Flush Bracket, Holywood
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Image: © Rossographer Taken: 19 Mar 2010
Flush bracket located on the northern tip of High Street Presbyterian Church in Holywood Image The number on the bracket is OSNIBM 1002. The mark is 9.12 metres above MSL. A flush bracket is a type of bench mark set onto the face of a building. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=11037856 for many other examples I have found. This is the oldest extant flush bracket in Ireland. OSNI produced an initial run of flush brackets numbered 1001-1025 that were used c1932-1936; of these, 21 were sited in the greater Belfast area and 4 in County Londonderry - 3 (all now destroyed) in the Toome area and 1 in Portstewart - see Image The oldest bracket, numbered 1001, was sited at Image but has unfortunately been destroyed. OSNI later used flush brackets in much greater numbers for the retriangulation and levelling of Northern Ireland in the 1950s and early 1960s.