TOP OF THE WORLD 3645
It's the 16th of April 1949 and I'm sure these two are knackered for they have right to the top of the Cave Hill, which was and still is quite a climb. But back then it was a great past time and I'm proud to say I've been there too. This is Tom Pollard and his wife Betty Pollard (nee) Stevenson with a berry in her hand. The post they are leaning against is the Old Boundary post, Belfast. It is one of two old parliamentary boundary posts on McArt's Fort, Cave Hill, Belfast (the other is a little further South. The inscription on the plate reads " Parliamentary and Municipal Boundary of Belfast Duncairn Division Clifton Ward 1918 "
Now if we get any summer this year you young ones should walk up there it is a fantastic view of not only the Belfast Lough but Belfast itself.

PORTER WEDDING 2299
Gazing happily at his bride's wedding ring as they sit in the wedding car is Lewis Porter on the 7th November 1964.
Lewis can't belive that such a beautiful girl as Marie Mussen would say yes and is now at his side as his bride.
Their bridesmaid by the way was Sadie Ramsey.

PILOT STREET 4580
Here we are on the corner Pilot Street and Short Street in the Sailortown district on a warm sunny day in 1930. It must have been warm for the large building on the right in Pilot street has all its windows open. While in Short Street the building on the left a window on the first floor has its window held open by a tin can the sash cord but be broken. On the corner of both streets we have Hugh Gray who is a Wine & Spirit Merchant and barrels outside handy for sitting on. Next door must be a taxi service with the three cars lined up and passing them is a horse and side car. The little girl at the end of the cars sadly is in her bare feet but the other two girls one in the road and one beside the man in the doorway.who must be Hugh Gray with an assistant beside him.

PLAZA 4579
It's 24th May 1934 and here in this large building we have the Plaza Ballroom which opened in 1906. Back then on the dance floor they were doing the energetic jive, lindy hop and the jitterbug. Also in this buildin are other businesses,just up we have the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Britannic Insurance with scaffold on it. Round the corner we have a Billards hall some shops and King's the Auctioneer.

PLAZA 4578
Here we are looking down on Chichester Street in the 1960's at my two most loved things in my life. My Mini and the holy Grail of dancing, the Plaza. Every chance I got I was in there in a flash. It hasa a revolving stage so that as one band finished playing another band would come on playind, none-stop music. It also had a sprung floor for the jivers, you could stand in the middle of the floor not move and while the rockers or jivers were dancing you would bounce up and down. They were great times.

POTTINGER'S COURT 4584
It's 1910 and on the left is Pottinger's Court, below the street sign is a young lady standing in front of boxes of empty beer bottles, to her right is a young man smiling at the camera with a boy in front of him and the other two lads are in their bare feet. On the right is Pottinger's Entry which jconnects High Street and Ann Street. The first business is the Hibernian Tavern and on its sign at the bottom is the name Whitesmith. Whitesmith in a historical or traditional restaurant context is a metalworker who creates or maintains polished, light-colored metal kitchenware, such as tin, pewter, or stainless steel utensils. On down the Entry is Edward Lennon's Billiard Rooms.

POTTINGER'S ENTRY 4585
This is Pottinger's Entry back in 1907 and outside a shop are six young lads two of them bare-footed looking at the camera.down from them is where Anderson's window blinds were made in the factory but they have now moved to North Street. On down to the white building on the corner of Pottinger's Court is a Tavern.

PICTURE HOUSE 4583
It's the early 1940's and we are looking at the Picture House cimena which was on the corner of Royal Avenue and to the left Garfield Street. I knew it as the Regent cimena and finally the Avenue. The film they were showing when this photo was taken was called The Wedding Night starring Gary Cooper. next on the right is Aldestones the Jewelry shop, Now above the shop with its yawning out was where I started work as a apprentice hairdresser. Looking at the photo you would'nt think that this was WWII and Belfast had had two massive air raids.

PETER'S HILL 4582
This photograph was taken 132 years ago (2026) back in 1894 and a photo took a longer exposure that's why the three boys behind the lampost are blurred.here at Peter's Hill.The road to the left is the corner of the Old Lodge Road and to the right where the horse is coming out of is Boyd Street. I remember in the late 1950's going for a swim in the Falls Road swiming baths, while we were queueing up I noticed another queue and the men in it going in a Different direction. I asked my friend where they were going and he replied " to have a bath as they don't have baths in their homes" ! I was shocked.

PETER'S HILL 4581
It's the 19th October 1914 nearly three months into World War 1 and here we are at Peter's Hill laying down track for the electric trams with crowds watching on in great excitment. now to make sure they are keeping the track evenly spaced apart they are using a wooden jig as the men hammer in the spikes to hold the track in place.