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Queen's Quay, October 2009. Queen's Quay is a section of the River Lagan, in the western Titanic Quarter of the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland.The quay became known as the Coal Quay during it's industrial period, with industrial businesses running along the quay, including scrap and coal transporting and exporting to and from freight and coal boats.
Mass vaccination centre at the SSE Arena in Belfast (July 2021) The SSE Arena was known as the Odyssey Arena from 2000 to 2015. Northern Ireland's biggest indoor arena, with a capacity of 11,000+ for concerts, [2] hosts concerts and sporting events such as Belfast Giants games. On 25 June 2015, it was announced the Arena would undergo a £3 ...
Queen's Quay station was opened in 1848 as Belfast [1] and was the terminus of the Belfast, Hollywood & Bangor Railway. The Belfast and County Down Railway opened an adjacent station two years later, both stations merging after a further two years.
In 1907, the Belfast Dock strike took place from 26 April to 28 August, including Queen's Quay by Sir Samuel Kelly's employee's after men from Kelly's coal quay were sacked for trying to join National Union of Dock Labourers (NUDL). [7] On 9 May, locked-out coalmen from Kelly's Yard attacked strikebreakers unloading coal at the docks.
The original Downpatrick railway station was constructed as part of the Belfast and County Down Railway (BCDR) mainline from Queens Quay, Belfast to Downpatrick.However, with growing railway expansion in the Victorian era and the connecting Downpatrick, Dundrum and Newcastle Railway being subsequently built with a junction north of Downpatrick for through trains between Queens Quay, Belfast ...
Belfast and Ballymena Railway: 1848 1850 Annacotty [2 ] Limerick: Great Southern and Western: 1858 1963 Annadale: Leitrim: Cavan and Leitrim ... Queens Quay, Belfast ...
Albert Memorial Clock. The tallest building in Belfast is the Obel Tower at 86 metres (282 feet). It is the tallest building in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland. The tallest structure in Belfast is the Black Mountain transmission station, servicing TV and Radio, at 228.6 m (750 ft 0 in).
The Lagan Weir, completed in 1994, is located in Belfast, Northern Ireland and crosses the River Lagan between the Queen Elizabeth Bridge and the M3 cross-harbour bridge. [1] The £14m project was jointly funded by the Laganside Corporation and the European Commission. It was designed by Ferguson and McIlveen and constructed by Charles Brand ...