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Dublin 15 Historic Pictures Thread

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  • #152
    Guinness69
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭Guinness69


    A great facebook page for any that are interested in Blanchardstown . https://www.facebook.com/groups/320676788135706/?fref=nf


  • #153
    chucknorris
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    Gone be the days ;)

    https://twitter.com/PhotosOfDublin/status/706796046073118720


  • #154
    Zaph
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    Gone be the days ;)

    https://twitter.com/PhotosOfDublin/status/706796046073118720

    Where was that?


  • #155
    chucknorris
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    Zaph wrote: »
    Where was that?

    It was down the road toward the hospital, behind the Blanchardstown house.


  • #156
    miss misty
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    Don't think so.... was where the Vincent de Paul shop is


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  • #157
    chucknorris
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    miss misty wrote: »
    Don't think so.... was where the Vincent de Paul shop is

    When was it knocked down?


  • #158
    dodzy
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    miss misty wrote: »
    Don't think so.... was where the Vincent de Paul shop is
    You sure ? They say on the replies that it was on the way to Waterville, just before the river (so I was guessing on the road that used to be the entrance road for the JCM hospital. Apparently knocked many years ago, but the bike outside would indicate that it's not that long ago !


  • #159
    chucknorris
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    dodzy wrote: »
    You sure ? They say on the replies that it was on the way to Waterville, just before the river (so I was guessing on the road that used to be the entrance road for the JCM hospital. Apparently knocked many years ago, but the bike outside would indicate that it's not that long ago !

    I have an aerial photo from 83 and that building is not where the SVP is and I was certain this post office was further back toward the hospital on the old road.


  • #160
    ThisRegard
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    One of the first single manned double deckers, the 38c, in this vid. Looks like it's driving through Blanchardstown Village in places, no idea where the end is.

    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0309/773586-one-man-double-decker-buses/


  • #161
    oblivious
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    One of the first single manned double deckers, the 38c, in this vid. Looks like it's driving through Blanchardstown Village in places, no idea where the end is.

    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0309/773586-one-man-double-decker-buses/

    Some passengers have concerns over passengers travelling with a pram without the assistance of a conductor.

    "It’s hoped that obliging male passengers will help out doing what the conductor has traditionally done as a courtesy, not part of his job."

    Different times


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  • #162
    chucknorris
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    One of the first single manned double deckers, the 38c, in this vid. Looks like it's driving through Blanchardstown Village in places, no idea where the end is.

    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0309/773586-one-man-double-decker-buses/


    The last scene could be where WellView and Parslickstown maybe now.


  • #163
    dickwod1
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    The end of the clip looks like here ...

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3952052,-6.3756865,3a,75y,128.85h,73.23t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-BNpbbl7r_XFJetoFkkyFw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

    Corduff looking onto Snugborough Rd, The field on the far side of the road is where Waterville/Aquatic centre is now


  • #164
    beauf
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    I don't remember it even before then. Maybe it was the 60's.


  • #165
    dodzy
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    beauf wrote: »
    I don't remember it even before then. Maybe it was the 60's.
    Drop handlebars......in the 60s :eek:


  • #166
    chucknorris
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    dodzy wrote: »
    Drop handlebars......in the 60s :eek:

    :D


  • #167
    Gaspode
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    Drop handlebars date from between the two world wars (The Bicycle - Towards a Global History
    By P. Smethurst) so it's not impossible.
    (giving away my age here but I remember my neighbour having a 'racer' in the very early 70s and always wanted one)


  • #168
    chucknorris
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    https://twitter.com/PhotosOfDublin/status/708049216929734657


  • #169
    beauf
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    Remember when they were new they had an amazingly sparkly floor.


  • #170
    dodzy
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    Gaspode wrote: »
    Drop handlebars date from between the two world wars (The Bicycle - Towards a Global History
    By P. Smethurst) so it's not impossible.
    (giving away my age here but I remember my neighbour having a 'racer' in the very early 70s and always wanted one)

    I got a Viking 5 speed racer for my 12th birthday in 1981. Loved it!


  • #171
    amdublin
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    What year would that be approx?

    Anyone good on old reg plates?


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  • #172
    chucknorris
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    amdublin wrote: »
    What year would that be approx?

    Anyone good on old reg plates?

    I'd take a guess and go 88


  • #173
    Pat Dunne
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    amdublin wrote: »
    What year would that be approx?

    Anyone good on old reg plates?

    GSI 346, would be early 1980's, I'll hazard a guess at 1982.
    Drove a little blue Nissan around then and the reg was PSI.


  • #174
    Bruthal
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    1983 I think.


  • #175
    Pat Dunne
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    miss misty wrote: »
    Don't think so.... was where the Vincent de Paul shop is

    You are spot on, it used to be on the site of where the St. Vincent's shop is now. I went past it almost everyday on the 39 bus when I was going to school in Coolmine back in the 1970's. The colour photo dates from the mid 80's.
    Using the photo from chucknorris in http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=95580332&postcount=141
    I've tried to highlight the location as best as possible. The large house to its right had been demolished when the photo with the racing bike outside was taken. Click on the photo below for a larger image.
    bRuwep.png


  • #176
    miss misty
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭miss misty


    Was still there 83 / 84


  • #177
    beauf
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    I'm not sure I remember it. When you went in the door was there a long counter on the right with the post office right at the end facing you. Just a wall on the left. Maybe I'm imagining that.


  • #178
    mackerski
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    I'd take a guess and go 88

    Considering the year started appearing on plates in 1987, certainly not.


  • #179
    dodzy
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    I'd take a guess and go 88

    Jesus chuck, you're miles off :D

    Bruthal, take an apple from the box !

    380211.jpeg


  • #180
    ChannelNo5
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    Anybody remember the Twin Oaks? It was on the old Navan Road, where Bradys is now? It had long display windows with bottles and tankards etc displayed in. there never seemed to be anybody in it.it looked a bit like a Roadhouse?


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  • #181
    chucknorris
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    dodzy wrote: »
    Jesus chuck, you're miles off :D

    Bruthal, take an apple from the box !

    380211.jpeg

    I'm still holding out with 88 :-) the bus maybe from 83, but buses were used for many years and that bus doesn't look spanking new :D


  • #182
    chucknorris
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    ChannelNo5 wrote: »
    Anybody remember the Twin Oaks? It was on the old Navan Road, where Bradys is now? It had long display windows with bottles and tankards etc displayed in. there never seemed to be anybody in it.it looked a bit like a Roadhouse?

    I have a photo of it somewhere. Remember it as a kid before it was demolished. Also remember the old stables at the foot of the Navan road bridge to Castleknock.


  • #183
    ChannelNo5
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    I have a photo of it somewhere. Remember it as a kid before it was demolished. Also remember the old stables at the foot of the Navan road bridge to Castleknock.

    Aw could you post it if you can dig it out please? when i was young it always fascinated me. i'm not sure why! I have a vague memory of thinking it was exotic!! :P I had a very sheltered life obviously!!


  • #184
    chucknorris
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    ChannelNo5 wrote: »
    Aw could you post it if you can dig it out please? when i was young it always fascinated me. i'm not sure why! I have a vague memory of thinking it was exotic!! :P I had a very sheltered life obviously!!

    I only remember it because me Da worked in the place that sold wood from the old stables at the bridge near bridge cycles.

    twin_oaks.jpg


  • #185
    amdublin
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    Wow! Don't remember that place at all!


  • #186
    oblivious
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    I only remember it because me Da worked in the place that sold wood from the old stables at the bridge near bridge cycles.

    twin_oaks.jpg

    Ah yeah i remember it, always though there was something of American truck stop about it


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  • #187
    ChannelNo5
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    oblivious wrote: »
    Ah yeah i remember it, always though there was something of American truck stop about it

    Yeah exactly that!


  • #188
    Finglas Incubus
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    I only remember it because me Da worked in the place that sold wood from the old stables at the bridge near bridge cycles.

    twin_oaks.jpg

    Are we talking about 'The Castleknock Inn', same place? I have scant recollection of being inside as a child - it was a bit of a kip with ripped seats and had one of those old wooden wall-mounted chocolate vending machines that used to do a great trade in Dairy Milks and Fruit n' Nuts...


  • #189
    Pat Dunne
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    Finglas Incubus wrote: »
    Are we talking about 'The Castleknock Inn', same place? I have scant recollection of being inside as a child - it was a bit of a kip with ripped seats and had one of those old wooden wall-mounted chocolate vending machines that used to do a great trade in Dairy Milks and Fruit n' Nuts...

    The very place.
    Had a few great nights there, back in the day :)


  • #190
    Jebus Diced
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    amdublin wrote: »
    Anyone know anything about the history of Clonsilla House??
    suey71 wrote: »
    I'd love to know a bit about the history of this house too.

    Interesting read... https://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/reshaping-a-historic-forge-on-the-auld-triangle-38971957.html


  • #191
    beauf
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    Jebus Diced wrote: »
    Interesting read... https://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/reshaping-a-historic-forge-on-the-auld-triangle-38971957.html

    Fascinating thanks for posting. Enjoyed that.

    Always thought that it's ruined a bit by the traffic and the road behind it. Be nicer if it was more sheltered by high trees etc. But I wasn't thinking of the positives especially how close to the station it is.


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  • #192
    Jebus Diced
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    I don't know if 30 years is historic enough? but here is a link to the construction of the M50 bridge (30 years ago this month) with pics and videos.
    https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/history/west-link-bridge-opened-30-17640494


  • #193
    daymobrew
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    Jebus Diced wrote: »
    I don't know if 30 years is historic enough? but here is a link to the construction of the M50 bridge (30 years ago this month) with pics and videos.
    https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/history/west-link-bridge-opened-30-17640494
    I remember when the M50 was being built - the Castleknock Road between Park Drive and Laurel Lodge was temporarily rerouted to a temporary bridge.

    I also remember borrowing my mum's car to drive along the M50 to The Square in Tallaght to go to the newly opened cinema there.

    While in college (around 1991?) I worked part time in the West Link Toll Booths, cycling up to it via the service entrance off Luttrellstown Road. We had to let Gardai, Ambulances and Fire Engines through for free but note their reg plates. We also had people using the mobile phones that would barely put their hands out the window to give you the money. We responded by barely putting our hands out the booth window too :-)


  • #194
    Jebus Diced
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    I've been fascinated by this website https://www.duchas.ie/en
    Enter a placename in the search bar for pictures, stories and transcripts :)
    The Thatch Clonsilla... https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/52273
    Info on the old Porterstown school... https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4498593/4385194/4509674
    Etc.


  • #195
    Pat Dunne
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    From a different photographer Seamus Mac Phillib, taken in 1980 also with a Clonsilla connection anyone recognise the Gentleman or the house in the background?
    https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/53268


  • #196
    Jebus Diced
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    Pat Dunne wrote: »
    From a different photographer Seamus Mac Phillib, taken in 1980 also with a Clonsilla connection anyone recognise the Gentleman or the house in the background?
    https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/53268

    Joseph Thules outside his home in Orchard Lane, Clonsilla...
    http://www.ucd.ie/folklore/1916/oral/26.html


  • #197
    Pat Dunne
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    Jebus Diced wrote: »
    Joseph Thules outside his home in Orchard Lane, Clonsilla...
    http://www.ucd.ie/folklore/1916/oral/26.html

    Orchard Lane or Orchard Avenue, is also know to older Residents as Sprout Alley.


  • #198
    donaghs
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/PhotosOfDublin/status/708049216929734657

    anyone got a map of old bus routes? Did the 37 turn at Myo's and go down carpenterstown road ? (i.e. before Laurel Lodge existed).


  • #199
    eguiney
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    donaghs wrote: »
    anyone got a map of old bus routes? Did the 37 turn at Myo's and go down carpenterstown road ? (i.e. before Laurel Lodge existed).

    The 37 ended on Blackhorse Avenue until the early 1990s.
    There was very little on the Carpenterstown Road before Laurel Lodge existed (and it was a bad road) so the nearest bus was on the Clonsilla Road.

    Before the 37, there was a 39C into Laurel Lodge and Carpenterstown Park.

    The 80 used to turn at Myo's and go down the Luttrellstown Road, finishing near Clonsilla Station.


  • #200
    beauf
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    eguiney wrote: »
    ...
    There was very little on the Carpenterstown Road before Laurel Lodge existed (and it was a bad road) so the nearest bus was on the Clonsilla Road.....

    It was a country lane/road. Fields all around.

    Other the big house where Rosehaven is now.

    Dunno if Malones Coal yard was always there.


  • #201
    donaghs
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    beauf wrote: »
    It was a country lane/road. Fields all around.

    Other the big house where Rosehaven is now.

    Dunno if Malones Coal yard was always there.

    Yes, but wasn't there an old bus stop until recently opposite Castleknock College (st. vincent's) on the carpenterstown road. And one near "The Glen" too? Maybe that was for the 80.

    Looks like it was the 80 bus:

    http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/?page_id=2079
    Luttrellstown Bus
    "I am doing a local history book and was just wondering if any one has a photo of the old Number 80 (Luttrellstown) bus which figured so largely in the lives of those living in Clonsilla, Strawberry Beds area especially, or even a photo of the bus type – it was red and cream and the interior seating had a grey gingham pattern.
    Mary Reynolds"

    https://reynoldshistorycastleknockblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/26/no-39-bus-local-history-castleknock/
    "No. 39 bus coming from Blanchardstown and heading in the direction of Castleknock. Has anyone got a photo they’d like to share of the No. 80 ‘Luttrellstown bus’?"

    Glen Stores: "Given all these services and the ‘hut’ alongside the shop, which served as a focal point for community gatherings, the shop became a nucleus in the neighbourhood. People out of reach of the bus route used to cycle to the shop, abandon their bicycles behind our hedge and catch the bus into town."


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