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Paddy Carmody and his wife Margaret showed great enterprise when starting a bakery known as the ''Wonder Bakery' in their premises in Charles Street in the early 1950s.

Cattle fair in Listowel Square, 1904. It's clear from this photograph that the Square was the commercial hub of the town in those days.

Photograph of a Charles Street / Colbert Street group in the 1950s.

The barracks of the Royal Irish Constabulary was in Church Street on the site of the old Bridewell.