My Limerick. Photos by Stan. ;) -WARNING: Dialup Death]

Stan the man

Cheers!

Stan the man

Snowing!

Stan the man

monalitto

please forgive, this may be off topic, but Stan, maybe you can settle an argument here in my house, the houses in the background behind me & my brother, are the old tenement houses that arthurs quay now stands on????

Berty

From what I can tell you are standing at the back of where Henry St Garda station is.

Melion

Yeah Berty is right. You can make out the boat house on the left of the picture.

monalitto

hi, not where we are standing, its the houses in the distance behind us. Anyone remember them?

Stan the man

monalitto wrote: »

please forgive, this may be off topic, but Stan, maybe you can settle an argument here in my house, the houses in the background behind me & my brother, are the old tenement houses that arthurs quay now stands on????

Monalitto, my friend, unfortunately I don't know. Maybe someone who lives longer, someone older and wiser than me, will respond You. This could be the buildings visible in this photograph at the top? I don't know. Sorry.

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Melion

monalitto wrote: »

hi, not where we are standing, its the houses in the distance behind us. Anyone remember them?

The houses over your brothers left shoulder is now Harvey's Quay(Dunnes Stores)

monalitto

that's a great picture Stan, - i said i could remember a car-park down there, my husband didnt though, but there it is! I was Really young then (i swear) but we grew up in the city centre & I have lots of memories of that area. I think it is Arthurs Quay behind us in that photo, it is, it is - & women are always right!!! Thanks for the pic im saving it.;):D

Stan the man

Stan the man

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dave 27

can anyone tell me what this grey building is called and if theres info on it?
im doing a project on old buildings in limerick

Sgt Hartman

Great pics Stan. Sad to see the rotted state of Patrick street though:(

LB6

Dave - that was Bannatynes Corn Mill

dave 27

cool cheers for that, am i rite in saying that theres another one around town?

LimerickCity

Some nice photographs there Stan.

LB6

Can't say for sure - I think there was one up by the market. There was definitely a mill on the Dock Road it was owned by Ranks and the building was attached to it's other half across the road by a foot bridge well up in the air! Long gone now

Stan the man

Thanks for the kind words gentlemen. On Saturday Sky Fest.

LimerickCity

Stan the man wrote: »

Thanks for the kind words gentlemen. On Saturday Sky Fest.

Hey Stan, i'm sure will appreciate this photograph. For someone who has lived in our city for such a short time and has seen so many changes in that short time then please take a look at how much it has changed since the 1950's.

the drifter

This thread is awesome.....

Bad press my arse this city still rocks

That is all.....

Mc Love

Love that photo from the 50's.

Isnt there something like that picture except its of Dooradoyle and the Regional, just inside the doors of the hospital

bullets

Mc Love wrote: »

Love that photo from the 50's.

Isnt there something like that picture except its of Dooradoyle and the Regional, just inside the doors of the hospital

Weird I was thinking the same thing. I've not seen the pic in the regional
but in the 70's my father took some photo looking down from some height that showed the Hospital and
some of Dooradoyle Must see if I can dig it up over the weekend.

~B

gryff

LB6 wrote: »

Dave - that was Bannatynes Corn Mill

Spot on... cut from a map in the very excellent Irish Historic Towns atlas no. 21 Limerick.. can be bought in bookshops for 35 euro..well worth it!!..

LB6

Gryff, That map brings back memories. You "young" enough to remember Spaights hardware before it was a shopping centre with the roof top parking? (for the YOUNGER ones), those two predated where the Dunnes in Henry Street is now.

dave 27

does Limerick in black and white remind anyone else like the bronx or queens? something about it i really like, heres some more





the regional


1970s










1945ish






1960s

gryff

LB6 wrote: »

Gryff, That map brings back memories. You "young" enough to remember Spaights hardware before it was a shopping centre with the roof top parking? (for the YOUNGER ones), those two predated where the Dunnes in Henry Street is now.

Im only a young fella in my mid 40s... Ive a dim memory of a long wall and the bus stops..Did they have that rope and pulley system for transferring paperwork acroos the ceiling to the office -- or was that somewhere else.

dave 27

gryff wrote: »

Im only a young fella in my mid 40s... Ive a dim memory of a long wall and the bus stops..Did they have that rope and pulley system for transferring paperwork acroos the ceiling to the office -- or was that somewhere else.

im only 22 and i remember the pulley system!

LB6

I remember the pulley system too. Yep they had and there was one of them in Todd's way back when too. It was for payment of goods bought - money up to the office and change back down in the little cup thingies!

dave 27

i dunno where i heard, but apparently there was a new girl working in spaights one day and instead of putting back paper or whatever was in the pullys from the office to the checkout, someone but a mouse in it and apparently she freaked a brick! id say that would have been hilarious!