“That on the application of the owner Mr James Tate of Tennent Street three new streets on his property situate off Tennent Street be named ‘Eccles Street’, ‘Bootle Street’ and ‘Bromley Street’. Minutes, Town Improvement Committee, 13th January 1897.
The minutes of the Town Improvement Committee of Belfast Corporation on 27 January 1897 indicate at the request of the owners of the property the naming of four new streets off Tennent Street: Lough Swilly Street, Eccles, Bootle Street and Bromley Street.