Gasometer
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@Paul Clerkin wrote:
yeah 1993 – as I was working on the top floor of a southern Merrion Square house and you could see the welders cuting up the top level….
Nice Image Devin,
1993 tallies for me as well, I was on the site in 1997 and all that was left was the surviving chimney a couple buildings and some industrial plant that looked like something out of a frankenstine shoot.
Punchbowl
There is a really good replica print of the Guinness Barge ‘The Malahide’ being unloaded at the site of Stack A, the Gasometer takes up about 25% of the background, it is about 28 x 16 send me a personnal message and I’ll get you one
I agree. That image is really excellent Devin. Now it makes more sense that people don’t remember it as much if it was taken down in 1993
Wow, what a fantastic picture. It doesn’t even look real – like one of those touristy photomontages from the 50s 🙂
That tank clearly was massive!
As you might have worked out, the pic is a telephoto view from the top of the Guinness Storehouse (but before the sky bar obviously). It’s on the cover of an old An T report.
the other gasometer thingy on shelbourne road that they are turning into apartmetns has begun getting its windows fitted. looks really good. well worth checking out.
Thanks all for the pics and interesting discussion. I previously believed it was demolished in 98 as it was my second stint in College and I’d come back from Dundalk one weekend to discover it had disappeared, but alas, I was also in College in 1993 so that does make sense.
I wonder if the whole structure could of been retained for some cultural use? I see across the net similar ones are being re-imagined and used daily. I suppose 1993 is a long time ago in terms of civic planning here though.
Another question. Whats there now?
You’d have to pad it out a bit with foam or something – lots of foam 😀
Anyone know how tall it was, and when it was built?
Please don’t say it has the honour of being the tallest building ever built in Dublin – wouldn’t surprise me :rolleyes:The structure that you are referring to was known as the Gasholder. The Gasometer is the other one that is currently being converted to accommodation.
The Gasholder had a subroof which went up and down within the structure depending on the amount of gas within. The operators used to keep a canary in a cage (just like in the mines) in the void between the two roofs to monitor gas leakage.
An external lift ran up outside the structure to give access to the roof and it was from this roof that movies of the ferries coming in to the north wall were used in the 1960s (?) film “Rooney-O”.
It says something for the (lack of) townplanning of the day that they allowed it to be constructed at the end of the Fitzwilliam St. vista but I think you would have seen the Kevin Roche Conference centre from this vista also ( the Conference Centre building bore a striking resemblance to a Dyson vacuum cleaner!)@millennium wrote:
It says something for the (lack of) townplanning of the day that they allowed it to be constructed at the end of the Fitzwilliam St. vista but I think you would have seen the Kevin Roche Conference centre from this vista also ( the Conference Centre building bore a striking resemblance to a Dyson vacuum cleaner!)
That’s right, and it was one of the biggest arguments against it as far as I remember. Although I must say it reminded me more of R2D2 from Star Wars than a Dyson!
I wonder if there is a correlation between the elimination of the gasometer and the rapid rise in Georgian offices prices as a proportion of new office prices in the late 1990’s. I cannot imagine the Fitzwilliam kilometre with that yoke overhanging the Merrion Square end of it.
There’s an aerial pic here:
http://www.murrayolaoire.com/urban/projects/dublin_docklands/index.html
It was very big.
And not quite as shapely as their creation for the end of Sir John Rogersons Quay
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