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Wed 03 Mar 2007Swastika chimneyThe brick chimney on the former Spring Grove laundry site - and before that the site of Swastika Laundry - on Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, is a protected structure.The original Swastika Laundry was established in 1912 and stayed in business until as recently as the late 1960s, when its trucks travelled around Dublin emblazoned with the symbol appropriated by the Nazis. In 1939, the company changed its name to Swastika Laundry (1912).