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'Ghost signs'

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭evercloserunion


    spurious wrote: »
    Is it Daly's?
    That's the one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 667 ✭✭✭Cherrycoke


    Really interesting thread :) It'd be great to have one for every city!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Little Alex


    I've been in North Brunswick Street many times and hadn't noticed that before. It's not like me! :o

    That's the thing, Wishbone... some of them are literally so obvious that you don't notice them. Mrs. Alex has also become a ghost sign hunter and spots ones that I don't.
    Hermy wrote: »
    Carroll Transport on Sir John Rogerson's Quay

    For example, there are already two photos up of Carroll Transport, but this building actually has two generations of ghost signs! :D It was originally The British and Irish Steam Packet Company Ltd.:

    picture.php?albumid=1189&pictureid=7093

    picture.php?albumid=1189&pictureid=7094

    Ropers Ltd.:

    picture.php?albumid=1189&pictureid=7098

    City of Dublin Steam Packet Co. on Eden Quay:

    picture.php?albumid=1189&pictureid=7097

    And this one. When I saw this I thought to myself that it was remarkably fresh-looking for such old fashioned signage. I looked it up on google and found out it is a suite of offices and the house name is "Columbia Mills". I guess this is a case of not just leaving a ghost sign but actually deliberately renewing it:

    picture.php?albumid=1189&pictureid=7095

    I was thinking of some other signs that are sadly no longer with us... does anyone remember O'Connor's Jeans shop on Upper Abbey St. with the painting of the two kids and the slogan "Where the cool kids go" or whatever it was? Or the furniture shop on Capel St. with a photo of the owner with the caption "I can get it for you wholesale". :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Little Alex


    Guitareaxe wrote: »
    East wall is a goldmine of ghost signs.

    Get the camera out man!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Not sure if this qualifies as the name Shamrock Chambers seems to be used as an address according to a Google search. It's above Fans,the Chinese on Dame st.

    IMG_20100828_163704.jpg


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭SteoL


    Fantastic thread......thanks to all contributors. Only on page 6 but loving every entry.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭spider_pig


    Hermy wrote: »
    Just spotted this one the other day in Essex Street East...
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    family law court now aint it..?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭SteoL



    picture.php?albumid=1189&pictureid=7095

    I was thinking of some other signs that are sadly no longer with us... does anyone remember O'Connor's Jeans shop on Upper Abbey St. with the painting of the two kids and the slogan "Where the cool kids go" or whatever it was? Or the furniture shop on Capel St. with a photo of the owner with the caption "I can get it for you wholesale". :D

    Used to go raving here when I was 16/17 :D:p


  • Registered Users Posts: 596 ✭✭✭TheBlock


    SteoL wrote: »
    Used to go raving here when I was 16/17 :D:p

    Was this the old waterfront nightclub...many a good night in the in the early 90's.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭SteoL


    TheBlock wrote: »
    Was this the old waterfront nightclub...many a good night in the in the early 90's.

    Yep :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    As seen in The Commitments


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    tricky D wrote: »
    As seen in The Commitments

    what scene was it used in?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    The concert at the end where Wilson Pickett is supposed to appear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Little Alex


    WindSock wrote: »
    The Irish Yeast co on Pearse St

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    The owner of this shop (John Moreland) is in a documentary on RTE1 that's on right now: "Working Nine to Ninety". It showed inside the shop and all. I guess it'll be up on the RTE Player tomorrow!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    Seen as google streetview is up and running i suppose there'll be more links up from that, handy tool but maybe takes away some of the charm..

    Anyway here's one i found on Cork Street.

    "The *something* weir home for nurses"? Does anybody know anything about it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭GlasnevinRed


    Looks like James?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Wiki gives me this: "Across the road from the hospital is the James Weir Home for nurses, built in 1903. The site had once been a Quaker burial ground."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_Street_(Dublin)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Little Alex


    One I got this afternoon on King St. North.

    P. Macken, Grocer now The Wok Inn:

    picture.php?albumid=1189&pictureid=7673

    picture.php?albumid=1189&pictureid=7674


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭vektarman


    Covered on post 150 Alex but your pic is a lot clearer than mine..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 239 ✭✭Gman1


    Old Hotel at St. Marys Place


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 239 ✭✭Gman1


    two more just up the road


  • Registered Users Posts: 389 ✭✭boosh_fan


    Gman1 wrote: »
    Old Hotel at St. Marys Place

    Was only look at that the other day thinking I must take a picture of it! There are actually a lot around that area.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,159 ✭✭✭stinkle


    boosh_fan wrote: »
    Was only look at that the other day thinking I must take a picture of it! There are actually a lot around that area.

    pass them all the time and never thought of posting them :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Gman1 wrote: »
    Old Hotel at St. Marys Place

    Post much earlier in the thread, but thanks for your contributions all the same.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 239 ✭✭Gman1


    Post much earlier in the thread, but thanks for your contributions all the same.
    Ah ok, I didnt see it :confused:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    not sure if this was posted before..its on nassau st
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 720 ✭✭✭1968


    david75 wrote: »
    not sure if this was posted before..its on nassau st
    155720_10150129114988032_705213031_7903698_1329118_n.jpg

    "On the 10 June, 1904 James Joyce first met Nora Barnacle by chance as she walked up Nassau Street on her way from Finn’s Hotel. This event changed his life forever. Nora was working as a barmaid in the hotel when Joyce met her. Finn’s was then “a slightly exalted rooming house”. They had their first date four days later and he cast the action of Ulysses on that day, 14 June."

    http://www.imt.ie/lifestyle/culture-and-society/2007/09/pubs-rich-with-history.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    david75 wrote: »
    not sure if this was posted before..its on nassau st
    Posted a long time ago by yours truly. The same sites are continually getting recycled but I suppose that's the nature of a long thread.

    (That building is on South Leinster Street - Nassau Street ends at the junction with Kildare Street. ;))


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    im very sorry for the quality of this pic, its jervis shopping centre

    the sign reads 'jervis street hospital school of nursing'

    me_and_my_man_xxx_305.jpg

    and gary rhodes on capel street

    me_and_my_man_xxx_306.jpg


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Here's a little project I was working on that might have a place here. All entries below are buildings that were formerly cinemas in Dublin but have since been shut-down completely or turned into some other business.

    Dublin 'Ghost Cinemas' whose sign is still present
    Cabra Grand 60 Quarry Road
    Gala 361-363 Upper Ballyfermot Road
    Rialto 27-31 SCR
    Star Crumlin Road
    Stella 207-209 Lower Rathmines Road
    Whitehall Grand 402 Collins Avenue

    Dublin 'Ghost Cinemas' whose sign is gone but facade still largely unchanged
    Adelphi 98-101 Middle Abbey Street
    Fairview 18 Fairview
    Grand Central 5-7 Lower OCS
    Mary Street Cinema 12 & 13 Mary Street
    Pillar 62 Upper OCS (McDonalds)
    Regent 13 Main Street Blackrock
    State 376 NCR
    Stella Deerpark Road Mount Merrion
    Strand 149a North Strand
    Tower Monastery Road Clondalkin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    bonerm wrote: »
    buildings that were formerly cinemas in Dublin but have since been shut-down completely or turned into some other business
    You've just reminded me of The Curzon which I think later became The Lighthouse in Middle Abbey Street. The facade is probably gone since the renovations in Arnotts a few years back.

    PS - Is the facade of The Carlton gone? I can't recall now even though I must have passed it lots of times?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,548 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    PS - Is the facade of The Carlton gone? I can't recall now even though I must have passed it lots of times?
    It is definitely still there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Ste.phen


    bonerm wrote: »
    Here's a little project I was working on that might have a place here. All entries below are buildings that were formerly cinemas in Dublin but have since been shut-down completely or turned into some other business.

    I think this is/was one too, but no idea of its old name:
    http://goo.gl/maps/ZlQ4
    63 Collins Avenue East Killester

    Also, for the other one on collins ave, pic of it just after being built (1950s i guess?)
    http://www.beaumontresidents.ie/historic-beaumont/113-old-aerial-photo-of-beaumont.html

    (found that here in the historic photos thread i think)


  • Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭SquirrelFace


    I dont know if this has been mentioned but somewhere around the city there is an old building with some defunct company painted on the side, i think the bottom floor is a shop, but the creepy thing is that in the window on the unused second floor theres an incredibley creepy man-sized statue of a grinning pig dressed as a butcher standing at the window looking out, i think it may have a cleaver, id love to remember where it is!! It is somehere near the Academy i think but i remember seeing it and thinking, this is the stuff of horror films!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,290 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Ste.phen wrote: »
    I think this is/was one too, but no idea of its old name:
    http://goo.gl/maps/ZlQ4
    63 Collins Avenue East Killester

    Killester cinema was the Killester Grand. It closed in September 1970.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,756 ✭✭✭Thecageyone


    Taken on a Boards.ie photowalk Jan 13th

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    Someone suggested I put it in this thread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    spurious wrote: »
    Killester cinema was the Killester Grand. It closed in September 1970.

    I had a look online to see if I can find any pictures of it before they modernised the building. Not a hope. I vaguely remember it from when I was a kid. Long after it was closed mind you. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭vektarman


    [IMG][/img]DSCF4131.jpg

    This is at the corner of Western Way and Mountjoy Street near Broadstone, what's left of the wording looks like 'sublime scenery, Atlantic', I'm going to take a long shot on this one and guess that because of it's proximity to what was Broadstone railway station, which was a main terminal to Galway and Clifden, that this was a mural extolling the virtues of a railway trip to the west of Ireland, or maybe I'm letting my imagination run wild:). There's not a lot of the mural left but I'd say it was impressive in it's day


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,290 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    I think it's 'Art'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭vektarman


    spurious wrote: »
    I think it's 'Art'.

    That crossed my mind but the mural looks a lot older than the web type grid, I'm assuming the web was added more recently for a different reason but I'm open to correction.

    Edit: Okay, I'm having my doubts on this now, maybe Spurious is right, anyone got any thoughts on this and why are there so many holes on the mural, were they anchor points for a display type ad at one stage?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Just came across this thread today. Excellent stuff.

    I took these photos a year or two ago. My mother grew up on this street. She lived in number 7...............

    p9270001.jpg


    Old Veritas warehouse also on Hanover Quay.
    p9270003.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    vektarman wrote: »
    [IMG][/img]DSCF4131.jpg

    This is at the corner of Western Way and Mountjoy Street near Broadstone, what's left of the wording looks like 'sublime scenery, Atlantic', I'm going to take a long shot on this one and guess that because of it's proximity to what was Broadstone railway station, which was a main terminal to Galway and Clifden, that this was a mural extolling the virtues of a railway trip to the west of Ireland, or maybe I'm letting my imagination run wild:). There's not a lot of the mural left but I'd say it was impressive in it's day

    Always reminds me of a spiderman type thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Dancor


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    Always reminds me of a spiderman type thing.

    Yeah I always thought it was from an old Spiderman billboard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Have been told that it just appeared up there one day, and there was nothing else.
    Bit odd.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    I seem to remember that there was small plaque (or similar) beside that spider web that identified it as a piece of art :confused:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    1968 wrote: »
    "On the 10 June, 1904 James Joyce first met Nora Barnacle by chance as she walked up Nassau Street on her way from Finn’s Hotel. This event changed his life forever. Nora was working as a barmaid in the hotel when Joyce met her. Finn’s was then “a slightly exalted rooming house”. They had their first date four days later and he cast the action of Ulysses on that day, 14 June."

    http://www.imt.ie/lifestyle/culture-and-society/2007/09/pubs-rich-with-history.html

    Interstingly it is believed that the true loaction of St Patrick's Well is beneath this building..the one currently designated as a national monument in Nassau st is thought now to be a domestic well used for drinking water.


  • Registered Users Posts: 439 ✭✭CBFi


    this may have been mentioned before but there is a brick one, partially covered, at the Nonna Valentina restaurent in Portobello. it's along the canal.


  • Registered Users Posts: 439 ✭✭CBFi


    if you go around the other side you see the word "merchant". such a pity they covered it with the tacky metal signs.

    (poor nonna valentinas- bad timing for their google streetview pics ;) )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,966 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    sugarman wrote: »
    Linky link!

    Family something or other, looks like it could have been an old pub?

    I'd hazard a guess it used as a butchers or something when Dublins Little Jerusalem was up around that way.


  • Registered Users Posts: 389 ✭✭boosh_fan


    good to see this thread is awake again - it's one of my favourites

    Flamingo on Stephen Street Lr. Took this back in Sept 10. It is captured on Streetview too though

    dsc05393zi.jpg


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