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1st Shankill Somme Association

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Here is the (locked) main gate of the 1st Shankill Somme Association (Fb) garden of reflection, next to the Mountainview Tavern.

The metal-work shows the insignia of the 36th Division; the plaques on the gate-posts show the Ulster Tower memorial in Thiepval, France.

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Copyright © 2010 Peter Moloney
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C Company Roll Of Honour

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This “C company, 1st Belfast battalion, Ulster Volunteer Force roll of honour” in Carnan Street, Belfast, uses WWI (USSF insignia, an image of soldiers on the battlefield, poppies, and a verse from In Flanders Fields) to commemorate 25 volunteers from the middle Shankill area. (For the first five, see also the plaque across the street.) The “Four Step” was a pub bombed in 1971 (see X02393).

Replaces the Greengairs Thistle FB mural – the band’s insignia is in the top right.

Carnan Street (renamed “C Coy Street”)

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We Won’t Have Home Rule

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Northern Protestants prepare to resist the Home Rule act, c. 1912. Clockwise from top left, gun-running on the Clyde Valley, the Covenant, Carson and the Central Antrim Volunteers (see also M04206), mounted rifles of the Ulster Volunteers (see also M00545).

The plaque reads “They shall not grow old/As those who were left behind grow old//Age shall not weary them/Or the years condemn//As the going down of the sun/And in the morning//We will remember them” (Binyon ‘For The Fallen‘)

Forhill Drive, Ballyduff, Newtownabbey.

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Copyright © 2010 Peter Moloney
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