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Belfast City Hall
Photo taken: 9th, Feb, 2002
A quadrangular building by Alfred Brumwell Thomas (1906) in the renaissance style. There is a handsome central dome crowned by a lantern, with towers at each of the four corners. The entrance hall is very impressive, it's walls being lined with Italian marble,it's floor paved with black and white marble,and with a noble staircase richly carved and lighted by seven stained glass windows portraying various scenes in the history of Belfast. There are four fine halls, of which the Great hall is the most handsome. A good view of the city and surrounding country can be had from the dome, 173 ft high. The pleasure grounds contain a fine marble statue of Queen Victoria by Sir Thomas Brock, and among other statues in the grounds, the striking Royal Irish Rifles Memorial and a statue to the memory of the first Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. The Sons of Ulster, who fell in the great war, are commemorated in the Garden of remembrance. In the grounds of the City Hall is a memorial to the Belfast built liner, "Titanic," which as most people know struck an iceburg and sank in 1912. A memorial to American servicemen of the second world war faces the building.
Photo taken on 9th, Feb,2002 from the front gates
Photo taken from Royal Avenue during the Christmas period 2000.
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