Boston wrote: » You can't speak for everyone.
That would be taking my life in my own hands!
Boston wrote: » That would be taking my life in my own hands!
Earth Worm Jim wrote: » So in your reckoning the locals want to go back to the way it was?? Don't see your point?
The lad has said he never had any problems, so you saying it was a better place 10 yr ago NOW? Or are you telling him he only thought it was at good place at that time cause he wasn't seen as a threat!
Boston wrote: » Is that upper or lower sheriff street?
Earth Worm Jim wrote: » Either can you MATE;) You are giving an opinion on an area and its communty based on working near it some yrs back?
Mairt wrote: » Boston, admit it - you really are taking the micky now aren't ya?.
Mairt wrote: » Thats my old gaff in Phil Shanahan house, and thats the black baby I got from Tròcair..
lightening wrote: » Sticking home tonight Mairt, if I ever see you I will recognise you and the dogs and say hello!!
Boston wrote: » Its based on growing up near there. Sheriff street itself I've only been down maybe a handful of times, and always at high speed.
About half and half. It will be a long time before people like me shake the idea of the sheriff street and the surrounding areas being dodgy as hell. Tbh I worry about my parents as they get older living in the area and the kids these days who are a bad element have little or no respect for their own community.
Earth Worm Jim wrote: » Plus where exactly did you "GROW UP"??
Earth Worm Jim wrote: » And as for the eldery, they have a great life down here, some of the best facilities in the world, and the kids look after the old folk, NEVER any problems there! and I know cos I work with them all;) on a voluntary basis like 100's in the area;)
Boston wrote: » The surrounding area.
Mairt wrote: » ¬¬ ClonTOORF?.
Boston wrote: » If we ever meet I might tell yea's. Earth Worm Jim, we may very well have gone to school together. If you where there at any stage in the 5 years I was there, you'd know me. You wouldn't have been stealing me lunch money either
Boston wrote: » Maybe not. Then again I'm nothing like my online persona in real life. I'm actually from the south side, I only know about sheriff street because my protestant private primary school took my class on a field trip there to see what poor people looked like. They look dirty.
WindSock wrote: » I'm just going to throw in something here that I oftentimes wonder about when I walk down (or up) upper Sherrif st, sorry if it breaks up the conversation on who has earned the 'local stars' and whatnot. At the junction where Castleforbes road meets Sherriff, there is a plaque on the wall saying Castleforbes 17(hundred and something)? I'll check date tommorrow if I remember. It has a little bit of blue Graffiti on it. Does anyone know what that bits about?
The most interesting building in this district is Castle Forbes, Upper Sheriff Street. It is a tall old house, standing as directly on the street as Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables which it recalls in many ways. The stone containing the inscription "Castle Forbes, 1729," in the curling letters and numerals of the eighteenth century, is at some distance from the house. If that date refers to the existing building, Castle Forbes is probably the oldest house on the north side of Dublin, and is surpassed in age by only a very few years by any old house on the south side, of which there are still some in the Liberties. Old maps of this district of North Lotts mark another old house called Forbes Castle (in ruins) on the East Road; to which perhaps the date on the stone is equally applicable; also the martially sounding names of Fort William in Upper, Sheriff Street and Fort Crystal, a very handsome building long vanished, where Church Road meets the sea. There is still Fort Lodge on the West Road, and Fort Crystal Terrace. Northcourt Avenue, Lower Middle and Upper, off Church Road, misspelled Northcote Avenue on some maps, was, formerly called North's Court from a house here. But only Castle Forbes remains, and it was probably the oldest, for the date is about the earliest at which a house could have been built here, although the existing building scarcely looks as much as a hundred and eighty years old. It looks much taller, viewed from the side, than from the front. The door in Sherifff Street is modern, the old front door being on the side remote from the street. The house must have been very conspicuous when it was the only building in this district, as it was for many years. Now it is surrounded by buildings and chimneys, but is still remarkable for its ancient and quaint aspect. It was evidently built by some one called Forbes. We find members of that Highland clan in Dublin a long time ago. Perhaps the builder of this relic of the early days of the Hanoverian succession was George Forbes, who was Lord Mayor in 1720. It was afterwards for many years the residence of the Carolin family who have been long connected with the commerce of Dublin. Some years ago it was the office of a glass bottle company, whose works adjoined it. It is now in possession of Messrs. Martin, whose name has been honourably identified with the Port of Dublin for more than a century. Though a little the worse for wear it is still in pretty good preservation, and its great age merits that attention to its future existence which we hope it will receive. (In Sheriff Street was situated the Prison where the French prisoners of war were confined, who were captured in the great War beginning with the Revolution and ending in the, fall of Napoleon.)
Phlann wrote: » Also, I just noticed you edited the word '<SNIP>' out of one of my posts! :pac: Is that considered obscene? Somebody should compile a list so we know...
Phlann wrote: » Just a random act of vandalism then? Also, I just noticed you edited the word '<SNIP>' out of one of my posts! :pac: Is that considered obscene? Somebody should compile a list so we know...
Mairt wrote: » Only when your <SNIP>
WindSock wrote: » At the junction where Castleforbes road meets Sherriff, there is a plaque on the wall saying Castleforbes 17(hundred and something)? I'll check date tommorrow if I remember. It has a little bit of blue Graffiti on it. Does anyone know what that bits about?
