Historic Dublin Pictures & Videos Thread

BowWow

ollaetta wrote: »

This one is really puzzling me. The only Liffey bridge with lattice work is Grattan Bridge and it's not there. Anyone got any ideas?

Actually looks like Cork to me.............

mp22

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Red Cow Lane, Smithfield c.1970





Red Cow Lane, Smithfield c.2009

I think the chimney in the B&W pic was for maguire and patterson,behind the camera on the right was one of the last pig farms in the city.

Wishbone Ash

BowWow wrote: »

Actually looks like Cork to me.............

I was thinking that also.

The Scientician

BowWow wrote: »

Actually looks like Cork to me.............

Could be. I found it in an online archive with no other details so it might be misattributed to Dublin. I couldn't figure out where it was anyway.

HellFireClub

BowWow wrote: »

Actually looks like Cork to me.............

You wouldn't see lads standing up to the authorities like that down in Cork! :cool: It's definitely a pic of Dublin, looks like Parkgate area, it's a 1913 riot pic, how would it involve Cork?

The Scientician

HellFireClub wrote: »

You wouldn't see lads standing up to the authorities like that down in Cork! :cool: It's definitely a pic of Dublin, looks like Parkgate area, it's a 1913 riot pic, how would it involve Cork?

It was dated 1920 in the source. Have you seen the pic before in the context of 1913?

vektarman

I've taken the liberty of posting the picture in the Cork city forum to see if any posters recognise the location.

BowWow

Has to be somewhere there were Trams - Cork, Dublin or Belfast?

sozbox

HellFireClub wrote: »

You wouldn't see lads standing up to the authorities like that down in Cork! :cool: It's definitely a pic of Dublin, looks like Parkgate area, it's a 1913 riot pic, how would it involve Cork?

That's what you think bai!

vektarman wrote: »

I've taken the liberty of posting the picture in the Cork city forum to see if any posters recognise the location.

Saw your post, I'm pretty sure this is the same location, the bridge is identical.

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/mapsimages/corkphotographs/corkcameraclubhistoricalphotos/cityhallandalbertquaycork/city_hall_albert_quay_cork.pdf

vektarman

@ Jason...well spotted.

BowWow

So, as you look at picture, City Hall is on your left and that's Sth Mall over on the right?

The Scientician

Now we've that mystery solved can anyone explain the mystery of the wandering chimney stack of Smithfield?

Standard Toaster

Would this be it approx?

http://goo.gl/maps/jYhkb





Buildings in the center-right look very similar....windows & chimneys.

sozbox

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Would this be it approx?

Yup, that's the spot. I'd love to know more about what the 'witch-hat' building if anyone has info.

Lemo

The Scientician wrote: »

The Old Cattle Mart, Hanlon's Corner, NCR.

I lived close to here when I was very young. It was quite confusing for a 5 year-old city boy. Most of the time you'd be playing out on a typical urban street then, every so often, the place would be overrun by cattle :-)

vektarman

Lemo wrote: »

I lived close to here when I was very young. It was quite confusing for a 5 year-old city boy. Most of the time you'd be playing out on a typical urban street then, every so often, the place would be overrun by cattle :-)

I had the same experience on my school route as the cattle were unloaded at the railway depot at Cabra and used the streets to the cattle market just as I left for school, I was so terrified I had to run into peoples driveways and close the gate behind me and hope that the cows wouldn't jump over the gate!

Wishbone Ash

vektarman wrote: »

and hope that the cows wouldn't jump over the gate!

Showing you ignorance of agri matters there vektarman!

Cows are generally fairly sedate and tame as they would have been milked twice a day and used to being "handled". They are also less likely to be transported and they are not generally used for "beef".

What terrified you was probably bullocks and heifers fattened for slaughter/export on the hoof and much wilder in nature compared to cows.

Qualitymark

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Showing you ignorance of agri matters there vektarman!

Cows are generally fairly sedate and tame as they would have been milked twice a day and used to being "handled". They are also less likely to be transported and they are not generally used for "beef".

What terrified you was probably bullocks and heifers fattened for slaughter/export on the hoof and much wilder in nature compared to cows.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/farmer-trampled-to-death-by-cow-3308015.html

Gasia

Anyone know the street?

Wishbone Ash

That looks like one of the bridges crossing the Liffey - i.e.the doorways in the background would be one of the quays. The advertisement is for the "News of the World" newspaper.

Wishbone Ash

Here's an image which shows a urinal. It may be the same as what is shown in the top left of your pic. Possibly Grattan Bridge/Ormond Quay area.

spurious

The key to that picture is whatever that brick small building is, together with the bus stop. Bus stop locations, along with post boxes, don't change much over the years.
For some reason the picture gives me a Charlemont Street or Berkeley Road vibe. I shall now root on Google Street view for a little bit.

Wishbone Ash

Going by the registration of the van (EYI 20) the picture must have been taken after 1958.

Wishbone Ash

spurious wrote: »

The key to that picture is whatever that brick small building is

It looks like one of those ESB facilities which are dotted around the city.

HellFireClub

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Would this be it approx?

http://goo.gl/maps/jYhkb





Buildings in the center-right look very similar....windows & chimneys.

Do we know where the black & white pic above was taken yet? Where is the second (colour) pic of? I was going to say it looks like that area of the Quays heading out of town just outside Guinness's, just before Heuston Station.

Wishbone Ash

HellFireClub wrote: »

Do we know where the black & white pic above was taken yet? Where is the second (colour) pic of? I was going to say it looks like that area of the Quays heading out of town just outside Guinness's, just before Heuston Station.

I twas taken in Cork (see Cork City Forum). The colour pic is the location today.

vektarman

Gasia wrote: »

Anyone know the street?

That looks like a picture of Synnott Place if taken across the road from Dorset Street, the building in the middle of the road is shown on the OSI historical map below.
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,715670,735720,7,9

More of a clue is a more recent photo showing where the 'Red Corner Shop' was,
if you compare the two photos and count along the first floor windows they both match where they meet the half granite building which is the next matching building..

Here's a better view.
http://maps.google.ie/maps?hl=en&ll=53.359047,-6.262046&spn=0.009656,0.027874&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=53.359047,-6.262046&panoid=aP1NCIRkCUcqkBnCmcB9Vg&cbp=12,315,,0,0

Mr Simpson

off topic posts deleted, can we keep it on topic please

HellFireClub

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I twas taken in Cork (see Cork City Forum). The colour pic is the location today.

I didn't think they had a tramline in Cork in those days, but I just Googled and it seemed that they did...

Gasia

vektarman wrote: »

That looks like a picture of Synnott Place if taken across the road from Dorset Street, the building in the middle of the road is shown on the OSI historical map below.
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,715670,735720,7,9

More of a clue is a more recent photo showing where the 'Red Corner Shop' was,
if you compare the two photos and count along the first floor windows they both match where they meet the half granite building which is the next matching building..

Here's a better view.
http://maps.google.ie/maps?hl=en&ll=53.359047,-6.262046&spn=0.009656,0.027874&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=53.359047,-6.262046&panoid=aP1NCIRkCUcqkBnCmcB9Vg&cbp=12,315,,0,0

I think you are right.Thank you very much.