Soudan and Khartoum Streets commemorated General Gordon’s campaign against the Dervishes. "Strange sounding names from Far Away Places" by Michael McRitchie in Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday 14 May 1974. "On application of the owners, two new Streets on property situated of Donegall Road were named “Kitchener Street” and “Soudan Street”, and three new streets on property situated off Agincourt Avenue were named “Collingwood Avenue”, “Cadogan Street” and “Curzon Street”. The Town Improvement Committee as reported in the Northern Whig, October 13, 1898.