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Old Pictures of Ireland

  • 17-10-2014 11:38am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭


    I found this website http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?search=dublin if you do a search you can see old pictures of Weston airport and Dublin airport, Dublin airport was known as ridgewood airport. Lots of old pictures of ireland aswell.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,635 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Good photos although the site really struggles with geography

    http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/xaw052124

    XAW052124.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭typera12


    I thought that myself looking back at history books we got our independance in 1921


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,202 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    I never heard of Dublin Airport having the name "Ridgewood" attached to it. Wonder where they got that from. Here is another old image of Dublin Airport, from a different vantage point.

    15442143731_266e8dec74_z.jpgDublin Airport, 1950s by Irish251, on Flickr


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Aphex


    The area just north of DUB is called Ridgewood


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Aphex


    Good photos although the site really struggles with geography

    http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/xaw052124

    XAW052124.jpg

    Which airport is that?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,635 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Aphex wrote: »
    Which airport is that?

    Dublin 1953

    Here is the latest from the same sort of angle

    Capturesdfgs.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,695 ✭✭✭cml387


    Aphex wrote: »
    Which airport is that?
    It's Dublin Airport.The area to the left as you look is now where the bulk of the terminals are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,635 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Aphex wrote: »
    The area just north of DUB is called Ridgewood


    I have never heard any of that area being called Ridgewood


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Aphex


    cml387 wrote: »
    It's Dublin Airport.The area to the left as you look is now where the bulk of the terminals are.

    Some difference!! Looked great I must say!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Good photos although the site really struggles with geography

    http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/xaw052124

    XAW052124.jpg



    In the fore ground any idea what school sport that field has been cut for


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Aphex


    I have never heard any of that area being called Ridgewood

    It's on the FR24 map in radar (blue) mode, north of DUB. That's all I'm going by. Never heard the name before hand tbh.

    Edit: Normal map mode shows it too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Aphex


    Dublin 1953

    Here is the latest from the same sort of angle

    Capturesdfgs.jpg

    Ahh I see, thanks :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,695 ✭✭✭cml387


    The building was designed by Garrett Fitzgeral's brother Desmond, and was hailed as a classic of 30's modernism.
    Unfortunately the standard of architecture was not maintained,especially during the 60's and 70's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,635 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    We can be grateful I suppose that the original building was not bulldozed in the name of expansion at the Airport

    'Following the establishment of Aer Lingus in 1936, which originally operated from the military airfield at Baldonnell, Co. Dublin, work began in 1937 on a new civilian airport at Collinstown north of Dublin City. The new airport hosted its first flight in January 1940 and shortly after that work began on the airport terminal building which was completed in 1941. The terminal was to be in the international modern style and was designed by the architect Desmond FitzGerald of the Office of Public Works.

    The design was intended to make a break with the past to design a building suited to its activities and was influenced by the ideas of Le Corbusier. The building is light and airy with an observation and cafe deck. The four-storey building has rows of horizontal windows, terraces on cantilevers and promenades on the western side that overlooks the airfield. The decks and control tower are reminiscent of a ship and its bridge. The building was also designed as a convex curve and when looked at from above the curving wings combined with the long and narrow landscaped approach take the form of a plane. The terminal was awarded the Triennial Gold Medal of the Royal Hibernian Institute of Architects. '

    http://www.culturalheritageireland.ie/index.php/heritage-sites-and-centres/156-heritage-buildings-dublin-airport-old-terminal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭billie1b


    The original design was based on the bow of a ship, with the tower in the dead centre (now the pod) acting as the bridge.

    Edit : Only noticed ADIG's post now, disregard


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,202 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    In the fore ground any idea what school sport that field has been cut for

    The tall masts are radio antennae associated with the airport. Is that what you mean? They also appear in the Flickr shot that I have posted.


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