More Omagh facts

Can you locate the 'HOME and Colonial'?
In High Street, the premises now occupied by the Halifax Building Society.

Where was the Omagh Branch Library located for many years before it moved to The Show-grounds?
In the Town Hall, I remember getting fined a penny for bringing a book back late

What, and where was 'The Top Hat'?
A cafe on the lower Kevlin Rood, near the gate of the present Telecom complex. Circa 1956.

Where was The Tyrone Bar?
McElroy's Bar , Castle Street, now Benedicts

Boyce's and Larkin's were in the same street and in the same business. What was the street, and what was the

business?
George's Street - Newsagents

Where in central Omagh, was the YMCA?
In Market Street, near the site of the present Tourist Information Office which is vacant

Where was Pickering's, and what was the nature of the business?
A confectioners/tobacconist just into the Dublin Road, at J. B. Anderson's corner.

In whatyear did The Diamond Bar come into the proprietorship of the Broderick family?
1937.

9. Where was Quigley's Garage?
9. On Market St., opposite the present Supervalu

And where was The Creamery?
At the junction of Johnston Park and Kevlin Road. Now Hackett's furniture store, formerly Gracey's poulterers.

Adrains Drapers, Mullans Off-Licence, and Wilson's Pub all closed in the mid-sixties. For what purpose?
To make way for the new Drumragh Avenue access to Market Street and the Dublin Rood.

What establishment now occupies the former Reform Stores?
The Oxfam Shop.

Where was The Select Bar?
Now The Central Bar. High Street,

What, precisely, now occupies the site of Brian Gallagher's ice-cream parlour in John Street?
The lounge bar in The Top of the Town.

What and where was Freddie Armstrong's?
A shoemakers at the head of Castle Street, opposite the Sacred Heart Church.

Where was the Post Office before it moved to its present site?
At the present Anglia Building just below the Town Hall.

Where does High Street become Georges Street? 18, What now occupies the stores once known as Johnston Bros?
Where Dobbin Bros. joins Frank Colton's newsagents.

What now occupies the stores known as Johnston Bros
The Carlisle Bookshop and Patterson Stewart's Estate agency.

Where was Kerr's Chemists?
Now Bennets Photo shop, previously Pulsar Travel; on the first floor was Raymond Beck's surveyors office in the late

1960s / early 1970s

Where was McMillan's Drapery Store?
On the corner of Market Street and Scarffe's Entry. It was Hendley's Confectionary Shop, now a moblie plone shop

which is lying vacant