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[Daimler driving past no. 13 Kildare Street]
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| Summary: | Open-top Daimler with four passengers driving past no. 13 Kildare Street, Stephens and Bourke, boot warehouse, towards St. Stephen's Green North. No. 26 Stephen's Green, Jules & Co., perfumery, also visible. Flag over Maples Hotel, 25-28 Kildare Street, visible in background. Other horse-drawn vehicles and bystanders visible in background and foreground. |
| In collection: | Clarke Photographic Collection |
| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[ca.1897-1904].
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| Notes: | Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/53382486537/ Physical description: 1 photonegative : glass ; 10 x 13 cm. more |
On the day when the remains of the late singer, and songwriter Shane McGowan will be driven through the streets of Dublin on his way to his funeral mass and interment, this lovely Clarke image seems appropriate! A Daimler being driven up Kildare Street, with lots of bystanders, and an almost photobomber in view!
Photographers: J.J. Clarke
Collection: Clarke Photographic Collection
Date: 1897-1904 1897-1902 1903
NLI Ref: CLAR46
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags:
Clarke Photographic Collection, J. J. Clarke, John Joseph Clarke, 1879 – 1961, National Library of Ireland, 20th Century, Dublin, Ireland, Leinster, Daimler Car, Kildare Street, Dublin City centre, Jules and Company perfumiers, Maple Hotel
Comments
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Have the street numbers changed since Mr Clarke's day? GoogleMaps sent me to the wrong place.
KildareView - maps.app.goo.gl/n9xiRtPjEmp3Z9sRA
Posted: 08.12.2023
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Eeek! He's driving on the wrong side of the street ...
Posted: 08.12.2023
Niall McAuley
Number plates came in from 1903.
Posted: 08.12.2023
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
The flag says "MAPLE HOTEL", seen in an earlier French/Lawrence photo from the other end of the block. No fancy electric lamp-posts - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000333251
Posted: 08.12.2023
Niall McAuley
This car, on the road when the system was introduced, would be a low number, probably Dublin.
Posted: 08.12.2023
Niall McAuley
Flag in the distance is for a Hotel, beginning MA, Like MAPLE hotel?
Marked on the 25", but not named.
Maple's Hotel it is, here is Fred Maple and family running their hotel in 1901!
Posted: 08.12.2023
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
I think the car is a Daimler Twenty-Two, from April 1902 onwards ...
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From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_Twenty-Two
From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_Twenty-TwoPosted: 08.12.2023
Niall McAuley
Swan necked lamppost, we are not sure exactly when those appeared, replacing the tall posts of 1892.
Posted: 08.12.2023
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] I think you could be right. Certainly all the business end stuff at the front (I'm a loss to motoring journalism) looks the same.
Posted: 08.12.2023
O Mac
Jules Vanbeck hairdresser. 1901.
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Mansion_...
The Gaelic League rented wigs from Jules and Co. for a concert in Carlow in 1915 ???
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000783444
Posted: 08.12.2023
John Spooner
Lady of the House (Dublin) - Sunday 15 January 1893
Posted: 08.12.2023
John Spooner
A pair of boots for less than the price of a posh hair-do.
Irish Society (Dublin) - Saturday 01 July 1893
Posted: 08.12.2023
suckindeesel
The Dublin Gazette also says Daimler, but thinks 1903 due to a big motoring event, including the Gordon Bennett, held that year.
Car could easily be imported for that event and wouldn’t have local reg plate.
“Daimler car on Kildare Street, around 1903. Cars, referred to as automobiles, were an unusual sight on Irish roads at the turn of the century, and it is likely that this car was in Dublin for the 1903 Automobile Fortnight. There was an influx of 1500 cars for the occasion and this provided the first opportunity for many Irish people to see a car. The Gordon Bennett Race, with a course through the roads of Carlow, Kildare and Laois, was one of the highlights of the event.”
Picture: National Library of Ireland.
www.google.com/searchbyimage?image_url=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.b...
Posted: 08.12.2023
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
suckindeesel Excellent. Will amend to 1903, thank you. And mea culpa, haven't been in to see this NLI exhibition yet. Must do so over Xmas.
Posted: 08.12.2023
John Spooner
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] Jules Vambeck (late of 26 Stephen's Green) died June 2 1939. ('In Memoriam' notice from his widow in Irish Independent - Monday 2 June 1941)
A Mademoiselle Vambeck (Jules' daughter Martguerite?) took part in the New Year's celebrations for French residents at M. Gammet's Hotel, including songs, recitations and music. (Dublin Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 02 January 1907).
In May 1917 Jules attended a meeting at the Mansion House to promote a Flag Day to raise funds for the French Red Cross. (Dublin Daily Express - Saturday 19 May 1917)
Posted: 08.12.2023
suckindeesel
I notice that the car is right hand drive, as is the Wiki photo.
Was there any consensus in those early days?
Posted: 08.12.2023
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/30369211@N00/] Occupations given as “gentleman” and “lady” instead of “hotel keepers”
A bit of social snobbery there?
Posted: 08.12.2023
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03/] For the girl Irish dancers, as they do nowadays?
Posted: 08.12.2023
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04] Maples are listed in house #25.1
25.2 is 13 Domestic Servants, presumably the maids etc in the Hotel. 25.3 2 or 3 male servants. The Hotel is listed as 25 to 28, but no-one is recorded in 26, 7 or 8.
Posted: 08.12.2023
Niall McAuley
In 1911, daughter Charlotte is less fancy and lists herself as Hotel Keeper.
Visitors and staff are all listed together.
Posted: 08.12.2023
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/30369211@N00/] The street numbering appears strange, we have Jules at no. 26, next door to Stephens at no. 13
Posted: 08.12.2023
suckindeesel
An article in The Journal about our snapper
www.thejournal.ie/john-joseph-clarke-photos-1585668-Aug20...
Posted: 08.12.2023
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
@184711311@N04/ I think that where that article starts with "Thanks to some intrepid sleuthing by NLI fans...", it's referring to all of us.
Posted: 08.12.2023
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Gordon Bennett !!
Previously (10 years ago!), nearby, same day? ... [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/12218808006/in/photolist]
Posted: 08.12.2023
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Modesty forbids..!
Posted: 08.12.2023
suckindeesel
[https://flic.kr/p/2pksbKB]
Jenatzy, the 1903 Gordon Bennett winner, driving a Mercedes
Posted: 08.12.2023
s0340248
Glückwunsch zu Explore !
Posted: 10.12.2023
·dron·
Congrats on Explore!👍
Posted: 10.12.2023
Jaak Veiderma
Congrats on Xplore!
Posted: 10.12.2023
Sigurd Krieger
Congrats on Xplore!!
Posted: 10.12.2023
gato-gato-gato
Sehr schönes Foto.
Posted: 10.12.2023
Niall McAuley
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq Pooching around in streetview, I see that the #26 address is today Adams auctioneers address on Stephen's Green, I think #26 in the photo was on the corner and the number is a Stephens Green number, not a Kildare St. number.
Posted: 10.12.2023
marinela 2008
Great shot !
Congrats on Explore !
Posted: 10.12.2023
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] Aha!
Posted: 10.12.2023
waewduan4
Congrats………………
Posted: 11.12.2023
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] The 25” shows no. 26 is an ‘L’ shaped property with frontages on both Stephen’s Green North and Kildare St.
Next door no. 13 is the start of the Kildare St. numbers, the modern street view shows no. 15 to be the first of the Georgian buildings.
Posted: 11.12.2023
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04] Agreed, except I see #14 on the streetview next to Adams today.
I can't make the arched doors of 15, 16 today line up with the pic.
OK, perhaps we can't see the door of 15 at all behind the corner, and arch at 16 has been rebuilt? NIAH makes no reference, but in Streetview we can see a shop window has been added on the ground floor.
Posted: 11.12.2023
