Located on Great Victoria Street, near Shaftsbury Square, this building was originally constructed as the Belfast Ophthalmic Institution in the 1860s. The building was designed in the gothic style by architect William Joseph Barre for Lady Johnson, in memory of her…
ByadminBrian M. Walker’s book is an excellent chronological institutional history of St George’s church located on High Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was written to mark the church’s 200th anniversary in 2016. The book starts by considering the previous structures…
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The aerodrome was located in the south of the city off the Malone Road on the site now occupied by the Taughsmonagh housing estate. The land for the site was purchased by the council in the early 1920s and flights…
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The hospital first opened in 1797 as the Belfast Fever Hospital and General Dispensary, located in Factory Row. It then moved to West Street two years later and finally to Frederick Street in 1817. It was originally a four-story building…
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John Killen’s A History of the Linen Hall Library 1788-1988 is a solid and worthy chronological narrative of the first two centuries of the Linen Hall Library (LHL). He starts by setting out how the library came of the intellectual…
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