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I just love this Eason image which is supposedly Harcourt Street, but is in fact Harcourt ROAD! There is so much going on – pedestrians, trams, horse and cart, pony, and a banger of a car – all within the busy, complex junction.
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Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: between1914-1920 Most likely March 1912
NLI Ref: EAS_1781
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Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
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NLI Ref: EAS_1781
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O Mac
RI 1461 was registered to a John T. Kidd, Summerhill, Waterford in 1914
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Fabulous! Do you reckon that's Mr Kidd in the driving seat?
O Mac
National Library of Ireland on The Commons How would I know? I do know John Kidd was a 40 year old factory manager in Waterford in 1911. no kiddin'... If it is him thats more than likely his wife Jane Olivia beside him.
Architecture of Dublin
goo.gl/maps/E7E5TCJqCkFxgRjt9 Seems to be the view, the only remaining building in this photo (to the right) has just been demolished. It housed the infamous Harcourt Diner
O Mac
It be hard to get a photo today with a hand cart, horse cart, bicycle, motor car, tram and train in. pretty unique photo in that retard.
Architecture of Dublin
The street to the left here disappeared at some stage in the 1980's I believe You can see the back of the two end of terrace houses facing Harcourt station. All 16 of these houses in that row of terraces were demolished to make way for the Harcourt centre (Ernst & Young and Mazaars are among the occupiers) Edit: We've been here before. I was going to reel off the usual tale of Stein's opticians the famous hold out but I see that has also been discussed https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/34511902265 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/7628356832/in/photolist-cC6jHE
Architecture of Dublin
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/50162304432/in/dateposted-public/ - here is a how the road format changed, Green line being the new road and red being the laneways or street they removed. This aerial photo is from 1947
Foxglove
is that both a barometer and a thermometer by the post office door? can someone with a big screen and superzoomery tell us the weather forecast, this could be another first !!!
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove Can't quite make out the forecast, looks like 'xxx heat' An advertising thermometer for Stephens Ink, showing almost 70F Thermometer only, 6-ft tall, currently reading between 'TEMPERATE' and SUMMER HEAT' I told you, summers were better back then! Made by Jordan of Bilston (Birmingham), 1890s - 1920s
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland I see Kennedys Bread poster in EAS 1784.
suckindeesel
Tram 235 on the No. 15 Terenure/Nelson's Pillar via Rathmines route. Note the triangular route symbol and destination sign on top. The route symbols were supposedly replaced by destination signs in 1918, this one has both, possibly a transition period. The earlier use of route symbols may indicate a high level of illiteracy at that time. The number 235 was used twice: -1894 horse drawn No. 46 converted in 1900 and renumbered 235 -1922 Spa Rd built, number 235 reused Probably the former. We've seen this tram before. Here it is at its Terenure terminus catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000747784
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Ahh the Harcourt Diner!, last stop on the way home after a night on the tiles, A southside version of The Last Post.
suckindeesel
The Picturedome cinema, 1912 - 1922, dailyedge.ie/1348393
Bernard Healy
According to this, the Picturedrome was here from 1912-1922 www.dailyedge.ie/old-cinemas-dublin-1348393-Mar2014/
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardhealy Yes, but can you see what's showing?
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] In the immortal words of The News of the World, "All human life is there" All that's missing is a boat.
Bernard Healy
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] I can't make it out. I'm abiut 75% sure that there's a 'Shop to Let' sign in the window of O'Hara's, though. Perhaps someone can track down a listing for that. Note also - St Patrick's Day cards for sale in the Post Office - it must be springtime. Note the Stephen's Inks thermometer - www.oldshopstuff.com/Forum/tabid/1803/aft/8438/Default.aspx No help with dating, though :( I keep thinking one or other of the advertisements will point to something that'll narrow the date, but they're all fairly broad - e.g. Bovril, Milkmaid, Murray's Mellow Mixture, etc...
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] What about a motorcycle ?
jamica1
Great mixture of technologies.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardhealy The white model of the thermometer was replaced by the blue model in the 1920s. The Picturedrome poster seems to be advertising a movie called 'Annie' of which there are several candidates from that era. However, I could easily be mistaken as it's very blurry. The cinema was so small that patrons had to avoid the projector when entering and it didn't advertise in the papers. No sign of any WW1 references, despite its proximity to Portobello Barracks, but that's hardly conclusive.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/1870954[email protected] Yes, missed that one.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardhealy I see an ad for Hadges Nessim cigarettes, an Egyptian brand. Online ads for their tobacco tins merely say '1920s' PS Ladies hemlines seem to have risen, suggest post war, 1918 - 1920?
Bernard Healy
Re: Hadges Nessim - from my Googling they’re mentioned in the 1916 London Gazette & in a German magazine from 1905.
Bernard Healy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ I agree with you that absence of evidence of WWI is striking. No evidence of War of Independence either. Given the car registration & the tram, etc... I think your 1918-20 is very plausible.
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardhealy https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland We had a motor cycle in a Hogan Wilson photo HOGW 128. Dublin reg of RI 3434. Photo dated 1920/21.
suckindeesel
What's that hanging from the left hand side of the bike, a scabbard?
Dr. Ilia
great image
Niall McAuley
In EAS_1784 https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] links above, there are posters at left from March 1912. In this one, https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardhealy notes St. Patricks Day cards. The same Patricks Day Card ad is in the window in the 1912 one. This is likely March 1912 also.
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