A FADED GUINNESS SIGN OUTSIDE THE KINGS INN PUB ON BOLTON STREET
Guinness was founded in 1759 but didn’t publish its first ad until 1794.
Guinness stout is made from water, barley, roast malt extract, hops, and brewer’s yeast. A portion of the barley is roasted to give Guinness its dark colour and characteristic taste. It is pasteurised and filtered.
Until the late 1950s Guinness was still racked into wooden casks. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Guinness ceased brewing cask-conditioned beers and developed a keg brewing system with aluminium kegs replacing the wooden casks; these were nicknamed “iron lungs”. Until 2016 the production of Guinness, as with many beers, involved the use of isinglass made from fish. Isinglass was used as a fining agent for settling out suspended matter in the vat. The isinglass was retained in the floor of the vat but it was possible that minute quantities might be carried over into the beer. Diageo announced in February 2018 that the use of isinglass in draught Guinness was to be discontinued and an alternative clarification agent would be used instead. This has made draught Guinness acceptable to vegans and vegetarians.
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.
BODKINS AND THE HUNGRY MEXICAN – THE HUNGRY MEXICAN HAS RELOCATED TO ASTON QUAY
Back in 2014 the Hungry Mexican in Bodkins was my favourite restaurant. They later relocated to Aston Quay in the Temple Bar area of Dublin and they are still my favourite restaurants however I have been unable to visit since March 2020 because of Covid restrictions.
Bodkins has reconfigured what was a Pub featuring a restaurant to an excellent Pizza Restaurant named “BoCo” and it is one of the best in Ireland as well as being rated as the most child friendly restaurant in Ireland.
RANDOM IMAGES – I USED AN IPHONE XR AND HALIDE MARK II APP
I walked from Henrietta Street to Aston Quay [via Grattan Bridge] and returned via the Halfpenny Bridge. Note: The The Millennium Bridge is closed for maintenance.
I am now considering the possibility of using the new [not yet available] iPhone 12 Pro Max for photography so in order to develop a workflow I am currently playing with an iPhone XR and the Halide App which was released yesterday. I also upgraded to LightRoom 10 which also bec ame available this week.
HALIDE MARK II IS HERE: “Featuring the best photography tools on iOS yet.A total redesign. Unlocking the power of RAW for everyone with Instant RAW. Over 50 new features — and that’s just the beginning.”
12-13 DORSET STREET WHERE THE MOY ONCE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED MARCH 2020
I have lived on Bolton Street for more than twenty five years and I always believed that the area shown in my photographs was Bolton Street rather than Dorset Street.
Dorset Street is an important thoroughfare on the northside of Dublin, Ireland, and was originally part of the Slighe Midh-Luchra, Dublin’s ancient road to the north that begins where the original bridging point at Church Street is today. Subsequently, yet prior to the street being given its current name in the 18th century, the road was known as Drumcondra Lane and was shown on maps as such. It is divided into Dorset Street Lower (northeast end) and Dorset Street Upper (southwest end).
The street runs north east from Abbey Street and Bolton Street at Dominick Street junction, north of Parnell Square and Mountjoy Square, and leads into Drumcondra Road at Binn’s Bridge on the Royal Canal. It makes up part of the most common route from Dublin Airport to the city centre, and the R132 regional road follows Dorset Street for part of its route. It meets the R135 route at the junctions with Blessington Street, location of the Blessington Street Basin, and St. Mary’s Place; other major roads feeding onto this spine street include North Circular Road, Gardiner Street, Eccles Street, North Frederick Street, and Granby Row.
Physically the street rises up from the Liffey valley at its south western end, to its apex at roughly where it meets with Blessington and North Frederick Streets; proceeding north west the street slopes down again on the approach to Binn’s Bridge at the Royal Canal.
Some early Georgian houses are dotted along the street, primarily identifiable by the stone Gibbsian door case entrances, and close to the crossroads with Blessington and North Frederick Streets. Much of the street redeveloped during the Victorian era, with a number of significant buildings built, such as the Gothic style stone-built Dominican priory, designed by J. L. Robinson in 1884–87 at the corner of Dominick Street, while across from it is the red brick Italianette former fire station, designed by C. J. McCarthy and completed in 1903. Much of the street consists of vernacular Victorian terraces, with shops opening straight onto footpaths at ground-floor level. During the latter part of the twentieth century, stretches of the street were again redeveloped by Dublin Corporation for social housing flat complexes near Dominick Street.
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