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Waring Street, BELFAST, BT1 2DX

Builder’s hoarding now erected around the site.

Work seems to have been suspended.

See Image Sugarhouse (also “Sugar House”) Entry takes its name from the sugar house established there in 1704. The entry later became better known for the “Dr Franklin Tavern” – home to “The Muddlers’ Club”. The entry was closed (using emergency legislation) as a precaution against bombs and is no longer a public thoroughfare. The view is from Waring Street to High Street. See also Image (February 2014).

Now more than a year since the last photograph and still no decision on the second planning application.

A bolt bench mark set into the northern side of the Commercial Buildings, Waring Street, Belfast. See Image - the mark is just visible on the extreme bottom right of picture, partially obscured by the railings. This mark dates from the 1st levelling of Ireland which took place in 1839-43 and is probably the last mark from that period still extant in central Belfast. The original remarks for the mark describe it as "Copper bolt driven vertically into stone in North front of Commercial Buildings, Belfast; 1.3 feet above centre of road". It was initially levelled to 20.226 feet above sea level. Today the mark has been levelled to 3.11 metres above MSL. This mark was the principle starting point for levelling lines leading from and to Belfast. From here lines of levelling went south to Armagh, east to Newtownards & Donaghadee, north to Antrim & onto Coleraine and north-east to Carrickfergus and on up the coast road to Portrush. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=11037856 for many other examples I have found.

See Image (April 2009). Four years later – the building is still standing.

Now with a “for sale” sign.

An old stone sited beside the Commercial Buildings in Waring Street, Belfast. It appears to be very old and is heavily marked & weathered. Purpose unknown, but most likely it is a corner protector sited here to protect the building from cartwheels; a less likely theory is that this is an old milestone - mileposts from Belfast were measured from this location, known as the "Four Corners" at the junction of Waring Street, North Street, Donegall Street and Bridge Street.

Work remains suspended pending the outcome of a new planning application during June 2018.

Signs such as this one in Skipper Street Image are not indigenous in any part of Ireland. Not too common.