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Bordered by Aughrim Street, Prussia Street and the North Circular Road, the Dublin cattle market was opened by the Rt. Hon. J.P. Vereher, Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1863. It was one of the biggest in Britain or Ireland. It operated every Thursday and before the break of dawn, cattle would arrive in by road from all parts of Ireland, primarily coming from Celbridge, Chapelizod, Dunshaughlin and Ashbourne. Some grazed overnight in fields along the Cabra Road. Many farmers indulged in the spit and shake excitement of selling the poor auld beasties amid the confines of the City Arms Hotel in Prussia Street and Hanlon’s Pub.
The poo-trails radiating out from the place were said to be legendary.
(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)
Simon Pegg (18) in 1988.
Three journeys – each separated by 30 years from the last – recorded by the BBC and synced into a rather excellent side-by-side-by-side sequence, appropriately set to Star Guitar by the Chemical Brothers.
Full screen or not at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFX5FLfaCbw
In 1965, filmmakers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider made ‘Here Come The Monkees’ – a 16mm pilot for the show that would eventually become NBC’s hit boyband sitcom of 1966.
You can hear the demo version of the famous theme tune at 6.14.
MORE: The Monkees: Complete Unaired TV Pilot From 1965 (Dangerous Minds)
Donal from Come Here To Me! sez:
Wondering if you can help us with this. I recently bought a
well-thumbed second hand book on Nelson’s Pillar. Opening second hand books you never know what will fall out, but this was a surprise.A great picture of three kids on top of the Pillar in ’59, along with their first names and a rather rare view – the viewing platform itself.
I’m curious to know where they are today? Are they Dubs or visitors? Whoever wrote the details in pen called it ‘Nelson’s Column’, very unusual here and making me suspect they may be English visitors?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHfURPD3TSY
Garda College, Templemore, Tipperary
Damn country boys with their ‘inborn powers of acute observation’.
Where are they now?
Thanks Custo
http://vimeo.com/7638752#
Video by Tim Sparke, who sez:
Incredible colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Frisse-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using the colour process his father William – a noted cinematographer – was experimenting with. It’s like a beautifully dusty old postcard you’d find in a junk store, but moving.
Music by Jonquil and Yann Tiersen.
Animator Patrick Smith’s illustration of a 1985 ABC News interview with the band in which they discuss – among other things – an unexpected run-in with the cops, ‘sucka music’ and breakfast.
Part of the PBS Blank On Blank series.
Previously: Larry King ‘Where The Nights, Where The Nights’
