Re: Re: O’ Connell Street

Hmmm – what will it look like in its refurbished state I wonder, especially in its newly exposed environment? Kitch is one thng, but day-glo green concrete pedestals are quite another! Presumably it’s been defly sanatised, chromafied and electrified for the generic generation.

How long exactly has this been on the street? Certainly since the late 1970s when this picture was taken.

And more recently, encased in ravishing PVC (as posted before).

Indeed has anyone ever noticed the ultimate shrine to Catholicisim that is the diminutive little shop premises – if it’s even that – just across the road from the statue beside the Savoy? It has such a tiny frontage that it appears to have passed under the radar of the latter half of the twentieth century. It’s window display is one of the most ‘innovative’ in the city…
I’d like to be a fly on the wall when Planning Enforcement come knocking with their clipboards :p.

It’s quite likely it was from this premises that the statue was salvaged during the Civil War, rather than the nearby Gresham as is often said – assuming it was around at the time.

Sounds like the hotel just popped the sign up of their own accord, Stephen – a case for the above office methinks.