The Shop Down on the Corner. (Remembering Dublin's corner shops)

[@vilamor007]

The old days were the best, real communities back then.

[@lizdoyle7158]

The corner shop🌟 was always there for you🌟what ever you wanted bread' milk' 🌟 tea' cakes' choclates🌟 biscuits' cream crackers' n lots more sure the corner shop was outside your door 'Supermarkets are great in this day n age ' yet theyll never Compare for FRIENDLYNESS n more when we had our old corner shops of yore'' ill be with you in a minute The shop assistant would say yeah those were the days lets go back to the future ⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚

[@MollyMalone1952purle]

So much happier times though we didn’t have a lot 🥲💚☘️🇮🇪

[@simonnolan2063]

So true we had each other

[@dylanmcgowan3737]

Enjoyed that, very good!

[@marymcmullen7765]

Thanks Pat. Beautiful. I wish I could talk to you. I am writing a book about my parents. I was born in 1952 and my parents worked for Guinness's . Old Dublin I know. Your words added to my memories. Thanks once again.

[@sylviakelch2065]

K.

[@debbiefox4439]

Those were the good old days when people actually spoke to each orther

[@ElectroSpex]

Yep.. the good old days, when people spoke to eachother. The good old days, when the catholic church ruled and young fellas were sent to institutions for petty crime, when a husband could r*pe his wife, when children were physically abused in school, when kids in the inner city went without shoes, when tenements were crumbling down. There are good aspects to the past, but we also need to appreciate what we have now and stop looking to the past with rose-tinted glasses.

[@susandhifaoui]

lovely reminiscence and so true. ty for posting

[@simonnolan2063]

The good aul days are well and truly gone.. what a shame 🥲

[@johnthecount1]

Well done Pat for such a gentle reminder of 'Times Past' - Good to see you back again, for a moment I thought you'd retired. John

[@kierandoherty8080]

Absolutly Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@barbarahallinan1151]

i had a friend years ago in ringsend he would ask a stranger for a match then after he got it he would say have you got a smoke to go with it.

[@eithneowen8782]

Brilliant......I love this.....😂😂😂

[@aucourant9998]

I remember you could get 'broken biscuits' cheap or 'cooking chocolate' which was cheaper than ordinary chocolate. They would even give kids a single loose cigarette for a penny in those days.

[@jimbrocklebank7493]

Have you any memories of bow lane and Kennedy villas off James's St jim brocklebank born in Kennedy villas g b

[@marianwalsh6297]

@@jimbrocklebank7493 Jim I live in Kennedy's villa in the late 70 love the flat the shop on the corner was great

[@imransharif443]

Very nice

[@tiddlethepipes]

Youre right ..Jacky I had forgotten about those ...think I still have a full book somewhere

[@kennedypaulf]

Would you change it back to the way it was back then? No way! It's nice to reminisce but better to have greater choice and more convenience. I'd change my supermarket if I found the check-out staff unfriendly. P.S. I was born in 1947.

[@BrianNolan-m1d]

My old school pal Pat McCann asked me if he could pretend it was me reading, true.

[@tiddlethepipes]

Hi John, and many thanks for your comment on the poem, retirement not yet under consideration......Pat

[@seandonaghy2473]

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be . . .

[@edwardogorman9211]

Ah yes1 I remember it well. time waits for no man/woman

[@jpmcmotor6890]

And sally o brien and the way she might look at you

[@Peter-wd1yo]

Progress? Not really