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Bank Buildings

Today, marks the first anniversary of the reopening of Bank Buildings, damaged by fire in 2018. The Bank Buildings  was designed and built between 1899 and 1900 by W. H. Lynn as a department store and warehouse. It was owned…

Assembly Rooms and Exchange Buildings

The Exchange was built in 1769 as a single-storey, arcaded Market House funded by a donation of £4000 from the Earl of Donegall as a celebration of the birth of his son, George Augustus.  In 1776, again at the request…

Winecellar entry

The Belfast Entries are a series of historical narrow alleyways in the city centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland, mostly in the vicinity of High Street and Ann Street. When the town was first laid out in the early 17th century,…