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Tokio Gardens, BELFAST, BT15 5EE

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.

A bridge, just about wide enough for a car, across the Milewater Image on the Old Westland Road. There is a separate pedestrian bridge just out of picture of the right. Name unknown but the Roads Service seems to refer to it as “Bridge 20151”.

Not named on the 1:12,000 map but this seems to be the Milewater – a stream which rises on the side of the Cave Hill and flows through Carr’s Glen. It continues, partly underground, to the Waterworks Image before encountering saltwater at Belfast harbour. This view is upstream from this bridge Image on the Old Westland Road.

The Cavehill Road is a residential road which runs from the Antrim Road to the Ballysillan Road. This view is towards the Cavehill.

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.

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