Titanic Studios
The Titanic Studios are where a number of well-known TV hits have been filmed including HBO’s Game of Thrones. The space comprises two large clear span studios which are connected by a large acoustic door allowing for a combined use…
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The Titanic Kit is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Tony Stallard.
Completed in 2009, it is a bronze and steel sculpture of the RMS Titanic, 14 metres tall and 4 metres wide and takes the form of an oversized Airfix plastic model kit and has a number of components recognizable as…
Titanic Hotel, former Harland and Wolff drawing rooms
The Titanic Hotel is a luxury hotel. It website says it is ‘located at the heart of Belfast’s Titanic Quarter, the legendary Harland & Wolff Headquarters and Drawing Offices is now the world’s most authentic Titanic hotel, offering an unforgettable…
Titanic Belfast
Titanic Belfast opened in 2012 as a museum, visitor attraction and monument to Belfast’s maritime heritage. It is built on the site of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard in the city’s Titanic Quarter where the RMS Titanic was constructed.…
Thompson Graving Dock
The Thompson Graving Dock was constructed by the Belfast Harbour Commissioners and opened in 1911. It was designed to accommodate the new mammoth White Star liners Olympic and Titanic that had been built by Harland and Wolff. The docks were…
The Quarters of Belfast: a city of eight?
If a city has an area named a ‘quarter’ then it would be logical to suggest that any such place would have four such zones. From the brief research carried out for this article, Belfast has eight quarters. Wikipedia defines…
The Odyssey
The SSE Arena is owned by the Odyssey Trust Company. The complex originated in 1992 and opened in December 2000. The complex consists of: a multipurpose arena, science centre and shopping centre. The shopping centre houses a movie theatre and…
Durham Street TB Institute, 89 Durham St
Tuberculosis (TB) was a major killer in late 19th century and early 20th century Belfast. In the early 1900s an epidemic of the disease led to 13,000 deaths in Ireland. TB is caused by a bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria…
The case of the missing head of Queen Victoria’s daughter.
On the outbreak of the Great War on 4 August 1914, the former Robinson and Cleaver department store building on Donegall Square, opposite the City Hall, was subject to anti-German vandalism by a Germanophobic mob. If you look between the…
Sustrans Portrait Bench
The three steel cut-out figures represent a shipyard worker who helped build the Nomadic, a French waiter who served on the Nomadic and Charlie Chaplin, possibly her most famous passenger. This sculpture was erected as part of the Sustrans Portrait…