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The Bank Buildings is a Grade B1-listed five-storey building located at the intersection of Castle Street and Royal Avenue in Belfast, Northern Ireland.It was designed and built between 1899 and 1900 by W. H. Lynn as a department store and warehouse, [1] owned by the firm of Robertson, Ledlie, Ferguson & Co.
On 28 August 2018, the newer refurbished Bank Buildings, site of a large Primark store in Belfast city centre, caught fire and burned for three days. One theory as to how conflagration began was that a worker accidentally left a blow torch ignited on the roof. The wind subsequently knocked the torch on its side causing the fire.
In the afternoon of 14 November 1992 two UDA men entered James Murray's bookmakers on the Oldpark Road in a mainly Catholic area of north Belfast. One gunman, allegedly Stephen McKeag, [4] opened fire on the customers with a vz. 58 assault rifle.
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A fire in summer of 2018 caused the front part of the building to burn leaving only the back of the building standing. Royal Avenue then angles northeast to the Donegall Street intersection continuing in a northeasterly direction as York Street. Looking south on Royal Avenue, there is an imposing vista of Belfast City Hall and Donegall Square.
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Mar. 26—BELFAST, Maine — A day after the Penobscot McCrum potato processing factory in Belfast caught fire, firefighters were still pouring water on the charred ruins of the massive industrial ...
On 26 October, the UDA shot dead another two Catholic civilians and wounded five in an indiscriminate attack at a Council Depot on Kennedy Way, Belfast. [25] On 30 October, UDA members entered a pub in Greysteel frequented by Catholics and again opened fire indiscriminately. Eight civilians (six Catholics and two Protestants) were killed and 13 ...