Amazing to see my old house when I lived there and the streets I played in .....made me feel quite nostalgic...sad and pleased at the same time. How many others paused the vid and stared at their old haunts as a child. lol Absolutely brilliant to see, well done sir, for preserving those memories. I'm so pleased I clicked this.
I was a porter in the Belgravia Hotel in 1969. The head porter was called Burton. It was around then coaches of tourists stopped and the troubles kicked off. One of my jobs was to check behind the curtains of the ground floor bay windows at night in case of fire bombs. The Richardson sisters ran it then.
@@paulbrowne5049 Paul, I think it was the Belgravia Hotel, which was situated on Ulsterville Avenue. It has been knocked down now I believe and there are apartments or flats on the site which were built in the mid 80s.
@@paulbrowne5049 late reply here. As Stephen Smith says, the Belgravia hotel. I think it was described as a ' private hotel'. Quite a few older permanent residents. I lived quite near in Eglantine Avenue in the 70s (oddly had a couple of smaller hotels also, can't think where their business came from!)
one of my teachers back60s, 70s, had grown up in one of those Georgian houses in Joy St, she was always telling us off for our bad manners, always on about etiquette, but one thing that had us all puzzled was how a man came round each morning to take away the night sand, only when I was very much older I learnt it was the emptied chamber pots!! There's one of the old houses in Wellington Place, left side below Queen St, grey, an interior designer's set up shop in it I asked if I could come in to take a look, it's a wow!! place, like the ones who have survived in Dublin
i grew up in Lindsay street ,we never noticed how bad things were back then . Thankfully the district of Donegall Pass was completely modernised in the 80's .You'd pay a small fortune for all that Belfast brick . Great video Thanks
I don't know about Golden Memories. I grew up in an area of North Belfast not unlike this. For every house that was kept clean and respectable there was another that was in its final stages of decay. 9:34 And this was when a packet of cigarettes cost 46p.
Borne in Ballymena Street of oldpark road in 63, watched whole street get destroyed as we prods moved out spent at the rest of my childhood years in Southport st down the toad at the end only 10 houses were occupied out of roughly 80 i called it no man's land was an extremely violent interface !!!!!!
@@johncheevers2050 they've built new houses there now. The place is full again. Southport Street that is. No idea about Ballymena Street. That's enemy territory now!
@@paulbrowne5049 Ballymena St and the other Bally streets became known as the Bally bone used the get our buses attack regularly coming down the oldpark road from the boy's model, never made the news though !!!
I think it's Eine Kline Naught Musik. My dad loved that music in the 60s/70s. Brings back great memories of him putting it on the record player turntable ☺
