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    A Sailortown is a district in seaports that catered to transient seafarers. These districts frequently contained boarding houses, public houses, brothels...
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  • Sailortown was a working-class dockland community in the docks area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Established in the mid-19th century on partly reclaimed...
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  • 4:48 "One, Two Brown Eyes" (Van Morrison) – 3:53 "King of Love" – 4:11 "Sailortown" – 4:10 "Walk In Love" – 3:02 "This House Must Fall" – 3:47 "Sweet Irish...
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  • UK Singles Chart, and featured on EastEnders. The 1990 follow-up was "Sailortown". The first album, Energy Orchard, was released to some critical appreciation...
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    transferred to new, alien estates when older, decrepit districts such as Sailortown and the Pound Loney were being demolished. According to social worker...
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    walls were built in Belfast in the 1920s (in Ballymacarett) and 1930s (in Sailortown), the first peace lines of "the Troubles" era were built in 1969, following...
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    family later moved to 94 Corporation St in the Little Italy area, close to Sailortown. Carson worked as an electrician and later a plasterer in the building...
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    M1 motorway and the Westlink, demolished a mixed dockland community, Sailortown and severed the streets linking the Shankill area and the rest of both...
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    for scrap in 1986. Black Welsh people Butetown History and Art Centre Sailortown (dockland) "Cardiff's Tiger Bay". BBC. Retrieved 4 April 2021. Evans,...
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  • look after their interests. The men who worked in the docks lived in Sailortown, a community adjacent to the Docks which had a population of 5,000, excluding...
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    the original on 11 November 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2022. "Shock City: Sailortown, Liverpool". www.historicengland.org.uk. Archived from the original on...
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  • Troubles. Jimmy Hasty was born in Belfast in 1936 and was raised in the Sailortown area of the city. In July 1950, when he was 14 years old, he lost his...
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  • North Beach Port of San Francisco 1906 earthquake Robert William Service Sailortown (dockland) Sydney Walton Square Asbury, Herbert. The Barbary Coast: An...
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    two children when they detonated a car bomb outside a Catholic pub in Sailortown, Belfast. On 20 December 1972, (the same day as the bar shooting) Ulster...
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    [citation needed] Another aspect of sailors' lives is their experiences of sailortown, that area of public houses, brothels, lodgings, etc., close to the docks...
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  • Belfast: York Road, Yorkgate, Seaview, Mount Vernon, Antrim Road, New Lodge, Sailortown Belfast BT16 BELFAST East Belfast: Dundonald, Millmount Village Lisburn...
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  • were William Jr. and John. William Sr. was originally from Fleet Street, Sailortown in the Belfast docks area, where he met Joyce Thompson, who came from...
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    drunken brawl. On 7 February 1973, Brian Douglas, a Protestant fireman from Sailortown was shot to death by the UDA whilst fighting a fire caused by street disturbances...
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    Humphrey 1 episode of television series: "The Hero" 1993 Comedy Playhouse: Sailortown Skeeball Television film Screenplay: Love Lies Bleeding Niall Television...
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    Ultimate Ulster Password (1987–1988) About Britain Comedy Playhouse ("Sailortown"; co-production with Central Television and Carlton Television, 20 April...
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  • "Stormy" Wetherall and Patrick "Silver" McKee. Born on York Street in the Sailortown area of Belfast, Ireland, around 1901, Robinson's early life in the docks...
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  • Robert "Rab" Carson, Gregg was shot dead on Nelson Street, in the old Sailortown district near the Belfast docks, while travelling in a taxi after returning...
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    Centres for Seafarers Trinity House Duckdalben International Seamen’s Club Sailortown Sailors' Society International Christian Maritime Association North American...
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    Hilda's Nottingham Forest Road Mapperley Road Plymouth Millbay Portsmouth Sailortown (defunct) Preston, Lancashire Fletcher Road/St Mary's Street Reading Oxford...
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    (Seafarers' Charity) The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen (UK) Sailortown Xavier, Nathaniel (2020-10-02). "Seafarers' charity unveils new look as...
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    jpg The Museum in Docklands has an area set up to look like 'Sailortown' and information about the Ratcliffe Fire 1903 description of the Parish...
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  • or in the neighbourhood of maritime docks, sometimes described as a Sailortown (dockland). The term is more common in Britain and the British Commonwealth...
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    Street. Traditionally the street marked the boundary of the dockside Sailortown area. York Street used to be a densely populated residential area, but...
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  • and repair of instruments, both modern and antique. Murray was born in Sailortown, Belfast, part of which no longer exists as it was demolished in place...
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    history Ming treasure voyages Naval history Niger River Ocean liner Sailortowns Ships of ancient Rome Timeline of maritime migration and exploration...
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