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Moylena Road, ANTRIM, BT41 4PA

A plaque, at a house on the Belfast Road, Antrim, commemorating the photographer WA Green. This is the link to the Ulster History Circle site http://www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/wagreen.htm but this link http://www.rascal.ac.uk/index.php?CollectionID=89&navOp=locID&navVar=33 gives a much better description of his work and achievements. The collection is now in the hands of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum which levies a charge for reuse – no Creative Commons Licence in his time.

Bourlon Road, Antrim. Although it has been a cul-de-sac for many years it would once have went from the Belfast Road, where the photo was taken from, to the Greystone Road. After realigning the Greystone Road to link it to the then just completed Fountain Hill, Bourlon Road was terminated near the spot where it would have joined the Greystone Road. This would have happened in the late '60's when Antrim started to rapidly expand with the arrival of the British Enkalon factory manufacturing nylon thread and a consequent growth in the population coming from all over N. Ireland for the well-paid jobs which became available. Unfortunately the boom times ended suddenly in 1980 when Enkalon closed down, unable to compete with cheap nylon products from the Far East.

A roundabout at the junction of Fountain Street and Belfast Road.

The 18.10 Belfast Central – Londonderry (via Lisburn) rounding the tight curve on the approach to the Moylena Road bridge, Antrim. This was before the re-opening of the direct line from Bleach Green. It was a marathon journey taking some 40/45 minutes to reach Antrim. The direct route (from Central) now takes 25 minutes.