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The Antrim Road and Napoleon's Nose
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.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 26 May 2017
0.07 miles
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Bearnageeha ("Barney") mural, Belfast
Self-explanatory mural on a wall at St Patrick’s College, Bearnageeha (“Barney”) on the Antrim Road.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 20 Oct 2012
0.11 miles
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Nos 508-510 Antrim Road, Belfast (1)
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
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Note added 17 May 2013: now demolished.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 20 Oct 2012
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Nos 508-510 Antrim Road, Belfast (2)
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.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 20 Oct 2012
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Fortwilliam Gates, Belfast - 2014 (1)
The elaborate, but not so ornate, gates at the Antrim Road end of Fortwilliam Park.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 6 Feb 2014
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Fortwilliam Gates, Belfast - 2014 (2)
The two pillars on the northern side of Fortwilliam Park (Antrim Road end).
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 6 Feb 2014
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Fortwilliam Gates, Belfast - 2014 (3)
Detail from the pillar on the left in
Image Part of the former gate lodge is on the right.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 6 Feb 2014
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Fortwilliam Gates, Belfast - 2014 (4)
Detail from the pillar on the left in
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Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 6 Feb 2014
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Chimneys and chimney pots, Fortwilliam, Belfast
Two chimneys, with six pots made with integral caps, on a late-Victorian former villa on the northern side of Fortwilliam Park.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 6 Feb 2014
0.23 miles
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Pillar box, Belfast
EVIIR pillar box (BT15 188), at Fortwilliam Park, close to the corner of the Somerton Road. Last seen in July 2007
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Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 15 Aug 2012
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