How well do you know Dublin?
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@ctesiphon wrote:
Cork Street was on my mind
There’s a song title in that. Of the saccharine melancholy variety,
We must bear in mind the lamppost. These never featured in the Liberties, and certainly not on Cork Street. There’s certain a northside fringes-of-a-Georgian-area quality to this place that’s difficult to pinpoint. Like Parnell Street shortly after it was bombed (by the Corpwaffe) in the 70s, or the Summerhill/Mountjoy area but less ordered. Testy.
The 70 perhaps? The winding street is certainly more reminicent of the south side alright, but clearly on the fringes of a ‘respectable’ area. Cuffe Street area maybe?
That (church?) on right doesn’t ring a bell:p
Surely it’s not the entrance to St James’s hospital !Cork Street was on my mind.
So little of the day remains,
So much now left behind.Unreclaimable, misspent.
Regrets? Perhaps a few,
But that is how it went.And yet, we’re still in the dark.
Not waving but drowning,
But always seeking the Arch-.Once gamekeeper, now poacher,
Now hunted, once hunter,
O preserve my sanity!
YOU WIN! dear gunter.@hutton wrote:
High Street, from the Cornmarket end – Tailors’ Hall, it’s got to be and would be the one survivor… 😉
@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.
‘Tis High Street from Cornmarket with Taylors’ Hall peeping up as the sole survivor.
Sorry I had to step out for a spell, I didn’t realize this was still going on!
A bar of virtual chocolate for Hutton, and I’m afraid, a ‘what could have been’ for GP
PS
Does anyone know if there’s a High Street / Cornmarket thread? When I type that into the search box, it jumps around a bit comes back to the page I was on.
I have more picktures@gunter wrote:
‘Tis High Street from Cornmarket with Taylors’ Hall peeping up as the sole survivor.
A bar of virtual chocolate for Hutton
Happy days 🙂
Of course you do know that was a bit cruel gunter – showing all buildings that are no longer there, with a view of Tailors’ Hall that no longer exists…
I think it’s only fair to split my virtual chocolate bar with GP 🙂
The depth of buildings in front of Tailors Hall is really quite something. It’d bring a tear to the eye, almost as much as ctesiphon’s heart-warming tribute. Although ‘Perhaps a few’ is ever so slightly the understatement of the century.
There’s also great images of the excavation of High Street in the 1970s. The false sense of optimisim you glean from them is quite bizarre – as if this central area of such importance had been cleared in anticipation of some urban greatness of mammoth ambition. Until they poured some asphalt over it all and shouted ‘finished!”
@gunter wrote:
Does anyone know if there’s a High Street / Cornmarket thread? When I type that into the search box, it jumps around a bit comes back to the page I was on.
I have more pickturesI think this is the closest there is:
@GrahamH wrote:
Until they poured some asphalt over it all and shouted ‘finished!”
That is the real tragedy; it took the private sector 15 years to put bland suburban office park crap up on the bits that were left behind which we are probably stuck with as they got as much onto the site as you would be allowed to in terms of massing which is due to what is now rightly regarded as a sensitive location.
When one compares High Street with say the Cork Street Extension which although the architecture is mixed at best it was at least done at roughly the same time. The buildings at the end appear to be what is now the Jurys hotel and looked very interesting and certainly far more fitting to the cathedral opposite.
@GrahamH wrote:
The depth of buildings in front of Tailors Hall is really quite something.
I’m still having a hard time believing that it’s the same building. And not just the depth, but the height too.
It’d bring a tear to the eye, almost as much as ctesiphon’s heart-warming tribute. Although ‘Perhaps a few’ is ever so slightly the understatement of the century.
Wow. My intentions were far humbler, more prosaic, but I can completely understand you reading it that way now that you say it! In that case, change ‘Perhaps a few’ to ‘More than a few’ (it actually works better that way in both interpretations).
(Also, the last line scans better as ‘Victorious gunter’, but I’m not changing that until I get a virtual sherbet fountain for effort! :D)
The 78 bus route was always Ballyfermot, Kilmainham / Inchicore, Mount Brown, James St, Thomas St, High St, Christ Church, City Centre.
@GP wrote:
Hutton, thanks! Let you share me bag o’sweets any day!
Most welcome 🙂
Signs on it’s time for a little bit of mischief…
A First one is quite easy –
B Second one might drive a few round the bend –
C Third one is enough to send a man to drink…
Extra cyber sweeties for those who spot my twisted little theme 😀
Is Image B Hume Street / Stephen’s Green? (with the pastiche redevelopment built by Sam Stephenson on the corner)
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