An almost deserted St. Patrick Street during a bomb alert in 1976. Pictured in Woolworth’s store and Aer Lingus. Porter’s bookshop is still in the same location but now owned by Eason.
Burned Out Tram
A burned out tram on St. Patrick Street, Cork on the Monday morning after the burning of the City in December 1920.
Found here.
Roches Stores and Cashes in the ’60s
Notice all the parked cars? There were still parking spaces in the middle of the street until the most recent redesign AFAIR.
Found here.
Rebuilding Cork City
St. Patrick Street pictured while it was being rebuilt after the burning of the city in 1920.
Found here.
The Queen’s Hotel, Merchant’s Quay
The Queen’s Hotel was on Merchant’s Quay before the present shopping centre was built there. Pictured sometime in the 1970s.
Source: Irish Family Detective and (the other) Old Photos of Cork.
Also on Facebook in the Old Photos of Cork City and County group if you have access.
The Banks Of My Own Lovely Lee
Simon Murphy shared a lovely photo of Sullivan’s Quay and Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral taken by his father in the 1960’s. No sign of the Nano Nagle footbridge of course but it’s a familiar scene to anyone who grew up in Cork.
The Burning of Cork 100 years ago
Cork City was burned 100 years ago today by British forces, or the Black and Tans, stationed in the City. Here’s a selection of photos and links from the BurningofCork hashtag on Twitter.
The Examiner has an incredible piece on the burning of the city. You have to read this.
The Oratory at Gougane Barra
Probably early in the twentieth century.
Washington Street, Cork 1935
A Garda directs traffic at the junction of Washington Street and Grand Parade in 1935 according to this tweet.
It’s interesting to see the helmet the Garda is wearing. More like the UK Police than what we’re used to seeing now. Also note T.W. Finn & Co, later renamed Finn’s Corner, who operated a clothes shop at that corner until recently.
Garda four panel helmet. The helmet was worn from 1922 up to the 1940s when it was replaced by the six panel in the 1950s. The helmet is referred to as the Ball-Topped helmet because of the distinctive ball finial on the top, the 1940s issue six panel had a rose finial. The first Garda helmet was a four panelled blue cloth, cork helmet, identical in style to the home service other ranks pattern helmet worn by enlisted ranks in the British army.
http://www.irishmedals.ie/garda-uniform-and-badges.php
The Irish Dunlop Co. LTD.
As others on this thread where I found this image said, probably half of Cork worked here at one time or other in the mid to late twentieth century.
All I remember of Dunlops is the pitch and putt club which is now gone and replaced by a small housing estate in Blackrock.
