Crampton Buildings

[avcah]

Thanks jimmymac....all loved the photo...going around world as we speak.....

[Polito45]

My great grandparents lived in Crampton Buildings for a few years when they were first built. They were there at least untill 1894. This is the info I have on them -

The Crampton Buildings were built in 1891 by the Dublin Artisans Dwelling Company.

jimmie posted this before -
"In the late nineteenth century housing for the Dublin working classes was very sparse so in 1876 the Dublin Artisan Dwelling Company was established with the aim of building houses for the tradesmen and other skilled workers of Dublin City. It had financial backing from local business's, including the Guinness family and was managed by Quaker and Protestant businessmen. Prospective tenants were carefully screened prior to being accepted to ensure that applicants were thoroughly respectable."

The Cramptons were major landowners in the Temple Bar area. Crampton Court was named for the Lord Mayor of 1758.

The old railings are still in place as you go in off Adsill's Row -

[avcah]

makes sense as his daughters after 1911 worked for guinness and they came from donnybrook before that...and we think worked for those in dublin castle as they lived in 3 palace street as well...thanks for this info..also we dont think they were always roman catholic...what number did youre family live at?

[Polito45]

They lived in No 30. The great grandfather had worked on the railway. His son worked for Guinness.
The other sons were all dockers, including my grandfather.

That address is on my great grandmother's death cert and her eldest daughter's.
They died in the fever hospital in Cork street within a week of each other in 1894.
The son who worked for Guinness gave it on his marriage cert in 1895.

Hard times, and a tough live I'd say for the men working on the docks.
When did your family live there?

[avcah]

they lived there from around 1895 also and where there untill 1913ish..one of the sons was a billard marker...but dont know where....was told it was an ok job for that time...but the rest were tailors and lived in essex and wellington quay before this....

[DamoH]

I was born and reared in the buildings upto 1984, when we moved out. Have to say they were great flats to be raised in as there is only 54 flats and everyone knew everyone, and as the old saying goes, you could leave your key in the door and be safe. They were a real working class buildings with people employed in all trades, and there were some great characters living there who brought great wit and color to the flats. They were only 2 bedroom flats, with a scullary and toilet and sitting room, some flats had outdoor tiolets, and inside the arches you'd have coal bunkers and prams. Nearly all the families were big families, averaging 5 kids plus the parents which ment that the flat was pretty crowded at dinner time. In all i had a great childhood in the flats and the surrounding area, as Temple Bar at the time was a working class area, what with Dublin Gas, ESB, P & T all having depots there and a major Dublin Bus terminus on Fleet Street too, which gave little fella's like me, great opportunity for adventure and devilment lol