Bonjour Sammy,
I live in the New Forest, Hampshire, so only a short hop over to France which we love. Mum was born in 1923, so would have been around too late for your Dad and too early for you. She met my Dad during the war when his ship was in Belfast, then came over here when they married but we went back to see my Gran in Vernon Street every summer and sometimes Christmas as well and I have very happy memories of the times spent there. Unfortunately Mum died of cancer when I was 22 which is why I know so little about her younger days, wasn't interested as a teenager, now there are so many things I wish I had asked.
The Donegall Pass Memories site is on Facebook, not that I am, but I found it by accident and discovered I could download a lot of pictures from it.