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"Welcome to Loyalist Ballybeen"
The ever welcoming wall inscription on Drumadoon Drive.
Image: © Dean Molyneaux
Taken: 12 Feb 2010
0.02 miles
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Drumadoon bus stop, Ballybeen, Dundonald
A Metro stop and shelter, at Drumadoon Drive, in the Ballybeen estate.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 6 Mar 2014
0.04 miles
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Loyalist mural, Morven Park, Ballybeen
A mural of the Red Hand Commando (RHC) Youth 'C' Company - which was based in the estate. The RHC was effectively a branch of loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force - both of which were outlawed in 1973. The RHC were responsible for 12 civilian deaths and decommissioned their weapons in June 2009.
"Lamh Dearg Abú" is in fact an Irish Gaelic expression meaning "up the Red Hand [of Ulster]".
Image: © Dean Molyneaux
Taken: 12 Feb 2010
0.06 miles
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Drumadoon Drive, Ballybeen
The main entrance from Robbs Road into the Ballybeen Estate.
Image: © Dean Molyneaux
Taken: 12 Feb 2010
0.07 miles
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Pillar box and drop box, Dundonald
EIIR pillar box (BT16 369) and drop box, at the corner of Drumadoon Drive (foreground) and Davarr Avenue (Dunure Park on the Google map) in the Ballybeen estate.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 17 Mar 2012
0.08 miles
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Spring flowerbed, Dundonald
A display of crocuses/croci on Robb’s Road, near the corner of Drumadoon Drive.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 6 Mar 2014
0.08 miles
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Green space, Ballybeen, Dundonald
There was a UK-wide (and possibly even throughout northern Europe) utopian idea, back in the 1960’s, that large greenfield housing estates should feature extensive areas of unused green space, both for their own sake and because they fulfilled an ideal of design and planning. The idea never really caught on with the residents and quietly dropped out of sight. Today’s drive is to rebuild the inner city at a lower density http://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/5917.
This green space is at Davarr Avenue, Ballybeen.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 6 Mar 2014
0.09 miles
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Sign, Drumadoon Drive, Ballybeen
At the junction with Robbs Road.
Image: © Dean Molyneaux
Taken: 12 Feb 2010
0.09 miles
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Robbs Road, Dundonald
Named after the Robb family which occupied Ballybeen House (now under a housing estate). It links the Upper Newtownards Road with the Church Road.
Image: © Dean Molyneaux
Taken: 12 Feb 2010
0.12 miles
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Ballybeen social apartments site, Dundonald - October 2014(3)
Work is continuing on the foundations. This helical auger is at the Robb’s Road end of the site.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 25 Oct 2014
0.12 miles