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A street, built in the period after WW1, running in a loop off Twaddell Avenue. Divis and the Black Mountain are in the background.

Camp Twaddell was set up in response to the 2013 decision of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission that the 12th of July Orange Parades could march past the Ardoyne shop fronts in the Catholic Ardoyne Ward on their way into the city centre in the morning, but could as was traditional not march along an 800m section of the road past the shops on their return in the evening. The marchers claim that they have not been able to return home and set up a permanent protest camp - Camp Twaddell in Twaddell Avenue close to the Ardoyne roundabout.

Camp Twaddell was set up in response to the 2013 decision of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission that the 12th of July Orange Parades could march past the Ardoyne shop fronts in the Catholic Ardoyne Ward on their way into the city centre in the morning, but could not march along an 800m section of the road past the shops on their return in the evening. The marchers claim that they have not been able to return home and set up a permanent protest camp - Camp Twaddell in Twaddell Avenue at the roundabout. A police presence has been maintained throughout to help preserve the peace at a cost of some £300,000 a week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkSFAJWZVIw

This is the 800m stretch of road past the Ardoyne Shops which has become the bone of such contention between Loyalists and Nationalists.

Beyond the roundabout is the Ardoyne Shops flashpoint. In 2013, the Parades Commission which regulate all marches in Northern Ireland in its wisdom ruled that the 12th of July Orange Parades can march past the Ardoyne shop fronts on their way into the city centre in the morning, but cannot march along an 800m section of the road past the shops on their return in the evening. The marchers claim that they have not been able to return home and have set up a permanent protest camp - Camp Twaddell in Twaddell Avenue near the roundabout. A police presence has been maintained throughout to help preserve the peace at a cost of some £300,000 a week.

Adorned with several concrete bollards and CCTV cameras - a sign of what you can be dealing with at this well known Belfast 'interface', where the Crumlin Road and Woodvale Road meet with Twaddell Avenue.

The Woodvale Ward is 86.96% Protestant and the Ardoyne Ward is 92.83% Roman Catholic. Tension between the two cultures is locally high.

The Ardoyne is a small Roman Catholic enclave surrounded by two larger Protestant areas (Ballysillan and Shankill/Woodvale) - the violence that has been seen here since the early days of the conflict has led to it being regarded as one of the best known 'interfaces' in Belfast.

These buildings have been replaced by modern school buildings elsewhere in the Ardoyne.

Holy Cross Church on Crumlin Road is the main place of worship for the Catholic population of the Ardoyne.