Belfast Upper Cregagh Road WW1 & 2 Street Names

I'm studying Google Maps again.

I have discovered that there are quite a number ofstreets/avenues that were named after WW1 Battles/Places eg Somme, Picardy, Thiepval. Two streets were named after the Shorts Sunderland Flying Boat/Bomber and the Stirling Bomber. Both these aircraft were manufactured in Belfast.

Another two roads were named after Field Marshal Mongomery, 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and "The Spartan General". 'Monty' was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War and was particulary remembered for his North African desert campaign fought against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ( the Desert Fox. ) Field Marshal Mongomery's family came from Donegal.

The second road is Alanbrooke Road.

Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, during the Second World War, and was promoted to field marshal in 1944.
Like Montgomery, Alanbrooke had a very strong Ulster family connection. He was the seventh and youngest child of Sir Victor Brooke, 3rd Baronet, of Colebrooke Park, Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ulster, Ireland, and the former Alice Bellingham, second daughter of Sir Alan Bellingham, 3rd Baronet, of Castle Bellingham in County Louth.

[wildsuburbiauk]

Where I live a lot of Streets are named after Racecourses, the area used to be a racecourse. I love to try and work out connections of the street names on my travels, glad to hear I'm not the only one.

[andybrown]

My great granda Spiers came back from ww1 and got a house in Somme drive, my auntie and uncle now live in it.my other auntie lived in Sunderland road., west winds estate in Newtownards the streets are named after planes too.