Quiz #16

SHS The Town I Know So Well
Welcome to Round 16 - The Streets of Strabane. Please answer the 10 questions below and click submit when done to see your score:

1. What is the name of the street that links Railway Road at Modern Tyres to Lower Main Street?

2. What is the development between Derry Road and the Strabane By-pass called?                                                                                  


3. What is the nick name for Kennedy Street?             

4. Hill’s Chemist is situated at the Ulster American Folk Park. What business premises is situated on the old site of Hill’s Chemist in Castle Street? 

                                                               
                   



                                                                 

5. Names such as The Holmes & The Doctor’s Water are associated with stretches of water on the River Mourne. A section called after a black hole gives the name to a local housing estate. What is the estate called?

6. In the 1950s in what street would you have found businesses in the   name of B.J. Kelly, J. Cochrane, B. Breslin, Mahaffy and The Classic Grill? 
 

7.  In what street would you have found the Christian Brothers School?  

8. In 1956-57 the fire Service relocated to a new H.Q. station at Branch Road. Where was the original sited? 


                                                                                                                                                               

9. On signposts you will see the road from Derry through Strabane to Omagh has a letter and number reference. What is the official designation of this road?

10. Dunne, Lyttle, McShane, Logue all carried on businesses on this street. Name the street.   

                                                  
                      

Comments (2)

  1. Vincent J. Doherty

    I’m learning all the time. Keep the quizzes coming !

    Reply
  2. John McCormick

    Does anyone have a picture of the old Brigade Terrace, archways and garages opposite the terrace.

    Reply

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