tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post4401334231706215350..comments2024-03-09T11:34:22.175+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Streets of Belfast 1901: An Animated Photo - Joan LennonMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-17159804752869689132016-09-05T16:48:36.139+01:002016-09-05T16:48:36.139+01:00Must show my husband! Trying to remember how old m...Must show my husband! Trying to remember how old my father-in-law was then. Thanks, Joan! And such good quality film, too. So far I've only noticed the Ormeau as a business I recognise, but he might notice more. I'm fascinated by the sounds of the vehicles, too.Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-65989378430413107492016-09-05T11:30:01.214+01:002016-09-05T11:30:01.214+01:00Completely riveting, yes! I'm going to have to...Completely riveting, yes! I'm going to have to watch it a few more times and on a bigger screen just in case I can spot my own great-grandfather, Belfast-born, who moved to Manchester and then London in 1901 having started writing as a journalist on 'The Northern Whig'. I feel I'd recognise him as I have a beautiful photograph of him above my mantelpiece. <br /><br />Other things I loved...the shadows of the buildings from the other side of the road in the early section (some of which looked identifiable, but it's too long since I was last in Belfast), the trundling bill-boards for the Ulster Hall, and the penny-farthing propped casually against a shopfront.<br /><br />Thank you, Joan!Lydia Sysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04613876235125755967noreply@blogger.com