1
Pillar box, Belfast
EIIR pillar box (BT14 92) on the Cliftonville Road, close to Cliftonville Avenue.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 16 May 2013
0.07 miles
2
Chaim Herzog plaque, Belfast
A plaque, near the Cliftonville Road end of Cliftonpark Avenue, marking the birthplace of Chaim Herzog, sixth president of Israel. Three links – a biography http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/Chaim_Herzog_biography.htm, a speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BxMvnWrmh0 and the plaque http://www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/chaimherzog.htm.
Very close to the edge of the grid square.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 24 Jul 2012
0.10 miles
3
Louis MacNeice plaque, Belfast
See
Image (January 2007). A plaque (behind a fence – bottom) at the poet’s http://www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/louismcneice.htm birthplace, 2 Brookhill Avenue, Cliftonville Road. See also
Image (December 2011).
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 29 Sep 2013
0.11 miles
4
Feeding the birds
A family brings bread for the birds, and they are evidently appreciative.
This is the lower, more park-like section of the park in the former Antrim Road Waterworks; the upper, more reservoir-like part is in the next square west:
Image
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 11 Nov 2007
0.19 miles
5
Gull, Queen Mary's Gardens, Belfast (June 2014)
A gull, in a raucous mood, after being fed by visitors to the park.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 17 Jun 2014
0.19 miles
6
Mallard, Queen Mary's Gardens, Belfast (June 2014)
A mallard duck, in the middle of a contortion, during preening.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 17 Jun 2014
0.20 miles
7
Belfast: Queen Mary?s Gardens
These gardens are formed from the lower section of the former Antrim Road Waterworks, which was made a public park after its use as a source of water for the city.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 11 Nov 2007
0.20 miles
8
Former Waterworks gate lodge, Belfast
The former Waterworks gate lodge, at the corner of Brookvale Avenue (left) and the Antrim Road. Built circa 1850 and might have been designed by Charles Lanyon. More recently used as a solicitors’ office.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 21 Nov 2011
0.21 miles
9
Three swans a-swimming
They made a move in our direction, as if they expected that we might be about to throw them some bread (we weren't!).
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 12 Nov 2007
0.21 miles
10
Footbridge, Queen Mary's Gardens, Belfast
The outlet from here
Image passes under this footbridge before flowing through a culvert
Image under the Antrim Road. Previously seen in
Image (November 2007).
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 29 Sep 2013
0.22 miles