COFFEE SHOP & RESTAURANT 57 Irish Town BAR RESTAURANT ENTERTAINMENT T. +350 200 70625 HEALTHY EATING IN THE HEART OF GIBRALTAR /Sacarellos-Coffee-shop 79 Irish Town Tel: 200 75566 Try Our “Just Roasted” Family Coffee & Great home-made food! Email: [email protected] The architecture of Irish Town No 11 and No 17 No 33 No 57 No 79 No 81 No 91 No 95 brings together the various The winches are a reminder of Inside the shop can be seen a 19th century Merchant House. Inside Corks Wine Bar & Cloister Building Behind the unassuming door The Spanish language newspaper influences that impacted on the commercial character of the large fan light of coloured glass, The first floor shows theRestaurant, on the north wall, At the corner of Market Lane is lies one of Gibraltar’s four ‘El Anunciador’ was printed Gibraltar’s architects in the old street. and an ornate ceiling. This was large doors through which are two columns of the original a reminder of the church of the synagogues. This is the Ets here from 1885 to 1940. Today 19th century. Parliament Lane got its name once a music hall, the Salon merchandise was winched Spanish Cloister. Whitefriars Convent that stood Hayim synagogue, known it is the Home of the ‘Panorama’ At street level, there was a from the original meeting house Ideal. It was also Gibraltar’s first into the upper store room. The The two 16th century columns on the site. The present building colloquially as the Small newspaper. rhythm of arches: doors and of the freemasons, where they cinema, prior to World War I. original winch can be seen in are in their original position dates from 1899. Note the iron Synagogue. It was founded shop windows. On upper would “parley”. the patio of Sacarello’s and also and indicate the width of the drain pipes. in 1759 and rebuilt after the No 97 floors, there were windows the original water tank for fresh convent’s cloister. destruction of the Great Siege of Up to the middle of the 18th with Italianate shutters, The short western section of No 47 water, La Cisterna. No 83 1779-83. century, the house at the corner reflecting Genoese influence. Parliament Lane shows the Note the yellow tiled facade and This was the house of Jerome of Irish Town jutted out into the Windows were traditionally original street level, which is ornate drainpipes. Smith-Imossi Saccone who was the co-founder square. By order of the Governor, British timber sash windows. well below the height of the new was the agent for the P&O line, of the international wine and it was rebuilt and aligned with Some houses had tiled facades, street that was built immediately when it operated its first service spirits merchant Saccone & the adjoining house to create a reflecting Portuguese influence. behind the parapet of the old to Gibraltar in 1837. Speed. regular square. The Cooperage was in this area. city wall. Saccone also owned a private It was where barrels were bank on this site which was made and repaired. subsequently taken over in 1888 They were critical by the Anglo-Egyptian Bank, a for storage in the fore runner of Barclays Bank. 18th century. MARBLE ARC omega pharmacy CAFE ROXY savills western money Icom union transfer House newton SHOPPING CENTRE is pleased to support this Map of Historic interest members in the UK and Gibraltar raising funds in Irish Town. We organise social events for We Town. in Irish for various projects supporting Gibraltar’s email: [email protected] www.friendsofGibraltar.org.uk www.friendsofGibraltar.org.uk The Friends of Gibraltar 46 Heritage Society POLI C E OFFICE E Irish Town Further info: Heritage. No 122 Nos 27 & 32 No 78 This was the site No 10 These two properties echo one When the property was of the public Of note are the two Regency- another, with their combination redeveloped, the owner of No 65 GIBRALTAR’S BEST GIBRALTAR’S baths. There were style balconies, one above the of tiles and fluted cement opposite bought the space above kitchen tools, cutlery & accessories STOCKED COOKSHOP STOCKED other. When a house was built, separate entrances An extensive range of quality cookwear, An extensive range of quality cookwear, the first floor so that he could BIA pilasters. No 32, the more Tel: +350 200 75188 | [email protected] Tel: for men and women and a the initials of the owners were decorative, was built in 1925 and continue to enjoy a view from sometimes sculpted on the #VISITGIBRALTAR choice of fresh and salt water. has fine Art Nouveau ceramic his upper windows. POLICE OFFICE keystone above the front door, in The site was later taken over No 4 tiles lining the corridor from the this case AL (Angel Lavarello). Irish Place No 92 by the Police Department and The casemates of Orange front door to the spacious patio. The Spanish Consulate General The house is dated 1859. An saw several uses, including the Bastion are on the north side The rhythm of arches at street No 12 was at 3, Irish Place. It closed in ornate metal grille opens into Immigration Department. of the open space. They were level, which was a feature of The image above 1954 when Queen Elizabeth II the patio. It was a typical town No 120 In the 18th century, No 120 The archway leading from Irish built in 1799 by General O’Hara, Gibraltar architecture, is best the shop door is visited Gibraltar. house. The front door had a The redbrick Victorian police was the site of the meat market, SUSHI CURRY & CURRY Town to Fish Market Place who was nicknamed The Cock exemplified by the stretch from of a woman with latch which was opened during station was built in 1859 in the known locally as “The Zoco” bears the letters SCG, Sanitary of the Rock. The battery was No 22 to No 66. a halo. It may Note the tiled facades at 1 Irish the day with a latch key in then fashionable neo-Gothic - hence the name Market Commissioners of Gibraltar, the redesigned in the 1870s to take be intended to Place and 68 Irish Town. They the shape of an inverted T. At style. The cells are off a patio at Lane. All the butcher’s waste forerunner of the City Council. large Victorian guns, which can No 46 represent Saint derive from the Portuguese night the door would have been the back. One famous person was thrown over the nearby It was built in 1903, when the be viewed by going up the steps Behind the first floor winch is Anne, after whom tradition, and are sometimes bolted shut. The fan light above held overnight there for being city walls into the sea. The 30 Parliament Lane, Irish Town Irish 30 Parliament Lane, road was built through the behind No 2, and crossing Line a metal gate leading into the combined with Regency style Tel: 20040932 — Takeaway Available Takeaway 20040932 — Tel: the street was first named. the street door could be opened a vagrant was the author Laurie unhygienic practices resulted in middle of Orange Bastion. Wall Road. original store of the property. iron balconies. Lee. INDIAN & JAPANESE CUISINE INDIAN & JAPANESE to provide ventilation. the market being resited. 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Tel: (+350) 200 65065 58009734 www.attiaslevy.gi L www.montagugroup.com 83 Irish Town, Gibraltar MONTAGU GROUP We shape our buildings, thereafter they us The street prior to Gibraltar The Convent of Santa Clara was abandoned The street in the 20th century becoming British in 1704 by the nuns in 1704, and was converted by THE HISTORY OF IRISH TOWN the British into Bedlam Barracks. When the Irish Town is at the commercial heart of the city of Gibraltar. It has always The bustling commercial Irish Town, in In the period when Gibraltar was Spanish, last of the Mercederians left Gibraltar, the the early 20th century, included tobacco Spanish convent of La Merced was taken over enjoyed a privileged location and is today a bustling pedestrianised zone from 1462 to 1704, the street was known as the and home to a number of interesting shops, restaurants, bars and a coffee factories, coffee roasting works, a music hall which incorporated Gibraltar’s first cinema, Calle de Santa Ana. St Anne was the mother shop. But the street has not always been known by this name. of the Virgin Mary. An image of St Anne was and many shipping offices. The street was venerated in a chapel at the southern end of paved with wooden cobbles. It was a noisy the street, which was enlarged as from 1581 bad for discipline.