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Michael Ross, I fear,has a severe case of Verbal Diarrhoea

Originally posted by CiaranO

I am not an architecture student, nor and architect but someone with a love of good archtiecture and a great interest in the developing fortune of ireland and its appearance.

I feel this does not preclude me from giving an opinion on our state though and hope this will be respected here.
CiaranO

thats what the site is for
dive in

The proposal referred to previously was by Jim Horan as far as I remember.

The only problem Paul, with a weir under the matt Talbot, would be no access to smaller boats west of that bridge. Dublin Port boats sometime venture up that far.
Horan’s proposal incorporated a lock which wouldn’t work under the low Matt Talbot bridge.

I believe that some of the bearings on the Matt Talbot bridge are so low they are submerged during high tides-hardly ideal

If the bridge reminds me of any bridge its the Firth of forth Railway bridge (in terms of the principle behind it).
The new bridge seems to be a balanced cantilever solution with 2 sections each pivoting a quarter (river width) in from each quay.

this link will explain the principle
http://www.pre-engineering.com/resources/forth/forthbridge.htm

I would need to see a bit more detail but I think it is not bad. A reworking of a tried & tested system unlike the reworking of the suspension bridge principle in the Millenium bridge in London.

As far as I know the ads predate ’63 so planning permission would not have been saught.

If it was proposed to change or replace them I would imagine it would be subject to planning.

Not much of an incentive.

I presume they were for ventilation, preventing a build-up of gasses

the old toilets were a regular for a bomb hoax.
Remember being on O’connell street about 1985-6 when there was a controlled explosion in one of the Toilets.

Answer here under constraints

http://gmes.jrc.it/Aerial%20Photography%20in%20Europe/Ordnance%20Survey%20of%20Ireland.htm

I would imagine that in the past most aerial photos were issued via the ordinance survey so therefore they could control the process.
a lot of web based information is probably sourced outside the state (Terraserver) so therefore not as easy to control.

this is another good site for sourcing 2nd hand books.
Got a copy of Robert Ballagh’s book of photographs of Dublin through this (early eighties)

http://www.buyused.co.uk/

Originally posted by alphasun

Or rebuild Brunel’s pneumatic railway.
alphasun

excuse me for being a pedant

I had my doubts about Brunel’s involvement in the Dublin one so i sourced this from a site on athmospheric railways

“I note in passing that while I (as a fan of his) might like Isambard
Kingdom Brunel to have invented the atmospheric system used on the
South Devon, it is wrong to say that he did so, as is sometimes done.
He did choose it for the line and actively promoted it (well, “actively”
is redundant with Brunel). It was actually developed by Samuel Clegg
and Joseph and Jacob Samuda.”

quiet everyone!
I think Paul is getting lost in a Bing Crosby “white Christmas” moment
🙂