Part of a Training video shot for CIE Dublin Bus in 1965 with the edits from the earlier video 'Dublin City 1965' Dublin City 1962 - Dermot O'Brien and the Clubmen Rare Old Times - Luke Kelly and the Dubliners
Memories of me as a 12yr old getting the bus from my grandparents in Ballinteer into Dublin. Lovely time. Every year travelled to Ireland from Hertfordshire by train and 'The Princess Maude' from Holyhead to Dublin. When 11 I travelled alone.....couldn't do that today!!
My Father was born in Flemmings place(where Jury's hotel now stands) all that remains are the stone steps that his little feet trod up and down. My granny then moved to Benmadigan Rd Drimnagh (Happy happy memories) The greatest love of his life was Dublin and my own life was enriched for having been shown so many beautiful places in Ireland. Whenever I see the scene in the film Braveheart where the newcomer states" its my Ireland" i smile and think of my dad. A lifetime of wonderful memories( the horse kept on the plot in drimnagh) Zozimus and the churchyard, Bang bang an old character in the the town, the Strand, Balls Bridge,Clearys and the abracadabra,the quays, and the smell of a peat fire . Erin go bragh❤
My father came from fleemings place 2 his name was paddy molloy my aunt name was molly Byrne she lived there till her passing u would remember the name currys and the old society were people would save a few bob for the Christmas i remember the old steps u mentioned we moved 2 ballyfermot the molloys i mean when it was only built
Was in Dublin in May and it is recognisable but so very different. The pillar has gone but there’s the big needle that no one likes but it is impressive. Sad that it’s gone for shiny glass buildings but has loads of character still. The people are still up for a laugh and friendly.
Brings back amazing memories. I was five in 1962..... the film is a bit later - mid 1960s; my earliest memories. I remember the Pillar but was never up it!
my mother was working in the Irish linens department of Brown Thomas on Grafton Street at the time . sadly she died of cancer last year , thanks for bringing back some memories .
Just look at how good the road surface condition was! The buses giving way to cyclists and pedestrians- and not a parking meter or clamper in sight! Happy days..
omg how times have changed...somethings are better but a lot by far are not...it was simpler then. more safe and honest. the best times of my life for sure
Interesting. People seemed fairly relaxed about not keeping to traffic lanes (to the extent that they were even marked out) or indicating between lanes/turning. Of course, this was just about the time that a driving test was introduced so I'd imagine a lot of these guys simply made it up as they went along!
Lot of coppers actually out on foot, and individually, not zooming around in cars in threes and fours. And if any passing Brit or American is choking over the Swastika Laundry van at 4:33, the laundry was founded back in Edwardian days when the Swastika was still just a good luck symbol and made a good logo. Prescient, eh?
Wow!! where did you get this footage? My Grandfather worked for CIE his whole life (died in '87) as a conductor and then as inspector. I love to find some footage or photos of him on the job. Thanks
Yes he started the same day with my grandfather as a parcel boy with the DUTC at 59 Upper O'Connell St in 1926....I was intoduced to him in Donnybrook Depot....he was retired then.....
@@markblack2156 wow. That's amazing. I knew he was popular in CIE and involved himself in every aspect of the company even after he retired. He designed the original route for the no. 7 and 46a ! He was also buried in his CIE inspector uniform. If you have any access to records or photos I would be very greatful.
God I remember getting the bus to school bring back old Dublin any day fool of smog people smiled at each other and neighbours had time for one another Dublin has become multicultural don't recognise it anymore wish it was 65 again
it was great back then after 74 it was very sad i left it a few weeks later for a better life in Australia ive not looked back..yes we trusted tgem bus dr8vers in the wet and ice roads god they where great drivers back then great memories ontill 1974
Great video of when Ireland was a better place .When times were great people were friendlier people laughed and joked on trains and buses .Now everyone are playing with smart phones .The sixties great days that are now only a memory
Ya've gotta put a colon between the minutes and the seconds, not a full stop. Like 4:39. Not 4.39. Then it lights up as a link and the readers can access it immediately.
@@GirGir183 The company also used electric vans, coloured red and decorated with a white swastika on a black roundel. It was one of these vans that almost ran down the German writer Heinrich Boll, when he visited Dublin in 1954. Boll, who had been wounded in the war, was a vehement anti-Nazi. He had been initially shocked by the similarity the van had to those used in Germany to distribute the Nazi party newspaper, until he read the date of establishment of the company which was painted beneath the swastika.1912.
Other than some infill, streetlights and road markings, nothing has changed in 60 years. Interesting to see that Temple Bar didn't have cobblestones. The Stephen's Green Centre isn't great but the buildings it replaces are pretty unremarkable too.
Ahhhhh memories....see the conductor write in the half numbers in his waybill.....all gone forever....a whole way of life taken away...men loved that job...it was different ,.now bus drivers cant be recruited....boring isolated job....Progress ?????
Had to do a double take at the swastika laundry van at 4.40? I had not known about the history of that company. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_Laundry
True, sadly. As a Dub, I can attest that the Dublin City Council hasn't a clue about decent architecture or urban planning! Brits built damn fine buildings and all the IRA did was blow stuff up- couldn't even do Nelson's Column right and they had to bring in demolitions experts from, you've guessed it, England!
Kimberley Montreal, the swastika was, and still is a spiritual icon going back centuries in Tibetan Buddhism and Hinduism. It's just unfortunate that it is associated with Nazism.
Why do dub always think their they best grew up in country in the 60s we had a big vegetable garden every in it even tomatoes plenty to eat while a lot of dubs half hungry
Innocent times🇮🇪 Imagine demanding a “right” to murder a baby in the womb🛑 Anyone suggesting such a crazy notion would have been run out of the country🛑 How how we lost our moral compass in 53 years?😭
Paddy Early couldn’t agree more! Imagine Maternity hospitals demanding the right to kill babies in the womb! It wouldn’t happen in the worst horror film.
SavageArfad .....Don’t bring the church into it ya sap! This was the way it was......no problems.......and then you had to bring the church into it??? There are EVIL MEN and WOMEN everywhere!!! in every INSTITUTION!!! Take your crap elsewhere you dopey fuck!!
You are deluded if you think that things like that didn’t happen back then. Was it morally fine to kick girls that got pregnant out of the family home, a lot of them not coming back again.
jack deegan .........the only delusional idiot right now? Is you!!! I’m well aware what happened back then? That wasn’t the point!! Did you watch the clip? Or did you just log on to get your tupence worth in?? It must have been awful living in your household?
@@arsehole8 I was responding to the first comment about how "innocent" ireland was back then. But you seem to have your knickers in a twist about something. The first comment had nothing to do with the clip either, moron.
True the Nazis did,nt invent the swastika, BUT they did invent the Nazi flag which we all know is red field, white disc and black swastika. Sometimes the Swastika laundry used this combination too. Coincidence ? I think not !...
Jack Silver As young kids growing up in the 60's, we'd thrill to see one of the Swastika Laundry vans come up the road, then we'd play pretend war games!
Yeah, the same here. It was all just innocent fun really. Even the laundry itself I reckon was unaware of the full horrors going on in Europe at the time they copied the look of the German flag. Still they were very reluctant to change it later on.
Well if Germany had of won worldwar 2..Dublin or the rest of Europe wouldn't be in The state it's in now..Europe Inc Ireland is a melting pot of shit.....and it's gonna get a hell of a lot worse..
The bus drivers then were half decent I presume, in comparison to the utter knackers that do the rounds now in the dirty crapper otherwise know as Dublin.
