Greyabbey
Greyabbey maps (1 available)
Map of County Down
Beautifully hand-drawn and coloured, dating from around 1840
See this old map of County Down
Greyabbey books (1 available)
Did You Know? Belfast - A Miscellany
Hardback
Greyabbey memories
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County Down memories
My little County Down village
Oct.1968 - April 1969
I remember stepping off the Ferry in Belfast from England and meeting my father with my luggage at hand. After loading my suitcases in his car. He treated me to my first Belfast breakfast and I must say it was the best I have ever tasted. We then headed out of Belfast to the coast to the final destination. In the village I was introduced to the Palmers at their boatyard. We would then get the keys to the cottage where we would be renting from them which was just around the corner from the Palmers and just a short walk from the seashore. This wonderful little cottage in this quaint little fishing village was a ...read more here
Mother's home
An amazing photo for me as it shows the house in Bow Street where my mother lived with her parents. In 1929, she was 12 years-old. What a feeling to think my grandparents would have heard the plane passing overhead as it took the photo.
They were Robert and Martha McKibben and their daughter, my mother was Nan (Anne).
robert walker - toronto, canada
A memory of Donaghadee contributed by robert walker
Coffee |Bar Cowboys
After school - Belfast Royal Academy - a liitle gang of us would take the bus down to Royal Avenue and head for the Lombard restaurant in Lombard Street. It was a very comfortable, spacious place, founded by the Ulster Temperance Society and open evenings too, where you could sit as long as you liked, with waitress service, over a cup of tea. It'd be packed with school students in the mid-late afternoon.
Later we transferred our loyalties to Isibeal's coffee bar, down a narrow street opposite the City Hall. It was smaller and quieter there. Matthew and Joyce looked after us and let us sit for hours over that single cup of tea. Van ...read more here
A memory of Belfast contributed by John McMillan
BELFAST-I.O.M. STEAMER,FENELLA 1897
HOLIDAY TO I.O.M. WITH MUM,DAD & ANN.
A memory of Belfast contributed by MICHAEL WHEELWRIGHT