nassaustreet

The piece of land near the bottom refers to (corrected thanks Sharon Corbet) Sir William Davies, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland: (Be. 1633-1687): and at top probably refers to Sir Henry Titchborne: (1st Baron Ferrard) (1633-1731): and St Andrew's Church (Andrew St) built c1665, (on or near the site of ancient parish church), rebuilt 1793 and again 1860: Streetview: www.google.com.au/maps/@53.3436355,-6.2615161,3a,75y,136....

The survey dates from the late 17th or early 18th Century, when John Greene was City Surveyor for Dublin. There was another similar Survey being auctioned a few years ago.

The hill is the viking Thingmount. The Sir William Davis mentioned in the chart, had the Thingmount levelled and the soil carted away that was deposited to form the elevated ground now occupied by Nassau Street. He felt his plot was too valuable and the "hill" was in his way of realising the full profit of his plot. www.geocities.ws/heatheneurope/thingmount "In 1682 the mount itself was demised to Sir William Davis, Recorder of the city and then Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He had a residence adjoining the mount and a fee-farm grant was made to him with the avowed object of clearing the ground. His petition for this grant states that "the ground on which the mount stands, being very small and the mount itself being very high, the cost of levelling it and carrying it away would be a vast charge". A mass of earth and stone, 40 feet high and 240 feet in circumference could not be removed without great expense, but the site was, ultimately, too valuable to lie unhindered and was used in the raising of Nassau Street, then called Saint Patrick's Well Lane, to prevent further flooding and the street elevated 8 to 10 feet above it. This can still be seen today as Nassau Street is on quite a height above the adjoining grounds of Trinity College."

Andy Brill I thought rather William Davys (Before 1633-1687) and Sir Henry Tichborne (1633-1731).

The site of the St Andrew's Church as indicated on the survey is marked on the 25" OSI.

The same corner www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/22001206670/in/photolist-...

Ulysses, Episode 8, Bloom was here: He crossed at Nassau street corner and stood before the window of Yeates and Son, pricing the fieldglasses. Or will I drop into old Harris's and have a chat with young Sinclair? Wellmannered fellow. Probably at his lunch. Must get those old glasses of mine set right. Goerz lenses six guineas. Germans making their way everywhere. Sell on easy terms to capture trade. Undercutting. Might chance on a pair in the railway lost property office. Astonishing the things people leave behind them in trains and cloakrooms. What do they be thinking about? Women too. Incredible. Last year travelling to Ennis had to pick up that farmer's daughter's bag and hand it to her at Limerick junction. Unclaimed money too. There's a little watch up there on the roof of the bank to test those glasses by.

In today's photo we see Yeates shop still advertising Race Glasses in the window, and further along, "old Harris's".

Streetview. The pillar box is still there.

Flickr seems to think this photo was taken on May 20th 2091. Perhaps Dublin will have been converted to a Joycean theme park by then.

New York's Citizen's Preparedness Parade of May 13, 1916, in which 135,000 marched. The parade began around City Hall, moved uptown to where there was a reviewing stand in Madison Square, then up to around 57th Street. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20A15FD3F5D1773...

The neighborhood has changed a bit: goo.gl/maps/c1G21

Really, perhaps just the original New York Times building, in back of the Franklin statue, is all that's left. I think the group in silk hats and cutaways in this picture and in one nearby is the "Mayor's Escort", which was made up of one representative of each of the 74 trade groups that marched that day. Presumably, the carriage behind them is the one with Mayor Mitchel and Col. Barbour, also seen in another picture. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B11FD3A5B1773...

grace!