belfastcityhall

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"Unidentified" = City Hall, Donegall Square, Belfast

  • 41 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Reverse Google Streetview
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley What was that? 2/3 minutes? You guys are losing your edge! :) Stand by for a toughie then (rolling sleeves up here at Library Towers)...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Wiki link on Belfast City Hall, completed in 1906.
  • Vab2009 said:
    I am pretty certain that is Belfast with what was Robinson Cleavers shop on the right hand side. And Donegall Place is the street in leading away.
  • Cuddly Nutter said:
    Belfast City hall looking down Royal Avenue.

... and After!

  • 18 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Streetview Unveiled in 1906, per the DIA City Hall itself was officially opened by Lord Leiutenant (Earl of Aberdeen) 1 Aug 1906 (per its DIA ref).
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Thank you, Niall. And the day and the hour? ;)
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The memorial was unveiled by the Marquess of Londonderry on 9 June 1906 says Belfast City Council Heritage Directory
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Fantastic! But there's still the little matter of the time of day? :D
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The base of the Dufferin statue is made up of a turbaned Indian astride a cannon and holding a sabre, as well as a snowshoed Canadian with a musket, sitting on a dead moose. Seriously!

Pomp and Circumstance

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Sir Hamar Greenwood liked waggling his stick ! ... www.britishpathe.com/video/sir-hamar-greenwood-1
  • beachcomber australia said:
    ... and appeared in a cartoon spilling red ink over Ulster - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000508368 . I'm not at all sure what that was about !
  • DannyM8 said:
    Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, PC, KC (7 February 1870 – 10 September 1948), known as Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt, between 1915 and 1929 and as The Lord Greenwood between 1929 and 1937, was a Canadian-born British lawyer and politician. He served as the last Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1920 and 1922. Both his sons died unmarried rendering the Greenwood viscountcy extinct in 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamar_Greenwood,_1st_Viscount_Green...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Per wikipedia: Initially the Parliament met in Belfast's City Hall
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Yes: Streetview