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The Market Quarter is an area of Belfast, Northern Ireland, featuring St George's Market. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While the first market on this site dated back to 1604, [ 2 ] the present-day St George's Market was built between 1890 and 1896. [ 3 ]
Queen's University Belfast, the centrepiece of Queen's Quarter Custom House Square is a major cultural feature of Cathedral Quarter. The Belfast quarters are distinctive cultural zones within the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland, whose identities have been developed as a spur to tourism and urban regeneration.
Bedford Street The White Linen Hall as it was in 1888, photographed from Donegall Square North. Now replaced by Belfast City Hall. The Linen Quarter (Irish: An Cheathrú Linéadaigh) [1] is an area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The name is derived from the great many linen warehouses that are still present in the area.
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It is located on May Street, close to the River Lagan and the Waterfront Hall. Belfast Corporation (now Belfast City Council) commissioned the building of St George's Market, which was built in three phases between 1890 and 1896. Before 1890 St George's Market was an open market and most likely contained a slaughterhouse and a meat market ...
Construction of Victoria Square development August 2007. St George's Market, built between 1890 and 1896, is Belfast's last surviving Victorian covered market. It was restored at a cost of £4.5 million in 1997, and hosts regular Friday and Saturday markets. [6] Near the Market is Saint Malachy's Catholic Church. Built between 1841 and 1844, it ...
1900 - Belfast had the world's largest tobacco factory, tea machinery and fan-making works, handkerchief factory, dry dock and color Christmas card printers. Belfast was also the world's leading manufacturer of "fizzy drinks" (soft drinks). [66] The city of Belfast is 75% Protestant, however, the whole island of Ireland is 75% Catholic. [68]
The subdivisions of Belfast are a series of divisions of Belfast, Northern Ireland that are used for a variety of cultural, electoral, planning and residential purposes.. The city is traditionally divided into four main areas based on the cardinal points of a compass, each of which form the basis of constituencies for general elections: North Belfast, East Belfast, South Belfast, and West Belfast.