Gallery 6

Springtown Camp committee members John Mc Brearty and Leo Fitzpatrick collecting signatures for the closing of Springtown Camp

The remains of the Doherty family hut ater a fire in 31st Oct.1959 included Billy Mc Laughlin,Harry Feeny,Willie Mc Connell,Stevie Wilkinson,Tommy Rankin,Florrie Divin,Mary Edgar,Philip Killen

Bailiff at work in Belmont Camp as the children look on in bewilderment 12 may 1947

Summers day 1951 included Carmel ,Michael and John Kerrigan with Maureen,ann,kay and Bernie Duddy

Delivery man saying goodbye to Mrs Mc Guiness at Belmont Camp on the day she was evicted Monday 12 May 1947

Bailiff carrying furniture from Abbie McGuiness\

John Mc Brearty,Jimmy Deery and John Doherty posting a letter to the powers that be at Stormont in April 1964

Belmont 12 May 1947,all heading for Springtown includingEva McGuinness,Abbie Mc Guinness,Hugo Lewis,Minnie Lewis,Eddie Kelly,Charlie mc Monagle,Sadie Campbell,Maggie Mc Gowan,Eddie Kelly,Mary B Kelly

Charles Witherspoon BBC tv reporter examines the crumbling huts for a special tv programme on the Camp

Who are they?

The squatters Champion,Alderman Paddy Fox with an evicted family at Belmont Camp in May 1947

British soldiers dismantling huts in Belmont Camp after the families were evicted,these families then  moved to Springtown Camp

Eddie Mc Ateer (nationalist MP) Chatting to the residents of Springtown Camp)