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  • #6392
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,748 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Mav11 wrote: »
    Don’t think so. I think you’re talking about the Unity garage on Alfred st./lower rd.?

    Nope.
    Still pretty sure that that site on Brian Boru Street was a tiny filling station for some time.


  • #6393
    opus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,075 ✭✭✭opus


    who_me wrote: »
    Yeah, the redbrick building on the quayside (Bridge House) is a separate building (apartments and 1 ground-floor office) and is unaffected by the new development. Other than having views spoiled / light reduced!

    Some friends of mine lived there for a few years in one of the ones with the bay windows, from memory I'd say they'd have traded the reduction in light from the back for the absence of bowling ball noise :) The big south facing window made all the difference at the front.


  • #6394
    Mav11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭Mav11


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Nope.
    Still pretty sure that that site on Brian Boru Street was a tiny filling station for some time.

    Certainly not after the mid 70's. I can remember going in there everyday for the paper. Maybe before that?


  • #6395
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,748 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Mav11 wrote: »
    Certainly not after the mid 70's. I can remember going in there everyday for the paper. Maybe before that?

    I'd swear that I filled a car there and I didn't have a licence before 1989.

    Anyone else remember a tiny filling station on Brian Boru Street?


  • #6396
    Mav11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭Mav11


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    I'd swear that I filled a car there and I didn't have a licence before 1989.

    Anyone else remember a tiny filling station on Brian Boru Street?

    Are you confusing it with Clontarf St?


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  • #6397
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,748 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Mav11 wrote: »
    Are you confusing it with Clontarf St?

    No.
    This one you drove in, off the road.
    Probably only room for one car.

    The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced of its existence.
    Someone else must remember it?


  • #6398
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Mav11 wrote: »
    I worked there as a postman until they moved to Ellington st in the early 80’s. The red brick facing the river is definitely worth keeping. I thought that had been developed into apartments?

    The red brick building is beautiful and you're correct it was converted into apartments back in the 90's. The wall they intend keeping is the one between that and what was the Coliseum, you'd have been able to see into the bowling centre through the large windows from Brian Boru St. I can't see the value of keeping it.


  • #6399
    Mav11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭Mav11


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    No.
    This one you drove in, off the road.
    Probably only room for one car.

    The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced of its existence.
    Someone else must remember it?

    Must have been the Unity garage so, on the junction of Alfred st and lower rd. You had to drive into that from the road. Very tight it was.


  • #6400
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,748 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Mav11 wrote: »
    Must have been the Unity garage so, on the junction of Alfred st and lower rd. You had to drive into that from the road. Very tight it was.

    No it wasn't.
    It was on Brian Boru Street, on the left hand side and ran to the corner of st. Patrick's Quay.
    It's the site behind the hoarding with all the boats and ships on it.


  • #6401
    Mav11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭Mav11


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    No it wasn't.
    It was on Brian Boru Street, on the left hand side and ran to the corner of st. Patrick's Quay.
    It's the site behind the hoarding with all the boats and ships on it.

    You may very well be correct. I just don’t remember it.


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  • #6402
    ofcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭ofcork


    Cannot remember that either as a garage.


  • #6403
    Be right back
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭Be right back


    I don't remember a garage there either. I know there was one just before the entrance to Paul Street car park.


  • #6404
    ofcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭ofcork


    Another one near north infirmary amazing all city centre garages gone nearest is south link.


  • #6405
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,029 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    I'd swear that I filled a car there and I didn't have a licence before 1989.

    Anyone else remember a tiny filling station on Brian Boru Street?

    No, I think this was a tiny sweet shop/newsagents, not much bigger than a kiosk.


  • #6406
    Be right back
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭Be right back


    ofcork wrote: »
    Another one near north infirmary amazing all city centre garages gone nearest is south link.

    Anyone remember the small shop across from the North infirmary? Gone years now.


  • #6407
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,748 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Be right back wrote: »
    Anyone remember the small shop across from the North infirmary? Gone years now.

    Yes. The bare frontage of that remained for a good few years after there was much demolition. They subsequently built apartments there. I think it was last called Kieran's.


  • #6408
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,748 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    ofcork wrote: »
    Another one near north infirmary amazing all city centre garages gone nearest is south link.

    Buckley's I think that was called, next to what is now a gym, formerly soundtrax.


  • #6409
    Markcheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,060 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    No it wasn't.
    It was on Brian Boru Street, on the left hand side and ran to the corner of st. Patrick's Quay.
    It's the site behind the hoarding with all the boats and ships on it.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/LNfYt2pGxjDWctZV7

    This pic claims to be 1975, and it's a newsagents then

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • #6410
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,748 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Markcheese wrote: »
    https://images.app.goo.gl/LNfYt2pGxjDWctZV7

    This pic claims to be 1975, and it's a newsagents then

    That's the site alright. I'm maintaining that that shop would have been still a shop but with a tiny filling station attached. Sometime in the 80s and up to the early 90s is my clear memory.

    If you look at the site, there's room for it.


  • #6411
    EnzoScifo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 431 ✭✭EnzoScifo


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    No it wasn't.
    It was on Brian Boru Street, on the left hand side and ran to the corner of st. Patrick's Quay.
    It's the site behind the hoarding with all the boats and ships on it.

    There was a tedcastles station on Clontarf street. Where the Clayton hotel is now.


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  • #6412
    Mav11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Be right back wrote: »
    I don't remember a garage there either. I know there was one just before the entrance to Paul Street car park.

    There were others on the corner of Copley and Anglesa st, one across the road at Rocksavage and the Lee garage also had pumps in that area. Feck sake I must be getting old:D


  • #6413
    Markcheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,060 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    EnzoScifo wrote: »
    There was a tedcastles station on Clontarf street. Where the Clayton hotel is now.

    I really can't remember that .. but I wasn't up" that end" of town much ,if at all as a kid .

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • #6414
    Mav11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Markcheese wrote: »
    I really can't remember that .. but I wasn't up" that end" of town much ,if at all as a kid .

    Would that not have been the pumps at post #6397?


  • #6415
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    The site behind the hoarding with boats on it was a small newsagents, I remember it vividly as a kid because it reminded me of the kiosk type shop inside the train station. The only pumps in the area in the 90s was the Tedcastle station which was where the siemens call centre is now. I know that one because my Dad decided to run out of petrol on Horgan's quay, and send me up with a fiver as a kid to buy a 2L of coke, empty it, and fill it with petrol. Simpler times when you were allowed to do things that could kill you.


  • #6416
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,748 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Owen wrote: »
    The site behind the hoarding with boats on it was a small newsagents, I remember it vividly as a kid because it reminded me of the kiosk type shop inside the train station. The only pumps in the area in the 90s was the Tedcastle station which was where the siemens call centre is now. I know that one because my Dad decided to run out of petrol on Horgan's quay, and send me up with a fiver as a kid to buy a 2L of coke, empty it, and fill it with petrol. Simpler times when you were allowed to do things that could kill you.

    Just because you don't remember it, doesn't mean it didn't exist.

    I appreciate that I am on my own here but please don't categorically dismiss my claim without any sort of proof when it's just your memory versus mine.

    I can't date it accurately and I don't know how long it was there but there is no doubt on my mind that that site had a very small filling station attached to the little shop.


  • #6417
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,591 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Just because you don't remember it, doesn't mean it didn't exist.

    I appreciate that I am on my own here but please don't categorically dismiss my claim without any sort of proof when it's just your memory versus mine.

    I can't date it accurately and I don't know how long it was there but there is no doubt on my mind that that site had a very small filling station attached to the little shop.

    I never remember a station there but do remember the station across from the Siemens building that closed circa 2005.

    Your opinion shouldn’t be dismissed but no one else here can remember what you’re saying. When do you believe it was last open?


  • #6418
    Shedite27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,507 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    AugustusMinimus wrote: »
    I never remember a station there but do remember the station across from the Siemens building that closed circa 2005.

    Your opinion shouldn’t be dismissed but no one else here can remember what you’re saying. When do you believe it was last open?
    Here's a picture from 1976, is it the shop on the right here that we're thinking had a filling station outside it?

    mainMediaSize=MEDIUM_type=image_x0=0_y0=20_x1=100_y1=81.81818181818181__image.jpg


  • #6419
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,591 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Shedite27 wrote: »
    Here's a picture from 1976, is it the shop on the right here that we're thinking had a filling station outside it?

    mainMediaSize=MEDIUM_type=image_x0=0_y0=20_x1=100_y1=81.81818181818181__image.jpg

    I only remember from the mid 80s so I’ll take a pass on this one.


  • #6420
    longcock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭longcock


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    No it wasn't.
    It was on Brian Boru Street, on the left hand side and ran to the corner of st. Patrick's Quay.
    It's the site behind the hoarding with all the boats and ships on it.


    I think you are incorrect, there was a newsagent / tiny shop but never a petrol pump on that site. Beyond what was the Dogs Home and then S-Tyres on Clontarf Street there were petrol pumps in the 70's


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  • #6421
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,748 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Shedite27 wrote: »
    Here's a picture from 1976, is it the shop on the right here that we're thinking had a filling station outside it?

    mainMediaSize=MEDIUM_type=image_x0=0_y0=20_x1=100_y1=81.81818181818181__image.jpg

    Yes, this is the site I'm talking about.
    It would seem that at that date, there was no filling station.

    I can't date it accurately or say how long it was there but I'd say that claiming it was there in 1990 is a fairly safe bet.
    My guess is from late 80's to early 90's.

    You drove in off the road, it wasn't a case of pulling up outside it. Even when I look at the site on google maps, it still all makes sense as I remember it.
    I realise that no one else recalls this and everyone thinks I'm mistaken but nothing can take away my vivid memory of that filling station on that site.


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