Anyone grow up on or near Francis St? (2 Viewers)

[jane]

Wondering.

 

[HMD]

how close?

 

[jane]

Basically anyone who would have a pretty intimate knowledge of what that area was like pre-Ireland 2.0. And preferably someone who's also familiar with the process of its changing over the last while.

 

[Hector Grey]

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.

 

[Lolo]

. and an abbatoir.

I remember the abbatoir on Pleasant Street, is that the one you mean? It wasn't a very Pleasant Street.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

It's a slightly less dangerous and dirty kip than it used to be.

 

[Hector Grey]

I remember the abbatoir on Pleasant Street, is that the one you mean? It wasn't a very Pleasant Street.

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.

 

[timbot]

There's still loads of butchers on Meath Street. I was living just off it for 2 years. And there is still a place that stinks like an abbatoir, I walk past it every day.

 

[Hector Grey]

the aroma seems to be all pervading. the abattoir is gone, it's some jerryrigged gaffs now, but the smell lives on. i'd say those gaffs stink to high jayses. the reek of blood and shit and sawdust. i've used 4 synonyms for scent in this reply. that's gotta be worth a prize?

 

[timbot]

i've used 4 synonyms for scent in this reply. that's gotta be worth a prize?

Not to be sniffed at...

 

[Hector Grey]

Not to be sniffed at...

hi five

 

[Diddles]

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.

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.

 

[Hector Grey]

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.

did we go out?

 

[Diddles]

did we go out?

Was going to ask you the same thing!

 

[classic seanc]

Tell me more about the rag and bone man please.

 

[Hector Grey]

Was going to ask you the same thing!

i never forget a diddle

 

[Hector Grey]

Tell me more about the rag and bone man please.

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.

 

[timbot]

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.

I get that feeling too, the town I grew up in and the town it is now bear no resemblance to each other. Not that I ever thought Dungarvan was the kind of place that I would get nostalgic about. I guess it is all part of the long slide to stale jaffa cakes and the nursing home...

 

[Hector Grey]

ah it's all about the loss of community and the like. wen i put me teeth in and clam p on me pipe i can go, "in my day this was all derelict factories and empty building sites." you try saying that to someone who's, i dunno, 25, they'd never believe ya.

 

[classic seanc]

Ballinasloe is still the same. Just the haircuts are worse.