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The Plan For Today

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“Today’s plan is already yesterday’s – the streets that were there are gone”. Euphemistic nonsense on a giant hoarding on Castle Street in the city centre, fronting a building site. In keeping with the theme of easy erasure of the past, the words “love joy peace” have been removed from the original 1955 photograph (Belfast Live | X05827).

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X00698 X00699 today’s plan is already yesterday’s – the streets that were there are gone, smithfield ward west electoral area

Spires & Wire

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The spires of St. Peter’s through the barbed wire on a wall in Milford Street, off the Falls Road.

See previously: Cross And Wire.

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Regeneration Plot

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Here, in sequence, are eleven boards in a series celebrating workers and industrialists in Belfast, arrayed along a regeneration plot (a.k.a. waste ground) on the front of the main Shankill Rd, sponsored by many bodies. For more information, see Daniela Balmaverde’s page on the project.

X00816 Regeneration Beattie+

X00817 Regeneration Chisholm+

X00815 Regeneration Ervine+

X00814 Regeneration Harper+

X00809 2012-09-09 Regeneration Harvey+

X00818 Regeneration Leonard+

X00819 Regeneration Millot+

X00820 Regeneration Parr+

X00813 Regeneration Swings+

X00821 Regeneration Swings Painting+

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X00620 X00816 X00817 X00815 X00814 X00809 X00818 X00819 X00820 X00813 X00621 created as part of belfast city council’s 2012 titanic project by shankill area social history group, greater shankill alternatives, impact training and artist daniela balmaverde. this project would not have been possible without the support and participation of the local community. thomas andrews (1873-1912) originally from ardara, comber, at the time of the tragedy Thomas was domiciled in windsor avenue, off the lisburn road belfast. Managing director of harland & wolff.

Mountainhill Youth Club

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The new mural at Mountainhill Youth Club follows the same format as its predecessor, with the left side being social messages directed at kids and the right being “the village [i.e. Ligoniel] in older times”.

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Wolfhill

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Wolfhill is so named because the last wolf in Ireland was supposedly shot there in 1692 (Belfast Hills); this distinction is also claimed by Camlough. The Wolfhill Centre, which is across the Ligoniel Road from this mural, is home to the Ligoniel Improvement Association. On the right of the mural is St Vincent de Paul’s church, which is a little further down the road.

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Stroud Street

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Here is an angled shot of the entire Stroud St. mural, details of which have been featured in one | two | three previous entries. The artist is Ed Reynolds (steadyhanded.com) “assisted by William McKee Strong, June 2012”. The Tele had a write-up of the work: The Singing Butcher.

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X00588 sandy row 1907, tram workers sandy row at the albion Alex Higgins Joe Hillerby Alanna Audley-Murphy Ruby Murray James Johnston Joe Bambrick

The Elliots – Stroud St #3

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Here is a third panel from the new Stroud St. mural (previous panels one | two). This image is based on a photograph by the celebrated Belfast photographer Bill Kirk whose exhibit ‘Sandy Row 1974’ was at the Red Barn Gallery September-October 2011. At 6:50 in the video below one can see the original photograph of the Elliots.

This mural is an example of the ‘re-imaging’ of local areas that is being commissioned/sponsored by public bodies in NI at present. The stated aim of the project is to replace existing murals with ones that are less violent or, as in this case, to create new ones in order to enhance the appearance of an area. This mural contains no images of flags, political or paramilitary personages or emblems. It is ‘non-political’ in that sense, though you might argue that state sponsorship of ‘neutral’ images is in itself a political act.

Many such murals seem to rely on nostalgia, as is evident in this image.

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X00587 mr & mrs elliot in the back yard of their house boyne sq 1974

Pole Swing In Stroud Street

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Here’s the part of the Stroud Street mural (mentioned a few days ago in Just The Ticket) that incorporates the street-light into the mural.

Ed Reynolds is the artist. The mural was commissioned by the Belfast City Council, in consultation with the Sandy Row Community Forum and the Residents’ Association

There are a few seconds of footage of children swinging on a light pole at the 1:25 mark of this youtube video

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Just The Ticket

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Part of the long, multi-panel mural in Stroud St by Ed Reynolds – with help from the person pictured, William McKee Strong. For the whole thing, see Stroud St Entire.

The parking-ticket machine is real.

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