stjamesgate

GoogleMaps Satellite 3D (thirsty!) - www.google.com/maps/@53.3543913,-6.2838047,990a,35y,18... Someone will know - does the "187.28h" in the google data tell us the height in metres? If so, we could probably work out Monkey's altitude from the perspectives etc.

First thing that jumps out are the floating docks loading the barges to ferry kegs down to the docks for export, all gone now. It looks as if the little tramway to bring kegs to the landing slips were already replaced by lorries by this date.

Also of note is the number of horse an drays in one yard to right and in the other yard to upper left rows of what look like small vans. Is the graded mound with retention edges of wood baulks and barrels waste material brewers grains? see notes on photo.

I think i can make out the Guinness Tank Engine at the Dr Steevens Hospital gate. www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/19130644968/ George FitzPatrick Is that not coal in your note?

Is this now the Guiness Storehouse "brand experience" tourist attraction?

Street View

I think so - google aerial view.

Per wikipedia The building in which the Storehouse is located was constructed in 1902 as a fermentation plant for the St. James's Gate Brewery (where yeast is added to the brew). The building was designed in the style of the Chicago School of Architecture and was the first multi-storey steel-framed building to be constructed in Ireland.

See also www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...

Obviously Cantrell and Cochrane the lemonade manufacturers?????

Swordscookie Couldn't be anyone else ;-). Pity there's no "like" button for comments in Flickr.

Hmmm. Assuming these lemonade vats are approx. the same size as the largest Guinness ones, that means a British Army strength of about 290 000 men.

If it's of any help, I have a copy of this book published by Guinness's in 1928 in which this picture and most of Mason's Guinness photographs in the NLI collection are seen. The title under this one is " A corner of No.11 Vat House". "Storage Vats. The Stout having been separated as much as possible from its yeast is then run into large measuring tanks, whence it is pumped into huge vats and stored for various periods according to its quality and the market for which it is intended. The longest storage is given to the foreign Extra Stout, as this is designed for bottling for hot climates and has to be fully matured before exportation. The largest vats are capable of holding about 90,000gallons. Largest Vat Capacity St.James gate........... 90,324 Gallons. Total Vat Capacity St.James gate...........14,782,560 Gallons If it was a commission I'd imagine Mason took them not too long beforehand, possibly 1926/7 ?.. but with the reference to the British army they could well have been reproduced from earlier publications....there seems to have been a few.

You can apparently get a hardwood floor made from these vats.