McQuiston Public Elementary School, Donegall Pass, Belfast, Co. Antrim

McQuiston Public Elementary School stood on Donegall Pass, in South Belfast, Co. Antrim. Children gathered here in July 1940 to be evacuated from the city.

McQuiston Public Elementary

99 Donegall Pass

Belfast

Co. Antrim

United Kingdom

On 4th July 1940, the Belfast Newsletter listed McQuiston Public Elementary School as a place from where unregistered children would be evacuated on Monday 8th July 1940.

This was part of an attempt to evacuate young people from Belfast a year before the Blitz.