Kilkenny shops that are no more

brettmirl · 12-05-2005 8:48pm #1

I was just thinking the other day of some of the old shops that are no more in Kilkenny. Anyone have any memories?

Anyone remember when Woolworths used to be on High Street, where Paris Texas is now. Of course it became Crottys coffee shop in the interim.

Bradbury's used to be across the road - they had nice cakes.

I can barely remember Elliots on the corner of High Street - which since became the Irish Permanent and now some betting shop.

There was the L&N on High Street...the VG on John's Green...Griffins on Rose Inn Street.

The Mascot Stores on John St was a personal favourite of mine. They had nice buns.

The Monster House on High Street before it became Supermacs. I remember being brought there to see Santa and being scared sh**less.

Nightwish · 12-05-2005 8:57pm

mick_irl wrote:

Bradbury's used to be across the road - they had nice cakes.

my mother worked in there when she was in school. i dont remember it at all-im far too young!

mick_irl wrote:

There was the L&N on High Street

the tiles on the wall behind the butcher counter are still there...now theres a useless piece of info

mick_irl wrote:

The Monster House on High Street before it became Supermacs

remember the cool fish tank up the back of it?

one of my favourite shops was Dr Doolittles pet shop. also loved Dunkin' Donutzz...mmmm

brettmirl · 12-05-2005 9:02pm

Nightwish wrote:

the tiles on the wall behind the butcher counter are still there...now theres a useless piece of info

Whereabouts?

Nightwish wrote:

also loved Dunkin' Donutzz...mmmm

where was that?

Nightwish · 12-05-2005 9:18pm

the tiles are in the shop currently occupying the old L&N site-im sure u can guess where that is!
Dunkin Donutzz was in that little shop where Soul is now-the opp side of the butterslip from the ok house.closed down about 9 years ago

Hmm_Messiah · 12-05-2005 10:16pm

Dunkin Donuts was originally ....Barrys Veg, smallest hop in Ireland

Loved Monster Hse at xmas, new clothes
and REAL Santa Boxes !!!

Bought my first records in Woolworths, Record player was a late purchase in our house (we poor) so was byin Heaven 17, Billy Joel etc but all 45s that were well old

brettmirl · 13-05-2005 7:50am

Hmm_Messiah wrote:

Dunkin Donuts was originally ....Barrys Veg, smallest hop in Ireland

Belated Happy Birthday first of all!!!!!

I think if you take a look at the frame shop just a bit further down the street beside The Gourmet Store, you will find that it is the smallest shop in the WORLD!

Hmm_Messiah wrote:

Bought my first records in Woolworths, Record player was a late purchase in our house (we poor) so was byin Heaven 17, Billy Joel etc but all 45s that were well old

I can only ever remember buying Pick 'N' Mix in there and the big weighing scales that you put 2p into and stood up on it.

I used to get all my 45s in Sherwoods. My first ever album was the Double LP from the Muppet Show

brettmirl · 13-05-2005 7:52am

Nightwish wrote:

the tiles are in the shop currently occupying the old L&N site-im sure u can guess where that is!
Dunkin Donutzz was in that little shop where Soul is now-the opp side of the butterslip from the ok house.closed down about 9 years ago

Oh yeah remember it now. The doughnuts there was lovely :drool:

The woman that worked there was really nice too from what I can rememer.

As for the tiles....It's either Boots or Argos is it? Am trying to remember which shop was where on High Street...there was the L&N and Delahunty's Furniture shop beside it.

Hmm_Messiah · 13-05-2005 9:20am

L&N is now argos
they both "robbed the lane beside it with the big gate that the deliveries go in

dawballz · 13-05-2005 3:12pm

Whites sweet shop on high st opposite the town hall..

brettmirl · 13-05-2005 3:42pm

Ah Whites - great shop. Used to give you penny sweets wrapped up in a newspaper cone.

Mooney's used to be beside it?

Nightwish · 13-05-2005 11:04pm

Hmm_Messiah wrote:

L&N is now argos
they both "robbed the lane beside it with the big gate that the deliveries go in

how was it "robbed"? anyway its the only way for the deliveries to get into the stockroom.boots and the arcade have full use of the lane too

Hmm_Messiah · 14-05-2005 12:01am

As far as i remember from some history project did in school its a public lane they just blocked off

Nightwish · 14-05-2005 9:00pm

ah well it goes nowhere now+its full of argos cages so i doubt the public would wanna use it

Norinoco · 15-05-2005 4:09pm

mick_irl wrote:

The Monster House on High Street before it became Supermacs.

When I was young, I was walking up the stairs in the monster house. There was mirrors on the walls and I walked straight in to the wall and got a nose bleed!!

Also remember the huge fishtank....it was the only reason the mother would pursuade us to get new shoes!

brettmirl · 15-05-2005 7:50pm

Norinoco wrote:

Also remember the huge fishtank....it was the only reason the mother would pursuade us to get new shoes!

Yeah used to be dragged to the Monster House or to the basement in Goods in August to get new school shoes.

Anyone remember that machine they had in Goods for measuring your feet? It was a big automatic thing. I used to be so scared that it would crush my feet. I'm pretty sure I cried once there cause of it.

ecksor · 16-05-2005 12:00am

I do remember that thing actually. It was quite reassuring I thought, you knew you were getting properly sized shoes. Probably early evidence of my way of thinking.

Lump · 16-05-2005 11:45am

mick_irl wrote:

Yeah used to be dragged to the Monster House or to the basement in Goods in August to get new school shoes.

Anyone remember that machine they had in Goods for measuring your feet? It was a big automatic thing. I used to be so scared that it would crush my feet. I'm pretty sure I cried once there cause of it.

It felt funny on my feet. NO FEAR!

John

banbutcher · 18-05-2005 9:55am

there was a joke shop of some kind on rose inn st. where a to z computers is now, but cant remember the name!

Hmm_Messiah · 18-05-2005 5:16pm

Griffins was there when i was a kid, toys jokes etc, expensive whours
bought a boqie knife there, mad thing could chop ur head off with !!

wheres me jumpa · 18-05-2005 6:53pm

there was a dunky d's in kilkenny??? their coffee is excellent. i cant remember it in kilkenny though.

i was sad to see hobo going, their threads were hanging from me on the greatest nights of my life!

also i noticed a post about walking into mirrors. do you know in the toilets in the marble city bar? my father was down there and he's walking towards the mirror, he steps aside to let the person(his reflection) past, he even gestured with his hand to the person!

djpaul · 18-05-2005 7:38pm

Anyone remember "Mikes Bar" in the arcade in high st?? that's where I met
herself. I notice M+b's resturant is gone, Ahh.... fond memories of the 80's + 90's. :rolleyes:

brettmirl · 18-05-2005 8:03pm

wheres me jumpa wrote:

there was a dunky d's in kilkenny??? their coffee is excellent. i cant remember it in kilkenny though.

It wasn't the chain one. It was a tiny shop that made and sold really nice doughnuts on the premesis. They didn't sell coffee at all there.

djpaul wrote:

Anyone remember "Mikes Bar" in the arcade in high st?? that's where I met
herself. I notice M+b's resturant is gone, Ahh.... fond memories of the 80's + 90's.

I was in that Mike's bar place once. Didn't it become the brewery bar for a while too?

That restaurant was a great hive of activity before we all got rich and started eating panini's and the like. I used to like sitting on the high stools at the window and look down at the people on High Street.

Norinoco · 18-05-2005 8:45pm

djpaul wrote:

Anyone remember "Mikes Bar" in the arcade in high st??

Was that the old mans pub, with really scruffy curtains on the windows and lod leather benches against the walls?? They never asked for Id and sold what tasted like gone off vodka!

Maybe im thinking of another place!

Bet you all remember the old cinema???!!!!

It had the worst shop ever and the 2 old women that owned it were really strict on age. Remember getting turned away from an over 12 film and I was 11!

Remember when the queues used to be around the corner and down it high street - think it was the Titanic that I remeber the queues being insane.

brettmirl · 19-05-2005 6:43pm

Yeah that old cinema was horrible. The wimmin behind the counter were right wagons. I was turned away from Gremlins cause i looked under 12.

They used to love shining their torches around when the movie was on and who remember the big egg stain on the screen?

Norinoco · 21-05-2005 10:22am

I was fascinated by the bubbles that were on the screen before the film started. The first time i went to the cinema there was for my 5th birthday to see the Care Bears film!

Oh the memories!

Nightwish · 25-05-2005 1:00am

they wouldnt let me in to see men in black which was 12's, when i was 14. i remember the q's for titanic, and oddly enough, mrs doubtfire-it went down as far as supermacs. anyone know what their gonna do with the old cinema? or is it being left there to rot

brettmirl · 25-05-2005 6:56am

Is it not an apartment block already?

Hmm_Messiah · 25-05-2005 9:36am

I understand the pwners swapped sites withthe county council/corpo who now own it, and advertised for "creative submissions" on its s use

e.g. needleless centre for heroin users

hostel for Pioneers and the like

pbmurphy1999 · 29-07-2010 7:09pm

This is a great thread. It may be 5 years old but i just shouted out in laughter about the egg stain on the screen in the cinema, the bubbles before each movie and the old dragons that ran it. Was it the Metropole? Was the only 1 left after they closed down the Savoy i think.
I got thrown out of that cinema during "Fletch" in 1985/86.

What a wonderful place it was in the 80's, I miss those days so much.

Threadhead · 29-07-2010 8:24pm

This is a great thread. I've fond memories of the Regent.

But I do not have fond memories of how close the jacks were to the stalls. The smell sometimes was ferocious. Gotta love the double seats though.

catbear · 29-07-2010 8:33pm

Interesting thread, nostalgia can be fun.

My memory of Kilkenny in the Eighties was a run down drab place that only started getting interesting in the mid nineties. High street had loads of gaps in it for ages.

It was so quiet that I could drive up town and often park right outside The Sports Shop, anyone remember the stuffed animals in the window?

fabbydabby · 29-07-2010 9:43pm

No but I 'member buying a super soaker in there for about 20 pounds (as it was at the time) a fkin year's pocket money it probably was. And an hour later i found out that the guy in Toymaster was selling identical ones for what they were really worth. About 8 pounds.

GUTTED.

So that day I swore an evil gypsy curse on his building: That one day it might become a half-assed Byrne's World of Wonder (a hemisphere of wonder I suppose), a crap bookshop and be subjected to tone deaf hippy drum circles for the entire summer from the Tholstel.

Mackman · 30-07-2010 2:06am

Great thread!

I used to love the regent, trying to sneak in your own sweets, and the double seats were great.

I remember going to Goods basement for shoes that were 3 sizes to big, so that i would grow into them.

And when Paris texas used to be Crotty's. My mam used to buy our birthday cakes in there.

remember when the book shop used to have the music section down the back? I used to buy all my tapes there.

The betting shop beside the Village Inn used to be a video store. me and my cousin used to rent all our megadrive games in there. We would rent it for one night, stay up till 4 in the morning trying to finish it.

And the video shop in irish town, that's now Reddy Associates. Used to rent a lot of videos in there. And they used to rent out consoles and video players too

Edit: catbear, i dont remember the stuffed animals, but i do remember the gun shop downstairs. We used to sneak down there and look at all the guns, fascinated

catbear · 30-07-2010 9:05am

For the bonus point, can anyone tell what was the longest running movie ever shown in the Regent Cinema?

I heard this second hand but from a reliable source.

Captain Havoc · 30-07-2010 9:48am

catbear wrote: »

For the bonus point, can anyone tell what was the longest running movie ever shown in the Regent Cinema?

I heard this second hand but from a reliable source.

The Passion of St. Tibulus?

Threadhead · 30-07-2010 10:10am

I remember Titanic was shown for 3 months. I was a teenager at the time and thus, really only had the cinema as an outlet for doing anything really. I was well gutted that there was nothing I could go see for 3 months. They used to have late showings of movies after Titanic (Starship Troopers, Boogie Nights) but there's no way I would have gotten in. I would have loved to have seen Boogie Night in the Regent.

I also remember being a smaller kid and going away for an entire summer and when it started Jurassic Park was on and when I came back Jurassic Park was still on.

I'm gonna go for Titanic though. ?

Extra bonus point if anyone can remember what the last film shown in the Regent was?

fabbydabby · 30-07-2010 12:10pm

Toy Story 2?

My sister brought me to Lady and the Tramp in the Regent and after 'The Bubbles' were switched off at the start, she told me to get my coat because the movie was over and I started crying.

I haven't forgotten this.

'Member the oul wan with the torch? Lucky they didn't have superbright LED's back in the day. And then for a spell around the late '90's a load of knobgobblers would bring in laser pointers and shine them in Christian Slater's face as he was attempting to act.

underpantshead · 30-07-2010 12:44pm

i remember jurassic park lasting for ages too!
but i am going to go for a curve ball here and chance my arm with teenage mutant ninja turtles!? that was hugh when it came to the regent.

brettmirl · 30-07-2010 1:23pm

Mackman wrote: »

remember when the book shop used to have the music section down the back? I used to buy all my tapes there.

I'd forgotten about the music section. Downstairs in Sherwoods used to be great for CDs/tapes/vinyl too. There was a music shop on Patrick St too. Think its a coffee shop now. It was beside the old McGraths hardware shop.

catbear wrote: »

For the bonus point, can anyone tell what was the longest running movie ever shown in the Regent Cinema?

I heard this second hand but from a reliable source.

Was it Crocodile Dundee?

Captain Havoc · 30-07-2010 2:00pm

Brian Stones hardware and Mulhalls Bakery there on Green St. and John Kennys shop around the corner on Bishops Hill. Monaghans newsagents by the steps to St. Canices. Wasn't the video shop in Irishtown where the café is now beside Jim Lowrys called the Gogglebox? I remember we used to get the 18+ movies in Mick Hennessys video shop on Kieran St. and I think the video shop beside the entrance to the Rivercourt was the Movie House.

Longest Movie, was it Robin Hood Prince of Thieves?

catbear · 30-07-2010 6:24pm

My source told me it was the Care Bars movie but this was before Titanic so I'd say Titanic probably was the longest run.

Daemos · 30-07-2010 8:56pm

The Herlaldic Store in Market Cross was a great place, still can't understand why they closed. I remember they had loads of great stuff in there, I bought a small, blunt, replica sword-thing (which when you're 14 years old is the coolest thing ever), a replica ring from LOTR, and when I saw they were closing I bought two bookends with a fake knife going through.

brettmirl · 30-07-2010 9:10pm

Not really a shop, but does anyone remember the original chip van that used to be on the parade? It was yellow and white. Used to be inside Nowlan Park on match days too.

catbear · 30-07-2010 9:25pm

I miss Tall Tales book shop.

PhilipMarlowe · 30-07-2010 9:40pm

Griffins on Rose Inn St. was cool in a 'brown' kind of way.
Buting singles in Woolworths (Chic - I Want Your Love was my first.. kind of funny that I bought disco and I dance like a ****)
My dad buying and eating Nougat in Mooneys though FTW!

Oh, and that veterinary supplies? shop on Parliament Street.. name escapes me?

catbear · 30-07-2010 9:50pm

Ah Griffiths!!!!!!!

I used to buy Airfix models there. The hours I spent agonising over which kit to buy with what little money I had squirreled. When you don't have much, you take a lot more time spending it.

I believe I was at the last show in the Savoy, now there was a dump. The downstairs was closed on health and safety grounds. I remember looking over the balcony and seeing rats moving around below.

The last show there was a rerun of Ghostbusters. Best movie i saw there was 2001, a space odyssey.

30-07-2010 9:54pm

brettmirl wrote: »

There was the L&N on High Street...

That where Argos is now?

road_high · 30-07-2010 11:22pm

A few i can remember are;
-Cassidy's clothes store on Parliament st,Dunnes stores had it up to a year or two ago. Vacant now.
- Hennessy Sports used to down the street a bit across from the court house.
- Used to be a gift shop kinda like Allens on High st where the Euro store is beside Supermacs. Was Carrolls I think.
-Used to be a delicatesan across from Goods, beside Pauls. No idea what it was called.
-Was there a seed shop?!/garden shop down beside Wall's menswear. Now Sony shop I think. I remember that being there up to recently enough.

lods · 31-07-2010 9:05am

mfitzy wrote: »

A few i can remember are;
-Cassidy's clothes store on Parliament st,Dunnes stores had it up to a year or two ago. Vacant now.
- Hennessy Sports used to down the street a bit across from the court house.
- Used to be a gift shop kinda like Allens on High st where the Euro store is beside Supermacs. Was Carrolls I think.
-Used to be a delicatesan across from Goods, beside Pauls. No idea what it was called.
-Was there a seed shop?!/garden shop down beside Wall's menswear. Now Sony shop I think. I remember that being there up to recently enough.

i worked in that Cassidys about 20 years ago:eek:

fabbydabby · 31-07-2010 10:19am

Jamember Big Snack? That became the Burger Pit, which became Jimmy D's which became The Mondrian.

The curry chips in Big Snack were bangin.

Hmm_Messiah · 31-07-2010 11:57am

mfitzy wrote: »

A few i can remember are;
-Cassidy's clothes store on Parliament st,Dunnes stores had it up to a year or two ago. Vacant now.
- Hennessy Sports used to down the street a bit across from the court house.
- Used to be a gift shop kinda like Allens on High st where the Euro store is beside Supermacs. Was Carrolls I think.
-Used to be a delicatesan across from Goods, beside Pauls. No idea what it was called.
-Was there a seed shop?!/garden shop down beside Wall's menswear. Now Sony shop I think. I remember that being there up to recently enough.

The Deli was the orchard
first place in town to do ice cream scoops

Seed shop was Farrells

Kilkenny shops that are no more

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