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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This bronze statue by Ross Wilson was erected in 2010 close to the former site of Ewarts’ Mill and the Edenderry Mill on the Crumlin Road, Belfast. The statue pays tribute to Belfast’s female linen mill workers; they were known…
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The former (listed) Methodist church was designed by architect W.J. Barre in the 1860s.[1] Its architectural style has been as having a red brick “Lombard-Venetian-Romanesque” campanile and being deeply of the Italianate style so popular with the Victorians. Do you…
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The Merchant Hotel is now a five-star luxury hotel; originally the building was the headquarters of the Ulster Bank. The building is in the Italianate style and is a fine example of high Victorian architecture. It features sculptures depicting Commerce,…
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