Sandy Row Sporting Heroes

The sporting heroes range from boxers in the Sandy Row Boxing Club to Linfield and Northern Ireland football players.

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The Schools Of Sandy Row

The schools of Sandy Row (in the third image) are Blythefield Primary (featured in the other images), Mabel Street School, National School, Linfield Junior Public Elementary School, and Workman’s School.

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Our Family Of “Nations”

The fourteenth and final panel in Thorndyke Street contains a number of small panels, including the two above, along with emblems of local Orange and Black lodges, John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields, a list of acknowledgements, and a copyright claim.

For a list of entries for each panel, see East Belfast Historical And Cultural Society.

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Hitler Attacks Belfast

From the info board, added later: In the blitz of 15/16th April 1941, “Across Belfast 745 civilians were killed, 420 were seriously injured and more than 1,000 less seriously. April and May 1941 an estimated 56,000 houses were damaged.”

One of fourteen panels in Thorndyke Street, east Belfast. For a list of entries for each panel, see East Belfast Historical And Cultural Society.

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