
A Grand view on Trafalgar Road 1950. Colourised by GG.
s the old photos just keep on coming, we’re going through all our archives, in the hope of making them stronger, safer, sexier, and, most importantly, easier
to use.
By having the likes of the harbour, the people, our neighbours and all the other sub-categories blessed with their own pages, it makes it far easier for you, the lazy-ass reader, to find the
specific time-travelling rabbit hole that you’re looking for.
And so it is with this archive of our roads, lanes and dirt tracks.
You can tell a lot about a place by the main street it keeps, and to
see the gradual evolution of Church Road over the years, as buildings increased and trees sadly, if inevitably, decreased, there’s a town growing and growing.
And seeing the people on these roads – these exiles and
ghosts on main street – is revealing too. And heartwarming. These streets belonged to them, just as they now belong to us, and will one day belong to the next generation. And so it goes on, and on…
Let us take you down.
And then left…
And then right, down by the black flag, and on again, up over that humpback bridge…

Church Road postcard. Source: Sean Tierney

Joe Murphy walks his cows, 1960s. Source: Maude Tee

Church Road 1950s

Greystones Railway Hotel 1890 Church Road

Church Road: The Mud Years

Kimberly Road. Source: Unknown

Trafalgar Road with Central Hotel with petrol pumps 1930s

Lewis’s Central Hotel with petrol pump visible

Central Hotel with Ferns & McKenzie’s

Kimberley Road 1924. The Eason Collection colourised

Railway Bridge & Trafalgar Road. Source Unknown

Victoria Road Late 19th Century. Pic Robert French

Church Road Fáilte Ireland Archives

Name That Burnaby Road. Pic Fáilte Ireland Archives

La Touche Place from above. Source Derek Paine

Watson & Johnson crash late 1950s

Car Crash 1930s St Kilian’s Hall (1024×620)

St Vincent Road 1906. Source Derek Paine

Portland Rd 1905, shortly after the Burnaby Estate was completed

Portland Road 1940 Postcard

Grand Hotel in its prime. Source Derek Paine

Grand Hotel Trafalgar Road 1911 Valentine postcard

Trafalgar Road 2007. Pic: John Wilson

Trafalgar Road early 1900s – pre-telephone wires

Trafalgar Road 1906

View over Trafalgar Road from La Touche Hotel

Trafalgar Road Gets The Postcard Treatment

And a little clearer. And architecturally altered.

Trafalgar Road 1910. Source Derek Paine

Marine Road with wooden fence around The Cove Source Derek Paine

Marine Road with wooden fence around The Cove Source Derek Paine

Kindlestown Road meets Applewood. Pic: Luke McGuinness

Trafalgar Road back in its Kodak days. Pic: Luke McGuinness

Victoria Road Pre-War. Pic: Luke McGuinness

Festival time at the harbour! Pic Luke McGuinness

Greystones From Above. Pic: Susan Brambell

Railway Bridge 7th Feb 1999 feat Frank Doyle

Trafalgar Road: The Thatch Years. Source: Patrick Neary

Trafalgar Road. Robert French

Coast Guard Station. Source: NLI

Trafalgar Road Robert French

Trafalgar Road: High Noon

Trafalgar Road High Noon in living colour

Trafalgar Road with Lewis Hotel [right]. Source Derek Paine

Trafalgar Road 1970s Harry Acheson

Killincarrick Road Postcard

Marine Road before the complete wall

Trafalgar Road from Grand Hotel Robert French

Bridge Road Pic Robert French

Army battalion staying at the Clyda Hotel gather, 1940. Source Derek Paine

That proud spire – taken from Bows Lane

View from Holy Rosary spire. Source Derek Paine

Kimberley Road 1925 with Father Murnane and Carnon Lawless

On the way to Killincarrig

Rathdown Road & Jinks Hill 1904

Trafalgar Road Postcard Source Pip Carr

Misses Frost and her chauffeur Albert Archer outside The Firs, New Road Source Derek Paine

Jinx Hill, Rathdown Road claims another victim 1963 Source Derek Paine

Trafalgar Road postcard. Source: Sean Tierney

Burnaby Postcard. Source: Sean Tierney

Trafalgar Road from the Harbour Pic Patrick Neary

Whitshed Road 1905 Pic Patrick Neary

Heading up Killincarrig Road 1970s Pic Gloria Barry

Noir meets Naff on Church Road. Pic: Gary Acheson

Harper’s Dry Clean on Main Street
4 comments
Well done Paul.
Very enjoyable read!
Super, just super, a wonderful collection of photos !!
You’ll find quite a few family photos in our People Power archive…. https://www.greystonesguide.ie/all-the-people-so-many-people/
Great to see so many old photos of past days in The Greystones . I would like to see some family photos it beats having them sleeping in a shoe box under the stairs !