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Historic Dublin Pictures & Videos Thread

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    #1832
    Rashers
    Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    A view along Capel Street from someone's roof. Anyone know which roof so that we can get a better idea of the direction of view?


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    #1833
    The Royal Scam
    Registered Users Posts: 983 ✭✭✭The Royal Scam


    Rashers wrote: »
    A view along Capel Street from someone's roof. Anyone know which roof so that we can get a better idea of the direction of view?
    I'm guessing your looking south across the life at city hall in the distance. 7am pub I guess is an old slatterys


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    #1834
    Cathmandooo
    Registered Users Posts: 17,324 ✭✭✭✭Cathmandooo


    Looks to be from the roof of this building, which I'd guess has changed since

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3502768,-6.2694772,3a,75y,29.21h,101.23t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sY2ez_ixsnq1VZunRyvCzqA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

    If you look at this this streetview you'll see the steps of the roofs of the buildings on the right match the photo

    Great photo!


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    #1835
    tonyheaney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    I am loving the pics guys :)


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    #1836
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,153 ✭✭✭highdef


    Rashers wrote: »
    A view along Capel Street from someone's roof. Anyone know which roof so that we can get a better idea of the direction of view?

    Looks like it was taken from the roof of a building that no longer exists. The attachment has the area highlighted where I reckon it was taken from.

    The linky below is the building today....in my opinion anyway - https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3502768,-6.2694772,3a,60y,58.59h,82.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sY2ez_ixsnq1VZunRyvCzqA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


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    #1837
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,153 ✭✭✭highdef


    Cathmandooo wrote: »
    Looks to be from the roof of this building, which I'd guess has changed since

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3502768,-6.2694772,3a,75y,29.21h,101.23t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sY2ez_ixsnq1VZunRyvCzqA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

    If you look at this this streetview you'll see the steps of the roofs of the buildings on the right match the photo

    Great photo!
    Beaten to it....at least we came to the same conclusion :p


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    #1838
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,130 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    In 1969, that building would have been Emerson Brothers - heating and plumbing specialists.

    **edit Dutch Billy roof on the building on the left. Today MishMash coffee shop, 66 Capel Street, which by the way, has original panelling inside at the back and still has the corner fireplace, although blocked off. One of the Polish ladies who works there is quite knowledgeable on the whole Dutch Billy thing.


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    #1839
    jd1947
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭jd1947


    Its Burg Quay 100%


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    #1840
    Rashers
    Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    jd1947 wrote: »
    Its Burg Quay 100%

    Can you quote something of the original post please. What is Burgh Quay? :confused:


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    #1841
    Paddico
    Registered Users Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭Paddico


    Csalem wrote: »
    Hi all,
    I am not sure if this is suitable for here, but in the Bus Section I have a thread for my website detailing my travels on the bus routes in Dublin. One of the things I like to do is to recreate a shot of a bus on a route taken by my father maybe twenty or thirty years ago. As an example of this, here are four shots showing bus routes 1, 2 and 3 in Parnell Square. The 2 and 3 are now gone three years and the 1 we have today is a bit different to the original 1. These photographs span thirty-one years.

    D 175 with a 3 to Sandymount Tower, 30/08/1982:
    8619968058_86b6a8c6f3_z.jpg
    Scan D 175 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr

    AX 472 with a 2 to Sandymount, 25/06/2011:
    8618873361_de7cde6788_c.jpg
    AX 472 Parnell Square 25 06 11 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr

    AX 494 on the last day of the 3, 12/05/2012:
    7190782844_bf20d0a9c6_c.jpg
    P1090771 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr

    GT 75 with a 1 to Sandymount, 04/04/2013:
    8618864035_23a1e2548a_c.jpg
    P1010716 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr


    More pictures from my travels can be found here:
    http://offthebeatentrack.webs.com/routes-1-2-and-3

    My thread on this site is here:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057054873

    And if people are interested I can post some more old bus photographs here.


    Cheers Csalem,
    My dad used to drive the No 3 bus back in 82.
    Would be mad if I saw him in your pictures


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    #1842
    ecowise
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭ecowise


    I have a photo that I took somewhere in the Liberties/James St. area as far as I can remember but I can't place exactly where it was. The time is most likely Spring 1972. I would be grateful if anyone here might recognize it.

    dateposted-public


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    #1843
    ecowise
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭ecowise


    Photo did not insert. I hope it works this time:

    dateposted-public


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    #1844
    ecowise
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭ecowise


    Did not work second time. Perhaps the link option will work:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/58544618@N00/31287082913/in/dateposted-public/


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    #1845
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    ecowise wrote: »
    Did not work second time. Perhaps the link option will work:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/58544618@N00/31287082913/in/dateposted-public/

    I wouldn't have been familiar with Frances St area, but the photo reminds me of the married quarters in
    Cathay Brugha Barracks...Rathmines. I'm probably wrong.


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    #1846
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    ecowise wrote: »
    Did not work second time. Perhaps the link option will work:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/58544618@N00/31287082913/in/dateposted-public/

    Clancy Barracks, perhaps?

    Edit: Actually, it was still in use in the 70s.


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    #1847
    ecowise
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭ecowise


    I don't think they were barracks and I'm pretty sure they were in Dublin 8 (James's St./Grand Canal harbour area) or possibly Dublin 2. I went to secondary school in James's St and have a feeling there might have been flats like these further down from the main entrance (there were newer flats behind the school that did not look like this picture.) I spent a few days doing street shots in the early seventies and on this day I seem to remember going along the Coombe and on to the streets around Grand Canal harbour and the Guinness buildings complex.


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    #1848
    BowWow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭BowWow


    There was a place between the Coombe and St James I was in about 35 years ago kinda looked like this - The Marshalsea?


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    #1849
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Some parts haven't changed that much apart from having more trees. Compare 1972 to 2014 Kevin Street.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/58544618@N00/32058334536/in/dateposted/

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.33832,-6.2693407,3a,75y,99.2h,91.09t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1syuXCUjcOxKgx-C666RedFg!2e0!3e2!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en


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    #1850
    ecowise
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭ecowise


    BowWow wrote: »
    There was a place between the Coombe and St James I was in about 35 years ago kinda looked like this - The Marshalsea?

    This is an intriguing suggestion so I looked it up and came across pics here
    http://theinquisition.eu/wordpress/2010/dublin/marshalsea/

    as well as an assertion that they were demolished n the 60's so sadly not the place unless there were other buildings in the complex.


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    #1851
    ecowise
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭ecowise


    ongarboy wrote: »
    Some parts haven't changed that much apart from having more trees. Compare 1972 to 2014 Kevin Street.

    They do look remarkably unchanged. I do love the the way the woman is 'addressing' the horse in the old pic.


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    #1852
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    ecowise wrote: »
    This is an intriguing suggestion so I looked it up and came across pics here
    http://theinquisition.eu/wordpress/2010/dublin/marshalsea/

    as well as an assertion that they were demolished n the 60's so sadly not the place unless there were other buildings in the complex.

    Archiseek says 1975.

    http://archiseek.com/2012/1775-the-marshalsea-dublin/


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    #1853
    On Dive
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭On Dive


    Hello,

    To me that looks like the married quarters of Griffith Barracks, formerly Wellington Barracks, now Griffith College on the South Circular Road near Leonards Corner. The married quarters were to left of the barracks as you face it. The site is now occupied by a health centre or clinic of some type.


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    #1854
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users Posts: 17,963 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    On Dive wrote: »
    Hello,

    To me that looks like the married quarters of Griffith Barracks, formerly Wellington Barracks, now Griffith College on the South Circular Road near Leonards Corner. The married quarters were to left of the barracks as you face it. The site is now occupied by a health centre or clinic of some type.

    It is a nursing home, Bellevue. Currently closed and under renovation at present.


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    #1855
    ecowise
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭ecowise


    On Dive wrote: »
    Hello,

    To me that looks like the married quarters of Griffith Barracks, formerly Wellington Barracks, now Griffith College on the South Circular Road near Leonards Corner. The married quarters were to left of the barracks as you face it. The site is now occupied by a health centre or clinic of some type.

    Thanks for suggestion. It is an outside possibility as I lived quite close to Griffith Barracks but I don't recall ever going inside. I think there was a barrier across the SC Rd entrance as far as I can remember so it was probably a manned entrance. I am still inclined to think it was Thomas St/James St area or somewhere close to the south Quays.


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    #1856
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    FunkyDa2 wrote: »
    I reckon it's the late '50s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT5-KkdFggk

    Funland is there. Surely not the same one that was/is on O'Connell st beside Henry st to this day (or at least recently) ??


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    #1857
    Eugbug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 67 ✭✭Eugbug


    My great grandfather's leather shop at no. 45 James's Street, Dublin, sometime between 1919 & 1940. It's a Centra store now. If there's anyone who still remembers this, they would probably be in their late 80s by now. Maybe someone would remember their parents talking about this shop?

    20170503_141812_zpsmwzykln3.jpg


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    #1858
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users Posts: 10,251 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    More info on the previous owner, Christopher Burgess, here.

    420007.jpg

    http://photopol.com/james_st/no_45.html


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    #1859
    Eugbug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 67 ✭✭Eugbug


    Thanks for that. I came across the Burgess photo a few years ago and was in contact with Pól O' Dwyer (Christy Burgess was his GG) to see if he had any more info/stories about my GG.


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    #1860
    littlesnippets
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭littlesnippets


    CuppaCocoa wrote: »
    Big ask but would anyone have any pics of The Monument Creameries Cafe, particularly the one in Ranelagh? They were in operation from the 20s until 1966 when they went into voluntary liquidation. I lived over the cafe until 1970 but don't have a pic of the shopfront :(

    My mother, Kitty White was manageress of the Monument Creamery in Ranelagh during the 1950’s, according to family ledgend


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    #1861
    Rashers
    Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    I don't know how to upload photos since Photobucket changed things. But you may find what you are looking for HERE

    Best of luck


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