Belfast Street Tour 1966

[@pauljames8958]

The Film starts with the No. 10 Trolley bus to Carnmoney passing Fortwilliam Park junction with Shore Road, looking across to where a McDonalds now stands! great video.

[@DocumentBelfast]

That's amazing thank you! I don't know Shore Road etc too well even today so that's very helpful in case anyone else asks. Appreciated

[@theplaneimage]

Wow, electric-powered buses, well that was never going to catch on😆 0:27 Yep, Shore Road looking towards Mount Vernon on the left 0:43 Exiting North Queen Street onto York Road. It doesn't become Shore Road until Skegoneill Avenue, near Crusaders football ground. Today, the Grove Wellbeing Centre is behind the lamp posts on the left. 0:57 St. Paul & St. Barnabas Church, York Road, opposite-ish York Road railway station. 3:32 Trolley buses had an issue. The trolley poles detached from the overhead power line and had to be persuaded back up with a pole. You can see this at the bottom of the picture. 4:42 The old Belfast Water building, now Eminess! 5:09 Wellington Place, looking towards Inst. 5:34 The old Great Northern Railway Station GNR, Great Victoria Street. The Europa Hotel is on this site now. What a great film! I love looking at all the old vehicles and trying to remember the model names. Thanks for posting.

[@skimmingstoness]

2.30 is York Street junction with Donegall St and the white building is the Art College rebuilt in 2008

[@DocumentBelfast]

Thank you. Yeah you confirmed my initial thoughts on that. I can't place the ones before it reaches there though, assume shore road