What's this in Coke Lane?

vicwatson · 06-05-2014 10:55pm #1

https://maps.google.ie/maps?q=coke+lane&hl=en&ll=53.346887,-6.279035&spn=0.001097,0.002064&sll=53.37159,-6.295187&sspn=0.012405,0.033023&t=h&hnear=Coke+Ln,+County+Dublin&z=20&layer=c&cbll=53.346887,-6.279035&panoid=Eofq5C5n38idMVDApIkgyw&cbp=12,57.62,,0,9.33

Oink · 07-05-2014 6:08am

I think its a maintenance shed of some description, possibly something to do with water supply? Especially if its anywhere near the canal. (On a mobile so no easy access to maps)

Edit: its just by the Liffey so thats my best guess. Someone else might know more.

neris · 07-05-2014 6:22am

old toilets that were used for the markets?

not yet · 07-05-2014 8:08am

It's my gaf...

ollaetta · 07-05-2014 8:08am

There were a few different planning applications for Coke Lane to the Council back in the crazy times. In these the building was described as a decommissioned ESB substation.

power pants · 07-05-2014 5:26pm

Thought it was the old market place police station or similar

coolemon · 07-05-2014 6:02pm

There is a similar structure in Newmarket. The one in Newmarket was a type of booth where you paid the official to have your market stall.

Presumably this served a similar function...

tampopo · 07-05-2014 7:29pm

coolemon wrote: »

There is a similar structure in Newmarket. The one in Newmarket was a type of booth where you paid the official to have your market stall.

Presumably this served a similar function...

I think the one in Newmarket was a booth alright, but there used to be bays for weighing trucks/lorries. There was one in Smithfield further up the square towards the Bolton Street end (one either side). This one in Coke Street could have been another one....

The Duk · 07-05-2014 7:40pm

Its more than likely one of the weigh bridges : http://dublincitypubliclibraries.com/image/aao077-smithfield-weighbridge-1973

tampopo · 07-05-2014 10:05pm

The Duk wrote: »

Its more than likely one of the weigh bridges : http://dublincitypubliclibraries.com/image/aao077-smithfield-weighbridge-1973

yep, that's the one....

Hootanany · 08-05-2014 9:44am

The Duk wrote: »

Its more than likely one of the weigh bridges : http://dublincitypubliclibraries.com/image/aao077-smithfield-weighbridge-1973

That was at the other end

The Duk · 08-05-2014 10:47am

Hootanany wrote: »

That was at the other end

I should have really asked my Dad first as he was born in Smithfield. Here’s a picture of him and his brother (allegedly)... http://fluswikien.hfwu.de/images/3/34/Smithfield_historic_001.jpg. He says it was an electricity station of some sort. Bought a few years back for 60,000 or so. Someone tried to build a 10 storey building on the area it occupies.

ollaetta · 08-05-2014 11:44am

The weighbridge was up the other end of Smithfield. The pub in the background of the photo is now Cobblestones.

The red brick building we're talking about was the old ESB Haymarket substation. It is mentioned as such in an appeal to An Bord Pleanala in relation to plans for the Luas in the late 1990s.

wicklowwonder · 08-05-2014 10:43pm

The Duk wrote: »

I should have really asked my Dad first as he was born in Smithfield. Here’s a picture of him and his brother (allegedly)... http://fluswikien.hfwu.de/images/3/34/Smithfield_historic_001.jpg. He says it was an electricity station of some sort. Bought a few years back for 60,000 or so. Someone tried to build a 10 storey building on the area it occupies.

Did they get planning for that building and it didn't go ahead because of the down turn or was planning rejected? Wonder will it still be built?

What's this in Coke Lane?

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