The Congregational Church tabernacle was built in 1805 and was described of ‘spartan simplicity’. A second church was built on this site in 1858 and constructed in the ‘primeval Gothic design’ using ‘Scrabo stone’ quarried in Co. Down. On 15…
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On 20 December 2004, a total of £26.5 million in cash was stolen from the headquarters of Northern Bank on Donegall Square West in Belfast. Having taken family members of two bank officials hostage, an armed gang forced the workers…
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The iron fountain was a memorial to Daniel Joseph Jaffe erected by his son Offo Jaffe in 1874. Daniel Jaffe was a German industrialist who founded the linen exporters of Jaffe Brothers of Hamburg, Dundee, Belfast, Liepzig and Paris. He…
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The Custom House was built in the 1850s as the administrative buildings for government revenue collectors. It was designed by Sir Charles Lanyon and built in the Italianate Palazzo style. The steps of the acted as a ‘speakers corner’ where…
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The Crumlin Road is famous for a number of old mill buildings that used to employ thousands of local girls and women as spinners, weavers and workers. These include the Ewart Mill, built for William Ewart, who was a cotton trader…
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