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Post by Aisling on Nov 8, 2008 16:21:17 GMT
Hi Richard,
Was just reading your posting, if where you lived only just had 8 houses and was across from the old swimming pool and gym, then you would have lived on O'Higgins Road, there is two blocks of 4 houses, do you remember what number, just out of curiousity? If you lived beside Mrs. Treacy, you would have either lived in 28 or 30. She was an amazing woman. Many a day or evening I spent in their house. And many a chat I had with her, she and her husband are sadly missed around here. R.I.P.
Aisling
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Post by kenkinsella on Nov 8, 2008 21:29:31 GMT
Hi all, Just wondering who can remember the old steam roller that went around filling pot holes? I remember it used to drive down (what I rem as) the V hills in clarke.We would follow it down the hill throwing stones under it seeing them being crushed.This was mid 70's. I'm sure it went all over the camp but as I lived in Clarke at the time,and was too young to follow it too far from home I wondered where it was kept, or who drove it. I'd imagine it was kept in the tar yard but can't rem it there as i'm sure I'd have played in it. I remember it as being Huge or was I just so small?
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Post by Aisling on Nov 9, 2008 0:50:39 GMT
Hi Ken,
There is only four years between you and I and you can remember so much about the place it's amazing.
Aisling.
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Post by Olive McNamara (Tierney) on Nov 9, 2008 1:52:36 GMT
i remember mrs. Collins well and will never forget her, she was small with well kept gray hair. I was so afraid of her. I remember one day i had the "Bunty" magazine which i had bought in Easons shop that morning before i went in to school, and was reading the front page of it under the desk, thinking she could not see me, but when i surfaced for air she was waiting on me with her good and very strong back hand, let me tell you i went home from school that day with very rosy cheeks. But i still remember the day she retired and we were all crying our eyes out in the assembly hall cause she was leaving, she was not the worse of them.
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Post by Martin Christie on Nov 9, 2008 14:30:31 GMT
hi ken i rem well the steam roller larry white from B.O.W. was the driver he go mad whene kids like us trow stones on the road in its path
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Post by rtreade on Nov 10, 2008 10:50:06 GMT
Hi Aisling,
I lived in number 30 and we moved in 1974 to Kilcullen, it was with regret that we moved and I still often drive through the Curragh like to show my lads where I grew up, I must admit that without fail everytime I drive round where I lived I can still remember what I did as if it were only yesterday
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Post by Aisling on Nov 11, 2008 15:09:30 GMT
Hi Richard,
I live in no 27, from what I have heard, think that is where Bartley's used to live. There has been alot of changes around here over the years. But it is still a great place to live.
Aisling
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Post by rtreade on Nov 11, 2008 15:43:56 GMT
Yep they moved to Kilcullen on the very same day that we did and were our next door neighbours in mini-curragh as we called it because not alone did the Reades and Bartleys move but also the O'Tooles and we all lived within a stones throw of each other, in addition McHales (They lived in Clarke) and Durneys also moved at the same time so needless to say we all stuck together when we moved ! You must hear some ghost noises of yesteryear, I often pass along that road If I am out for a drive and half expect to see myself as a youngster running around the area behind the baths attempting the gymnastics of David Sparrow or Dec O'Toole (RIP)
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