Old Factories

Freddie59

Already a thread about City Centre businesses no longer with us - what about the factories?

I'll kick it off:

The Jute Factory
Munster Chipboard
Clover Meats
Dennys
National Board And Paper Mills
Dawsons Printers in O'Connell Street (way distant past)
Old Gasworks, Waterside

ex_infantry man

Freddie59 wrote:

Already a thread about City Centre businesses no longer with us - what about the factories?

I'll kick it off:

The Jute Factory
Munster Chipboard
Clover Meats
Dennys
National Board And Paper Mills
Dawsons Printers in O'Connell Street (way distant past)
Old Gasworks, Waterside

em clover meats and dennys are owned by kerry foods and the two companys still operate but not from waterford we only have depot here now so technically you could take them off the list as they do still exist

Aquos76

HP Chemie
kromberg and Schubert
O Keeffe's Bakery

navalus

Hanleys clay pipe factory, was beside the park in Johns lane in the 1940s.

Freddie59

navalus wrote:

Hanleys clay pipe factory, was beside the park in Johns lane in the 1940s.

Wow!:eek:

Freddie59

ex_infantry man wrote:

em clover meats and dennys are owned by kerry foods and the two companys still operate but not from waterford we only have depot here now so technically you could take them off the list as they do still exist

I stand corrected. I suppose mainly I'm just taking about defunct buildings which employed thousands of Waterford people.:)

trishw78

Clover meats may be owned by Kerry foods but it no longer operates as Clover Meats. I miss that place I have a vague memory of being taken down there by my grandad to see them making sausages.

soldering iron

Foundry
Tech Industries
Wellworthys
Ray ban
Flourmills
bell ferries
Siemens /Marshal eng
Tri clover safety Glass
Narco Machine shop
White shipyard
Neptune shipyard
Dunlop’s (Now city square)
Dun lops/RAC records ferry bank
Power seeds
Waterfiord foods

ex_infantry man

trishw78 wrote:

Clover meats may be owned by Kerry foods but it no longer operates as Clover Meats. I miss that place I have a vague memory of being taken down there by my grandad to see them making sausages.

yes all the kerry foods products i.e. denny,clover hams,ballyfree are now produced in shillelagh co wicklow and glenealy also in the county of wicklow

navalus

Anyone remember Swifts Furniture Factory above the park in Johns Lane.

JMcL

ex_infantry man wrote:

em clover meats and dennys are owned by kerry foods and the two companys still operate but not from waterford we only have depot here now so technically you could take them off the list as they do still exist

So was Denny's originally a Waterford company? I learn something new every day!

Roen

The rasher was invented here in Waterford by Henry Denny, I think he was looking for a better way to store meat for long journeys and layered thin slices of meat and salt in an alternating fashion.

Well it says so in a history book I read a few months back. I'll try get the title when I get home.

soldering iron

JMcL wrote:

So was Denny's originally a Waterford company? I learn something new every day!

so was Jacobs Cream crackers, form bridge street

navalus

Dennys was founded in waterford in 1820, he is buried in the vault in the Abbey Church accross the river.

ex_infantry man

tellin ya lads we learn something new every day eh!