In the days when touring circuses such as Clara ‘Ma’ Copley’s would pitch their marquees at Chapel Fields, the entertainment, it is said, would include a ‘question time’ segment consisting of conundrums for the audience. One such conundrum was posed, as Cathal O’Byrne tells us: “Why is Donegall Street like a spendthrift? Because it begins with a bank and ends with the Poor House.” It’s true that it was, at one time, bookended by Belfast Commercial Bank at the lower end and by the Belfast Charitable Society’s Poor House at the other. Despite being referred to, perhaps unfairly, as “the bleakest street in the bleak north” by Belfast physician and United Irishman Dr William Drennan, Donegall Street was once a commercial hub for the growing town of Belfast.
The News Letter reported during this week in 1962 by Joan Trimble had purchased an 18th century violin at a sale that had been held at Ecclesville, Fintona, Co Tyrone, for her youngest daughter Caroline.
The News Letter reported during this week in 1962 by Joan Trimble had purchased an 18th century violin at a sale that had been held at Ecclesville, Fintona, Co Tyrone, for her youngest daughter Caroline.
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