Old Greystones

Antibarney · 20-01-2009 12:57pm

pixbyjohn wrote: »

He who lived on the Turnpike ? Of Hayes & Fitzgerald partnership?[/quote

I couldn't really say, he was just another daft oul' fella to me then.
Of course the Burnaby was buzzing in those days, Martin Cummins, a decent and courteous man, was the manager and his staff were Frank Duffy and Dennis King, both excellent barmen as well.
Broz would have been there with his wife, who was a daughter of one-eyed Jack. Robin Lennon and Francis Mulcahy and probably The " Big Spread " would be holding court. "Ben Gunn" and " Mad Macker " were drinking at the time, maybe with Tom and Normie Evans. " The Sex Bomb" was in his prime then and he would have been with " The Bear " and " Ruggles " who had repainted his " Lunar Module " by then. "Don Donk" would be present, but he was just " Charlie " at that time as would " The Hair ", Gary Byrne and Poor " Boz "( Dessie ).Marshie and Kevin might be down from the mountains and " Peenie " from Kilcoole. Brendan O'Brien and Brian Thompson along with Tono and John C., who would later become Brothers-in-law always seemed to have a gaggle of gorgeous women around them. There would have been a smattering of Fortunes and Clancys around even if the "Clancys" were not playing a gig there ( Remember the Alamo and Shoals of Herring were two of their favourites ).
At closing time you had to watch for whoever was buying a take-out than simply buy your own half-dozen longnecks and follow along, no problem. If they were walking you'd walk after them, if they were driving, you'd all pile in to whoevers car was parked nearest, Drink-driving was compulsary in those days.
Once the session started, John Clarke would invariably appear with his banjo and get stuck into " La Bamba ", his party-piece, Broz's was McAlpine's Fusiliers although in fairness he had a large repetoire.

Just a normal night in the Burnaby, see yis there tomorrow night.

pixbyjohn · 20-01-2009 4:00pm

I remember John Clarke from Blacklion, he used to have a racing car for a short while and raced at Mondello Park. He was always spoofing about cars. One night he went into the Orchard pub in Killincarrig during Moroney's ownership. As he waited at the bar to be served, Tom Moroney asked him what his order was and without letting John answer said " is it a pint of Castrol and a packet of spark plugs ?"

pixbyjohn · 20-01-2009 4:12pm

Vincent from the station and was it Broz who did a marriage of convenience with 2 American girls who wanted to stay in Ireland.
Jack Sutton was famous for being a founder member of An Oige.
The famous Mc Laughlin brothers Marshie and Kevin and the 3rd. Musketeer Kevin Malone. Does Peenie Whelan still wear that hat?

EIGHTEENAGAIN · 20-01-2009 4:31pm

pixbyjohn wrote: »

Bock,Spider,Squib & Cocker

Squib Campbell I remember. Spider & Cocker too, but can't name. Bock, possibly.

A brother of the aforementioned Kit Fields was named "The Gull" - either Mick or Jim.

and Frug or Frog (was it Redmond ?)

EIGHTEENAGAIN · 20-01-2009 4:45pm

pixbyjohn wrote: »

I remember that well. There was a storage place at the end of the Playground shelter where the milk bottle tops were stored. Albert Doyle of Blacklion was one of the pupils who got the job of sorting them.

When Br. Donovan lost his temper, all hell could break loose.

Did Br Donovan achieve his wish to stay in Greystones until he retired, or was he moved on ?

The head was Br "Jack" Callaghan when I was there. He would never answer a question, nor take a message in school hours, unless it was addressed to him in Irish. He always had a posse of Sixth class boys to tend the school garden, which for them was an afternoon of skiving off from lessons.

pixbyjohn · 20-01-2009 5:44pm

EIGHTEENAGAIN wrote: »

Squib Campbell I remember. Spider & Cocker too, but can't name. Bock, possibly.

A brother of the aforementioned Kit Fields was named "The Gull" - either Mick or Jim.

and Frug or Frog (was it Redmond ?)

Pat "Cocker" passed away last week r.i.p.
Bock is a brother of "Scarce"

drag0n79 · 22-01-2009 5:44pm

So has anyone got any decent photos of the area from days gone by?

Antibarney · 22-01-2009 9:22pm

pixbyjohn wrote: »

Pat "Cocker" passed away last week r.i.p.

Which Cocker was that, I never heard.

Antibarney · 22-01-2009 9:25pm

pixbyjohn wrote: »

Does Peenie Whelan still wear that hat?

Don't suppose so, he passed away last year.

Antibarney · 22-01-2009 9:30pm

drag0n79 wrote: »

So has anyone got any decent photos of the area from days gone by?

There were some great ones in the Lifeboat Calendar for this year, Nature's Gold were selling them for a fiver.

pixbyjohn · 22-01-2009 11:08pm

Antibarney wrote: »

Which Cocker was that, I never heard.

Pat Canna

EIGHTEENAGAIN · 23-01-2009 12:03am

pixbyjohn wrote: »

I remember that well. There was a storage place at the end of the Playground shelter where the milk bottle tops were stored. Albert Doyle of Blacklion was one of the pupils who got the job of sorting them.

When Br. Donovan lost his temper, all hell could break loose.

I think St Kevin's opened in 1950 or '51. Before that, the boy's school was opposite where Church Lane meets Kindlestown Road. It was a thatched 2 or 3 roomed building.
(The only other thatched building I recall was the two adjoining cottages at the corner of the junction of the Back Road and Blacklion Road, opposite the coalyard. It was in there I saw my first dead body. I was about five at the time, and nobody thought anything of people dropping in to view the deceased ; this was a gentlemen, but I can't recall who. In those days, Josie Martin the barber had the contract to shave and generally titivate the newly departed men).
But I'm straying a bit.

The old school was left to decay for a couple of years, and then burnt down. The arsonist told me the next day at school what happened.
The previous day he had decided to run away from home, and hid out in the old school. At dark, he grew cold and lit a fire. It took control, so he ran home and left it.
I believe the (as yet) unexposed culprit is still mooching around Greystones

Antibarney · 23-01-2009 12:10am

pixbyjohn wrote: »

Pat Canna

Brendan's brother ? I thought he died years ago.

Antibarney · 23-01-2009 12:14am

EIGHTEENAGAIN wrote: »

Did Br Donovan achieve his wish to stay in Greystones until he retired, or was he moved on ?

I think he was moved on, there's been no Brothers there for years.

Antibarney · 23-01-2009 12:23am

EIGHTEENAGAIN wrote: »

I think St Kevin's opened in 1950 or '51. Before that, the boy's school was opposite where Church Lane meets Kindlestown Road. It was a thatched 2 or 3 roomed building.
(The only other thatched building I recall was the two adjoining cottages at the corner of the junction of the Back Road and Blacklion Road, opposite the coalyard. It was in there I saw my first dead body. I was about five at the time, and nobody thought anything of people dropping in to view the deceased ; this was a gentlemen, but I can't recall who. In those days, Josie Martin the barber had the contract to shave and generally titivate the newly departed men).
But I'm straying a bit.

The old school was left to decay for a couple of years, and then burnt down. The arsonist told me the next day at school what happened.
The previous day he had decided to run away from home, and hid out in the old school. At dark, he grew cold and lit a fire. It took control, so he ran home and left it.
I believe the (as yet) unexposed culprit is still mooching around Greystones

I believe they collected 6d ( sixpence ) a week from all households in the area to help build the school.
Nipper once told me that he well remembered Marty O'Gara, a classmate of his, arriving to school from Kilcoole on horseback.

pixbyjohn · 23-01-2009 12:28am

EIGHTEENAGAIN wrote: »

I think St Kevin's opened in 1950 or '51. Before that, the boy's school was opposite where Church Lane meets Kindlestown Road. It was a thatched 2 or 3 roomed building.
(The only other thatched building I recall was the two adjoining cottages at the corner of the junction of the Back Road and Blacklion Road, opposite the coalyard. It was in there I saw my first dead body. I was about five at the time, and nobody thought anything of people dropping in to view the deceased ; this was a gentlemen, but I can't recall who. In those days, Josie Martin the barber had the contract to shave and generally titivate the newly departed men).
But I'm straying a bit.

The old school was left to decay for a couple of years, and then burnt down. The arsonist told me the next day at school what happened.
The previous day he had decided to run away from home, and hid out in the old school. At dark, he grew cold and lit a fire. It took control, so he ran home and left it.
I believe the (as yet) unexposed culprit is still mooching around Greystones

I think you are confusing the old schoolhouse with the thatched house.
The school house was not a thatched building as far as I know and it was on the Blacklion side of where the thatched cottage was. Actually John Connolly now has a house built roughly where the thatched house was. The schoolhouse was later a shop and between it and where the thatched house was, a family of Lyons lived in a very small 2 story house. I remember Mrs. Lyons , Jack Lyons and his brother Mick Lyons, they were settled travellers and very nice honest people. Jack later married and moved to Delgany, he lived in a house down the Glebe.

Lar Byrne also lived in a thatched house on the Killincarrig side of Crowabbey and there used to be a large stone outside his gate, the stone is now outside Pauline ( wife of the late Danny ) Greene's house

Antibarney · 23-01-2009 9:56pm

Leslie Spurling R.I.P. ( 23/1/09 )

A good man and a bloody good Fisherman.

EIGHTEENAGAIN · 25-01-2009 12:54am

Antibarney wrote: »

Leslie Spurling R.I.P. ( 23/1/09 )

A good man and a bloody good Fisherman.

So, sadly, it is farewell to one of Greystones' first Teddy-Boys.

Leslie, with Shamie and Brendan Sweeney arrived back from England one Saturday morning - must have been '57 or '58 - all togged out in the latest clobber. Drape jackets, drainpipes, red or black shirts with bootlace tie, luminous socks, crepe-soled shoes and Tony Curtis hairstyle. Greystones had never seen anything like them. Munger Doyle's memorable reaction to his first sighting of them was an extra-violent, double shrug, and the comment 'bloody go-boys' - a name which didn't really displease them.

I guess Leslie would have been about 22/23 then - not even a boy - and our paths diverged many years ago, so I only remember the Teddy-Boy working the boats at the harbour.

Now he can get those gladrags on one more time, and join Lonnie on the 'Rock Island Line'

pixbyjohn · 28-01-2009 11:15pm

Jimmy "Podger" Martin, Christy Greene, Cecil Walby, Michael Walby, and the greatest of all Bill Mooney.
And from Delgany : Harry Bradshaw.

MBH · 29-01-2009 4:12pm

We know what happen to you down in Darcy's !!!!

MBH · 30-01-2009 5:39pm

drag0n79 wrote: »

You must be around my age. All of that rings a bell
Especially:
Sponge balls for football in CBS (and at least a couple of matches going on at the same time in the same part of the yard!!). If the ball went out over the white line you had to ask the teacher could you get it. The 3 legged dog, the pitch n'putt, swimming in Pres, fishing from the kish.

Likewise, must be around the same age. To add: Being aloud have lunch in the gaa pitch at back of CBS/Kevins when weather was good - sent us into a frenzie/hyper.
Getting a wet sponge ball in the face - mucky water tastes great!!
Paddy Delaney coming in having a game in the yard in the morning while he was waiting for his school bus to Thomas's bray, everyone was scard sh1tless of him, and then knicking the sponge ball.

Organised matchs between estates - i.e Rathdown Vs Applewood. No one would play Kindlestown - they were too scrared of getting claimed, however they did have the best pitch behind Laurances (it had real posts!!!) a novilty vs jumpers or robbed council cones)

World Cup 90's stickers from Eugenes or o'gradys

Water bombs from forgetmenots corner shop - fill them up at the tap at the convent and then lash them down at people on the beach.

MBH · 30-01-2009 5:47pm

drag0n79 wrote: »

You must be around my age. All of that rings a bell
Especially:
Sponge balls for football in CBS (and at least a couple of matches going on at the same time in the same part of the yard!!). If the ball went out over the white line you had to ask the teacher could you get it. The 3 legged dog, the pitch n'putt, swimming in Pres, fishing from the kish.

drag0n79 wrote: »

With Con O'Suillebháin? And the blue helmets?

The lads went out to hurl while the girls stayed in and knitted

Brilliant - remember that - got a few licks on the shins by some of the less co-ordinated school mates. We had to knit too as far as I remember, weird thing to make a young boy do.

pixbyjohn · 30-01-2009 11:02pm

When the ashpits of the big houses on the Burnaby had to be emptied, Christy Evans of Killincarrig and Ritchie Cox of Crowabbey would be called upon with their horses and dreys to bring the ashes to the old dump on the North beach where the concrete batching plant is now. They were also contracted to draw sea wrack from the beach for the gardens of the wealthy.

drag0n79 · 02-02-2009 8:16pm

Anyone remember the plays we used to have to put on for our parents in St. Laurences & CBS?

bido · 02-02-2009 9:33pm

Peter Murphy from Kilcoole used to clean the chimneys in the Grand Hotel.
Remember the sign on a house on the right just past the Happy Pear it said House agent.
Paddy Connolly used to go fishing with with J A Freeman and would get mentioned in the column in the Newspaper.

villager · 05-02-2009 9:31pm

EIGHTEENAGAIN wrote: »

The Bagman (or Lifter) Whiston lived in Blacklion cottages. His older son John was generally known as Young Bagger.

Michael (Mick) Whiston lived in the Grove, and was better known as Beezie. He was the finest cox (cox'n, coxwain) ever to sit in the stern of the Colleen Bawn and Shamrock. He only ever coxed the senior crew, the members of which included his brother Christy and Slut Redmond. Beezie was a stalwart of the previously mentioned Sunday poker school at Kilian's. There used to be a Solo table there as well, but few played Solo.

The Bat Doyle was (is ?) Ned Doyle who used to work with John Brady in the Forge ...... from Brigid's Park.

The Ringer Reilly trained greyhounds around the East coast tracks, and as the name suggests, he gained an 'unfortunate' reputation, and moved from his origins to a house on Jinks' Hill.

Between Ballygannon Point and Kilcoole station there used to be a mishmash of houses, prefabs and smallholdings set away from the line, and one of them belonged to a family named Scraggs - house & family many year gone, but the position of the house was still known by that name. Tommy Redmond, oldest of that generation of Redmonds, (and reputedly a better boatbuilder than his brother, Willie), always walked the line from Greystones southwards in the Summer to look for signs of fish (trout, mackerel, pollack), and would always tell that he went no further than Scraggs.
Incidentally, it was in another of the houses there by the railway, that JP Donlevy wrote his famous 'Ginger Man'

I knew the Jarvey Evans by reputation, but I can't picture him. Well I remember Cruise Doyle and his horse and carriage. He lived at Redford.

You will remember The Bare-Arsed Bandit, and can you tell me how Boots' Hollow got that name ?

The Christy Whiston referred to above is my father and apparentley his nickname was the bore/boar, not sure which spelling.

wicklah · 06-02-2009 10:38am

MBH wrote: »

Organised matchs between estates - i.e Rathdown Vs Applewood. No one would play Kindlestown - they were too scrared of getting claimed, however they did have the best pitch behind Laurances (it had real posts!!!) a novilty vs jumpers or robbed council cones)

and lots and lots of cow sh*t, remember when we couldn't play for Greystones at darcys for some reason and had to play a couple of games up there!! Run, Splat, Sh*t up the leg

Suppose it's better than it going down the leg..........:D:D

Actually, I think I'm talking about a different pitch, I mean the one up on the top of the hill in kindlestown.

pixbyjohn · 06-02-2009 12:10pm

wicklah wrote: »

and lots and lots of cow sh*t, remember when we couldn't play for Greystones at darcys for some reason and had to play a couple of games up there!! Run, Splat, Sh*t up the leg

Suppose it's better than it going down the leg..........:D:D

Actually, I think I'm talking about a different pitch, I mean the one up on the top of the hill in kindlestown.

Maybe you are talking about the pitch which Orchard United used, that had plenty of cowpaths on it ok. Overlooking Bellevue Heights and Crowabbey.
Who remembers Orchard United when they won the Jubilee Cup. Always fierce rivalry between Orchard Utd. and Greystones AFC.
Mossy Gaskin, Eamon O Reilly, just to mention a couple of the Orchard players.

pixbyjohn · 06-02-2009 12:14pm

Orchard Utd was founded my Vincent Byrne ( of the Rugby club now ) and others when he was Manager of the Orchard Inn, Killincarrig. Now called the Carraig. Nicky Flood owned it then.

pixbyjohn · 08-02-2009 4:28pm

Reminds me of days gone by of snow on the 13th. hill at Greystones golf.

bido · 12-02-2009 12:05am

Remember Authur Archer used to travel on the 84

pixbyjohn · 12-02-2009 6:48pm

bido wrote: »

Remember Authur Archer used to travel on the 84

The bus conductors and drivers used to look after him and made sure he always got home safely.

EIGHTEENAGAIN · 12-02-2009 10:22pm

pixbyjohn wrote: »

The bus conductors and drivers used to look after him and made sure he always got home safely.

Was it a branch of the Archer family who had a builders' supplies business off Church Lane ?

There was a big corrugated iron, Dutch barn type building next to Gusty Gorman's field at the Blacklion end of the Lane.

They used to make their own bulders' blocks in two wonderful machines that were left out on a night.

Marvellous contraptions they were ; all handles and levers and springs and a wheel. We used to play on them when everyone had gone home - making the blocks with any material that was left out

pixbyjohn · 13-02-2009 12:21am

EIGHTEENAGAIN wrote: »

Was it a branch of the Archer family who had a builders' supplies business off Church Lane ?

There was a big corrugated iron, Dutch barn type building next to Gusty Gorman's field at the Blacklion end of the Lane.

They used to make their own bulders' blocks in two wonderful machines that were left out on a night.

Marvellous contraptions they were ; all handles and levers and springs and a wheel. We used to play on them when everyone had gone home - making the blocks with any material that was left out

That is Eric Archer's place, (a former President of Greystones Rugby Club) now the sons run it, Archers glasshouse. As far as I know they are no relation to the famous Arthur Archer of Rathdown road.
Many a concrete block was made there in the past, as there was in the old schoolhouse yard just above there where Applewood Heights is. Gaughan and Mc Nulty made their own blocks for the houses built in the bog between Greystones Nursing home and the Centra (old Shell). Frank Gaughan and his wife owned the nursing home and lived in the gate lodge. Mrs Gaughan was the Matron in the Nursing Home.

EIGHTEENAGAIN · 20-02-2009 11:55pm

pixbyjohn wrote: »

That is Eric Archer's place, (a former President of Greystones Rugby Club) now the sons run it, Archers glasshouse. As far as I know they are no relation to the famous Arthur Archer of Rathdown road.
Many a concrete block was made there in the past, as there was in the old schoolhouse yard just above there where Applewood Heights is. Gaughan and Mc Nulty made their own blocks for the houses built in the bog between Greystones Nursing home and the Centra (old Shell). Frank Gaughan and his wife owned the nursing home and lived in the gate lodge. Mrs Gaughan was the Matron in the Nursing Home.

On an entirely different note : Is there anyone who gets up early in the morning to look for money on the beach after a storm ?
Tommy (Scraggs) Redmond and Danny Wark used to be the masters - they could spot a penny standing on edge at 100 yards, in their heyday.

Pixbyjohn ! Can anyone there in Greystones remember the wreck of mv Bolivar, when the North Beach was full of flotsam, including many barrels of lard, which found their way into half the houses in Redford and Blacklion. I think this was in the late Forties.
The North Beach was a veritable treasure trove for beachcombers following a NorthEast storm - especially good quality timber - and there were always those round glass floats (usually green) that fishermen employed before the advent of synthetic gear. If you had one of those now it would be worth a few quid.

pixbyjohn · 21-02-2009 4:18pm

EIGHTEENAGAIN wrote: »

Tommy (Scraggs) Redmond and Danny Wark used to be the masters - they could spot a penny standing on edge at 100 yards, in their heyday.

Pixbyjohn ! Can anyone there in Greystones remember the wreck of mv Bolivar, when the North Beach was full of flotsam, including many barrels of lard, which found their way into half the houses in Redford and Blacklion. I think this was in the late Forties.
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Danny Wark, A giant of a gentleman, was he a pal of Tommy Moran and the racing greyhounds ? The people who would remember the mv Bolivar are few and far between now. And anyone who does remember are probably not computer users.
I think the houses that were on the North beach in days gone by were eroded by the sea and the families were resettled in the cottages in Blacklion, between the corner going up to the church and the Esso.

Huntthe · 23-02-2009 10:19am

I spoke to a chap the other day who lives down at Ballygannon. He says his Father remembers when they had a 10 acre field on the east side of the tracks !

EIGHTEENAGAIN · 23-02-2009 10:21pm

Huntthe wrote: »

I spoke to a chap the other day who lives down at Ballygannon. He says his Father remembers when they had a 10 acre field on the east side of the tracks !

I don't know about a field, but about a mile south of Ballygannon, and about 25 yards out from the beach at low water, is the wreck of the John Scott. She was lost there in the 1870s (no, I don't remember it personally), but she was some sort of a lugger or barque. I don't suppose there is any trace of the vessel itself, but the cargo of iron-ore will be there forever. Story has it that there was only one survivor, who was washed up on the South Beach.

Windgates · 17-03-2009 4:17pm

I remember Tono from Germany very well. He was friend of my older brother. On one occasion he caused a stir in the bus queue in the Main Street in Bray by pulling up in his big white car (was it a Merc?), jumping out, selecting my mother from the queue, ushing her into the back seat and putting her shopping delicately in the boot. He showed a supreme disregard for the traffic building up behind him. She was still talking about it years later, she always said she felt like a queen that day!

coolagad · 18-03-2009 4:14am

EIGHTEENAGAIN wrote: »

I don't know about a field, but about a mile south of Ballygannon, and about 25 yards out from the beach at low water, is the wreck of the John Scott. She was lost there in the 1870s (no, I don't remember it personally), but she was some sort of a lugger or barque. I don't suppose there is any trace of the vessel itself, but the cargo of iron-ore will be there forever. Story has it that there was only one survivor, who was washed up on the South Beach.

Jaysus lads your giving me great sport this Paddies night as I sit in 26c degrees of heat. Living away now and just googled Beachouse because of the craic we used to have in the bar on a Paddies night and found this thread.

Anyway I remember my Uncle (RIP) said you could see the back of the harbour wall from fields up at the gap bridge.

My father got a present of a goat when he was a kid and grazed it on the clay cliffs. On morning he went down to check and there was the goat hanging dead over the cliff still tethered by a rope anchored just beyond where the cliff had subsided in the night. Devastated he was.

Huntthe · 21-03-2009 9:09am

Windgates wrote: »

I remember Tono from Germany very well. He was friend of my older brother. On one occasion he caused a stir in the bus queue in the Main Street in Bray by pulling up in his big white car (was it a Merc?), jumping out, selecting my mother from the queue, ushing her into the back seat and putting her shopping delicately in the boot. He showed a supreme disregard for the traffic building up behind him. She was still talking about it years later, she always said she felt like a queen that day!

Did that chap fish ? I might remember him.

coolagad · 28-03-2009 5:49am

Huntthe wrote: »

Did that chap fish ? I might remember him.

yep, he had a trawler in the harbour. him and tommy greally snr were the only trawler men for a long while out of there

drkfgk · 28-03-2009 10:41am

Hi there,
I read your post last evening..I spent my summers at LaTouche from about 1967-1978. What a wonderful place. I wish they would restore the hotel back to how it was..I will look for some photos....If anyone knows anyone who worked there during that time I would enjoy contacting them...The staff was like a second family to me!!:)

Huntthe · 29-03-2009 10:59pm

coolagad wrote: »

yep, he had a trawler in the harbour. him and tommy greally snr were the only trawler men for a long while out of there

It was a Merc he drove alright, thought he was from Luxembourg, same difference maybe

pixbyjohn · 30-03-2009 5:14pm

Farewell Wiggy, a gentleman. R.I.P.

Huntthe · 30-03-2009 11:32pm

A good send off today, for a good man.

wicklah · 31-03-2009 10:08am

Which wiggy is this, I know a young enough wiggy < 30 say? Has he passed away?

coolagad · 01-04-2009 3:21am

pixbyjohn wrote: »

Farewell Wiggy, a gentleman. R.I.P.

Heard that, wiggy still spoke like billy connelly even though he'd been in Ireland for yonks! Condolences to his family and the extented Moran family

Taltos · 08-04-2009 5:05pm

I smell a Dunphy here

one of Donnie's younger brothers - the one who had to follow him off the back wall in the mens - but refused the harbour wall when he tore his legs off... And you were right - Patch was an amazing dog.

Don't forget as well
> seafront - used to be 2 way reduced to 1 way during the Summer months
> the weird open loo in the train station, one way to make you feel like a cow
> Flynn's - miss that shop by the cinema
> Circus moving to where the Health Center is now
> Walking or hanging on the harbour wall during the storms
> Bloke being pushed off the harbour to the scream - he can't swim; rescued by C. Ryle I think, not that I pushed him - honest
> David's - first co-ed after segregated primary and being tongue tied around the girl you liked the most - never did get the guts to tell her, just used to make faces and copy her etches of U2

> Being on the David's soccer team that got trounced 11-0 on it's second and final game - that's what happens when your training session is mainly spent praying - mentioning no names here
> Rope slide in La Touche park - brilliant until it snapped and dumped someone on a hidden bumper
> Top field near Blacklion - great for blackberry's and hideouts as kids
> La Touch park in the snow - watch out for those door-bells & the eggs
> Great snowfall of the 80s - think everyone must have had a spill on the golf course
> Man I really miss the board at the men's
Hey who was that bloke that dived off at low tide in a wet suit and snorkel and mask - hit his head and came up with the eternal quote "There's something hard down there"
> Donny only got so good with the eggs as he had younger brothers to practise on

- we in turn got good at dodging

SBB ina shui wrote: »

The Turnpike....handy for a trip home for lunch or a holding hands session with your latest missus....the lane down to Castle Clare nursing home...for a bit of the other maybe....

Pascal down the old Shell Station.....gentleman

Sandra O'Neill on the New Road.......maybe I'm on my own on that one...the nicest looking red head in the country.....well in John Galvin....

Donncha McGowan (Smith) on Rathdown Road,the only man who could throw an egg ~200 yards at Halloween time,and still hit his target....

String Wynn.....

The Moodys on Rathdown Hill....

If I had a penny (cent) for every character I knew in Greystones....

Joe Sweeneys for Pac Man and Defender....Ronan's current wife was a beauty back then...well in Ronan Sweeney...

Johnny McGrain doing the horse commentry in where Danns is now....part of The Old Beach House...

I think Jerry Fallon always asked us when we were coming down to start playing rugby...gas,his daughter and the Irish Dancing....brilliant...

My four legged Legend 'Patch',the Lynch's dog 'Bite', the most placid animal...Lord Have Mercy on Philip 'Flea' Lynch....

The Greens of Crowe Abbey.....all True Legends.....

Mick McGowan with the tartan threads and Doctor martin boots in Saint Davids.....70's,when punk rock was doing the rounds....

The Vickers,The Broughans and The Monaghans.....Animal Lennon.....Noel Scully....all Legends....

I feel a reunion coming on.......

Saturday 20th in the Beach House......anyone game ball....

sagat · 12-05-2009 10:00pm

Was thinking of this today or at least failing to think of this. The shopping area between Frank Clarke and the Hungry Monk, where the royal Park and Book shop are, what was there before that was built? I have no memory of the location before it went up. Keep thinking it was the kennels but weren't they in the spot now occupied by Super Value? A picture would be great if anyone has one.

Old Greystones

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