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From Morgan street in Waterford to Monkey Morgan over Ballsbridge in the space of 24 hours. This is a remarkable image which compared to the developments in the intervening years could occupy each of us for many hours over the weekend? I see the old Lansdowne Road stadium with it's concrete pillars, Old Belvedere grounds and even the RDS where once horses plied their trade and now the Leinster Donkey's dig up the surface!
(That's just the Munster in Morning Mary coming out and a refusal to acknowledge that they are one of the best teams in the world but we're better when we're bitter)
Photographer: Alexander Campbell “Monkey” Morgan
Collection: Morgan Aerial Photographic Collection
Date: ca. March 1956
NLI Ref: NPA MOR2157
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(That's just the Munster in Morning Mary coming out and a refusal to acknowledge that they are one of the best teams in the world but we're better when we're bitter)
Photographer: Alexander Campbell “Monkey” Morgan
Collection: Morgan Aerial Photographic Collection
Date: ca. March 1956
NLI Ref: NPA MOR2157
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
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Google maps satellite 3D - www.google.com/maps/@53.3187757,-6.2249301,238a,35y,347.5... About 11:30 by that clock tower ?
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
As you were - not a clock there. Easier to see on this companion photo - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000736442/HoldingsILS#tabnav
Wendy:
thankyou for reviving memories!!
JohnMcK_A68
Brilliant! Thank you for the link to Capt Morgan, had not come across him before.
derekjmott
Road a railway viewpoint there may be interesting things here. Does that not show the former sidings to Ballsbridge with a train on it? And was not site of the Dublin and Kingston Railway's original "engine hospital", before move to Canal Street, on the other side of the main line just to the right of the junction? The river will be the Dodder, described by Bergin as "Dublin's River", the railway bridge over it being destroyed in a storm in November 1834 just before it opened. Now there's Facebook(Meta) here with weird green walls or something. ( I've not cross checked anything I'm rambling on about).😇
suckindeesel
Yes, The Ballsbridge Showground siding is visible, it was already closed to passengers (1941) but was still open for goods until 1971. I think the 'engine hospital would have been near the siding junction on the main line, probably where the Railway Cottages are. I can see Ball's Bridge and a massive gasometer in the distance, also Boland's Mill?
suckindeesel
Is that the Hospital Sweepstakes building across the road from the RDS?
suckindeesel
St. Mary's Church (COI) Ballsbridge still there
O Mac
The RDS siding was used for many years for a morning and late afternoon special for the many hundreds of women who used work in the Sweepstakes. I went to Marian College and we used call it the granny train. Extra rugby specials would sometimes use the siding on big match days.
suckindeesel
I can see the old tramway depot beyond the bridge. It would have been producing VW bugs at that time. Now the location of Ballsbridge Motors
KenjiB_48
Happy New Year! Was today the centenary of the Treaty?
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