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PHIL GRIMES BAR Mapped

60 JOHNSTOWN, WATERFORD

Address60 JOHNSTOWN, WATERFORD
CountyWaterford
EircodeX91 AF10
Licence refWTP0092

Community memory

Memory archive

Boards.ie memory links Phil Grimes Bar with regulars and characters, old memories, music and sessions, stories and gossip and local colour. PubHub V1 treats this as published forum memory: not a settled fact, but a linked record of what people said, remembered, joked about, or claimed online.

Regulars and charactersOld memoriesMusic and sessionsStories and gossip

28 source leads · 2002-2016

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Community memory

Memory archive

Boards.ie community memory

Characters and room texture

Forum room note

“alot of the old regulars have left grimes due to toms running of the pub. shambolic at times..... closing bar early on...”

Pool Tables in pubs · 2010

Forum memory, linked to the source thread. Request a rewrite, refresh, or removal if the wording or match is wrong.

Archive time depth

2002-2016

14 years of archive-metadata distance across 28 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

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Full Boards.ie archive, story leads and sourcesKept on the page, collapsed so rich pubs do not run for screens.

Flagship memory draft

Phil Grimes Bar: Boards.ie memory worth building out

Boards.ie gives Phil Grimes Bar a useful forum-memory trail around characters and regulars, old memories, music and sessions, stories and gossip and local colour. PubHub is treating it as linked public memory, not settled fact.

The archive has 28 readable signals for Phil Grimes Bar, with enough repetition to make this a good candidate for a fuller memory page. The useful material is the pattern: what people returned to, joked about, remembered, or argued over.

The character lane is active here: 15 signals point toward regulars, staff-memory, crowds, roles, and room texture. PubHub should keep private people protected while preserving the sense of the room.

The source trail currently preserves 28 unique Boards.ie URLs for review. The dated archive span visible on the page is 2002-2016.

Generated V1 flagship draft. Before turning this into stronger editorial copy, open the linked sources, check pub identity, and keep corrections/removals easy.

Boards.ie editor brief

Readable memory note

Boards.ie gives Phil Grimes Bar a source-linked forum-memory trail around regulars and room characters, old memories, music and sessions, stories and gossip and oddities and local colour, with 28 readable signals preserved for review. The character lane adds 15 room-texture signals, pointing to regulars, crowds, roles or recurring pub talk without treating forum memory as verified fact.

28 readable signals 15 character signals
charactersmemorymusic and sessionsstoryoddities and colourrituals and customs

This is an editor brief from source-linked forum memory. It is not a verified pub fact, and sensitive private-person claims stay out of public copy.

Stories and local colour

Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

The archive has 28 readable signals for Phil Grimes Bar, with enough repetition to make this a good candidate for a fuller memory page. The useful material is the pattern: what people returned to, joked about, remembered, or argued over.

story gossip

What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Phil Grimes Bar 28 readable forum-memory signals around regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories and odd details, local colour, and the stray fragments that make the page feel lived-in. This is not verified pub history; it is a mapped trail of what people said online and where PubHub can go next for local colour.

Source-linked story leads

  1. Venues in Waterford

    2002 · memory, story, story preface

  2. Pubs that Serve Craft Beer

    2013 · characters, story, oddities and colour

This is labelled forum memory: useful gossip, local claims and colour from source-linked public discussion, not PubHub treating the claims as settled fact.

PubHub read of the archive

What the Boards.ie trail is useful for

These cards turn the raw forum trail into practical page leads: gossip, character texture, time depth, source depth, and review warnings where the match pattern is broad.

story_gossip

What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Phil Grimes Bar 28 readable forum-memory signals around regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories and odd details, local colour, and the stray fragments that make the page feel lived-in. This is not verified pub history; it is a mapped trail of what people said online and where PubHub can go next for local colour.

v1 forum memory

characters

Characters and room texture

The character lane has 15 signals for Phil Grimes Bar: regulars, staff-memory, crowds, habits, or the social feel of the room. PubHub keeps this as labelled forum memory and uses source review before turning any named-person fragment into stronger copy.

v1 forum memory

time_depth

Archive time depth

Phil Grimes Bar has 28 dated source leads from 2002 to 2016, giving the page a 14-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

archive context

source_depth

Source trail

PubHub has 28 unique Boards.ie source URLs tied to this pub-memory record. Each public lead stays linked so corrections can point to the exact forum source.

source preserved

Story leads

Best Boards.ie memory leads

Phil Grimes Bar has 28 readable Boards.ie memory signals around regulars and characters, old memories, music and sessions, stories and gossip and local colour. The strongest current lead points into "Pool Tables in pubs"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories. The character lane is especially useful here, with 15 regulars-or-room-texture signals.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. Pool Tables in pubs

    2010 · characters, memory · lead score 136

  2. Dunmore road inns ltd insolvent.

    2008 · characters · lead score 129

  3. Venues in Waterford

    2002 · memory, story, story preface · lead score 127

  4. Pubs that Serve Craft Beer

    2013 · characters, story, oddities and colour · lead score 126

  5. Live music in Waterford City?

    2010 · characters, music and sessions · lead score 122

Characters and room texture

  1. Pool Tables in pubs

    2010 · characters, memory · lead score 136

  2. Dunmore road inns ltd insolvent.

    2008 · characters · lead score 129

  3. Pubs that Serve Craft Beer

    2013 · characters, story, oddities and colour · lead score 126

  4. Live music in Waterford City?

    2010 · characters, music and sessions · lead score 122

  5. Pubs that Serve Craft Beer

    2004 · characters, story, oddities and colour · lead score 122

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

Phil Grimes Bar has 28 readable Boards.ie memory matches around regulars and characters, old memories, music and sessions, stories and gossip and local colour. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

V1 source

Boards.ie readable-first raw review queue

Memory shape

Regulars and characters, old memories, music and sessions, stories and gossip and local colour

Correction loop

If the page is wrong or unfair, use the correction path and PubHub can update or remove it.

V1 shows linked forum memory and local talk as memory, not as PubHub fact-checking.

Regulars and characters

Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.

Old memories

Boards.ie memory links this pub with older recollections, changed habits, former routines, or remembered visits.

Music and sessions

Boards.ie memory links this pub with music, sessions, singing, gigs, or pub-night rhythm.

Stories and gossip

Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.

Archive source trail

Where this memory trace comes from

These are linked Boards.ie leads from pre-2026 discussion. PubHub V1 shows the linked trail as forum memory and uses the correction path for bad matches, missing context, or pages that need checking.

  1. 1
    Recommendation for a Boozer on Saturday night

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  2. 2
    Byob partys/ alternative drinking places

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  3. 3
    After Hours, one and only Queen thread

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  4. 4
    Waterford City Event Guide

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  5. 5
    Waterford City Event Guide

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  6. 6
    Driving test

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  7. 7
    Galway hooker craft beer

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  8. 8
    Galway hooker craft beer

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  9. 9
    Galway hooker craft beer

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  10. 10
    Galway hooker craft beer

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  11. 11
    Pubs that Serve Craft Beer

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  12. 12
    Pubs that Serve Craft Beer

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  13. 13
    Pubs that Serve Craft Beer

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  14. 14
    Pubs that Serve Craft Beer

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 84

  15. 15
    Remember Hoffmans

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  16. 16
    Dunmore road inns ltd insolvent.

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  17. 17
    Venues in Waterford

    2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  18. 18
    Comedy Cartel Roadshow

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  19. 19
    Waterford Bands

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  20. 20
    Pool Tables in pubs

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  21. 21
    Overheard in Port Láirge

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  22. 22
    Lack of live music venue

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  23. 23
    Best Waterford pubs

    2016Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  24. 24
    Live music 12th/13th April?

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  25. 25
    Planning a permanent move to Waterford

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  26. 26
    Planning a permanent move to Waterford

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  27. 27
    Live music in Waterford City?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 87

  28. 28
    O Emporer

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

Boards.ie forum memory

Boards.ie memory links Phil Grimes Bar with regulars and characters, old memories, music and sessions, stories and gossip and local colour. PubHub V1 treats this as published forum memory: not a settled fact, but a linked record of what people said, remembered, joked about, or claimed online.

Source links

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Boards.ie sprint target

Next memory action for this pub

This pub is in the current Boards.ie Memory Productization Sprint. The goal is to turn useful forum traces, gossip, characters, regulars and source leads into readable public memory without treating them as verified facts.

Flagship editorial polish source checked editorial polish Score 327 flagship_editorial_polish-04
charactersmemorymusic and sessionsstoryoddities and colourrituals and customs

Operator next step

Open the source links and turn the strongest themes into tighter, readable page copy without overclaiming.

Make the page feel alive without overclaiming: name the recurring themes, describe the room texture, and invite corrections or extra memories.

Browse the full lane on the Boards.ie sprint board.