Collection: Our Own Place Photographic Project >> Mills Street [graphic]
|Main Creator:||Hughes, Omer , photographer|
Artisans Dwellings at Mills Street.Mills Stree, named after Councillor Mills,off Cross Avenue,Dun Laoghuire was built circa 1904 by the Local Authority. The houses were part of an extensive house building programme to provide proper housing for the working classes who heretofore existed in overcrowded slums accompanied by disease,cholera and smallpox.Constructed of yellow brick with red brick detailing and granite sills,these houses could be better described as flats. Each flat had its own front door at street level with every alternate door leading up stairs to a top flat. However, sometime after the completion of this scheme,it was reported that sveral of the Mills Streethouses remained vacant because the rent of three shillings per week was too expensive for the average labouring man.
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Project sponsored by RTÉ and Fuji Photo Film (Ireland) Ltd.
Film number 13A ; frame number: 14A
Dunlaoghaire Borough Historical Society;
Physical description: 1 photograph ; 15 x 10cm.
Geographic Coverage: Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Province of Leinster, Ireland.
|Contained in:||Our Own Place Photographic Project|
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Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.