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The Antique Pavement

Book
1975
An Taisce
€ 4.75 

Following a survey of Dublin street furniture by Derry O'Connell, Helen Lane and Paschal Murphy (inspired by a studio project in their first year of Architecture at the College of Technology, Bolton Street, Dublin), O'Connell produced a comprehensive report for An Taisce, cataloguing and evaluating antique street furniture.

Foreword: Investigating street furniture

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Why Conserve?

Lamp Standards

A history of street lighting in Dublin

Some little facts about the standards

Detailed description of Dublin’s large antiques

Description of the lesser noticed standards

A look in detail at lamp post features

The lamplighters

Gaslamps still in use

Clip-on lamp brackets

The Street Floor

Georgian manholes

Setts - Dublin’s unique examples

Paving and the paviour’s skill

Oddments of the street floor

Those other objects

Post boxes and their history

Bollards - common and strange

Loos and standing things

Seats and horse troughs

The forgotten boroughs of Dublin

Where to find them

Key map - North City

Key map - South City

A walk by Fitzwilliam

A walk through the cobbles

O’Connell Bridge Mountjoy

Recommendations - extracts from An Taisce’s report

Lamp standards for conservation 

Setts and objects of special attention

Transplant recommendations

Author: Derry O'Connell.

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