Tuesday, 12 March 2024

Belfast - PM

 All around the city are these beautiful trees but I simply cannot find out what species they are.



The blossom will be spectacular in a week or so's time.


Another picture of the Jaffe Memorial Drinking Fountain because a) no people and b) it's finally stopped raining.


Belfast's Flat Iron Building sits on one of the City's oldest streets and when it was built in 1860s it originally perched on the river's edge.


We then popped into the nearby Victoria Square Shopping Centre as we'd read it had a viewing platform at the top.  This is the Albert Memorial Clock.


In the distance is Scrabo Tower perched on the top of a similarly named hill.


The Assembly Buildings, headquarters for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. 


Grand Opera House


We'd enjoyed our Big Bus ride so much we decided to go round again with the aim of taking photos of things I'd missed the first time or better images in some cases.  This novelty clock is on the side of a pub in the university quarter.


Some of the nearby residential buildings are rather superb.


The Rise


Firstly the Republican area.






I managed to get the whole mural this time round.


More images from the Peace Wall.



And back into to Unionist area.



Belfast Orange Order's Hall - I think the amount of algae is indicative of how wet it always is here.


The Carlisle Memorial Methodist Church is a wonderful example of Victorian Gothic architecture.



Well that was well worth a second trip around on the bus.