Burlington Buildings

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O'Neill's public house on the corner of Suffolk St. and Church Lane in Dublin's city centre. This is the Church Lane entrance at twilight on Friday evening. The city gets ready to rock. I can't find any reference to Burlington Buildings on Google.

All Aboard

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No. 4004 is about to leave Hueston station in Dublin for Cork. It's a nice new clean train but maybe, when the novelty wears off, Iarnrod won't bother to wash it and it'll become a dirty greasy aul machine just like a lot of the older trains. I wonder are there any plans to electrify the Cork-Dublin line.

Yet Another Dublin River

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The Camac River as it flows towards the Liffey, taken at Bow Bridge in Kilmainham.

Another Dublin River

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The River Dodder winding it's way to Ringsend photographed between Ballsbridge and Donnybrook.

Lavish Surroundings

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Part of the magnificent interior of Ryan's of Parkgate St. in Dublin.

Civic Surprise

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This is the first lifebuoy I have seen in Ireland that is intact, fully functional and not vandalised. It was spotted on Litter Strand in the Shannon estuary in North Kerry.

No Driver

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A Docklands Light Rail train pulls into Canning Town station in London's docklands. It's quite an eerie feeling when you're sitting in the front seat where you would normally expect the driver to be. It stops, starts, accelerates, opens and closes it's doors and keeps exactly to schedule, all automatically, with the help of a computer and lots of sensors and cameras.

Saving Art

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Pastor Sam Lindsay, of the Friday Baptist Church, prepares to give an illustrated talk, on the merits of knowing Jesus, in Dublin city centre, last week.

Cutting Edge Technology

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The business end of the giant boring machine, which was used to make the tunnel for the Docklands Light Rail extension to Lewisham, exhibited in the foyer of Cutty Sark station in Greenwich, London.
P.S. The boring head is slightly out of focus because I took the shot for my family album and used my Grandson to focus on.

Rocket Science

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Wernher Von Braun poses with his awesome creation, the Saturn 5 rocket, in 1967. This was the vehicle that took man to the Moon and has been dubbed "the most impressive machine ever constructed". Here are three interesting rocket websites: Saturn V and The Walter Rocket Motor and The V2 rocket

Relaxing With Jim

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James Joyce seems oblivious to his modern-day companions on Dublin's North Earl Street.

Country Roads

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I can't find out which County in Ireland the IR registration belonged to. The cars look post 1922 so the attending officer would have to be a member of An Garda Siochana. Interestingly the Dublin Metropolitan Police continued to operate in the capital until 1925 when they were incorporated into the Garda.

Memorial Site

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Sachsenhausen concentration camp, a few miles north of Berlin, is now a memorial site. It was also the site of the Russian concentration camp which operated there from 1945 to 1950. It commemorates, in a moving and sensitive way, the victims of both camps. My 3 hours there had a profound effect on me and left me contemplating how brutal the 20th century was. Of course the 21st has not got off to a good start either. It is well worth a visit and details can be found on the web at: http://www.stiftung-bg.de/gums/en/index.htm

A Kind Of Blue

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The interior of a hair-dressing salon in central Madrid during siesta. Madrid is a wonderful location for a few days of interesting photography.