things that used to be in waterford ya can remember

anplaya

dunno if a thread like this has been started up,but meself and the lads were talking about this the other day.what shops /retail outfits can ya remember as a kid in town but are no longer there. ill start off with some

darrers-shoppin centre where mcdonalds in town is now
burgerland-where sony centre in town is now
bescos-i think thats londis in ballybricken which is closed
wyleys sweet shop-revolution bar

seanybiker

martin hunt ha ha legend.
I remember going to the circus where ashley court is now.

anplaya

seanybiker wrote: »

martin hunt ha ha legend.

ziedth

The Old Cinema
Quinnsworth
Chess Mensware
Sullys snooker hall
Baker Street Pub

God, I remember burgerland. used to love it there as a boy.

bullpost

Shop down by the park with the two wacky sisters.
Brenners butchers shop with the German lad.
The Glass
The Savoy cinema

seanybiker

anplaya wrote: »

seanybiker wrote: »

martin hunt ha ha legend.

He used to go around with a hurley and sliotar and had his o neils shorts on the outside of his tracksuit. Ok fair enough I know technically he isnt ashop or anything but he was funny. Put the sliotar through the back window of a squad car once or twice. Nice chap.

I know its not years and years ago but it did used to be fun going across the red iron bridge and scabbing the coca cola factory lol.
Or if you went away fromt he red iron bridge on the tracks, a little bit down you would come to the mummy bridge, where some wino supposedly lived under it. Never seen him felt his presence as a child lol.

Professey Chin

seanybiker wrote: »

you would come to the mummy bridge, where some wino supposedly lived under it. Never seen him felt his presence as a child lol.

Thats called molestation :pac:

anplaya

egans bar-soon to be made into pennys
roches stores- debenhams
porters-books and things
the book centre used to be further up the road if i remember right?up by where the 2 euro shop is now?

seanybiker

bullpost wrote: »

Shop down by the park with the two wacky sisters.
Brenners butchers shop with the German lad.
The Glass
The Savoy cinema

Ah them two sisters where sound. I wonder if there still alive, wouldnt imagine so.
the galss lol low blow.


em just outta curiosity why didnt you mention the pub the bull post????

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Thats called molestation :pac:

I called him uncle bob.

mike65

Redmond Bridge - Gawd bless 'er!

The Showboat (duck!)

Soundwaves - best record shop Waterford ever had.

trishw78

Now I'm going to show my age

The Metroland
Breens Nightclub
Stones - The Roxy I think it was called Cheers at sometime or other
Flowmotion
I think it was called the wagon wheel it was up by the old cinema

EDIT: I swear I'm not an alcoholic

old gregg

The sale in Peter France

JohnC.

The big cranes and working container port on the North Quays.

When Arundle Square was a square. With Wimpy and Woolworths. I'm not imagining the latter, am I? My memory of it is a bit hazy, but I think there was one.

L&N in the city centre and the "Hyper."

Fitzmaurices in Georges Court, where Boots is now. I spent a lot of time in there.

shapez

Not from Waterford but I do remember these over the years...

- Dusty carpark where City Square stands now
- Quinnsworth
- 2 way traffic from clock tower up through red square, down by Wacky Apple and onto Cork Rd.
- Old road to Waterford from New Ross before existing one was built
- Roxy
- The Metroland
- B&L on the docks
- The Befey King (Where Abracadabra is now)
- The Infirmary when it was used for patients
- The old bridge with two way traffic
- Going out by Sally Pk. hoping the rocks didn't tumble down on top of the car before new road was built


I'll add more as I think of them...

SUNGOD

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mike65

shapez wrote: »

- Old road to Waterford from New Ross before existing one was built

I had cause to take the whole of it about 18 months ago, it was a startling experience, I'd forgotton just what a nasty, narrow road that is.

bullpost

seanybiker wrote: »

em just outta curiosity why didnt you mention the pub the bull post????

Graces was the only pub I knew up that direction - now that was an experience!

anplaya

Fitzmaurices in Georges Court, where Boots is now. I spent a lot of time in there.[/quote]

ah thanks for the reminder ,can just barely remember it lol:D

shapez

mike65 wrote: »

I had cause to take the whole of it about 18 months ago, it was a startling experience, I'd forgotton just what a nasty, narrow road that is.

Absolutely frightening!! I think the only straight stretch is along by the Pink Rock. I used to think as a kid that Waterford was a million miles away from Inistioge and traveling the whole South coast of Ireland in the process!!

greatgoal

The City Arms

anplaya

remember those houses that used to be opposite the train station that they knocked down when making the new road?werent they crooked or something?

Paige Turner

KFC by O' Connells Street
The Card Market - Red Square
Brannocks Cafe- City Square

shapez

This is going way back I would say.

Do any of you remember the Dunlop factory and then it was that dusty car park, before City Sq. was built. I don't remember it myself, but I'm curious to find out what year was that about?

anplaya

book centre/supermacs used to be a gamin arcade,cant rem name tho and before that was the savoy
sherwoods used to be pound city and before that burgerland and even before that harneys bakery
a wear was a place called mr hipps
sam mc cauleys was dl
supermarket pennys was woolworths

Professey Chin

Darrers Stores where McDonalds & Argos are

wellbutty

Great topic this!

martin hunt ha ha legend.

Well said

Remember the city bypass was to go up Crescent Drive green in Hillview?!

Also:
The Chipboard Factory
The tiny dirty sweet shop across from Farmleigh (now Londis)
Davy Macs (where Masons is)
The carpark where half the Tower Hotel now stands
The car garage at the back of Railway Square
Hartes Petrol Station at the junction of Tramore and Cork Roads
The "undrainable" Kilbarry Bogs (McDonalds, Superquinn, Outer Ring Road, PC World, RSC, Kingfisher, Lidl!!!)
The Bowling Alley (where PC World is)
Articulated trucks scraping shop fronts in Michael Street to pass each other

ec18

Egans
The old Stand

anplaya

winstons drapery was upstairs where rubys is now
the temple bar

dunlop was in new rath i think not by city square

merlante

Some people are really young on here... wait a minute.

I'll add a few. John's st.:
Jackpot, Pot Black, Karate Gym (name?), Fat Sams, Sinnotts, Harney's bakery, Delacatos, Kervicks, the C&C? shop by John's bridge. This street used to a scumbags paradise. "Got teppence for a faheeg boy..." It had snooker and fighting on one side, pool, video games and late night drinking on the other.

Johnstown: Twomey's shop, Rex's game's shop.

Photi

Knick Knack Discount Store

tonc76

Stripes chipper in red square
Bobby McGee's
ABC Radio in Arundel Square
Winston's where Ruby's is now
Fat Sam's where Muldoon's is now
The Trap where Muldoon's is now
Davy Mac's then Trumps where Mason's is now
KK Discount Store where Kavanaghs Electrical on Michael St is now
Chuck Wagon chipper on Michael St
Morris's on Manor St before the houses were built

Ostrom

Sheffelins (and later 'scorpions....')

The Kings back when it hosted decent music

Favourite Home Brew on the quay (which may still be there?)

Crazy Prices with the hand-drawn signs

Wimpy (Now the brasserie)

Boston cleaners

A lane through City Square (early 90's)

jonnyfingers

-The Junction and Club L.A. where Mason's is now.
-Preachers and the Pulpit where Electric Avenue is now.
-WLR above Georges Court instead of out by Tesco.
-Nothing but fields behind Hillview where the Carrigpherish (sic) Road and new houses are now.
-Airmount hospital where a lot of us were born.

Elle Victorine

Lord I remember club LA!

Also remember that little shop on alphonses(sp?) road and the little post office across from st.john of god's

I remember where Hickeys was...was like another georges court type place.
There was a funderland type thing where pc world is now.
Strand video in town and the dunmoire road.
THe butchers where Apache Pizza is now.
THe greengrocers where La Boulangerie was.
Eddie rockets across the street.
Abrakebabra was up where pure is now.
When tesco polberry was actually quinnsworth
Bakers street weas actually a bakery
the green bank bakery...might have the name wrong there.
The bank bar and its previous run as an actual bank!



God there's some load of changes.

ANybody remember orange??THe secondhand clothes store? Was right next door to Giselles Shoes. It then became Marmalade Cafe.

OOO and the little sweet shop that's beside Geoff's Bar. It's boarded up onw but an old man used sell sweets from those oldschool plastic jars and weigh them out on weighing scales. Loved that shop

old gregg

following on from Martin Hunt and Waterford characters, here's one that only folks of a certain vintage will remember .....

STAB THE RASHER

deisemum

It's over 20 years since I first visited Waterford but I remember
The Chuck Wagon, think it was in the vicinity of Supermacs,
also the Peppermint Grove in the Bridge Hotel,
the Stone Court nightclub,
I've lost count of the numerous name changes of the nightclub at the Reginald.

Knox's is now Tommy Hilfiger

Also Ardkeen Quality Foodstores was a much smaller shop where Supermacs and Jigsaw are now located and the rest was a car park.

The first row of houses in Earls Court were just being built and then it was countryside out from that.

deisemum

My DH remembers Stab the Rasher and Hatchet Reilly.

Duiske

ziedth wrote: »

God, I remember burgerland. used to love it there as a boy.

Now theres a blast from the past

The Pineapple Grove bar in the Bridge hotel was a great hangout back in the day as well.

deisemum

He also remembers The Johnies from John's Park.

The Cove Centre used to be a petrol station and when my hubby was a teenager he had a part-time job there and he was held up at gun point by a robber. He still occasionally sees that man around the place.

tbaymusicman

does anyone remember a restaurant where subway is think it was called harvester was really nice across from th doolans and shaws

hotspur147

alfie hales sports where argos is now
crosslane video store
the chuck wagon
the mobile chinese van outside breens
askin the magee's to let 2 in for a fiver (also breens)
ballad session sun night in the peppermint grove
excaliber night club
bewleys cafe
algies barbers
the de la salle center
lunch in the old stand
the poker machines where the kasbar is now
the double seats in the regina cinema

gscully

Kahless wrote: »

When Arundle Square was a square. With Wimpy and Woolworths. I'm not imagining the latter, am I? My memory of it is a bit hazy, but I think there was one.

Woolworths was where Penneys is now. The place you're thinking of in Arundel Sq was called Wellworths - a glorified pound shop.

Also, in Arundel Sq, there was a good butchers (Warings??) and a camera and computer shop (Finns).

I remember the old Savoy (saw Brendan Grace there), then it became a gaming arcade, then became Supermacs. There was also a gaming arcade called Jackpot where the back of Muldoons is now.

honeybadger

bevans bookshop on the quay and jd sports aswell and if any one rembers where the old army shop and where the city arms pub and woolworths were before they built city square and also all the cattle boats on the quay and the big warehouse where the plaza is now built and all the old streets and river walk down the aldephi quay direction behind the tower hotel and when charlies furniture was down on parnell street and also how could i forget bernies video shop behind the kentucky

0neo8

Club LA.for the dj nights.fookers got rid of it.dont forget the famous monica that walked sally park.there was more people in her than in quinnsworth(i wasn't).no offence any of her relatives

seanybiker

wellbutty wrote: »

Remember the city bypass was to go up Crescent Drive green in Hillview?!

And well i remember that. Living in second last house on crescent drive. All me neighbours got in the paper for protesting. I was in bed at the time ha ha.

Coadys pond ruled.
Shaky island by red iron bridge.

Odats

The Coffee Shop where the Bistro is now on Patrick St, next to it Skippers.
Also the Broad St Centre and Bewleys inside.
Greasy Neds where Danny's is on Barrack St Half a chicken inside a snack box for a pound.
Doyles on Barrack St. Paddy Reas shop on Barrack St. Mackeys menswear on the Quay. Reddys where the strip club is on high st.
Kathleen the lolipop lady outside Mount Sion school. Besco. The Old Stand. Algies barber shop. Walsh's on Ballybricken. Leahys bakery on the Mayors Walk. Merlins before it was renamed Oxygen. Henry Molloys butchers on Patrick St. Tom Molloys butchers on Ballybricken were the Keogh practice is now. Denis Maguires shop on Ballybricken. The Bank of Ireland on Ballybricken. the Reginald Excaliber nightclub. KG Discs in the Shopping centre on Paddy Brownes Road. Sinnotts Discs. Frank English's on O'Connell St. JD Sports on the Quay.

m3llowship

I'm yet to find a battered sausage as good as the Beefy King where Abra is now.

lollypop41

the wimpy where the brassiere is now used to go their every friday for dinner with my family when i was small i lov ed it

the wooden part of the peoples park the monkey bars were class

the bowling alley where that computer shop is now had my birthday party there so many years in a row

marlin vs

Charlie Upton's down by the Colosseum, and then he moved to ballybricken.Batteburys pub,barrack st. the golden dollar,mayor's walk, John Keanes,barrack st.and the famous well on upper yella road.

KingLoser

B&B Cycles, beside the chipper on Ballybricken
Advance Tyres and a deadly secondhand shop on Wellington St
The Pound shop on red square, where I think Dr. Herb is now
Danny's shop on Barrack Street
Ned Kelly's where the Junction is now
There was a bakery next door to Ned Kellys, where the betting shop is now
Wrights cycles on Henrietta St.

Loads more, can't think.

Mossy Monk

Burgerland

LOL