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Apartment blocks with outdoor "stair towers"
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One of my mates' dads who worked near where the IFSC now is back in the day has memories of the whole area around Seville Place / Oriel Street being a sort of unspoken joyriding graveyard where the cars would ultimately be dumped and burned out, so that apparently (although I'm sure he exaggerates) you'd drive through the place and be likely to pass several smouldering cars on any random day
You can see this now up in the mountains. A lot of the small / semi-official car parks for hillwalking in the Dublin and Wicklow mountains have a couple of burnt out car skeletons lying around, which obviously makes the prospect of parking there for the day while wandering the mountains a little less appealing. It's never immediately obvious how long they've been there for but they tend to be severely decayed, rusty metal skeletons - not sure how long it would take for that to happen after being firebombed though. There's one carpark near Glendalough (but not the official one) which has a crap ton of these.
When ye talk of immobilisers (apologies for the ignorance here) are you basically saying that the concept of needing the key to actually start the engine was irrelevant back then? As I understand it, hotwiring modern cars is so complicated that it's not worth the hassle for "casual" joyriders, and is only employed by gangs etc who have a serious use in mind for the car?
Heard another story at the same dinner in which a woman was getting a bag of chips somewhere in town while thinking her kids were in school and the car was at home in her driveway, and she happened to look out the window of the place and see her car flying past with her kids and a few of their mates hanging out the windows 0 -
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Burnt out frames can actually look rusty immediately so the mountain cars may not be that old
Well that's very reassuring
(we've gone rather far off topic now!)
Hatrick's law of Boards relativity. As the page number increases, the relation to the OP decreases whilst the likelihood of havoc, fighting, and (on AH) bashing of minorities increases exponentially.
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hatrickpatrick wrote: »Hatrick's law of Boards relativity. As the page number increases, the relation to the OP decreases whilst the likelihood of havoc, fighting, and (on AH) bashing of minorities increases exponentially.
But some of us are still on page 1!!
Meanwhile and back on topic, I've only noticed that some of these complexes with outer stairs have some quite fancy mosaic work. The mosaics seem to be confined to the particular types of flats that we're talking about.
Eg. flats between Clarence Place Great and the railway between Pearse and Grand Canal Dock have train mosaics and the ones just west of North Strand and the Royal Canal have sea/waves mosaics.
Any others that posters know of???0 -
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But some of us are still on page 1!!
Meanwhile and back on topic, I've only noticed that some of these complexes with outer stairs have some quite fancy mosaic work. The mosaics seem to be confined to the particular types of flats that we're talking about.
Eg. flats between Clarence Place Great and the railway between Pearse and Grand Canal Dock have train mosaics and the ones just west of North Strand and the Royal Canal have sea/waves mosaics.
Any others that posters know of???
There are mosaics of the Dublin City cityscape on the blocks on Kevin St Lower. I like them. I always thought that the large flat surfaces that tend to go along with dated public housing in the city centre could be utilized for public artworks.0 -
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hatrickpatrick wrote: »Seriously? The ones beside Stephen's Green?
Maybe I'm too young to remember, but I can't imagine anywhere around the Harcourt / Camden St area being "no go" apart from late weekend nights if you're not into loud music and drunken eejits
Went to college in Kevin Street in the early 90s, you stayed away. The phone boxes on the corner of Camden Street was a common place to trap students in and rob them.
Even these days, probably for historical purposes, I'm uneasy in that general area.0 -
jobbridge4life wrote: »In proportion to what you earn in the sense that it responds to ones income but not at all proportionate in comparison to market rents.
Depends on what you earn 0 -
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hatrickpatrick wrote: »Well that's very reassuring
Hatrick's law of Boards relativity. As the page number increases, the relation to the OP decreases whilst the likelihood of havoc, fighting, and (on AH) bashing of minorities increases exponentially.
The dole is the subject most likely to be brought up the longer a thread goes on, probably more of an AH thing though.0 -
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Sorry to bump an old thread, but to anyone who knows about these decisions, is there any reason they would build these blocks in pairs, but sometimes only have one block with an outdoor stairwell while the other block (not physically connected) would have an internal one?
The Chamber Street Flats were like this, although they were demolished a few years back so people might not remember them. But I noticed a similar setup which is still standing while walking along the canal a couple of days ago: Seagull House, across the road from Dolphin House on the Dolphin's Barn / Crumlin Road.
Anyone know why they would differentiate the designs of two adjacent blocks like this? Seems very odd. Perhaps the second block originally had a tower, but this was damaged at some stage and they replaced it with an internal staircase rather than repair it? It does seem to be a deliberate thing though considering that the Chamber Street flats just up the road had the same quirk - two blocks, only one of which had an outdoor stairwell. Either way I find these things seriously cool, makes them look like military bunkers or missile silos or something
Two photographs from Google, one at street level and one overhead:
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