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Poles from Poleland

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 12 older comments, and then…
  • John Spooner said:
    Rack & Ruin You beat me to it.

    Catholic Standard - Friday 31 January 1958:
    Actually the newsprint used in THE STANDARD is from Clondalkin Mills and Irish timber. It is just as satisfactory raw material thanks to the technicians who produce it anything coming from Canada or the Scandinavian countries.
  • Marcel & Rrose in Infrathin said:
    I just realised from the tags that it's not Clondalkin Paper Mills, but I would guess that the poles were there as fodder for the mill.
  • Marcel & Rrose in Infrathin said:
    I worked there around 1971/72, so my memory of it would be very fuzzy. Further perusal of the tags suggests they are poles that would have been used by the electricity board as electricity cable carrying poles on the streets. Duh!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Rack & Ruin John Spooner I think that you are both right and that the caption is incorrect. My experience of both ESB and P&T pole fields was that they were of varying length and a lot more higgledy piggledy tha those neat piles! The poles had also bee soaked in preservative and were smelly!
  • Marcel & Rrose in Infrathin said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons I have been trying to work out the geography, and cannot see the Round Tower close by (unless it's behind the trees), and what I thought was Orchard Road (where I lived), might not be it.

Casts a long shadow! An ESB tractor and wide load on the Naas Road.

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    I think it is a Scammell Tractor - reminds me of a blue Matchbox Pickfords one I had as a child, like this -
  • Denis Moynihan said:
    There's a somewhat similar one in the National Transport Museum in Howth.
  • Colin said:
    Probably just as part of that road was being converted into dual carriageway?
  • John A. Coffey said:
    Many of these large loads traveled at night through towns and villages.I do remember in 1958 the "old Hogan Stand coming through Newbridge on its way to The Gaelic Grounds, Limerick, it had been disassembled of course.
  • O Mac said:
    The other truck is a Foden tractor. www.flickr.com/photos/darren_hall/6877575679

Vandalism on a grand scale?

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