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My mum worked as a maid at the Finnegans house “Verdella”.
Any idea who the Finnegans were?
You forgot the lá touché shop
Might that just be because we don’t have a photograph of The La Touche Shop. Do you have one…?
Scuffils . Rendezvous . O’Donoghue’s.
John Flynn’s. Pat Flynn’s.
Hazel Archer’s amazing coffee shop on La Touche Place…. she was light years ahead of the posse! TV shop on La Touche Place. Power’s. Paraphernalia!
Duette ( first ’boutique in Greystones ?) then became a record shop … then Roy Fallon’s Italian delicatessen, then Vintage La Touche, then Something Nice ice creams…now BRISK.
Just a few more to add.
There was a shop on Trafalgar Road that I remember ( from the 60s) ..it sold lingerie! It was on the left , before the doctors’ surgery, heading down to the harbour.
And…..Pennycooks. …and the shack shop as you walked along the South beach….and ‘the temple of urine’ with its little shop!?!?!
Memories.
Have you thought about opening a detective agency? Scuffils is there, and O’Donoghues, and Flynn’s, and the South Beach shack shop, and Pennycooks too, twice. We’re jumping back more than 10 years basically, for Ye Olde Shops, but hey, we’ll include Paraphernalia. Was that formerly Hazel Archer’s amazing coffee shop, then a TV shop, then Power’s…? Or was that a different location on La Touche Place?
If you have pics of these and any others, do send them over. That’s how a photo gallery of old shops works. We need a pic to include.
Would love to include that lingerie shop! Yowsa!
Great photos that bring back so many memories, even to a blow-in like myself. I bought my first pair of jeans in Ferns while on a summer waitressing job at Carraig Eden. Well, I say ‘summer’ – we only lasted three days, but that’s another story!
Greystones has changed a lot over the years . Muffins was my favorite place to go in between leaving cert exams and the sweet/toy shop on the opposite side of the street , can’t think of the name now.
Love greystones I grew up there all my mothers family live there my grandad willy redmond made the rowing boats for the fishermen in his yard in his house in bethal house down the harbour… I love greystones and love returning to my home place to visit I’ve many memories
Why not post pics of the Copper K?
We need a pic of The Copper Kettle, that’s why.
No love for the Thrift Shop on La Touché Place? For shame!
Good man, Phil. The problem is, to post a picture, you first need the picture. So, go get one of The Thrift Shop. And we’ll post it.
Woodyards…… stephen? Did you go to St Patrick’s national school?
What about the Copper Kettle ( cakes while skipin’ mass) and O’Donohues Foodmarket or Pats up at Grattan Park and Burke’s in Blacklion and the Thrift Shop and then the little newspaper shop at the train stn.
We’ll give you two answers to choose from, Conor…
Answer A) We deliberately avoided posting those particular shops in our round-up.
Answer B) We don’t have any pics yet of the shops you’ve just listed.
Hmmm, I wonder which one might be the right answer…?
That’s my aul one outside Charlie’s!
Lovely seeing my Grandmother’s shop Edwards & Co. where O’Briens is now. Dad told me they used to mix their own tea and import tins of Devonshire clotted cream from her relatives farm in the UK. Keep the memories coming Pablo!
Ehat about Josie Martin’s barber shop
Good man, Brendan – it’s all about finding the shots. Given that these shops are no longer there. So, that’s your project for the coming year – go find a photograph of Josie Martin’s barber shop and send it in. Simples.
Just wanted to say that fantastic photo taken in Frank Clarkes with my Dad Jim Keelty, Delgany, My life long friend, Val Coucheman told me about it and about this website, OMG so so many memories. Will be checking in now every week. Well Done Paul Byrne, Paul I have so Many funny memories of you in St. Davids School, Greystones alll I can say Paul is ANOTHER B. RICK IN THE WALL.
Leo harmon had a fruit and veg shop where brooke and shoals is now. An mrs scuffels shop was where the pet shop close to the station was. Cannot remem whats tbere now.
Brilliant good heart lots missed is greystones alway beautiful
I worked in Doyle’s about 1957 my father Patsy Greene worked in Scott’s chemists my mother Nelly Greene worked cafe marina Mrs Pennycooks