What caused the 1984 Hadden's Fire ?

Number 10 Shirt · 26-10-2010 10:56PM #1

Was it something to do with workmen spilling tar ?

Stained Class · 26-10-2010 11:04PM

Number 10 Shirt wrote: »

Was it something to do with workmen spilling tar ?

Heard that story too. Apparently they were working on the roof of an adjoining building.

I happend to be in town myself when the fire was going on.

It was quite a sight!

SV · 26-10-2010 11:32PM

It was indeed to do with the spilling tar..

Number 10 Shirt · 27-10-2010 06:58PM

There is even a Facebook page about it.See link below.

http://hi-in.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=54110358863

wheres me jumpa · 27-10-2010 07:47PM

Anyone remember the fountain downstairs in Haddens?!

foggy_lad · 28-10-2010 02:25AM

The big fountain in the car park? I thought the fire was caused by some electrical fault?

SV · 28-10-2010 02:01PM

wheres me jumpa wrote: »

Anyone remember the fountain downstairs in Haddens?!

The one outside? Three tiered one?

Nead21 · 28-10-2010 02:52PM

wheres me jumpa wrote: »

Anyone remember the fountain downstairs in Haddens?!

yeah i do ...god that was a million years ago

wheres me jumpa · 28-10-2010 07:32PM

There was a fountain outside in the car park but there was also a fountain at the bottom of the escalators in Haddens!

Stained Class · 28-10-2010 07:57PM

wheres me jumpa wrote: »

There was a fountain outside in the car park but there was also a fountain at the bottom of the escalators in Haddens!

You must mean the one in the rebuilt Haddens, the one that's there now.

Seem to vaguely remember one there 20 years ago.

Don't remember one in Haddens MK 1, the one that burnt down, though.

honkytonk52 · 28-10-2010 09:54PM

wheres me jumpa wrote: »

Anyone remember the fountain downstairs in Haddens?!

yeah there was one downstairs, do the shaws downstairs not have it all covered in luggage bags and that??

pholland · 29-10-2010 08:22PM

i remember the day after the fire ,, the smell of smoke off all the lads in my class in school was rotten cos we had all been down there having a look at it . it was a huge bit of excitement for us teenagers back then

homerhop · 30-10-2010 11:53AM

A neighbour of mine used to work there and I got a new pair of smoke damaged

runners out of it

SpitfireIV · 08-11-2010 04:24PM

Ah yeah, the fountain downstairs in Haddens!

There used to be a giant christmas tree in there at Christmas too and the Santa grotto, them were the days eh, simple times!

mylescarroll · 09-01-2013 10:26PM

i was on tullow street where the barrix pub is now got to see it all i was 24 years old

Scallion 'ater · 09-01-2013 11:15PM

I remember that night I was in my father's car coming back from an u/14 football match in Palatine. We were heading towards the town when the 9 o clock news on the radio came on and the headline was "a huge fire is raging in the centre of Carlow town tonight". That was a shock but I remember almost simultanously we began to see the smoke from it. It was a Monday night I'm almost certain?

road_high · 10-01-2013 12:10PM

http://www.kilkennycoco.ie/eng/Services/Fire_Service/History/KK_11_Kilkenny_City/De_La_Salle_and_Haddens_-_1984.html

thinks too much · 10-01-2013 04:56PM

we were up at Eire Og clubhouse and saw the smoke...the ould lad brought us down and we stood on Quinnsworth bridge watching Haddens burn....how easily entetained we were back then...now we would just wait until someone posted it on Youtube

oxygen · 11-01-2013 01:11PM

honkytonk52 wrote: »

yeah there was one downstairs, do the shaws downstairs not have it all covered in luggage bags and that??

Is that fountain gone?:eek:
I'm in there very week, and just always assumed it's still there. Ah well

tonyheaney · 31-05-2015 01:41PM

Hi sorry to start up an old tread but its carlow arts festival and i saw a event on this fire and wondered if there was any pics?

Ken. · 31-05-2015 06:34PM

From the group mentioned above. https://www.facebook.com/groups/54110358863/photos/

tonyheaney · 31-05-2015 08:05PM

ken wrote: »

From the group mentioned above. https://www.facebook.com/groups/54110358863/photos/

Wow i have been in carlow since 2006 and i got married here and i didnt even know of this tragedy. Was it natural or arson?

Ken. · 31-05-2015 08:42PM

Accident seems to be the accepted consensuses. A bucket of hot tar from builders on the next roof got knocked over and the fire spread (forgive the pun) like wildfire.

Bog Man 1 · 01-06-2015 09:53PM

I was in Haddens car park around seven oClock and saw the fire . I think there were Lads working on the roof of the Woolworths building where the Foundry complex is now . A burning tar brasier fell off a roof into a Skip set fire to it thus setting fire to Haddens .
All I saw was a few excited lads on a roof and a fire engine arriving . We were on our way to bring our new baby Daughter to see her granny up in the Butts . We took a photo of Granny holding the baby in her arms and we heard on the 9 oclock news that the fire had got out of control .

Owryan · 01-06-2015 10:08PM

Was 9 at the time. Can still remember the huge crowd in the car park watching the fire

My mother brought me and my brothers down to see it. A lot of families would ve had communion/confirmation outfits with Shaw's too and I can just about remember the water/smoke damaged stock being sorted through afterwards.

My only concern at the time was my aunty used to take me to the restaurant in shaws every week for an ice cream sundae

limerickman76 · 30-04-2017 05:13PM

today is the anniversary of the fire

What caused the 1984 Hadden's Fire ?

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