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Lost Great Houses Of Dublin

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    #32
    Gaspode
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    Rashers wrote: »
    Thanks for the photo Des. Brings back memories. Sad to see the beginning of the end of that whole area being changed from a lovely rural setting to urban sprawl. I remember those roads... hedges and trees on either side... and cycling between them on the way to Portmarnock in the summer.

    Didn't the Kennedy family of Kennedy's Bakery (and the wife being my doc) live in a big house up along there too?

    Edenmore was fairly new when I was born, so I dont remember it as rural at all, but I do remember all the new areas going up - woodbine, millbrook, parts of donaghmede, grange abbey etc. They were great play areas for us as kids, with little or no security other than the odd owlfella who might give you a chase. Some difference from todays ultra-safety conscious building sites! Also amazing just how far away from home we wandered as kids.


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    Degsy
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    Rashers wrote: »
    Thanks for the photo Des. Brings back memories. Sad to see the beginning of the end of that whole area being changed from a lovely rural setting to urban sprawl

    A right mess they made of it too.Millbrook,Streamville,St Donaghs..all horrible areas.
    The last bit of greenery at the back of Hector's they've recently built on..there's not a bit of character left.


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    Smiley Laura
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭Smiley Laura


    Rashers wrote: »
    Like this?

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    Jesus, they are amazing.:eek:


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