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Eddie Hobbs/Dan Hobbs

  • 28-11-2011 12:09pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Hoping to draw on somebody's local knowledge in relation to Cork city.

    My question is that there was formerly a shop at 57 Patrick Street, Cork called Dan Hobbs, Gents outfitters (it's currently occupied by Supersavers).
    Does anyone know anything about this shop, remember it in any way or (outside chance I know) have a picture of it?

    And second question is there any connection between Dan Hobbs and the celebrity economist Eddie Hobbs?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Hesh's Umpire


    Just one bump - apologies! This will be the only one...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭curly from cork


    There are a few families called Hobbs all living around Waterfall direction , not sure if thats any help to you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 615 ✭✭✭donalh087


    No. Different families (afaik).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭Cape Clear


    donalh087 wrote: »
    No. Different families (afaik).

    I did hear he was Eddie's uncle once but that may have been speculation. Eddie hails from the lough AFAIK. Shop is closed a good 20 years +


  • Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cape Clear wrote: »
    ........... Eddie hails from the lough AFAIK. .........

    Indeed, Earlswood Estate


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭moceri


    John Hobbs, Eddy's great grandfather, originally came from England. He was engaged by The Cork Butter Market for his specialist skills as a Weighmaster.
    There he met his second wife Julia (nee O'Connell). They lived at 14 Lough road.
    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Cork_No__5_Urban/Lough_Road/395762/


    John Hobbs had 7 Children and three from his previous marriage.
    One of his Sons was Danny Hobbs who ran a gentleman's outfitters in Patrick Street. He lived at Mount Kiernan, the Lough. He died on 6th July 1964.

    One of Danny's sons was John, who is Eddy's father.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭discostu1


    If you are walking around the Lough, at the Lough church end there is a seat dedicated if that is the word to the memory of Danny Hobbs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Hesh's Umpire


    moceri wrote: »
    John Hobbs, Eddy's great grandfather, originally came from England. He was engaged by The Cork Butter Market for his specialist skills as a Weighmaster.
    There he met his second wife Julia (nee O'Connell). They lived at 14 Lough road.
    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Cork_No__5_Urban/Lough_Road/395762/


    John Hobbs had 7 Children and three from his previous marriage.
    One of his Sons was Danny Hobbs who ran a gentleman's outfitters in Patrick Street. He lived at Mount Kiernan, the Lough. He died on 6th July 1964.

    One of Danny's sons was John, who is Eddy's father.

    Thank you very much. Answers all my questions!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 265 ✭✭dewdrop


    I suspect that there are not many elderly Cork folk on Boards as the late Danny Hobbs was a household name many years ago. he was a great comedian and appeared regularly in the old Cork Opera house. I never saw him as i only came to cork in the fifties but at that time everyone spoke of Danny Hobbs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 cochisestud


    moceri wrote: »
    John Hobbs, Eddy's great grandfather, originally came from England. He was engaged by The Cork Butter Market for his specialist skills as a Weighmaster.
    There he met his second wife Julia (nee O'Connell). They lived at 14 Lough road.
    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Cork_No__5_Urban/Lough_Road/395762/


    John Hobbs had 7 Children and three from his previous marriage.
    One of his Sons was Danny Hobbs who ran a gentleman's outfitters in Patrick Street. He lived at Mount Kiernan, the Lough. He died on 6th July 1964.

    One of Danny's sons was John, who is Eddy's father.


    Eddie Hobbs was named after his Farther... Danny Hobbs was a Gran Uncle of Eddie Hobbs Jnr as it were.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    I remember going into Danny Hobbs shop with my dad in the 50s where bought his clothes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 cochisestud


    aujopimur wrote: »
    I remember going into Danny Hobbs shop with my dad in the 50s where bought his clothes.

    My mother was his niece. (Danny Hobbs) I remmember various stories of antics :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭lostinsuperfunk


    You can see part of the neon sign over the shop ("Hobbs of") in this photo on Karl Grabe's site.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭moceri


    Eddie Hobbs was named after his Farther... Danny Hobbs was a Gran Uncle of Eddie Hobbs Jnr as it were.

    Which one of the Hobbs siblings (from the 1911) census was Eddie jnr's grandfather?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 cooper1275


    This is for Hesh's umpire..or indeed for anyone related to or knew Dan Hobbs.

    You were looking for a photo of Dan Hobbs shop in Cork, well here is one I'll bet you didn't know existed...

    My name is Paul & I'm from Malahide/Dublin. I was looking online today for old photo's of JFK's motorcade through Dublin in '63 for a friend of mine who rode motorcycle beside JFK, and in doing so I found this picture. The problem was that I didn't recognize the Dublin street he was supposed to be on.
    After looking at the photo in detail I saw a shop on the right named Dan Hobbs.
    So still not knowing where in Dublin this shop might have been I did a search for Dan Hobbs shop and found this Boards thread...it turns out that it wasn't Dublin at all but Cork.
    So I needed to double-check the photo in case I was wrong, I went into google maps for Patrick St in Cork and lo & behold the surrounding buildings in maps matched the photo perfectly.
    View this photo at full resolution or simply magnify it, as you do you can clearly see Dan Hobbs shop on the right with people in the window above looking out at JFK...You will notice a man standing in the doorway of Dan Hobbs shop, could this be Dan Hobbs himself...??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 cooper1275


    To those who said thanks, you're welcome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 cochisestud


    Eddie Hobbs Grandfather was William A Hobbs...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭The_Banker




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    The_Banker wrote: »
    That is an unbelievable good quality photo of Patrick St....

    It's like a 60s version of one of those gigapixel photos :-)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭roundymac


    Hobbs Gents Outfitters. Were into business type of clothing, suits etc, not so much on the casual end of things. Nice stuff though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭who_me


    cooper1275 wrote: »

    Amazing photo. Love the lads casually standing in the windows above the next-door shop. Different times...


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