1848 – Great Victoria Street Railway Station, Belfast
The Ulster Railway opened Belfast’s first railway terminus in 1839, and as such was called just “Belfast”
The Ulster Railway opened Belfast’s first railway terminus in 1839, and as such was called just “Belfast”
Gallaher Tobacco Company, now part of Japan Tobacco, was originally founded in Derry in 1857 by Tom Gallaher.
Designed by Lewis Vulliamy, an English architect. for the Marchioness of Londonderry on a spectacular elevated site.
The original Antrim Castle, now a ruin, was originally built in 1613 by Sir Hugh Clotworthy and enlarged in 1662 by his son,
The present building incorporates a Scottish style plantation house of ca 1622, built by Patrick Agnew.
The original castle of Ballymena was built in the early 17th century, but was burned out in 1720.
Constructed as a townhall, with museum and public library, this is a fine building in a French Gothic style with a tall four-storey clock tower.
When constructed it was the largest cinema in Northern Ireland with over 2,200 seats, 1000 of those on the massive balcony.
Constructed for the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway, under the direction of its engineer and architect Berkeley Deane Wise,
The Giant’s Causeway was without a permanent visitors’ centre between 2000 and 2012, as the previous building burned down in 2000.