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Dublin Picture Game

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    #3092
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    GBX wrote: »
    Might 9 be the royal hospital in Kilmainham? (Guess)
    No.
    Victor wrote: »
    Is 9 Aldborough House, at the Five Lamps?
    No.

    This is amazing. I was just thinking that Victor will definitely know it! :)


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    #3093
    Gaspode
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Got already by jdivision - see posts 3081/3082.

    Sorry, keep forgetting to refresh the page before I post!

    Is No. 9 inside Trinity?


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    #3094
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    deswalsh wrote: »
    Is No. 9 inside Trinity?
    Nope!


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    #3095
    Dufresne
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭Dufresne


    Is 9 near the side of the Stephens Green Centre at Mercer Street?


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    #3096
    whirlwind
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭whirlwind


    Is 9 mountjoy prison?


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    #3097
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Dufresne wrote: »
    Is 9 near the side of the Stephens Green Centre at Mercer Street?
    No.
    whirlwind wrote: »
    Is 9 mountjoy prison?
    No.


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    #3098
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,416 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Hints?

    I doubt its Grangegorman, too new.


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    #3099
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Victor wrote: »
    Hints?
    Here's a bigger pic.

    9-15.jpg


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    #3100
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Victor wrote: »
    I doubt its Grangegorman, too new.
    Not grangegorman Victor.


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    #3101
    Gaspode
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    Its Shaped like Pigeon House in ringsend, but where's the doors!


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    #3102
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    deswalsh wrote: »
    Its Shaped like Pigeon House in ringsend, but where's the doors!
    BINGO!

    We have a winner. Well done des! :D It is indeed the Pigeon House on Pigeon House Road and now part of the Poolbeg ESB station. I'm still astounded this lasted so long.

    There is a door on the left side anyway.

    PigeonHouse-1.jpg

    PigeonHouse.jpg


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    #3103
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    I should of copped that, it's so deceiving without the chimney on the left, had me fooled :)

    I notice Wish you had the a pic of the outside stone memorial posted up before as well and that had me stumped then too :)


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    #3104
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,416 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I've only ever been down that way once - along the strand and out the South Wall. I saw that, but not up close. Was it originally a hotel? There was also a battery here, I think. What is the chimney for - it wasn't part of the old power station, was it? I though all that was demolished. I actually heard the demolition, but only saw the cloud of smoke.


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    #3105
    Gaspode
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    I havent been down there in years - is that a recent photo?
    I had it in my head that the pigeon house had a big door where the arch is in the picture, but I must be mixing it up with somewhere else.


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    #3106
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Victor wrote: »
    Was it originally a hotel?
    AFAIK cross channel passenger boats berthed there in the 1700s before the construction of the North Wall Quay area. I always refer to that building as the Pigeon House but others refer to it as 'The Hotel' claiming that The Pigeon House was a different building. I tried Googling it but the info isn't that clear.
    Victor wrote:
    There was also a battery here, I think.
    There are ruins in the area which may have been a battery. The British reinforced the area during the troubles in 1798.
    Victor wrote:
    What is the chimney for - it wasn't part of the old power station, was it? I though all that was demolished. I actually heard the demolition, but only saw the cloud of smoke.
    Presumably it is part of the power station that ceased to operate in the 1960s.

    PoolbegGeneratingStationBuilding.jpg
    deswalsh wrote: »
    I havent been down there in years - is that a recent photo?
    The pic was taken on the 8th of Feb 2008 at 10.53am. ;)
    deswalsh wrote:
    I had it in my head that the pigeon house had a big door where the arch is in the picture, but I must be mixing it up with somewhere else.
    Perhaps it's on the other side, i.e. facing the Liffey. I presume the pic I took is of the rear?


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    #3107
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,203 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    John Pigeon was a workman and caretaker employed during the building of the South Wall. His house was a large wooden structure built at the time for storing wreck and builder's materials. A seven-bay, three storey hotel designed by Robert Pool was erected between 1793 and 1795 for persons crossing to and from England. John Pigeon had several pleasure boats that took trippers around the bay from the hotel.

    The hotel became a barracks in 1798 and a fort from 1814-97.

    (from 'Encyclopaedia of Dublin' Douglas Bennett, Gill and MacMillan 1994)


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    #3108
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    spurious wrote: »
    John Pigeon was a workman and caretaker employed during the building of the South Wall. His house was a large wooden structure built at the time for storing wreck and builder's materials. A seven-bay, three storey hotel designed by Robert Pool was erected between 1793 and 1795 for persons crossing to and from England. John Pigeon had several pleasure boats that took trippers around the bay from the hotel.

    The hotel became a barracks in 1798 and a fort from 1814-97.

    (from 'Encyclopaedia of Dublin' Douglas Bennett, Gill and MacMillan 1994)
    That would seem to suggest that the 'Hotel' isn't the Pigeon House.

    (AFAIK his name was originally 'Pidgeon'.


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    #3109
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users Posts: 17,965 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    Weather depending, I should break my "Dublin Picture Game" virginity tomorrow.:D


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    #3110
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    I don't believe it! Exit is alive and well. He/she posted in After Hours last evening at 21.40hrs.


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    #3111
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I don't believe it! Exit is alive and well. He/she posted in After Hours last evening at 21.40hrs.
    In this thread.


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    #3112
    Exit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭Exit


    What's this all about? :)


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    #3113
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Exit wrote: »
    What's this all about? :)
    Welcome back. It was mentioned a few times that you seem to have disappeared despite starting this great thread! :D


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    #3114
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    ......and your picture which began it all! :)

    100_12801.jpg


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    #3115
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Here's one to mull over, it might be easy or might be hard, who can get it in record time? :D

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    #3116
    carolmon
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭carolmon


    is it Rialto Cottages?


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    #3117
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Looks like the North Strand.


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    #3118
    Riamfada
    Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    terenure?


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    #3119
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    artanevilla wrote: »
    Looks like the North Strand.
    It does and is that St Lawerence O'Toole's Church steeple in the distance?

    My guess - Seville Terrace?


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    #3120
    Exit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭Exit


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Welcome back. It was mentioned a few times that you seem to have disappeared despite starting this great thread! :D

    Thanks! As you can see from my location, I'm no longer in Dublin, so obviously my ability to participate is limited ;) Anyway, from popping in here a few times, I can see that a lot of you guys are way ahead of me in knowledge.

    I'm just genuinely glad that so many other people have a similar interest in Dublin and its buildings and spaces. I really thought this thread would make it to maybe 3 or 4 pages before dying :)


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    #3121
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Exit wrote: »
    Thanks! As you can see from my location, I'm no longer in Dublin, so obviously my ability to participate is limited ;) Anyway, from popping in here a few times, I can see that a lot of you guys are way ahead of me in knowledge.

    I'm just genuinely glad that so many other people have a similar interest in Dublin and its buildings and spaces. I really thought this thread would make it to maybe 3 or 4 pages before dying :)
    Great to hear from you.

    I think the thread should be 'stickied'!


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