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FLORAL HALL 3758
The good old Floral Hall anyone who was dance mad would recognize it right away, it was packed every week-end. Not only the Show-bands but they got the latest pop groups as well and then the Miami Showband was gunned down while travelling and that was the beginning of the end of showbands and music venues people got afraid to go out.
They then turned it into roller skating rink for a while and then they just closed the doors.

FALLS ROAD 4529
ThIt's 1910 and we are on the Falls Road and on the right the large building in Andrews Flour Mill. Also on the right are a couple taking a break from riding their bikes.Across the road two ladies with shawls over their heads just walking past a pub while new door on the left ia a newsagents and tobacconist with a door sign saying Woodbine, my father's favourite smoke.

FREDRICK STREET 4530
This is Frederick Street back in October 1887 and Frederick Street runs from York Street to North Queen Street. As you can see two of the cottages are selling goods from their homes, the one on the left has peat on a high stool and most likely eggs due to the hen in the road and the other at the corner of the cottages. Now that street, York Lane led round the back of the chapel and out onto Donegal street nice wee hort cut. There is a rumour that the end Cottage was the reputed hiding place for the United Irishman Lord Edward Fitzgerald in 1798.

FRIAR'S BUSH GRAVEYARD 4532
The road outside is the Stranmillis road and this is the entrance through the gate lodge to Friar's Bush Graveyard back in the 1960's sadly in a state of disrepair. But apparently it has been restored by volunteer teenagers and they now have tours round it.
There is a mound just inside the walls is known as the ‘Plaguey Hill’ and was used for mass interments during a major Cholera epidemic of 1832-3 when bodies, most of them unidentified, were burnt to prevent the spread of infection. more especially to receive up to 1,000 victims of the pestilence induced by the Great Famine in February 1847. It was opened again to take victims of the Great Famine, and by 1852 it was declared to be ‘excessively overcrowded’ and closed soon after. Every morning the caretakers would walk round the inner wall of the graveyard and sadly would find unwanted babies, some alive but some would be dead.Years later on they decided to widen the Stranmillis road but that had to be caancelled when they realised they would be digging up the Cholera victims a health hazard.

FREDRICK LANE 4531
Here we are in Frederick Lane which is off Frederick Street back in the 1890's it is behind St.Patrick's Church..On the left handside lived Francey and Charlotte Collins at No. 3. Over to the right of the Lane is an old lady watching what is going on, to her left on the wall is a loop of rope and above it is a pulley with the rope going across the lane and attached to the wall. This allows her to hang out washing but at the moment she has a tarpaulin on it hanging over a Jaunting car. Just look as how much her door step is worn, nearly half the depth of the step.