Bray crossroads, last Thursday
verybody needs good neighbours, and Greystones is blessed with some of the very best.
How can you not love a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it village like Killincarrig? Or the majestic Delgany – even if it is slowly turning into Dalkey Lite?
Add in Glen Of The Downs, Kilcoole, Wicklow, Newcastle and – gulp! – Bray, and bejiggers, we’re surrounded by all kinds of beauty. And history.
As our main Old Greystones Pics archives started to buckle under the sheer weight of photographs we’ve unearthed from near and far, we decided it might be wise to start breaking them down into digestible sub-categories. And so it is that you can splash around the Old Harbour, take a stroll 
through the Old Shops, stopping off for a pint in one of our Old Hotels, or just have a chat with some old folk in our People Power section.
There are many more, all waiting for you in the drop-down menu from that Olde option. For now though, let’s throw our arms 
around those good neighbours.
Besides the photographs below, you may want to check out our archives on Bray, Delgany, Kilmacanogue, Killincarrig, Kilcoole, Newcastle, Enniskerry and Wicklow Town, as well as Pathé News footage of Delgany here, or the Great Snow of ’82 here. Oh, and if you feel like taking a stroll down through Delgany’s Blind Lane, or through the Glebe, you can do that here agus here.
Glen Of The Downs 1835
N11: The Early Years
Killincarrig Rush Hour
Lodge at Killincarrig Crossroads. home to Bridget & Michael O’Reilly, head shepherd for the Burnaby Estate
Thatched Cottage, Bellevue Hill, Delgany
Wicklow Circa 1910
The road to Enniskerry 1890
Enniskerry bound, I be bound…
Welcome To Enniskerry 1870
Enniskerry postcard. Source Unknown
Kilmacanogue Post Office Source Uknown
Roundwood 1800s with Kean’s Hotel left and The Prince Of Wales hotel right
Rocky Valley living… Source: Derek Paine
Newcastle Hospital Postcard
Blackberry Lane The Stereo Pairs Photog
The view for the man sitting above #2: Delgany Village
Killincarrick Castle. Last Tuesday.
Early taxi service outside The Horse & Hound, Delgany Source Derek Paine
Glen Of The Downs 1794 Jonathan Fisher Colourised
Glen Of The Downs Colourised
Glen Of The Downs Etching Colourised
Glen Of The Downs & Delgany postcard. Circa 1970. We reckon.
Glen of The Downs 1867
Glen of The Downs 1870s
Glen Of The Downs 1880 Source: Patrick Neary
Glen Of The Downs – 19th Century Rush Hour
Glen Of The Downs Postcard 1918
Glen of The Downs postcard – colorised, baby
Glen Of The Downs Sugarloarf Robert French
Glen Of The Downs Vintage Postcard
Glen Of The Downs vintage postcard
Glen Of The Downs Octagon Distance Source Patrick Neary
Now, that’s a grand day, to be sure, to be sure…
The Sugar Loaf from another angle. Not sure which. Source: Roaringwater Journal
Delgany Bus on Trafalgar Road 1964
Carmelite Monastery Delgany RP Postcard by MK O’Connor May 1921
La Touche cottage, Glen Of The Downs
Glen Of The Downs Robert French
Glen Of The Downs Roundabout Site 1970s Harry Acheson
Glen Of the Downs Bellevue Woods Harry Acheson
Glen Of The Downs Postcard Pic Patrick Neary
Glen of The Downs steel engraving 1850 by WH Bartlett Pic Patrick Neary
Tom ‘The Horn’ Byrne & his wife outside Templecarrig Lodge 1880
Kilcoole Before Those Fancy Traffic Lights
Ireton’s Kilcoole outlet
A Kilcoole Shopping Spree
Entrance to Brittas Bay
Brittas Bay Vintage Postcard 2
Brittas Bay Vintage Postcard
2 comments
An amazing collection of Delgany photographs, thanks to the great William Lawrence, Robert French, and local man my Friend the late Derek Payne. I was privileged to live in Delgany 1966 with my late wife Evelyn nee Evans from nearby Killincarrig. We rented Spencer Somers ground floor and would marvel at the regular Saturday spectacle of the full liveried Horses and Hounds off for the hunt, parade right through the village. Lovely to see Christ Church where we were married January 1966, Very fond nostalgic memories of beautiful Delgany.
Love the old photos, makes me fair homesick! Mind you, the massive changes make it all ‘rose tinted!’