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Dunollie Store. ca.1984.
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Date Created24th October 2020CommentsYvonne Lawson
Is it still a store? Know Jardens had it in 60’s
David Jones
Yvonne Lawson know it not anymore think been shut for 4 years now
Annemarie Harris
Sad is it not. The small corner stores close one by one to tge bigger stores.
Matt McNabb
My parents' friends, the Daglish family, had this at the time (not sure if owned or rented). We stayed with them in the house attached to the store. Unfortunately I (as a 5 year old) couldn't resist the temptation to sneak into the store at night and nick lollies from the big lollie jars ...
Shay Shani
Bruce Nimmo Trish Rennie
Zane Inglis
I was in charge of picking up shaved ham and nanas smokes, from Ross st was a quick trip!
Rick Bichan
My mum and dad owned it mid 70s bought it off the jardins
Kathryn Cox
Trish Rennie
Trish Rennie
My old home all those years ago. Lots of great memories from those days...
Jade Dalzell
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I remember the English lady I think
Lynnette Beirne
Gwen the last owner still lives in the house
Only recently sold some of the chillers and cabinets from in there
Marty Farty
My mum and dad had the shop Fromm 1955 till 1964. My brother and I were born while they had the store, plus my three sisters. Dad worked at Strongman mine as well as being the local bookie. Then we all The Faherty family moved to ch CH. Later my wife and I had the Barrytown ( All Nations) pub 1988 till 1992e
Mary Youngman
Marty Farty I remember climbing out our bedroom window onto the roof with my sisters’ after going to bed .... usually a customer would inform our mum what we were up too !
Trish Rennie
My parents purchased the store of your parents.....like your father mine had other work also at MOW and he did sidelines like oysters in season....shipped whitebait to NI....etc etc
Marty Farty
Adrienne Faherty. Mary Youngman.
Angela Meier.
Leonie Huddleston . Kieran Faherty
Brodie Smith
My grandparents owned that store during that time I believe. Glenys and Donald perfect and still live across the road to this day Cheryl McMaster
Brydon Nimmo
My grand parents owned this place
Stace Maree Kemp
My Grandmother had it in the mid 70s, I used to "shop" there with my dolls pram when I was tiny.
Trish Rennie
My parents owned this store from approx 62 until 73... Everyone knew everyone then...miss those days
Helen Cording
Trish Rennie Great days Trish
Trish Rennie
Yes Helen....and the great social times in the Hotel....neighbourhoods are not the same at all as they were back then..
Vikki Bowes
My mum shopped there every day and she would book up what she got and pay for it on pay day this happened every week. No big supermarkets then.
Mary Keating
Remember going there a few times back in the 60s. Lived just down the road.
Mary Keating
Yes those were the days.
Mary Keating
Can anyone remember who else ran the shop?
Karen Russ
So well remember this shop living up the hill.
Judy Smolen
They were great times Trish Rennie
Gaelyn Watson
I used to get a half loaf of bread for my grandparents but the soft middle would be gone before we got home.
Trish Rennie
Have never tasted brown bread like Shannon n Glen used to make....was so delicious
Margaret Harrington
Weren’t Perfects in their at some stage
Trish Rennie
This was in the day when bread was delivered fresh from Shannon n Glen still steaming hot..yumm...Dad bought home the grocery supplies from Duncan McLean warehouse and veggies were purchased at auction at Baillie n Neville....all bought home in the old Morris van. Bacon sliced fresh from the Rolland cheese cut to order from the block....
George McKenzie
I can recall that shop being built in the late 1940s or early 1950s. I think it was built by Mr Jim Medelyn (or some name similar) who lived in the house next door. The house around the shop now was an add-on. Mrs Robertson owned a shop (run from the front room of her house) further down the road in McDougall Ave. Prior to that there was a grocery store owned by Mr Freddy Key around the corner from the hotel. My Grandparents also ran a wee shop (also from the front room of their house) in McDougall Ave. Freddy Key's and my Grandparents' shop were there before the Co-op Store in Dunollie (also now long gone) was opened.
Greg Hine
Was this just down from the pub?
Rick Bichan
There was one on the corner across from the St John's Hall Inverness Street
Trish Rennie
That was the Dunollie Co-op...like the Runanga Co-op
Herb Hart
Jim Medlin,then it was Smithsons, then Martin OFlarity ,Jardens, the list goes on
Trish Rennie
Thank you...I knew our neighbour Jim Medlin featured in there somewhere but couldn't quite recall
Marty Farty
Herb Hart yip long list. Martin and Mary Faherty. He he hee
George Samuel
great memories
Deborah Hoy
Yes , my Grandparents Jim and Iris Medlin had the store built.
Jennie McKinnon
That bread never arrived home intact.your parents where great Tricia. Memories.
June David Campbell
I do remember people by the name of Sigglekow (? Not quite sure of the spelling) having the business in the 1950's (approx) as my brother Arch knew them through Duncan McLeans. I know they had a Hillman or Humber van.
Margaret Farnworth
Memories- i shopped there- 1961-65
Trish Rennie
My old home from 1961- 1973….great community to grow up in….Could tell lots of stories in relation to this wee store and it’s customers…lovely memories
Lynne Brown
Lived straight across the road No 54 McDougall Ave. Looked lovely beautiful bungalow with bay windows, kept immaculate by my Mum NOT now though!!!!
Grant Jamieson
Went into that shop alot when I was younger, even workd for Chummy n Val Bichan, who use to own it
Maurice O'Flaherty
big ditch at the side of drive
Crow Bay
Martys dad had it when I was a kid. Then Mick Jarden.
Judith Short
Mrs Perfect had it too
Marty Farty
My mum and dad Mary and Martin Faherty, had that shop from 1956 to 1964 My brother and I were born in that time, Dad worked in the Strongman, and used to work in the shop after shift. He used to wear white cotton gloves so his hands stayed clean, to serve in the shop. While mum sorted us 5 kids and got dinner ready. Great memories, They then sold it on to the Jardens I believe.
Dad also drove his VW bus as far as Charleston selling veggies and groceries to people on the coast road once a week.
Judy Smolen
Great child hood memories
Barry Dawson Smithson
Was originally Medlins then taken over by my Uncle & Aunty John & Albert Smithson.
Barry Dawson Smithson
Should been John & Betty.
Marty Farty
Spent the first 4 years of my life in that shop, with 3 of my sister's and little brother .
Mum and dad, Mary and Martin Faherty had the shop fromm late 1955 till 1964.
LynetteChuck Panther
That's right I went to school with Mary
Ian Buchanan
Chicken man owned it for a while
LynetteChuck Panther
I only remember Mr& Mrs Jarden, they were lovely people.
Marty Farty
LynetteChuck Panther mum and dad sold it to the Jarden's and our family moved to Ch Ch
Barry Ward
I remember that place
Is it still a store? Know Jardens had it in 60’s
David Jones
Yvonne Lawson know it not anymore think been shut for 4 years now
Annemarie Harris
Sad is it not. The small corner stores close one by one to tge bigger stores.
Matt McNabb
My parents' friends, the Daglish family, had this at the time (not sure if owned or rented). We stayed with them in the house attached to the store. Unfortunately I (as a 5 year old) couldn't resist the temptation to sneak into the store at night and nick lollies from the big lollie jars ...
Shay Shani
Bruce Nimmo Trish Rennie
Zane Inglis
I was in charge of picking up shaved ham and nanas smokes, from Ross st was a quick trip!
Rick Bichan
My mum and dad owned it mid 70s bought it off the jardins
Kathryn Cox
Trish Rennie
Trish Rennie
My old home all those years ago. Lots of great memories from those days...
Jade Dalzell
badge icon
I remember the English lady I think
Lynnette Beirne
Gwen the last owner still lives in the house
Only recently sold some of the chillers and cabinets from in there
Marty Farty
My mum and dad had the shop Fromm 1955 till 1964. My brother and I were born while they had the store, plus my three sisters. Dad worked at Strongman mine as well as being the local bookie. Then we all The Faherty family moved to ch CH. Later my wife and I had the Barrytown ( All Nations) pub 1988 till 1992e
Mary Youngman
Marty Farty I remember climbing out our bedroom window onto the roof with my sisters’ after going to bed .... usually a customer would inform our mum what we were up too !
Trish Rennie
My parents purchased the store of your parents.....like your father mine had other work also at MOW and he did sidelines like oysters in season....shipped whitebait to NI....etc etc
Marty Farty
Adrienne Faherty. Mary Youngman.
Angela Meier.
Leonie Huddleston . Kieran Faherty
Brodie Smith
My grandparents owned that store during that time I believe. Glenys and Donald perfect and still live across the road to this day Cheryl McMaster
Brydon Nimmo
My grand parents owned this place
Stace Maree Kemp
My Grandmother had it in the mid 70s, I used to "shop" there with my dolls pram when I was tiny.
Trish Rennie
My parents owned this store from approx 62 until 73... Everyone knew everyone then...miss those days
Helen Cording
Trish Rennie Great days Trish
Trish Rennie
Yes Helen....and the great social times in the Hotel....neighbourhoods are not the same at all as they were back then..
Vikki Bowes
My mum shopped there every day and she would book up what she got and pay for it on pay day this happened every week. No big supermarkets then.
Mary Keating
Remember going there a few times back in the 60s. Lived just down the road.
Mary Keating
Yes those were the days.
Mary Keating
Can anyone remember who else ran the shop?
Karen Russ
So well remember this shop living up the hill.
Judy Smolen
They were great times Trish Rennie
Gaelyn Watson
I used to get a half loaf of bread for my grandparents but the soft middle would be gone before we got home.
Trish Rennie
Have never tasted brown bread like Shannon n Glen used to make....was so delicious
Margaret Harrington
Weren’t Perfects in their at some stage
Trish Rennie
This was in the day when bread was delivered fresh from Shannon n Glen still steaming hot..yumm...Dad bought home the grocery supplies from Duncan McLean warehouse and veggies were purchased at auction at Baillie n Neville....all bought home in the old Morris van. Bacon sliced fresh from the Rolland cheese cut to order from the block....
George McKenzie
I can recall that shop being built in the late 1940s or early 1950s. I think it was built by Mr Jim Medelyn (or some name similar) who lived in the house next door. The house around the shop now was an add-on. Mrs Robertson owned a shop (run from the front room of her house) further down the road in McDougall Ave. Prior to that there was a grocery store owned by Mr Freddy Key around the corner from the hotel. My Grandparents also ran a wee shop (also from the front room of their house) in McDougall Ave. Freddy Key's and my Grandparents' shop were there before the Co-op Store in Dunollie (also now long gone) was opened.
Greg Hine
Was this just down from the pub?
Rick Bichan
There was one on the corner across from the St John's Hall Inverness Street
Trish Rennie
That was the Dunollie Co-op...like the Runanga Co-op
Herb Hart
Jim Medlin,then it was Smithsons, then Martin OFlarity ,Jardens, the list goes on
Trish Rennie
Thank you...I knew our neighbour Jim Medlin featured in there somewhere but couldn't quite recall
Marty Farty
Herb Hart yip long list. Martin and Mary Faherty. He he hee
George Samuel
great memories
Deborah Hoy
Yes , my Grandparents Jim and Iris Medlin had the store built.
Jennie McKinnon
That bread never arrived home intact.your parents where great Tricia. Memories.
June David Campbell
I do remember people by the name of Sigglekow (? Not quite sure of the spelling) having the business in the 1950's (approx) as my brother Arch knew them through Duncan McLeans. I know they had a Hillman or Humber van.
Margaret Farnworth
Memories- i shopped there- 1961-65
Trish Rennie
My old home from 1961- 1973….great community to grow up in….Could tell lots of stories in relation to this wee store and it’s customers…lovely memories
Lynne Brown
Lived straight across the road No 54 McDougall Ave. Looked lovely beautiful bungalow with bay windows, kept immaculate by my Mum NOT now though!!!!
Grant Jamieson
Went into that shop alot when I was younger, even workd for Chummy n Val Bichan, who use to own it
Maurice O'Flaherty
big ditch at the side of drive
Crow Bay
Martys dad had it when I was a kid. Then Mick Jarden.
Judith Short
Mrs Perfect had it too
Marty Farty
My mum and dad Mary and Martin Faherty, had that shop from 1956 to 1964 My brother and I were born in that time, Dad worked in the Strongman, and used to work in the shop after shift. He used to wear white cotton gloves so his hands stayed clean, to serve in the shop. While mum sorted us 5 kids and got dinner ready. Great memories, They then sold it on to the Jardens I believe.
Dad also drove his VW bus as far as Charleston selling veggies and groceries to people on the coast road once a week.
Judy Smolen
Great child hood memories
Barry Dawson Smithson
Was originally Medlins then taken over by my Uncle & Aunty John & Albert Smithson.
Barry Dawson Smithson
Should been John & Betty.
Marty Farty
Spent the first 4 years of my life in that shop, with 3 of my sister's and little brother .
Mum and dad, Mary and Martin Faherty had the shop fromm late 1955 till 1964.
LynetteChuck Panther
That's right I went to school with Mary
Ian Buchanan
Chicken man owned it for a while
LynetteChuck Panther
I only remember Mr& Mrs Jarden, they were lovely people.
Marty Farty
LynetteChuck Panther mum and dad sold it to the Jarden's and our family moved to Ch Ch
Barry Ward
I remember that place
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