Belfast Flashcards
What is the Victoria Channel?
Main channel in Belfast Harbour. AC Hotel and Baker Mackenzie on one side, Odyssey and Titanic on the other.
Church opposite Direct Wines?
Sinclair Seamen’s Presbyterian Church.
Built by Charles Lanyon in 1857. At the bottom of Corporation Street next to the Harbour Commissioner’s Office. Featuring an L-shaped design with pews reserved for seamen and boat-shaped collection boxes.
Papa’s sister Jean had her funeral service there on 17/10/2023. Reverend Bill Parker conducted the service.
Where is the Beersbridge Road?
Runs down from Newtownards Road and connects to Cherry Valley. Brings you to top of Cregagh Road and then Woodstock Road.
Where is the Holywood Road?
It is the road that runs at an angle up from the Newtownards Road and connects to the Belmont Road. It continues on up past the airport and becomes the Belfast Road.
What is Lichfield Avenue?
Street in East Belfast off the Bloomfield Road where my parents used to live shortly before I was born.
What was Gallagher’s in Belfast?
Huge tobacco factory opened by Thomas Gallagher in mid-19th century on York Road in Belfast. By the 1920s, his factory was the largest tobacco factory in Europe and he was the biggest buyer of American tobacco in the world.
Gallagher’s underwent huge expansion in the 1960s but the factory ceased operations in 1988. Japan Tobacco eventually takes over the Gallagher business and relocated manufacturing to Eastern Europe.
