Are you from Blanchardstown

BostonB · 01-09-2010 10:13am

I still think of aberakebabra and those shops as new...

oblivious · 01-09-2010 10:37am

BostonB wrote: »

I still think of aberakebabra and those shops as new...

Remember when the old post office and bike shop where there?

LadyW · 01-09-2010 2:40pm

oblivious wrote: »

Remember when the old post office and bike shop where there?

Yes, I remember the old post office very well.. what a dilapidated old building it was !

Littlegirllost · 03-09-2010 1:56pm

Im born and bred in Dublin 15, jeez this tread really is bringing back memories! Its bad that i remember most of the old things, im definitely getting old

Blanchboh · 17-09-2010 5:01am

mysons wrote: »

Or like myself just a blow in.
My wife is from the Clonsilla Rd and our two sons have lived in Blanch all their lives,Her father came from Clonsilla and went to school in the old school building up at St Mochta's.
We meet in the Greyhound and danced in The End, had a ball and just love coming home to Blanch when we are away.
So are you just a Blow in or are you from the area.

Im 27, ive lived in Clonsilla all my life apart from a stint in a sunnier climate but Ive never heard of The End altho I spent many a weekend in Ice when I was too young to be in there lol

oblivious · 17-09-2010 8:11am

Blanchboh wrote: »

but Ive never heard of The End l

Closed in 94 I think, one of the few or only cluBs in D15 that some one was shot killed out side!

BostonB · 17-09-2010 11:26am

Never heard of the End! :eek:

Anyone remember the food they used to server in the middle of the night. For some reason I remember mushy peas and chips.

oblivious · 17-09-2010 11:36am

BostonB wrote: »

Anyone remember the food they used to server in the middle of the night. For some reason I remember mushy peas and chips.

Part of the old nightclub licensing, that they had to sever food. Great idea

tenandtracer · 20-09-2010 11:09pm

Lived in Corduff in '84 for a year or so! Moved around then for a bit, now in Clonsilla/Ongar since 2001

holly_johnson · 22-09-2010 10:44am

Born & reared on the Clonsilla Road, moved away for 3 yrs when I got married (couldn't afford a house in Blanch) now back living in Blanch for the last 9 years.
I managed to drag the other half over from the south side

I used to go to The End every Thursday & Sunday after the Greyhound. Those were the days!

skregs · 01-10-2010 12:06am

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

Ha, Brophys used to be where the garden house is now, but it moved to where it is now and changed names loads of times

A V A wrote: »

also the when the blanchardstown house was there but now the vinyard

It was the Vinyard, then the Blanchardstown House, then the Vinyard again, according to my Dad anyway.

The new Garda station used to be a wasteland thing.
The bridge beside tractomotors used to be all flat ground.
There used to be cowfields where waterville is now.
MK Doyles was great, used to be always in there before school
Nobody go to Bridgets? We are red, we are white, we are f**king dynamite!

Roselawn Shopping Centre used to be called Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, but they changed it so they could pretend to be legitimately call themselves Castleknock.

They used to have a giraffes centre (like fun factory) up near where power city is now.
Traffic used to be non-existent and the bus to town would leave you on Abbey Street.

The footroad to corduff from the garden house used to be the main road!

oblivious · 01-10-2010 8:22am

skregs wrote: »

Ha, Brophys used to be where the garden house is now, but it moved to where it is now and changed names loads of times

Its still their accross the road, that was Justins old shop beofr it got tumed into the garden hoise that used to have the record shop above it

Zambia · 01-10-2010 8:53am

I moved to Blanch/castleknock in 86

Here a few things I remember.

Drinking in the anglers rest on Promo Night a 1 pound a bottle of becks.

Getting that minibus to "The end"

The fact the carpet floor in the end held more water than the liffey and stank as bad.

The sausage and chips you could get in the little canteen down the back as mentioned.

When There was no shopping cantre in castleknock just a newsagent where the flower shop is and a bookies. I dont even know if the Petrol station was there.

We used to to cross the M50 when it was graded dirt and wonder , what the hell is happening here??

I remember Davy and Phelans before the Bell, that place has had more work done than cher.

I have not lived there since 2006 nor been there since 2008 but its a great area.

"The greyhound" closed :eek:

RoryMurphyJnr · 11-10-2010 11:15am

Anyone remember "Sgt Peppers" in Superquinn in the Blanch

When I was in Scout (St Brigids 104/144) we used to do a bottle collection once a month. (when you actually got money back for bottles, showing my age)

We used to go and get chips there when we were down.

R

BostonB · 11-10-2010 11:18am

Hey I did that in the scouts/cubs (not sure which) there. Must have been back late 70's early 80's. Bit hazy... I remember them telling vampire stories on the Blanch hall, afterwards I realized it was the story of Salem's Lot from the TV.

oblivious · 11-10-2010 1:14pm

RoryMurphyJnr wrote: »

Anyone remember "Sgt Peppers" in Superquinn in the Blanch

The restaurant up stairs?

RoryMurphyJnr · 20-10-2010 1:02pm

the very one

al30 · 26-10-2010 9:43pm

thomasj wrote: »

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!

Today tonight used to be called Baxters, he owned everything on the corner with newsagent/carpet shop/hardware shop, next door the auctioneers and a clothes shop next door to that and then the chipper, those were the good old days of the 80's

al30 · 26-10-2010 10:01pm

God this brings back memories, moved to blanch from stoney batter in 1974, yes I am really old. living in Kilkenny now but parents still in blanch. Cant believe the Greyhound is closed, did all my drinking there and the roselawn and sometimes Davy and Phelan's, though women could really only drink in the lounge in davys. worked in Dans Deli, Tuthills and Baxters and then Regal Shoes in superquinn shopping centre. Remember Godleys and Doyles, used to go to The End and before that it was called Heartbreakers. Thursday nights were ladies free in. Heart is gone out of blanch now just one big metropolis. When we moved there in 74 we were told there would be a new shopping centre, we got one 25 years later. my friend used to live in a farmhouse which is now the roundabout at blanchardstown road north.

I remember the big house in Corduff we used to go to mass there until the church was built.

Went to school in stanhope street and had to get the No. 70 banger bus in cos no 38c for a good few years.

StrawDub · 28-10-2010 1:11pm

skregs wrote: »

Nobody go to Bridgets? We are red, we are white, we are f**king dynamite!

Yep went to Bridgets, the amount of times we got to croker was unreal some craic. Also a tone of Dublin footballers came out of that school.

Somebody else mentioned it but the character is gone out of the area - now the only character/community I get is through my involvement with brigids gaa club sad to see it really.

RoryMurphyJnr · 28-10-2010 3:59pm

oblivious wrote: »

Its still their accross the road, that was Justins old shop beofr it got tumed into the garden hoise that used to have the record shop above it

Ah the record shop over the Garden House
It was called Sounds Cool I got my first single and album in there.
Scared the life out of me, I was only 11 and the place was full of skins and punks

R

al30 · 14-01-2011 1:02am

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...

used to go to mass in the big mansion before the church was built

al30 · 14-01-2011 1:04am

Blanchboh wrote: »

Im 27, ive lived in Clonsilla all my life apart from a stint in a sunnier climate but Ive never heard of The End altho I spent many a weekend in Ice when I was too young to be in there lol

It was called heartbreakers before it became the End

LadyW · 14-01-2011 12:17pm

I remember Heartbreak very well ! And City Limits... oh and going to see live bands in Luke Shorts - happy days

SarahMs · 19-01-2011 1:56am

Hartstown disco anyone?! Ah... I thought I was so grown up getting the bus from the Clonsilla road to Hartstown and back again.
Huntstown school when it was TINY. The sadness when the wall was built between Summerfield and the centre. Or the man from the old Bookshop in roselawn who used to talk for hours. or the guy who still does the trolleys at Tesco. The smell of the library at Tesco. When the big fences when up around Xaviers school and we couldn't play football in there at the weekends. Before the big fences went up at Coolmine sports complex and playing basketball in there anytime ya wanted. When ya could get a bar and a can out of the vending machines in Coolmine and still have change of a pound.When centre 'costcutters' had an atm. The street parties in Huntstown.
When the walk from Summerfield to Carpenters town took agesssssssssssssssssssss because you only ever got driven there

oblivious · 19-01-2011 9:09am

SarahMs wrote: »

Hartstown disco anyone?! Ah... I thought I was so grown up getting the bus from the Clonsilla road to Hartstown and back again.
Huntstown school when it was TINY. The sadness when the wall was built between Summerfield and the centre. Or the man from the old Bookshop in roselawn who used to talk for hours. or the guy who still does the trolleys at Tesco. The smell of the library at Tesco. When the big fences when up around Xaviers school and we couldn't play football in there at the weekends. Before the big fences went up at Coolmine sports complex and playing basketball in there anytime ya wanted. When ya could get a bar and a can out of the vending machines in Coolmine and still have change of a pound.When centre 'costcutters' had an atm. The street parties in Huntstown.
When the walk from Summerfield to Carpenters town took agesssssssssssssssssssss because you only ever got driven there

Summerfield is not that old

SarahMs · 19-01-2011 2:18pm

.............. I never said Summerfield it's self was old.... ?

oblivious · 19-01-2011 2:41pm

SarahMs wrote: »

.............. I never said Summerfield it's self was old.... ?

A ok;)

mysons · 23-01-2011 10:18pm

My wife worked in Dans Deli as well and then Scotts.:)

al30 · 24-01-2011 7:52pm

mysons wrote: »

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.

do you remember we used to have to be there three hours before kick off to get a seat

Naos · 26-01-2011 4:37pm

al30 wrote: »

do you remember we used to have to be there three hours before kick off to get a seat

The rosie has gone to absolute muck now, tis but a drinking shell.

LeSageMignon · 28-01-2011 5:41pm

I'm from Blanch. Used to love it but the scumbags are slowly but surely ruining the place. The older estates (Roselawn, Delwood, Brompton, Coolmine, Broadway, Glenville, Springlawn, Hazel Lawn, Rushbrook, etc.) are lovely but one or two dodgy families moving in can ruin the place. I work in Blanch now so can't move too far away. It's such a pity that it's changed so much. It was considered a quiet country village when my parents moved there. Even the school I went to has changed dramatically. The kids in the uniform all look and behave like knackers now. If OB was still there they'd behave

Maybe if the people who loved the place could organise some kind of community activities the sense of a peaceful, friendly community could be regained.
Rant over! ;-)

I loved cycling by the fields where Carpenterstown is now, or all the way into the park (the road's too busy for kids now) and our school did cross-country running in the fields where The Blanch Centre is now! Doyles shop had lovely sweets that you bought by weight in a paper bag (a quarter of Apple Drops!). My pubs were the Angler's, The Rosie and later The Carpenter.

pencilsharp · 17-02-2011 4:20pm

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 ?

Anyone remember the phoenix park Sunday market??Used to be dragged around there many of a Sunday when I was a kid!

JoePie · 22-02-2011 1:39pm

Got my first Liverpool jersey at that market. Good times.

I moved out to Ballsbridge in November, and I every time I come back to Clonsilla, I feel like it should have changed loads as in; I wouldn't even recognise the place.

But since I come back every two or three weekends, it probably won't.

chucknorris · 22-02-2011 2:50pm

Bulmers wrote: »

..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...

Yes indeed

Until the sad murder of Malylin Rynn.

Diddler1977 · 22-02-2011 10:45pm

chucknorris wrote: »

Yes indeed

Until the sad murder of Malylin Rynn.

Very sad event indeed.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/murderer-overcome-by-impulse-gets-life-458229.html

I remember the search for her. The description of her getting on the nitelink. All very very sad.

chucknorris · 23-02-2011 8:40am

Diddler1977 wrote: »

Very sad event indeed.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/murderer-overcome-by-impulse-gets-life-458229.html

I remember the search for her. The description of her getting on the nitelink. All very very sad.

At the time everyone was a suspect. No one knew what happened for a while so everyone suspected everyone. The individual in the end was completely unexpected and if it were not for the cold weather he may have got away with it.

Big, big news at the time.

oblivious · 23-02-2011 9:01am

chucknorris wrote: »

At the time everyone was a suspect. No one knew what happened for a while so everyone suspected everyone. The individual in the end was completely unexpected and if it were not for the cold weather he may have got away with it.

Big, big news at the time.

I was in the Greyhound the night he got his head and beard shaved for charity, he was arrested a few days after that but its strange thinking back of that night

chucknorris · 23-02-2011 9:15am

oblivious wrote: »

I was in the Greyhound the night he got his head and beard shaved for charity, he was arrested a few days after that but its strange thinking back of that night

A few lads who are slightly older than me told me exactly the same thing. You may know them

Supposedly he was a long time regular there and no one suspected him.

He went to school with Larry Murphy believe it or not.

oblivious · 23-02-2011 9:42am

chucknorris wrote: »

A few lads who are slightly older than me told me exactly the same thing. You may know them

Ah you did not have to be that old to drink in the Grayhound at the time

chucknorris wrote: »

Supposedly he was a long time regular there and no one suspected him..

He did look like your quincential loner/killer though :eek:

Diddler1977 · 23-02-2011 10:01am

oblivious wrote: »

Ah you did not have to be that old to drink in the Grayhound at the time

He did look like your quincential loner/killer though :eek:

Was there some nickname for him in the pubs that he drank? Was he called Jesus because of his long beard?? Seem to remember hearing something about this.....

chucknorris · 23-02-2011 10:02am

oblivious wrote: »

Ah you did not have to be that old to drink in the Grayhound at the time

He did look like your quincential loner/killer though :eek:

Your right, but Declan always caught me as I had extremely youthful looks

And yes he did in hindsight have that look about him. :eek:

chucknorris · 23-02-2011 10:03am

Diddler1977 wrote: »

Was there some nickname for him in the pubs that he drank? Was he called Jesus because of his long beard?? Seem to remember hearing something about this.....

Spot on.

That was his nickname. Very fitting and no so at the same time

No1J · 23-02-2011 11:38am

LadyW wrote: »

I remember Heartbreak very well ! And City Limits... oh and going to see live bands in Luke Shorts - happy days

I remember heartbreaks well,chips and peas flying everywhere. the live bands were in City limits. Luke shorts was the disco bar. think the head barmans name was Carlos always throwing Ice and the bottles in the air.
Was there the day the place was burned down in the small pool bar in the grounds that stayed open after the main place closed.

amtc · 23-02-2011 10:30pm

grew up in glenville, went to school in francis xaviers and coolmine. had my first kiss in the roselawn (i know!) and walked home from the end more times than i remember. I still can feel my shoes getting stuck to the carpet! when you scored a guy would ask you out behind the seats of the racecourse....glam or what?!

tea in the coffee shop in superquinn or the one that is now near tesco.

being brought down to get my hair cut in roselawn and my first boots in tony fassnidge. The library where the doctor's is now. The mobile library that stopped in Woodview Grove. the happy blanchies! the no name club. the cool coolminers badge. God I nearly feel nostalgic. Probably why I moved all of 500 m away from home.

I too recall the sunday markets in the park and the garden centre. plus I learnt how to drive on the roads between clonsilla and dunboyne (and this was the 90s!).

ciarakitten · 09-06-2011 6:06pm

Hello All
Does anyone know who used to live in the old house across from the Bell Pub? this is the one I mean? Any info about it great appreciated.

its the house that is derelict on the very corner of river road (in front of ardee house)
Thanks D15

LeSageMignon · 09-06-2011 7:01pm

ciarakitten wrote: »

Hello All
Does anyone know who used to live in the old house across from the Bell Pub? this is the one I mean? Any info about it great appreciated.

its the house that is derelict on the very corner of river road (in front of ardee house)
Thanks D15

Hi Ciara,
I think it was owned by a really nice man called Mr. Clarken who was an art teacher in Coolmine Community School.

ciarakitten · 09-06-2011 7:07pm

Any other info about the big house or if anyone has any photos of it. Is mr. clarkson still around the area?
Thx

LeSageMignon · 09-06-2011 7:09pm

His name was Clarken and I heard that he passed away. I don't know for sure though.

joolsveer · 09-06-2011 7:11pm

I am not from Blanchardstown but I have lived in the area since 1983. I suppose I will always be a blowin!

Are you from Blanchardstown

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