PRONI - The Merchant Seamen of Sailortown, Belfast, 1918
The British Government introduced a central record system for merchant seamen in September 1918 which included a passport style photograph. The photo was dropped in December 1921 and didn’t return until 1948.
David Snook has created a searchable online database which gives details of 3000 Belfast born seamen out of the 23,000 Irish born seamen identified from the 1918-21 period. He has identified sixty Belfast born seamen who gave addresses in Sailortown, Belfast, and forty of them appear in this photo exhibition. Surnames found include Gillis, Gough, Lyttle, Mulholland, Murray, Shiels or Shields, Sloan, Strong, Ward and Withers. Follow up work has identified WW1 and subsequent service, plus additional family members who were at sea but didn’t give next of kin details. A few of these men were still at sea in the 1950s and were photographed again as part of the record system.
This talk was given in PRONI by David Snook on 6 June 2016.
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First Presbyterian Church of Belfast
Belfast Church
Presbyterian Church Cemetary - Glenarm UK
Sailortown, Belfast, and the experience of violence in 1935
Talk given in St Joseph's Church in Sailortown on 8th December 2018.
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Circle of Life At Belfast Docks
We had some time to kill while waiting in line to get on the boat from Belfast to Liverpool... what better way to do it than a little sing along? with some crack (in the form of subway) thrown in!
John Campbell - Sailortown
C S Lewis's Church, St Mark's Dundela Belfast
I'm over on Sydenham Av. off the Belmont Road, East Belfast to take an outside look at the famous landmark building that is St Mark's Dundela.
Saint Mark's Church, Parish of Dundela, Diocese of Down and Dromore, is on the Holywood Road, East Belfast. The building is situated on 'Bunker Hill', an elevated position, which allows this beacon of Witness, to be seen from many miles around.
It was designed in red sandstone by the eminent Victorian architect William Butterfield - also responsible for Keble College, Oxford - in magnificent Gothic revival style. The 150ft high bell tower creates the impression of a large church. It is an extravagant building, reflecting deep devotion to God.
Sir John Betjeman, a leading authority on architecture and particularly Victorian Church architecture, described St Mark's as Butterfield at his best.
Mr Stephen Dykes Bower, a consultant architect to Westminister Abbey and foremost authority on Butterfield, was commissioned to supervise restoration work in 1976. Dykes Bower commented It is an outstanding example of Butterfield's work... and a fine specimen Butterfield attempting to re-create the Gothic grandeur of a medieval cathedral. Dykes Bower designed and pendant lighting which gives a warm glow, akin to candle light.
The church has much treasured connections with C S Lewis who was baptised here. Clive Staples Lewis, the notable Christian writer, was baptized in the font at the west end of the church on January 29th 1899 by his grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Hamilton, Rector of St. Mark's.
C S Lewis was called, almost against his will, to serve God by writing and speaking about 'mere Christianity', in philosophical books and science fiction, in childrens' stories and on the radio. Many thousands have heard and are hearing his message, for his books still sell in great numbers all over the world.
C S Lewis and his brother, Warren, known as 'Warnie' presented a window to the church in 1935 in memory of their father and mother. Three Saints are shown: two Gospel writers, St Mark and St Luke, on either side of St James. We may wonder why St James, the son of Zebedee, is the central figure. Perhaps because his shrine at Compostela in Spain was a mediaeval place of pilgrimage - the pilgrim's bag and staff and the pilgrim's badge, the scallop shell, shown in the window hint at this. But perhaps simply because Albert Lewis's second name was James. The Saint holds a silver chalice, similar to one which Albert and his family presented to the church in 1908 in memory of their father, Richard Lewis, engineer and shipbuilder, who lived nearby at Ty Isa, Parkgate Avenue, Belfast.
Paul Larmour in his illustrated architectural guide to Belfast describes it as One of the finest parish halls in the country. It is built in Tudor style with red brick walls, green Norwegian slates, wood panelled rooms, and timber mullioned windows.
Upstairs, the youth room is known as the wardrobe and has a mural of Narnia recalling the parish’s association with C.S. Lewis.
Royal Ulster Rifles Museum Waring Street Belfast
This museum is free!
It is found tucked away behind other buildings at the end of a narrow entry on Waring Street Belfast, almost opposite the Premier Inn Hotel. It is easy to miss or walk past and many people must surely do so because of it's poor location.
Nevertheless the museum is a hidden gem. It is stuffed full of Royal Ulster Rifles memorabilia, uniforms, weaponery of all sorts, medals, badges, pictures, paintings, stories of gallantry etc etc
Come down and see it for yourself, Well worth a visit.
No Topless Bathing Grey & Paraquet Views, Belfast Sunflower Bar
I'm standing outside the Sunflower Bar at the junction of Kent and Union streets Belfast. this area has become a well known spot for street art, murals and graffiti. It is alsoan area associated with inner city decay and redevelopment. The Sunflower Bar stands forlorn and alone as a reminder of past days when it was the hub of community life, that community now long gone. The bathing sign raises a smile gives an insight into our black Belfast humour.
Sailor town @ The Museum Of London Docklands
A walk through the Sailortown exhibit
Knockbreda Parish Church 1737 Outside View
This is Knockbreda Parish Church built in 1737. The church was built after the old parishes of Knock & Breda combined in 1658. The rector in 1830 & 1832 was Rev John Kinahan. The rector in 1876 was Rev. H.W. Stewart. The Montgomery family renovated the church in 1886.
Knockbreda Parish Church owes its existence to Anne, the Dowager Viscountess Midleton, who proposed its construction at her own expense, and to her son Arthur Hill, the local landlord, who promised an acre of ground for its site just to the east of his Belvoir demesne. Knockbreda Parish Church is, in several ways, as unusual as the monuments which cluster about its northern shadows. Unlike most Church of Ireland churches it has no saintly dedication. Unlike most of the churches of its time it was not commissioned from a local builder but from Dublin, from Richard Castle, who, although the most important architect then working in Ireland, rarely designed churches. For this reason, perhaps, the design is unlike any of its era in Ulster, even in Ireland. Castle was able ‘to pep up his neo-Palladianism with hints of baroque’; and this is precisely what he seems to have done at Knockbreda.
KTF News - Presbyterian Church USA Changes Definition of Marriage
KTF News - Presbyterian Church USA Changes Definition of Marriage
Outside view of famous Belfast Europa Hotel
I'm on Belfast's 'Golden Mile'. I'm on the very busy Great Victorian Street and I'm here to visit what is arguably one of Belfast's best known hotels. This is the iconic Belfast Europa. It has the unfortuanet claim to faim of being the world's most bombed hotel. For some strange reason the IRA during their terror campaign of the 1970s and 80s especially appear to have had some extreme umbridge against the Europa. They left bomb after bomb outside it. more often than hot the ir were no windows/glass in the front of the building. how it survived is anyone's guess. The Europa was a well known place of refuge for many cross the water and foreign correspondents reporting on out troubles so maybe the IRA were trying to annoy them. Who knows. Thankfully the Europa is still here.
The World Famous Europa Hotel in Belfast is located in the heart of Belfast City Centre.
With a choice of 272 hotel rooms in Belfast City Centre – including 92 Executive Bedrooms and Suites. The elegant décor, contemporary bistro, bustling bar and relaxing piano bar lounge make the four star Europa Hotel the hotel of choice for business and leisure guests visiting Belfast.
Due to its prime location, the Europa Hotel is a short distance from many of Belfast’s top visitor attractions including the Ulster Museum, Grand Opera House, City Hall, Titanic Belfast, the Waterfront Hall and the Odyssey Arena.
The Europa Hotel has an international reputation for hosting prestigious events and looking after many of the celebrities and VIPs who visit Belfast.
Belfast Europa is part of the Hastings Hotel Group
Myths of Belfast Interview 1 - The Decline of Sailortown
Interview 1 of 7 conducted for my PhD research looking at the development of 20th Century Belfast and the formation of Urban Identity. This one concerns the Sailortown area of Belfast, a thriving civic quarter which was decimated by the motorway plans of the 1960s. Community activists and former Sailortown residents George eagleson and Paul McLaughlin discuss what happened to the area.
This film includes excerpts from the following documentaries -
-'Tomorrow's Road' (BBC 1972)
- 'Goodbye Divis' (1987)
- 'The Lost City of Craigavon' (BBC 2007)
- 'The High Life' (BBC 2011)
Waiting Here For You - Kyle & Laura. ChristChurch Belfast 7/2/16
via YouTube Capture
Outside of Church 1
Outside of Church view 1
Daniel's Character, Conflict and Conviction by John Greer, Sunday Sermons, Church Services
Daniel's Character, Conflict and Conviction by John Greer Sermons, Sunday Sermons, Church Services, Bible Study, Christian Revival, Free Salvation
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Rev. John Greer is pastor of the Ballymena Free Presbyterian Church and current Moderator of Presbytery in Northern Ireland. Born in County Antrim, Mr. Greer was minister of Sixmilecross Free Presbyterian Church, County Tyrone, before moving to the United States in 1983 to pastor a fledgling church in a suburb of Philadelphia. Prior to moving to the United States he taught New Testament Greek for four years in the Whitefield College of the Bible. He remained in the pastorate in the United States until August 2000 when he was called to his home church in Ballymena. Rev. Greer has also recently returned to the Whitefield College of the Bible to serve as Lecturer of Systematic Theology.
Permission was given by Pastor John Greer
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St Elizabeth's C. of Ir. Ancient Church Graveyard
I'm just a few miles from home over in Dundonald Co Down. I'm over to see and film the old church, its very old graveyard along with its very tall Cleland family mausoleum. This place is full of interesting history. Come and see it for yourself.
With reference to the grave headstone to Captain Hawthorne lost at sea I found this about the Barque Dundonald.
( The 'Dundonald', mentioned on one of the gravestones, ) was a steel, four-masted barque of 2,205 tons, which was launched in Belfast in 1891. She was shipwrecked in 1907 in the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands. Only 15 of the 28 crew survived and were rescued seven months later by a scientific expedition.
Lagan Weir skyline Queen Elizabeth Bridge Belfast
I've just stopped off near Belfast dockland and I'm on the Queen Elizabeth Bridge that crosses the Lagan river. Here the salt water of the sea meets fresh water of the river.
Here we see the Lagan Weir barge that regulates the flow of water up and down the river. When we get a tidal surge the sea water needs held back tp preent flooding, and so the weir barge comes into action. at least tha's my vague understanding! lol
Sorry about some high camera shots, when camera is mot aligned to eye all manner of things can unwantedly happen1ref lol
EMP+ Switch - May 9th @ 9PM The Church Of Ireland Ennis.
Switch is a new event that is coming to Co.Clare, A part of the Ennis Music Project, this event is aimed at over 18's only.. Switch is an alternative to your Friday Night ! Showcasing old and new musical talent from around the country in unexpected locations around the County.
Switch is an Alcohol & Drug Free Event...Please Come along on the night and support & Like and Share this video! facebook.com/ennismusicproject
This is a Clare Youth Service supported project.