Who finds his way to these Parnassian islands?
Rob Cross writes:
My restored and colourised T. J. Molloy photo of Dublin‘s Grand Canal in the Winter of 1938 with Baggot Street Bridge [Dublin 2] in the background and the row of trees on the right is now where the Maxol Garage on Mespil Road is located…
Needs ducks.
UPDATE: Location in dispute (see comments).
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No link to the original photo. Nothing about the photographer only his name. And adding ‘copyright Rob Cross’ on someone else’s photo…
No offence Rob but jaysus – that’s thievin’
It’s his @ not a copyright symbol. The photo was taken in 1938 so is now public domain anyway, he’s free to do whatever he wants with it.
Yeah, I think he should’ve put a U-boat breaking the surface ice in it to add drama.
… Or ducks, as Mr Kelly says.
Nah – @ or © Rob is tagging a photo he didn’t take. Not cool
Name that jammer.
Doesn’t look like Baggot Street to me. Looks more like Leeson Street / Wilton Place.
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I like them old photos , I wonder what that triangular framework on , or beyond , the bridge is for .
It looks like a gantry of sorts
This is not Mespil Road. The was, and still, is a wall where the chains appear to be. You would never see car tyres. The building that was Pearson’s bookshop isn’t there and there is no lock gate.
That looks like Griffith Barracks there
At the far side of the trees
In which case that makes it was from the SCR ‘quarter’ (◠‿◕)
(The ‘stretch’ between Portobello Bridge and Harold’s Cross Bridge)
Where the photographer trapped the image
Around where that restaurant is I reckon
They cut down trees and didn’t even put them in a tree museum. How did Dublin City Council miss that trick.
Still though thanks to the incompetence and corruption of ESB there can now be many oil paintings of this strech of the grand canal.
Tens of thousands of litres of oil have seeped into the canal. Worse areas affected, from Ringsend to Haroldscross.
Don’t it always seem to go..
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