Shop Signs of Ballydehob, Co. Cork, Ireland 1977

The west Cork village of Ballydehob has a special charm thanks in part to well maintained brightly coloured original house and shop fronts.
This excerpt from the programme ‘We Live Here’ takes a look at the typography on the shop fronts and the topography of the Ballydehob.
An air of prosperity is evident from the well-maintained frontages.
There are few shop fronts with inappropriate lettering or mass produced plastic signs, allowing Ballydehob to maintain much of its traditional charm.
Ballydehob is typical of many Irish villages as it is overlooked by a Catholic church and has an abandoned railway line.
Ballydehob is so typically Irish in fact that a number of discriminating foreigners have discovered it and have repaired old buildings long disregarded by the local people.
Local man Jack Pollard praises the shop fronts of the village describing each building as a “unit in itself”. This is largely due to the topography of the main street giving each shop an individuality of its own adding to the character of the whole street.
This episode of ‘We Live Here: Shops, Signs and Portents’ was broadcast on 9 December 1977.
‘We Live Here’ was a series dealing with aspects of the Irish environment, in particular, that which is man-made.
This episode of ‘We Live Here: Shop, Signs and Portents’ was written and produced by Christopher Fitz-Simon. The Architectural Advisor was Seán Rothery.

[@arzumc3487]

I like this channel and learning more about the Irish life ☘️ Thanks a million 🇮🇪

[@Ordnog]

A lovely village - I hope it still has the same character. I even liked the chap driving around the corner with his door open.

[@fintonmainz7845]

No. It's overrun with loud-mouthed arrogant English and Germans who have no respect for Irish culture.

[@rubyjames3105]

I was there just over a month ago and yes, it does still have the same character, a couple more cafes and pubs and a statue but the old buildings and signs are still there. The victualer is my favorite one.

[@sdrtcacgnrjrc]

Still looks good, Ballydehob. The Cortina going round the bend @ 2:10 was very entertaining :-)

[@thomasburke2683]

Indeed. The MK3 was my least favourite of the Cortina models. Ford was just copying the design popular in the US at the time. It never looked right here. Nevertheless, West Cork was still Cork, so the products of the Marina always sold well there.

[@davidowen6977]

Rare 🌟 And dogs, cars and people, in no particular order 👌

[@pmacc3557]

As it should be

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

Most of these lovely old bespoke signs have now been replaced by the cheapest, nastiest, most plastic crap known to man. Dealz anyone?? In Sweden and Norway, old shop signs and fascias are listed 💪

[@fintonmainz7845]

In Norway and Sweden everything and everyone looks the same. All the villages look exactly the same. All the same colour even. Characterless.

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

@@fintonmainz7845 you've clearly never been 🙄

[@fintonmainz7845]

@@DIETRICHCICCONE you wouldn't happen to be a German who thinks he knows everything because he's German by any chance? Just a thought.

[@mrheck5311]

Indeed everything is becoming more complex and plastic.

[@joemclaughlin995]

The real Ireland,sadly long gone ! The seventies were the best years

[@gulag8735]

Irelands prime years. 70s to mid/late 90s

[@tdoran616]

What’s wrong with the early to mid 2000s?

[@gulag8735]

@@tdoran616 after 94-ish the gibbermint have had the constitution under attack. The early 00's were not bad but the large manufacturing was well under attack by then. We've a long way to go to recover to where we were

[@michaeloconnor9809]

For sure. So many children reared from behind the counters and smaller farms than today.

[@fintonmainz7845]

Absolutely not. Mass unemployment, Emigration, inflation, height of Northern troubles. Contraception illegal What planet are you on?

[@gulag8735]

@@fintonmainz7845 indigenous employment and manufacturing. Semi relaxed government control. No property tax theft. Single income could secure a home. Mothers raising their own children. Revenue nor gutting small business. Fisheries our own. Irish steel. Irish sugar. Irish fertiliser. Substantial and robust second level education. No gay marriage. No divorce. No abortion. No uncontrolled immigration. No woke agenda. Fewer Americans firms leeching off us. Will I keep going or are you still in your Marxist euphoria and euthopia?

[@extanegautham8950]

i was in this area recently, and i loved loved it, and skiberreen certainly had these charming house and store fronts.

[@jasonmoloney5796]

Quality reporting

[@Spamhero]

I had a meal at Duggan's top place for a meal. How you got through a whole film without mentioning Gabe's place beats me.

[@matthewfarmer6830]

Awesome 😎☘️

[@alllovingcowherdboy4475]

Not one big green, speeding tractor putting the fear of death into the peaceful citizens nor unnecessarily big SUVs carrying one child to and from schools...aah paradise paradise

[@pmacc3557]

😃👍

[@pmacc3557]

...nor the obligatory 16 year old fission on his fine driven said tractor

[@ruthcastle8270]

Such a shame that the art of sign writing has gone and that we don't protect the signs we once had ,plastic has taken over

[@finnmcginn9931]

How many are still there I wonder?

[@freqseq]

Quite a few are still there . Have a look on Street View

[@tdoran616]

@@freqseq interesting, thanks

[@barrycoughlan7382]

Car boot sale der tomorrow 11 December 2022 from 8.30 am in the community center

[@hughtierneytierney3585]

I shall be along by and by.

[@rubyjames3105]

sorry i missed it, had to come back to Canada

[@janet4021]

I noticed a 'heat' sign. I understand parts of Ireland aren't getting any payments from the government to help with their heating costs, the same has England, Wales and Scotland have. Its shocking.

[@spmoran4703]

Yes, it's awful.

[@janet4021]

No Stormont Parliament is a gift to the Conservative Party. Shame on all of them.

[@Dontfearthereaper001]

Going to Newcastle xmas day. Can't wait

[@Dreyno]

One part of Ireland. The bit the U.K. own.

[@fintonmainz7845]

The "parts of Ireland" under British occupation.

[@DuderinoDeux]

Soul and character and of here! Today : a half-way house to de-identification

[@user-pt1le6cc8c]

I see my surname there on one of the shops

[@ciaran5588]

A "modest" church overlooking the town So, walk gently, but carry a big stick