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Poster. Black writing on green background. 'Cheap trip to Dublin and back, August 15 1884 By special train leaving Drogheda'
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White Dublin tram seat. One leg is shorter than the other due to where the engine/wheel used to be. The seat back can be moved.
One day Dublin will have a tram service as efficient as the last one was when we started to close it down. In the meantime we are left to admire this seat. At the end of the line, the back-rest was simply turned to face the other way.
The tramways began operating in 1872 and the very last line closed in 1959. The last tram in the city proper left Nelson’s Pillar in 1949. The tram barely made it, as the Irish Times reported: “Tram No. 252, the last one, had struggled free from the clutches of thousands of souvenir hunters in Westmoreland Street and had set out for Blackrock; two hours later it crawled into its home depot. The tram’s seats were gone, windows smashed, side panelling ripped away, still accompanied by a roaring, singing, hooting crowd, which had to be forcibly restrained by police reinforcements from breaking into the Blackrock depot.”
LMODA poster for Aer Lingus service from Dublin to Edinburgh showing a picture of Dublin along O'Connell Street and Bridge showing buses, pedestrians and cars with Nelson's Pillar in view in the background. Captions include 'New Winter Service to Dublin from Edinburgh' at the top and a white box with red writing saying 'Single Fare £6.7s Return Fare £11.9s 17 Day Excursion Fare £8.5s'
LMODA colour poster for the Aer Lingus service from London to Dublin showing a Rolls Royce on the runway beside a plane wing with an Aer Lingus plane visible in the background. Poster is captioned in purple writing 'London - Dublin from £13.18. tourist return' at the top and at the bottom 'fly by Aer Lingus Irish Air Lines, Viscount, Rolls-Royce propeller turbines'.
Strange as it now seems, air travel was once perceived as a glamorous activity. This elegant poster advertises the Aer Lingus service between London and Dublin.
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A black and white photograph of Dublin airport.
The airport was a British Royal Flying Corps base during World War I. It was taken over by the Air Corps when Ireland gained independence. Work commenced on the terminal in 1938 after the Government was persuaded to support “such an elaborate plan” despite the fact that annual passenger numbers were only in the hundreds. The tiered design and curvilinear forms echo the lines of the great ocean-going liners.
LMODA colour photo of Dublin along the Liffey showing the Ha’penny Bridge, Four Courts and traffic captioned ‘Aer Lingus Irish Airlines’ underneath with a shamrock.
LMODA grey Almex ticket machine used by bus conductors on Dublin buses. On the bottom is says 'Typ A 1850 NR 170927'
This ticket machine was a common sight for most Dubliners, along with the two-man bus crew of driver and conductor. When Dublin Bus was born in 1987 it was the beginning of the end for bus conductors and their ticket machines. While most conductors were retrained as drivers, a few stayed on, with one conductor still serving the 20b route as late as 2005.
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Green vinyl bag with white stripe. Green letters read "Aer Lingus" with plane and shamrock images
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