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GREYSTONES ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL VOLUME 8

Images of Greystones

Looking briefly at a handful of images from Derek Paine’s
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1993 book - his first - we immediately encounter a conundrum.
On page 7, Derek has reproduced a Lawrence image which was
photographed from just south of the railway station and which
looks straight up the Church Road.

Three jaunting cars are pulled in tight to the kerb at the front
of the station and a man appears to be leaning with his back to
the side wall of the protruding entrance annexe. Three other men
are in conversation at the other side of the road, adjacent to the
wall of a plot where McFarland’s shop was later built. The
building that became the Railway Hotel, and later Larkin’s, is
unpainted except for a sign that reads ‘Hotel & Refreshment
Rooms’, above and to the left of a single Oriel window in the
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