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THE GLEN – PENROSE LANE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This photograph dates from my 2016 visit to the city and at the time this pub did not really catch my attention however I photographed it again in 2021 and it was still unoccupied and today I checked on Google Maps and it still appears to be unoccupied but of course Google might be out off date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penrose Lane was known locally as Dennys Lane and it was the scene of the 1896-67 Pig strike. Pig traders\/buyers based in the Ballybricken area had a local monopoly on buying from farmers in order to supply local bacon producers but the factories began to buy direct from the producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the middle of the 19th Century, around 75% of the Irish pork products imported into London were coming from Waterford. The City and its surrounds were at that point huge manufacturers of sausages and bacon, largely due to the Denny\u2019s factory, a family business passed from generation to generation. Denny\u2019s still exists today but the factory in Waterford shut in March 1972 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As already mentioned there is a lot of unoccupied property or derelict sites in Waterford and the more I visit the more that I have become aware of. In October 2016 it was reported that the Showboat had been sold and that it would reopen in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September 2019 local publications reported that Waterford City & County Council was set to act ‘aggressively’ on Waterford’s well-known vacant pub sites. The specifically mentioned The Showboat and the Halfway House and Grand Hotel Tramore sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n