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Shaftesbury Square Hospital, Great Victoria Street

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…

Belfast General Hospital

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…