I delivered The Belfast Telegraph in the White city in the late 60s
Hi Old Wallion what shop did you deliver the paper for. P.S. your photos are brilliant
The shop was Barrseys which became a Spar and it was beside St Ninians church. A guy called Joe Foster used to help me deliver the papers.
that shop was originally called Mortons. the late Gavin McWhirter,11 Whitewell Crescent was the message boy. HBM
we used to have to travel to the white city from clifdondene crescent on the oldpark road to pay the rent to the housing trust as they deemed that our little estate was part of white city (2 buses)
There is a pamphlet that has some photos of the White City. http://opac.ni-libraries.net/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=crumbling+orlits&searchTerm2=&searchTerm3=&searchTerm4=&searchType=99&Page=1&media=&branch=&authority=&language=&junior=&rcn=Y000026687&fr=tlIt is about the houses being poorly built with their problems of damp & crap insulation. The photos show these defects but you might get a good idea of what the front of the houses looked like. There is also this book... http://opac.ni-libraries.net/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=belfast+housing+estate&searchTerm2=&searchTerm3=&searchTerm4=&searchType=99&Page=1&media=&branch=&authority=&language=&junior=&rcn=Y000020857&fr=tl... which has a photo of the 'whitewell estate', which might actually be the houses at the bottom of the whitewell road. They have what looks like large cream coloured breezeblocks for bricks.
Hi, another memory the Housing Trust, what a haul for you from Cliftondene Crescent.
The path beside the White City was called the Wrigley path in the 60s and it was always busy with workers from Felden House GTC and Throne Hospital. Today its called Snakey Path and its always desserted.