POTD – Yard
Tags: Belfast, North Belfast, Northern Ireland, POTD- Yard
Topic: Society and Culture
Region: Northern Ireland
Topic: Society and Culture
Region: Northern Ireland
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Books
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Belfast port celebrated as hopes rise for lower corporation tax
Tweet The House of Lords was the suitably grand venue for the London launch of Alf McCreary’s magnificently illustrated tome Titanic Port, a history of Belfast Harbour. Before I got a chance to take a good look at my copy, my ears pricked up when the chairman of the harbour commissioners Len O’Hagan said hopes were [...] read our review » -
It’s Derry again – with London and Liverpool, commemorating the Battle of the Atlantic
Tweet From the Dalai Lama to a “ VVIP” at the weekend, Londonderry is proving quite a venue, one of three for commemorating the Battle of the Atlantic this weekend. Good to see the UK City of Culture grafting this on to the programme and the recognition given to its role as a major port [...] read our review » -
Spare us a phoney row about racism, we’ve got enough on
Tweet A silly media row about racism just had to figure in the riots’ post mortem. Was the Tudor history expert David Starkey racist on Newsnight when he said: The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion. And black and white, boy and girl, operate [...] read our review »
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I expected this to be tagged Haiti, not North Belfast!
Use to live in a gaffe off lower Ormeau had a back just like that. Them was the days boy I tells thee. Drinking all night. And all day. Good times.
Tracey Emin’s as yet mercifully unfinished “H3″ ?
Minds me of granny’s yard in e. B’fast with outdoor jacks and open drain from the kitchen sink running through; treacherous slippy in winter she was always going harp six to & fro the toilet, until eventually face first through the glass panel door she went, an episode we refer to as ‘the time she cut off her nose’. Whoever owns this yard better watch out.
outside space with potential.
I wonder if there is any broken glass cemented into the top of the walls.
4 years ago that space would have set you back £100k!