[Leica] IMGs X 15: The CoVid Chronicles 15

[Douglas Barry]

Here are fifteen shots taken on the 14th April and show the houses on 
Montpelier Parade some metres to the west of my entrance driveway.

These are Georgian (George III) built in 1795 to 1802, were named after 
the French university and resort town of Montpellier, and served as 
summer houses for wealthy Dubliners at the time. All of them have a 
Piano Nobile which had a sea view until about fifty years later when the 
area sloping down to the sea was infilled with Victorian houses. The 
Dublin to Kingstown railway line was built in 1834 and thus opened up 
access to Monkstown and Dun Laoghaire (Kingstown at the time).  It was 
named after George IV who arrived in the Royal Yacht at Howth across the 
bay in 1821 pissed as a newt. The King left from the newly constructed 
harbour at Dun Laoghaire, still pissed as a newt, where he had been 
supposed to originally land. The local burghers were so delighted by 
this singular fleeting honour, they sycophantically renamed the town 
Kingstown. Kingstown was renamed back to Dun Laoghaire in 1920 just 
before Irish independence.

The first shot is a look at my neglected driveway which was supposed to 
be sprayed with weedkiller, and then regravelled until CoVid came and 
stopped those sort of plans.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/CV19_Montpelier+Parade+looking+west.jpg.html 
and keep going to the right until you get to 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/CV19_Montpelier+Parade+nameplate+sign+3.jpg.html 


You will see I have included three nameplate signs for Montpelier Parade 
all of which have variations on the Irish language spelling that should 
be used.

All were taken with my Sony A7II with Samyang 35/2.8 lens and can be 
seen larger if wished.

Douglas