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 !