castlestreet

Great

A moment in time..so great!

This is a fantastic photograph taken from the first floor of the Ulster Reform Club in Royal Avenue - the buildings to the left and right are still there although the building in the centre, at the corner of Castle Place and Donegall Place, formerly known as 'Gibson's Corner', has been replaced by a modern McDonald's. As the tram system wasn’t electrified until late 1905 – the first test took place in Sep 1905 and the system was officially opened on 5 Dec 1905 – this photo is most likely post-1905.

Gerry Ward Thanks Gerry! Have amended date to "Circa 1906" and added "Gibson's Corner" as a tag... :)

The Lennon Wylie site lists a Berlitz school in Belfast for the first time in 1907, at Royal Avenue, and has it moving to Wellington Place in 1910.

Nice to see old Dundee! I sure loved garden plots, and the love of gardening when I visited.

Looks like it was taken from about geo:lat=56.465999 geo:lon=-2.863304 Looking northeast towards Panmure Street. So according to the aerial photo on Google Maps, the buildings on the left of the road have been demolished.

neither of the above comments match this photo?. It's amazing to see how wide the street looked back then, it is so narrow nowadays.

NO cars I LOVE IT : O)

Its nothing near Panmure Street Bruce. Its Castle Street looking north to the High Street prior to the demolition of the Trades Hall, I am developing a habit of correcting wrong descriptions.

a quick Google flags up a series of NLI held docs from the 1880s where he seems to have acted as a Government solicitor ?

If the same man he was a resident magistrate.. RM..who took part in the Vandeleur evictions in 1888. Not well liked in Moyasta and beyond.

If that's our legal chap, it seems like that more than his waistcoat was stuffed (allegedly)
Daily Nation 1898

O f f i c i a l s f r o m t h e
V a n d e l e u r E v i c t i o n s

“Roche's appointment to the position
of Resident Magistrate over other, more senior
Removable Magistrates was questioned, as was
his ability to impartially enforce the Crimes Act,
given his association with the Loyal and Patriotic
Union, a fervently anti-Home Rule organization. '3
Roche's reputation for harsh sentencing and for
self-importance was likewise a cause for complaint
in the House of Commons." In this photograph he
wears a check-pattern yellow-hued suit, which he
wore frequently in the eviction photographs. He
was often recorded as he is seen here, sitting on a
low boundary wall, acting as "judge and jury', in the
summary sentencing of those who resisted eviction.
He was remembered later with his hat rakishly riding
forward on the bridge of his nose as he sentenced the
evicted tenants on the spot”

www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/vandeleur_evict...

Cecil Roche, Barrister 15 Herbert Street
(per Thoms 1884 & Slator 1894)
Emily was his mother. She died in 1902