Window spikes, Belfast
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Window spikes, Belfast
Image: © Albert Bridge Taken: 18 Oct 2009
There was a time when even the smallest of terrace houses had spikes on the window cills to keep the undesirables away. The windows of the former Belfast Bank and Assembly Rooms Image, at the corner of North Street and Donegall Street, have retained their commercial version.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.601055
Longitude
-5.927717