6.11 Chapel Lane, St. Mary’s Chapel the first Catholic place of worship in Belfast, built with the help of funding from the Presbyterian and COI communities for their fellow Christians to worship in.
My grand father told me stories of walking to work in the mill in his bear feet in the snow , he was just a boy . Everyone was poor, it didn’t mater if if you were catholic or Protestant. People just trying to put food on the table get work and look after their families. I’m so proud to be from Belfast . Thanks for these memories.
@@karenbrowne5800Easy mistake to make Karen. After being caught out myself a few times, particularly by words that are spelled differently depending on what you’re referring to, I stick the sentence into google to get the correct spelling, if I’m unsure. Greetings from the south, by the way.
Heartbreaking stuff this is especially 90 percent of the beautiful people would have past on since!!!! They poor people had nothing only the clothes on their back and they helped each other just to try and survive god bless them for the hardships they had and the troubles made things even harder for them all))) Most of These people didn’t have a tv they might have a we radio nothing special!!! Nowadays the kids have the lot WiFi internet Facebook £1000 pound fones Which some of them are not satisfied with and want more more etc etc etc
This could be any industrial city in the UK or Ireland during that period. This wasn't confined to Belfast....social housing, low paid employment and amenities were not fit for purpose in those days, for many cities.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this looks like Currie Street which runs of Irwin Street in the Pound Loney. The houses on the other side of the wall where the gate is are in Albert Street.
POVERTY! - POVERTY! - POVERTY! - POVERTY! - POVERTY! - POVERTY! - and yet more POVERTY! - and yet the music was sentimental? For all that poverty the few lived in luxury. Bastards!
certainly interesting, far from nostalgic, destitute people living in hovels, two bedroom shanties, kids head to toe in bed , no electric, gas mantles if you were lucky if not a candle. I was brought up in one. John do away with the twee music, Belfast was a shithole and the Government only came around when there was a shortage of cannon fodder.
nobody had it any better anywhere else?! more studying needed and when you do that then research how much the famine affect poor people in england, everyone had nothing back then
