A Little Game - Guess Where?

Memory Of 98

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.

Michael Weston

Memory Of 98 wrote: »

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.

Bottom of tullow Street ?

Memory Of 98

Michael Weston wrote: »

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'.

road_high

Sad that the hotel closed, it's exactly what Carlow needs now, a decent hotel in the centre.

DrZeuss

This might be an easy one.

Michael Weston

DrZeuss wrote: »

This might be an easy one.

Oakpark house somebody take my go

DrZeuss

Michael Weston wrote: »

Oakpark house

Yup, was too easy!

Thwip!

Michael Weston wrote: »

Oakpark house somebody take my go

DrZeuss

Ok, another easy one..

Michael Weston

DrZeuss wrote: »

Ok, another easy one..

Ah the old town park

DrZeuss

Michael Weston wrote: »

Ah the old town park

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

Michael Weston

jpcarlow wrote: »

Is it the back of Oakpark house

Thwip!

Michael Weston wrote: »

Is it the back of Oakpark house

Nope

Michael Weston

Is it an Hotel

pappyodaniel

Ballintemple House

Thwip!

pappyodaniel wrote: »

Ballintemple House

Bingo

Memory Of 98

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.

DrZeuss

Memory Of 98 wrote: »

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.

The building of the new post office?

Memory Of 98

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:

DrZeuss

Memory Of 98 wrote: »

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.

Stained Class

Memory Of 98 wrote: »

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.

Memory Of 98

DrZeuss

Memory Of 98 wrote: »

Is that church street / chapel street in Graiguecullen?

Memory Of 98

DrZeuss wrote: »

Is that church street / chapel street in Graiguecullen?

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

Morf

I'd say it's more '98 Street than anything else.

Morf

Any idea what year it is? My father would like to know.

Memory Of 98

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?

Morf

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.

Owryan

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 .

Morf

I notice Fr Maher Park is just over the border in Laois. The border being it's southern boundary wall. No accident there.

wheres me jumpa

Great thread!

DrZeuss

Al Capwned

Morf wrote: »

I'd say it's more '98 Street than anything else.

Yeah, i'd say it's 98 street, isn't that the Croppies grave on the RHS. With the big tree in.

Thwip!

DrZeuss wrote: »

Old Union Workhouse, where the I.T. is located now if i'm not mistaken

DrZeuss

jpcarlow wrote: »

Old Union Workhouse, where the I.T. is located now if i'm not mistaken

Very good, thought that would have been a bit more difficult.

Thwip!

Michael Weston

jpcarlow wrote: »

Dublin Street down around the Courthouse Hotel ?

Thwip!

Michael Weston wrote: »

Dublin Street down around the Courthouse Hotel ?

yeppers

Michael Weston

This should be short and sweet, I remember watching it.

Stained Class

Michael Weston wrote: »

This should be short and sweet, I remember watching it.

Hadden's fire.

I was there too. About '86, I think?

Owryan

Stained Class wrote: »

Hadden's fire.

I was there too. About '86, I think?

Think most of Carlow was there, was 11 at the time and can still remember the crowd in the carpark. What upset me most was the thought of no more icecream sodas in their cafe

doughef

Hadden's fire was 1984 I think.

I was 4 and my father brought me down to see it. I distinctly remember it..
I was also in the car park. That pic from the Tullow St side is amazing. Never seen anything from that side before.

Here is a link to a previous boards discussion on it.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=68916278

foggy_lad

Michael Weston wrote: »

This should be short and sweet, I remember watching it.

Women were queing up for the fire sale even before the firemen had left:D