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GREYSTONES ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL VOLUME 8

Back to Greystones Harbour - interrogating the image

In regard to Greystones, the familiarity with the roads and
houses that I absorbed in my young days doing paper rounds
from the age of eight or nine for my Grandfather John McKenzie,
and selling hanks of fish, crab and lobster door to door through
the summer months, was an invaluable asset as I started to re-
scan Derek Paine’s photographs – to interrogate them as it were
– even though it is fifty years since I got married and moved
away. That old familiarity returned and I began to see in them
features I had skipped past when first I acquired Derek’s books
in the nineteen nineties and later.

A handful of photographs that were taken at or about the
harbour and that are scattered through the various volumes were
of particular interest. It seemed to me that they were part of a
series that had been photographed over a succession of days;
which somehow made me think that they might therefore reveal
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