“Pathways through childhood – Sweet childish that were as long as twenty days are now.” The good old days in south Belfast and its streets are remembered in these three panels from the Donegall Road railway bridge.
“Sam Boyd, 1907-1984 – the man with poetry in his soul.” “South Belfast folk poet.”
The “Streets of dreams”, some of them no longer in existence, are: Coolderry, Coolbeg, Coolfin, Fortuna, Egeria, Daphine, Pandora, Euterpe, Thalia, Coolmore, Abingdon, Colchester, Barrington, Empire, Maldon, Utility, Rydalmere, Rockland, Kitchener, Nubia, Soudan, Kilburn, Benburb, Ebor, Lecale, Moltke, Roden, Tavanagh, Rockview, Monarch Parade, Donegall Avenue.
These are seventh, eighth, and tenth panels on the north side of the bridge; for the other panels on this (north) side of the road, see also:
The Harvest of Love (1 & 9)
Those Days Are Over (2)
A Woman’s Place Is Everywhere (3)
The Thread Of History (4)
For Me There Will Be No More War (5)
In The Wars (6)
Roads Through Life (7, 8, 10)
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