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A lively scene on the quays in Cork is today's image from the seldom visited O'Connor Collection. The rules of the road are being abused left, right and centre with one man reading his paper as he walks along. In the meantime some dockers are busy watching the action in the boats below the quay wall!
Photographer: Fergus O’Connor
Collection: Fergus O’Connor Collection
Date: Circa 1900 - 1920
NLI Ref: OCO 314
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Photographer: Fergus O’Connor
Collection: Fergus O’Connor Collection
Date: Circa 1900 - 1920
NLI Ref: OCO 314
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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BeachcomberAustralia
PI 317 . . .
BeachcomberAustralia
Second thoughts, pi = 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 . . .
Foxglove
barefoot child, right corner, no dogs with " docked" tail
cargeofg
Bitumen boiler on quayside. Dockside area is cobbled. But there is a pile of sand in background. Roadmending or been used to do caulking on ships decks or between planks if carvel built.
sharon.corbet
Streetview
sharon.corbet
The original City Hall seen here was destroyed in 1920 by the Black and Tans, and replaced in 1932-6 by the one in the Streetview.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia I thought you were finally cracking up on us there for a moment but I see that you figured out that the Cork people are natural mathematicians and understand PI to the nth degree!
John Spooner
If I'm not mistaken (and I might well be), as featured in The Young Offenders, although I admit I recognised it from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet]'s streetview .
And by the way I spotted the Gunpowder Office in an episode of the current series.
BeachcomberAustralia
I think this is after 1911 'cos of that weird bridge, but I can't find the link I had . . . Ed - www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20508... Clontarf Bridge - Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge, erected 1911. 197 feet long, four span (opening span of 62 feet) bridge resting on six concrete filled steel caissons having cast iron parapets. Bridge reconstructed in 1981, and no longer opening. ... ... Its mechanism is the same as that of the Chicago River Bridge, and the steel spans were supplied by the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company. The bridge has important links to this part of the city, having been driven in the past by current received from the former Albert Road power station.
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
The best thing about this photo, nobody wearing headphones or using a mobile phone.
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cassidyphotography Instead there's a guy walking across the road, while intent in a newspaper. Technology may change, but behaviour obviously doesn't.
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cassidyphotography https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet There is also a boy next the lampost looking at a book. Nothing changes only the medium that you are distracted by.
O Mac
PI 317, was registered to one J. Jermyn, Mahon, Blackrock, Cork.................1914 -1915 Irish Motor Directory Photo taken post 1913
abandoned railways
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet The guy in street view is a well known bus driver, carrying his change box, on his way to the depot.
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] Are we sure that is Clontaf Bridge and not the earlier Parnell swing bridge? bit.ly/3gcB2bM
sharon.corbet
On the same spot in 1883: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/11081361686/
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] This is taken at the corner of Parnell Bridge - it’s directly to the left, where the tram tracks are headed. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] is referring to the bridge in the background, which isn’t on the 25” but is on the Cassini. You can watch a video of the old Parnell Bridge being demolished in 1968. Further discussion of the history of the bridges at this spot can be found here: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/27319173083]
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I’m a bit confused where 1913 is coming from, did you mean 1903?
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet How could I ever doubt him?
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ That car in front of the tram, PI 317, is not listed in the 1911-1912 Irish Motor Directory ( as registrations only go up as far as PI 80 something) It could be listed in the 1912-1913 directory but unfortunately that's not available online.. NLI have their own private, won't show it to anyone, copy.
BeachcomberAustralia
The π-mobile looks very new underneath, via megazoom. Mr O'Connor thoughtfully supplied a 'Similar Item', at 12:30, from the other side of the water. Might provide a few more clues; the Parnell Bridge is open (how did that work for electric trams on the rest of the line?) and that weird Clontarf Bridge is closed. Anyone find an explanation how it worked; which bit went where, as the actress said to the bishop? Was the tank on top filled with water as a counterweight? - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000290337
BeachcomberAustralia
How the Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge worked - this is a model of a 1913 one - youtu.be/Zue6eoTtKIY . That thing on the back is a heavy counterweight and it rolls on the large curve instead of a pivot point, so that a relatively small electric motor could work it. Evidently they are susceptible to wind!
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Ah, I missed that there was a 1911-12 directory available, and thought you might have meant from 1903 when the PI started being used. It's interesting seeing how fast the number of cars increased between 1911 and 1914, compared to between 1903 and 1911.
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] There are 2 in the docklands area of Dublin - see here complete with a 1913 Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. ad.
BeachcomberAustralia
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet Thank you!
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Or 22/7, close enough for government work
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] Here's a link to an article about the swivel bridge archiseek.com/2010/1880-parnell-bridge-cork/ From that other view with the bridge open, it looks like the swivel portion has its own separate catenaries for the tram. How they rejoined the other catenaries when the bridge closed beats me. However, services on each side of the open bridge wouldn't necessarily be affected as it would be normal practice to supply the overhead and rail at several points to reduce voltage drop and more importantly reduce voltage drop in the return (rails) to limit the return current flowing to ground resulting in electrolytic corrosion in buried service pipes.
BeachcomberAustralia
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Thanks - you are a bright spark!
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia The 25" also shows two "landing piers", one each side of bridge, which look like they would have met the open ends of the swivel section and allowed access. Of course, could simply have been to stop ships mooring to close.