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A Little Game - Guess Where?

  • 13-08-2012 11:17PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177
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    A little game that I came up with. The rules are simple, someone posts an old picture of Carlow town, people then guess where the picture was taken. The first person to guess right gets to post the next picture.

    I will get the ball rolling.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 979 Michael Weston
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    A little game that I came up with. The rules are simple, someone posts an old picture of Carlow town, people then guess where the picture was taken. The first person to guess right gets to post the next picture.

    I will get the ball rolling.

    scan0002.jpg

    Bottom of tullow Street ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 Memory Of 98
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    Bottom of tullow Street ?

    Bingo.

    It's your turn now.

    The Victoria Hotel, Tullow St, Carlow. Once the most luxurious hotel in Carlow. Now just a shell of its former self, most of you will recognize it as 'Paul's Bookshop'.

    The lovely building on the far-right is now 'Supermac's'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,923 road_high
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    Sad that the hotel closed, it's exactly what Carlow needs now, a decent hotel in the centre.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 DrZeuss
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    Sample.jpg

    This might be an easy one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 979 Michael Weston
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    DrZeuss wrote: »
    Sample.jpg

    This might be an easy one.

    Oakpark house somebody take my go


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 DrZeuss
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    Oakpark house

    Yup, was too easy! :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 Thwip!
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    Oakpark house somebody take my go
    Ballintemple_House.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 DrZeuss
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    Ok, another easy one..

    469233_3667707932195_1294559064_o.jpg

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 979 Michael Weston
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    DrZeuss wrote: »
    Ok, another easy one..

    469233_3667707932195_1294559064_o.jpg

    476252_3629428135224_309074169_o.jpg


    Ah the old town park


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 DrZeuss
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    Ah the old town park

    Yep, too easy again. jpcarlow's is a good one, looks familiar but can't place it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 979 Michael Weston
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    jpcarlow wrote: »
    Ballintemple_House.jpg

    Is it the back of Oakpark house


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 Thwip!
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    Is it the back of Oakpark house
    Nope


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 979 Michael Weston
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    Is it an Hotel


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 pappyodaniel
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    Ballintemple House


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 Thwip!
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    Ballintemple House
    Bingo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 Memory Of 98
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    Lovely Georgian building on the far-left, demolished to facilitate a modern eyesore, luckily the one beside it exists to this day.7

    Carlow used to be a Georgian gem.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 DrZeuss
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    Lovely Georgian building on the far-right, demolished to facilitate a modern eyesore, luckily the one beside it exists to this day.7

    Carlow used to be a Georgian gem.

    562241_406622712704615_1956002979_n.jpg

    The building of the new post office?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 Memory Of 98
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    DrZeuss wrote: »
    The building of the new post office?


    You got it! :)

    Picture taken just after they knocked down Slaters cinema and the old garage to build the new PostOffice.

    The ugliest building in Carlow:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 DrZeuss
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    You got it! :)

    Picture taken just after they knocked down Slaters cinema and the old garage to build the new PostOffice.

    The ugliest building in Carlow:mad:

    Ugliest is right...here is the building of it, spotted it yesterday after this thread was started.
    Construction%20Post%20Office.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 Stained Class
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    Picture taken just after they knocked down Slaters cinema and the old garage to build the new PostOffice.

    Old garage used to be Moores. They still trade in Carlow to this day.

    Prior to the demolition Kennedy Avenue didn't exist.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 Memory Of 98
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 DrZeuss
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    ArielviewofSleattySt.jpg

    Is that church street / chapel street in Graiguecullen?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 Memory Of 98
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    DrZeuss wrote: »
    Is that church street / chapel street in Graiguecullen?

    Close, Sleatty Street, Maryborough Street, and what is now the park.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,822 Morf
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    I'd say it's more '98 Street than anything else.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,822 Morf
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    Any idea what year it is? My father would like to know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 Memory Of 98
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    Morf wrote: »
    Any idea what year it is? My father would like to know.

    I'm not too sure, I'd imagine sometime around World War II.

    The old shed on the bottom of Maryborough Street, was used by the Graiguecullen band to practice, they used to play out the windows and people would come and listen.

    When Doogues moved the butcher shop, they kept the shed building mainly intact, it still has the same shape and appearance today. They then knocked the old shop, that's where the apartments are now, the two buildings at the far left of Maryborough street, they had to be demolished after a fire?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,822 Morf
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    My father remembers all fields in front of '98 Street. He also helped to clear Fr. Maher Park of stones as a young lad. He was born in 1940 I think.


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    My father was from Graigue and was proud to be a true Laois man, he used to have hundreds of old pictures from the 30's on of Graiguecullen .

    Must have a look for them , this has the making of a good thread .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,822 Morf
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    I notice Fr Maher Park is just over the border in Laois. The border being it's southern boundary wall. No accident there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,480 wheres me jumpa
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    Great thread!


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