[1]The Monument Creamery, the Tower Bar, the Standard Shoe Company, George’s Street, 1962
Founded in 1918 and named after the Charles Stewart Parnell Monument across the street, the Monument Creameries Ltd (on the far left of this image) went into “voluntary liquidation” in 1966. Considered a ‘light grocery outlet,’ the chain employed upwards of five-hundred people and had twenty-six outlets at the time of its dissolution. One Cork Independent writer remembered the Monument Creamery fondly for its “tiles and white marble,” its “old-fashioned scales and fine displays of biscuits,” as well as its fresh “milk, butter and cheese.” Unfortunately, this all-Irish-owned business chain has never re-opened.
This photo is from the Dublin City Council Photographic Collection, Dublin City Library & Archive.
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Further reading
- “Concern Over Monument Closure,” The Irish Times, 23 April, 1966.
- “Have We Lost Our Sense of Responsibility?” The Irish Times, 13 May, 1966.
- “Supermarket Sweep [6],” The Cork Independent, 17 January, 2013.
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