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@StephenC wrote:
B is Merrion Square…corner with Lower Mount Street
Aha! Give that man a choc ice.
Now why have I chosen that view in particular?
@adhoc wrote:
a: 35 Camden Street – Harcourt Health (but I cheated – Google+telephone no.)
That it is. Note you admit your cheating; darn – should have spotted the phone no. when dubbing out. Between your cheating, and my cock-up, back of the class for both of us ๐ฎ
Still, it’s nice to be able to get your cigars and tobacco blended while waiting to see the doctor ๐
@GregF, subsequently edited wrote:
Is Image B Hume Street / Stephen’s Green? (with the pastiche redevelopment built by Sam Stephenson on the corner)
Oi! You! GregF – you don’t get off that easy; back of the class for you too – you can’t get away with slyly editing your post subsequently…
And if that was pastiche by Sam, then he did a mighty fine job… but it’s not ๐
@GregF wrote:
Nice traditional signwriting in Image C…of which ye don’t see much of anymore.
This is true. ๐
@GregF wrote:
Is Image B Hume Street ?
BBbbbzzzzzzzzz.
Incorrect
No cyber sweeties yet for poor Greg ๐
@GP wrote:
Hutton, thanks! Let you share me bag o’sweets any day!
Most welcome ๐
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 ๐
The brick one works for me. Agree with gunter that the concrete one is “off the wall completely” – what an abomination – who were the culprits responsible for that croc gunter?
I like the detailing on the side wall of the brick proposal – normally such an elaborate treatment for a side lane would be OTT, yet in this instance given Henrietta Streets significance I think it’s quite appropriate.
One thing that baffles me though is, what’s this about a concrete Jersey barrier separating the lightwell from the pavement? :confused: …Is that being chipped in free-of-charge from the NRA who haven’t used it on a motorway? Railings please, and contextually appropriate detailing…
@Pot Noodle wrote:
There is one on the Navan Road outside Belvedere Training Ground
If perchance some young kids on there bikes was cycling on the path and one was larking about and stood up he could be seriously injured far to low to the ground,accident waiting to happenThanks for that Pot Noodle ๐
@GrahamH wrote:
This false trade journal is absolutely preposterous – I would estimate that at least half of all of the hoardings in the city centre have been occupied by this journal for the past two weeks, indeed quite possibly all of them. What a joke given DCC is supposed to have ‘exclusive use until the end of August’. The adverts are also terribly designed, printed on sheets of otherwise blank scrolling paper, and present a down-at-heel environment wherever they feature. And as for the nighttime distraction…
The Bleeding Horse unit is a particularly dangerous distraction at nighttme, as I’ve seen first hand, located at a busy and complicated pedestrian junction right outside a number of pubs and hotels. Nothing other than shameful describes the thinking that permited the likes of these.
Agreed 100%
hutton has just been out for the evening – doing a bit of “urban hunting”, you understand… Hmmm, a rake of outstanding un-authorised developments out there belonging to a certain company ๐
@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 ๐
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 ๐
@ctesiphon wrote:
Are you saying Tailor’s Hall can be seen, hutton?
I am that!!!
Right-hand side – right-end of, and behind, the billboard in the 1st photo…
@ctesiphon wrote:
Well either he (he?) got it or he didn’t!
If it’s not Francis Street or Meath Street, I give up.
Well he said it was “too flat”… and as we all know, gunter is quite the pinickity sort :p
… (Re via High St) Which also could have been the routes for the 21 if it was going to Inchicore and maybe the 78…
@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.
High Street, from the Cornmarket end – Tailors’ Hall, it’s got to be and would be the one survivor… ๐
@ctesiphon wrote:
Well the 78 runs to Ballyfermot… there’s no 21 service (any more?).
Darn, in youre in there before me CTE… there’s no 21 anymore and the 78 runs out to the Liam Lawlor Memorial Mall at Quarryvale…
It’s got to be somewhere on the inner-tangent route, or some such blighted place… it’s got Cork Street/ dean Street written all over it, but it’s just not… Can’t be anywhere where the Wide Streets Comms were involved, judging by the irregularity of building lines etc… hmmm….
@gunter wrote:
No right answers yet.
I don’t think that one single building in this photograph still stands.
That does add to the degree of difficulty ๐
Ah jaysus Gunter, are we now going to have a thread of “How well do you know your Dublin that no longer exists?”
Cuffe Street so – and not the little one now known as Ellis Street :p
@lostexpectation wrote:
i don’t think that fair representation of the deal, thers has to more to it then that.
Well, without meaning to bang on –
@DCC Statement in Herald wrote:
The council has said… it will carry out a cost-benefit analysis once the bicycles arrive.
That’s some way to do business :rolleyes:
@lostexpectation wrote:
i don’t think that fair representation of the deal, thers has to more to it then that.
Well the toilets are gone from the deal… If you want to include a couple of heritage plaques and sign posting – of which no details have been publicized – fair enough.
Point is, until DCC management release the contract there’s bound to be questions… How can 450 bicycles and a couple of plaques and poles add up to a value of €85 million benefit to the city?
Seeing as the contract was agreed 2 years ago, why the need to keep it hush-hush?
Then again, maybe I’m missing the point that the city has just been significantly environmentally enhanced* with vivid colours and lighting, ‘gifted’ by JC Decaux.
* = Estimated beneficial value of colours and lights, 84.9 million: A couple of bikes and poles, 0.1 million… Wiping the bedazzled eyes of natives with trinkets and blankets, Priceless :rolleyes:
Map borrowed from Devin, from another thread
@Devin wrote:
This early รขโฌห80s map (shows the network of streets & lanes that was eliminated for the Ilac Centre, in red.)
Its really quite shocking how many cinemas have gone from the area since that map. Ambassador, Carlton, Adelphi, Regent, Curzon/ Lighthouse, and Odeon – all gone ๐
O’Connell Street area really does need an infusion of multi-generational attractions, if it is ever going to properly come alive again.
And no, I don’t mean north-facing ski-slopes…
@Devin wrote:
This early ‘80s map.
Its really quite shocking how many cinemas have gone from the area from the time of that map. Ambassador, Carlton, Adelphi, Regent, Curzon/ Lighthouse, and Odeon – all gone ๐
EDIT – going to post above comment over on the O’Connell Street thread as it’s probably more relevant there…
