When i was young and lived in Church Street what is now the Hillsborough Road was known to everybody as the Dublin Road. Was that just a local name or was it changed (possibly in the early Seventies)?

It was the road the stagecoach took to Dublin? I read in Cathal McCann,s " As I roved out" that the main stagecoach route Belfast - Dublin then was past Peter,s hill along Sandy Row and Malone Rd toDrumbo / Hillhall, up Bridge Street through Smithfield and via the Dublin Rd to Hillsborough.
Donald

Hi Ivor
Always will be called the Dublin Road for mine.
Walked down it or road down it just about everynight.
Dublin Road it is matey.
John....

HI Ivor .

Did you live beside Frankie Heasley , about two door's away . I lived at No 48 .
All the best .

Thomas Mc Kay

Your are right John. Down the bottom of Warren Park, the road sign said Dublin Rd. I can only vouch for up to 1958 when I left, but in 1986, when I first came back to Lisburn, it was Hillsborough Rd. Sean

sorry didn't get back to you sooner-it was mckeowns at corner of barrack st then frankie heasley,then john and ellen bell,then us -you would maybe remember my sister phoebe or brother john. i remember your parents but i think i'm slightly younger than you. now all the houses are buried under the new police station. i had to go in one night with my driving documents and a young officious constable asked for my place of birth and i replied about six feet behind where you are standing.he wasn,t best pleased.thanks for your reply
ivor

Hi Ivor .

Many thank's for information , I enjoyed your story about the Police Station , Happy memories of Church Street. All best wishes .

Tommy

Did you ever take your pants over the road to Sammy Marshalls for alterations.ken.

Ken
In Hilden we didn,t wear pants, we wore trousers and we entrusted them to Mrs Magee in Grand St who took them in during the Teddy boy late 1950s era, to 16" 15 " and for the very thin 14" . I remember the first Teddy boy in Lisburn , Ian Hamilton from Lawnbrook Drive who also was one of the first to get his hair shaved Yul Brenner style, 1958 I think it was.
Donald

Hi Ken , Donald .

I remember going across to WEE Sammy Marshall's a few times to get alteration's done . My trouser's were 16 ins , could not go any smaller . Sammy was one of the true character's of Lisburn . In regard's to haircut's , what about the D A , OR THE Tony Curtis . i went to of all places to get my haircut in a barbour's on the Fall's Road , who specialised in D A 'S AND Tony Curtis and other styles , Outside we had to wait until our turn was called . The name of the barbour's was Maguires .

ALL the best .

Tommy.

Tommy
The "Cult" hairdresser in the 50s who we went to for beebops, DA,s etc was Eddie Logue in Bridge St, ( I think he also dealt in articles which kept the population in check, as did most hairdressers ). Eddie died very young and I don,t know what happened to the shop. I still remember his Dad , Jack Logue from Tullynacross who drove a horse and cart in Hilden mill in the late 40s sowing corn from a sack in Simpson,s field behind our hovels at Lockview , Lisnatrunk and later when I lived in Mill St Hilden touching his forelock to Jack Barbour ( as did almost everyone employed in the mill when they met him )
Donald

Donald,

Ian shaved his head in 1956 and......coloured it blue.
As for being the first Teddy boy in Lisburn I think Jackie Adams had that honour, closely followed by "Squaw" Troughton.

Beano

Thomas did you hear of the man who went into the barbers and asked for a 'Tony Curtis'. He was so tired after a night at the Top Hat that he fell asleep in the chair. When he woke up he had a crew cut. "What?" he cried, "That's not the way Tony Curtis has his hair cut!" The reply was sharp and swift: "Well it would be if he came here!"

Hi Donald , Hilary.

Donald i like your apt description .( Articles to keep the population in check .)

Hilary thank's for the laugh's to Donald and yourself, My wife think's i am , going cukoo , laughing at this screen.

All the best .

Tommy