Are you from Blanchardstown

Nevyn · 24-08-2010 1:55pm

LadyW wrote: »

That's a bit bizarre, isn't it? :eek:

You should see what parts are Clonsilla, the land parcels are far from regular shaped.

mysons · 24-08-2010 2:41pm

Nolimits wrote: »

Born and reared in Blanchardstown, my dad (mid sixties) was also born in Blanchardstown, (near the shanty) as was his mother. That's as far back as we know for sure, but my dad thinks one of his Grandparents (cant remember which one) was also from Blanch.

Try the 1901 1911 census for the family name,we did and found out my wifes family name is in it and the address in Clonsilla.

spooky donkey · 24-08-2010 2:43pm

ah just another blow in from the south side. but im here years now.

Bookkeeper09 · 24-08-2010 2:46pm

A V A wrote: »

cant remember what the name of the shop was were near buy is now, on the closilla road opposite the credit union ,

Brophys

LadyW · 24-08-2010 2:53pm

I think I spent all of my pocket money in Brophys when I was a kid.
The 10p Lucky Bags were brilliant !

RoryMurphyJnr · 24-08-2010 3:02pm

Blanch Lad through and through
Lived there from 1971 (Coolmine Close) until I moved to Bray 6 years ago
Went to Xaviers and Coolmine
I remember Bowlers field and the big house they had, all gone now
Remember when Eddie Nuzum was in the fields before the Centra and Off Licence on the Clonsilla Rd
Remember before Eddie Nuzum when it was called the Tinkers Field
Remember Malones shop/coal dealers beside the railway line that you could get about 1000 1/2 penny sweets for 50p
Remember when the 39b was the express bus to the city centre
and so on

R

LadyW · 24-08-2010 3:49pm

BlanchLibrary posted this at the beginning of August (hope he/she doesn't mind me re-posting it here.) I thought it might be worth another mention as we all seem to be enjoying a trip down memory lane !

Old Photographs of the Dublin 15 area : a Talk by Jim Lacey Wednesday 25th August at 7pm:

glossy · 24-08-2010 4:24pm

not from this side, im from the Whest!! but travelled diff countries and been living in Clonsilla nearly 7 years,,

Just want to say love reading about how Bllanch area past - present

thanks LadyW will deff look at the old pics

thomasj · 24-08-2010 5:41pm

It feels like the closing down of the greyhound has knocked the soul out of blanch, the village doesn't feel the same without it!

I remember doyles well! (opposite sams) the old lady in there was the nicest. I remember when mace was called today tonight! I don't remember what it was before then! I think the property place next door was always there!

With regards to buses (remember the big green ones!) the 39b was the best as it skipped
and flew
passed the esso garage on the navan road. I used to hate the 39A as it didn't go my way and the 39 always took forever to get back to blakestown. I
always remembered them always changing the 39
route. One day you'd be standing on one side of the
road going to town, the next week you'd be on the
other!

Remember when people in corduff had the 38C a bus route as good as the 39! It just disappeared one day! The 38a went to ladyswell and the 70 went through mulhuddart village and the nipper that was the 220!

mysons · 24-08-2010 6:33pm

Does anyone remember the snow we got in "I think it was"81 Cars,Buses,Trucks abandoned everywhere,roads like ice rings.
The drifts that big we could jump out my mothers bedroom window(ok so not that big).
My brother in law lived in Godamendy and we walked up to his house a couple of days later and was that snow deep but it was great fun.

A V A · 24-08-2010 7:53pm

god how old are people on this thread hahaha :P

Bulmers · 24-08-2010 8:06pm

The Friday night "GAA" at Russell Park..an institution in it's day,if you didn't get tickets and get in on a friday night, you may aswell go home and watch Gaybo with the folks as everyone in blanch would be in there..great nights

...No name club at Brigids church..

...Godleys clothes shop in Blanch village where the old AIB used to be opposite Greyhound...

the big traveller site where the shopping centre is now,it was huge..

..remember when the new N3 was being built and the massive earthmovers that were going across the snugboro road..

..the old "boreen" road to Clonee when clonee was the countryside and just had it's 5 pubs ( i'm from Blanchardstown and live there now..!")

..anyone from the corduff remember the big mansion in the park in corduff..was burned down on sunday morning, remember that well..

..anyone else from the Corduff / Edgewood Lawn / Brookhaven area remember the friday nights down on the bridge in the valley..used to be 100s of us down there..

those were the days...

Doogieboogie · 24-08-2010 8:25pm

mysons wrote: »

Does anyone remember the snow we got in "I think it was"81 Cars,Buses,Trucks abandoned everywhere,roads like ice rings.
The drifts that big we could jump out my mothers bedroom window(ok so not that big).
My brother in law lived in Godamendy and we walked up to his house a couple of days later and was that snow deep but it was great fun.

I remember my dad had to dig a tunnel between the back door and the coal bunker, it was about a foot taller than my head!!

Ah, the memories! This is a great thread!

thomasj · 24-08-2010 8:37pm

Mod request: can this great thread be stickied please

Zaph · 24-08-2010 8:51pm

thomasj wrote: »

Mod request: can this great thread be stickied please

It's an active enough thread at the moment so there's no real need to sticky it.

mysons · 24-08-2010 9:33pm

Bulmers wrote: »

The Friday night "GAA" at Russell Park..an institution in it's day,if you didn't get tickets and get in on a friday night, you may aswell go home and watch Gaybo with the folks as everyone in blanch would be in there..great nights

...No name club at Brigids church..

...Godleys clothes shop in Blanch village where the old AIB used to be opposite Greyhound...

the big traveller site where the shopping centre is now,it was huge..

..remember when the new N3 was being built and the massive earthmovers that were going across the snugboro road..

..the old "boreen" road to Clonee when clonee was the countryside and just had it's 5 pubs ( i'm from Blanchardstown and live there now..!")

..anyone from the corduff remember the big mansion in the park in corduff..was burned down on sunday morning, remember that well..

..anyone else from the Corduff / Edgewood Lawn / Brookhaven area remember the friday nights down on the bridge in the valley..used to be 100s of us down there..

those were the days...

Do you remember the dance nite in Corduff House,pay as you went in and the door on the left with the record player in the corner.The highlite of the nite was dancing around in a circle to the rolling stones satisfaction.

mysons · 24-08-2010 9:57pm

The shop were Mace is now was called Ginnels my wife went to school with one of them. She also sold news papers outside Bridget's church on a Sunday morning.

We watched Ireland beat England in Euro 88 in the Roselawn and then watched David O Leary score the winning peno in Italia 90 at the same pub.

LadyW · 25-08-2010 9:11am

Hey Bulmers, I still have my ID from the No Name Club !! Didn't they show movies at that sometimes?? I have very fond memories of Godleys, my Mother bought me my first pair of jeans there. I can still remember how fantastic I though I looked in my brand new Sasparillas

Who remembers Whelps, the "disco bar" (really just a section near the ladies loo where the "young people" could sit together) in the Greyhound? And the bands on Tuesday night?? And Heartbreak/Luke Shorts/City Limits at the Racecourse? Oh man... I am sooo old.....

:(

A V A · 25-08-2010 12:08pm

god i would of loved to see blanch grow up:( sounds like it got alot done to it

im glad the ground is gone , it was a soite hole !!!!

RoryMurphyJnr · 25-08-2010 4:45pm

Does anyone remember when they used to show movies on a Sat/Sun in Francis Xaviers?
Saw Jaws there, scared half the audience silly

Also remember only been able to get Tip Tops to drink in the place.

Is Flemo still knocking around?

R

BostonB · 26-08-2010 3:02am

You've covered almost everything I can remember.

When the N3 was the Navan road and ran in front of the Castleknock Inn, and through Blanch. The little bike shop opposite the Margarine Factory. (12th Lock). Blanch Disco's. There was a cross road at coolmine cross.

Not Blanch, but the Quays went in the opposite direction.

Silcocky · 26-08-2010 3:02pm

I remember Chats, where Hung Wun is in Roselawn now. And Seems and Stitches. Had totally forgotten that there was a video shop there!!

And when you could walk up the laneways between all the Delwoods.

And the shop was around at Centrepoint, the sweetshop that was in kind of an n shape - they sold 5p ATeam crisps!! Anyone remember the name?

Was a bike shop in behind Centrepoint too?! Lovely guy ran it?! Or was it down by the canal somewhere? It was tucked away behind something?!

Crossing over into Carpenterstown territory now, but back then it was all part of Blanch - but there was a shop where the creche is just beyond Coolmine trainstation on the right - it sold firewood and peat and flowers and stuff, but, it also sold Xmas Trees

RoryMurphyJnr · 26-08-2010 3:16pm

Anyone remember the "mucky path" ?
It was behind coolmine park and glenville and was a quick short cut to Xaviers
All closed off now

R

Nijmegen · 27-08-2010 3:24pm

Ahh, memory lane ladies and gents. No matter where I go in the world - and I've travelled far - nothing quite beats arriving back in Blanch village and feeling at home. A lot has changed, but plenty remains the same.

The place too is now so big that there's a lot more people to experience it, though I daresay perceptions will be different all around - if you grew up in 'old blanch' you likely were within easy reach of spots like the canal, where I know plenty of kids don't ever venture today, for example.

But on the flipside, you've got (if you're young) a massive and varied area to grow up in and around these days, too.

The years have been kind to those who live in Blanch, with all that came to work here.

gabsdot40 · 27-08-2010 3:28pm

I've lived here for 14 years but I'm originally from the south side.
My husband's family moved into the first house finished in Dromheath, Ladyswell, in about 1982/3. His mother is still there.

BostonB · 27-08-2010 3:44pm

I've been in the area for decades, but I don't have the nostalgia some of you have for the area. I much preferred it when it was smaller and still a bit of the village feel about it. Its become a bit of a faceless housing estate now with no real center. I've only stayed because We've always had family in the area.

mysons · 27-08-2010 9:17pm

There was a Video store (and for the young reading this i did say VIDEO)up in Coolmine Close beside Foo luk Chinese anyone remember the name but it was way before ChartBusters in the village so i think it was the first in the area.

Murt10 · 27-08-2010 9:53pm

"There was a Video store (and for the young reading this i did say VIDEO)up in Coolmine Close beside Foo luk Chinese anyone remember the name but it was way before ChartBusters in the village so i think it was the first in the area"

Brendan Bright owned it.

He also sold and repaired TV's and videos, etc which he still does.

Zwillinge · 27-08-2010 10:53pm

Born and raised in Blanch

I remember the two old video shops, the library in Roselawn Shopping Centre, cycling up to watch the Centre being built

Went to Xaviers (live by the closed off lane way to the school, the "mucky path") and then to Coolmine.

Reading through this thread has brought up memories for me.

Diddler1977 · 28-08-2010 9:15am

Wow this thread is bringing back memories....!

Sargeant Peppers at Superquin

The bakery next to Roselawn Library

What was the shop next to Noel Reids at Roselawn???? I remember my sister getting a hula hoop there for 99p and I saved for ages to buy a space hopper for 7.99.

Gaspode · 28-08-2010 10:04am

Murt10 wrote: »

Brendan Bright owned it.
He also sold and repaired TV's and videos, etc which he still does.

Is Brendan Bright still on the go? That's good to know, I got of TV and video repairs done by him about 10-15 yrs ago.

Gaspode · 28-08-2010 10:09am

I remember when the River Road ran all the way from Blanch village to Rathoath Road at Finglas, cycled it many times. There was an entrance along the River Road that brought you into the Abbotstown lands, and you could cut through there to get to Cappagh or Snugborough areas. Think that entrance is now under the M50!

thomasj · 28-08-2010 10:09am

Ah yep I used to love Sargent peppers! They made the nicest burgers and chips! Used to go there every Saturday!

I wonder what they did with all the memorabilia?

thomasj · 28-08-2010 10:15am

Gaspode wrote: »

I remember when the River Road ran all the way from Blanch village to Rathoath Road at Finglas, cycled it many times. There was an entrance along the River Road that brought you into the Abbotstown lands, and you could cut through there to get to Cappagh or Snugborough areas. Think that entrance is now under the M50!

I remember as a kid taking many a long walk home from finglas that way when I was short the bus fare!

BostonB · 28-08-2010 10:35am

Diddler1977 wrote: »

Wow this thread is bringing back memories....!

Sargeant Peppers at Superquin

The bakery next to Roselawn Library

What was the shop next to Noel Reids at Roselawn???? I remember my sister getting a hula hoop there for 99p and I saved for ages to buy a space hopper for 7.99.

In later years was it tuthills? Though i don't think that was the original name when it was a proper toy shop. I remember staring at the Dinky stuff in there, and getting Matchbox cars when they came in little cardboard boxes!

Doogieboogie · 28-08-2010 11:27am

Zwillinge wrote: »

Born and raised in Blanch

I remember the two old video shops, the library in Roselawn Shopping Centre, cycling up to watch the Centre being built

Went to Xaviers (live by the closed off lane way to the school, the "mucky path") and then to Coolmine.

Reading through this thread has brought up memories for me.

I was your neighbour so

I lived at the end of Coolmine Park/Glenville Road

thomasj · 28-08-2010 11:58am

In terms of secondary schools it was

Blakestown
Coolmine

Riversdale and hartstown came along later didn't they?

And then we had those who went to schools like declans, o'connells, Dominican convent mount sackville etc I remember seeing dozens of
school buses every schoolday taking kids to these schools

So which school did ye go to if from the area?

What memories have ye got?

What did coolmine pupils think of blakestown pupils?

What did blakestown pupils think of coolmine pupils and the blazer jackets?

What did coolmine pupils think of wearing the blazer jackets?

Did anyone here sit the entrance exams for declans etc?

thomasj · 28-08-2010 12:03pm

As were coming up to that time of the year again.....

Do ye remember the little school book store in the village beside the old dab store and aberakebabra you'd be trying to sell your old school books in there as well as getting new ones.

mysons · 28-08-2010 10:34pm

Does anyone remember going horse racing down in the Phoenix Park or the horse races in the Phoenix Park.
Does anyone have any photos of the races or the race day ?

Zaph · 28-08-2010 11:06pm

Went to the races in the Park once, I'd say about 20 years ago. Not really into racing myself, but through a connection we had we spent the whole day in the owners and trainers bar, which was pretty nice.

smelltheglove · 28-08-2010 11:39pm

Love this thread. I was born in D15, raised in Castleknock from 3, love the area. My dad plays a big part in Peregrines, lives in Clonsilla now as thats where all his friends are, he also used to deliver the papers around Blanch to the houses and shops when I was a kid and I can remember it from well before most of the estates were there, the days when the paper man came to your door eh. Are those little shops still in Sheepmore and Whitestown?

I also worked in Eurospar in Hartstown for a fair while. Most of my family still live there but I am across in Lucan now.

I went to Dominics in Cabra as Coolmine would only take like 5 kids from our school and Castleknock didnt have a secondary school, Hartstown school wasnt even built but there was a fair few from all over d15 going to Dominics and Declans.

smelltheglove · 28-08-2010 11:52pm

mysons wrote: »

Does anyone remember going horse racing down in the Phoenix Park or the horse races in the Phoenix Park.
Does anyone have any photos of the races or the race day ?

Oh I so missed that post. I lived behind Russel Park and when the races were on the kids from the area used to go through a little patch of waste land and climb the trees surrounding the racecourse where the horses would run straight past. There was one tree that had the princes chair, queens chair and kings chair, wow we fought for those places. So disappointing to see it now, loved the Sunday market when there were no races. Pity I was too young to have a camera and take pics then.

thomasj · 29-08-2010 12:39am

Yep whitestown shop is still there afaik but it has changed ownership I think not sure about sheepmore

I have good memories of the Sunday Market. It's a pity they couldn't move it to somewhere Within the park when the racecourse was completely demolished.

smelltheglove · 29-08-2010 2:21am

Its up in fairy house now. Actually a fair few around, I work in an indoor market in town now, I always loved the market buzz so suits me perfect, I have a photo studio in a market and the craic is 90 as they say!

Is the school book store gone! I am still addicted to abrakebabra, I love that place, used to be the only place that would deliver when I was a kid, to our house anyway, mind it was pronto that delivered but if you ordered a pizza they would deliver abrakebabra for you too if you wanted it.

Pineapple stu · 29-08-2010 2:11pm

I remember the stock car racing on sundays in the field where the drive though macdonalds is now i think it was. The Thatch up in Clonsilla, when Roselawn was in Blanchardstown

, the bike shop near where the 12th lock is now, the 39 bus going past it. When the 39 was a single storey bus

.

chiefwiggum · 29-08-2010 2:16pm

im not from blanch in all in anyways

kmepll · 01-09-2010 12:45am

Remember when they set up the radio station in one of the bungalows beside Ryans garage
Rocca tiles where chartbusters is now
National irish bank was a Butcher shop
Paddy and Tony in Macari's (Paddy Burger):)

Gaspode · 01-09-2010 8:09am

I visited Mountview when it was very new as my aunt & uncle had just moved in there. Sod all else around it, I thought they were mad moving out into the wild wild west!

January · 01-09-2010 9:48am

thomasj wrote: »

Yep whitestown shop is still there afaik but it has changed ownership I think not sure about sheepmore

I have good memories of the Sunday Market. It's a pity they couldn't move it to somewhere Within the park when the racecourse was completely demolished.

I think it is still there, small little shop connected to a house?

January · 01-09-2010 9:50am

gabsdot40 wrote: »

I've lived here for 14 years but I'm originally from the south side.
My husband's family moved into the first house finished in Dromheath, Ladyswell, in about 1982/3. His mother is still there.

My nan still lives in Dromheath... moved in around the same time!

Are you from Blanchardstown

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