Photo quiz: how well do you know Ballinasloe?

[damomac]

Today I was handed this old photograph by OAP, a user on this forum. He asked me to upload the photo here and to have a quiz about it. The questions are:

1. Where was this photograph taken?
2. Who are two men standing outside the shop?
3. Who's standing in the doorway?

All will be revealed in due course!

[Solaris]

It's hardly Connelly's  butchers on Main St.? Just a guess based on the slope of the path to the left.

[queen vic]

photo taken in society street about 85 years ago
man on the left the late jimmy kelly man on the right the late bill greene
lady in the door way with child is bill's wife rita and daughter pauline
im a 1000% sure of this information !!!

[DEV]

Come to think of it ..when Green's were the "Easons of Ballinasloe" selling everything for the school boy /girl ,plus the papers
there was those steps up into the shop

[Solaris]

man on the left the late jimmy kelly

Which Jimmy Kelly was this? My grandfather was Jimmy Kelly, formerly a butcher, he lived in Beechlawn. It doesn't look like him in the photo, though I haven't seen many pictures of him when he was young.

[Pat Joe Guinnessy]

Dev i think this Greens shop mightbe on Richards side of the street.Just a hunch .

[Skinner]

I'd be inclined to go along with PatJoe on this one!

[DEV]

Yes patjoe&skinner you are right on that one Mc Kees shop would have been the place

[Pat Joe Guinnessy]

The late Jimmy Kelly R.I.P. might be misrepresented by a gentleman called Crosby maybe Jack and dev your revised opinion of the location would  be, in my opinion  more accurate.

[OLD TOWNIE]

I would consider the late Terry Crosby's butcher' shop as this location.

[RED BARON]

would anyone have a photo of divillys shop on dunlo street from say 1925 up to 1930. with the staff that worked in it. i believe they sold eggs and other goods. the reason is my grandfathers brother worked there and got some disease from the shop and died in 1931 at the age of 16. would love to now what he looked like.
thanks

[RED BARON]

would the local historians have any idea who this man is or know anything about him . i believe his name is grant  and the photo was taken on victoria st in ballinasloe. i believe victoria street is between grenhams garage and the shop that was  divilly's now an off licence.
thanks

[creaghawk]

it must be time damomac put us out of our misery nobody is posting now so must have run out of ideas

[DEV]

I wonder if it was O,Connors ?pub back then and was it a grocery/pub?. I only remember it from the outside as I would have been too young to be served(6 or 7) Divillys had a shop across the road before buying O'Connors ?(I think it's a hairdressers now) beside where the library once was?

would anyone have a photo of divillys shop on dunlo street from say 1925 up to 1930. with the staff that worked in it. i believe they sold eggs and other goods. the reason is my grandfathers brother worked there and got some disease from the shop and died in 1931 at the age of 16. would love to now what he looked like.
thanks

[damomac]

OK, here's what I've been told:

The photo was taken outside Greene's butchers on Society Street, where Gerry Bruen's office (once McKee's) is now located.

The man on the left is Jack Crosby (an uncle to Pat Crosby who had a butcher's shop three doors down.

The man on the right is Willie Greene, an uncle of Richard Greene who still lives next door.

The woman in the doorway is Rita Tapley, wife of Willie Greene, and the little girl beside her a daughter. Someone below identified her as Pauline.