Break out the banjos…
ne of the Guide faithful, Roderick Carlyle has been sending us 
snapshots and memories for a few years now.
ne of the Guide faithful, Roderick Carlyle has been sending us 
snapshots and memories for a few years now.Having spent much of his early years in Greystones, young Rod was always coming up with the odd nugget from the town’s past.
And now the man has delivered something of a goldrush of snaps.
Ernest Paine outside Stanley Carlyle’s Anchor
Having lived “back in the day” in Alberta –Â that white house on the North Beach (with pop Stanley running The Anchor before the mighty Joe Sweeney) –Â in later years, Rod spent his summer holidays staying with his aunt, Mrs Olive Ledwidge, at Kenmare on Trafalgar Road. And 
during that time here, luckily, the Carlyle boy liked to take his camera along as he explored the town.
during that time here, luckily, the Carlyle boy liked to take his camera along as he explored the town.It was Pat Mooney who asked Rod to take some snaps of that year’s Greystones Rowing Club Regatta, even if, recalls our 
snapper, “he looked a little camera-shy once I started taking shots“.
snapper, “he looked a little camera-shy once I started taking shots“.The bulk of those shots were taken in 1974, a few in the two years before – including catching local fisherman Harry Sutton at The Beach House, on a night out with the missus and their daughter, Gladys.
Shots taken “whilst just out for a walk”, all daily Greystones life is here, most of stuck in a moment that most of them would be happily still stuck in today.
So, feast your eyes, you lazy fecks, on these Kodachrome crackers…
