Dundalk Nostalgia thread

BordorFox

it's about time the square was ripped up.

Humans eh!

What a cool thread, thanks OP.
Went to AnCo in about '1986 / 87
Great, mad times.
Used to cash our cheques in the shopping centre (Crazy Prices) and get ratarsed every Thursday in the Bar Upstairs.
MJ's,
Images in the Imperial Hotel,
4 Lanterns and the Wimpy,
Kings Tavern (great spot)
Couldn't pass a pub, head out to the Fairways or the Oasis in Carrick.
Lost so many brain cells in Dundalk in those days, great times.
Jaysus thanks for bringing all the memories and faces back to me...:)

BordorFox

For the post up, the railway bride by pearse park/redeemer was called china bridge, as much as i recall from my youth, also playing around in Duffy construction yard, which is now the longwalk shopping centre, and hanging from the orchard trees which is now the bus station/carpark when the bus station was on the opposite side of the road.

Superquinn in square, which also came supermacs with 2 floors which used to make a killing at night, remember staggering into a few times..lol

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

BordorFox wrote: »

the railway bride by pearse park/redeemer was called china bridge,

No, No, No. The China Bride was at the end of the Long Walk near where Superquinn is now. It was a bridge over a stream and looked like something off a Willow pattern china plate. This has come up here several times and I hate to think the real China Bride would be confused with that plain access point.

The bridge under the railway was just a farmer's access to land on the Cox estate stretching to what later became Derryhale Hotel.

I also think the orchard you mention was the other side of Carroll Village facing Oliver Plunkett Pk/Laurels. The name of the owners escapes me at the moment but I remember it well from the late 60s.

10green bottles

Celine Few Eyebrow wrote: »

No, No, No. The China Bride was at the end of the Long Walk near where Superquinn is now. It was a bridge over a stream and looked like something off a Willow pattern china plate.

Clear it up.people from coxes/ard eassmuin and the north end of the town call the bridge between Qeleq/Ecco the China bridge.Im not an expert but evidence will be required and not a "ahh i heard it years ago" story.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

10green bottles wrote: »

Clear it up.people from coxes/ard eassmuin and the north end of the town call the bridge between Qeleq/Ecco the China bridge.Im not an expert but evidence will be required and not a "ahh i heard it years ago" story.

I lived in Ard Easmuinn before it was called Ard Easmuinn. I remember the China Bridge. I went through the access bridge 4 times a day for over 30 years. It is not the China Bridge. If people now choose to call it that then they are wrong. This is no Urban Myth, check with the Old Dundalk Society or Louth Archaeological Society if you don't believe me. FACT: The China Bridge was at the northern end of the Long Walk.

qc3

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Thanks qc!



(BTW: where's the railway line?? )

MsEmmaLouise

Hi Srameen, I just saw your post there now. My birth father worked in Azzis in Bachelors Walk and I am trying to find out more about where I could possibly get in contact with him for the first time. His name was Kevin and Sammy his best friend used to work there.... do you remember anything or anyone from Azzis or any information which may be of any help to me please let me know

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

MsEmmaLouise wrote: »

Hi Srameen, I just saw your post there now. My birth father worked in Azzis in Bachelors Walk and I am trying to find out more about where I could possibly get in contact with him for the first time. His name was Kevin and Sammy his best friend used to work there.... do you remember anything or anyone from Azzis or any information which may be of any help to me please let me know

I'm afraid not. I never went in to Azzis in Bachelors walk but did on occasion go to their cafe in Park street - I never knew any of their name though

MsEmmaLouise

Thank you for your help anyway.

qc3

MsEmmaLouise wrote: »

Hi Srameen, I just saw your post there now. My birth father worked in Azzis in Bachelors Walk and I am trying to find out more about where I could possibly get in contact with him for the first time. His name was Kevin and Sammy his best friend used to work there.... do you remember anything or anyone from Azzis or any information which may be of any help to me please let me know

Hi Emma, This link might be of help to you. It's a facebook page of Dundalk northend and friends.
Their are lots of local people of all ages involved and someone might be able to give you information on your quest.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/laurenceol69/
Best of luck on your search.

MsEmmaLouise

Hi thanks I just added that page on facebook thank you for your help and fingers crossed someone knows more

gernon

Here is something for the exiles C'mon the town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUcvh2TF8A

Reekwind

Now that is pure class

PaulFarrell73

Drac McCrudden
Aiden McCabe RIP
Jimmy McEneaney
The Baz
Tommy McCrudden
Ann McQuillan RIP
Phil Tippin RIP
Paul Farrelly
Barney Foley
Benny Talt
Sean Walker
Emer McCourt
Freda McQuillan
Frances Mullen
Mary Gaskin
Spats Connolly
Phillip Cunningham
Paul Farrell (ME!)

To name a few. Saturday nights at Endas Lounge listening to Mousetrap, crammed into this first floor bar. Then the Cellars listening to Vanilla Essence and finally The Ploughmans at the back of McCourts arcade. Long hair, jeans and constant denial of being a culchee! Eric Clapton even came to Dundalk!!

Horslips at the Imperial Hotel, Slevin and Shields at the Banana Club.

Remember folks? I was 16-18 then. Now an real old bastard at 56. Living in London happily married to Annie. Used to live at Cortial Kilkerley. My Dad Tom died in 1995. Still miss him.

sibersha

Seen this on twitter, short documentary on Paddy McDowell AKA Jesus Jones

https://vimeo.com/104611376

DundalkDuffman

So good people of Dundalk, can anyone remember the name of the upstairs coffee shop in the old shopping centre between Ritchie Blackmore sports and Top Drawer? I know there were other units but it's not Pa's I mean, I'm told it was calld The Coffee Dock but I can't help think it had a different name in the 80s/90s too?

Third_Echelon

DundalkDuffman wrote: »

So good people of Dundalk, can anyone remember the name of the upstairs coffee shop in the old shopping centre between Ritchie Blackmore sports and Top Drawer? I know there were other units but it's not Pa's I mean, I'm told it was calld The Coffee Dock but I can't help think it had a different name in the 80s/90s too?

I remember it being called the Coffee Dock alright... Not sure what it was before that...

locum-motion

DundalkDuffman wrote: »

So good people of Dundalk, can anyone remember the name of the upstairs coffee shop in the old shopping centre between Ritchie Blackmore sports and Top Drawer? I know there were other units but it's not Pa's I mean, I'm told it was calld The Coffee Dock but I can't help think it had a different name in the 80s/90s too?

The name over the door was indeed The Coffee Dock, but everyone just called it either Connolly's or the Coffee Shop. Owned by the same Connolly family as the Deli downstairs.

Rockatooty

Hello good dundalk heads

Could anyone help me recall the name of the function room at the back of the cellars at backhouses in the 70s and 80s?
Thanks in advance

Rockatooty

I think billy moran used to be one of the bouncers

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Rockatooty wrote: »

Hello good dundalk heads

Could anyone help me recall the name of the function room at the back of the cellars at backhouses in the 70s and 80s?
Thanks in advance

Was it not just called the Cellars?

368100

I won a moonwalking competition at a party in pa's around 1990 or so, thought it was magic going in there when I was 9....and the shop upstairs in the old shopping centre that had toys and all sorts, spent hours on end in there

BlueLass

368100 wrote: »

I won a moonwalking competition at a party in pa's around 1990 or so, thought it was magic going in there when I was 9....and the shop upstairs in the old shopping centre that had toys and all sorts, spent hours on end in there

Top Drawer!!!!!

368100

BlueLass wrote: »

Top Drawer!!!!!

Thank you!

sandman123

I recognise some of the names in the initial posting esp Freda McQuillan and Philip Tipping, my mate from CBS primary (el diablo, or maybe that was me, and he was santiago - don't ask). I left town in 1978. I remember the Banana Club on the Ramparts. I recall bands like Halkwind and other classic 70s bands. Horslips were massive in the Imperial and I was centre stage on air fiddle, but there were only handful of us at their gig at Blackrock in 78. Basement in Backhouse Centre for Punk, though I remember being bored listening to Elvis Costello album instead of live acts probably NRG.

peking97

sandman123 wrote: »

I remember the Banana Club on the Ramparts.

Was it not called the Afton Club?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

peking97 wrote: »

Was it not called the Afton Club?

There were both.

368100

Level 2 in the imperial before heading into the arc...plenty of good nights had!