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    On The Liffey...

    Guinness barge 'Castleknock' on the South Quays, June 26th 1959...

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    Guinness Barge
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/7446316960/in/photostream
    This is the very neat and tidy "Castleknock" - a Guinness Barge - moored on the River Liffey in Dublin (53 years ago today). Niall McAuley provided a great link to the OSI Historic Maps showing this landing stage. Meanwhile guliolopez unearthed a video of the "Castleknock" in action. Have a read of this fantastic article on the Guinness Barges from the Heritage Boat Assocation website contributed by blackpoolbeach. Thanks one and all! P.S. If there's a bit of radio silence from this end, I'd ask you to bear with me. I'm at a conference for the next four days, but I'll try to keep up with comments, etc. Date: Friday, 26 June 1959 NLI Ref.: ODEA 20/91
    Everything is self-evident.
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    I posted this before on the forum - can't remember where... also from the NLI... ss.Adolphine at the Custom House c.1880...

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    S.S. Adolphine
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/7843320516/in/set-72157626743429098
    The sailing ship Adolphine moored at the Custom House in Dublin, with a swivel bridge in the foreground. There are posters advertising Pleasure Trips to Lambay Island that also say "William Hall" - hardly the name of the vessel? The two-storey building beyond the Custom House is the original Liberty Hall, which I only found out yesterday was formerly the Northumberland Hotel... And this was taken at 9.35 am! Date: Circa 1880? NLI Ref.: STP_2746
    Everything is self-evident.

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    • #3
      nice pics cogito.

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      • #4
        Great idea for a thread. From NLI online collection found at http://catalogue.nli.ie/
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        Last edited by boxman; 25-09-2012, 06:01 AM.
        Such is life - Ned Kelly

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        • #5
          Another from NLI http://catalogue.nli.ie/
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          Such is life - Ned Kelly

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          • #6
            This is one of my favourites that I got from NLI http://catalogue.nli.ie/
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            Such is life - Ned Kelly

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            • #7
              A modern one by yours truly
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              Such is life - Ned Kelly

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              • #8
                Agus aris
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                Such is life - Ned Kelly

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                • #9
                  does anybody remember a girl called penny.....she would wash herself in the liffey, at the bottom of the steps......

                  virtually stripped to the waist, even on very cold days........
                  Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!

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                  • #10
                    Great pics and a great thread

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by quinner View Post
                      does anybody remember a girl called penny.....she would wash herself in the liffey, at the bottom of the steps......

                      virtually stripped to the waist, even on very cold days........
                      keep looking joe, she might turn up.....again.....




                      beaut pics of the liffey there fellas.
                      in god i trust...everyone else cash only.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by cosmo View Post
                        keep looking joe, she might turn up.....again.....




                        beaut pics of the liffey there fellas.

                        last time i saw her, she had just come off a belgium slag boat.......

                        those belgiums brought a lot of slag to dublin......
                        Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!

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                        • #13
                          1960s...

                          hapenny-bridge-60s.jpg

                          Uploaded by Rashers at http://www.dublinforum.net/forum/sho...&postcount=530
                          Everything is self-evident.

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                          • #14
                            more barges.
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                            in god i trust...everyone else cash only.

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                            • #15
                              I remember penny well i used to work in a garage on the quays
                              in the early sixties and penny often slept in the cars we used
                              to leave overnight outside the garage.she was well passed her
                              prime but you could see that she was once a good looking
                              woman.they also called her liverpool annie.she was an old pro
                              who used to work the quays and the story was that she would
                              do the business for a penny.it was also said that one night a
                              liverpool boat came in and she was the only woman working
                              the quays that night,so she took on the whole crew hence the
                              name liverpool annie

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