Ha'penny Bridge 200 Years old

KingBrian2

Really wanted to be the first to say this so here goes.

Happy bicentenary for the ha'penny bridge.


http://ellokelsey.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/017.jpg

tac foley

I proposed marriage to my first girlfriend on that bridge.

She laffed at me and told me I wasn't old enough.

She was eleven, and I was nine...

Many years later she married a Hungarian barman, and, as far as I know, lived unhappily ever after.

tac

LordSutch

I witnessed the great Phil Lynott making a pop video on that bridge (early 80s)!

Can't remember the track.

Stojkovic

LordSutch wrote: »

I witnessed the great Phil Lynott making a pop video on that bridge (early 80s)!

Can't remember the track.

Old Town most probably.

tabbey

I think we are about nine months early in congratulating the bridge!

If my memory serves me correctly, I think it was mid or second half of September.

KingBrian2

tabbey wrote: »

I think we are about nine months early in congratulating the bridge!

If my memory serves me correctly, I think it was mid or second half of September.

Yikes your two hundred years old.:eek: You must have seen a lot. Come tell us what was Dublin like during the 1916 rising and did you get to meet Bram Stoker.:)

Badly Drunk Boy

tabbey wrote: »

I think we are about nine months early in congratulating the bridge!

If my memory serves me correctly, I think it was mid or second half of September.

Mr Wiki says it opened in May 1816.

BoltzmannBrain

A year of celebrations! Happy 200th Birthday Ha'Penny & Tabbey!:-)

ollaetta

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Mr Wiki says it opened in May 1816.

May would appear to be correct. http://www.bridgesofdublin.ie/bridges/hapenny-bridge

whisky_galore

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/hapenny-bridge-to-celebrate-200th-birthday-735977.html

Hopefully, the Corpo will keep removing those stupid love locks off the bridge.

Idiotic 'tradition'.

tabbey

whisky_galore wrote: »

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/hapenny-bridge-to-celebrate-200th-birthday-735977.html

Hopefully, the Corpo will keep removing those stupid love locks off the bridge.

Idiotic 'tradition'.

I quite agree with you.

The engineers at the seminar yesterday said they remove them with wire cutters, not from a tradition point of view, but because they damage the paintwork, leading to rust.

shanew

two articles from Freeman's Journal on the Ha'penny bridge - the first from 28th September 1815 on the arrival of the major structural components of the bridge from Shropshire, and the second from 20th May 1816 on the opening of the bridge

pinkypinky

I'm amused that even 200 years ago, Irish people complained when the State didn't use Irish-produced components.

franer1970

A reminder that the Ha'penny bridge wasn't always so well-liked. Photo below is from The New Dublin - A Study in Civics by C.S. Ashbee and G.H. Chettle which was one of the entries in the Dublin town planning competition of 1914.



Full doc can be viewed here http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:33062

Wibbs

Dog cakes eh? Times must have been lean

It can be easy to forget that nostalgia wasn't nearly such a big thing in the past. Modernism and futurism were much more the thing.

KingBrian2

Wibbs wrote: »

Dog cakes eh? Times must have been lean

It can be easy to forget that nostalgia wasn't nearly such a big thing in the past. Modernism and futurism were much more the thing.

Yes their idea of the future was America with their skyscrapers, automobiles & industrialization. Completely unlike mostly rural Ireland with the exception of Dublin. How the world has changed and indeed America's contemporary nostalgia is a longing for 50's and 60's which was also very unlike what early 20th century Ireland was like. 100 years ago given all the changes in lifestyle and taste seems almost unimaginable in the present day. I almost feel more connected to a more distant past than 100 years ago. Ireland is the late 18th century period saw the building of Georgian Dublin, Limerick & Derry.

Wibbs

Palladian architecture was a mix of nostalgia for the classical world with some modernism, but the overwhelming ingredient was nostalgia alright. Some get het up over subsequent faux Georgian architecture, but it was kinda faux itself when new and in the case of some renditions like in Ireland it had a lot of front to it, a thin facade of the new style, often enough over existing dwellings(where a "Dutch Billy" house would get a makeover).