Old Photos of Galway

These photos have been posted elsewhere but I thought I’d throw them up here as well. I saw them on the Galway Museum’s Facebook Page and was blown away by them. Its a collection of shots taken by the late artist and photographer Derek Biddulph in the 80’s and early 90’s that he donated to the museums collection. If you know Galway at all, you’ll find them fascinating

GWAU - WOODQUAY — Woodquay looking onto what is now McSwiggans

GWAY- Bowling green — Bowling Green, where I used to live until last year

GWAY - BRIDGE MILLS — View onto Bridge Mills

GWAY - NEACHTAINS — That is Neachtains on the corner

GWAY - MIDDLE STREET — View of Middle Street. The site in front is now Charlie Byrnes Bookstore

GWAY - HIGH STREET — High Street from outside the Front Door, Looking down to Neachtains

GWAY - SPANICH ARCH — View of the Spanish Arch area. Buildings on left hand side now a Jury’s

GWAY - MAINGAURD ST — Maingaurd St. Building on left is now an Evergreen Health Store

GWAY - KIRWINS LANE — Kirwins Lane before redevelopment. building on the right is now Judy Greene Pottery

GWAY - CROSS ST — Cross Street. The wallpaper shop is now Supermacs.

GWAY - SHOP ST — View down Shop Street

GWAY -SHOP STREET — Looking up Shop Street from Anthony Ryans

GWAY - MOONS — Moons now Brown Thomas off course

August 29, 2012 by John Murphy Categories: MiscTags: galway, Old Photos 5 Comments

5 thoughts on “Old Photos of Galway”

williamlambton says:

Jul 02, 2013 at 1:08 am

I think the view in the shot of Kirwan’s Lane is in part replicated in a painting by Richard Ward, a print of which is currently hanging up in Moyra Manifold’s shop in Flood Street.

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moyra manifold says:

Nov 21, 2015 at 12:05 am

I love all the photos. I think Derek
Biddulph did paintings of all those
places. Galway really has not changed
much.

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- williamlambton says:
  
  Nov 25, 2015 at 11:00 pm
  
  Except the windows, which are all now plastic, with rare exceptions.
  
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Winston says:

Jan 25, 2016 at 9:24 pm

I love these photos there just amazing

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mik says:

Mar 08, 2016 at 4:50 pm

thanks for putting these up John brought back nice memories of my mum especially the one with cars wallpaper shop she used to buy it there

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