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Handmade furniture shop on the quay

  • 12-04-2011 2:14pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone ever been in here? What a building. I'd love to know what used to be in there. Any info or background would be gratefully received,

    (there's actually some great furniture in there too at decent prices)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I love the upstairs area of that shop! I imagine turning it into a place to live every time I go there. I like their furniture too.


    I vaguely remember a couple of other shops being in it, there was a cafe at the front of the upstairs area at one stage and clothing downstairs I think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    It's a fanastic building that I'd say has loads of history.

    On summer days I like to walk along the quay..stop in for a drink in Dooleys...eat in a restaurant along the way an always call in here for a look.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28 viking2011


    used to be Waterford Design Centre -
    was crafts ppl on the top floor -
    was a great place but didnt make the cut - even during the celtic tiger


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭lassykk


    Perhaps there were crafts people on the top floor at some stage but there was a religious shrine on the very top floor with a full altar, church pews and everything that goes with it for years.

    When the handmade furniture shop tool it over it became a storeroom for them as the lift went up to the top floor so I imagine it was easy transport stuff up there.

    Haven't been on the top floor in years but I imagine the religious stuff is long gone


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,247 ✭✭✭ROCKMAN


    viking2011 wrote: »
    used to be Waterford Design Centre -
    was crafts ppl on the top floor -
    was a great place but didnt make the cut - even during the celtic tiger

    If they(owners) didn't pick and choose the crafts people by who they were ..
    it might have had a chance


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 414 ✭✭kkdela6


    Was that the shop where either the owner or a man working there single handedly foiled a burglary, and detained the criminal until the guards got there, think it happened a year or two ago?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭munster_mafia


    lassykk wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Id say that religious stuff had something to do with when the Treacy's owned it, Bridget was a very religious woman!

    Saying that they may still own it and just rent it out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭lassykk


    Id say that religious stuff had something to do with when the Treacy's owned it, Bridget was a very religious woman!

    Saying that they may still own it and just rent it out.

    Oh it was Bridget & Jim's stuff I'd say.

    Not sure of the current ownership of the building but the last I knew it was still owned by the Treacy's but that was years ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭STIG83


    Where on the quay is this shop?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭RxQueen


    beside centra


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    It is an amazing shop, I wonder who designed it?

    It really looks like the MacIntosh store in Glasgow.

    nMXw


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