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Jaffe Memorial Drinking Fountain, Victoria Square

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…

Custom House, Belfast

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…

The Former Crumlin Road Linen Mills

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…

Crumlin Road Gaol

HMP Belfast, also known as Crumlin Road Gaol, is a former prison situated on the Crumlin Road in north Belfast, colloquially known as the Crum. It ceased to be an operational prison in 1996. It is now a grade A…

The Crumlin Road Courthouse

Built in 1850, the building, which was designed by Charles Lanyon in the Neoclassical style It was built opposite Crumlin Road Gaol which had opened a few years earlier and to which it was connected by an underground passage. The…