Date(s): April 14-15, 2012. Album by David Clement. 1 - 34 of 34 Total. 125 Visits.
1 train from Kentish Town to Luton on Saturday morning
2 Belfast City Hall
3 Queen Victoria statue in front of City Hall; she granted Belfast city status in 1888, but they had named a bunch of stuff in her honour 40 years before that, hoping to become an official city - she stayed for only 4.5 hours on that occasion!
4 Albert Memorial Clock, leans by 4 feet
5 Cavehill - when Swift was living at Lilliput Cottage in Belfast, he imagined that the Cavehill resembled the shape of a sleeping giant
6 Stormont Parliament Buildings
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8 Unionist mural in Shankill Road area
9 another Unionist mural
10 George Best mural
11 Republican mural, in the Falls Road area, of MP Bobby Sands who died on a hunger strike at age 27
12 Queen's University
13 view of BBC studios from my room at Park Inn
14 St Anne's Cathedral
15 "Spire of Hope" at St Anne's Cathedral, installed in 2007
16 Odyssey Arena, home to Belfast Giants hockey (the original name was the Belfast Bombers, but somebody intervened to put an end to that!)
17 SS Nomadic, ferried Titanic's 1st and 2nd class passengers in Cherbourg, where the harbour was too shallow for Titanic to dock
18 old Harland and Wolff offices
19 drawing room where Titanic was designed
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21 boardroom where they decided to scrap the plans for lifeboat seats > number of passengers
22 Thomas Andrews' actual desk in his old office
23 Titanic's slipway
24 HMS Caroline, the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland still afloat
25 Thompson Dry Dock, where the building of Titanic was completed
26 Pump-House for the Thompson Dry Dock
27 these pumps could drain the whole dry dock in an hour and a half (in 1911!). Belfast was the world leader in maritime engineering
28 in brand new Titanic Belfast museum... this is taken on a cart ride through a 1/3 size model of the Arrol Gantry
29 looking out at Titanic's slipway, the Arrol Gantry used to stand there - it was sold as scrap by Harland and Wolff in the 1970's
30 Titanic Belfast, opened just two weeks prior to my visit
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32 Big Blue Fish at Donegall Quay - one is supposed to get smarter after kissing it
