Last Update - 05 June 2015
The most easterly section just beyond the old Short Street was originally called Mary Street Lane
Previously Front Shuttlefield Street and once one of the most populated hand loom weaving centres in Newtownards

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This aerial shot shows Robert Street {1} and the Blaxnit Factory behind also the old Cattle Market {2} and West Street {3}
with Short Street {4} - Back Shuttlefield {5}

Pic Courtesy of Wilson McAvoy
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Excellent c1960s pic. recently improved

Not great quality but it captures just how narrow a street it was.

Taken in Robert Street pre. 1966
L-R. - Michael Adair - Davy Adams (Blaxnit) - Billy Lightbody and Hammie Logan
Pic courtesy of James McCorriston


2012 image looking towards Thomas Street
Immediately left where the new housing stands would have been the back wall of the old cattle market..

Crumlin, Adeline - 1912 - Of 23 Robert Street - Signed the Ulster Covenant

Adair, Edward - 1st. July 1916 - Private 27059 10th. Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - Thiepval - Fatality WW1
Of Robert Street

Cairnduff, Robert - (Rifleman 17388 12th. Btn. R.I.R.) - 26th. March 1918 aged 26 years - (Father Samuel Cairnduff) - (Mother Ann Jane Cairnduff) - (Wife Sarah Cairnduff of 39 Robert Street) - Pozieres Memorial - Fatality WW1