How well do you know Dublin?
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oooh good guess Rory. Didn’t get that one.
Yes the warehouse is definitely recognisable as being in the Cork St area, but cannot for the life of me think where No 1 is:
(great pic btw ctesiphon)
I feel I know the trees better than the building! The bond is suggestive of the 1950s, while the expansion joints hint at a very large wall indeed, rather than a flat block gable or similar. The apparent use of granite in the upper band is also odd if a Corpo development…
Bah!All the above answers were correct – the front railings of the Rotunda, and the ode to red brick that is Lincoln House, on the site of the former Turkish Baths opposite the Dental Hospital:
And a grand decaying Victorian on Talbot Street:
And as is established practice in Ireland, the ground floor has a ginormous feck-off FX BUCKLEY FAMILY BUTCHERS double heritage shopfront partly straddling the property. Cost a bomb, while the upper floors are left to rot away. Not the fault of the ground floor tenants, but a situation representative of a city-wide problem.
So only ctesiphon’s No1:
and this are left:
hmmmm…
1 also reminds me a bit of Loftus Lane, at the back of the whole cinema (Virgin/UGC) complex on Parnell Street. Unlikely to be, though, if it’s been placed in the 1950’s by Graham H, who knows considerably more than me. (And at a much tenderer age, too.:D )
Yesss!!! I finally thwarted GrahamH.!:) (Sorry- I’m sure you understand.)
@Seamus O’G wrote:
1 also reminds me a bit of Loftus Lane, at the back of the whole cinema (Virgin/UGC) complex on Parnell Street. Unlikely to be, though, if it’s been placed in the 1950’s by Graham H, who knows considerably more than me. (And at a much tenderer age, too.:D )
Oh he makes a good argument alright, but trust your instinct on the dating front, Seamus. Maybe not as late as Virgin, but it’s not as early as the 1950s either. Not Wilton Place either, I’m afraid, jd.
Re the warehouse- I’ll come clean. It’s opposite Grey’s pub on the corner of Ardee Street and Newmarket in the Coombe. It’d be cruel to withhold any more- you were close enough, GH and jd.
PS Graham- fwiw, I’m thwarted by your outstanding one too. I’m presuming it’s a corner seen from under some eaves, but I’m not even sure of that.
:p
Yours is a tricky one. I was dithering between 50s and 60s – on reflection it has a slightly later quality to it, as that pinkiness we see was more of a wine colour in the 50s. It’s certainly not as late as the 1980s, let alone 1990s. The presumed granite also suggests a commercial or flagship public property perhaps?
It really is very odd having brick continuing onto the second floor, ruling out a number of office developments of the period.Give us a clue – north or south side? 😉
Oh I’d be wary of using words like ‘certainly’, if I were you. Seamus might start to lose faith in you.:D
You’re right about the brick to the first floor- one of the reasons why I posted this shot. It does set it apart a bit from many other buildings it might otherwise be confused with. Flagship? Not really. Commercial? Yes, but maybe not in the traditional sense. Also, notice the lack of windows…?;)
And it’s southside (within the canals) but that’s all I’m giving you.
Okay- one more hint (it’s only fair, I think): the building is nothing special, but it’s in a great location deserving of something far better than this anonymous edifice.
The unsolved photo from GrahamH….
Every time I look at it I see the underside of the roof of the Lansdowne Road West Stand, with the (relatively) new TV box on the right hand side of the photo. As it might be seen from the southbound platform at Lansdowne Road DART station, or out on Lansdowne Road itself (Dodder side of the railway).
Yet I think the front of the roof of the stand is “straight” rather than, as shown in the photo, with regular protrusions. Plus it’s outside the canals. I’m sure the whole idea is crazy.
A clue, perhaps.:)
You can rest assured Seamus that I have never ventured inside a rugby stadium in my life :p – my closest point to Lansdowne also being the DART station.
Though saying that, the picture is not a million miles from another rugby pitch…
Hmm….near a rugby pitch.
Could it be the loading bay for the Samuel Beckett theatre in Trinity – where all the backdrops and so forth are delivered. Somewhere around there.
@GrahamH wrote:
So only ctesiphon’s No1:
this one is really starting to bug me – i know i know it, I just cannot pull it out of the recesses of my mind
@GrahamH wrote:
oooh we’re getting close…
Hmm.
Another guess, from a location unfortunately too far away to check it out in person before posting.
The Luce sports hall in TCD on the right of the photo, the railway bridge in the top left hand corner.
Seamus- I think you might be onto something with that guess.
DOC- Sorry, neither DIT nor the church.
Paul- sorry for the torture. 🙂
Another hint? It’s very close to one of the other buildings featured over the last couple of pages. If one were to visit each of those, the location of this would be immediately apparent.
Ctesiphon – your one is south of the river, between the canal and the river. At this rate, it’s looking like we may need to find out if it’s D2 or D8.:o
Isn’t “The Wall” the one on the lane down at the back of Guinesses, near their Enterprise Centre?
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