Shops/Businesses opening/closing down

thesandeman · 14-12-2015 02:26AM

I'm here all my life and I didn't know we had a Market Bonham Street, but we do :O

14-12-2015 01:38PM

After some time googling which could have been much better spent - I think it is the short one way road between Merchants Road and Queen Street. By Mcdonaghs old building / the garage. An Post and the OSI don't recognise it.

Is it an archaic name?

Google suggests that is Forthill St.
It also has the internal layout of the Eyre Square centre.

snubbleste · 14-12-2015 01:44PM

westgolf must be very very old.

Mrs OBumble · 14-12-2015 02:14PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Google suggests that is Forthill St.

As goes Streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Forthill+St,+Galway,+Ireland/@53.2726695,-9.0494075,3a,15y,56.42h,87.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s8naPhryal_Hod9tGP7X0wg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D8naPhryal_Hod9tGP7X0wg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D6.7591262%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m7!1m4!3m3!1s0x485b96e5a71d640b:0xd75703ecdedf725!2sForthill+St,+Galway,+Ireland!3b1!3m1!1s0x485b96e5a71d640b:0xd75703ecdedf725

And where's Kearney's on the docks???

westgolf · 14-12-2015 02:19PM

Woo hoo. Mrs O"Bumble, snubleste and others are all posters I look up to. And westgolf doesnt usually be the oracle of information either, but twas on here I first read that the short little street was bonham street..!

And no, I"m not that old !

14-12-2015 02:23PM

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

And where's Kearney's on the docks???

It is the Texaco garage.

Mrs OBumble · 14-12-2015 02:31PM

Thinking about it, that street is very wide. Maybe it was two streets at one time with not much gap between the, and they kinda merged.

14-12-2015 02:34PM

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Thinking about it, that street is very wide. Maybe it was two streets at one time with not much gap between the, and they kinda merged.

Areas that were used as markets tended to be wide depending on what was sold there.

14-12-2015 03:18PM

The name Forthill Street appears on the Griffiths Valuation maps of 1855, and more recently on OSI. I've only seen Market Bonham St referenced on an archaeological survey report; I dont know its source. The 1840 map doesnt have a street as such there.

Gremlinertia · 14-12-2015 08:28PM

At a wild guess I'd say bonham is an anglicised spelling of of bonamh which would make sense if this was a market.. Pigs were kept in many places in the city years ago.

marklazarcovic · 14-12-2015 09:39PM

used to deliver post down there for a few years,never seen mail with that address,forthill ya,queen st ya

snubbleste · 21-12-2015 06:10PM

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Strange given o'briens is two doors away.

Confirmed. O’Brien’s off-licence in GSC is set to relocate to the former video store.

b.gud · 21-12-2015 06:21PM

Coco Cafe in Salthill was open this morning when I was passing by, not sure if it opened at the weekend or this is it's first day back

23-12-2015 11:12PM

The AGA store in Liosban is closed - a notice on the door refers people to their other stores in Dun Laoghaire or Cork.

Nexarz · 23-12-2015 11:17PM

Haven't seen anyone notice but new Design Shop / Cafe open in Quay street beside Artisan and that little pet shop called Coffeewerk + Press during the summer.

Saint_Mel · 24-12-2015 11:42PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The AGA store in Liosban is closed - a notice on the door refers people to their other stores in Dun Laoghaire or Cork.

Speaking of Liosban,did the Bankx ever reopen or turn into anything else?

Laviski · 25-12-2015 01:49PM

Saint_Mel wrote: »

Speaking of Liosban,did the Bankx ever reopen or turn into anything else?

nope
for sale on it if you interested.

flazio · 25-12-2015 06:05PM

Almost everything seems to be closed down today.

ben.schlomo · 25-12-2015 07:01PM

flazio wrote: »

Almost everything seems to be closed down today.

Was that an attempt at humour?

GerardKeating · 25-12-2015 08:09PM

Saint_Mel wrote: »

Speaking of Liosban,did the Bankx ever reopen or turn into anything else?

The kitchens seems to be used by some catering/event company the odd time.

westgolf · 31-12-2015 06:42PM

Don't know if it has been mentioned previously..new eatery type place opened near scholars rest. Jalan jalan (I think) twas previously a chinese for a while.

ArtyC · 31-12-2015 08:32PM

westgolf wrote: »

Don't know if it has been mentioned previously..new eatery type place opened near scholars rest. Jalan jalan (I think) twas previously a chinese for a while.

Scholars rest is now the sliding Rock 😀

12thofthe12th · 01-01-2016 07:27PM

westgolf wrote: »

Don't know if it has been mentioned previously..new eatery type place opened near scholars rest. Jalan jalan (I think) twas previously a chinese for a while.

Same people running it. As you might have noticed, a lot of mixed Asian type places opening up lately after Asian tea house. Chi, Men at wok, Lana, Papa rich, Jalan jalan, etc. Seems to be the trend like the burrito places.

serfboard · 06-01-2016 06:28PM

G&L stores on Newcastle Road is closed today (shutters down). Is that just a temporary thing does anyone know?

westgolf · 06-01-2016 07:04PM

serfboard wrote: »

G&L stores on Newcastle Road is closed today (shutters down). Is that just a temporary thing does anyone know?

Closed today due to a bereavement in the family who own the premises.

D Trent · 09-01-2016 03:32PM

Following on from their success at Newcastle across from hospital
Tolteca are opening another burrito place on Bridge st between World Choice travel and Seven bar

El_Dangeroso · 09-01-2016 04:43PM

D Trent wrote: »

Following on from their success at Newcastle across from hospital
Tolteca are opening another burrito place on Bridge st between World Choice travel and Seven bar

That puts them very close to boojum and although they are decent, they are not in the boojum league.

ronnie3585 · 09-01-2016 05:02PM

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

That puts them very close to boojum and although they are decent, they are not in the boojum league.

Yeah, they're way better.

Mrs OBumble · 09-01-2016 06:21PM

That's another location that seems jinxed, nothing lasts there.

Whereisgalway · 09-01-2016 06:50PM

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Yeah, they're way better.

Chilli shack are da best in town

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