'Ghost signs'

Gavin "shels"

Sparky84 wrote: »

Was St Catherines in Inchicore ???

Might have missed where this question came from, but there's a good few St.Catherines in Dublin 8, Meath St/Thomas St., etc...

GerardKeating

WindSock wrote: »

The Irish Yeast co on Pearse St

They interviewed a guy on the Joe Duffy Show yesterday, whom still works in this store. He has worked they for 70 years....

Sparky84

Sparky84 wrote: »

Was St Catherines in Inchicore ???

Do you mean St. Catherine's Bakery? It is Beside the old G F Handels Bar on the corner of Thomas Street and Thomas Court.

CiaranIRL

This is a brilliant thread! How do I save a thread to return to or do I have to keep looking for it?

lord lucan

CiaranIRL wrote: »

This is a brilliant thread! How do I save a thread to return to or do I have to keep looking for it?

This thread is stickied so it'll always be at the top of the page in the first 2 or 3 threads in the Dublin City Forum.:)

CiaranIRL

Thank you! Can I 'bookmark' other threads tho' ?

lord lucan

CiaranIRL wrote: »

Thank you! Can I 'bookmark' other threads tho' ?

You can bookmark the thread seperately if you want,bookmark it from this page so you don't have to go through the previous pages.

me_right_one

Yep. To bookmark, go to "thread tools", at the top of the page there, click on it, and then click on "Subscribe to thread"

CiaranIRL

Thanks Me Right One

Gavin "shels"

Anyone know what the green buliding with Grotto House on it is in Inchicore, it's just opposite Mary Immaculate Church on Tyrconnell Rd?

Little Alex

Eddie Rocket's on Dame St.:



According to the letterbox plate the building's name is Seiko House:

Little Alex

The Stella Cinema in Rathmines:



I got a couple more today aswell and I'll put them up tomorrow after I resize them.

Little Alex

Here are some more that I got yesterday:

Renard's, Frederick St. South



Battersby's Auctions, Harcourt St.



The Georgian Restaurant, Richmond St. South



There's a great photo of it up already, I know. Here you can see the very top of the lettering.

Green Machines, Terenure Road East, Terenure



If you look closely you can see the scars of a "CASTROL" sign.

Terenure Printers, Rathfarnham Road, Terenure



I also saw an old English-only street name that I never thought of photographing at the time. I'll get it the next time.

Gavin "shels"

Andrews Lane Theatre???

Little Alex

Gavin shels wrote: »

Andrews Lane Theatre???

I thought it closed about two years ago??? I checked on Google, but there do seem to be event listings for there. From what I can make out it's no longer a theatre, but a nightclub. There is also a website called andrewslane.com which is up for sale and I don't know if it used to belong to the theatre or not. You seem to know so what is the deal with it now?

If it's still open I'll take the photo back down as it would not be a ghost.

Gavin "shels"

Little Alex wrote: »

I thought it closed about two years ago??? I checked on Google, but there do seem to be event listings for there. From what I can make out it's no longer a theatre, but a nightclub. There is also a website called andrewslane.com which is up for sale and I don't know if it used to belong to the theatre or not. You seem to know so what is the deal with it now?

If it's still open I'll take the photo back down as it would not be a ghost.

Ye it's been a Nightclub for at least 2 years iirc, still going strong aswell.:D

robbie_998

Hermy wrote: »

Does this count as a 'ghost sign'?

now turned into a ladbrokes

Dord

robbie_998 wrote: »

now turned into a ladbrokes

Noticed that recently... and it made me quite sad.

Little Alex

Brown's Barn, Naas Road at Citywest:

Barley Mow pub on the corner of Francis Street and Marks Alley West. Closed for a good few years now. Was used in the movie Rat. Burned down not long after that or during filming. Can't remember.

L1011

r3nu4l wrote: »

Ah, Molloys, it's been years since I was in that shop. I went to the CBS in Lucan and we were barred from going in there at lunch when I was in the school...

By my time there they let you in, and the repeats were allowed use the 'second queue' for non-schoolkids

G.F. Handel's bar on the corner of Thomas Court and Thomas Street.

Little Alex

I think that these are a type of ghost sign since they are from pre-Independence days and by rights shouldn't be there any more. I guess that all such signs were replaced by ones showing the names in English and Irish, but these two seem to have survived.

English language only street signs on the corner of Nassau and Grafton St. The one on Nassau St. has been covered over by a new-style sign, but the old one underneath is still visible:

delta_bravo

foreign wrote: »

G.F. Handel's bar on the corner of Thomas Court and Thomas Street.

Thats a bit of an odd one. I wonder who owns it, it looks a fairly nice pub and for the last few years theres a Stella Artois light above the door thats always on so there must be someone paying the ESB bills.

the_syco

delta_bravo wrote: »

Thats a bit of an odd one. I wonder who owns it, it looks a fairly nice pub and for the last few years theres a Stella Artois light above the door thats always on so there must be someone paying the ESB bills.

Odd indeed. Bought 5 years ago for €3.5m, but I wonder how much it'd cost now?
http://www.dublinpubs.ie/story.asp?id=37

14/05/2005

Mean Fiddler buyers snap up Thomas Street pub for €3.5m


DENIS DESMOND, the concert promotor who is taking over Vince Power’s Mean Fiddler group, has bought his first pub in Ireland. Desmond and Shane Reihill, a venture capitalist also involved in the bid for Mean Fiddler, last week acquired GF Handel’s pub, on Dublin’s Thomas Street, for an estimated €3.5m.

Handel’s has been closed since the turn of the year after a lease to run the pub expired. It was owned by a group of private investors, which also included Reihill.

arybvtcw0eolkf

'Soldiers institute' Parkgate St.

evercloserunion

I haven't read through the 20 pages of posts to check if this has already been mentioned. But there's one on Beaver St (the small street between Foley St and Railway St) for a brush factory, can't remember the name unfortuntely, it's really annoying me now. No pics that I can find either.

Rashers

evercloserunion wrote: »

I haven't read through the 20 pages of posts to check if this has already been mentioned. But there's one on Beaver St (the small street between Foley St and Railway St) for a brush factory, can't remember the name unfortuntely, it's really annoying me now. No pics that I can find either.

Varians? (they had their retail outlet in Talbot St)

evercloserunion

Rashers wrote: »

Varians? (they had their retail outlet in Talbot St)

Don't think so, or if it was that's not what it said on the side. I'll have to check it out again.

Thinking of that area though, maybe not quite a ghost sign as such, but the adjacent road, Railway St, has a big long wall with a white cross on it from back when the Magdalen laundry was there. Something quite creepy about it actually.

spurious

Is it Daly's?