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Post by Aisling on Sept 8, 2008 19:26:54 GMT
Hi Tommy & Kentgal,
Thanks for that. Find all this information very interesting. Tommy will check out those photos, thanks.
Aisling
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Post by Aisling on Sept 8, 2008 20:00:07 GMT
Hi Magi,
If you have a look at Living On The Curragh, there is a posting there from Curraghlad about Orfords butchers.
Aisling
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Post by teresap on Sept 9, 2008 18:00:47 GMT
Hi Tommy, went into the photo gallery, it was great. Never heard of two churches up where the present one is. Do you know when they were there, also have you any idea when the girls school was built. Trying to figure it out, but only remember walking up clarke hill and thinking it was miles away.
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Post by jude on Sept 9, 2008 19:24:37 GMT
Thought there was two photo shops O, Mcrossan and swiffts Iam not sure but tomm H will correct me
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Post by 3XPRE7F on Sept 9, 2008 19:26:23 GMT
Hi,
I can’t remember the exact date when the girl’s school opened, but I do remember the day that all the girls marched out of the old boy’s school and up the road to our bran new school. Having indoor toilets a cookery kitchen and an assembly hall was very exciting
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Post by Aisling on Sept 10, 2008 17:56:55 GMT
Hiya,
So when was the "new" girls school built? I remember been down in the boys school years ago, when I was still going to the girls school, I think. And always thought the boys school was so much newer than the girls, it was real warm down there and they had carpet on the floors, not like ours. Ha. At the time. Don't know what it's like now.
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Post by Brendan on Sept 10, 2008 18:30:42 GMT
Greetings to All:
I read somewhere recently that the Girls School was built in 1962.
Brendan
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Post by tommyhetherington on Sept 10, 2008 20:24:53 GMT
Hi Teresa & Brendan, Sounds about right I was told 1960 so taking in the human factor it was around this time. Tommy H
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Post by tommyhetherington on Sept 10, 2008 20:26:01 GMT
Jude, Swift rings a bell he was here but do not know if it was the same building Tommy H
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Post by tommyhetherington on Sept 10, 2008 20:37:44 GMT
New Trivia, Find the oldest building the Curragh, please leave out the Clock Tower. Hint___ the one I have in mind has the date on the wall
Tommy H
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Post by Brendan on Sept 10, 2008 20:41:31 GMT
Is it the Boys Primary School built circa 1860 or thereabouts? Now used by Signals.
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Post by magi on Sept 10, 2008 21:08:13 GMT
Hi Aishling,
When I say the boy’s school I don’t mean the present one. When I first started school the boys and girls were both housed in a double fronted red brick building opposite the gym.
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Post by Matt McNamara on Sept 10, 2008 22:16:51 GMT
Would it be the building that is used by the Bord Of Works on the bottom road at the hospital. I think that it is dated 1880 ??
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Post by tommyhetherington on Sept 11, 2008 12:01:27 GMT
Hi Matt, Bottom of the hill at the Wes 1872 there could be another, Brendan could be right with the school. Can anyone confirm that one. The old water station by the rugby club ( McDonalds Home) is close but not as old Tommy H
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Post by tommyhetherington on Sept 11, 2008 12:06:18 GMT
Teresap, The two churches were St Bridgets and St Pauls either side of the clock tower and were in E anf F Lines the only lines left are K Lines by the Golf Club. These churches were built ( I think ) around the time the clock tower was. St Bridgets was on the site of the girls school and St pauls where the church is now.
Tommy
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