Old Shankill Road 2
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147 STEVE DAVIS F THE RA
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WE ARE THE PEOPLE . NO SURRENDER .
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AH!...The good old Shankill before the gangsters took control.
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Endless
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Great to see films like this seeing people on the go at the time and I also like old photos.
The cars are worth spotting. Ford escorts,cortinas,transits, angle boxes.Vauxhall with vivas HB/HC victor FD. Hondas, Fiats, Rootes arrow, Jaguers. BMC 1100 and Farinas.
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a brilliant piece of archive, so great to see it..
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Between 3.20 and 3.36 is The Eagle chip shop on the right with the blue van parked outsid?. It looks like the corner of Spier's place.
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@TheDorothyja1 Great archive. I was born in Highfield but lived on the shankill for a few years before being brought to England with my family. I only visited once in 40 years but it still felt like I belonged. Love your story about your family,thanks for sharing.
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I like how the two RUC men just walk casually amongst the shoppers.. Tthe faces in this clip are wonderful..real, ordinary people going about their daily lives, their existance captured and immortalised forever in this clip. It's wonderful to see a part of Belfast as it looked in 1973
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Just a pitty these people look up to the Queen and the royal family, a position that is not open to them. A sad tale.
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I feel a lot of young people are missing the whole point to this video... shame really...the people of the Falls and Shankill Roads where in the same boat, we both had nothing to shout about..we were all shafted together..
Shankill Road Man.
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roy west
I'm from Belfast just up the road from the Shankill I now live in the USA, was looking at old videos when I came across this one and was totally amazed to see my mom and brother, he was only 8 in the video, and my mom has passed. It was LOVELY seeing her. I watch it all the time
TheDorothyja1 11 months ago
@TheDorothyja1 I just love to hear stories like this one, it makes the whole thing worthwhile,
Iain
bigiain1968 11 months ago
The Shankill used to have normal people living there at that time,whatever happened to it.I went to school in Millfield at that time and used to venture up the Shankill occasionally,not a wise thing to do for a Bogsider from Derry I must admit.
oceallaigh2003 2 years ago
First of all thanks for the nice comment, i don't often get too many on this video,
My Granny stayed up the shankill and i remember traveling from Scotland to pay a family visit in the early to mid 1970s,
How many other cities in the uk would you still be using a outside toilet, very few i bet.
bigiain1968 2 years ago 3