Old pictures of Dublin
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Yeah nothing in the Gardiner or Fitzwillian estate is 5 storeys. It’s more like a late-period Wide Streets Comms. building, like the group on Dame St between Crow Street and Temple Lane … no ‘places’ around there though .. Arrgh!
@Devin wrote:
Yeah nothing in the Gardiner or Fitzwillian estate is 5 storeys. It’s more like a late-period Wide Streets Comms. building, like the group on Dame St between Crow Street and Temple Lane … no ‘places’ around there though .. Arrgh!
But it can’t be over there anyway – it’ s got to be within the north central constituency…
Think I’ve got it!! There were a pair of such 5-storey houses beside the Four Courts, and with ads on the gable. And when you look on the old maps, right enough there’s a ‘place’ there. And it’s within the north inner city hutton. Got to be it, hasn’t it?
(1847 map)
And it’s got adverts on the gable in your second picture.
Of course the traffic went the other way in those days, which means the gable would have been seen.
Good work Moneypenny, Morgan place it is.@Paul Clerkin wrote:
Nice work….
Quick scooch over the 1911 census reveals at least 3 hotels on this stretch of Kings Inns quay possibly explaining the doorway configuration? The two houses on listed Morgan place contained 11 seperate houeholds. Is this the present day Aras Ui Dhailigh site or the extension buildings of the Four Courts complex?
This one shows a picture of the building (I think it was a gospel hall) which stood on the site of the present Davenport Hotel, which retains its front façade. It’s surprising difficult to find pictures of it.
oops, dunno what I did wrong. Here’s URL anyway
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=dublin+source:life&imgurl=8e8b9a87cb9370c3brilliant thread ,most enjoyable, does anybody have pictures of
30 LOWER ORMOND QUAY & 23 & 24 GREAT STRAND ST.
Great photographs!……It looked a great old city despite the poverty.
Glad you all enoyed the pics.
@Devin wrote:
Think I’ve got it!!
I don´t know how you did it but great work!
You win a:
@newgrange wrote:
Morgan place it is.
Gah! Missed my chance for glory.
I was looking this up in work yesterday, in the OSI Dublin Street Guide (7th Ed.). I figured it was six letters, thought the first was probably M, and then searched the index for Mangan Place. There’s none, but a listing for Morgan Place did catch my eye. It has a grid reference but didn’t appear to be on the map, which is odd, given that such streets usually have a number of they’re too small to be titled. It’s not like the OSI to make such a mistake, but I thought nothing more of it. And then this!
Looking again, the street is mentioned, but the name is printed on a red background so is barely visible.
Anyway, nice work, all.
so it’s now the entrance to the 4 courts and car park. Wonder does it still have a street sign? Live maps would suggest not
@alonso wrote:
so it’s now the entrance to the 4 courts and car park. Wonder does it still have a street sign? Live maps would suggest not
Just cycled past at lunchtime- the whole footprint of the terrace to the quays is indeed obliterated by Aras Ui Dhailigh. Another one of the city’s charming and subtle late twentieth century reimaginings of working with brick.
@tommyt wrote:
Just cycled past at lunchtime- the whole footprint of the terrace to the quays is indeed obliterated by Aras Ui Dhailigh. Another one of the city’s charming and subtle late twentieth century reimaginings of working with brick.
Lol 😀
Well spotted, Devin.
@Morlan wrote:
Glad you all enoyed the pics.
I don´t know how you did it but great work!
You win a:
Thanks Morlan. Can’t make out what it is but it looks apetising 🙂
The ground floor arcading helped identify it.
Ctesiphon, Miriam Place wasn’t too far off!
Fair play to hutton too for narrowing down the location by electoral jurisdiction and getting the year (1948)!
Nother pic here of the buildings. Sorry about the quality. It’s a photograph of a picture hanging in the reception of the Central Hotel, Exchequer Street:
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http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=8d3247e5df5775e5_large
And ta Morlan for all the pics. The slightly different views of old photos we’re familiar with are great.
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this is a sketch of the wall of signs
Those old pics of the quays shows that the buildings that graced the riverfront were quite substantial, particularly in the image of the buildings that have 4 – 5 storeys beside the Four Courts. Shows how much the quays had deteriorated since old times!
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