rathcoole in the 1960s

[EdMcC]

 
this one is off Greenend Rathcoole before the flats

 

 
same view but it still has to get the towers behind the flats


Glenbane Ave
[/quote My parts lived in 1A Green End from 1957 just after I was born. Prior to that they lived the top floor flat (1E?) Good to see pictures from that time...in 1960 we moved to East Way?

[delane]

hi,forum..did any of the Meek family,move to Rathcoole..my cousin, & there gang,used to hang around with a girl called maureen meek..from whitla st /ship st..back in the mid 50s..

[Dockominiums]

I lived in East Way 1963/67

[getzls]

hi,forum..did any of the Meek family,move to Rathcoole..my cousin, & there gang,used to hang around with a girl called maureen meek..from whitla st /ship st..back in the mid 50s..

There is Meeks in Rathcoole.
I went to school with Bill Meek, he lived in Avonlea Gardens.

[johncatt]

We lived on Rathmore drive after moving from Clonbeg drive . 1952 until 1967. Went to Aus; IN 67 . Knocked around with Jackie Gilliland . Tom DavIson RIP . Marshal  Passmore . Roy kernigan .Tommy Fitzpatrick . Jimmy Patrick who i would like to find .. Cheers  JC

[getzls]

I know a Davie Patrick who would be about 54.
Also there were Passmores who at one time lived about Dunloy

[johncatt]

Jimmy Patrick also had a sister Masie who married one of the Passmores . They moved to Aus; in the middle of 1960 but i heard they came home.. Jimmy might have had a younger brother..

[johncatt]

The Alpha  started life as a picture house .New flicks every 2 nights .Got to know  Sammy Allen senior  and junior . I remember the alpha  being built we were all so excited to have a meeting place not to mention the fish suppers  .

[mbe01]

also remember alpha being built - we lived in ballyronan park - frank carson was an early compere of the alphabeat, and the local band was johnny and the teenbeats - also the late night horror shows mid 60s - and the pasties  -  

[dendar]

hi still trying to trace a hazel ferguson from rathcoole. curious as what became of her
cheers
dendar

[mbe01]

Sorry Dendar dont recognise that name - I lived in Ballyronan park about 1958 -70 - prob a different time frame?

[oulpete]

I remember the Alpha opening, Sabrina a big english bird, looked like Jane Mansfield, cut the tape. The Allen family I think owned it then.
Great chippy at the front. From memory, Susie Foster from old Whitehouse village married Sammy Allan.

[Brown low]

We lived on Rathmore drive after moving from Clonbeg drive . 1952 until 1967. Went to Aus; IN 67 . Knocked around with Jackie Gilliland . Tom DavIson RIP . Marshal  Passmore . Roy kernigan .Tommy Fitzpatrick . Jimmy Patrick who i would like to find .. Cheers  JC

Knew all those names, The Gillilands were. Big family Raymond was in our class in school. Don't know what happened to Jimmy Patrick.

[Brown low]

hi still trying to trace a hazel ferguson from rathcoole. curious as what became of her
cheers
dendar

Did she live with her mother?. Think they both moved to the multies in Rathcoole.

[pentio]

Photo of the Alpha in Rathcoole, enjoy!