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Past shops of Cork!
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the beer revolu wrote: »I was talking about Murray's Hunting/Fishing/Darts/Lighters/Catapult and general cool stuff shop on St. Patrick's Street.
Apologies - I just have picked up on that yesterday
. Murray's on Patrick Street is around a very long time alright. I recall in that block to the left was Guinness House for many years and when the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival was being promoted Guinness House would come to life! Guinness House later moved over to Union Quay and the building was later acquired by Zazzle I think. 0 -
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AwaitYourReply wrote: »Cudmore's had a chain of small convenience shops around the city centre. It's flagship shop faced onto Patrick Street which had side display window on Winthrop Street. Cudmore's used have an impressive selection of fresh fruit on display in the shop window and you could always smell the fruit upon entering the store. This particular shop later became a Vodafone mobile phone shop in later years. I'm not sure if Vodafone is in the process of closing this particular branch as I heard reports of some customers being re-directed towards their sister Vodafone store on Oliver Plunkett Street the other day unless it is temporarily closed for refit/update? When Cudmore's traded at the junction of Winthrop/Patrick Street it had such an iconic presence in it's heyday.
Another Cudmore shop was based on South Mall, the shop was later called "The Mall" while there was another Cudmore's Shop around 119 Patrick Street (a branch of Carphone Warehouse operated here subsequently) which traded on ground floor of Bonovox building leading to Drawbridge Street. There may have been other shops dotted elsewhere around the city.
I think the site of the Ambassador Chinese may have previously been a Bewley's Café and prior to this Barry's Tea Shop although; I'm open to correction on this.
God you gave me flashbacks of Cudmores there - so well described , I can see the fruit in the window and the smell. Did they also have a shop in Parnell place around the welcome in or was that owned by some else ?
Also remember quinsworth on Oliver plunkett st ( where guineys is now) I can still remember going in there with my grandmother shopping and getting yellow pack bread !!0 -
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whatever76 wrote: »God you gave me flashbacks of Cudmores there - so well described , I can see the fruit in the window and the smell. Did they also have a shop in Parnell place around the welcome in or was that owned by some else ?
Also remember quinsworth on Oliver plunkett st ( where guineys is now) I can still remember going in there with my grandmother shopping and getting yellow pack bread !!
I cannot confirm if Cudmore's had one of their shops in Parnell Place. Cudmore's Shops were best described as "fruiterers" and you knew they were specialists as the fruit on display looked absolutely amazing and was tempting - the apples and oranges were huge but unlike the large fruit on today's supermarket shelves, the difference at Cudmore's was that it would always have a superior taste although; they were not cheap - you paid for the privilege! They also had a fancy assortment of sweets on display which was probably in competition with Woolworth's Dept store until Summer 1984 (now Permanent TSB Bank) and Roches Pick 'N'Mix back in the day!
When I think of Parnell Place as a kid, I also think of the old Merchant Street which was a narrow street at the left-hand-side of Roches Stores (now fronted by Gates to left of Debenhams) Merchant Street used originally run from Patrick Street to Parnell Place and was open to traffic. Tyler's Shoes & Roches Stores at top of the street, an independent tobbaconist maybe called ....Lyons? on left just before Roches Coffee Bar on left and the building also has a Cake Shop, Gardening, GiftWare, Furniture, Flooring etc; ground level carpark with barriers and Roches Stores original supermarket entrance/exit with Evening Echo boy right outside shouting ECHO before your mother/grandmother went "Across The Street" for a cuppa! I can still remember the large bank of Public Telephones with people huddled under the canopy trying to hear phone calls (A+B buttons) in the hallway leading to Gents & Ladies Toilets which were being cleaned all day. I still remember the colourful artist illustrations throughout Roches Stores to describe a promotion or new idea/facility and all the department signs including a haberdashery dept! Roches in it's heyday just about had - almost everything!
Yes 100% correct about Quinnsworth trading where Michael (Michel) Guiney's now operates as I also remember this store location. I also recall a Quinnsworth outlet where the Burgerking is now situated on Patrick Street. In fact, I think Dunnes Stores also operated a supermarket in this location for a period either before or after Quinnsworth. I think it probably closed when the nearby Paul Street Shopping Centre was opened around 1985 as Quinnsworth was the original anchor supermarket before TESCO acquired Quinnworths some years afterwards.
I also recall the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes Office (image of the nurses in uniform at the draw drums) near back of Penney's on Oliver Plunkett Street which operated before the National Lottery was launched circa 1987.0 -
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whatever76 wrote: »God you gave me flashbacks of Cudmores there - so well described , I can see the fruit in the window and the smell. Did they also have a shop in Parnell place around the welcome in or was that owned by some else ?
Also remember quinsworth on Oliver plunkett st ( where guineys is now) I can still remember going in there with my grandmother shopping and getting yellow pack bread !!
According to Guy's City & County Almanac Year 1945 the following Cudmore shops under classification heading: "Fruiterers, Florists and Greengrocers" so; I gather other branches of Cudmore shops may have since come and gone in subsequent years.
In 1945 the following locations applied:
23 Patrick Street
107 North Main Street
87 South Mall
85 Ballyhooly Road
Tower Buildings, Lower Glanmire Road
10 Parliament Street,
2 Pembroke Street
14 Grand Parade
Source:
http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/places/streetandtradedirectories/guyscorkalmanac1945_OCR.pdf0
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