An old sign is where a building has not been taken over by someone new and the signs of the previous business are still there.
A GHOSTSIGN is where a new business is in the building but the name of the old business is still on the walls. There are lots of GHOSTSIGNS around Cork.
In this first half-chapter, we have set puzzles as to how many of the GHOSTSIGNS that you might recognise.
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This building on Lapp’s Quay is now owned by U.C.C.. The Cork Savings Bank became the Cork & Limerick Savings Bank which became Trustee Savings Bank (or T.S.B) which then became Permanent T.S.B.
The Munster Hotel is now called the Ashley Hotel. It is on Coburg Street. We saw this advertisement for the Munster Hotel in Guys Directory of Cork from 1916 which we saw online.
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This ghostsign is on Bridge Street. It says ‘PRINTING WORKS & BOOK FACTORY’
The Arnott’s ghostsign is on a building at the bottom of Shandon Street.
Since I was small, my dad has said that it good to learn the importance of bring one’s dad to the pub. He says that when he is sixty and seventy, my training will be very useful. One of his favourite pubs is the Corner House and they have an old tap for Arnotts Beer.
Feargal MacGabhann in the Corner House also had an old Arnott’s glass which he allowed us to borrow for our project.
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When we went looking for information on Arnott’s, we read in the book by Mr Tim Cadogan called ‘Cork in Old Photographs’ that the School of Art was formerly the Crawford Municipal Technical Institute until the C.I.T. was built in the late 1970s. The Technical Institute was built in 1912 on a site given as a gift by A. F. Sharman Crawford.
The site was previously where there was Arnott’s Brewery.
Another connection that we found was that Seamus Murphy had carved a panel for the Technical College that is still there.
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