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From the THE IRISH BUILDER JULY 15, 1883
Posted: Wed 14 Jan, 2009 3:11 pm
by Dermot
From the THE IRISH BUILDER JULY 15, 1883
THE CORK INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.
Column 2:-
Messrs. Booth, Brothers, a selection of workmen's tools and other building appliances. The exhibits of this old established Dublin firm includes—Firstly, planes for carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, and other wood-workers.
Secondly, mitre-cutting machines for picture-frame makers and joiners, and also corner cramps for same……..
Source:
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/asset?id=7943
Re: From the THE IRISH BUILDER JULY 15, 1883
Posted: Wed 14 Jan, 2009 3:46 pm
by Bill Henry
No, thanks, I’ve got all the cramps I need. I am looking for some new vices, though.
Re: From the THE IRISH BUILDER JULY 15, 1883
Posted: Wed 14 Jan, 2009 3:51 pm
by w00dward
Do any of you remember this firm?
I bet you didn't get next day delivery.
Of course, I'm so young I hadn't even started secondary school in 1983!
Re: From the THE IRISH BUILDER JULY 15, 1883
Posted: Wed 14 Jan, 2009 4:18 pm
by Dermot
They are still in existence
http://www.brooksgroup.ie/ but I don’t think they do framing supplies these days!!!!
Re: From the THE IRISH BUILDER JULY 15, 1883
Posted: Sat 17 Jan, 2009 10:11 pm
by Moglet
Dermot wrote:They are still in existence..
Weren't they called Brooks Haughton in the (19)70's/80's, Dermot?
Re: From the THE IRISH BUILDER JULY 15, 1883
Posted: Sat 17 Jan, 2009 11:42 pm
by Dermot
Brooks Brothers started back in the 60’s buying up other building supply companies around Ireland which they then called them Brooks (add local name)……………..so it is quite possible there was a Brooks Haughton (Haughton would have been the local part of the name)
Re: From the THE IRISH BUILDER JULY 15, 1883
Posted: Sat 17 Jan, 2009 11:48 pm
by Moglet
OIC! Brooks Haughton must have been the Cork branch.
Re: From the THE IRISH BUILDER JULY 15, 1883
Posted: Sat 17 Jan, 2009 11:50 pm
by Dermot
Yep....
I think they were on the quay on the Lee, if memory serves me correct...
Re: From the THE IRISH BUILDER JULY 15, 1883
Posted: Sat 17 Jan, 2009 11:56 pm
by Moglet
Yes, indeedy. They also had a showroom round the corner from the South Terrace. I remember being traipsed around the place when my mother was picking out bathroom suites when our house in Kinsale was being built. Yawnarama....
At least she didn't go for avocado...
Re: From the THE IRISH BUILDER JULY 15, 1883
Posted: Sun 18 Jan, 2009 12:01 am
by Dermot
[quote="Moglet" At least she didn't go for avocado...[/quote]
I guess she had good taste like you have
Re: From the THE IRISH BUILDER JULY 15, 1883
Posted: Sun 18 Jan, 2009 1:12 am
by Moglet
You say the
nicest things, Dermot!
But you're dead right: I didn't lick it off the ground!
(Although, bless her cottons, mother did occasionally have some
spectacular "cheese" moments in her day (a "drippy-rain-goddess-in-temple" lamp springs immediately to mind), but my father had an unerring eye for quality, style, and class (probably something he developed while indulging his unerring penchant for sitting...
). I'd like to think I inherited the better traits from both of them, although I freely admit to consciously liking the occasional item purely for its "kitsch" appeal...
