IMPERIAL WEEK - Eden Quay from Bachelors Walk
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To conclude our IMPERIAL WEEK we have a partial Imperial Plate with a view from Bachelors Walk along Eden Quay and down river to Dublin Bay. It is such a busy picture that the loss of the bottom left corner really is a pity because of all the detail that has been lost.
Thank you all for your many contributions during the week and while we are at it a virtual sticky bun with extra stickiness to Beachcomber Australia for his transformation of "Cabooses" to 'Cabeece". A new one for future Flickroonies to use and savour!!!
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_IMP_2293
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Thank you all for your many contributions during the week and while we are at it a virtual sticky bun with extra stickiness to Beachcomber Australia for his transformation of "Cabooses" to 'Cabeece". A new one for future Flickroonies to use and savour!!!
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_IMP_2293
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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O Mac
1910ish?
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/ Thank you for the 'virtual sticky bun with extra stickiness'. Bang goes the virtual diet! It's #WorldPhotographyDay (Friday 19/08/2022) And 13:39
Foxglove
is that a small dog on the road aligned with the wall clock at left .... or just a bigger than usual pile if pooh ?
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One minute later at 13:40 ... https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/45371501295/in/photostream/
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CORRECTION! It's the same image. Detail re-found.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Thank you for the extra detail. Not Imperial but nice to have. Since you've given up the virtual diet you can have another virtual sticky bun with extra stickiness as a bonus!
suckindeesel
The no. 15 to Terenure from 1899 The no. 23 to the Park from 1900 (St.) George’s Quay railway station renamed Tara St. in 1921 The no. 8 to Dalkey from 1898
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Feels like deja vu this morning, have we been here before?
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I seem to remember that those tall electric lamp posts were replaced by lower swan-necked lights around 1903. Cannot remember where or why. https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] will know ...
Bernard Healy
There is an interesting sign on the left of the pic - Globe Express Ltd and the Parcel Office of what I assume is a railway company. The initials look like: I (or L?) A NW Ry - Can anyone match that to a railway company?
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardhealy] L&NWR - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_and_North_Western_Railway
Bernard Healy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Thank you! I should really have figured that out myself.
suckindeesel
Their terminus was further down the quays, ‘North Wall Station’
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ No, I think it’s an insulator on the overhead catenary
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ I haven't been right after the virtual sticky bun I got last week.
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A colourised version, a snip at €475 www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/le-pont-oconnell-...
John Spooner
There's an advert for Arthur Webb's "Trocken" boots on the tram at bottom right. Here's an advert for his boots from 1890
One's eye is immediately drawn to the entry for "Fetiche" boots. But there's more
Ladies have the choice (among others) between "Fetiche" boots and affordable "Fetiche" shoes. I can only assume that the word "fetiche" or "fetish" in 1890s Dublin did not have the connotations which it has with us today (or with me at least - I can't speak for everyone).
(Irish Times - Saturday 12 April 1890)
According to a 1886 advert, Fetiche Boots were "registered at the Patent Office, with pointed, medium or wide toes" (Irish Times - Monday 1 March 1886)
WARNING: Those of a delicate disposition might want to avoid googling "Fetiche boots".
I've come across the meaning of "an inanimate object worshipped for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit.", specifically in West Africa, where a market stall in Bamako had such objects for sale (eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog - that sort of thing) but I can't imagine how it could apply to a pair of Arthur Webb's boots. Perhaps it was just a foreign-sounding word which Arthur thought might hint at the sophistication of far-away places. See also "Trocken" hinting at German efficiency and reliability.
The adverts for Fetiche Boots petered out in 1892, while Trocken Boots were still available in 1915.
John Spooner
There's a sign just in front of the L & NWR sign, which I think is for the Laird Line service between Dublin and Morecambe, and Dublin and Glasgow. The agents were Wells and Holohan of Eden Quay and 73 North Wall. Single fares (to Morecambe) were: cabin 12s 6d and steerage 4s 0d. Average passage was 9 hours. (Irish Independent - Monday 01 January 1900) I think the sign says LAIRD LINE STEAMERS GLASGOW GREENOCK AND MORECAMBE BOOKING OFFICE More on Laird Line
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Ha ha......
suckindeesel
Zebra grate polish was introduced by Reckits in 1890
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Eden Quay 1916 https://flic.kr/p/7E3Pyd
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There’s a 1911 DIA entry for Hopkins and Hopkins, corner of O’Connell St/Eden Quay. Missing from our photo but visible in that other version. It’s unclear if this is a new build or a refurb.