J3474 : Former Ulster Bank doorway, Belfast (detail)
taken 13 years ago, near to Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland
The Victorian era saw an enormous growth in many aspects of Belfast life population, housing, linen, shipbuilding, engineering, financial services and education all of which were of great benefit to the local architects. Many must have been fair scunnered when the Glasgow architect James Hamilton was commissioned to design the new Ulster Bank head office in Waring Street. His design epitomises the extravagance typical of that period.
It was completed in 1860 but unfortunately on a cramped site in one of the original streets of what had once been Belfast dockland. Now a hotel.
A collection of photographs illustrating the use of The Red Hand of Ulster in architecture. This Wiki article Link provides a history of the emblem. All photographs submitted by me under this shared description appear as a matter of neutral record only and should not be interpreted as expressing any cultural, political, religious, sectarian or racial opinion.
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- Grid Square
- J3474, 4349 images (more nearby )
- Photographer
- Albert Bridge (find more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Sunday, 27 February, 2011 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Sunday, 27 February, 2011
- Category
- Architectural detail > Architectural detail (more nearby)
- Subject Location
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Irish: J 341 745 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:36.0823N 5:55.5135W - Camera Location
- Irish: J 341 745
- View Direction
- South-southeast (about 157 degrees)