“That Messrs J. Fraser & Son be informed that on their paying the estimated cost of the alterations, the Committee will change the name of Trevor Street into Tower Street, the street having been named Trevor Street on their application, and the name Tower Street put up.”
(24 November 1886)
According to historian and author Aidan Campbell Tower Street gets its name from the time it was built there was a very clear view of the tower of St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Church on the Newtownards Road.