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Historic Dublin Pictures & Videos Thread

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    #542
    Wishbone Ash
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    Exit wrote: »
    I also just noticed in the last picture of O'Connell Bridge, there's a garda in a box. Was he directing traffic?
    Yes, Garda pointmen directed traffic on O'Connell Street/Bridge up to the mid 1970s.


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    #543
    Rashers
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Yes, Garda pointmen directed traffic on O'Connell Street/Bridge up to the mid 1970s.

    And there were two well known Gardai who when they were on point duty you daren't have your elbow resting on your open window. If you did you got a whack of that big baton on the elbow... and by god you felt it!

    Didn't matter if you were driving a car, a truck, a van or a bus... they were equal opportunity whackers.


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    #544
    Wishbone Ash
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    Rashers wrote: »
    And there were two well known Gardai who when they were on point duty you daren't have your elbow resting on your open window. If you did you got a whack of that big baton on the elbow... and by god you felt it!

    Didn't matter if you were driving a car, a truck, a van or a bus... they were equal opportunity whackers.
    :eek: You've been around a while!

    That reminds me of a friend of mine who had a lot of drink taken and was driving his Mk II Escort. He spotted a Garda checkpoint up ahead and tried his best to look casual by resting his arm on the window and ended up falling out the door.


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    #545
    Rashers
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    :eek: You've been around a while!

    Yup. :D
    That reminds me of a friend of mine who had a lot of drink taken and was driving his Mk II Escort. He spotted a Garda checkpoint up ahead and tried his best to look casual by resting his arm on the window and ended up falling out the door.

    I'd love to have seen that one.:pac:

    Reminds me. I seem to remember an ad that used to warn of the danger of driving while having your right arm rested on the rolled down open window.

    I wonder if anyone who visits this thread remembers it, or could find it.

    While I'm here I better leave a pic. This one's been seen before no doubt. But I only discovered recently that the Gardai and patrol car are policing the crowd for an All Ireland match at Croke Park in 1938.
    patrolcarJonesRd1938.jpg


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    #546
    admiralofthefleet
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    there is a program on rte 1 at half 7 tonight that looks very good. its about the history of dublins main streets.


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    #547
    Hermy
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    My first pic in this thread so apologies if I'm offtopic but does anyone know the story behind this? (It's off North Wall)
    Picture_099_Small_1.jpg

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    #548
    r3nu4l
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    I just wanted to say thank you to Mairt for starting this thread and everyone who has posted so many great photos and the history behind so many of the photos. Rashers, Wishbone Ash and Exit in particular but everyone else too. Thanks all.

    I can say without hesitation that for me this is the best thread on boards.ie.


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    #549
    r3nu4l
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Yes, Garda pointmen directed traffic on O'Connell Street/Bridge up to the mid 1970s.

    I knew one of the gardai who did point duty there on a regular basis. Jim Nugent was his name and during his time in service he was the tallest Garda on the force. Jim died many years ago (RIP) but his wife is still going strong and was at my wedding :)


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    #550
    Rashers
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    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    there is a program on rte 1 at half 7 tonight that looks very good. its about the history of dublins main streets.

    For anyone that missed it you can watch a clip of the 1966 Easter Parade by clicking HERE then click on where it says 'Click here to watch footage of the Dublin Parade, 1966.'

    Just a little bit there but RTE might archive the whole program after awhile. Watch out for a repeat too.


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    #551
    iMax
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    Rashers wrote: »
    For anyone that missed it you can watch a clip of the 1966 Easter Parade by clicking HERE then click on where it says 'Click here to watch footage of the Dublin Parade, 1966.'

    There's a certain website www.irish(stuffwecan'tmentiononhere).com that has it uploaded already.

    Great show.


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    #552
    Rashers
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    iMax wrote: »
    There's a certain website www.irish(stuffwecan'tmentiononhere).com that has it uploaded already.

    I fell aleep just before it started, after looking foward to it since I first heard about it. I woke just as it was finishing.:mad:

    If only I could guess what we can't mention here. :D


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    #553
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Hermy wrote: »
    My first pic in this thread so apologies if I'm offtopic but does anyone know the story behind this? (It's off North Wall)


    I've no idea tbh, isn't that down by the old British Rail club?.

    .


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    #554
    Wishbone Ash
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    Hermy wrote: »
    My first pic in this thread so apologies if I'm offtopic but does anyone know the story behind this? (It's off North Wall)
    That's a new one for me!

    Where precisely is it?


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    #555
    Wishbone Ash
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    Edit - double post.


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    #556
    Hermy
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    That pic I took is sitting on a wee bit of wall in a small cul de sac between Waping Street and Guild Street, close to the site of the old railhead where PWC are now based.

    Thanks for the replies and a fantastic thread. I've spent the last two days going through the previous posts and it's all fantastic. I love the shot of the 'locals' in Finglas village and the painting of O'Connell Street is very surreal.

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    #557
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    That's a new one for me!

    Where precisely is it?

    Turn at Price, Waterhouse Cooper - left of course because turn right and you'll drown!.


    Its beside the old British Rail club, as you drive onto the road its mounted onto a wall about 30mtrs into your right, and from memory beside a green wooden door in the wall.

    For the life of me I can't remember the name of the road, but I'll be down there tomorrow (going to UFC 93 in the O2) so I'll take a photo of the whole street if thats any good for you.

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    #558
    Hermy
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    Fair play Mairt, you know the exact spot.
    Now if someone can shed any light on the history of this piece I'll be happy out.:)

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    #559
    pepsicokeacola
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    Mairt wrote: »
    Wishbone, for any northsider they are probably 'the photos of the thread'.

    'Dwyers is the first pub I had a gargle in, with my late Grandmother May.

    Moore St is lost to the new generation of Dub. It was a fantastically unique place IMO.

    it looks the exact same nowdays.


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    Gaspode
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    Exit wrote: »
    So, some questions: What's up with the upside down Polish flags?
    down were in the GAA finals - maybe their shirts are red & white? (I dont know too much about bogball to be honest!)
    Exit wrote: »
    There are a few aerial pictures of county Dublin that I didn't post. They can be found here - http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/result.do?display=thumbcap&action=browse&query=country%3A%22Ireland%22+AND+city%3A%22Dublin%22&page=1&pagesize=20 I'm interested in them, but I can't recognise anything. Anybody able to spot some landmarks or roads? I'm interested in this one in particular - http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do;jsessionid=BDFC3704AA535CD3C28E83E805B7A854?query=country%3A%22Ireland%22+AND+city%3A%22Dublin%22&page=1&pagesize=20&display=thumbcap&action=browse&pnum=P12231 Is it northside or southside?

    It looks like there is some coastline at the bottom left corner, so I'd suspect this was taken from the plane as it came to land. Seems a bit lat to be the usual flight path over south dublin, so somewhere over north county dublin seems likely. The village/town that can be seen seems too small to be Swords and there's no sign of a river either, so maybe Rush/Lusk/Donabate area?


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    #561
    spurious
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    Exit wrote: »

    So, some questions: What's up with the upside down Polish flags?

    It's the flag of Monaco. Princess Grace and Prince Rainier visited O'Connell Street on the 12th of June 1961. I'd say they were for that.


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    #562
    Rashers
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I'm open to correction but those little buildings had something to do with the utilities electricity, gas, telephone, sewerage etc. I'm not sure which one. (Victor will probably know.)

    There were a few of them around. Think the last one I saw was on Eden Quay.

    I think they were ESB sub stations. I remember as kids we were particularly warned never to climb on them because, "Yiz'll be electrocuted!"


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    #563
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIuyuPsy0Mo


    I post this at the risk of turning this political - PLEASE DON'T.

    My son asked me about the war in N.I. and going through old pix of Dublin on my H.D. I came accross Talbot St after a bomb then dug this one up to show him.

    So thats why this is here, lets not turn the thread political.

    .


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    #564
    Wishbone Ash
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    Mairt wrote: »
    I post this at the risk of turning this political - PLEASE DON'T
    Hear, hear!

    Here's another pic from that awful day - the aftermath of the bomb in Leinster Street South.

    LeinsterStreetSouthBomb1974.jpg


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    #565
    Rashers
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    And the same day in Talbot Street... that's the junction with Lower Gardiner Street to the centre right.

    talbot-street-bomb-1.jpg

    And Parnell Street on the same day. Sorry I couldn't make it a bigger pic. The building with the arched windows was (is) the Welcome Inn at the junction with Marlborough Street.

    parnell1.jpg

    Please note. As Mairt pointed out and Wishbone agreed, this is not political. I see these photos as part of the illustrated Dublin history that this thread is all about.


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    #566
    Wishbone Ash
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    Rashers wrote: »
    The building with the arched windows was (is) the Welcome Inn
    It's a completely different building now but it looks more early 1980s with a distinctive roof rather than a rebuild from 1974. I'll have a look as I'm sure I have it somewhere.


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    #567
    Wishbone Ash
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    Here we go!

    ParnellStreetWelcomeInn280808-1.jpg


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    Rashers
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Here we go!

    Wow it's changed a lot since I drank in there. I'd say it's changed inside too. Last time I had a pint there (
    1967
    ) it was all plush seating and a quiet shop, a bit over priced though.

    Thanks for that photo Wishbone. :)


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    klong
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    Bertie Bassett wrote: »
    I have a feeling I saw that picture before in one of those picture books of Dublin and if I remember correctly it was taken on Lambay Island. Was it the funeral of the owner of Lambay Island?

    Sorry to butt in...the pic with the tractor on Lambay was in "One Day for Life in Ireland" or somesuch title. People submitted a photo taken on a certain day in 1988, along with a charity donation, and the best photos got in the book. I think it was for the Irish Heart Foundation.


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    That's a new one for me!

    Where precisely is it?


    As promised..


    The plaque is behind the silver car..

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    And here we go, its exact location.

    attachment.php?attachmentid=70637&stc=1&d=1232240771

    Anyone else think its worth chasing the story behind this up through one of the local papers - I bet there's a nice story involving people long since passed and probably long forgotten by most?.


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    Rashers
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    Mairt wrote: »
    Anyone else think its worth chasing the story behind this up through one of the local papers - I bet there's a nice story involving people long since passed and probably long forgotten by most?.


    Definitely needs to be investigated. I feel it in me bones that there's an interesting story there.


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