things that used to be in waterford ya can remember

doctordon · 24-08-2012 9:50pm

mccarthy37 wrote: »

I've sen this kind of work in other cities and there was a similar design to break up the grey.
It would be very interesting if this is the case though it would make the design more authentic well done to who ever designed it.
I,ll take more notice the next time I visit Waterford. Nice to see a bit of taught going in to the town centre.
Well done Doc I didn't know this.

It's not me Mac., I'm just passing on what I was told. But, I have no reason to doubt it.

doctordon · 24-08-2012 9:52pm

mccarthy37 wrote: »

I've sen this kind of work in other cities and there was a similar design to break up the grey.
It would be very interesting if this is the case though it would make the design more authentic well done to who ever designed it.
I,ll take more notice the next time I visit Waterford. Nice to see a bit of taught going in to the town centre.
Well done Doc I didn't know this.

It's not me Mac. I'm just passing on what I was told, and I have no reason to doubt it.

doctordon · 25-08-2012 2:05pm

mccarthy37 wrote: »

Here's a few more places that have been consigned to memory.
Leo Harte's garage right on the corner of the Tramore Road and the Cork Road.
This place was a real landmark in its day, if you were giving directions out that way you would say turn left or right at Leo Harte's.
A bit further out on the Cork Rd. where the filling station is near the Yellow House on the other side of The Green Rd you had McCairn's Motors who were the Vauxhall Dealership in Waterford.
I remember while out for a walk back in the sixties looking at this brand new model in their showroom window called The Vauxhall Victor which had a price tag of £1200 and I taught who could afford £1200 for a car. You could buy a house for that then.
They became a very popular model for squad cars which were always black. When you would hear the shout here come's the Black Maria you would scatter if you were up to no good like playing ball on the road.
Ah yes those were the day's when a bottle of poitin was the big drug of the day.
The Guard's were always on the news doing their duty braking up illegal Distilleries always around the west of Ireland.

The best Poitin I ever had was out in the middle of the Bord Na Mona bog at Milltown Pass in Co. Westmeath, in the late 80's and early 90's!

doctordon · 25-08-2012 2:33pm

mccarthy37 wrote: »

Did you have a soft landing.

Here's a photo that has a familiar named family.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/5911714106/in/photostream/

I didn't know what planet I was on!

WoW - The Country Butter people! :eek:

doctordon · 25-08-2012 9:22pm

mccarthy37 wrote: »

Turn up your sound close your eyes.
Can you picture yourself in your sitting room back in the 60s watching this on your first set.
Close em tight.

.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvxu8QY01s

Don't remember that one Mac. Here's a few for you.

http://youtu.be/Mbk81X6WHA4
http://youtu.be/-K4BvF_sb3Y
http://youtu.be/ElqZms_SUjg
http://youtu.be/-b5aW08ivHU
http://youtu.be/qOuXPumL3l8
http://youtu.be/mEtUiRkOnZ8
http://youtu.be/ndhvLKfD8Ug
http://youtu.be/iN2ydQKTvgk
http://youtu.be/pjIZCt088jU
http://youtu.be/DBXb_6-2zOw

Enjoy!

Sully · 25-08-2012 9:34pm

Am I right on recalling that we had a Man Utd store in Waterford, beside Shaws?

marlin vs · 25-08-2012 10:01pm

I can remember this happening as clear as day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4

doctordon · 31-08-2012 5:21pm

Remember going to the flicks on a Saturday or Sunday, with your packet of Rowntrees Fruit Gums (they lasted longer than the Pastilles) and while waiting for the filum (film) to start we were treated to something like this?:

http://youtu.be/Z_kOwGPwvsQ

Then the ads would come on:

http://youtu.be/nrzLLcOUG-4

or

http://youtu.be/2msbfN81Gm0

doctordon · 02-09-2012 6:55am

Hi Mac. All your comments seem to be disappearing. Maybe others too. :eek:

Smell the glove · 02-09-2012 9:55am

Sully wrote: »

Am I right on recalling that we had a Man Utd store in Waterford, beside Shaws?

Yes, shamefully we did.

ex_infantry man · 02-09-2012 11:27am

Sully wrote: »

Am I right on recalling that we had a Man Utd store in Waterford, beside Shaws?

we did twas run by my aunt and uncle

mccarthy37 · 02-09-2012 11:36am

doctordon wrote: »

Hi Mac. All your comments seem to be disappearing. Maybe others too. :eek:

Hopefully I have the problem solved this was happening on other sites but with a bit of help I think the cure has been found.

Some of the memories you bring up take me right back to my short pants days.
Here's a memory from Regina days I can see myself waiting for John Wayne to ride out and shoot all those Ingin's.
Give it a minute.

:cool:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9AS0zte5U

doctordon · 03-09-2012 9:08am

mccarthy37 wrote: »

Hopefully I have the problem solved this was happening on other sites but with a bit of help I think the cure has been found.

Some of the memories you bring up take me right back to my short pants days.
Here's a memory from Regina days I can see myself waiting for John Wayne to ride out and shoot all those Ingin's.
Give it a minute.

:cool:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9AS0zte5U

Yup! Great track Mac.

mccarthy37 · 03-09-2012 8:05pm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33577523@N08/6903987833/in/photostream/lightbox/

Did you ever queue for Catch 22 here.
Or how about Grab a Granny night.
Around the back for two crubeen's in Charlie Uptons after, how romantic was that.

doctordon · 05-09-2012 12:20pm

mccarthy37 wrote: »

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33577523@N08/6903987833/in/photostream/lightbox/

Did you ever queue for Catch 22 here.
Or how about Grab a Granny night.
Around the back for two crubeen's in Charlie Uptons after, how romantic was that.

WoW! Great memory Mac! I worked in the Tower at that time for the summer as a kitchen porter. My mate also worked in the Tower, but was based in the yard at the back of the Clyde Shipping building, which was the bottle sorting yard for the Tower.

mccarthy37 · 05-09-2012 1:46pm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6102620242/lightbox/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnduggan/2368300281/lightbox/

Look at this shopfront didn't change much over the years except the name.
Jordan's pub on the Quay. Do you remember when it was a shop and the bar was next door. Old Mrs Jordan was always in the shop.

doctordon · 03-10-2012 11:52pm

Edit
We wuz dragged up proper!
by Denis O'Neill on Monday, June 27, 2011 at 6:05am ·

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's & early 80's!

First - we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna - from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We didn't have childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes - not to mention - the risks we took when hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips - no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends - from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner shop and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day - as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out that we forgot about the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with Matchbox & Corgi cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo, Wi/Fi, X-boxes - no video games at all. No 999 channels on SKY T.V., no video or DVD films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no

Lawsuits from these accidents.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell (if the family was rich enough to have a bell!), or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

Hurling, Football (soccer), Rugby and Rounders had tryouts - and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with the disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT!

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and leathers and bully's always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'

"And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993"!!!

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL !

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore

03-10-2012 11:55pm

Sherwoods electrical store.

heh

SubBusted · 04-10-2012 7:12pm

The corner shop in the cottage at the top of Water Street.

S28382 · 04-10-2012 8:04pm

doctordon wrote: »

Edit
We wuz dragged up proper!
by Denis O'Neill on Monday, June 27, 2011 at 6:05am ·

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's & early 80's!

First - we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna - from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We didn't have childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes - not to mention - the risks we took when hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips - no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends - from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner shop and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day - as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out that we forgot about the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with Matchbox & Corgi cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo, Wi/Fi, X-boxes - no video games at all. No 999 channels on SKY T.V., no video or DVD films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no

Lawsuits from these accidents.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell (if the family was rich enough to have a bell!), or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

Hurling, Football (soccer), Rugby and Rounders had tryouts - and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with the disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT!

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and leathers and bully's always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'

"And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993"!!!

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL !

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age
anymore

This is the best post i have ever seen on Boards, fair play.:)

mccarthy37 · 06-10-2012 4:49pm

S28382 wrote: »

This is the best post i have ever seen on Boards, fair play.:)

I'll second that.
Who can remember Morris's coal yard on Mayer's Walk where John Murphy Carpets are now.

bradknowell · 06-10-2012 5:30pm

doctordon wrote: »

Edit
We wuz dragged up proper!
by Denis O'Neill on Monday, June 27, 2011 at 6:05am ·

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's & early 80's!

Phew I scraped into that category as an early 80's baby.
Excellent post though. Tis bleeding true aswell.

Actually, do any of ye remember Eileens shop up the top of the mercy hill? I seen her a few days ago. Used to love that place, was dead handy.

ex_infantry man · 06-10-2012 6:39pm

places that used to create employment and that are now closed!!!

nkay1985 · 07-10-2012 10:57am

bradknowell wrote: »

Phew I scraped into that category as an early 80's baby.
Excellent post though. Tis bleeding true aswell.

Actually, do any of ye remember Eileens shop up the top of the mercy hill? I seen her a few days ago. Used to love that place, was dead handy.

Kathleen's no? About third house from the road that leads up to the Mount Sion pitches?

Used to be sent there to get blaas and 10 Silk Cut Purple for my aunt when I was about 12. Not a bother getting them either!

Godsentme · 18-10-2012 10:05pm

Not so long ago....Bus conductors!

And many years ago... The Rag man. ( guys that used to go around collecting old clothes (Rags) and give a balloon or a whistle or marbles depending on what you gave him)

Jason Todd · 19-10-2012 11:17am

Godsentme wrote: »

Not so long ago....Bus conductors!

And many years ago... The Rag man. ( guys that used to go around collecting old clothes (Rags) and give a balloon or a whistle or marbles depending on what you gave him)

It's probably been mentioned on here already, but speaking of buses, I used to love the double decker Kenneally's buses on the Dunmore Road. In school (in De La Salle) there was a game that if we were out playing soccer in the school grounds and the DD bus passed you had to hit the top level of the bus with the ball in such a way that the ball would come back into the grounds.

Very stupid and potentially dangerous looking at it now, but at the time the worst thing that could happen was that you'd miss and have to climb out over the wall and retrieve the ball.

Godsentme · 20-10-2012 7:09am

deisemum wrote: »

My DH remembers Stab the Rasher and Hatchet Reilly.

You know Stab the Rasher is still very much alive and living on keanes Rd.?

jo06555 · 20-10-2012 6:21pm

Remember him??

BlaasForRafa · 20-10-2012 7:35pm

jo06555 wrote: »

Remember him??

Used to be down by flynn's butchers/McDonalds area down red square?

cbl593h · 20-10-2012 11:24pm

Jason Todd wrote: »

It's probably been mentioned on here already, but speaking of buses, I used to love the double decker Kenneally's buses on the Dunmore Road...............

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48073612@N04/5469634360/

http://www.skylineaviation.co.uk/buses/+3297-KI.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmightycat/5640686663/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishbuses/5581809658/in/photostream

things that used to be in waterford ya can remember

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