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Marlborough Court, BELFAST, BT9 7EF

As this street runs parallel to the railway line (behind houses to the right), I wonder if its name was derived from the railway? The houses look possibly like railway workers cottages. The road comes to an abrupt halt with the wall of a supermarket.

Elizabeth II pillar box located outside the Co-op supermarket on the Lisburn Road in Belfast. (Update - this box is no longer at this location - it was removed when the Co-op closed Image).

The present Co-op supermarket, between Ferndale Street and Rathgar Street on the western side of the Lisburn Road. The Co is to vacate the building which will then become a branch of Marks & Spencer Image The larger NI Co-op supermarkets have been reducing in number over the last few years (Ballymena, Bangor and Carrickfergus). To a mere customer they seem dull and old-fashioned. Even the small shops Image just don’t seem to be up to the standard of Spar Image It appears that the post office Image will move elsewhere. Continue to Image

See Image and Image - work now well underway to convert the former Co-op superstore to a branch of Marks & Spencer. An important point to note: the internal branch of the Post Office has gone along with the postbox that sat outside Image Most annoying as I regularly used both..... (the Post Office is due to relocate to another shop close by but, at the time of writing, has not opened as yet).

Off the Lisburn Road. I love these houses - very unusual design for this part of Belfast.

See Image (October 2013). Although not obvious in the photograph, work is underway, inside, on the conversion of the premises for occupation by Marks & Spencer. Image shows work underway on 28 February 2014.

Volkswagen Beetle in a small car park accessed from Marlborough Avenue on the Lisburn Road in Belfast.

Three former terrace houses, converted to shops, now with the following application (22 December 2016) for planning permission “LA04/2017/0087/F Amalgamation of 3 no ground floor retail units to create 1 no. retail unit. New shopfront and single storey rear extension. 3 no. first floor and second floor rear extensions. 527-531 Lisburn Road and 2-3 Ferndale Street Malone Lower Belfast BT9 7GQ”. I have no connection with the proposed development.

Window of the restaurant 'Deane and Decano' on the corner of Marlborough Avenue and the Lisburn Road in Belfast.

An old painted advert for the 'Picture Post' which was published in the UK from 1938-57 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Post . On the corner of Marlborough Avenue and the Lisburn Road in Belfast, until recently this was covered up by signage for the shop below.