What used that place be called?

overmantle

ferdo wrote: »

When I was in UCC the pubs I frequented were The Millwheel, Riordans, Teach Beag, Hi B and Dan Lowery's!
Oh and Chandra's was the night club.

Most sound familiar....

ferdo

overmantle wrote: »

Most sound familiar....

Are they still there?

gimmick

Well the Millwheel I think became The Thirsty Scholar which is long gone.

Balmed Out

Was Teach beag a part of the Brog with Hairy lemon and An Crannog?

murphym7

Balmed Out wrote: »

Was Teach beag a part of the Brog with Hairy lemon and An Crannog?

An Teach Beag was at the Parnell place end of Oliver Plunkett street. I think it was expanded and developed into Aoife Landers and is now the Market Lane.

the beer revolu

murphym7 wrote: »

An Teach Beag was at the Parnell place end of Oliver Plunkett street. I think it was expanded and developed into Aoife Landers and is now the Market Lane.

Possibly The Clock Inn Tavern before that.

rebel.ranter

ferdo wrote: »

When I was in UCC the pubs I frequented were The Millwheel, Riordans, Teach Beag, Hi B and Dan Lowery's!
Oh and Chandra's was the night club.

Chandras is a mix between a derelict hotel and a pub that winds its way in to a bit of what was Chandras and is called Deep South.

Hi B is like a time warp, still the same for eons as is Dan Lowerys. Reardens is just another version of itself again, it changed configuration many times over the years.

gimmick

What was Cask before it was Cask? I cannot picture anything there at all.

whatever76

gimmick wrote: »

What was Cask before it was Cask? I cannot picture anything there at all.

It was an antiques shop - can still see myself looking in the window !

Mr Bloat

I'd like to resurrect this thread.

What was there before Smyth's Toys in Maylor Street?

What was the Everyman Theatre before it was a theatre?

What was in the spot now taken up by Lifestyle Sports and the TSB on Pana?

the beer revolu

Mr Bloat wrote: »

I'd like to resurrect this thread.

What was there before Smyth's Toys in Maylor Street?

What was the Everyman Theatre before it was a theatre?

What was in the spot now taken up by Lifestyle Sports and the TSB on Pana?

Everyman was a cinema before the current theater and was a theatre before the cinema too.

Karmella

Mr Bloat wrote: »

What was in the spot now taken up by Lifestyle Sports and the TSB on Pana?

Woolworths ?

the beer revolu

Karmella wrote: »

Woolworths ?

Yes. I'm pretty sure you're right there.

gimmick

Smyths was a toy shop prior to Smyths and prior to that was a discount style store.

Woolworths is defo what TSB was.

Karmella

I'm trying to remember the name of the clothes shop that was there after Woolworths though and I can't. I got my confirmation outfit in there and other clothes - it was late 80's.... anyone?

I also remember that Next went into Egans for a short while (where vero moda / jack jones) but they didn't last long. it was a good few years before they attempted to launch in Ireland again (obviously a bit more successful the next time )

whatever76

Karmella wrote: »

I'm trying to remember the name of the clothes shop that was there after Woolworths though and I can't. I got my confirmation outfit in there and other clothes - it was late 80's.... anyone?

Cassidy's - I purchased an outfit there with my confirmation money ; it was the River Island of the 80's :pac::pac:

Cape Clear

gimmick wrote: »

Smyths was a toy shop prior to Smyths and prior to that was a discount style store.

Woolworths is defo what TSB was.

Dunnes stores was also there briefly before smyths

Mr Bloat

the beer revolu wrote: »

Everyman was a cinema before the current theater and was a theatre before the cinema too.

Correct, I didn't know about it being a theatre before it was a cinema though! I saw my first movie there, Superman.

Karmella wrote: »

Woolworths ?

Spot on, this is what I was referring to, although of course the building housed other businesses before the current residents moved in.

whatever76 wrote: »

Cassidy's - I purchased an outfit there with my confirmation money ; it was the River Island of the 80's :pac::pac:

Completely forgot about Cassidy's!

Cape Clear wrote: »

Dunnes stores was also there briefly before smyths

As above, it was Dunnes that I remember being there more than anything else. I don't remember a different toyshop though, I assumed it went straight from Dunnes to Smyths!

When that Dunnes closed, I was working in the Patrick Street branch and was given the job of stripping down all the old shelves and fixtures in the Maylor Street shop on my own. All the power had been shut off at this stage and the place was pitch black once you moved away from the front windows. It was kinda spooky but I didn't complain because it was a grand doss to be away from the management and customers for a while!

pkvader

Seems a good place to ask,what year did The Brog,Hairy Lemon and The Crannog become one?

AwaitYourReply

Mr Bloat wrote: »

Correct, I didn't know about it being a theatre before it was a cinema though! I saw my first movie there, Superman.



Spot on, this is what I was referring to, although of course the building housed other businesses before the current residents moved in.



Completely forgot about Cassidy's!



As above, it was Dunnes that I remember being there more than anything else. I don't remember a different toyshop though, I assumed it went straight from Dunnes to Smyths!

When that Dunnes closed, I was working in the Patrick Street branch and was given the job of stripping down all the old shelves and fixtures in the Maylor Street shop on my own. All the power had been shut off at this stage and the place was pitch black once you moved away from the front windows. It was kinda spooky but I didn't complain because it was a grand doss to be away from the management and customers for a while!

Yep, the Everyman theatre on McCurtain Street was once the Palace Theatre and is apparently a sister theatre to the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. Later it became the Palace Cinema and like most of the independent cinemas it probably could not survive as the larger multi-screen cinema complexes emerged from around 1989 onwards. Prior to The Everyman taking over the former Palace Cinema it had been based in the Father Matthew Hall on Father Matthew Street which is still home to the annual Feis Maitiu competitions but it was also based in the former CCYMS = Cork Catholic Young Mens' Society Hall on Castle Street prior to it's transfer to the Fr. Matthew Hall.

Woolworth's or "Woolies" as some people used refer to it closed down all of their stores across the Republic of Ireland around 1984 and Cassidy's was in there for a number of years. I think in later years the shop frontage was subdivided into two smaller sized units with Permanent TSB taking around 50% frontage. Below are visual images of Woolworths on Patrick Street, Cork.

https://wooliesbuildings.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/cork-store-83/


1984 was a bleak time for retail in Cork and I think around same time Egan's which I think specialised in silverware and jewellery closed it's doors on Patrick Street and NEXT went in there for a period but it was never the same again after Egan's had vacated. A lot of industry had closed down with huge job losses that would have a negative effect on Cork. These companies included Fords, Dunlops and Verolme Cork Dockyard at Rushbrooke, County Cork

I seem to have forgotten that Dunnes Stores had a presence on Maylor Street.

I still recall Roches Stores and it's "Across the Street" Coffee Bar & Cake Shop including Public Toilets and lots of Public Telephones under individual canopies in the hallway - Drop-Off/Collection Point for leaving Shopping Bags, Gardening, Homeware, Furniture, Flooring etc; and Roches Stores Leisure Store separate from the rest of the main Roches campus at the time and it's old carpark all at ground level with up/down barriers. This was all based off Merchant Street which was just to the Left-Hand-Side of the outgoing Debenhams Department Store on Patrick Street (behind the Gates) and it ran down to Parnell Place. Roches Stores Multi-Story Car Park and Merchant's Quay Shopping Centre saw Roches Stores expand it's Patrick's Street store in a major way in various phases from around 1986 onwards and would eventually see most of Merchant Street built over and an end to access from the Patrick Street side. In those days, Roches Stores in Patrick Street stocked almost everything from groceries to menswear & ladies wear & childrens wear, coffee bar, cake shop, gardening, home furnishing, haberdashery, cosmetics, electrical appliances, Pick 'N' Mix, Sports Equipment/Toys etc; etc;

the beer revolu

pkvader wrote: »

Seems a good place to ask,what year did The Brog,Hairy Lemon and The Crannog become one?

I'd guess it was around 2000.

ofcork

Might have been klub kaos closed around that time thought it was later.

horgan_p

pkvader wrote: »

Seems a good place to ask,what year did The Brog,Hairy Lemon and The Crannog become one?

That was a sad day

Acosta

the beer revolu wrote: »

I'd guess it was around 2000.

Think it was around 2003. I was definitely at a few birthdays in THL up until about 2002 or later.