> From: [email protected] > > If there ever was a Sydney Street, it did not exist in1965 but there was a > Sydney Street West that ran from178 Snugville street to 110 Cambrai Street > off the Shankill. > > It was a very long street (probably still is) with houses 1 to 181 on one > side and 2 to 92 on the other. For what it's worth 22 to 30 was the Milford > Clothing Company. > This isn't a lot of use for the original query but might be of general > interest. Re Brookfield, I have no idea about that one > The vast majority of these terraces were for workers in the flax/ linen > industry and there were a couple of large mills around this part of the > Shankill. My own Great Grandmother worked in them as did her children who > survived into adulthood including my Gran. My mother "escaped" to Gallaghers > Fag Factory. > My Great Gran was a "perm winder" for the mill experts although I have no > idea what that was. > Ian > > -