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So much has changed since this photograph was taken, it is hard to know where to start. Most of the buildings on Spanish Parade have been demolished and replaced, and the car park there has been pedestrianised. Flaherty Markets were in business on Long Walk at the time. As you move around the end of Long Walk towards the docks, all of the buildings there have been replaced by apartment blocks.

Since Galway Docks were first constructed, they have undergone many changes. In the decade before the last world war, when transalantic liners were regular callers at the port, and when a fairly thriving coastal trade was being carried out, plans were prepared for the port so that Galway might cater more efficiently for sea traffic. There was a major scheme to build the Dún Aengus dock, the new pier, and to deepen the channel from 1937 to 1939. This meant the removal of thousands of tons of mud, soft materials, and granite. Most of this material was dumped near Hare Island. The work took longer than it should, mostly because of industrial disputes, but it was finally completed in 1939. Two units of the contractor’s equipment, a rock breaker and a floating crane, lay in the Commercial Dock throughout the war years.