Out yesterday on a Bricks&Buildings tour looking at the religious, municipal and commercial architecture of the Belfast’s city centre. Walk was delivered as part of the QUB Open Learning Spring Term (OLE3147 – Five Walks Through Belfast’s History). Lovely weather!
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The SSE Arena, Belfast is owned by the Odyssey Trust Company. It has a capacity of 10,800, and since its opening in 2000 seen over 2,000 performances and that were attended by around 9m people.[1] The display area is a…
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This office block was built for the Ocean Accident Guarantee Corporation by Young & Mackenzie from 1899 to 1902.[1] It is constructed in a perpendicular style in red Ballochmoyle sandstone.[2] It is Gothic Revival styled building that C.E.B. Brett described…
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Murray, Sons and Company Ltd began trading in Belfast in 1810, and became a limited company in 1884. By 1921, it shared most of the Belfast manufacture of tobacco, cigarettes and snuff with Gallaher Limited, who had moved to Belfast…
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The Church was purpose built for a Moravian congregation in 1871, fashioned in the Gothic style.[1] The Moravian Church is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century. Moravia is…
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