Victorian beauty in a class of its own

Tommy Barker is buttered up by a period home that is warm and welcoming.

ALAN PARKER came to Cork to shoot his Limerick slum scenes for the movie Angela's Ashes but he also picked up on some of Cork's more gentrified homes on his visit to the substitute city.

Among those homes featured was the exterior of 1 Ardskeagh Villas, on hilly Gardiner's Hill near St Luke's Cross in Cork; it was seen in all its glories in the film as a callow young lad came delivering coal to the door.