ctesiphon

@notjim wrote:

Take that back about Z and the dining hall but I am sure it is somewhere I often see.

@ctesiphon wrote:

The last one is Lower Abbey Street, just behind the Luas stop.

Pretty sure of this one.

Oh I don’t know, gunter. Whenever I see DJ Carey’s name at the bottom of a letter in support of a planning application in Ballsbridge, it does rather set the pulse a-racing.

Also- Graham & hutton- spot on. (Or should I say ‘+1’? :)) Although, perhaps oddly in this case, the Herald has extracted from at least one of the letters a generic positive comment and has missed the juicier stuff, almost as if the journo only read the first paragraph.

@shanekeane wrote:

the pretence that they know anything at all about architecture

@shanekeane wrote:

when all they can do is give glib assessments of mediocre projects in a mediocre city

Alanis Morissette to thread!

Woo-hoo!

It was a bit of a guess- I knew there was something on that corner, but couldn’t remember exactly what it was. And, looking at your picture above, I think the brick/rubble stone elevational treatments might have confused me a little. I presume it’s a later refacing?

The clues that gave it to me were a) 30 metres from my route, and b) northside educational. I wasn’t aware of the current competition; I thought you might have been referring to the brick yoke on the corner of Henrietta Street and Bolton Street with that comment.

The datestone is on Stable Lane, behind the church on Arran Quay. Apologies for the obscurity- I’ll admit I was feeling a little vengeful over the Iveagh/Steam Packet picture. 😉 I’ll try to post a wider angle anon.

So many alternative thread title puns to choose from:

*pop*

The forgettable fire / The unforgettable damp squib.

All that you can leave behind.

How to dismantle an atomic bomb (i.e. what the DDDA seems to be doing…).

Songs? Well, ‘Lemon’ is an obvious candidate for starters…

@gunter wrote:

The only sections of ctesiphon’s cycle route that could possibly yield photographs B and C are Donore Ave. (something to the rear of the Meath Hospital), or possibly the South Citcular Road, but the path is too narrow and the stonework is too clean for the boundary wall (C) to be at Griffith Barracks (the bit up at that awful school).

For anyone still interested in finding the three storey warehouse (A), it is located no more that 30m away from ctesiphon’s cycle route, near another educational establishment of dubious merit.

I had another look for the warehouse over the weekend, specifically around the Smithfield area, but I had no joy. Was I in the right general area?

I know I was in the right area for my two- not Donore Ave at all. I’ll give you one more shot, then I can put you out of your misery. (Or should that be ‘one more more more shot’, followed by a full Irish breakfast? :D)

One final clue- the wall was where I thought your warehouse was. I still think they might be near neighbours.

Anyone else care to give any of the three a shot? (I’ll admit the datestone one is very obscure, even though the photo was taken from a public road.)

EDIT: Re the ‘educational establishment’- Blackhall Place?

@gunter wrote:

Under sub-section 14, ‘admitted that he hasn’t a clue’

The warehouse (in the original question) is not in the docklands, but your strange directionless wanderings appear to have take you within spitting distance, at one point.

Wanderings, yes, But strange? Directionless? Well I never! As WG Sebald said, when you watch a dog exploring a field his path seems completely random, but he invariably finds what he was looking for. (Which I didn’t, agreed, but the point stands, I hope.)

Fair enough, sub-section 14 it is. I still think it’s in the general west/north-west inner city, although I suppose the wider Newmarket area can’t be discounted (both of which were on my route- nice one on reading the map too, by the way, others have been baffled by it).

If gunter’s is A, mine are B and C.

B is not on Westland / Pearse.
B & C are less than 5 minutes apart on foot.

Gotta dash- I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date!

Two candidates:

New Row South, southern end, or somewhere in the Bow Street/Smithfield area.

Aah, right. It is the Parnell stop. I misunderstood, and thought it was referring to a stop between the Parnell one and the OC Bridge one.

Or maybe I just couldn’t resist the temptation to post another Simpsons reference. 😉

Isn’t a Metro station between O’Connell Bridge and Parnell Square a bit like a meal between breakfast and brunch?

If I were the developers, I wouldn’t hold out much hope.

My first guess was the old fruit market in D8, but the style of the date suggested the Iveagh. Then I checked the Iveagh date and it’s 1901.

It’s not the northside fruit market, but could it be the old Richmond Hospital, now a courthouse? Though I think that’s yellower in appearance… There aren’t many buildings in Dublin within the canals (it is within the canals, I presume, as per the rules of the game?) that have lettering of that style.

Anyhoo, bike time. You’re right.