so we’d be in Dublin fairly regularly – alway remember the last of the cranes and the gasometer…
I barely remember it in ‘real life’ too 😮
I’ve a pic of it here in a book, it’s at least 10 storeys anyway. When was it built and what was it used for – a modern version of the Victorian holding tank before natural gas?
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
I loved the quays way back in the 70s early 80s. My father was a bike dealer and Raleigh Ireland had a factory on Hanover Quay so we’d be in Dublin fairly regularly – alway remember the last of the cranes and the gasometer…
I used to love the way you’d pass under the loop line bridge and you were into another world beyond the Dart line. It acted as such a barrier as if to say “no shopping or offices beyond – ships and warehouses only”
@Rory W wrote:
I used to love the way you’d pass under the loop line bridge and you were into another world beyond the Dart line. It acted as such a barrier as if to say “no shopping or offices beyond – ships and warehouses only”
I still think it is like a barrier separating two worlds. You can really feel a different aura once you pass under that bridge. There seems to be more space or something. It is strange.
It’s partially to do with the bridge itself I think – that time old effect used by architects to accustom you to large indoor spaces; when you emerge from under the bridge you are kind of fooled into believing the place to be much ’emptier’.
But certainly there’s also a real contrast, particularly beyond City Quay or Custom House Quay on the other side, so much so that it’s so strange to suddenly see the 50s flats out at the Grand Canal Basin there, looking like in the middle of nowhere
The Conference Centre of the Spencer Dock scheme Mark 1 was apparently inspired by the Gasometer……the Gasometer tipping over to reveal the new docklands……how inspired can you get?! :rolleyes:
To my knowledge it was taken down in 1993.
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