Recently, I bought an old second-hand copy of And Nelson on his Pillar, a retrospective history of the Pillar that was published a decade on from the explosion in 1966.
From buying second-hand books over the years, I know that anything and everything can fall out of them. Old currency, bus passes, mass cards, match tickets and you name it. Still, I was surprised when I opened this book to see a picture of three kids on top of the monument, looking down over Dublin from the viewing platform! Not alone this, but the youngsters were named as Robert, Stephen and Russell. Taken in 1959, it’s highly likely they are still among us today, but they could be anywhere in the world.I’ve a hunch the kids might be English, owing to the fact that they refer to Nelson’s Column and not Nelson’s Pillar.
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‘Robert, Stephen and Russell on top of Nelson’s Column, June 1959.”
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Great! Gives all of us Dubliners who never climbed the pillar in time before 1966 a chance to see what it would have looked like from up there!
No idea who they are, but picture is very useful to show height of old railings.
Definitely English. You can tell from the fact that they polish their sandals.
That’s wonderful.Right on!
Russell would have been a highly uncommon christian name in 1950 Dublin- I would guess they were English too
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