St George’s Market
St George’s Market is the last surviving Victorian covered market in Belfast. It was built between 1890 and 1896. It is located in an area known as the ‘Markets’ as it was dominated by the Belfast abattoir and animal and…
Belfast Harp Festival
On 14 July 1792, the famous Belfast Harp festival was held in the Assembly Rooms. Ten harpists, most of them blind, took part in this celebration of the fall of the Bastille prison in Paris that had taken place three…
St George’s Market
St George’s Market is the last surviving Victorian covered market in Belfast. It was built between 1890 and 1896. It is located in an area known as the ‘Markets’ as it was dominated by the Belfast abattoir and animal and…
St. Anne’s Cathedral
This is Belfast Cathedral, and gives the Cathedral Quarter is name. Cathedral Quarter is a cultural and nightlife zone of the city and features the Metropolitan Arts Centre, the Black Box theatre, bars and restaurants. The Church is also known…
SS Nomadic
SS Nomadic, or Steam Ship Nomadic, was a tender to the Olympic class liners of the cruise ship operators The White Star Line. This company operated the famous Titanic along with the other ships in its class, the Britannic and…
Spanish Civil War Memorial, Writers Square
Monument to the people of Belfast who joined the XV International Brigade to fight Fascism in the Spanish Civil War 1936 – 1939. It is located in Writers’ Square and commemorates the 48 Catholics and Protestants served side by side…
Scottish Provident Institution, 1-11 Donegall Square West
This building was constructed by Young & McKenzie between 1897 and 1902 as purpose built office units and retail outliets and retains that function today.[1] It was built on the site of former linen warehouses and the Donegall Hotel.[2] It…
Scottish Temperance Assurance Buildings, Donegall Square South
The Scottish Temperance Assurance Buildings was constructed as office buildings on the site of an old linen warehouse. It was designed by Henry Seaver and completed in 1904. C.E.B Brett described it as being styled with the ‘free treatment of…
Belfast Coat of Arms
The arms were officially granted today in 1890 (30 June). The wolf-is taken from the arms of Sir Arthur Chichester, the founder of Belfast, who obtained the city’s charter from English King James I in 1613. The ship tells of…
Samson and Goliath, Harland and Wolff Cranes
The two great canary yellow-painted gantry cranes are icons of the Belfast city skyline are known as Samson and Goliath. Goliath is the smaller crane measuring 96m (315ft) high began work in 1969 and Samson, the larger at 106m (348ft),…