Bread Street / Sráid an Aráin

Bread Street / Sráid an Aráin

Bread Street is featured in the 1856 Belfast Street Directory. There are no house numbers given. Barney Hughes who was the first Catholic elected to Belfast Corporation had his largest mill in Divis Street. He was best known for the Belfast Bap and this rhyme is associated with him – “Barney Hughes’ bread Sticks to your belly like lead.” He opened his third bakery (The Model Bakery) in 1858 in Divis Street. A blue plaque marks the house where Barney Hughes House lived. It is in College Street North.