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The title has a typo. This is of course a Flax Spinning Mill, not Flex.
It is the Forth River Mill of J&TM Greeves, so called because it took its water from the small river Forth which flows down to the Lagan.
This mill was built in 1871 and was the largest in Ireland by number of spindles. Most of the houses on nearby Falls and Conway streets were built for the workers although the Greeves, who were Plymouth Bretthern, were known for employing from both Falls and Shankhill areas without discrimination.
The mill closed in1956 unable to cope with the influx of manmade fibres.
It and many of the houses were burned down in the rioting of 1969 '