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'Ghost signs'

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    #452
    Jellybaby1
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    That would be a good thing, as long as they can spell.


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    #453
    gaiscioch
    Registered Users Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭gaiscioch


    'Anderson Furniture' on Usher's Quay over the nicest and most distinctive post office frontage left in Ireland:
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    #454
    gaiscioch
    Registered Users Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭gaiscioch


    Also, as for "ghost signs" a more enduring example of a business advertising itself on its business premises is the carved figures advertising Sunlight soap at the corner of Parliament Street, and designed in 1902 as the Dublin office for Lever Brothers. There's an interesting history here about its background (see the close-up photos on that link to the photo below - very interesting designs):

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    #455
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,138 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Resurrecting the ghosts...

    Some building work being done at 133 North Strand Road today uncovered this - John Keenan - J.J. Keenan's - used to be a grocer and greengrocer according to a 1969 Thom's.

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    #456
    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    spurious wrote: »
    Resurrecting the ghosts...

    Some building work being done at 133 North Strand Road today uncovered this - John Keenan - J.J. Keenan's - used to be a grocer and greengrocer according to a 1969 Thom's.


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    Nice one Spurious, saw this recently and was wondering about it.
    There looks to be another ghost sign to the left of the Keenan sign, a metal one. Is it a man with a carpet, was there a carpet\furniture shop there up to lately.


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    #457
    spurious
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    imme wrote: »
    There looks to be another ghost sign to the left of the Keenan sign, a metal one. Is it a man with a carpet, was there a carpet\furniture shop there up to lately.

    There have been a few failed businesses in there, including a sort of junk shop a couple of years ago. It looks like he's making it residential now, so it will be another North Strand Road residence that bus passengers can look in and see the packed in bunkbeds. Seems every building now is becoming an Air BnB 'jam as many as you can into a room' place.

    Looks like the Fruit and Veg shop about a hundred yards further to town will be becoming a chipper soon. Pity - she used to do fancy stuff like figs and fennel. :)


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    #458
    neris
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    Pub on Parnell street spotted while sitting in traffic. Looks long gone

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    #459
    ANXIOUS
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    neris wrote: »
    Pub on Parnell street spotted while sitting in traffic. Looks long gone

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    It's actually not gone as long as it looks, maybe 8yrs.

    A crazy spot.


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    #460
    Rashers
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    ANXIOUS wrote: »
    It's actually not gone as long as it looks, maybe 8yrs.

    A crazy spot.

    Still there. Don't know how to attach photo as I used to.


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    #461
    The Enbalmer
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    This place was open very briefly around 1990 in Hawkins St.
    Although the premises never opened again the sign was there literally until last week.

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    #462
    The Enbalmer
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    ANXIOUS wrote: »
    It's actually not gone as long as it looks, maybe 8yrs.

    A crazy spot.

    Quiet an unfortunate tale attached to that place.

    The original owner,Maggie had been in a nursing home for many years and when she eventually died the bill for her care came to over 500k.
    Her son, John has been ordered to put the pub on the market to pay the bills but there's a bit of legal wrangling going on at the moment so it still belongs to him at least for the moment.


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    #463
    LionelNashe
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    The Enbalmer wrote: »
    Quiet an unfortunate tale attached to that place.

    The original owner,Maggie had been in a nursing home for many years and when she eventually died the bill for her care came to over 500k.
    Her son, John has been ordered to put the pub on the market to pay the bills but there's a bit of legal wrangling going on at the moment so it still belongs to him at least for the moment.

    I often wondered about that place. I go by on the Luas quite often, and it's frequently repainted to cover the graffiti, but then graffiti appears again a while later.


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    #464
    Hotblack Desiato
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    The Metro Burger sign has been saved! \o/

    https://www.thejournal.ie/metro-burger-sign-hawkins-street-4477415-Feb2019/

    I read somewhere a few years back that it used to be a notorious rent boy pickup place back in the day

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #465
    The Enbalmer
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    The Metro Burger sign has been saved! \o/

    https://www.thejournal.ie/metro-burger-sign-hawkins-street-4477415-Feb2019/

    I read somewhere a few years back that it used to be a notorious rent boy pickup place back in the day

    Actually true. It was open 24 hours and near enough to the public toilets on Burgh Quay.

    Some of those rent boys were heroin addicts as were a fair few of the Cafes "regular" late night custom.


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    #466
    spurious
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    Saw this this morning. Store Street, just under the railway bridge.

    I believe it would have been for McGowan Brothers, Metal Merchants, who had a yard to the right of the sign.

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    #467
    retalivity
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    Paddy Whelan's has been visible for a while, the cork st post office is new though - probably not that old

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    #468
    Sabre0001
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    The Metro Burger sign has been saved! \o/

    https://www.thejournal.ie/metro-burger-sign-hawkins-street-4477415-Feb2019/

    I read somewhere a few years back that it used to be a notorious rent boy pickup place back in the day

    It has found a new home in the beer garden of Lucky's (on Meath St.): https://www.thejournal.ie/metro-burger-sign-hawkins-street-dublin-ghost-signs-4729824-Jul2019/?utm_source=twitter_short

    🤪



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    #469
    Hotblack Desiato
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    I know only one side is going to be visible where it is at the moment, but they put the back panel in the wrong way round :rolleyes:

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #470
    AndrewJRenko
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    retalivity wrote: »
    Paddy Whelan's has been visible for a while
    That's where I bought my first bike with my confo money - yellow Dawes Chevron 5-speed - loved it.


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    #471
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    Mary Street.


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    #472
    eviltimeban
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    You'll find a good few photos here:

    http://www.fantasyjackpalance.com/fjp/photos/city/index15.html


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    #473
    Gavin "shels"
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    retalivity wrote: »
    Paddy Whelan's has been visible for a while, the cork st post office is new though - probably not that old

    If memory serves me right, the Post Office closed before Paddy Whelans. They relocated the Post Office down to Centra in McGovern's Corner up the road. The apartments opened up in 2003, Centra must have followed soon after.


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    #474
    Culchie_85
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    I'm glad I found this thread, I do a lot of walking around Dublin (and other cities) and my IG account is very geared towards this:

    @rareoldsigns :)


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    #475
    miamee
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    I went and had a look at lunch time, here it is, Loftus Lounge and Sonny Kings old signs on what was The Bernard Shaw. I've no idea how old those signs are (or are not :D)

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    Culchie_85
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    #477
    vektarman
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    Dolphin Hotel, Essex Street, closed as a hotel in the 1970's

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    Nice to see some ghost signs of Frawleys still around.

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    #478
    AndrewJRenko
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    vektarman wrote: »
    Dolphin Hotel, Essex Street, closed as a hotel in the 1970's

    And became Dolphin House family courts in later years?


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    #479
    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    And became Dolphin House family courts in later years?

    Yes, is now the family law courts


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    #480
    vandriver
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    A sign for the Turk's Head is hardly a ghost sign.


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    #481
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm sure this has already been posted (edit. Just saw it posted above!) but it's one I like as I used to live beside it.

    Nuzum Brothers were a French Hugenot family of coal merchants, who had a business on South Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street) in 1869

    As far as I can see, the name has gone out of circulation altogether, in ireland.


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