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Toy Shop?

  • 10-06-2011 9:48pm
    #1
    Skerries
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    can anyone remember the name of a really fancy toy shop that used to be on Henry St around where the Jervis is now?
    It was a small single unit shop but it was like an Alladins cave of treasures, this would have been around 20 years or more ago and it had a posh name on it
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  • #2
    bonerm
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    Paddy Barretts? (tho the name not nearly posh enough I suppose)


  • #3
    orourkeda
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    Kinky Devil


  • #4
    Skerries
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    Paddy Barretts sounds right, not as posh as i thought it was :D
    thanks for that
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  • #5
    Skerries
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    orourkeda wrote: »
    Kinky Devil

    i think you are thinking of the wrong kind of toy shop
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  • #6
    hamstercrusher
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    Wasn't Hector Greys was it?


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  • #7
    Niles
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    I have vague recollections of being brought to Paddy Barretts as a kid (circa.1995), so it was still open then.


  • #8
    Poutbutton
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    Yea Paddy Barretts, one of my regular haunts when first allowed into town alone he had the best stuff. Was it there til about the mid 90's? I remember reading an article when it had to shut down, it looked awful when it did.


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    merlie
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    I remember it being a black fronted shop and I think it was owned at the time by Quinnsworth. I used to buy toys for my daughter there!

    Golly takes me right back and to just a few doors down, Mackeys! Used to pop in there to buy bulbs and seeds!


  • #10
    lord lucan
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    I remember Barratts well. From my hazy memory there was a big island unit cabinet in the centre of the floor and the sides were high shelved mahogany units. Remember getting Action Man and some Star Wars stuff from there as a kid.


  • #11
    Sparky84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭Sparky84


    merlie wrote: »
    I remember it being a black fronted shop and I think it was owned at the time by Quinnsworth. I used to buy toys for my daughter there!

    Golly takes me right back and to just a few doors down, Mackeys! Used to pop in there to buy bulbs and seeds!


    Remember Mackeys seed shop well.


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