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19/08/2008

£165,000 'Best' Price, For Football Legend's Childhood Home

The childhood home of football superstar George Best has been put up for sale.

The modest east Belfast house is on the market for £165,000, boasting three bedrooms and a back garden once tread by a budding football protégé.

Number 16 Burren Way had been occupied by the Best family for over 60 years, but will now change hands following the death of George's father Dickie, earlier this year.

In 2005, Cregagh Estate mourners gathered at the house to pay their last respects to George, before the cortege moved on to Stormont, where a state funeral was held for the football legend.

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George's sister Carol Macpherson, said: "When we were little, George and I used to share a bedroom.

"As we got older he was given the room all to himself and after he left it was used by other family members, but was always vacated when George returned home to visit.”

George lived at the address until he signed with Manchester United at the age of 15.

"Everyone in the family is sad to see it go.

"It was a very happy home and my father lived there for nearly 60 years, but we all have our own houses now and it was a stipulation of dad’s will that the house should be sold on his death," added Carol.

Estate agents Templeton Robinson, said the house is still in very good order.

"Dickey looked after the house meticulously over the years. It has Phoenix Gas central heating and double-glazing with a new kitchen put in recently.

"We have priced it as a very well tended terrace in the Cregagh estate. A similar property in Burren Way went sale agreed recently for around this price, but this house has a bigger back garden," added the firm.

(PR/JM)

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