While walking along the Quay from the White Star Line Office to the Cunard Office a red brick building on the opposite side of the street can be seen. This is known as the Old Soldiers's Home. It has served as a premises of the Royal Cork Yacht Club, a Post Office, a Soldiers' Home and Sailors' Rest and probably most importantly as an Emigrants' Home. In the 1880's Charlotte Grace O'Brien conducted a campaign to try and improve the stark conditions that emigrants had to endure in their efforts to get to the New World. She set up the Emigrants' Home to provide clean healthy conditions where emigrants could stay without fear of being set upon by greedy opportunists who would demand exorbitant rates for food and lodgings that were little more than gruel and squalor. Miss O'Brien was the daughter of W. Smith O'Brien a well known Irish Patriot. The "Kiosk" on this pavement recently in use as a taxi-cab base operated in the 1890s as a beverage and refreshments stall.