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Mayo Place, BELFAST, BT13 3EG

Rooftops, on the south western side of the Shankill Road, seen from Lanark Way. Divis mountain Image and Image is in the background.

A vacant site, at the corner of Lanark Way (out of picture to the left) and the Shankill Road, to which the following planning permission applies (13 September 2013) “Z/2012/1286/F Proposed social housing development comprising 9 No.2 person 1 bedroom apartments and associated site and access works Lands at the junction of Shankhill [sic] Road/Lanark Way and bound by Caledon Street Belfast”.

This is one of 10 Commonwealth War Graves in Shankill Graveyard. The son of Wesley and Margaret Sterling of Newport Street, William died of Pneumonia at Blandford Camp Hospital in Dorset on Guy Fowkes Day, 1918 aged 14 years. https://sites.google.com/site/ourheroesinmemoriam/carnmoney-main-cemetery/dundonald-cemetery/shankill-rd-graveyard

The Shankill Graveyard is the oldest of Belfast's cemeteries. Closed in the 1960s it had been used as burial ground for a thousand years. The Blitz of May 1941 cost some 900 lives. http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/community/cemeteries/shankillgraveyard.aspx

This image was taken from the Crumlin Road.

The photograph on this mural is of the Ulster Memorial at Thiepval. This memorial to the fallen of the 36th Ulster Division is a copy of Helen's Tower on Clandeboye Estate, near Bangor where the men trained before going over to France. The Ulster Memorial bears the words. "This Memorial is Dedicated to the Men and Women of the Orange Institution Worldwide, who at the call of King and country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of man by the path of duty and self sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in Freedom. Let those who come after see to it that their names be not forgotten." http://www.greatwar.co.uk/somme/museum-ulster-tower-visitor-centre.htm

The bombing of this pub in 1975, resulting in five deaths and the injuring of a further 60, remains the subject of an active investigation by the PSNI Historical Enquiries Team.The brick building on the left is St Mathew's CoI Parish Church

After Ainsworth Avenue Woodvale Road (B39) changes its name to Shankill Road.

An exceptionally well-preserved headstone, in the Shankill Graveyard, now placed against a boundary wall. The inscription reads “Here lyeth the body of John McLWrath [sic] who departed this life the 27 day of August 1719 aged 66 years”.