Reply To: rebuilding of the Custom House after 1921 fire

Omitted to say that the book I mentioned was published in 1952! Many inappropriate changes to the Custom house have, as you say Graham, been rectified since (changes have also been made to the Four Courts since, the main one being the re-instatement of the panelled blocks in the centres of the blocking courses on the front of the wings, an important architectural dressing).

I think it was the direction of the wind on the day of the fire that saved the front bit (visitors centre) of the Custom House.