things that used to be in waterford ya can remember

Wilde_37 · 18-03-2009 8:27pm

anplaya wrote: »

shockwave wrote: »

The dingy old shop opposite mt sion school where you could get a single fag for 10p. Used to be packed at break time

think it was called connollys

That area had loads of shops...

The shop across from Mt. Sion was Brown's
Brigie Walsh had an old shop on the grounds of the school and there was always a smell of Kerosene
Also on Barrack street you had:
Connollys,
O'Connors
Hennessy's Butchers
Kervicks green grocers
Speccer's green grocers
Heneberry's
The down the other end you had Harte's which became a hair dressers and Mrs Harte opened a post office next door
Rea's on the corner of Barrack St & Convent Hill
Rea's next door to that
Tracey's
The gift Shop
(It was a busy street)
Down further you had the dentist (next to Mullanes bar)
Below that you had Hamilton's sweet shop at the top of Castle street
All the old houses on castle street - and the pigons
Leadmore dairies at the top of Rice Park
The Laundry in the Good Shepard convent
Murphy's shop on the corner of Manor and Baths street (became Gallaghers)
Flint's across the road
Morris's Builders when they used to be on the Manor where Close Gate is now
The old Post Office
Davy Macs
Celtic Linen (where Masons is now)
Eddie Coady In the Beefy (There's a guy works down our chip-shop swears he's Elvis!!)
Fish Kennedy's in John's street
Kathleen Brown's sweet shop (great place)
Harney's bakery across the road
Kervick's had another place where Dignity is now
Just over the hump bridge you had Sweeney's BBC shop

I'll stop now...

j walsh · 19-03-2009 8:30am

I remember losing plenty blood and sweat (no tears though honest) in Rocky's gym in parnell st up over the old Winstons, Pot Black started at the big window and went back to where the DJ's box is now and then there was a partion wall and we trained in behind that where Ruby's extended the night club a couple of years ago.The entrance was where the Espresso is now.

trishw78 · 19-03-2009 12:47pm

j walsh wrote:

I remember losing plenty blood and sweat (no tears though honest) in Rocky's gym in parnell st up over the old Winstons, Pot Black started at the big window and went back to where the DJ's box is now and then there was a partion wall and we trained in behind that where Ruby's extended the night club a couple of years ago.The entrance was where the Espresso is now.

I remember going up there for karate classes, the owner loved Samantha Fox and had posters all over the place

j walsh · 19-03-2009 1:25pm

Oh that would be Rocky ok:D,
I remember a couple of Sam Fox posters alright

j walsh · 19-03-2009 1:34pm

trishw78 wrote: »

I remember going up there for karate classes, the owner loved Samantha Fox and had posters all over the place

He has a autobiography coming out this year called The Real Rocky and i heard that there could be a film in the pipeline also.
That book would be some read cause he's had a crazy life so far.

BlaasForRafa · 20-03-2009 11:56pm

I just saw the planning permission signs on the old Besco and Rellis's newsagents this evening.

I must go in and have a word with Dick tomorrow and find out whats going on, I presume he'll be retiring and selling up the shop, it'll be a sad day when that shop goes though, its like a newsagents crossed with the tardis.

Ostrom · 21-03-2009 1:00am

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

I just saw the planning permission signs on the old Besco and Rellis's newsagents this evening.

I must go in and have a word with Dick tomorrow and find out whats going on, I presume he'll be retiring and selling up the shop, it'll be a sad day when that shop goes though, its like a newsagents crossed with the tardis.

He's leaving?? More magazines than the book centre in there, he had everything...

Remember when three sevens and a ten were three sevens and a ten??

And while we're on it, I have fond memories of waking up on a Sunday morning to WLR on in the parents room with 'morning has broken' and Tony Weldon playing some of the worst music going

Ould' T.W.

halfinch · 21-03-2009 4:16pm

Token on Broad Street

Trinity house where Michael Guineys in now, they used to have these dellboy types selling random stuff in there

When wacky shoes was downstairs in georges court and its all that was in there

Wimpy Knickerbokerglorys

:D

When roches supermarket was in where debenhams is now

Old Green Buses

pommers · 21-03-2009 5:57pm

The Marian by the Mercy (padders) 10p a cig, out around the back of the shop then for a smoke before ya head back to school....ah dem were da days;)

jmcc · 21-03-2009 6:09pm

The Cove Shop on the Dunmore Road. Also, in Autumn and Winter, cows swimming in the field where Powerscourt is now. The Sports Shop on the Quay and the other one over in Georges Street. Television shops that also used to do repairs. Chip Shop Computer Basics on the High Street in the 1980s.

Regards...jmcc

pommers · 21-03-2009 8:45pm

jmcc wrote: »

The Cove Shop on the Dunmore Road. Also, in Autumn and Winter, cows swimming in the field where Powerscourt is now. The Sports Shop on the Quay and the other one over in Georges Street. Television shops that also used to do repairs. Chip Shop Computer Basics on the High Street in the 1980s.

Regards...jmcc

Speaking of television shops, remember Thorn electric where monsoon is now,i bought my first tv there, i only got rid of it 6 months ago and it was still working!!!

deisemum · 21-03-2009 9:02pm

Anyone remember the "chicken shed" out in Cheekpoint where the discos were held. Hubby has fond memories of them from his teenage years, hitching lifts out there and getting up to all sorts

Thoie · 21-03-2009 9:14pm

I'm feeling old - I remember getting a tuppenny wafer in Nolan's on the Cork Road (slice of HB vanilla between two wafers).

I also remember as a kid spending ages in Goff's stationary shop. They used have all kinds of pens in all kinds of colours. If my mother ever lost me she'd always head there first

Nolanger · 21-03-2009 9:19pm

Waterford Crystal.

mama · 21-03-2009 9:57pm

All of you must be really young - can anyone remember Bells Chemists on the Quay - next to Hearnes ? Not John Hearne's ironmongers shop but Hearnes department store where the money was sent from the counter to a cash desk on wires ?
And Lipton's in Barronstrand St., and the Home & Colonial, or Merry's on the corner of the Carstand and John St., later Winston & Besco.
Then there was Graves' in Park Road, near the Gold Crust bakery and opposite the Park .

This would have been in "old God's time" - early 1960's .

mama · 21-03-2009 10:21pm

I have just remembered Mrs. Mul's shop on Cannon St, near the lower gate to the Presentation Convent where (in the good old 1950's) you could buy a handful of DILISK for 1d. (an OLD penny) and a ha'penny square. Ha'penny squares for the uninitiated were from slabs of toffee which were broken up and sold individually (a bit like the cigarettes in Bridgie Walsh's next to Mount Sion school). There was also a house on the other side of the street that used sell toffee apples from their front room. They were delicious.

mama · 21-03-2009 10:27pm

There was a ballroom in Arundel Square for a while, I think that's where Dunlops was afterwards.

Paige Turner · 22-03-2009 3:35am

The old man in Tramore that used to do the pony rides!

anplaya · 22-03-2009 10:44pm

any1 knw what happened with the de la salle cente up by st stephens school?
the hibnerian bar
the old dentists in newgate st,bad memories for me:mad:
what was the name of the sweet shop in the manor,was in the 80s,sinn fein shop now situated there

Jayeire · 01-04-2009 8:05am

Waterford Crystal used to be in waterford once....

Asmodean · 01-04-2009 1:40pm

any1 knw what happened with the de la salle cente up by st stephens school?

My God yeah I always overlook that place but by christ its shameful. Spent many a time in there when I was younger because I grew up just across the street. I remember the dodgey old corridors upstairs in there looking down into the squash courts(?) Used to go to the little shoebox of a gym in there too before the whole place went tits up.

shapez · 01-04-2009 4:21pm

I was told today that St. Paul's Secondary School on Paddy Brownes Rd. was a Pig Mart!!

anplaya · 02-04-2009 9:16am

the old esb place i think it was, across the road from the city hall

anplaya · 02-04-2009 9:19am

Jayeire wrote: »

Waterford Crystal used to be in waterford once....

:pac: oh your hilarious.it still is ya ****

Hells Belle · 03-04-2009 2:51pm

anplaya wrote: »

remember those houses that used to be opposite the train station that they knocked down when making the new road?werent they crooked or something?

lol I used to live in one of those - Sallypark, the sitting room used to flood if the tide was too high - omg that must be nearly 30 years ago.:eek:

henboy · 05-04-2009 6:13pm

My grandmothers sweet shop on patrick street. Any one who went to de la salle stephen street will have fond memories of the Cream buns. What a lady:)

Nolanger · 07-04-2009 4:59pm

Boarders in De La Salle - more culchies in my class than Waterford people.

Trick of the Tail · 07-04-2009 6:02pm

Cantwell's in Michael Street - Vera Cantwell and John Hayes used to work there.

The Central Garage next to the Library; Wasn't there a bakery along that lane too?

The Old Stand, and previously The Stand;

The L&N, where the Broad Street Centre is now, which had that cafe upstairs?? Remember the L&N had an upstairs bit, you had to leave your trolley downstairs and carry your stuff down to it!

Bolger's - people called Dunnes that for years.

Cassidy's.

Phelan's key shop in High Street. What a mess- God knows how he ever found anything;

Johnny Hearne's is a recent loss, and sadly missed;

What was the TV shop along O'Connell Street?

And the TV shop where the 3 store is now in High Street?

Pan Power's hairdressers in Arundel Square;

Peter Street when it actually existed!

And missed most of all - deserving of a distinction - Egan's. That was THE place to go on Friday and Saturday nights. Huge inside and stuffed. Great staff (Frankie, Tony, Joe, Marcus, Maura Wicks, etc) great music, great atmosphere.

What happened to drive the entertainment away from that part of town?

A.

Luckycharms_74 · 14-04-2009 12:26pm

old gregg wrote: »

following on from Martin Hunt and Waterford characters, here's one that only folks of a certain vintage will remember .....
STAB THE RASHER

Yeah I heard how "STAB THE RASHER" got the nick name the lads in ferrybank used to dangle him by the legs down the delivery chute and he could stick his nose into the hams and the would rob them

Luckycharms_74 · 14-04-2009 12:30pm

Duiske wrote: »

Now theres a blast from the past

The Pineapple Grove bar in the Bridge hotel was a great hangout back in the day as well.

It was actually called the "Peppermint Grove" I remember in the 80's it had neon signs and those UV light which made your white clothes look really clean. I bet all you could see back then was fellas white socks and slip on shoes, oh yeah and don't forget those fleck trousers

Luckycharms_74 · 14-04-2009 12:38pm

ToxicPaddy wrote: »

What was the name of that computer/photography store that used to be in arundel square before city square was there? Grumpy aul git working there..
Bought my first "ahem" PC there, a sinclair spectrum +2

Tox

That was called "Finns's Camera & Computer Shop". I remember going in there for my games on the old Commodore 64. Yeah the fella who owned it was not too bad, he used to have glasses and the wife would be there as well. In reality they both knew F@*k all about the computer games

. They then moved next to the Fresh Food Hall on Michael Street, but did not last long before closing/retiring.

Luckycharms_74 · 14-04-2009 12:48pm

Partizan wrote: »

Couldnt agree more. Waterford in the 1990s was a hopping place.

+1

Luckycharms_74 · 14-04-2009 1:38pm

alinton wrote: »

And the TV shop where the 3 store is now in High Street?

It was called Bobby Whites

anplaya · 14-04-2009 2:05pm

lads,any1 know what the name of the cake shop up by blazing aces is?used to be next to one of the entrances to the church,theres a photography shop there now i think,have vague memories of going in there

also there used to be this guy who delivered the bread, blaas etc in a white van to your door saturday morning,got really vague memories of him ,any1 else remember ?

anplaya · 14-04-2009 2:07pm

what was the name of the sweet shop in the manor,was in the 80s,sinn fein shop now situated there

KingLoser · 14-04-2009 2:15pm

anplaya wrote: »

lads,any1 know what the name of the cake shop up by blazing aces is?used to be next to one of the entrances to the church,theres a photography shop there now i think,have vague memories of going in there

also there used to be this guy who delivered the bread, blaas etc in a white van to your door saturday morning,got really vague memories of him ,any1 else remember ?

The cake shop was Leahy's I think. Very fond memories.

DaveHoban · 16-04-2009 2:49pm

ziedth wrote: »

The Old Cinema
Quinnsworth
Chess Mensware
Sullys snooker hall
Baker Street Pub

God, I remember burgerland. used to love it there as a boy.

Sullys is still going strong, i've been working there for the last five years, we moved down to o' connel street last year, just behind dooleys hotel/beside the maxim house chinese. we got rid of all the snooker tables except for one full size and a half size, we got 4 new pool tables which are always busy. I suppose we are more focused on the gaming area now with the slots, poker machines and roulette tho

gscully · 16-04-2009 2:55pm

KingLoser wrote: »

The cake shop was Leahy's I think. Very fond memories.

Me too...and of the Green Bank Confectionery on Bridge St.

jmcc · 16-04-2009 6:00pm

alinton wrote: »

What was the TV shop along O'Connell Street?

I think it was a German sounding name. The owner also owed a shop in New Ross as well. Ollie (R&M Electronics) used to work there.

Just remembered Stan Furlong in Gladstone Street. There was also a TV shop on Michael Street.

And the TV shop where the 3 store is now in High Street?

Bobby Whyte's shop. It only closed a few years ago.

What happened to drive the entertainment away from that part of town?

Egan's closed?

Regards...jmcc

W1llz0rz · 16-04-2009 6:36pm

My nanny used to be the manager in Burger Land, never had to pay for a thing, although I can barely remember it, must have been only 4 or 5 when it closed. Some epic birthday partys in there though!

DinnyBatman · 29-05-2009 3:14pm

Was in college in Waterford in the 90's.
Best memories are:
Big beach parties (can't remember the name of the beach), loads of bands played, proper stage, sound system etc.
King Kong Company gigs in Garter Lane.
Playing pool in the Roxy in the evening and watching bands there that night.
Ahhh, the memories!

Nolanger · 30-05-2009 3:16pm

nslattery1974 wrote: »

That was called "Finns's Camera & Computer Shop". I remember going in there for my games on the old Commodore 64.

They used to hold computer game competitions - had to pay to enter.

j walsh · 31-05-2009 1:42am

jmcc wrote: »

I think it was a German sounding name. The owner also owed a shop in New Ross as well. Ollie (R&M Electronics) used to work there.

I think it was called Houston electronics, i remember it well my brother bought a massive pioneer hi-fi system and still has it,class.

Ostrom · 31-05-2009 9:44pm

Playing quake in the old voyager internet cafe where rainbow records is now

gemasha · 03-06-2009 8:44pm

Ah it was a sad day when PREACHERS closed down!

Oh the memories!!

larchielads · 04-06-2009 3:11am

gemasha wrote: »

Ah it was a sad day when PREACHERS closed down! Oh the memories!!

yeah used to work there for years. remember tryin to get up for school after a nights work.....some dose...... loved it though

gemasha · 04-06-2009 12:57pm

larchielads wrote: »

yeah used to work there for years. remember tryin to get up for school after a nights work.....some dose...... loved it though

Ha ha - snap - used to work there myself!!

annabellee77 · 04-06-2009 3:38pm

Oh this thread has me beyond nostalgic....I'll have to come back later when have gathered myself!!!

Jayeire · 07-06-2009 7:43am

Funderland aka the old bowling alley

Aimzey · 07-06-2009 4:58pm

the whimp wasnt tat in where the brasserie is now ??

merlins.
The roxy
Preachers now electric avenue
Old eddie rocketss used to be where revolution is now
Darress stores(ex sp) Where macdonalds now is in town

things that used to be in waterford ya can remember

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