Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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