Saw posts from Donegall Road residents. I was born in Broadway Parade and went to St Simons school until 1950. My teachers were Miss Boyle and Miss Gurd. The Bog Meadows were a great playground in those days. Any one else remember those days?
Wasn't the Village flooded at one time,around about Glenmachan St. I remember Beattie's Chippy and playing football outside Windsor Pk where the ground was just earth,stones,cinders and puddles.
Beaties chippy had the best pasties only 3d.We played football outside Windsor all the time (or it seamed like it) except when the carnival came for two weeks in the summer.The ball would burst on the stones or glass but Percy's on the Lisburn Road sold "Wembley" footballs for 1/6d.
Know Utility street area well, lived there,also went to Mabel Street school place is so changed now,