40 ton concrete blocks, general view, men at work.
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Where: Waterford, Ireland
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When: 01 January 1948
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Reading this title without sight of the shot I had visions of enormous masses of concrete. Instead we see what was once a familiar sight where concrete was mixed on-site and even blocks were made locally! A fine and unusual Poole shot with men at work.
With thanks to today's contributions, the consensus is that this is likely construction (likely of the P&T exchange building) behind the main Post Office building (Custom House) off the Waterford quays. Whatever these hard-working men were building, there's been some interesting in-site (pun intended) on the machinery and methods in use....
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date:28 September 1948
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 4593
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Source: Flickr Commons
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With thanks to today's contributions, the consensus is that this is likely construction (likely of the P&T exchange building) behind the main Post Office building (Custom House) off the Waterford quays. Whatever these hard-working men were building, there's been some interesting in-site (pun intended) on the machinery and methods in use....
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date:28 September 1948
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 4593
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
Views: 27355
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derangedlemur
Poole, eh? I'll guess Waterford.
derangedlemur
GPO rebuilding, apparently: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000595255
derangedlemur
This yoke, maybe: www.google.ie/maps/@52.2608939,-7.1087032,3a,75y,321.3h,8...
Foxglove
the detail in this photo is outstanding
derangedlemur
Keyzer's lane isn't inconsistent with the map, anyway: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,660848,612543,12,9
Vab2009
Love the men in the background watching the photographer!
Vab2009
I did not realise that the GPO rebuild was so recent.
j.coffey78
"Any chance of the start"
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vab2009 The Waterford GPO Viv! The other one was rebuilt in the 20's AFAIK
Swordscookie
I'm trying to figure out what is driving that mixer? I see an electric cable nearby but that would not seem practical on a building site in most cases.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
The lorry / van in the background is an Austin K2 - www.trucksplanet.com/catalog/model.php?id=1705 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/888[email protected]/8364961649/]
derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie Is the box on top of the mixer frame a generator?
O Mac
Long time since I saw guage boxes being used. The extension [https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] streetviewed (sic) was built in the 20's...twenty years earlier??? ---according to the Nah Nah Ni Nah Nah............. :) It looks like they're using Lister Stationary engines to drive the pile driving winches and an electric motor to drive the mixer. www.flickr.com/photos/pete_edgeler/14181342228/in/photoli... [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Why did you put a hyphen in 'in-site' in your blurb above?
momentous growth
Very good Thanks for sharing Like always National!
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Thanks all - Have updated the tags and mapped this to the area around Keyzer's Lane for now. If not the 1920/30s addition behind the earler post office (Custom House) building, do we think the work could be on the P&T exchange building at the other side of the "block" on Exchange Street? Whatever the case, hopefully everyone's weekends are a little less arduous than what Poole captures here :)
guliolopez
If the building work is indeed near the Waterford GPO (as the other related image label suggests), then it seems quite plausible that the lads are indeed working on the (then) new P&T exchange building. According to this article from the Munster Express, it was opened in 1952. One imagines it took at least 3 or 4 years to construct all 5 stories of the "Most Modern Exchange in the Country": www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/26310807270/
Asdeewest
They are piling foundations. You can see the tripods and casing liners on the ground.
ofarrl
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/] The location is definitely behind the GPO and almost certainly shows the preparation of the site for the new exchange which still stands in Exchange Street. The photo above is a view looking South West towards the corner of High Street and Exchange Street. The tall houses in the background have been replaced by City Square shopping center. Exchange Street by the way owes it's name not to the telephone exchange but to the Merchant's Exchange which once occupied the corner of the Quay and Exchange Street.
O Mac
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] You have to be right. It has to be the exchange they are building... That arched doorway on the right can be seen as this entrance on the 25" OSI... I notice the street was called Exchange Street before this exchange was ever built? The Déisi must have been exchanging stuff there for years beforehand. EDIT [https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] Had I refreshed my screen I would have seen your comment before I ever wondered why it was called Exchange Street. Thanks.
KenjiB_48
The gent with his hands behind him on the right side makes me think of an architect or clerk of the works...
ofarrl
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ that might be John Clancy, owner of the company that built the exchange.
KenjiB_48
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Ah - very likely. Thanks.
ofarrl
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/] Unfortunately The original exchange is just one of many historic buildings lost to Waterford over the years. You can see a glimpse of the exchange in this painting from 1773 by William Van der Hagen, it's the building with 5 arches just to left of center.
O Mac
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/335[email protected]] Thanks Paul. It looked similiar to the exchange also lost to Cork and a row of Tuscan columns in the wall surrounding St Mary’s graveyard is all that's left of the Limerick Exchange.. Shame...
fear_bolga
Great photo that intrigues me. Exchange St. is slopped toward the Quay and the street shown would not seem to match that. If it's High Street, you would expect to see the houses at Olaf Street. BTW a new exchange (1980s) was built across the the from the one shown and had the address as Bell Building Exchange Street. The Bell Building named after the Bell's Chemist plant.