TWADDELL AVENUE 4626
Here we are in Twaddell Avenue back in 1926, the avenue was named after William
J. Twaddell, who was a Draper, in North Street in Belfast. He was also a member
of the first Northern Parliament. He was assassinated on Monday May 22, 1922
in Lower Garfield Street. The avenue runs from the Ballygomartin road to the
roundabout with the Crumlin road and Woodvale road. This scene shows people
queuing up to get their daily bakery items from the Breadman at his bread
cart pulled by a horse. The children are playing in the road and on the pavement,
perhaps they're waiting on the Binmen to come and hump the bin filled with
ashes and anything else up onto their shoulder and dumped into the bin cart,
you had to be really strong to be a binman then.
TROXY 4627
It's the 1940's and we are on the Shore road and in the distance where that
lorry is going is Fort Whilliam. On the left is a lady pushing a pram now
according to David Smythe the woman with the pram was his Nanny Helena and
the child in the pram is my mother Judy. She is soon going to be passing my
beloved Troxy cimena. I loved the Troxy cinema, we lived out at Fernagh Garden
Village Cloughfern just across from Whiteabbey hospital. Every Saturday afternoon
I went with my pals to the Troxy, I was given Half-a-Crown (2/6p) old money
and that took me on the UTA bus and back and into the Troxy and an ice cream
tub.
