Bolton Street

BOLTON STREET PLUS HENRIETTA PLACE AND YARNHALL STREET

November 5, 2023 by infomatique

EARLY NOVEMBER 2023

It is interesting to note that BoCo [an excellent Pizza Restaurant] on Yarnhall Street was originally Bodkins Pub. In case you are wondering bodkins are used to thread cords, elastics, ribbons or tapes through pre-made holes and tubes in a cloth or a garment. They may also be used as hairpins. Bodkins can be made out of a wide range of materials, such as bone, metal, plastic, etc.

Linenhall, also spelt Linen Hall, was a complex of Georgian buildings at the top of Capel Street, built by the Linen Board. The selection of this three-acre site as a centralised Linen Hall for Dublin was decided by the Board on 17 March 1722 following the rejection of sites in Drumcondra and Ballybough. Many linen traders would stay in the inns and taverns in the environs of Capel Street at this time. Construction began, and the Hall was opened for business on 14 November 1728. The complex was originally designed by Thomas Burgh, and later enlarged in 1784 by Thomas Cooley.A Yarn Hall and Cotton Hall were also constructed nearby.

The complex was modelled on Blackwell Hill, London, and the Cloth Hall of Hamburg. The Dublin Linenhall housed 550 bays for storage, a large trading space, and a boardroom. Following the opening of the Belfast Linen Hall in 1783, the Dublin Hall went into decline. The Linen Board was disbanded in 1828.

From the 1870s, the Hall was used as a British Army barracks. The Board of Works took over the buildings in 1878.

In 1914, the Hall, along with the nearby Temple Gardens in front of the Kings Inns, was host to one its last events, the Dublin Civic Exhibition.

It is mentioned in the 1958 song “Monto (Take Her Up to Monto)”, which references events of the late 19th century: “You’ve seen the Dublin Fusiliers, / The dirty old bamboozeleers, / De Wet’ll kill them chiselers, one, two, three. / Marching from the Linen Hall / There’s one for every cannonball, / And Vicky’s going to send them all, o’er the sea.”

On 26 April 1916, Linenhall Barracks was seized by the Irish Volunteers. The Barracks was largely occupied by unarmed clerks. The Barracks was set on fire by 1st Dublin Battalion Irish Volunteers to prevent the British Army using the site. The fire spread to adjacent buildings on Great Brunswick Street and North King Street. During the fire, Volunteer Paddy Holohan reported the fire leading to the explosion of several barrels of oil, creating large plumes of thick smoke.

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HENRIETTA PLACE AND HENRIETTA STREET

August 5, 2023 by infomatique

OLD HISTORIC AREA

Henrietta place (built in the 1720s as part of the development of Henrietta Street) is a laneway off Henrietta Street and it is often used as a rat-run for cars travelling at speed and and for that reason I would advise walking along it at night and it also attracts a degree of anti-social activity. In the 1930s, the Dublin Corporation demolished most of the houses on Henrietta Place and built a social housing complex in their place. The complex, which is known as Henrietta House, is still in use today.

Henrietta House is a significant example of social housing architecture in Ireland. It was designed by Herbert Simms, who was one of the leading architects of social housing in the early 20th century. Simms’ design for Henrietta House is characterised by its simple, functional form and its use of red brick.

Henrietta Street is located off Bolton Street on the north side of the city. It was first laid out and developed by Luke Gardiner, the First Earl of Mountjoy, in the 1720s. A very wide street relative to streets in other 18th-century cities, it includes a number of very large red-brick city palaces of Georgian design.

Henrietta Street was once one of the most fashionable addresses in Dublin, and was home to many wealthy merchants and professionals. However, the street declined in status in the 19th century, and by the early 20th century, it had become a slum.

In recent years, Henrietta Street was the subject of a major conservation project, and many of the houses on the street were restored.

One of the most notable buildings on Henrietta Street is 14 Henrietta Street, which is now a museum. The museum tells the story of the street’s history, from its early days as a fashionable address to its later years as a slum.

WHEN THERE IS A HEATWAVE EVERYWHERE ELSE

July 19, 2023 by infomatique

IT RAINS IN DUBLIN AND THE REST OF IRELAND

I had a bad today. I had planned to travel to Drogheda but because of heavy rain at about noon I decided to scrap that plan and have lunch at Eatokyo on Capel Street which I photographed as I walked along it.

I waited for the rain to stop and got a bus to St Anne’s Park but ended up in Raheny which is not far from St Anne’s park. However, after a discussion with two very nice ladies I decided to explore Dollymount instead but that did not go well as most of my photographs were blurred. It took me hours to discover that stabilisation had been switched off.

I also discovered that my Zeiss Batis created a purple smudging on a number of images when used with the Sony FX30. I noticed this before but thought that it was a one-off [however it also was on a rainy day].

What really surprised me was that for much of my walk along Dollymount beach there was not a person to be seen [actually I did see two people and three dogs].

There is no heatwave in Ireland at the moment because of the following reasons:

The current weather pattern is dominated by a low-pressure system to the north of Ireland, which is bringing in cooler air from the Atlantic.
The marine heatwave that was affecting Ireland in June has subsided, and sea surface temperatures are now returning to normal.
The average temperature for July in Ireland is around 15°C, so even if there was no marine heatwave, it is unlikely that we would see a heatwave in July.
However, Met Éireann has forecast that there is a likelihood of above average temperatures for Ireland over the summer season, so it is possible that we could see a heatwave later in the summer.

Here are some additional details about the factors that are preventing a heatwave from developing in Ireland at the moment:

The low-pressure system to the north of Ireland is bringing in cooler air from the Atlantic. This air is less dense than the hot air that would be associated with a heatwave, so it is less likely to rise and form thunderstorms.
The marine heatwave that was affecting Ireland in June has subsided. This heatwave was caused by a combination of high pressure and calm seas, which allowed the water to heat up. However, the seas have now become more disturbed, which is mixing in cooler water from below and causing the temperatures to drop.
The average temperature for July in Ireland is around 15°C. This is not hot enough to qualify as a heatwave, which is generally defined as a period of at least three days with temperatures above 25°C.