The model was created last year by Marie Hopkins (pictured above) who moved to the town from Dublin in the 1970s.
The scaled down model displays long-gone outlets run by local families such as Murtaghs, Sextons, Waters, T O’Leary, Foxe’s and Whelan’s Menswear.
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Interestingly, the MP Fleming’s show displays a large advertising banner for The Leinster Leader.
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Also depicted are old delivery bicycles which were used before commercial delivery vans were more popular.
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Jim Connolly of Connolly’s Pharmacy said that the window display has been admired by customers who stop to examine the old shops they may remember from their childhoods.
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Connolly’s Pharmacy, which is located on the corner of Claregate Street and Bride Street, itself has a rich history and started out as a blacksmith’s forge back in the 1600s and was also later used as a pub before its current incarnation as a chemists.