Edited sentence: A quite area of shankill nowadays but back in the 70's, 80's and early 90's used to be a heaven for football mad kids and teenagers.Also in the 1980's a lot of families emigrated from the grove to seek out work as in the Maquires(London - 1986) and Bishops(Australia - 1982).Kids used to play all types of games including.Now there is just a FAS training centre.Shanganagh gove's attractive nature has resulted in families returning to the grove and remenesing on old times.Shanganagh grove was also legend for its bonfires until 1987 when the bonfire was moved to shanganagh woods.Shnaganagh Grove.The grove shops was a busy thrieving business area including a hair dressers, butchers and two shops.These games were played late into the night sometimes.We had our fair share of famous people including Stephan brennan who played for Newcastle Utd and Chris Horn founder of Iona.squares, rounders, kerbs, tip the pole and soccer