Protestant women and children have left the New Barnsley estate and are living in temporary accommodation on the Shankill Road.
An Orange Order parade along the lower section of the Grosvenor Road and the upper end of the Springfield Road, both predominantly Catholic areas, resulted in rioting.
More than 300 panicked women and children from New Barnsley, a predominantly Protestant housing estate moved to the West Belfast Orange Hall on the Shankill Road. The Reverend Ian Paisley of the Free Presbyterian Church organised the evacuation.
The women and children are staying in the adjacent Glenwood Primary School, where 16 classrooms are used for bedrooms. Reverend William McCrea, a minister of the Free Presbyterian Church, is caring for the evacuees at the school. Other centres are ready to take more people should the need arise.
William McCrea expects the evacuees will be under his care until the rioting is over but fears,
There will be more evacuations in my mind if trouble this weekend does not end.
Mrs Culvert is residing at the Glenwood Primary School while her three children are being cared for by family members. When she returned to the New Barnsley estate for her belongings, she was jeered at and intimidated by Catholics. Mrs Culvert is adamant she will never move back to the New Barnsley estate.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 2 April 1970. The reporter is John McAleese.
