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Somme Drive, BELFAST, BT6 9JJ

Housing with green space and trees, on the eastern side of the Cregagh Road. See also Image

See Image Downshire Park Central (running from left to right) seen from Downshire Park South. To the best of my knowledge the area was built in the 1950’s when houses had proper space around and between them and landscaping was taken seriously.

Traffic-calming road humps at the Cregagh Road end of The Straight Image – something not needed or even envisaged when the road and estate were built in the 1950’s.

GVIR pillar box, on the Cregagh Road, near Downshire Park Central.

See Image Rippingham design at its best. Flat-roofed red-brick houses, in the Cregagh estate, built in the 1950’s. The road is still surfaced with concrete.

A street, on the eastern side of the Cregagh Road, two streets to the north of Somme Drive. The name probably comes from the WW1 battle (1916) at Beaumont Hamel http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/somme/beaumont.html although there was also a battle at Hamel in 1918 http://www.historynet.com/world-war-i-battle-of-hamel.htm.

Headquarters of The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland. The building comprises office accommodation, an Orange memorabilia shop, library and research facilities, a conference room and a Cultural Heritage Centre.

This pile of rubble is all that is left of Lisnasharragh Secondary School, photo taken on Tudor Drive looking towards Merok Park

Signs, at the lay-by close to Cregagh Park, giving directions to local places of interest.

Self-explanatory memorial plaque on what is now a dental surgery, at the corner of Cregagh Park and the Cregagh Road, in memory of Billy McFadzean VC. The citation reads “No. 14/18278 Pte. William Frederick McFadzean, late R. Ir. Rif. For most conspicuous bravery. While in a concentration trench and opening a box of bombs for distribution prior to an attack, the box slipped down into the trench, which was crowded with men, and two of the safety pins fell out. Private McFadzean, instantly realising the danger to his comrades, with heroic courage threw himself on the top of the Bombs. The bombs exploded blowing him to pieces, but only one other man was injured. He well knew his danger, being himself a bomber, but without a moment's hesitation he gave his life for his comrades”. Image shows the blue plaque erected, on the Cregagh Road side of the same building, in 2016.