xpw028743 NORTHERN IRELAND (1929). Forth Flex Spinning Mill, Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1929. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing North.

Craigs Mill. destroyed Aug 1969

Conway Mill, also known as MillVale, the new mill of James Kennedy Ltd who sold their previous site and much land to J&TM Greeves. It was the longest surviving mill in the area, lasting to 1976. It is now the Conway Mill Preservation Trust http://www.conwaymill.org

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