20th Century Dublin - old photos, maps, etc.

Penneys shopfront, Mary Street 1972.

Opening sale of Dunnes in Georges St. July 1959

Weekly cattle market Prussia Street NCR that I well remember from the cattle drives down the NCR crossing dorset Street on their way to the quays for shipment to Britain.

This photo also July 1959.

That bus doesn't look very different to most Dublin busses today.

I can remember Great Northern Railways' busses in maroon and cream (if memory serves me) that ran on the outer northside. Also the decades long industrial dispute over 'one-man' busses' and bus strikes including one where army lorries were deployed as replacements.

The busses I remember from my child hood all had open platform entry and exit with a conductor to maintain order and collect fares.

I also used this tram a few times, it was the last remaining route of a once extensive network.

The photo dates from December 1956.

The summit stop was where the Summit pub is on the Hill of Howth.