Old Cork Photos

[Blue Jasmin]

Sign says methodist Church, parking signs look like ours, not sure we had letters before numbers ever, is it Belfast? Or Derry?

The picture was taken in Cork, on Patrick Street, the Smiths stores is now the Gentleman's Quarters. The BR office was burned down after Bloody Sunday.

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

The picture was taken in Cork, on Patrick Street, the Smiths stores is now the Gentleman's Quarters. The BR office was burned down after Bloody Sunday.

The night after the British Embassy was torched in Dublin. Cork staff were either retired or relocated to Dublin.

 

[Heraldo]

Glasheen School being officially opened and blessed by Dr Cornelius Lucey, Bishop of Cork, in 1955.

My Alma mater
Some crowd to watch bishop Lucey

 

[Corks finest]

Southern registration- something PI My old nan had a YPI 915 So I guess it’s local or at least this side of the border

 

[PROCNA2018]

We had an XPI when I was small but that was numbers first.

Never realised we had a BR office on Pana. That's a great photo. The Harringtons is probably the giveaway.

 

[Hurricane Sterling]

The picture was taken in Cork, on Patrick Street, the Smiths stores is now the Gentleman's Quarters. The BR office was burned down after Bloody Sunday.

Seems like woke idiots existed in the early 70s too. Burn down a business because it had "British" in the title. Also im confused why British Rail had a store in Cork? Did they own CIE at the time or something?

 

[doppellanger]

The Harringtons van is going to get a ticket for double parking, and the guy in the car in front is shouting back:
"He's just dropping off a few cakes, biy, would you not give a working man a break!"

 

[Corks finest]

Noticed that immediately

 

[Meridian]

Seems like woke idiots existed in the early 70s too. Burn down a business because it had "British" in the title. Also im confused why British Rail had a store in Cork? Did they own CIE at the time or something?

More like SF/IRA Scum.

Back then sea travel to the UK would have been for the masses as the cost of air fares were beyond most.
If memory serves me correctly British Rail and Sealink were part of the same organisation, so that was like a travel agents business.
No they did not own CIE at the time, they did work closely with them though for transporting people by train on the Ireland side and for the CIE " Supabus " service that served the UK back in the day.

 

[fed up]