Photography 101 : Day 2 – Street

I live near Cork city, whose main street is St. Patrick’s Street, or  Patrick Street, and if I walk down the length of Patrick Street, cross over St. Patrick’s Bridge, I come to Bridge Street, and then climb up a steep hill called….you guessed it…St. Patrick’s Hill – our city fathers lacked a little bit of imagination in the naming of the neighbourhood, but that was a long time ago:

Most authorities agree that St. Patrick’s Street was formed in 1783. It is not shown on Rocque’s map of 1774 but there are entries for the street in Lucas’ directory of 1787. During the 1780s many of the streets that now form the city centre of Cork were formed by the spanning of the river channels between the islands of the Lee.

Here is a view of Patrick Street, looking down from Patrick’s Hill

Looking down from above