Paul Clerkin
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Built around 1912 for the Lafayette studios to designs of Fuller & Jermyn. And far from being the “central pediment: of the former building, that’s the entire facade, its neightbours were stylistically different. Nos 33-24 dated from the 1920s.
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Plan of Arnotts showing the extent of fire damage in 1894, issued by the fire brigade
So I saw today that E.W. Godwin had an entry in the first competition too. Now based on the knowledge that he travelled to Ireland on several occasions and his sketchbooks feature drawings of details of Irish medieval building etc., it would be interesting to see his design for the museum.
I’m not taking away from it by the comparison – pity about the (I assume) emergency exit in the end wall.
Was trying to figure out what the first photo made me thing of. And now I have it. Think of images of the 1939 Irish Pavilion at New York Worlds Fair, the images with the awnings along the glass, with the sculpture on the end wall – this is reminiscent of it, albeit in stone, with the stone ripples instead of fabric awnings.
I don’t know if this is a good thing but “The work done on the project was recorded so that it will be the basis for a manual on working with historic paving in Dublin City.”
I’d say some of those shots were a sunday morning … Dublin in my college years was always pretty quiet of a Sunday….
Just got an email from another victim suggesting that he is back in the UK
Residing at Countryside Hotel, 207 Romford Road, E7 9HL – now the Travel Inn
Those houses were demolished in 1963/4 to make way for the printworks of 1965.
Under demolition
http://dublincitypubliclibraries.com/image/039-ormond-printingNewly built
Modern Irish Church Oral History Project:
http://www.modernirishchurches.comAbbey Theatre to close for nine weeks after asbestos discovered in building
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0509/abbey-theatre-asbestos.htmlThe aerial shot is interesting – the hall was quite long. The extension to the right did not have the same design quality as the original bank front.
That image is in McCullough’s book? Must dig it out again and look.
It actually went to court in the 1990s, the corporation won eventually
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-24942956.htmlThis is it in legal-speak
http://www.ucc.ie/law/restitution/archive/irelcases/brick.htmThe case arose out of the quintessential late twentieth century problem of
the high and increasing volume of traffic in cities. Consequently, in
Dublin, the Corporation decided to widen Cuffe Street, by purchasing and
demolishing buildings, and so sought compulsorily to purchase the
Bricklayers’ Hall, the headquarters of the Bricklayers’ and Stonecutters’
Guild. Appropriately, the Hall possessed a fine cut stone facade, and the
Guild were reluctant to lose it. In negotiations between the Corporation
and the Guild, it was agreed that if the Corporation were simply
compulsorily to purchase the entire plot, the amount of compensation
payable to the Guild would be £ 87, 857; but if the Corporation were
instead to purchase only so much of the plot as was in fact necessary for
the purpose of widening the road, and to pay the cost of removing and
storing the facade and to reinstate it on the remainder of the Hall once
the road widening was complete, the amount of compensation payable to the
Guild would be £ 224,414. The matter was then referred by the parties to a
property arbitrator under the terms of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment
of Compensation) Act, 1919, to determine which of these bases of
calculation ought to be adopted. During the negotiations, and again before
the arbitrator, it was the bona fide intention of the Guild to retain the
Hall and reinstate the facade. On this basis, on 27 May 1985, the
arbitrator made an award on the second basis above. Some time thereafter,
the Guild demolished the entire of the Hall; later still, on 30 December
1985, they conveyed to the Corporation the relevant portion of the plot and
received the £ 224,414. It being impossible to reinstate the facade, there
being no building upon which to construct it, the Guild simply retained the
entire of the sum.From the Dutch Billys thread on Archiseek – Bricklayers Hall, Cuffe St.
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Just found out, the building highlighted above in white was the Bricklayers Hall
Previously the subject of a thread here looking for an image, which has now popped up.
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