parliamentofnorthernireland

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Badly in need of a landscaper!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Sharon Corbet said:
    There's a second picture of the same building showing what looks like a red-brick terrace in front.
  • Swordscookie said:
    When I saw this first I thought "Ducketts Grove" but the terrace in Sharons would eliminate that! Fairly institutional and bleak without any shrubbery or landscaping!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Would this be Palladian?
  • O Mac said:
    It's the Union Theological College Belfast Streetview inc. red Transit van. Wiki
  • Niall McAuley said:
    O Mac Well done! From the DIA: Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR) Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, COLLEGE PARK, PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE Date: 1852-53 Nature: New building in Palladian style. Engaged Roman Doric columns. Scrabo freestone. Foundations being prepared April 1852; opened 1855. Expected cost about £6,000. Builder: John Corry. (Used as Parliament House for 3 years from 1921.)

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