Seaforde Street

Seaforde Street
Year approved: 1873

The Surveyor handed in the following names of streets as altered which was approved of: [the newspaper report in the Ulster Examiner and Northern Star - Tuesday 02 December 1873 provided this additional information: “As duplicate names of the following streets at present exist in the borough, the committee recommend the Council to adjust them as follows”: Milford Street, illegally named, to be called Stormount Street; Sidney Street, at Tennent Street, Sidney Street West; Hopes Court, its proper name is Hopps Court; Brook Street, Albert Bridge Road, Calvin Street; Boyds Court, at Nile Street, Nile Court; Chapel Lane, Newtownards Road, Seaford Street; Cross Street, at Hamill Street, Hamill Street Place; Donaldson's Court, Union Street, Union Street Place; Frances Street, Short Strand, Moira Street; Williams Place, Henry Street, Wensley Street. Wheelers Court, Carrick Hill, Carrick Court. Grafton Street, Templemore Street, Thorndyke Street; Church Street, Newtownards Road, Church Street East. (TIC, 19th Nov 1873). First reference to Seaforde Street in 1877 The Belfast And Province Of Ulster Directory.

 

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