How well do you know Dublin?
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I don’t know where it is at all, but that limestone pediment looks like it’s on top of a gatepost or a pillar rather than a building.
Otherwise those are some mighty slabs of stone.A little too grand for Carvill’s — but not the former Mercer Hospital 🙂
Those cut stone power-stacks always give the game away.Spot on gunter with Walton’s! One of those obscure ones that blurs into myriad others of its type.
photopol you may initiate proceedings! The freaky head is up at the former City Basin anyway…
GrahamH
Full marks for the freaky head [V]. That’s two down. I’ll have to sharpen up my act next time round…
I know you had these two ladies from George’s Church in Hardwicke Place on earlier. Does anyone know who they are or where I can find out? Thanks.
@GrahamH wrote:
The latter piece of tat is from the larger piece of tat on Harcourt Street – the new infill building. Shocking stuff.
Well done Graham.
I only saw it for the first time last Saturday when I took these photos and its presence in such a beautiful street fills me with a mixture of anger and disappointment. Its a piece of vandalism that wouldn’t be allowed in the suburbs of Calcutta. Yet our planners deem it appropriate in an overtly visible location in the georgian core of Dublin. How the hell………? I’m straying a bit off topic here. But looking at the photo below, most people will understand why.
Anyway – A rant for another thread perhaps.gunter wrote:Good God Gunter 🙂
Sorry………..
I love a little alliteration:oWaltons – a candidate to the shopfront thread perhaps ?
@GrahamH wrote:
The limestone pediment is clearly a flourish atop a Victorian commercial building of some kind, with a large limestone chimney stack to the rear – Lower Grafton Street or somesuch.
Not quit commercial and not quite right with the location (almost):rolleyes: but I have to allow it.
Well done again Graham.This is actually one of my favourite buildings in Dublin.
@photopol wrote:
Gunter
I’m a great one for procedures myself. Alternative is anarchy.How do I know when a new set can be started? I guess I was a bit overenthusiastic, trying to figure out the mechanics of the site and flying through past posts checking what had already been covered.
😮The floor is all yours now Photopol.:)
I’d hate to see an outbreak of anarchy here:eek:
And welcome to the forum.Oh by the way, I reckon your second image is the top of the onion tower in The Liberties.
AKA St Patricks Tower. A very idiosyncratic building. I love it. There is something endearingly questionable about Dublin’s love of chimneys. Nobody wants Poolbeg knocked down. Smithfield is (or was) a viewing platform. And this onion tower is one of the best loved structures in the city.I hope I’m right now:confused:
Global Citizen
The tat is absolutely incredible. I couldn’t believe it when I saw the photo. I remember Hume St. and Green Properties in the late 60s. How did this happen? Where are the students?
Are we talking brown envelope or pig ignorance here?
Global Citizen
Thanks for the welcome. This seems a great forum. I’m diving in the shallow end with the know your Dublin which is fascinating. I have lived all my life in Dublin. Schooling and professional career in centre city. But, now that I am retired, I am only starting to notice my surroundings. Which, I see, are disappearing faster than I can notice them. Or which I notice are disappearing faster than I can see them. Or whatever.
I have been following the Liberties regeneration, as one branch of my folks are from the Mount Brown/Fountain end of James’s St. I have also been following Theresa’s Gardens, due to the location of another branch, and Fatima and Dolphin House for yet another branch. All very depressing. Repeated breach of faith with the residents and abuse of power and patronising of the residents. Must have broken the hearts of the few officials who cared. End of rant.
Anyway, look forward to participating in this great forum.
@photopol wrote:
Global Citizen
I’m not familiar with the term onion tower. Can you specify?
This windmill…
I mistakenly referred to it as a chimney earlier.Global Citizen bang on for [X]. It’s the sock windmill
For the record, here are the contexts:
Freaky Face [V] above a doorway on the West side of James’s Harbour
To the best of my recollection, it’s just to the right of where I was standing when I took this.
Bishop weathervane [X] on top of the sock windmill:
City crest [Z] over the Gilbert library in Pearse St. This crest is unique to this location.
A quick inspection of the latin motto will show you why.
And that only leaves the Crown [Y]. And just a reminder that it is within the canals.@Global Citizen wrote:
Well done Graham.
I only saw it for the first time last Saturday when I took these photos and its presence in such a beautiful street fills me with a mixture of anger and disappointment. Its a piece of vandalism that wouldn’t be allowed in the suburbs of Calcutta. Yet our planners deem it appropriate in an overtly visible location in the georgian core of Dublin. How the hell………? I’m straying a bit off topic here. But looking at the photo below, most people will understand why.
Anyway – A rant for another thread perhaps.You know Harcourt Street is predominantly pastiche and facade retentions, yes?
Edit – that infill is still rubbish regardless.
@Andrew Duffy wrote:
You know Harcourt Street is predominantly pastiche and facade retentions, yes?
.Yes, and in this case a pastiche would have been far more agreeable than the resulting disaster.
photopol, those are just marvellous photographs you have on your website. You’ve a great eye. Well worth a look everyone! http://www.photopol.com/gallery/fgallery.html
So, we have the crown yet to be identified. The white surround is baffling.
We also have this chappie in limbo, who is at human height on the street.
And if I might add another from Charles W. Cushman, dated to June 1961. Any ideas as to its whereabouts? Not a word photopol! 😉
The corner building is oddly like a miniature version of Thomas Read’s rounding the Cork Hill and Parliament Street junction.
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