Van Morrison’s House

Though I don’t like van Morrison as a singer or his personality I cant fail to acknowledge his incredible song writing talent and everytime someone asks where I live I do always say hyndford street where van Morrison grew up. Anyone who is a fan can take photos of his house and walk to «the hallow» at the bottom of the street by the school or walk along the beersbridge road to «Cyprus avenue»

Van morrisons childhood home on Hyndford street, identified with a shiny brass plaque although Very limited parking at van morrisons childhood home, always busy with tourists, The current owner has no problems with anyone taking photos. Easy to find hyndford street just by the topaz petrol station on the beersbridge road.

The fact that the childhood home of Van the Man is on Hyndford Street oft the Beersbridge Road in East Belfast is probably quite well known. The house is to be found a considerable distance up the long, narrow street, the sort of place where people still hang around outside their houses and talk to each other, increasingly unusual in this age of growing anonymity. So much so that I felt a little self conscious as I tried to peer at the shiny brass plaque that notes the date of his birth (1945) that the Belfast Blues Appreciation Society have gamely put there. There is not much to see, really, the house is a well kept, privately owned small two up two down that I would not like to intrude upon. From the doorstep on a clear day Van Morrison would have seen a glimpse of a yellow crane (if they had been built by then) and the hills behind as he started the long and, it has to be said though it’s a bit of a cliché, remarkable journey to his legendary success.