Nuzums and bros

I assume they were open until TCD started taking over the spaces above and their back gardens in the 1960s –

I read somewhere that before the closure of the theatre and a department store that was on the College Green end, the introduction of one way traffic, Pearse Street was a very vibrant shopping street. Look at it now, a funnel for traffic.

There is a newly published book about Pearse Street by Katriona Byrne for the Civic Trust.
Worth having, shame about the Street. It seemed to be the only copy there, cost £8.

I came across it in Hodges Figgis last week and I intended to do a post dealing with it but it went AWOL in the house, – only a clearing up exercise following the Nuzum query turned it up.

It is full of photos, mostly recent ones and draws on the available information. Rather soft on the “unimproving” landlord of much of the street.

Amazingly Nuzum, no 187, is a protected structure. Shopfront from c1905, no date given for ending of trading by Nuzum.

I think I recall them as tarmacadam contractors, but the book suggests coal dealers (a connected business?).