THE present Dublin Road was projected as early as 1798. When the present Lisburn Road was made in 1817-18, the Dublin Road was only a narrow by-lane extending from the junction of Lisburn and University Roads to where the Blackstaff runs under the bridge at the premises of Messrs. Thomas Johnson & Sons. "The Bleakest Street in the Bleak North" in Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 08 January 1941.