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The Belfast Waterworks were established in the early 1840s by the Belfast Water Commissioners. The site supplied water to the city’s factories and residents. It became redundant after the city got new supplies from the Mourne Mountains in the late…

SS Nomadic, or Steam Ship Nomadic, was a tender to the Olympic class liners of the cruise ship operators The White Star Line. This company operated the famous Titanic along with the other ships in its class, the Britannic and…

Very pleasant visit to Balance House yesterday. This is the restored birthplace of John Ballance, 14th prime minster of New Zealand. He was in office between 1891 to 1893 and introduced universal suffrage for men and women. Further details are…

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…

The steps of the Custom House became the an unofficial ‘speakers corner’ of Belfast. They became a location where religious, political and trade union speakers would speak, preach and lecture to open air crowds.[1] The Custom House was built in…