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Have not seen that one but this morning, coming to work, I came across works removing a new (less than 12 month old) bus stop – You know the fancy fixed ones with the inset brick, the dimples etc for some purpose.
It was gone, bare earth replaced it. Dont know why.THe new “temporary” bus stop was on the actual junction corner , fixed to a light standard on the angle,
The bus stopped – and as the door is at the front of our buses, the rest of the bus then blocked the junction completely and the passengers got off and got on , threading their way between the blocked vehicles trying to exit, the builders, the vanished “dimples” etc etc. Repeat as oftne as necessary.
You can have no idea how run down that warren of lanes off Moore St was for many years pre ILAC.
Full of derelict premises, with second hand traders (of low, low quality old clothes) in some of them, there are several rather touristy photos of them in some of the books about Dublin in the 1950’s and 1960’s – usually with old dears in shawls to give some perspective. This was how it usually was, not the folk park image of Ireland, but the real and poor run down innner city.
The shoe vendors were there too, close to Moore St.Yes, Moore Street was, and perhaps still is, one of the recommended sights of Dublin for tourists, one which must have been strange for most continental visitors who have similar and better markets. Perhaps much was aimed at the Americans, who doubtless found it quaint after the A&P.
Nice shots Devin.
Must dig out a few more of mine to post up – I had the Arklow one also.Regarding the Ranelagh Laundrette -the vitrolite was damaged and the metal finish is, I think, only placed over the lower vitrolite. Vitrolite is very strong when attacked directly but a bad blow on the edge of the sheet can be fatal, this is easily done when bringing in mechanical equipment through a narrow door.
An edge on whack leaves a big chunk likely to be missing.
A page about vitrolite is on the Art Deco Ireland website at
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Salon/6941/vitrolite.htmThere is another fine example in Limerick
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Salon/6941/leonards2lrk072003.jpgand there are two vitrolite shop fronts in Upper Leeson Street, one shop is now vacant however.
Yes we all know An Post is skint but they have completely neglected to paint their post boxes in Dublin, with many of the cast iron ones showing serious rusting.
Graffiti is not removed either.
Perhaps the irony is lost on them that changing the colours of the post boxes was one of the objectives of the 1916 visitors to their GPO.
Roadsigns, street furniture, postboxes, rail stations – all going downhill.
Pleased to see this morning that a firm of shopfitters were working here.
Not possible to see exactly what they were doing as the windows were blocked out.
Am I correct in thinking that this building was once Donnelly’s bacon factory which closed in the early 1970’s ?
@weehamster wrote:
Well thats what you get when the government gives Irish Rail the minimum cash required. You want decent looking stations, you need more cash. So get on the governments back, not Irish rail. 😮
This country was never so wealthy, yet we produce more uglyness on the railways now than when we were poor.
So money is not the problem.
One of the many easy to write on all new concrete walls.
With no seats in the shelter but with advertising, curiously appropriate, on the roof.@asdasd wrote:
What would you be happy with?
A more balanced series of National Monuments being represented on the stamps, for a start.
I do not find the designs visually engaging either, are they intentionally trying to emulate Irish stamps of the 1930’s to 1960’s perhaps, but that is more a matter of taste. The ink choice is fairly dreary also.
Certain lack of variety there to use a series in this way,
To commemorate the Act with one of the most commonly reproduced design elements used for “Auld Ireland” and one reproduced ad nauseam until the recent past, hardly seems either comprehensive or inclusive to me.
Does it tell us something?
And more about Vitrolite on the Art Deco Ireland website
Not at all suggesting PVC windows but the suggestion that their life span is only 20 years is probably a serious underestimate, particularly those from the better manufacturers.
I look every day out of PVC windows that are 15 years old and they are as good now as the day they went in.
Need a hell of a lot of deterioration to be gone in five years.If you dont like PVC, then this may be bad news.
Too late Graham – the plants are already going in.
And yes the acoustics in the empty house are poor, I was at a meeting there while it was empty and it was very hard to hear the speakers, even from a few rows back.
Something new & tall is now visible from the bridge, on the right hand side as you come South into Dundalk from the border. Apartments? Shiver.
The “new” racecourse building has a certain elegance, but it looks a little too small on that bleak and windswept site.
There are two planned Dublin airport projects, both undone and both unstarted.
– Second parallel runway
– Second Terminal
His son also went to UCD or Trinity around 1968, I think on a year out type programme from a US college, – which is how I came to meet my only Hollywood actor.
I agree that the GPO is lost in its present use.
It would be much better suited to use as a civic museum, – where the existing and now closed facility is a deplorable comment on the Corporation / Council and people of Dublin. Having had the pleasure of a view from the late lamented Pillar, it does indeed amaze you how large the GPO site was – well it used to accomodate the GPO facilities, the Department of Posts and Telegraphs HQ and the RTE studios in the way back when.
If you think changing the trees in O’C St caused controversy, then putting a theatre in a Gandon building would be fun to observe.
