This is located at what was Bolton Street College which is still home to some students. Bolton Street College is now part of the new TU University which is nearby. At TU the new Engineering Quad is due to replace Bolton Street building and bring the final part of all the old city centre colleges to Grangegorman.
The colleges which later formed DIT are listed below, each with its year of foundation:
College of Technology, Kevin Street (1887) College of Music, Chatham Row (1890) College of Commerce, Rathmines (1901) College of Marketing and Design, Mountjoy Square (1905) College of Technology, Bolton Street (1911) College of Catering, Cathal Brugha Street (1941)
The Sony 85mm GM is supposed to be one of the best lenses that I own but I am not convinced that it is better than my Zeiss Batis 85mm … I must admit that I cannot explain why I have two 85mm lenses. Anyway, today I combined it with my Sony FX30 on which the 85mm is effectively a 130mm lens and in general the results were disappointing as many images were badly focused. Also the GPS was inaccurate but that is likely to be an iPhone problem.
Today the schools returned and as a result Kings Inns Street was full of excited children when I visited at about lunch time.
The original Williams & Woods is the landmark building on Kings Inns Street. The industrial building, where products such as Toblerone and Mint Crisp were manufactured, was Dublin’s first reinforced concrete building.
Donnelly & Moore designed this large building as a jam and sweet factory and it was constructed by G. & T. Crampton for Williams & Woods in 1910. There was confectionary factory on the site since 1856.
To the best of my knowledge it operated as a data storage centre for many years. The building is being now being developed as a creative community, Chocolate Factory, with studios, event spaces and a cafe.
Mount Carmel National School operates from a modernist building, located on Kings Inns Street. It built to designs by William H. Byrne & Son, to replace an earlier nineteenth-century building, which itself had replaced the original school located on Middle Abbey Street, dating from 1812. The compact multi-storey plan addressed the need for space on a restricted site within the densely populated city centre, and included a roof-top playground.
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