Tag Archives: Bray

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The ‘Brandy Hole’ tunnel, Bray Head, Co Wicklow

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

Formerly part of an immensely deep cavern open to the sea at the front and connected to the ground above by a complicated network of secret passages, into which smuggling vessels could sail and unload their contraband.
The smuggling trade was a key source of income for 18th century Bray residents – the occasional skirmish aside, their activities went largely ignored by the Revenue, possibly due to bribes.
The most successful smugglers were a mother and daughter team who lived in a cottage beside the Head. Of considerable enterprise and determination, and always heavily armed, they amassed sufficient fortune from their operations to retire on the profits…

Great times.

Pic: Robert Ffrench, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland

For the week that’s in it.

Dublin mods on the seafront in a town called Malice Bray, Co Wicklow in the Summer of 1980, in search of ‘purple hearts’ and greasy rockers.

P-p-p-people tried to put them d-down.

Etc.

Pictures by Martin Maguire via 80sModRevival

Yesterday: They’re Tearing Down The Amusements In Bray

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

Nevermind.

Maybe the best basketball net in Europe is still there?

Bray, Co Wicklow, today.

To make way for a car park, predictably.

Mose writes:

They’re tearing down Dawson’s amusements. Well the old abandoned shed that used to be amusements. But they’re tearing it down and it’s a sad day.

Rigged ‘penny falls’, chips and post-Waltzer vomiting.

Good times.

Update: in colour: