Tag Archive: LNWR World War One

Aug 04

Dublin Docklands at War : 1914 to 1918

Troops at Spencer Dock 1914

“The Whole world is in a state of chassis” Dublin Port in a time of War: 1914 to 1918  “…his Majesty’s Government declared to the German Government that a state of war exists between Great Britain and Germany as from 11 p.m. on August 4, 1914.”  With these words Ireland, as part of the United Kingdom …

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Aug 29

“Poor Tommy worked on the Railway” : The London and North Western Railway, North Wall and the Great War

LNWR Hotel 1886

Along North Wall Quay, situated between the modern developments at Spencer Dock and the shell of what was to be the Anglo-Irish Bank HQ are two somewhat incongruous red brick buildings. These are the former Hotel and Railway Station of the London and North Western Railway Company, an employer of over 90,000 men and women …

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