“Stuff the Jubilee” – The Gordon Highlanders on Patrol in Belfast in 1977/78

At the time of the Queen's Silver Jubilee the Gordon Highlanders were based at Palace Barracks, Holywood near Belfast.

Bawnmore Estate. Belfast Gordon Highlander on Foot Patrols in Bawnmore Estate Belfast in 1977/8

Belfast 1977: beside the Mc Kelvey Sinclair timber yard on Duncrue Street across from the Ulsterbus head offices

Berwick Road just off Alliance Avenue Gordons on patrol Belfast 1977:78

Gordon Highlanders on Foot Patrols in Bawnmore Estate Belfast in 1977/8

Gordon Highlanders on Foot Patrols in Bawnmore Estate Belfast in 1977/8

Gordons doing Vehicle check in Belfast Mc Kelvey Sinclair timber yard on Duncrue Street across from the Ulsterbus head offices

Gordons on patroll in Belfast 1977/8 checking the Map in a Back Alley in Belfast.

Mayfair Street – it was just off the Oldpark Road. Belfast 1978

The eastwards view from Divis OP Belfast 1977

Gordon Highlanders Fag Break on patrol in Belfast

Fort Monagh Belfast 1973

Etna Waste. Ardoyne. Belfast Gordon Highlanders On a Patrol in Belfast 1977/8

College Square East, near Belfast city centre

Belfast 1973

Gordon Highlanders on Foot Patrols, in Bawnmore Estate. Belfast

Gordon Highlander on Foot Patrol in Bawnmore Estate Belfast in 1977/8

View from inside the Pig on Patrol in Belfast 1977/8

View from inside the Pig on Patrol in Belfast 1977/8

Bawnmore Estate. Belfast Gordon Highlanders on Foot Patrols, in Bawnmore Estate. Belfast

Bawnmore Estate. Belfast Gordon Highlanders on Foot Patrols in Bawnmore Estate Belfast in 1977/8.

Alliance Avenue at the shops looking back towards Deerpark and the Oldpark Belfst 1977

The Gordon’s on Patrol in Linenhall Street Belfast 1977:8

Ronnie in Belfast 1973

Photos used with kind permission from Ronnie – his fascinating Flickr site is here.

 

 

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