CHealy wrote: » This is great stuff, Iv walked Patrick Street thousands of times and never noticed those gates. Such a pity that Dunnes Stores building is what replaced these streets.https://www.google.com/maps/@51.899465,-8.4708488,3a,75y,92.53h,95.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1si9KFetfIpQiSu63ZkozJVA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Justin Credible Darts wrote: » Am I right in thinking the cake and bread shop in the street was belonging to Thompson's bakery ?
AwaitYourReply wrote: » I recall back in the 1970's until mid 1980's if you walked into Roches Stores on Patrick Street and went beyond the escalator stairs, you had the old Roches Stores supermarket, cigarette kiosk, Pick 'N' Mix sweets and other accessories and a side entrance out on to Merchant Street and it took you Across the narrow street to Roches Stores Cake Shop & adjoining Café (it had limited food offering like sandwiches, cakes, choc bars/wrapped biscuits, ice cream, minerals & teas/coffee. Gardening Dept, Collection Point for customers to leave in their shopping bags, Home ware, Furniture, Flooring etc; Thompson's did also have a cake shop but it was not on Merchant Street - I think it may have been a restaurant called "the Tivoli" at one stage and it was on another narrow street that ran parallel with Merchant Street and was further up Patrick Street before you reach Mangan's Clock. It was situated right on the corner and it would have been the same Thompson's that had it's large bakery premises on MacCurtain Street. Incidentally most of the cakes supplied to Roches Cake Shop and Café were from Thompson's bakery too! Cork had a lot of independent bakeries in those days!
Justin Credible Darts wrote: » as kid I worked with a breadman that delivered for thompsons....in an old comer van. As for bread shops, my mum used to get the bread in McCarthy bakery on daunt square, where the phone shop was. Think they had their other sho on north main street across the road from tony's bistro. my favorite though was abernathys from castlemartyr or donnellys on shandon street
AwaitYourReply wrote: » Yeah Thompson's was a wonderful Cork institution and a member of that family had kept a smaller scale operation going for some years after Thompson's closed on MacCurtain Street. Thoma sliced brown bread is one example! Incidentally, I think O'Brien's Sandwiches premises in Daunt Square was once "Floury Hands" which had a connection with Thompson's. McCarthy's Bread in Daunt Square had an iconic presence - "Naturalle" restaurant (Naturalle also had branches in Queen's Old Castle and Savoy shopping centre) went in afterwards for a while but then O2 took over in Daunt's Square (O2 was later acquired by THREE Ireland mobile. McCarthy's also had a small cake shop just at corner of Castle Street/North Main Street and I think they also had another small premises half way down Oliver Plunkett Street. Abernethy's Bread rings a bell Donnelly's Bread also popular over the years! See history on Donnelly's Bakery in Shandon Street, Cork by visiting below page!http://homepage.eircom.net/~stmarysonthehill/comenius/traditionalfoods/bakery.html Aside from Thompson's, McCarthy's, Donnelly's & Abernethy's Other popular bread brands/bakery suppliers included some of following: Mother's Pride (Fitzgerald's?) Hadden's Bread, South Main Street O'Shea's Bread, South Main Street? Bracken's, Old Mallow Road/Paul Street O'Keeffe's Bread O'Dowd's, Kinsale Fitzgerald's Bakery, Tramore Road, Togher Harrington's Cakes/Choice Foods Tea-Time Express Old Mill Charlie Duggan's, Liberty Street (The Raven Bar extended into this premises) The Green Door on Academy Street
Justin Credible Darts wrote: » Which bakery was it that did the " Big T " sliced pan ?
AwaitYourReply wrote: » I recall back in the 1970's until mid 1980's if you walked into Roches Stores on Patrick Street and went beyond the escalator stairs, you had the old Roches Stores supermarket, cigarette kiosk, Pick 'N' Mix sweets and other accessories and a side entrance out on to Merchant Street and it took you Across the narrow street to Roches Stores Cake Shop & adjoining Café (it had limited food offering like sandwiches, cakes, choc bars/wrapped biscuits, ice cream, minerals & teas/coffee. Gardening Dept, Collection Point for customers to leave in their shopping bags, Home ware, Furniture, Flooring etc;
jhegarty wrote: » Don't forget the toy shop was down there as well.
namloc1980 wrote: » Bishop Lucey Park is an awful hole. Last time I was there, there were junkies shooting up at the back of the park. Wouldn't go near the place after that.
Captainsatnav wrote: » https://www.corkcity.ie/en/council-services/news-room/latest-news/consultation-on-cork-city-development-plan-2022-2028-launched.html Consultation on Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 launched... I think it's vitally important that each contributor to this forum takes 5 minutes to engage with CCC directly and articulate our gripes with the direction the CEO et al are going, but do it in a constructive and non-personal manner.
daithi7 wrote: » As a matter of interest, what are your main issues with this plan?
Captainsatnav wrote: » Didn't say I had any.
daithi7 wrote: » Well then spare us the sanctimonious bullsh1t about articulating 'our gripes' ffs .....e.g. "....I think it's vitally important that each contributor to this forum takes 5 minutes to engage with CCC directly and articulate our gripes with the direction the CEO et al are going, but do it in a constructive and non-personal manner....."
Captainsatnav wrote: » ok bro, will do
Slim Charles wrote: » Well, he has a point, as much as i can't decipher his username. Are you raging against the machine out of boredom, or do you actually have a point to make ? What's upset you here?
namloc1980 wrote: » 3 senior ministers in government from Cork including the Taoiseach. They better deliver the goods for Cork.
Captainsatnav wrote: » Parish pump politics? Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil? Never.
titan18 wrote: » I always thought it was Peace Park as well. Even if you google Peace Park, it just refers you to Bishop Lucy Park
Flickerfusion wrote: » It’s also not like they have vast amounts of green space to maintain! The Marina is also another mess. As much as we all go on about how nice the Atlantic Pond is, it really is sad looking in terms of maintenance and just TLC. The marina itself also needs to be repaved and probably lit with some attractive and appropriately soft lighting, although no doubt if the city council did light it it would be some garish modern art lamps. Shalom Park - it’s a field basically - they make zero effort with it. There’s a patch of land up at the top of Patrick’s Hill which could be a massively pleasant vista point and a major focus of the city centre, but sure they just mow or like an agricultural field. They do a reasonable job on Fitzgerald’s Park, but the Bishop Lucy / Peace Park is just ignored the only green space in the city centre and let it rot. Then we have the Tramore Valley Park (aka the landfill) which hasn’t even got pedestrian or cycle access!!!!??!?! You basically drive into it off a fast moving urban dual carriageway. I’m sorry for making a comparison to Dublin, but if DCC left Merrion Square or Stephens Green in that condition or built a park with no pedestrian access on the M50 there would be protests! People need to start holding city councillors to account on these issues - ask questions, pay attention and actually call for changes during the local elections. We also need to snap out of this notion that everything in Cork is great and being utterly uncritical of the place. It has huge potential but it needs to be driven and that’s not happening. I would love to see a bit of real urbanism take off here. It’s actually happened in many of the small West Cork towns and there’s no reason the city couldn’t do similar on a much grander scale.
WhoElse wrote: » To be fair, Fitzgerald's park is lovely. But it gets the investment as a form of tokenism, "see we have a lovely park". One maintained park, for the whole city. If I could pick any site, I'd love to see the FÁS building rubble site turned into a park, opening up sight lines and a pleasant walk from Nano Nagle on Douglas Street right down to the coal quay. It would take pressure off the electric boardwalk too.
opus wrote: » For sure, Glen River park (that most people don't know about!) doesn't get a single rubbish bin in there. In fact a local group have a clean up organised every month seeing as the council won't do it. This sight greets me every time I walk into town, has anyone come any plans to do something about the eyesore in front of the Bridewell Garda station?
