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Historic Dublin Pictures & Videos Thread

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  • Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭Jeanious


    The_Edge wrote: »
    Jayus, what year is that?
    No sign of the Church

    Church was built in 57 seemingly. I wouldnt reckon its much older than that judgin by the cars. Still, great pic actogether.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Cocoon


    Ste.phen wrote: »
    Where did you get that one?
    Any more similar?
    (Am from the area, it's amazing to see it before they build the park, church, Kilmore, most of Lorcan, etc.
    What's the house on teh far right of the picture? is it still there?
    (To my mind i'm guessing it's in where the apartments are beside the Beaumont Drive Thru)

    I was emailed that photo by a friend some time back as I used to live around the area, unfortunately there is no more like it that i'm aware of. If you look into the distance it interesting to see how lorcan was divided into two before the N1 was built. Also no coolock lane or oscar traynor road just fields and santry woods.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭Exit


    coyle wrote: »
    Here's one: A drive around the general Dublin 5 area in 1984. Shoddy quality, but a good view of Artane before the Rec was built, and I had no idea Peats had a branch in Donnycarney?!!


    I got excited for this video, but when I turned it on, I barely recognised anything. I know the first part is coming out of Artane onto the Malahide Road, and I recognise the flats at Kilmore. It took me a while to get Northside SC. I recognised the shape of the building and its surroundings, but I can only ever remember it being the manky blue colour that it is now.

    I don't really know Artane or Donneycarney that well though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭Lazarus2.0


    Can anyone help me out with the location of these pics ? They're part of a 'set' , for want of a better word , found in my late grandfather's effects . I will post up the full set (13 Civil War , 6 of Collins' funeral) over the next day or so ...

    1. I think this is the Gresham Hotel
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    2. Four Courts ?
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    nessyguin wrote: »
    Can anyone help me out with the location of these pics ? They're part of a 'set' , for want of a better word , found in my late grandfather's effects . I will post up the full set (13 Civil War , 6 of Collins' funeral) over the next day or so ...
    Hya Nessyguin. Thanks for the pics., they are wonderful. If you wish to you could forward the photograph of the Firemen to Martin Thompson of the Fire Service Trust & Irish Fire Service Preservation Group (http://fire-service-trust.com/Dublin-Fire-Brigade-Museum) at thefireservicetrust@yahoo.ie
    I know they will appricate it if it turns out to be one they don't already have a copy of.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,263 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Lovely photos. I'm sure the Gilbert Library would love copies.
    Just to confirm the location of No.1 is indeed the Gresham.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭Lazarus2.0


    And a few more ....

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭bealbocht


    amazing , amazing, amazing photos.

    Better than anything I ever seen from this period.

    I'd love to make an entrance into the Gresham like the guy with the axe.

    Thanks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 178 ✭✭sprinklesspanky


    WindSock wrote: »
    ^^ great pics. Makes me sad to see the Rare oul Dublin toimes. It's fastly losing it's charm.
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    Some great pics in the 1911 census archives website http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/exhibition/waters/index.html

    1895 workhouse
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    True. I had some American family over for a week back two weeks ago. They were all hyped to see Dublin and wanted to hear nothing about Cork, West Cork or Kerry. When they got here Dublin wasn't near as nice as they'd pictured. I took them to Cork City, and they didn't want to leave.


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    True. I had some American family over for a week back two weeks ago. They were all hyped to see Dublin and wanted to hear nothing about Cork, West Cork or Kerry. When they got here Dublin wasn't near as nice as they'd pictured. I took them to Cork City, and they didn't want to leave.

    Boo, Hiss! Down with that sort of thing!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,009 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    nessyguin wrote: »
    Can anyone help me out with the location of these pics ?
    Fantastic pics nessy!

    Here are my guesses:

    4. Westland Row?

    5. Corn Exchange on Burg Quay?

    7. Gilbey's Wine Merchants on Upper O'Connell Street.

    8. Henry Street (although it looks very narrow).

    9/10. North Earl Street/O'Connell Street junction.

    11. Dame Street/College Green?

    (I don't know where no. 2 is but the pic is very obviously 'posed' for the camera).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭dubtom


    Fantastic pics,thanks for showing nessyguin. For number 6 I'd take a guess at parnell square. Remember seeing a pic somewhere of the view from the east side of the square looking down o'connell,and some of the basements weren't covered in. Seeing as most of the pics are in the general location anyway.
    God I'd love to take a step back in time, can you imagine, a stroll around Dublin in the rare oul times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭Lazarus2.0


    4.Westland Row ? I never considered this as a possibility but will go digging

    5. Corn Exchange . I posted this pic on a different thread in Dublin City forum and Degsy suggested the same . I had ruled it out but that was based on a 1916 picture I came across so maybe I was wrong to discount the possibility . More digging required !

    6. Is Mackeys Seeds on Upper O Connell St - these days Gresham Hotel is no.23 so I assume street numbers were reassigned following the reconstruction of Sackville St and the construction of Cathal Brugha St . Given that at the time there was an unbroken terrace between Parnell St and Cathedral St I'd guess that The Block was to the right of Mackeys but am open to correction on this .

    7. Gilbey's Wine Merchants on Upper O'Connell Street. It is indeed , but I'm struggling to find it's precise location . 4th buiding to the left of Dublin United Tram offices (white domed building on corner of Cathedral St)

    8,9,10,11 . All from the corner of Henry St/Sackville St . 9 and 11 looking north .

    2. (and 12) Agree they are posed . But where ??? Have been thinking maybe Jamesons Distillery for 12 but cant find anything online to compare with so it's a stab in the dark .

    The ones doing my head in now are 2,3,4,5 and 13 .

    Thanks to all for your comments and thanks - I'm as stricken by the pics as the next man !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭Lazarus2.0


    Michael Collins' Funeral

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  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    nessyguin wrote: »
    6. Is Mackeys Seeds on Upper O Connell St - these days Gresham Hotel is no.23 so I assume street numbers were reassigned following the reconstruction of Sackville St and the construction of Cathal Brugha St .

    Yes I can confim that Mackey's was indeed the shop between the Gresham on the left and Cathal Brugha St to the right. (Though it wasn't Cathal Brugha St then).

    It was better known as Sir Walter Mackey's to generations of Dubliners. Indeed at the time we moved from the nearby tenements to our house I bought the first plant for my mother to plant in our garden,in that shop -- it was a Peace rose bush. Mackey's later moved (in the 70s I think) to Henry Street.

    nessyguin wrote: »
    Given that at the time there was an unbroken terrace between Parnell St and Cathedral St I'd guess that The Block was to the right of Mackeys but am open to correction on this.

    No, it wasn't an unbroken terrace. I know the name of the street/lane that preceeded Cathal Brugha St but it (name) escapes me just now. Here's a small part of a map of 1912 showing the street at the top right of Sackville St.
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    Your photos are classics. A big thank you for sharing them and I hope if you have more you'll continue to share with us.


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    deswalsh wrote: »
    Thats a particularly interesting photo for me - my Dad grew up in the tenements right beside the church (The buildings known as 'George's Pocket'), and my mum lived there for a couple of years after they married.
    In Jan 1964, they moved out of there just days before I was born - I missed living there by about a week!

    Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this des. But how about this one of George's Pocket? Haven't got a year for it... maybe '50s?

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    Thanks for that Rasher's, that's excellent. Must ask my Dads twin brother if he can spot his house in it!
    (where'd you dig this one up by the way?)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,263 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Rashers wrote: »
    No, it wasn't an unbroken terrace. I know the name of the street/lane that preceeded Cathal Brugha St but it (name) escapes me just now. Here's a small part of a map of 1912 showing the street at the top right of Sackville St.
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    Gregg's lane -I think it may have been called Findlater place before being changed to Cathal Brugha Street.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25 pearly20


    Hi all, hope I'm not intruding but am desperately searching for any old images of the Central Fire Station at the junction of Pearse Street/Tara Street, built around 1900. Its for a college project and I'm not having much luck with any of the archives mentioned in this thread...

    If anyone has any information, or indeed any advice about websites/reports/publications/people I can access for further details, I would really appreciate it!

    Thanks


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,263 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Did you ask the Fire Brigade? I'm sure they have an archive somewhere.
    Very surprised the Dublin City Archives would not have had something.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Rashers wrote: »
    Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this des. But how about this one of George's Pocket? Haven't got a year for it... maybe '50s?
    WB Rashers. Good to see you back on board(s).

    Interesting bit of street furniture in that pic of Georges Pocket. Anyone got any idea what that piece of ironwork is on the fence?

    EDIT/ After a little chat with one or two members of Public Lights it turns out that the fixture is an old gas lamp holder. There was a law that every 5th or 9th house (or some such figure) was obliged to provide street light. The gas feed for the lamp would have been from the house on the corner.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭Carter12


    Rashers wrote: »
    Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this des. But how about this one of George's Pocket? Haven't got a year for it... maybe '50s?

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    These pics are brilliant. My nanny used to live in the pocket :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭Carter12


    Ive been looking through this thread for the past 3 hours. Brilliant thread and the photos are great. We lived in Sean Mac dermott street for a while.. Where to multi story carpark is now.

    Rasher do you remember the Dandy garage at the back of SmcD street ? We then moved to Ballymun. Balcurris gardens and my parents have just moved from there.

    Lots of great memories in those photos :)


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    Rashers wrote: »
    Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this des. But how about this one of George's Pocket? Haven't got a year for it... maybe '50s?

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    Rashers you scored a big hit with that pic! I showed it to my uncle, my dads brother, and he reckons the lad on the left looks quite like my dad!
    If he's right then there's a very good chance that the figure in the window where the flower boxes are is one of my grandparents, or one of my dads elder siblings.
    My uncle reckons the picture was probably taken about 47-48. The house with the flower boxes is his house, No. 5. The house on the corner is No. 6.
    My uncle tells me the window boxes were painted green and white and re-painted every 2 years without fail.

    Any more of those?


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    deswalsh wrote: »
    Thanks for that Rasher's, that's excellent. Must ask my Dads twin brother if he can spot his house in it!
    (where'd you dig this one up by the way?)

    Glad you like the pic des and I hope the house is visible.

    If it isn't, I'll keep looking for more old pics of the Pocket and hopefully come up with one showing the old homestead.

    I have a big collection of Dublin books, a lot with old photos of various parts of the city. I'm not sure but I might have scanned that pic from one of the books.... (or maybe I swiped it from somewhere on the net.;) )

    EDIT:

    Just seen your post now Des, we nearly bumped into each other.

    I'm glad the photo turned out to be recognisable to your family. Thanks for letting me know... gives me a good feeling.

    Now print it out and frame it..... and I'll look for more for you.

    Jim


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    See above Rashers! sorry had to edit the post a little, so you might not have seen it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    spurious wrote: »
    Gregg's lane -I think it may have been called Findlater place before being changed to Cathal Brugha Street.

    Findlater Place. That's what me gran used to call Cathal Brugha St.


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    Carter12 wrote: »
    Rasher do you remember the Dandy garage at the back of SmcD street ?

    Do I remember it? I used to play on the wasteground beside it in Waterford St. Remember Mitchel's rosary bead factory next door? The smell sometimes from that factory! But my cousins made a few quid doing homework for them.
    We then moved to Ballymun.

    So did we.:)
    Balcurris gardens

    Balcurris Road for us, first block after the shopping centre. :)
    and my parents have just moved from there.

    We moved out about 20 or so years ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭Lazarus2.0


    pearly20 wrote: »
    Hi all, hope I'm not intruding but am desperately searching for any old images of the Central Fire Station at the junction of Pearse Street/Tara Street, built around 1900. Its for a college project and I'm not having much luck with any of the archives mentioned in this thread...

    If anyone has any information, or indeed any advice about websites/reports/publications/people I can access for further details, I would really appreciate it!

    Thanks

    Thanks to OldGoat I'm currently in touch with the curator of Dublin Fire Brigade Museum in Marino . I'll PM his email .
    Also www.archiseek.com is worth a look , although you'll need to sign up to view the entire forum .


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    nessyguin wrote: »
    Thanks to OldGoat I'm currently in touch with the curator of Dublin Fire Brigade Museum in Marino . I'll PM his email .
    Also www.archiseek.com is worth a look , although you'll need to sign up to view the entire forum .
    I've already PM'ed the info to Pearly20. :)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭Lazarus2.0


    OldGoat wrote: »
    I've already PM'ed the info to Pearly20. :)


    I might have known ;)


    4 of the photos I posted above will be going to the DFB museum shortly so thanks for helping find them a suitable home :)


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    Rashers wrote: »
    I'm glad the photo turned out to be recognisable to your family. Thanks for letting me know... gives me a good feeling.
    Now print it out and frame it..... and I'll look for more for you.
    Jim

    Please do, and thanks again, I'm still chuffed with the 'find'

    As regards date, it's late 1947 or early 48, as my dad is wearing the overcoat he got for his communion. Notice also the single cable running over to the buildings - electricity only arrived in George's pocket late in 1946.


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    nessyguin wrote: »
    Can anyone help me out with the location of these pics ? They're part of a 'set' , for want of a better word , found in my late grandfather's effects.

    nessy. I found your photos on a website here.

    A quote from the site: "The photos on this page are taken by George Pierce who was about 9 years old at the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in 1922. They are published on our website by courtesy of his grandson on the condition that any information about the photos, other than mentioned in the captions, is forwarded to him."

    May be a help in your quest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭Lazarus2.0


    Thanks , Rashers . Good detective work !

    I gave that site a set of copies some time last year in the hope I might glean a bit of background info :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭Dubliner28


    Some cracking photos lads
    Fair play


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,009 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Off for a lunchtime pint at The Brazen Head, 1977 (Lower Bridge Street)

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    A friendly barman at The Brazen Head in 1977

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    A street trader enjoying a glass of Guinness in James Gill's, 1977 (North Circular Road)

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    A serious discussion in John Kavanagh's 'The Grave Diggers' in 1977 (Glasnevin)

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    Workmen enjoying the craic at Kavanagh's in 1977

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    A quiet lunchtime read and a smoke in Doheny and Nesbitt's, 1977 (Upper Baggott Street)

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    Unknown city centre pub 1977

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    Two ladies in the snug of an unknown pub (mid 1980s?)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    Great set of pics Wish. Thank you.

    The 'Unknown city centre pub 1977' is familiar to me. I'm wondering if it's the pub that was at the corner of Parliament St and Essex Gate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,009 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Mulligan's, Poolbeg Street, 1965

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    Another unknown 'lounge' in 1965

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,009 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Rashers wrote: »
    I'm wondering if it's the pub that was at the corner of Parliament St and Essex Gate.
    You have me there! :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    The unknown one reminds me of the stags head for some reason...or maybe the swan :confused:

    excellent excellent photos btw


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭Lazarus2.0


    Seeing the pics of The Gravediggers brings back some very fond memories . Last time I was there would have been in the mid-80s watching my Da playing rings .
    As an aside , I believe the ring-board is still hanging there - surely one of (if not the ) last pubs in Dublin to still have rings ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Ringboard is still up, never seen anyone play it when i was there


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    Carter12 wrote: »
    Ive been looking through this thread for the past 3 hours. Brilliant thread and the photos are great. We lived in Sean Mac dermott street for a while.. Where to multi story carpark is now.

    Rasher do you remember the Dandy garage at the back of SmcD street ? We then moved to Ballymun. Balcurris gardens and my parents have just moved from there.

    Weird, my family were from sean mcdermott street before they moved to the mun


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭HydeRoad


    A few photos of early Dublin United Tramway buses, the forerunners of CIE...

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    1925 Thornycroft, most probably THE original DUTC bus bodied by Hall Lewis in London.
    Later buses were bodied at Spa Road, Inchicore, to a copy of this design. These
    timber framed bodies did not last long, suffering from a combination of rot and rough
    road surfaces. Many were rebodied again by 1929/1930, although the small number of
    Thornycroft buses were returned to the UK. Note the DUAL doors, buses from 1925
    were a mixture of rear entrance and dual door, with 30 or 32 seats, on Thornycroft,
    AEC or Dennis chassis imported from the UK. This bus entered service on the first DUTC
    bus route 43, from Eden Quay to Killester, in 1925. The DUTC up to then had operated
    the extensive city tramway network, the last trams running in the city in 1949.

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    1925 AEC, YI 7972, bodied at Spa Road, Inchicore. Note the painted destination
    boards along the side of the vehicle, for the number 50 route to Crumlin, the brushes
    hanging from the wheel hubs, a legal requirement of the time, and the fully uniformed
    driver and conductor.

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    1926 Dennis E type, YI 7973, bodied at Spa Road, Inchicore. Note the number and
    destination box on the roof, the painted destination boards along the side of the vehicle,
    the brushes on the wheels, and the conductor in full uniform standing on the rear platform.

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    A line up of 1926 AEC buses, bound for, among others, route 42 to Coolock, route 43 to
    Killester, and route 45 to Blackrock.

    * * * * *

    Alas, it is very, very rare to come across photographs of Dublin buses of the 1920s -1930s period, although photos abound of buses after the war. As well as the Dublin United Tramway buses in their dignified livery of dark blue and ivory, there were a host of independently owned buses, popularly known as the 'Pirates.'

    I suppose it is too much to hope that, among the wonderful collections of historical photographs appearing here, that someone might have photographs of PRE-war buses in Dublin, or indeed elsewhere in Ireland? The 1920s-1930s period is the period in question, as there are countless photos available of the Leyland double deckers that became popular and well known after 1937.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭Lazarus2.0


    Aye , Bambi . I am told that it was a stipulation in the will that nothing be changed . I was told this in a pub so apply pinches of salt at will :) However , I can believe it to be true as it's unlikely that a ringboard would be hanging by public demand (unfortunately) .

    Did everyone who posts on this thread live in Ballymun at some time , btw ? OK , I know the answer to that but there are a lot of ex-'munners here ! We moved into Sillogue in '68 , when the houses there were still being built . Left in '89 and back here 4 years now .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    nessyguin wrote: »
    Aye , Bambi . I am told that it was a stipulation in the will that nothing be changed . I was told this in a pub so apply pinches of salt at will :) However , I can believe it to be true as it's unlikely that a ringboard would be hanging by public demand (unfortunately) .

    Did everyone who posts on this thread live in Ballymun at some time , btw ? OK , I know the answer to that but there are a lot of ex-'munners here ! We moved into Sillogue in '68 , when the houses there were still being built . Left in '89 and back here 4 years now .

    my auntie moved into coultry in 1980 beside the esb station and she is still there now. if you have any old pics of ballymun before it was built up in the 60's it would be great to see them.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,263 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    HydeRoad wrote: »
    I suppose it is too much to hope that, among the wonderful collections of historical photographs appearing here, that someone might have photographs of PRE-war buses in Dublin, or indeed elsewhere in Ireland? The 1920s-1930s period is the period in question, as there are countless photos available of the Leyland double deckers that became popular and well known after 1937.

    I have a few.
    I'll scan them and put them up later.

    Have a look at 'Wheels around Dublin' by Cyril McIntyre.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,580 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    I'd reckon that the 1st unknown pub is the International.


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    It also looks like a pub that was in Amiens street nearly under the railway bridge. I think it was Cleary's and I've no idea if it's still there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    my auntie moved into coultry in 1980 beside the esb station and she is still there now. if you have any old pics of ballymun before it was built up in the 60's it would be great to see them.

    my auntie is just down from her so, and has been since the 80s
    My family moved into silloge road back the late 60s and were there up into the 2000s:eek:

    Actually most my aunts and uncles were out in ballymun too, if ya knew any kellys ye might have known them :pac:


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