Mulhouse Road

Mulhouse Road / Bóthar Mulhouse
BT12
Town Parks

The 1880 BPUD lists Mulhouse Street.   This name is no longer in existence, instead there is Mulhouse Road.  The name comes from the Mulhouse Works, a factory which was owned by Lindsay, Thompson & Co.  The factory no longer exists (John J Marshall, Belfast Telegraph - Friday 31 January 1941).  The factory may have been named after the city of Mulhouse in the Alsace region of France because of its omportant textile idustry.

The Lindsay brothers also established a retail outlet for textiles in Donegall Place c. 1860.  James Lindsay retired in 1920 to his villa in Cannes, named "Lisnacrieve" after the family house in Co. Tyrone. Thus, just as the French name Mulhouse was brought to Ireland, so an Irish name was also brought to France (Lindsay Brothers Archives - History Hub Ulster).

Mulhouse Road is located within the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital.