UPDATED JULY 2025
Includes Grey Abbey
Judy as a municipal councillor. What party is she representing?
The Comic Book party? 🙂
The Titanic
A statue dedicated to the people who perished on the Titanic.
Belfast was a village in the 17th century.
It has much in common with Liverpool and Manchester, those cities across the Irish Sea.
Belfast was the engine-room that drove the whirring wheels of the industrial revolution in Ulster. The development of industries like linen, ropemaking and shipbuilding doubled the size of the town every ten years. The world’s largest dry dock is here and the shipyard’s giant cranes tower over the port. This tower, once you’ve twisted your head in the right direction, is leaning…So Belfast also has its leaning tower of Pisa…
Whites Tavern, the oldest tavern in Belfast. Established in 1630.
The Crown Bar with its Victoria-era gas-fired lamps. I had a couple of pints of Guinness in that establishment.
Inside The Crown Bar. Notice the ceiling… Beautiful!!!
There are many Victorian and Edwardian buildings with elaborate sculptures over doors and windows. Stone-carved heads of gods and poets, scientists, kings and queens peer down from the high ledges of banks and old linen warehouses. This is one example.
Now a five-star hotel
Visited prior to the Titanic Museum being built. (September 2006)
The structure is the actual size of the Titanic.
This is where the Titanic was launched.
Visited again in June 2019
Titanic, at the bottom of the ocean.
It is in County Antrim on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland, about 4 km northeast of the town of Bushmills (the home of the oldest licensed distillery in the world. Single Malts anyone?)
Grey Abbey is a ruined Cistercian priory in Greyabbey, County Down.
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