Large old clothing store at 42 Washington Street, Cork, County Cork, Ireland.
Apparently there was an upper storey which was demolished as the result of a incident on the street on the 31st Of January 1999.
On the last day of 1999 Ms Aoife Bell (20), from Kerry Pike, just outside Cork city, was fatally injured when the parapet of two adjoining buildings in Washington Street collapsed and showered masonry on to the pavement below. As a result, the corporation served notice to vacate on the owners and occupiers of 16 properties in Washington Street. Among the affected buildings are drapers Mannix & Culhane’s, at the corner of Washington Street and South Main Street, and a bar, hairdressing salon and nightclub on South Main Street.
It appears that the roof of the building occupied by a company known as Cork Film Services became unstable early in the evening as some people were passing by. The collapse of the roof happened shortly before 5 p.m. and at 6.48 p.m., when the authorities were briefing the media on the on the street, a gas explosion occurred at a Chinese restaurant on the other side of the street.
My lens 70-200mm lens detached from the camera body as I was getting off the bus and hit the floor of the bus before falling onto the street, It did not perform at its best for the rest of the day so many of my photographs were substandard and unusable which was a pity as I have been unable to revisit many of the places that I had explored in August 2021. However, I have managed to reprocess many images to the extent that I can now publish them but some may appear over-processed or a bit strange.
This was once a Polish Shop at a time when Ireland was full of such shops.
Back in the U.S.S.R.” is a 1968 song by The Beatles (credited to the song writing partnership Lennon/McCartney but primarily written by Paul McCartney) which opens the double-disc album The Beatles, also known as The White Album. It segues into the next song on the album, “Dear Prudence”. The song was released as a single in 1976.
I tried to translate the information below but the Google translation did not make a lot of sense. Anyway, I did not notice the shop when I visited Academy Streetin May 2019.
I cam across the following description/review:
Niespelna miesiac temu powstal w irlandzkim Cork trzeci z kolei “ruski” sklep 🙂 o wdziecznej nazwie “Back in the USSR”- tyle ze nastawiony przede wszystkim na obsluge polskich klientow.
Ba, nawet na malym szyldzie zawieszonym zaraz przed szyldem “glownym” napisano wrecz: “Polski Sklep” (ten mniejszy szyld zaznaczylem na zdjeciu bialym kolkiem – niestety, jest on prawie nieczytelny). No, polski to on jeszcze nie jest. Obsluga jest – podobnie jak w dwoch poprzednich – rosyjskojezyczna 🙂 ale – juz znaczna czesc towarow znajdujacym sie w nim jest importowana z Polski. Natomiast jest to pierwszy w Cork sklep, ktorego wlasciciele chcac przyciagnac sporo potencjalnych klientow – Polakow, posluzyli sie haslem: “Polski Sklep”…
According to Google Translate:
Less than a month ago, the third “Russian” shop was opened in Cork, Ireland 🙂 with the graceful name “Back in the USSR” – only that it is focused primarily on serving Polish customers.
In fact, even on a small signboard hung right in front of the “main” signboard, it was written: “Polish Shop” (the smaller signboard I marked in the photo with a white circle – unfortunately, it is almost illegible). Well, he’s not Polish yet. The service is – as in the previous two – Russian-speaking 🙂 but – already a significant part of the goods in it is imported from Poland. However, this is the first store in Cork whose owners, wanting to attract a lot of potential customers – Poles, used the slogan: “Polish Shop”…
BACK IN THE USSR ON ACADEMY STREET IN [A POLISH SHOP AS IT WAS IN MAY 2011]