Corks Changing Skyline - R and H Hall - A historic retrospective

[@adammccarthy6264]

Some hated it, but I always loved it. When you were driving into the City from the east, the skyline with the silo halls and St Finbarr's behind it was beautiful

[@tomcarr1358]

Some great photos were taken from the top of Hall's tower silo including one of the square rigger Moshulu. See the pictures in the photograph supplement to The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby entitled Learning the Ropes, an apprentice in the last of the windjammers - Page 40 - with the M V Innisfallen alongside opposite on Penrose Quay..

[@danmurphy1742]

Fantastic video and description of a building I had often seen from the Tivoli side. I would have loved a Tivoli side view.

[@dronehawk]

Next time!

[@ShayISdaGOAT]

great video hawk baiii

[@nicholadstoap6944]

If you travel down to the end of the Quay the other grain silo takes the grain in via a under ground tunnel from the hopper

[@richiehoyt8487]

That's interesting, I didn't know that. It sounds impressive. Do you happen to know, was there another big silo or elevator along there that was knocked sometime in the late '80's, or early '90's, maybe? Or it could be I'm just confabulating, or a victim of that pesky Mandela Effect?!

[@tr3c00l91]

Nice footage and lots of information!! Really well done. :) Thanks for the closeups, very interesting views. Did you have to get permission to fly so close/over the property or is that all ok since no one lives in there?

[@dronehawk]

ok as long as not flying over people.

[@richiehoyt8487]

Really nice footage, but I particularly appreciated your historical research. My childhood and formative years were spent in Cork, when this area was still the plain old 'Docks', as opposed to the 'Docklands' or (Ye Gods!) the 'Sextant Quarter', but I knew next to nothing about these buildings! The little I _had_ heard was that they were built in the interests of having a national strategic grain reserve during The Emergency (or as it is sometimes known, World War Two!) - Questionable, if completed in 1934! I think, to be honest, most people, if they thought about it at all, regarded it as a bit of an eyesore. I always liked the look of it, especially coming down Summer Hill.

[@dronehawk]

Love it , or hate it it was an imposing structure for its day ,and a remarkable feat of engineering when you consider it was built on slob land , reclaimed bog / marsh land . The foundation works alone to allow a building of this size and weight to be built here was no small achievement . It sadly is being judged now in isolation as the mills and other ancillary buildings have vanished over the years and stands stark and alone .

[@GaryHynes-im5di]

I'm disappointed that the prism building and the port of cork tower can't go up because navillus have legal problems in New York.

[@dronehawk]

That the payroll fraud thing by the irish lads ?

[@GaryHynes-im5di]

@@dronehawk yes

[@AlexJ.Goldsmith]

What the hell. but I thought the prism building was being built right now

[@jascollinscork]

WOW very interesting facts there! Some building in that back in 1934 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 it will always take a fair bit of knocking then 😬 wonder will Loftus be knocking it like the last one he done on the Quay ?

[@agri-manphotography842]

Class video 😎🤟

[@diarmuidcahalane6866]

Hall of Oats

[@richiehoyt8487]

🤦🏻🙄 😉

[@lmtt123]

I know there's nostalgia but it's brutalist architecture and needs gone. Luxury apartments instead

[@richiehoyt8487]

Just cos it's Brutalist, doesn't mean it's 'brutal'. In the context of architecture 'Brutalist' just means (characterized by) rough concrete. Doesn't mean you have to like it, of course! _I_ did, though - the building, I mean. Shipping activities moving downstream is just 'the way of it', I suppose, but to me it's sad that something couldn't (or, wink~wink, "couldn't") be done with it, but at least there's housing going in there and at least it will bring some life to what was, in fairness, (at least in 'my day'🕸️), a bit of a dingy, not to say, dodgy, area... Honestly, I would have preferred to see more 'social' housing going in there, but, well, at the end of the day, property developers aren't about housing, as such - they're about the bottom line, and that's fair enough. Not to mention, better to have sumptious _'apport~ments,_ than thrown~up, um, 'Brutalist' high~rise slums, that end up having to be demolished themselves, 40 years down the road..! Btw, how weird is that? The two of us watching the same video at the same time?! Maybe I should do a 'Kwik~Pik' this week, lol!

[@dronehawk]

I wouldn't call it brutalist , it was built to perform a function , the storing of grain , which it did successfully for many years . It was never trying to be anything more than what it was . It was impressive and imposing when built but times move on.