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Somerton Close, BELFAST, BT15 4DF

Self-explanatory mural on a wall at St Patrick’s College, Bearnageeha (“Barney”) on the Antrim Road.

Two chimneys, with six pots made with integral caps, on a late-Victorian former villa on the northern side of Fortwilliam Park.

The Antrim Road is a major arterial route and area of housing and commerce that runs from inner city north Belfast to Dunadry. It forms part of the A6 road, a traffic route which links Belfast to Derry. The hill in the background is Cave Hill (sometimes written as Cavehill), a basaltic hill which overlooks the city of Belfast. The hill is also referred to locally as Napoleon's Nose, as when seen in silhouette the summit is said to resemble a gigantic profile of the emperor Napoleon staring upwards (http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend/napoleon-nose-a-thing-or-two-about-cave-hill-28506267.html Belfast Telegraph). It is also sometimes said that Cave Hill was inspiration for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Swift imagined that the Cave Hill resembled the shape of a sleeping giant safeguarding the city.

EVIIR pillar box (BT15 188), at Fortwilliam Park, close to the corner of the Somerton Road. Last seen in July 2007 Image

A pair of very large semis, now vacant and semi derelict, close to the Old Cavehill Road, to which the following planning permission applies: “Z/2008/0119/F 10/01/2008 508-510 Antrim Road, Ballyaghagan, Belfast, BT15 5GG Demolition of existing building and erection of 9 No. apartments in a single block including carparking and landscaping” . . . “PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED . . . 23/06/2008”. No 508 (left) is roofless. This photograph appears as a matter of geographical and historical record only. I have no connection with any of the parties involved in the proposed development. See also Image Note added 17 May 2013: now demolished.

See Image The front view. No 508 is on the left. This photograph appears as a matter of geographical and historical record only. I have no connection with any of the parties involved in the proposed development. Note added 17 May 2013: now demolished.

Old Post Box on Fortwilliam Park - I'm not an expert, but this looks like an Edward VII (ruled 1901-1910) example which would make it about 100 years old.

Road junction. Quite a pleasant part of North Belfast with wide tree lined avenues.

The elaborate, but not so ornate, gates at the Antrim Road end of Fortwilliam Park.

The two pillars on the northern side of Fortwilliam Park (Antrim Road end).