DAVID ALEXANDER 6-8 SHANKILL ROAD BELFAST Telephone 21723/20569 are pleased to be associated with Snoddon's Construction in their New Developments at OLD FORGE MANOR Upper Malone Road, advertisement in the Belfast News-Letter - Friday 27 May 1977
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Belfast had thriving iron industry where iron ore was imported from Cumberland and smelted at Old Forge and New Forge both the Lagan. According to Bardon nearly 50 tons of iron were exported from Belfast in 1683. In less than a century the colonists had felled many great woods which had been the source of charcoal for the furnaces.