Dublin Northside in the 80s

monkeyfudge

Currently making a documentary on the history of community radio in Ireland at work... I managed to dig up an old documentary made on the subject back from 1984.

There was some wonderful footage in it from Coolock, Artane and Donnycarney.

I edited all the street side stuff together and threw it up on YouTube as I reckon other people will get as much as a kick from it as I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAcHwGsvzwE

It's worth noting that Artane Castle had only just opened when this was shot.

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That's a great video monkeyfudge, thanks for posting it.

Is it the only one?

So weird seeing the Roundabout outside The Castle without The Rec over beyond it.

Where was Peats?

Do you know which flats they showed? It didn't look like the ones opposite Northside SC (which looks weird too, that huge Dunnes sign, I remember that).

And I could just see The Tec beside Northside.

The only thing missing from that video is an orange 27A.

monkeyfudge

Peats is where the Apache Pizza is now on the Malahide Road... just before you get to Donnycarney Church.

And those are the Flats on the Kilmore Road. They really haven't changed alot aside from the fact that they painted the grey bits terracotta a few years back.

The only other footage I have that might of interest is some vox pops recorded inside Artane Castle... you can see the turnstile that I got my head stuck in as a child.

Einstein

wahey!
Savage footage!

I was 6! Ardmore Drive rules lol!

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monkeyfudge wrote: »

Peats is where the Apache Pizza is now on the Malahide Road... just before you get to Donnycarney Church.

Really? I never remember a Peats there, and my Granny use to live in Old Donnycarney, we would have walked past there loads of times.

Do you remember a truck crashed into Artane Cottages there opposite the Goblet?

monkeyfudge wrote: »

And those are the Flats on the Kilmore Road.

There seems to be loads more in the video than I have a vision in my head.

Hmm, you probably know the flats better than me, being from there and all. :pac:

monkeyfudge wrote: »

The only other footage I have that might of interest is some vox pops recorded inside Artane Castle... you can see the turnstile that I got my head stuck in as a child.

Can I see them?

I might recognise someone.

And I want to see the turnstile tbh.

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Einstein wrote: »

I was 6! Ardmore Drive rules lol!

Ardmore fags.

monkeyfudge

I'll see about putting some more stuff from it up later.

There's some top quality 80s facial hair in there.

Pigman II

Nice clip. I got my first ever Star Wars figure in the Artane Shopping centre. Remember it like it was yesterday!

Is that building even still around today?

monkeyfudge

Artane Castle? Of course it's still there.

Although it's probably gone through more changes than Northside Shopping Centre has in the same amount of time.

Big changes coming for Northside soon though.

Poppy78

You've brought a tear to my eye monkeyfudge.

Someone should do the same journey again and we can see what's different and what's the same.

tribulus

So little traffic! I was probably only a little blastula then but it's great to see what the areas looked like then compared to now. Post anymore up if you come across them.

copeyhagen

northside sc is a sh1thole, worked there for a while a few years ago.

im a donaghmede lad myself, any footage from down as far as us no?

cant view the video in work

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Pigman II wrote: »

Is that building even still around today?

Artane Castle SC?

Yeah, it's still there, has a Tesco in it.

dazberry

Pigman II wrote: »

Nice clip. I got my first ever Star Wars figure in the Artane Shopping centre.

I grew up in Raheny, so my first Star Wars figure came from Donaghmede SC circa 1977 from Pride and Joy (it was Chewbecca for the record). But in the early 80s it was rumoured that all the "new" SW toys from ROTJ were in Artane SC. So, after a lot of persuading I was to be brought over - my 'ol lad couldn't find his way from one side of D5 to the other - and we got lost. Que 20 minutes whereby the 'ol lad was getting more and more angry - and finally the car was turned around and I was brought home empty handed - I was sooooo disappointed

copeyhagen wrote:

northside sc is a sh1thole, worked there for a while a few years ago.

Yeah, always hated it too. In fairness donaghmede sc isn't too great either - although at-least its much improved compared to the 80s. Of course the nearest shop to me growing up was the Kilbarrack SC - and although I believe they've tried (haven't been back in years) the only way to improve that kip would be to knock it down and start again

D.

DublinWriter

I grew up in Baldoyle, so it wasn't a million miles away.

Amazing how the shots of the car park of the Artane Castle look like a breaker's yard!

I remember the Peats in Donnycarney, they were still selling reel-to-reel tapes when I went in there circa 1983!

...and of course The Goblet, pronounced Gob-leh.

trout

DublinWriter wrote: »

The Goblet, pronounced Gob-leh.

The Gobble-it ... far more classy than The Whiff O'Shyte

Creature

Good stuff monkeyfudge. Artane Castle looks like a huge lego brick from the front.

cronndiesel

wow remember 84 a lot of those cars were made in this country including the hino truck (i think its an old hino) the fiat, renaut 4 and the ford cortina even the green bus -the bombardier plant in shannon
nearly all closed in or around 84 weirdly enough, rising labour costs were sited the same oul ****e excuse:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: (though their sister plants in UK and spain(the fiat plant in spain became the first seat factory) have continued despite wages and costs much higher then and now)


where on earth did you get such great footage and of course is there any more? any from any other part of the country?
a good place for footage would be the rte archives though most of the reels were recorded over im sure theres some left proberbly wont give them though:(

great stuff monkey fudge thanks a million your gold!

Dasilva94

cronndiesel wrote: »

wow remember 84 a lot of those cars were made in this country including the hino truck (i think its an old hino) the fiat, renaut 4 and the ford cortina even the green bus -the bombardier plant in shannon
nearly all closed in or around 84 weirdly enough, rising labour costs were sited the same oul ****e excuse:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: (though their sister plants in UK and spain(the fiat plant in spain became the first seat factory) have continued despite wages and costs much higher then and now)

Yeah, I always thought it was funny though, seeing those Fiat 127s running around with a "Guaranteed Irish" sticker at the back.

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trout wrote: »

The Gobble-it ... far more classy than The Whiff O'Shyte

Hmm, maybe back in '84 yeah, not today however.

The Goblet has gone to shíte since the smoking ban, imo.

Rashers

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I'll see about putting some more stuff from it up later.

Please do when you get the chance.

I only came across this thread this morning. I go back a bit further having lived in the area during the '60s. Some of my family still live there.

Ahh happy memories.

dylbert

Einstein wrote: »

I was 6! Ardmore Drive rules lol!

It only ruled in '85/'86 when I lived there , I remember one of the houses on the road going up in flames around that time, and remember going to the flea market across from Artane Castle.

DesF wrote: »

So weird seeing the Roundabout outside The Castle without The Rec over beyond it.

The Rec must have been built just after that was filmed because I remember it being there.

I also lived in Bonnybrook (Coolock) before that, ahh the smell from the Tayto and Cadbury factory’s, and going swimming in Northside SC, what a kip :eek:, anyone been to the pool lately? I wonder what it's like now.

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dylbert wrote: »

The Rec must have been built just after that was filmed because I remember it being there.

When it was built my family took out a membership, I still have my old card somewhere, but the picture I have in my head I'm about seven or eight in it, possibly a tad younger, so that would be about right. I was born in '79.

dylbert wrote: »

I also lived in Bonnybrook (Coolock) before that,

I'm from just the other side of the Oscar Traynor Rd, the "posh" part of Coolock, you should take a visit back down to Bonnybrook, they are tearing down the Maisonettes and building apartments, all facing out on to the Oscar Traynor, it's going to look much different soon.

dylbert wrote: »

ahh the smell from the Tayto and Cadbury factory’s,

Tayto is closed now, but that smell of the chocolate is still in the air sometimes. I used to love heading out to school on the mornings when the wind was right, you could almost eat the air.

dylbert wrote: »

and going swimming in Northside SC, what a kip :eek:, anyone been to the pool lately? I wonder what it's like now.

Remember the different coloured lights on the panel? And the hooter would go off when your time was up, going by the band they gave you for your arm. Total kip of a place.

snickerpuss

Cheers for that monkeyfudge! Could almost see my house. Very tempted to go out and do a updated video for it since it's where I live.
Of course in 1984 I was -2 but it's still nice to see what it used to look like.

I am so happy Tayto is closed because when the smell combined with that of Cadburys it was vile.

DublinWriter

snickerpuss wrote: »

I am so happy Tayto is closed because when the smell combined with that of Cadburys it was vile.

Nooo...Tayto was next to the Paint Factory. The combined smell when driving by was atrocious.

snickerpuss

Come on Crown paints does not have a smell.
I know this, I worked there for a summer.

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snickerpuss wrote: »

Come on Crown paints does not have a smell.
I know this, I worked there for a summer.

You'll know an ex of mine then.:eek:

ixoy

copeyhagen wrote: »

northside sc is a sh1thole, worked there for a while a few years ago.

Actually it was a great great shopping centre

Cocoon

Class video monkeyfudge thanks for posting, I could easily have been in it on my raleigh grifter. I grew up in Elm Mount and would have been 13 at the time. Does anybody remember the travellers moving into the site where the Rec is now? I also had forgotton that Peats was in Maypark.

DublinWriter

snickerpuss wrote: »

Come on Crown paints does not have a smell.
I know this, I worked there for a summer.

It's called Desensitivisation, I've underlined the salient clue.

humberklog

Cocoon wrote: »

Class video monkeyfudge thanks for posting, I could easily have been in it on my raleigh grifter. I grew up in Elm Mount and would have been 13 at the time. Does anybody remember the travellers moving into the site where the Rec is now? I also had forgotton that Peats was in Maypark.

I remember the pikeys well. They were there for nearly a year or more...feckin mare. Indeed Peats in maypark...used to know the family(think they still live on elm mount ave.)and on same run of shops was Conways. They supplied the bar trade and always had exotic things in the window...things like cocktail umberellas. These were very exotic in the 70's!
Past the Stardust was a sawmill (apartments now, think it was called Mckeowen) where you could pay the 'gotchie' 5p and he'd let you lep from the high pipes into a big mountain of sawdust.
Anyone shop in Celtic Stores (around celtic park)? Corner shop run by two of the wickedest witches ever!

Cocoon

humberklog wrote: »

I remember the pikeys well. They were there for nearly a year or more...feckin mare. Indeed Peats in maypark...used to know the family(think they still live on elm mount ave.)and on same run of shops was Conways. They supplied the bar trade and always had exotic things in the window...things like cocktail umberellas. These were very exotic in the 70's!
Past the Stardust was a sawmill (apartments now, think it was called Mckeowen) where you could pay the 'gotchie' 5p and he'd let you lep from the high pipes into a big mountain of sawdust.
Anyone shop in Celtic Stores (around celtic park)? Corner shop run by two of the wickedest witches ever!

I remember celtic stores alright, they always had a load of kids gadgets on the right as you went in the door. Most kids now would not be amused by the stuff we had like marbles and making bangers out of caps and sellotape. The 2 auld deers were hags alright but the auldfella was sound.

humberklog

Cocoon wrote: »

I remember celtic stores alright, they always had a load of kids gadgets on the right as you went in the door. Most kids now would not be amused by the stuff we had like marbles and making bangers out of caps and sellotape. The 2 auld deers were hags alright but the auldfella was sound.

He was a gent. I think he was married to the less feirce and more blonde of them. Good shop for airfix,mathbox cars and balsa wood planes. I've drifted into the 70's with celtic stores though. There is a shop on oxmanstown rd. in stoneybatter called Maureen's and for hatefulness she has the exact same lack of manners and disdain for her clientel as did the red head in celtics.

snickerpuss

Dublin Writer- Yes but I've also lived within a kilometre of Crown my whole life and nobody I know has ever said anything about paint smell. And I've had many conversations about Tayto and Cadbury smells.

Des - to whom do you refer? (PM maybe!)

Dub13

Some great footage there,I grew up in Donnycarney and never knew there was a peats on the Malahide road.

Andrewf20

Just came across this video yesterday and it blew me away. Its scary to see whats changed and whats hardly changed at all. I have no recollection of northside shopping centre being a brown and white building. I noticed the recreation centre is not there beside St Davids school - my old haunt. What I would give to get more of this footage. I noticed how Dunnes was a smaller store in Northside before it got extended about 10 - 15 years ago. Brilliant stuff OP.

Does anybody remember from the 1980's:

- King video store beside the Esso station in the village.
- The much larger roundabout near the Esso station thats still there today.
- Atlantic homecare with the brown brick building attached to the side of the main corrigated store before the fire in 1993.
- Abrakekabra where Liz Delaneys was.
- The old factory where UCI is. I remember travellers used to occupy these grounds a good bit before the factory was demolished circa 1990.
- In Northside swimming pool, the wooden boxes you put your stuff into when going for a swim. The spiral tiled stair case on your way up to buy tickets. (Probably still there today, but its been 20 years since Ive been inside!)
- Quinnsworth in Northside shopping centre where A Wear was.
-The old Dunnes stores with the checkouts in the middle of the store + the red and cream square tiles. All the toys / non food stuff was at the front of the store.
- A big bike section at the back of Tommys in Northside.
- A bike shop where the post office is now in Northside.
- St. David secondary school grounds used to extend all the way to the Malahide road before selling some of the land to build houses in the very early 1990's.
- Greencastle memorial park across from St. Josephs church was just flat grass till they did it up in the early 1990's.
- The old boat that was up on stilts behind the railing of Coilaste Duliage opposite Atlantic. Dont ask me what it was doing there, but I remember as a kid getting in under the railings and mucking around in it a few times.
- Burnt out cars in the Santry river!
- Clonshaugh lane, N32 bound used to descend into dense overgrowth with a narrow road that would bend around to the left and head over a different bridge that would be to the left of where the bridged roundabout at the M50 / M1 interchange exists today. This bridge would then bring you out near the old Texaco garage on the airport road vis some small bungalows and factories.

Rashers

Andrewf20 wrote: »

- The old factory where UCI is. I remember traveller used to occupy these grounds a good bit before the factory was demolished circa 1990.

Wasn't that Smurfit's?

Andrewf20

Rashers wrote: »

Wasn't that Smurfit's?

Possibly, but I always thought that Smufits was a separate building at the back.

dylbert

Andrewf20 wrote: »

-The old Dunnes stores with the checkouts in the middle of the store + the red and cream square tiles. All the toys / non food stuff was at the front of the store.

remember the units all the clothes where displayed on, there was storage spaces under them, as a kid I used to get in and crawl from one end to the other, my ma could never find me

seancoyle

Andrewf20 wrote: »

Just came across this video yesterday and it blew me away. Its scary to see whats changed and whats hardly changed at all. I have no recollection of northside shopping centre being a brown and white building. I noticed the recreation centre is not there beside St Davids school - my old haunt. What I would give to get more of this footage. I noticed how Dunnes was a smaller store in Northside before it got extended about 10 - 15 years ago. Brilliant stuff OP.

Does anybody remember from the 1980's:

- King video store beside the Esso station in the village.
- The much larger roundabout near the Esso station thats still there today.
- Atlantic homecare with the brown brick building attached to the side of the main corrigated store before the fire in 1993.
- Abrakekabra where Liz Delaneys was.
- The old factory where UCI is. I remember travellers used to occupy these grounds a good bit before the factory was demolished circa 1990.
- In Northside swimming pool, the wooden boxes you put your stuff into when going for a swim. The spiral tiled stair case on your way up to buy tickets. (Probably still there today, but its been 20 years since Ive been inside!)
- Quinnsworth in Northside shopping centre where A Wear was.
-The old Dunnes stores with the checkouts in the middle of the store + the red and cream square tiles. All the toys / non food stuff was at the front of the store.
- A big bike section at the back of Tommys in Northside.
- A bike shop where the post office is now in Northside.
- St. David secondary school grounds used to extend all the way to the Malahide road before selling some of the land to build houses in the very early 1990's.
- Greencastle memorial park across from St. Josephs church was just flat grass till they did it up in the early 1990's.
- The old boat that was up on stilts behind the railing of Coilaste Duliage opposite Atlantic. Dont ask me what it was doing there, but I remember as a kid getting in under the railings and mucking around in it a few times.
- Burnt out cars in the Santry river!
- Clonshaugh lane, N32 bound used to descend into dense overgrowth with a narrow road that would bend around to the left and head over a different bridge that would be to the left of where the bridged roundabout at the M50 / M1 interchange exists today. This bridge would then bring you out near the old Texaco garage on the airport road vis some small bungalows and factories.

I Remember the old atlantic and abrakadabra
Do you remember the name of the cafe where o'briens sandwiches is now in Northside Shopping Centre.

monkeyfudge

The Abrakebabra was originally a KFC wasn't it? Or was it the other way around?

seancoyle

It Was Kfc First but i Was Talking About The Cafe in the shopping centre It Was Beside Cosgraves Butchers Facing Superquinn I Can't Think Of The Name Of It.

I remember the old Dunnes too it was all hardware/toys stuff up the front and the supermarket at the back.
And I kinda remember the bike shop.
ah the old days ha ha.
Remember Wonder Burger And The Pet Shop.

monkeyfudge

I try hard to forget about Wonderburger.

Knowing I'll never have another one of their burgers again upsets be greatly.

baggytrousers

I got stuck many a time in the turnstiles in Northside Dunnes, i'd have to stay with the prams then at the front of the shop and wait for mam to be finished shopping...i'm a girl but mam used to cut my hair short..so vividly remember an auld fella patting me on the head and saying, howya son...now my my hair is touching the floor and i'm 7ft tall..i exaggrate for effect...remember travelling on the edge of the go-kart to northside sc, me on one side, my big brother on the other and baby brother...well must have been in the middle with the sack of potatoes we'd get on the way back from a guy who had a place between Ardmore drive where we lived and northside...s'mad...i remember the place though better without the castle sc, it was all northside or town back then...s'cool trip down memory lane, thanks!

meolwan

Does anyone remember the name of the shop in notherside were superquinn is now???