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Hillcrest Gardens, BELFAST, BT5 5ND

See Image By 14.26 there was more slush than snow in Luxor Gardens. Continue to Image

A decorated shutter door on the Bloomfield Road, at a dog grooming establishment, beside the roundabout. Next door to Image

Martinez (pronounced “Martini”) is a residential street running from the North Road Image to the Beersbridge Road.

The small block of shops (now mostly hot-food carryouts), beside the roundabout, during the worst of today’s snow.

A BT telephone box on the Bloomfield Road close to the roundabout Image The following is a quotation from the Ofcom website “1.6 Public Call Boxes (PCBs) provide a service that is valued and needed by many people without a phone or those away from home, who cannot, for whatever reason, use their mobile. Many disadvantaged and vulnerable consumers still rely on PCBs. 1.7 BT and Kingston are each required to ensure adequate coverage of PCBs. Ofcom considers that adequate coverage is best determined at a local level through consultation with local public bodies. The last PCB cannot be removed from a site if those bodies object - ‘the local veto’. As revenues from PCBs have fallen in recent years, BT argues that the local veto is unduly restrictive. Ofcom proposes that the local veto should remain but with new measures to make the process more transparent, accountable and consistent. Ofcom is proposing to issue guidance on requests for PCB removal, to improve the consultation process and to establish an appeal process.”

A recent example – this one is on a barber’s shop close to the Bloomfield roundabout Image

A busy suburban roundabout where Grand Parade (foreground) meets the Bloomfield Road (left), the North Road (middle right) and Orangefield Lane (right). Originally the site of “Ivy Cottage” a gate lodge at the entrance to the former Orangefield Demesne.

A Metro Alexander (Belfast) – bodied Volvo pausing at the Bloomfield roundabout Image with service no 18 - Gilnahirk to Donegall Square West via the Bloomfield and Beersbridge Roads (every 30 minutes). Before the introduction of the Metro branding the North Road – Donegall Square West route was Citybus service no 17. The buses show “Gilnahirk” on the outward journeys although the service terminates, past the Gilnahirk Road, at The Braniel. The route is also served by the half-hourly no 19 to the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald.

See Image, Image and Image One of two manhole covers, at the Bloomfield Road shops Image, close to the roundabout Image, marked “Brown & Co Ironfounders, Sydney Street West, Belfast”.

A mural, at the Bloomfield roundabout end of Grand Parade, in memory of local soldiers in the 36th (Ulster) Division, Royal Irish Rifles who served during WW1.