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Stormount Crescent, BELFAST, BT5 4NT

A garage/workshop facing Thorndyke Street, currently advertised for sale. The agents’ description includes “Ideal for continuing investment holding subject to lease re–gearing or forward alternative use with scope for redevelopment either on its own or as part of a wider development site.” This photograph appears as a matter of record only. I have no connection with the sale and cannot enter into correspondence.

The inward EWAY halt, with associated raised footpath and kerb, under construction at the former YMCA Image, Albertbridge Road.

Two terrace houses, on the western side of Templemore Avenue, advertised for sale. The agents’ description includes “2 substantial 3 storey terrace houses, converted into 6 self-contained flats and HMO registered. Each of the flats provides spacious 1 or 2 bedroom accommodation and the building is fully let at present. The flats are always in high demand when they become available due to the close proximity to the City Centre and voids are minimal. All flats are fully self-contained, with their own electric and gas supplies and front and rear access. This is an excellent opportunity to buy a trouble free letting, producing an excellent income from the offset.” This photograph appears as a matter of record only. I have no connection with the sale and cannot enter into correspondence. The one with the hoarding is no 185.

This former YMCA building is a listed building dating from 1903. The property was refurbished in 2003. The ground floor has been divided into a number of stores including a branch of Gordon's the Chemists and on the extreme right a branch of Polita, a Polish supermarket chain. Offices occupy the first and second floor. http://polita.co.uk/?page_id=1047

A vacant and boarded-up end of terrace house, built before 1901. At the time it was common to name terraces in addition to the street name and number. The names gradually fell into disuse. This seems to have been Daisy Terrace. Image is on the left.

Conversion of no 195 Templemore Avenue to apartments. The following planning permission applies “LA04/2017/1414/F Conversion of existing building to create 8 one bedroom apartments, amenity space, bin store, cycle parking and ancillary accommodation 195 Templemore Avenue Belfast BT5 4FR”. The building seems to have been constructed as the Castlereagh Dispensary at some date between 1890 and 1901. Previously seen (right) in Image Continue to Image

This evangelical church traces its origins back to a tin roofed mission hall built in 1890 at the corner of Thorndyke Street, off Templemore Avenue. That building was destroyed in the Blitz of 1941 which killed almost a thousand people and damaged fifty thousand houses - some 50% of the total. The new purpose-built Iron Hall dates from 2004.

This road links southwards with the A23.

The outward Templemore Avenue halt - now used by existing Metro and Ulsterbus services.