Ashbridge_ Gordon & Friend

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Michael Laverty and Gordon Ashbridge (aged 7) photographed in the street in Monarch Parade, Belfast in 1963. The boys both lived in the village area of south Belfast. Michael was a Catholic; Gordon was a Protestant. They were best friends up until the outbreak of the Troubles.