Three shots of an old mural above the steps to the pedestrian walkway over the Sydenham bypass in east Belfast, featuring workers from the turn of the 20th century at the Harland & Wolff shipyard, which can be seen in the third image.
Previously: Titanic Workers – South Belfast | North Belfast
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The mural features “North Belfast dockers, millworkers, shipyard workers [from] Titanic town 1912”.
Along the bottom are the names of various Belfast pubs and other businesses: The Waterloo, The Terminus, The Sportsmans Arms, The White Hart, The Bowling Green, The City Arms, The Orpheus – York Street, Railway Bar – Canning Street [image from 1970], The Edinburgh Castle [the boat of the Union-Castle line, launched 1910, built at H&W?], York Street Mill, The Gibralter [sic] Bar [whose then-owner was killed in 1972], Ye Old Castle [a bar (and restaurant?) bombed in 1971], The White Lion. Please leave a comment if you can add any information about these place-names.
A close-up of the info plaque at the top right can be found below. The piece was painted by Jim Russell from Glasgow.
The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)’s collection of photographs of Belfast, 1912-1914 (some actually from 1911 and 1915) contains various shots of the area.
There are always cars parked in front of the mural, which is at the blind end of St. Vincent Street, next to Crusaders’ football ground. But finally we have captured it entire, automobile-free, in an extra-large (3854 pixels wide) image.
Previously: Titanic Town – South Belfast
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X00686 X01139 X00687 gibraltar north belfast dockers millworkers shipyard workers titanic town 1912, this mural was developed under belfast city council’s titanic community engagement project, with support from the titanic foundation. thanks go to jim crothers and the hubb community resources center
Above is a new (2013-06) mural on Ballymurphy Road painted by a local artist with the assistance of local youths, who suggested the song and insisted on the praying hands (at the extreme right, and in the image below). The mural features a smartphone (and a set of Beats headphones) showing the number for the 24/7 suicide help-line. The song, You’ll Never Walk Alone, is from the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Carousel, but is know to people in GB and Ireland as the anthem of Liverpool football fans, who adopted it from the 1963 version by Gerry & The Pacemakers.
You’ll Never Walk Alone
When you walk thru’ a storm, hold your head up high, and don’t be afraid of the dark.
At the end of the storm lies a golden sky and the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart!
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X01138 X01137 don’t let your friends be alone put these numbers in your phone helpline life line 24/7 08088088000 it’s all good
Mural in the Tullycarnet estate to the local flute band (“established 2007” Fb), showing various UK flags and the lion and the unicorn from the UK coat of arms. According to the nursery rhyme, “the lion beat the unicorn/all around the town” and so only the lion wears a crown.
Previously: TFB mural in the subway under Kings Road.
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Graffiti in Holywood giving voice to the feeling among Protestants that they have lost control (and that bringing back Johnny Adair might help).
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A three-piece stone in the same Tullycarnet garden as the war memorial and peace mural featured previously. “Orange and green it doesn’t matter, United now, Don’t shatter our dream, Scatter the seeds of peace over our land, So we can travel, Hand in hand across the bridge of hope.” by Sean McLaughlin, a twelve-year-old who was killed in the Omagh bombing of 1998 (WP). The garden was unveiled June 2010 (IFI).
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“Progression Requires Inclusion” – a new UVF mural (painted last Saturday, 2013-06-22) in Carrickfergus shows a balaclava’d head and assault rifle. Wide shot below. For the three boards, see End Political Censorship. For the two boards, see It’s Dangerous To Be Right.
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The three central panels of the World Wars memorial in Tullycarnet (featured previously), along with two smaller stones, stand in front of a mural reading “Time for peace. Invest in kids … not war!”. The image of a boy playing with a ball against a wall is based on a 1994 photograph by Crispin Rodwell. The slogan in the photograph, originally, was “Time for peace; time to go” but for publication, as here, the second part was cropped out.
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Young Citizen Volunteers/Ulster Volunteer Force/Protestant Action Force mural in Rathcoole.
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Victoria Cross recipient James Magennis was the only person from Northern Ireland awarded the VC for action during WWII (WP). Although the mural is in loyalist Tullycarnet, Magennis was a Catholic, born in west Belfast, though he later lived in Castlereagh.
A memorial to Magennis can be found in the grounds of City Hall (National Maritime Museum).
The mural replaces the Tullycarnet version of Eddie The Trooper (see Eddie’s Visual History page).
Previously: Edward Bingham, WWI VC recipient
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X01106 Kings Road born 1919 died 1986 mcginnes
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