portobello

What colour is that bus???

Niall McAuley The greenest green ever seen!!

I remember the late 60s/early 70s, when the buses were cream over blue, like this one:



but I don't remember any petrol green buses like that one!

Niall McAuley Are you showing your age Niall? That was the good old CIE green we all grew up to love and admire! The two young lads in the pinstripe suit jackets is an interesting sight! Not likely to be school blazers as they tended to be solid colours but may be the remains of auld dacency in the form of Confirmation suits being worn out before they grew out if you know what I mean. Kids in 1959 could dress quite formally once they got to 14 or thereabouts. Portobello is just down the road from St. Mary's College and the lads may be from there but never with pin stripe blazers???

Niall McAuley And yet there it is, larger than life and twice as green! I wonder is there any way it was a tour bus, rather than a "normal" city bus?

"A pleasure pier (in typical Victorian manner) existed (near the end of Bath Street) from 1871 (opened on May 23) until the start of World War I. This was 1250 feet long and had a restaurant and observatory at the end. It cost £7000 and was designed by Sir Thomas Bouch infamously linked to the Tay Bridge Disaster. In a similar ending the iron supports rusted away and the pier was demolished as uneconomic to repair in 1917." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portobello,_Edinburgh

Streetview

I see tramtracks, this line was electrified by 28 August 1899, but I can't tell if we should see the overhead wires or not.

Gas lights: The opening of the Pigeon House generating station in 1903 extended electric lighting to almost all major streets in the city centre including Rathmines. With the introduction of their electric lighting scheme in 1903, the Rathmines Urban District Council erected a selection of lamp standards to suit the lighting requirements of the street in question.

Maybe they are pupils of the Jewish school that was around the corner on Broomfield Avenue.

I'm having deja vu all over again - see the later street lamps -