The boys head up to the playground
Fire and Water: The Burning of the Blackrock Centre, County Dublin, Ireland - 12th August 2017
We're roaming around the Frascati Centre in Blackrock when clouds of smoke are spotted billowing from the top of the Blackrock Centre, over the road. It's not, as the car-park security dude suggests just some standard blowing off of fumes or air conditioning or something, but turns out to be an actual fire on the roof of the building which, at one point, looks like it's getting pretty serious. By the time Nosher gets there, the shopping centre is being evacuated and there are five or six units of the Dublin fire brigade in attendance. Later on we meet up with Wayne and Caro down in Dun Laoghaire and go out for dinner in the evening with Evelyn and Jen Mac. The next day, it's time for a swim down at Seafort Parade and then tea at Mao's in Dun Laoghaire.
next album: Isobel's Rock'n'Roll Half Marathon, Dublin, Ireland - 13th August 2017
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Harry's on the bus in Deansgrange
Harry and Isobel in Blackrock
Fred walks ahead
Blackrock DART station
Harry's on the path to the park
New graffiti down by the DART station
The path from Blackrock DART station
Some Liverpool ironwork
The Blackrock Park band stand
Harry and Fred on the recently-restored band stand
Isobel roams around
There's a plant growing out of an old signpost
On the steps back up to the High Street
There's an old shelter or hut in the park
The Frascati Centre is being redeveloped
The Frascati car park is now a hole in the ground
A poster has been screwed on awkwardly
Fred finds something hilarious in Marks and Spencer
We're tragically in MacDonald's
Smoke billows from the roof of the Blackrock Centre
More smoke piles off the roof
The fire brigade is on the scene
A fireman sticks a head out of the window
There's a queue of fire engines on the street
People are evacuated from the building
People stream out onto the street
Somebody leaves a hairdresser's in a hurry
The Dublin Fire Brigade mills around
People watch the action unfold
Hoses are hauled up to the second floor
The fire chief is on the phone
Firemen mill around
A hose is hauled up to an upstairs office
Hoses are unreeled
Water leaks onto the street
Isobel bumps into an old friend from school
Blackrock High Street returns to normality
Graffiti on the remains of the swimming pool
Graffiti close up
The winkies and the Blackrock swimming pool wall
'Keep the pavement dry' in Dun Laoghaire
Someone reads a book on the clifftop
The Harrington's outside bar
Wayne chats about stuff
A flotilla of little boats sets sail
Caro and Isobel outside the Harrington
Wayne takes the boys down to the sea
Finn, Harry and Fred down by the waterline
Harry sits on a rock
We explore around the concrete of the shore
Finn and Fred
The old changing area is now locked up
Fred scales a cannon
Harry, Finn and Fred on a canon
Victorian people
Wayne gets the boys ice cream
Derelict house in Monkstown
More dereliction
Flowers lead up to the Scary Mary
The 'scary Mary' on Oliver Plunkett Avenue
Evelyn and Isobel head into Dun Laoghaire
Isobel peers out of the window of the café
Jan and Isobel chat
The sun goes down
The first faint noise of gently moving water
More derelict swimming pools
The derelict swimming pools of Dun Laoghaire
Swimming pool dereliction
The Promenade Bistro
Jen Mac, Isobel and Evelyn in the Promenade Bistro
We walk back into the centre of Dun Laoghaire
We end up in a bar looking for Jake's leaving party
Harry hangs on a fence
Isobel and the boys in Blackrock Park
Harry chases the ball
Fred contemplates the sea
The gang head down to the water
Evelyn helps Fred
Fred gets out because it's freezing
Jamie and Isobel swim around
James bobs about in Dublin Bay
Harry clings to a wall
Fred on the DART wall
Harry looks up the tracks
Ever-changing graffiti
Someone sits on the sea wall
James has got grass on his head for some reason
Harry tries the grass wig out
Fred has a go with the grass/moss hairpiece
A colonial building in Dun Laoghaire
Inspecting the menu in Mao's
A reflective photo
Fred's got straws for antennae
Outside Mao's in Dun Laoghaire
Evelyn gives Harry a shoulder ride
Dun Laoghaire town hall
Waiting to cross outside the Forty Foot
Hanging baskets on the town hall
There's some kind of hen night in town
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The boys head up to the playground
The boys head up to the playground
Harry's on the bus in Deansgrange
Harry and Isobel in Blackrock
Fred walks ahead
Blackrock DART station
Harry's on the path to the park
New graffiti down by the DART station
The path from Blackrock DART station
Some Liverpool ironwork
The Blackrock Park band stand
Harry and Fred on the recently-restored band stand
Isobel roams around
There's a plant growing out of an old signpost
On the steps back up to the High Street
There's an old shelter or hut in the park
The Frascati Centre is being redeveloped
The Frascati car park is now a hole in the ground
A poster has been screwed on awkwardly
Fred finds something hilarious in Marks and Spencer
We're tragically in MacDonald's
Smoke billows from the roof of the Blackrock Centre
More smoke piles off the roof
The fire brigade is on the scene
A fireman sticks a head out of the window
There's a queue of fire engines on the street
People are evacuated from the building
People stream out onto the street
Somebody leaves a hairdresser's in a hurry
The Dublin Fire Brigade mills around
People watch the action unfold
Hoses are hauled up to the second floor
The fire chief is on the phone
Firemen mill around
A hose is hauled up to an upstairs office
Hoses are unreeled
Water leaks onto the street
Isobel bumps into an old friend from school
Blackrock High Street returns to normality
Graffiti on the remains of the swimming pool
Graffiti close up
The winkies and the Blackrock swimming pool wall
'Keep the pavement dry' in Dun Laoghaire
Someone reads a book on the clifftop
The Harrington's outside bar
Wayne chats about stuff
A flotilla of little boats sets sail
Caro and Isobel outside the Harrington
Wayne takes the boys down to the sea
Finn, Harry and Fred down by the waterline
Harry sits on a rock
We explore around the concrete of the shore
Finn and Fred
The old changing area is now locked up
Fred scales a cannon
Harry, Finn and Fred on a canon
Victorian people
Wayne gets the boys ice cream
Derelict house in Monkstown
More dereliction
Flowers lead up to the Scary Mary
The 'scary Mary' on Oliver Plunkett Avenue
Evelyn and Isobel head into Dun Laoghaire
Isobel peers out of the window of the café
Jan and Isobel chat
The sun goes down
The first faint noise of gently moving water
More derelict swimming pools
The derelict swimming pools of Dun Laoghaire
Swimming pool dereliction
The Promenade Bistro
Jen Mac, Isobel and Evelyn in the Promenade Bistro
We walk back into the centre of Dun Laoghaire
We end up in a bar looking for Jake's leaving party
Harry hangs on a fence
Isobel and the boys in Blackrock Park
Harry chases the ball
Fred contemplates the sea
The gang head down to the water
Evelyn helps Fred
Fred gets out because it's freezing
Jamie and Isobel swim around
James bobs about in Dublin Bay
Harry clings to a wall
Fred on the DART wall
Harry looks up the tracks
Ever-changing graffiti
Someone sits on the sea wall
James has got grass on his head for some reason
Harry tries the grass wig out
Fred has a go with the grass/moss hairpiece
A colonial building in Dun Laoghaire
Inspecting the menu in Mao's
A reflective photo
Fred's got straws for antennae
Outside Mao's in Dun Laoghaire
Evelyn gives Harry a shoulder ride
Dun Laoghaire town hall
Waiting to cross outside the Forty Foot
Hanging baskets on the town hall
There's some kind of hen night in town