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In recent times the column inches of this newspaper have regrettably featured, yet again, stories of Belfast’s ill-appreciation of its own built heritage. It feels like a trend; a pattern of destruction. ....
From its earliest times, Belfast’s main thoroughfare has always been at High Street, as far back as the 17th century when it took the form of quays which flanked each side of the River Farset; which then was better known as Front Street or Fore Street. The Farset was crossable via four small bridges along the street: Chades Bridge was opposite Corn Market, Eccles Bridge was opposite Pottinger’s Entry, Sluice Bridge was opposite Church Lane, and a stone bridge could be found at the appropriately named Bridge Street. ....
Situated in the up-and-coming Linen Quarter (one of seven ‘quarters’ in Belfast, no less…), Bedford Street and its environs in many ways epitomised the notion of Belfast as ‘Linenopolis’ teeming, as it was, with mills and, in particular, warehouses for linen. ....
Social media can be a funny old place sometimes. A few weeks ago, for instance, I carried out a straw-poll to see which Belfast streets should feature in the remainder of this series and Great Victoria Street came up more than any other. ....
In August 1849, and in the midst of a cholera epidemic, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Belfast during their first ever official engagement in Ireland. A warm Irish welcome was extended to ‘the famine Queen’, perhaps unexpectedly so given the ravages of starvation and disease that had troubled the island since 1845. ....