Ep 042 Lorcan Film Unit Remastered

This is the forty second instalment of the remastered Lorcan Film Unit Videos. There is a total of 10 hours worth of film that we hope to publish over time. Unfortunately Leslie Crowe who was the Director and creator of much of this content is no longer with us. So we are hoping to get your help to figure out the places and the names of the people he captured.

If you turn on the Closed Captions "CC" on the video to see what we know about the footage so far.

00:25 - 00:36 Boys riding horses, not sure where
00:37 - 00:40 Girls standing in street, Magenta Cres
00:41 - 00:47 Boys and girls outside Eugenes Bar, Santry
00:48 - 01:04 Gaelic match in the park, not sure where
01:05 - 01:11 Man playing guitar to two girls, Santry Villas
01:12 - 01:18 Boys climbing felled tree, Santry Villas
01:19 - 01:23 Green and yellow? Flag at half mast, several shots not sure where
01:24 - 01:29 Hearse and funeral procession, not sure where
01:30 - 01:44 Men carrying coffin, not sure where, Glasnevin?
01:45 - 01:49 Boys carrying floral wreaths
01:50 - 01:51 Closeup shot a man, not sure who, Glasnevin?
01:52 - 01:55 Man (Harris) walking out of house, Magenta Cres?
01:56 - 02:15 Gerrard Moffit running down road, Les Crowe giving him a bottle of water, Santry Avenue
02:16 - 02:33 Man thatching roof, not sure where
02:34 - 02:35 Window, not sure where
02:36 - 02:42 Electricity sub station, Santry Avenue?.
02:43 - 02:49 Shot of houses and church from where Santry Community Centre is now?
02:50 - 02:54 Shot looking out onto Old Swords Road, School House Lane
02:55 - 03:04 Two shots of the roof of a building (Swiss Cottages)
03:05 - 03:09 Man riding bike up hill past Santry Woods entrance?
03:10 - 03:13 Private, no parking sign, on gate into Santry Woods
03:14 - 03:15 Poisoned land sign, on gate in Santry Woods
03:16 - 03:22 McCairns Motors Limited, Old Swords Road?
03:23 - 03:31 A 6 Miles to Swords marker, not sure where
03:32 - 03:36 A man walking down the Old Swords Road by Santry Woods, Santry Close on right
03:37 - 03:44 The End

[paulfogarty]

Amazing footage, you can also see the power station chimney across the fields in Ballymun at 2:50.

[paullyons]

Another lovely trip down a familiar memory lane ❤😊

[santrif]

At 0:25, this field was known as Brockin's Field; it was at the back of Magenta Crescent and Magenta Hall. The Oakpark estate and the N1 road now cover part of it. The houses in the distance are in Lorcan.
At 0:36, I'm guessing at some of the names: from right to left, the blond girl may be Linda Curtis; next could be Bernadette Devine; I'm not sure about the next two; the small girl standing behind the lamppost is Caroline Taylor; I don't know the final one. The location is Magenta Crescent.
At 0:41, on the left, is Esther Corrigan, on the right Caroline Taylor,
At 0:45, on the left is Declan Wilson, and on the right, I think, is Tony Taylor, both from Magenta Crescent.
At 1:53, that's Paddy Harris outside of his house, No. 1 Magenta Crescent.
At 2:16, that could be the thatched cottage at Dardistown near Dublin Airport; it's just before the entrance to the Dardistown Cemetery.
At 2:36, the electrical substation at the end of School House Lane, Santry,
At 2:42, the old church hall in School House Lane the main entrance to it was from Church Lane; behind it was the vicar's house and then St. Pappins Church. We used to call this place The Bond after the man who looked after it; I don't think his name was James.
At 2:55, Kelly's cottage was on the corner of School House Lane opposite the Swiss Cottage Pub; this cottage is now the front part of Meagher Pharmacy Santry.
At 3:23, this mile-marker was on the Swords Road, on the hill just past where McDonald's, Omni Park now is.

[cougarash]

0.29 i believe this field to be a the back of the then, newly built magenta crescent. Where the M50 is now

[paullyons]

I’m afraid not, nobody looks familiar to me.