How well do you know Dublin?
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Which bit is the clue? The buses?
New guess (hey Graham- get your own! No cogging like last time ^^^. :D)- Werburgh Street?
I’m feeling D8, but maybe that’s just because I’m slowly discovering your stomping grounds by triangulation.
Oh that’s a good one constat. It’s quite a grand street this, with a good sense of enclosure and of course grand lamp standards. I suspect it’s an area that’s now completely dominated by traffic.
Defo not Werburgh Street (where do they get these people from…)
Should we be concentrating on the gables on the right in the first picture? Has a feel of Tailors Hall, second pic is too flat to be Cornmarket. The amazing thing is that this a blighted street, on that the engineers got their hands on and still is is recognisable a Dublin. Place and placelessness!. I wonder what they will say in 30 years when they are looking pics of glass sheet.
Gunter I have to say I follow your posts and like 99% of them but you are a real pain to put this one in our brains over the weekend.
There wouldn’t happen to be a block of flats (similar to the one’s pictured on the Dutch Billie thread at Weaver Square) in the spot where that Billboard stands ?
Just re-posting these on this page for convenience:
Any chance of a(n actual) clue? Which side of the city? Or even a postcode?
My money is on GP
Pretty sure the buses are a 78 passing a 21.
If Busman wasn’t resting, he’d have the two routes analysed by now and pin-pointed their intersection!
Well the 78 runs to Ballyfermot, as does the 79 (which was my guess at the number), but zooming in on a photo of that resolution just results in blurry pixels. We’d need a higher res scan to verify it. Also, there’s no 21 service (any more?).
78 & 79 today run Aston Quay via St John’s Road West and Kylemore Road church to Ballyfermot. Are we close?
And if we can’t have the side of the city or the postcode, can we have the direction of the photo? I keep thinking it’s facing east, but that’s a groundless presumption.
@ctesiphon wrote:
Well the 78 runs to Ballyfermot… there’s no 21 service (any more?).
Darn, in youre in there before me CTE… there’s no 21 anymore and the 78 runs out to the Liam Lawlor Memorial Mall at Quarryvale…
It’s got to be somewhere on the inner-tangent route, or some such blighted place… it’s got Cork Street/ dean Street written all over it, but it’s just not… Can’t be anywhere where the Wide Streets Comms were involved, judging by the irregularity of building lines etc… hmmm….
Cork Street was on my mind alright, especially as the photo date is pre-Inner Tangent, and I don’t think it’s been rubbished as an answer (yet).
But Ballyfermot and Inchicore routes wouldn’t have used Cork Street…
@GP wrote:
Should we be concentrating on the gables on the right in the first picture? Has a feel of Tailors Hall, second pic is too flat to be Cornmarket.
High Street, from the Cornmarket end – Tailors’ Hall, it’s got to be and would be the one survivor… 😉
@gunter wrote:
If you guys don’t get your act together, I’m going to give this to GP.
Well either he (he?) got it or he didn’t!
If it’s not Francis Street or Meath Street, I give up.
EDIT: Are you saying Tailor’s Hall can be seen, hutton?
… (Re via High St) Which also could have been the routes for the 21 if it was going to Inchicore and maybe the 78…
@ctesiphon wrote:
Well either he (he?) got it or he didn’t!
If it’s not Francis Street or Meath Street, I give up.
Well he said it was “too flat”… and as we all know, gunter is quite the pinickity sort :p
@ctesiphon wrote:
Are you saying Tailor’s Hall can be seen, hutton?
I am that!!!
Right-hand side – right-end of, and behind, the billboard in the 1st photo…
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