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Not a lot of human activity for 08:15. But gHoSts! Edit: can anyone read the maker's name on the clock?

Pre tram lines and church notice board, visible in this later slightly higher view - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000316756 (no clockmaker's name)

Officially the Abbey Presbyterian Church, it’s commonly known as Findlater’s Church after Alexander Findlater, spirits merchant. Wikipedia tells me that it dates to 1864. I remember having a very fine guided tour of the church a number of years ago.

Why Rutland Square? Presumably named for the Duke of Rutland, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Per Wiki: “Rutland was increasingly popular as viceroy, in part because of his convivial nature and ample banquets at Dublin Castle. In summer 1787, he made an extended and rigorous tour of the midlands and north of Ireland, but his excessive consumption of claret was by now taking a toll upon his health. He died of liver disease on 24 October 1787 at the Viceregal Lodge in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.”

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2017 via Eoin Moriarty

Interesting symbolic aspects of humour here....... Findlater - I wonder if that was that a detective agency.

That telephone number was a big hit at the time being so easy to remember. They were known as "The Sixes" and indeed they were a good company to call. Great to see the old cars on display, the Ford Zodiac just out of shot and I can't remember the model of the Vauxhall your driver is leaning on

Swordscookie And they were still called The Sixes or All the Sixes long after the 7 got added at the start of the number in the 1970s, Sean, I think.

In the background you can see the big MH for the Mater Hospital Pools which is very appropriate given the court case at the moment on the Govt. cutting off funding to the private lotteries wiped out by the National Lottery. There was a lot of work going on at the bank on Parnell St./Cavendish Row which has featured in some great discussions on here.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons that's right Carol, right up to deregulation I'd say:-)

OSI map: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,716165,735790,12,9

Founded on 13 January 1852, closed in August 1956 www.findlaters.com/chapter4.html

The prison is about 800 m to the west.

Streetview 2014: goo.gl/maps/yKgagSchb8p

The 'Joy' predates it by 2 years so! According to Wikipedia: Mountjoy was designed by the British military engineering officer, Captain Joshua Jebb, Royal Engineers and opened in 1850, based on the design of London's Pentonville Prison also designed by Jebb. Originally intended as the first stop for men sentenced to transportation, they would spend a period in separate confinement before being transferred to Spike Island and transported from there to Van Diemen's Land.