jane
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Wondering.
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. and an abbatoir.
nope not that on, on hanbury, or swans lane... off thomas st. stank to high heaven it did, and there used to be lots of butchers on meath st. sure the meat was still masticating.I remember the abbatoir on Pleasant Street, is that the one you mean? It wasn't a very Pleasant Street.
i've used 4 synonyms for scent in this reply. that's gotta be worth a prize?
hi fiveNot to be sniffed at...
i grew up around there, first hanbury lane off meath st, then long lane off clanbrassil st. my brother was baptised in the church on francis st. there was a rag and bone man. and an abbatoir. and dublin bazaar. rare ould times.
did we go out?I went to school just off Francis Street and hung around with lots of people from there (one of them from Hanbury Lane/Chaworth Terrace).
I also remember the smell from the abattoir.
I used to love the bakery on Francis Street that sold them pink slices.
i never forget a diddleWas going to ask you the same thing!![]()
when i was a wee chisler, there was this old codger who went around with a cart picking up crap off people. (i saw a picture of thomas st taken in the 70's in the dublin tenement book and it all came flooding back. i mean, trickling back. otherwise i'd never have remembered that). there was no traffic in those days either, which is weird, bu every street corner had a deserted car park surrounded by metal thingie's ( like staples stuck in the ground) that were painted red and white. it's ghastly being "nostalgic" so young in life, but the landscape of my youth has changed so much in the last 30 years, most of it is hardly there. except meath st, which is mostly the same looking.Tell me more about the rag and bone man please.
it's ghastly being "nostalgic" so young in life, but the landscape of my youth has changed so much in the last 30 years, most of it is hardly there. except meath st, which is mostly the same looking.
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