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On 17/11/2025 at 10:34 AM, leslie10646 said:

The "Inst" one was OK, I think - but, of course, the Fees were more and you get what you pay for!

When I was learning to swim, it was Templemore Avenue Baths - and that wasn't very warm!

For you younger "Southerners", Templemore Avenue's great claim to fame was its FLUTE Band, where the great James Galway first learnt his trade.

Aren't you all amazed that I can remember this stuff in my eightieth year!

Somewhere on VHS Tape I have a recording of a documentary called “Steel Chest, Nail in the Boot and the Barking Dog”, which was about the men who worked at Harland & Wolff.  It features James Galway and the street in question.

Steelchest, Nail in the Boot and the Barking Dog

A time that has now disappeared, alas.

Cheers

Darius

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Wonderful. The original, I think, resulted from an unemployment relief project to double Whitehead-Carrick, a project that was reversed about 70 years later! 

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