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View along the River Wear

from North East Museums

  • optimal chicken said:
    I like Sunderland. It's a great place to visit because it's compact and there's lots to see and do. There are also some very good shops (can't believe I like shopping!).

The Greatest, the Most Spectacular, the Biggest, simply Titanic!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    There is a companion photo with previous controversy about Olympic / Titanic - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000539698
  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    I didn't know the Irish manufactured Jet/Turbine Engines.
  • derangedlemur said:
    You'd know it was a unionist workforce anyway, with the bowler hats on the pair of lads there 😄
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Original photo was by R. Welch, according to this 1912 book - www.gutenberg.org/files/32166/32166-h/32166-h.htm#harland
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Good find!!

Pilot Office, Belfast

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Those cannon look like captured Russian ones from the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War (1855). Pairs were sent to every major city in the British Empire - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sevastopol_(1854%E2%80%931855) . Recently did some digging on two in Sydney, Australia - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2362659579/
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia They look exactly the same, especially the wheels and the curvy stand thing at the back! These upended cannons are near where I live in Dublin. Have heard all manner of stories about where they came from - Napoleonic Wars, or from a 19th century British frigate... Found this on 1861 Belfast / Ulster Street Directory: "Two Russian guns, taken during the Crimean war at Sebastopol - both 46 pounders, and bearing inscriptions in Russian characters - presented to the town as trophies, are now mounted in a commanding position, upon the front esplanade of this fine suite of public buildings - for ornament alone, of course", though these two were placed near the Custom House.
  • Dave Colthorpe said:
    Is that a Steamship getting built in the Background?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Dave Colthorpe Anyone better acquainted with steamship shapes field this?
  • Gerry Ward said:
    The Pilot Office stood on the north side of the Lagan at the entrance to Spencer Dock. Spencer Dock, Dufferin Dock and York Dock were all enlarged, so where the Pilot Office stood is probably under water now - coordinates are about 54.612026,-5.913563. The Pilot Office had been described as "a collapsed telescope in the Tudor manner". The cannon are from the Crimean War. There are two ships being built in the background at the shipyards of Workman, Clark & Co. This company began in 1879 and pioneered the development of the refrigerated steamer. At their peak Workman, Clark employed over 12,000 employees and was described in Belfast as the "Wee Yard". It occupied 80 acres on the north side of the River Lagan and closed in 1935.