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Historic Dublin Pictures & Videos Thread

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    #1502
    rachelmm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭rachelmm


    Hi Sorry I'm new to this so not sure if i'm in the right place. just wondering if anyone could help me to find a picture of the old mayfair cafe in o connell street ? Any help would be great. Thanks .


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    #1503
    ollaetta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,640 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    rachelmm wrote: »
    Hi Sorry I'm new to this so not sure if i'm in the right place. just wondering if anyone could help me to find a picture of the old mayfair cafe in o connell street ? Any help would be great. Thanks .

    Not a great one but you can just see it on the left on this pic. http://www.dublincitypubliclibraries.com/image/view/1220/_original


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    #1504
    rachelmm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭rachelmm


    ollaetta wrote: »
    Not a great one but you can just see it on the left on this pic. http://www.dublincitypubliclibraries.com/image/view/1220/_original
    Oh That's perfect, exactly what i was looking for. Thanks so much :)


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    #1505
    Rashers
    Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    Kildonan Aerodrome Finglas (not certain of the year).


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    #1506
    Cullen Abroad
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Cullen Abroad


    That's my granny, at the right in this picture. (Molly Darcy - Summerhill).


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    #1507
    Cullen Abroad
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Cullen Abroad


    Rashers wrote: »
    Did you read or see Strumpet City?

    Okay.....

    The year is 1964..... where's this?

    1964-1.jpg
    Five lamps, North Strand.


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    #1508
    Cardinal Richelieu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Cardinal Richelieu


    I posted this in DCN forum before because the first part shows Rush Co Dublin in the 1960s. 07.42 in shows the Corporation Fruit & Veg in Smithfield. Can anyone identify the location of the fruit and veg shop 12.52 in? A shop called Greene appears across the road from it and you can see a cleaners which appears to be called Swiss Day.

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


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    #1509
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Sundrive Road?

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    #1510
    kwalshe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 959 ✭✭✭kwalshe


    Some of you might like this.
    This is the Facebook page company I work for , Mason Technology. We are one of the oldest family run businesses in the country , we have been in Dublin since 1780 and it is still run by Mr Mason, all through the generations.
    In the facebook page if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, or a timeline I think it is called, you can see our history and connection with Dublin and a few pictures and drawings to illustrate

    https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Mason-Technology/69031704429


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    #1511
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    RTE have put some programeme from the last 50 years on their player.

    i was having a nose through and came across this gem. it's from the 1966 and it was made by a polish film director working for RTE.

    it shows various scenes from area dublin, with voices of dubliners.

    about half way through, you get this wonderful sense that nothing every changes and we are all still moaning about the same things!!

    http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=3288112


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    #1512
    R.Dub.Fusilier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 588 ✭✭✭R.Dub.Fusilier


    Some pics of Dublin during the civil war and GPO 1916


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    #1513
    mambo
    Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭mambo


    What is now St Anne's Park between Clontarf and Raheny, with Raheny village (?) in the back right. And LOTS of green fields! Not sure when the pic was taken, possibly pre-1943 as the "Mansion" looks intact.

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    #1514
    Gaspode
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Regional North Mods, Regional West Moderators, Regional South East Moderators, Regional North East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 8,007 CMod ✭✭✭✭Gaspode


    I think the tree-lined avenue heading 'up' the photo away from the house is the one that leads to the church on the Howth road, the trees are still there in parts of St. Assams estate. The church is still there too afaik, I remember getting to climb the bell tower at one point on a guided tour. And that is indeed Raheny village near top right.

    Great photo btw.


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    #1515
    mambo
    Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭mambo


    A larger version of what appears to be the same photo, one of the pics seems to be a manipulated version of the other:
    aerial-view-of-coast-road-showing-st-annes-park.jpg

    Both photos taken from www.askaboutireland.ie

    See
    http://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/5th-+-6th-class/geography/aspects-of-raheny/how-is-this-place-changin/high-above/index.xml
    for photos of the Mansion that used to be in the park.


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    #1516
    ullu
    Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭ullu


    irishbird wrote: »
    RTE have put some programeme from the last 50 years on their player.

    i was having a nose through and came across this gem. it's from the 1966 and it was made by a polish film director working for RTE.

    it shows various scenes from area dublin, with voices of dubliners.

    about half way through, you get this wonderful sense that nothing every changes and we are all still moaning about the same things!!

    http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=3288112

    Just catching up with this thread having not checked it properly for a while.

    That link appears to have expired. This one works if anyone still hasn't seen it.

    http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1149729


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    #1517
    mambo
    Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭mambo


    mambo wrote: »
    A larger version of what appears to be the same photo, one of the pics seems to be a manipulated version of the other:
    aerial-view-of-coast-road-showing-st-annes-park.jpg

    Both photos taken from www.askaboutireland.ie

    See
    http://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/5th-+-6th-class/geography/aspects-of-raheny/how-is-this-place-changin/high-above/index.xml
    for photos of the Mansion that used to be in the park.

    A similar view today...


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    #1518
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Cardinal Richelieu wrote: »
    I posted this in DCN forum before because the first part shows Rush Co Dublin in the 1960s. 07.42 in shows the Corporation Fruit & Veg in Smithfield. Can anyone identify the location of the fruit and veg shop 12.52 in? A shop called Greene appears across the road from it and you can see a cleaners which appears to be called Swiss Day.

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



    Sundrive road crumlin, just down from the stoneboat pub.If you look closely beside the shop you (I) can make out sundrive creamery's and the swiss day cleaners is now an healthy salad bar restarant .I am nearly positive :cool:


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    #1519
    mambo
    Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭mambo


    Another old aerial shot of CLontarf area, from 1963

    2225643_316f8471.jpg

    Pic from http://www.geograph.ie/photo/2225643

    Note that left (east) of the train line at Fairview is all water, what is now the parkland, East Point Business Park, etc. on reclaimed land


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    #1520
    mambo
    Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭mambo


    Flooding in Fairview in 1954, looking towards North Strand/city centre

    315234f77e06c58db60e12adebc349c3c64f843150a07155fad68b2a9de63473.jpg

    From http://www.thejournal.ie/gallery-the-morning-after-the-floods-263213-Oct2011/#slide-slideshow22


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    #1521
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    Are there any photos of North Strand, the canal bridge there and what's now East Wall Road (then the Wharf Road) in the 1900s?


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    #1522
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Some great docklands photos here...

    539799_361252283944978_1765975144_n.jpg

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    #1523
    mambo
    Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭mambo


    Aerial shot of the Custom House docks area (now IFSC), from https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=361329453937261&set=a.361329120603961.82280.125678274169048&type=3&theater

    541363_361329453937261_1111220388_n.jpg


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    #1524
    mambo
    Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭mambo


    The Point Depot (now the O2)

    pointdepot.jpeg

    From http://www.gaire.com/e/f/view.asp?parent=1271827&nav=7


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    #1525
    bb1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Does this thread make anybody else feel really sad? Dublin used to be an incredibly beautiful city..so much of it has been destroyed though:mad:We really should rebuild all the lovely historic buildings that we demolished to make room for those disgusting boxes we now have in their place today:( Londons done a much better job at preserving their history and they were heavily bombed during ww2 ffs ..we werent touched...no excuse for us..we could have one of the most historic cities in the world on our hands , if it had been left how it was pre 1916 and we opened a few more quality tourist attractions that actually promoted our cities amazing history id say dublin could be one of the most visited cities in the world.


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    #1526
    bb1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    I want those trams back too ! :(


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    #1527
    sticksman
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭sticksman


    Can anybody tell me where this house is in Dublin?

    http://www.abandonedireland.com/Ghost_House.html


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    #1528
    ninjapriest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭ninjapriest


    sticksman wrote: »
    Can anybody tell me where this house is in Dublin?

    http://www.abandonedireland.com/Ghost_House.html

    Sorry I have no idea, although id also like to know where it is. The fella that does that website keeps the locations of the houses very well guarded.

    Theres another Dublin one on there, he has it down as the most haunted house in Ireland or something. He's even gone as far as changing the name of the house in the article to protect its identity. But theres a couple of clues given as to its location, he says something about it having views of the liffey. I tried looking on the OSI mapviewer around the strawberry beds and lucan, switching to the 1860's maps but I couldnt find a house that looked anything like it,

    In fairness to that fella he doesnt want the locations of some of these places let out so gangs of kids can drink in them and smash the place up. Although I did notice on his site theres a 'private' section, maybe if you were to talk to him and he knows your ok he might tell you where it is.


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    #1529
    mambo
    Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭mambo


    Dublin Airport's Old Terminal During Construction
    "British newsreel footage of the new airport at Collinstown, Co Dublin under construction in 1939."



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    #1530
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Isn't the music and announcer so positive & uplifting :-) do do do dodo


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    #1531
    ninjapriest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭ninjapriest


    realies wrote: »
    Isn't the music and announcer so positive & uplifting :-) do do do dodo

    Ha ha, imagine they brought that style of news back that would be gas! No more listening to dobbo or sharon ní whatserface with their dull lifeless voices and stupid D4isms. Instead we'll have Greerson & Mr Cholmondley-Warner reading out the news on six1. Hurrah! Jolly good fun chaps!


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