Stories from a Small Town is the anecdotal history of a little Irish town by the sea, Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and virtually invented by the railway when the Dublin track to Bray was extended to Wicklow in 1855. Characters... Among those who tell their story to the author are a parlour-maid, plumber and fireman; carpenter, farmer and garrage owner; a judge, milkman and second world war mid-turret gunner shot down in flames over Germany to spend the rest of the war as a prisoner.