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Thomas Thompson & Son

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  • 02-03-2015 1:46am
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    Filmer Paradise
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    I've no experience with the company, but it is/was the business to be involved in back in the day.

    I remember when the Hanover Works were going strong on Kennedy avenue.

    SuperQuin or whatever are on the site now.

    Does anybody on here have any insights on this Original Victorian & innovative engineering company?


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    Ken.
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    They manufactured and installed the millennium bridge over the Liffey in Dublin.

    Check out the website http://www.thompson.ie/structural-division/index.htm


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    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    ken wrote: »
    They manufactured and installed the millennium bridge over the Liffey in Dublin.

    Check out the website http://www.thompson.ie/structural-division/index.htm

    Cool. Are there any posters out there who worked in this place or posters whose Dads worked there?


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    foggy_lad
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    They owned land all around the town including the site at Hanover where Aldi and Costa coffee is now.


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    oscillating wildely
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭oscillating wildely


    A lot of the overhead gantries on the motorways were also fabricated and installed by Thompsons. As previously stated they are significant landowners and landlords around Carlow and of course a certain presenter with RTE is related to them.

    As to their business conduct I think you may find a mixed bag of opinions upon that depending upon whether or not they shafted that business during their more inclement periods.


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