Ep 032 Lorcan Film Unit Remastered

This is the thirty 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 - 00:29 Leslie and Les Crowe, plus other boy looking at wall on Santry Woods
00:30 - 00:42 Boys walking past Santry Stadium
00:43 - 00:48 Les Crowe moving bushes on wall Swords Road?
00:49 - 00:50 Wood View Sign
00:51 - 01:03 Leslie Crowe moving bushes on wall on Swords Road? - was there a building there?
01:04 - 01:18 Cows in field, Santry Woods Eileen and Anne Crowe
01:19 - 01:25 People walking out of Santry Stadium. Fossetts Circus sign on the right
01:26 - 01:29 4 men standing around, Les Crowe, Gerard Moffit, Ray McCabe one other
01:30 - 01:38 Four men moving coffin through hole in the wall, opposite Santry Close
01:39 - 01:42 Man giving instruction to others moving coffin. Opposite Santry Close
01:43 - 01:49 4 men moving coffin, Les Crowe one of the men, opposite Santry Close
01:50 - 01:59 Leslie Crowe Snr dressed up
02:00 - 02:03 Shot of hole in the wall.
02:04 - 02:08 Signs for Hole in the wall
02:09 - 02:26 Shots of Santry Woods Shot of Stables? Monument to Horse? In background Anne Crowe
02:27 - 02:31 Sign Santry Drive Slowly, Old Swords Road?, children, Miriam, Eithne, Eileen Les Crowe plus Mary? and Sandra?
02:32 - 02:35 Swiss Cottage Pub Santry, Old Swords Road?
02:36 - 02:40 Old swords road, Old Post office?
02:41 - 02:45 Gates to Santry Woods? Miriam and Joseph Ryan walking along
02:46 - 02:57 “These Lands are poisoned” sign, not sure where, pans to Les Crowe and Michael O’Callaghan
02:58 - 03:01 Miriam Crowe and Les Crowe with Michael O’Callaghan walking through park
03:02 - 03:15 Shots of old house, from the other side of 1:47:22.
03:16 - 03:53 Several shots of house, with stables on left Santry Woods, Children wearing same clothes.

[paullyons]

Another great look into the past the house was gone slightly before my time but the rest of the film is so recognisable. Thanks so much for this 😊

[IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Nice glimpse of a Great Northern Railway bus still in its blue/cream livery @ 2:33, such a pity about the loss of Santry House but great to see in these clips.

[razortube]

@01:30 the men are re-enacting the funeral of Charles Domville
"At Santry Demesne about one hundred years ago Sir Compton Domville gave orders to all gate lodge keepers on the estate not to allow his son, Charles, to gain access to any part of the estate under pain of instant dismissal. One day, as Sir Compton was walking down the avenue, he met his son, Charles on a hackney car driven by a Dublin Jarvey. He stopped him and asked how he got inside the walls. Charles made answer and said "I got in, the way you will not get out when you die, " (meaning through the gate of course) When his father died Charles remembered what his father had done to him. He locked all the gates so that the funeral could not pass through. He broke down the wall between Santry and the front gate and brought the funeral through the opening to Santry Church yard."

[paulfogarty]

Amazing !... even the ivy - covered wall looks like a familiar old friend....

[razortube]

Santry Court burned down on the 24th of October 1941, It was initially planned to be converted into a Sanitorium with plans for dedicated housing to be provided to patients split and group according to their ailment. During the Emergency as we called WW2 it was agree upon by the Domville Family that parts of the lands could be used on the condition that they were looked after and any damages to the property repaired. The house fire was said to be by the Minister of Defence caused by a faulty Chimney Flute.
After the fire the Minister was sued successfully by the Domville Estate and the Grangegorman management board for the sum of 25, 000 pounds at the time. In his defence the Minister stated that fire damage was not included in their agreement

[meremortal]

Was this Santry? The opening scene where there's a stadium behind a grey wall certainly looks like Santry to me.

[disoneleg]

Shame the buildings were not preserved and renovated.

[vincentbyrne]

Cars were nice and modestly sized back then. Now they have turned into oversized, space-consuming brutes :(