Old B&W Photos of Dublin - Part 2

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............................4Cs.....where's all the traffic then 'ey ?.

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Fitzgibbon Street....replaced by a block of 1960's corpo flats.

[shilo39]

What year did the Racing Stop I seem to recall the Da bringing me up in the late 40s.

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tayto

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tayto 2

[cosmo]

the dubs on a roll.

24 townsend st.

fred hannas , Nassau st.

[jembo]

Morning Cos, the number on the shop is 32 and the number on the messenger bike is 29. ?

[cosmo]

from my memory jem that shop was quite long maybe a coupla shop fronts?? john doran will probably know.....on second thoughts I might have been thinking of greenes.

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Morning Cos, the number on the shop is 32 and the number on the messenger bike is 29. ?

They were originally 27-29 and when Fred came into the business they had expanded, obviously taking in No 32 as here in Cos' pic.

[john doran]

They were originally 27-29 and when Fred came into the business they had expanded, obviously taking in No 32 as here in Cos' pic.

Fred Hanna's oul bike is causing confusion
He may have been making a delivery or getting stock
The Dublin Bookshop was on 32 Bachelors Walk junction of Williams Row
Near O Connell Bridge

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Fred Hanna's oul bike is causing confusion
He may have been making a delivery or getting stock
The Dublin Bookshop was on 32 Bachelors Walk junction of Williams Row
Near O Connell Bridge

Quite right JD, looks like the messenger was on a 'message'....a little more digging...... and we find........

There was a bookshop established at 18 Nassau Street from 1845 and by 1911 Frederick Hanna was a bookseller there.

By 1929 the shop had moved to No 29 in the same street, expanding in 1951 to No 28 next door.... and established a tradition that continued until the business was sold to Eason’s in 1999.

Good to know there are still two wonderful Fred Hanna mosaiques at both doorway entrances.

Remember in the ould days we were sent for 'messages' not shopping or groceries ....
"goin the corner shop te get some messages" wtf was that all about....aint Dublinese funny ?. Are the kids still sent to get the messages ????.

[quinner]

Quite right JD, looks like the messenger was on a 'message'....a little more digging...... and we find........

There was a bookshop established at 18 Nassau Street from 1845 and by 1911 Frederick Hanna was a bookseller there.

By 1929 the shop had moved to No 29 in the same street, expanding in 1951 to No 28 next door.... and established a tradition that continued until the business was sold to Eason’s in 1999.

Good to know there are still two wonderful Fred Hanna mosaiques at both doorway entrances.

Remember in the ould days we were sent for 'messages' not shopping or groceries ....
"goin the corner shop te get some messages" wtf was that all about....aint Dublinese funny ?. Are the kids still sent to get the messages ????.

Regular as clockwork in some parts of Northern England and Scotland......

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Regular as clockwork in some parts of Northern England and Scotland......

Origins ??????

[quinner]

Origins ??????

No idea really....

Maybe the parents left a message with the shop for their children to pick up the goods later....

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Dub City Libraries ......

This receipt is made out to Mrs Henry Lea Wilson.
At the time of the Easter Rising Captain Lea Wilson was in charge of insurgent prisoners, including Michael Collins and the elderly Tom Clarke. He is reputed to have treated the prisoners very harshly and was shot in reprisal in 1920, in Gorey Co. Wexford. After her husband’s death, Marie Lea Wilson, by then in her late 30s, began a medical degree. She qualified and ran a practice in Dublin for many years, concentrating on paediatrics. She is perhaps best known as the person who presented a large painting of the Taking of Christ to the Jesuit Order. She had bought the painting in Scotland in the 1920s. It was only when the painting was sent for cleaning that it came to light that it was the work of Caravaggio.

A right little bollocks got his =

According to the RIC Magazine he had re-joined the police by March 1916 and was in Dublin in time for the 1916 Easter rising. He was in charge of a group of Republican prisoners at the Rotunda Hospital when the notorious incident that effectively signed his death warrant took place. One of the prisoners was Tom Clarke, at 59 the oldest man to have taken an active part in the rising and the first of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of the Republic. Lea-Wilson forced Clarke to strip naked on the steps of the hospital in front of the other prisoners (who included Michael Collins and Liam Tobin) and the female nursing staff. He then loudly jeered “That old bastard is Commander-in-Chief. He keeps a tobacco shop across the Street. Nice general for your fucking army.”

That's him standing on the right side.