“That on the application of the owners Messrs Thomas Dixon & Sons two new streets on ________(line in the minutes) their property situate off Shankill Road be named Broom Street and Bracken Street”. Minutes, Town Improvement Committee, 14th October 1896. The minutes of the Town Improvement Committee of Belfast Corporation on 27 October 1896 indicate the naming of two new streets off the Shankhill (as spelled) Road: Broom Street and Bracken Street.