Historic Dublin Pictures & Videos Thread

Qualitymark

StickGuy wrote: »

Thanks Spurious , had viewed that photo before, but hadn't saved it. My mother Maureen Doyle lived at 29 Parliament Street as a child in the 40's and I believe her Grandmother Elizabeth Matthews nee Ging ( Stafford Street ) is the family connection. Any information greatly appreciated, a previous poster some years ago. ( G locfk) seemed to also be related but has not posted since 2008

I wonder is this part of your family:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Palmerstown/Chapelizod_Town__Part_of/40771/

(click on "show all information" and you'll see that the father of the family describes his profession as "grocer and spirit merchant").

They may have been, as they used to put it, "theatricals" -

http://grannymar.com/2013/06/09/

Gings, another theatrical costumier, was to be found on the other side of the street and I found a picture of Gings in Dame Street Click on the link to see it.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=Hus1OerPUf0C&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=gings+of+dame+street&source=bl&ots=3OftA-FAwh&sig=nVpNJlahwjKcqT9aO9pJyfdJc2s&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ErEyU-aCEuTY7AbVz4CICQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Gings&f=false

http://livinghistory.ie/viewtopic.php?t=2041&f=19

http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/lantern.pdf (M S 40,206 /20 With Gings Theatrical Costumiers: Mostly statements and invoices. 1959-1972. 1 folder.statements and invoices from Gings, which you can see in the National Library - go and ask for a temporary reader's ticket and explain that you're doing family research; you might also talk to the librarian on duty and ask is there a historian of Dublin shops, and also of Dublin/Irish theatre, who could help you further)

That should give you a start, and you'll find that if you follow one thread it leads to another. Good luck!

r3nu4l

StickGuy wrote: »

Thanks Spurious , had viewed that photo before, but hadn't saved it. My mother Maureen Doyle lived at 29 Parliament Street as a child in the 40's and I believe her Grandmother Elizabeth Matthews nee Ging ( Stafford Street ) is the family connection. Any information greatly appreciated, a previous poster some years ago. ( G locfk) seemed to also be related but has not posted since 2008

Hi StickGuy, you could always try the boards.ie Genealogy forum. The folks there will be able to give you some great guidance on how to trace this information.

molders

Hello excellent thread, by any chance would anyone have photos of James Street in the 1950s and 1960s? My Grandfather had a barbers there at the St Catherine's Church end. I remember being in the shop as a kid in the mid/late 70s and from memory it was a traditional barbers with the old leather chairs and large mirrors. Thanks for any help!

chopper6

D'olier St 1960's....note the sign for Donnelly's sausages.

guinnessfan

Tango One wrote: »

You don't get queues like that any more!

Does anyone have any images of Fleet Street Temple Bar pre 1995?

I'm doing a project about the street and am finding it extremely difficult to find photos of it...most of the old photos are of Merchants Arch and Essex St

Thanks in advance!

Qualitymark

Also early photos of Lower Rathmines Road, the Town Hall side. All the photos I've seen obscure the shop names with canopies. I'd love to see some where you can see the names over the shops.

Eutow

Qualitymark wrote: »

Also early photos of Lower Rathmines Road, the Town Hall side. All the photos I've seen obscure the shop names with canopies. I'd love to see some where you can see the names over the shops.

Would also like to see some old photos of the old shopping centre were the Travel Lodge is currently at.

I'm also trying to find some old photos of Charlemont Street from the 80's and early 90's before the hotel was built and when a pub called An Beal Bocht once stood.

eisenberg1

spurious wrote: »

Photo showing Annesley Bridge Road in 1898, alongside what is now Fairview Park.

Great pic, I can make out Gaffney's in the newer photo, but was it in this one?

vektarman

guinnessfan wrote: »

Does anyone have any images of Fleet Street Temple Bar pre 1995?

I'm doing a project about the street and am finding it extremely difficult to find photos of it...most of the old photos are of Merchants Arch and Essex St

Thanks in advance!

Couldn't find Fleet Street but here's Meeting House Lane in Temple Bar pre 1995,
1888 in fact.


Edit: Fleet Street, 1978

rolliepoley

Aerial picture of Whitehall, Collins avenue, i dont know the year but i'd say the fifties or the sixties.

hfallada

rolliepoley wrote: »

Aerial picture of Whitehall, Collins avenue, i dont know the year but i'd say the fifties or the sixties.

They are 1950s houses. That green field infront of those houses was a working farm right up until they torn it up to start the port tunnel digging

Kaiser D

I've been looking through this thread for ages now.

I'm just wondering; does anyone on here have (or know of) photos of anything Garda related? I love seeing stuff from the 70s and 80sbut just anything in general would be great.

Qualitymark

Kaiser D wrote: »

I've been looking through this thread for ages now.

I'm just wondering; does anyone on here have (or know of) photos of anything Garda related? I love seeing stuff from the 70s and 80sbut just anything in general would be great.

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/bravery-rewarded/query/Garda+Siochana

chopper6

Kaiser D wrote: »

I've been looking through this thread for ages now.

I'm just wondering; does anyone on here have (or know of) photos of anything Garda related? I love seeing stuff from the 70s and 80sbut just anything in general would be great.

Garda "hightower" Brennan from pearse St with a few ne'r do wells...1989

Speedsie

Kaiser D wrote: »

I've been looking through this thread for ages now.

I'm just wondering; does anyone on here have (or know of) photos of anything Garda related? I love seeing stuff from the 70s and 80sbut just anything in general would be great.

The Garda Síochána Historical Society
http://policehistory.com

Qualitymark

1970s, you say?

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/02/24/vintage-garda-car-porn/

Silent Partner

My Grandfather had a butchers on Drumcondra Road. It was called Cullen Bros. and was opposite Fagan's pub. I think it's now an Indian restaurant if that helps!

Anyway, it was recently his 90th birthday and I would love to give him a photo of his old shop, if anyone had anything.

Thanks in advance.

RainyDay

Silent Partner wrote: »

My Grandfather had a butchers on Drumcondra Road. It was called Cullen Bros. and was opposite Fagan's pub. I think it's now an Indian restaurant if that helps!

Anyway, it was recently his 90th birthday and I would love to give him a photo of his old shop, if anyone had anything.

Thanks in advance.

Anything here?

http://catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=drumcondra&type=AllFields&submit=FIND&filter%5B%5D=digitised%3A%22Digitised%22

Silent Partner

RainyDay wrote: »

Anything here?

http://catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=drumcondra&type=AllFields&submit=FIND&filter%5B%5D=digitised%3A%22Digitised%22

Sadly not. Some of those pics are listed as Drumcondra but are other parts of Dublin. Thanks for the response though.

b318isp

I suggest getting onto the guys at https://www.facebook.com/groups/dublindown/, as there a a number of people there who have access to or know where to get this kind of stuff.

Qualitymark

Silent Partner wrote: »

My Grandfather had a butchers on Drumcondra Road. It was called Cullen Bros. and was opposite Fagan's pub. I think it's now an Indian restaurant if that helps!

Anyway, it was recently his 90th birthday and I would love to give him a photo of his old shop, if anyone had anything.

Thanks in advance.

Try the local history society - bound to be one… if there isn't, try these guys http://marinolocalhistorysociety.com and they might a) know if there's a local history society b) know of such a photo.

Try here http://www.ihpc.ie/ihpc/main/Town.asp?iTownID=506&iCountyID=12

odonnellcarey

Can anyone recommend a book with photos of Dublin from the 1920's and 30's.

highdef

Here are a few documentaries I produced in 2004 & 2006 about Baldoyle and the surrounding areas. Not very historic at this stage but it does show the huge changes that have occurred in those short years with regards to massive developments in the immediate vicinity.

expectationlost

highdef wrote: »

Here are a few documentaries I produced in 2004 & 2006 about Baldoyle and the surrounding areas. Not very historic at this stage but it does show the huge changes that have occurred in those short years with regards to massive developments in the immediate vicinity.

both very good, well made and presented, the culverting of the donagh waters at 18 minutes, and appearance of jimmy saville at 33 minutes, in the second one

fleet_admiral

Anyone have photos of lugs brannigan?

Qualitymark

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Anyone have photos of lugs brannigan?

One of the many results from a Google image search:

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/colum-kenny/we-can-elect-politicians-to-change-and-enforce-the-law-26501122.html

DLMA23

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Anyone have photos of lugs brannigan

James "Lugs" Brannigan

ThisRegard

Blatantly stealing this from another site, but there's some great and fascinating aerial pictures of Dublin from around the 1930s/1940s on this site,

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?search=dublin

On page 2 there's some photos of Bannon Road in Dublin, anyone know where that is now ?

BeerNut

ThisRegard wrote: »

On page 2 there's some photos of Bannon Road in Dublin, anyone know where that is now ?

It's a typo. Should be Bannow Road, which is still in Cabra.

ThisRegard

BeerNut wrote: »

It's a typo. Should be Bannow Road, which is still in Cabra.

Was thinking it was something like that, as they have misspelling of Clontarf later, they have Clow Tarf Estates.