Shops you miss

mikedublin · 06-10-2015 1:38pm #1

Anyone have any favourite shops they remember from the past that are not there anymore ?

My own favourite ones included The Kylemore bakery on Baggot Street which used to do the best cream buns and doughnuts. Also the bookshop in the Jervis shopping centre, and the Virgin megastore that used to be on the quays near O'Connell Bridge. There was also the old Chapters 2nd hand bookstore on Abbey Street.

I also miss the Roaches Stores which used to be on Henry Street (where Debenhams is now). And Superquinn which used to be in Blackrock shopping centre. I also miss the independent little corner newsagents, most of them seem to have been taken over by chains like centra and spar.

Anyone got any memories of shops they used to like ?

L1011 · 06-10-2015 1:55pm

The second hand games shop under the railway bridge on Talbot Street. Chapters before it moved and had the two buildings always seemed much better than the new, tidy, sensible Parnell Street branch. Peats in the previous location before where it closed down (others side of the road).

D2, because they actually had clothes in most sizes available at all times. G2 the skate shop because I could buy shoes that fitted me there.

Centra and Spar are franchise brands - its usually the original owner still owning and running the shop.

batman_oh · 06-10-2015 2:02pm

Original Chapters set up was amazing. I also loved Virgin Megastores and spent hours in there growing up!
Gamezone on Talbot Street was somewhere I spent a bit of time (and knew the owner fairly well), Gamesworld that migrated from Chapters to Liffey Street used to be cool. Hot game selling chick and I did my work experience in school there.
The Move Swap Shop on Talbot Street was a great place for random stuff (and porn :pac:)

Ralf and Florian · 06-10-2015 3:13pm

Might this thread be better suited to the Dublin city section?

L1011 · 06-10-2015 3:26pm

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Might this thread be better suited to the Dublin city section?

Absolutely nothing limiting people to Dublin. I miss the fairly quirky bookshop in Dungloe, only closed recently.

fryup · 06-10-2015 6:55pm

roches stores in limerick and the smell of freshly baked bread wafting up from the bakery downstairs

Rubberlegs · 07-10-2015 11:44am

Fitzmaurices in Waterford, the most amazing sweet counter ever.

fiachr_a · 07-10-2015 6:57pm

Dunkin donuts.

whiskeyman · 08-10-2015 10:06am

Forbidden Planet on Dawson Street.
Virgin Megastore on Aston Quay
Game on Grafton St
Chapters on Abbey St (the original one as mentioned above)
Tower records on it's original location
Bewleys (the originals on Grafton / Westmoreland)
Hector Gray on Liffey Street
Pat Chaneys Soccer Shop on Georges Street.

That was pretty much my youth in town!

09-10-2015 11:22am

May Caffrey's for Ice cream, Kells Co. Meath

mahoganygas · 09-10-2015 11:30am

Catherine's bakery on Meath Street, Dublin 8.

It has probably been 20+ years since I was there. My nan used to bring me there every week as a kid.

If I close my eyes I can still taste the bread rolls.

Nothing has ever come close since.

ohnonotgmail · 09-10-2015 5:21pm

fiachr_a wrote: »

Dunkin donuts.

I used to work there. You're better off.

ohnonotgmail · 09-10-2015 5:22pm

mahoganygas wrote: »

Catherine's bakery on Meath Street, Dublin 8.

It has probably been 20+ years since I was there. My nan used to bring me there every week as a kid.

If I close my eyes I can still taste the bread rolls.

Nothing has ever come close since.

Is that gone? I remember that place fondly as well.

Tony H · 09-10-2015 5:39pm

Thompson's Bakery in Patrick Street in Cork , their cakes were so good ,Woolworths had a great shop as well ,from sweets and ice cream to fishing tackle , Days tackle shop in Bowling Green Street in Cork was a great shop as well ,ah happy days .

lord lucan · 09-10-2015 5:55pm

Barretts toy shop on Mary St in Dublin, old school toy shop that we used to go into whenever we were in town.

batman_oh · 12-10-2015 11:24am

lord lucan wrote: »

Barretts toy shop on Mary St in Dublin, old school toy shop that we used to go into whenever we were in town.

Used to get all my Transformers there as a kid. I remember there was a Crazy Prices up that way with a toy shop too

FelineOverLord · 12-10-2015 12:48pm

I miss Bewleys in Limerick and all the clothes shops that have closed down. I used to enjoy browsing in the shops then having some lunch in Bewleys to decide what I was going to buy. Now there's very little choice of clothes and there's nowhere to eat that's even close to as nice as Bewleys was.

carltonleon · 12-10-2015 12:53pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Is that gone? I remember that place fondly as well.

Ah Catherines bread, mmmmm.
My Dad used to get our bread in there twice a week and I can remember the batch bread with the CatSkin (Really Skinny) Heels, delicious.
If I remember correctly the wrapper was White, Purple and Orange but I am open to correction on that.

L1011 · 12-10-2015 1:24pm

Catherines was still open when Google went past last summer - has it actually closed?

mahoganygas · 12-10-2015 1:30pm

L1011 wrote: »

Catherines was still open when Google went past last summer - has it actually closed?

I just assumed it was gone.
I wonder how many years they have been in business. It's great to see.

I'll take a stroll up there this weekend.

George White · 12-10-2015 8:20pm

Harris' Toymaster, Bray.
Owens' in Bray.

jacknife · 12-10-2015 10:22pm

Dounkin Dounuts Grafton St
HMV Grafton St
Virgin Megastore Aston Quay
Chapters Abbey St
Dadalion Books South Georges St
Game Henry St

Kenpo · 14-10-2015 4:43pm

Abbey Discs.
The DVD shop on Parnell street (near back entrance of ILAC centre).

Kenpo · 14-10-2015 4:43pm

Abbey Discs.
The DVD shop on Parnell street (near back entrance of ILAC centre).

Amalgam · 16-10-2015 10:23am

The Abbey Street 'Mall' where the food emporium is now. Borderline Records started out there, along with a few others. I bought my first biker jacket in that mall, during an extended Heavy Metal phase.. when I mitched from school, I went there occasionally, for a cuppa, place was dead as a doornail in the morning.

road_high · 18-10-2015 1:27pm

Any time I was in England I used love Woolworths (my parents remember them in Ireland). Sold a bit of everything and wasn't expensive either.

George White · 18-10-2015 1:51pm

road_high wrote: »

Any time I was in England I used love Woolworths (my parents remember them in Ireland). Sold a bit of everything and wasn't expensive either.

Poundland essentially usurped them.

5rtytry56 · 18-10-2015 4:54pm

W. J. Owen Main Street Bray.

like Marks Models, where to buy your flying r/c aircraft as well as airfix, paints and glue etc. .

The nearest shop now, for revell kits is Toymaster Dunlaoighre Shopping Mall poor alternative. Marks Models have vacated this location some time ago.

L1011 · 18-10-2015 7:11pm

road_high wrote: »

Any time I was in England I used love Woolworths (my parents remember them in Ireland). Sold a bit of everything and wasn't expensive either.

Heatons is worryingly similar, bar the newsagents bit (and their DVD selection is significantly worse).

uch · 22-10-2015 4:37pm

Ann's Hot Bread shop in Dún Laoghaire, nicest bread and cakes on the planet in the late 70's

Lumps Bumps n Blues · 24-10-2015 10:58am

The health food shop in Tubbercurry was great.

Colser · 24-10-2015 11:10am

Roches Stores in Cork City.I loved that restaurant,you would get a cake stand of cakes and just eat the ones you wanted and the rest went back.Imagine doing that now with health and safety. They had the nicest trifle cakes in little white tubs and the cream donuts were delicious.

Lumps Bumps n Blues · 24-10-2015 11:26am

All the Roches Stores were great in their own right - I don't think there's any shop that quite replaces them.

I'll miss Boyers too, a bit of an 'old lady' shop in a way, but I got lots of household stuff in there over the years, and lots of costume jewellery too.

An Riabhach · 03-11-2015 5:01pm

Sounds Of Music,Nenagh.
O'Connors Nenagh Shopping Centre.(still nothing has become of it since)
Gough,O'Keefe & Naughton,Nenagh.

I should also mention a little convenience store & filling station in my little rural homeland of Ballinaclough,just outside Nenagh,which ceased to exist about 10 years ago.We always used to go into that shop on our way to school and on our way home.

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