'We saw the first signs of disposable fashion': Family reflects as historic Cork pawnshop goes up for sale
Redemption at hand? Nos 58/59 Gillabbey Street are near St Fin barre's Cathedral Cork. Agent Hugh McPhillips guides at €595,000
REMINDERS of past times come with the sale of Cork City’s 58/59 Gillabbey St, a former pawnbroker’s shop near St Fin Barre’s Cathedral and University College Cork (UCC) likely to find new uses more in tune with more affluent times.
The property was one of five William Jones Ltd pawnbrokers shops owned in Cork by the Jones family, who had started their business in 1902 — eventually operating two shops top and tailing Shandon St, on North Main St, on Sullivans Quay, and at Gilabbey St by the Church of Ireland Bishop’s Palace and St Fin Barre’s Cathedral.
