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Historic Dublin Pictures & Videos Thread

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    #302
    Dancor
    Registered Users Posts: 3,623 ✭✭✭Dancor


    Mater19001.jpg

    Today


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    #303
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    1988..

    attachment.php?attachmentid=62335&stc=1&d=1220216847

    I'm guessing sometime approaching Christmas.


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    #304
    histografica
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭histografica


    Hello,
    if you like the pictures in this thread, you may also be interested in http://www.histografica.com
    This is a new portal with old pictures from Dublin, Ireland and the whole world that we have only just released. We hope you enjoy and feel free to add your own pictures there too.


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    #305
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    histografica wrote: »
    Hello,
    if you like the pictures in this thread, you may also be interested in http://www.histografica.com
    This is a new portal with old pictures from Dublin, Ireland and the whole world that we have only just released. We hope you enjoy and feel free to add your own pictures there too.


    Had a very quick look through, looks like a fantastic site.


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    #306
    admiralofthefleet
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    irlirishkev wrote: »
    A friend sent me this today. I know O'Connell Street's been done already, but I thought this was a nice pic..

    2766253838_eff7a364cc_o.jpg

    thats off this site. there is loads of old pics of dublin there as well as some new ones


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    #307
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,109 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Lots of photos of the North Strand area following the bombing here.


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    #308
    Rashers
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    Do you recognise yourself.... or a friend?

    Forty years of Dublin street life.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwmLCARUsQ


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    #309
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Rashers wrote: »
    Do you recognise yourself.... or a friend?

    Forty years of Dublin street life.


    Fantastic - Johnny Eagles, Saab 900 Turbo burnt out in 'Da flats' & a few skinz..


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    #310
    Gaspode
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    Rashers wrote: »
    Do you recognise yourself.... or a friend?

    Forty years of Dublin street life.

    Gas thing is, if you walk up and down Grafton St on any given day, you'll see most of those fashions, styles and haircuts still on the go!!


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    #311
    Rashers
    Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    A view from Matt Talbot Bridge down the Liffey in 1989.

    Were they the last two Guinness boats?

    Be good to see a pic taken from the same spot and angle now.

    April1989.jpg


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    #312
    dats_right
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    Indeed they were the last Guinness boats, the Lady Patricia and the Miranda.
    For those interested there is a very good website with more information on the Guinness boats http://www.irishships.com/guinness_boats.htm

    There is also a fascinating account of the sinking of the Barkley, with a full cargo of Guinness off the Kish in 1917 by a German U-Boat, provided by a survivor named Thomas McClue.


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    #313
    ian_m
    Registered Users Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭ian_m


    Theres an exhibition in the in Temple Bar with some interesting old pictures from around Dublin and Ireland. Old pics of Aer Lingus and a few from around town. Worth a look and its free... Planes, Trains and Automobiles
    Crash%20at%20Harcourt%20St%20Station%201910.jpg


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    #314
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Some video from the big whiteout in '85.

    Taken in Tallaght.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDv1ubaFA0E


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    #315
    Rashers
    Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    Merchants Arch 1960.
    merchantsarch1960.jpg

    Now here's one for yiz. Whats the name of that alley that leads from the arch to Temple Bar? No one seems to know, not even the emergency services.


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    #316
    spurious
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    That's a good one.
    Without knowing the name of any businesses in it, it's hard to look up the old directories I have.
    Merchant's Arch lane is the best I can guess.


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    #317
    Rashers
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    Think I've a few old Thoms Directories. I'll see if I can come up with a business and name.

    I suspect that alley once continued through the grounds at the back of the old Ouzel Galley building and out into Dame Street.... if memory serves.


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    #318
    MYTOTE
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭MYTOTE


    NERCHANTS LANE? where'd you get the pic?


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    #319
    jdivision
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    The River Club was one of the businesses on it iirc, upstairs, might still be there. Was an Abrakebabra there too at one stage but it's been closed for years. They've been trying to turn it into a pub for years.


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    #320
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Rashers wrote: »
    A view from Matt Talbot Bridge down the Liffey in 1989.


    Be good to see a pic taken from the same spot and angle now.

    Not from the exact spot.

    I took these on the way out last night, the light wasn't great but here ya go.

    Someone was looking for a photo of the Ulster Bank (I think in this thread) so I included that too.

    PM me if you want the full sized photos.

    attachment.php?attachmentid=64018&stc=1&d=1222679878

    I wanted to take photos to complete a 360 degree view from the spot I was standing, but the usual shower of Junkies where loitering on Custom House Quay and I didn't want a confrontation with them. Their sensitive about people taking their photos - poor souls!.


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    #321
    Rashers
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    They're great pics. Thanks for taking them. The difference along City Quay from my childhood.. amazing! The only recognisable part now (from back then) is the old chapel.

    Not an old one but I thought an interesting one. And as it's a clip of a part of Dublin now gone it's on topic. A time lapse vid of Thomas Clarke Tower coming down in Ballymun.

    Keep your eyes open, I'll be asking a question at the end.:p

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0xx476aClg


    And the question is....




    How many days have you just seen passing? :P


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    #322
    Gaspode
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    Rashers wrote: »
    And the question is....
    How many days have you just seen passing? :P

    No, lost count after a few - at least a week anyway 'cos the market appeared twice. Maybe 10 days?

    Cool video by the way.


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    #323
    Rashers
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    I counted
    twenty
    days. Think it needs someone with a sharp eye for this one. :)


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    #324
    humberklog
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    Nice one rashers with the Thomas Clark tower.


    My god that Ulster bank building is the most hideous creation. An abortion.
    I worked on it too. But my god it's the most ugly malformed creature.


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    #325
    bealbocht
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    great piece of time lapse...

    think it is 3 working weeks.. , no work at night on the first two weekends.. and its down low enough by tues/wed of the 3rd week.. that no night work needed, lost count a bit.. but would imagine they dragged it out till the friday..

    so 19 days ..


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    #326
    Rashers
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    bealbocht, I'd go along with you on the 19 or so days.

    At first work couldn't be done in the daytime because of traffic -- roads had to be closed while work was in progress. But as the demolition reached the 1st or 2nd floor I think they started daylight work.


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    #327
    Rashers
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    O'Connell St. 1960s

    Anyone spot another one of those tulip shaped things we discussed a few pages back?

    OConnellSt1960s.jpg


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    #328
    Wishbone Ash
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    Rashers wrote: »
    O'Connell St. 1960s

    Anyone spot another one of those tulip shaped things we discussed a few pages back?


    OConnellSt1960s1.jpg


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    #329
    Rashers
    Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
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    Yep. Well spotted Wish.

    And if it were possible to blow up that piece of the pic without it becoming too pixellated I'll bet you'd see an overstuffed litter bin.

    One evening a Garda 'advised' me to get off it as I was sitting on it (it was empty of course) :o


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    #330
    bealbocht
    Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭bealbocht


    ahh.."advice" from Gardí.. where would be without it ... still sitting down I suppose ??


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    #331
    Rashers
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    A little piece of lost Dublin. Anyone remember it? I got a fill here a few times. North Dublin.

    Garage.jpg


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