'Ghost signs'

Wishbone Ash · 14-12-2009 1:48pm

Nasir Colossal Silkworm wrote: »

Not a brilliant photo either, I took it from my car as I was passing by.

Here's a clearer one - "Burton - The Tailor of Taste"

tricky D · 14-12-2009 2:25pm

Some from driving on Saturday

Apostlate Maris on Bereford Place opposite Custom House.
???????? Merchants on junction of Aston Quay and Prices Lane
Royal Liver Insurance on Ballast House, Aston Quay
Very faded sign saying Fruit (maybe more) above the dodgy lane beside the Busstop? newsagent on Eden Quay

mambo · 14-12-2009 2:31pm

This Cadbury's ad used to be at Pearse Station, but may have been put up for a film?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76006006@N00/403395149

Wishbone Ash · 14-12-2009 4:30pm

tricky D wrote: »

Some from driving on Saturday

Apostlate Maris on Bereford Place opposite Custom House

Allow me!

(Apostolatus Maris is the RC Church's maritime division.)

GerardKeating · 14-12-2009 10:02pm

mambo wrote: »

And what a shame this lot aren't still around. I remember the swastikas adoring their chimney stack in Ballsbridge, up to at least the 1980s. Unreal!

Was driving near last night, the chimney is still there, could not see it properly so not sure if it is still decorated...

GerardKeating · 15-12-2009 7:52am

Saw this the other day...

Masada · 15-12-2009 7:57pm

Hmmm, Does this count?

mambo · 15-12-2009 8:13pm

The old McBirney & Co. store on Aston Quay

(sorry, best photo I could find - the "McBirney & Co" is above the door)

Gavin "shels" · 15-12-2009 10:18pm

Good few Mary's Abbey and Chancery St, was on the luas so couldn't take pictures.

the_syco · 15-12-2009 11:54pm

Always see a chemist sign on the brickwork, from the train, somewhere between Connolly Station, and Pearse Street. The train would often stop at this location. One of those things that I always saw. Will take a photo of it next time. IIRC, there is still a chemist there.

Masada · 16-12-2009 12:59am

Theres far too much light in this photo but anyway, This is located on abby street just across from the Abby theater.,:)

Rowley Birkin QC · 16-12-2009 3:37am

Absolutely excellent thread. I'm a Town Planner by profession so to see people genuinely interested in the preservation of things like this is fantastic.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 16-12-2009 9:03am

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

Absolutely excellent thread. I'm a Town Planner by profession so to see people genuinely interested in the preservation of things like this is fantastic.

Thanks, we appreciate the feedback.

To be honest I'm surprised at the level of interest in the thread, indeed I've found myself now looking around Dublin for 'ghost signs' and have become more and more aware of the amount of 'ghost buildings/businesses' about the place.

Cheers.

MediaTank · 16-12-2009 3:06pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

It's on Palace Street - (The shortest street in Dublin and with only 2 addresses. ).

It may not have been mentioned as it is still a functioning charity (although I'm not sure if it still operates from that premises).

They moved to Lower Leeson St. and yes still operate. The original building was sold a few years back and is now a family home - there was a feature on it in the Irsih Times a few years ago.

MediaTank · 16-12-2009 3:10pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

That's the original Kelly's Grocers that gave Kellys Corner it's name.

MediaTank · 16-12-2009 3:16pm

Hermy wrote: »

I'm sure you're all familiar with Foxes cigar shop on Grafton Street...

...but does anyone know if this entrance around the corner in College Green was the original?

Cool pictures.

That is still part of JJ Fox - it houses part of the 'keep'. JJ Fox own that entire building, and the entrance was always on Grafton Street.

Kapp & Peterson were always at the Grafton St address, so the sign is an old advertisement for them.

admiralofthefleet · 16-12-2009 3:19pm

i remember the hardware on the corner of abbey street/marlborough street, the owner had a warning in the window mesh 'warning, 10,000 volts'

Red Sleeping Beauty · 17-12-2009 4:39am

mambo wrote: »

And what a shame this lot aren't still around. I remember the swastikas adoring their chimney stack in Ballsbridge, up to at least the 1980s. Unreal!

Wow! Hah f*ck... wow!

Masada wrote: »

Theres far too much light in this photo but anyway, This is located on abby street just across from the Abby theater.,:)

That's a great photo!

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

Absolutely excellent thread. I'm a Town Planner by profession so to see people genuinely interested in the preservation of things like this is fantastic.

Yeah tell people to stop covering up the past with tacky neon signs! :cool:

Degsy · 17-12-2009 12:25pm

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

i remember the hardware on the corner of abbey street/marlborough street, the owner had a warning in the window mesh 'warning, 10,000 volts'

For some reason he refused to sell his premises to Irish Life when they built the mall so they had to build the Irish Life Mall around his shop..he never sold anything either.

MediaTank · 17-12-2009 12:50pm

mambo wrote: »

Don't have a decent photo of it, but there's the "Burton's" building on Dame St

(the "BURTON'S" is to the top right of the pic)

And what a shame this lot aren't still around. I remember the swastikas adoring their chimney stack in Ballsbridge, up to at least the 1980s. Unreal!

Great photos.

The Burtons building is called Burton Chambers - it's written over one of the entrances.

I was in what's left of the Swastika Laundry this morning, and all that's left is the chimney stack, but they've cleaned it up and removed the swastikas. It's right by the entrace to Jackie Skelly in the Oval Building.

Hermy · 18-12-2009 11:43pm

MediaTank wrote: »

Kapp & Peterson were always at the Grafton St address, so the sign is an old advertisement for them.

I stand to be corrected on this but my mother says she remembers the shop in O'Connell Street. I also found a reference to it here.
Does anyone know for sure?

EDIT: I think I've found confirmation here.

dimejinky99 · 19-12-2009 1:10pm

In Temple bar, Dont know how old it is but I thought it'd fit well enough.

Graham_B18C · 19-12-2009 1:18pm

Aint going to read 100 odd posts to see if this is mentioned, but the bottom 3 feet of DIT Aungier st is really old brick work and it had Jacobs Biscuits or something to that effect on it!

And that factory is gone a very lont time!

Rory's is still there isn't it?

dimejinky99 · 19-12-2009 1:22pm

Rory's is definitely still there. Took the pic as the sign looked quite old and has some craft. You don't see signwriting much like this anymore.

tricky D · 19-12-2009 1:24pm

Another quite large faded one at the junction of Fairview Strand and Philipsburgh Avenue on the southside, facing west. Again was driving past and could only make out grocer and merchant on it.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 19-12-2009 2:45pm

Guys, 'ghost signs' are old signage for a business which has long since been consigned to history, 'Rorys' is still trading.

Masada · 19-12-2009 4:36pm

Yeah rorys is still there, A good spot for angling gear and the lads in there are dead sound. Last time i was there though, I ended up having to get violent with some filth who hang around on the palm tree seat thingys outside scrounging people for money.

Here's one i took the other day, its High street up near Christ Church., The pic is terrible but it was lashing and i was in a moving car at the time.,:)

WindSock · 19-12-2009 7:52pm

There was something about that old pram building that always creeped me out a bit. Maybe it was the whole baby thing

Whosbetter? · 19-12-2009 8:23pm

Econoline Van wrote: »

Paddy Whelan's old prams/bicycles shop on Cork Street is pretty cool looking, I just noticed it last week coming back from Lidl.

Cool!

Nice to see it's still there.

I was talking to my Dad in law about the place last week.
He had lots of good stories about that shop.

It was his Dad's place!

We have a few pics of that place when it was still running including one at it's launch in 1947ish

Masada · 19-12-2009 8:57pm

Do post,.:)

it would be cool to see some comparison pics of these locations from back in their prime,.

Whosbetter? · 19-12-2009 9:01pm

Masada wrote: »

Do post,.:)

it would be cool to see some comparison pics of these locations from back in their prime,.

As soon as I get a scanner, learn how to post pics & get the okay from the in-laws.

Could take a while, but I'll work on it.:)

Hermy · 20-12-2009 10:29am

Grahamo999 wrote: »

Aint going to read 100 odd posts to see if this is mentioned, but the bottom 3 feet of DIT Aungier st is really old brick work and it had Jacobs Biscuits or something to that effect on it!
And that factory is gone a very lont time!

Here's one I made earlier...:p

Hermy wrote: »

Original site of Jacobs Biscuits in Bishop Street - now part of DIT.

dimejinky99 · 20-12-2009 5:50pm

The minute I saw this thread a few weeks ago, this was the first sign I thought of and I remembered to get it today. It's on Dame st, just at the lights across to the Golden Goolie. There's another sweeps sign somewhere in Dublin and it's an older different design but I can't remember where it is.

Also, does anyone have any pictures of Lucky Coade on Dame St.? It's now a cafe called the millstone but the Lucky Coade was a great spot.

admiralofthefleet · 21-12-2009 4:55pm

dimejinky99 wrote: »

The minute I saw this thread a few weeks ago, this was the first sign I thought of and I remembered to get it today. It's on Dame st, just at the lights across to the Golden Goolie. There's another sweeps sign somewhere in Dublin and it's an older different design but I can't remember where it is.

Also, does anyone have any pictures of Lucky Coade on Dame St.? It's now a cafe called the millstone but the Lucky Coade was a great spot.

that shop has just stopped trading

spurious · 21-12-2009 5:45pm

Here's the one in Fairview Strand, near Phillipsburgh Avenue.

tricky D · 21-12-2009 6:19pm

Apols for the quality, crappy phone camera and crude Photoshop sharpening

Talbot St (Gift Shop obscurred on the right not the Chemist which is still in play)

Abbey St

Abbey St, Cafe Ritz

Smallman, Bachelors Way

Smallman, South Lotts (around the corner)

Aston Quay, ?????? Merchants

Temple Bar beside the lane to Ha'penny Bridge

Irish Permanent, bottom of Grafton St (the irony!!)

26-12-2009 8:53pm

"In the early 1920s, the bar was bought by the Humphrys family. To this day, you can still see the original tiled floor sign at the entrance reminding customers of its old name."

http://comeheretome.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/from-the-rms-mauretania-to-crane-lane/

Masada · 29-12-2009 2:01am

tricky D wrote: »

Irish Permanent, bottom of Grafton St (the irony!!)
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg255/trickydky/dublin-ghost-sgns/irish-permanent-ghost-sign-grafton-.jpg

I was just taking a pic of that just this evening., snap..:D

Its not the most interesting though, but i like this one. Its the brown Thomas Building, which used to be known as "Switzers & Co", Taken from Wicklow Street between Weir Jewlers and Brown Thomas.

me_right_one · 29-12-2009 3:45am

Is there a ghost person in the pic above Masada?

Coriolanus · 29-12-2009 1:25pm

Dunno if it's been suggested but Aungier St is full of them.

Masada · 29-12-2009 1:26pm

yes, its a 15sec exposure so anyone that passes gets recorded, if they hang around for a couple of secs they look all ghostlike, OoOooh!

vektarman · 30-12-2009 2:43pm

The Hibernian Bank, Lwr. O'Connell Street.

vektarman · 30-12-2009 2:47pm

P. Macken, Grocer. North King Street.

Wishbone Ash · 31-12-2009 12:28am

Marlborough Street (Dublin United Tramway Company?)

Moland Street

Mountjoy Street

North Circular Road

Parliament Street

Richmond Street South

Sackville Avenue

Masada · 31-12-2009 12:56am

Nice collection.,:)

That oen of Ballybough/sackville ave is one ive had in mind since first seeing this thread, ive been reading that sign since i was a nipper. I vaguely remember a Coal sign there aswell a few years back.,

PS, i think the suzuki centre is still there, doesn't seem to be open as regularly as it used to but every now and then they are.,

Wishbone Ash · 31-12-2009 11:05am

Sheriff Street Lower (very faded but looks like DJ Twohig Ltd. - warehousemen, shipbrokers, stevedores, carriers etc.)

Stephen Street Upper

Thomas Court

Yarnhall Street (Not sure if this premises is still operating - apologies if it is).

who the fug · 31-12-2009 11:26am

Anyone got a picture of the Boeing airline that use to be on a building back of O Connel street in the eighties

Dates back to when you could check in to you flight in town and get a bus direct to the plane

spurious · 31-12-2009 1:35pm

St. Peter's Bakery, Parnell Street. (photo taken March 2007)

vektarman · 01-01-2010 1:46pm

Finally worked out how to post pics, P. Macken Grocer, North King Street.

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vektarman · 01-01-2010 1:56pm

A couple more, there's no stopping me now:).
The Hibernian Bank, now Bank of Ireland, Lwr. O'Connell Street.

'Ghost signs'

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