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Glentoran Football Club is a professional football club that plays in the Northern Ireland Football League Premiership. The club was founded in 1882. In 1914, Glentoran won the Vienna Cup, becoming the second British team to win a European trophy.…

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.[1] It ceased to be an operational prison in 1996. It is a grade A listed…

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…