Come Here To Me!

A lovely looking plaque on Upper Stephens Street, just off Aungier Street which celebrates the location of the world’s ‘first pneumatic tyre factory’.

(c) David Hawgood

From Frank Hopskin’s great Hidden Dublin:

(Scottish-born) Dunlop came to live in Dublin in April 1891, (first in) Mount Merrion and then 46 Ailesbury Road where he lived for the reminder of his life. He resigned as director of the Pneuematic Tyre Co. and Booths Cycle Agency in 1895 and sold the bulk of his shares in the company … Dunlop, whose invention revolutionised the bicycle and motor car, died on 23 October 1921 and is buried in Deansgrange Cemetery.