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The cinema in Lucan
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10-03-2009 5:58pm#1Does anyone else remember it? It stood on the site that the Ulster Bank is on now, beside the weir brige.
I went there a few times as a kid and saw the Return of the Jedi with my brother and my Dad. Another time I saw The Aristocats with the Summer Project and I also remember going to see Back to the Future there too. Great times, I didn't get to the cinema often and we used to sneak our own sweets in but I really enjoyed it, even if it was freezing cold in there at times.
Incidentally, does anyone remember the name of the cinema? I only ever knew it as the cinema.0
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Yep, that sounds familiar madds, yup, the yellow paint stood out alright. I remember over the years if just got more and more decrepit. There were seats with huge holes in them where someone had ripped out the stuffing, holes in the ceiling.
I never sat in the area directly below the balcony because I knew boys who would be up in the balcony and always spat over the side onto the people below :rolleyes:
I do recall finding the film reel for Return of the Jedi in the bin at the back of the cinema as a kid, Unfortunately, the film canister had been opened nd the film reel cut into pieces. Someone should have kept those, they would be worth a fortune today 0 -
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Thanks for that spurious, it brought a smile to my face
Sorry about the blurring on the right.
From "A to Z of Old Dublin Cinemas".
Incidentally, my parents knew both the Peter Brady and Jim Sweeney mentioned in the caption, quite wellPurplePrincess wrote: »God that photo brings back memories. The first time I was in that cinema was 1982 when as a treat for starting primary school my friends mum took us to see ET. I also remember how it was always freezing in the place.
Its funny how you forget the way Lucan used to be and what was there before and is now gone.
Now that you mention it, I saw ET in there too!! I'm a few years older than you though, I started primary school in 1979.
It's funny how at one time Lucan could support a cinema, despite being a tiny town. I wonder if it could manage that today. I know Liffey Valley is only a stones throw away but I imagine people from Lucan, Leixlip, and Celbridge would use it. Couldn't have it in the village though!0 -
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The aforementioned book has this photo taken in 1995, so it was demolished sometime soon after that I would say.
The person who took the picture has it labelled 'Grove cinema' - was it called that at one stage?0 -
The aforementioned book has this photo taken in 1995, so it was demolished sometime soon after that I would say.
The person who took the picture has it labelled 'Grove cinema' - was it called that at one stage?
Mary Mulhall is someone I know personally She is author of a number of local history books for Lucan, including 'Lucan and Lucanians' iirc. If she calls it the Grove then it must have had that name at one stage. 0 -
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Ah lads... deadly stuff...
I think the cinema used to be called The Grove at first and had its name changed to Premiere... I'll check that with the ma.
Do you also remember...
Crowe's Corner
Goobays
Irish Cementation (where Ardeen and the An Post sorting offce is now)
The Co-op
Big J
... among others...
... and McCormacks... Jaysus, how could I forget that!
... and that aul one that had a tiny shop in between Lynch's and Toolan's... what was that called again? Saunders?
Ha ha, now you're talking Jamfan Yep I remember Goobays alright, the trolleys with the blue handles and the 'three guys' motif on them!
I remember too at that time there were shops at the back of the checkouts, where the wall is now. That meant you didn't have to leave the shop to go to the Newsagents, Butchers or the Wool shop.
I remember being sent to Big J's for white contact adhesive once and coming back with clear contact adhesive. My Mam wasn't best pleased, it was okay though because we lived about 200 metres from Big J's anyway. I always thought the co-op was dark and dingy as a kid but I loved McCormacks, simply because there was such a wide variety of things there, you could buy flies for fly fishing and pick up a toy matchbox car if you wanted to at the same time (if you had the money
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I remember in the spot where the An Post sorting office and Ardeen are there used to be a vegetable market at one time too. 0 -
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I also am from closeby to Big J and am about the same age as you, as you started school in 1979... hopefully we are not childhood enemies or whatever... lol... you're a mod so check if you know who I am... we MUST know each other.
Well I'm a Hillcrest lad, you may be Woodview, I only knew one or two lads from Woodview. I doubt we were enemies
Nah, us mods can't check your details. Only SMods can and even at that it's not something they do without just cause.0 -
R3nu4l I love your threads! First the Summer project, Now the cinema! I'm so having a walk down memory lane this lunchtime! I'm from Hillcrest too btw. The cinema was like the centre of the universe to me!! ET was the thing I remember most and having to be removed from the building cos I was crying so much over him getting taken away near the end! 0
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Incidentally, my parents knew both the Peter Brady and Jim Sweeney mentioned in the caption, quite well
Peter Brady was acting as grand Martial at the parade again this year and loving it!
Jim Sweeney - still some fantastic photographs in his studio window!
Are they ever going to bring back the Mayor of Lucan? (sponsered by Kenny's of course!)
Also BigJ the hardware store - all my destroy it yourself skills were learned from there.
Down where Topaz petrol station is - (still called the Jet Hill), that's where the Lucan car factory was making those bubble cars. Opposite it where Village Court (China town) was a cottage. That's where my father in law was born.
The road from Courtney's up towards superquinn - it is always referred to as Adamstown road on maps. We have always called that the Lock road.
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I still call that area BigJs and still call it the Jet hill tooAlso BigJ the hardware store - all my destroy it yourself skills were learned from there.The road from Courtney's up towards superquinn - it is always referred to as Adamstown road on maps. We have always called that the Lock road.
What do you know it as?I always knew it as the hollow hill
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Im from hillcrest too so this is a great thread to see - the first movie I ever saw in any cinema was in that cinema and it was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, I remember being amazed. Does anybody remember the garden centre just up from ardeevin, across from the old sorting office? Big Js and the cottage stores they are some memories - the lady from the shop well she would be elderly now lives across the road from me. memories! 0
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msbusterpuss wrote: »Im from hillcrest too so this is a great thread to see - the first movie I ever saw in any cinema was in that cinema and it was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, I remember being amazed. Does anybody remember the garden centre just up from ardeevin, across from the old sorting office? Big Js and the cottage stores they are some memories - the lady from the shop well she would be elderly now lives across the road from me. memories!
Yup, I remember the garden centre alright, is there anything on that site now? Last couple of times I was home there was nothing there.
I miss the cottage stores, I bought so many penny sweets and lucky bags from that place as a kid When you refer to the 'old lady' are you referring to the original owners wife (Mrs Langan) or Mrs Smith? I knew them both and in fact one of my earliest memories in my life is from about 1977-78 when my Dad was talking to Mr Langan and I was sitting in my buggy watching him. Mr Langan gave me a free lollipop and I remember being chuffed
Ah, someone else who remembers the fruit and veg market where the sorting office is now.mikefitznyc wrote: »I remember the garden centre there alright, and the lads running the fruit and veg stalls there? 0 -
Yup, I remember the garden centre alright, is there anything on that site now? Last couple of times I was home there was nothing there.
I miss the cottage stores, I bought so many penny sweets and lucky bags from that place as a kid When you refer to the 'old lady' are you referring to the original owners wife (Mrs Langan) or Mrs Smith? I knew them both and in fact one of my earliest memories in my life is from about 1977-78 when my Dad was talking to Mr Langan and I was sitting in my buggy watching him. Mr Langan gave me a free lollipop and I remember being chuffed
I honestly cannot tell you and I walk by it most evenings with the dog :rolleyes: typical. Ill let you know tomo if I am around that way this eve. I'm referring to Mrs Smith - I cannot recollect Mrs Langan at all but I am sure its probably in the depths of my memory somewhere! I used to queue in the post office around the side to buy money for stamps for my cyril the squirrel card and walk back up through the lane. I was never so put out when they got rid of that lane. My shortcut gone for ever :mad:0 -
Couldn't believe it when I saw that lane was gone! In fact, getting back to my original topic, I remember once arranging to meet friends at BigJ so we could go to the cinema and we decided to meet up at the top of the lane before going to the cottage stores to buy food and snacks for the filmmsbusterpuss wrote: »...walk back up through the lane. I was never so put out when they got rid of that lane. My shortcut gone for ever :mad: 0 -
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