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Annadale Flats, BELFAST, BT7 3AX

In the years after the end of WWII there was a movement (or, perhaps, even a fad) in public sector housing for flat roofs and geometrically straight lines. Annadale Flats remains one of the greats of that era although it took the movement in a different direction by spreading the properties along the embankment by the Lagan when others were being built in as clusters in estates. Now a remarkable example of a period when economic expansion and a brave new world beckoned. Incidentally the name “Annadale” is said to come from the earlier estate on the site – that of Lady Anne Mornington, mother of the Duke of Wellington and is thought to be a variation of her name to “Annadale” “Anne's Dale”.

See Image The same project includes the laying of a new steel distributor main along the Annadale Embankment, the pipes for which are in place awaiting burial. Continue to Image

There were several displays of flowering daffodils, along the Annadale Embankment, close to the Annadale Flats. This one is towards the Ormeau Bridge end.

See Image One of the blocks, overlooking the Annadale Embankment (out of picture to the left). Annadale Flats managed to avoid the “green space” fashion Image and got, instead, an easily managed bank with trees.

Pictured coming into view on the section of the water along the Stranmillis Embankment north of Kings Bridge is the MV Sasha, see close-up here Image]

Pictured on the River Lagan along the Stranmillis Embankment

See Image Spring colour on display between the King’s Bridge and the Ormeau Bridge. Continue to Image

The Annadale Embankment Image, looking towards the Ormeau Bridge, from close to here Image The Lagan Image is partly hidden at middle left.

See Image The same stretch of the road but looking in the opposite direction. Continue to Image

Gable wall at the end of Agra Street in Belfast. Agra Street runs between Elgin Street and Herat Street off the Annadale Embankment and is one of several streets in the area named after cities in India and Afghanistan. On the wall is a large billboard advertisement for BT; below is an entertaining piece of graffiti "FAT PEOPLE ARE HARD TO KIDNAP" (not Belfast humour - a widely used slogan that probably originated in America).