Gardens, Tenements and Courts

[GingerTheCat]

You can see a video of the Health Minister declaring St Andrews Gardens open on the British Pathe News website. I cant post an exact link but if you go to http://www.britishpathe.com/index.html

Click on Advanced on the Search facility and type in 819.44 for the Film ID you should find it.

You need to register and will only get a low quality version for free.

Mike

[jimbo]

Ged do you have any info / photo of Burroughs baths? My old feller taught me to swim there and I recall that there was a communal shower where everybody piled in shivering under luke warm water! I also used to go there for a bath (now and again) and it cost 2d. A man using a brass key filled the bath ,this was the water you got and no more,but it was great for a really good scrub.There was a "brylcream" vending machine in the corridor outside the bathrooms, it cost a penny a go.
I seem to remember there was a large Salvation Army building close by or even adjacent to the baths.

[Ged]

I now have 115 photographs of Gerard Gardens/Crescent on my website below. Pictures courtesy of Joe Devine. Taken from 1985-7.

[PhilipG]

I now have 115 photographs of Gerard Gardens/Crescent on my website below. Pictures courtesy of Joe Devine. Taken from 1985-7.

Excellent, Ged.
Thanks.

[Ged]

Cheers Phil. I was in the records office last sat and got Roscommon Street out, noticed you'd had the folder out in Jan - no doubt looking for the Tivoli but there's a good one there of the old Rossy wasn't there.

Jimbo. Did see a picture of Burrough's baths on the web somewhere but can't find it now, next time i'm in the records office I'll root one out as they do have them.

[PhilipG]

Cheers Phil. I was in the records office last sat and got Roscommon Street out, noticed you'd had the folder out in Jan - no doubt looking for the Tivoli but there's a good one there of the old Rossy wasn't there.

Jimbo. Did see a picture of Burrough's baths on the web somewhere but can't find it now, next time i'm in the records office I'll root one out as they do have them.

That's a great pic of the Roscommon.
The Tivoli closed about 1954, and was demolished for Cavour House and Garibaldi House (1961).

I've put another link to your site here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4443567...57594561578687

[Ged]

Thanks Phil

So the Tivoli was nearer the top of the street then. I got a laser copy of that pic of Mazzini & Garibaldi House, My nan and Uncle lived there in the 1970s. Cavour was the 3rd one in the row I think.

Don't know if you saw last Saturdays Echo, the flashback 3 page article featured my most recent book and some tenement pics including a Violent Playground rest moment with Anne Heywood and the film director I hadn't seen before.

[PhilipG]

Thanks Phil

So the Tivoli was nearer the top of the street then. I got a laser copy of that pic of Mazzini & Garibaldi House, My nan and Uncle lived there in the 1970s. Cavour was the 3rd one in the row I think.

Don't know if you saw last Saturdays Echo, the flashback 3 page article featured my most recent book and some tenement pics including a Violent Playground rest moment with Anne Heywood and the film director I hadn't seen before.

The Tivoli was on the corner of Garibaldi Street.
When the blocks were built I checked the maps and the site of the Tiv went through the right side of Cavour House and the left side of Garibaldi House (if that makes sense - I should have checked the compass points).

I always photo the pics in the library.
They've no objections (as long as you don't use flash), and I'm quite pleased with the Macro setting on my camera.

So, needless to say, this is a copy of one from the LRO.

[Ged]

Yep Phil, that's the one I got. Also a pic of the flats that were on Arkwright street in the background and further back again is the rear of the tenements on Scotland Road called Wilbraham House. Gerard was asking about photographing in the search room, don't they still ask you to sign a copyright disclaimer that the pics are for personal use only and not for publication.

[PhilipG]

Yep Phil, that's the one I got. Also a pic of the flats that were on Arkwright street in the background and further back again is the rear of the tenements on Scotland Road called Wilbraham House. Gerard was asking about photographing in the search room, don't they still ask you to sign a copyright disclaimer that the pics are for personal use only and not for publication.

You sign for the search room, so it may be included there.
Otherwise, I don't sign anything, but I think they assume that I know the rules.
I have been going there for almost 40 years!

[Ged]

40 YEARS. You should be working there.......

(mind you, aren't the archiving/release for viewing of these photos pretty new?)

Some of the streets I asked for, they were physically making the folders up and counting the photos and recording the details on the front as I requested them, for instance, I think you were only the 3rd or 4th to have Rossy out last month.

[PhilipG]

40 YEARS. You should be working there.......

(mind you, aren't the archiving/release for viewing of these photos pretty new?)

Some of the streets I asked for, they were physically making the folders up and counting the photos and recording the details on the front as I requested them, for instance, I think you were only the 3rd or 4th to have Rossy out last month.

They keep trying to make their photos more secure, but people still pinch them.
Some people go to the expense of getting laser copies, and then swopping them for the original glossies.

They're not making up the folders when they count them.
That's part of the security.
They are always counted before they're issued and after they're returned, but by the time they're checked the person's gone.

For instance, as good as that Roscommon cinema was, they used to have another close-up (when George Lowe had the building).
It was missing when I was there in January.
I've got a poor B & W photocopy of it, from years ago.