IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Cambrai Street, BELFAST, BT13 3XA
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Cambrai Street, BT13 3XA by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (108 Images Found)
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Nos 240-252 Cambrai Street, Belfast (March 2016)
Seven vacant and boarded-up houses, on the eastern side of Cambrai Street (Shankill Road end). The following planning permission applies “LA04/2015/1302/F Demolition of 7No. terrace dwellings and provision of new 1.8m (Temporary) palisade fence onto the main road. 240-252 Cambrai Street Belfast”. There is currently (3 July 2016) another application for planning permission “LA04/2016/1288/F The proposal is to demolish 7 No. existing derelict terraces and replace with 2 No. 3 bed and 3 No. 1bed single storey dwellings. Private amenity space to be provided at front of units and communal amenity with small garden to be provided at rear. Proposal to include Bio-mass supply, bike/bin storage and all associated works. 240-252 Cambrai Street Belfast BT13 3JJ”.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 3 Mar 2016
0.02 miles
2
The southern end of Cambrai Street off the Shankill Road
The trees are in the ground of St Mathew's Church.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 21 Jul 2014
0.03 miles
3
Shankill Rest Garden Memorial Book
This is a stone book which records those whose ashes are scattered in the graveyards memorial garden.
http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/community/cemeteries/shankillgraveyard.aspx
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 21 Jul 2014
0.03 miles
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Explanatory notice on the ruins of the Shankill Graveyard
http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/community/cemeteries/shankillgraveyard.aspx
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 21 Jul 2014
0.04 miles
5
The ruins of the old Watchtower in the Shankill Graveyard
This tower was built in 1834 as a shelter for families of the newly buried watching out for body snatchers, after all the two most famous body snatchers in British history were both Ulstermen, Burke and Hare.
http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/community/cemeteries/shankillgraveyard.aspx
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 21 Jul 2014
0.04 miles
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The Shankill Graveyard
After the closure of the graveyard almost all the tombstones were removed.
http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/community/cemeteries/shankillgraveyard.aspx
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 21 Jul 2014
0.05 miles
7
Mountain View Tavern on the Shankill Road
This rebuilt Loyalist tavern on the corner of the Shankill and Cambrai roads was the site of a Republican shooting and bombing attack on Grand National Day (5 April) 1975 in which five people lost their lives and 60 others were injured. The getaway car used in the attack was found abandoned in the nearby Nationalist Springfield area.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 21 Jul 2014
0.06 miles
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The Somme Association Murals at the side of the Mountain View pub
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 21 Jul 2014
0.06 miles
9
Statue of Queen Victoria at the Shankill Graveyard
This statue carved in Portland stone dates from 1897.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 21 Jul 2014
0.06 miles
10
Queen Victoria sculpture, Shankill Graveyard, Belfast - March 2016(1)
A sculpture, approximately in the middle of the Shankill Graveyard, described on the Belfast City Council website as “Another feature is the sculpture of Queen Victoria by artist John Cassidy which you can see from the main entrance. The statue was originally located at in [sic] Durham Street, before being moved to the cemetery in 2003. It was carved from Portland stone in 1897 to celebrate the queen's diamond jubilee and shows her wearing a dress of Nottingham lace.” Two links to biographies of the sculptor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cassidy_(artist) and http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/earlylife.html. Image shows a more detailed view.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 3 Mar 2016
0.06 miles