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Ha ha National Library of Ireland on The Commons point out the balcony the people were sitting on in the earlier picture of this street now?

Again not a single uncovered head.

I've a photo of the front of the GPO, taken from over near those trams.

Probably taken by my great-grandfather who who had an office in Anglesea Street.

Nice one [http://www.flickr.com/photos/64555638@N00] that is a great memory to have and thank you for sharing it.

And fifty years later Horatius was to go.

Good view of the former Nelson's Pillar.

Streetview

The Parnell monument was unveiled in July 1911, it looks nearly finished here.

The wagon with ads for a cinema/theatre on Gt. Brunswick St. is presumably for the Queen's Theatre on what is now Pearse St,, later temporary home of the Abbey. The Palace, later the Academy, was not a cinema until the 1920s. ’In England there is a growing demand for cinematograph entertainments’, announced Dublin’s Evening Mail in February 1908. ‘Every important town has its permanent “picture show”, and the Colonial Picture Combine see no reason why Ireland should not be adequately represented in this respect.’ The occasion of this statement was the opening of what was soon being advertised as the People’s Popular Picture Palace at the former Queen’s Theatre in Dublin’s Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street).

Sign "CRANE" on the right, from the Lennon-Wylie page, the 1913 phone directory: Dublin 1574 Crane & Sons Ltd., Musical Instrument Manufacturers 40 Upper Sackville Street

Beam us up, Scotty!

Niall McAuley :D But that would give us a date of Star Date 2040! And yep, that's Elvery's Elephant.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Nope as THE Montgomery Scott wasn't born until 2222, in Linlithgow, Scotland ;-)

Cuddly Nutter Nerd Alert! Nerd Alert! :)

Well this isn't much help, but was of interest to me. If you look at the background, you'll see that the statue to William Smith O'Brian isn't there; the statue in the background is Sir John Gray. The Smith O'Brian memorial was erected in 1870, but at the apex of D'Olier St and the quay. It wasn't moved to O'Connell St till 1929. The Gray memorial went up in 1879. Source: 78.137.164.74/~geograph/irishgeography/v34-1/sack.pdf Oh and here's a potted history of James Stott and his gas governor: www.gracesguide.co.uk/James_Stott_and_Co