omg ive invented a time machine!!!

magick

well not really, but say u had one, what time period would u visit Waterford in the Past?

id like to see Strongbows wedding(reading the historical record it was quiet the bash that and seeing how accurate the museums model is!), then go to the afters in downses.

when would you like to visit?!

Asmodean

great idea for a thread!! I'd love to go back and laugh at Cromwell tryin to take the city. Lob a few rocks at him:D

Professey Chin

I wanna go back to when they sarted giving planning permission for ugly box buildings like the old ESB building so I can slap them and say "No planning people, THATS A BAD PLANNING PEOPLE!!!"

ex_infantry man

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

I wanna go back to when they sarted giving planning permission for ugly box buildings like the old ESB building so I can slap them and say "No planning people, THATS A BAD PLANNING PEOPLE!!!"

is ur name brendan mcCan,t by any chance

deise-lady

hmmm...I know it's not really what the OP is looking for, but I wish I could go back in time to when it all started going wrong at the crystal, and try to fix it

abouttobebanned

deise-lady wrote: »

hmmm...I know it's not really what the OP is looking for, but I wish I could go back in time to when it all started going wrong at the crystal, and try to fix it

there's nothing you could do. The world went into recession, luxury products no longer sold as well as they did when everyone was prospering.

Oh man, there are loads of times that I'd like to go back to...

The days of the city walls...would be great to see the life in waterford back then.

i'd also like to see the city when I was ten...back in 1990...all the old shops and roads (michael street with cars)

Tragamin2k2

metropole

Our man in Havana

The day before Brendan McCann arrived in Waterford, in order to stop him.

suirfire

Id like to go back to the mid to late 90s when you could go out in Waterford have a laugh and listen to some good live music hmmmm am i just getting old lol

angry_fox

Great thread, would love to back to when waterford was a major port and to see the quay alive with hustle and bustle

nkay1985

I'd like to go back to the 60's when my parents were growing up to see first hand how tough (and rough seemingly!) it was. There are a few people from that time that I'd really like to meet too.

But it'd be amazing to go back to the Norman and Viking times.

wmpdd3

I'd like to go back to christmas eve in Dooleys hotel when the staff used to give out balloons. God we were easily pleased!!

Also I would like to go back to when the Roxy and Flow were option for going out but then again I don't remember them first time round.....

baronflyguy

ha ha, this topic reminds me of that email that went around a while back where someone put a half made time machine up for sale on a online bidding auction website in new zealand.
http://www.jbconcepts.net/PDF/Time%20machine%20for%20sale%20NewZealand.pdf
The comments alone are hilarious.

I'd go back to 2000 when they had tasty garlic chicken paninis in Geoffs that arrived with a few crisps and coleslaw. Now that was tasty.

Then I'd go back to last Friday and play the Euromillions with the winning numbers.

BlaasForRafa

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

I wanna go back to when they sarted giving planning permission for ugly box buildings like the old ESB building so I can slap them and say "No planning people, THATS A BAD PLANNING PEOPLE!!!"

The old ESB building is a nice example of the international style of architecture. Its not bad planning at all.

What time period would I go back to?....It would be nice to see when the quays were full of ships.

daftdave

id love to go back to 59 when waterford last won the all ireland hurling championship ,

seanybiker

I would go back to the good old days of the thrill on the hill or whatever ya call it. That used to be class.

CHD

Walk through a viking market

gscully

I'd go back to when Fat Sams was still open. Or to when the Blues played in Kilcohan Park.

Oh, and I'd dump that bitch before she dumped me

ziedth

Great Idea for a thread,

The All Ireland is a food suggestion. I suppose if I really did I would go back to the 70's but the land out by the motor mile/dunmore road and come back to the early 00's sell it and eat romantica on my floating island off Boatstrand for the rest of my days.

magick

all good suggestions, though id like to go right back, ie Viking times, see the first mayor of waterford (i think it was in 1033) and see what the place was like.

Or

Their was a really interesting doc on RTE years ago about Irelands geology and the presenter said that one time Ireland was a tropical Island, so that i would love to see, tropical Waterford!

Elle Victorine

When the tricolour was raised.....and when the vikings landed.

dlofnep

Jaysus, Thrill on the Hill... and beat on the street. There's a blast from the past!

honeybadger

id love too go back to the night packie saved and O'leary scored against romania back in itaia 90,i tink that was the most mental night i have ever seen in waterford city yet,the memorys of it lol,,id also like to see when reginalds tower was being built and the old city walls and also the coffin ships leaving the quay headed for america back in the famine times and also wot the bullpost was really used for

seanybiker

dlofnep wrote: »

Jaysus, Thrill on the Hill... and beat on the street. There's a blast from the past!

beat on the street thats the one I couldnt think of. rock out with me cock out kept on popping into me head haha

dlofnep

lol!

magick

honeybadger wrote: »

like to see when reginalds tower was being built and the old city walls and also the coffin ships leaving the quay headed for america back in the famine times and also wot the bullpost was really used for

love to idea of Reginalds tower, wast the bullpost used for local crimnials? Was Crotty tied to it?

nkay1985

magick wrote: »

love to idea of Reginalds tower, wast the bullpost used for local crimnials? Was Crotty tied to it?

I think the bullpost was used for tying bulls and the like to back where there used to be a market on Ballybricken.

Revolutionary idea that, tying bulls to a post and calling it a bull post!

magick

nkay1985 wrote: »

I think the bullpost was used for tying bulls and the like to back where there used to be a market on Ballybricken.

Revolutionary idea that, tying bulls to a post and calling it a bull post!

thats what they wanted you to believe!

TriceMarie

seanybiker wrote: »

beat on the street thats the one I couldnt think of. rock out with me cock out kept on popping into me head haha

can someone explain what this is???or maybe I'm too ickle to have been around then :o

nkay1985

TriceMarie wrote: »

can someone explain what this is???or maybe I'm too ickle to have been around then :o

Beat on the street? Or the second bit!

TriceMarie

beat on the street?

nkay1985

TriceMarie wrote: »

beat on the street?

Ah Beat on the Street was the business. It was when I was really young. Close to 20 years ago I'd say. It was basically a big music thing. I remember they had a big stage set up on The Quay one year. And I think it was on Ballybricken another. 7UP organised it.

TriceMarie

aww sounds like fun ...too bad I was only a foetus at the time it was taking place lol:o


I think I would go back to the early 90s,when I was a child any everything seemed great.Like the bosco show in the metropole :D aww tehe,I'm feelin all nostalgic now!!:o:P:P


But also,It would be cool to go back when dinosaurs were around...:eek::eek: OOooooh!!:cool::D

Poor Uncle Tom

I'd go back to the mid to late-eighties, when the streets were buzzin. There were cars, trucks and bikes through every street, the place was alive and the pubs were full. You could get a dinner at Fat Sams for £2.50, you could get a few pints in Tommy Barrs, Prendervill's or Bobby McGees for a tenner. The town seemed alive back then, there was a heart to the place.