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Photos of The Burnaby

A selection of images of the estate and the people behind it — postcards, archive photographs and a few modern mornings. Click any photo to see it larger.

Photographs and captions courtesy of The Greystones Guide.

Burnaby light — bicycles on a sunlit Burnaby road, April 2021.
The grass is greener — the young estate photographed by Robert French.
The blueprints — the original map of Burnaby Estate building lots.
Portland Road in 1905, shortly after the Burnaby Estate was completed.
Portland Road, from a 1940 postcard.
St Vincent Road in 1906. Source: Derek Paine.
Whitshed Road in 1905. Pic: Patrick Neary.
Black & white — snow on Whitshed Road, March 2018.
Burnaby Park Cottage, colourised by The Greystones Guide.
Burnaby Park, from a colourised vintage postcard.
Burnaby Park seen from the railway line. Era unknown.
A vintage postcard view of The Burnaby.
Burnaby Estate, Greystones — from the Lawrence Collection.
The Burnaby signal, from a 1907 postcard.
Killincarrig Road, from an old postcard.
Heading up Killincarrig Road in the 1970s. Pic: Gloria Barry.
Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed, whose idea the estate was.
Lizzie on horseback at Killincarrig Farmhouse, now Greystones Golf Club.
Captain Sir St Vincent Hawkins-Whitshed, Elizabeth's father.
Staff of the Burnaby Estate in its earliest years.