The building has three bays along North Street and four bays on Royal Avenue, meeting at a chamfered corner. This Bank of Ireland branch closes off the long Royal Avenue vista. This attractive Art Deco building finished in Portland Limestone is located on an important corner site in Belfast. Upon closer examination I have discovered that there are many signs of urban decal and decline even at the centre of Belfast and it gets much worse as one moves away from the centre. However, visits have convinced me that my first impression was far from accurate. When I first visited to photograph the City Of Belfast I got the impression that it was better maintained and had a better economy than Dublin. Since the bank closed in 2005, the building has fallen into disrepair. As was the case at this date, the cover carried a glued on colour advert, in this case for Belfast based car dealers J B Ferguson.
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The Press also announces that they have dispatched the full order, several thens of thousands, and they'd be in Belfast the following day. The letter notes this is an 'advance copy' and indeed someone has kept this as the District's "file copy'. A few years later, in 1937, the GPO's famous Film Unit produced a quirky documentary called "Book Bargain" that shows the printing and production of directories at Harrow, this being one of HMSO's various printing works and presses. That said production must have been quite something and there was a department of HMSO's main works at Harrow, in north London, dedicated to them. The directories were then issued twice a year, to keep up to date at a time when the use of the telephone was growing although the NI directory was still quite slender. Rtaher interesting this as it gives a clue as to the background of the production of telephone directories back in the day when they were issued as well as being printed by HMSO, His/Her Majesty's Stationery Office as they were 'crown publications' issued by a government department, the General Post Office who had responsibility for nearly all the UK's telecommunications at the time. You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at The General Post Office closed in 1985 and was demolished shortly after to make way for CastleCourt.Ĭollection: Lawrence Photograph Collection Extended shortly after in 1896 and again in 1909. Designed by James Owens of the Office of Public Works and opened in August 1886. From that linked description:Ī three-storey building in Dungannon stone. And, per the link that B-59 and M0GNM share, we know it stood for just under 100 years - before making way for the CastleCourt shopping centre. Oh yes and there are no dogs!īased on the dating investigations from O Mac, Niall McAuley and beachcomberaustralia, it seems likely that this image was taken very close to when the Belfast GPO opened in 1886. One of the two figures standing on the kerb appears to be a road sweeper a role that has long been mechanised. On the Monday after Assembly Elections in Northern Ireland we go to Belfast and an image of an impressive and deserted (almost) General Post Office. Public domain image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Public domain photo of Royal Avenue in Belfast in the late nineteenth century that was altered with the Topaz DeJPEG plug-in, then the Topaz DeNoise plug-in, then the Photoshop paintbrush, then the Topaz Clarity plug-in (contrast boost edgy effect), then the Topaz ReStyle plug-in (sea pink and crusta sunrise effect), then the Topaz ReStyle plug-in (apricot sheen effect), then the Alien Skin Exposure plug-in (color and tone adjustments), then the Photoshop paintbrush, then the Topaz ReMask plug-in, then the Topaz Detail plug-in (soft and dreamy effect), then the Topaz Adjust plug-in (burning), then the Topaz Detail plug-in (overall detail light effect), then the Topaz ReMask plug-in, then the Topaz ReStyle plug-in (apricot sheen effect base image), then the AKVIS Sketch plug-in (fine line effect), then the base image was overlaid and merged with the fine lines image, then the Alien Skin Snap Art 4 plug-in (dry brush oil paint effect), then the Topaz Glow plug-in (fur and feathers effect), then the Topaz Lens Effects plug-in (graduated violet effect), then the Topaz ReStyle plug-in (cold dawn effect), and then the Alien Skin Exposure plug-in (color and tone adjustments as well as vignette effect).
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