Past shops of Cork!

freshpopcorn

I'm in my late twenties and a guy(Not overly into clothes) and from the county so my memory is fairly limited.
Share memories/etc.
City Center
Roches Stores.
Next in Roches Stores.
I think I remember Mango in Patrick Street.
Virgin.
HMV
Merchants Quay.
Paco Merchants Quay.
Next Merchants Quay.
Kylemoore.
Wilton
Roches Stores.
Awear.
Barratts Shoes.
The Jean Scene.
Blackpool.
The Jean Scene
Carpet Right.
Maplin.
Atlantic Home care.
Paco.
Sally West
Mahon Point
Awear.
Sasha.
The Jean Scene.
Gasoline.
Barratts.
Carraig Donn.
Credit Union.
The Jean Scene
Lacoste.
Pamela Scott.
Principles.
Ladybird.
Adams.
Champion Sports.
Here's Health.
Pizza Hut.
Eddie Rockets.
Bennigans.
Meadows and Byrne.
Pumpkin Patch.
Douglas Court/Douglas Village
The Bakery in Douglas Court.


I know some places have changed hands/ownership.

ofcork

Always remember zoom in roches stores had nice clothes. also gasoline in merchants quay and Patrick st.

Mardyke

Pull and Bear in Roches
Pilot Fashions on Barrack St (was that the name of it?)
The old Mathew's
Football Crazy

namloc1980

Any list is not compete without Cashs of Cork.

Seamai

Atkin's garden shop on Winthrop St.
Cudmore's at the junction of Winthrop St. and Patrick St.
Foley's sweet shop, Patrick St.
Lester's Chemist, Patrick St.
Blair's Chemist, Patrick St.
The Farm House cake shop, Oliver Plunkett St. and later Academy St.
Mockler's fur shop (yes I did say fur) Patrick St.
Bolger's, Patrick St.
Woolworth's, Patrick St.
Hobbs, Patrick St.
Winston's, Patrick St.
Kilgrew's toy shop, Grand Parade
Gael Linn, Grand Parade
Buckley's Department Store, Academy St.

I'm probably showing my age with most of these, I remember my mother taking my brother and I to see Santy in Buckley's almost 50 years ago, their big draw was they had a real reindeer in the store, it was probably a fallow stag but who'd know the difference, I can still remember the smell, the poor thing was probably traumatised in his little pen which was wrapped in tin foil to make it look festive.

Nigel Fairservice

Murrays. They used to do curtains, cushions and that kind of thing. I remember always being dragged in there by my mother on Saturdays. I think it was on Grand Parade.

Mandy's where McDonald's is now on Daunt Square.

Burns Barbers on Parnell Place. Got my first haircut there in the 80s. They used to put a wooden board across the the 2 arms of the barber's chair for me to sit on.

Flor Griffins on Parnell Place.

Woolworths on Patrick Street.

leeside11

Barely remember I think it was Lucey's in North Main Street where Scott's Tools are now. My father got our first colour TV there.

corks finest

Mardyke wrote: »

Pull and Bear in Roches
Pilot Fashions on Barrack St (was that the name of it?)
The old Mathew's
Football Crazy

Denis Walsh's western road for all our boot boy gear( small cringe) wrangler/ Oxford bags( parrarells) Ben Sherman check shirts,crombies,,,,,,mosey on down to McCarthys on the coal quay for the highest doc Marten boots in Cork ( nearly forgot 2 Tone bags also - leaders n main st

corks finest

namloc1980 wrote: »

Any list is not compete without Cashs of Cork.

And kilgrews

Patrick 1959

corks finest wrote: »

Denis Walsh's western road for all our boot boy gear( small cringe) wrangler/ Oxford bags( parrarells) Ben Sherman check shirts,crombies,,,,,,mosey on down to McCarthys on the coal quay for the highest doc Marten boots in Cork ( nearly forgot 2 Tone bags also - leaders n main st

Happy days. Harrington jacket, staypress and braces. 1971-1974

P.lane78

Madden's TV and hifi ...we got all our gear there back in the day

corkgsxr

Matty kylies chipper

PcAngel

The queens old castle divided into units. There was a fish place - Beshoffs? And then a clothes shop.
Marie rose cafe there and in Savoy.
Clothes shop where Burgerking are now.
Past Times on Patrick St
Burgerland.
Cudmores on Castle St.
Sweet shop at the bottom of Shannon St.
Woolworths

Ludo

Tomorrows World computer shop was also in the Queens Old Castle. Twas a great shop for all your C64 and Spectrum 48k games.

TheDriver

Correct me if I'm wrong but RTV TV and HiFi in merchants quay?
Is academy shoes gone?

freshpopcorn

dudara

What was the name of the big store that used to be on North Main Street, where the sports shop is now? Think it would have closed about 25 years ago?

Also Wendy Burger, where McDonald’s Daunt Sq is now.

Italix

dudara wrote: »

What was the name of the big store that used to be on North Main Street, where the sports shop is now? Think it would have closed about 25 years ago?

Also Wendy Burger, where McDonald’s Daunt Sq is now.

Was about to ask that myself, perhaps Bennett's?

I remember my grandmother used to bring me in there.

TheDriver

freshpopcorn wrote: »

We shouldn't forget the capitol. Or the cinema on winthrop St. What about shoe shop where smuggle now is.
And Ginos........

freshpopcorn

I think Mahon Point also had La Senza.
I remember us getting very excited on a school tour!

TheDriver

Wasn't there a Brian stac jewellers there too

the beer revolu

Trains, Boats and Planes, Oliver Plunket Street.

Hot Stuff chippers - all over the place!

magentis

dudara wrote: »

What was the name of the big store that used to be on North Main Street, where the sports shop is now? Think it would have closed about 25 years ago?

Also Wendy Burger, where McDonald’s Daunt Sq is now.

Used to be burgerland too once upon a time!

They also had one on Patrick st by the Victoria hotel.

magentis

Egans on Patrick street.

the beer revolu

magentis wrote: »

They also had one on Patrick st by the Victoria hotel.

And Davill's 32 flavours Ice cream next door (it was incorporated into Burgerland, subsequently).
And PizzaLand a door or two up from that.

roundymac

The Moderne on Patrick St.

razorblunt

Ludgate O'Keeffe, Parnell Place.

What was the place by Daunt Square, the Great Outdoors was it?

magentis

Two computer shops I remember frequenting,there was one on Washington st and another on Lavitts quay(owned by Sean beausang).The names of them escapes me.I remember getting my speccy and commodore 64 fixed in them!

Also the Philip's depot up further repairing my Philip's g7000 console!

magentis

razorblunt wrote: »

Ludgate O'Keeffe, Parnell Place.

What was the place by Daunt Square, the Great Outdoors was it?

Yep that was the great outdoors on the corner of the coalquay.

boydkev

i remember going to either Burgerland or Pizzaland on Patricks street as they were next to each other. Think they were where Monsoon & Accessorize are now.

Block (8

Ludo wrote: »

Tomorrows World computer shop was also in the Queens Old Castle. Twas a great shop for all your C64 and Spectrum 48k games.

Wow that brings back memories!

I remember having a speccy and seeing a printer for it behind the shop window thinking "if I had that I can print any words I type on my spectrum amazing"

magentis

Block (8 wrote: »

Wow that brings back memories!

I remember having a speccy and seeing a printer for it behind the shop window thinking "if I had that I can print any words I type on my spectrum amazing"

One of those Sinclair thermal printers with the silver paper?

There was another shop on pembroke street that was great for the speccy games.

Roar

Hills Newsagents on Pana - they had three shops at one time, next to HMV, in the Savoy and on Winthrop Street under the old cinema.

Dbu

Noddys Toys in Queens Old Castle

Pizza Pomodoro (excuse the spelling if incorrect) Upstairs over where Tiger is now. Deep pan pizzas to die for, and a queue down the stairs

Sonics2k

Going back a long, long time.

Does anyone else remember when the Savoy had that massive arcade in the back of it? I vaguely remember being able to use a slide to get down to it. Eventually the place got cropped massively and was just a room with a few machines, and then it was gone.

magentis

magentis wrote: »

Two computer shops I remember frequenting,there was one on Washington st and another on Lavitts quay(owned by Sean beausang).The names of them escapes me.I remember getting my speccy and commodore 64 fixed in them!

Also the Philip's depot up further repairing my Philip's g7000 console!

Was the one on Washington Street called PF or P&F?

Brussels Sprout

Pisces Fish and Aquarium shop on Maylor street next door to Smyths

magentis

Deleted User wrote: »

Was the one on Washington Street called PF or P&F?

Just came to me now! Digilog!!!

the beer revolu

Sonics2k wrote: »

Going back a long, long time.

Does anyone else remember when the Savoy had that massive arcade in the back of it? I vaguely remember being able to use a slide to get down to it. Eventually the place got cropped massively and was just a room with a few machines, and then it was gone.

Yup. Big slide down to a ball pit!
That had a big gyroscopic flight simulator game too.

magentis

McDonalds used to be mandys wasn't it?Not sure it was ever a burgerland now.Think it was the Patrick st one and Wilton too.

magentis

the beer revolu wrote: »

Yup. Big slide down to a ball pit!
That had a big gyroscopic flight simulator game too.

Remember that alright.There was an arcade/snooker hall in that lane opposite the back of the Savoy too wasn't there?

The arcades I remember was that one,pot black where the kino was,the tudor(is it still there?I'm in Dublin now)The one down the side of the queens old castle and the one on Mac Curtain street where the palace used to be.

SeaFields

The Tackle Shop on the Coal Quay. If anyone was into fishing they'll remember this place. It used also (frequently I believe) win awards for the shop front as it was a lovely traditional style.

the beer revolu

magentis wrote: »

McDonalds used to be mandys wasn't it?Not sure it was ever a burgerland now.Think it was the Patrick st one and Wilton too.

Daunt's Square Mcd was both Mandy's and Burgerland at different times.

freshpopcorn

Not a shop but the I remember a machine I used call the monkey in Dunnes Ballyvolane!

Nigel Fairservice

Sonics2k wrote: »

Going back a long, long time.

Does anyone else remember when the Savoy had that massive arcade in the back of it? I vaguely remember being able to use a slide to get down to it. Eventually the place got cropped massively and was just a room with a few machines, and then it was gone.

I remember the place and the big slide. Can't for the life of me remember the name of the place!

Oafley Jones

the beer revolu wrote: »

That had a big gyroscopic flight simulator game too.

That’d been the R360.

the beer revolu

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I remember the place and the big slide. Can't for the life of me remember the name of the place!

Think it was just called the Savoy

Anyone remember Top Pool and Pot Black?

magentis

the beer revolu wrote: »

Think it was just called the Savoy

Anyone remember Top Pool and Pot Black?

I remember it as the Savoy too.It may well have had a name though.


The one on mac Curtain street was"the gaff" wasn't it?

Oafley Jones

Oafley Jones wrote: »

That’d been the R360.

Had one go on it and game over in no time! They also had one of those big simulator machines that about 10 or 12 people could sit in. Think it simulated a roller-coaster. Only vague memories of it and Google fails me!

Stratvs

For food, who remembers Halpins. The first curry I ever had.

whatever76

Cassidys on Patrick st ( used to be woolworths before that - now a bank i think )
Red Square - paul st
Gypsies - think paul street
Bennetts ( Waterstones now)
Molloys shoes on north main street
Mirror Mirror ( now oasis)
FM store ( front of old queens old castle)