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3 July-5 July – Falls Road Curfew imposed by the British Army in Belfast. [3] 5 July – After a special cabinet meeting the government demands a ban on all parades in Northern Ireland and the disarmament of civilians. 2 August – The British Army first fires rubber bullets in Belfast.
Children playing near Falls Road, Belfast, 1981 ... The area is detailed in the 1931 Ordnance Survey map of ... From 3–5 July 1970, the road was the scene of what ...
[11] [22] [8] The boundaries of the official curfew zone were Falls Road in the west and north, Albert Street and Cullingtree Road in the east, and Grosvenor Road in the south. However, during the curfew, the zone was extended in the southwest as far as Dunmore Street. There were about 3,000 homes inside the curfew zone. [23]
The BT postcode area, also known as the Belfast postcode area, [2] covers all of Northern Ireland and was the last part of the United Kingdom to be coded, between 1970 and 1974. [ citation needed ] This area is a group of 82 postcode districts in Northern Ireland, within 44 post towns and around 47,227 live postcodes.
Terraced houses on both sides of the street were badly damaged, many with their facades blasted off. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester paid a visit to the devastated street. The Sandy Row redevelopment association which was founded in 1970, was one of the first loyalist community groups to open an advice centre. [10]
A 5.5-metre-high (18-foot) peace line along Springmartin Road in Belfast, with a fortified police station at one end The peace line along Cupar Way in Belfast, seen from the predominantly Protestant side The peace line at Bombay Street/Cupar Way in Belfast, seen from the predominantly Catholic side Gates in a peace line in West Belfast
Nationalists point to a number of events in these years to explain the upsurge in violence. One such incident was the Falls Curfew in July 1970, when 3,000 troops imposed a curfew on the nationalist Lower Falls area of Belfast, firing more than 1,500 rounds of ammunition in gun battles with the Official IRA and killing four people.
The Battle of St Matthew's or Battle of Short Strand [1] was a gun battle that took place on the night of 27–28 June 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.It was fought between the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and Ulster loyalists in the area around St Matthew's Roman Catholic church.