The Good News Caravan

05-09-2017 11:02pm #1

Is that still knocking around? Haven't seen it in donkeys

namloc1980 · 05-09-2017 11:24pm

It used to call in to the estate I grew up in. Got some serious hostility from the locals as I recall.

whisky_galore · 07-09-2017 8:40am

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Haven't seen it in donkeys

That's good news.

GavRedKing · 07-09-2017 11:19am

Used to see it a lot down in Mahon back in the day growing up.

The owner got an awful lot of abuse and sticks/rocks thrown at the caravan too from older kids and teenagers who were just acting up.

Havent seen it in a few years, I passed it or a similar setup, I cant remember where, might have been Ballypheane and was shocked, nearly crashed the car. :pac:

Dbu · 07-09-2017 12:52pm

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Is that still knocking around? Haven't seen it in donkeys

No news, no

07-09-2017 2:58pm

It's amazing how common pelting it with stones used to be, regardless of where in Cork you grew up:pac:

Roger Hassenforder · 07-09-2017 4:31pm

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

It's amazing how common pelting it with stones used to be, regardless of where in Cork you grew up:pac:

Pieces of Italian terracotta paving slabs were de rigueur on the South side!

GavRedKing · 07-09-2017 5:02pm

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

It's amazing how common pelting it with stones used to be, regardless of where in Cork you grew up:pac:

I remember when I was younger that the older kids would tell ya he was only trying to take ya away in the caravan if you went in.

That didnt help their cause at all.

Roger Hassenforder · 07-09-2017 5:10pm

GavRedKing wrote: »

I remember when I was younger that the older kids would tell ya he was only trying to take ya away in the caravan if you went in.

That didnt help their cause at all.

if the holy Paedos didn't get you in church, they'd lift you from the street.
There was no escaping them...

magentis · 07-09-2017 5:10pm

GavRedKing wrote: »

I remember when I was younger that the older kids would tell ya he was only trying to take ya away in the caravan if you went in.

That didnt help their cause at all.

Lol,that was said in my area too.Same about the "United beach missions".They would take you away if you joined them.

That caravan used to be parked up on the tramore road opposite musgraves,I think he lived in the estate there.

Mumha · 11-09-2017 12:55pm

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

It's amazing how common pelting it with stones used to be, regardless of where in Cork you grew up:pac:

I wonder was the irony of being stoned, lost on the owner who preached biblical events ?

I remember going into it a few times in the 70s with my friends, mostly because we had nothing else to do. I was always wary of it though.

11-09-2017 1:09pm

I'd say he loved the persecution. Guaranteed to be on the fast track to heaven

razorblunt · 11-09-2017 4:12pm

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

It's amazing how common pelting it with stones used to be, regardless of where in Cork you grew up:pac:

Ah sure a neighbour of mine was famous for having a record number of concussions.
He only lived a stone's throw away from me.

aujopimur · 11-09-2017 5:30pm

I remember the ould lad playing the squeesbox in the caravan.

Mumha · 11-09-2017 6:19pm

aujopimur wrote: »

I remember the ould lad playing the squeesbox in the caravan.

I bet that was better than the squeezebox playing the ould lad ....

11-09-2017 11:25pm

Was that a chap called Mr. Nixon?
Also had a place on McCurtain Street.

seefin · 12-09-2017 7:33am

What WAS the good news caravan??

magentis · 12-09-2017 2:25pm

seefin wrote: »

What WAS the good news caravan??

Twas like a portacabin on wheels a guy used to tow around cork city and suburbs,preaching the word of the Lord to the local children.

Ludo · 13-09-2017 3:51am

magentis wrote: »

Twas like a portacabin on wheels a guy used to tow around cork city and suburbs,preaching the word of the Lord to the local children.

When was this? I grew up in the seventies and eighties and don't remember it. I missed out.

Mumha · 13-09-2017 9:39am

Ludo wrote: »

When was this? I grew up in the seventies and eighties and don't remember it. I missed out.

Definitely in the Seventies and iirc early eighties.

GavRedKing · 13-09-2017 10:51am

Ludo wrote: »

When was this? I grew up in the seventies and eighties and don't remember it. I missed out.

Mumha wrote: »

Definitely in the Seventies and iirc early eighties.

It was around in the early 90s too in Mahon/Blackrock when I was growing up and a work mate of mine said he seen it towards the end of the 90s up around Ballyvolane too.