chancellors

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Changes since Bona Fide Travellers: The DBC. The tall electric lights (1892 until 1903-1910 sometime). Where is the Gunpowder office signage gone? Railings around the O'Connell monument. Electric trams. Straw hats! Light coloured clothes. Ladies on bikes.

And as DannyM8 spotted, a dust cart spraying the street! We've never captured one of those in action before...

Summer I would think, the few parasols are for the sun rather than the rain. Strong shadows - someone will be able to tell the date and time of day!

DannyM8 Someone thinks 14:43 (?) from the clock (see note). Not 100% sure.

Yours for half a crown (i.e. 2/6)

Irish Independent - Thursday 06 August 1896 - but it was advertised extensively until about 1914 (still 2/6)

Several articles in following years quote it, until the late 1920s, even though one quote is prefaced: "The otherwise very reliable and excellent little Dictionary of Dublin says: [etc etc]" (Weekly Freeman's Journal - Saturday 05 December 1914)

The word on the street is that National Library of Ireland on The Commons has a copy

(Evening Irish Times - Monday 26 May 1913)

26 Christchurch Cathedral

Major Spoiler : archive.org/details/dictionaryofdubl00cosgiala/mode/1up

Number 24 not only has the Gunpowder Office but also the big sign advertising the photographery business Chancellors, who advertised their Movable Boudoir to convey Sitters to the Galleries. Nothing else of interest at all in picture 24.

Another Spoiler Alert! Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via British Library For example no. 19 More - www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum000792938

I can't believe they demolished this after just a year. Bloody vandals!

I believe the arcade was where this massive shed is now: Streetview

Mildly disappointingly, the barrels aren't the ones from Clare Island.

Niall McAuley It's just not the same, is it?

Demolished on 11th August 1892 at 4 a.m. Freeman's report the following day