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Being of a slightly vertiginous disposition, I don't much fancy the idea of being on the top deck when that tram travels across the bridge - even without passengers, it looks top heavy!

Or imagine it in a really high wind...

It is so cool to be able and see some of our history! So very cool!!

Alas I was born too late for this. How I would love to have taken a tram ride from Howth into the City Centre on a sunny and windy day, sitting aloft at the front seat! Sadly, we'll never see the likes again. By the way, surely not....but is that the very same concrete road surface that's still there today? Stuart.

No idea, Stu, will have to take a trip out to Howth to investigate. Maybe some "Northsiders" can advise...

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.