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The Queen Street RUC Station was a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1933 to 2000. Before that, it was used as the main premises of the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children from 1878 to 1932. It has been effectively abandoned since 2000 and is visibly deteriorating. [1]
Many of Belfast's Victorian landmarks, including the main Lanyon Building at Queens University in 1849, were designed by Sir Charles Lanyon. The City Hall, was finished in 1906 and was built to reflect Belfast's City status, granted by Queen Victoria in 1888. The Dome is 53 metres (173 ft) high.
The Belfast Buildings Trust (BBT), founded in 1996 as the Belfast Buildings Preservation Trust, is a cross-community building preservation trust with charitable status [1] that delivers physical, social, and economic regeneration through the reuse of landmark buildings in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
For over 10 years, I've been exploring abandoned buildings across Europe. One of my favorite types of places to explore has always been abandoned sacred sites - churches, monasteries, and crypts ...
Abandoned buildings are typically eyesores. But what if someone takes these structures (many of them decades old) and turns them into something beautiful?
The funds generated allowed the building to be extended, adding a lunatic ward. [2] Doctor William Drennan , although never one of the Poor House's physicians, was a strong supporter of the Belfast Charitable Society , and gave sound medical advice, especially on the advantages of public inoculation against small pox to the Board.
The arched entrance from Ann Street is also Victorian and was retained when the original building was demolished in the 1990s. This entrance is a popular spot for buskers . This is undoubtedly the most obvious of the Entries, featuring large wrought-iron signs above each entrance archway.
A photographer's fascination with old abandoned houses has provided rare glimpses inside derelict properties in the north Highlands. Angus Mackay started taking pictures of the buildings during ...