Where to find Photos of Cork City in the 80s.

Oafley Jones

Just wondering where would be the best place to get these. In particular I'm looking for photos of and around Patricks St.

JaneHudson

I'm sure the city library would have books of that stuff.

deRanged

Eason's has a selection of books of photography of Cork.

sound_wave

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/corkimages/photos.shtml

This site has a number of old photos of Cork City, worth a look at least!

rymus

There would probably be a whole load of old photos of Cork in the Examiner picture archives too. Would be worth giving them a shout.

Tree

there's a brilliant book of photos of it in the 60's, no lovelier city it's called.

Judes

I remember seeing a book a few years back at Waterstones and it was pictures of the English Market - I'd say a lot of those were taken in the
80's. That was the decade myself and most of my friends headed across the seas for work. I'm being very "nosey" as to why the 80's - is it a trip down memory lane??? Let us know how you get on with the search. J

turly

And slightly-offtopic, I'm trying to remember what Merchants Quay was like before they built that Shopping Centre... I'm drawing a complete blank. Anyone care to remind me?

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Merchants Quay:

turly

Thanks muchly, Mr. Tea!

Oddly enough, I still can't remember it exactly like that. Still, that piccie looks a lot nicer than the monstrosity that's there now... even though many of the buildings were a bit on the decrepit side...

Thanks again!

Oafley Jones

Judes wrote: »

I remember seeing a book a few years back at Waterstones and it was pictures of the English Market - I'd say a lot of those were taken in the
80's. That was the decade myself and most of my friends headed across the seas for work. I'm being very "nosey" as to why the 80's - is it a trip down memory lane??? Let us know how you get on with the search. J

It's purely for my own interest. As I was born in 78, I have vague memories of Patricks St. and the area around Merchants Quay in the early 80s. I'm just wondering how accurate these memories are. I can vividly recall the layout of the old easons when it was down further, but as regard Merchants Quay, I can sort of remember something like the photo above except boarded up and one toy shop which would be located about where laura Asheley is now.

Judes

Brill pic of Merchant's Quay - but I can't remember it either - and I used to walk along there every day on the way to my bus stop at Parnell Place. The city needs to be improved and what's crumbling needs to be saved/rebuilt - but we really are losing our identity, we're starting to look like "anywhere" vs "somewhere".

ttc028

There is some deadly stuff here, including some movie footage (check out the Wilton clip!).

http://www.karlgrabe.com/

Just scroll down to the "Cork & Ireland in the past" section