alfredstreet

Still standing in May 2019 - goo.gl/maps/WVk6gankueC2LUNs6

Sometimes Flickr is extraordinarily close! In 2012 via Ulster Architectural Heritage Society

I like how in Presbyterian churches the organ is front and central, via Susan Forshey

Short history and sticky-beak inside - youtu.be/NpwtYjIhxf8

At the opening in October 1829, admission was by ticket only. However, such a multitude assembled at the front of the building which prevented many of the ticket-holders from getting in, including "the Marquis of Donegal and a great many very respectable Ladies and Gentlemen". Nevertheless, two thousand two hundred people managed to get in to hear the Rev. Henry Cooke preach. (from the account in Londonderry Sentinel - Saturday 24 October 1829)

September 1902, from the banner on the Belmore (First & Last) Hotel advertising acts at the Tivoli theatre. A Trove search of "Nawn Wilton Tivoli" produced this from the SMH of Saturday 20/9/1902 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14507894 . I wonder if the photo was taken from the then-being-built Sydney Harbour Trust Building - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/2715092837/ ? Wonderful photo and amazing to see such detail via the persistent URL Zoomify.

About twenty years later -

In the bottom RH corner of the OP, there is a verandah. I think this may be David Lynch's "Ship Inn Hotel" which was demolished sometime during 1901, allowing Tooths to build the new Ship Inn during 1902, 50m back on the corner of Alfred and Pitt Streets. The western side of this verandah can be seen in this undated image www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/8724829262/in/pho...

? slightly later...but not by much... www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/44899209431/in/ph... JUST FOR INTEREST: In the bottom rh corner we see the verandah on the old Ship Inn...which appears to have shared a common wall with the Change Alley building (NE cnr Pitt/Alfred Sts). The Change Alley building (built 1877) was demolished in ca. August/September 1901 to make way for the Pitt St tramway extension. I gather the adjoining yard, which then housed the Government weigh bridge, was also cleared at this time. A good portion of the old Ship Inn appears to have survived as a ruin until ca. March/April 1904, when it too was demolished... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/237372089 - the Daily Telegraph, 4th September, 1901...item on the demolition of Change Alley. I'm not sure whether the writer had all the facts correct...the article indicates that the Ship Inn was then also being demolished...but if this were the case, then the demolition must have been incomplete...there are numerous newspaper items which indicate that the Ship Inn remained standing beyond this point and that it wasn't (completely) demolished until ca. March/April 1904... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14406015 - SMH, 27th August, 1901...SMH item re the demolition of Change Alley... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229295576 - the Australian Star, 22nd March, 1904...re the pending demolition of the old Ship Inn... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71471961 - Australian Town & Country Journal, 7th September, 1901...pic of Alfred St, showing Change Alley and the Ship Inn prior to the August/September 1901 demolitions... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165236417 - the Sydney Mail, 21st September, 1901...pic here of the Circular Quay side of the Ship Inn...this item also refers to the pending demolition of both Change Alley and the Ship Inn... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165190990/16808490 - Sydney Mail, 13th May, 1903...pic here which shows the Ship Inn (?and part of Change Alley) still standing...with the Harbour Trust Building under construction in the background (see pic on 1st page of link)... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138764510 - the Australasian, 12th March, 1904...pic here also shows the Ship Inn still standing...with the ?now completed Harbour Trust Building behind...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165380561/17336718 - Sydney Mail, 31st December, 1902...similar pic of Circular Quay here...maybe earlier...

From Trove, 22 Sep 1865: Sir H. Cairns reviewed his Parliamentary policy and career, condemning in strong terms the Palmerston Government. He referred to the Belfast Indemnity Bill, and said Mr. Gladstone, Sir Peel, and other Ministers were against it, and if it had been thrown out the town would still be saddled with the Chancery suit I think this speech is from 12th July 1865, in Belfast.

There seem to have been a lot of riots in Belfast around that time, and the Belfast Police were abolished and replaced by the RIC.

The building looks like a courthouse to me. Not sure why the Archive thinks it is in Belfast, other than the poster, which could be a headline anywhere.

This is the Presbyterian Church on Alfred St, Belfast www.archiseek.com/2016/1837-presbyterian-church-alfred-st...

Quite Adept Oh, thank you for that identification!