 On several occasions in the 1970s this resulted in gun battles between the Royal Ulster Constabulary and locals.See "Two Hundred Years in the Orange Citadel" here.During the late 1960s and up to the mid-1970s the Edgarstown and Obins Street areas were separated only by a wasteland which had formerly been railway lines and the railway marshalling and repair facility which had dominated the area for many years.