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Pictures and memories from old Galway
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inisboffin wrote: »The Flying Pigs (that was the group Tommy was a part of) - ah the glory days!
Used to catch that gig on my lunch from school - twas wicked! Old Kings head was great - run up for the soup and tae and watch Tommy do his stand up then head back for the last 3 classes of the afternoon. I remember at the time he used to live in Forrester Court and drove a big ford space wagon thing
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This birds-eye view photograph was taken from the top of a crane which was being used in the construction of the G.P.O. in Eglinton Street c.1960. The unusual angle seems to distort things and bring buildings closer together.
The trees in the foreground are those between the County Club and the Salmon Weir Bridge. Behind those, you can see parts of the old Gaol wall, and here and there, parts of the new Cathedral beginning to take shape. On the other side of the outer wall of the Gaol you can see the rooftops of the houses along Gaol Road belonging to Dowlings, Geraghty's and Barretts. They have all been removed now.
On the left is part of the wall around the Poor Clare's Convent and their garden, and behind that are some of the houses on Canal road. The one on the left was Phillips, and in behind that house were 3 others occupied by Kavanaghs, O'Reillys and Una Dowley. Next door was Tom Keogh's, then Condons, Fursey walsh, The Lawless Family, Billy Mathews, Dick Walsh, John Cahill and Claude Warner.
The large white building on Newcastle road, in the centre of the picture, was Kelehan's. To the left of that, across the road was the city morgue.
The main feature in our photograph is the Regional Hospital, the foundation stone for which was laid by the Minister for Health Dr. Noel Browne, in 1949. The main block of the new hospital was located to the rear of the old "Central", and involved the demolition of the rear wing of the old hospital. The long-stay patients from this rear section were accommodated in temporary huts erected at the front of the Central. This arrangement allowed the Central to function, more or less, normally during the construction.
The first patients admitted to the new hospital, were brought into the Paediatric section, which had accommodations for 50 infants and children, in mid 1955. The patients in the Central hospital were transferred into the main block on April 3rd, 1956, a logistical exercise greatly helped by the local unit of the Knights of Malta ambulance Corps.
The 1950's and 1960's saw a dramatic expansion of senior medical staff in the Regional. Behind the hospital you can see the area of Rahoon, which was open countryside then. It is all covered in concrete today.
Just arrived is volume 57 of the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society , and a handsome one it is. It is filled with a marvellous collections of articles and reviews such as an appraisal of Dick Dowling, Galway's hero of Confederate Texas; a study of Patrick Pearse; an architectural appraisal of 6-8, high street; a description of the Ritchie Pickow photographic collection in U.C.G. it is great value at €30, and even more value if you become a member of the Society. Very highly recommended.
Source: http://www.kennys.ie/News/OldGalway/11082005-BirdsEyeView/"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
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Eyre square a hundred years ago
A Macnas creation, Gulliver on Grattan Beach, 1988
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You had to plague your mum...? Mine usually plopped me on it and said "Wait 'til I get back". Pointless - after a few minutes I'd be wandering off to watch the cashiers put the money in the travelling cans and pulling the cord so it'd whizz off into the office along the wires.
No idea where it ended up, but I seem to remember it was gone before I actually grew out of it (if that makes sense!)0 -
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Seeing the Blackrock shop in the background of Eiffel Towers' picture of Whelans caused a super flashback... Anybody remember the kids rocking horse in the Blackrock? It was down the back of the shop in the passageway between the 2 sections of the the store - you can see them either side of Whelans' in the pic.
Met an old friend of mine last night whom I haven't seen in years, it dawned on me while talking that he used to be a manager in the Blackrock. I asked him about that and he told me it came to Galway in 1935 and closed in 1971 and was owned by a Jewish family. I asked him if he had any idea what ever happened to the infamous "Rocking Horse"...... I was gobsmacked by his reply"I know exactly what happened to the Rocking Horse. I have it. It's safe and sound and my kids grew up playing on it and now my grand kids have taking over
He smiled and saidI have the clock too. Do you remember the clock outside?
So people, The "Rocking Horse" still resides in Galway and is alive and well at the ripe old age of 78
-"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
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