Oldish Aerial Views of Limerick here!

dave 27

Found a site (museum.limerick.ie) http://museum.limerick.ie/index.php/Search/Index/search/

These Shots were taken in 1986

that has some old pictures of Limerick from the air, really interesting, just goes to show how changed the city is..as a person born in the 1980s this is how i always viewed limerick as..













There are Loads more just have a look

1huge1

Thats the Limerick city I knew growing up anyway.

Don't miss that building that was knocked down for the Riverpoint though.

With regards to the last picture, when was that car park turned into the park that is there today? I only ever remember it as being a park with the tourist office. I'm assuming it was to do with the Authurs Quay development.

source

1huge1 wrote: »

Thats the Limerick city I knew growing up anyway.

Don't miss that building that was knocked down for the Riverpoint though.

With regards to the last picture, when was that car park turned into the park that is there today? I only ever remember it as being a park with the tourist office. I'm assuming it was to do with the Authurs Quay development.

LCC tweeted about this last week but didn't put up a link, cheers some great pics.

Soulcrew09

1huge1 wrote: »

With regards to the last picture, when was that car park turned into the park that is there today? I only ever remember it as being a park with the tourist office. I'm assuming it was to do with the Authurs Quay development.

I can just about remember it being a car park for Dunnes, i was born in '82 so very late 80's id say.Id say theres still trollys in the river that came from that car park.

mgbgt1978

Most of that car park was reclaimed. When i was young I can remember they filled in the river with rubble to form the car park.
When it opened first you only had to pay to enter (same price regardless of how long you stayed) and there was an exit roughly across the road from Harry's cafe in Dunnes stores. The exit had little plates that were at an angle but flattened as you drove out over them....you couldn't drive in here because the plates were angled towards you and would puncture your tyres if you tried to drive over them.
Anyway, after a couple of years some of the plates stayed in the flattened position so you could drive in at a certain angle and park for free:)

LB6

That car park that you're talking about is the roof of Speights shopping centre that was.

millold

Worked on the rebuild of the Savoy in 89-90.Their was quite a bit going on around then,new bridge,king johns castle repointing,Arthurs quay,Supermacs corner,Aubars rebuild(was jack bourkes hotel)Corner william st/todds bow....Defo more work around then,than now.God i hate unemployment

phog

1huge1 wrote: »

Thats the Limerick city I knew growing up anyway.

Don't miss that building that was knocked down for the Riverpoint though.

With regards to the last picture, when was that car park turned into the park that is there today? I only ever remember it as being a park with the tourist office. I'm assuming it was to do with the Authurs Quay development.

That was a car park in the early 80's anyway, there was a petrol station across the road up near the corner that is now the entrance to the supplies yard for Tesco. I think city hall ran the car park.

CiaranMT

LB6 wrote: »

That car park that you're talking about is the roof of Speights shopping centre that was.

Is that what Speights was!!?

I finally know

Mc Love

Never saw the Tobacco factory but here it is


Amazing how much this area has changed:

millold

That picture of dominic street,where the dole office is now,used to house a bacon factory,which also covered the tait centre,it had a huge brick chimney in the middle.Photo must have been taken around 1982,as the tait centre was built in stages,starting around that time,by none other than whelan builders(pat~)

millold

Oh ya,and tom hayes of killaloe built the dole office,another builder now defunct

bazz26

The bacon factory was called Materson's afaik.

JerryHandbag

Mc Love wrote: »

Never saw the Tobacco factory but here it is

Top right hand corner is where all those buildings were knocked down to make way for what is now Liddy Street, if I'm not mistaken?

mgbgt1978

LB6 wrote: »

That car park that you're talking about is the roof of Speights shopping centre that was.

Eh, No. I was referring to the car park at Arthur's Quay. The car park on the roof of Spaight's ( not Speight's) was hardly reclaimed from the Shannon.

rainbowdash

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Top right hand corner is where all those buildings were knocked down to make way for what is now Liddy Street, if I'm not mistaken?

Never spotted that there was no street beside Dunnes!


Anyway I remember that Arthurs Quay car park I think beat on the street was on there as well.

The other big car park in the city IIRC was opposite the grannary (charlotte Quoy?) there is a multistorey car park on part of the site now but I think the orignal car park on ground level was huge with bits of the city wall being along there as well.

Then spaights came along and built a multistorey carpark to put Limerick on the map!

Mc Love

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Top right hand corner is where all those buildings were knocked down to make way for what is now Liddy Street, if I'm not mistaken?

Only just copped that - good spot

dave 27

theres so many of these photos up, delighted i took time out to look at them now!

Liam Byrne

1huge1 wrote: »

Thats the Limerick city I knew growing up anyway.

Don't miss that building that was knocked down for the Riverpoint though.

With regards to the last picture, when was that car park turned into the park that is there today? I only ever remember it as being a park with the tourist office. I'm assuming it was to do with the Authurs Quay development.

Arthur's Quay Car Park was there before the park, and was regularly mentioned on Big L Radio when high tides were due, advising people to move their cars out of it!

A2LUE42

I remember seeing the cars submerged in water when the tide came in, It was a very weird thing to see as a child and wondering why you would put a car park somewhere like that. At that time Dunnes seemed to be the newest building in the city.

roast

Before my time, but it's really cool to see these pics, and compare them to what I see every day now.

dave 27

Its mad comparing town then 1986 to now..

is goes from quite rundown, low-rise and some fields to quite dense mid-rise..not a field in site!







Heres some from 2007

jmch81

http://museum.limerick.ie/media/limerick_city_museum/images/3/2/2/21372_ca_object_representations_media_32239_mediumlarge.jpg

Shannon bridge and Condell road getting built in the background

tonyheaney

Mc Love wrote: »

Never saw the Tobacco factory but here it is


Amazing how much this area has changed:

Mc Love i love the second pic i noticed the dole office is no longer there ,,, i mean not yet there (wishful thinking) what year is it?

Shannon757

This thread is back from the dead!

tonyheaney

hope that's ok wasn't sure if I would be in trouble, some threads never should die

yop

tonyheaney wrote: »

hope that's ok wasn't sure if I would be in trouble, some threads never should die

No its grand, work away. As you said its a great thread.

tonyheaney

anyone know who owns the photo of perys square? above?

Clareman

tonyheaney wrote: »

anyone know who owns the photo of perys square? above?

The images seem to be hosted on http://museum.limerick.ie/ so I would contact them about ownership.

tonyheaney

Clareman wrote: »

The images seem to be hosted on http://museum.limerick.ie/ so I would contact them about ownership.

thanks Clareman

Berty

You know you're old when the thread title is "Oldish" , view the pictures and you remember being there.