old belfast

My home town

[@katieMarie2022]

A truthful window into the past. Thank you for sharing. God Bless

[@karenbrowne5800]

My grand father told me stories of walking to work in the mill in his bear feet in the snow , he was just a boy . Everyone was poor, it didn’t mater if if you were catholic or Protestant. People just trying to put food on the table get work and look after their families. I’m so proud to be from Belfast . Thanks for these memories.

[@deanodog3667]

Bear feet in the snow , was he a polar bear ??

[@pagimaidj]

@@deanodog3667 no, it's called being poor

[@thomascoogan3684]

Think he's referring to the spelling i.e. bear feet as in Polar Bear, against bare feet as in no socks or shoes.

[@karenbrowne5800]

Bare feet my spelling mistake !

[@davidpryle3935]

⁠@@karenbrowne5800Easy mistake to make Karen. After being caught out myself a few times, particularly by words that are spelled differently depending on what you’re referring to, I stick the sentence into google to get the correct spelling, if I’m unsure. Greetings from the south, by the way.

[@Bob18818]

Absolutely amazing piece off pictures Bobby for Belfast amazing

[@markopolo12008]

My aul Town that I left behind many years ago..Happy days.. Great video

[@ossieclarke6207]

Many thanks for putting this together= its an important record of the grinding poverty of much of the population

[@imransharif443]

Nice photos

[@speedster2464]

6.11 Chapel Lane, St. Mary’s Chapel the first Catholic place of worship in Belfast, built with the help of funding from the Presbyterian and COI communities for their fellow Christians to worship in.

[@trineperstuen7011]

Love this video❤

[@johnlavery6116]

Facanating, how time changes everything.

[@ethancook5705]

Grandmother’s home town. Was nice to visit in 2019.

[@billlyspencer3118]

So sad!! The poor !!

[@PJ-uc4ml]

Heartbreaking stuff this is especially 90 percent of the beautiful people would have past on since!!!! They poor people had nothing only the clothes on their back and they helped each other just to try and survive god bless them for the hardships they had and the troubles made things even harder for them all))) Most of These people didn’t have a tv they might have a we radio nothing special!!! Nowadays the kids have the lot WiFi internet Facebook £1000 pound fones Which some of them are not satisfied with and want more more etc etc etc

[@speedster2464]

TV weren’t invented, a bath would be more fitting!

[@thomascoogan3684]

Correct me if I'm wrong but this looks like Currie Street which runs of Irwin Street in the Pound Loney. The houses on the other side of the wall where the gate is are in Albert Street.

[@Drifty40]

This could be any industrial city in the UK or Ireland during that period. This wasn't confined to Belfast....social housing, low paid employment and amenities were not fit for purpose in those days, for many cities.

[@geraldinemccarron5053]

So sad 😞

[@belfastsoul8863]

That's Alec Quinn my old primary school teacher from Oliver Plunkett singing the second song.

[@thomasleade2279]

POVERTY! - POVERTY! - POVERTY! - POVERTY! - POVERTY! - POVERTY! - and yet more POVERTY! - and yet the music was sentimental? For all that poverty the few lived in luxury. Bastards!

[@jimcrawford5039]

Don’t need the politics, people in Scotland , England & Wales were very poor too. Time you gave the politics away. Ex Belfast.

[@vindicari]

certainly interesting, far from nostalgic, destitute people living in hovels, two bedroom shanties, kids head to toe in bed , no electric, gas mantles if you were lucky if not a candle. I was brought up in one. John do away with the twee music, Belfast was a shithole and the Government only came around when there was a shortage of cannon fodder.

[@JamesCunningham-l8l]

Hope was the best woren garmet made of love each stich a generation apart thats a belfast speak so think better to speak it and bless it ya lived onder a belfast sky ❤️

[@donaldstewart9827]

My God, they are all in rags.

[@nataliedocherty6928]

Fantastic Belfast long live king William

[@sheela-na-giga-byte8397]

Long dead you mean ☠️

[@thomascoogan3684]

Wasn't he (Willy Boy) a Slave Trader. Bought slaves for £5 and sold them for £20! Check it out if you don't believe me.

[@thomascoogan3684]

You mean "Slave Trader King William". The same guy who bought slaves for £5 and sold them for £20!

[@paulcourtney1368]

Looks like modern day shankill road .to be honest..

[@donaldstewart9827]

Aye, England's empire forgot these poor Irish people in Belfast, at least they could have given their loyal "british" citizens shoes to wear.

[@burnleyfan11965]

A lot of England including Burnley was the same pre WW1. The empire ignored the working classes, just exploited them to make money.

[@coisty52]

donald do you know english british difference ?

[@speedster2464]

These images would have been very similar across a lot of working class areas of the UK.

[@whitetroutchannel]

nobody had it any better anywhere else?! more studying needed and when you do that then research how much the famine affect poor people in england, everyone had nothing back then

[@richardcrook2112]

Photos of my Grandparents as children in Hull Yorkshire look like this.